Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Chatting => Chatting on the Plot => Topic started by: Goosegirl on December 30, 2023, 09:30
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I see that Tony Blackburn is in the New Year's honour list and good for him. I used to listen to Radio Caroline North in the sixties and still have the book. As soon as I got home from school I'd put it on my little radio and just loved it.
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I remember the name & what it was but never listened to it.. my first real memory of listening to radio was tuning into radio Luxembourg during the punk era!
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Yes I remember listening with my sister & radio Luxembourg. Heard him with Nicki Chapman(?) on radio two this morning. Sounded a lot less silly than he used to. He referred to having been ill but didn’t know about that I suspect cancer from what he said.
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I remember listening to “Caroline” on my tranny under my bed covers at night… I never got caught :lol:
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I also remember Radio Luxemburg when I went for a sleep-over with my school friend in the early sixties. We used to lie in bed and had to keep turning a brown Bakelite knob to tune it back in. There was a man called Horace Bachelor who advertised on it to do with football pools.
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I remember Radio Caroline and Radio Luxemberg, broadcast from a ship out on the Channel so they weren't under the rules there were then. I too hid 'under my covers' to listen to them.
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There were an awful lot of us hiding under the bed clothes listening to the radio!
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Although we could get Radio Caroline, I preferred Radio London for most of the time!
Look at the names on the opening credits here!
https://youtu.be/HlagGjNGkzk?si=NOE0f27XGK_QLsIf (https://youtu.be/HlagGjNGkzk?si=NOE0f27XGK_QLsIf)
When Harold Wilson scrapped the 'legal' pirates, I reverted to Radio Caroline which stayed on air for some time, even meeting Robbie Dale on Hastings Pier once...
I always liked Tony Blackburn back then, and there were so many more on 'Big L' like Tony Windsor, Kenny Everett, Paul Kaye, Ed Stewart etc.!
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I also remember listening to Radio Caroline and Radio Luxemberg, broadcast from a ship out on the Channel so they weren't under the rules there were then, with his dog Arnold I too hid 'under my covers' to listen to them. Good old day's :)
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Mine was from Radio Caroline in the Irish Sea. Music was not on instant demand so you just got pot luck as to what they played. Far more exciting methinks.
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I also remember Radio Luxemburg when I went for a sleep-over with my school friend in the early sixties. We used to lie in bed and had to keep turning a brown Bakelite knob to tune it back in. There was a man called Horace Bachelor who advertised on it to do with football pools.
"Write for details of my sensational Infra-draw method, to:
Horace Bachelor,
Department one,
Keynsham,
that's K-E-Y-N-S-H-A-M,
Keynsham,
Bristol"
Funny how drivel sticks in the mind when important stuff so often don't!
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I remember Radio Caroline and Radio Luxemberg, broadcast from a ship out on the Channel so they weren't under the rules there were then. I too hid 'under my covers' to listen to them.
There was always some sort of 'whooshing' sound on Lux, which you had to put up with!
Who remembers Jack Jackson, and his cat then? He ran a show with records only published by Decca, (spin sound of 'decca decca decca'), and his cat would 'miaow, miaow' because apparently it was always sitting on his lap when he broadcast! He was just as good much later on on his new programme, where he would pop in short clips from funny shows, and make us all laugh - he was incredibly funny and so good at his job, with none of the screeching and yelling from the kidults we get these days!
I'll never forget the Sam Cooke song, 'Chain Gang' which he'd play every Sunday evening!
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Missed that one Mr. G.
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Radio Caroline Radio London and Luxemberg where about the only stations that broadcasted pop music because the BBC still had there head stuck up there rear end they soon put a stop to that when they found the pirate radio where more popular than there stations especially for the younger generation in those days when they where belting out pop music 24 hours a day calling it pirate radio from a boat or ship in the sea then the BBC decided to head hunt most of the pirate radio presenters for there new pop station what some things take to alter peoples minds or corporations I ask myself
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Absolutely, Rowland!
Here's a little more nostalgia for you!
https://youtu.be/au6ueuzwPj0?si=m2I9rni9GN2k9Epk (https://youtu.be/au6ueuzwPj0?si=m2I9rni9GN2k9Epk)
Turn up them speakers...!
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that's certainly nostalgia Growster :D
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I also remember Radio Luxemburg when I went for a sleep-over with my school friend in the early sixties. We used to lie in bed and had to keep turning a brown Bakelite knob to tune it back in. There was a man called Horace Bachelor who advertised on it to do with football pools.
Horace from Keynsham ;) Mrs B
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I can easily remember having flu at home, and really feeling rotten back then...
I'd just packed up with a girlfriend, my mum was buying me Consulate cigarettes, (they were supposed to be good for the throat), I was supposed to be taking surveying exams in a few weeks, and hadn't revised enough, and there was Tony Blackburn, giggling away and telling everybody the someone had spilt tea all over his script...
That chap really did cheer me up, but I failed the exams, lost the girlfriend, changed my job and had to start all over again! Thank goodness I did, because after 53 years of loving my favourite lady, I was the real winner!
(That's enough heart on your sleeve, Growster, go and cool down - Ed)
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There was a man called Horace Bachelor who advertised on it to do with football pools.
Infra-Draw
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Batchelor#