Rare BBC Transcription Disc TotPs '67 SPECTRES (Status Quo) Dave Dee.. Rock/Pop

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FOR AUCTION:  BBC TRANSCRIPTION DISC FOR TOP OF THE POPS RADIO BROADCAST 1967, EXPIRY DATE 15.04.67

BBC TRANSCRIPTION DISC: NUMBER 98

(NB: AS THE LABELS OF THESES DISCS ARE VERY SIMILAR I HAVE USED A STANDARD PHOTOGRAPH UNLESS THERE IS A SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE - IE WRITING ON THE LABEL, MARKS ETC)

TRACK LISTING:

*SIDE ONE: INTRODUCTION FROM BRAIN MATTHEW; THE SPECTRES - GLORIA; BRIAN MATTHEW INTERVIEW WITH MITCH (DAVE DEE...); DAVE DEE, DOZY, BEAKY, MICK AND TICH - BEND IT; HEDGEHOPPERS ANOYMOUS - HARD TIME; BRIAN MATTHEW INTERVIEW WITH THE SETTLERS; THE SETTLERS - WINTER FOLLOWS SPRING; THE FORTUNES - WORKING IN A COALMINE; BRIAN MATTHEW INTERVIEW WITH FRANCIS ROSSI (THE SPECTRES); THE SPECTRES - I WHO HAVE NOTHING

SIDE TWO: DAVE DEE, DOZY, BEAKY, MICK AND TICH - SHE'S SO GOOD; BRIAN MATTHEW INTERVIEW WITH MICK TINSLEY (HEDGEHOPPERS ANOYOMOUS); HEDGEHOPPERS ANOYOMOUS - DAYTIME; BRIAN MATTHEW INTERVIEW WITH ROD ALLEN (THE FORTUNES); THE FORTUNES - IS IT REALLY WORTH YOUR WHILE; THE SPECTRES - NEIGHBOUR NEIGHBOUR; DAVE DEE, DOZY, BEAKY, MICK AND TICH - HANDS OFF; THE SETTLERS - DO YOU WANT TO KNOW THE REASON; HEDGEHOPPERS ANOYMOUS - MAKE LOVE; THE FORTUNES - I COULDN'T LIVE WITHOUT YOUR LOVE

*THIS DISC CONTAINS A VERY EARLY APPEARANCE FROM THE SPECTRES, A BAND THAT WOULD LATER CHANGE THEIR NAME AND FIND GREATER FAME AND FORTUNE AS STATUS QUO!

NB: THIS DISC COMES WITHOUT THE CUE SHEET THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN USED BY THE LOCAL RADIO STATION TO ENSURE CORRECT PROGRAMMING AND TIMINGS.  IN PLACE OF THIS I WILL INCLUDE A HANDWRITTEN SHEET LISTING THE ARTISTS AND SONG TITLES ETC.

CONDITION:

VINYL IS VERY GOOD+/EXCELLENT - SOME MINOR SURFACE MARKS BUT NO MAJOR SCRATCHES ETC.  PLAY THROUGH IS VERY GOOD, ALTHOUGH THERE IS SOME STATIC AND CRACKLE, BUT THIS IS MAINLY DUE TO THE NATURE OF THE RECORDINGS

ALL DISCS WILL BE SENT IN PROFESSIONAL 12" MAILERS WITH STIFFENERS. 

THIS DISC IS PART OF WHAT IS UNDOUBTEDLY THE FINEST COLLECTION OF RARE BBC TOP OF THE POPS AND PICK OF THE POPS TRANSCRIPTION DISCS EVER TO HAVE APPEARED ON EBAY... OR ANYWHERE ELSE FOR THAT MATTER!  THEY ALL DATE FROM THE GOLDEN PERIOD OF 1966-1971, AND ARE BEING SOLD ON BEHALF OF A LADY WHOSE FATHER HAD THE FORESIGHT TO RESCUE THEM FROM A SKIP OVER THIRTY YEARS AGO.

THESE ARE GENUINE BBC TRANSCRIPTIONS DISCS WHICH ARE MAINLY IN EXCELLENT, NEAR MINT OR MINT CONDITION, AND I WILL BE LISTING THEM DISC BY DISC OVER THE COMING MONTHS.

(A NOTE ON WHAT EXACTLY BBC TRANSCRIPTION DISCS ARE)

BBC TRANSCRIPTION DISCS ARE AMONG THE MOST SOUGHT AFTER RARITIES AMONGST COLLECTORS OF 1960s/EARLY 1970s MUSIC AND ARTISTS.  THE TOP OF THE POPS DISCS HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THE TELEVISION PROGRAMME OF THE SAME NAME, AND WERE IN FACT MADE UP OF TRACKS FROM THE PREVIOUS WEEKS LIVE BBC SESSION, WHICH WERE THEN PRESSED AS A FULL LENGTH PROGRAMME COMPLETE WITH BRIAN MATTHEW'S DJ LINKS AND INTERVIEWS WITH THE FAMOUS (AND NOT SO FAMOUS!) STARS OF THE DAY.  THESE WERE THEN SENT TO OVERSEAS TERRITORIES WITH THE EXPRESS INSTRUCTIONS THAT WERE TO BE DESTROYED BY THE "EXPIRY DATE", WHICH WAS SIX MONTHS LATER.  IT IS THOUGHT THAT THERE WAS ONLY EVER 50 OR SO WERE PRESSED OF EACH PROGRAMME, AND THE VAST MAJORITY WERE INDEED DESTROYED.  IT IS QUITE LIKELY THAT SOME OF THE EXAMPLES IN THIS SUPERB COLLECTION ARE CLOSE TO BEING UNIQUE - THE ONLY SURVIVING COPIES ANYWHERE.  PICK OF THE POPS  DISCS (WHICH ARE EVEN RARER!) WERE PRESSED FOR THE SAME USE, BUT WITHOUT THE USE OF DJ LINKS AND INTERVIEWS.

THESE DISCS ARE QUITE SIMPLY AS RARE AS IT GETS!!!

VERY IMPORTANT!

 I WILL NOT ACCEPT RETURNS UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES AS BOOTLEGGING IS RIFE WITH THESE DISCS.  YOU CAN TRUST MY DESCRIPTIONS AND GRADINGS 100%, AS MY FEEDBACK SHOWS.

IMPORTANT

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