Top Gear
I found one reference to a BBC session for Top Gear that is supposed to have taken place 4 April 1970 but I haven't been able to confirm that yet.
I found one reference to a BBC session for Top Gear that is supposed to have taken place 4 April 1970 but I haven't been able to confirm that yet.
70 minutes; broadcast between midnight and 2 am.
John appears with Harold McNair on flute. Only occurence of Different From The Book.
John did a few songs but apart from one fairly muffled sounding recording of The River, there are no known surviving tapes.
nr | track | by/ with | time |
---|---|---|---|
01 | The Easy Blues | Jelly Roll Morton | 2:42 |
02 | Fairy Tale Lullaby | J. Martyn | 2:38 |
This is a rare and early version of The Easy Blues as it would not surface on record until four years later, on Solid Air.
The material was identified by Alan Bershaw in 2017.
No tapes have been preserved.
This fourth show was broadcast Saturday 24 May 1969, 13:00 on BBC Radio 1 England. We don't know what John played.
Other musical guests were Pete Stanley and Brian Golbey, Hamish Imlach, Johnny and the Tumbleweeds and Brian Brocklehurst.
Country Meets Folk was an old Light Programme show and first aired in July 1967. It was a replacement for the half hour A Cellar Full Of Folk.
Both programmes were produced by Ian Grant. Host was Wally Whyton, assisted by Jim Lloyd who presented the folk and country news.
No tapes have been preserved.
This third show was broadcast Saturday 15 March 1969, 17:32 on BBC Radio 1 England. John probably played The Tumbler material.
Other musical guests were Malcolm Price, The Southern Ramblers and Brian Brocklehurst.
Country Meets Folk was an old Light Programme show and first aired in July 1967. It was a replacement for the half hour A Cellar Full Of Folk.
Both programmes were produced by Ian Grant. Host was Wally Whyton, assisted by Jim Lloyd who presented the folk and country news.
No tapes have been preserved.
This second show was broadcast Saturday 28th December 1968, 17:32 on BBC Radio 1 England. John probably played The Tumbler material.
Other musical guests were Pete Sayers, Nick Struff, Roger Knowles and Brian Brocklehurst.
Country Meets Folk was an old Light Programme show and first aired in July 1967. It was a replacement for the half hour A Cellar Full Of Folk.
Both programmes were produced by Ian Grant. Host was Wally Whyton, assisted by Jim Lloyd who presented the folk and country news.
No tapes have been preserved.
This first show was broadcast Saturday 9th November 1968, 17:32 on BBC Radio 1 England. John played The Tumbler material.
Other musical guests were Steve Benbow and Brian Brocklehurst.
Country Meets Folk was an old Light Programme show and first aired in July 1967. It was a replacement for the half hour A Cellar Full Of Folk.
Both programmes were produced by Ian Grant. Host was Wally Whyton, assisted by Jim Lloyd who presented the folk and country news.