Alan Price with Georgie Fame - BBC Sessions, Volume 8: Alan Price, Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, Britain, 12-22-1980

Here's another album of Alan Price performing for the BBC. I found four episodes of a short T.V. series he did in 1980, simply called "Alan Price." This is the fourth and last of those. 

This one has a pretty prominent guest role for Georgie Fame, who was in a musical duo with Price in the early 1970s. The three songs they did together here was enough for me to credit this to "Alan Price with Georgie Fame." Linda Taylor also was a part of two duets. She featured in one of the earlier episodes, the one I turned into "Volume 6."

Each of the four episodes from this show had a musical theme. I'll bet you couldn't figure out this one, just from the song titles. Basically, the theme was "great songwriters." More specifically, Price said in his banter, "We're going to devote this program to some of the most significant composers of the last 15 to 20 years." 

That pretty much checks out. Here's the songwriters for each song:

01 Subterranean Homesick Blues - Bob Dylan
03 Get Away - Georgie Fame
05 Saturday Night Fish Fry - Louis Jordan & Ellis Walsh
07 Be My Baby - Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich & Phil Spector
09 Fire and Rain - James Taylor
10 American Pie - Don McLean
12 Reach Out, I'll Be There - Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier & Eddie Holland
14 You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' - Phil Spector, Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil

Georgie Fame and Louis Jordan are a lot better known for covering songs by others, but that's a minor quibble, I suppose. Most of the others have been featured in my "Covered" series, or will be eventually (knock on wood).

The last song, "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'," isn't actually from the same show as the rest. It's from another BBC T.V. show, "Fundamental Frolics," aired in 1981. But the song choice fits the great songwriters theme perfectly. Even the guest vocalist on that one, Linda Taylor, appeared on this same episode.

The music here is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. 

This album is 32 minutes long. 

01 Subterranean Homesick Blues (Alan Price)
02 talk (Alan Price)
03 Get Away (Alan Price & Georgie Fame)
04 talk (Alan Price)
05 Saturday Night Fish Fry (Alan Price & Georgie Fame)
06 talk (Alan Price)
07 Be My Baby (Alan Price & Linda Taylor)
08 talk (Alan Price)
09 Fire and Rain (Alan Price & Georgie Fame)
10 American Pie (Alan Price)
11 talk (Alan Price)
12 Reach Out, I'll Be There (Alan Price)
13 talk (Alan Price)
14 You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' (Alan Price & Linda Taylor)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/HEd73RjJ

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/4TdLLOA0KiphRqe/file

The cover image is a screenshot I took from a video of this exact concert. Since Georgie Fame had a prominent role, I wanted to include him as well. He's the one in the light green jacket.

Alan Price - BBC Sessions, Volume 7: Alan Price, Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, Britain, 12-15-1980

This is the third out of four episodes of a short BBC TV series just called "Alan Price," starring Alan Price.

As I mentioned in the write-ups for the first two episodes of this show, each episode had a special musical theme. The theme for this one was 1950s rock and roll. So none of the songs were written by Price. Also, each episode had special guests helping to sing lead vocals on some songs. This one has two, Bernie Stewart and Linda Taylor.

For the other albums of these episodes, I was able to find a song or two to add in as bonus tracks of sorts, since the episodes were only half an hour long. But I didn't find anything fitting for this one. So it's the shortest of the four. 

This album is 28 minutes long. 

01 Reelin' and Rockin' (Alan Price)
02 talk (Alan Price)
03 Johnny B. Goode (Alan Price)
04 talk (Alan Price)
05 Blueberry Hill (Alan Price & Bernie Stewart)
06 talk (Alan Price)
07 Great Balls of Fire (Alan Price)
08 talk (Alan Price)
09 Devoted to You - All I Have to Do Is Dream (Alan Price & Linda Taylor)
10 talk (Alan Price)
11 Let the Good Times Roll (Alan Price, Linda Taylor & Bernie Stewart)
12 talk (Alan Price)
13 One Night (Alan Price)
14 Not Fade Away (Alan Price)
15 talk (Alan Price)
16 Bony Maronie (Alan Price)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/muMh4CD5

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/LciSLOw7PVRGTNx/file 

The cover image is a screenshot I took of a video of this exact concert.

Alan Price - BBC Sessions, Volume 6: Alan Price, Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, Britain, 12-8-1980

As I mentioned in the write-up to the previous album in this series, I found a short series of four televised concerts Alan Price did for the BBC in 1980. Here's the second out of those four. 

Each of the concerts had an overall theme to the song selections. For this one, the theme was "social commentary." Most of the songs fit that theme, but a few are a stretch. How does "Bridge Over Trouble Water" belong, especially? In any case, this meant that most of the songs were covers. Only one from the show, "Jarrow Song," was an original.

