1978 Festive Fifty

[Steve]

Dear John

I truly appreciate the effort you went to in uploading the files, but 
the links point to the 1979 FF!!
Yours in breathless anticipation
Steve [Teenage Kicks]


--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, John Bravin <john.bravin@...> wrote:
>
> Glad to share another one of these early Festive Fifties with you.  
This 
> one is 1978  with its mix of 'traditional' and 'new wave'.
> 
> Again quality offered 'as is' complete with editing etc.  Each Part 
is 1 
> hour long.
> 
> My personal favourites are Madam George by Van Morrison (seeing him 
in a 
> few weeks in the UK) and Rose of Cimarron by Poco.  Peel once said 
of 
> early Pink Floyd (around the Meddle time) that whatever mood he 
starts 
> off in, listening to the extended Pink Floyd tracks always leaves 
him 
> feeling relaxed.  That's what R of C does for me (particularly the 
hint 
> of a banjo ending), although lyrically you have to say it's 
complete 
> tosh. And I also like the guitar in Shot by Both Sides.
> 
> Sorry the file names weren't made more meaningful before I uploaded 
> them, but there is something authentic about leaving the files as 
Tape 
> 074A & B.
> 
> http://rapidshare.com/files/128222027/Tape_074A.mp3
> 
> http://rapidshare.com/files/128227259/Tape_074B.mp3
> 
> After this I am on the road again, but I have been busily ripping 
some 
> more early shows so watch this space around the end of July.
> 
> P.S. I swapped players for these rips so some of the wow and 
flutter 
> problems in the 1979FF may be eliminated.
> 
> P.P.S. Just before I sent this I checked the Festive Fifty Lists on 
> various sites including the BBC.  These show Siouxsie 
> <http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/johnpeel/artists/s/siouxsieandtheba> 
as No 
> 50, but my tape and written records definitely show Poco as No 50.  
> Unfortunately the only bit of voice over I have is Peel referring 
to 
> Poco being No. 11 the previous year without saying where it is in 
1978.  
> But I don't think I screwed this up as introducing Bob Dylan (No 46 
in 
> 1978) he also refers back to 1976 as the 'previous chart'.  So 
which is 
> it, Poco or Siouxsie.....
> 
> John Bravin
> 
>  >>>saipanda wrote:
> >
> > Hi John,
> >
> > Your talk of FF78 and pre-76 shows is extremely tantalizing. If 
you 
> > have the time, it would be brilliant if you could follow up FF79 
by 
> > making these available too.
> >
> > And of course any other vintage Peel shows you have lurking 
around in 
> > your treasure
> > trove...
> >
> > Yours in hope,
> >
> > Steve W
> >
> >
>