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  • 1967-10-29
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  • After three weeks' absence, Peel returned to Top Gear, once again co-hosting the show with Pete Drummond. It turned out to be Drummond's penultimate appearance as a regular presenter of the show, as from 12 November 1967 Peel and Tommy Vance took over. Ken Garner's The Peel Sessions describes how Bernie Andrews went against the wishes of his Radio 1 bosses and booked Peel for the remaining Top Gear shows of 1967.
  • There is no known recording of the complete show, but many of the session tracks are available on official releases or as lo-fi off-air recordings of the original medium wave broadcast. On most of these, DJ links are missing, but a few survive - as shown below.

Sessions

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

Tracklisting

  • Country Joe And The Fish: Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine (LP: Electric Music For The Mind And Body) Fontana (Peel stumbles over the outro to this, until Pete Drummond helps him out and introduces the next track, Cream's "Sunshine of Your Love")
  • Cream: Sunshine Of Your Love (session) (Fades early, and JP says he's not sure if this track will be on their forthcoming album, Disraeli Gears)
  • Kinks: Sunny Afternoon (session) (Pete Drummond says they've just sung their "old hit", but that "this afternoon isn't at all sunny")
  • Clear Light: Black Roses (45: Elektra) (Peel introduces this track by saying that the band come from the same "cosmic stable" as Love and the Doors, meaning the Elektra label. Then, after it finishes, Pete Drummond says "I like that, especially the tempo change" to which JP replies "Which tempo change was that, Pete?" - as there are several)

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