29 May 1968

== Show ==
; Name
*Night Ride
; Station
*BBC Radio One
; YYYY-MM-DD
*1968-05-29
; Comments
*Poet Pete Morgan (for info on him see Night Ride Poets) was a guest. His poem "My Enemies Have Sweet Voices" was later set to music and recorded by session guest Al Stewart, who sometimes appeared alongside him and other Night Ride poets at poetry and music events of the era. 
*As well as a live poet, this Night Ride has poetry and spoken word material on record, from two Americans recording for the Folkways label; Kenneth Patchen (a Peel favourite) and the respected Black poet Langston Hughes - the latter is a track from a mini-LP, featuring the voice of President John F. Kennedy, who Peel had met during his time in the USA (see the page on JFK for more details). A few days after this show, on 5 June 1968, his brother Robert Kennedy was assassinated.
*Rippers notes: Four of the five numbers broadcast on Al's first of seven Peel sessions, plus a John Fahey LP track from the same show with a bit of Al-related Peel chat at the end.
*The last of the session tracks noted on File 1's Youtube page is not from this show, as it did not appear as a session track or on record until 1969. Scandinavian Girl was likely to have been from Jon Curle's Night Ride of 27th August 1969. The final track is John Fahey's 'The Last Steam Engine Train'
*Tommy Johnson's "Big Road Blues" is a famous and much-reissued country blues track and may well have been played from the LP anthology Blues Roots, Mississippi (RBF 14), which Peel had enthused over in International Times a few weeks earlier, commenting that "the three Tommy Johnson tracks are superb, especially "Big Road Blues". 
*Full tracklisting with thanks to Tim Joseph Link
== Sessions ==
*Al Stewart #1, recorded 8th May 1968. No known commercial release.
(Please add details of any commercial release of these sessions)
== Tracklisting ==
*Eric Clapton & Jimmy Page: Choker
*Al Stewart: The Carmichaels (session) 1
*Carlos: Sonata In E Major (could be Walter Carlos, from the album Switched On Bach)
*Pete Morgan: Obituary / Mr Rix (poem) 2
*SE Turkey City music BBC Archives
*Al Stewart: Swiss Cottage Manoeuvres (session) 1
*Deviants: Charlie (album - Ptooff!) Underground Impresarios IMP 1
*Malaysian Girls: Hydro-Percussion (BBC Archives)
*Pete Morgan: Elegy For Arthur Prance (poem) 2
*Al Stewart: Room Of Roots (session) 1
*Tommy Johnson: Big Road Blues : (v/a LP: Blues Roots, Mississippi) RBF 14
*Al Stewart: Song For Jim (session)
*Kenneth Patchen: 23rd Street Runs Into Heaven (album - Kenneth Patchen Reads His Love Poems) Folkways FL 9719
*John Fahey: The Last Steam Engine Train (album - Vol 3 / Dance Of Death & Other Plantation Favorites) Takoma C-1004 3
*Pete Morgan: My Enemies Have Sweet Voices (poem)
*Al Stewart: Samuel Oh How You Have Changed (session)
*Gotchie Radjan (?) BBC Archives (Gottuvadjam?)
*Langston Hughes: Pres. John F. Kennedy - FH 5802 (7" - Panorama Of Negro History (From 1492 To Today)) Folkways CC 0615
== File ==
;Name
*1a) Al Stewart - Peel session - Night Ride 25/9/68
*2) 1968-05-29 Night Ride mid 1968 Pete Morgan 'Mr Rix' and 'Elegy For Arthur Prance'.mp3
*1b) 1968-05-29 NR 25.9.68 Al Stewart.mp3
*3) 1969-xx-xx John Fahey Last Steam Engine Train.mp3
;Length
*1a) 15:56 (to 11:15)
*1b) 11:15
*2) 1:52
*3) 2:22
;Other
*Many thanks to Colin Harper. File 1b only tracks from this show and centred
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;Available
*1a) Youtube
*1b) Mooo
*2) Mooo
*3) Mooo
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