The Baby Boomer Radio Show returns!

Yes, indeed it has!
Not to TLC-FM 100.3 in Yamba, however, but to Valley FM 89.5 in the ACT.

This is the station where I first became involved in community radio, back at the beginning of this century and even when I moved here to Yamba in 2014 I would record the local show, edit it down to an hour and that would then be aired on Valley FM later in the week.
A similar procedure will be used for the revived program and whilst the program kicks off in a one-hour format, within a couple of weeks it will be extended to a two-hour show.

So commencing on Tuesday 3rd. December the new Baby Boomer will go to air at 1800 (6:00 PM) and will be replayed at 2105 (9:05 PM) each Thursday.

Format will be similar to what I've been doing for the past umpteen years; a veritable smörgåsbord of music with Top Forty hits from the Sixties, Seventies, Eighties, the occasional wander into the Nineties, Easy Listening, and every so often a snippet of comedy from some of the classic BBC radio shows of the 1950s and 1960s.

If you are a Baby Boomer then please join me and enjoy a relaxing trip down memory lane.
If you are a young whipper-snapper you just might hear something that you will enjoy!

Relocating to Yamba, NSW

From May 21st. the Baby-Boomer Radio Show will be heard on 2TLC (The Lower Clarence) 100.3, the community radio station located in Yamba, on the mouth of the Clarence River.

The program is scheduled for Wednesday afternoons, from midday until 4:00 PM, and will follow the same format as has been presented for the past several years in Canberra.

Please join me and wallow in the deep end of the nostalgia pool of pop music and radio comedy from the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.

Updating

The Baby-Boomer Radio Show has been running now since October 2012, with the core of each program being the hits of the 1950s through 1970s.

Therefore I have decided that, as the general format of my program is now widely known, I won't be providing advance information for every show, only those which will include any changes or additions to the core content.

So this Friday's show - 28th. June 2013 will feature - at 2:30 PM - the final episode in Series One of The Hitch-Hikers Guide To The Galaxy.

Tune in each Monday at 9:00 AM and each Friday at 2:00 PM for three hours of nostalgia as I take you back to the golden years of pop music.

Monday, 17th. June 2013

A bit of the 1970s is the focus for today's program, with a lucky-dip of hits from throughout that decade.
In addition, I will be including a selection of 1950s, 1960s and Easy Listening tracks for your enjoyment.

The Comedy Half-hour from 9:30 AM will feature another classic Goon Show, today's being entitled "The Personal Narrative of Captain Neddy Seagoon, RN", first aired by the BBC on the 22nd. November, 1956.
This is the full-length show, which includes the musical interludes by Max Geldray, harmonicarist extraordinaire, and Ray Ellington and his group.

Friday 14th. June 2013

What does a pretty girl (she is wearing something underneath that short dress, isn't she?) on an Italian motor-scooter have to do with today's program?
Absolutely nothing - other than the fact that I will now have to include Besame Mucho in the music line-up!
I have two versions available - an instrumental by Ray Conniff and his orchestra and a vocal arrangement by Julie London. Maybe I should include both in the three-hour show.

That will set the theme for today's session - a mixed bag of everything good from the golden years of pop music.

And don't forget that, at 2:30 PM - the new time-slot - it will be Episode 4 of  The Hitch-Hikers Guide To The Galaxy, the radio serial (of Douglas Adams' book) created by the BBC in 1978.

Join me, all you Baby-boomers, for a fun afternoon!!

Program for Friday 26th. April

Another smorgasbord of music from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s....plus a dabble in the waters of the 1990s and 2000s!

Yes - a veritable feast of hits from across the past fifty years and to cap it off, the Comedy Spot which follows the 3:00 PM news & weather will be another classic Hancock's Half-hour.

This one comes from the first TV series, in which Sid James also featured, and is a classic in its own right - "Twelve Angry Men" - a wonderful parody of the 1957 dramatic movie of the same name.

