Radio London - Jingles
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- Опубліковано 29 сер 2024
- A compilation of jingles from the pirate radio ship Radio London, 1964 to 1967, featuring The Pams studio recording of - London (my Hometown) and the wonderful Sono Waltz, which was the stations theme tune.
Pirate radio of the sixties will live forever in my life
Bloody. Great days wish they were still here
I only knew this jingles because of The Who's "Sell Out" album. They are so interesting.
3:31 When this jingle ends, then start "tattoo" . One of the best songs in that album.
Maaaaaaaan. I love what you said.
It ran 220 watts of AM , 3.5 amps of aerial current in to a long wire antenna with plate and screen modulation, you could hear it all over the west midlands on saturdays. the girls from school would DJ on saturday , bringing their records to play . We last recently tested it in Tamworth Staffs and it pumped out a brilliant clear signal all over the area . i am 62 now and it brings back some memories of very happy times , i run a company now and my daughter would love me to test it again .
I was lucky enough to be living in Europe in the 60' and 70's and able to listen to Pirate Radio...born at the right time!
Brings back so many memories. TW was a favorite as was Everett and Peel, remember sitting at home listening to the final broadcast of A Day In The Life with tears in my eyes. So many great names on the station that I remember, Paul Kaye, Dave Dennis, Mike Lennox, Ed Stewart, Tony Blackburn, Pete Drummond, Dave Cash (Kenny & Cash combine), Earl Richmond, Duncan Johnson, Keith Skues so many names and all permanently retained in my head. It was a great listening period 64 to 67.
I Think Radio London was the best off shore Radio Station in the 60s. Fantastic Video. Amazing Jingles and Great DJs. A Big Big mistake to force it to close down, we want it back! Even after all this time. Thanks Big L.
That's because it was by far, "the best Radio Station in the 60's".... on or off shore....
They are now on Tune in Radio and various other apps , Listen to it Everyday ! All the old shows, news and adverts !
Big L was the best pirate station - the DJ's were all like our friends - such a sad day when they went off air - they will never be forgotten, unlike the prat of an MP who brought them to an end.
As I just said,,,Anthony Wedgewood Benn, tony to his friends, given the job of CHANGING MARITIME LAW to make them illegal...the lies told...us tech rookies knew the truth...it was a time of change...the record companies couldnt believe their luck getting new releases to them...the been didnt stand a chance with archarcic needle time from the live band unions...they were up agin it BUT...forced to clamo down. Grrrr.
Thought it was Ted short who got the job of closing all the pirates. He was post master general at the time.
@@stuartbrixton6260 It was Stuart - you are right !.
@@MrKeeft1 nothing to do with "MARITIME LAW" though..
Great sounds - haven't heard a couple of those jingles for the best part of 45 years!
I was a big fan of Big L and was lucky enough to visit the ship for a day, courtesy of Stewpot. Memories I'll never forget...
Top drawer production values on the jingles (Pam's Dallas) and the Sono Waltz still brings a lump to my throat. (Big L time is three o'clock & Radio London is now. . . closing down. (Paul Kaye)) silence.
I remember listening to Radio London’s final broadcast, I was with my friend Stephen on the sea front at Sheerness. It was a very sad day.
Such wonderful memories, I have recently had restored the Blaupunkt car radio I had for my 17th birthday in 1966 and fitted in my Austin Seven !, it was permanently tuned to 266 !.I drove to Bletchley Park for a apprentice course on the Sunday evening the day before the fateful day, listening to all the DJs who had become household names.Every time I hear ' Excerpt From A Teenage Opera ' I well up with emotion, it was so popular at the time !.Many thanks for this wonderful montage of the greatest PAMS jingles.
what is tuned to 266? is it longwave,? im in us just curious
@@joelhhall Joel, it was the old way British radio dials were calibrated in metres rather than KHz today.Radio London was on 266 metres Medium Wave, the most famous first was Caroline on 199 metres , just below the ' legal ' only Popular music radio station , Radio Luxembourg transmitting in the evening on 208 metres ( and 49.26 metres Short Wave ) although reception in the UK was lousy !.For a while, there were a few Pirates transmitting simultaneously at the ' lower end ' of the Medium Wave band.It all changed in 1967 as they were outlawed and the BBC had to up its game and employed many of the former Pirate DJs , Tony Blackburn is still with them !.
