XTC, but not Peel?

[dgmccarthy]

No, it's not the OGWT version, if that's the one on YouTube with Andy Partridge introducing it as "a Rita Coolidge number"!

This one is stereo, quite hissy with some channel dropouts and possibly a click or two; so maybe cassette from vinyl (and/or off-air).  It's quite distinctive at the start as there is a vocal mimicking the guitar strums.  The end is clipped which could be to cut a back-anno.

Anyway, wandering off the Peel track (except that it was listed as a session track) so I'll take it to an XTC forum and see what I can find out.

Thanks.



--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "Stuart" <stuartb@...> wrote:
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> The track is on an Old Grey Whistle Test compilation released by BBC
> Worldwide in 2001
> http://www.discogs.com/Various-The-Old-Grey-Whistle-Test/release/1093502 .
> You might be able to deduce from the audio where the track came from. 
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> I think DLT would have been mono AM, if it came from the OGWT then mono but
> better than AM quality (probably) unless recorded by mic from a TV, and if
> in FM stereo then may have been the single played on JP? Or else a much
> later rip form the OGWT DVD (though don't know if OGWT were recorded in
> stereo at the time)
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> Stuart
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>   _____  
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> From: peel@yahoogroups.com [mailto:peel@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
> dgmccarthy
> Sent: 05 April 2011 04:14
> To: peel@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [peel] XTC, but not Peel?
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> I have an mp3 of "Statue of Liberty" by XTC but do not know its provenance.
> It came in a torrent as a fifth track with their 2nd Peel session but, by
> all accounts (Ken Garner, BBC), there were only four tracks recorded and
> "Statue" wasn't one of them. 
> 
> It's not Sight And Sound or OGWT or any other versions I can find on-line,
> but I see from IST that they did record it for DLT in January 1978.
> 
> Does anyone have that session? Or can anyone suggest where this may have
> come from? I can upload it if anyone's interested.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> David
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