Changes: 09 May 1970

Revision as of 08:23, 11 June 2013

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.

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 Hearding's "Sounds of the Seventies" 17 November 1970.
Roy Harper #3 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 (US release)
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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 == Sessions ==
 *[[Curved Air]] #1 First broadcast. Recorded 1970-04-28.
+**<span style="line-height:21px;">No known commercial release</span>
-**Available [http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=4804 On Air] Strange Fruit SFRSCD022 / [http://www.discogs.com/Curved-Air-Live-At-The-BBC/release/1302081 Live At The BBC] Band Of Joy BOJCD 014.
+**<span style="line-height:21px;">A session with a different tracklist was released on </span>[http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=4804 On Air]<span style="line-height:21px;"> Strange Fruit SFRSCD022 / </span>[http://www.discogs.com/Curved-Air-Live-At-The-BBC/release/1302081 Live At The BBC]<span style="line-height:21px;"> Band Of Joy BOJCD 014 listed with this date, but it was actually recorded for Mike Hearding's "Sounds of the Seventies" 17 November 1970.</span>
-**Two of the three titles from the session recorded on this date appear to be different on the official release.
 *[[Roy Harper]] #3 Repeat. First broadcast [[03 January 1970]]. Recorded 1969-12-15.
 **I Hate The White Man not played.