Disinterred Thirty-Three and a Third

When John Walters took over from Bernie Andrews as Peel's producer on Top Gear in April 1969, he brought some ideas of his own to the show. Among them was the inclusion of tracks from the mid-1960s British beat and R&B era, some of them by groups whose members went on to join bands who did sessions for Peel's programmes. (Walters would have known some of them personally from his time on the road as a member of the Alan Price Set.) This idea developed into the Disinterred Thirty-Three and a Third spot on Top Gear in 1970, where Peel (with an accompanying spoof jingle) would announce a vintage track, usually from an LP. It may have been JP (or John Walters)'s ironic take on the more familiar "Revived Forty-Five", used on both Radio London and Radio 1 to announce an oldie single; certainly the rather clunky title sounds like the kind of wordplay Walters liked, rather than something thought up by Peel. The slot was eventually abandoned, but by then Peel was in the habit of adding occasional older records to his mostly current playlists and continued to do this for the rest of his radio career.
A list of Disinterred Thirty-Three and a Third tracks is given below. Some are from tracklists where no recording is currently available, but seem likely to have been chosen for the feature on account of their age and/or rarity. Peel didn't always take the thirty-three-and-a-third part of the title seriously and included a few singles and EP tracks among his choices.
*03 January 1970: Kinks: So Mystifying (LP - Kinks) Pye NPL 18096
*24 January 1970 Artwoods: Can You Hear Me (LP - Art Gallery) Decca LK 4830 from a 1966 LP, may be this week's Disinterred Thirty-Three and a Third, but no audio confirmation as yet.
*31 January 1970: John Mayall's Bluesbreakers: The Hoot Owl (LP - John Mayall Plays John Mayall) Decca LK 4680
*07 February 1970: Animals: Club A Go-Go (album - Animal Tracks) MGM 
*21 February 1970: Billy Fury: Turn My Back On You (10"LP - The Sound Of Fury) Decca LF 1329 no audio confirmation as yet, but from rare LP
*28 February 1970: Terry Lightfoot’s (New Orleans) Jazzmen: My Blue Heaven (LP – Tradition In Colour ) Columbia 33SX 1073 (Encore reissue??) may have been that week's Disinterred Thirty-Three and a Third, although so far audio evidence is lacking.
*07 March 1970: Love: The Castle (LP - Da Capo) Elektra EKL 4005/EKS 74005 no audio confirmation as yet but only non-current item in playlist
*11 April 1970: Zombies: The Way I Feel Inside (b-side of single Gotta Get A Hold Of Myself) Decca F 12495 (also on the 1965 LP Begin Here, so may have been played as a Disinterred Thirty-Three and a Third)
*09 May 1970: Dr. West's Medicine Show And Junk Band: The Eggplant That Ate Chicago (LP – The Eggplant That Ate Chicago) Page One POLS 017 
*16 May 1970: John’s Children: Come And Play With Me In The Garden (v/a LP - Backtrack 2) Track 2407 002
*23 May 1970: Paul Revere & The Raiders: Him Or Me - Who's It Gonna Be? (single) CBS 
*20 June 1970: Sha-weeze: You Made Me Love You (v/a album - Rhythm 'N' Blues Volume 1: The End Of An Era) Liberty
*27 June 1970: Country Joe & The Fish: Bass Strings (EP - Country Joe & The Fish) Rag Baby 1002 Peel points out that the track is from a 1966 maxi-single (or EP) 
*04 July 1970: Soft Machine: We Did It Again (album - Volume Two) Probe SPB 1002
*25 July 1970: Lonnie Donegan: New Burying Ground (v/a LP - The Golden Age Of Skiffle) Marble Arch MALS 1287 (JP: "historians should always have a copy of that")
*01 August 1970: Big Three: Reelin’ And Rockin’ (EP - At The Cavern) Decca DFE 8552
*19 September 1970: Little Richard: Directly From My Heart (LP – The Fabulous Little Richard) London HA-U 2193
*31 October 1970: Sonny Burgess: Sadie’s Back In Town (7") London HLS 9064 (not a 33 1/3 this time, but a rock'n'roll record won by JP in an auction)
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