| No. | Artist | Title | Label | Year | Comments |
|---|
| 1 | Al Casey | "Surfin' Hootenanny"
"Easy Pickin" | Pye International | | Dance-Craze Surf Instrumental with female group vocal excerpts |
| 2 | Al Ferrier | "I'm Not Drinking More"
"Don't Play Blue Eyes'" | Master Trak | | Rockabilly |
| 3 | Alan Price Set | "I Put a Spell on You"
"Iechyd-Da" | Decca Records | | A UK Chart hit - John Walters, Peel's long-time producer, was a member of The Alan Price Set, and played on this |
| 4 | Andy Capp
Reco | "Popatop"
"The Lion Speaks" | Treasure Island | | Reggae Skinhead single |
| 5 | The Anemic Boyfriends | "Guys Are Not Proud"
"Bad Girls in Love" | Red Sweater Records | |
| 6 | Ann Peebles | "I can't stand the rain"
"I've been there before" | London Records | | 70s Soul track |
| 7 | Anti-Social | "Traffic lights"
"Teacher, teacher" | Dynamite Records | |
| 8 | Arthur K Adams | "Wildwood flower"
"It's a wild, wild, wild, wild wildwood flower" | Jetstar | | R&B/Soul artist |
| 9 | Big Stick | "Drag racing"
"Hell on earth" | Recess Records | |
| 10 | Bill Oddie | "On Ilkla Moor Baht 'at"
"Harry Krishna" | Dandelion Records | | The A side was a version of a traditional Yorkshire dialectfolk song, rendered in the style of Joe Cocker's version of The Beatles' song "With a Little Help from My Friends" |
| 11 | Boards of Canada | "Aquarius"
"Chinook" | Skam Records | |
| 12 | Bobby Lee Trammell | "If you ever get it once"
"Don't you know I love you" | Alley Records | | White R&B-Rock & Roll artist |
| 13 | Cat Power | "Headlights"
"Darling Said Sir" | The Making of Americans | |
| 14 | Charlie Feathers | "Nobody's darling'"
"Deep elm blues" | Holiday Inn Records | | Rockabilly |
| 15 | Charlie Feathers | "Nobody's woman"
"When you decide" | King Records | |
| 16 | Charlie Feathers | "Wild wild party'"
"Today and tomorrow" | Memphis Recordings | | Rockabilly |
| 17 | Charlie Feathers | "Tongue-tied Jill"
"Get with it'" | Meteor Records | | repressing again |
| 18 | Charlie Feathers | "Too much alike'"
"When you come around" | King Records | | repressing |
| 19 | Cheeze | "Dancin with the Dead - Dancin queen"
"Direwolf" | Bob Records | | Produced by Steve Albini |
| 20 | Clague | "The stride"
"I wonder where" | Dandelion Records | |
| 21 | Clefs of Lavender Hill | "Stop! - Get a ticket"
"First tell me why" | Date | | Minor garage-pop hit, also released on UK CBS |
| 22 | Cleveland Crochet | "Sugar bee"
"Drunkards dream" | Goldband | |
| 23 | Don Covay | "It's better to have"
"Leave him" | Mercury | | Soul |
| 24 | Don French | "Lonely Saturday night"
"Goldilocks" | Quality | | Canadian issue |
| 25 | Dreamland Express | "Groovy"
"u.f.o" | EMI | |
| 26 | Eazy Teeth | "Car noise"
"Her blade" | Dental Records | | Artwork for 7-inch front cover by Don Van Vliet aka Captain Beefheart |
| 27 | Eddie & Ernie | "I believe she will"
"We try harder" | Chess | | Soul artist |
| 28 | Eddie & Ernie | "Outcast"
"I'm gonna always love you" | Eastern | | Northern Soul |
| 29 | Eddie & Ernie | "Time waits for no one"
"That's the way it is" | Eastern | | Soul artist |
| 30 | Electro Hippies | "Sheep" / "Starve The City (To Feed The Poor)" / "Meltdown" / "Escape" / "Deadend" / "Thought" / "Chickens" / "Mother" / "Mega-Armageddon Death" | Strange Fruit | |
| 31 | Elmore James | "The sky is crying"
"Standing at the crossroads" | Flashback Records | | s re-release of hit |
| 32 | Firemen | "Old Smokie"
"Louie's Theme" | Le Cam | |
| 33 | Freshmen | "You never heard anything like it"
"Bombing run" | Release Records | |
| 34 | G. L. Crockett | "It's a man down there"
"Every hour, every day" | 4 Brothers | | R&B-Blues |
| 35 | G. L. Crockett | "Look out Mabel"
"Did you ever love somebody" | Checker | | re-release of alternate version |
