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The Big L Tapes
Background notes
The Tony Blackburn Show
Sat 15 July 1967 0530-0904
Tony's last Big L show
The Keith Skues Show
Sun 23 July 1967 0900-1203
includes the history of Big L
The Penultimate Fab Forty
Sun 30 July 1967 1200-1506
presented by Ed Stewart
The Final Fab Forty
Sun 6 August 1967 1201-1532
presented by Tommy Vance
The Mark Roman Show
Sat 12 August 1967 1500-1809
Mark's penultimate Big L show
The Ed Stewart Show
Sun 13 August 1967 1210-1518
Ed's penultimate 'Stewpot' show
The Chuck Blair Show
Sun 13 August 1967 1758-2040
Chuck's penultimate show for Big L
The Perfumed Garden
Mon 14 August 1967 0225-0537
John Peel's night-time show
The Chuck Blair Breakfast Show
Mon 14 August 1967 0539-0848
the last Big L breakfast show
The Pete Drummond Show
Mon 14 August 1967 0856-1206
farewell messages
The Last Three Hours
Mon 14 August 1967 1208-1502
the final Stewpot Show, the Juicy Fruit Show, Their Final Hour and Big L's closedown at 1500
Big L extras
Mon 14 August 1967
two TV news bulletins on the day Big L closed
Radio Caroline
February 1968
the end of a Stevie Merrick Show and the US Hot 100
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The Perfumed Garden
Monday 14 August 1967 0225-0537
John Peel's last night-time programme for Big L
Listen
audio file: type mp4 bit rate 128kbps size 183.9mb length 3.12.16
Notes on the recording
In his night-time programme, John Peel broke with the station's Fab 40 format to present an eclectic mix of alternative music and poetry.
Reception quality was very variable (as usual at night on the medium wave).
The spacing of the timechecks indicates that the tape speed is about right.
This last Perfumed Garden ran from midnight to just after 0530 (at 2.40.28 in the audio file you can hear John Peel talk about 'those of you who have stuck with me since midnight'). However, I didn't start recording it until 0225.
I am indebted to Kees Brinkerink (a pirate radio enthusiast and expert based in the Netherlands) for his anaylsis of the programme (to which I have added times from the audio file) and for his transcription of the last half hour of the programme (from 2.42.46 in the audio file). My tape containing this programme was broken and I missed this section. Fortunately he found it, so we are able to hear the end of the programme with John Peel's farewell.
Analysis of the programme
The following tracks were played between midnight and 0225 when the recording begins:
The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Beatles: With A Little Help From My Friends
The Attack: Any More Than I Do
Donovan: Guinevere
The Purple Gang: Granny Takes A Trip
Jefferson Airplane: White Rabbit
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers: Dust My Blues
The Byrds: Eight Miles High
Tim Buckley: Song Slowly Sung
The Misunderstood: I Can Take You To The Sun
Pink Floyd: Astronomy Domine
Canned Heat: Rollin' and Tumblin'
Tyrannosaurus Rex: Rings Of Fortune
Simon and Garfunkel: At The Zoo
Howlin' Wolf: Dust My Broom
The Syn: 14 Hour Technicolor Dream
The Velvet Underground: Venus in Furs
Jeff Beck: Rock My Plimsoul (abbrev.)
