Show
- Name
- Station
- 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
- start of show and intro #
- Southwind: Boogie Woogie Country Girl (single) Harvest HAR 5019 @2 (few seconds on #1)
- Curved Air: Screw (session)
- Medicine Head: Walkin’ Blues (session) #2
- 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 @3
- John reminds us that Pete Townsend called John an incorrigible bore in Radio Times (he mentioned this in 28 March 1970) @3
- Van Morrison: Into The Mystic (LP – Moondance) Warner Bros.WS 1835
- Curved Air: Vivaldi (session) #4
- Tom Paxton: Forest Lawn (LP – 6) Elektra EKS 74066
- Medicine Head: His Guiding Hand (session) #3
- 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 @2 (few seconds on #5)
- Tracks marked @ available on File 1
- Tracks marked # available on File 2
File
- Name
- 1) J P Tracks only reel 2.mp3
- 2) J P Top Gear 09 May 1970.mp3
- Length
- 1) 0:54:59 (44:54-53:01)
- 2) 0:14:59 (to 00:30, 00:43-
- Other
- 1-2) Many thanks to Tim for purchasing from eBay and digitisation. Mainly Spring 1970 Mix Reel
- Available