Episode 1
Bob Harris presents the first in a series celebrating the 40th anniversary of the classic music TV programme, including interviews with Alice Cooper, Yusuf and Elton John.
Bob Harris presents the first in a series celebrating 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 One covers series one, which ran from September 1971 to July 1972. Bob interviews the show's producer Mike Appleton about the creation of the show and speaks with Alice Cooper and Elton John about their appearances on The Old Grey Whistle Test. Both artists also feature in archive sessions and there are more classic performances from David Bowie and Curtis Mayfield. Yusuf performs two exclusive acoustic numbers and chats about both his Whistle Test days recording as Cat Stevens and his current projects. There is further live music from Martin Turner's Wishbone Ash.
First broadcast on Radio 2 in 2011.
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Music Played
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Daft Punk
Instant Crush (feat. Julian Casablancas) (feat. Julian Casablancas)
- Columbia.
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Area Code 615
Stone Fox Chase (Old Grey Whistle Test Theme)
- Old Grey Whistle Test.
- RHINO.
- WMTV-140.
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Small Faces
Happiness Stan
Artist: Stanley Unwin
- Ogden's Nut Gone Flake.
- ESSENTIAL.
- ESM-CD477.
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Alice Cooper
UNDER MY WHEELS (麻豆社 Session version)
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David Bowie
Five Years (麻豆社 Session, 18 Jan 1972)
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James Taylor
Sweet Baby James
- James Taylor - Classic Songs.
- CBS.
- 241089-2.
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Curtis Mayfield
Keep On Keeping On (麻豆社 Session version)
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Yusuf Islam Whistle Test 40
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Yusuf Islam
Trouble (麻豆社 Session version)
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Yusuf Islam
Roadsinger (麻豆社 Session version)
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Elton John
All The Nasties (麻豆社 Session version)
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Martin Taylor's Wishbone Ash OGWT performance
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Martin Turner's Wishbone Ash
THE KING WILL COME (Whistle Test 40 performance)
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Last Train Home
Stone Fox Chase (feat. Eric Brace)
Broadcasts
- Wed 24 Aug 2011 22:00麻豆社 Radio 2
- Sat 7 Dec 2013 04:00麻豆社 Radio 6 Music
- Wed 17 Jan 2018 23:00麻豆社 Radio 2