Brings back the memories, makes me sad a little. Takes me back to simpler times. Only cares in the world were what you and your mates were going to do on the weekend, no bills, no worries, just mates and good times.
@@traceyross8528 I definitely feel the "simple life" nostalgia - a lot of that is because we were kids though. For most people, life is simpler when you're kid. Hearing these tunes also makes me feel down, though, and I couldn't quite work out why at first. I think it's just that I felt bored and restricted a lot of the time in my teens. Dull small town NZ. The same songs on the radio and RTR week after week. I don't look back on it with much fondness, to be honest.
@sopyleecrypt6899 they were the best days of my life hand's down!! Compared to this shitty life I have now. I would give my right arm to go back to kaiapoi when I was 14 years old! My first boyfriend was the milkman! I worked at the local dairy. I did however used to get pissed off when pseudo echo's 'funky town' was number one........again! For the 20th week in a row! 🤣
I think each generation feels that desire to go back to when they had not much responsibility and more fun. Being an adult can be pretty scary. That's why it's important to have good friends to talk to and still enjoy a hobby or two in our free time.
@@MrCardrona71 An older dude...then later, Dick Driver n Karen Hay. Became my goto show when times were a changin and my mid to late teen tastes became more sophisticated and rebellious
❤❤❤72baby here. So many happy memories as a kiwi kid. All of these songs travel through my mind remembering my school friends and moving to the city from a country town 😢. Getting introduced to Alfies 😂❤. Very happy memories but kinda sad we can't go back 😢❤
Fish n chips and race back home for the 6pm RTR countdown. Happiest half hour of the week. Also a fave was Max Headroom, the early Sunday morning kids stories on the radio and the Sunday American top 40 countdown with the tape deck ready to record all of our favourites. Happy days...
Where do I start but say thank you for the time warp! After you played rugby on Saturday you couldn’t leave your house before watching RTR before your mate’s house before we head off to mischief down Queen St and visit bars like the Kiwi Tavern, Zanzibar, Alfie’s and the coffee shops in Ponsonby….wow what a trip, good ol days and my Parents was alive back then.❤️Had to visit Apple Music to download so many forgotten cherished songs that sound so fresh today.🤙🏽Aloha from Hawaii (left Auckland in 1986).
Back then we'd had a Thorn Precision 22 colour TV (It had, Gasp! Four TV channels) which Dad bought in 1979 (Back when we only had TV ONE and TV TWO) and it lasted about 15 years.
What an amazing nostalgia hit, I started watching RTR in the late 70s , and it's a sad fact that a lot of these artists are no longer with us I started recording every RTR countdown and music videos from Sept 1985 till April 1988 when I then moved to the UK, where I then did it all again from 1988 to 1996, In 1986 for about 7 months NZ was robbed of some great music videos due the NZ govt refusing to pay the 80 dollars a minute for them , and only paying for NZ music videos The highlight for me was at minute 53 , seeing Blue Monday 88 at no 1, the original from 1983 spent 88 weeks in the top 100 and never made no 1, a real travesty , it didn't reach no 1 in the uk either, nor the 1988 re re reslease , some great tunes seen here, if I had the time I'd put all 500 hours on my channel as I still have all the VHS tapes with the material I recorded, RTR, Radio With Pictures, 12 o'clock rock, I recorded the lot, maybe one day I will take the time and put them on my channel ( Maybe ) lol
Great to look back...I would watch this on Saturday Night before heading out to Work as a DJ at the Bar/Disco in Timaru New Zealand for those out of NZ..Great Nights were had ..Great times came like whirlwind then gone..
RTR Countdown or when it first came out in the 1970’s Ready to Roll was on TV 2 every week on Saturday night at 6pm . Its original theme was machine gun by the Commodores . It did clash with the Network news which my parents watched , but fortunately our household had two TV’s, remember there were only two tv channels at the time !!. It was almost compulsory viewing for anyone under 30 at the time .
OMG, this reminded me about Mel & Kim! They were huge in '87, and then they were gone. My best friend and I performed Respectable for the school talent show that year. We even cut the tops out of our hats and shoved out hair out the top like they did. The 80s was a unique time.
