Wonderful Radio London - Big L Highlights EP - 1967
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- Опубліковано 17 лип 2024
- Picked up for a quid at Orpington record fair!. This single features the final hours of pirate station Big L aka Radio London. Operating from 16 December 1964 to 14 August 1967 three miles off Frinton-On-Sea in Essex. The former WW2 US Navy minesweeper MV Galaxy kicked off the careers of many well-known UK radio jocks. Enjoy!
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55 Years ago today 14 August 22 I remember listening on my trannie with one earpiece 266 meters on medium wave When it closed Radio Caroline said welcome to all the Radio London listeners who have nothing to hear except static! Sad day Bloody Harold Wilson!!
I returned to UK from a two and a half year Far east posting in January 1967, I listened to Big "L" exclusively until the closedown.
What a wonderful radio station it was....I still miss it, nothing today is nearly as good. 1967 was probably the best year in my life, not just because of Big "L"....it was just such a wonderful time to be alive.
I think Radio London (Big L) was the best radio station there ever was.
Can we have it back please.
I agree Frank, however it will never come back.....
Great Memories of a Great Radio Station.Those "PAMS" Jingles were amazing and so were the DJs. There Will Never Be Another Big L.
PAMS were Magic ! i can still remember (And sing to myself) all the jingles from WKBW . (I could get WKBW (Solid Motown) on my grandmothers old 16 valve Philco in Eccles Manchester on winter nights. The BBC Light Programme had only 'The BBC Swing Band' !
VERY Cool, especially with all the jingles. Oh, to have been a listener at the time…with the sounds of swingin’ London. ✌🏼Peace, Love, Understanding & RockNRoll!
In my opinion the best radio station ever. They made history in only 3 years!
It was absolutely devastating all my friends liked it. A tragedy something so good just cut off. Radio 1 was not a touch on Big L
I wish I had been a teenager in '67! I was only just born in 1967, this is really a fascinating piece of history which I didn't know about.
it was great, until the Government closed them down....
The bast radio station ever... BIG L... thanks for the memories... what a sad day it was when London went off air for the final time...
sad day.. it ended before it could begin..
I remember listening to the close down very well. A very sad day, the new radio one just did not do it for me.
Biggest sound around...Big L!!
Sonowaltz brings back teenage memories of the mid-60s! But I needed 70ft of aerial wire across the garden to pick it up in Somerset!!
VERY sad ending to station & ship. Still miss BIG L.
my friend and I listened to the tragic shutdown - we were 15 and heartbroken. any dj's that went on to radio 1 were regarded as traitors forever!!
Big L plugged this record for weeks before closing down. Wonder how much they made? Anyone remember the Free Radio Association? They tried to overturn the Bill to stop broadcasting.... BTW, 1967 saw a great increase in Pirate Radio around Britain. I did it to annoy the General Post Office who used to oversee the catching of land based Pirates.... Really loved those days! Don't forget Radio Veronica...
How sad to hear Kenny talk of how things cut off in their prime get remembered!If anyone has proven this it's him,One of the greatest ever,God weren't these great times,I lived at the coast and used to be able to see Caroline and London on trips on the 'Lady Kent'!
Damn, i wish we could find these in New Zealand. I love these little jingles.
You'll find lots of downloadable clips from the 60s pirates at azanorak.com . Select pub --> stations to find the list of clips. Downloads are zip files, use password freeradio to unzip.
I have this record. Great station
Excellent, thanks for the memories!!
I have a 3 CD set called The Wonderful Radio London Story narrated by Keith Skues, tells you the whole story, without them & Caroline a lot of singers and groups would never have made it as pop on the beeb was only around 12 hours a week and the main record labels limited the choice of records they played - but - a few day later many of the DJ's were on the new RADIO ONE..
Fantastic and like so many people that have already posted comments it was the yardstick for radio for my life and set a standard that no other station has ever got close to. I too can recall exactly where I was and what I was doing when Big L closed down. I have a reel-to-reel tape of some of the broadcasts, hardly professional quality, but am currently unable to play them and would welcome suggestions as to how / where I may get these transferred onto digital systems? A pity to lose the material, especially with the 50th anniversary of the stations' closure approaching next year.
