John Peel, 13th October 1968

 Not the best quality recording but an important document non the less.

Featuring session tracks from Honeybus, Fleetwood Mac and Tim Buckley.

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John Martyn - Sing A Song Of Summer (Island)
Fleetwood Mac - You Need Love (Session)
Love - Laughing Stock (Elektra)
Tim Buckley - Love From Room 170 (Session)
Jethro Tull - My Sunday Feeling (Island)
Honeybus - Looking Down (Session)
Duster Bennett - Got A Tongue In Your Head (Blue Horizon)
Joe Cocker and The Grease Band - With A Little Help From My FRiends (Session)
Simon & Garfunkel - Sparrow (CBS)
Fleetwood Mac - A Talk With You (Session)
Big Brother & The Holding Company - Oh, Sweet Mary (CBS)
Honeybus - How Long (Session)
The Doors - Spanish Caravan (Elektra)
Fleetwood Mac - Bo Diddley (Session)
Traffic - Pearly Queen (Island)
Honeybus - Warwick Town (Session)
B.B. King - The Woman I Love
The Scaffold - Buttons Of Your Mind (Parlophone)
Fleetwood Mac - Wine Whisky Woman (Session)
David Ackles - Laissez Faire (Elektra)
Honeybus - Scarlet Lady (Session)
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Gypsy Eyes (Reprise)

John Peel - 1st May 1968

Featuring session tracks from Davey Graham.

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The Misunderstood - Who Do You Love (Fontana)
Davey Graham - Bruton Town (Session)
The Reverend A. Johnson - God Don't Like It
Alan Jackson - Out Here Now
Davey Graham - Tristano (Session)
The United States Of America - The Cloud Song (UK Columbia)
Archive Music - The Priest Who Committed Suicide
Davey Graham - I'm Ready (Session)
Li'l Son Jackson - Roberta Blues (Arhoolie)
Alan Jackson - Lord Save Us/The Devil/The Worstest Beast
Alan Sondheim - 770 (ESP-Disk)
Davey Graham - Rock Me (Session)
Donovan - Epistle To Derroll (Pye)
Davey Graham - Good Morning Blues (Session)

John Peel - 4th February 1968

Featuring sessions from  Tomorrow, Captain Beefheart, The Moody Blues, Tyrannosaurus Rex and The Jimi Hendrix Experience. 

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Part 2

Jimmy Cliff - That's The Way Life Goes (Island)
The Bee Gees - Birdie Told Me (Polydor)
Tyrannosaurus Rex - Scenescof (Session)
The Moody Blues - Forever Afternoon (Session)
Warm Sounds - Nite Is A Comin' (Deram)
Henson Cargill - Skip A Rope (Monument)
Captain Beefheart - Sure Nuff 'N' Yes I Do (Session)
H.P. Lovecraft - The White Ship (Phillips)
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Day Tripper (Session)
Classics IV - Spooky (Liberty)
Pretty Things - Talkin' About The Good Times (UK Columbia)
Tyrannosaurus Rex - Child Star (Session)
Tomorrow - Strawberry Fields Forever (Session)
Lovin' Spoonful - Money (Kama Sutra)
John Mayall's Bluesbreakers - Jenny (Decca)
Captain Beefheart - Yellow Brick Road (Session)
The Moody Blues - Nights In White Satin (Session)
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Spanish Castle Magic (Session)
Tyrannosaurus Rex - Pictures Of Purple People (Session)
Albert King - Cold Feet (Stax)
Love - A House Is Not A Motel (Elektra)
Tomorrow - Now Your Time Has Come (Session)
The Moody Blues - Dawn Is A Feeling (Session)
Fleetwood Mac - My Heart Beat Like A Hammer (Blue Horizon)
Roy Harper - Freak Street (CBS)
Captain Beefheart - Abba Zabba (Session)
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Wait Until Tomorrow (Session)
Buffalo Springfield - Expecting To Fly (Atlantic)
Tyrannosaurus Rex - Hot Rod Momma (Session)
Tomorrow - Incredible Journey Of Timothy Case (Session)
Anders 'n' Poncia - Virgin To The Night (Kama Sutra)
The Moody Blues - What Am I Doing Here (Session)
Captain Beefheart - Electricity (Session)
Phil Ochs - Cross My Heart (A+M)
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Getting My Heart Back Together Again (Session)

John Peel 3rd November 1968

Featuring session tracks from Pentangle, Jeff Beck Group, Love Sculpture and Duster Bennett.

