Festive 50 1976

[John]

I had a read of the wiki - but which 'steve' do you mean ?

--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "ken garner" <ken_garner@...> wrote:
>
> 
> Thanks for the story, and in short, no, there are no known show 
recordings of the first F50 
> shows from 1976 in circulation, as documented in Steve's appeal on 
the wiki here:
> 
> http://peel.wikia.com/wiki/1976_Festive_Fifty
> 
> and it is now i think the ONLY one of which there are no extracts 
going round.
> 
> But I am sure somebody did tape it, and will turn up sometime: 
spread the word!
> 
> ken
> 
> --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "John" <john_ukea@> wrote:
> >
> > This is my first posting in this group, which I discovered only 
> > recently, so bear with me if any of my subsequent 
> > comments/requests/questions are `old hat' to any of you.
> > 
> > I'll start with a wee tale which I hope will raise a smile from 
some 
> > of you, even though it is a little embarrassing for me 
 

> > 
> > I was listening - live - to the final program of the very first 
> > Festive 50.  I'd been able to listen to numbers 50-45, missed 44-
11 
> > due to being away at relatives for part of that year's 
festivities, 
> > and was now catching from 10 onwards.  
> > 
> > I didn't know which tracks I'd missed, so educated guesses as to 
what 
> > the number 1 might be were almost pointless.  A Day In The Life 
had 
> > appeared at 9, Crazy Diamond at 8, Alright Now at 6, Watchtower 
at 5 
> > and Desolation Row at 3.  All had been possibilities for the top 
spot 
> > in my mind.
> > 
> > He then introduced the runner-up, commenting that `two had 
whizzed 
> > ahead and either one of them could have won it.'   I'd been sure 
that 
> > as Layla hadn't appeared in the last 10 already it must surely be 
the 
> > winner – but no.
> > 
> > After Layla, `without the other assorted Love Songs'  and  `by 
Eric 
> > Clapton, of course, or actually Derek & The Dominoes to be 
absolutely 
> > accurate' - to quote the man – he introduced Number 1 with :-  
> > 
> > `and, you probably won't be too astonished to discover that this 
is 
> > number one in the Festive 50'
> > 
> > And out of my speakers poured the sound of Led Zeppelin's  
Stairway 
> > To Heaven.
> > 
> > Now, here is where I have to admit what, to this day, still 
> > embarrasses me when I'm reminded of it – I did not recognize the 
> > track, I didn't know it, I'd never heard it, nor heard of it.  
There 
> > was I, convinced that I was au fait with the 
> > current/popular/progressive rock world, only to discover that I 
> > didn't know the track that the whole of Britain – well, listeners 
to 
> > John Peel's show – had voted as their favorite track.
> > 
> > I did, however, buy the LP within a few days of first 
> > hearing `stairway'.  Not because it was so clearly something that 
was 
> > missing from my record collection, but because after a couple of 
> > replays of my tape of the programme I really did like the track - 
and 
> > it remains a favorite to this day.
> > 
> > So there you are – my confession.  I feel much better now :)
> > 
> > 
> > Which leads nicely on to my first question - are there any 
complete 
> > recordings of this very first Festive 50 around ?   It's 
interesting 
> > to hear what he said about some of the records in the list and 
I'd 
> > like to hear what he had to say about some of the tracks played 
in 
> > the programs that I missed.
> >
>