20 March 1973

== Show ==
; Name
*Top Gear
; Station
*BBC Radio One
; YYYY-MM-DD
*1973-03-20
; Comments
*Tracklisting below is from Volume 3 of the Decktician Logs. Many thanks to Decktician, Ken Garner for copying and additional information, and Rocker for acting as central HQ.
*In The Peel Sessions, Ken lists Chieftains session track ‘Lord Mayo’ as not played, but Decktician’s log for the show suggests it was.
*Playlist reflects a retro trend which emerged in the early 1970s, with bluegrass (Country Gazette), Irish folk (the Chieftains), new records by rock'n'roll veterans (Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Buchanan) and even a track by Groucho Marx, the Marx Brothers' films having a cult following at the time (even if Peel preferred the films of W.C. Fields).
*Progressive/experimental music is also featured (Hugh Hopper, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Tony Conrad, Il Balletto di Bronzo), alongside mainstream rock (Allman Brothers Band, Robin Trower) and the pub rock of Bees Make Honey. But the two tracks which anticipate the direction future Peel playlists would take are by Roxy Music and the Wailers.
*In this show, Peel reveals the winner of the Can contest that was set up last week, where the competition was to name the untitled session track from the group. The winner was Fergus Cannes who won the prize of the latest LP from Can, for naming the session track 'Six Weeks On The Bakerloo Line With Anne Nightingale', though the kernel of this suggestion came from Peel himself. John thinks that the name of the winner must be an assumed name. Ken's book calles the track "Up The Bakerloo Line With Anne Nightingale".. Can picked the name as they didn't understand what it meant, and even after it was explained to them by John they still weren't entirely clear.
== Sessions ==
*Country Gazette #1 First broadcast. Recorded 1973-03-05.
**No known commercial release.
*Chieftains #3 First broadcast. Recorded 1973-03-10.
**No known commercial release.
*Kevin Coyne #1 Repeat. First broadcast 30 January 1973. Recorded 1973-01-21.
**No known commercial release.
*Bees Make Honey #1 Repeat. First broadcast 23 January 1973. Recorded 1973-01-09.
**No known commercial release.
== Tracklisting ==
*Roxy Music: Do The Strand (LP – For Your Pleasure) Island
*Country Gazette: Virginia Darlin’ (session)
*Pink Floyd: Time (LP – Dark Side Of The Moon) Harvest
*Bees Make Honey: Bloodshot Eyes (session)
*Chieftains: Drowsy Maggie (session)
*Kevin Coyne: Smile (session)
*Groucho Marx: Show Me A Rose (2xLP – An Evening With Groucho) A&M
*Mahavishnu Orchestra: Open Country Joy (LP – Birds Of Fire) CBS
*Country Gazette: Keep On Pushing (session)
*Bees Make Honey: Hangin’ On, Hopin’ Strong (session)
*Kevin Coyne: Breathe In Deep (session)
*Robin Trower: Man Of The World (single) Chrysalis
*Chieftains: Planxty Johnson (session)
*Jerry Lee Lewis: No Headstone On My Grave (LP – The Session) Mercury
*File begins here
*John reveals the result of last week's Can competition. (possible slight edit before next track plays, so this may have been earlier in the show)
*Tony Conrad (with Faust): From The Side Of Man And Womankind (LP – Outside the Dream Syndicate) Caroline
*news jingle
*File ends
*Allman Brothers Band: Black Hearted Woman (2xLP – Beginnings) Atlantic
*Chieftains: Lord Mayo (session)
*Bees Make Honey: Get On Board (session)
*Hugh Hopper: Minipax 1 (LP – 1984) CBS
*Country Gazette: I Might Take You Back Again (session)
*Kevin Coyne: Mummy
*Il Balletto di Bronzo: Primo Incontro (LP – YS) Polydor
*Chieftains: Munster Cloak (session)
*Bees Make Honey: Woman From Booterstown (session)
*Country Gazette: Rawhide (session)
*Wailers: Concrete Jungle (LP – Catch A Fire) Island
*Kevin Coyne: Pretty Park (session)
*Roy Buchanan After Hours (LP – Second Album) Polydor
*Chieftains: Morning Dew (session)
== File ==
;Name
*J P Top Gear 13 March 1973 etc.mp3
;Length
*25:56 (from 20:25)
;Other
*Many thanks to Tim for purchasing from eBay and digitisation
;Available
* Mooo
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