10 October 1974

Show

Name

• Top Gear

Station

• BBC Radio One

YYYY-MM-DD

• 1974-10-10

Comments

• Full tracklisting from the PasB of the BBC Written Archives Centre.
• Peel has a session from Ann Peebles with her Red Dogs Band.
• The show was broadcast between 10 and 11pm.
• Peel plays an oldie by the Lovin' Spoonful, followed by a track from a new album by former Spoonful member John Sebastian..
• Peel plays a track by Jeff Beck covering Bonnie Dobson's Morning Dew, a song best known in the 1967 version by Peel favourite of the time Tim Rose
• Peel also plays Robert Wyatt's I'm A Believer, which peaked at number 29 in the UK singles chart. The song was originally done by its writer, Neil Diamond and was later a big chart hit for the Monkees in 1967. It was Wyatt's first recording after the June 1973 accident that left him a paraplegic.
• Peel plays Rod Stewart's Hard Road, which was written by Harry Vanda and George Young for Stevie Wright's album of the same name.

Sessions

• Ann Peebles #1. Recorded: 1974-10-09

Tracklisting

• Bachman-Turner Overdrive: Givin' It All Away (LP - Not Fragile) Mercury
• Ann Peebles: You Keep Me Hanging On (session)
• Van Morrison: Cul De Sac (7" - Bulbs) Warner Bros.
• Lovin' Spoonful: Did You Ever Have To Make Up Your Mind (LP - The Best Of The Lovin' Spoonful) Kama Sutra
• John Sebastian: Face Of Appalachia (LP - Tarzana Kid) Reprise
• Ann Peebles: Slipped, Tripped And Fell In Love (session)
• Neutrons: Living In The World Today (LP - Black Hole Star) United Artists
• James Brown: It's Hell (7" - It's Hell / Papa Don't Take No Mess) Polydor
• Jeff Beck: Morning Dew (LP - Truth) Epic
• Ann Peebles: Do I Need You (session)
• Robert Wyatt: I'm A Believer (7") Virgin
• Ted Nugent's Amboy Dukes: Free Flight (LP - Tooth, Fang & Claw) Discreet
• Ann Peebles: I Can't Stand The Rain (session)
• Rod Stewart: Hard Road (LP - Smiler) Mercury

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