Cream - The BBC Radio Sessions (complete list and more)

This is a complete list of Cream's BBC Radio Sessions with their current availability, I have not done comment about the quality of recordings because there are members much better than me to do it.
I hope this list will be useful, corrections, additions, details and curiosity are welcome.
Main sources: Book 'Eric Clapton: Day By Day' by Marc Roberty, Web Page 'Jack Bruce: Past Tours Database' by Bob Elliott, but also others.
OR = Official Release: 'BBC Sessions' / 'Disraeli Gears (Deluxe Edition)' / 'Fresh Cream (Super Deluxe Edition)'
B/T = Bootleg/Tape

21 OCT 66 - 'Bandbeat':
1. Spoonful - unreleased
2. Sleepy Time Time - unreleased
3. Rollin' And Tumblin' - unreleased

8 NOV 66 - 'Saturday Club':
1. Sweet Wine - OR
2. Eric Clapton Interview #1 - OR
3. Wrapping Paper - OR
4. Rollin' And Tumblin' - OR [incomplete]
5. Sleepy Time Time - OR
6. Steppin' Out - OR
7. I'm So Glad - B/T [incomplete]
Note: n.4 complete on B/T, n.7 the beginning is missing

21 NOV 66 - 'Monday Monday':
1. Spoonful - unreleased
2. Steppin' Out - unreleased
3. I'm So Glad - unreleased

28 NOV 66 - 'Guitar Club':
1. Crossroads - OR
2. Sitting On Top Of The World - unreleased
3. Steppin' Out - OR

9 DEC 66 - 'Rhythm & Blues World Service':
1. Cat's Squirrel - OR
2. Traintime - OR
3. I'm So Glad - OR
4. Lawdy Mama - OR

10 JAN 67 - 'Saturday Club':
1. Eric Clapton Interview #2 - OR
2. I Feel Free - OR
3. N.S.U. - OR
4. Four Until Late - OR
5. Traintime - B/T
6. Toad - B/T

16 JAN 67 - 'Monday Monday':
1. N.S.U. - unreleased
2. Rollin' And Tumblin' - unreleased
3. I Feel Free - unreleased

25 JAN 67 - 'Parade Of The Pops':
1. I Feel Free - unreleased

20 MAR 67 - 'Monday Monday':
1. I'm So Glad - unreleased
2. Take It Back - B/T
Note: n.2 guitar solo instead harmonica solo, some sources place this track on 14 JUL 67

30 MAY 67 - 'Saturday Club':
1. Strange Brew - OR
2. Eric Clapton Interview #3 - OR [edited]
3. Tales Of Brave Ulysses - OR
4. We're Going Wrong - OR
Note: n.2 complete on B/T

14 JUL 67 - 'Joe Loss Show':
1. Strange Brew - unreleased
2. Tales Of Brave Ulysses - B/T

24 OCT 67 - 'Top Gear':
1. Eric Clapton interview #4 - OR
2. Born Under A Bad Sign - OR
3. Outside Woman Blues - OR
4. Tales Of Brave Ulysses - unreleased
5. Take It Back - OR [voiceover + edited]
6. Sunshine Of Your Love - OR [incomplete]
Note: n.5 and n.6 complete on B/T, n.5 without voiceover

6 NOV 67 - 'Bush House':
1. Eric Clapton Interview - unreleased
2. Jack Bruce Interview - unreleased

9 JAN 68 - 'Top Gear':
1. Politician - OR [voiceover]
2. Swlabr - OR [voiceover]
3. Steppin' Out - OR
4. We're Going Wrong --- B/T
5. Blue Condition --- B/T
Note: n.1 and n.2 without voiceover on B/T

 

Thanks!

 

Thanks. This is helpful. I will print out the list and hang it on my fridge...

 

... and above all it contains a good recording of the very rare "We're Going Wrong" from BBC 9 JAN 68

 

Actually, I supplied that one - from a reel inherited from a late friend who had taped a number of BBC shows in the period.

 

Nice!

 

I see that most of their appearances on "Monday Monday" show are missing.
Yet, a recent fan-made compilation of Jeff Beck Group BBC performances included included a previously unavailable recording of their performance on "Monday Monday". Just wonder if the same taper captured any edition with Cream...

 

Really? Well cool mate.

 

Yeah! Fun one too!

A guy posted here Cream 50th anniversary 2017-"Fresh Cream" Super Deluxe? claiming to have a reel of the Band Beat session (as well as the Oct '67 Top Gear unreleased Tales of Brave Ulysses). Though he had no intention of donating it to the community. He doesn't seem to be posting anymore. Anyone know any more about this?

 

I usually keep cream in the fridge...

 

Thank you, I'll listen to these when I get onto my laptop. I'm currently on my mobile and the links won't open on it. I look forward to hearing them though. The Bee Gees one sounds interesting. I love that era from them and it's a classic.

It's unlikely, but I'd love it if you have the 60s John Peel sessions from Sharon Tandy and PP Arnold.

 

I don't believe I do, sorry.

 

Hope it's Fresh Cream ...

