07 November 1970

== Show ==
; Name
*Top Gear
; Station
*BBC Radio One
; YYYY-MM-DD
*1970-11-07
; Comments
*Tracklisting below is from Volume 1 of the Decktician Logs. Many thanks to Decktician, Ken Garner for copying and additional information, and Rocker for acting as central HQ.
*A track by Bessie Smith, the "Empress of the Blues", who didn't figure too often in Peel playlists. Like other blues listeners of the 1960s, he preferred the male rural bluesmen who recorded in the 1920s to the women singers of that era, who were more admired by jazz critics (Bessie Smith's best-known British fan was George Melly, who based his singing style on hers). But Columbia/CBS had just issued the first in a series of double LPs of her work, making it available to a new generation of listeners, so the DJ chose to pay the very first record she made, from 1923. He also mentions that Janis Joplin, who had been influenced by Bessie Smith, had paid for a gravestone for her..
*Cover versions of Muddy Waters' "Hoochie Cooche Man" by the Allman Brothers Band, and Buddy Holly's "Love's Made A Fool Of You" by Cochise.
*JP says it’s time for a new Miss Top Gear contest, which this year will be open to everyone, male or female, as well as animals and objects, He asks listeners to send in photographs
*A track from a sampler LP on the Middle Earth label, named after the defunct Middle Earth club which Peel had regularly visited, both as DJ and member of the audience. The label seemed to have some connection with the club owners, but despite support from Pye Records it wasn't successful and folded after a year
== Sessions ==
*T Rex #8 First broadcast. Recorded 1970-10-26.
**All tracks except ‘Elemental Child’ on Across The Airwaves (CD) A&M 541 004-2
*Cochise #2 First broadcast. Recorded 1970-10-25.
*Skid Row #1 Repeat. First broadcast 25 July 1970.
(Please add details of any commercial release of these sessions)
== Tracklisting ==
(Please add further release details, external links, etc.)
*Derek & The Dominoes: It’s Too Late (LP – Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs) ATCO SD 2-704
*T Rex: Ride A White Swan (session)
*File 2 cuts in below
*Cochise: Love’s Made A Fool Of You (session) ("as John Walters says, an excellent, tight little band")
*Allman Brothers Band: Hoochie Coochie Man (LP - Idlewild South) Atco SD 33-342
*Skid Row: An Awful Lot Of Woman (session)
*Kevin Ayers & The Whole World: Rheinherdt And Geraldine (LP - Shooting At The Moon) Harvest SHSP 4005
*Kevin Ayers & The Whole World: Colores Par Dolores (LP - Shooting At The Moon) Harvest SHSP 4005
*Chris Spedding Band: Words Don’t Come (LP - Backwood Progression) Harvest SHSP 4004
*Bessie Smith: Down-Hearted Blues (LP - The World's Greatest Blues SInger) CBS BPG 66258
*3.30 news; "In the World Rugby League final...Great Britain and Australia are drawing 2-0" (?)
*Humblebums: Harry (LP - Open Up The Door) Transatlantic TRA 218 
*In the outro, JP shows off his language skills - “ or, as they are known in France, Les Derrières Sans Prétention”
*Derek & The Dominos: Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad? (LP – Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs) ATCO SD 2-704
*T Rex: Jewel (session)
*Peter Bellamy: Frankie’s Trade (LP - Oak Ash and Thorn) Argo ZFB 11 ("A collection of songs by Rudyard Kipling, set and performed in the traditional idiom") 
*Cochise: Why I Sing The Blues (session)
*Syd Barrett: Effervescing Elephant (LP – Barrett) Harvest SHSP 4007
*Skid Row: Felicity (session)
*JP: "Jeff Dexter phoned me up to say that a new series of Implosions are starting at the Roundhouse, which is nice…” and Brinsley Schwarz will be on this week’s bill
*Brinsley Schwarz: Country Girl (single) Liberty LBY 15419 (“go along and see them at the Roundhouse tomorrow”)
*T Rex: Elemental Child (session) (“That’s for my brother Alan…”)
*Neil Tucker: Breathing (v/a LP - Earthed) Middle Earth MDLS 20 (Not a music track, but a monologue. Peel says he would like to hear an LP by Neil Tucker, but the two tracks on this album seem to be his only recordings)
*Cochise: Words Of A Dying Man (session)
*Dedicates next track to hitch-hikers
*Neil Young: Only Love Can Break Your Heart (single) Reprise RS.20958
*4.30 news - edited out
*Bush: I Can Hear You Calling (single) Probe PRO 501 @
*T Rex: Suneye (session)
*Skid Row: After I’m Gone (session)
*Forever More: Put Your Money On A Pony (single) RCA RCA 2024 (“a group about which I know remarkably little”)
*Cochise: Moment And The End (session)
*Previous track includes “O Come All Ye Faithful” played as a steel guitar solo, which may explain JP’s comment in his outro “Don’t say anything about what?”
*Amon Duul II: Eye Shaking King (2xLP - Yeti) Liberty LSP 101/LBS 83359
*File 2 ends at end of show “produced as always by the amusing John Walters, failed W.C. Fields of Purley….”   As usual, Peel recommends various shows to his listeners, including “Monty Python on the telly" and tells them to have a good week.
*Tracks marked @ available on File 1
== File ==
;Name
*1) J P Tracks only reel 2.mp3
*2) J P Top Gear 07 Nov 1970.mp3
;Length
*1) 0:54:59 (29:38-31:51)
*2) 1:47:18
;Other
*1) Many thanks to Tim for purchasing from eBay and digitisation. Mainly Spring 1970 Mix Reel
*2) Many thanks to Tim for digitisation and upload
;Available
*1) Mooo
*2) Mooo
Category:1970
Category:Peel shows
Category:Top Gear
Category:Available online
Category:Peel Shows (Incomplete)