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.
- Appears to be available on Radio Sessions 1969-1972 (Angel Air, 2010), after previous release on ‘The BBC Sessions Vol.2 1970-1971’ (Strange Fruit, 1998).
- 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[]
- Dust: Loose Goose (LP – Dust) Performance
- Little Feat: Texas Rose Café (LP – Sailin' Shoes) Warner Bros.
- Al Stewart: Absolutely Sweet Marie (session)
- Stone The Crows: Goin’ Down (session)
- Lou Reed: Wild Child (LP – Lou Reed) RCA
- Jellybread: Sister Lucy (session)
- Yardbirds: Louise (LP – Five Live Yardbirds) EMI Columbia
- Jesse Ed Davis: Oh! Susannah (LP – Ululu) Atlantic
- Beach Boys: Help Me Rhonda (LP - ) unknown release
- Steeleye Span: The Gamekeeper (session)
- Jellybread: Hound Dog (session)
- Al Stewart: Zero She Flies (session)
- Quiver: Green Tree (single) Warner Bros
- Stone The Crows: On The Highway (session)
- Steeleye Span: D’Ye Ken John Peel (session)
- Argent: I Am The Dance Of Ages (LP – All Together Now) Epic
- Al Stewart: You Don’t Even Know Me (session)
- Hot Tuna: Ode For Billy Dean (LP – Burgers) Grunt
- Stone The Crows: Mr Wizard (session)
- Mike McGear: Woman (single) Island
- Steeleye Span: John Barleycorn (session)
- Raymond Froggatt: Sooner Or Later (LP – Bleach) Bells Bells
- Jellybread: Green-Eyed Gypsy Queen (session)
- David Bowie: Starman (single) RCA
- Stone The Crows: Penicillin Blues (session)
- Al Stewart: I’m Falling (session)
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