Bread And Beer Band

The Bread And Beer Band was a short-lived 60's outfit, featuring pianist Elton John (then using his real name Reg Dwight), guitarist Caleb Quaye and bassist Bernie Calvert. The band officially released one single and probably never performed outside the recording studio. They recorded an album of instrumental cover versions in 1969 which was never officially released, but became a collector's item because of Elton John's participation, and eventually appeared as a bootleg in 1994.
==Links to Peel==
Peel played their only single several times in 1969, mentioning on the show of 05 March 1969 that he was old enough to remember Dick Barton - Special Agent, the famous BBC Light Programme radio serial whose theme tune it was ("it was required listening for a long time…”) and which ran between 1946 and 1951 before being replaced in the schedules by The Archers. 
The theme tune, originally entitled "The Devil's Galop" (with one "l") and composed by Charles Williams, remained famous via repeats of the Dick Barton series and later remakes for TV and film, and in its original orchestral version was also used in many other series, such as The Goodies and Monty Python's Flying Circus. But Peel revisited the Bread And Beer band's single on his June 2004 (FSK) show where he asked listeners for fun who was the pianist on the track.
==Shows Played==
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*05 March 1969: Dick Barton Theme (The Devil's Gallop) (7") Decca
*09 March 1969: Dick Barton Theme (The Devil's Gallop) (7") Decca
*23 March 1969: Dick Barton Theme (The Devil's Gallop) (7") Decca
;2004
*June 2004 (FSK): Dick Barton Theme (The Devil's Gallop) (7") Decca
==External Links==
*Discogs
*Wikipedia on the Dick Barton radio series
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