Here's the playlist:-

• Chulu Chululu - Bill & Boyd (1964) *
• Easier Said Than Done - Laurel Lea (1965) *
• 99 Red Balloons - Nena (1983)
• Blowin' In The Wind - Peter, Paul & Mary (1963)
• Come On, Come Out - A Fine Frenzy [Alison Sudol] (2008)
• Daisy Petal Pickin' - Jimmy Gilmer & the Fireballs (1963)
• Dancing Queen - ABBA (1976)
• Dawn (Go Away) - the Four Seasons (1964)
• Fool, Fool, Fool - Ray Brown & the Whispers (1965) *
• Forget Him - Bobby Rydell (1963)
• GTO - Ronny & the Daytonas (1964)
• Hawaiian Lollipops - the Waikikis (1965)
• I Go To Rio - Peter Allen (1976) *
• I'll Never Fall In Love Again - Dionne Warwick (1969)
• I'm In Love Again - Dinah Lee (1965) *
• I'm Telling You Now - Freddie & the Dreamers (1965)
• Jezebel - Rob E.G. (1963) *
• Judy's Turn To Cry - Leslie Gore (1963)
• Lady Rose - Mungo Jerry (1971)
• Laughing Boy - Mary Wells (1963)
• Mecca - Gene Pitney (1963)
• Moonlight Feels Right - Starbuck (1976)
• My Guy - Mary Wells (1964)
• Only You (theme from "The Young Victoria") - Sinead O'Connor (2009)
• Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison (1964)
• Ruby Baby - Dion (1963)
• Silhouettes - Herman's Hermits (1965)
• Stay Awhile - Dusty Springfield (1964)
• Tennessee Birdwalk - Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan (1970)
• The Way You Do The Things You Do - the Temptations (1964)
• Then He Kissed Me - the Crystals (1963)
• What Now My Love - the Ventures (1967)
• Whispering - Nino Temple & April Stevens (1963)
• Winchester Cathedral - the New Vaudeville Band (1966)

* denotes Australian artist.

So if you love the hits and pops and easy-listening tunes from the golden years of teenage-radio, please join me at 2:00 PM this Friday for another plunge into the nostalgia pool!

 

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ADVANCE NOTICE!

In a similar fashion to the show that I presented back on March 1st., on Friday (3rd. of May) I will present the first part of the 2UW Fabulous Top Fifty chart as at 3rd. May 1959.

 

The Friday program will cover the first 30 of the Top Fifty and on the following Monday (6th. May) I will present the remaining twenty hits PLUS 2UW's ten best "Recent Releases" (i.e, just released that week and too soon to list in the Top Fifty) AND their "Up-And-Coming" top ten picks.

 

The full playlist will be published on the Wednesday or Thursday preceeding the program.

Playlist for Monday 22nd. April

The start of a new week and today I will be presenting a selection of hits from the period 1963 - 1984, with an emphasis on the year 1964.
Included in the playlist are the following tracks:-

• A Summer Song - Chad & Jeremy (1964)
• Abigail Beecher - Freddy Cannon (1964)
• Baby Love - the Supremes (1964)
• Drip Drop - Dion (1964)
• Eso Beso - Cliff Richard (1965)
• Happy Blue Beat - Dinah Lee (1965)* AUS
• Hey There, Lonely Girl - Eddie Holman (1969)
• I Know A Place - Petula Clark (1965)
• It Hurts To Be In Love - Gene Pitney (1964)
• Little Honda - the Hondells (1964)
• Loving You - Francois Hardy (1968)
• Maybe I Know - Leslie Gore (1964)
• Mississippi - Pussycat (1976)
• Mountain Of Love - Johnny Rivers (1964)
• Much Too Late For Goodbyes - Julian Lennon (1984)
• My Aim Is To Please You - the Executives (1967) AUS
• My Boy Lollipop - Millie Small (1964)
• Navy Blue - Dianne Renay (1964)
• One Fine Day - the Chiffons (1963)
• Puppet On A String - Sandie Shaw (1967)
• San Francisco (Flowers In Your Hair) - Scott Mackenzie (1967)
• The Last Time - the Rolling Stones (1965)
• Walk On By - Dionne Warwick (1964)
• We Can Work It Out - the Beatles (1966)
• Windy - the Ventures (1967)
• Working In A Coalmine - Lee Dorsey (1966)
• You Can't Do That - the Beatles (1964)

* I have included a track from the debut album recorded by Dinah Lee in 1965, "Introducing Dinah Lee".
This LP was produced following her major success that year with her first hit, "Don't You Know, Yockomo?".

Following the 10:00 AM news & weather I will present another classic in the Hancock's Half-hour radio shows, today's entitled "The 13th. Of The Series" and which first went to air on the 6th. of January 1957.

Back to the Seventies! - Monday 8th. April

Today's program takes us back to the era of Mission Brown, Burnt Orange, fondue parties, flared pants, body-shirts, mini-skirts edging lower and, of course, discos!

