6 music playing them throughout the day. O Superman and Bucky Skank so far...
― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Thursday, 26 October 2006 07:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― k o o g y (koogs), Monday, 30 October 2006 11:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 28 April 2007 17:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 20:09 (seventeen years ago) link
^ impt questions
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 12:37 (twelve years ago) link
Yesterday was 7 years since he died. As MES said, "He's gone and you see all these bastards walking around..."
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 13:32 (twelve years ago) link
Now this is a coincidence..
I got a 'facebook friend' request for Thomas Ravenscroft, and remembered I'd mailed him about the unknown disc, "Groovy" by Dreamland express. He mailed me back saying he'd record it for me, but it never happened.
So anyway, I tried tracking down "Tickey Dopies" yesterday, and found that Eric Idle played it as part of his comedy radio show "Radio 5". Apparently, it's downloadable as "torrent".
"Series 1, episode 2" if you are interested.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 14:38 (twelve years ago) link
that's great news, in fact the only news for several years.
am listening now. is partial, about 70 seconds worth... a fantastic 70 seconds though.
― koogs, Thursday, 27 October 2011 12:41 (twelve years ago) link
http://peel.wikia.com/wiki/John_Peel's_Record_Box
Some good updates (e.g. Nilsson, the suggestion that it's actually one e.p. not three singles)
― Mark G, Thursday, 27 October 2011 13:33 (twelve years ago) link
Great site, thanks!!
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 27 October 2011 14:12 (twelve years ago) link
ok, according to the peel yahoo group email list thing a couple of tracks have turned up on the shared shows that everyone's been posting (they bought hundreds of tapes off ebay and have been digitising them gradually) we are down to the following:
(list taken from (defunct?) http://my.opera.com/JohnPeelsRecordBox/blog/ and updated with the sipho bhengu (1992-03-14) and fireman (1992-09-25) a-sides)
A-Sides:027 Dreamland Express - Groovy
B-Sides:027 Dreamland Express - u.f.o090 Sipho Bhengu - I saluti
― koogs, Friday, 28 October 2011 12:51 (twelve years ago) link
http://peel.wikia.com/wiki/29_September_1978
This also has "Ticky Dopies", and also this was the show that played the whole of "That's Life" the first (only?) punk "concept" "rock opera" album, Sham 69.
Which means I have heard this before...
― Mark G, Friday, 25 May 2012 11:28 (twelve years ago) link
"Dreamland Express" is not "Dream Express", a euro-disco outfit from 1974 or thereabouts.
We Shall Never Know.
― Mark G, Thursday, 17 January 2013 12:42 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-asHmCt-is
John Plays "Tickey Dopies"
― Mark G, Wednesday, 11 September 2013 13:18 (ten years ago) link
Hello folks.
I am just about finished with this project.
Let's summarise what I don't have (or you might not have)
27. Dreamland Express - Groovy + u.f.o (EMI) - This I have had no luck on finding, but I have found some possible leads as to who they were....32 Electro Hippies - Mega-armageddon Death (Peel session) - This is a Strange Fruit promo, it has "You Sexy Thing" by Cud on the other side!34 Firemen - Old Smokie / Louie's theme - This I have got via ebay, might take a month to get here.70 Nice - The thoughts of Emerlist Davjack (IMMEDIATE) - This is a one sided promo, with JPeel commantary. I do have this from a broadcast, with latter day Peel talking over it.86 Sasha Caro - Grade 3 section 2 + Little maid's song (DECCA) 1967 - I lost out on ebay last week, this is somewhat pricey and hard to find. The side 2 here is anthologised, not found side 1.90. Sipho Bhengu - Tickey dopies + I saluti (INKONKONI) 1971 - Found it!141. Yami Bolo - Richer than Cory (JAMAICA INTERNATIONAL) - On its way.
Note that the three Nilsson singles are actually just one record, a "hits" e.p. with three tracks on it.
