31 January 1970

== Show ==
; Name
*Top Gear
; Station
*BBC Radio One
; YYYY-MM-DD
*1970-01-31
; 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.
*John introduces all the records (apart from Wild Man Fischer and John Mayall) as "Reconsider Baby" By Eddie Lee Beppeaux. This is in fact one of Peel's invented names, a pseudonym John used on his rare production duties on records and when listing band line-ups on 1970 Top Gear shows (see Glossary). One wonders if this is an attempt by John to prevent a break-up - perhaps it's why Soft Machine's "Pig" also features in the playlist, but the track doesn't seem to have been preserved. 
*He does give track details after each record and introduces the sessions as normal, apart from a wrong track moment; after playing Galliard's session track "Ask For Nothing" he says he’d announced it as “Too Much Thinking" by the Keef Hartley Band
*The Graham Bond Initiation session includes a cover version of "Wade In The Water", a popular spiritual best-known in the 1960s in the hit version (1965) by the Ramsey Lewis Trio. Bond had already recorded it with his Graham Bond Organisation in 1965. The session also includes a version of Bond's song "Walking In The Park", previously covered by Colosseum and released as a single from their debut album.
*Peel dedicates a record to British Rail after thanking their staff at Euston station in helping him bring his dad, who was not well, from the train to his van.
*The Blodwyn Pig B-side is a cover of Larry Williams' 1959 rock'n'roll hit "Slow Down", a favourite of the Beatles who recorded it in 1964 both as an official release and on a BBC session.
*One-session wonders Galliard (not to be confused with Slim Gaillard) were a Birmingham band of the early 1970s, who recorded two LPs for Deram Records. More about them here.
== Sessions ==
*Graham Bond Initiation, one and only. Recorded 1970-01-20. On album - Live At The BBC And Other Stories (2015, 4xCD, Repertoire)
*Galliard, one and only. Recorded 1970-01-12. No known commercial release.
*Keef Hartley Band, #3 (rpt). First broadcast: 25 October 1969. Recorded 1969-10-14. No known commercial release. "Believe In You" not played in this repeat broadcast.
== Tracklisting ==
*File 7 begins at start of show. JP, sounding a bit irritable, lists the session artists and says “there is a multitude of highly enjoyable records, we like to think” – “the first one is called "Reconsider Baby" By Eddie Lee Beppeaux”
*Spirit: 1984 (7") CBS 4773 ( JP says he was invited to see Spirit at a trendy London club, but didn’t go as his velvet trousers had split so he wouldn’t have been let in)
*Family: Drowned In Wine (LP - A Song For Me) Reprise RSLP 9001
*Galliard: Frog Galliard (session)
*Graham Bond Initiation: Walking In The Park (session) 4
*Jerry Corbitt: Let The Music Come Inside (LP - Corbitt) Polydor 24-4003 (US release) (Peel says Corbitt “was at one time lead singer with a rather erratic American group called the Youngbloods")
*Wild Man Fischer: Monkeys Versus Donkeys (LP - An Evening With Wild Man Fischer) Bizarre/Reprise 2XS 6332 ("sounding not unlike Eddie Lee Beppeaux’s Reconsider Baby which we have for you next on Top Gear")
*Syd Barrett: Golden Hair (LP - The Madcap Laughs) Harvest SHVL 765 (JP: “Records like that should be given away on the National Health Service")
*Keef Hartley Band: Waiting Around (session)
*3:30pm news, edited out
*Kevin Ayers: Song For Insane Times (LP - Joy Of A Toy) Harvest SHVL 763
*Fleetwood Mac & Otis Spann: Talk With You Right (LP - Blues Jam At Chess) Blue Horizon S 7-66227
*John chatting about Rolling Stones unreleased Oakland Concert (the bootleg Live R Than You'll Ever Be LP)§ – he says it’s the best LP the Stones had made and hopes they’ll authorise its release (they didn’t, but did release a live album from the same US tour)$ $ ''
*Galliard: I Wrapped Her In Ribbons (session) @ $
*next record played for British Rail for helping John's dad. $ 
*Blodwyn Pig: Slow Down (7" b-side Same Old Story) Chrysalis (Island) WIP 6070 # (first 13s also on $)
*Disinterred 33 1/3 revised jingle
*John Mayall's Bluesbreakers: The Hoot Owl (LP - John Mayall Plays John Mayall) Decca LK 4680
*File 7 ends
*Jeremy Spencer: Mean Blues (LP - Jeremy Spencer) Reprise RSLP 9002 # 8
*Graham Bond Initiation: Wade In The Water (session) # 5
*Soft Machine: Pig (LP - Volume Two) Probe SPB 1002
*Occasional Word Ensemble: The Girl Behind Me (LP – The Great Leap Sideways) Dandelion 63753
*Galliard: New Dawn Breaking (session)
*Galliard: Ask For Nothing (session) (end on $)
*Soft Machine: As Long As He Lies Perfectly Still (LP - Volume Two) Probe SPB 1002 (start and end on $) (not noted on log)
*4:30pm news; Trouble at Twickenham at Springboks-Barbarians rugby match, game disrupted, 9 arrests – march against low wages in West Country held in Exeter –'$'
*Tony Williams Lifetime: Vashkar (LP - Emergency! Volume One) Polydor 583 574 $
*Keef Hartley Band: Too Much Thinking (session)
*Graham Bond Initiation: Love Is The Law (session) 6
*Ronnie Hawkins: Come Love (LP - Arkansas Rock Pile) Roulette RCP 1003
*Keef Hartley Band: Spanish Fly (session)
*Track marked @ available on File 1
*Track marked # available on File 2
*Track marked $ available on File 3
*Tracks numbered between 4-6,8 are available on those numbered Files
==File==
;Name
*1a) Galliard - Peel session - Top Gear 31/1/70
*1b) 1970-01-31 galliard tg 31.1.70.mp3
*2) J P reel tracks only 1.mp3
* 3) J P Top Gear 31 Jan 1970.mp3
* 4) Walkin' in the Park / I Want You (Live on BBC 'Top Gear' 31/01/70)
*5) Wade in the Water (Live on BBC 'Top Gear' 31/01/70)
*6) Love is the Law (Live on BBC 'Top Gear' 31/01/70)
*7) J P Top Gear 31 Jan 1970 pt1.mp3
*8) 1970-xx-xx Mean Blues unknown obnoxious rock.mp3
;Length
*1) 6:33
*2) 1:55:22 (1:29:42 - 1:48:07) (1:33:51-1:35:46 unique)
*3) 14:44 (from 7:49 unique)
*4) 7:17
*5) 13:43
*6) 8:15
*7) 56:51
*8) 2:46
;Other
*1,8) Many thanks to Colin Harper. 1b has centred audio from the wav file.
*2) Many thanks to Tim for purchasing from eBay and digitisation. Dec 1969 to Feb 1970 Mix Reel
*3,7) Many thanks to Tim for acquisition and digitisation.
*4-6) Many thanks to Graham Bond. The tracks have JP links and have been taken from the release mentioned above, and are also available on Spotify.
;Available
*1a) Youtube
*1b) Mooo
*2) Mooo
*3) Mooo
*4) YouTube
*5) YouTube
*6) YouTube
*7) Mooo
*8) Mooo
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