Program for Friday 30th. November

The last day of Spring......and expected to be more like the middle of Summer, with a forecast maximum temperature of 35 degrees.

The core of today's program is the music from "Heartbeat", the ITV television series set in 1960s rural England and now being shown three times a week here on 7TWO.
I discovered on Monday that they are re-running the original series from the very start (first aired in 1992, would you believe?!), so it prompted me to dig out the 2-CD album and use it as the focus for Friday's show.

In addition to the music from "Heartbeat" I will be presenting other tracks from the Sixties and of course a half-hour 1950s comedy spot after the 3:00 PM news and weather.
This Friday's offering is "Robin Hood", a Goon Show that was first broadcast on the BBC (and soon after on ABC radio here in Australia) on the 2nd. December 1956. So we are celebrating the 56th. anniversary of its debut.

And as we are now less than a month away from Christmas Eve I will include a couple of appropriately-seasonal songs. Not carols, but pop-tunes that made the charts over the past few decades.

So please join me for some fun and laughter as we go back in time and wallow in nostalgia!

Monday - Easy Listening, 1960s and Hancock

After the 10:00 AM news and weather the comedy spot for today's show will feature a classic Hancock's Half-Hour - "Hancock's School", from 4th. March 1958 (number 7 of Series 5 and the 75th. radio show since it began).
For your interest, the radio series ran from November 2nd. 1954 to December 29th. 1959, after which the show became a TV production.

The music selection this morning will focus on the Easy Listening and 1960s Hits genres.

As always, you can tune in with your computer or smart-phone by clicking on the internet streaming link Listen Live in the menu bar on the right-hand side of this column.

The menu - Friday 23rd. November

Today I will be playing hits and easy-listening tracks from 1953 through to 1968 - a random selection of the music that was broadcast over that 15-year period.

The comedy piece for this afternoon's half-hour following the 3:00 PM news & weather will be a Goon Show, "The Personal Narrative of Captain Ned Seagoon", first broadcast by the BBC on the 22nd. November 1956 - that's 56 years ago almost exactly to the day.
How old were you and what were you doing on this day in 1956?

Please join me for three hours of reminiscing, either over the airwaves on 89.5 FM or through our Internet Streaming app.

Program for Monday 19th. November



Cast of Hancock's Half-Hour in January 1957, from left-to-right:
Kenneth Williams, Tony Hancock, Bill Kerr, Sid James and Hattie Jaques

The Ten O'Clock Comedy spot for today will feature an episode of Hancock's Half-Hour, from January 27th. 1957, entiltled "Wild Man Of The Woods", in which Tony decides to abandon modern society and live the life of a hermit!

This recording stars Tony Hancock, Sid James, Bill Kerr, Hattie Jacques and Kenneth Williams - arguably the best array of talent of the Hancock years.

The music for today will consist of a selection of popular music and hits from across the 1950s, 60s, 70s and also a wander into the 1980s.

So please join me on Valley FM 89.5 either across the airwaves or by clicking on our Internet Streaming link .

What's on the menu for Friday 16th.?

I'm going back to the 1950s for the majority of the content for today's show and it will include not only the numbers that were on the official pop charts of the day but also music that we now consider to be "middle of the road" or "easy listening".

In addition, following the news & weather at 3:00 PM, I will be playing a selection of skits from the "Round The Horne" series and episode 1 of "The Curse Of The Flying Wombat", from the "I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again" radio show from the 1960s.

Cast of "Round The Horne", 1963.

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Off air on Monday 12th. November

I will be out of Canberra on Monday so the show will pause until the normal Friday timeslot - 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM - on the 16th. November.

Back to 1960 on Friday 9th. November

Today I'll be featuring the music of 1960 that was coming out of our transistor radios - or maybe you were also lucky enough to have parents who bought you a portable record player!



Whatever method you used to listen to your favourite music back then, you can now enjoy it not only over the radio but also by tuning into our internet streaming service (currently finalising testing).

Monday 5th. November - 1958, 1961 & 1963.

 
The core of tomorrow morning's Baby Boomer Radio show will be the pop-music we were listening to in the years 1958, 1961 and 1963.

From 1958 comes a selection of the Top 20 international hits for the month of January; for 1961 we will hear hits that were aired throughout the whole year and for 1963 it's a look at some of the music which made the Top 20 for that year.

Interspersed throughout the 3-hour show will be songs from such singers as Jo Stafford (1950s), Marianne Faithfull, Sarah Vaughan and Dionne Warwick (1960s) and Matt Monro (1970s).

To round out the presentation I will be including another episode of "Hancock's Half-Hour", first broadcast fifty-six years ago when it went to air on the BBC on the 16th. December 1956.
The espisode is entitled "The Espresso Bar" and, along with Tony Hancock, features Bill Kerr, Sid James, Hattie Jacques and Kenneth Williams.
I will be airing this comedy segment immediately following the 10:00 AM news and weather.

So please join me at 9:00 AM either by tuning into 89.5 Valley FM on your radio or via the Internet Stream Test .