07 January 1968

Show

Name

• Top Gear

Station

• BBC Radio One

YYYY-MM-DD

• 1968-01-07

Comments

• Audio contains the radio broadcast of four of Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera's session tracks.
• The show was presented by John Peel and Tommy Vance.
• The audio is definitely from this date, as according to Ken Garner's Peel Sessions book, the repeated session of Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera had an extra track called Long Nights Of Summer, which is played here.
• The audio is not great quality, recorded from an old gramophone radio using a cassette recorder and external microphone.
• A session by the UK pop-psychedelic band Kaleidoscope, not to be confused with the better-known US band of the same name, although both bands had little success in their time and in later decades became favourites with collectors of late 1960s music. The British Kaleidoscope released an LP called Tangerine Dream in late 1967, several years before the German band of that name emerged. They later evolved into Fairfield Parlour, who were managed by Peel's Radio 1 colleague David Symonds

Sessions

• Kaleidoscope #1. Recorded: 1967-12-13
• Manfred Mann #1. Recorded: 1968-01-03
• Amen Corner #2. Recorded: 1968-01-01
• Pretty Things #1. Recorded: 1967-11-27. First Broadcast: 03 December 1967
• Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera #1. Recorded: 1967-11-03. First Broadcast: 26 November 1967
• Spencer Davis Group #1. Recorded: 1967-12-30

Tracklisting

• Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera: Reaction Of A Young Man (session)

(JP: '...that was Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera and that was Reaction Of A Young Man. It's very dramatic...)

• Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera: Long Nights Of Summer (session)

(TV: 'Right that's a good record by one of the very best in the country today, Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera, a song called Long Nights Of Summer')

• Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera: Flames (session)

(TV: '... this afternoon where we had Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera House, a song called Flame...)

• Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera: Mother Writes (session)

(TV: '...the song is called Mother Writes')

File

Name

• Live on Top Gear 1968 - Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera

Length

• 10:41

Other

• Many thanks to hawkmoon03111951

Available

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