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Episode 3

Bob Harris remembers the third series of the classic music TV programme live sessions from Roger Daltrey and Steve Harley, plus archive music from Jim Croce and New York Dolls.

Bob Harris continues to celebrate the classic music TV show. Each programme looks at one complete series of the original Old Grey Whistle Test and includes archive recordings alongside both new interviews and exclusively recorded sessions with guests from the featured series.

Programme three covers the series that ran from September 1973 to July 1974. Both Steve Harley and Roger Daltrey join Bob Harris in the studio to perform exclusive session songs.

Bob talks with the show's original producer Mike Appleton about the films that accompanied tracks in the "pre-video" age. He also speaks to film-maker Ian Eames about the film he created for a Pink Floyd song, which was screened on OGWT and led to a lengthy working collaboration between animator and band.

Amongst the archive performances featured in this programme are songs by Sensational Alex Harvey Band, Jim Croce and the New York Dolls.

First broadcast on Radio 2 in 2011.

57 minutes

Last on

Wed 31 Jan 2018 23:00

Music Played

  • Africa Express

    Season Change

    • Maison Des Jeunes.
    • Transgressive Records.
    • 003.
  • Eric Brace and Last Train Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ

    Stone Fox Chase

  • The Edgar Winter Group

    Frankenstein (Old Grey Whistle Test session archive)

  • Jim Croce

    BAD BAD LEROY BROWN (Old Grey Whistle Test archive session version)

  • Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel

    Sebastian

  • Mike Oldfield

    Tubular Bells

    • Tubular Bells.
    • VIRGIN.
    • CDV-2001.
  • Pink Floyd

    One of These Days

    • Echoes Best Of Pink Floyd.
    • EMI.
    • 5 36-111 2.
  • Pink Floyd

    Time

    • Dark Side Of The Moon.
    • EMI.
    • CDEMD-1064.
  • The Sensational Alex Harvey Band

    Next (Old Grey Whistle Test Session archive)

  • Roger Daltrey

    Give Me A Stone (Old Grey Whistle Test 40 session version)

  • Roger Daltrey

    Freedom Ride (Old Grey Whistle Test 40 session version)

  • New York Dolls

    Looking For A Kiss (Old Grey Whistle Test archive session)

  • Eric Brace and Last Train Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ

    Stone Fox Chase

Broadcasts

  • Wed 7 Sep 2011 22:00
  • Mon 9 Dec 2013 04:00
  • Wed 31 Jan 2018 23:00