@@ekkythump3706 Awww nah you're a spring chicken, I'm 54...watching videos like this a tonne of memories start flooding back from the 70's, 80's & 90's...great time growing up through those decades
As a kiwi kid growing up in the 70s & 80s, I HAD to watch this show every Saturday. Once I got an idea of the charts I recorded what I needed on the Top 40(?) countdown on Sunday radio . Mu dad always bought the Sunday Times paper which had the Top 40 listed which helped as well. Even the late 70s RTR was great with the Police, etc. Also, we got Australian & NZ music as well.
Fabulous memories watching this, Saturday night home after sport of some kind, getting ready to go out, having RTR blasting, the good thing is that it kept you up with local and overseas breaking bands and was easy to follow. Hearing these songs throughout mid 80s was very nostalgic and emotion of great friends, awesome nightclubs where we danced all night in Dunedin with the Uni students etc.. and travelled overseas as often as we could.. I took my fist 6 week Contiki through Europe in 85 and this music was pumping for 6 weeks in the bus and clubs on tour, man we had fun...thanks for bringing back so many beautiful memories of our saturday nights before internet and mobile phones..hearing everyone of these songs I have a place and a memory to go back to..a great time to be 20 in the mid 80s...
Oh wow that starting credit screen, I feel like my mum is going to yell at me that its bath time now. I used to make it back in time for Flying Doctors.
From all of us in the UK to our Kiwi friends, we're really sorry you guys had to put up with Star Trekkin' too. At least it looks like it was kept off of number one. We didn't even have that mercy. 🖖
Watching the 3rd Aug. '85 top twenty, the oddball in that mix seems to be Bryan Adams' "Heaven", the rest is a lot more British, which is kinda how it felt for me as a kid in the '80s. Power ballads, hard-rock ballads were the exceptions on the radio, but I was happy with that, maybe a touch of Foreigner or Starship.
Thanks for this nostalgia hit. Loved RTR every week. Never got on with Radio with Pictures - only ever watched the end of it just before the Sunday Night Horrors.
I was probably watching most of these that the first time when it was on TV here in NZ. That was THE show to watch on Saturday night to talk about the following Monday at school.
Wow. I always used to wait for the RTR before going out. 🤭 I forgot that Star Trekkin actually made it to #2? Lol Crack up. 😆 That’s how strong the British music scene was in the 80’s in NZ and Australia.
RTR,That's Very Interesting,Krypton Factor,Top Town,Lotto and MacGyver one or two others if my memory serves me as a kid on a Saturday Night we only had 2channels we had Rashuns aswell
Saturday Night 6pm . RTR Countdown Was the Best program of the week growing up in the 80s , Thanks Rob for putting this together brings back so many good memories of growing up in the 80s Cheers
RTR like Radio With Pictures in New Zealand and Australia had Aussie Countdown.Europe had a few in Netherlands and Germany specially.UK had Top Of The Pops.US had Solid Gold, Soul Train and American Bandstand all many many more others what they started and came up with bless to be part of it huge in Music circles
It’s crazy how this takes me back to being on the lounge floor pushing Play/Record on the VCR to capture my favourites and the countdown. Some of the sequences take me right back to exact birthday parties of a particular month, bopping around itchycoo park or how excited or annoyed I would be at the number one.
Back when we only had the two channels, damm, i miss those years. You played outside rain hail or shine, because there was no other option. But when the street lights came on, you knew what you had to do or else.
I preferred the cutting edge, alternative music on Radio with Pictures, but it was a real trip down memory lane watching this. I always liked the Kiwi and Aussie bands from the 80s.
Those were the days. Sad that NZ was so starved of hard rock and metal back then, though. If not for Karyn Hay, I might never have found my true calling 😁
Thanks for this! Now recalling being at dad's work at night and watching this on the TV up high. All I remember was that Beat It seemed to be No 1 every week and how cool the video was.
@@dontcomply3976 - 6pm was my bed time except when Ready to Roll was on. The only other time I was allowed to stay up late was when there was a Telethon.
