25 February 1968

== Show ==
; Name
*Top Gear
; Station
*BBC Radio One
; YYYY-MM-DD
*1968-02-25
; Comments
*File 4, not currently available, is not of the complete show and may feature edits. From the page history, it's not evident that it has ever been shared.
*A couple of Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation session tracks have now turned up on Sugarmegs, which include John's intros and outros, and others by Tim Rose and P.P. Arnold on a tape from Colin Harper.
*The P.P. Arnold tracks feature Dusty Springfield as one of the backing vocalists - her only appearance on Top Gear. Despite the widespread respect she had at the time she was never a Peel favourite, although apparently she sent him a Christmas card each year.
*Tim Rose's session includes one of the more popular tracks from his first album - his version of the anti-war song "Come Away Melinda", popular with folk singers of the 1960s and previously recorded by Harry Belafonte, the Weavers and Judy Collins, among others. Rose had previously recorded it with the Big 3, a folk group consisting of himself, Cass Elliot (later of the Mamas and Papas) and Jim Hendricks. Hendricks is not to be confused with Jimi Hendrix (or jazz singer Jon Hendricks) nor the Big 3 with the Big Three, the Merseybeat band Peel admired.
*Fairport Convention's debut single is a cover of a late 1930s hit by jazz singer Maxine Sullivan (1911-1987), who specialised in jazz versions of folk-style material and whose career revived in the 1970s. Her biggest hit was a 1937 swing version of the Scottish song "Loch Lomond". Peel never played Maxine Sullivan's "If I Had A Ribbon Bow"[], but singer Judy Dyble later admitted that the band's version was inspired by Sullivan's recording, which became a favourite on Radio 3's long-running Jazz Record Requests programme.
== Sessions ==
*Procol Harum #2 First broadcast. Recorded 1968-02-14.
*Idle Race #2 First broadcast. Recorded 1968-02-19. Tracks: Lady Who Said She Could Fly / Skeleton & The Roundabout / Mrs Ward / Love Me Two Times (All available) Tell Me The Time (Unavailable)
*Tim Rose #3 First broadcast. Recorded 1968-02-20.
**Backed by Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation, who did a couple of numbers in their own right.
*Donovan #1 Repeat. First broadcast 21 January 1968. Recorded 1968-01-16.
*PP Arnold #1 Repeat of only session. First broadcast 14 January 1968. Recording date unknown.
== Tracklisting ==
*File 2 begins
*PP Arnold: If You Think You're Grooving (session)
*PP Arnold: (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (session)
*File 2 ends
*Tim Rose: Long Time Man (session) $
*File 4 begins
*Bob Dylan: All Along The Watchtower (LP: John Wesley Harding) CBS BPG 63252
*Fairport Convention: If I Had A Ribbon Bow (single) Track 604020
*Tim Rose: King Lonely The Blue (session)
*Donovan: The Tinker And The Crab (session)
*Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation: Cobwebs (session) @
*Tim Rose: I Got A Loneliness (session)  £
*Donovan: Lalena (session)
*Blue Cheer: Summertime Blues (single) Philips BF 1648
*Tim Rose: Come Away Melinda (session) $
*Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation: Memory Pain (session) @
*Richie Havens: No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Needed (b-side of single 'Three Day Eternity') Verve [Folkways/Forecast] VS 1512
*Donovan: Young Girl Blues (session)
*File 4 ends
*Idle Race: Skeleton And The Roundabout (session) %
*Tracks marked @ available on File 1
*Tracks marked $ available on File 3
*Tracks marked £ available on File 5
== File ==
;Name
*1) AynsleyDunbarRetaliation1968-02-25TopGearLondonUK
*2) PP Arnold - John Peel session 14/1/68 (mislabelled date)
*3a) Tim Rose & the Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation - Peel session - Top Gear 25/2/68
*3b) 1968-02-25 Tim Rose with Dunbar Retaliation Top Gear 25.2.68.mp3
*4) Unavailable
*5) Tim Rose & the Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation with Lesley Duncan - Peel session 25/2/68
;Length
*1) 00:07:37
*2) 00:05:43
*3) 00:09:53
*4) Unavailable
*5) 00:02:15
;Other
*1) Details of the source tapes and digital transfer can be found here
*2-3, 6) Many thanks to Colin Harper & the Johnny Kidd Fan Club. 3b has centred audio
*4) Not available
*5) Many thanks to Colin Harper & the Johnny Kidd Fan Club. A chance that this might be from the repeat on 31 March 1968
;Available
*1) Sugarmegs
*2) YouTube
*3a) YouTube
*3b) Mooo
*4) Unavailable
*5) YouTube
Category:1968
Category:Peel shows
Category:Top Gear
Category:Available online
Category:Sugarmegs
Category:Harper Reels