 

I didn't expect them. Years ago I read a book about the Peel Sessions and it had a list of them all at the back. Out of the early ones those two leapt out as I love both those singers and neither are what I'd have expected to have been John Peel type stuff, if there's such a thing!

 

This is an appendix to the first list. Always reiterating that I prefer the official releases, these are useful indications for those interested.

8 NOV 66 - 'Saturday Club':
4. Rollin' And Tumblin' [complete] = Tape
7. I'm So Glad [incomplete] = On The Radio / Sirens Sweetly Singing / Outtakes And Alternates

10 JAN 67 - 'Saturday Club':
5. Traintime = On The Radio / Sirens Sweetly Singing
6. Toad = On The Radio / Sirens Sweetly Singing

20 MAR 67 - 'Monday Monday':
2. Take It Back = Sirens Sweetly Singing / Disraeli Gears Live

30 MAY 67 - 'Saturday Club':
2. Eric Clapton Interview #3 [complete] = Tape

14 JUL 67 - 'Joe Loss Show':
2. Tales Of Brave Ulysses = Sirens Sweetly Singing / Disraeli Gears Live

24 OCT 67 - 'Top Gear':
3. Outside Woman Blues = Actually this song on OR has voiceover, but the B/T version is without voiceover because edited!
5. Take It Back [complete without voiceover] = Tape
6. Sunshine Of Your Love [complete] = Tape

9 JAN 68 - 'Top Gear':
1. Politician [without voiceover] = Sirens Sweetly Singing / Tales Of Brave
2. Swlabr [without voiceover] = Tape
4. We're Going Wrong = On The Radio
5. Blue Condition = On The Radio / Sirens Sweetly Singing

 

Wikipedia says these were omitted from the official release.

This collection includes no material recorded at Cream's first BBC session, recorded 21 October 1966 at Maida Vale 4, London and broadcast on Band Beat, BBC World Service, 21 November 1966. The tracks recorded at this session were "Spoonful", "Sleepy Time Time" and "Rollin' and Tumblin'".

Other songs missing from this collection:[3]

• "Sleepy Time Time" and "I'm So Glad" from the Saturday Club session recorded 8 November 1966 at the BBC Playhouse Theatre.
• "Sitting on Top of the World" and "Steppin' Out" from the Guitar Club session recorded 28 November 1966 at Aeolian 2.
• "Traintime" and "Toad" from the Saturday Club session recorded 10 January 1967 at the BBC Playhouse Theatre.
• "Tales of Brave Ulysses" from the Top Gear session recorded 24 October 1967 at Aeolian 2.
• "Blue Condition" and "We're Going Wrong" from the Top Gear session recorded 9 January 1968 at Aeolian 2.

 

"But Dad, what about that "A" I got on my Science exam...".

"Now son, you know this is more important to daddy".

 

Yes, I know but it is easier to read if all of the unreleased tracks are grouped together. In addition, some tracks are unreleased while others are unreleased and unavailable.

 

The BBC version of Politician, recorded before that of WOF, has an additional verse (the third):

I run this country
And I run that country over there too
Well I run this country
And I run that country over there too
So come on baby baby
Let me show you
How I’m gonna run too

 

Fantastic. Thanks to no time for compiling the list. I have the In Session Tonight book but this is easier to read.

 

Thank you so much for this. It's a really big help. Don't be surprised if a "more complete" boot turns up someday!

 

Since this thread aims at trying to compile an all-complete list of Cream's Beeb sessions and tracks, I think I need to add the info that there is another, hitherto (almost) unciculated version of SWLABR from the band's last appearance at Auntie's on Jan. 9, 1968!

That version is definitely different from the one that was released officially, appears on Transription Disc and was originally b'cast on Jan. 14! One can easily tell by Big E's different guitar breaks. It does circulate out there in collectorland packaged with We're Going Wrong, Steppin' Out and Politician from that session (and similar sonics) so it does seem the band recorded two takes on Jan. 9 and this alternate version was b'cast some other time than Jan. 14, 1968. Just speculating here, of course...

Hence, there are three "different" versions" in existence!
1) The official and TD version with the two voiceovers at the beginning and the end,
2) the original version w/out voiceovers and
3) a really different version.

Cool, eh?
Cream ahoy!
Thmas (DocDondy)

 

Well, you are absolutely right, there are three different versions"!!!!

1) Officilal release (from Transription Disc)
2) as 1 without voiceover (available on LP boot "Steppin' Out" [Jug Records])
3) another version without voiceover with different lead guitar and vocal (and the same basic-track) posted here by Colin H
but now deleted.

 

Nothing happened, the tapes are all still where they've been for decades!

 

I have received a request for clarification to which I want to respond publicly so that it can be useful to everyone.

1) Rollin' And Tumblin' [complete] (8 NOV 66): I had this track through exchanges between collectors many years ago, on a tape. Surely many others own this version and probably someone will have digitized it. The sound is not good but listenable.

2) Sleepy Time Time (8 NOV 66): The piece is actually cut at the beginning and at the end. To my knowledge there is not a better version of the one officially released.

3) Finally, Jac confirms that there are two different versions of Swlabr (9 JAN 68). If we count also the version with voiceover become three.