Richie Havens - BBC Sessions, Volume 1: 1967-1971

Here's a collection of acoustic BBC studio sessions by Richie Havens.

The first three songs here aren't actually from the BBC. But they're unreleased, with excellent sound quality, and are from a very early time in his career, so I figure they're historically important. They're from an appearance on the "Gene Shay's Folklore" radio show in Philadelphia in 1967.

The next three songs, tracks four to six, are from an appearance on BBC DJ John Peel's radio show in May 1968. Then the next four songs, tracks seven to ten, are from another appearance on that same show in June 1968.

So far, everything has been unreleased. But the last three songs have been officially released. They come from the live album "On Stage." This double album has songs from different sources, and according to the liner notes, three of the songs are from a BBC TV show in October 1971. If there's any more of this show, I haven't been able to find it. Since all the other songs on this album don't have any audience noise, I removed the cheering from the last three songs using the MVSEP audio editing program.

Note that I previously posted a Richie Havens BBC concert from 1974. Now that I'm posting this, I've just renamed that one to "BBC Sessions, Volume 2," and changed the cover art and mp3 tags accordingly. If you want the updated version of that one, here's the link:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2022/06/richie-havens-bbc-in-concert-london.html

This album is an hour and six minutes long.

01 San Francisco Bay Blues (Richie Havens)
02 Adam (Richie Havens)
03 Hampstead Incident (Richie Havens)
04 From the Prison (Richie Havens)
05 Just Above My Hobby Horses' Head (Richie Havens)
06 I Can’t Make It Anymore (Richie Havens)
07 Handsome Johnny (Richie Havens)
08 The Things that I Used to Do (Richie Havens)
09 High Flying Bird (Richie Havens)
10 The Dolphins (Richie Havens)
11 Younger Men (Richie Havens)
12 Old Friends (Richie Havens)
13 God Bless the Child (Richie Havens)

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alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/Gp6bebGmMOwVwFu/file

The cover photo is from an appearance on a TV show in Denmark in 1969.