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

[ken]

thanks for that! Sounds like it was a clip from decktician's first show logged, 28 Jan 72. Unless peel played Jimmy Reed's too much on some other editions too. I will send that guy a message: he might remember whether the peel show was pre-recorded...

ken

--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Webster" <paul@...> wrote:
>
> 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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