| 36 | Geater Davis | "For your precious love"
"Wrapped up in you" | House of Orange | |
| 37 | Gene Dozier & The United Front | "Give the women what they want"
"The best girl I ever had" | Mercury | | B-side is popular in Northern-Modern Soul |
| 38 | Golinski Brothers | "Bloody"
"Toy" | Badge Records | |
| 39 | The Greenhornes | "Shadow of grief"
"Stayed up last night" | Italy Records | |
| 40 | Hooton 3 Car | "Danny"
"Numena" | Rumblestrip Records | |
| 41 | Idle Race | "Here we go round the lemon tree"
"My father's son" | Liberty | | Issued in the US and Europe but not in UK. In the UK the song was issued by a Roy Wood related group The Move. |
| 42 | Izzy Royal | "Coronation St"
"Coronation Dub" | WEA | | Reggaefied version of the TV theme |
| 43 | Jane Bond and The Undercover Men | "Hot rod Lincoln"
"Come on up" | Ear Movies Records | |
| 44 | Jerry Byrd | "Memories of Maria"
"Invitation" | Monument | |
| 45 | Jody Reynolds | "Endless sleep"
"Western movies" | Liberty | | the B-side is an Olympics track, perhaps a s reissue |
| 46 | Johnnie Taylor | "I've been born again"
"At night time" | Stax | | Classic Soul artist |
| 47 | Johnny Adams | "You're a lady"
"I wish it would rain" | Atlantic | | Classic Soul artist |
| 48 | Johnny Fortune | "Dragster"
"Soul surfer" | Sonet | |
| 49 | Ken Colyer's Jazzmen | "If I ever cease to love" / "Bucket's got a hole in it"
"Wildcat blues" / "Wabash blues" | Tempo Records | | UK jazz group, on UK mid 50s EP |
| 50 | La peste | "Black"
"Better off dead" | Black Records | |
| 51 | Larry Bright | "Mojo workout"
"I'll change my ways" | Tide | |
| 52 | Laurie Anderson | "O Superman"
"Walk the dog" | One Ten Records | | No. 2 UK hit, a very long hypnotic synth-pop track |
| 53 | Lee Perry | "Bafflin' smoke signal"
"Black smoke signal" | Black Arc | | Reggae |
| 54 | Lightnin' Hopkins | "Mojo hand"
"Glory be" | Flashback Records | | s reissue |
| 55 | Marc Bolan | Marc Bolan talking to Stevie Dixon
"Jennifer Sharp, Steve" | Ube/Pye Records | |
| 56 | Mary Monday and her Bitches | "I gave my punk jacket to Richie"
"Popgun" | Malicious Productions | |
| 57 | Max Romeo | "Sipple out deh' Lee Perry"
"Revelation" | Upsetter | | Reggae artist |
| 58 | MC5 | "Looking at you"
"Borderline" | A-Square Records | | 2 copies. "Kick Out The Jams" was their known hit with the spoken intro |
| 59 | Medicine Head | "Coast to coast"
"All for tomorrow" | Dandelion Records | |
| 60 | Medicine Head | "His guiding hand"
"This love of old" | Dandelion Records | |
| 61 | Mel and Tim | "Starting all over again"
"It hurts to want it so bad" | Stax | | Big USA Soul hit, Best known in UK for "Backfield in Motion" song from |
| 62 | Maow featuring Neko Case | "Kat nip" / "One night stand" / "Anthem" / "Kill kill kill" / "Catastrophe" / "Boy groupies" | Twist Like This Records | |
| 63 | Mickey Lee Lane | "Tutti Frutti"
"With your love" | Mala | | White R&B-rock artist best known for his "Hey Sah-Lo-Ney" and "Shaggy Dog" 45s |
| 64 | Mike Spenser and The Cannibals | "Good guys"
"Nothing takes the place of you" | Big Cock Records | | B-side (cover of Toussaint McCall) preferred. |
| 65 | The Nice | "The thoughts of Emerlist Davjack"
"Azrial (Angel of Death)" | Immediate | | UK prog art rock pop |
| 66 | Nilsson | "Without You"
"Gotta Get Up" | RCA | | The big ballad UK No 1 hit |
| 67 | Nilsson | "Everybody's Talkin'"
"Don't Leave Me" | RCA | | Midnight Cowboy film song |
| 68 | Nilsson | "Kojak Columbo"
"Turn Out The Light" | RCA | |
| 69 | O. V. Wright | "That's how strong my love is"
"There goes my used to be" | Goldwax | | USA R&B-Soul artist |
| 70 | Paul Blake & The Blood Fire Posse | "Every posse get flat"
"Flat out" | Studio Work | | Early Reggae Dancehall hit |
| 71 | Paul Revere & The Raiders | "Him or Me – What's It Gonna Be?"
