Alan Price & Georgie Fame - BBC Sessions, Volume 1: 1969-1971

Alan Price and Georgie Fame found a lot of fame as solo acts in the 1960s. I've already posted albums of Price's BBC sessions and Fame's 1960s BBC sessions. The BBC solo sessions for both of them end towards the end of the 1960s because they teamed up as a duo for a few years. 

It was an unusual pairing in that both of them were lead singers and piano players, but they made it work. They generally traded lead vocals on most of these songs, or sang in harmony.   

The first evidence I have of them teaming up are from an appearance on Lulu's BBC TV show in early 1969. Those make up the first three songs here. They then appeared as a duo more prominently for a TV special in late 1969. That's represented with the next three songs here (tracks 4 through 6).

After those TV special songs come three songs with just Price (tracks 7 through 9). All three songs are from 1970 BBC studio sessions. I've included them here because they fit better chronologically than tacking them onto the last solo Price BBC album I made.

Price and Fame only put out one album as a duo in 1971, and they had a big hit in Britain with the song "Rosetta." When that came out, they did more BBC studios sessions as a duo. All the rest of the songs here are from three BBC sessions they did in 1971.

Everything on this album is officially unreleased. Virtually all of the BBC studio sessions were made available to me thanks to musical associate Marley. Those come from BBC transcription discs, and they have excellent sound quality.

As if often the case, the BBC DJs talked over the music sometimes. So as I usually do, I used the X-Minus audio editing program to wipe their talking while keeping the music. That's why so many songs have "[Edit]" in their names. I edited "Bring It on Home to Me" from the 1969 TV special for a different reason, but I forget what it is exactly.

This album is 49 minutes long.

UPDATE: On April 6, 2026, I updated the mp3 download file. I added three songs, the first three ones. All of them are from an appearance on a Lulu BBC TV show that I'd previously missed.

01 Back in the U.S.S.R. (Alan Price & Georgie Fame)
02 Games People Play (Alan Price & Georgie Fame)
03 Mockingbird (Lulu, Alan Price & Georgie Fame)
04 Great Balls of Fire (Alan Price & Georgie Fame)
05 Bring It on Home to Me [Edit] (Alan Price & Georgie Fame)
06 Good Day Sunshine (Alan Price & Georgie Fame)
07 Saveloy Dip [Edit] (Alan Price)
08 Sunshine and Rain [Edit] (Alan Price)
09 When the Battle is Over [Edit] (Alan Price)
10 Can't Take It Much Longer [Edit] (Alan Price & Georgie Fame)
11 Mama Roux [Edit] (Alan Price & Georgie Fame)
12 Rosetta [Edit] (Alan Price & Georgie Fame)
13 Everyday [Edit] (Alan Price & Georgie Fame)
14 The Dole Song [Edit] (Alan Price & Georgie Fame)
15 Home Is Where Your Heart Is (Alan Price & Georgie Fame)
16 Time I Moved On (Alan Price & Georgie Fame)
17 Follow Me [Edit] (Alan Price & Georgie Fame)
18 I'm a Gambler [Edit] (Alan Price & Georgie Fame)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/jENEu43D

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/iJ64OpuNN063zVr/file

The cover photo is from 1971, but I don't know any of the details. The colors were washed out, but I improved that somewhat in Photoshop.