08 May 1968

== Show ==
; Name
*Night Ride
; Station
*BBC Radio One
; YYYY-MM-DD
*1968-05-08
; Comments
*Around 25 minutes of a Night Ride, featuring session material from Shirley & Dolly Collins, poems read live in the studio by Brian Patten, a couple of BBC "Archive Things", and Peel chatting with his guests. Also ncludes a track from an obscure import album by Phil Yost, on Takoma Records, the label run by Peel favourite John Fahey.
*In his intro to the Massed Bamboo Stampers item, Peel mentions that he was intending to play more "esoteric" archive tracks. He comments "I don't know what esoteric means but it's a very good word. " Like "eclectic", it was a fashionable word at the time.
*There is a brief snippet of Professor J.R.R. Tolkien reading from his work, from an LP of poems read by him and art song settings of other Tolkien poems by Donald Swann, famous in the 1950s and '60s as one half of the comedy and music duo Flanders and Swann. JP remarks that he would like to have Tolkien, then a cult figure among the hippies, as a regular guest on the programme.
*Perhaps because the Liverpool poet Brian Patten is in the studio, JP explains how his own accent has developed, through public school, National Service and his years in the USA.
*The Quartetto Di Milano track is a piece of Second Viennese School classical music by Anton Webern and comes from an album which was reviewed on Melody Maker's jazz page, presumably because it included items by the Modern Jazz Quartet. Critic Bob Houston liked the Webern and the MJQ tracks, but dismissed the rest as "music to serve goulash by". Webern was a composer noted for his brevity, but it is unlikely that this track (over 10 minutes long) was played in full.
*The John Renbourn track listed below doesn't appear on the above-mentioned recording.
== Sessions ==
*Shirley & Dolly Collins, #1. Recorded 1968-05-07. No known commercial release. 'Over The Hills And Far Away' missing from this recording. 'God Dog'  introduced by JP as such but listed erroneously in The Peel Sessions as 'Good Dog'.
== Tracklisting ==
*Bo Diddley: Road Runner (album - Hey, Bo Diddley!) Marble Arch MAL 814
*Shirley & Dolly Collins: Whitsun Dance (Peel Session) 1 (start missed), @
*John Fahey: I'm A Poor Boy A Long Ways From Home (album - Blind Joe Death) Takoma C-1002
*Brian Patten: A Small Dragon (poem) 1 # $2
*Semai Senoi Aborigines: Massed Bamboo Stampers (music from BBC Archives from Perak Malaya) only 21s on 1 plus outro intro plus 25s on $1 & 
*Shirley & Dolly Collins: Lovely Joan (Peel Session) 1
*Quartetto Di Milano: Fünf Sätze (composed by Anton Webern; split album with Modern Jazz Quartet and Hungarian Gypsy Quartet - A Quartet Is A Quartet Is A Quartet) Atlantic 587044
*Brian Patten: The Dream Exchange (poem) 1 # $3
*Sriranjani Ragam: Classical South Indian music played on the Gotuwadyam (a Peel favourite from the BBC Archives) 1
*J.R.R. Tolkien: A Elbereth Gilthoniel (poem - a very short recording) (LP - Poems and Songs of Middle Earth) Caedmon Tolkien reads in his own invented language Elvish, but “it sounds so right”, enthuses JP 1 £
*Shirley & Dolly Collins: God Dog (Peel Session) 1 @ This song was written by Robin Williamson of the Incredible String Band and appeared on Shirley and Dolly Collins' 1969 LP Anthems in Eden. An ISB version, with Willamson's vocal accompanied by Dolly Collins' pipe organ, was recorded in 1968 but only released in 1999 on the CD Chelsea Sessions.
*Steppenwolf: A Girl I Knew (album - Steppenwolf) Dunhill DS-50029
*John Renbourn: Sweet Potato (LP: Sir John A lot Of Merrie Englandes Musyk Thyng & Ye Grene Knyghte) Transatlantic TRA 167
*Brian Patten: The Projectionist's Dream (poem) This was originally called The Projectionist's Nightmare, but the title was changed because Patten didn't want to give listeners nightmares at this late hour. 1 # $4
*Shirley & Dolly Collins: A Blacksmith Courted Me (Peel Session) 1
*Phil Yost: Wave Your Moonlight Hat For The Snowfall Train (LP: Bent City) Takoma C 1016 (US release) 1 %
*McGough & McGear: Summer With Monika (extract) (album - McGough & McGear) Parlophone PMC 7047
*Shirley & Dolly Collins: Over The Hills And Far Away (Peel Session) @
*Tracks marked 1 available on File 1
*Tracks marked @ available on File 2
*Tracks marked # available on File 3
*Tracks marked % available on File 4
*Tracks marked $ available on File 5
*Tracks marked £ available on File 6
*Tracks marked & available on File 7
== File ==
*1) night ride 1968-05-08.zip
*2a) Shirley & Dolly Collins - Peel session - Night Ride 8.5.68
*2b) 1968-05-08 Night Ride 8.5.68 Shirley & Dolly Collins.mp3
*3) 1968-05-08 Night Ride mid 1968 Brian Patten 'I found a small dragon'.mp3
*4) 1968-05-08 Phil Yost LP track and Peel intro c.6.68.mp3
*5) John Peel's Night Ride: A 1968 Miscellany (part 1)
*6) 1968-05-08 NR early 68 Tolkien reading with Peel intro.mp3
*7) 1968-05-08 NR early 68 Peel introduces Massed Bamboo Stampers
;Length
*1) Separated into 11 tracks. 28:10, though running slow
*2) 8:40 (to 0:30, from 6:16 unique)
*3) 4:01
*4) 3:13
*5) 27:33 (to 0:42, 20:56-24:54) (to 0:25 unique)
*6) 0:31
*7) 0:42
;Other
*1) The recording in circulation runs a little slower than the natural speed, exaggerating the mournful quality of Shirley Collins' voice and making Brian Patten sound as if he is slurring his words.
*2) From a reel to reel tape given to and digitised by Colin Harper. 2b) has centred audio.
*3-7) Also thanks to Colin Harper. Files 6 and 7 are audio-centred versions of the same tracks on File 5.
;Available
*1) Mooo
*2a) Youtube
*2b) Mooo
*3) Mooo
*4) Mooo
*5) John Peel's Night Ride: A 1968 Miscellany
*6) Mooo
*7) Mooo
;Footnotes
Category:1968
Category:Peel shows
Category:Available online
Category:Night Ride
Category:Peel Shows (Incomplete)
Category:Harper Reels