11 August 1968
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[edit] Show
- Name
- Top Gear
- Station
- BBC Radio One
- YYYY-MM-DD
- 1968-08-11
- Comments
- Excellent-quality lossless recordings of this show exist, reportedly sourced directly from the BBC master tapes that were made at the time. Unfortunately, most copies in circulation include all the session tracks and Peel comments but omit the needle-time tracks (i.e. the records). However, a reconstruction of the full-two hour show has now been made available by editing in the missing needletime tracks.
- The show also circulates as a one-hour edited mix with most of the first half intact. This version includes the records, but is incomplete and of lesser quality.
- References are made to a couple of recent festivals and concerts throughout the show. The first Hyde Park free concert, featuring Pink Floyd, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Roy Harper and Jethro Tull, had taken place a couple of weeks earlier on 29th June, and has been described by Peel as "the nicest concert I've ever been to" [1]. Peel dedicates the first Floyd track to everyone who had attended that gig, the memory of which was "still spinning around in my head somewhere". The other festival referred to was still taking place, and in fact JP had duties to attend there that evening: the Sunbury National Jazz and Blues Festival, at Kempton Park Racecourse (8-11 August) [2]. This explains Peel's quip about John Mayall being "entered for the 7:45 at Kempton Park this evening".
[edit] Sessions
(Please add details of any commercial release of these sessions)
[edit] Tracklisting
(Complete tracklisting)
- 01-Programme Intro
- 02-Ray Stevens-Mr Businessman (single, Monument)
- 03-Intro-John Dummer Blues Band
- 04-John Dummer Blues Band-Forty Days & Forty Nights (session)
- 05-Duncan Browne-On The Bombsite (single, Immediate)
- 06-Pink Floyd-Careful With That Axe Eugene (session)
- 07-Tim Rose-Roanoke (session)
- 08-The Doors-Hello I Love You (single, Elektra)
- 09-Intro-Leonard Cohen & The Tony Gilbert Group
- 10-Leonard Cohen & The Tony Gilbert Group-You Know Who I Am (session)
- 11-Traffic-You Can All Join In (single, Island, imported from Sweden. Covert advertising from JP; the single is only available, he says, in "one place", in "one of London's import shops" and then, after the record,"in one shop in London". Those in the know would have understood he was referring to One Stop Records in South Molton Street)
- 12-Intro-John Dummer Blues Band
- 13-John Dummer Blues Band-Travelling Man (session)
- 14-Earth Opera-The Red Sox Are Winning (LP - Earth Opera, Elektra)
- 15-Pink Floyd-The Massed Gadgets Of Hercules (session)
- 16-John Mayall-Killing Time (LP - Bare Wires, Decca)
- 17-Intro-Tim Rose
- 18-Tim Rose-Foggy Mountain Breakdown On Rye With Mustard (session)
- 19-Misunderstood-I Can Take You To The Sun (single, Fontana, "the best popular record that has ever been recorded")
- 20-Intro-Leonard Cohen
- 21-Leonard Cohen & The Tony Gilbert Group-Like A Bird On A Wire (session)
- 22-Tyrannosaurus Rex-Salamanda Palaganda (LP - Prophets, Seers and Sages, The Angels of the Ages, Regal Zonophone)
- 23-John Dummer Blues Band-Standing Round Cryin' (session)
- 24-Buffy Sainte-Marie-Sometimes When I Get To Thinkin' (LP - I'm Gonna Be A Country Girl Again, Vanguard/Fontana)
- 25-Pink Floyd-Let There Be More Light (session)
- 26-Cream-Born Under A Bad Sign (LP - Wheels of Fire - In The Studio, Polydor)
- 27-Intro-Tim Rose
- 28-Tim Rose-I Guess It's Over (session)
- 29-Duster Bennett-It's A Man Down There (single, Blue Horizon)
- 30-The Eclection-In The Early Days (LP - Eclection, Elektra)
- 31-Intro-Leonard Cohen & The Tony Gilbert Group
- 32-Leonard Cohen & The Tony Gilbert Group-That's No Way To Say Goodbye (session)
- 33-News Report
- 34-Fairport Convention-It's Alright Ma, It's Only Witchcraft (LP - Fairport Convention, Polydor)
- 35-John Dummer Blues Band-After Hours (session)
- 36-Pink Floyd-Julia Dream (session)
- 37-Jerry Lee Lewis-What Made Milwaukee Famous (single, Mercury)
- 38-Intro-Tim Rose
- 39-Tim Rose-Long Haired Boy (session)
- 40-MC5-Borderline (US single, Trans-Love Energies)
- 41-Intro-Leonard Cohen & The Tony Gilbert Group
- 42-Leonard Cohen & The Tony Gilbert Group-Dress Rehearsal Rag (session)
- 43-Programme outro
- 44-signature tune
[edit] File
- Name
- (1)
- (2) 1968-08-11 John Peel Top Gear Radio 1.mp3
- (3) John Peel - Top Gear - 1968-08-11 (reconstruction)
- Length
- (1)
- (2)
- (3) 2:00:08
- Other
- (1) Session tracks only
- (2) Many thanks to Bill!
- (3) Reconstruction job, mixing in the missing needletime tracks to complete the show.
- Available