However, there's a bonus song of sorts here, "The Trimdon Grange Explosion," that is also an original. But it's from a different BBC T.V. show, "Fundamental Frolics," aired in 1981. I figured that fits well here, since it also could be considered a social commentary song.

The music is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. 

This album is 32 minutes long. 

01 Power to the People (Alan Price)
02 talk (Alan Price)
03 Blowin' in the Wind (Alan Price)
04 talk (Alan Price)
05 Political Science (Alan Price)
06 talk (Alan Price)
07 Big Yellow Taxi (Alan Price & Linda Taylor)
08 talk (Alan Price)
09 Bridge Over Troubled Water (Alan Price)
10 talk (Alan Price)
11 Sunny Afternoon (Alan Price)
12 Imagine (Alan Price)
13 talk (Alan Price)
14 Jarrow Song (Alan Price)
15 The Trimdon Grange Explosion (Alan Price)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/3tdqTEUs 

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/zxpvn7o4FOizYmr/file

The cover image is a screenshot I took of a video of this exact concert. 

Alan Price - BBC Sessions, Volume 5: Alan Price, Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, Britain, 12-1-1980

Once upon a time, back in 2022, I started posting BBC albums for Alan Price. I had plans to post two such albums for him, which seemed about right for his level of popularity. Then I found two more, and posted those. And I found two more BBC albums with him and Georgie Fame as a duo, and posted them as well. I thought that was a lot, more than expected. But now, I've found FOUR more BBC volumes for him! Here's the first of those four.

The reason I found four more albums from him all at once is that it turns out he was the star of a four part T.V. series for the BBC in 1980, and good copies have survived until today. Each episode consisted of a half an hour-long concert and nothing else. Furthermore, each of the episodes had specific musical themes. So Price played songs that fit those themes instead of his own songs. I believe that, between the four episodes, he only sang one of his songs. I don't know when the episodes were filmed exactly (I'm using the broadcast dates, since that's all I know), but they were broadcast on consecutive weeks.

This first episode had the theme of "Black music." That's pretty damn broad and vague, but hey, I didn't come up with the themes. In any case, it gave Price an excuse to sing some of his favorite songs from various genres, so that's what he did here. And one feature of these episodes is that each one featured at least one other guest singer. Madeline Bell was the choice this time, singing prominently on two of the songs.

The last song, "The House of the Rising Sun," isn't actually from this concert. But I found a version of Price singing the song on another BBC T.V. show ("Jeremy Taylor"), earlier in 1980. I stuck it on this album, instead of some of the other episodes, because I have other bonus tracks for some of them, and it fits the theme... maybe. I say "maybe" because nobody knows who actually wrote "House of the Rising Sun" or where it came from. The earliest versions go back to the 1920s, but apparently those are based on still earlier versions from the 1800s. So we don't know if it was originally written by a Black person or not. But it fits into the general Black blues tradition, in any case. 

The music here is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. 

This album is 33 minutes long. 

01 Introduction [Instrumental] (Alan Price)
02 Sir Duke (Alan Price)
03 talk (Alan Price)
04 A Stranger's Lament (Alan Price)
05 talk (Alan Price)
06 Beat Out a Rhythm on a Drum (Alan Price & Madeline Bell)
07 talk (Alan Price)
08 Cherry Red (Alan Price)
09 talk (Alan Price)
10 Go Where I Send Thee (Alan Price & Madeline Bell)
11 talk (Alan Price)
12 What'd I Say (Alan Price)
13 Keep a-Knockin' (Alan Price)
14 The House of the Rising Sun (Alan Price)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/UfKvgz3Y

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/MzMWzLg9hJuATOT/file

The cover image is a screenshot I took from this exact concert.

Various Artists - NME Poll Winners' Concert, Empire Pool, London, Britain, 5-1-1966

I've already posted the NME Poll Winners' Concerts from 1964 and 1965. Here's the only other one known to be exist in the public sphere, the 1966 one.

This is arguably one of the greatest concerts of all time, just in terms of sheer star power. The last three acts were the Who, the Rolling Stones, and the Beatles, for crying out loud! That was probably the one and only time those three acts appeared on stage in a row like that.

Unfortunately though... we're missing most of the good stuff, including all of those three performances! So sorry. And worse, of the remaining concert, we are missing half of that too. This concert was at least two hours long. So, to broadcast it on TV, it was split it two, and the two parts were shown on TV a week apart. It's pretty clear to me that only the second part survives, because all of the first part is missing. 

