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Show[]

Name
Station
YYYY-MM-DD
  • 1972-03-21
Comments
  • Tracklisting below was originally compiled from Volume 2(ii) of the Decktician Logs. Many thanks to Decktician, Ken Garner for copying and additional information, and Rocker for acting as central HQ.
  • No PasB available for this show.
  • Session artists include Stud, a band made up of former members of Taste and Family, and Coventry "psychedelic folk" band Dando Shaft. Mike Cooper does his fifth session; Peel praises his voice and says he'd be much better known if he was "an American with a traumatic childhood",
  • Records include a 1958 oldie from Louisiana "swamp pop" singer Rod Bernard, which Peel first heard when he was living in the USA, and both sides of a newly recorded version of a 1957 million-seller by Huey "Piano" Smth,.
  • Peel expresses some enthusiasm for Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen, and notes he's been playing quite a few tracks by them recently.
  • Cover versions include "all-girl band" Fanny's take on the Beatles' "Hey Bulldog"; Alex Taylor's rendition of Bob Dylan's "From A Buick 6", preceded by the Dylan original; Mike Cooper's version of "Few Short Lines", a blues song associated with Fred McDowell; and the show's final track, "Sonny Boy", made famous by Al Jolson but here done by Will Dandy & the Dandylettes, on a Dandelion single produced by Clive Selwood.
  • Peel briefly refers to last weekend’s Liverpool-Newcastle game – he is pleased that Liverpool won but says John Walters supports Newcastle, “at least, when they’re winning”. 

Sessions[]

  • Mike Cooper, #5. Recorded 1972-03-06. No known commercial release.
  • Stud, #2. Recorded 1972-03-07. No known commercial release.
  • Dando Shaft, #2 (repeat)[1]. First broadcast 18 January 1972. Recorded 1972-01-11. No known commercial release.

Tracklisting[]

File[]

Name
  • J P Top Gear 21 March 1972.mp3
Length
  • 01:57:44 (to 01:55:13)
Other
  • Many thanks to the original taper, and to Tim for purchasing from eBay and digitisation. Very good VHF quality, apart from a 15 minute spell where almost all signal is lost, then occasional distortion and mains hum later in the tape as though there was a dodgy connection between tuner and tape machine
Available

Footnotes[]

  1. Entry omitted in the Shows Listing in "The Peel Sessions - Ken Garner (BBC Books), p.213"
  2. Both sides of the single were played.
  3. Track included in Decktician's Log, but absent from the session entry in "The Peel Sessions - Ken Garner (BBC Books), p.335"
  4. Artists were actually the Coxhill-Bedford Duo working under an assumed name and accompanied by a chorus of girls from Queen's College, Harley Street, where David Bedford was music teacher.
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