Yep, we are grooving to the sounds from 40 years ago and the playlist for today will feature the following tracks:-

• Ain't Gonna Bump No More - Joe Tex (1977)
• Alone Again, Naturally - Gilbert O'Sullivan (1972)
• Boom Sha La - Hand Poulson (1970) AUS
• Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkel (1969)
• Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep - Middle Of The Road (1971)
• Don't Pull Your Love Out On Me Baby - Hamilton & Reynolds (1971)
• Everything Is Beautiful - Ray Stevens (1970)
• Free Me - Uriah Heep (1978)
• Get Dancin' - Disco Tex & the Sex-O-Lettes (1975)
• Gimme Dat Ding - Frankie Davidson (1970) AUS
• Heartbeat, It's A Love Beat - DeFranco Family (1973)
• Hey There Lonely Girl - Eddie Holman (1969/70)
• Hold The Line - Toto (1978)
• In The Summertime - the Mixtures (1971) AUS
• Kung Fu Fighting - Carl Douglas (1974)
• Lola - the Kinks (1970)
• Look What They've Done To My Song - the New Seekers (1971)
• Love Can make You Happy - Mercy (1969)
• Love Will Keep Us Together - the Captain & Tenille (1975)
• Melanie Makes Me Smile - the Strangers (1969) AUS
• Moonlight Feels Right - Starbuck (1976)
• Nutbush City Limits - Ike & Tina Turner (1973)
• Oliver's Army - Elvis Costello (1979)
• One Less Bell To Answer - the 5th. Dimension (1970)
• Out Of Time - Chris Farlowe (1966)
• Rock & Roll, Part 1 - Gary Glitter (1972)
• Sarah Smile - Hall & Oates (1976)
• September - Earth, Wind & Fire (1978)
• Shannon - Henry Gross (1975)
• She's Not There - Santana (1972)
• Sky High - Jigsaw (1975)
• Spill The Wine - Eric Burdon (1970)
• Stuck In The Middle With You - Stealers Wheel (1972)
• Sugar Baby Love - the Rubettes (1975)
• The Last Song - Edward Bear (1972)
• The Other Guy - Little River Band (1982) AUS
• Theme from "Rush" - Brian May & ABC Showband (1974) AUS
• Venus - Shocking Blue (1970)
• You Took The Words - Meatloaf (1977)
• Your Momma Don't Dance - Bootleg Family Band - feat. Brian Cadd (1973) AUS

The Comedy Spot following the 10:00 AM news & weather is another classic Hancock's Half-hour from the 1950s.

Program for Friday 5th. April 2013

Baby-Boomer Radio will be presenting a veritable smorgasbord of memories in today's program, with a mix of hits and easy-listening popular music from the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.

The regular comedy spot following the 2:00 PM news & weather will be yet another in the classic Hancock's Half-hour series.

Please join me for a paddle in the deep end of the nostalgia pool.

Monday 18th. March - Easy Listening & Pops

In a similar format to last Friday's program, today will also feature a mix of Easy Listening and Popular music from the 50s, 60s and 70s

The Comedy Spot following the 10:00 AM news and weather will once again feature a classic Hancock's Half-hour from the 1950s.

Just a reminder that you can tune into the program either on your FM radio at 89.5 if in the Tuggeranong area of Canberra, or, no matter where you are living anywhere in the world, via Live Streaming straight into your computer.
There is a link in the right-hand column.

For Friday 15th. March 2013

A mix of all things good from the 50s, 60s and 70s for today's program.
I am not targeting any specific day, week, month or year, so if you enjoy the pop & easy-listening music from those decades then please join me.

The Comedy Spot following the 3:00 PM news and weather will once again feature a classic Hancock's Half-hour from the 1950s.

Just a reminder that you can tune into the program either on your FM radio at 89.5 if in the Tuggeranong area of Canberra, or, no matter where you are living anywhere in the world, via Live Streaming straight into your computer.
Click on the link in the right-hand column and you will be transported!

Program for Monday 11th. March

Today is a public holiday (Canberra Day) in the ACT and this is a special one - we celebrate the 100th. birthday of the nation's capital city.

But that aside, Baby-Boomer Radio will be presenting a mixed bag of 50s, 60s and 70s pops, plus the obligatory Comedy Spot that follows the 10:00 AM news & weather.

So please join me if you like your music served with a dash of nostalgia and a glug of reminscence!

Friday 8th. March - More Good Music!

After the fun of the past three shows, it's back to a smorgasbord of 1960s and 1970s pops and hits for today's program.
However, there are the remaining "Up-And-Coming" songs from 2UW's chart for the week ending 1st. March 1959 (see last post - for Monday 4th. March) to play first, and then into a mix of good stuff!

Also, the regular 3:00 PM Comedy Spot will return, with another classic Hancock's Half-hour for your enjoyment.

So please join me for some serious reminiscing!