Big Brother and The Holding Company: All Is Loneliness
Jeff Beck: Rock My Plimsoul
Bob Dylan: It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry
Jon: Is It Love
The Beatles: And Your Bird Can Sing
The Beatles: For No One
Country Joe And The Fish: Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine
Orange Bicycle: Hyacinth Threads
Marc Bolan: Hippy Gumbo
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers: Double Trouble
Tim Hardin: Hang On To A Dream
The Electric Prunes: Wind-Up Toys
Donovan: Epistle To Dippy
Cream: Tales Of Brave Ulysses
Giant Sunflower: February Sunshine
Shadows Of Knight: Light Bulb Blues
Elmore James: Dust My Broom
The Rolling Stones: We Love You
Moby Grape: Changes
Geoffrey Prowse: The Perfumed Garden Blues
Adrian Henri and Andy Roberts: Tonight at Noon
Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band: Abba Zabba (start of)
Tape begins at 0225
0.00.00 Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band: Abba Zabba (end of)
0.01.17 The Jimi Hendrix Experience: The Burning Of The Midnight Lamp
0.04.58 Roy Harper: Sophisticated Beggar
0.10.25 The Paul Butterfield Blues Band: Look Over Yonder's Wall
0.13.13 The Grateful Dead: Cold Rain And Snow
0.16.21 Love: The Castle
0.19.39 Marc Bolan: The Wizard
0.21.58 The Incredible String Band: The Mad Hatter's Song
0.27.53 Traffic: Smiling Phases
0.30.30 timecheck: 0255
0.30.39 Jackson C. Frank: Milk And Honey
0.34.27 Tomorrow: My White Bicycle
0.37.46 weather at 0300
0.38.09 The Misunderstood: You Don't Have To Go
0.46.35 Big Brother and The Holding Company: Call On Me
0.49.49 Orange Bicycle: Amy Peate
0.52.31 John Renbourn: Another Monday
0.54.38 Simon and Garfunkel: Fakin' It
0.57.50 timecheck - 0322
0.58.14 The Who: Run Run Run
1.00.50 David Blue: The Street
1.07.23 The Beatles: Getting Better
1.10.06 The Beatles: Fixing A Hole
1.12.40 The Beatles: She's Leaving Home
1.15.59 The Beatles: Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
1.19.34 Judy Collins: Liverpool Lullaby
1.22.46 The Jimi Hendrix Experience: I Don't Live Today
1.26.23 Donovan: Sunny Goodge Street
1.29.57 Tyrannosaurus Rex: Misty Mist (Highways)
1.31.56 The Seeds: Mr. Farmer
1.35.10 timecheck - exactly 0400; weather
1.35.55 Simon and Garfunkel: Sparrow
1.39.09 The Mothers Of Invention:
Plastic People
The Duke Of Prunes
Amnesia Vivace
The Duke Regains His Chops
Call Any Vegetable
Invocation And Ritual Dance Of The Young Pumpkin
Soft-Sell Conclusion
1.59.12 Zodiac (Cosmic Sounds): Aquarius The Lover Of Life
2.03.00 John's Children: Desdemona
2.05.32 Timecheck - exactly 0430
2.05.54 The Blues Project: Flute Thing
2.12.16 John Peel: Reading From Winnie the Pooh (Part One)
2.20.15 Donovan: Sand And Foam
2.23.27 John Peel: Reading From Winnie the Pooh (Part Two)
2.28.27 The Velvet Underground: Sunday Morning
2.31.35 John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers: Top Of The Hill
2.34.24 0500 Weather
2.34.45 Pink Floyd: Matilda Mother
2.38.02 The Syn: Flower Man
2.41.05 Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band: Sure 'Nuff N' Yes I Do (start of)
The remainder of the programme is from Kees' transcription:
2.42.45 Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band: Sure 'Nuff N' Yes I Do (end of)
2.43.30 Shawn Phillips: Coal Tattoo
2.46.00 Roger McGough (reading his own poems):
Mother, there's a strange man waiting at the door
Mother, the wardrobe is full of infantrymen
2.47.59 John's Children: Sarah Crazy Child
2.50.19 The Beatles: The Word
2.54.04 Bob Dylan: On The Road Again
2.57.18 The Misunderstood: I Can Take You To The Sun
3.00.56 Donovan: Writer In The Sun
3.05.13 Big Lil - John Peel says goodbye
3.06.46 The Rolling Stones: We Love You
3.10.57 London My Home Town (start of)
3.12.16 tape ends
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