09 June 1968

== Show ==
; Name
*Top Gear
; Station
*BBC Radio One
; YYYY-MM-DD
*1968-06-09
; Comments
*Around half an hour of a two-hour show, recently discovered on a reel-to-reel tape by Peel Mailing List user andysmith10.
*Information on gaps in the track listing (particularly some confusion surrounding the Kenny Everett track) courtesy of Ken Garner of Peel Mailing List.
== Sessions ==
*Idle Race, #3. Recorded 1968-06-04. No known commercial release.
*Joe Cocker And The Grease Band, #1. Recorded 1968-05-20. No known commercial release.
*Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band, #2 (repeat). Recorded 1968-05-06. No known commercial release.
*Eclection, #1 (repeat). Recorded 1968-04-30. No known commercial release.
== Tracklisting ==
*Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band: 'Beatle Bones 'n' Smoke 'n' Stones' (Peel Session) @
*Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band: 'Safe As Milk' (Peel Session) @
*File 1 begins
*Idle Race: 'On With The Show' (Peel Session)
*Taj Mahal: Everybody's Got To Change Sometime (single) CBS/Direction 58-3547
*(JP link: 'Name Bernie's Tortoise')
*Eclection: 'Confusion' (Peel Session)
*Spooky Tooth: Love Really Changed Me (LP: It's All About A Roundabout) Island ILP 9080
*Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band: 'Kandy Korn' (Peel Session) @
:(JP: 'I realise that the idea of a DJ under 40 who sings in tune is a fairly revolutionary concept, but there is one, and it's Kenny Everett. He's already done the pop star thing of disavowing this record, and doesn't want to know anything about it.')
*Kenny Everett: It's Been So Long (single) MGM 1421 (edited out)
*The Who: Call Me Lightning (single) Decca 32288 (US release only)
*Joe Cocker And The Grease Band: 'I Shall Be Released' (Peel Session)
*Spirit: Uncle Jack (single) CBS 3523
*Idle Race: 'The Morning Sunshine' (Peel Session) (edited out)
*Tyrannosaurus Rex: Graceful Fat Sheba (LP: My People Were Fair And Had Sky In Their Hair...But Now They're Content To Wear Stars On Their Brows) Regal Zonophone LBZ 1003
*Otis Redding: 'The Happy Song (Dum-Dum)' (N.B. According to the PasB, this is not from the show, and has been edited in from elsewhere: only a short excerpt)
*File 1 ends
*Eclection: 'In The Early Days' (Peel Session) (missing from tape)
*Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band: 'You Gotta Trust Us' (Peel Session) @
*Tracks marked @ available on File 2
== File ==
;Name
*1) Top Gear 1968-06-09
*2) CaptainBeefheart1968TopGearSessions
;Length
*1) 00:30:49
*2) 33:04 (13:21 on) (to 20:48 and from 25:35 unique)
;Other
*Shared via Peel Mailing List.
*Many thanks to Andy! And to Eddie for the track listing!
*1) This low volume recording is rather bass heavy and with almost non-existent treble.
*2) Full details at SugarMegs
;Available
*1) Mooo
*2) SugarMegs
Category:1968
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