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.