Episode 13 - Not Your Cup of Tea: Hey ho... donkey riding!

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The second in the illustrious and somewhat contentious series, "Not Your Cup of Tea" presented by veteran disc jockey and crumpet eater Duncan Edwards. Enjoy at your own risk. 1. (Excerpt) from Sir Henry at Rawlinson End - Vivian Stanshall 2. Discord (1981 Peel session) - Fire Engines 3. Reading from "Orchesography" - John Kirkpatrick 4. Mt. Kill - Surf City 5. Hope to Meet You - Unknown Artist 6.Woman's Hour: Reading Your Letters - John Baker 7. For People - Songs of Green Pheasant 8. Airbreak 9. A Problem Solving Announcement - Sudden Sway 10. Ho Chi Minh - International Harvester 11. (Excerpts from) Chinatown Theme - Steven Brown 12. Damn Atchafalaya - Carlos Guitarlos 13. Delia's Psychedelian Waltz - Delia Derbyshire 14. Timex - Mike Sammes 15. De La Violence - Louis Scutenaire 16. Mad Bomber - Mighty Sparrow 17. Coup - 23 Skidoo 18.Airbreak 19.Get On - Tarwater 20.Cika-Laka/Cool Noises/bbb - Shukar/Radio Mentale/Raoul Hausmann 21.Moon Rocket - Roger Levern & The Microns 22. Joe Meek - Pluto Monkey 23.A Chronicle of Early Failures Pt.1/Conscious Manipulation/The Fate of Democracy - The Dead Texan/Noam Chomsky 24.I Will Find My Own Way Back - Bill Fay 25.Airbreak 26. Pass! Shoot! Goal! - Albert Whelan 27. British Bacon - Nina Katchadourian 28.The Delphian Oracle - Qubias Ghazala 29.Party - The Durutti Column 30. (Excerpt from) Sir Henry at Rawlinson End - Vivian Stanshall. Notes: Rawlinson End. The word legend" is overused, as is genius, but the legendary "Sir Henry" LP was one of several minor masterpieces created by Vivian Stanshall, a genius who, legend has it, was cajoled by the legendary John Peel's legendary producer John Walters into concentrating for long enough for it become a disturbed but hilarious reality. RIP all three of them, legendary broadcasting geniuses. Fire Engines are from post-UK punk Scotland. I think this is their best track. It's genius. "Orchesography" is from The Complete Dancing Master. "Mt. Kill" is from Surf City's self-titled 4 track EP. The Electric Cambodia album was produced by the Dengue Fever group and I won't go on anymore about Henry Kissinger's bombing policy towards Cambodia that country and also the Pol Pot regime. Trunk Records have issued a good compilation John Baker's work for the BBC and films. I expect the radio program Woman's Hour was considered groundbreaking at the time. Songs of Green Pheasant is one bloke, Duncan Sumpner, who is from N Derbyshire/S Yorks. He might be a teacher as well as a musician. No relation to G. Sumner from further north, thank God. Sudden Sway is a group who had some great ideas about records and performance. I'd keep them in my collection long after The Beatles and suchlike, despite their obvious flaws. Steven Brown is a member of Tuxedomoon. This track is from an LTM reissue called Moving Pictures and features dialogue from the film Chinatown. Damn Atchafalaya I think refers to an incident of artificially directing the course of rivers for commercial gain. You might think Mike Sammes is only good for snappy commercials but he has sung his heart out in the background on recording by Francois Hardy, Shirley Bassey and others and on something called The White Album. "De La Violence" comes from a collection (Le Groupe Surrealiste De Bruxelles, Rupture Volume 2 - 1926-1938) of Surrealist chats with Magritte and others. Scutenaire mentions the words "terrorists" and various others in French. I like his voice but have no idea what he's saying, although i support his right to say it. Probably. "Mad Bomber" - I love early calypso records before it all got pumped up and over-produced, especially the way they put a jolly tune behind some serious reportage. Nothing cheers me up over the Christmas Hols more than blasting some such tunes for days on end. The phrase 23 Skidoo has an interesting origin. So interesting I'

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