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During his National Service he got into debt by buying blues LPs imported from France, according to his remarks on the only surviving recorded fragment of his time on WRR's Kat's Karavan show. In Margrave Of The Marshes he claims that he was invited to appear on the show because he owned the Lightnin' Hopkins LP The Rooster Crowed in England, released in 1959 on the 77 record label run by Doug Dobell of Dobell's Record Shop at 77 Charing Cross Road. It is not known whether Peel obtained the LP on a visit to the London shop or by mail order, but at that time, only a few specialist record shops stocked the blues (and traditional jazz) records he sought out.

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  • During his National Service he got into debt by buying blues LPs imported from France, according to his remarks on the only surviving recorded fragment of his time on WRR's Kat's Karavan show. In Margrave Of The Marshes he claims that he was invited to appear on the show because he owned the Lightnin' Hopkins LP The Rooster Crowed in England, released in 1959 on the 77 record label run by Doug Dobell of Dobell's Record Shop at 77 Charing Cross Road. It is not known whether Peel obtained the LP on a visit to the London shop or by mail order, but at that time, only a few specialist record shops stocked the blues (and traditional jazz) records he sought out.
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  • During his National Service he got into debt by buying blues LPs imported from France, according to his remarks on the only surviving recorded fragment of his time on WRR's Kat's Karavan show. In Margrave Of The Marshes he claims that he was invited to appear on the show because he owned the Lightnin' Hopkins LP The Rooster Crowed in England, released in 1959 on the 77 record label run by Doug Dobell of Dobell's Record Shop at 77 Charing Cross Road. It is not known whether Peel obtained the LP on a visit to the London shop or by mail order, but at that time, only a few specialist record shops stocked the blues (and traditional jazz) records he sought out. After his move to the USA he continued to add to his collection, but information on his record-buying activity there is scarce. At one point he became a member of the mail-order Columbia Record Club, from whom, according to Sheila Ravenscroft in Margrave Of The Marshes (p.204), he ordered jazz LPs by the groups of Dave Brubeck and Shelly Manne, in a vain attempt at sophistication. More typical of his tastes were the rare blues and R&B singles he bought from a second-hand shop in the celebrated "Deep Ellum" (Deep Elm) district of Dallas, but he reports (Margrave Of The Marshes, p.150) that these vanished after he had left behind his record collection to return to England in early 1967; they were presumably not included in the collection he eventually managed to have shipped from California in 1969 (on the show of 27 July 1969, he mentioned that his collection had been held in Customs for a month).
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