Woe just woe shot pal the New Zealand Charts couldn't believe i live in that Country amazing bit diverse great research the vibes and sound will never be beaten or reach cause it's the greatest decade of all time never to forget miss it so much oh hail the 80s.Haywoode and Maurice White snuck in what were they thinking and one or two others u wouldn't thought wherever u are or from in the World rare at it's finest thats the 80s.1988 top 20 was cool and the last one Top 10 1989
I fricken loved the 80's, miss those days😩 such cruzy times, memories, I thoroughly enjoyed my teen years during that period. Awesom memories came pouring back🥰 I hate the crap they play now🤬🤦🏻♀️
Those were great days, memories and some of the best music. Madonna is still going strong today. I loved 💕 the 80s. This was a great show and Top of the Pops 😊
I always remember Saturday at 6pm!. May have only run for a half hour, but, it was a must to watch before heading out on a Saturday night to boogie to the latest music. Used to also have Radio with pictures or even Top of the Pops, which I think we all preferred. Those were days, until they were taken off air and disbanded. 😢😢😢
Man,was a fan of Ready to Roll! Was great to see your fave vid clips when it came on I do remember the intro with the Commodores "Machine Gun" song.. These are awesome memories of recording them on VHS Thanks for the upload Uso! Been living in the USA for a few decades now,but distinctively remember this growing up in Nz
Virtually every track in the top 20 is a classic that’s listened to decades later … today? Forgettable music. Who’s gonna be pumping out ‘Blank Space’ at their reunion or sporting event in 50 years time?
Thanks for uploading this (and for taping it back then!). Can remember when most of these were in the charts and what I was doing at the time...nice trip down memory lane. Loved RTR Countdown (and Ready to Roll coming out of the 70s).
Awesome video, Ready to Roll was a fav as well, great to see the impact Kiwi musicians were making back then charting it with the world greats, tumeke Aotearoa....cheers for the vid.
Fab memories with this classic Kiwi show. Oh how I loved watching RTR Countown every Saturday & for some weird reason I used to race the TV writing down the top 20 as it was being counted down. 🤦🏻♀️
I had no idea U2's Unforgettable Fire went so high. I'm amazed how slowly songs moved up and down the chart. 6pm every Saturday, clashed with 6 o clock news on One, sometimes didn't get to see these 😭
Well said i agree very slow going up or down the Charts were that's New Zealand in a nutshell compared to the powerhouse of the US even UK bit quicker.Alive And Kicking great song seem to be around quite awhile
Crikey the fights we used to have with the old man as he wanted the news and his kids wanted RtR!!! How much I'd pay to have those fights again lol....
@@jollyroger1009 I remember the arrival of FM radio in 1983, when I was 7. My little AM transistor became obsolete. However, we got used to FM super quick. I listened to Kiwi FM.
This takes me back to my childhood. I shared a bedroom with my older brother, and the walls were riddled with alot of these very artists😂this was the years I explored reggae (Bob Marley & more) and Blues(SRV)
I live in New Zealand and remember watching RTR every saturday night.
Fellow Kiwi here!Always watched Ready to Roll on a Saturday night before going out clubbing!These songs evoke so many happy memories!!
Brings back the memories, makes me sad a little. Takes me back to simpler times. Only cares in the world were what you and your mates were going to do on the weekend, no bills, no worries, just mates and good times.
And no phones!!! Wasn't it wonderful!!
@@traceyross8528 I definitely feel the "simple life" nostalgia - a lot of that is because we were kids though. For most people, life is simpler when you're kid. Hearing these tunes also makes me feel down, though, and I couldn't quite work out why at first. I think it's just that I felt bored and restricted a lot of the time in my teens. Dull small town NZ. The same songs on the radio and RTR week after week. I don't look back on it with much fondness, to be honest.
@sopyleecrypt6899 they were the best days of my life hand's down!! Compared to this shitty life I have now. I would give my right arm to go back to kaiapoi when I was 14 years old! My first boyfriend was the milkman! I worked at the local dairy. I did however used to get pissed off when pseudo echo's 'funky town' was number one........again! For the 20th week in a row! 🤣
I think each generation feels that desire to go back to when they had not much responsibility and more fun. Being an adult can be pretty scary. That's why it's important to have good friends to talk to and still enjoy a hobby or two in our free time.
And most of all no bloody innernet!!
A staple for many kiwis, debates at the dinner table or at school over how long a song will stay at number 1. Can't be the Machine Gun intro. Iconic.
