Those new polls on the site...

[ken garner]

All/any info gratefully received. Whenever (though no later than end
May, please). You've already helped me correct something else tonight.
You had 1/8/83 for the SYTYAC session. I dug out the session sheet
because I had evidently missed that. And hidden away in tiny writing at
the top of the sheet underneath a load of scribbled messages from Dale
Griffin, it does indeed say, now I look very closely, '1st TX: 1/8/83'.
So that's one less date to check, many thanks. I have entered in all the
documented repeat dates for all sessions already. The shows I am
querying are the ones left looking blank or possibly incomplete after
everything from the official documentation (and my own records, Jon
Small's fantastic old 92-02 sessions site, other websites, Radio Times,
previous corrections, letters, etc) has been put in. Most of them will
probably turn out to be either all-record shows, or shows genuinely with
just the one session TX, new or repeat, I already know of.  But there
will be some surprises, some undocumented additional repeats, and some
discoveries of otherwise 'missing' sessions, lost from the official
archive, like New Age Steppers. These total dates still to pin down
absolutely represent less than 6% of the total number of Peel shows so
let's keep it in perspective, even though that's still over 300 dates.
In short, any info confirming any session being broadcast on any date
can be a revelation. In 24 hours you've helped me get a date for The New
Age Steppers, and provided an earlier 1st TX date for SYTYAC. What other
explosive nuggets are there lying in wait for me in your collection, I
cannot but wonder? Although it would probably be too much to hope for
another day as good as this one! Many thanks again,

cheers

kg

PS. e-mail me off line, because it just occurred to me I might be able
to send you my known data in a slightly different form that might make
the checking process, if you're willing to do it, much much easier and
quicker. Which years / what main period(s) does your collection cover?


--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, Martin Wheatley <martinw@...> wrote:
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> All of my sessions have been transcribed from the original tapes to
> MP3s so I can't make exact comparisons but the 'So You Think' session
> I have as dated 1-8-83 and as it is on the previous disc to the NAS
> one I'd guess that was right
> I have all the sessions filed under the band names so cross
referencing
> with your list is going to take a little while as I will have to do
searches
> on the dates
>
> My immediate thought is that most of your dates probably contain
repeats
> I don't think he ever averaged more than a couple of new sessions a
week
> He would have liked a new session every show I'm sure but the cost had
> to come out of the show's budget which wasn't very high. That was the
> impression I got anyway not having any inside knowledge. I do remember
> him complaining at one time that any record he got from the BBC
library
> had to be paid for from the budget
> I'm not going to be able to tie this down as the dates I have are the
dates
> I recorded the sessions which of course would only once for each one
>
> martinw
>