19 December 1972

Show

Name

• Top Gear

Station

• BBC Radio 1

YYYY-MM-DD

• 1972-12-19

Comments

• Full tracklisting from the PasB of the BBC Written Archives Centre.
• Peel plays a session from the Dalai Lama, no not the Tibetan spiritual leader, but a rock group. The band has very little information on the internet, except that one of its members was South African guitarist Thembe Matebese.
• Peel plays two tracks from Phil Upchurch, one ("You Can't Sit Down", a UK pirate radio hit in the mid-'60s) from an older album, the other (a version of Marvin Gaye 's "Inner City Blues") from a current LP.
• Peel plays two versions of Married Woman, one by Flamin' Grooves, the other, an original version by Frankie Lee Sims.

Sessions

• Robert Wyatt #1. Recorded: 1972-12-05
• Dalai Lama #1. Recorded: 1972-11-28
• Glencoe #2. Recorded: 1972-10-16. Broadcast: 02 November 1972
• Pete Atkin #3. Recorded: 1972-07-31. Broadcast: 22 August 1972

Tracklisting

• Nice: Top Gear theme
• Flamin' Groovies: Married Woman (7" - Married Woman / Get A Shot Of Rhythm And Blues) United Artists
• Frankie Lee Sims: Married Woman (LP - Lucy Mae Blues) Specialty
• Glencoe: Look Me In The Eye (session)
• Captain Beefheart And The Magic Band: Long Neck Bottles (LP - Clear Spot) Reprise
• Dalai Lama: Trying Too Hard To Score (session)
• Joni Mitchell: Barangrill (LP - For The Roses) Asylum
• Robert Wyatt: We Got An Arts Council Grant (session)
• Stealers Wheel: Stuck In The Middle With You (LP - Stealers Wheel) A&M ^[1]
• Pete Atkin: Screen Freak (session)
• John McLaughlin: Dragon Song (LP - Devotion) Douglas
• Dalai Lama: Nimzo Witch (session)
• Glencoe: It's (session)
• Help Yourself: Mommy Won't Be Home For Christmas (7") United Artists
• Phil Upchurch: You Can't Sit Down Part Two (LP - You Can't Sit Down Part Two) Boyd
• Phil Upchurch: Inner City Blues (LP - Darkness, Darkness) Blue Thumb
• Pete Atkin: The Wristwatch For A Drummer (session)
• Robert Wyatt: Little Child (session)
• Cluster: Für Die Katz' (LP - Cluster II) Brain
• Glencoe: Telephonia (session)
• Frankie Miller: You Don't Need To Laugh (To Be Happy) (LP - Once In A Blue Moon) Chrysalis
• Dalai Lama: Spirit Of The Living Dead (session)
• Pete Atkin: Between Us There Is Nothing (session)
• Robert Wyatt: Godsong / Hatfield (session)
• Glencoe: Airport (session)
• Fairport Convention: Meet On The Ledge (2xLP - The History Of Fairport Convention) Island
• Nice: Top Gear theme

File

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Length

Other

Available

• Tracklisting only

Footnotes

1. ↑ The track was chosen by Peel for his Peelenium 1973, when the song was released as a single.