Johnny's Jaunt

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Johnny Morris

On 13th September 1966, Delia checked out a tape on which to create "music tracks" for a radio programme "Johnny's Jaunt" produced by R. Pelletier[1] or Brian Patten[2]

Johnny's Jaunt is a series of "brilliant travelogues" for radio in which the renowned zoologist Johnny Morris visits various countries around the world, broadcast from 1954 to 1972.[2]

From the BBC's tape catalogue notes:

(Johnny Morris). Music tracks and makeup followed by edited copy of programme

it appears that Delia's contribution was for one programme only in the series[1] but which?

The first episodes broadcast after September 1966 were Johnny's Jaunt U.S.A.: "Last October he jaunted 2,000 miles around north - east America and recalls his adventures in six programmes.": [3]

  • 1. New York (16 Feb 1967, 14 Jul 1967)
  • 2. A Train to Boston, Massachusetts (23 Feb 1967, 21 Jul 1967)
  • 3. Detroit and Chicago (2 Mar 1967, 4 Aug 1967)
  • 4. Buffalo, Niagra and Southern Ontario (9 Mar 1967, 28 Jul 1967)
  • 5. St Louis, Nashville, Tennessee and North Carolina (16 Mar 1967, 11 Aug 1967)
  • 6. Return to New York (23 Mar 1967)

Tracks

Episodes 1, 2 and 4 have no music. Episodes 3 and 5 have the same orchestral intro and outro music

Episode 3 Intro

Johnny's Jaunt 3 - Intro - Spectrogram.jpg

Episode 3 Outro

Johnny's Jaunt 3 - Outro - Spectrogram.jpg

Availability

  • In the BBC Sound Archive on tape TRW 6556.[1]
  • Colin Suter writes "I have Volumes 1, 2 and 3 of a cassette offering of Johnny's Jaunts, bought years ago from a company called CAM Audio Book Company. They contain Johnny Morris in: France, Germany, Sicily, Corsica, Finland, Yugoslavia, Japan, Maiaysia, Tahiti, New York, Mexico City and Argentina."[4]
  • Other people have recorded episodes of the series on tape.[4]

Episode 1

Episode 2

Episode 3

Episode 4

Episode 5

Episode 6

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 The Tape Library List's entry for TRW 6556.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Johnny's Jaunt on the BBC Genome Project
  3. elviskline99's notes to episode 5 on youtube
  4. 4.0 4.1 Thread "Johnny's Jaunts anyone?" on the BBC iPlayer forum.