Ralph McTell - BBC Sessions, Old Grey Whistle Test, BBC TV Theatre, Shepherd's Bush, London, Britain, 11-9-1976

I have to admit I'm not very familiar with Ralph McTell or his music. Even his huge hit, "Streets of London," was a Number Two hit in Britain, and similarly big in some other countries, but it never was a hit at all in the U.S., so I was only barely familiar with it. But I found this unreleased solo acoustic BBC concert, and I gave it a listen and I liked it. So now I'm sharing it.

Ralph McTell, an English singer-songwriter, released his first solo album in 1968. His original song "Streets of London" was put on his second solo album in 1969. However, it wasn't released as a single until it was slightly redone in 1974. That's when it hit big and made him famous. But judging from the songs here, he's a lot more than just a one-hit wonder. On this album, he does a mix of originals and blues covers.

Here's his Wikipedia entry if you want to know more:

Ralph McTell - Wikipedia

This is the only material of McTell at the BBC that I could find. It's from an episode of the BBC TV show "The Old Grey Whistle Test" that mostly or entirely consisted of one of his concerts. I found a video file of this concert and converted it to mp3s.

This album is 40 minutes long.

01 talk (Ralph McTell)
02 Weather the Storm (Ralph McTell)
03 talk (Ralph McTell)
04 Dry Bone Rag [Instrumental] (Ralph McTell)
05 talk (Ralph McTell)
06 From Clare to Here (Ralph McTell)
07 talk (Ralph McTell)
08 Naomi (Ralph McTell)
09 talk (Ralph McTell)
10 Old Grey Rag [Instrumental] (Ralph McTell)
11 talk (Ralph McTell)
12 May You Never (Ralph McTell)
13 talk (Ralph McTell)
14 Big Tree (Ralph McTell)
15 talk (Ralph McTell)
16 Hesitation Blues (Ralph McTell)
17 Streets of London (Ralph McTell)
18 talk (Ralph McTell)
19 Winnie's Rag (Ralph McTell)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/QAEgLS7A

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/n0TNstJiPBihi3X/file

The cover photo is a screenshot from this exact concert.