Show[]
- Name
- Station
- YYYY-MM-DD
- 1968-04-07
- Comments
- (Introduction to show, mood of Peel, interesting comments, etc. If possible, please add mentions of gigs attended, football matches, TV appearances, stories of past/current activities, etc, for use elsewhere on John Peel Wiki.)
- The Alan Bown cover Bob Dylan's "All Along The Watchtower", from his John Wesley Harding LP. The best-known version of the song, by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, wasn't released until September 1968, Hendrix had recorded an earlier version of the song in January, but was dissatisfied with the result and continued to work on it during the summer months.
- Another unlikely item in the playlist is "Young Girl" by Gary Puckett and the Union Gap - a hit single in both the US and Britain, but the group were hardly an underground act. The song was later parodied by the Bonzo Dog Band.
Sessions[]
- Alan Bown #6, recorded 20th March 1968. No known comercial release.
- Tim Buckley #1, recorded 1st April 1968. Whole session was officially released on Strange Fruit in the early 1990s (SFPCD082). An off-air recording with Peel comments of 4 tracks appeared on a rare 1980s bootleg LP "Happy Mad". Two other tracks from this session were not broadcast until the repeat show on 19 May 1968. There seems to be some variability in the title of the first session track. He seems to sing "Coming Home To Stay", but Ken's book refers to the track as "Coming Here To Stay". The session release, as well as a separate album release, refers to the track as "Coming Home To You (Happy Times)"
- Ten Years After #2, recorded 13 March 1968. No known commercial release.
- Traffic #3, recorded 26th February 1968, repeat, first broadcast 03 March 1968. No known commercial release.
- Idle Race #2, recorded 19 February 1968. No known commercial release.
(Please add details of any commercial release of these sessions)
Tracklisting[]
- Jason Crest: Juliano The Bull (7") Philips BF 1650
- Alan Bown: Mutiny (session)
- Kinks: Wonderboy (7") Pye 7N 17468
- Ten Years After: Rock Your Mama (session)
- Pink Floyd: It Would Be So Nice (7") Columbia DB 8401
- Idle Race: The Skeleton And The Roundabout (session)
- Bobbie Gentry: Louisiana Man (7") Capitol CL 15544
- Tim Buckley: Coming Home To You (Happy Time) (session) 1
- Plastic Penny: Nobody Knows It (7") Page One POF.062
- Traffic: No Face, No Name, No Number (session)
- Small Faces: Lazy Sunday (7") Immediate IM 064
- Alan Bown: All Along The Watchtower (session)
- Barclay James Harvest: Early Morning (7") Parlophone R 5693
- Ten Years After: Portable People (session)
- Idle Race: Don't Put Your Boys In The Army Mrs Ward (session)
- Fleetwood Mac: Black Magic Woman (7") Blue Horizon 57-3138
- Tim Buckley: Morning Glory (session) 1
- Who: Call Me Lightning (7") Decca 32288
- Traffic: Roamin' Thru' The Gloamin' With 40,000 Headmen (session)
- Alan Bown: Story Book (session)
- Billy J Kramer: 1941 (7") CBS 56-3396
- Leonard Cohen: Suzanne (7") CBS 3337
- Ten Years After: I Ain't Seen No Whisky (session)
- Nirvana: Rainbow Chaser (7") Island WIP 6029
- Idle Race: Knocking Nails Into My House (session)
- Tim Buckley: Sing A Song For You (session) 1
- Union Gap Featuring Gary Puckett: Young Girl (7") CBS 3365
- Traffic: Heaven Is In Your Mind (session)
- Spirit: Water Woman (album - Spirit) Ode Z 1244004
- Alan Bown: Penny For Your Thoughts (session)
- Steppenwolf: Everybody's Next One (album - Steppenwolf) Dunhill DS-50029
- Idle Race: The Lady Who Could Fly (session)
- Tyrannosaurus Rex: Debora (7") Regal Zonophone RZ 3008
- Tim Buckley: The Troubador (session) 1
- Traffic: Dear Mr. Fantasy (session)
File[]
- Name
- 1968-04-07 Tim Buckley Top Gear Session #1 am recording
- Length
- 14:26
- Other
- Many thanks to Nick Halliwell for providing the Tim Buckley source bootleg
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- Available