Song Sung Blue versions?

[Steve]

Hi Martin

Yes, I stand corrected. My memory was of JP talking about it on the 25 May 2004 show, when a listener asked him if he had sung on a Hefner session track, to which he replied that he hadn't sung on ANYTHING...apart from the AI track, which he thought he did 'pretty well'. I assumed at the time I wrote the Wiki page that this was the session: however, coupled with what he said on Peeling Back The Years (and the subsequently played recording, which is from Pinky Blue), I have to admit that he couldn't have been on both. Apologies.
I've altered (no pun intended) my earlier comments, and direct interested parties to my TK piece on the band where I transcribed his exact words from 1987: 
http://festive50.wordpress.com/2008/09/01/song-sung-pinky-blue/

Best wishes
Steve [TK]

--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, Martin Wheatley <martinw@...> wrote:
>
> At 04:03 19/06/2009, you wrote:
> 
> 
> >Dear Ken
> >
> >The session recording on the 17 DVD torrent definitely has him on 
> >it, as Clare Grogan mentions him by name: 'Absolutely anybody can 
> >sing it...we're absolutely certain that John Peel could manage to 
> >sing it. It's only a few bars left now, John: this is your big 
> >chance', and then a rugby-type chorus eventually chimes in. In 
> >Peeling Back The Years, JP mentions some whistling also done by him, 
> >which is on the LP version but not the session, so it would seem he 
> >appeared on both.
> >Hope this helps.
> >
> >Best wishes
> >Steve [TK]
> 
> I think that is Clare trying to persuade Peel to sing along with it in the
> studio when the session was played rather than him being actually there
> at the session (which he never did)
> 
> martinw
>