30 July 1969

== Show ==
; Name
*Night Ride ("son of Night Ride")
; Station
*BBC Radio One
; YYYY-MM-DD
*1969-07-30
; Comments
* Full tracklisting from the PasB of the BBC Written Archives Centre.
* Music session from American folk singer Patrick Sky and poetry from Eddie Linden. 
* Patrick Sky's session includes Peter La Farge's song "The Ballad of Ira Hayes", best known in the version by Johnny Cash, and the traditional song "Spencer the Rover", recorded by many folk artists including Shirley Collins and later done by John Martyn for his fifth Peel session in 1975.
* Peel plays a 1956 single, the famous "Ying Tong Song" by the Goons, who featured Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe. In Margrave of the Marshes he admits to being a Goons fan in his youth, during his National Service, but said he wasn't so keen on their humour once he got older. 
* Classical music appears in the playlist, in compositions by Krzysztof Penderecki (which made an impression on his listeners, as he played it several times on "son of Night Ride") and Richard Strauss; the opening section of his tone poem "Also Sprach Zarathustra", which became famous when it was used on the soundtrack to Stanley Kubrick's film "2001: A Space Odyssey", was issued as a single and reached number 33 in the UK charts.
* The varied playlist also includes the second single by Barclay James Harvest (who Peel liked in their early days), one of the Grateful Dead's more avant-garde tracks, Andean flute music (Los Calchakis), Thai opera, and rockabilly by Al Downing.
== Sessions ==
*Patrick Sky #2. Recorded: 1969-07-29
== Tracklisting ==
* Elmore James: Canton, Mississippi Breakdown
*Patrick Sky: Separation Blues (session)
*Eddie Linden: The Nest (poetry)
*Belly dancing music from Morocco sung by Mustafa Nasser (BBC Archives)
*Krzysztof Penderecki: Apocalypsis (LP - Dies Irae (Auschwitz Oratorium) / Polymorphia / De Natura Sonoris) Philips Conducted by Henryk Czyż and performed by the Cracow Philharmonia Orchestra.
*Barclay James Harvest: Brother Thrush (7" - Brother Thrush / Poor Wages) Harvest File 2
*Patrick Sky: Love Will Endure (session)
*Grateful Dead: What's Become Of The Baby (LP - Aoxomoxoa) Warner Bros.
*Eddie Linden: Poets In Motion (poetry)
*Music from Thailand, an extract from opera "Nora" (BBC Archives)
*Patrick Sky: To Keith (session)
*Al Downing With The Poe Kats: Down On The Farm
*File 1 cuts in below
*Goons: The Ying Tong Song (7" - Bloodnok's Rock'n'Roll Call / The Ying Tong Song) Decca
*Philharmonia Orchestra: Thus Spake Zarathustra (Richard Strauss) (7" - 2001: A Space Odyssey) Columbia Theme music from the film & T.V.'s Apollo moonshot programmes. (JP: "And that impressive crescendo was to announce the arrival of Jon Curle, whose Night Ride you'll be listening to this evening...")
*Peel mentions an upcoming free concert in Edinburgh and explains the background to the next song
*Patrick Sky: Ira Hayes (session)
*File 1 ends in the track above
*Eddie Linden: The Little Flower (poetry)
*Los Calchakis: La Bocina (LP - Flutes,Harpes Et Guitares Indiennes) CBS
*Patrick Sky: Spencer The Rover (session) (according to Tim's playlist, "with Heather (Wood) of the Young Tradition")
*The following is an additional tracklisting from Tim Joseph, with three question marks (now removed)
*Jazz Workshop - the programme which followed "son of Night Ride" at 9.15 on Wednesday evenings. According to Radio Times, guests on the show that week were The Ray Russell Sextet, with "Commentary by Miles Kington")
==File==
;Name
*1) J P Night Ride 30 July 1969.mp3
*2) 1969-07-30 TG mid 69 BJH.mp3
;Length
*1) 6:26
*2) 3:02
;Other
*1) Many thanks to Tim. 
*2) Many thanks to Colin Harper
;Available
*1) Mooo
*2) Mooo
;Footnotes
Category:1969
Category:Shows
Category:Available online
Category:Peel shows
Category:Night Ride
Category:Harper Reels