15 January 1969

== Show ==
; Name
*Night Ride
; Station
*BBC Radio One
; YYYY-MM-DD
*1969-01-15
; Comments
* Full tracklisting from the PasB of the BBC Written Archives Centre. This is now on the talk page, as the tracklisting was strangely ordered.
* As usual, this Night Ride show was for 2 hours, the first hour presented by Peel and the second by Jon Curle. (The Radio Times listing for the show on BBC Genome describes it as "The world of words and music explored by John Peel and at 1.1 by Jon Curle. Produced by John F. Muir"). 
*Newly available tracklisting from Tim Joseph available here. The remaining PasB tracks were therefore on Jon Curle's section.
* Peel's studio guest was Harvey Matusow and not Harry Matusow as listed on Ken Garner's The Peel Sessions book. Harvey Matusow was an American communist who became an FBI informer and was sent to jail for perjury before settling in England between 1965 and 1973. In England, he wrote a column for the underground paper Friends and produced experimental music, making an album for Head Records with the group he formed, Harvey Matusow's Jew's Harp Band. He was also married for a time to the avant-garde composer Anna (Annea) Lockwood, who was also a guest on Night Ride. A controversial character, he later settled back in America, where he died in a car accident in 2001. More about his colourful life here.
*Peggy Seeger was then the wife of Ewan MacColl. Both were associated with the more doctrinaire faction of the folk scene rather than the beatnik/hippy folk artists Peel favoured, so she is one of the more unlikely Night Ride session guests.
* The other session guest, singer and multi-instrumentalist Philip Cordell (1947-2007), was little known at the time but re-invented himself in the 1970s, recording under the names of Springwater and Dan The Banjo Man and having some singles chart successes, especially in Germany,
* There are two pieces of modern classical music in the playlist, by composers Olivier Messiaen and Iannis Xenakis.
== Sessions ==
*Philip Cordell #1. Recorded: 1969-01-08
*Peggy Seeger #1. Recorded: 1969-01-13
== Tracklisting ==
*Elvis Presley: Heartbreak Hotel / Hound Dog / All Shook Up (LP - Elvis-TV Special) RCA Victor
* Peggy Seeger: My Love And I Are One (session) @
*Olivier Messiaen: Liturgie De Cristal (LP - Quatuor Pour La Fin Du Temps) Erato
* Philip Cordell: Quality Street (session)
*Music from Liberia: Harp solo (BBC Archives) (Tim Joseph tracklisting actually says from Siberia)
*Harvey Matusow interview
*Beatles: The Beatles Sixth Christmas Record (flexi-disc) The Official Beatles Fan Club # A mixture of spoken word and music, which the Beatles released (to members of their fan club only) every year.
* Peggy Seeger: The Children (session)
*Music from Gangtok, Sikkim: Flute solo (BBC Archives)
*Lonesome Sundown: I Woke Up Cryin' (LP - Big City Blues) International Polydor Production
* Philip Cordell: When Summer's Here Again (session) $
*Iannis Xenakis: Atrées (Hommage À Pascal) (LP - Atrées / Morsima-Amorsima / ST/4 / Nomos Alpha) EMI
* Peggy Seeger: The Song Of Choice (session)
* Young Tradition: The Barley Straw (LP - Galleries) Transatlantic
*Music from Georgia, USSR: Instrumental (BBC Archives)
* Philip Cordell: That's A Mighty Road (session)
*end of John Peel's section, so remaining tracks were in Jon Curle's section
*Philip Cordell: Winning In The End (session)
*Philip Cordell: Annasyde (session)
*Peggy Seeger: Che Guevara (session)
*Peggy Seeger: Fill Up Your Glasses (session)
*Spike Jones And His City Slickers: Paddlin' Madelin' Home
*Track marked @ available on File 1.
*Track marked $ available on File 2.
*Track marked # available on File 3.
== File ==
;Name
*1a) Peggy Seeger - Peel session - Night Ride 19.1.69 (misdated)
*1b) 1969-01-15 Peggy Seeger Night Ride 15.1.69.mp3
*2a) Philip Cordell - Peel session - Night Ride 15/1/69
*2b) 1969-01-15 Phillip Cordel Night Ride 15.1.69.mp3
*3) 1969-01-15 Beatles 1968 Christmas record.mp3
;Length
*1) 0:02:45
*2) 0:03:44
*3) 0:03:59
;Other
*1-3) From a collection of reel to reels given to and digitised by Colin Harper.
*Mooo files are centred
;Available
*1a) Youtube
*1b) Mooo
*2a) Youtube
*2b) Mooo
*3) Mooo
;Footnotes
Category:1969
Category:Shows
Category:Night Ride
Category:One For Ken
Category:Available online
Category:Harper Reels