Here are all the musical acts that played in the first part: the Overlanders, Small Faces, the Spencer Davis Group, Roy Orbison, the Walker Brothers, the Yardbirds, the Seekers, the Alan Price Set, the Shadows, and Cliff Richard. If you add all those acts together, plus the ones we do have below (Sounds Incorporated, the Fortunes, Herman's Hermits, Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich, the Yardbirds, Crispian St. Peters, Alan Price Set, and Dusty Springfield), plus the three acts finishing the second set (the Who, the Rolling Stones, and the Beatles), it's hard to argue this was the greatest collection of rock music talent ever on one stage in the 1960s. It's such a shame we don't have all of it!

Of course, the greatest loss is not getting to hear the Beatles' set. This would turn out to be the very last concert the Beatles performed in Britain, excepting the unannounced performance on top of Abbey Roads Studios in 1969. We do know the songs they played though: "I Feel Fine," "If I Needed Someone," "Day Tripper," "Nowhere Man," and "I'm Down."

To further frustrate you, these NME concerts continued until 1971. I couldn't find many details about the concerts after 1966. However, we know a bit more about the 1967 and 1968 concerts, because setlist.fm gives a list of the performers for each of those years.  

Here's a list of the known performers for the 1967 concert (in alphabetical order): Alan Price Set, Cat Stevens, Cliff Richard, Cream, Dusty Springfield, Geno Washington and the Ram Jam Band, Lulu, Small Faces, the Beach Boys, the Dubliners, the Move, the Spencer Davis Group, the Troggs. 

And here are the known performers for the 1968 concert (also in alphabetical order): Amen Corner, Cliff Richard, Don Partridge, Dusty Springfield, Love Affair, Lulu, Procol Harum, Scott Walker, Status Quo, the Association, the Herd, the Move, the Paper Dolls, and the Rolling Stones. 

Man, what incredible concerts those would be to hear! Unfortunately though, no known recordings of any of the concerts after 1966 exist. I strongly suspect they weren't broadcast on TV, but I don't know for sure. Let's hope that the remainder of the 1966 concert and all of the 1967 to 1971 concerts are sitting in some vault and will be released to the public one day. 

Now, let's get to why we don't have the recordings of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Apparently, there was a big argument backstage. The popular version is that both Mick Jagger of the Stones and John Lennon of the Beatles argued that they were the biggest band in the world, and thus demanded to go on last. However, it appears this wasn't true. In fact, most of the members of the Beatles and the Stones were friends with each other. 

I found what appears to be the more accurate story at The Paul McCartney Project website. It has an impressive webpage dedicated to this concert, with lots of photos and text. You can find that here:

https://www.the-paulmccartney-project.com/concert/1966-05-01/

That webpage includes an excerpt from a book that extensively quotes Maurice Kinn, who was the owner of NME at the time. Here's what Kinn claims happened: 

"Halfway through the Stones' set, the four Beatles arrived at the foot of the stairs to the stage, with their guitars in hand. I told them they were 25 minutes early, but Lennon insisted that they were going on. I said they couldn't and John shouted, 'Didn't you hear me the first time? We're going on now, or we're not going on at all.' In a rapidly convened huddle with Brian Epstein, I outlined my dilemma, that I had promised the Stones, in writing, that the Beatles should not follow them immediately onto the stage. I had arranged for the awards presentation to come between the two acts and explained to Brian that if the Beatles did not come on at the previously arranged time, I would be left with no option but to send MC Jimmy Savile on stage to explain to 10,000 NME readers that the Beatles were in the stadium but they weren’t going to play. I explained to him very clearly what would happen then. There would be a riot! Half of Wembley would be destroyed and Wembley and the NME would both sue Epstein. Brian conveyed this to the Beatles and John exploded! He gave me abuse like you've never heard before in all of your life. You could hear him all over the backstage area. He said, 'We'll never play for you again!' But he knew that he had no choice. Fifteen minutes later, the Beatles went on stage, collected their awards and played the show."

So it seems it's true there was an argument involving Lennon, but not Jagger. Jagger was performing on stage at the time and was probably totally oblivious about the conflict going on nearby. While I think Lennon is one of the greatest musicians of all time, he could be an asshole sometimes, and it looks like this was one of those times. Probably the Beatles were sick and tired of giving concerts by this time, and Lennon had lost all patience and just wanted to get this obligation over with.

Be that as it may, the Beatles didn't even allow the cameras to roll when they took the stage, due to the conflict mentioned above. I'm not sure how it came to be that the Who and the Rolling Stones also didn't allowing their performances to be broadcast either, but that's what happened. 

