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 .

If you love 1960s music.......

Here is a You Tube channel that is a "must" for those baby-boomers with a fondness for the pop-music of the Sixties.
It doesn't concentrate on the Top Forty, or even the Top Fifty and it doesn't focus on the "A-side" of the 45 rpm records that we were buying and listening to back then: The core of MaltShopPopsicle is the "B-side" of those hits and also any record that slipped under the Top 100 on the American charts.

At last we can hear those songs which we ignored back then as we popped the record onto the turntable - that side was always underneath the one for which we forked out our pocket money or meagre earnings.
The radio stations tended to ignore them as well, giving very little airplay to those tracks.
After all - it was essentially the DJs who held sway over what was played and that influence directly impacted on what was sold.

My thanks go to Tom, who operates the MaltShopPopsicle site, for providing us with this great selection of music that was, by and large, overlooked during our youth.
It's really nice to be able to catch up with them at last.