To most radio listeners, the jingles went by almost unnoticed...they were a featured background noise heard in between the "HITS" and the people that wrote, sang and
produced these little gems were stars in their own right. Thank you Pams International.
Actually, it's not that the jingles went by unnoticed -- It's that the short nature
and regular play of these interstitials reach a listener's _subconscience._
The jingles help connect a listener to a station, which is evident ever so much
today considering how terrestrial radio listenership has dropped considerably
in the wake of removing jingles AND air personalities from terrestrial radio.
Just the best! my youth, my youth, it has all come back to me!
I was 16 and working in a bakery in Finchley North London on that fateful day in August 1967 & heard the closedown of much beloved Radio London. It played the best music ever long before "Aunty" broadcast it!
I LOVED Radio London!
My uncle got all the original jingels From this ship. Also the bandrecorders and recordplayers
Thanks so much for posting - great memories from the 60's. These fantastic jingles will be with me for the rest of my days!....
I'm a Brit-American ... originally from Essex; now living in Dallas - home of PAMS and subsequently JAM Productions. I lived through the whole UK pirate radio era; it was like a breath of fresh air! The success of Radio London was partly due to their jingles. The old PAMS building is about 3 miles from my house and I've been to see it a few times. It's at 4141 Office Parkway, a quiet dead-ended street (cul-de-sac) in an area that has been redeveloped. It is still amazing to think of just how many radio memories were created in that little building!
Greetings from Essex, 4 years later!
London sounded more professional than some other stations with it's American format. I heard WABC (New York) for the first time in December 1973 and thought how similar it was to the greatest pirate station of all time!
Came across this. Bought back memories and tears to my eyes. I had the good fortune of growing up listening to this station and it's counterparts. What a joy it was not to have to listen to the, to be, woke BBC. Even when Radio 1 came on air, it was NOTHING in comparison to these.
I can only completely agree with you, Radio One Was the worst thing I ever heard, with lack of needle time and many songs covered by BBC orchestras, I would rather have stuck pins in my eyes than listen to that abomination, a complete joke of a station.
I wish thay had this in 2022. .we need it!!!....I just think carrying your Phone...With this on?...it would be Great on FM and The Net....in the 60s it made it to Moscow and To Canada at Night on AM.... today it would make it everywhere in the world by the Net!!!..... Return This To The Air!!!🎵🎶🎶🎵
Unlicenced Web Radio. There.
@googers100 The Pirates gave us the best radio we have ever heard. There was nothing like them before and there has been nothing like them since. They were more than radio stations, they became friends and we will never see the like of them again. :-( I listen to American stations on the net using "Tapin Radio", you have some great sounding stations but like us in the UK they have limited playlists, such a pity with so much great music left unheard. Oh i almost forgot Caroline ran 50,000 watts.
When radio ruled...who needed skytv and its overly charged repeat after repeat...the bed clothes and great tunes
From someone who wasn't around during this time I really feel I missed out on stations like Caroline and Big L. These PAMS jingles were the best of the best
I remember listening to Big L on my dads radio in his shed. We lived on the Isle of Wight and still got a good signal on a long wire aerial and even though it was medium wave quality and faded out sometimes it made the BBC seem like old men's radio. Loved Caroline as well, in fact tuned in all the Pirates we could, great days, that side of radio has gone for ever now.
Living in Winchester we got the best signal from Big L,followed by Caroline..remember the day Big L closed down as if it was yesterday.
Great time radio London I lived that time
3:27-3:43 My favorite of the Radio London jingles.
Oh what happy memories. Radio London was Awesome. Very sad they outlawed it. It was a crime! But it lives on -- On UA-cam - Wonderful !!
