27 July 1969

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(Duff Paddy) We pick up the story 3 weeks after the last show, finding Peel in an unusually showbiz mood, with a handover from Alan 'Fluff' Freeman and a bit of banter with his erstwhile Top Gear co-presenter Pete Drummond. Peel also chats about an upcoming holiday to France with his brother Alan and a recent visit to Birmingham, taking in Handsworth market and The Diskery. Sessions tonight come from Roy Harper, Ten Years After and Third Ear Band.
This one is missing the last 22-25 minutes and once again starts a little slowly. It also gets a little crackly towards the end; maybe it was the end of the reel, hence the truncated recording.
Peel is impatiently waiting to receive his record collection, which has been shipped over from the USA and has been held in Customs for a month. He dedicates Roy Harper's "Hell's Angels" to the Customs, "with love".

Roy Harper
Ten Years After
Third Ear Band #2 First broadcast. Recorded 1969-07-21. Released as Top Gear Session (27th July 1969) (digital EP, 2010, EMI UK)

(Courtesy Duff Paddy)

Ten Years After - Woke Up This Morning (session)
Crosby Stills and Nash - Helplessly Hoping (LP - Crosby, Stills and Nash) Atlantic 588 189
Fairport Convention - Si Tu Dois Partir (single) Island WIP 6064
Roy Harper - (It's Tomorrow And) Today Is Yesterday (session)
Chicago Transit Authority - Listen (LP - Chicago Transit Authority) CBS 66221
Third Ear Band - Hyde Park Raga (session)
McKenna Mendelsohn Mainline - Beltmaker (LP - Stink) Liberty LBS 83251

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Steve Miller Band - My Dark Hour (single) Capitol CL 15604
David Bowie - Space Oddity (single) Philips BF 1801
Ten Years After - Crossroads (session)
Roy Harper - Hell's Angels (session)
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band - Pachuco Cadaver
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band - Pachuco Cadaver (brief reprise) (LP - Trout Mask Replica) Straight STS 1053
Johnny Winter - Black Cat Bone (LP - Johnny Winter) CBS 63619
Third Ear Band - Druid (session)
The Glass Menagerie - Watching The World Pass By (b-side of single Do My Thing Myself) Polydor 56341
Roy Harper - She's The One (session)
Blodwyn Pig - The Change Song (LP - Ahead Rings Out) Island ILPS 9101
Tim Hardin - Simple Song of Freedom (single) Verve Folkways 4441
Ten Years After - Good Morning Little Schoolgirl (LP - Ssssh) Deram SML 1052
Roy Harper - Hey Francesca (session)

Bizarre applause - end of tape

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