John Peel's Perfumed Garden - 12th. July 1967

Peel on the Galaxy

I'm indebted once again to Colin Ellis for this one.

This is the first two thirds (80min) of a Perfumed Garden show that I'd not heard before. Here, we find John refreshed from a week's shore leave and armed with "all kinds of beautiful records for you". Also features Peel reading the weather and discussing entries to the "Zodiac Cosmic Sounds" contest. A very beautiful thing, you see.

If you like this sort of thing, you might like to know that my upload of Guy Brown's reconstruction of the final Perfumed Garden is still being seeded here after more than 18 months. (You'll need to be bittorrent-literate to get it.)

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Tracklisting

• All You Need Is Love - The Beatles (fades in)
• Epistle to Dippy - Donovan
• Meet Me In The Bottom - Howlin' Wolf
• Granny Takes A Trip - The Purple Gang
• You Don't Have To Go - The Misunderstood
• European Son to Delmore Schwartz - Velvet Underground
• Sparrow - Simon and Garfunkel
• Big Boss Man - Jimmy Reed
• Sagittarius - Zodiac Cosmic Sounds
• Fly Away - Blues Project
• Rock My Plimsoul - Jeff Beck
• White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane
• Mother, There's A Strange Man Waiting At the Door - Roger McGough
• Foxy Lady - Jimi Hendrix Experience
• 1.00 Weather
• February Sunshine - Giant Sunflower
• America Drinks, Status Back Baby, Uncle Bernie's Farm, Son of Suzy Creamcheese - The Mothers of Invention
• Dust My Blues - John Mayall's Bluesbreakers
• Fixing a Hole - The Beatles

John Peel, Radio 1, 29th. January 2002

With Sheila @ Peel Acres

Featuring Mr. Bird in session.

The Perfumed Garden selection in this show is Jefferson Airplane's White Rabbit. (N.B. I'm missing the two shows broadcast on 23rd. & 24th. January 2002. Anyone have them?)

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(Bit of a stuttering start, and cuts out slightly before the end.)

Tracklisting

John Peel, Radio 1, 22nd. January 2002

Storming it at Fabric, 2002 (© BBC)

Featuring Buick 6 in session.

In this show, Peelie starts a 'Perfumed Garden' spot, which involves him playing a record a night from his famous final 5½-hour final Perfumed Garden show on Radio London, back in August of 1967. The idea had formed when a listener sent him a magazine article which detailed the tracklisting from the show. (This was probably the article from Mojo 7 in 1994, which we now know contained a couple of inaccuracies.)

So, Peel kicks off the spot with his old theme song, The Attack's Any More Than I Do (having skipped the first couple of Beatles tracks on the grounds of over-familiarity).

Interestingly (at least for anoraks such as your truly), anyone who's heard that Perfumed Garden show can solve what Peel describes in this show as one of the great mysteries of his life, namely why the name "Georgina Witney" was written on the sleeve of his copy of The Attack record. Way back on the pirate ship, Peel had dedicated the record to Georgina Witney and (presumably) her husband Tony, having met them on the train back to Ipswich the previous evening.

(N.B. At the time of writing, the final Perfumed Garden show was still being seeded at The Pirate Bay, here.)

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Tracklisting