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Peter Young's Soul Cellar - 35th anniversary
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Five years ago I started a thread to congratulate Peter Young on the 30th anniversary of his soul cellar. It hardly seems possible that the 35th is now upon us. Still on Jazz FM as it was in 2009 - and that's an achievement in itself given the changes there in recent times - and showing no sign of stopping. The anniversary show is tomorrow (Saturday 23rd August) from 2 till 6. I'm sure many will wish to join me in congratulating PY on his survival and maintaining a high standard week after week despite the present state of music radio.
Hopefully I'll still be here in August 2019 to start a thread marking the cellar's 40th birthday. I'm sure Peter will still be there doing it.
Hopefully I'll still be here in August 2019 to start a thread marking the cellar's 40th birthday. I'm sure Peter will still be there doing it.
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His music knowledge and irrepressible enthusiasm is amazing.
Set for 1255GMT and record for 255 mins in duration.
Westwood used to be on after the Soul Cellar when he'd just been recruited from the pirates. "The brother PY".
I started listening in 1981 ish i think? A friend of mine who lived in London would record the show on to cassette for me and post them up to the midlands, I wished i had kept them but times were a bit tight so i would listen to the show and post them back for him to use again!!!
Yes he did, from launch in Oct 1984 for about a year.
Yes, the Soul Cellar did start on Capital, Aug Bank Holiday 1979, I can remember it .
His knowledge of music is massive, anyone recall him as team captain on early 80s Sunday lunchtime quiz YAHNY ? (You Ain't Heard Nothing Yet) . I think Phil Swern was the other team captain ?
The "Kid" is on The Wireless presenting Jensen's Dimensions for the younger readers that was the name of a show he presented on Radio Luxembourg in the early 70s from 01.00. PY was also teamed up with Gary Crowley for a midweek show on Capital rather strange mix I felt
A very strange combination.
I don't remember it and can't imagine it.
they went through a phase in the eighties where there were "alternative " music shows on from 8.30-10.30 followed by John Sachs late show. I think that was the show that paired Mick and Pat.
PY also did a stint on BBC London
I don't remember him on BBC London either!
I guess as a fan of soul (along with many other things) in the 1970s and then much more for indie and guitar bands (along with many other things!) in the late 1980s, I went to whoever was playing what I wanted to listen to on the radio. Certainly by the mid-late 1980s soul was very (too) commercial and I must have drifted from PY at that point.
Gary Crowley and PY only ever teamed up for bank holidays on Capital. It was never a regular show. Very entertaining, as it gave them both the opportunity to depart from the music they were known for playing. The very notion that PY was ever "commercial" is laughable. Exactly the opposite was the case. He still plays a lot of great music that you just don't hear anywhere else. I also remember a show where PY was teamed with David Rodigan which was also good Rodigan chose the soul and PY the reggae. They obviously liked each other and it worked well.