If you're missing the sound of the pirates, try offshore music radio on the web. It's nostalgia all the way! Fab station.
I just wanted to mention the fabulous features re: pirate radio on the Radio Netherlands Media Network archive, worth a listen.
Pirates have not gone. Radio Caroline on 648/463 and stereo dab+ and stereo on the web. 56 years not out.
No longer a pirate since 1990 though but the memories of her pirate days live on for sure. :-)
Made by Pams of New York even Radio One used versions of them when they started in 67 as the BBC were way behind the scene.
The BBC had no idea but they based Radio One on Radio London but it could not reproduce anything like the excitement the Pirates gave us Radio One was a terrible station back in 1967. IMHO.
@BillsOldiesUK Yes I know , it was a dreadful photostat copy of the pirates. The pirates were grounded because the state wants total control of the media , it was never anything to do with radio frequency interference which can be easily overcome. At least it survived on the sea around the UK for a few glorious years.
i spend many nights on here listening to your posts and the sites you mention...i was 9 when the stations were forced to close..free radio forever
A great montage of P A M S jingles.
My hometown is a classic.
Nice memories. Thanks for posting. Anyone remember the closedown theme when they first broadcast when their nightly closedown was at 9.00pm? A instrumental version of Beyond The Sea. If anyone has that, please post! Must dig out my old reel to reels one day!
London my home Town is 😎....it was a fantastic station.....but it could not get to California..... even at night....to bad we could only hear it from recordings....we had Border Blasters from Mexico (XERB on 1090khz from Tijuana B C) and from Canada (CKLW on 800khz from Windsor O N)...our Local was KHJ Boss Radio on 930khz and KRLA Hit Radio on 1110khz....both from L A.....in the 1960s and 1970s
It’s funny that most people know 3:27 because of The Who Sell Out. Well if that’s the case, then that’s the reason I’m here too.
Yeah, Beautiful jingle
Way cool! That jingle at 3:00 was used on the fadeout of Second Hand's 'Bath Song' - mystery solved. If you'll excuse me I'm off to play Who Sell Out now
This is radio...at its best
Folkestone 1967 - listening to the close down.
The best, I really miss it.
I like those modulated voices, also the Beatles parody 2:54
Many of these were parodied brilliantly by The Who on their 1967 album Sell Out.
No, they were taken directly from the source
just brilliant brilliant
Still miss it to this day. what rubbish we have now
i did not think my last comment was so long a go how time go by good memory
Very nice compilation. Just for the record, "London, My Hometown" is the PAMS jingle studio recording. The Chantelles recorded a version as the B side to "I Want That Boy." The Chantays are a surf band who had a hit with "Pipeline."
+bayside2000
Of course, I have amended the description and I thank you for your observation :-)
The memory of Pirate radio stations will live on the memory of the polies that killed it won't. Cheers
When pirates ruled the waves!
super j'adore cet radio ont en fait plus bon jingle
amazing
geweldig (dutch) for G-R-E-A-T...
thanks for posting this.
Great memories brings a tear to my eye
This is so Cool 😎...I must get to London!!!
The closure of Radio London on 14.8.1967 was certainly an act of vandalism by the then government. As many of us said at the time, the situation could so easily have been resolved by simply advertising a number of independent radio franchises/licenses (as happened 6 years later, of course). Unfortunately, short sighted and pointless political dogma got in the way, as is often the case.
Astonishingly it would be another six years before legal commercial radio arrived in UK. Unbelievable now.
5:11 Big L time is 3:00 And Radio London is closing down
When Radio London died I died to
I agree. No-one nowadays could ever understand my feelings for Big L or what I felt at that time.. It was my life & my eyes still well-up now just thinking about it & listening to this ... After Aug 1967 I vowed I would never vote Labour for what they did - & I never have or will. It affected me profoundly. I'm 61 now.
+bootsamou
The loss of the Pirates was the worst time in my life, I was deeply saddened that a supposedly democratic government would move heaven and earth to take away something I deeply loved. My main station was 270 as I was further north but the loss of all of them was a very emotional thing and it made me determined that whenever I could I would run an unlicensed transmitter, something I still do to this day :-) I'm now 68.