So anyway, while we can lament all the missing music, what we're left with is still pretty damn impressive. And we're lucky to have anything at all, since very few live recordings from 1966 survive. As for the sound quality, it's reasonably good, but not great. Consider this was probably recorded off a TV in 1966, so one has to lower one's standards a bit. I tried to improve it, but there wasn't much I could do, since I couldn't successfully separate the vocals from the instruments, or the instruments from each other. In the end, I just kept it the same. 

In case you're curious about who won the poll awards this year, there's a list at the NME website, which you can see here:

https://www.nme.com/nme-awards/awards-history/1966-606221

Also, note that I found a review for this concert from NME, thanks to the Paul McCartney Project website mentioned above. I included an image of it in the download file. It has comments about all the performances, including all the missing ones.

This album is one hour long. 

01 talk (Sounds Incorporated)
02 In the Hall of the Mountain King [Instrumental] (Sounds Incorporated)
03 Zorba's Dance [Instrumental] (Sounds Incorporated)
04 talk (Fortunes)
05 This Golden Ring (Fortunes)
06 You've Got Your Troubles (Fortunes)
07 talk (Herman's Hermits)
08 A Must to Avoid (Herman's Hermits)
09 You Won't Be Leaving (Herman's Hermits)
10 talk (Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich)
11 You Make It Move (Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich)
12 Hold Tight (Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich)
13 talk (Yardbirds)
14 Train Kept A-Rollin' (Yardbirds)
15 Shapes of Things (Yardbirds)
16 talk (Crispian St. Peters)
17 Send Me Some Lovin' (Crispian St. Peters)
18 The Pied Piper (Crispian St. Peters)
19 talk (Alan Price Set)
20 Baby Workout (Alan Price Set)
21 I Put a Spell on You (Alan Price Set)
22 talk (Dusty Springfield)
23 In the Middle of Nowhere (Dusty Springfield)
24 You Don't Have to Say You Love Me (Dusty Springfield)
25 talk (Dusty Springfield)
26 Shake (Dusty Springfield)
27 talk (Beatles & emcee)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/L5VqhUHF

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/GvbEFGJxuHwyVLp/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. Sorry if it's misleading to have a photo of the Beatles but no actual Beatles music on the album. At least we do have the recording of the Beatles accepting their awards. This photo was in black and white, but I colorized it with the use of the Kolorize program.

Georgie Fame & Friends - BBC Sessions, Volume 7: Friday Night Is Music Night, Cheltenham Jazz Festival, Cheltenham, Britain, 5-3-2013

Here's another BBC album by Georgie Fame. This one is rather unusual in that it's kind of a celebration of him having over 50 years in the music business. It features some longtime collaborators as special guests: Alan Price, Zoot Money, and Madeline Bell.

Most of the songs were put together in a careful way, in order to tell the story of Fame's career, with interesting tidbits during the banter. For instance, the first song performed was one that he sang at a musical audition back in 1959. 

The special guests didn't have really big roles, but each of them got at least one spotlight song. And most of Fame's most famous songs were performed before the concert was over.

The music here is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. 

This album is an hour and 36 minutes long. 

01 talk (Georgie Fame)
02 High School Confidential (Georgie Fame)
03 talk (Georgie Fame)
04 What'd I Say (Georgie Fame, Alan Price, Zoot Money & Madeline Bell)
05 talk (Georgie Fame)
06 Parker's Mood (Georgie Fame)
07 Jumpin' with Symphony Sid (Georgie Fame)
08 talk (Georgie Fame)
09 It Should Have Been Me (Georgie Fame & Zoot Money)
10 talk (Georgie Fame)
11 Everything Happens to Me (Georgie Fame)
12 talk (Georgie Fame)
13 Flamingo Allnighter (Georgie Fame, Alan Price, Zoot Money & Madeline Bell)
14 talk (Georgie Fame)
15 Yeh Yeh (Georgie Fame)
16 talk (Georgie Fame)
17 Sunny (Georgie Fame)
18 talk (Georgie Fame)
19 Seventh Son (Georgie Fame)
20 Rosetta (Georgie Fame & Alan Price)
21 talk (Madeline Bell)
22 Sweet Georgie Fame (Madeline Bell)
23 The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde (Georgie Fame)
24 talk (Georgie Fame)
25 Entertaining Mr. Sloane - Eros Hotel (Georgie Fame)
26 The Singer (Georgie Fame)
27 talk (Georgie Fame)
28 The Old Music Master (Georgie Fame)
29 talk (Georgie Fame)
30 The Nearness of You (Georgie Fame & Madeline Bell)
31 talk (Georgie Fame)
32 Get Away (Georgie Fame)
33 Rhythm King (Georgie Fame)
34 talk (Georgie Fame)
35 Funny How Time Slips Away (Georgie Fame)
36 talk (Georgie Fame)
37 Saturday Night Fish Fry (Georgie Fame, Alan Price, Zoot Money & Madeline Bell)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/GQ6fG1Ej

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/aIzBBDFey9dNRUb/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. 