Monday 11th. February - 0900 to 1200

 

Today's program features a mix of 1950s and 1960s pop and a dash of Easy Listening music.

The playlist includes the following hits from the the international and Australian charts:- 

• I Just Need Your Love - Little Pattie (Australian artist - 1960s)
• Born Too Late - the Shannons (1958)
• She's So Fine - the Easybeats (Australian artists - 1960s)
• Teenage Baby - Col Joye (Australian artist - 1950s)
• Tracy's Theme - Spencer Ross (1960)
• Beatnik Fly - Johnny & the Hurricanes (1960)
• Easier Said Than Done - Laurel Lee (Australian artist - 1960s)
• Cotton Candy - Al Hirt (1964)
• Fun, Fun, Fun - the Beachboys (1964)
• Georgie Girl - the Seekers (1960s)
• Born Too Late - the Poni-Tails (1958) (A counterpoint to the version by the Shannons)
• Come A Little Bit Closer - the Delltones (Australian artist - 1960s)
• Cradle Of Love - Billy Preston (1960)
• Pineapple Princess - Annette Funicello (1960)
• Ciao Baby - Lynn Randell (Australian artist - 1960s)
• Twenty-Six Miles - the Four Preps (1958)
• And I Love Her - the Beatles (1964)
• Diane - the Bachelors (1964)
• Volare - Bobby Rydell (1960)
• What Am I Doing Here With You? - Bev Harrell (Australian artist - 1960s)
• Blue Jeans - David Dundas (1970s)
• Always Something There To Remind Me - Sandie Shaw (1964)
• One In A Million - Bev Harrell (Australian artist - 1960s)
• Beyond The Sea (La Mer) - Bobby Darin (1960)
• Green Onions - Booker T & the MGs (1962)
• Would You Lay With Me - Judy Stone (Australian artist - 1960s)
• On The Prowl - Ol' 55 (Australian artists)
• Rag Doll - the Four Seasons (1964)
• Downtown - Petula Clark (1964)
• Monster Mash - Bobby 'Boris' Pickett (1962)
• Fever - Peggy Lee (1958)
• Blow Away - A Fine Frenzy (Alison Sudol - 2010)
• Beyond The Blue Horizon - Lou Christie (1970s)
   

 

 

The Comedy Spot which follows the news & weather update at 10:00 AM is another classic radio piece from the Hancock's Half-Hour series, entitled "The Picnic" and first broadcast by the BBC on the 20th. October 1959.



Program for Monday 28th. January 2013

On this national public holiday I will be reverting to a smorgasbord of music from the charts of the Fifties and Sixties, together with a selection of Easy Listening tracks from down through the years.

The Comedy Spot following the 10:00 AM news & weather will be an episode of Take It From Here, first broadcast on the 4th. December 1958.
The Glums features Ron getting a job (he applies to join the police force) and the effect the announcement has on his bethrothed, Eth, and his father!

Please join me for three hours of enjoyable nostalgia.

The pre-Australia Day Show - Friday 25th.

The music content for this afternoon's program will have a distinct Aussie flavour, with music from the Australian charts down through the decades between the 1980s and the earliest pop-music of the 1950s.

Interspersed with these tracks will be items from the Easy Listening genre and, following the news and weather at 3:00 PM, the Comedy half-hour will also feature something distinctly Australian and with a definite period flavour - an episode of "Yes, What?" from the 1940s.

Yes, What? was an Australian radio comedy first broadcast in 1936 until finishing in 1941, and is one of the best known examples of Australian radio drama. Originally called The Fourth Form at St Percy's, it was a comedy set in a school classroom. The program ran for 520 episodes and was written, produced and directed by Rex Dawe.

In addition to this classic piece of period Australiana I also have excerpts from two Jack Davey radio shows - The Protex Show and The Dulux Show, the latter featuring a 15-year old John Howard (yes, the lad who became our Prime Minister) and his answer to a tricky question!

(Jack Davey, 1907 - 1959)

Monday 21st. January

The second-last week of January already! This month has gone too fast.
For today's program I will be presenting a mix of music to which we Baby-boomers usually relate - and that includes just about any popular music from the early 1950s through the 1980s.

For the Comedy Spot, following the 10:00 news update, I have moved away from Hancock's Half-hour and have chosen an episode from another British series of the 1950s - "Take It From Here", one that features The Glums in all their glory!
This is actually the first show in which the Glums featured as a segment in their own right - it went to air on the12th. November 1953 - 60 years ago. Below is the precis of the show (7th. series, Show #1):

7/1 November 12 1953
New series changes .
Alma Cogan: Isn’t Life Wonderful
Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells: cinema, corset ads, Radio Times Home Service & Light Programme versions of a play
Keynotes: Ricochet
Glums: Is marriage today an economic anachronism? (Eth introduced)
Alma & Dick: What a Perfect Combination
Pygmalion

Cast, from L to R: Wallas Eaton, Jimmy Edwards, June Whitfield and Dick Bentley

For Monday 14th. January

Wow! Here we are, just on halfway through the first month of 2013.
Soon the shops will be featuring promotions for Easter (if they aren't already!)

