27 June 1970

== Show ==
; Name
*Top Gear
; Station
*BBC Radio One
; YYYY-MM-DD
*1970-06-27
; Comments
*Volume 1 of the Decktician Logs only lists the session artists for this show. Many thanks to Ken Garner for providing the information below and Rocker for acting as central HQ.
*Peel thinks there won’t be many listeners to this programme as most will have gone to Bath (for the "Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music" held that weekend). After playing the Jefferson Airplane live track, he says he’s looking forward to seeing them there tomorrow. 
*Peel plays two tracks from the John Peel's Archive Things LP and mentions that Kenny Everett played "bits of it" on his show that morning..  
*A track each from two of 1970's most successful LPs - the Woodstock film soundtrack triple album and the Rolling Stones' Get Yer Ya-Yas Out! - and tracks from two limited-edition obscurities - Country Joe & The Fish's 1966 EP for the Berkeley label Rag Baby, and Happy Birthday, an LP dedicated to Pete Townshend’s guru Meher Baba (on which Ronnie Lane and Ron Geesin also appear).  
*Before the sequence of Nucleus session tracks at the mid-point of the show, Peel says they are “with their lead singer Eddie Lee Beppeaux” – but they didn’t have a singer. All the tracks were instrumentals. (ELB apparently also appears "on tubular bells" on the High Tide and Steeleye Span tracks in the final half hour of the show, according to JP - was Mike Oldfield listening?)   
== Sessions ==
*Steeleye Span #2, recorded 1970-06-23. Available on Please To See The King, 2xCD 2006 reissue (Castle Music)
*Nucleus, #1 (rpt). First broadcast 07 March 1970, recorded 1970-03-02. No known commercial release.
*High Tide, #3 (rpt). First broadcast 11 April 1970, recorded 1970-03-24. No known commercial release.
== Tracklisting ==
*End of Noel Edmonds show - he talks a lot, overruns, apologises and hands over to JP, who cuts off the Top Gear theme and goes straight into track below
*Delaney & Bonnie & Friends: Soul Shake (7" b-side Free The People) Atlantic 2091 016
*Dave Mason: Can't Stop Worrying, Can't Stop Loving (LP - Alone Together) Harvest SHTC 251
*Steeleye Span: The Blacksmith (session)
*Nucleus: Elastic Rock (session) (JP pronounces “elastic” with a long upper-class “a”) 
*Can: Father Cannot Yell (LP - Monster Movie) United Artists UAS 29094 (“one of the most remarkable records I’ve heard since the first Velvet Underground album”) 
*Jefferson Airplane Volunteers (3xLP - Woodstock OST) Atlantic 2663 001
*Gerhard Kammerlander: Trumpet Imitation (LP - John Peel's Archive Things) BBC Records REC 68M
*News  - variations in tape speed make it difficult to follow. It may be that the taper sped up the source tape on dubbing to save a bit of tape on the record one, or slowed the tape on record on the original, for the same reason.
*Steeleye Span: Female Drummer (session)
*Peel previews the August series “with the appalling title of First Gear”, to be broadcast during his holidays, and says it will concentrate on “pre-Beatles music” -  which leads into the next track, a Buddy Holly song 
*Steeleye Span: Rave On (session)
*High Tide: Saneonymous (session)
*Disinterred Thirty-Three and a Third jingle – Peel points out that the track below is from a 1966 maxi-single (or EP) 
*Country Joe & The Fish: Bass Strings (EP - Country Joe & The Fish) Rag Baby 1002
*Sports flash – “tennis sensation” – champion Rod Laver of Australia beaten at Wimbledon by Roger Taylor of Britain 
*Wild Man Fischer: Wild Man On The Street Again (2xLP - An Evening With Wild Man Fischer) Bizarre/Reprise 2XS 6332 (Peel mentions he interviewed Frank Zappa - “ a very interesting man to talk to” - last week)
*Nucleus: 1916 (session)
*tape flip during above
*Nucleus: Orpheus (session)
*Nucleus: Persephone’s Jive (session)
*Rolling Stones: Oh Carol (LP - Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! - The Rolling Stones In Concert) Decca SKL 5065
*Steeleye Span: I Was A Young Man (session)
*Azerbaijani Music: Air (LP - John Peel's Archive Things) BBC Records REC 68M (JP: “one of my all-time favourites from the BBC Archives...one of the best voices I ever heard”. But as he says, the singer is not named on the archive recording).
*Quintessence: Son of Mortality (LP - Quintessence) Island ILPS 9128
*Pink Floyd: Come In Number 51, Your Time Is Up (v/a album - Zabriskie Point OST) MGM SE 4668 ST
*News – fast-forwarded again!
*Nucleus: Twisted Track (session)
*High Tide: The Joke (session)
*Steeleye Span: Lark In The Morning (session)
*Pete Townshend: Content (LP - Happy Birthday) Universal Spiritual League 1 (Peel mentions he played Townshend’s version of Cole Porter’s “Begin The Beguine” from this album a couple of weeks ago).
*Joe Cocker: The Letter (7") Regal Zonophone RZ 3027 (tape ends halfway through this track) 
== File ==
;Name
*J P Top Gear 27 June 1970.mp3
;Length
*1:53:12
;Other
*Many thanks to the original taper, and to Tim for purchasing from eBay and digitisation.
;Available
*Mooo
Category:1970
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