Festive Fifty 1988 unleashed...

[steve]

Yes, indeed. Many thanks to Ray for everything he's shared around here recently, and thanks also to Steve for sorting out the pages for the wiki, as well as Stuart for his mighty efforts over there.

And thanks to everyone else for all their recent shares. It's always much appreciated.

Cheers,

Steve

--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "So It Goes 2512" <so_it_goes_2512@...> wrote:
>
> Dear Ray
> 
> I am surprised nobody has thanked you for these, so I'm sure I speak for many others when I say this goes far beyond your trainspotter's remit. It's wonderful to have complete recordings of all these at last. I have made a page on the Wiki to act as a kind of hub for all your tapes:
> http://peel.wikia.com/wiki/Ray%27s_Tapes
> 
> Best wishes
> Steve [TK]
> 
> --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "ray_b2" <tressell@> wrote:
> >
> > More end-of-year shows, as complete as I can make them. This time round I had the idea of recording the two shows on either side of the FF, to see if John had any reflections on the chart itself. 
> > 
> > The last 6 shows (including 5 FFs) from 1988:
> > http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=0add6239b8b3356cab1eab3e9fa335caac3b5752cc37997a
> > (link should be all on one line)
> > 
> > The first (post-FF) show from 1989:
> > 02/01/89 (1): http://www.mediafire.com/?jzwkmu4vytm
> > 02/01/89 (2): http://www.mediafire.com/?dgzd3mzrmmj
> > 
> > All shows uploaded in two parts to satisfy Mediafire. In most cases I used RAR again to split each 2-hour show, but took the precaution of verifying each upload - they all seem to be intact. If you get errors, each file does contains a recovery record which may help.
> > 
> > Fair bit of FM hiss on some of these recordings. 256k stereo MP3 sourced from chrome TDKs, normalized & patched together with Audacity.
> > 
> > Ray
> >
>