Re: The John Cavanagh Tapes – Episode #1

[Humphrey]

Wow, what a great surprise ! Thanks very much Ken And John. Audio quality is very good indeed. I was surprised at how poppy the choices were, but I guess a lot of rock/avant-garde was album-only. Can't really argue with his choices - most are regarded as "classic rock/pop" nowadays, like "Sailing" and "Imagine". I've always known Peelie loved Bill Nelson's early solo stuff but I didn't realise he equally loved Be Bop Deluxe - I can't argue with his number one ! I must admit, I thought the Joan Armatrading (2 songs) stuff was a bit dreary - I'd have picked "Now I'm Here" and "Bohemian Rhapsody" intead ...

--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "ken" <ken_garner@...> wrote:
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> A few weeks ago my old friend the Scottish broadcaster, promoter, documentarist (you name it, he's done it) John Cavanagh – see links below to his current / recent work - were having an email chat about something else entirely different, when he dropped in a mention in passing of his taping of Peel shows as a pre-pubescent in the seventies and how he'd recently been listening to some of them again. I nearly fell off my chair. How on earth could we have been acquaintances and shared several professional enthusiasms – including Peel - for over 20 years, and never in all that time discussed his off-air tape collection? Anyway, John went back to his tapes and a couple of weeks ago presented me with a first batch (yes, that's right, he says there are maybe a few more to come!) of some 9 complete shows from 75-77, plus 3 or 4 other short fragments, and according to my analysis, six of these shows have not previously popped up anywhere (the 3 that have – 1975/11/18, 1975/12/08, and 1975/12/09 - are so close in detail to the familiar versions in the torrents that I have a strong suspicion that John's tapes may be the original source of these, dating to a tape sharing network he contributed these to years ago).
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> Anyway, here's the first discovery of those six, John Peel's show dedicated to his Top 15 singles of 1975. Enjoy. Oh, and it gets even better next week

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> ken
> PS. I am trying to put these on the mooo server, but using Filezilla on my Mac does not reveal all my folders, and those that do appear do not have drop-down arrows to enable me to open them. Can any Mac users explain the simple mistake I must be making?
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> Peel 1975-12-19 (1 hour)
> http://www.megaupload.com/?d=E96CPUS2
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> John Cavanagh:
> http://www.phosphene.debrett.net/soundwave.htm
> http://www.radiosix.com/  (and click on `programmes')
> http://www.myspace.com/phosphene_soundwave
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2010/11_november/12/derbyshire.shtml
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtzdcLGWyCQ
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