Alan Price - BBC Sessions, Volume 3: In Concert, BBC Television Centre, London, Britain, 5-15-1970

Here's another BBC concert by Alan Price. This was from the BBC TV show "In Concert" in 1970 (as opposed to the countless number of BBC radio shows also called "In Concert."). 

This is another recording that I never knew even existed, but fell into my hands thanks to musical associate Progsprog. Thanks again to him. 

It turns out that Price also did an episode of this TV show in 1974. At first, I thought this had to be that episode instead, because three of the songs, "Smells like Lemon, Tastes like Wine," "Savaloy Dip," and "And So Goodbye," wouldn't be released on album until 1974. But then I changed my mind, because just before he sang "The House of the Rising Sun," he commented that it had just been a big hit again. That wasn't a hit in 1974, but the band Frijid Pink had a big hit with it in early 1970, which would be perfect timing for that comment.

The timing of the concert is a bit curious, because he didn't have an album to promote in 1970. In fact, at the time, his last album had been released in 1967. He did release a single of the song "Sunshine and Rain (The Name of the Game)" right around this time, but unfortunately, it didn't even make the charts in Britain. 

His next album would be a duet album with Georgie Fame in 1971, and then he'd do a soundtrack album in 1973, "O Lucky Man." His next proper solo album wouldn't be released until 1974. So perhaps that's why three of the songs here weren't released until then. 

Once again, there's some renumbering involved. I had already posted a Price BBC concert from 1979. So that one is now being renamed to "Volume 4." You can find the revised version of that one here: 

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2025/01/alan-price-bbc-sessions-volume-3-in.html

If anyone has the 1974 BBC concert by Price mentioned above, and wants to send that to me, then there will be more renumbering in the future!  

This album is 35 minutes long.

01 Sunshine and Rain [The Name of the Game] (Alan Price)
02 talk (Alan Price)
03 Smells like Lemon, Tastes like Wine (Alan Price)
04 talk (Alan Price)
05 The House of the Rising Sun (Alan Price)
06 talk (Alan Price)
07 Savaloy Dip (Alan Price)
08 talk (Alan Price)
09 The House that Jack Built (Alan Price)
10 talk (Alan Price)
11 Is There Anybody Out There (Alan Price)
12 talk (Alan Price)
13 Don't Stop the Carnival (Alan Price)
14 talk (Alan Price)
15 And So Goodbye (Alan Price)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/PztPqWwS

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/qXDz1Lk3I1h8oiY/file

The cover photo appears to be from this exact concert. (It's from a BBC TV show in May 1970, and this likely was the only one.) 

The Animals - BBC Sessions, Volume 5: Sight and Sound, Golddigger's, Chippenham, Britain, 9-1-1983

I posted four volumes of the Animals performing for the BBC a while ago. I certainly didn't ever expect to see a fifth volume. But while looking for something else, I stumbled across this. Unlike the previous four, it's a concert (edited down quite a lot, no doubt). It took place during the band's 1983 reunion tour.

Normally, I wouldn't post this, because it's very similar to a live album I've already posted that took place only about a week later. All the songs played here were also played in that one. But I'm posting it for a few reasons. One, it seems very rare, at least as audio files, so I want to stop it from slipping into obscurity. (One can also find the video of it on YouTube, since it was broadcast on BBC TV.) Two, I managed to improve the sound quality by boosting the volume of the vocals in relation to the instruments. (Such a common problem, I've noticed.) And finally, this has excellent sound quality, and there's very little live Animals music available with this level of quality.

Note that Alan Price was part of this reunion tour. He sings one song here, "O Lucky Man."

This album is 48 minutes long.

01 It's Too Late (Animals)
02 Melt Down (Animals)
03 Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood (Animals)
04 My Favourite Enemy (Animals)
05 Tryin' to Get to You (Animals)
06 I'm Crying (Animals)
07 Bring It on Home to Me (Animals)
08 O Lucky Man (Animals)
09 The House of the Rising Sun (Animals)
10 talk (Animals)
11 We Gotta Get Out of This Place (Animals)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/zGaFi6DD

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/bB85SsNStWEUuuK/file

The cover photo shows the band's lead singer Eric Burdon in 1983. I don't know additional details.

Alan Price - BBC Sessions, Volume 4: In Concert, Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester, Britain, 12-24-1979

I was rather surprised to find this concert the other day. Alan Price was a big name in Britain in the 1960s and early 1970s, but his star had faded by the late 1970s. However, the BBC still gave him a concert. Here it is.

