Unfortunately, by this time, the Jam had become very successful, and I've noticed that the more successful a musical act tends to get, the less likely they are to do BBC studio sessions. So I felt obliged to look for different TV or radio shows to fill in the missing gaps, especially since there are no BBC studio sessions at all from the band's last year together, 1982.
The first two songs come from a British TV show called "Get Set for Summer." Those are unreleased. The next four are from an actual BBC studio session, and have been included on the official album "At the BBC."
All the remaining songs, except for the last one, are from a Danish TV show called "Spil Op." The Jam hardly played live for any TV or radio shows in 1982, arguably their most commercially successful year, but for some odd reason they did do this one TV appearance in Denmark. There was a studio audience, but I very carefully removed as much crowd noise as I could, so these songs would fit with the other studio versions on this album. For some songs, I used the X-Minus audio editing program to remove some of the cheering over the music.
I was all set to post this album when I realized I hadn't included a version of "Beat Surrender." That was a Number One hit in Britain and one of the band's best songs, so I didn't want to leave that out. Luckily, it turns out they played it live on a British TV show once. So that unreleased version ends this album.
Although this is all of the band's studio sessions, they did do two more BBC concerts before breaking up, one in 1981 and the other in 1982. So expect those soon.
This album is 55 minutes long.
01 Boy about Town (Jam)
02 Pretty Green (Jam)
03 Absolute Beginners (Jam)
04 Tales from the Riverbank (Jam)
05 Funeral Pyre (Jam)
06 Sweet Soul Music (Jam)
07 Running on the Spot (Jam)
08 Circus (Jam)
09 Happy Together (Jam)
10 Ghosts (Jam)
11 In the Crowd (Jam)
12 Town Called Malice (Jam)
13 Pity Poor Alfie - Fever (Jam)
14 Precious (Jam)
15 Just Who Is the 5 O'clock Hero (Jam)
16 The Gift (Jam)
17 Move On Up (Jam)
18 Trans-Global Express (Jam)
19 Beat Surrender (Jam)
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The cover photo is from 1981. I don't know where it was taken. I used Photoshop to move the band members closer together.
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