KLIF, Dallas, January 4, 1961 The Ken Lock show.

KLIF, Dallas, 1962 Russ "Weird Beard" Knight show.

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

KLIF, Dallas 1962 jingles

WOR-FM, Barry Farber in 1963 An interview with Radio Nord's Jack Kotschack.

WMCA-New York in 1963 B. Mitchell Reed.

WABC, New York, springtime 1965 American Top 40 radio with PAMS jingles and the true legend Dan Ingram.

American Top 40, August 24, 1974 Casey Kasem's own production of "Casey´s Coast-to-coast".

K100 (KIQQ) in 1974 Beaver Cleaver (Ken Levine).

Capital Radio / IRN August 16, 1977 "Elvis Presley is dead" - the first bulletin read on Capital Radio at the 11PM news. 62 min.

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 - my photo 2007 After the closure of Swedish Radio Nord 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 of 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! but Ove talks Swedish: the recording from some time of June 1964 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 booth his speech and 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.

Ingemar Lindqvist

Radio Luxembourg 208 an evening in 1963

Radio Luxembourg 208 about Del Shannon. Year?

Radio Luxembourg 208. Tony Prince, Simon Dee and Mark Wesley all sharing memories from Radio Caroline. Year

Dit is Radio Mi Amigo stuff

Radio Caroline North. Mike Marriott hosting The Late Late Show. Year?

Radio London May 2, 1966, Mark Roman.

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.

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. When?

<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.

Radio Jackie - celebrating the memory of the British offshore stations that were outlawed in 1967. Phil Hazleton. August 14, 1977.

BBC Radio 2, Kenny Everett's first on Radio 2. October 3, 1981.

BBC Radio 2, Kenny Everett show. Very good quality from a RTR recording. November 7, 1981.

BBC Radio 2, Kenny Everett, November 14, 1981.

BBC Radio 2, Kenny Everett show. June 19, 1982.

BBC Radio 2, Kenny Everett show. September 4, 1982.

BBC Radio 2, Kenny Everett show. October 9, 1982.

Radio Luxembourg 208, Barry Aldis at 11 PM. A three hours long recording. October 6, 1982

Captain Kremmen. Some episodes from the radio version of this space comedy series are 25 more episodes

The Story of Pop Radio A six parts documentary series produced in 1983 by Noel Edmunds for the BBC Radio 1 1 2 3 4 5 6

BBC Radio 4, Kenny Everett at the Beeb, part 1  - year?

BBC Radio 4, Kenny Everett at the Beeb, part 2 - year?

BBC Radio 4, Kenny Everett at the Beeb, part 3 - year?

BBC Radio 4, Kenny Everett at the Beeb, part 4 - year?

The Kenny Everett Video Show. At Christmas 1984

Capital Gold, December 25, 1988. Celebrating what would have been Kenny Everett´s 60th Birthday.

Capital Radio, August 10, 1988, Richard Skinner.

BBC Radio2, August 10, 1988 Ken Bruce.

Invicta Radio in August 1988 Sarah Whatsername.

Radio London date?, year? Tony Blackburn in a recording where he's imitating the sound of the station.

Capital Gold, May 14, 2003 Tony Blackburn show at 8.30 PM.

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.
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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 where they've 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.   Radio Victory jingles       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

1977-03-19 1977-11-12 1978-06-09 1978-08-26 1979-02-17 1979-03-31 1979-06-16 1979-08-11 1980-06-14 1980-06-21 1980-09-27 1981-10-10 1984-06-09 Mixture side A+B   The Kenny Everett Capital Radio Shows Collection

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.