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Show[]

Name
  • Top Gear
Station
  • BBC Radio One
YYYY-MM-DD
  • 1969-12-27
Comments
  • Christmas special, with assorted guests.
  • For more on this show, see Kat's Karavan.


Sessions[]

  • Many individual session tracks from the year

(Please add details of any commercial release of these sessions)


Tracklisting[]

(courtesy Duff Paddy)

Part 1

(Johnny Walker handover)

Miss Top Gear ("Pat Campbell of Nottingham") turns on the studio lights(!)

  • Top Gear theme

(JP: From LP, "whatever it's called, Let It Bleed.")

(JP: "Live, as it were, in Toronto)

(Chat with Dick Heckstall-Smith)

News

Part 2

News (continued)

(Chat with Robert Wyatt)

Part 3

(Chat with Sandy Denny)

News

Part 4

News (continued)

(Banter with Pete Drummond)

(Viv Stanshall no-show)

("Disinterred 33 1/3" - JP: "a particularly cosmic record")

  • Firehouse 5 Plus 2 - Running Wild (EP: The Firehouse 5 Plus 2 Vol.2) Good Time Jazz EP 1020 B

(JP: "a selection of Rigs and Jeels")

  • Fairport Convention - Jigs & Reels Medley (The Lark in The Morning/Rakish Paddy/Foxhunters' Jig/Toss The Feathers) (session)
  • Top Gear theme

File[]

Name
  • Four files
  • 5) 1969-12-27 Top Gear BBC Radio 1 (John Peel).mp3
Length
  • (1) 29:20
  • (2) 30:18
  • (3) 27:33
  • (4) 28:49
  • (5) 2:00:05
Other
  • Maxell UR120 tape --> Pioneer DC-X88Z tape deck/amplifier --> headphone socket --> Stereo jack leads --> ADSTech Instant Music --> USB --> Toshiba laptop --> PolderbitS Sound Recorder and Editor --> Audacity --> LAME --> Kat's Karavan --> you
  • 192K MP3
  • Shared via Kat's Karavan.
  • Many thanks to Mick Capewell and Duff Paddy.
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