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28 April 1972

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Show[]

Name
Station
  • BBC Radio One
YYYY-MM-DD
  • 1972-04-28
Comments
  • Tracklisting below is from Volume 2(ii) of the Decktician Logs. Many thanks to Decktician, Ken Garner for copying and additional information, and Rocker for acting as central HQ.
  • Run of four songs featuring women’s names (following similar the previous Friday).
  • Cover versions include Al Stewart's session version of Bob Dylan's "Absolutely Sweet Marie", Jellybread's take on Elvis Presley's "Hound Dog", and Stone The Crows' cover of fellow Glaswegian Alex Harvey's "Penicillin Blues". More unusually, the Jesse Ed Davis track is a version of Stephen Foster's famous minstrel song originally published in 1848, "Oh! Susannah". (It was also covered, not altogether seriously, by the Byrds on their LP Turn! Turn! Turn!.)
  • A Steeleye Span version of "D’Ye Ken John Peel" doesn't seem to have survived, so it's not known if it was a wrongly-identified full session track (as mentioned below) or just an added jingle for Peel's show. A list of Steeleye sessions notes that the "Jigs" were similar to the band's recorded version but featured an "extra coda"[1], which might have been "D'Ye Ken John Peel?", but so far the track has not been found online.

Sessions[]

  • Stone The Crows #4 First broadcast. Recorded 1972-04-11.
  • Jellybread #2 First broadcast. Recorded 1972-04-10.
    • ’Michigan Drag recorded but not played until repeat on 23 June 1972.
  • Al Stewart #6 Repeat. First broadcast 24 March 1972. Recorded 1972-03-08.
    • First plays for “Absolutely Sweet Marie” and “I’m Falling”. “A Small Fruit Song” and “Old Compton St. Blues” not played.
    • No known commercial release.
  • Steeleye Span #5 Repeat. First broadcast 10 March 1972. Recorded 1972-02-21.
    • First play for "The Gamekeeper". "Royal Forester" not played. “Jigs” presumably listed by Decktician as “D’Ye Ken John Peel”. (?)
    • No known commercial release (but two tracks appeared on a BBC transcription disc and "Jigs" is said to be available as an unofficial off-air recording[2])

Tracklisting[]

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