Show[]
- Name
- Station
- YYYY-MM-DD
- 1970-09-12
- Comments
- Many thanks to Ken Garner for tracklisting information.
- Good clear (for MW) or average/dull (for FM) mono quality, with occasional atmospherics possibly from thunderstorms. Some very minor tape dropouts.
- The day when Palestinian militants blew up three jumbo jet planes they had hijacked. The newsflashes (partially edited) which interrupt the show probably refer to this - details here.
- Late in the programme, Peel apologises for his voice, explaining that he has a bad cold. He also says he has difficuty in following the Saturday afternoon football results and listening to the music at the same time.
- He enthuses over Rod Stewart's Gasoline Alley LP and plays "Country Comfort" from it - for a second time, he says.
- He calls "The Post Office Personality Girl Of 1970"[1], seen on TV that week, "the best television programme I've ever seen in my life" and describes the unexpected outcome of a photography contest organised for his listeners (see below)
- Stone The Crows' session includes covers of "Danger Zone", previously recorded by Ray Charles and Freddie King, and the Beatles’ "Fool On The Hill"
Sessions[]
- Groundhogs #1 First broadcast. Recorded 1970-08-04. No known commercial release.
- ’Gasoline’ not played until 21 November 1970.
- East Of Eden: #2 First broadcast. Recorded 1970-08-11. No known commercial release.
- Stone The Crows #2 Repeat. First broadcast 30 May 1970. Recorded 1970-05-19.
- ’Danger Zone’ played for first time. ‘Hollis Brown’ not played.
- ’Freedom Road’ and "Hollis Brown" available on The BBC Sessions Volume 1 (1969-1970) (Strange Fruit) SFRSCD054
(Please add details of any commercial release of these sessions)
Tracklisting[]
- Fleetwood Mac: Tell Me All The Things You Do (LP – Kiln House) Reprise RSLP 9004
- File starts here (with outro from track above)
- Rod Stewart: Country Comfort (LP – Gasoline Alley) Vertigo 6360 500
- Groundhogs: Eccentric Man (session)
- Newsflash about an aircraft incident (edited out) possibly related to an ongoing hijack situation
- Shawn Phillips: Lovely Lady (LP – Contribution) A&M AMLS 978 (Peel mentions playing a previous Shawn Phillips LP "back in the days of "Big L"" on the Perfumed Garden,,lent to him "by a lady called Sienna Joyce". This is Phillips' first LP since then)
- Mothers Of Invention: Didya Get Any Onya? (LP – Weasels Ripped My Flesh) Reprise RSLP 2028
- Stone The Crows: Danger Zone (session)
- 3:30pm news, edited out
- Derek & The Dominos: Tell The Truth (single) Polydor 2058 057
- John mentions that the single release above will be a "slightly different pressing". It's not clear if he means the label will be different, the stamping will be different, or that it will be a different recording altogether - although it is taken at a faster tempo than the version which got plenty of airplay on rock shows in the 1970s. In any case, the version played will be one of the promos listed on the Discogs site.
- He then talks about a photography competition in which contestants had to take photos of American tourists in London. Prize is "a trip around the Circle Line with elements of the Soft Machine". After the next track he says the show had just had a phone call from the local newspaper of the area where the contest winner lives, as they want to go round and interview him - "a perfect case of life imitating art"
- East Of Eden: Scott Of The Antarctic (session) (announced by Peel as "Snot of the Antarctic")
- tape flip during the above track
- Groundhogs: Mistreated (session) (Played by JP "for all the people who go to the Nag's Head")
- Caravan: With An Ear To The Ground You Can Make It / Martinian / Only Cox / Reprise (LP – If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You) Decca SKL 5052
- 4.00pm news, edited out
- Humble Pie: Theme From Skint / See You Later Liquidator (LP – Humble Pie) A&M AMLS 986
- Stone The Crows: Fool On The Hill (session)
- Peel recommends Disco 2, introduced by Pete Drummond later that evening on BBC2, with Melanie, Humble Pie and Taste
- tape flip or edit near end of above track
- East Of Eden: Halloween (session)
- Rolling Stones: Midnight Rambler (LP – Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! - The Rolling Stones In Concert) Decca SKL 5065
- 4.30pm news, edited out
- Amon Düül II: Archangel’s Thunderbird (single) Liberty LBF 15355) (JP: "Interesting to see how Nijinsky gets on in the Boat Race....")
- Groundhogs: Strange Town (session)
- Jefferson Airplane: Have You Seen The Saucers (single) RCA 1989
- Country Funk: When I’m Without You (LP – Country Funk) Polydor 248 2018
- Stone The Crows: Freedom Road (session)
- Peel mentions that Pete Drummond's Radio 1 show is on in 45 minutes' time, he pretends "TV star" Drummond isn't in the studio, Pete objects, a female voice (the Pig?) laughs. Programme "produced by John Walters with assistance from Eddie Lee Beppeaux" (see Glossary) Show ends.
- edit / tape flip near start of above
File[]
- Name
- J P Top Gear 12 Sept 1970.mp3
- Length
- 1:50:28
- Other
- Many thanks to Tim
- Available