17 August 1969

== Show ==
; Name
*Top Gear
; Station
*BBC Radio One
; YYYY-MM-DD
*1969-08-17
; Comments
*In his intro to the show, Peel calls it “this evening’s Top Gear” but then admits he’s not sure it’s the evening
*Playlist seems to feature lots of album tracks, some of them quite long, but no singles - at least on the recordings preserved. The Love and Manfred Mann Chapter Three tracks are both from advance copies of LPs soon to be released. 
*Mentions he'd been to Mousehole, near Penzance – a “beautiful town with butterflies in the main street” – and dedicates the Love track to the people he stayed with there.
*Also in Cornwall, the St. Ives Commune Of The Streets had been having problems with the authorities, as International Times reported , so Peel dedicates High Tide's "Walking Down Their Outlook" to them.
*Peel dedicates the Beefheart track to the Edgar Broughton Band "family" – says he spent a couple of days travelling around with them.
*He watched Match Of The Day last night, he says, and praises Liverpool – “gonna win the league"
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== Sessions ==
*Sweet Marriage only session, recorded 11th August 1969. ‘Mort’ and ‘Titania’ available on John Peel Presents Top Gear LP, 1969 (BBC Records REC 52S)
*High Tide #2, recorded 12th August 1969. No known commercial release.
*John Fahey only session, recorded 22nd May 1969, repeat, first broadcast 28 May 1969. No known commercial release.
*Pink Floyd #5, repeat, first broadcast 14 May 1969. Available on "The Early Years 1965-1972" (Pink Floyd Records ‎– PFREYB1, 2016)
== Tracklisting ==
*File 2 begins at start of show with handover from Alan Freeman
*Blind Faith: Sea Of Joy (album - Blind Faith) Polydor 583 059
*Humble Pie: Bang! (album - As Safe As Yesterday Is) Immediate IMSP 025
*John Fahey: Dance Of The Inhabitants Of The Palace Of King Philip XV (session)
*Van Morrison: Sweet Thing (album - Astral Weeks) Warner Bros. WS 1768
*Sweet Marriage: Titania (session) @
*High Tide: Walking Down Their Outlook (session)
*Soft Machine: Fire Engine Passing With Bells Clanging (album - Volume Two) Probe SPB 1002
*7:30pm news (edited out)
*Manfred Mann Chapter Three: Time (album - Manfred Mann Chapter Three) Vertigo VO3
*Pink Floyd: The Narrow Way (session)
*Introduces the new Bobby (or Bob) Darin album and talks about the singer's change of style - “something amazing has happened to him”
*Bob Darin: Distractions (Part 1) (album - Commitment) Bell SBLL 128
*Love: Good Times (album - Four Sail) Elektra EKS 74049
*John Fahey: Poor Boy (session)
*Sweet Marriage: Mort (session)
*Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band: Well (album - Trout Mask Replica) Straight STS 1053
*High Tide: Nowhere (session) 
*File 2 cuts out
*Track marked @ also available on File 1
== File ==
;Name
*1) Sweet Marriage - Peel session - Top Gear 17/6/69 (misdated)
*2) TG 17-08-69.mp3
;Length
*1) 4:25
*2) 1:06:27
;Other
*1) Many thanks to Colin Harper.
*2) Many thanks to Warwick Johns
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;Available
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*2) Mooo
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