KFRC-AM610 Sept 28, 1978
Dr. Don Rose (Donald Rosenberg) - four times he made
KFRC voted as Billboard's "Station of the Year"
and he was personally named "Disc Jockey of the
Year". Further reading
Capital Radio jingle mania
Loads of Capital Radio (and other stations) jingles
in a mixture made by Thomas Bergstam and me. For all
us extreme jingle fans.
This is one of the many images that
Thomas Schulin took during a boat
trip to the Mi Amigo on August -79.
You can see more if you click
Ove
Sjöström onboard MV Caroline (1964)
After
Radio Nord had been closed down in 1962, Ove
Sjöström, the technical manager
from Radio Nords "Bon Jour", was recruited
by Ronan O'Rahilly (on recommendations
from the American owners of the ”Bon Jour”)
to carry out the installments on studio and
transmitter equipment onboard the “MV
Caroline” ship. When Ove arrived at Greenore
he realised the amount of work and sent for
his fellow Radio Nord technician Jan
Gunnarsson to make the journey from
Sweden to the Irish Sea to assist him.
In the recording below, Ove is sitting in the
studio of the MV Caroline. He describes how
his and Jan’s work is proceeding onboard
the ship. For those who don't understand a word
in Swedish : I'm sorry! Ove talks Swedish:
the recording from some time of
June 1964
Ove
Sjöström - my photo 2007
is another recording made April
14, 2007, where Ove Sjöström made
a speech about his technical expereiences from
booth Radio Nord and Radio Caroline, and I made
a recording that covers not only his speech
but also the chat with us radio fans afterwards.
's
a recording of lectures in
English about the Nordic offshore pirate stations
from the "Zeesenders 20" pirate radio
conference in Noordwijk, Holland, July 1978.
Paul "Dane" Foged starts with a lecture
about Radio Mercur. Nils Thalin talks about
Radio Nord, and Hasse Hansson talks about Radio
Syd.
By
a coincidence (?) during the conference, the
carrier from Radio Caroline dropped and remained
off the air for 36 hours. In between the lectures,
this incident was vividly discussed with rumours
and fears of what was going on. There were also
many deejays and others among us with experiences
of life on board the MV Mi Amigo.
I happened to start my tape recorder in the very moment when they
went back on 319m at 8 p.m. (July 30th). The
next morning when I awoke at 8.15 Radio Mi Amigo was back too
Sweden
Calling DXers was a weekly programme
on Radio Sweden International.
In the British offshore radio era, SCDXers used
to give detailed reports on the developments on
this radio scene. ’s
an outdraw of these reports through the years 1964-70.
Radio Caroline, Carl Conway interview
Paul Anka followed by Dave Lee Travis, who greets
Mr Anka by playing the oldie "Diana". Recorded
1966 in Oct/Nov.
MV Mi Amigo aground at Frinton- on-
Sea after the storm, January 20, 1966
Radio Caroline, Easter Sunday 1966
April 10, 1966, the 2:nd anniversary for Radio Caroline.
Graham Webb and his even more festivity mooded mates
celebrating on the 1966 Easter Sunday morning. The
MV Mi Amigo had gone aground in January 1966, so
this transmission was made from the former Swedish
offshore radio ship Cheeta 2, owned by Radio Syd.
It was used by Radio Caroline as their ship from
February till May 1966. This was received and recorded
in the Stockholm area.
<part 1 - -
<part 2 Radio Caroline recorded
at nighttime in Stockholm Sweden in the summer of
1967. It's the best I've ever
heard of Radio Caroline. Also I find the deejay
Ian Mack fabulous. The recording
was made by a friend of mine who used a regular
table-top Philips radio and a Tandberg model 62
reel-to-reel tape recorder.
BBC Radio4, November 22, 2008
Archive Hour, a documentary "Here's Kenny"- a tribute to Kenny Everett. Music
journalist Mark Paytress reassesses the pioneering
deejay and comedian Kenny Everett and his place in
broadcasting history. November 22, 2008
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
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. By the way - Radio Nord was
the first broadcasting company in the world to use the
"NAB carts" cassettes for their jingles and
commercials.
Read more
Through the years, while 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 from where
they found them.
