Date of Barclay James Harvest "In Concert" broadcast

[Keith & Monika]

Hi Nigel and Ken,

Just stumbled across this thread - I run the BJH web site at www.bjharvest.co.uk, so may be able to cast some light on this one. The March broadcast date came from a friend who worked at the BBC, but it's quite possible that this was a repeat, or an incorrect date. I have a recording of excerpts from the broadcast, and at the end of the BJH bit, Peel says, "Must do more of that in 1977, if we last that long", which would certainly imply that 14th December, 1976 is more likely, and I'm happy to change the listing on our web site on that basis. The recording date of 19th October, 1976, at Hammersmith Odeon, is pretty much beyond doubt.

Regards,

Keith Domone



--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "nigel_wassell" <nigelw@...> wrote:
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> A question, if I may, which I think Ken Garner might be able to answer.
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> I'm presently trying to catalogue my 1970s' tape collection (no Peel, I'm afraid - 11 o'clock was a bit past my bedtime in those days, but a lot of "Fluff" Freeman Saturday Show recordings, some of which, of course, were repeats of isolated Peel session tracks (although I wasn't aware of that at the time and simply took them at face value as "Tony Wilson Recreations")). 
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> I have Saturday Show recordings of two Barclay James Harvest tracks -"Crazy City" and "Poke Street Rag" which were apparently recorded at Hammersmith Odeon in 1976.  Now, one of the two official BJH websites has a list of BJH concert recordings and identifies this show as having been recorded on 19 October 1976 and "broadcast by John Peel" on 14 March 1977, but therein lies the rub, because according to the "Shows" listing in Ken's book, on that date John featured tracks from the "Best of" Barclay James Harvest LP. The show was only an hour long at that time and I wouldn't have thought he'd have had time for the live concert recording as well; also I have very good reason to believe that my recording of "Poke Street Rag" dates from either January or February 1977 and "Crazy City" from no later than 5 March 1977.  I can't imagine that Fluff (avowed BJH fan though he was) would have broadcast excerpts from this concert before its official first transmission - that never seems to have been the practice with the repeated session tracks - and so the question arises: is the quoted first broadcast date for the BJH show of 14 March 1977 correct?
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> Confusion is worse compounded by the fact that Ken also has Peel featuring tracks from the "Best of" BJH LP in his show on 14 December 1976.  To my way of thinking, that date seems a much more likely one for the broadcast of the live concert - two months after recording, rather than March, a whole three months later again, and I can't help thinking that somewhere along the line 14 December and 14 March have got mixed up (probably by the BJH webmasters). Can you clarify from your records, Ken, and confirm the exact date that the BJH concert was broadcast?
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