13 April 1969

== Show ==
; Name
*Top Gear
; Station
*BBC Radio One
; YYYY-MM-DD
*1969-04-13
; Comments
* Peel apologises to listeners about the expensive price of a recent Tyrannosaurus Rex gig - one of a series at the Lyceum in London, advertised "with the appalling name of John Peel's Midnight Court", he says (the organisers used his name without asking him and dropped it after he complained). He says that he and Tyrannosaurus Rex will try to organise a "free thing" to make up for it.
*Peel restarts the Spooky Tooth record after starting it at 45 instead of 33 rpm - a wrong speed moment, but he quickly notices his mistake. Tells producer Bernie Andrews he "really didn't do it".
*He plays one of two singles released simultaneosuly by Leviathan, who had previously recorded a Top Gear session as the Mike Stuart Span. JP says it's "beautifully produced by someone called Clive" - his manager Clive Selwood, who signed them to Elektra. He was running the label's London office as well as looking after Peel's career..
*Creedence Clearwater Revival have been discovered by Jonathan King, says JP, and congratulates him ironically. He points out that Jeff Dexter and a few thousand others who heard JD play their records at the now defunct Middle Earth knew about them long before King did.
*Peel plays a track from Hapshash and the Coloured Coat’s second album, Western Flier. They were associated with the underground scene, but this LP was produced by Mike Batt, best known for his later, more commercial records, notably those of the Wombles.
*Audio in Files 5 & 6 is not of great sound quality, but they are just about listenable, apart from a few seconds of heavy interference during the Insect Trust track.
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== Sessions ==
*Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band #6, recorded 31st March 1969. Mr. Apollo, Look At Me I'm Wonderful, Quiet Talks And Summer Walks available on The Complete BBC Recordings (Strange Fruit, CD, 2002)
*Blodwyn Pig #1, recorded 24th March 1969. 'Mr. Green's Blues' and 'The Modern Alchemist' available on Basement Tapes (Hux).
*Terry Reid #1 recorded 11th February 1969, repeat, first broadcast 02 March 1969. No known commercial release.
*Glass Menagerie #2 recorded 21st January 1969, repeat, first broadcast 09 March 1969. No known commercial release.
== Tracklisting ==
*File 5 begins at start of show
*Beatles With Billy Preston: Get Back (7") Apple 4
*Glass Menagerie: Do You Ever Think (session)
*(Dave Cousins of the Strawbs, in the studio with Peel, gives release date of upcoming LP.)
*Family: Observations From A Hill (LP - Family Entertainment) Reprise
*Terry Reid: Marking Time (session) 4
*Eire Apparent: Yes I Need Someone (7" - Rock 'N Roll Band) Buddah
*Blodwyn Pig: Ain'tcha Coming Home, Babe (session) 4
*Spooky Tooth: Better By You, Better Than Me (LP - Spooky Two) Island 4
*Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band: Look At Me I'm Wonderful (session) 1 4
*Leviathan: The War Machine (7") Elektra
*Glass Menagerie: Life Is Getting It Together (session)
*Creedence Clearwater Revival: Bootleg (LP - Bayou County) Liberty 4
*Terry Reid: Tinker Tailor (session)
*Leonard Cohen: Story Of Isaac (LP - Songs From A Room) Columbia
*mentions getting a box from Cohen's record company ("Leonard would really like you to have this") and describes the contents
*Blodwyn Pig: The Modern Alchemist (session)
*Chicken Shack: I'd Rather Go Blind (7") Blue Horizon 
*File 5 ends and File 6 begins 
*Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band: Mr. Apollo (session) 4 (with some different words from the record -"five years ago I was four-stone Bernie Andrews – now I am two separate gorillas")
*Steamhammer: Junior's Wailing (7") CBS
*Glass Menagerie: She Came From Hell (session)
*Ralph McTell: Spiral Staircase (LP - Spiral Staircase) Transatlantic 4
*Blodwyn Pig: It's Only Love (session)
*Flying Burrito Brothers: Do You Know How It Feels (LP - The Gilded Palace Of Sin) A&M 4
*JP says he’s had several letters complaining about his playing of “country-based things” on the programme and gives his correspondents some advice
*Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band: Quiet Talks And Summer Walks (session) 4
*news
*Gordon Smith: Diving Duck Blues (LP - Long Overdue) Blue Horizon 4
*JP mentions that Dave Cousins told him groups like Country Joe & The Fish are regularly in the charts in Denmark (Cousins had worked for Danish radio)
*Terry Reid: Without Expression (session)
*Insect Trust: Brighter Than Day (LP - The Insect Trust) Capitol 4
*Blodwyn Pig: Mr Green's Blues (session) (with spoof bluesman’s monologue, namechecking Peel – “he got the blues because he got the greens because he’s a vegetarian…” (JP, appreciatively, with no sarcasm: "Yes that’s very nice, thank you”).
*Hapshash And The Coloured Coat: Big Bo Beep (LP - Western Flier) Liberty 4(“with nice piano playing from Mike Batt”)
*Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band: Excerpt From Brain Opera Part 3 (session) 2 3 4
*File 6 ends at end of show
== File ==
;Name
*1) 1969-04-13 Bonzo Top Gear 5.5.68 (2 tracks) plus three from another source
*2) The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band - Excerpt From 'The Brain Opera'
*3) 1968-1969 Bonzos Early 1969
*4) J P Top Gear 13 April 1969 edited
*5) TG 13-04-69 pt1.mp3
*6) TG 13-04-69 pt2.mp3
;Length
*1) 2:55
*2) 7:31
*3) 17:04 (to 7:21) (from 4:47 unique)
*4) 47:32
*5) 1:02:59
*6) 56:17
;Other
*1,3) Many thanks to Colin Harper. 1) Extracted from a five track bundle including a couple from 05 May 1968 and a couple from 01 December 1968. 3) Bonzos Early 1969
*2) Many thanks to TheRedCurtain
*4) Many thanks to Tim for acquisition and digitisation
*5,6) Many thanks to Warwick Johns
;Available
*1) Mooo
*2) Youtube
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*6) Mooo
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