I
think I can speak for many radio enthusiasts in
Sweden : through decades we felt that the radio
situation in most other countries were much happier
than in Sweden. If we really wanted to enjoy radio
the way we wanted, we always had to go abroad. Often
we found ourselves divided in either the US radio
fans, or the British radio fans. Consequently some
of us went to the US and some others - like me -
went to England. But to me, it wasn't until I was
27 that I went on my first trip to England in 1976,
and I really had been eagerly longing for it!
Even if I didn't go for sun and warmth, I happened
to go to Bognor Regis on the south coast, staying
on B&B accommodation with a family there for
two weeks.
On-air studio of Radio Victory in 1976
Radio Victory Eugene Fraser
and Dave Symonds. June 22, 1976.
My intention was to study the new Independent
Local Radio stations that had been running for
2 years then. Prior to my journey I had very little
means to get any clues to these stations, so it
wasn't until I was there I experienced that Bognor
wasn't the best place to be. The nearest ILR station
was in Portsmouth; Radio Victory,
but they happened to have the sad reputation of
lack in audience appreciation and the station
would ten years later be closed because of such
difficulties.
My visit at Radio Victory still remains as a
dear memory to me even if three decades has passed.
I've heard lots of programmes that has thrilled
me much more, but to me it's one of my most precious
radio souvenirs, the recording I made while sitting
in a park in Portsmouth, using a Blaupunkt transistor
radio and a regular Philips portable cassette
recorder. In those days there were few portable
recorders offering any good quality standard -
if you didn't want to spend a full years salary
on it! I worked as a tape recorder technician
specialised on ReVox maintenance. So I had good
practice of making adjustments and improvements.
So, here (to the right) is an astonishing, thirty
years old cassette, recorded June 22 1976. Also,
there are some Radio Victory jingles from "the
station that saved you from the BBC"
- but unfortunately lost its franchise from the
Independent Broadcasting Authority!
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.
Me
and my favourite radio station during its golden
years
On my trips to London I didn't miss the
opportunity to make recordings of the Kenny Everett show.
I really enjoyed his tremendous personality! his jingles!
his voice artistry! his "Captain Kremmen" adventures!
his humour! his "Bee Bop Bonanza" music mixes.
I also found friends 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. Some of the recordings are
made either by me or by Thomas Bergstam.
However, I have also received several of the recordings
from Jon Mace, and the collection of
recordings have growned a lot thanks to him. I´m
always very happy when web visitors contact me - if not
for recordings to offer, or just a few words to express
their appreciation. But I also receive mails pointing
out problems like for instance click-links not functioning,
and I have to admit that I need that kind of mail too
- it's impossible for me to discover them all on my own.
On the head of this page you can see the
button
which will
lead you to a collection of EPs and LPs, for instance
"Ten years of Offshore Radio" and other discs
of that kind.
In 1970, Casey Kasem introduced the radio show American
Top 40 (AT40). It was a syndicated broadcast
distributed to radio stations in the United States, Canada,
Australia, Philippines, China, India, Great Britain, Malaysia
and many other places around the globe. As the name suggests
the program had a countdown playing the fourty most popular
songs in the U.S. according to the Billboard's Hot 100
Singles Chart. The most important with Casey Kasem as
a deejay was his many interesting anecdotes about the
artists and songs that were played. Behind him he had
an editorial which in its peak had a total of 8 employees.
From its inception in 1970 the duration of the show was
3 hours but in the late 1970’s the program was up
to 4 hours to reflect the longer playing time of the hits
of those days.
Billboard's Hot 100 was concidered being the given industry
standard for specifying the most popular songs for AT40
through the first years. However, in the second half of
the seventies the hit music was so changed, resulting
in an increasing specialization in formats on the radio
stations. Dissatisfaction grew between the radio stations
when AT40 continued to reflect the many different styles
and formats on the hot 100 list, which later lead to the
result that the Hot 100 chart was replaced by the Billboard’s
Radio and Records list.
KLIF, Dallas, January 4, 1961
is another recording
The
Kenny Everett Video Show
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.
I
think I can speak for many radio enthusiasts in
Sweden : through decades we felt that the radio
situation in most other countries were much happier
than in Sweden. If we really wanted to enjoy radio
the way we wanted, we always had to go abroad. Often
we found ourselves divided in either the US radio
fans, or the British radio fans. Consequently some
of us went to the US and some others - like me -
went to England. But to me, it wasn't until I was
27 that I went on my first trip to England in 1976,
and I really had been eagerly longing for it!
