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Last broadcast on Wed, 7 Sep 2011, 22:00 on BBC Radio 2.
Synopsis
Bob Harris continues to celebrate the 40th anniversary of 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.
Roger Hodgson - Extra Old Grey Whistle Test 40 Session
British musician and songwriter Roger Hodgson plays a beautiful version of "Even In The Quietest Moments" for Bob.
Music played
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Eric Brace and Last Train Home — Stone Fox Chase
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The Edgar Winter Group — Frankenstein (Old Grey Whistle Test session archive)
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Jim Croce
— BAD BAD LEROY BROWN (Old Grey Whistle Test archive session version) -
Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel
— SEBASTIAN (Whistle Test 40 version) -
Mike Oldfield
— Tubular BellsTubular Bells, VIRGIN, CDV-2001 -
Pink Floyd
— One Of These DaysEchoes 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)
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Roger Daltrey
— Give Me A Stone (Old Grey Whistle Test 40 session version) -
Roger Daltrey — Freedom Ride (Old Grey Whistle Test 40 session version)
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New York Dolls
— Looking For A Kiss (Old Grey Whistle Test archive session) -
Eric Brace and Last Train Home — Stone Fox Chase
Broadcast
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Wed 7 Sep 201122:00
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