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12 July 1973

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Show[]

Name
Station
YYYY-MM-DD
  • 1973-07-12
Comments
  • Tracklisting below is from Volume 3 of the Decktician Logs. Many thanks to Decktician, Ken Garner for copying and additional information, and Rocker for acting as central HQ.
  • Two 1967 tracks; the Velvet Underground's "I'm Waiting For The Man", played on the Perfumed Garden as an LP track but newly released as a single; the show closes with the single by Dantalian's Chariot, the short-lived psychedelic band led by Zoot Money, preceded by a track from Money's current band, Ellis.
  • A session by Cymande, a London soul-funk band of musicians with Caribbean background. They made three albums in the 1970s and had some success in the USA (as Peel mentions) before breaking up, but reformed in 2012 after their music had been sampled and used in films and video games. In 2022 a documentary film on their career, Getting It Back: The Story of Cymande, was released in the UK[1]
  • A mention for Ronnie Ronalde, decades before JP ever played anything by him on the radio. Few, if any, of his early 1970s listeners would have known the name.

Sessions[]

  • Cymande #1 First broadcast. Recorded 1973-07-09.
    • No known commercial release.
  • Mick Softley #2 First broadcast. Recorded 1973-07-02.
    • Current show tracklistings appears to be missing ‘From The Land Of The Crab’.
    • No known commercial release.
  • Back Door #2 Repeat. First broadcast 21 June 1973. Recorded 1973-06-18.
    • No known commercial release.

Tracklisting[]

  • Alan Hull: Justanothersadsong (LP – Pipedream) Charisma
  • Cymande: Bra (session)
  • Bronco: Tennessee Saturday Night (LP – Smoking Mixture) Polydor
  • Mick Softley: Weeping Willow (session)
  • Linda Jones: Things I’ve Been Through (Loving You) (single – My Hearts Needs A Break, 1968) Loma
  • Back Door: Lieutenant Loose (session)
  • Space Opera: Over And Over (LP – Space Opera) Epic
  • Cymande: Rickshaw (session)
  • File cuts in
  • Help Yourself: Blown Away (LP – The Return Of Ken Whaley) United Artists (brief JP link ; "it's a good noise that, actually..")
  • Happy Daze Crew: Waiting At The Station (LP – Happy Days) United Artists
  • Back Door: Livin’ Track (session) (JP: "My goodness yes, how I remember those afternoons when I was a young boy..." He sounds as if he's parodying his Perfumed Garden style, but the link cuts off)
  • Christie Hennessy: High In The Trees (LP – Christie Hennessy) Westwood
  • Velvet Underground: I'm Waiting For The Man (single) MGM
  • Legendary Masked Surfers (featuring Dean Torrence): Gonna Hustle You (single) United Artists (JP: "one of these records that's been written about for years....and God bless them whoever they are")
  • Cymande: The Message (session)
  • File pauses
  • Back Door: Dancing In The Van (session)
  • File resumes
  • Mott The Hoople: Rose (single – Honaloochie Boogie b-side) CBS JP: "I reckon a band who can do things as good as that will last for a long time...the sad and beautiful "Rose"")
  • Ollie Nightingale: I’ll Take Care Of You (LP – Sweet Surrender) Pride
  • Mick Softley: Gypsy (session) (Softley whistles as the track ends. JP, in fake cockney accent;  "I've always said that that Mick Softley was influenced by Ronnie Ronalde")
  • Back Door: Roberta (session)
  • Mentions seeing Blue at a club in Birmingham last night, after he'd done a gig in the city at Bogart's - "they were excellent" - and he says he'll see them again tomorrow
  • Blue: Little Jody (single) RSO
  • Cymande: Zion I (session)
  • Mick Softley: Me & Lady Willow (session)
  • Robey, Falk & Bod: City Pride (LP - Kentucky Gambler) Epic
  • Jimmy Reed: You Can’t Hide (LP – Just Jimmy Reed) Vee Jay Played by JP for "four schoolgirls in Hatfield, Hertfordshire" who'd written to him. He also says he was disappointed by a new Jimmy Reed LP on which the singer had changed his style, or had been told to, in order to appeal to a 1970s audience.)
  • Back Door: Back Door (session)
  • Ellis: Opus 17 ¾ (LP – Why Not?) Epic
  • Dantalian’s Chariot: The Madman Running Through The Fields (single, 1967) Columbia
  • File ends

File[]

Name
  • J P D24 Top Gear 10 July 1973 etc.mp3
Length
  • 3:10:21 (1:08:22 - 2:21:07)
Other
  • Many thanks to Decktician, Rocker for organisation and Tim for digitisation. J P D24
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