I previously posted two albums of Price's BBC studio sessions, all from the 1960s. Plus, I've posted a short BBC concert he did in 1970. Then in the early 1970s, he became part of a duo with Georgie Fame for a couple of years. I found two more albums of BBC studio sessions from that duo. Then, in 1973, he went back to being a solo artist. He had a big success composing the songs for the 1973 movie "O Lucky Man." After that, his album sales slowly dwindled. But he also had some success acting in movies and TV, and composing for more movie soundtracks.

As hinted above, his late 1970s albums didn't set the world on fire, either critically or commercially. However, this concert mostly consists of his songs from the 1960s, plus those from the early 1970s, especially the "O Lucky Man" soundtrack. So it does a decent job of being a "best of" collection.

The music here is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent.

This album is 56 minutes long.

UPDATE: On November 12, 2025, I updated the mp3 download file. The music is exactly the same. But I found an earlier volume in this series that I'd missed, so the volume number changed. That meant the title, cover art, and mp3 tags changed too. 

01 O Lucky Man (Alan Price)
02 talk (Alan Price)
03 Don't Stop the Carnival (Alan Price)
04 The House That Jack Built (Alan Price)
05 talk (Alan Price)
06 Simon Smith and His Amazing Dancing Bear (Alan Price)
07 talk (Alan Price)
08 In Times like These (Alan Price)
09 talk (Alan Price)
10 I'm a Poor Boy (Alan Price)
11 Don't Try (Alan Price)
12 I Know When I've Had Enough - That's Alright Mama - Blue Moon of Kentucky (Alan Price)
13 Poor People (Alan Price)
14 Sell, Sell, Sell (Alan Price)
15 Goin' Down Slow (Alan Price)
16 talk (Alan Price)
17 Left Over People (Alan Price)
18 Away, Away (Alan Price)
19 talk (Alan Price)
20 This Is Your Lucky Day (Alan Price)
21 Baby of Mine (Alan Price)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/s6dJwQuJ

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/kqbcfDEwTkGURxg/file

The cover image is a screenshot I took from the British TV show "The Basil Brush Show" in November 1979.

Alan Price & Georgie Fame - BBC Sessions, Volume 1: 1969-1971

Alan Price and Georgie Fame found a lot of fame as solo acts in the 1960s. I've already posted albums of Price's BBC sessions and Fame's 1960s BBC sessions. The BBC solo sessions for both of them end towards the end of the 1960s because they teamed up as a duo for a few years. 

It was an unusual pairing in that both of them were lead singers and piano players, but they made it work. They generally traded lead vocals on most of these songs, or sang in harmony.   

The first evidence I have of them teaming up are from an appearance on Lulu's BBC TV show in early 1969. Those make up the first three songs here. They then appeared as a duo more prominently for a TV special in late 1969. That's represented with the next three songs here (tracks 4 through 6).

After those TV special songs come three songs with just Price (tracks 7 through 9). All three songs are from 1970 BBC studio sessions. I've included them here because they fit better chronologically than tacking them onto the last solo Price BBC album I made.

Price and Fame only put out one album as a duo in 1971, and they had a big hit in Britain with the song "Rosetta." When that came out, they did more BBC studios sessions as a duo. All the rest of the songs here are from three BBC sessions they did in 1971.

Everything on this album is officially unreleased. Virtually all of the BBC studio sessions were made available to me thanks to musical associate Marley. Those come from BBC transcription discs, and they have excellent sound quality.

As if often the case, the BBC DJs talked over the music sometimes. So as I usually do, I used the X-Minus audio editing program to wipe their talking while keeping the music. That's why so many songs have "[Edit]" in their names. I edited "Bring It on Home to Me" from the 1969 TV special for a different reason, but I forget what it is exactly.

This album is 49 minutes long.

UPDATE: On April 6, 2026, I updated the mp3 download file. I added three songs, the first three ones. All of them are from an appearance on a Lulu BBC TV show that I'd previously missed.

01 Back in the U.S.S.R. (Alan Price & Georgie Fame)
02 Games People Play (Alan Price & Georgie Fame)
03 Mockingbird (Lulu, Alan Price & Georgie Fame)
04 Great Balls of Fire (Alan Price & Georgie Fame)
05 Bring It on Home to Me [Edit] (Alan Price & Georgie Fame)
06 Good Day Sunshine (Alan Price & Georgie Fame)
07 Saveloy Dip [Edit] (Alan Price)
08 Sunshine and Rain [Edit] (Alan Price)
09 When the Battle is Over [Edit] (Alan Price)
10 Can't Take It Much Longer [Edit] (Alan Price & Georgie Fame)
11 Mama Roux [Edit] (Alan Price & Georgie Fame)
12 Rosetta [Edit] (Alan Price & Georgie Fame)
13 Everyday [Edit] (Alan Price & Georgie Fame)
14 The Dole Song [Edit] (Alan Price & Georgie Fame)
15 Home Is Where Your Heart Is (Alan Price & Georgie Fame)
16 Time I Moved On (Alan Price & Georgie Fame)
17 Follow Me [Edit] (Alan Price & Georgie Fame)
18 I'm a Gambler [Edit] (Alan Price & Georgie Fame)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/jENEu43D

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/iJ64OpuNN063zVr/file

The cover photo is from 1971, but I don't know any of the details. The colors were washed out, but I improved that somewhat in Photoshop.

