[peel] 1976 Festive 50 (final scores on the doors)

[bill.spiby@...]

Thanks Martin,

That's helpful. I can think of a few later entries where that may become relevant.

Regards
Bill
> 
> From: Martin Wheatley <martinw@...>
> Date: 2008/10/20 Mon PM 04:29:28 BST
> To: peel@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [peel] 1976 Festive 50 (final scores on the doors)
> 
> At 14:00 20/10/2008, Bill wrote:
> 
> >Hi everyone,
> >
> >I'm off work this week, so at some point will gather my notes and
> >post an ubernerd pedantfest with regard to the 1977 Forgotten 50 (61
> >actually!). But in anticipation of that, here's a reminder of
> >the 'final' version for 1976 (huge thanks to all who contacted me
> >with amendments and of course to Ken for pasBs). In case you forgot
> >(or more likely didn't care) - I'm trying to collect all Festive 50
> >entries primarily in version played and then in any other eligible
> >broadcast or released version. Any further amendments to 76 are very
> >welcome. Mic's recent and hopefully ongoing work should prove
> >invaluable once I get on to 78+.
> 
> I want to make some comments about sessions and their availability as I
> understand it
> Nowadays 6Music has access to all the BBC Archives but that wasn't
> the situation pre-6Music.   Sessions were made for a specific prog and
> only available for that prog because the cost came out of that programme's
> budget.   The BBC was split into very small sections financially and
> the reason Peel mostly played records from his own collection was
> because the BBC Library had to be paid for every track used from it
> Peel had no access to In Concert tracks nor to Evening Show or Kershaw
> sessions even if he wanted to and those shows had no access to Peel sessions
> 
> Any session tracks in the Festive Fifty would have been either from
> Peel sessions (or later on some live Maida Vale performances) or
> other sessions only if they had been issued on record  (as a B-side
> maybe or something like that)
> 
> martinw  
> 
> 
> 

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