UlrichS wrote:Hi all,
It took a few days more to get the CD on the continent, so please excuse the late comment.
The given dates are most likely the recording dates as they don't fit in with the two radio programmes which mainly broadcasted these recordings, 'Saturday Club' and 'Top Of The Pops'.
All tracks up to 'Naughty Nippon Nights' have been featured in both programmes, with the exception of 'I Met A Girl' and 'Shindig' which were never transmitted on 'Saturday Club'.
I have never heard a complete programme of 'Saturday Club", but I have complete recordings of all TOTP programmes featuring Shadows tracks. They were all available on BBC Transcription Discs.
I have compared the tracks from the CD with the TOTP recordings. As expected, they are identical, even all the tracks on the CD with talking into, over or past them by Brian Matthew are exactly as on the Transcription Discs. Additionally, Keith Skues took over from Brian Matthew with Saturday Club #469 (30.09.1967), so 'The Wild Roses', 'Evening Glow' and 'Naughty Nippon Nights' which have Brian Matthew talking cannot origin from 'Saturday Club'.
I am quite sure that the first 16 tracks from the CD have been taken from recordings which were made by the BBC for the Transcription Disc Service.
As was already said, 'Apache' is definitely not from John Peel's "Sounds On Sunday" programme, which was broadcasted on 24.03.1974. However, I could not find out any programme where this track could have come from.
If the BBC should be interested in a volume 2 - AND - the TOTP recordings are the only source, my suggestion would be TOTP # 326 from February 1971 ('Throw Down A Line', 'You're Burning Bridges' and 'Faithful'), TOTP #349 from July 1971 (talk with Hank, Bruce & John incl. reciting a poem, 'Silvery Rain', 'Lady Of The Morning' and 'Brownie Kentucky') and TOTP 392 from May 1972 ('Marmaduke', 'Mr. Sun' and 'Lonesome Mole').
From the Transcription Discs of "The Star Show", which was recorded for the overseas British Forces Broadcast Service only, the programmes #20 and #24 could add recordings of 'Dance On', 'The Boys', 'Nivram and 'Foot Tapper', all with Brian Locking on bass guitar.
Apologies for taking your time, the bean counter in me took over.
Ulrich
Your suggestion for a volume 2 would seem to tally with mine, except for my inclusion of the recordings thus far not used from the Sounds on Sunday show. In addition to this, another one has occurred to me, what about the version of 'Jungle Jam' that they performed on the 'Cilla Black Show' in '74. This is different to both the original and SoS versions and was almost certainly recorded specially for the show. I'll accept, however, that a decent quality copy of this audio is unlikely to exist.
It is still something of a mystery as to where some of the tracks were used and it seems that the researcher didn't do the best job in the world. Great selection of material, but odd to claim that something was used in a radio show in 1973 that didn't actually exist by then. Until recently I hadn't realised that there was a radio version of Top of the Pops which was completely unrelated to the TV version! How odd!
I am hoping that more information will come to light.