Alan Price & Georgie Fame - BBC Sessions, Volume 2: 1972-1973

NOTE: I first posted this album in February 2022. Since then, I found more songs, enough to split this album in two. Because most of the newly discovered songs are from 1969 to 1971, I split that album off and named it "Volume 1." This one has been renamed from just "BBC Sessions" to "BBC Sessions, Volume 2." If you're interested in this one, I highly recommend you get "Volume 1" as well.

Here's the link for that:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2022/12/alan-price-georgie-fame-bbc-sessions.html

Everything here is officially unreleased. There actually are only four songs from proper BBC sessions, tracks 10, 11, 13, and 14. But most of the rest, tracks one through eight come from a BBC TV show called "The Two Ronnies." This was mostly a comedy show, but they played one song a week for each of the eight episodes. It wasn't easy, but I managed to find all eight, sometimes by finding them in full length videos of the shows. 

The remaining two songs, tracks nine and 12, come from another British TV show called "The Morecambe and Wise Show." Those are from 1973. It seems the Price and Fame partnership quietly came to an end shortly after that.

They only put out on single as a duo in 1973, but their solo music careers continued. Price in particular had big success in 1973 with the "O Lucky Man" single and movie soundtrack. Two of the actual BBC studio sessions tracks, the last two songs here, feature just Price are are from his "O Lucky Man" project. 

Unfortunately, I couldn't find any more BBC sessions from Price or Fame in the years after this, either together or solo, so the series ends here.

It seems that most of the songs on this album were never put out on singles or albums by the Price and Fame duo. A few were done here and there during their solo careers, but I think most are unique to these versions.

Note that when I split the album, as mentioned above, most of the songs I had prior to the split ended up on this album. But four of the songs here are new: "Don't Hit Me When I'm Down," "Street Lights," "Poor People," and "Sell, Sell, Sell." I also moved four songs to "Volume 1," where they fit chronologically.

This album is 38 minutes long.

01 Sweet Little Rock and Roller (Alan Price & Georgie Fame)
02 Fool's Paradise (Alan Price & Georgie Fame)
03 [There's] Always Something There to Remind Me (Alan Price & Georgie Fame)
04 Bony Maronie (Alan Price & Georgie Fame)
05 Bye Bye Love (Alan Price & Georgie Fame)
06 Matrimony (Alan Price & Georgie Fame)
07 Delilah (Alan Price & Georgie Fame)
08 Listen to the Melody (Alan Price & Georgie Fame)
09 Saturday Night Fish Fry (Alan Price & Georgie Fame)
10 Don't Hit Me When I'm Down (Alan Price & Georgie Fame)
11 Street Lights (Alan Price & Georgie Fame)
12 You Are My Sunshine (Alan Price & Georgie Fame)
13 Poor People (Alan Price)
14 Sell, Sell, Sell (Alan Price)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16373059/ALANPRCEGEORGFM1972-1973BBSssionsVolum2_atse.zip.html

The cover photo is from an appearance on the "It's Lulu" TV show in 1973.

The Alan Price Set - BBC Sessions, Volume 2: 1967-1969

Here's the second half of what Alan Price did at the BBC in the 1960s.

For the first album, about half of the songs came from an official album. In this case, only the first two performances have been officially released. Generally speaking, the songs are from proper BBC sessions. There are two exceptions though. "Simon Smith and the Amazing Dancing Bear" and "Rip It Up" are from the German TV show "Beat Club." And the last two songs are from the BBC, but a BBC TV show instead of radio shows like all the rest.

By chance, most of the songs here were plagued with the problem of BBC DJs talking over the starts and ends of the songs. Heck, even one of "Beat Club" songs had a DJ talk in German over the beginning of it. But, as I usually do, I used the audio editing program X-Minus to wipe the DJ talking while keeping the underlying music.

