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Label: BBC Transcription Service
This set of three BBC Transcription Service discs preserves the original broadcasts of The Fight Game, Radio Ballad #7, which first aired on July 3, 1963, and Marching to Glory, a musical account of the founding of the Salvation Army, which first aired on July 2, 1965. The date of this transcription is unknown.The set consists of three discs. The first presents Side 1 of both programmes, the second Side 2, and the final disc Side 3. Accompanying each title are five typewritten pages: a two page "Continuity Sheet" and a three page "Copyright Sheet."
An edited version of The Fight Game was issued as an LP, Argo RG 359 (1967) and Argo DA 141 (1971), and as a CD by Topic TSCD807 (1999).
Each side is one continuous track. Track titles and timings are different from those listed on the commercial releases, and are taken from the Copyright Sheets, Track listings for The Fight Game are shown as FA1.x (Side 1), FA2.x (Side 2), FA3.x (Side 3). Track listings for Marching to Glory are shown as MG1.x (Side 1), MG2.x (Side 2), MG3.x (Side 3).
The radio-ballads were a joint creation by Ewan MacColl, Charles Parker and Peggy Seeger. These programmes were revolutionary at the time, using as they did the actual spoken words of the 'informants'. There were eight radio-ballads, created between 1957 and 1964.