"Legend of Paul Revere" | CBS | | USA Garage-pop group |
| 72 | Pavement | "Demolition Plot J Forklift" / "Spizzle trunk" / "Recorder grot" / "Internal K-Dart" / "Perfect depth" / "Recorder grot" | Drag City | |
| 73 | Pocket Fishrmen | "Yr story"
"The leader is burning" | Noiseville | |
| 74 | The Quads | "There must be thousands"
"You've gotta jive" | Big Bear Records | | Sometimes mistakenly listed with A and B sides reversed |
| 75 | Ray Martin | "Blue tango"
"Belle of the ball" | Columbia Records | | One of the first 45rpm records issued in UK in early Also the first record that Peel bought |
| 76 | Revelino | "Step on high"
"Memoreason" | Musicdisc | |
| 77 | Rod Bernard | "This should go on forever"
"Pardon Mr. Gordon" | Jin Records or Argo Records | | USA Rock & Roll-Pop artist |
| 78 | Roshell Anderson | "The Grapevine Will Lie Sometimes"
"Such A Beautiful Thing" | Contempo | | USA Soul artist |
| 79 | Roy Head | "Treat her right"
"So long, my love" | Vocalion | | USA white R&B-rock artist |
| 80 | Sam & Dave | "I Can't Stand Up for Falling Down"
"Soothe me (live)" | Stax | | Original version of Elvis Costello's hit record |
| 81 | Sasha Caro | "Grade 3 section 2"
"Little maid's song" | Decca Records | | Obscure UK artist who also released '"Molotov Molotov"/"Never Play a B Side"' |
| 82 | Scrugg | "Will the real Geraldine please stand up and be countered"
"Only George'" | Pye | | John T Kongos psychedelic-pop act, last of 3 singles |
| 83 | Sheena Easton | "9 to 5"
"Moody" | EMI | | UK Scottish female artist who got her break on a BBC TV show |
| 84 | Sipho Bhengu & His Alto Sax | "Tickey dopies"
"I saluti" | Inkonkoni | | South African Music |
| 85 | Soledad Brothers | "Sugar & spice"
"Johnny's death letter" | Italy Records | | with Jack White |
| 86 | Some Chicken | "New Religion"
"Blood on the Wall" | Raw Records | |
| 87 | Spit Out | "O from I"
"Tan"
"Rot'n'roll'" | Ma Frog Records | |
| 88 | Stanley Winston | "No more ghettos in America"
"It's alright" | Jewel | |
| 89 | Status Quo | "Down Down"
"Night Ride" | Vertigo | | UK No 1 hit |
| 90 | Supersister | "No tree will grow"
"She was naked" | Dandelion Records | |
| 91 | The Beatles | "Come Together"
"Octopus's Garden"
"Something" | Melodiya | | Likely an East European issue of semi-legal status |
| 92 | The Big Three | "You've Gotta Keep Her Under Hand"
"If You Ever Change Your Mind" | Decca Records | | Early Merseybeat group |
| 93 | Buzzcocks | "Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've)"
"Just Lust" | United Artists | | UK chart hit |
| 94 | The Factory | "Path through the forest"
"Gone" | MGM | | UK Psychedelic |
| 95 | The Galactic Symposium | "Y.M.C.A"
"Money " | Vague Records | |
| 96 | The Legion of Super-Heroes | "The great name dropper part 1"
"The great name dropper part 2" | Amy Records | |
| 97 | The Mark Four | "Hurt Me If You Will"
"I'm Leaving" | Decca Records | | Mod Beat UK group, later named The Creation, who had hits with "Making Time" and "Painter Man" |
| 98 | The Mighty Avengers | "So Much in Love"
"Sometime They Say" | Decca Records | | UK beat group, A side is a Rolling Stones song |
| 99 | The Misunderstood | "I Can Take You To The Sun"
"Who do you love?" | Fontana | | USA Garage-Psych group |
| | The Move | "I Can Hear the Grass Grow"
"Wave the flag and stop the train" | Deram | | UK big chart hit, related to 'Idle Race' record above |
| | The Negatives | "Love is not real"
"Stakeout" | Look | |
| | The Nightcaps | "Wine wine wine"
"Nightcap rock" | Musicor | | USA Rock & Roll group |
| | The Ramrods | "Riders in the sky"
"Zig zag" | London American | | Big hit in USA & UK. Song also known as "Ghost Riders in the Sky" |