That was the intro I actually remembered...earlier years editions incl the late 70s
I was waiting for a song to play at least number one 😅
Sure can't, great song, was dissapointed it didn't play.......Radio with pictures was another good one....
@@MrCardrona71 An older dude...then later, Dick Driver n Karen Hay. Became my goto show when times were a changin and my mid to late teen tastes became more sophisticated and rebellious
❤❤❤72baby here. So many happy memories as a kiwi kid. All of these songs travel through my mind remembering my school friends and moving to the city from a country town 😢. Getting introduced to Alfies 😂❤. Very happy memories but kinda sad we can't go back 😢❤
Ahh the good old days! I swear the sunshine was brighter then!
With all the geoengineering going on right now it actually was.
Sun was brighter because of the lack of chem trails.
Fish n chips and race back home for the 6pm RTR countdown. Happiest half hour of the week. Also a fave was Max Headroom, the early Sunday morning kids stories on the radio and the Sunday American top 40 countdown with the tape deck ready to record all of our favourites. Happy days...
Don't forget Karen Hayes and her guests in many under the influence shows of Radio with Pictures !!! 😅
Where do I start but say thank you for the time warp! After you played rugby on Saturday you couldn’t leave your house before watching RTR before your mate’s house before we head off to mischief down Queen St and visit bars like the Kiwi Tavern, Zanzibar, Alfie’s and the coffee shops in Ponsonby….wow what a trip, good ol days and my Parents was alive back then.❤️Had to visit Apple Music to download so many forgotten cherished songs that sound so fresh today.🤙🏽Aloha from Hawaii (left Auckland in 1986).
Shuxxx Alfies lol..had some great early mornings there
Great days...can remember watching this as a kid on a Phillips k9 tv .
Yip same our k9 served 30 years+
26” of glorious colour!
Dad bought a National. 22”. I don’t know what he was thinking.
Same!
Back then we'd had a Thorn Precision 22 colour TV (It had, Gasp! Four TV channels) which Dad bought in 1979 (Back when we only had TV ONE and TV TWO) and it lasted about 15 years.
What an amazing nostalgia hit, I started watching RTR in the late 70s , and it's a sad fact that a lot of these artists are no longer with us
I started recording every RTR countdown and music videos from Sept 1985 till April 1988 when I then moved to the UK, where I then did it all again from 1988 to 1996,
In 1986 for about 7 months NZ was robbed of some great music videos due the NZ govt refusing to pay the 80 dollars a minute for them , and only paying for NZ music videos
The highlight for me was at minute 53 , seeing Blue Monday 88 at no 1, the original from 1983 spent 88 weeks in the top 100 and never made no 1, a real travesty , it didn't reach no 1 in the uk either, nor the 1988 re re reslease , some great tunes seen here, if I had the time I'd put all 500 hours on my channel as I still have all the VHS tapes with the material I recorded, RTR, Radio With Pictures, 12 o'clock rock, I recorded the lot, maybe one day I will take the time and put them on my channel ( Maybe ) lol
Yes bro post them great memories
I bet you'd get a lot of people who've watched this taking a keen interest! Best wishes
this absolutely glued me to the TV as a primary school kid..love the walk down memory lane..ahh those were the days
Great to look back...I would watch this on Saturday Night before heading out to Work as a DJ at the Bar/Disco in Timaru New Zealand for those out of NZ..Great Nights were had ..Great times came like whirlwind then gone..
Wish we could go back to this decade!
Yep. Totally agree👍
RTR Countdown or when it first came out in the 1970’s Ready to Roll was on TV 2 every week on Saturday night at 6pm . Its original theme was machine gun by the Commodores . It did clash with the Network news which my parents watched , but fortunately our household had two TV’s, remember there were only two tv channels at the time !!. It was almost compulsory viewing for anyone under 30 at the time .
Oh fuck.. we got old didnt we?
OMG, this reminded me about Mel & Kim! They were huge in '87, and then they were gone. My best friend and I performed Respectable for the school talent show that year. We even cut the tops out of our hats and shoved out hair out the top like they did. The 80s was a unique time.
I do really appreciate how NZ got to hear the best of US, UK, Aussie and our own local music. I think we're very lucky to be in that position.
