Festive 50 1978

[Steve]

Dear Bill

According to Ken's book, the 1977 FF was chosen by Peel himself (he 
had also chosen his 15 favourite records of the year in 1975), so I 
regard it as a bona fide fifty (actually 61) for the purposes of my 
site. He played the tracks between 22-27 Dec 1977.
Thanks for this brilliant recording, and I am looking forward to the 
other three parts (I guess the 27th, 28th of December 1977 and 1 
January 1979).
Best wishes
Steve [Teenage Kicks]

--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "billfromnorthwales" 
<billfromnorthwales@...> wrote:
>
> This may be a "holy grail", at least until the ebay tapes are 
sorted.
> 
> It is part 1 of the FF 1978.
> 
> This is the full 2 hour show broadcast 26 December 1978
> 
> http://www.megaupload.com/?d=5AATNNJT
> 
> I have all the other parts, and they will follow when I have 
finished 
> mastering them.
> 
> Do we have access to a server where I can upload the Flac files? 
(and 
> maybe download some!)
> 
> I don't really like these file store sites as I think it encourages 
> low bit rate mp3's . (e.g This one is 192kbs)
> 
> I remember recording this and alo the 76 FF(now sadly gone)and I am 
> absolutely certain there was no 77 show, of any kind, so I don't 
know 
> how that FF list for 77 was put together.
> 
> Anyway, back to the 78 show: Most of part 1 is a recap of the 76 
> chart, and at almost every link there is a reference to the musical 
> revolution that had just taken place with punk, contrasting the 
> charts of 76 with 78.
> 
> Captured on a Nakamichi (speed and azimuth corrected) to 
24bit/96khz.
> 
> The work then involves patching the joins (after 45 and 90 mins, as 
> you might expect on a C90, and making each section sound OK.
> 
> No mean feat on Cheapo cassettes (could not afford TDK back then) 
> shedding oxide and having been unplayed for at least 25 years, 
often 
> requiring much care to digitise well.
> 
> I suppose you could just take the voiceovers and replace the music 
> with clean new versions, but for me it is about capturing a moment 
in 
> time, exactly as broadcast, and often scratches warps and needle 
> jumps happened, and are referred to, and your ears can get used to 
> the lower fi recording, which then jumps out at you when a sparkly 
> newer version is introduced (I had to do it for a patch - I tried 
to 
> match the sound to match - see what you think)
> 
> Anyway I have several high end cassettes(5 Naks!) to play back 
> material, and much professional audio capture gear, plus some skill 
> at mastering, and a purist agenda to maintain total authenticity, 
so 
> please let me digitise some of the ebay shows now they have been 
won.
> 
> If I am not invited, then please have some strict quality control 
on 
> who does it, and how.
> 
> I suggest the missionof this group should be to find, preserve, and 
> distribute in the highest possible quality, recordings featuring JP"
> 
> Mp3's have their uses (iPods etc), but not to preserve recordings, 
> which should be 24/96khz masters, saved to 16/44.1khz flac for 
> lossless distribution, downgraded to mp3 for users personal 
devices, 
> if they want it.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Bill from North Wales
>