[peel] What is the most ancient Peel recording in existance?

Martin Wheatley martinwheatley@...
Tue Mar 28 12:40:05 CEST 2006


 >Yes, certainly. One of our list members sent me a cd
 >of Peel recently consisting of only Peel chat and on
 >one of these sections he plays a recording of himself
 >from Dallas (I think) which must be the earliest. In
 >this recording he's not a deejay, he's an Englishman
 >with a collection of unusual records which turn out to
 >be blues and R&B. He plays a couple of these records
 >but mostly witters on about how he got them in the
 >famous strangulated public school voice which the
 >later Peel mocks mercilessly. The section lasts about
 >10 minutes or so. Date not given - 1962?
 >
 >pb

He got onto the radio in America because he came from near Liverpool
and pretended he knew the Beatles so it would be a little later

martinw





More information about the Peel mailing list