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Show[]

Name
Station
YYYY-MM-DD
  • 1968-06-30
Comments
  • Dating of this show was possible using a combination of The Peel Sessions and JP's mention of seeing Pink Floyd 'in the park' the day before.
  • Files 1&2 are pause-button, with several missing or partially recorded tracks and most of John's links curtailed.
  • The first 46 minutes of the audio from File 4 are from this Top Gear programme but the rest seem to come from different shows. Tracks by the Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation ("See See Baby") and Ian Anderson - the British country blues revivalist, not the lead singer of Jethro Tull (a version of Charley Patton's "Tom Rushen Blues"[1]) - are identified by an unknown presenter (David Rider? John Dunn? Mike Raven?) with very traditional BBC enunciation. After that, the tape ends with a 6 minute edit of 07 July 1968

Sessions[]

Tracklisting[]

  • File 1 cuts in during next track
  • Purple Gang: Kiss Me Goodnight Sally Green (7") Big T BIG 111
  • edit
  • Fairport Convention: Some Sweet Day (session)
  • 4:49-4:57 silence then resumes during next track
  • Eclection: Mark Time (7") Elektra EKSN 45033
  • File pauses
  • David Bowie And The Tony Visconti Orchestra: Karma Man (session)
  • File resumes
  • Savoy Brown Blues Band: Louisiana Blues (session)
  • edit
  • Buffy Sainte-Marie: I'm Gonna Be A Country Girl Again (album - I'm Gonna Be A Country Girl Again) Vanguard VSD-79280
  • edit
  • Deep Purple: Hush (session)
  • edit
  • Fleetwood Mac: Need Your Love So Bad (7") Blue Horizon 57-3139
  • edit
  • Traffic: You Can All Join In (session) £
  • edit
  • Fairport Convention: I Don't Know Where I Stand (session)
  • File pauses
  • David Bowie And The Tony Visconti Orchestra: Karma Man (session)
  • File resumes at 30:22
  • Cream: Crossroads (album - Wheels Of Fire) ATCO SD 2-700 not on PasB
  • File 1 ends and File 2 begins during above track, missing 30s of track
  • edit at 1:42
  • Savoy Brown Blues Band: Walkin' By Myself (session) @ %
  • edit
  • Tim Rose: Long Haired Boy (7") CBS 3598 $ slightly longer outro on $
  • edit
  • Traffic: Pearly Queen (session) @
  • John fades early as a result of trying to make up time lost by playing the Cream track, which explains why it wasn't on the PasB
  • edit
  • Fairport Convention: Nottamun Town (session)
  • File pauses
  • Crazy World Of Arthur Brown: Fire ! (7") Track 604022 @ (not on File 2)
  • File resumes
  • Deep Purple: One More Rainy Day (session)
  • edit - resumes near end of next track
  • David Bowie And The Tony Visconti Orchestra: Silly Boy Blue (session) last 50s only
  • Savoy Brown Blues Band: Gnome Sweet Gnome (session) @  %
  • Beach Boys: Wake The World (7" - Do It Again) Capitol CL 15554 @
  • Traffic: Who Knows What Tomorrow May Bring (session) @ £
  • edit
  • Country Joe & The Fish: Waltzing In The Moonlight (album - Together) Vanguard VSD-79277
  • Deep Purple Help! (session) @
  • End of File 2 2:27 into above track
  • Fairport Convention: Close The Door Lightly When You Go (session) @
  • File 3 begins
  • Savoy Brown Blues Band: 'Mr. Down Child' (session) @ %
  • (JP: 'Now, both the Nice and myself, actually, during the past few weeks, have been in a certain amount of trouble with various unhappy and bewildered people for having the effrontery to have opinions of our own, you see, and actually having the temerity to mention them in front of other people, which is a very daring concept. So, here's the Nice's current single, which I think is a very very important record, and I'd like to see it in the charts, obviously. This appears to be the only programme that's playing it at the moment, because it is a bit long: six minutes and fifteen seconds.')
  • Nice: America (7") Immediate IM 068 @
  • (John dedicates the next track to what appears to be his former nanny Trader Horne in Liverpool 8.)
  • David Bowie And The Tony Visconti Orchestra: When I Am Five (session)
  • (JP: 'Yesterday in the park, Pink Floyd played better than I've ever heard them play before. I don't know what it was, it must have been the people there, the feelings that everyone was generating, becasue they played superbly. It was nice to hear them play that well, because they've been through a lot of very sad things in the past year. Anyway, they've got a new LP out called 'A Saucerful Of Secrets', and yesterday they finished their set with 'A Saucerful Of Secrets', which at the time sounded like a sort of hymn to the open air.')
  • Pink Floyd: Corporal Clegg (album - A Saucerful Of Secrets) Columbia SX 6258 @
  • Traffic: Feelin' Alright (session) @
  • File 3 cuts out at fade out at end of above track
  • outro to above @
  • Tracks marked @ on File 4, Track marked $ on File 5 Tracks marked £ on File 6 Tracks marked % on File 7

File[]

Name
  • 1-3) Radio 1 1968.06.30 John Peel - Top Gear
  • 4) J P Top Gear 30 June 1968.mp3
  • 5) 1968-06-30 Tim Rose LP track and Peel outro mid 1968.mp3
  • 6) 1968-06-30 Traffic TG 30.6.68 2 songs.mp3
  • 7) SavoyBrown1968-05-20-BBC-Session.mp3
Length
  • File 1 - 00:32:17
  • File 2 - 00:32:06
  • File 3 - 00:23:29
  • File 4 - 00:58:07 (until 00:46:34) (7:11-9:58, 22:06-28:19, from 46:30 unique)
  • 5) 3:03
  • 6) 6:56
  • 7) 9:20
Other
  • 3) Twenty-three minutes of a two-hour show, recently discovered on a reel-to-reel tape by Peel Mailing List user andysmith10. Many thanks to Andy!
  • 4) Many thanks to Tim
  • 5,6) Many thanks to Colin Harper
  • 7) Many thanks to Gordon Skene
Available