28 December 1976

Show

Name

• John Peel Show

Station

• BBC Radio One

YYYY-MM-DD

• 1976-12-28

Comments

• Third of six shows featuring the legendary, long-lost 1976 Festive Fifty, the first ever.
• Tracklisting information below kindly provided by Ken Garner, author of The Peel Sessions, via the Peel Mailing List. Many thanks, Ken!
• The 1976 Festive Fifty remains something of a holy grail among collectors of Peel shows, and no recordings from any of the programmes have come to light as yet. If you have such a thing, or any old recordings on tape, you are urged to contact the Peel Mailing List, where your arrival will be greeted with much rejoicing. EDIT - the rejoicing may begin. Many thanks to taper John Cavanagh and his pal Ken for making this show available after all those years.
• Only a selection of session tracks were played.
• Start of show: "'Well, we have no sign of the hymn tune Repton here, I'm afraid, but we do have tonight further selections from the year's best sessions, this time those from Strecth, Bill Aitken and Racing Cars, and we also take up the Festive Fifty once again at number 35, and I will read out for latecomers a resume of what the dolts have missed. Two hours of remarkably good music, all things being considered, and we start with...."

Sessions

• Stretch, #3 (rpt). Recorded 1976-09-30. No known commercial release. 'The Way Life Is' not TX in this show.
• Bill Aitken, one and only session (rpt). Privately recorded June 1975. The remaining two tracks were TX on 03 January 1977.
• Racing Cars, #2 (rpt). Recorded 1976-09-09. No known commercial release.

Tracklisting

• Stretch: 'Can’t Get Enough' (Peel Session)

(JP: 'One feels somehow instinctively, doesn't one, that that's terribly true.')

• Racing Cars: 'Downtown Tonight' (Peel Session)

(JP: 'On most of the sessions we've had during the year, the engineering's been done by Bill Aitken, in fact, I wouldn't be surprised if he didn't do the engineering on that Racing Cars session. And of sourse, you may recall that earlier in the year, we had a session from Bill himself, tapes that he'd put together entirely by himself and in his own time, and we broadcast them and they were very good. Since then. Bill's been working on his LP with a bunch of other musicians, and hopefully this LP will be released sometime early in the New Year. Anyway, this is the first from Bill.')

• Bill Aitken: 'Chimney Pots' (Peel Session)
• Stretch: 'Hold Up The Light' (Peel Session)
• Racing Cars: 'Hard Working Woman' (Peel Session)
• Racing Cars: 'Four Wheel Drive' (Peel Session)
• Racing Cars: 'Moonshine Fandango' (Peel Session)
• Bill Aitken: 'Ghosts Of Yesterday' (Peel Session)
• Stretch: 'Rock ‘N Roll Hoochie-Coo' (Peel Session)

Festive Fifty Of 1976: Numbers 35-25

• 35: Jackson Browne, 'Late For The Sky (LP-Late For The Sky)' (Asylum)
• 34: Rod Stewart, 'Maggie May (7")' (Mercury)
• 33: Jonathan Richman, Roadrunner (LP – Chartbusters) Beserkley
• 32: Bob Marley & The Wailers, No Woman, No Cry (LP – Live At The Lyceum) Island
• 31: Genesis, Supper's Ready (LP – Foxtrot) Charisma
• 30 Misunderstood, I Can Take You To The Sun (single) Fontana
• 29: Who, Won't Get Fooled Again (The Story Of The Who) Polydor
• 28: Joe Walsh, Rocky Mountain Way (single) ABC
• 27: Grinderswitch, Pickin' The Blues (LP – Macon Tracks) Capricorn
• 26: Little Feat, Long Distance Love (The Last Record Album) Warner
• 25: Deep Purple, Child In Time (LP – Deep Purple In Rock) Harvest

File

Name

• a) Peel 1976-12-28a F50 #35-25
• b) Peel 1976-12-28b F50 #35-25

Length

• a) 1:02:23
• b) 00:57:52

Other

• Many thanks to John and Ken for making this long unheard show available.

Available

• Part a
• Part b

Footnotes