23 May 1970

Show

Name

• Top Gear

Station

• BBC Radio One

YYYY-MM-DD

• 1970-05-23

Comments

• Tracklisting below is from Volume 1 of the Decktician Logs. Many thanks to Decktician, Ken Garner for copying and additional information, and Rocker for acting as central HQ.
• Peel says that the Fleetwood Mac session is the last one which will include Peter Green as a band member. The final track on the show is a Green vocal in traditional blues style, accompanied only by his own guitar and Nick Pickett on violin.
• Their session includes a version of Fabian's late 1950s hit, "Tiger". Peel mentions that a few weeks ago "Marc Bolan gave me a copy of the original version", but says it's less good than Fleetwood Mac's.
• JP plays a couple of the more memorable tracks from the soundtrack LPs of the film Woodstock, and says he hopes the festivals taking place that weekend will be as successful. There is also an early play for a future number one single, by Mungo Jerry.
• He welcomes the Grateful Dead to the country, plays a track from their Live Dead album and says he looks forward to seeing them tomorrow, "at Newcastle-under-Lyme or wherever it is".
• He didn't always take the Disinterred Thirty-Three and a Third slot in the show very seriously and this week actually admits that the track chosen, a 1967 favourite by Paul Revere & The Raiders, is a single and not an album track at all (althoigh it was also the opening track on their LP Revolution!)
• John Walters is wearing “a brand new, and probably stolen, leather jacket”, says Peel, and lets listeners hear how it sounds.

Sessions

• Fleetwood Mac (with Nick Pickett) #7 First broadcast. Recorded 1970-04-27.
  • 'Sandy Mary' and 'Only You' released on 2xCD Live At The BBC (Castle)
• Formerly Fat Harry #1 First broadcast of only session. Recorded 1970-05-12.
  • The track listed by Decktician as 'Goodbye For Good' appears to be 'Untitled' in Ken Garner's Peel Sessions, while 'Sally' in the log seems likely to be 'Seuble' in the book.
  • Honky Tonk Angel (The Wild Side Of Life) and Seuble available on Goodbye For Good: The Lost Recordings 1969-72 (Hux Records - HUX 096).
• Ralph McTell #1 Repeat. First broadcast 28 February 1970. Recorded 1970-02-09.
  • ’Daddy’s Here’ not played.
  • No known commercial release.

(Please add details of any commercial release of these sessions)

Tracklisting

• Noel Edmonds hands over to Peel who introduces the show
• Country Joe & The Fish: Silver And Gold (LP – CJ Fish) Vanguard 6359 002 #
• Fleetwood Mac: Sandy Mary (session) #
• JP: "During that, the Pig pointed out nobody would be listening to the programme as they’d all be at festivals"
• Rolling Stones: Street Fighting Man (LP – Get Yer Ya-Yas Out) Decca SKL 5065
• Ralph McTell: Clown (session)
• Peel recounts some memories of living in Dallas, Texas, to introduce the next track
• Formerly Fat Harry: Honky Tonk Angel (session)
• Joe Cocker & The Grease Band: With A Little Help From My Friends (3xLP – Woodstock) Atlantic 2663 001 #
• Jimi Hendrix: Star Spangled Banner (3xLP – Woodstock) Atlantic 2663 001 #
• Mungo Jerry: In The Summertime (single) Dawn DNX 2502 (a few seconds on #)
• Fleetwood Mac: World In Harmony (session)
• Edgar Broughton Band: It’s Falling Away (LP – Sing Brother Sing) Harvest SHVL 772
• Disinterred Thirty Three and a Third jingle (“and it’s not a thirty three and a third at all”)
• Paul Revere & The Raiders: Him Or Me - Who's It Gonna Be? (single) CBS 2737
• Ralph McTell: Michael In The Garden (session)
• Formerly Fat Harry: Goodbye For Good (session)
• Daddy Longlegs: New Mexico Song (LP - Daddy Longlegs) Warner Bros WS 3004
• Incredible String Band: This Moment (LP – I Looked Up) Elektra 2469 002 (“one for the Pig to sing along with” - from "one of the nicest Incredible String Band LPs for a long time”, says JP)
• Fleetwood Mac: Tiger (session)
• Kaleidoscope: Lie And Hide (LP – Bernice as American Kaleidoscope) CBS 64005
• JP: it’s really great that the Grateful Dead have made it to this country, so hello Grateful Dead, and this is from the Live Dead LP
• Grateful Dead: The Eleven (LP – Live/Dead/) Warner Bros WS 1830
• News: Cyprus; gunmen raid police station in Limassol; cancellation of South African cricket tour - Minister of Sport defends decision against Tory criticism; road deaths down on last year; a Scottish Tory says that the identikit Conservative candidate needs the wit of Oscar Wilde, the fervour of Billy Graham and the eloquence of Winston Churchill
• Little Richard: Dew Drop Inn (single) Reprise RS 20907
• Fleetwood Mac: Only You (session)
• Ralph McTell: Eight Frames A Second (session)
• Quotes from Radio Times listing of Radio 3’s The Pop Scene, Programme 4, which he introduces
• Formerly Fat Harry: Sally (session) Peel announces it as “Serlby”(?)
• If: I’m Reaching Out On All Sides (b-side of single - Raise The Level Of Your Conscious Mind) Island WIP 6083
• Fleetwood Mac: Leaving Her Blues (session)
• End of show. JP: "That’s the end of this week’s Top Gear and thank you both for listening…."
• Followed on File 3 by around 10 minutes of extracts from the Pete Drummond programme

Tracks marked # also on File 1

File

Name

• 1) J P Top Gear 23 May 1970.mp3
• 2) J P Top Gear 23 May 1970 (complete).mp3

Length

• 1) 24:19
• 2) 2:07:32

Other

• 1) Many thanks to Tim for purchasing from eBay and digitisation.
• 2) Many thanks to Tim for digitisation and upload

Available

• 1) Mooo
• 2) Mooo