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Deviants - You've Got To Hold On (Stable)

Duster Bennett - I'm Gonna Wind Up (Session)

Jimi Hendrix Experience - Gypsy Eyes (Polydor)

 Pentangle - Sweet Child (Session)

Skip Bifferty - When She Comes To Stay (RCA Victor)

Jeff Beck Group  - Shapes Of Things (Session)

Jethro Tull - Dharma For One (Island)

Love Sculpture - Don't Answer The Door (Session)

Blonde On Blonde - All Day, All Night (Pye)

Duster Bennett - Country Jam (Session)

George Harrison - Greasy Legs/Skiing (Apple)

Pentangle - I Loved A Lass (Session)

Jeff Beck Group - Mothers Old Rice Pudding (Session)

The Gun - Race With The Devil (CBS)

Duster Bennett - Jumping At Shadows (Session)

Love Sculpture - Promised Land (Session)

Pentangle - In Your MInd (Session)

John Mayall - 2401 (Decca)

Jeff Beck Group - Rock My Plimsole (Session)

Incredible String Band - Cousin Caterpillar (Elekra)

Love Sculpture - Sabre Dance (Session)

John Peel - 6th March 1968

This is (or was) the first ever John Peel's Nightride show broadcast on 6th March 1968 and including session recordings from The Incredible String Band.

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Misunderstood - I Can Take You To The Sun (Fontana)
Incredible String Band - You Get Brighter (Session)
? - A Joyful Northern Air
Adrian Mitchell - Take Stalk Between Teeth, Pull Stalk From Blossom, Throw Blossom Over Arm Towards Enemy, Lie Flat And Await Explosion [Poetry Reading]
Iron Butterfly - Possession (Atco)
The End - Shades Of Orange (Decca)
Incredible String Band - All Too Much For Me (Session)
Domenico Scarlatti - Sonata In E Minor
Incredible String Band - Ducks On A Pond (Session)
Adrian Mitchell - To You [Poetry Reading]
Adrian Mitchell - Prince Of Wailers [Poetry Reading]
Simon And Garfunkel - Sparrow (Columbia)
Fleetwood Mac - Cold Black Night (Blue Horizon)
Tulana Jinjote Ragum - ?
Incredible String Band - I Bid You Goodnight (Session)

John Peel - 1st May 1968

Featuring session tracks from Davey Graham.

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The Misunderstood - Who Do You Love (Fontana)
Davey Graham - Bruton Town (Session)
The Reverend A. Johnson - God Don't Like It
Alan Jackson - Out Here Now
Davey Graham - Tristano (Session)
The United States Of America - The Cloud Song (UK Columbia)
Archive Music - The Priest Who Committed Suicide
Davey Graham - I'm Ready (Session)
Li'l Son Jackson - Roberta Blues (Arhoolie)
Alan Jackson - Lord Save Us/The Devil/The Worstest Beast
Alan Sondheim - 770 (ESP-Disk)
Davey Graham - Rock Me (Session)
Donovan - Epistle To Derroll (Pye)
Davey Graham - Good Morning Blues (Session)

John Peel - 11th December 1968

Featuring sessions from John Martin and John Renbourn and Jacqui McShee. John Lennon and Yoko Ono are guests in the studio having just released their Two Virgins LP.

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John Martyn And Harold McNair - Different From The Book (Session)

The Deviants - You've Got To Hold On (Session)

Jacqui McShee And John Renbourn - Watch The Stars (Session)

John Lennon And Yoko Ono - Two Virgins (Apple)

Christopher Logue - He Was Very Good Looking

John Martyn And Harold McNair - Jelly Roll Baker Blues (Session)

John Peel, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Christopher Logue - Alchemical Wedding
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra - [Dvorak] Slavonic Dance No 1 In C
Yoko Ono - John My Love (Demo)
Jacqui McShee And John Renbourn - Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes (Session)
BBC Archive - Azerbaijani Music
Papa George Lightfoot Wine, Women And Whisky (Liberty)
Christopher Logue - Why?
John Martyn and Harold McNair - Dusty (Session)
Lonnie Donegan - Wabash Cannonball (Pye)
Jacqui McShee and John Renbourn - Every Night When The Sun Goes Down (Session)
Traffic - Utterly Simple (United Artists)
John Lennon - Charles
John Martyn and Harold McNair - Hello Train (Session)
Spike Jones And His City Slickers - Sheik Of Araby (RCA Victor)

John Peel - 9th June 1968

With session tracks from Idle Race, Eclection, Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band and Joe Cocker and The Grease Band.

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Idle Race - On With The Show (Session)
Taj Mahal - Everybody's Got To Change Sometime (CBS/Direction)
Eclection - Confusion (Session)
Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band - Kandy Korn (Session)
Kenny Everett - It's Been So Long (MGM)
The Who - Call Me Lightning (Decca)
Joe Cocker And The Grease Band - I Shall Be Released (Session)
Spirit - Uncle Jack (CBS)
Idle Race - The Morning Sunshine (Session)
Tyrannosaurus Rex - Graceful Fat Sheba (Regal Zonophone)
Otis Redding - The Happy Song

John Peel - Top Gear, 27th October 1968

With session tacks from Taste, Blossom Toes, Brian Auger Trinity and David Ackles.

