B.B. Blunder
1971-xx-xx* (probably recorded 1971-08-26) ::: London, England
BBC Studios (probably Aeolian Hall, Studio 2, 135–137 New Bond Street)
"Top Of The Pops" programme #358 ::: M1-FM (48kHz/24bit files)
(>*VERY likely SAME as 1971-08-26 "Sounds Of The Seventies" session version<)

~*~ Mk2 version, carefully remastered fixing various issues, with differential EQ & lite NR ~*~

01. Sticky Living

Total Time ::: 3:49

::: VG quality (SEE Mk2 version for VG++). Check samples for disconfirmation, curiousity killing, delectation!
::: Warts: Repaired dullspots & dropouts but surely missed a few. Mk1 version is muffled (fixed in the Mk2 version).
::: CONTRAST CLAUSE: This is improved Mk2 w/differential EQ&lite NR. The the Mk1 NO EQorNR muffled version may be found elsewhere.
::: Brian Matthews is the moderator here & uses his usual crappy voiceover methodology, tho' luckily rather sparingly.
::: Torben's superb online resource for BBC TOTP programmes is at http://totp.torbenskott.dk
::: TOTP show #358 Dando Shaft/Daniel Boone/BB Blunder/Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come/Middle Of The Road/Cat Stevens/Susan Maughan.
::: TOTP show confirmed by DJ in fadeout, now omitted, in which he intros Dando Shaft (whose songs weren't captured by this taper).
::: Torben has this show as '72 but that's likely due to the ~6months date of expiry on the transcription disc version. Session is surely '71.
::: *VERY likely this is SAME as 1971-08-26"Sounds Of The 70s"session version, as TOTP often lifted from other show's session trax.
::: Tho' many TOTP sessions by this time used backing trax, etc, this is a unique, unreleased version & band line-up has changed significantly.
::: "Worker's Playtime"LP was apparently recorded on&off thru '70&finished late March '71&apparently released soon after that.
::: Sticky Living/Rocky Yagbag German 45 label says released 1971-04-16. CD notes say 45 is remix/edit but sounds entirely different to me.
::: "Sticky Living"45 version is"4:46"according to Discogs, but YTube version only 3:39. Maybe there are 2 completely different 45 versions?
::: Be warned, the YTube "Sticky Living"45 version is VERY offspeed & heavily brickwalled.
::: "Sticky Living" album version clocks in at 6:32.
::: Band line-up is quite confusing! In the year or so recording the LP, the line-up changed, only to change again a few times after its release!
::: NOTE: Godding&Belshaw are the only 2 (of 5) members here who actually were in the group which recorded the album.
::: Even pivotal founding member Kevin Westlake has apparently abandoned the group by this time - see notes below.
::: The singer here, Reg King, was the lead singer of The Action, one of the premier UK 60s mod bands.
::: Brian Godding&Brian Belshaw (&Kevin Westlake who has left by this point) were in the mighty UK psych outfit, Blossom Toes.
::: Some Blossom Toes freaks may be unaware their last gasp was backing Julie Driscoll on"Break Out"on her"1969"LP(unissued 'til '71).
::: NOTE: ALSO circulates from pre-broadcast LOSSLESS BBC transcription disc with 1 more song! If someone could upload a non-lossy copy, that'd be great.
::: "Sticky Living"LOSSY copy but cleaner from pre-broadcast BBC transcription disc can be heard at www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWNq9VGTL-c
::: The OTHER BB Blunder song from this TOTP show (also surely 1971-08-26 session) was"Have Yourself A Good Time"(not taped by this off-air taper).
::: OTHER BB Blunder song from this TOTP show"Have Yourself A Good Time"LOSSY transdisc can be heard at www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GxvOn4CBqg
::: Tho' making requests has not been very successful, it would be VERY cool if, after FIFTY years, we could hear the 2 B.B. Blunder sessions Mr Garner lists in his epic BBC work (one of the only reference books I still use, and on an almost daily basis. It lives on my desk!). They certainly exist somewhere on some off-air tapes. Likely both are studio sessions, tho' some "Sounds Of The Seventies" were live concerts, sometimes broadcast after the fact.
BBC 1971-08-26 recording date. 1st broadcast 1971-09-17 "Sounds Of The Seventies" (Alan Black) - Sticky Living*//Go&Have Yourself A Good Time//Strange Love.
BBC 1971-12-06 recording date. 1st b roadcast 1971-12-27 "Sounds Of The Seventies" (Bob Harris) Say Goodbye//The Seed.
::: IMPORTANT NOTE for those to whom it is important, regarding the previously uploaded, no longer on the tracker, Blossom Toes 1971-08-01 London,UK Hampstead Country Club fragment M2-AUD. After reading the extensive notes for the 2006 Long Hair CD reissue of B.B. Blunder, written by the mighty John Platt (tho' his impressions of the BB Blunder album & mine are light years apart!), I realised that gig is confirmed as a B.B. Blunder gig, tho' the trader I got it from had it listed as Blossom Toes. It is probably a few weeks before this session, had Nick Judd on keys performing live in concert with them for the first time, and was the final gig for Kevin Westlake in the band, as he quit afterwards due to Reg King's behavior at the gig ("erratic, to say the least"). Must have been pretty weird for the band, as Westlake had been in on things since the beginning & written some of the songs.

