So the first show to run alongside rehearsals for The Comedy of Errors and I’ve been delighted to see pretty much all the selections I hoped to share from the 3 hour recording were available. All that was missing were:
The Werefrogs [complete Peel Session] - As things currently stand, Forest of Doves is my likely Number 1 when it comes to setting up this blog’s own Festive Fifty for 1992 - still a long way to go of course. However, it didn’t surface in this Peel Session as Mark Frog, Matthew Frog and Steve Frog (“Can these really be their names?”) launched into versions of Spinning Felt Clouds, Cry, Sheila and Don’t Slip Away, the latter of these was their next single and they were currently touring the UK alongside Kitchens of Distinction. Peel set a competition to win copies of the limited edition 7” blue vinyl version of Don’t Slip Away. All participants needed to do was draw what they thought a Werefrog might look like. Winners would be judged “...on sincerity rather than artistic merit.” As we will see in a few programmes time, this was to cause Peel much anguish.
Monkey 101 - Kentucky Woman - a 68 second turbo-charged rock/blues song whose sudden ending caught Peel out. Alas it was not a cover of the Neil Diamond - Deep Purple hit.
In the three weeks since the end of Oliver! and this show, the Rodney King assault trial had ended with not guilty verdicts delivered to the officers who had been filmed beating King. By 1/5/92, the LA riots that the verdicts had provoked were into their third day, by which point more than 30 people were dead. The 11:30 news broadcast during Peel’s programme featured King making his “Can we all get along” plea.
Flossie’s full birthday tracklisting
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