30 June 1968

== Show ==
; Name
*Top Gear
; Station
*BBC Radio One
; YYYY-MM-DD
*1968-06-30
; Comments
*Dating of this show was possible using a combination of The Peel Sessions and JP's mention of seeing Pink Floyd 'in the park' the day before.
*The first 46 minutes of the audio from File 4 are from this Top Gear programme but the rest seem to come from different shows. Tracks by the Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation )"See See Baby") and Ian Anderson - the British country blues revivalist, not the lead singer of Jethro Tull (a version of Charley Patton's "Tom Rushen Blues") - are identified by an unknown presenter (David Rider? John Dunn? Mike Raven?) with very traditional BBC enunciation. After that, the tape ends with a 6 minute edit of 07 July 1968
== Sessions ==
*Savoy Brown Blues Band, #1. Recorded 1968-05-20. No known commercial release. 
*David Bowie, #2 (repeat). Recorded 1968-05-13. Available on "Conversation Piece" (DBCP 6869, 2019). "When I'm Five" previously appeared on  the 40th anniversary edition of "David Bowie" (Deram - 531792-5), rest of the session previously appeared on "Bowie At The Beeb" (2xCD, EMI, 2000).
*Traffic, #4. Recorded 1968-06-24. No known commercial release. Only 'Feelin' Alright' present on this recording.
*Deep Purple, #1. Recorded 1968-06-18. Full session released on The BBC Sessions 1968-1970 (BBC). 'Hush' also available on Radio Tymes - British Pop On TV and Radio Lost And Found, 1967 – 1969 (Top Sounds)
*Fairport Convention, #2 (repeat). Recorded 1968-05-28. No tracks present on this recording. Available on Heyday - The BBC Sessions 1968-1969 (Island) and 4 CD set Live At The BBC (Universal/Island).
== Tracklisting ==
*File 1
*Purple Gang: "Kiss me Goodnight Sally Green"
*Fairport Convention: "Some Sweet Day" (Session)
*Eclection: "Mark Time"
*Savoy Brown Blues Band: "Louisianna Blues" (Session)
*Buffy Sainte-Marie: "I'm Gonna Be A Country Girl Again"
*Deep Purple: "Hush" (Session)
*Fleetwood Mac: "Need Your Love So Bad"
*Traffic: "You Can All Join In" (Session) £
*Fairport Convention: "I Don't Know Where I Stand" (Session)
*Cream: "Crossroads (Live)" - Incomplete
*End of File 1
*File 2 begins
*Cream: "Crossroads (Live)" - End of track
*Savoy Brown Blues Band: "Walkin' By Myself" (Session) @ %
*Tim Rose: "Long Haired Boy" (7") $ slightly longer outro on File 5
*Traffic: "Pearly Queen" (Session) @
*Fairport Convention: "Nottamun Town" (Session)
*Deep Purple: "One More Rainy Day" (Session)
*David Bowie (& The Tony Visconti Orchestra): "Silly Boy Blue" (Session) - Part track only
*Crazy World Of Arthur Brown: Fire ! @ (not in File 2)
*Savoy Brown Blues Band: "Gnome Sweet Gnome" (Session) @ %
*Beach Boys: "Wake The World" @
*Traffic: "Who Knows What Tomorrow May Bring" (Session) @ £
*Country Joe & The Fish: "Waltzing In The Moonlight"
*Deep Purple "Help!" (Session) @
*End of File 2
*Fairport Convention: Close The Door Lightly When You Go (Session) @
*File 3 begins
*Savoy Brown Blues Band: 'Mr. Down Child' (Session) @ %
*(JP: 'Now, both the Nice and myself, actually, during the past few weeks, have been in a certain amount of trouble with various unhappy and bewildered people for having the effrontery to have opinions of our own, you see, and actually having the temerity to mention them in front of other people, which is a very daring concept. So, here's the Nice's current single, which I think is a very very important record, and I'd like to see it in the charts, obviously. This appears to be the only programme that's playing it at the moment, because it is a bit long: six minutes and fifteen seconds.')
*The Nice: America (2nd Amendment) (single) Immediate IM 068 @
*(John dedicates the next track to what appears to be his former nanny Trader Horne in Liverpool 8.)
*David Bowie, 'When I Am Five' (featuring the Tony Visconti Orchestra) (Peel Session)
*(JP: 'Yesterday in the park, Pink Floyd played better than I've ever heard them play before. I don't know what it was, it must have been the people there, the feelings that everyone was generating, becasue they played superbly. It was nice to hear them play that well, because they've been through a lot of very sad things in the past year. Anyway, they've got a new LP out called 'A Saucerful Of Secrets', and yesterday they finished their set with 'A Saucerful Of Secrets', which at the time sounded like a sort of hymn to the open air.')
*Pink Floyd: Corporal Clegg (LP: A Saucerful Of Secrets) UK Columbia 33SX 6258 @
*Traffic, 'Feelin' Alright' (Session) @
*end of File 3
Tracks marked @ on File 4
Track marked $ on File 5 Tracks marked £ on File 6 Tracks marked % on File 7
== File ==
;Name
*1-3) Radio 1 1968.06.30 John Peel - Top Gear
*4) J P Top Gear 30 June 1968.mp3
*5) 1968-06-30 Tim Rose LP track and Peel outro mid 1968.mp3
*6) 1968-06-30 Traffic TG 30.6.68 2 songs.mp3
*7) SavoyBrown1968-05-20-BBC-Session.mp3
;Length
;
*File 1 - 00:32:17
*File 2 - 00:32:06
*File 3 - 00:23:29
*File 4 - 00:58:07 (until 00:46:34) (25:19-28:19 unique)
*5) 3:03
*6) 6:56
*7) 9:20
;Other
*3) Twenty-three minutes of a two-hour show, recently discovered on a reel-to-reel tape by Peel Mailing List user andysmith10. Many thanks to Andy!
*4) Many thanks to Tim
*5,6) Many thanks to Colin Harper
*7) Many thanks to Gordon Skene
;Available
*File 1
*File 2
*File 3
*File 4
*5) Mooo
*6) Mooo
*7) https://pastdaily.com/2014/01/16/savoy-brown-session-1968-nights-roundtable-session-edition/
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