[peel] Re: Decktician Logs, Vol 2 (i): Peel on Radio Luxembourg, Jan-June 1972

[Paul Webster]

There is a good quality recording of Peel from the Radio Luxembourg show at:
http://www.208itwasgreatradioluxembourg.co.uk/sounds/
Scroll down through the audio player - it is sorted alphabetically - look 
for John Peel and listen for
"Dancing Jack Peel" bemoaning being in a women-less environment.
Keep listening to here some Kenny Everett jingles and adverts.

Paul
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "steve" <saipanda@...>
To: <peel@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 7:20 PM
Subject: [peel] Re: Decktician Logs, Vol 2 (i): Peel on Radio Luxembourg, 
Jan-June 1972


> OK, good people, have a rough version of the Radio Luxembourg 
> tracklistings up on the wiki:
>
> http://peel.wikia.com/wiki/Radio_Luxembourg_Tracklistings_1
> http://peel.wikia.com/wiki/Radio_Luxembourg_Tracklistings_2
> http://peel.wikia.com/wiki/Radio_Luxembourg_Tracklistings_3
> http://peel.wikia.com/wiki/Radio_Luxembourg_Tracklistings_4
> http://peel.wikia.com/wiki/Radio_Luxembourg_Tracklistings_5
> http://peel.wikia.com/wiki/Radio_Luxembourg_Tracklistings_6
>
> Little in the way of release/label details or links (wikipedia, discogs, 
> etc) as yet, but these may help us more accurately date which shows are 
> which, so your help would be much appreciated.
>
> To make an edit on a wiki page, just click on the red edit button you'll 
> see at the top, make the change or add a link (see the chain-like icon), 
> then go to the bottom of the page, preview, then save the page if 
> everything seems OK. Not so difficult really.
>
> If people want to work on a particular page, it might be a good idea to 
> add a quick Work In Progress note at the top of it so other people don't 
> waste their time doing the same thing.
>
> Many thanks again to Decktician, Ken and Rocker for this historic 
> discovery. And goodnight from Tokyo.
>
> SW
>
>
>
> --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "steve" <saipanda@...> wrote:
>>
>> Many thanks indeed to Decktician and Ken for this amazing discovery.
>>
>> Will try and get the basic pages up on the wiki tonight when I get home. 
>> Hope people can help out with additional release details, etc.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Steve
>>
>> --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "ken" <ken_garner@> wrote:
>> >
>> > Following extensive email Q and As with Decktician, I have now got as 
>> > far as I can with trying to make sense of the astonishing discovery at 
>> > one end of Vol 2 of his Peel listening logs / exercise books - 23 
>> > complete or incomplete show track listings for Peel's short-lived late 
>> > night show on Radio Luxembourg, STENHOUSEMUIR 2 COWDENBEATH 2, from 
>> > late January to end June 1972, 1-2am on Friday nights / Saturday 
>> > mornings. Wow!
>> >
>> > I know some of you will be as excited as I am about this discovery of 
>> > data about an almost entirely undocumented period in Peel's career. So 
>> > I have posted the zip folder of the six page scans and my explanatory 
>> > notes here on the mailing list's "files" section.
>> >
>> > All the context is explained in my notes there, but briefly, we can 
>> > definitely date the first show listed, and therefore almost certainly 
>> > date the last show - because as you will see, decktician knew and 
>> > logged it as Peel's last show for the station.
>> >
>> > What we cannot be certain of are some of the individual show broadcast 
>> > dates within the sequence for complicated reasons I have explained in 
>> > my notes... and of course I have no other data to compare this with...
>> >
>> > ... and this is where you come in, if you are familiar with the period.
>> >
>> > If you can help Steve and Steve at the Wiki confirming the tracks (some 
>> > are hard to pin down, most easy), and release dates, this may well help 
>> > confirm or suggest the actual sequence of the listings
>> >
>> > I am unaware if an official Radio Luxembourg / RTL archive exists 
>> > anywhere, and even if there is one, I find it unlikely it would have 
>> > preserved Peel's running orders and scripts! Also, at the moment, we 
>> > cannot be certain of the broadcast arrangements that then existed for 
>> > his show. However, looking through some of the 208 magazines, and 
>> > memorabilia from this period on various fan sites, it seems most likely 
>> > to me that Peel pre-recorded these shows at Luxembourg's then 
>> > newish/revamped London offices and studios, probably a few days (not 
>> > more than a week?) before broadcast date, to allow time for the tapes 
>> > to be transported to the Duchy for actual broadcast: given his other 
>> > commitments, I do not see how Peel would have had the time to travel to 
>> > Luxembourg to put them out live. but I could be wrong. I will try to 
>> > contact both the Selwoods and Sheila to see if they have any such 
>> > memories, though I think it unlikely they will.
>> >
>> > AND before you ask: sorry, Dectician is certain he never attempted to 
>> > tape these shows, given the appalling late night reception, so they 
>> > will NOT be turning up on the tapes now with Rocker and the rippers. 
>> > Shame - but just to have the track listings about which so little is 
>> > documented officially is discovery enough.
>> >
>> > All our thanks to decktician!
>> >
>> > ken
>> >
>>
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