For today's program I will be having a mix of everything - selections from the 1950s right through the decades to the 1990s, from Tops of the Pops through Easy Listening and the occasional contemporary piece.

 

Playlist will include:-

• Wheels - the String-A-Longs (1961)
• Tall Paul - Annette Funicello (1959)
• A Gal In Calico - Gordon Franks Orchestra
• Besame Mucho - Julie London (1960s)
• Snowbird - Ray Conniff Orchestra & Chorus
• Johnny Angel - Shelly Fabares (1962)
• The Real Thing - the Five Royals (1959)
• The Purple People Eater - Sheb Wooley (1958)
• Early In Tyhe Morning - the Rinky Dinks, featuring Bobby Darin (1958)
• Wild One - Bobby Rydell (1960)
• A Woman In Love - Frankie Laine (1956)
• California Sun - the Rivieras (1964)
• When - the Kalin Twins (1958)
• Twenty-Six Miles - the Four Preps (1958)
• Kansas City - Wilbert Harrison (1959)
• Eso Beso - Joe Harnell (1963)
• Personality - Ray Price (1959)
• Begin The Beguine - Ray Conniff & Orchestra (1956)
• Are You Looking For A Sweetheart - Kitty Kallen (1953)
• Canson D'Amor - Art & Dotty Todd (1958)
• Lemon Tree - Peter, Paul & Mary (1962)
• Why Can't I - Paula Castle (1955?)
• You Belong To Me - Jo Stafford (1953)
• Wonderland By Night - Bert Kaempfert (1960)
• She Wears Red Feathers - Guy Mitchell (1953)
• Amazing - Alex Lloyd (2001)
• Ebb Tide - Matt Monro (1970s)
• You Win Again - the Bee Gees (1987)
   

 

 

Don't overlook the regular Comedy Spot that follows the 10:00 AM news & weather.
Today will feature another classic Hancock's Half-hour from the 1950s.

Program for Monday 7th. January 2013.

A smorgasbord of music for today's program, from the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and 1980s - so there should be a little of something for everyone.

The playlist includes the following:-

• Hello, Goodbye - the Beatles (1967)
• I Heard It On The Grapevine - Marvin Gaye (1968)
• Candy Girl - the Four Seasons (1963)
• A Fool Never learns - Andy Williams (1964)
• Cotton Candy - Al Hirt (1964)
• All Kinds Of Everything - Dana (1970)
• Always Yours - Gary Glitter (1974)
• Apple Peaches Pumpkin Pie - Jay and the Techniques (1967)
• Atomic - Blondie (1979)
• Baby Love - the Supremes (1964)
• Baby, Now That I've Found You - the Foundations (1967)
• Band Of Gold - Freda Payne (1970)
• Surfer Girl - the Beach Boys (1963)
• I Should Have Known Better - the Beatles (1964)
• Begin The Beguine - Julio Inglesias (1981)
• Percolator Twist - Billy Joe and the Checkmates (1962)
• Blue Moon - the Marcels (1961)
• 500 Miles Away From Home - Bobby Bare (1963)
• Can't Give You Anything But Love - the Stylistics (1975)
• Rhythm Of The Rain - the Cascades (1963)
• Pipeline - the Chantays (1963)
• Dance On - the Shadows (1963)
• Diana - Paul Anka (1957)
• Don't Turn Around - Aswad (1988)
• Bristol Stomp - the Dovells (1961)
• Eso Beso - Cliff Richard (1965)
• Eye Level - Simon Park Orchestra (1973)
• Feels Like I'm In Love - Kelly Marie (1980)
• The Final Countdown - Europe (1986)
• Forever And Ever - Demis Roussos (1973)
• Get Down - Gilbert O'Sullivan (1973
• Have A Good Time - Sue Thompson (1962)
• Sweets For My Sweet - the Searchers (1963)
• The Last Time - the Rolling Stones (1965)
• This Old House - Shakin' Stevens (1981)
• Tiger Feet - MUD (1974)

The Comedy Spot (following the 10:00 AM news)  for today will feature another Hancock's Half-hour, this one from 1959 and entitled "Sid's Mystery Tours".