Which are John Peel's 140 fave albums?

Just found my "Pop a top" b-side "The Lion Speaks" Rico, cuts at one minute in.

Does anyone have the full version?

probably, somewhere.

those sipho bhengu tracks are both from a compilation mentioned here: http://electricjive.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/thala-thala-1971.html

Yes, I think that's where I got the tracks from.

http://danger-man.co.uk/rickminas.asp

I can't try it here, but it seems to be a link to the Sasha Caro tracks...

Yes, links are live. I think we had at least one of those before.

Well, that's the lot either accounted for or on its way!

Except for Dreamland Express...

Aside from the Dreamland Express tracks and the Firemen, "Old Smokie", I know have an mp3 of everything on the list.

Mark G, were you able to track down Firemen, "Old Smokie"?

Yes I did. I actually managed to get a decent copy off Ebay.

Funny, this is the single that JP managed to destroy by dropping it down the back of a fridge, or some such, and all he could do was to ask his listeners to track him down a new one.

So, drop me a line..

He never did, you know..

What's the deal with Dreamland Express? Any leads on whether it's real or just a total mystery?

I found a gig flyer with Fairport Convention and Dreamland Express, but more than that, no.

...which also had John Peel on the bill, right?

http://www.marmalade-skies.co.uk/middleearth3sep67.jpg

One of these days, I'll get Tom Ravenscroft back on the case...

Hi all,
My Covid lockdown project has been John Peel's record box. I've come pretty close to getting them all. I need I'm not Drinking More - Al Ferrier and Ticky Dopies/ I Saluti - Sipho Bhengu, and , of course, Dreamland Express - I think I saw somewhere that John Peel may have played the Dreamland Express tunes on his show. Is that true? Mark G, I see from a post about 5 years ago that you got hold of the Sipho Bhengu. I would dearly love to have copies of these tracks (and the rest of the Thala Thala compilation album)

If Mark G or anyone else can help me with these last few tunes that would be great. Does anyone else need any from the list?

Just sent you a Webmail with a link to the Al Ferrier song.

And..

city worker - thank you so much. I had kind of resigned myself to failure, or at the very least a long long wait to find that. Do you have any gaps in your collection? Who knows, I moght have something you're after. You're welocme to any music I have.

Mark G, Hi. Did you send a weblink as well? It hasn't come through to me....
I have to say, I'm amazed and delighted to get these responses.

Hi,

Not as yet, but.

Listening to Peel's intro to a 1973 Be Bop Deluxe session and it's striking how different his on-air voice is from later years. He's even more lugubrious and deep-voiced in 1973. Anyone know if the change was intentional or just something that gradually happened?

He definitely tried his hardest to distance himself from his fluty-voiced public school hippy persona of the late 60s, I didn't know he was doing it as early as '73 though.

I think Marc Bolan broke his hippy heart tbh.

coulda been bowie

I have a theory that when he was in the process of trying to lose his hippy trappings he based a lot of his vocal mannerisms on John Walters, his producer, they could sound very similar.