Radio

[havasack]

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Always loved radio, and still do!. Posted elsewhere on here (In praise of radio). From my early years "listen with mother" through to the radio 1 breakfast show before school as there was no tele back then. On to teen years and football on radio 2 , from '82' onwards John Peel and Radio Luxembourg. Since I was about 11 I haven't left the house without a radio unless I was going "doon toon" (the geordie will understand!).

[agfagaevart]

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Simon Bates 'Our Tune' and Bits & Pieces on the Radio 1 Roadshow.

He has a show on Smooth Radio now.

[agfagaevart]

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Anyone remember listening to the charts and taping the songs you liked....trying to get the song and not the DJ. And the waiting for ages while he read through them all again so you could find out what number one was. And there were different charts depending on who you listened to. Radio one always had one answer but David Kid Jensen had something else...cant remember what station he was on. It was the Pepsi Chart if my minds serves me correctly...and it doesnt do that a lot!

Oh yes yes!!
I can recall hearing the Radio One Chart every Sunday, taping a few, and also, Capital Radio had their chart rundown during the week...and sometimes on a Sunday

It got a bit confusing as there were different number ones...

Anyone remember Roger Scott's chart show - i think it was Thurdays evenings, circa very early '80s.

[darren]

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i did listen to the radio a lot when i was growing up.

or as we called it the wireless.

but it was more what my dad listened to than what i wanted to listen to.

he loves his country and western and would have it on from he came in from work till he wet to bed.

was only when i got my own radio i listened to what i wanted.

are you still that narrow minded when it comes to music.

It seems I am not the only person to have sneeked a radio up to bed.Always used to listen to the hip stations,but after about 10.00pm tuned into radio 2 as they had a whole variety of diffrent music to the mass of the stations at that time.Jazz,blues,folk,etc.Think they still have these various music nights even today.Had to have the radio down low with my ear pushed right up against it so parants did not hear it.That would of been in the very late 70's and early 80's.The chart rundown was possibly the most important event of the week and everybody worth their salt had to listen to it just to be on the button.Before I had my own radio unfortunatly I had to listen to what my parants wanted or thought I should be listening to thrust down my throat....shudders.The music was so varied and eclectic that I ingested at times it makes me wonder why in my late teens I became so narrow minded over what I liked and did not.

[battyrat]

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It seems I am not the only person to have sneeked a radio up to bed.Always used to listen to the hip stations,but after about 10.00pm tuned into radio 2 as they had a whole variety of diffrent music to the mass of the stations at that time.Jazz,blues,folk,etc.Think they still have these various music nights even today.Had to have the radio down low with my ear pushed right up against it so parants did not hear it.That would of been in the very late 70's and early 80's.The chart rundown was possibly the most important event of the week and everybody worth their salt had to listen to it just to be on the button.Before I had my own radio unfortunatly I had to listen to what my parants wanted or thought I should be listening to thrust down my throat....shudders.The music was so varied and eclectic that I ingested at times it makes me wonder why in my late teens I became so narrow minded over what I liked and did not.

[SimonParton]

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And 6 years later here comes a reply!
I am a keen Short Wave listener also. Do you remember those funny number stations on the Short Wave?

[Richard1978]

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I first remember listening in the 1980s to Radio 1 & Picadilly Radio, which eventually split so the pop was on FM as Key 103, with the AM keeping the older music.

My Dad got an auto tune car radio which somehow used to pick up minicab radio when searching for a stong station, but often you could here half a converstation.

These days I normally listen to Smooth Radio & Imagine FM, with occasional listens to Radio 2 & Key 103.

[Wil]

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I can still hear Jimmy Young in the seventies on Radio 2 (?) saying, "This is Jimmy Y saying 'BFN - Bye For Now!'"

What's the recipe today Jim?

[memoman]

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I remember listening to steptoe and son on the radio also the late night phone in's on radio trent.

[steveffisher]

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I can still hear Jimmy Young in the seventies on Radio 2 (?) saying, "This is Jimmy Y saying 'BFN - Bye For Now!'"

[sixtyten]

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It was always adverts for Silvikrin I remember

[chilligrape]

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I used to listen to Radio Luxembourg in bed, remember Stuart and Ollie Henry very well!! Powerplay and adverts for Cuticura Athletes foot powder stand out for me!!

[humanracer]

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anyone remember radio sweden and the creepy jingle they used to play?

[Marine Boy]

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...I used to love waking up to the news on LBC. It was so melodramatic! Also, Tommy Boyd on Sunday nights and the "Night Trek" game where he gave out cryptic clues about London locations and you had to figure out where it was and follow it like a treasure hunt...

Your post really took me back! I lived about 25 miles SW of London but picked up LBC very well. I was a huge fan of the station and of the Tommy Boyd show you mention. He used do do strange make-believe things didn't her? I'm sure he did a whole programme where he had supposedly climbed on top of the building and was doing the show from there. (Don't quote me, because he also did a show from the old Southern Sound in Brighton, in about 1986, so I could be mixing it up.)

Other highlights on LBC: ...I never missed Jenny Lacey's Nightline, she was a terrific braodcaster, and I loved the eccentric Monty Modlin. I think Jeremy Beadle did a show too, calling himself Jeremy-James-Anthony-Gibson-Beadlebum.

Memories of listening to all of this curled up in my bed, secure and content with my lot. I wonder how much of that is a case of 'rose-tinted spectacles'?

And the LBC theme and ident jingles were always brilliant.

[ridski]

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Growing up in London is was Radio 1 and Capital for music, but my first little radio was an alarm-clock radio, and I used to love waking up to the news on LBC. It was so melodramatic! Also, Tommy Boyd on Sunday nights and the "Night Trek" game where he gave out cryptic clues about London locations and you had to figure out where it was and follow it like a treasure hunt.

There were a couple of pirate stations, too in the early 80s that on Fridays played really early hip-hop. I remember Westwood on LWR before he sounded like an idiot, and there was a great show on Capital that did the hip-hop charts from some record shop in Soho.

I do remember listening to the Grumbleweeds, too, and then the first 30 minutes of Brian Matthews before bedtime.

I used to have all the episodes of Victor Lewis-Smith's radio one show, too, but those went missing during a move, and early Mary Whitehouse Experience (still listen to the podcasts of the Now Show from them, which is basically the same thing)...

So... 275 and 285 Radio One. Simon Mayo's sign off to Mark Goodyear's show ("Goodie-bags, goodie-bags, Mark-Mark Goodie-bags!"), Radio Two comedy, Capital Radio hip-hop, Lazer 558 for the Dr. Demento show and always closing out the night with Thank You For The Music by Abba, was able to get Chiltern Radio for a while, which was weird, LBC for news and talk and the legendary "Big red building in Petticoat Lane" and Pearl capital accumulator plan ads that ran constantly on it, and, yes... The police. I never managed to get any good information on the police channels, but by the time they were moved out of range of regular radios, I knew what all the "IC" numbers meant.