Radio Jackie A tribute to the memory of the British offshore stations that closed down in 1967. Phil Hazleton, Aug. 14 1977

Sweden Calling DXers was a weekly programme on Radio Sweden International. It was introduced by Arne Skoog in 1948, and through decades hosted by George Wood. Eventually it became the world’s oldest of its kind, later renamed MediaScan with its final broadcast on July 17, 2001. During the British offshore radio era, SCDXers also had the courage – in spite of what would be assumed a more "appropriate" procedure of a loyal EBU member – to give detailed reports on the developments on this radio scene. Here’s an outdraw of these reports through the years 1964-70.

Ingemar Lindqvist

KLIF The Ken Lock show, January 4th 1961

KLIF Russ "Weird Beard" Knight show. 1962

KLIF The Murphy & Harrigan Show. Tom Murphy and "Irving Harrigan" (Ron Chapman). 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. March 3rd 1962

KLIF jingles 1962 - without vinyl noise/click/cracle

WOR-FM Radio Nord´s Jack Kotschack interviewed by Barry Farber. 1963

WMCA-New York B. Mitchell Reed, 1963

Radio Luxembourg Fragments from an evening in 1963

Radio Luxembourg Short programme about Del Shannon

Radio Luxembourg Tony Prince, Simon Dee and Mark Wesley telling stories from Radio Caroline

WABC-New York Dan Ingram´s own recordings from the Spring of 1965

Radio Caroline Steve Young show. Summer of 1967. Received nighttime in Stockholm on a regular Philips table-top tube radio

Steve Young continues - the flipside of this 7" tape reel

Radio Caroline Appeal For Free Radio (1967)

Radio Caroline +2 years! Graham Webb -among others- on a 5¾" reel recorded on Easter Sunday morning of 1966

Radio London After flipping that 5¾" reel it´s Mark Roman on May 2nd 1966

Radio Caroline Carl Conway interviews Paul Anka followed by Roger Day, who greets Mr Anka by playing oldie "Diana"

Radio Caroline North Mike Marriott - The Late Late Show

Casey´s Coast-to-coast Casey Kasem´s own production "American Top 40" August 24th 1974

K100 (KIQQ) Beaver Cleaver (Ken Levine) 1974

"Dit is Radio Mi Amigo" Miscellaneous various diversities.

Radio Jackie A tribute to the memory of the British offshore stations that closed down in 1967. Phil Hazleton, Aug. 14 1977

The Story of Pop Radio A six parts documentary series from 1983 produced by Noel Edmunds for the BBC Radio 1 P1 P2 P3 P4 P5 P6

-Welcome all Radio Enthusiasts!

On this page I have gathered the un-Swedish parts of my collection of radio recordings. This web (in Swedish) was introduced on March 2006 as a tribute to the wireless wizards who have given me and so many others so much of happy listening.

Radio had always been my great interest and caught me even more when Radio Nord opened on March 8, 1961. Under leadership of Swedish-Finnish businessman Jack S. Kotschack, Radio Nord was operating from the ship MS Bon Jour anchored on international waters in the Stockholm archipelago. They also had offices and studios in central Stockholm and became very popular with their mix of popular music, deejays and news 24 hours a day. Despite politics and religious issues being banned at the station, it was forced to close down when the Swedish government introduced the “lex Radio Nord” in 1962, criminalizing the act of buying commercials at the station. After merely 16 months, Radio Nord closed down at midnight June 30, 1962. After all those years, Radio Nord still plays an important part in Swedish radio history. The Swedish offshore radio legislation later became the blueprint to the British MOA of 1967 and to other governments that were fighting against free radio in most European countries.

Through the years, seeking for Radio Nord recordings, I also came across a few recordings from Nord's mother-station KLIF 1190 AM, Dallas, Texas. I found all my KLIF recordings on quarter-inch tapes in Jack Kotschack's collection from Radio Nord. He had received them personally from Gordon McLendon as sources of inspiration. So if you happen to find the same recordings on other web pages than mine, just as I sometimes do, you'll know where they have got them.
Speaking of Radio Nord, it's peculiar to find that while Radio Nord used the -then- very modern NAB carts (Spotmaster/Fidelipak), KLIF still used noisy crackly vinyl discs for their jingles / commercials.

I never realised - then - the British offshore radio era, even if Radio London and Caroline, and later Radio Northsea International, were quite clearly receivable, at least late evenings in the Stockholm area where I live. Instead I was stuck on "The Station of The Stars" on 208 through a large part of the sixties - just as my classmates at school.
Anyhow, thanks to friends in Sweden I can share some recordings from Radio Caroline and Radio London with a sound quality I've never heard on recordings from English sources. Perhaps this is because we had to do more efforts to hear these stations, and the conditions could vary a lot.

I try to keep a somewhat chronological track of time, and the next recording is a favourite from 1965 with a good example of fun American high tempo radio with PAMS jingles and the true legend Dan Ingram on "seventy-seven" WABC, New York.

Here's what I consider to be one of my most exciting recordings. It's recorded in Stockholm in night-time in the summer of 1967: The Steve Young show, broadcasting from what had been Radio Nord's ship MS Bon Jour, now serving Radio Caroline and renamed MV Mi Amigo. Steve Young was a Caroline deejay from August of 1966 but left on August 1967 due to the MOA.

More British offshorers - Radio Caroline celebrated their Second Anniversary, but they did it on board the former Swedish offshore radio ship Cheeta 2, owned by Radio Syd, because the MV Mi Amigo had gone aground in January 1966. So from February till May they used the Radio Syd ship. Here's Graham Webb on his best celebration mood amongst his even more festivity mooded mates onboard. On the table to the left there are further recordings of Radio Caroline - all received and recorded in the Stockholm area - but unfortunately no details about time and date.

Let´s go forward some years, and from offshore ships to glorious Hollywood, California. From 1974 I have two different recordings. The first with the legendary Casey Kasem. As he should, he's presenting the "American Top 40" out of Billboards "Hot 100". From that same year we can also hear "Beaver Cleaver" (Ken Levine) on K100.

My favourite radio station for many years was London's Capital Radio, above all because of Kenny Everett. Also, I loved their high level of sound quality in those days. I've never before, or after, heard pop radio with that top quality sound. The Capital Radio jingles were productions of a kind of it's own. I went to London on all my summer holidays from 1977 to 1988. Since then I have been to London only twice, and I have been disappointed on both occasions. Capital has lost all they had - it's just a greyish kind of programme outlet now.

On my vacations in London I didn't miss the opportunity to make recordings of the Kenny Everett show. Much can be, and has been said about his tremendous personality! his jingles! his voice artistry! his "Captain Kremmen" adventures! his humour! his "Bee Bop Bonanza" music mixes. I also found friends here in Sweden who were as impressed and inspired as I was on Kenny Everett. We also tried to get aquainted with persons living in London - of course with a motive behind to persuade them to make recordings for us, but this always failed. All of the recordings below are made either by me or by my friends here in Sweden. Sometimes it was very unlucky. In fact it happened me at least twice that the week when I was in London, Kenny Everett was on holiday too, and I could only bring me home a recording of someone sitting-in for Kenny Everett.