30 April 1969

== Show ==
; Name
*Night Ride
; Station
*BBC Radio One
; YYYY-MM-DD
*1969-04-30
; Comments
*The first of the "son of Night Ride" programmes, or "nameless shows", in the new time slot of 8.15 on Wednesday evenings, biiled in Radio Times as "John Peel explores the world of sounds and words. Produced by Pete Ritzema" but with no mention of session guests. 
*Peel's show is preceded by My Kind Of Folk (7.45) and followed by Jazz Workshop (9.15-10.00). Full session details are given in Radio Times for both shows; future Peel favourite Nic Jones is one of the guests on My Kind Of Folk..
*At midnight, Night Ride is presented for the full two hours by Peel's former co-presenter Jon Curle. Session guests are Pentangle, and, as with Peel's new show, the producer is Pete Ritzema. Radio Times calls it "Jon Curle with swinging sounds on and off the record," but despite this rather corny description, Curle did feature some session guests from Peel's Night Ride (among them Shirley and Dolly Collins, Al Stewart, Patrick Sky. Champion Jack Dupree) in later weeks.Curle's Night Ride of 24 September 1969, after Peel's final Wednesday evening show earlier in the evening, had Hard Meat and Nick Drake in session. 
*Guest poet was Mike Horovitz
*Something of a football theme; as well as Mike Horowitz's "Wolverhampton Wanderer" poems, Peel plays a track by Stan Kelly, otherwise known as Stan Kelly-Bootle and composer of "LIverpool Lullaby", JP's favourite Judy Collins track. The Kelly track appears to come from an LP he made on Transatlantic's budget label Xtra as a tribute to Liverpool FC featuring many star players, Bill Shankly and the Kop Choir, alongside Jimmy Tarbuck and folk musicians such as Leon Rosselson. The LP isn't divided into tracks, so may be a recording of a musical or stage play.
*Show ends with a piece of electronic music from George Harrison's album, made for the Beatles' short-lived "experimental" label Zapple.
*Thanks to Tim Joseph for the tracklisting. link
== Sessions ==
*Mike Cooper #2, recorded 29th April 1969. No known commercial release.
== Tracklisting ==
*John chats with Jon Curle who is doing all of Night Ride now.
*Mike Cooper: Turtle Blues (session)
*Jews Harp - New Guinea (BBC Archives)
*Mike Horovitz: Wolverhampton Wanderer (poem)
*Maurice André: Vivaldi's Concerto For Trumpet
*Mike Cooper: Death Letter (session)
*Stan Kelly: Liverpool We Love You
*John chats with Mike Bradwell about the Commedia Dell'Arte at the Roundhouse
*Radio Ceylon Orchestra: unknown (BBC Archives)
*Steve Marcus: Scarborough Fair (album - Count's Rock Band) Vortex 2009
*Mike Cooper: Pool Little Annie (session)
*Three little valletas from Madagascar (BBC Archives)
*Mothers of Invention: Who Are The Brain Police
*Mike Horovitz: Wolverhampton Wanderer (pt 2) (poem)
*Tim Hart & Maddy Prior: Who's The Fool Now (album - Folk Songs Of Old England Vol. 1) Tepee TP 102 &
*Mike Cooper: Electric Chair (session) @
*Fijian March (BBC Archives)
*Mike Cooper: Oh Really (session)
*George Harrison: Under The Mersey Wall (extract) (album - Electronic Sound) Zapple ZAPPLE 02
*Track marked @ available on File 1.
*Track marked & available on File 2.
== File ==
;Name
*1a) Mike Cooper - Peel session - Night Ride 30/4/69
*1b) 1969-04-30 NR 30.4.69 Mike Cooper.mp3
*2) 1969-xx-xx Tim Hart and Maddy Prior NR 1.1.69.mp3
;Length
*1a) 5:14 (to 2:33)
*1b) 2:34
*2) 2:34
Other
*
*Many thanks to Colin Harper
*File 1a continues with a couple of tracks from Gordon Smith, the second called "Instrumental No. 2" from 27 April 1969
*Please address all re-up requests to Peel Mailing List.
;Available
*1a) Youtube
*1b) Mooo
*2) Mooo
Category:Peel shows
Category:Available online
== References ==
Category:1969