🎯
Nostalgia overload. Saturday 6PM early dinner with sauce and volume.
RTR and Radio With Pictures were my go to back in the day. Plus the Sunday night song requests on the radio.
Haha..yeah mate, Karyn Hay popped into my head reading your comment👍
@@HannibalLekta-qg2ip I just Googled her. She is now 65. Do you feel as old as I do? I'm 67.
@@ekkythump3706 Awww nah you're a spring chicken, I'm 54...watching videos like this a tonne of memories start flooding back from the 70's, 80's & 90's...great time growing up through those decades
I couldn't stand radio with pictures, but Ready to Roll was a ritual every Saturday at 6.00pm for me and my mates❤miss those days hard😢
watching this is our home in Grey Lynn with the 2 channels we had. wow this brings back memories
I remember the original theme being Machine Gun by the Commodores.
Nostalgia - I literally closed my eyes & the amount of awesome memories of growing up in the 80's came flooding back 👍 thanks 😊
the 80s zzzzzz such good music then
Loved been a kid in the 80s, every Saturday night id watch RTR countdown
As a kiwi kid growing up in the 70s & 80s, I HAD to watch this show every Saturday. Once I got an idea of the charts I recorded what I needed on the Top 40(?) countdown on Sunday radio . Mu dad always bought the Sunday Times paper which had the Top 40 listed which helped as well. Even the late 70s RTR was great with the Police, etc. Also, we got Australian & NZ music as well.
Back in yesteryear loving the 80’s, Saturday night top20 & who also remembers RTR Video Releases on Wednesday afternoon’s
Thanks so much for uploading this. It was freaky to see how many of those artists have now passed away! Great compilation!
Best 55 mins I’ve ever spent on UA-cam.
Seems like there were a lot more legends in the charts back then. I barely recognise anyone in the charts now.
Fabulous memories watching this, Saturday night home after sport of some kind, getting ready to go out, having RTR blasting, the good thing is that it kept you up with local and overseas breaking bands and was easy to follow. Hearing these songs throughout mid 80s was very nostalgic and emotion of great friends, awesome nightclubs where we danced all night in Dunedin with the Uni students etc.. and travelled overseas as often as we could.. I took my fist 6 week Contiki through Europe in 85 and this music was pumping for 6 weeks in the bus and clubs on tour, man we had fun...thanks for bringing back so many beautiful memories of our saturday nights before internet and mobile phones..hearing everyone of these songs I have a place and a memory to go back to..a great time to be 20 in the mid 80s...
46 here, and wow what a time to be alive back then. Was the best bro. 2022??? Not so much
Oh wow that starting credit screen, I feel like my mum is going to yell at me that its bath time now. I used to make it back in time for Flying Doctors.
From all of us in the UK to our Kiwi friends, we're really sorry you guys had to put up with Star Trekkin' too. At least it looks like it was kept off of number one. We didn't even have that mercy. 🖖
so many great songs back then ,i miss those days of my teen years ,i'll never stop playing the eighties music
Watching the 3rd Aug. '85 top twenty, the oddball in that mix seems to be Bryan Adams' "Heaven", the rest is a lot more British, which is kinda how it felt for me as a kid in the '80s. Power ballads, hard-rock ballads were the exceptions on the radio, but I was happy with that, maybe a touch of Foreigner or Starship.
Ready to Roll and...of course.... Radio With Pictures. Nostalgia writ large. 👏👏
Whoever put this together is a *STAR* ! ⭐⭐⭐
Just lying in bed with a huge grin on my face. 😊 Never missed RTR.
Thanks for this nostalgia hit. Loved RTR every week. Never got on with Radio with Pictures - only ever watched the end of it just before the Sunday Night Horrors.
I was probably watching most of these that the first time when it was on TV here in NZ. That was THE show to watch on Saturday night to talk about the following Monday at school.
Wow. I always used to wait for the RTR before going out. 🤭 I forgot that Star Trekkin actually made it to #2? Lol Crack up. 😆 That’s how strong the British music scene was in the 80’s in NZ and Australia.
Great work! Appointment viewing Saturday tea time in the 80s.
