What actually happened in the first Festive 50 of 1976?

[ken garner]

yes, you're right, of course. One of those rare occasions when the session sheet is right 
and the PasB is wrong! That sometimes happened, leading me on a chase for what might 
have been two sessions but which were (nearly always) just one. The clincher is of course 
the tracks and the tape number in brackets afterwards...

k

--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, Jimmy Stepek <jimmystep@...> wrote:
>
> Ken, 
> I just noted a slight error in the scan "peelPasB19761227". The date they have given for 
the Mady Prior & June Tabor session is 23/09/1976 when I would think it should be 1975 
as the session I have was broadcast on 20/10/75.
> Cheers....Jimmy
> 
> 
> --- On Sun, 31/8/08, ken garner <ken_garner@...> wrote:
> 
> > From: ken garner <ken_garner@...>
> > Subject: [peel] What actually happened in the first Festive 50 of 1976?
> > To: peel@yahoogroups.com
> > Date: Sunday, 31 August, 2008, 11:52 AM
> > I have just uploaded pdf scans of the full scripts (PasBs)
> > for the 6 (not 5) relevant shows to 
> > the files section of this group's site. These should
> > answer most of 'rushomancy''s long list 
> > of questions! As I say over there, "To resolve
> > debates, and as a thank-you (from me) to 
> > the members of this group who contributed so much to the
> > correcting of BBC archive data 
> > over recent months and years, here (for a limited time
> > only) are the full details of what 
> > Peel actually played on the radio on six shows from
> > 24/12/76 to 3/1/77 in the first 
> > Festive 50. One obvious forgotten detail is that several of
> > these shows were extended to 
> > two hours, anticipating a permanent change at Easter
> > 1977." I also noticed with horror 
> > that, contrary to the shows index in my book, and what my
> > original notes back in 1992 
> > said, that the F50 actually started a show earlier, on
> > Christmas Eve, and he did indeed play 
> > the first 6 records, including Yes! I have no idea how I
> > missed that 16 years ago. 
> > Apologies. These also serve as good examples of Peel PasBs
> > at their best: legible, 
> > complete, reliable. This period only lasted from the mid
> > 70s through to the late 80s. 
> > Earlier ones are sometimes incomplete or simply illegible,
> > black and blotchy, when printed 
> > from the negative on microfilm at archives. And before
> > anyone gets too excited, this is 
> > the only Festive 50 for which I actually have the hard
> > copies of the scripts (the rest I read 
> > on screen only). The BBC charges a whopping fee per page
> > for external organisations who 
> > ask for these scripts to be printed out, so I am at risk of
> > breaking BBC copyright here. But, 
> > on the other hand, these are past the 30 year rule, were
> > printed out and paid for internally 
> > as part of the production of In Session Tonight back in
> > 92-93, and I would argue are the 
> > least the BBC can do for the sterling efforts of this group
> > to properly document the legend 
> > that is etc. Still, to be on the safe side, I shall only
> > leave them up on the site for a month, 
> > and will delete this post from the online archive after 2
> > weeks, ok? Enjoy! For use strictly 
> > for information and not graphic illumination of any
> > bootlegs... NB. Note how records 
> > played that are singles, all the info is the first main
> > column. The main oddities here, it 
> > seems to me, are the Hendrix tracks, whose discographical
> > info given I do not understand: 
> > but then wasn't there a big copyright spat about
> > Hendrix all through the 70s??
> > 
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