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iwarburton



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PostPosted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 1:00 pm    Post subject: Ray Moore Reply with quote

Best ever.

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PostPosted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 12:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Was Ray Moore the presenter who died of throat cancer? I used to like listening to his programme.
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 1:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

marietta honeybun wrote:
Was Ray Moore the presenter who died of throat cancer? I used to like listening to his programme.


Yes, he was. He died in 1989, aged only 47. His story is told very movingly in his 1988 autobiography Tomorrow Is Too Late and continued by his widow, Alma, in Tomorrow --Who Knows about two years later? Well worth gettting from ebay or a second hand bookshop.

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PostPosted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 3:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

1989 was the same year we lost the wonderful Roger Scott.
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 9:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ray was lovely, a voice like velvet, I still miss hearing him.
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 9:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Gatport Airwick!

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PostPosted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 3:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes, Ray Moore, he was the greatest and all those pretenders who have followed since his death are just not in the same league.

Never used to spend the whole show talking about himself!! Smile Smile
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 22, 2006 7:39 pm    Post subject: Re: Ray Moore Reply with quote

iwarburton wrote:
Best ever.

IaN.


Brilliant radio presenter, wonderful man, not quite my favourite R2 presenter of all time but so close you could barely get a fag paper between him & a bunch of others Very Happy
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 5:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Tomorrow was too late..............
I never realised how good he was until he'd gone. Sad
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 11:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I miss Ray Moore quite a bit, especially around CiN time, I have fond memories of him doing his bog eyed jog around that time of year.

I also miss Stewpot, but I suspect that won't go down too well with alot of radio 2 listeners,lol.
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 11:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It goes down well with this one Peek, I really miss Ed's Sunday show! I miss the music variation. Johnnie's great but Ed was just right for Sunday afternoons.
Nice one Lesley!
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 12:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

SantaFefan wrote:
It goes down well with this one Peek, I really miss Ed's Sunday show! I miss the music variation. Johnnie's great but Ed was just right for Sunday afternoons.
Nice one Lesley!



SantaFe, I was lucky enough to catch some of Stewpot's show on a digital station either over christmas or new year ( can't remember which) , and it was like putting on a comfy pair of slippers again...bliss!
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 12:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ed wasn't relly my cup of tea to be honest but each to their own, glad you enjoyed listening to him again. Smile
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 4:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Peek wrote:
I also miss Stewpot, but I suspect that won't go down too well with alot of radio 2 listeners,lol.


I dont know why not. Ed seems to be appreciate more now after his leaving.
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 11:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ray, was one of those people who didn't get the recognition he deserved until after he died. He was witty, charming and had a marvellous voice. But no doubt, if he was here with us now, there would be one or two who would pick fault with him.
Maybe in a few years, once SW is kicking up daisies, he'll get the same sort of reception...........But not just yet, eh? Laughing
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 7:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I wasn't listening to Radio 2 at the time Ray was on the air, so I knew him best as the voice on the programme trailers on BBC 1. I'd love to hear recordings of his Radio 2 output if anyone has any - there's precious little surviving in the BBC archives (I think it's one complete show from around 1982, and excerpts from his last show in 1988 - hardly representative)

I can second Ian's recommendations of the two books as well. Anyone know what 'Management' is up to these days, or even if she's still alive?
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 9:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Without doubt one of the five greatest British radio presenters of all time. I can't hear the end of Cyndi Lauper's True Colours without remembering that he thought at the time (1986) that she was singing about him!
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 11:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nickherts wrote:
I can't hear the end of Cyndi Lauper's True Colours without remembering that he thought at the time (1986) that she was singing about him!
Thanks for bringing such a nice memory flooding back. All together now: "So don't be afraid, to let them show. Your true colours, true colours, are beautiful....like a Ray Moore". He was absolutely brilliant, wasn't he?
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 7:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Did anyone else hear Sarah Kennedy play Ray Moore's Children In Need record 'The Bog Eyed Jog' this morning?
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 10:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Woke up to it playing softly on the radio (having fallen asleep to Janice Long). I didn't hear what SK said about it and Listen Again is on the blink but it must be 20 years since he left the studio for the last time - can hardly believe it.
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 12:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Just about spot on. His last radio broadcast was in January 1988 (though he was on Wogan's TV show some time after that) and he died in January 1989--what a miss he still is.

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 11:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's Ray for me as well, though I was in my late teens when he died, Dad absolutely loved him and so did I. Such a shame, I'd love to hear him and TW have one of their chats just one more time
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 2:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks, MarcB, for this and other postings.

Don't think I've seen your name before but you sound like a man of good taste and discernment. I look forward to hearing much more from you.

Ian.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 7:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

If you go to You Tube and search for Ray Moore, there are some great clips, especially one of Wogan interviewing Ray after a rendition of " My Father Caught a Rabbit".
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 9:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Just been watchin Vicar of Dibley and they were playing Elton's Crocodile Rock - I always think of Ray when I hear it as I remember him starting with it at 5.30 on a couple of cold winter mornings and it putting a big smile on my face at his attempt to do the la lala laa bit! Top man
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 10:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Peek wrote:
If you go to You Tube and search for Ray Moore, there are some great clips, especially one of Wogan interviewing Ray after a rendition of " My Father Caught a Rabbit".


enjoyed the clips (didnt his backing singers look young Laughing )

still miss that voice
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 2:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It has to be Ray Moore. Sadly lost, but fondly remembered!
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 12:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's 22 years today since we lost Ray. Still fondly remembered.

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PostPosted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 2:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've been planning to put together an audio tribute to Ray on my blog. It won't be ready until the weekend so I'll post a link when it's up. I've got some extracts from the Early Shows plus the tribute programmes that were broadcast in 1989. Also got an edition of the 'Monday Movie Quiz' and 'Pop Score' when Ray chaired it.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 12:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Great news--bring it on!

I've got on my Spotify playlist the Ray Conniff Singers' piece For All We Know, so often played by Ray when he was going away on holiday.

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PostPosted: Sun Jan 16, 2011 5:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've posted a number of Ray Moore audio artefacts on my blog. Click here: http://www.andywalmsley.blogspot.com/

The little montage should play online. All the programme extracts can be downloaded.

I'd love to hear from anyone who taped any of Ray's shows especially his Late Shows or the special interviews he did such as the one with Richard & Karen Carpenter.

There's a bit of audio, including 15 mins from an Early Show over at the Radio Rewind site

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PostPosted: Wed Mar 09, 2022 2:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Andy W wrote:
I've posted a number of Ray Moore audio artefacts on my blog. Click here: http://www.andywalmsley.blogspot.com/

The little montage should play online. All the programme extracts can be downloaded.

I'd love to hear from anyone who taped any of Ray's shows especially his Late Shows or the special interviews he did such as the one with Richard & Karen Carpenter.

There's a bit of audio, including 15 mins from an Early Show over at the Radio Rewind site

Andy

That was a nice listen.

On a walk this morning I heard a delightfully daft record on Radio Lancashire's Unforgettable.

Listening to who it was at the end it turned out to be Ray Moore with Bog Eyed Jog. Very Happy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPN6jCbttYA

I see it's been mentioned a couple of times on this thread - I can't think I've ever heard it before.
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