Note that during this time Price was quite taken by the songwriting of Randy Newman who was still unknown and hadn't put out any albums yet. So there are a few Newman covers here (including one he otherwise never did, "1941"). Also, like the previous BBC album, there are a number of songs here that he never recorded in the studio. Those include: "Take Me in Your Arms and Love Me," "I Was Made to Love Her," "Rip It Up," "The Letter," "Satisfied Street," "1941," "I Keep Forgettin'," "Here, There and Everywhere," "Walk on By," and "Still Searching for Love." So, like last time, that's about half of the songs.

This album is 51 minutes long.

UPDATE: On January 1, 2023, I updated the mp3 download file. I added the songs "Falling in Love Again," "I Can't Turn You Loose," and "Walk On By," which I'd previously missed. A different version of "I Can't Turn You Loose" is on Volume 1.

01 Take Me in Your Arms and Love Me [Edit] (Alan Price Set)
02 I Was Made to Love Her [Edit] (Alan Price Set)
03 Lover's Law [Edit] (Alan Price Set)
04 Shame (Alan Price Set)
05 Simon Smith and the Amazing Dancing Bear [Edit] (Alan Price Set)
06 Rip It Up (Alan Price Set)
07 The Letter [Edit] (Alan Price Set)
08 Don't Do That Again [Edit] (Alan Price Set)
09 Satisfied Street [Edit] (Alan Price Set)
10 Don’t Stop the Carnival [Edit] (Alan Price Set)
11 The Time Has Come [Edit] (Alan Price Set)
12 When I Was a Cowboy (Alan Price Set)
13 1941 [Edit] (Alan Price Set)
14 I Keep Forgettin' [Edit] (Alan Price Set)
15 Falling in Love Again [Edit] (Alan Price Set)
16 I Can't Turn You Loose [Edit] (Alan Price Set)
17 Walk On By (Alan Price Set)
18 Here, There and Everywhere (Alan Price Set)
19 Still Searching for Love (Alan Price Set)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16373056/ALANPRCE1967-1969BBSssonsVlum2_ztse.zip.html

The album cover uses a photo from 1967.

The Alan Price Set - BBC Sessions, Volume 1: 1966-1967

I've got a ton of BBC material to process and post here. I'm not doing them in any special order, just kind of randomly picking from the pile. Thanks to these BBC recordings, I'm learning about some artists that I'd never paid much attention to before. 

A good example of that is Alan Price. He was the organ player for the Animals, and is responsible for the famous organ sound on "The House of the Rising Sun." But not long after that, in 1965, he left the band for a solo career. It turns out he was a capable lead singer (with a voice that sounds a bit like Eric Burdon's of the Animals) and a sometimes songwriter, so it was easy to see why he went solo. He went on to have some hits in Britain into the early 1970s. But he didn't make an impact in the US, and since I'm American, I'd pretty much missed his solo career.

These BBC recordings are good for highlights of his early solo career. There are versions of all of his hits from that time, plus album tracks and some songs I don't think he released. I don't know his music well enough to name every song done exclusively for the BBC, but I checked and confirmed that at least these ones are exclusive: "Baby Work Out," "When a Man Loves a Woman," "Shake," "I Take What I Want," "Said I Wasn't Gonna Tell Nobody," "Goin' Out of My Head," "Knock on Wood," and "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood." That's half the songs here! Most of those are famous soul songs.

You'll note some of the songs have "[Edit]" in their titles. That's the usual problem of BBC DJs talking over the music. I applied the usual solution of using the audio editing software X-Minus to wipe the vocals clean while keeping the underlying music.

Some of these are from a rare archival album, and others are unreleased. But the sound quality is excellent and essentially the same either way.

This album is 42 minutes long. I have enough material for a second volume, which will be coming soon.

01 I Put a Spell on You (Alan Price Set)
02 Baby Work Out (Alan Price Set)
03 The Walk [Edit] (Alan Price Set)
04 Hi-Lili Hi-Lo (Alan Price Set)
05 Take Me Home [Edit] (Alan Price Set)
06 When a Man Loves a Woman (Alan Price Set)
07 Shake [Edit] (Alan Price Set)
08 I Can't Turn You Loose [Edit] (Alan Price Set)
09 Tickle Me (Alan Price Set)
10 I Take What I Want [Edit] (Alan Price Set)
11 Critic's Choice [Instrumental] (Alan Price Set)
12 Said I Wasn't Gonna Tell Nobody [Edit] (Alan Price Set)
13 Goin' Out of My Head [Edit] (Alan Price Set)
14 Knock on Wood [Edit] (Alan Price Set)
15 Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood [Edit] (Alan Price Set)
16 The House That Jack Built (Alan Price Set)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16373052/ALANPRCE1966-1967BBSssonsVlum1_atse.zip.html

The album cover pictures Alan Price in 1966. I don't know the details though.