02 April 1969

== Show ==
; Name
*Night Ride
; Station
*BBC Radio One
; YYYY-MM-DD
*1969-04-02
; Comments
*John Horder (see Night Ride Poets) and Mike Briar, Colin Faber and Steve Buchanan were studio guests.
*Programme opens with a spoof song by Bill Oddie about popular mid-morning DJ Jimmy Young (“Six million housewives can’t be wrong”)
* Guest poet John Horder says he’s a follower of the mystic Meher Baba (as was the Who’s Pete Townshend) and describes how "tough" the meditation courses are. Peel says he knows "several people who are into the same thing."
*Patrick Sky has returned to the US so can’t be in the studio to talk about his session, says JP. The session tracks played in Peel’s half of Night Ride are from his new LP Reality Is Bad Enough – Peel says it’s over-produced and he prefers the basic voice and guitar versions broadcast here.
*Peel dedicates Patrick Sky’s “She’s Up For Grabs” to Sheila Gilhooly, “recently voted the clumsiest girl in Europe” – a female voice is audible at the end of the Fred McDowell track, so she may be in the studio.
*The final track on Peel’s section of Night Ride is a popular classical piece by Czech composer Antonin Dvorak, taken from an LP on the Czech label Supraphon, whose releases were available in UK record shops which stocked classical music. The 1 a.m. news mentions unrest and anti-Soviet demonstrations in the country and in his chat with Jon Curle Peel says that he seems to have listeners in Czechoslovakia as he’s received a few letters from there.
== Sessions ==
*Patrick Sky #1, recorded 26th March 1969. No known commercial release.
== Tracklisting ==
*File 2 begins at the start of the show at 12:05am
*Bill Oddie: Jimmy Young (7") Decca F 12903 (JP: “dedicated to the only man at the BBC who gives Jon Curle any serious competition”)
*Patrick Sky: Silly Song (session)
*Ion (or Ioan?) Constantinescu: Batuta (Romanian Jew's Harp) (BBC Archives) later included on the John Peel's Archive Things LP
*John Horder: Through The Lavatory Window (poem)
*Peel talks to John Horder and mentions his book A Sense Of Being, which the poet had to borrow from Camden public library as he couldn’t afford a copy
*Maurice André And Raymond André: Concerto En Do Majeur Pour 2 Trompettes Et Orgue (Vivaldi) (v/a album - Trompette Et Orgue) Erato STU 70488 Peel says he is not allowed to give out the catalogue number because it's a French LP
*Patrick Sky: Jimmy Clay (session)
*John Horder: My Muse Last Night (poem)
*He introduces the next poem – about two deaths, one of them the mystic Meher Baba, who had died a few months earlier and discusses newspaper obituaries with Peel
*John Horder: The Indian Mystic And The Jazz Musician (poem)
*Peel asks who the jazz musician was. JH says he committed suicide but doesn’t give a name. It was Mike Taylor(), who had co-written songs for Cream. As JH says, the name wouldn't mean anything to those not "on the scene", but there has been a revival of interest in Mike Taylor's music in the twenty-first century)
*Fred McDowell: Red Cross Store Blues (album - Vol. 2) Arhoolie F 1027
*Patrick Sky: Modern Major General (session) (Gilbert and Sullivan; adapted by Patrick Sky)  (JP: “a bit of a treat, I like that")
*unknown - American Indians from Venezuela: Horob (Venezuelan Dance) (BBC Archives)
*chat with Mike Briar, Colin Faber and Steve Buchanan about their magazine Lung, based in the East End of London. They live in Forest Gate, “a fairly hard area” says JP, and hope to organise a free concert
*Family: Processions (album - Family Entertainment) Reprise RSLP 6340
*Patrick Sky: She's Up For Grabs (session)
*John Fahey: The Singing Bridge Of Memphis, Tennessee (album - The Yellow Princess] Vanguard SVRL 19033 · (JP says this is a more successful attempt to record a road than his own – he’s been trying to record the M1 for Top Gear)
*John Horder: Unsatisfied Author (poem)
*John Horder: Parts (poem)
*Patrick Sky: The Dance Of Death (session)
*Český Komorní Orchestr: Moderato (Antonín Dvořák) (album - Serenáda E Dur pro smyčcové nástroje, OP. 22 / Serenáda D Moll pro dechové nástroje, OP. 44) Supraphon DV 629
*1am news
*Jon Curle's Night Ride
*Patrick Sky: Many A Mile (session)
*chat with John Peel - "ding dong billy bong" says JP, a habit he’s recently got into, probably deriving from the Goons
*Fats Domino: The Big Beat
*File 2 cuts out
== File ==
;Name
*1) 1969-04-02 Patrick Sky NR 2.4.69
*2) NR 02-04-69.mp3
;Length
*1) 10:20
*2) 1:02:43 (to 55:00)
;Other
*1) Many thanks to Colin Harper
*2) Many thanks to Warwick Johns
*Please address all re-up requests to Peel Mailing List.
;Available
*1) Mooo
*2) Mooo
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