Program for Wednesday 16th. July 2014

Today we revisit the 4BC Top Forty of exactly 52 years ago - the week of 15th. July 1962.

I will be playing every one of the 40 Hit Tunes listed on the playlist shown above, so come and relive exactly what we were listening to over fifty years ago!

The Comedy Spot at 2:00 PM will feature another classic BBC "Hancock's Half-hour".

Program for Wednesday 9th. July

The Baby Boomer Radio Show - 12:00 Noon to 3:30 PM this Wednesday.

We revisit this week in 1963 and the Top Forty playlist from Brisbane radio station 4BC.

I have every song listed bar one - that of Connie Francis, "If My Pillow Could Talk", so I will be presenting 39 out of the 40. Not bad after 51 years!

In the 2:00 PM Comedy Spot it will be a Hancock's Half-hour, this one from the 8th. December 1959 and entitled "The Poetry Society".
It features Bill Kerr, Sid James and, of course, Tony Hancock. (L to R, below).

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.

Monday morning show now having a holiday

With Spring just over the hill I have decided to give the Monday-morning "Baby Boomer Radio Show" a holiday for the immediate future......maybe until the end of Summer next year.

This decision has been brought about by the fact that, after a year of retirement lifestyle, I can spend more time in the warmer seasons outside in the yard and Daylight Saving helps to add to the desire to do so.

However, the Friday afternoon show will continue and in fact it will have an hour tacked on, giving 4 hours of air-time in lieu of 3.
The program will start two hour's earlier - at 12 Noon - and run through to 4 o'clock and, if the mood strikes, I may even take it through to 5 o'clock on occasions.

The format remains the same - a mix of the pops and hits from the 50s through to the 80s - with the 60s as the core - and Easy Listening and Comedy in there as well.

So join me for the final Monday program at 9:00 AM 26th. August and the first new Friday program on 30th. August.

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.

Friday 21st. June 2013

It's back to the 1950s today, with a selection of hits from 1950 through to 1960.
Listen to how the music changed once Rock & Roll came into being in the mid 50s and evolved as the 1960s dawned.

The half-hour comedy spot at 2:30 PM features Episode 5 of the continuing Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy series, the BBC radio show created in 1978.

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.