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Night Ride Playlists

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Show[]

Name
Station
YYYY-MM-DD
  • 1968-1969
Comments
  • Peel Group member Paul Bryant writes: The tapes have long gone, alas, but I dug up some partial listings of Night Ride shows I taped during its brief run on Radio 2. I only have the dates for a couple of these, the shows with the ISB and John Martyn. I think they're in chronological order, and , of course, who knows how the foreign names were really spelled, these are my 16 year old guesses based on Peel's dubious pronunciation.

Tracklistings[]

26 June 1968
  • Monks Of Kume Tarsang Monastery: The Eternal Voice (from BBC Archives)
  • Tom Pickard: Factory/The Bed/To my Unborn Son (poems)
  • John Fahey: Brenda's Blues (LP: The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death) Riverboat Records RB1 (US release) (or, more probably, British release on Transatlantic TRA 173)
  • Tom Pickard: The Gimber (poem)
  • Aboriginal Children Traditional Song (BBC Archives)
  • Incredible String Band: Won't You Come See Me (session)
  • Les Structures Sonores Lasry-Baschet: Rhapsodie de Budapest (45 rpm) Ducretet-Thomson
  • Tom Pickard: Mr Musbeetle's message to Me (poem)
  • The Deviants: Deviation Street (LP: Ptooff!) Impressario IMP 1
  • Max Saint-Something: Theme from Telemann (this could actually be Max Reger, Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Telemann, Op.134 )
  • Quartet Improvisation for Kwang-go (from BBC Archives)
  • Incredible String Band: All Too Much For Me (session)
  • Incredible String Band: You Get Brighter (session)
03 July 1968
  • North Vietnamese Peasant Song (BBC Archives)
  • Geoff Hill: What Do You Say? (poem)
  • Pink Floyd: Let There Be More Light (LP: A Saucerful Of Secrets) UK Columbia 33SX 6258
  • Geoff Hill: The Evil Venus Tree (poem)
  • John Fahey: The Death Of The Clayton Peacock (LP - The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death) (Riverboat Records RB1 - US Release) Transatlantic
  • Pir Sultan Abdal: Bektashi Song (BBC Archives)
  • Geoff Hill: Geoff Hill's Talking Blues (poem)
  • Zodiac Cosmic Sounds: Cancer, the Moon Child (LP: Zodiac Cosmic Sounds) Elektra EKL 4009
  • Ron Geesin: Pretty Little Faces (session)
  • Ron Geesin: Off The Left Cuff (session)
  • Ron Geesin: Yesterday's Sheep (session)
  • Ron Geesin: Very Nostalgic Piece (session)
  • Son House: Death Letter
  • Geoff Hill: Ode To 166 (poem)
  • Spontaneous Music Ensemble: Part I (LP - Karyōbin) Island
  • Ron Geesin: Devised Now (session)
10 July 1968
  • John Martyn: Sing A Song Of Summer (session)
  • Gillian Barron: Mud (poem)
  • Les Structures Sonores Lasry-Baschet: March
  • Fraternity Of Man: Just Doing Our Job (LP - Fraternity of Man) ABC ABCS 647
  • Gillian Barron: Furniture (poem)
  • Music For An Auspicious Occasion (BBC Archives)
  • Johnny Dodds: East Coast Trot
  • John Martyn: The Gardener (session)
  • The Fugs: Exorcising The Evil Spirits From The Pentagon (LP - Tenderness Junction) Transatlantic TRA 180
  • Gillian Barron: Chimney Pots and Red Balloons (poem)
  • Gillian Barron: For Harriet, The Lady Violinist, And Her Mittens And Her Stuffed Vulture Too (poem)
  • Ravi Shankar: Gat Kirwani (LP - Portrait Of Genius) Fontana TL 5285
  • John Martyn: The River (session)
  • John Martyn: Fairytale Lullaby (session)
  • John Martyn: Memphis Blues (session)
24 July 1968
  • Leon Rosselson: She Was Crazy, He Was Mad (LP - Leon Rosselson and Adrian Mitchell, A Laugh, A Song and A Hand Grenade) Transatlantic TRA 171
