17 January 1974

Show

Name

• Top Gear

Station

• BBC Radio One

YYYY-MM-DD

• 1974-01-17

Comments

• Peel links mostly edited out from Files 1 & 2
• New file tba is almost complete
• Two tracks from Richard & Linda Thompson's I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight, according to Wikipedia recorded in May 1973 but not issued by Island Records until April 1974, "largely because of the petrol shortage in Britain and its impact on the availability of vinyl for records"[1]. No doubt Peel had an advance copy of the LP..

Sessions

• Sassafras #2. Recorded: 1974-01-14. No known commercial release.
• Joshua Rifkin #1. Recorded: 1973-12-17. First Broadcast: 27 December 1973 No known commercial release.
• Queen #2. Recorded: 1973-12-03. First Broadcast: 06 December 1973. Available on At The Beeb (Band Of Joy) and On Air 6xCD, 2016 (Virgin EMI, 0602557082319)

Tracklisting

• File 3 begins during next track
• Sassafras: Boxcar Hobo (session) 1
• Gong: I Never Glid Before (album - Angel's Egg (Radio Gnome Invisible Part 2)) Virgin V2007 1
• John is doing a gig with Gong and Chilli Willi And The Red Hot Peppers and River Rhino this Saturday but doesn't know where it is
• Joshua Rifkin: Sugar Cane - A Ragtime Classic Two-Step (session) 1
• John has been described as having the droopiest voice in showbiz. He attempts to rectify that in Smashey and Nicey style.....
• Taj Mahal: Dust My Broom (album - Oooh So Good 'N Blues) 1
• The Queen session was so well received by listeners it has gained an early third play
• Queen: Son And Daughter (session)
• Richard And Linda Thompson: Withered And Died (album - I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight) Island ILPS-9266 1
• Sassafras: Ethel (session) 1
• Rod Stewart / Faces: Jealous Guy (album - Live Coast To Coast - Overture And Beginners) Mercury 9100 001 1
• Joshua Rifkin: Country Club (session) 1
• sudden dodgy electrical sound 1
• Kevin Coyne: House On The Hill (album - Marjory Razorblade) Virgin VD2501 1
• Luther Ingram: You Were Made For Me 1
• Sassafras: Ohio (session) cover of Neil Young song recorded by CSNY in 1970 1
• John Fahey: Stomping Tonight On The Pennsylvania/Alabama Border (LP: Death Chants, Breakdowns & Military Waltzes; probably Takoma [2] but JP may have played the UK release on Sonet [3] with sleevenotes by Pete Drummond) 1
• Joshua Rifkin: Searchlight Rag (session) 1
• Richard And Linda Thompson: The Calvary Cross (album - I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight) Island ILPS-9266 1
• O.V. Wright: Eight Men, Four Women (LP - A Nickel And A Nail And Ace Of Spades) Backbeat (JP:"I think that’s as true today as it was then”) 2
• JP: 'This is the last from Sassafras and it's called School Days' 2
• Sassafras: Schooldays (session) 2
• Joshua Rifkin: Weeping Willow (session) 2
• Syd Barrett: Baby Lemonade (LP - Barrett) Harvest 2
• Tracks marked 1 & 2 also available on the Decktician Reels, with limited Peel links

File

Name

• 1) JP D17
• 2) JP D02
• 3) tba

Length

• 1) 3:11:39 (42:58-1:35:51)
• 2) 45:21 (until 16:22)
• 3) 1:25:28

Other

• 1-2) Many thanks to Decktician, Rocker for organisation and Tim for digitisation. J P D02 / J P D17
• 3) Many thanks to Tim for acquisition and digitisation

Available

• 1) Mooo
• 2) Mooo
• 3) Mooo