27 December 1969

Show

Name

• Top Gear

Station

• BBC Radio One

YYYY-MM-DD

• 1969-12-27

Comments

• Christmas special, with assorted guests.
• For more on this show, see Kat's Karavan.

Sessions

• Many individual session tracks from the year

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

Tracklisting

(courtesy Duff Paddy)

Part 1

(Johnny Walker handover)

Miss Top Gear ("Pat Campbell of Nottingham") turns on the studio lights(!)

• Top Gear theme

(JP: From LP, "whatever it's called, Let It Bleed.")

• The Rolling Stones - Live With Me (LP - Let It Bleed) Decca SLK 5025

(JP: "Live, as it were, in Toronto)

• The Plastic Ono Band - Dizzy Miss Lizzie (LP - The Plastic Ono Band - Live Peace In Toronto 1969) Apple CORE 2001
• Richie Havens - High Flying Bird (session)

(Chat with Dick Heckstall-Smith)

• Colosseum - Lost Angeles (session)
• The Incredible String Band - This Moment (session)

News

Part 2

News (continued)

• Juicy Lucy - She's Mine/She's Yours (session)
• Michael Chapman - Postcards Of Scarborough (session)
• The Family - Cat And The Rat (session)
• Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band - Orange Claw Hammer (LP: Trout Mask Replica) Straight STS 1053
• Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band - Wild Life (LP: Trout Mask Replica) Straight STS 1053
• Roy Harper - Tom Tiddler's Ground (LP: Flat, Baroque and Berserk) Harvest SHVL 766

(Chat with Robert Wyatt)

Part 3

• Soft Machine - The Moon In June (session)
• Griffin - What A Day It's Been (session)
• Tyrannosaurus Rex - A Day Laye (session)

(Chat with Sandy Denny)

• Fairport Convention - Farewell, Farewell (LP: Liege and Lief) Island ILPS 9115

News

Part 4

News (continued)

• Joe Cocker And The Grease Band - Lawdy Miss Clawdy (session)

(Banter with Pete Drummond)

• Led Zeppelin - What Is And What Should Never Be (session)
• Blodwyn Pig - It's Only Love (session)
• The Beatles - Mean Mr. Mustard (LP: Abbey Road) Apple PCS 7088

(Viv Stanshall no-show)

• Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band - Sofa Head (session)
• Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band - Give Booze A Chance (session)

("Disinterred 33 1/3" - JP: "a particularly cosmic record")

• Firehouse 5 Plus 2 - Running Wild (EP: The Firehouse 5 Plus 2 Vol.2) Good Time Jazz EP 1020 B

(JP: "a selection of Rigs and Jeels")

• Fairport Convention - Jigs & Reels Medley (The Lark in The Morning/Rakish Paddy/Foxhunters' Jig/Toss The Feathers) (session)
• Top Gear theme

File

Name

• Four files

Length

• (1) 29:20
• (2) 30:18
• (3) 27:33
• (4) 28:49

Other

• Maxell UR120 tape --> Pioneer DC-X88Z tape deck/amplifier --> headphone socket --> Stereo jack leads --> ADSTech Instant Music --> USB --> Toshiba laptop --> PolderbitS Sound Recorder and Editor --> Audacity --> LAME --> Kat's Karavan --> you
• 192K MP3
• Shared via Kat's Karavan.
• Many thanks to Mick Capewell and Duff Paddy.

Available

• [1] or [2]