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29 September 1968

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Show[]

Name
Station
YYYY-MM-DD
  • 1968-09-29
Comments
  • Peel plays an album track from the Idle Race, but admits he hasn't got the album, and says this copy was borrowed from Bernie Andrews.
  • Peel announces Ten Years After's Woman Trouble session track, but accidentally plays the Top Gear theme music, and then mentions the football result yesterday of Liverpool beating Wolves 6-0. He then decides to play a track from Traffic, dedicated to Violet Wright, who was with him in the Top Gear studio last week and yesterday at the Hyde Park free concert, as well as sending him some tissues for his cold !!
  • He mentions attending a concert at the Royal Festival Hall the previous evening, featuring Joni Mitchell, Fairport Convention and others (see Gigography 1968) and reads an excerpt from the concert programme to introduce the first Joni Mitchell session track. Later in the show he says he received a dinner invitation from Joni Mitchell's manager Elliott Roberts but turned it down because of his bad cold. It's not known if this was the reason why the singer never did another session for Top Gear, although Peel remarks that he hoped she would do one when she visited Britain in December.
  • Peel enthuses over the Doors’ “Five To One” and compares it to “You Got To Trust Us" by Captain Beefheart. He says that next week he'll hopefully receive the new Beefheart album. He also says he'll play tracks from Duster Bennett's latest album, which he says is amazingly good and the best LP the Blue Horizon label has yet produced.
  • Peel dedicates a David Ackles record to Ian Anderson's mum, whose son, the singer of Jethro Tull, he met yesterday at the Hyde Park free concert[1]. Says Anderson's father sent him a letter mentioning that it was his mother's birthday tomorrow. The DJ also says that Ackles and fellow American singer (and Elektra recording artist) Tim Buckley will both record sessions for the show on Tuesday.
  • Peel mentions seeing a TV programme the other day about sea otters and says that listeners should think about the fur coats they wear, where these come from, and what satisfaction the sea otters would have, if they weren't killed for these fur coats. (It's unlikely that many of his listeners wore fur coats, unless they were old ones from the second-hand clothes shops favoured by hippies). Peel may be referring to Wild New World: 3: Bering Sea, which was a wildlife programme, broadcast at 6.40pm on BBC One on 26th September 1968.
  • Peel dedicates a Fugs record to Sarah Henry, who allegedly threw beef curry on a cinema screen showing the John Wayne film The Green Berets.
  • Peel dedicates a Byrds record to four girls from Ipswich, who stayed at Peel Acres overnight. They had travelled down to London in the hope of seeing Canned Heat perform at the Roundhouse, but the gig was cancelled, due to "local politics", he says.

Sessions[]

Tracklisting[]

File[]

Name
  • 1) TenYearsAfter1968-08-14TopGearLondonUK
  • 2) Fairport Convention - Peel session - Top Gear 29/9/68
  • 3) 1968-09-29 TG 29.9.68 Joni Mitchell 5 songs.mp3
  • 4) TG29-9-68.mp3
  • 5) 1968-09-29 TG 1.9.68 Fairport Convention 2 songs.mp3
  • 6) 1968-09-29 David Ackles TG 24.1.69.mp3
Length
  • 1) 0:05:51
  • 2) 0:05:32
  • 3) 13:40
  • 4) 2:02:49
  • 5) 6:52
  • 6) 3:46
Other
  • 1) Full details at and thanks to Sugarmegs
  • 2,3,5,6) Many thanks to Colin Harper.
  • 4) Many thanks to Warwick Johns. Sound quality muffled, but audible.
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