21 March 1972

== Show ==
; Name
*Top Gear
; Station
*BBC Radio One
; YYYY-MM-DD
*1972-03-21
; Comments
*Tracklisting below was originally compiled from Volume 2(ii) of the Decktician Logs. Many thanks to Decktician, Ken Garner for copying and additional information, and Rocker for acting as central HQ.
*No PasB available for this show.
*Session artists include Stud, a band made up of former members of Taste and Family, and Coventry "psychedelic folk" band Dando Shaft. Mike Cooper does his fifth session; Peel praises his voice and says he'd be much better known if he was "an American with a traumatic childhood",
*Records include a 1958 oldie from Louisiana "swamp pop" singer Rod Bernard, which Peel first heard when he was living in the USA, and both sides of a newly recorded version of a 1957 million-seller by Huey "Piano" Smth,. 
*Peel expresses some enthusiasm for Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen, and notes he's been playing quite a few tracks by them recently. 
*Cover versions include "all-girl band" Fanny's take on the Beatles' "Hey Bulldog"; Alex Taylor's rendition of Bob Dylan's "From A Buick 6", preceded by the Dylan original; Mike Cooper's version of "Few Short Lines", a blues song associated with Fred McDowell; and the show's final track, "Sonny Boy", made famous by Al Jolson but here done by Will Dandy & the Dandylettes, on a Dandelion single produced by Clive Selwood.
*Peel briefly refers to last weekend’s Liverpool-Newcastle game – he is pleased that Liverpool won but says John Walters supports Newcastle, “at least, when they’re winning”. 
== Sessions ==
*Mike Cooper, #5. Recorded 1972-03-06. No known commercial release.
*Stud, #2. Recorded 1972-03-07. No known commercial release.
*Dando Shaft, #2 (repeat)Entry omitted in the Shows Listing in "The Peel Sessions - Ken Garner (BBC Books), p.213". First broadcast 18 January 1972. Recorded 1972-01-11. No known commercial release.
== Tracklisting ==
*File begins 15s into first track
*Edgar Broughton Band: Gone Blue (single) Harvest
*Stud: Good Things (session)
*Rod Bernard: This Should Go On Forever (7") Jin 45-105 (JP says the record "won’t mean anything to you unless you were living somewhere along the Texas Louisiana border in the early 1960s" like him)
*Mike Cooper: Think She Knows Me Now (session)
*Groundhogs: Wages Of Peace (LP - Who Will Save The World? - The Mighty Groundhogs) United Artists
*Dando Shaft: Road Song (session)
*JP mentions that his own “road song” is "the Nilsson record that’s number one in the charts" ("Without You") – he sings along with it and “you should hear me going for the high notes"
*Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen: Seeds And Stems (Again) (LP - Lost In The Ozone) Paramount
*At this point (30:32) there is an audible crackle and the sound goes very quiet, to become barely audible above the tape hiss and printhrough from other tape tracks
*Christy Moore: The Raggle Taggle Gipsies (LP - Prosperous) Trailer LER 3035
*Stud: Samurai (session)
*Faust: It's A Bit Of Pain (single b-side - So Far) Polydor
*Dando Shaft: Don't Forget The Animal (session)
*Another crackle and the sound comes back (45:19)
*Mike Cooper: 3.48 (session)
*Joel Scott-Hill, John Barbata, Chris Ethridge: Craney Crow (LP - L.A. Getaway) ATCO
*Jackie Lomax: No Reason (LP - Three) Warner Brothers
*News, edited out
*Fanny: Hey Bulldog (LP - Fanny Hill) Reprise
*Huey 'Piano' Smith & His Clowns: Rocking Pneumonia And The Boogie Woogie Flu Part 1 () Cotillion
*Huey 'Piano' Smith & His Clowns: Rocking Pneumonia And The Boogie Woogie Flu Part 2 () Cotillion Both sides of the single were played.
*Dando Shaft: Melancholic Fervour (session)
*Stud: Shepherd's Bush Breakdown (session) Track included in Decktician's Log, but absent from the session entry in "The Peel Sessions - Ken Garner (BBC Books), p.335"
*Mike Cooper: From Time To Time (session)
*Nils Lofgren & Grin: Please Don't Hide (LP - 1+1) Epic
*Dando Shaft: I Heard Somewhere (session) Referred to as "When I'm Weary" by JP
*Bob Dylan: From A Buick 6 (LP - Highway 61 Revisited) CBS
*Alex Taylor: From A Buick 6 (LP - Dinnertime) Capricorn
*Stud: Red Wine (session)
*Bonzo Dog Band: King Of Scurf (LP - Let's Make Up And Be Friendly) United Artists
*Mike Cooper: Few Short Lines (session)
*Will Dandy & The Dandylettes: Sonny Boy (maxi-single) Dandelion Artists were actually the Coxhill-Bedford Duo working under an assumed name and accompanied by a chorus of girls from Queen's College, Harley Street, where David Bedford was music teacher.
*Midnight news with Colin Nicol; Chancellor of the Exchequer Anthony Barber explains his budget strategy -  "the biggest tax cuts ever". Britain is about to enter the Common Market, British industry needs to modernise, there are tax reductions for all, pensions are to go up, VAT and PAYE to come in….(tape ends)
== File ==
;Name
*J P Top Gear 21 March 1972.mp3
;Length
*01:57:44 (to 01:55:13)
;Other
*Many thanks to the original taper, and to Tim for purchasing from eBay and digitisation. Very good VHF quality, apart from a 15 minute spell where almost all signal is lost, then occasional distortion and mains hum later in the tape as though there was a dodgy connection between tuner and tape machine
;Available
*Mooo
==Footnotes ==
Category:1972
Category:Peel shows
Category:Top Gear
Category:Available online