More Festive Fifties - 1983 & 1984

[ray_b2]

I do have FF1979... but that was the first year I listened & taped, and I suspect I cut out most of Peel's links (as well as not recording the tracks that didn't interest me at the time, such as Pink Floyd - nasty hippy types). However I'm saving those tapes until last, they are in poor shape, but their contents do intrigue me.

Ray

--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "jake" <rayytann@...> wrote:
>
> 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@...m, "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
> >
>