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.")
- The Rolling Stones - Live With Me (LP - Let It Bleed) Decca SLK 5025
(JP: "Live, as it were, in Toronto)
- The Plastic Ono Band - Dizzy Miss Lizzie (LP - The Plastic Ono Band - Live Peace In Toronto 1969) Apple CORE 2001
- Richie Havens - High Flying Bird (session)
(Chat with Dick Heckstall-Smith)
- Colosseum - Lost Angeles (session)
- The Incredible String Band - This Moment (session)
News
Part 2
News (continued)
- Juicy Lucy - She's Mine/She's Yours (session)
- Michael Chapman - Postcards Of Scarborough (session)
- The Family - Cat And The Rat (session)
- Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band - Orange Claw Hammer (LP: Trout Mask Replica) Straight STS 1053
- Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band - Wild Life (LP: Trout Mask Replica) Straight STS 1053
- Roy Harper - Tom Tiddler's Ground (LP: Flat, Baroque and Berserk) Harvest SHVL 766
(Chat with Robert Wyatt)
Part 3
- Soft Machine - The Moon In June (session)
- Griffin - What A Day It's Been (session)
- Tyrannosaurus Rex - A Day Laye (session)
(Chat with Sandy Denny)
- Fairport Convention - Farewell, Farewell (LP: Liege and Lief) Island ILPS 9115
News
Part 4
News (continued)
- Joe Cocker And The Grease Band - Lawdy Miss Clawdy (session)
(Banter with Pete Drummond)
- Led Zeppelin - What Is And What Should Never Be (session)
- Blodwyn Pig - It's Only Love (session)
- The Beatles - Mean Mr. Mustard (LP: Abbey Road) Apple PCS 7088
(Viv Stanshall no-show)
- Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band - Sofa Head (session)
- Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band - Give Booze A Chance (session)
("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.
- Available
- 5) Mooo