27 November 1968

== Show ==
; Name
*Night Ride
; Station
*BBC Radio One
; YYYY-MM-DD
*1968-11-27
; Comments
*Tracklisting thanks to Tim Joseph
*Debut session from Elton John, then unknown to most listeners, and one by David McWilliams, whose records were plugged heavily on Radio Caroline; they were on the Dublin-based Major Minor label, whose owner Philip Solomon financed the struggling pirate station after it had been outlawed by the Marine Offences Act.
*Unusual to find Bill Cosby in a Peel playlist. He wasn't a mainstream TV star in the US then, but had recorded a number of successful comedy LPs. Peel mentioned that when he was living in the US he listened to records by younger, "hip" comedians, so Cosby may have been among them.
*Also a track by Doc Watson, a much admired folk-country-bluegrass guitarist, whose records were released in the UK but mostly ignored by Peel.
*John Dudley was a little-known rural blues singer recorded by Alan Lomax on his 1959 field trip around the southern states of the USA (assisted by Shirley Collins). A track by Dudley was once played on the second half of Night Ride, much to the bewilderment of the presenter (possibly Robin Boyle or Bruce Wyndham), who remarked "I suppose that kind of thing is fashionable nowadays". (memory of listener Granger354)
== Sessions ==
*Elton John #1. Recorded 27th November 1968. Possibly live session. No known commercial release.
*David McWilliams only session, recorded 26th November 1968
*Mark Talbot is the guest poet.
(Please add details of any commercial release of these sessions)
== Tracklisting ==
*Country Joe & The Fish: ? (album - Electric Music For The Mind And Body) Vanguard
*Elton John: Lady What's Tomorrow (session)
*Mark Talbot: It Was A Good Spring (poem)
*Bill Cosby: Mothers And Fathers (album - 200 M.P.H.) Warner Bros. WS 1757
*John Dudley: Poor Boy Blues (BBC Archives)
*John mentions the Bonzos being on TOTP
*David McWilliams: Redundancy Blues (session)
*Sun Ra: Nebulae (album - The Heliocentric Worlds Of Sun Ra, Vol. I)
*John talks to Elton John about recording lyrics
*Elton John: Vall-Hala (session)
*Fats Domino: When My Dreamboat Comes Home
*David McWilliams: Lady Helen Of The Laughing Eyes
*Doc Watson: Dill Pickle Rag
*Mark Talbot talking about his book
*Elton John: Digging My Grave (session)
*Mark Talbot: Questions And Answers (poem)
*David McWilliams: The Stranger (session) not listed in "The Peel Sessions"
*Julian Bream: ?
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Category:Peel shows
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