19 July 1967

; Name
*Perfumed Garden
; Station
* Radio London
; YYYY-MM-DD
*1967-07-19
; Comments
* This Perfumed Garden has been circulating in both original lo-fi and reconstructed versions. Like most available PGs it is incomplete, the original recording having been made on reel-to-reel tapes which may not have survived in full.
* The Incredible String Band became one of Peel's favourite acts of the period, doing sessions for his BBC shows until they split up in 1974. Regular plays of tracks from their The 5000 Spirits.... album on the Perfumed Garden helped establish their reputation beyond the folk scene. Side one of the album was premiered on this show and side two on the show of of 20 July 1967. 
*Peel was able to get an advance copy of the LP thanks to Clive Selwood, who at the time was running the UK office of Elektra Records and was the only music business figure aware of the Perfumed Garden, which included many Elektra artists in its playlists (Love, The Doors, Tim Buckley, Judy Collins, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band). Selwood became Peel's manager and lifelong friend, and in his autobiography devotes a couple of interesting chapters to their relationship.
*Peel's full comments from the available recording of this show can be found at 19 July 1967 (Transcript).
*Files b and c are clearer than file a, and the small gap in the edit is closed up, though the edit is at the same position. The timing of the edit suggests that this was due to the reel to reel being copied on to a C90 cassette but both file a and b missed a few minutes while doing so.
*File d) below appears to be a later broadcast of a reel to reel by the Dutch station Radio Seagull and has the same edit as File b, suggesting that was the source.
*File e) seems to be a shorter version of b/c)
*Newly available File f) has no gap in the audio at the 46 minute mark, and is the only file here to contain the strange non-contest announcement by Peel. Strangely this non-contest was mentioned in one of the first versions of this page, in 2009, though the details do not appear in the transcript page. This suggests that the unknown wiki contributor had access to the full tape but did not at the time make it available. File f) also continues beyond the previous shares, which seemed to run out after a second side of C90.
*A rare "all-blue" show, in that every artist has a dedicated page on the wiki
*While the filenames say the 18th July, this is probably due to a non-standard date naming protocol for shows that started at midnight. A new show which is clearly from the 18th (as in 0000 18th) has now appeared, this means that the two subsequent shows needed to be shunted forward a day.
== Sessions ==
* None
== Tracklisting ==
Files a,b,d,f begin
*Country Joe & The Fish: Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine (LP - Electric Music For The Mind And Body) Vanguard VSD 79244 (US release) - eventually released on Fontana in UK, but Peel is playing an import copy
*Incredible String Band: Chinese White (LP - The 5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion) Elektra EUK 257
*Beatles: I'm Only Sleeping (LP - Revolver) Parlophone PMC 7009
*John Mayall's Bluesbreakers featuring Paul Butterfield: Riding on the L& N (EP - John Mayall's Bluesbreakers with Paul Butterfield EP) Decca DFE 8673
*Jefferson Airplane: Somebody to Love (single) RCA 1594
* Advertisement
*Incredible String Band: No Sleep Blues (LP - The 5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion) Elektra EUK 257
* Letter from Tom Cairns - about the Perfumed Garden badge
*Rolling Stones: Get Off My Cloud (single) Decca F 12263 ("revived 45")
*Blues Project: Steve's Song (LP - Projections) Verve Forecast FT 3008 (US release)
*Nirvana(2): Tiny Goddess (single) Island WIP 6016 (JP's "climber" of the week)
*Jimi Hendrix Experience: Third Stone From The Sun (LP - Are You Experienced) Track 612 001
*File a pauses at 46:07, part way through above track. Files b & d pause too.... a shade earlier on timings
*00:48 timecheck
*Peel announces his "non-contest" and invites non-entries from listeners
*File a resumes during next track after a few seconds silence, missing around 4 minutes, while Files b and d also resume, with no gap.
*Mothers of Invention: Uncle Bernie's Farm + Son of Suzy Creamcheese (LP - Absolutely Free) Verve/MGM 5013 (US release)
*00:54 time check
*Donovan: Writer In The Sun (LP - Sunshine Superman, UK version) Pye NPL 18181
*Incredible String Band: Painting Box (LP - The 5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion) Elektra EUK 257
*File b ends and File c begins
* 1.03: Weather
*Move: Walk Upon the Water (single) Deram DM (acetate? Track not released until 26/01/1968 as the b-side of the single Fire Brigade on Regal Zonophone RZ 3005, although the band recorded it in January 1967. Peel may have had an advance copy as it was intended to be issued in autumn 1967 on the band's first LP, whose completion was delayed after the master tapes were stolen)
*Howlin' Wolf: Shake for Me (with jumps; Peel apologises to Peter Shertser of the Firm, who lent him the record)
*Simon and Garfunkel: The Sparrow (LP - Wednesday Morning 3 a.m.) Columbia 9049 (US release)
*Incredible String Band: The Mad Hatter's Song (LP - The 5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion) Elektra EUK 257
*Yardbirds: The Nazz Are Blue (LP - The Yardbirds/AKA Roger The Engineer) UK Columbia 33SX 6063
*John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers: Another Kind of Love (LP - A Hard Road) Decca LK 4853
* Eucalyptus Lovers (poem - writer unknown) read by JP
*Misunderstood: I Can Take You To The Sun (single) Fontana TF 777
*Velvet Underground: Heroin (LP - The Velvet Underground and Nico) Verve 5008 (US release)
*File a cuts out 1:47 into above 7 minute track, File c also cuts out, a little earlier but due to the tape running faster
*Donovan: Epistle To Dippy
*File f cuts out
== File ==
;Name
*a) 1967-07-18 2. LONDON 18 07 67 PERFUMED GARDEN with JOHN PEEL.MP3
*b) 1967 07 18 Tue 0000-0100 R London (266m) - John Peel - Perfumed Garden.mp3
*c) 1967 07 18 Tue 0100-0130 R London (266m) - John Peel - Perfumed Garden.mp3
*d) 1967-07-18 Radio Seagull PERF67-1.MP3
*e) Radio London 18th July 1967. John Peel's Perfumed Garden.
*f) John Peel's Perfumed Garden. Radio London. July 1967.
*Note comments above relating to the dating of the show and the files above
;Length
*a) 1:30:22
*b) 0:59:31
*c) 0:31:06
*d) 0:59:19
*e) 1:18:51
*f) 1:53:46 (to 1:40:45) (continues with 07 August 1967)
;Other
*e) Many thanks to the Magic Bus
*f) Many thanks to Rob Chapman
;Available
*a) Mooo Server (originally available on John Peel Torrent Compilation 8 of 17 (1967-1993))
*d) Mooo
*b,c,e) No longer available
*f) Internet Archive
Category:1967
Category: Peel shows
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Category:Perfumed Garden