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New Documentary hosted by Johnnie Walker next Saturday

 
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NickSheffield



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PostPosted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 9:09 am    Post subject: New Documentary hosted by Johnnie Walker next Saturday Reply with quote

It's called 'Soundscape of 1969' - bound to be excellent with Johnnie at the helm:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00m750h

I notice they're billing it as Radio 2's annual soundscape. Have they ever done this before?
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 3:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm looking forward to this, it was the first year that I bought records with my own pocket money. It took me weeks to save up enough to buy one single though! Smile
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 3:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mixed feelings about 1969 from my point of view but I'll record it, listen a couple of times and probably like it.
I quite enjoy these music/news of the day type features.. I've mentioned before that I have a complete set of similar progs broadcast in the 80s by the beeb - can't remember what the series was called but it went from 1955 to the 80s I think.
1969? I was working on a sea front Bingo and earning £14 per week.. Razz
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 5:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I seem to remember something like that on Radio 1 way back when. Wasn't it called 'The Story Of Pop'? If not that, then something very similar.
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 5:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'll have to dig out the tapes but maybe it was "The Rock & Roll Years"? Each sunday was the next year in the sequence and between the music tracks were news headlines/stories with the sound of a teleprinter clanking away in the background... pretty good listening now I would think....
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 8:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

1969....

I was still into the Beatles but first heard Led Zep and prog rock that year, my O-levels year


I was also getting into Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart etc. Smile bought a bunch of Decca and Classics For Pleasure LPs which I still have. Four Seasons, Brandenburgs, Mozart's Clarinet Quintet, Mendelssohn's Octet, Grieg's Piano Concerto (the soloist Peter Katin posts on R3 messageboard nowadays!).


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PostPosted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 10:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Lord Evan Elpuss wrote:
I seem to remember something like that on Radio 1 way back when. Wasn't it called 'The Story Of Pop'? If not that, then something very similar.


Yes that's right. It was originally made in the mid-70s and I have a copy of one of those 60-minute programmes about Pirate Radio, narrated by Alan Freeman.

"Rock & Roll Years" was an ongoing BBC television series which featured 2 years in each edition. I have several of those on VHS although I must digitise them sometime!
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 21, 2009 9:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Cheers for the link, I dont recall hearing a trailer for this on Radio 2 typical, something decent and they dont bother yet repeat endless trailers for Wright and Evans!!
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 12:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

colby wrote:
Lord Evan Elpuss wrote:
I seem to remember something like that on Radio 1 way back when. Wasn't it called 'The Story Of Pop'? If not that, then something very similar.


Yes that's right. It was originally made in the mid-70s ...


Er, sorry Colby, it isn't right Laughing
I dug out the tapes I mentioned and the radio series was called "25 Years of Rock"
I've listened to about a third of Saturday's programme and guess what? it's exactly the same programme - re-broadcast complete with clanking teleprinter!
So, Radio two will have at least another 24 "Soundscape" programmes to churn out again...
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 3:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Just listened to the original programme on tape and for anybody interested, it was episode number 15 (1969), the theme music played weekly at the end of each show was " Oh Well" by Fleetwood Mac and it even sounded like Johhnie Walker giving the credits at the end as follows..

Programme researched by John Tavor & Pete Frame
Produced by Trevor Dan
Series devised by Stuart Grundy
and was a Radio One Production in association with Billboard Magazine.. Laughing

Following the programme was a chap called Peter Claven(?) introducing his "Sounds of Jazz" (8pm until 10pm ) featuring Dick Charlesworth and the Phil Rhodes Band. .............. mmmm, nice! Laughing

unfortunately, none of the above names mean anything to me at all.
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 5:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've digitised mine and have it on CD somewhere - doesn't sound bad considering it was recorded off AM radio god-knows-when. The recording I have about the Pirates was re-broadcast just after the Radio Caroline ship, the Mi Amigo, ran aground in 1974 (I think) and they were a bit premature in reporting on "the end of an era" (Radio Caroline returned when the ship had been repaired).

It was re-packaged as an "Insight" programme (Newly-added intro V/O by Pete Drummond, I recall) and called "The Story of the Pirates" or something, narrated by Alan Freeman. I do remember it being mentioned at the end that it had previously been broadcast in a series called "The Story of Pop", but I could be wrong.

Now where is the file???
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 9:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Interesting that this show has been aired but what I would like is for the Pirate Johnnie Walker shows to return. Fantastic radio.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 5:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Powerfulglenith wrote:
Interesting that this show has been aired but what I would like is for the Pirate Johnnie Walker shows to return. Fantastic radio.


Yes I agree totally, radio how radio used to be! We can but hope. Very Happy
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 5:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Tune in to 1260 KYA from San Francisco and you'll have it - non stop golden oldies and old Radio1 style jingles too.. Razz
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 5:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

SantaFefan wrote:
Tune in to 1260 KYA from San Francisco and you'll have it - non stop golden oldies and old Radio1 style jingles too.. Razz

On what do I need to tune into to get this please? I think someone (possibly you) mentioned this before.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 9:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Either Google it or paste www.kyaradio.com/ into your browser and it'll bring it up.
( Click on "Listen Live"....... If it doesn't play, select "audio not working?" just below "listen Live" and select Media Player from the options it offers.)
I use it a lot and, according to their announcements, so do many more European listeners.
This and K92FM Country ( also available over the net ) are the most listened to radio stations in our house.
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 27, 2009 8:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

SantaFefan wrote:
Either Google it or paste www.kyaradio.com/ into your browser and it'll bring it up.
( Click on "Listen Live"....... If it doesn't play, select "audio not working?" just below "listen Live" and select Media Player from the options it offers.)
I use it a lot and, according to their announcements, so do many more European listeners.
This and K92FM Country ( also available over the net ) are the most listened to radio stations in our house.


Thanks for this, I will certainly give it a try.
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 27, 2009 8:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

There's so much good "radio" out there on the old interwebby thingey - more than you can eveer listen to during an average day.

I often wonder around cyberspace looking for interesting stations when I'm working at home in the afternoons and early evenings - anything but have to listen to the rubbish that R2 throws at us between 2.00pm and 7.00pm!
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