14 August 1979
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[edit] Show
- Name
- John Peel Show
- Station
- BBC Radio One
- YYYY-MM-DD
- 1979-08-13
- Comments
- Three more from the XTC album ‘Drums And Wires’, as well as another play for the Quads single, which was due for release that Friday.
- 'Can’t Stand Losing You' by Police was then #7 in the UK national singles chart. The session version featured here is an instrumental.
- JP gives a limited rundown of the chart, which included Boomtown Rats at #1, Ian Dury (‘Reasons To Be Cheerful Pt 3’) at #3, Sham 69 (‘Hersham Boys’) at #6, Specials (‘Gangsters’) at #14, Dave Edmunds at #15, Angelic Upstarts new at #29, Flying Lizards (‘Money’) new at #30, B52s (‘Rock Lobster’) new at #37, Tubeway Army down at #38, Merton Parkas new at #40.
- The original Jetsons Hanna-Barbera cartoon version of the Scientific Americans track can be seen at YouTube
- The section of the Wenka Meurer(???) German version of Lucille (the Kenny Rogers hit) played here appears to contain the repeated phrase “John Peel”.
- The Id were an early incarnation of Orchestral Maneuvers In The Dark. The song played here was later reprised on their debut LP.
- The Prince Buster track was covered on Joe Strummer’s debut solo album Earthquake Weather. A version by The Tennors appears on the Scratchy Sounds compilation.
[edit] Sessions
- Dolly Mixture First and only session, first broadcast.
- Police First and only session, repeat. First broadcast 30 July 1979
(Please add details of any commercial release of these sessions)
[edit] Tracklisting
- Penetration: Come Into The Open (single) Virgin
- Dolly Mixture: Dolly Mixture Theme Song / Dream Come True (Peel session)
- Yardbirds: Louise (LP - Five Live Yardbirds, 1964) Charly reissue
- Police: Can’t Stand Losing You (The Bit We Left Out) (Peel session)
- Cockney Rejects: Police Car (single – Flares ‘N’ Slippers b-side) Small Wonder
- Scientific Americans: Eep Opp Ork Ah Ha (EP – Beyond Rational Thought) Tekno Tunes
- Quads: There Must Be Thousands (single) Big Bear
- Wenka Meurer(???): Lucille (German) (LP – The Wenka Meurer Album)
- Neu Electric: Lust Of Berlin (single) Private Press
- Heptones: Hypocrite (LP – Rebel Music) Trojan
- Fashion: Bike Boys (LP – Product Perfect) Fashion
- Dolly Mixture: The Locomotion (Peel session)
- Tearjerkers: Love Affair (single) Good Vibrations
- Psykik Volts: Totally Useless (single) LEJ
- Muddy Waters: Lonesome Day (LP – Sweet Home Chicago Volume 3)
- Police: Bed’s Too Big Without You (Peel session)
- The Id: Julia’s Song (LP – Street To Street) Open Eye – incomplete, fades out
(tape flip)
- Roman Stewart: Praise Jah (single) Hungry Town
- Dolly Mixture: New Look Baby (Peel session)
- Attic: Yes I Want To (single) Brain Booster
- Donkeys: What I Want (single) Rhesus
- Prince Buster: Ride A Donkey (12” single) BlueBeat
- The Fall: Rowche Rumble (single) Step Forward
- Police: Next To You (Peel session)
- Crowd: Modern Machine (LP - Beach Blvd) Posh Boy
- Echo & The Bunnymen: Pictures On My Wall (single) Zoo
- Dolly Mixture: Ernie Ball (Peel session) – incomplete, fades out
(tape flip)
- Joy Division: Shadowplay (LP – Unknown Pleasures) Factory
- Gregory Issacs & U Brown: The Border (12” single) GG’s
- XTC: When You’re Near Me / Ten Feet Tall / Roads Girdle The Globe (LP – Drums And Wires)
- Police: Message In A Bottle (Peel session)
- Dolly Mixture: He’s So Frisky (Peel session) – cuts out
[edit] File
- Name
- 1979-8-14 John Peel Radio 1 (Incomplete).mp3
- Length
- 1.50.44
- Other
- Available
