[peel] Fw: belle stars kid jensen session

[Mike Parker]

any chance of those ther sessions please kev?



On Friday, 1 November 2013, 12:56, Kev H <flux.kev@...> wrote:
 
  
Apologies if I've not read the to-ings and fro-ings correctly, but are you 
referring to the Bodysnatchers' session (Peel) that has Happy Time Tune / Ghost 
Of The Vox Continental / What's This / The Boiler?
If so, I've got it.
Kev
 
----- Original Message ----- 
>From: MARK LUETCHFORD 
>To: peel@yahoogroups.com 
>Sent: Friday, November 01, 2013 10:34  AM
>Subject: [peel] Fw: belle stars kid  jensen session
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>  
>Stuart (and others if you are interested)
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>
>Sent  a speculative email to a Belle Stars fansite and got this reply. So looks like  Karl has supplied some missing KJ session tracks and made someone very happy -  I have told him it wasn't me who uploaded it!
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>He has also  asked for the Bodysnatchers session - seems odd this hasn't turned up yet.  Does anyone have it?
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>
>Mark
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>----- Forwarded Message -----
>From: mcgregor malcolm  <thebellestars@...>
>To: MARK LUETCHFORD  <m.luetchford@...> 
>Sent: Thursday, 31 October 2013,  20:37
>Subject: Re: kid jensen  session
>
>
>Hello Mark
>
>Firstly, BIG thanks for 
  uploading the tape to wiki!  I cannot express
>how cool it is to hear 
  these Belle Stars session tracks after so many
>years!  I had (almost) 
  given up hope of ever hearing them - thank you.
>
>I used to listen to Kid 
  Jensen when I was at school and do have a copy
>of Turn Back The Clock but I 
  never knew what other songs were recorded
>for the KJ show.  Now I do, 
  The Reason, Sweet Memory and Burning (at
>least!).
>
>On my webpage I do 
  indeed show Iko Iko, The Clapping Song, Sweet
>Memory and Burning as a Kid 
  Jensen session but I now think the tracks
>you have are the actual KJ 
  session tracks.
>
>The tracks I refer to on my website were from a KJ show 
  called B15 (I
>think) and The Belle Stars actually performed these songs 
  live as the
>tape I have is interspersed with an audience and interviews 
  with the
>Belle Stars.  They then get up to perform the songs.  I 
  always just
>assumed this was the KJ session but now I think not.  
  Sweet Memory and
>Burning are definetely different on the tape I have 
  compared to the
>tape you have uploaded.
>
>As for the Richard Skinner 
  session I'm afraid I have never heard any
>of the session tracks and I'm not 
  sure what tracks they ever recorded.
>The only thing I'm pretty sure of is 
  that they recorded the session
>in 1981 which was before Clare Hirst (sax) 
  joined the band and she was
>credited with writing Sweet Memory so your 
  tracks must be from the KJ
>show.
>
>Sorry I can't shed much more light 
  on this but please keep up with the
>good work on the JP site!  I do 
  occasionally check out the JP site as
>I'm still looking out for good 
  quality recordings of all The
>Bodysnatchers radio session they did (they 
  were the 2-tone group that
>the Belle Stars were formed from).
>
>And if 
  you ever come across a Richard Skinner tape...!!!
>
>Thanks once 
  again.
>
>Malc
>PS - I have some old BS clippings from magazines and the 
  like so if I
>do ever come across some more info I will try and let you 
  know.  I'll
>also update my fansite as i have sadly neglected it for a 
  while!
>
>
>On 25/10/2013, MARK LUETCHFORD <m.luetchford@...>  wrote:
>> Finished editing - identifed the tracks but they seem to be 
  different from
>> what you have listed on rarities eg no Iko Iko or the 
  Clapping Song but we
>> do have Reason and Turn Back the Clock. pretty 
  certain its the kid as
>> interspersed with wild swans session that was 
  definitely him.
>>
>> hope you can help - shame they never did a 
  peel session!
>>
>>
>> 
  ________________________________
>>  From: MARK LUETCHFORD <m.luetchford@btopenworld.com>
>> 
  To: "thebellestars@..."  <thebellestars@blueyonder.co.uk>
>> 
  Sent: Friday, 25 October 2013, 14:02
>> Subject: kid jensen 
  session
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks for your website. Thought you 
  may like to know that some Bellestars
>> tracks have turned up on a tape 
  made in 1982 on the peel wiki.
>>
>> I thought you'd be interested 
  in that they are on your rarities section.
>>  Its possible that 
  they are vinyl plays but thought you may be able to help.
>> There are no 
  links so it will be difficult to tell for certain unless you
>> can 
  identify differences. Its also possible that they are from Richard
>> 
  Skinner's show ... the supplier doesn't remember!
>>
>> http://peel.wikia.com/wiki/Karl%27s_Tape_04_-_April_1982
>>
>>
>> 
  Hope you can help
>>
>> And if you know of any peel tapes lurking 
  anywhere we can give them a good
>> home!
>>
>> 
  mark
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