09 May 1970

Show

Name

• Top Gear

Station

• BBC Radio One

YYYY-MM-DD

• 1970-05-09

Comments

• Tracklisting below is from Volume 1 of the Decktician Logs. Many thanks to Decktician, Ken Garner for copying and additional information, and Rocker for acting as central HQ.
• No room for guest poets on Top Gear, but Peel plays a track from an album of Brian Patten reading from his work. Taking no account of the time of year, JP also plays a Christmas blues from a reissue album on the Sussex-based Flyright label, founded by a group of blues enthusiasts associated with the magazine Blues Unlimited.
• Tracks from new but subsequently famous albums by the Rolling Stones, the Who and Van Morrison.
• A rare appearance in a Peel playlist for Tom Paxton, one of Elektra Records' most popular artists in the UK but not a special favourite of the DJ.

Sessions

• Curved Air #1 First broadcast. Recorded 1970-04-28.
  • No known commercial release
  • A session with a different tracklist was released on On Air Strange Fruit SFRSCD022 / Live At The BBC Band Of Joy BOJCD 014 listed with this date, but it was actually recorded for Mike Harding's "Sounds of the Seventies" 17 November 1970. read
• Roy Harper #4 Repeat. First broadcast 03 January 1970. Recorded 1969-12-15.
  • I Hate The White Man not played.
  • Available The BBC Tapes Vol. 1 (Science Friction)
• Medicine Head #1 Repeat. First broadcast 10 January 1970. Recorded 1969-12-15.
  • Ooee Baby not played.
  • No known commercial release.

Tracklisting

• Southwind: Boogie Woogie Country Girl (single) Harvest HAR 5019
• Curved Air: Screw (session)
• Medicine Head Walkin’ Blues (session)
• Rolling Stones: Stray Cat Blues (LP – Get Yer Ya-Yahs Out) Decca SKL 5065
• John B Sebastian: How Have You Been? (LP – John B Sebastian) Reprise RSLP 6379
• Roy Harper: Don’t You Grieve (session)
• Who: Substitute (LP – Live At Leeds) Track 2406 001
• Van Morrison: Into The Mystic (LP – Moondance) Warner Bros.WS 1835
• Curved Air: Vivaldi (session)
• Tom Paxton: Forest Lawn (LP – 6) Elektra EKS 74066
• Medicine Head: His Guiding Hand (session)
• Stone The Crows: Raining In Your Heart (LP – Stone The Crows) Polydor 2425 017
• Roy Harper: North Country Girl (session)
• Dr. West's Medicine Show And Junk Band: The Eggplant That Ate Chicago (LP – The Eggplant That Ate Chicago) Page One POLS 017
• Last Poets: On The Subway (LP – The Last Poets) Douglas Douglas 3 (US release)
• Medicine Head: Goin’ Home (session)
• Denny Gerrard: Native Son (LP – Sinister Morning) Deram Nova SDN 10
• Wild Man Fischer: Dream Girl (LP – An Evening With Wild Man Fischer) Bizarre/Reprise 2XS 6332
• Trees: Nothing Special (LP – The Garden of Jane Delawney) CBS 63837
• Curved Air: Hide And Seek (session)
• Matthews’ Southern Comfort: Ballad Of Obray Ramsey (single) UNI UN 521
• Groundhogs: Soldier (LP – Thank Christ For The Bomb) Liberty LBS 83295
• Roy Harper: Forever (session)
• Hop Wilson: Merry Christmas Darling (LP – Chicken Stuff Houston Ghetto Blues) Flyright LP 4700
• Medicine Head: Be Blessed To Your Heart (session)
• Brian Patten: Unisong (LP – Brian Patten Reading His Poetry) Caedmon TC 1300
• Stefan Grossman: Pigtown Fling (LP – Yazoo Basin Boogie) Transatlantic TRA 217
• Brett Marvin & The Thunderbolts: Dust Me Broom (LP – Brett Marvin And The Thunderbolts) Sonet SNTF 616

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