Sat Night was fish n chips ,fizzy & RTR
RTR,That's Very Interesting,Krypton Factor,Top Town,Lotto and MacGyver one or two others if my memory serves me as a kid on a Saturday Night we only had 2channels we had Rashuns aswell
This used to be on ch 2 at 6pm then later in the night there was Radio with pictures playing heavier stuff.
Saturday Night 6pm . RTR Countdown Was the Best program of the week growing up in the 80s , Thanks Rob for putting this together brings back so many good memories of growing up in the 80s Cheers
RTR like Radio With Pictures in New Zealand and Australia had Aussie Countdown.Europe had a few in Netherlands and Germany specially.UK had Top Of The Pops.US had Solid Gold, Soul Train and American Bandstand all many many more others what they started and came up with bless to be part of it huge in Music circles
Wow,, doesn't that make the memories come flooding back.......
who else is now adding songs to their spotify playlist
yessss hahahhahahahaa!
Recordings started to get very slick by 85
1983, RTR was still on TV One with the other fun stuff :)
It’s crazy how this takes me back to being on the lounge floor pushing Play/Record on the VCR to capture my favourites and the countdown. Some of the sequences take me right back to exact birthday parties of a particular month, bopping around itchycoo park or how excited or annoyed I would be at the number one.
Omg you've just made me feel old. I remember this as a kid along with count homogenised .
'83 i was 8 😢 only programme we were allowed to watch while eating.
Back when we only had the two channels, damm, i miss those years. You played outside rain hail or shine, because there was no other option. But when the street lights came on, you knew what you had to do or else.
I preferred the cutting edge, alternative music on Radio with Pictures, but it was a real trip down memory lane watching this. I always liked the Kiwi and Aussie bands from the 80s.
Loved RTR back in the day and watched religiously. Great memories.
Network 2 in 87! That was cool to see. Amazing how long it kept the same intro! No wonder I find things so fast pace these days!
Glad you enjoyed it
Thanks to this entire compilation, I now have an RTR playlist. What a trip
Those were the days. Sad that NZ was so starved of hard rock and metal back then, though. If not for Karyn Hay, I might never have found my true calling 😁
Thanks for this! Now recalling being at dad's work at night and watching this on the TV up high. All I remember was that Beat It seemed to be No 1 every week and how cool the video was.
Joan Armatrading, Style Council, New Order, Phil Bailey, Simple Minds, Powerstation, Talking Heads- damn we were spoiled back then.
When I was a kid I had to go to bed early except on Saturday night when I was allowed to stay up and watch Ready to Roll. That was back in the 1970s.
Jeez, you must have had some incrediblely strict parents
It was on at 6pm
@@dontcomply3976 - 6pm was my bed time except when Ready to Roll was on. The only other time I was allowed to stay up late was when there was a Telethon.
Thank you so much - what a flashback, even to my 21st in (circa) 1988 --- lmao
The memories. Thank you sir.
I am 43 and I still remember the 80s. I was only a kid then but I remember.
So much fantastic music. Time really does go by so fast.
How many of you also used to make bootleg tapes of RTR by putting your parents tape recorder up against the TV?
A little more high tech i would record the show on vcr and plug the audio out from the vcr into the aux in on my tape deck and record it that way.
I felt like a kid again watching this I still have beta video recordings in storage of these
Woe just woe shot pal the New Zealand Charts couldn't believe i live in that Country amazing bit diverse great research the vibes and sound will never be beaten or reach cause it's the greatest decade of all time never to forget miss it so much oh hail the 80s.Haywoode and Maurice White snuck in what were they thinking and one or two others u wouldn't thought wherever u are or from in the World rare at it's finest thats the 80s.1988 top 20 was cool and the last one Top 10 1989
I fricken loved the 80's, miss those days😩 such cruzy times, memories, I thoroughly enjoyed my teen years during that period. Awesom memories came pouring back🥰 I hate the crap they play now🤬🤦🏻♀️
Come on, some of it ain't that bad 😆
anyone remember how they would cut number 1 songs shorter each week if they were #1 too long... "end of the road" helped me pick up on that lol
Watch RTR with your parents, then sneak out late and watch RWP with your mates.
Extraordinary. Highight of the week watching these on a Saturday night
So much to unpack and loving it, thank you. Got sad a few times with many having passed but wow what a trip!!!