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Family - Second Generation Woman (Reprise)

Taste - Dual Carriageway Pain (Session)

Pretty Things - Private Sorrow (Columbia)

David Ackles - Down River (Session)

Jeff Beck - You Shook Me (Columbia)
Blossom Toes - Wait A Minute (Session)
The Doors - Yes, The River Knows (Elektra)
Brian Auger Trinity - Old Jim Crow (Session)
Taste - Norman Invasion (Session)
Steve Miller Band - Living In The USA (Capitol)
Muddy Waters - Let's Spend The Night Together (Chess)
David Ackles - Laissez Faire (Session)
Jefferson Airplane - Crown Of Creation (RCA Victor)
Brian Auger Trinity - I'm Not Talking (Session)
Scaffold - Lily The Pink (Parlophone)
Taste - Born On The Wrong Side Of Time (Session)
Moody Blues - Ride My See-Saw (Deram)
Blossom Toes - Ever Since A Memory (Session)
SRC - Daystar (Capitol)
Richie Havens - Indian Rope Man (Verve)
Brian Auger Trinity - Road To Cairo (Session)
Nirvana - The Touchables [All Of Us] (Island)
Taste - Same Old Story (Session)
Steppenwolf - Magic Carpet Ride (Stateside)
Duster Bennett - Country Jam (Blue Horizon)
David Ackles - When Love Is Gone (Session)
CAptain Beefheart And The Magic Band - Safe As Milk (Liberty)
Brian Auger Trinity - Lonesome Hobo (Session)
Savoy Brown - Train To Nowhere (Decca)
Blossom Toes - Peaceloving Man (Session)

John Peel - 11th August 1968

Featuring session tracks from John Dummer Blues Band, Pink Floyd and Tim Rose.

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Ray Stephens - Mr Businessman (Monument)
John Dummer Blues Band - Forty Days And Forty Nights (Session)
Duncan Browne - On The Bombsite (Immediate)
Pink Floyd - Careful With That Axe Eugene (Session)
Tim Rose - Roanoke (Session)
The Doors - Hello, I Love You (Elektra)
Leonard Cohen - You Know Who I Am (Session)
Traffic - You Can All Join In (Island)
John Dummer Blues Band - Travelling Man (Session)
Earth Opera - The Red Sox Are Winning (Elektra)
Pink Floyd - The Massed Gadgets Of Hercules (Session)
John Mayall's Bluesbreakers - Killing Time (Decca)
Tim Rose - Foggy Mountain Breakdown On Rye With Mustard (Session)
Misunderstood - I Can Take You To The Sun (Fontana)
Leonard Cohen - Like A Bird On A Wire (Session)
Tyrannosaurus Rex - Salamanda Palaganda (Regal Zonophone)
John Dummer Blues Band - Standing Round Cryin' (Session)
Buffy Sainte-Marie - Sometimes When I Get To Thinkin' (Vanguard/Fontana)
Pink Floyd - Let There Be More Light (Session)
Cream - Born Under A Bad Sign (Polydor)
Tim Rose - I Guess It's Over (Session)
Duster Bennet - It's A Man Down There (Blue Horizon)
Eclection - In The Early Days (Elektra)
Leonard Cohen - That's No Way To Say Goodbye (Session)
Fairport Convention - It's Alright Ma, It's Only Witchcraft (Polydor)
John Dummer Blues Band - After Hours (Session)
Pink Floyd - Julia Dream (Session)
Jerry Lee Lewis - What Made Milwaukee Famous (Mercury)
Tim Rose - Long Haired Boy (Session)

John Peel - Nightride, 24th July 1968

A vintage program for you today featuring the poetic talents of the Occasional Word Ensemble.

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The Who - Run Run Run (Reaction)

Occasional Word Ensemble - Brownsville Blues (Session)

Leon Rosselson - She Was Crazy, He Was Mad (Transatlantic)

Mitch Howard - George King [Poem]

? - Some strange waltz thing.

Occasional Word Ensemble - I'm So Glad (Session)

Robert Wilkins - Police Sergeant Blues

Rick Silvester  - Mrs Jones [Poem]

Francois Rabbath - Ode D'Espagne (Philips)

Mitch Howard - A Bedtime Poem [Poem]

Rick Sylvester - When I Was Three [Poem]

?

Difference - Sweet Sounds Everywhere (RCA)

Ric Sanders - Prophet Of Death And Confusion [Poem]

Ric Sanders - Naked Ambition [Poem]

Jean-Max Clement - Cello Suite No.2 In D Minor - Menuett I and II

Dave Kelly - A Few Short Lines (Matchbox)

John Brown - Ort [Poem]

John Brown - Serena [Poem]

John Brown - As Islands Go I Get Around [Poem]

John Brown - Violation [Poem]

Ustad Vilayat Khan - Raga Yaman (EMI)

Occasional Word Ensemble - Georgia Skin Game (Session)