+bootsamou interesting to see your comments I'm also 61 now and I also vowed to never vote for lab our and never have never will just because they closed down the best radio stations that ever been glad to have read your thoughts
+hammy dave Bloody Tony Benn.
Well, it might seem shallow, but for a young teenager going through all sorts of things, Big L was a lifeline.
It also symbolised freedom, away from Government monopoly & control.
Not voting Labour in my life does not mean that I support what the Tories do.
About 3:27 - Reminds me the Odorono song !!!!
@NailCigaretteMusic SELL OUT!
In fact, it was "Tattoo", instead of "Odorono" when "Smooth Sailing" radrio vignette ends.
@@SeboDigital That´s true... Thanks for that! OMG... This comment I´ve posted 8 years ago !!!!! Time flies. LOL!
@NailCigaretteMusic agree. 😊
Great
Radio London lives on [in a way] as Big L.
@googers100 Hi Googers, quite a few stations used this collection back in the day and when "Classic Gold" came on the air here in the UK, quite a few years ago now, they used the same set. It was like stepping back in time only they had a smaller platlist than Big L did. :-)
A lot of these jingles were produced by PAMS of Dallas
PAMS are the best and they are still available
@@mikedrown2721 Yup, they still make the same jingles.
77 WABC New York (Where I'm from) still uses these for their music programming. (Weekends/ holidays like New Years and xmas and 4th o' July) With the legendary Cousin Brucie and other DJ's. I can't get the "77 WABC" versions of these out of my head when listening to the ones in this video, it's like a weird opposite reality. Lol! They primarily use the "Go Go", "All American", "Sonovox", " Music-pow pow power", and "Jetset" series on my local NYC "50,000 watt Powerhouse station"
-Nick
I was born and raised in California.... Britain must have been fantastic in the 60s and 70s?
hey it sure does...GET ME A BOAT
i still have the medium wave transmitter i built in the 60's in the loft .
5.11 - the Radio London Waltz, best jingle ever written
0.00 - My Hometown - another 90+ seconds jingle. Nowadays many will associate this one with Ten Thousand Maniacs
2.55 - how did they arrange that with the Beatles (or did they not) ?
Radio jingles often would use portions of current hits; they just had to license the copyright and pay royalties.
@Grithon2 Do you happen to know who wrote the Radio London Waltz
I can thank Pete Townshend for bringing me here.
pre eu spirit of adventure ....and independent Britain .
TW died. jan 2016. Wit him I died a little to
+Rob Wessels
Me too. He was like a family friend. R.I.P. Sir Tel.
Vigor Screel.
+Rob Wessels TW died in June 1985, aged 64. You are probably referring to Ed Stewart "Stewpot".
+Fred Bunzl Terry Wogan??
+Grumpy Stan TW = Tony Windsor (real name: Tony Withers).
Sorry, never heard of him.
3:27 jingle Radio Ursula sebelum jam 11.00 Waktu Bandung
2:54
The "My Hometown" jingle at the beginning sounds more like Anita Kerr, not PAMS.
2:23 Jingle Radio Ursula (1978?)
Where was RADIO LONDON on the AM dial?
It was announced as 266 metres.
2:54 Is a parody of I saw her standing there By The Beatles lol
Toen radio luisteren nog entertaining en LEUK was
3:27
4:09-4:11 Speakeasy drink easy pull easy
when radio London went off air I turned my radio off and refused to change from 266. I left it there for months. Refused to listen to that substitute sh*** radio 1.
I agree, Radio One was an abomination, a very poor replacement for the pirates who were cruelly shut down in their prime by Harld Wilson and his labour government. I never got over the loss of the pirates either.
@@bill1952 Used to lay on the bed listening to them. skipped school a time or two just to hear the great 60s sounds.
@@bill1952 radio 1 could never have replaced London Caroline,England etc.the joy of listening to the djs comments about the music they were supposed to play was absolutely priceless.Would never be allowed now.