06 April 1969

== Show ==
; Name
*Top Gear
; Station
*BBC Radio One
; YYYY-MM-DD
*1969-04-06
; Comments
*Peel says "It’s been a very nice week for me…travelling around….." and imtroduces the show's first track as “a nice record to get things going by The James O’Hendrix Showband, as it were...". This show may well have the most recorded uses of that adjective in the entire Peel canon, as JP continues to describe records and other things as "nice" throughout. It's possible that he might have done this deliberately to annoy his critics, as his other remarks seem to show that he had his wits about him.
*Peel went to Bath on Sunday or Monday to see Principal Edwards Magic Theatre and Bridget St John and recommends listeners to visit there. He calls it "a very beautiful town ...with some very nice old women..." in the daytime, and with many young people who appear in the evenings.
*He plays the Flying Burrito Brothers track "for everyone who went questing on Dartmoor last week". Peel says he fell into a bog there.
*Beware Files 3 & 4 are not of great sound quality (not very good medium wave reception, with some distortion at times and an audible "hiss") and it can be difficult to hear some of what Peel is saying.
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== Sessions ==
*Fairport Convention #7, recorded 18th March 1969.
*Mandrake Paddle Steamer #1, recorded 25th March 1969
*Mason Capaldi Wood & Frog #1. Recorded: 1969-02-25. First Broadcast: 02 March 1969
*Black Cat Bones #1. Recorded: 1969-01-13. First Broadcast: 09 February 1969
== Tracklisting ==
*File 3 starts at beginning of show
*Jimi Hendrix Experience: Cross Town Traffic (7") Track
*Mandrake Paddle Steamer: The Ivory Castle Of Solitaire Husk (session)
*Fleetwood Mac: Man Of The World (split 7" with Earl Vince And The Valiants - Man Of The World / Somebody's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked In Tonite) Immediate ("their current single ,which I think is really nice and I hope you do, too...")
*Black Cat Bones: I Want To Know (session)
*JP: I hope some of you remember the summer of 1967….a very nice time it was too, with the Perfumed Garden and other things...
*Family: Summer '67 (LP - Family Entertainment) Reprise
*Mason Capaldi Wood & Frog: Leaving Blues (session)
*Blossom Toes: Peace Loving Man (7") Marmalade § ("and very nice it is too")
*JP: These are the Fairport Convention, very nice too
*Fairport Convention: Cajun Woman (session) § @1
*Free: Over The Green Hills Part 1 / Worry (LP - Tons Of Sobs) Island § ("it’s nice the way it goes from one tune into another")
*Mandrake Paddle Steamer: Cooger And Dark (session) named after a Ray Bradbury story, says JP. Song lyrics Include the line (also from Bradbury?) “something wicked this way comes” as well as Pandemonium Shadow Show, previously used as an album title by Nilsson
*Liverpool Scene: The Woo-Woo (7") RCA Victor § ("nice rock’n’roll guitar solo from Andy Roberts and some nice sax things from Mike Evans")
*Black Cat Bones: Train Blues (session)
*JP: "You’ve heard us talk about Marsha Hunt in the most eulogistic manner"….Calls her "the wondrous Marsha Hunt" in his intro to next track
*Marsha Hunt: Walk On Gilded Splinters (7") Track
*Mason Capaldi Wood & Frog: Crying To Be Heard (session)
*Colosseum: Walking In The Park (LP - Those Who Are About To Die Salute You) Fontana §
*End of File 3 & continuation into File 4
*Fairport Convention: Percy's Song (session) § @2 ("a nice group")
*JP: "The other day I was driving down to Exeter..." – says it’s “nice” to be in traffic jams so that you can look at trees and lambs
*Taste: Same Old Story (LP - Taste) Polydor
*Mandrake Paddle Steamer: Senlac Lament (session) JP: “a little medieval history….in the same tradition as The Battle by the Strawbs”)
*Flying Burrito Bros: My Uncle (LP - The Gilded Palace Of Sin) A&M § ("so nice to sing along to")
*Black Cat Bones: Baby Be Good To Me (session)
*He’s been sent the first issue of Zigzag, with Sandy Denny on the front cover, but hasn’t yet read it – “it may be a magazine..."
*Neil Young: If I Could Have Her Tonight (LP - Neil Young) Reprise §
*Fairport Convention: Si Tu Dois Partir (session) # § with Bernie Andrews on swanee whistle
*Spirit: Aren't You Glad (LP - The Family That Plays Together) CBS §
*4:30pm news: Ministry  of Transport releases figures on this year’s Easter holiday road accidents;  Anguilla – Britain says it hasn’t double-crossed the islanders; latest news from East Africa car rally; Scottish trawler boarded by Danish coastguards off Faroe Islands for fishing in protected waters– skipper claimed that his radar had broken down, so boat was released
*Country Joe & The Fish: Porpoise Mouth (LP - Electric Music For The Mind And Body) Fontana §
*JP: Last Sunday after seeing them in Birmingham…I had a long talk with Barry Melton…
*Mason Capaldi Wood & Frog: Waiting On You (session)
*JP intro to next track; “…a new LP by Tim Hardin on a new label….very sad things are happening to him…listen to the words, because they mean something, for once..."
*Tim Hardin: First Love Song (LP - Suite For Susan Moore And Damion - We Are - One, One, All In One) Columbia §
*Mandrake Paddle Steamer: Janus Suite (session) (JP: they did some nice things for us)
*Taj Mahal: Going Up To The Country, Paint My Mailbox Blue (LP - The Natch'l Blues) Columbia §
*Fairport Convention: Autopsy (session) § @3 (JP: Sandy’s really writing some nice songs...)
*There’s only one way to finish the programme, says JP – and then plays the wrong track for a few seconds
*Leonard Cohen: Story Of Isaac (LP - Songs From A Room) Columbia (Wrong Track Moment) §
*Leonard Cohen: A Bunch Of Lonesome Heroes (LP - Songs From A Room) Columbia §
*File 4 ends at end of show - "I hope this week is a joyful week for you…be careful, bye bye"
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*Tracks also marked # on File 1
*Tracks also marked @ on File 2
*Tracks also marked § on File 5
== File ==
;Name
*1a) Fairport Convention with Ric Grech - Peel session - Top Gear 6/4/69
*1b) 1969-04-06 TG 6.4.69 Fairport Convention Si Tui Dois Partir with Peel outro.mp3
*2) Fairport Convention - Top Gear 6/4/69 / 1969-04-06.mp3
*3) TG 06-04-69 Pt1.mp3
*4) TG 06-04-69 Pt1.mp3
*5) J P Top Gear 04 May 1969 edited.mp3 (mislabelled date)
;Length
*1) 2:37
*2) 12:23
*3) 58:10
*4) 1:02:07
*5) 0:53:08
;Other
*1&2) Many thanks to Colin Harper. File 1b has centred audio.
*3&4) Many thanks to Warwick Johns 
*5) Many thanks to Tim
;Available
*1a) Youtube
*1b) Mooo
*2) Youtube
*3) Mooo
*4) Mooo
*5) Mooo
Category:Peel shows
Category:1969
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Category:Harper Reels
Category:Warwick's Shows
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