More Festive Fifties - 1983 & 1984

[jake]

Hi Ray

Thanks a million for these! 

The recordings I've already got of the 1983 and 1984 festive fifties have one or two gaps (eg between #28 and #27 in 1983, and Peel's intro to #50 in 1984) and the files you've posted contain the missing bits - as well as being excellent quality.

Awesome stuff - I can't wait to hear the rest....

Do you really have some of the 1979 festive 50 as well?

I've remastered all of the 1979 off air festive fifty recordings that i've got - which match what is on the John Peel Wiki page, ie [brief introduction from Peel prior to #50], 49-48, 47, 44, 34-33, 31, 30, 28 [part], 27-26, 22, 20, 19-16, 14-11 and 10-1. 

I've got all the other tracks, so at least I can listen to each countdown in decent quality with interjections from Peel's dulcet tones whenever available. However, it would be great to create a more complete version....

Rgs

Jake


--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "ray_b2" <tressell@...> wrote:
>
> Two more Festive Fifties for you, boys & girls - alas just the
> countdowns themselves, with a handful of preceding session tracks in
> each -
> 21/12/83: http://www.mediafire.com/?wtmd33wqmmn
> <http://www.mediafire.com/?wtmd33wqmmn>  22/12/83:
> http://www.mediafire.com/?youheyahynt
> <http://www.mediafire.com/?youheyahynt>  27/12/83:
> http://www.mediafire.com/?y40cyl3zwyd
> <http://www.mediafire.com/?y40cyl3zwyd>  28/12/83:
> http://www.mediafire.com/?1gmfcktwij2
> <http://www.mediafire.com/?1gmfcktwij2>  29/12/83:
> http://www.mediafire.com/?1nmzzzmj3tz
> <http://www.mediafire.com/?1nmzzzmj3tz>
> 18/12/84: http://www.mediafire.com/?yrzfuwmdlm3
> <http://www.mediafire.com/?yrzfuwmdlm3>  19/12/84:
> http://www.mediafire.com/?bly323mlwc4
> <http://www.mediafire.com/?bly323mlwc4>  25/12/84:
> http://www.mediafire.com/?kmxgnlnwjtk
> <http://www.mediafire.com/?kmxgnlnwjtk>   [partial show - missed numbers
> 30 to 26 ]26/12/84: http://www.mediafire.com/?znz3tntgjdx
> <http://www.mediafire.com/?znz3tntgjdx>  01/01/85:
> http://www.mediafire.com/?hmuz1owbdtz
> <http://www.mediafire.com/?hmuz1owbdtz>   Again, all encoded at 256k
> stereo. For the most part I used to use TDK C90/C120 cassettes, and they
> seem to have aged pretty well. A couple of the shows here were on
> Memorex and sound a bit wobbly to my ears. All of these I think compare
> favourably to the quality of the recordings currently available, but
> then I would say that, wouldn't I.
> One of the previous shows I uploaded, from 29/12/80, was a second
> generation copy. Today I located my original recording, which included
> an additional 5 or so minutes at the start, and sounds much cleaner. I
> left the original out there too. Heres the new version:
> 29/12/80: http://www.mediafire.com/?v2t2m2oykmg
> <http://www.mediafire.com/?v2t2m2oykmg>
> Ray
>