Yeah, possibly no-one's interested but hey.
― Mark G, Friday, 20 March 2015 15:41 (nine years ago) link
(i would love a good copy of the sipho bengu.)
― koogs, Friday, 20 March 2015 17:34 (nine years ago) link
pm me, can sort it.
― Mark G, Friday, 20 March 2015 18:01 (nine years ago) link
Is the Nilsson EP thing confirmed as existing? It's not apparently on Discogs. I have an EP of Without You but the tracklisting is different (and it's also not on Discogs).
― everything, Friday, 20 March 2015 21:16 (nine years ago) link
http://www.discogs.com/Nilsson-Without-You/release/778212
― Mark G, Friday, 20 March 2015 22:28 (nine years ago) link
(have eventually sent email, mark. was waiting until i was back in front of proper computer)
― koogs, Monday, 23 March 2015 10:00 (nine years ago) link
look now.
― Mark G, Monday, 23 March 2015 10:38 (nine years ago) link
Just found my "Pop a top" b-side "The Lion Speaks" Rico, cuts at one minute in.
Does anyone have the full version?
― Mark G, Monday, 23 March 2015 10:39 (nine years ago) link
probably, somewhere.
― koogs, Monday, 23 March 2015 10:51 (nine years ago) link
those sipho bhengu tracks are both from a compilation mentioned here: http://electricjive.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/thala-thala-1971.html
― koogs, Monday, 23 March 2015 11:33 (nine years ago) link
Yes, I think that's where I got the tracks from.
― Mark G, Monday, 23 March 2015 11:36 (nine years ago) link
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...
― Mark G, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 16:44 (nine years ago) link
Yes, links are live. I think we had at least one of those before.
― koogs, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 17:35 (nine years ago) link
Well, that's the lot either accounted for or on its way!
Except for Dreamland Express...
― Mark G, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 18:23 (nine years ago) link
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"?
― ChuckyG, Wednesday, 2 September 2015 12:35 (eight years ago) link
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..
― Mark G, Wednesday, 2 September 2015 12:45 (eight years ago) link
He never did, you know..
― Mark G, Wednesday, 17 February 2016 06:52 (eight years ago) link
What's the deal with Dreamland Express? Any leads on whether it's real or just a total mystery?
― everything, Wednesday, 17 February 2016 18:03 (eight years ago) link
I found a gig flyer with Fairport Convention and Dreamland Express, but more than that, no.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 17 February 2016 18:07 (eight years ago) link
...which also had John Peel on the bill, right?
― everything, Wednesday, 17 February 2016 18:09 (eight years ago) link
http://www.marmalade-skies.co.uk/middleearth3sep67.jpg
― everything, Wednesday, 17 February 2016 18:11 (eight years ago) link
One of these days, I'll get Tom Ravenscroft back on the case...
― Mark G, Saturday, 6 July 2019 12:31 (four years ago) link
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?
― Alexrob, Tuesday, 30 June 2020 15:41 (three years ago) link
Just sent you a Webmail with a link to the Al Ferrier song.
― city worker, Tuesday, 30 June 2020 16:49 (three years ago) link
And..
― Mark G, Tuesday, 30 June 2020 17:17 (three years ago) link
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.
― Alexrob, Tuesday, 30 June 2020 23:00 (three years ago) link
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.
― Alexrob, Tuesday, 30 June 2020 23:02 (three years ago) link
Hi,
Not as yet, but.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 1 July 2020 06:26 (three years ago) link
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?
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 22 July 2020 19:27 (three years ago) link
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.
― Sonny Shamrock (Tom D.), Wednesday, 22 July 2020 19:36 (three years ago) link
I think Marc Bolan broke his hippy heart tbh.
coulda been bowie
― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 22 July 2020 19:37 (three years ago) link
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.
― Sonny Shamrock (Tom D.), Wednesday, 22 July 2020 19:43 (three years ago) link