30 May 1970

Show

 * Name
 * Top Gear


 * Station
 * BBC Radio One


 * YYYY-MM-DD
 * 1970-05-30


 * Comments
 * The Mungo Jerry single, subsequently a UK #1 hit, was played for second successive week, after Peel saw them at the Hollywood Festival the previous weekend (see Gigography 1970).
 * The Free single, played here for the first time on Top Gear, was also a #1 hit that summer.
 * The Bobby Lee Trammell single later turned up in John Peel's Record Box.

Sessions

 * Stone The Crows: #2 First broadcast. Recorded 1970-05-19.
 * ’Danger Zone’ not played until 12 September 1970 repeat.
 * ’Freedom Road’ and ‘The Ballad Of Hollis Brown’ available on Radio Sessions 1969-70 (Strange Fruit)
 * Brett Marvin & The Thunderbolts #1 First broadcast of only session. Recorded 1970-05-18
 * ’Going Back’ not played until 19 September 1970 repeat.
 * No known official release.
 * Syd Barrett: #1 Repeat of only session. First broadcast 14 March 1970. Recorded 1970-02-24.
 * First play for ‘Two Of A Kind’. ‘Terrapin’ not played.
 * Available on The Peel Sessions (Strange Fruit)

Tracklisting

 * Mungo Jerry: In The Summertime (single) Pye
 * Stone The Crows: Fool On The Hill (session)
 * Country Joe & The Fish: The Return Of Sweet Loraine (LP – CJ Fish) Vanguard
 * Medicine Head: This Love of Old (LP – New Bottles, Old Medicine) Dandelion
 * Syd Barrett: Baby Lemonade (session)
 * Elton John: The Cage (LP - Elton John) DJM
 * Tom Paxton: Annie’s Going To Sing Her Song (LP - 6) Elektra
 * Brett Marvin & The Thunderbolts: Too Many Hotdogs (session)
 * Free: All Right Now (single) Island
 * Van Der Graaf Generator: Refugees (LP – The Least We Can Do Is Wave To Each Other) Charisma
 * Syd Barrett: Effervescing Elephant (session)
 * Stone The Crows: Freedom Road (session)
 * Alice Cooper: Still No Air (LP – Easy Action) Straight
 * Ed Sanders: The Plaster Song (LP – Sanders' Truckstop) Reprise
 * Brett Marvin & The Thunderbolts: So Tired (session)
 * Bobby Lee Trammell: If You Ever Get It Once (You’re Gonna Want it Agin) (single) Alley
 * Syd Barrett: Two Of A Kind (session)
 * Quatermass: Up On The Ground (LP – Quatermass) Harvest
 * Groundhogs: Soldier (LP – Thank Christ For The Bomb) Liberty
 * Fut: Have You Heard The Word (single) Beacon
 * Stone The Crows: The Ballad Of Hollis Brown (session)
 * Ralph McTell: Kew Gardens (single) Big T
 * Syd Barrett: Gigolo Aunt (session)
 * Brett Marvin & The Thunderbolts: Crazy With The Blues (session)
 * East Of Eden: Jig-A-Jig (single) Deran

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