  • Mitch Howard (Occasional Word Ensemble): George King (poem)
  • Waltz, played on the kantele, a 5-stringed instrument from Finland (from the BBC Archives)
  • Mitch Howard (Occasional Word Ensemble): A bedtime poem (poem)
  • Rick Sylvester (Occasional Word Ensemble): When I was three (poem)
  • Music from the Khyber Pass (from the BBC Archives)
  • Ric Sanders (Occasional Word Ensemble): Prophet of Death and Confusion (A happy poem) (poem)
  • Ric Sanders (Occasional Word Ensemble): Naked Ambition (poem)
  • Jean-Max Clement: Cello Suite No.2 in D minor - Menuett I & II (J.S. Bach) (LP - Six Suites for Unaccompanied Cello) L'Oiseau-Lyre OLS 133/134
  • Dave Kelly: A few short lines (LP - Various Artists: Blues Like Showers of Rain) Matchbox SDM 142
  • John Brown (Occasional Word Ensemble): Ort (poem)
  • John Brown (Occasional Word Ensemble): Serena (poem)
  • John Brown (Occasional Word Ensemble): As Islands Go I Get Around (poem)
  • John Brown (Occasional Word Ensemble): Violation (poem)
  • Ustad Vilayat Khan - Raga Yaman (part of part 3) (LP - Music From India Series No.7) EMI ASD 2425
  • Lovin' Spoonful: Summer In The City
  • Country Joe & The Fish: Waltzing In The Midnight
  • Tim Hardin: Hang On To A Dream
31 July 1968
21 August 1968
  • The Byrds - The Christian Life (LP - Sweetheart of the Rodeo) CBS BPG 63353
  • Spirit - Fresh Garbage (LP - Spirit) CBS BPG 63278
  • John Fahey - Take A Look At That Baby (LP - Death Chants, Breakdowns and Miltary Waltzes) Takoma C 1003 (US release)
  • Adrian Mitchell - To whom it may concern (his famous "Tell Me Lies About Vietnam" protest poem) (LP - with Leon Rosselson - A Laugh, A Song And A Hand Grenade) Transatlantic TRA171
  • Jim Eldridge - Sunday 6.30
  • Alirio Diaz - Estudio 5
04 September 1968
  • Peel apologises for messing up his programme
  • Chris Kennedy - Auntie G (poem)
  • Jo-Ann Kelly - Rock Me (session)
  • John Fahey - unknown track (LP - The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death) (Riverside RB1 - US release) UK release on Transatlantic TRA 173
  • "Raga Kamast" (BBC Archives)
  • Chris Kennedy - Faye Dunaway (poem)
  • Jo-Ann Kelly - Since I First Met You Baby (session)
  • The Doors - Spanish Caravan (LP - Waiting For The Sun) Elektra EKL 74024
  • Jo-Ann Kelly - Shine On Rising Sun (session)
  • "Malayan magical-medical music" (BBC Archives)
  • Jo-Ann Kelly - Louisiana Blues (session)
  • Jo-Ann Kelly - Roll and Tumblin' Blues (session)
09 October 1968
  • Jackson C Frank - Blues Run The Game (session)
  • Donovan - Keep on Truckin' (LP - What's Bin Did And What's Bin Hid) Pye NPL 18117
  • Jackson C Frank - Jimmy Clay (session)
  • Cymbalom dance (Slovakian, from the BBC Archives; track later issued on the John Peel's Archive Things LP on BBC Records BBC REC 68M)
  • Cream - What A Bringdown (LP: Wheels of Fire - In The Studio) Polydor 583 053
  • Joan Baez - Extract From Baptism - A Journey Through Our Times (LP - Baptism - A Journey Through Our Times) Vanguard/Fontana SVBL 19000
  • Jackson C Frank - You Never Wanted Me (session)
  • Jackson C Frank - Just Like Anything (session)
  • Jackson C Frank - Carnival (session)
  • (plus poems by David Black)
05 March 1969
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Footnotes
  1. ↑ I've just listened through the Beatles' Xmas fan club records tracks for 1967 and 1968 and they didn't come up with anyone singing/saying 'Your shoes are dry'. That's why I've put a question mark against this.
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