Recording Information ::: BBC broadcast - very possibly AM, not FM -> unknown reel-to-reel recorder -> off-air master reel -> 1st generation Maxell XLII-90 cassette without Dolby enocding.

Playback 2021-02-xx ::: 1st generation Maxell XLII-90 cassette on Nakamichi 680ZX cassette deck, Dolby B off, azimuth adjusted for individual tape, heads cleaned & demagnetized -> Sony Linear PCM Recorder PCM-M10 (48kHz/24bit wav file) -> computer -> Audacity [normalisation to remove DC offset, channel/phase alignment, fades, manual one-at-a-time glitch, pop, click, dropout & dullspot repairs, volume adjustments, averaged pitch (speed) fix with single pass after frequency analysis to A440 & album key verification, with differential equalisation to deal with muffling&more, with lite noise reduction to lower hiss/hum] -> CD Wave (track splits) -> 48kHz/24bit flacs (Trader's Little Helper) -> yr ears. Freed 2021-04-xx.

Line-up (as listed by Garner for "Sounds Of The Seventies"August session, which this track is likely actually from) ::: Reggie King (†R.I.P.2010) - vocals // Brian Godding - electric guitar, backing vocals // Nick Judd - piano // Brian Belshaw - electric bass // Chris Hunt - drums.

Nothing here ever commercially released to my knowledge. If I'm wrong, please advise & I'll take the offending trax offline.

DimeTravel 782 ::: Thanks to the original taper & trader, The Man In The Palace! Sincere thanks to whomever uploads this for me. ::: Corrections welcome ::: OPINIONATED BLATHER, READ AT YOUR OWN RISK! Yes, the research&notes took longer than the remastering, tho' that was about 3 hours of work. This is a track I did a transfer of 10 years ago for DIME, then it got lost in the shuffle as I never got around to checking if it had been issued. So, here's a better, fresh transfer & hope some folks who can dig it are still on this side of the veil. Even tho' a less than 4 minutes, I'm not sure many will listen all the way thru, except maybe the guy who has to rush to up it on his YT channel (who knows, could be me soon, but I hate that lossy platform, a real tragedy overall, the greatest dumbing down of quality archive in history!), but I'm pretty sure one who swallow it in its entirety is zubbid, whose fine sense of outsider music lends itself to this type of sound, I'm sure.The appropriately named (Blunder!) band's album never really blew me out. While my mind was absolutely B. L. O. W. N. by the 2nd bLoSSoM tOEs LP, where the song "Peace Loving Man" (especially the acetate version that appeared in the 80s) put them into PINK Fairies league, I wasn't alone scratching my head with "Workers' Playtime"! With some exceptions, it was a precursor for, and flew about as high, as a 3rd rate Brit pub rock attempt (I won't name names). All you can think thru much of the production&weird song mix&arrangements, is WHAT HAPPENED?! There are some notable exceptions, but it was not what was expected from the caliber of musicians in the band - not to mention the guests, like Godding's sister-in-law, the unparalleled Julie Driscoll, appearing on some trax. This song is sorta one of the exceptions - it ain't the Toes, but it's not bad at all - probably why it leads off the album before the LP self destructs - or at least hits the roller coaster. What is interesting is that the 3 versions readily to hand (SINGLE- radically different version to the LP, the long LP version, and this one) kinda reinforce the strengths of the band & might make a couple of people scratch 'til they're bleedin' - still puzzled after all these years. If you'd like to get even more confused by the BLUNDER, tell me you don't think the YOUtube version of the single isn't running EXTREMELY off speed, or explain why the multitude of boots and/or the legit CD reissues don't include the single! OK; rant out. Cool track, overall. Listen, enjoy, show appreciation, share, give, spread peace. Yrs truly, Knees

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