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in: Peel shows, 1968, Night Ride

27 November 1968

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Show[]

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  • 1968-11-27
Comments
  • Tracklisting thanks to Tim Joseph
  • Debut session from Elton John, then unknown to most listeners, and one by David McWilliams, whose records were plugged heavily on Radio Caroline; they were on the Dublin-based Major Minor label, whose owner Philip Solomon financed the struggling pirate station after it had been outlawed by the Marine Offences Act.
  • Unusual to find Bill Cosby in a Peel playlist. He wasn't a mainstream TV star in the US then, but had recorded a number of successful comedy LPs. Peel mentioned that when he was living in the US he listened to records by younger, "hip" comedians, so Cosby may have been among them.
  • Also a track by Doc Watson, a much admired folk-country-bluegrass guitarist, whose records were released in the UK but mostly ignored by Peel.
  • John Dudley was a little-known rural blues singer recorded by Alan Lomax on his 1959 field trip around the southern states of the USA (assisted by Shirley Collins). A track by Dudley was once played on the second half of Night Ride, much to the bewilderment of the presenter (possibly Robin Boyle or Bruce Wyndham), who remarked "I suppose that kind of thing is fashionable nowadays". (memory of listener Granger354)

Sessions[]

  • Elton John #1. Recorded 27th November 1968. Possibly live session. No known commercial release.
  • David McWilliams only session, recorded 26th November 1968
  • Mark Talbot is the guest poet.

(Please add details of any commercial release of these sessions)

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