Ralph McTell, Dave Swarbrick & Simon Nicol 1983-09-09 _ London, England _ BBC Radio 2 FM __ (venue?) "Ralph McTell and Friends" programme _ (M2?-FM) Ralph McTell solo: 01. Ballad Of Dancing Doreen Dave Swarbrick & Simon Nicol 02. Lord Haddo's Favourite -> 03. Lady Mary Hayes' Scotch Measure 04. -- talk -- 05. After The Thrill Is Gone Dave Swarbrick & Simon Nicol & Ralph McTell 06. The Grey Sea Strand 07. She Is Woman 08. -- talk -- 09. Stranger To The Season 10. -- outro -- Total Time ::: 22:42 ::: EXC FM quality with a few minor quibbles. ::: Warts: Slight wavering tape effect at the start of #1. #1 has 2/3rds of a second hiss glitch. Some dropouts & dullspots weren't fixable but did what I could (most in #1). Occasional hint of radio station drift. ::: Ralph's live folk music series broadcast at 9:30 on Friday evenings. ::: Thanks to DIMER sallygr for the research assistance! Recording Information ::: BBC Radio 1 stereo broadcast -> unknown equipment -> off air master stereo tape -> 1st generation tape -> 2nd(?) generation Maxell XLII-100 cassette, Dolby B on. Playback 2011-08-11 ::: 2nd(?) generation Maxell XLII-100 cassette cassette on Nakamichi BX-300 cassette deck, Dolby B on, azimuth & pitch adjusted, heads cleaned & demagnatized -> Tascam CD-RW900SL professional CD recorder -> CD-RW, no track splits -> computer -> EAC secure mode (logs made) -> wav file(s) -> Audacity [normalisation to remove DC offset, channel/phase alignment, fades, manual one-at-a-time glitch, bump, pop, click, dropout & dullspot repairs, volume adjustments, -1.2% averaged pitch (speed) fix with single pass after frequency analysis & with pitchpipe verification, NO equalisation] -> CD Wave (track splits) -> flacs (Trader's Little Helper) -> yr ears. First uploaded week of 2016-01-02. Line-up ::: Ralph McTell - acoustic guitar, piano, vocals // Simon Nicol - acoustic guitar, vocals // Dave Swarbrick - violin, vocals.