Peel explains that he is a day late in returning to the Radio London ship from shore leave because he overslept, "after a night of revelry at festive Peel Acres". He is happy to be back ("I feel as though I was back home again...") and sounds pleased by the enthusiastic listener response to the Perfumed Garden.
Lead singer on the Jeff Beck track is Rod Stewart - his first known appearance in a Peel playlist.
Peel reads out the names of listeners who sent in entries to his Zodiac: Cosmic Sounds competition - among them Geoffrey Prowse and Roy Carr, Carr was then (as JP mentions) a member of little-known group The Executives, but later became a renowned author and music journalist who edited NME, Melody Maker[1]. and Vox. During his career he also helped put together many of the compilations Peel featured on his shows from the 1980s onwards. including some drawn from Peel sessions[2].
Simon and Garfunkel: Sparrow (LP - Wednesday Morning 3 A.M.) Columbia 9049 (US release) (JP: "There is some poor, pitiful sad oaf in Slough who hates the dawn chorus....and this fellow has killed 700 sparrows...this is revolting...because I'm a sparrow, maybe you are too, and we may be next")
Blues Project: Fly Away (LP - Projections) Verve Forecast FT 3008 (US release) (Album sent to JP by a "beautiful German lady doctor psychologist person", he says)
Jefferson Airplane: White Rabbit (single) RCA 9248 (US release) (JP: "It's called White Rabbit and it's for a white rabbit too, actually" - his first wife Shirley Anne Milburn, whom he nicknamed the White Rabbit when he dedicated records to her)
The Mothers of Invention: America Drinks, Status Back Baby, Uncle Bernie's Farm, Son of Suzy Creamcheese (LP - Absolutely Free) Verve/MGM 5013 (US release) (JP: "Suzy, I hope you're listening, love...she's in trouble, along with Hoppy, for trying to defend a few of our basic freedoms")