Those were great days, memories and some of the best music. Madonna is still going strong today. I loved 💕 the 80s. This was a great show and Top of the Pops 😊
Thank you so much for this. So many happy memories!
This is a trip back in time ❤
I remember this countdown - the timing we are looking at around October/November 1983!
The Grunt Machine!
great nostalgia trip, thanks - so much homegrown talent, too - who could forget Dave and the Dynamos? ok, most of us, apparently.
I can remember watching Ready To Roll every Saturday night many, many years ago. A great time for music
I'm so old now hahaha...and glad that I am ❤️
I always remember Saturday at 6pm!. May have only run for a half hour, but, it was a must to watch before heading out on a Saturday night to boogie to the latest music. Used to also have Radio with pictures or even Top of the Pops, which I think we all preferred. Those were days, until they were taken off air and disbanded. 😢😢😢
That’s impressive. A lot went into making that video.
Man,was a fan of Ready to Roll!
Was great to see your fave vid clips when it came on
I do remember the intro with the Commodores "Machine Gun" song..
These are awesome memories of recording them on VHS
Thanks for the upload Uso!
Been living in the USA for a few decades now,but distinctively remember this growing up in Nz
Fantastic compilation! at 51:19 sounds like the new RTR theme was remade with a Fairlight CMI!
Virtually every track in the top 20 is a classic that’s listened to decades later … today? Forgettable music. Who’s gonna be pumping out ‘Blank Space’ at their reunion or sporting event in 50 years time?
Thanks for uploading this (and for taping it back then!). Can remember when most of these were in the charts and what I was doing at the time...nice trip down memory lane. Loved RTR Countdown (and Ready to Roll coming out of the 70s).
this video made me aware of some songs that didn't even reach my country.
19 was no.1 for ages
Thanks for the trip down memory lane 🙂
This is CHOICE! Such great memories ❤ This & goodnight kiwi at midnight
Nice one i remember all those nz only had 2 channels and everyone's watched RTR
The Machine Gun intro would have done it.
This one? ua-cam.com/video/thJqpY4Lal0/v-deo.htmlsi=8Rdo-mBNyrQDAH-5
Awesome video, Ready to Roll was a fav as well, great to see the impact Kiwi musicians were making back then charting it with the world greats, tumeke Aotearoa....cheers for the vid.
this is absolute gold.
Good job putting it together Rob. I remember watching the recordings back in the day.
What happened to the old school Ready to Roll theme?
This one? ua-cam.com/video/thJqpY4Lal0/v-deo.htmlsi=8Rdo-mBNyrQDAH-5
@@Ready-To-Roll yep, the old Commodores jam.
Ah Laura Branigan 'Solitaire', or as I sang it - 'Solitary, your nose is hairy!!!!!'
Ah, good times
The Nostalgia is destructive
Great compilation of a great time. Cheers mate.
Fab memories with this classic Kiwi show. Oh how I loved watching RTR Countown every Saturday & for some weird reason I used to race the TV writing down the top 20 as it was being counted down. 🤦🏻♀️
OMG i loved this show back in the day
I had no idea U2's Unforgettable Fire went so high. I'm amazed how slowly songs moved up and down the chart. 6pm every Saturday, clashed with 6 o clock news on One, sometimes didn't get to see these 😭
Songs definitely moved up and down the chart more slowly back then, or even than 10 years after this. Radio play was crucial.
Well said i agree very slow going up or down the Charts were that's New Zealand in a nutshell compared to the powerhouse of the US even UK bit quicker.Alive And Kicking great song seem to be around quite awhile
Yeah also had the 6pm news clash: RTR was a rarity for us. Still, caught it sometimes and then of course the songs always crackled across AM radio!
Crikey the fights we used to have with the old man as he wanted the news and his kids wanted RtR!!!
How much I'd pay to have those fights again lol....
@@jollyroger1009 I remember the arrival of FM radio in 1983, when I was 7. My little AM transistor became obsolete. However, we got used to FM super quick. I listened to Kiwi FM.
This takes me back to my childhood. I shared a bedroom with my older brother, and the walls were riddled with alot of these very artists😂this was the years I explored reggae (Bob Marley & more) and Blues(SRV)