| | The Smoke | "My Friend Jack"
"We can take it" | Columbia Records | | Banned UK mod psych track 'My friend Jack eats sugarlumps' |
| | The Squirrels | "Oz on 45"
"Alone again" | PopLlama | |
| | The Undertones | "Teenage Kicks" / "True Confessions"
"Smarter Than U" / "Emergency Cases" | Good Vibrations | | The first issue of this classic track in a custom fold-around sleeve, before the 'Sire' hit issue |
| | The Upholsterers | "Makers of high grade suites"
"I ain't superstitious" / "Pain" | Sympathy for the Record Industry | |
| | The Upsetters | "Bucky skank"
"Yucky skank" | Down Town | | Reggae Roots by Lee Perry |
| | The Upsetters | "Key card"
"Domino game" | DL International | | Reggae Roots by Lee Perry |
| | The Users | "Sick of you"
"I'm in love with today" | Raw Records | | UK Punk group |
| | The Versalites | "Cutting rasor"
"Black belt Jones" | DL International | | Reggae Roots |
| | The White Stripes | "Lafayette Blues"
"Sugar never tasted so good" | Italy Records | |
| | The White Stripes | "Party of Special Things to Do"
"China Pig"
"Ashtray Heart" | Sub Pop | |
| | The White Stripes | Merry Christmas From The White Stripes: "Candy Cane Children" / "The reading of the story of the Magi, the singing of Silent Night" | XL Recordings | |
| | The White Stripes | "It takes two, baby"
"Fell in Love With a Girl" | Sympathy for the Record Industry | |
| | The White Stripes | "Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground"
"Stop Breaking Down" | XL Recordings | |
| | The White Stripes
The Dirtbombs | "Hand Springs"
"Cedar Point '76" | Extra-Ball Records | | For Multiball Magazine |
| | The White Stripes | "Hotel Yorba (Live at the Hotel Yorba)"
"Rated X" | XL Recordings | |
| | The White Stripes | "Lord, Send Me an Angel"
"You're pretty good looking (Trendy American Remix)" | Sympathy for the Record Industry | |
| | The White Stripes | "Hello operator"
"Jolene" | Sympathy for the Record Industry | |
| | The White Stripes | "The Big Three Killed My Baby"
"Red Rolling Ball Ruth" | Sympathy for the Record Industry | | 2 copies. |
| | The Henchmen featuring Jack White | "Some other guy"
"Psycho Daisies" | Italy Records | |
| | 2 Star Tabernacle featuring Andre Williams | "Lily White Mama and Jet Black Daddy"
"Ramblin man'" | Bloodshot Records | | Cover photo by Jack White. "Ramblin' man" is cover of Hank Williams. |
| | The Wildbunch | "Danger (High Voltage)"
"Neurocameraman" / "She's Guatemala" | Flying Bomb Records | |
| | The White Stripes
Rocket
The Blowtops | "Candy Cane Children"
"Santa Ain't Coming For Christmas"
"Sidewalk Santa" | Flying Bomb Records | |
| | The Dirtbombs
MHz
The Real Pills | "My Last Xmas"
"Secret Santa"
"It's Almost December" | Flying Bomb Records | |
| | Travis Wammack | "Fire fly"
"Scratchy" | ARA | | B-Side preferred. "Scratchy" a quirky R&B instrumental, was issued as an A-side on UK Atlantic records in |
| | XL Capris | "My city of Sydney"
"Dead budgies" | Axle | | On a broadcast for BFBS (the British Forces Broadcasting Service) John stated that the record had been sent to him by "someone actually from Sydney, Australia". On his Radio One show on 1 August a listener requested this song ahead of the upcoming Sydney Olympics. John noted that it had been consistently the most requested song on the shows he recorded for broadcast in Germany. |
| | Yami Bolo | "Richer than Cory"
"Richard Version" | Jamaica International | | Reggae Dancehall. John claimed to have "about 50 Yami Bolo 7" singles, and a lot of really good ones in there" |
| | Yardbirds | "Happenings Ten Years Time Ago"
"Psycho Daisies" | Columbia Records | | UK classic 60s psych/mod group |