Tracklisting below was originally compiled from Volume 2(ii) of the Decktician Logs. Many thanks to Decktician, Ken Garner for copying and additional information, and Rocker for acting as central HQ.
No PasB available for this show.
Session artists include Stud, a band made up of former members of Taste and Family, and Coventry "psychedelic folk" band Dando Shaft. Mike Cooper does his fifth session; Peel praises his voice and says he'd be much better known if he was "an American with a traumatic childhood",
Records include a 1958 oldie from Louisiana "swamp pop" singer Rod Bernard, which Peel first heard when he was living in the USA, and both sides of a newly recorded version of a 1957 million-seller by Huey "Piano" Smth,.
Cover versions include "all-girl band" Fanny's take on the Beatles' "Hey Bulldog"; Alex Taylor's rendition of Bob Dylan's "From A Buick 6", preceded by the Dylan original; Mike Cooper's version of "Few Short Lines", a blues song associated with Fred McDowell; and the show's final track, "Sonny Boy", made famous by Al Jolson but here done by Will Dandy & the Dandylettes, on a Dandelion single produced by Clive Selwood.
Peel briefly refers to last weekend’s Liverpool-Newcastle game – he is pleased that Liverpool won but says John Walters supports Newcastle, “at least, when they’re winning”.
Sessions[]
Mike Cooper, #5. Recorded 1972-03-06. No known commercial release.
Stud, #2. Recorded 1972-03-07. No known commercial release.
Dando Shaft, #2 (repeat)[1]. First broadcast 18 January 1972. Recorded 1972-01-11. No known commercial release.
Rod Bernard: This Should Go On Forever (7") Jin 45-105 (JP says the record "won’t mean anything to you unless you were living somewhere along the Texas Louisiana border in the early 1960s" like him)
JP mentions that his own “road song” is "the Nilsson record that’s number one in the charts" ("Without You") – he sings along with it and “you should hear me going for the high notes"
At this point (30:32) there is an audible crackle and the sound goes very quiet, to become barely audible above the tape hiss and printhrough from other tape tracks
Midnight news with Colin Nicol; Chancellor of the Exchequer Anthony Barber explains his budget strategy - "the biggest tax cuts ever". Britain is about to enter the Common Market, British industry needs to modernise, there are tax reductions for all, pensions are to go up, VAT and PAYE to come in….(tape ends)
File[]
Name
J P Top Gear 21 March 1972.mp3
Length
01:57:44 (to 01:55:13)
Other
Many thanks to the original taper, and to Tim for purchasing from eBay and digitisation. Very good VHF quality, apart from a 15 minute spell where almost all signal is lost, then occasional distortion and mains hum later in the tape as though there was a dodgy connection between tuner and tape machine
↑Track included in Decktician's Log, but absent from the session entry in "The Peel Sessions - Ken Garner (BBC Books), p.335"
↑Artists were actually the Coxhill-Bedford Duo working under an assumed name and accompanied by a chorus of girls from Queen's College, Harley Street, where David Bedford was music teacher.