Oh God, anything for a time-machine to take me back to the 70's - Tony Blackburn, Dave Lee Travis and my favourite breakfast host - Noel Edmonds !. Wonderful times when the biggest and most serious worry was acne !
The rewind sono jingle was used on GEM AM in Nottingham so was "Radio 1. It's a great good morning" as "GEM spells solid Gold. All across the Great East Midlands"
The intro that he played when he said ''I'll tell you about that around 0:36 was from Cliff Richards then new song ''Hey Mr dream maker'' This is when Radio one was really good.
Ow bless him. Although ironically nowadays you could legitimately get an AI to sample Blackburn's own voice and synthesize any sentence (minus the ad-libbing and existential breakdown).
+John Valencia My apologies - it was an error in the way I captured the material off cassette! I'd gone too far down the road with digitising, editing and uploading before I realised what had happened. Hope it doesn't spoil everyone's enjoyment too much :)
Interesting - this isn't my own compilation, I picked it up from somewhere along the way so I'm not sure where the date came from. Listening to Paddy O'Byrne's top story of black ice, it feels like mid September is unlikely. Plus, according to Wikipedia, Queen's single "Somebody to Love" was released on 12th November '76 and Tony says it's "the number 2 sound"... so that places the first part of this recording as.... ....
RetroRadioUK I think this comes from the JAM website which dates it as Thursday 9 December 1976. My records from that time confirm that Paddy was on newsreading duty that day. Incidentally Paddy died in December last year.
Oh God, anything for a time-machine to take me back to the 70's - Tony Blackburn, Dave Lee Travis and my favourite breakfast host - Noel Edmonds !. Wonderful times when the biggest and most serious worry was acne !
Tony Blackburn he is a legend
what a great time it was
Tony had been off the air for a while and returned on the 6 December 1976
The rewind sono jingle was used on GEM AM in Nottingham so was "Radio 1. It's a great good morning" as "GEM spells solid Gold. All across the Great East Midlands"
GEM is still a great radio station on the internet.
The intro that he played when he said ''I'll tell you about that around 0:36 was from Cliff Richards then new song ''Hey Mr dream maker'' This is when Radio one was really good.
Do you know the track at 1:16? or is that part of a jingle 😂
Ow bless him. Although ironically nowadays you could legitimately get an AI to sample Blackburn's own voice and synthesize any sentence (minus the ad-libbing and existential breakdown).
I presume the news was cut short...otherwise it was a very slow news day!
At random I hear a pseudo stereo effect...what's all this about ?!
+digitalmediafan You're right - my apologies. It was a problem I had with some of my early encodes, most (hopefully!) don't suffer from this.
+RetroRadioUK OK no worries shame we never had c-quam am stereo but still poptastic, thanks for the upload
Early encodes?? What? The stereo field is jerking around all the time? Why?
+John Valencia
My apologies - it was an error in the way I captured the material off cassette! I'd gone too far down the road with digitising, editing and uploading before I realised what had happened. Hope it doesn't spoil everyone's enjoyment too much :)
I thought it was the 247 signal fading like it used to.
Where was this recorded 247 am seems very strong
I suspect the date is incorrect as the JAM jingles weren't used until 2 October 1976. It's obviously a Monday, perhaps 12 Sept 1977?
Interesting - this isn't my own compilation, I picked it up from somewhere along the way so I'm not sure where the date came from. Listening to Paddy O'Byrne's top story of black ice, it feels like mid September is unlikely. Plus, according to Wikipedia, Queen's single "Somebody to Love" was released on 12th November '76 and Tony says it's "the number 2 sound"... so that places the first part of this recording as.... ....
RetroRadioUK I think this comes from the JAM website which dates it as Thursday 9 December 1976. My records from that time confirm that Paddy was on newsreading duty that day. Incidentally Paddy died in December last year.
great dj
Great clip but black ice on the 12th September think you must have to date wrong?!
Tim Ward You're absolutely right - as others have pointed out in this thread... it feels like it's more likely to be December '76. Thanks!
Goddamn those radio effects are the most obnoxious thing ever. No wonder he went crazy
Tony wasn't too far off the mark with his predictions of automated radio...
we got them