20 July 1969

== Show ==
; Name
*Top Gear
; Station
*BBC Radio One
; YYYY-MM-DD
*1969-07-20
; Comments
*A Sunday evening Top Gear on the night of the Apollo II moon landing.
*Peel plays session tracks from the Nice covering Bob Dylan's "Country Pie" and the Byrds' "Get To You". The latter is an extended version, with some keyboard improvisations (and a few quotes from classical piano pieces) by Keith Emerson..
*Peel talks at the beginning of the audio on File 2 about taking part in a cricket match in Ripley, along with other Radio 1 DJs. He only scored 5 runs, while Ed Stewart made 22, but he wasn't impressed by Stewart's innings.
*Peel plays a track from Blind Faith's self titled album, whose sleeve photo controversially features a topless 11 year old girl. The model on the cover posed upon consent by her parents and was paid £40 (£663 in today's money) for the shot.
*Peel crushes the rumour that Blind Faith recorded his Eurovision Song Contest song called Ding Dong Billy Bong.
*Peel calls Captain Beefheart "the Elvis Presley of Venus" before playing his "Moonlight On Vermont", Wikpedia notes that it is unrelated to the song "Moonlight In Vermont", a pop and jazz standard recorded by Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald and many others, and an unofficial anthem of the state. However, Peel calls Beefheart's track "Moonlight In Vermont" in his outro and remarks that it's "not the one you're accustomed to".
== Sessions ==
*Liverpool Scene #2, recorded 15th July 1969. No known commercial release
*Soft Machine #2, recorded 10th June 1969, repeat, first broadcast 15 June 1969. Available on BBC Radio 1967-1971
*Killing Floor only session, recorded 14th July 1969. No known commercial release
*Nice #7, recorded 2nd June 1969, repeat, first broadcast 08 June 1969. No known commercial release
== Tracklisting ==
*File 1 begins
*Nice: Country Pie (session)
*Killing Floor: My Mind Can Ride Easily (session)
*Liverpool Scene: I’ve Got The Fleetwood Mac Chicken Shack John Mayall Can’t Fail Blues (session) # (JP says the Liverpool Scene are coming round to Peel Acres later to watch the moon landing)
*edit
*Mothers Of Invention: The Legend Of The Golden Arches / The Mothers Play Louie Louie At The Royal Albert Hall In London (LP - Uncle Meat) Bizarre
*News at 7:30 
*B.B. King: Eyesight To The Blind (LP - The B.B. King Story Chapter One Born In Itta Bena, Mississippi) Blue Horizon
*Soft Machine: Moon In June (session)
*File 1 ends
*File 2 begins
*Jeff Beck Group: Spanish Boots (LP - Beck-Ola) Columbia
*Peel talks about the difficulty of answering all the listeners' letters he receives
*Liverpool Scene: Winter Poem (session) #
*Nice: Get To You (session)
*Blind Faith: Can't Find My Way Home (LP - Blind Faith) Polydor
*Killing Floor: Lou's Blues (session) (a boogie-woogie piano solo by Lou Martin of the band)
*Fairport Convention: Cajun Woman (LP - Unhalfbricking) Island
*JP says he wanted to play the Pink Floyd's new live version of "Interstellar Overdrive" but can't, because it isn't going to be on their new album, but he has been promised an acetate of the track by the Floyd's manager. 
*Tyrannosaurus Rex: King Of The Rumbling Spires (7") Regal Zonophone 
*(edit) 
*Alan Price Set:? The House That Jack Built (a short snippet that may not be from this show as the announcer at the end doesn't sound like Peel. The singer and band don't sound like Alan Price either - possibly a version by a BBC session band from a Radio 1 daytime show?)
*Liverpool Scene: GBS Blues (session) # (GBS stands for "Giant of Bedford Street", says Peel)
*Nice: For Example (session)
*Killing Floor: The Sun Keeps Shining (session)
*Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band: Moonlight On Vermont (2xLP - Trout Mask Replica) Straight
*Blossom Toes: Listen To The Silence (LP - If Only For A Moment) Marmalade (Peel is caught out by this track's false ending)
*end of show (JP ": ....produced by John "Man In The Moon" Walters...we have the moon coming up next...")
*File 2 continues with the start of Moon Special, a radio program broadcast on BBC 1, 2 and 4, BFBS and Radio Canadian Army Europe. The lunar module is about to land in 20 minutes.
Tracks marked # on File 3
== File ==
;Name
* 1) J P Top Gear 20 July 1969 pt 1.mp3
* 2) J P Top Gear 20 July 1969.mp3
* 3) Liverpool Scene - Top Gear 20/7/69
;Length
* 1) 36:44
* 2) 57:49 (to 54:29)
* 3) 14:18 (to 12:08)
;Other
*1-2) Many thanks to Tim
*3) Many thanks to Johnny Kidd Fanclub and Colin Harper
;Available
*1) Mooo
*2) Mooo
*3) Youtube
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