Date of Barclay James Harvest "In Concert" broadcast

[ken_garner]

if you give me a couple of weeks - work is hellish at the moment - I might be able to answer that, yes, if i can dig out the PasB scripts for late 76 / early 77, though it's a bit of a trawl getting them all out. So, as I say, give me a while...

k

--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "nigel_wassell" <nigelw@...> wrote:
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> A question, if I may, which I think Ken Garner might be able to answer.
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> I'm presently trying to catalogue my 1970s' tape collection (no Peel, I'm afraid - 11 o'clock was a bit past my bedtime in those days, but a lot of "Fluff" Freeman Saturday Show recordings, some of which, of course, were repeats of isolated Peel session tracks (although I wasn't aware of that at the time and simply took them at face value as "Tony Wilson Recreations")). 
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> I have Saturday Show recordings of two Barclay James Harvest tracks -"Crazy City" and "Poke Street Rag" which were apparently recorded at Hammersmith Odeon in 1976.  Now, one of the two official BJH websites has a list of BJH concert recordings and identifies this show as having been recorded on 19 October 1976 and "broadcast by John Peel" on 14 March 1977, but therein lies the rub, because according to the "Shows" listing in Ken's book, on that date John featured tracks from the "Best of" Barclay James Harvest LP. The show was only an hour long at that time and I wouldn't have thought he'd have had time for the live concert recording as well; also I have very good reason to believe that my recording of "Poke Street Rag" dates from either January or February 1977 and "Crazy City" from no later than 5 March 1977.  I can't imagine that Fluff (avowed BJH fan though he was) would have broadcast excerpts from this concert before its official first transmission - that never seems to have been the practice with the repeated session tracks - and so the question arises: is the quoted first broadcast date for the BJH show of 14 March 1977 correct?
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> Confusion is worse compounded by the fact that Ken also has Peel featuring tracks from the "Best of" BJH LP in his show on 14 December 1976.  To my way of thinking, that date seems a much more likely one for the broadcast of the live concert - two months after recording, rather than March, a whole three months later again, and I can't help thinking that somewhere along the line 14 December and 14 March have got mixed up (probably by the BJH webmasters). Can you clarify from your records, Ken, and confirm the exact date that the BJH concert was broadcast?
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