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For One Night Only is an ongoing series of BBC Radio 4 half-hourly documentary programs hosted by New York born Paul Gamaccini that looks behind the scenes at what went into the making of classic live albums.

The most recent broadcast of For One Night Only looks at how, on the 21st November 1964 at the Regal Theatre, Chicago, the classic live recording of BB King: Live at the Regal was put together …
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Hi Peter,

Thanks for posting this.

Peter: May I please echo Brian's comments. Thanks for this marvelous time capsule. To think that BB continues after 15,000 performances is a gig record that I suspect that few performers have equaled.

Hey that's a great find. Where can I tune into the series? I know you said BBC, but do you have any other info, like a link or air times, etc. I would love to catch that. One my favorite BB albums...

dblacker wrote:Hey that's a great find. Where can I tune into the series? I know you said BBC, but do you have any other info, like a link or air times, etc.

Now in its 6th series (of 4 x 30-minute programs per series) on BBC Radio 4, FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY re-visits the occasions on which classic live albums were recorded. However, the program doesn’t exclusively focus on any particular genre of music; rather it ranges across the full spectrum of live recorded albums.

For example, previous to the BB King: Live at the Regal broadcast, the program looked into the 1960 comedy classic live recording of the Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart. While, the next scheduled broadcast in the series examines the December, 2000 recording of Sir Colin Davies conducting the London Symphony Orchestra in the epic Berlioz opera, Les Troyens.

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