Wonderful it certainly was!
BRILLIANT MEMORIES. BIG L WAS GREAT AND STILL IS: ALTHOUGH ITS LAND BASED. IF YOU HAVE AN ANDROID DEVICE GET THE APP:OFFSHORE RADIO OR OLDIES RADIO STATIONS. YOU WILL SEE WONDERFUL RADIO LONDON COMPLETE WITH JINGLES. ALSO ALL THE OTHER 60,s PIRATES CAROLINE ETC ARE THERE AS WELL. GO FOR IT
A pleasure!. I've got a Caroline disc somewhere and another full of jingles. Time for a rummage
I picked this station up in 1966/67, in Pennsylvania. Amazing.
no you didn't
All the jingles are PAMS jingles. Here in the U.S. these same jingles were voiced for different cities and call letters.
Just Great !!!
gOD WHAT MEMORIES, One and only radio station.I call it the pacesetter, Lux was so good too,, Then loads of years later Lazer 558.. How I miss them all, Today's radio is so boring no imagination all have the DJ doing whatever the boss wonT, Not like the real days. Kids today don't know what they missed.
just the best!!!!!
Thanks anyway. Keep posting all the good stuff
Radio Caroline is now back on air on licence at weekends from Essex still broadcasting from a ship
That classic colour picture of John Peel on air always appears in reverse.
le bon temps des sixties
Looking back, what the pirates accomplished, was usual every day broadcasting outside Europe. Australia, Canada and the USA had private radio from the beginning. Listening to the pirates now they were utterly and completely inoffensive, nothing that would taint the ears of your precious children. Obviously they offended some very stiff / rigid members of the upper middle class. It is nice to think, all these years later, that the Labor Government sealed their own fate and would pay for their desire to control public taste. What these politicians created for themselves was a kind of eternal humiliation as the Government of this time now appears prehistoric. All the evidence against them is public record, it cannot be changed. A group of dinosaur men that believed they represented class and sophistication. They believed they alone must preserve what is good for everyone else. Sad little men.
cliff jones lesson to be learned google do you recall me
This is the first part of their Final Hour.
3pm, Monday August the 14th, 1967.
+Beeples01 remember it well, I stoped work and went into depression, then it got worse, radio 1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We were on school holidays at the time.
I'm sure you still can get CD's and LP's featuring clips from many of the 60's pirates. Jumbo records sold them for years. Give 'em a Google!
WONDERFUL! Wish radio was like this now. No foreigners - no political correct crap and great music all the way.
Me too was such a buzz to tune into great music although we had the similar thing here in New Zealand they were the radio pirates 1480 top of the dial, just loved to tune in
No foreigners? Radio London was set up and financed by Americans! ?????!? It very much did involve foreigners or don't Americans count or something?
No, they're anglo saxons...
Oh bog off.
Actually, I have a number of taped archives from Big L. The shows sound twee and dated by modern standards, but of course, that's not fair.
At the time, they were cutting edge and played records you would otherwise never have heard. The one show ahead of its time was John Peel's Perfumed Garden. Cool doesn't cut it.
radio was once great,the djs,the jingles..commercial radio is lousy these days
Do you know which Radio London jingle featured Glenda Collins, Heinz and Richie Blackmore?.
The day great radio died
Kenny and Cash were way ahead in dj presentation which others followed much later does anyone know what happened to DaveCash?
+Andy Mathias I think he does a country music programme on BBC local radio
Dave Cash died not too long ago, in 2016 age 74.
Fraid not. Hopefully somebody out there will
Memories ! Not arf !
BRILLIANT MEMORIES. BIG L WAS GREAT AND STILL IS: ALTHOUGH ITS LAND BASED. IF YOU HAVE AN ANDROID DEVICE GET THE APP:OFFSHORE RADIO OR OLDIES RADIO STATIONS. YOU WILL SEE WONDERFUL RADIO LONDON COMPLETE WITH JINGLES. ALSO ALL THE OTHER 60,s PIRATES CAROLINE ETC ARE THERE AS WELL. GO FOR IT