Show[]
- Name
- Station
- YYYY-MM-DD
- 1968-06-16
- Comments
- Seventeen minutes of a two-hour show, recently discovered on a reel-to-reel tape by Peel Mailing List user andysmith10. The Donovan session is also available, which includes a very small snippet of John at the end of the final track.
- Information on a couple of gaps in the track listing courtesy of Ken Garner of Peel Mailing List. Tracks marked ยง appear on the PasB but not on any recordings here.
- Peel plays a single by Ars Nova, an American band with some members who had a background in early music, hence their name. Their Elektra LP included arrangements of pieces by Claudio Monteverdi and Guillaume de Machaut alongside their own material. Their best-known song was "Fields Of People", played here and later covered by the Move
- Peel dedicates Tim Rose's "Hello Sunshine" to some "very tired" students he had met, who had been occupying university premises to obtain "some say in the way they were educated", an aim with which he sympathises. Because his link is incomplete, no specific higher education institution is mentioned, but Hornsey College of Art and the London School of Economics were regarded as centres of student militancy at the time, as was Essex University, where protests were ongoing during May and June 1968 - full story here.
Sessions[]
- Nice, #3. Recorded 1968-06-10. No known commercial release.
- Donovan, #2. Recorded 1968-06-11. No known commercial release. "Skip-A-Long Sam" was only broadcast on the repeat airing on 21 July 1968.
- Chicken Shack, #2 (repeat). Recorded 1968-04-17. No known commercial release.
- Gilbert, one and only session (repeat). Recorded 1968-05-14, repeat, first broadcast 19 May 1968. No known commercial release. This is actually Gilbert O'Sullivan: background on p. 55 of The Peel Sessions.
Tracklisting[]
- Kinks: Day's (7") Pye 7N 17573
- Gilbert With The Keith Mansfield Orchestra: What Can I Do? (session) 4
- Joyfull Noise: Adam And Eve (album - Joyfull Noise) RCA Victor LSP-3963
- Nice: Get To You (session)
- Moody Blues: Voices In The Sky (7") Deram DM 196
- Chicken Shack: Waiting On You (session)
- Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera: Dream Starts (album - Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera) Direction 8-63300
- Donovan And The John Cameron Orchestra: Mad John's Escape (session) 2 3
- Canned Heat: On The Road Again (7") Liberty LBF 15090
- Gilbert With The Keith Mansfield Orchestra: My Front Door (session) 4
- Pentangle: Travellin' Song (7") Big T BIG 109
- Nice: The Diamond Hard Blue Apples (session)
- Eclection: Nevertheless (7" - Mark Time) Elektra EKSN 45033
- Chicken Shack: Love Me Or Leave Me (session)
- Tiny Tim: Stay Down Here Where You Belong (album - God Bless Tiny Tim) Reprise R 6292
- Donovan And The John Cameron Orchestra: It's Been A Long Time (session) 2 3
- Donovan: The Entertaining Of The Shy Little Girl (session) 2 3
- Savoy Brown: Walking By Myself (7") Decca F 12797
- Moby Grape: He (album - Wow) CBS 63271
- Gilbert: I Didn't Know What To Do (session) 5
- Quicksilver Messenger Service: Dino's Song (album - Quicksilver Messenger Service) Capitol ST-2904
- Nice: The Brandenburger (session)
- David Essex: Love Story (7") Uni UN 502
- Chicken Shack: See See Baby (session)
- Deep Purple: One More Rainy Day (7" - Hush !) Parlophone R 5708
- Donovan And The John Cameron Orchestra: Lalena (session) 2
- Rolling Stones: Jumpin' Jack Flash (7") Decca F 12782
- Tim Rose: Hello Sunshine (7" - I Guess It's Over) CBS 3478 1
- Gilbert With The Keith Mansfield Orchestra: Disappear (session)
- Gilbert: Better Than Valentino (session) 4
- Crazy World Of Arthur Brown: Rest Cure (7" - Fire!) Track 604022 1
- Nice: Little Arabella (session) 1
- Glass Menagerie: You Didn't Have To Be So Nice (7") Pye 7N.17568
- Chicken Shack: You Done Lost Your Good Thing Now (session) 1
- Ars Nova: Fields Of People (album - Ars Nova) Elektra EKS 74020 1
- Donovan: Hast Thou Seen The Unicorn? (session) - 1 (intro) 2 3
- tiny snippet of Peel outro 2
File[]
- Name
- 1) Radio 1 1968.00.00 John Peel - Top Gear - Clip 1.mp3
- 2) Donovan1968GuyBrownTapes
- 3) 1968-06-16 Donovan Top Gear 16.6.68.mp3
- 4) 1968-06-16 Gilbert & Keith Mansfield Orchestra Top Gear 16.6.68.mp3
- 5) I Didn't Know What to Do (Partial John Peel Radio Show 1968)
- Length
- 1) 00:17:00
- 2) 1:04:46 (41:32-52:57)
- 3) 8:58
- 4) 5:56
- 5) 0:42
- Other
- Shared via Peel Mailing List
- 1) Many thanks to Andy, to Eddie for the tracklisting, and to RPC for the re-up.
- 2) Full details at SugarMegs
- 3,4) Many thanks to Colin Harper
- 5) Many thanks to Gilbert O'Sullivan 2023
- Available