Alan Price - BBC Sessions, Volume 4: In Concert, Royal Exchange Theater, Manchester, Britain, 12-24-1979

I was rather surprised to find this concert the other day. Alan Price was a big name in Britain in the 1960s and early 1970s, but his star had faded by the late 1970s. However, the BBC still gave him a concert. Here it is.

I previously posted two albums of Price's BBC studio sessions, all from the 1960s. Plus, I've posted a short BBC concert he did in 1970. Then in the early 1970s, he became part of a duo with Georgie Fame for a couple of years. I found two more albums of BBC studio sessions from that duo. Then, in 1973, he went back to being a solo artist. He had a big success composing the songs for the 1973 movie "O Lucky Man." After that, his album sales slowly dwindled. But he also had some success acting in movies and TV, and composing for more movie soundtracks.

As hinted above, his late 1970s albums didn't set the world on fire, either critically or commercially. However, this concert mostly consists of his songs from the 1960s, plus those from the early 1970s, especially the "O Lucky Man" soundtrack. So it does a decent job of being a "best of" collection.

The music here is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent.

This album is 56 minutes long.

UPDATE: On November 12, 2025, I updated the mp3 download file. The music is exactly the same. But I found an earlier volume in this series that I'd missed, so the volume number changed. That meant the title, cover art, and mp3 tags changed too. 

01 O Lucky Man (Alan Price)
02 talk (Alan Price)
03 Don't Stop the Carnival (Alan Price)
04 The House That Jack Built (Alan Price)
05 talk (Alan Price)
06 Simon Smith and His Amazing Dancing Bear (Alan Price)
07 talk (Alan Price)
08 In Times like These (Alan Price)
09 talk (Alan Price)
10 I'm a Poor Boy (Alan Price)
11 Don't Try (Alan Price)
12 I Know When I've Had Enough - That's Alright Mama - Blue Moon of Kentucky (Alan Price)
13 Poor People (Alan Price)
14 Sell, Sell, Sell (Alan Price)
15 Goin' Down Slow (Alan Price)
16 talk (Alan Price)
17 Left Over People (Alan Price)
18 Away, Away (Alan Price)
19 talk (Alan Price)
20 This Is Your Lucky Day (Alan Price)
21 Baby of Mine (Alan Price)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/woKfWy1c

alternate:

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

The cover image is a screenshot I took from the British TV show "The Basil Brush Show" in November 1979.