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10 March 1968

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Show[]

Name
Station
YYYY-MM-DD
  • 1968-03-10
Comments
  • Available recordings focus on the session tracks. The Yardbirds's "Dazed And Confused" later became famous in Led Zeppelin's version. The acoustic instrumental "White Summer" is a feature for the guitar of Jimmy Page, who based it on one of Davy Graham's most famous tracks, his pioneering, Eastern-influenced arrangement of "She Moves Through The Fair"[1], first recorded in 1962. 
  • A New Generation (more on them here) are one of the more obscure of the many bands to have recorded a Top Gear session in 1968. They made little impression at the time, but a few years later two members of the band, Iain and Gavin Sutherland, achieved chart success, Top Of The Pops exposure and Peel airplay as the Sutherland Brothers, and later as the Sutherland Brothers And Quiver.

Sessions[]

Tracklisting[]

  • Reparata And The Delrons: Captain Of Your Ship (7") Bell BLL 1002
  • New Generation: She's A Soldier Boy (session) 2
(JP: 'And those are our guests, the New Generation...') 2
(JP: 'That's of course what Sadie told her mother, but we don't believe that...') 2
(JP: 'I Saw You At Skippy Fair, those are the New Generation. Incidentally word has come up to Peel House in exotic groovy Fulham, that some people at the university of Aston in Birmingham actually knitted a communal sweater for 80 people. It's probably an offence for more than 10...) 2
(JP: 'A New Generation and that was called A Brush With Sister Jo') 2
(JP: 'I think that you agree that was a worthy version of Eleanor Rigby...') 2
(JP: 'That's an amazing performance, those were the Yardbirds and their last number, Dazed And Confused') 1


File[]

Name
  • 1a) Top Gear 10.3.68 Yardbirds 3 Songs
  • 1b) 1968-03-10 TG 10.3.68 Yardbirds 3 songs
  • 2) Tracks are separated and available to download from the Songsider website
  • 3a) Denny Laine's Electric String Band - Peel session - Top Gear 28/1/68
  • 3b) 1968-03-10 TG 28.1.68 Denny Laine machine song.mp3
  • 4) New Generation - Peel session - Top Gear 10/3/68
  • 5) 1968-03-10 TG 10.3.68 New Generation skippy fair.mp3
  • 6) Denny Laine and the Electric String Band - Machine Song - From BBC Radio Top Gear 1968
  • 7) 1968-03-10 TG mid 68 Penny Nicols LP track w Peel outro.mp3
  • 8) 1968-03-10 TG 25.2.68 Idle Race skeleton & roundabout.mp3
Length
  • 1) 13:41
  • 2) 15:12
  • 3) 2:28
  • 4) 2:00
  • 5) 2:56
  • 6) 2:28
  • 7) 1:43
  • 8) 2:13
Other
  • 1,3,4,5,7,8) Thanks to ColinH. File 3 may well be from this show as the sound quality is similar to the other two files. File 1b, 3b have been centred. File 5 is from the same source but longer as the earlier version was cut early due to a long dropout. This has now been compensated for, as well as centred.
  • 2) Many thanks to the Songsider website
  • 6) Many thanks to Chloe Costello. The audio starts and ends at exactly the same point as File 3 so indicating that it is from the same original source tape
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