Kenny Everett's carts
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ก.ค. 2024
- Playing Kenny Everett Radio DJ carts that haven't been heard since the 1970s.
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00:00 Background
04:35 Cart 1 (& more)*
06:54 Cart 2 (& more)
08:42 Cart 3 (& more)
10:03 Cart 4 (& more)
11:39 Cart 5 (& more)
13:25 Cart 6 (& more)
14:00 Other Kenny appearances
15:47 Wilde Rock Promotions
19:59 Patreon Credits
*If you really want to hear what was on the first cart you can listen to it here • The Carpenters Intermi... - It’s quite possible this was not one of Kenny’s carts.
If you want to watch full episodes of the Kenny Everett Video Show (from 1978-) you can find them on the Internet Archive archive.org/search.php?query=...
Also...apologies about the distracting reflections. I only noticed these during editing. The offending light has since been relocated.
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Thanks so much for letting me hear these carts again. I am most grateful to you.
Thanks for sending them over - it was a real treat.
Thank YOU for sharing them with the world! And thanks Mat for the awesome video.
Please consider donating them to the National Sound Archive. They have a lot of his material in one place.
Hello Mike, I knew I recognised that channel name, we chat often. This should get you some more subscribers.
The Kenney Everett Video Show screened on ABC here is Australia. A whacky entertaining show and the first time I’d heard of him. Thanks for a great reminder
Mat has done a great job with the carts (they still sound fabulous to this day) and detail you added of Kenny and his wayward radio
career is excellent. It is nice to see what the 8 track player was being prepared for. A very nice surprise.
Sorry about the fuss caused by the inclusion of the Carpenters cart. I honestly didn't know that's what is was.
I haven't heard these carts since the final days of Radio Victory in June 1986 so memories fade......
Since then they have been tucked away and long forgotten and I wrongly assumed all six were Kenny jingles.
I got in touch with Mat a few weeks ago when I found the carts again, knowing Mat had done carts on the channel before.
He jumped at the chance of having them to make a video with and I was over the moon at being able to hear them again.
I do feel some guilt that he had to import a new cart machine to be able to play them in stereo. So kind.
Kenny was a friend of mine for a very short time before he passed away, he even made personalised vocoder jingles for me
when I was on Hospital Radio. We often exchanged 'pen friend' letters to each other.
I will be releasing the copy of the jingles on my channel once this video is made public and as Mat mentioned, I hope to sell them
and donate the proceeds to the Royal Naval Benevolent Trust.
You can listen to lots of Kenny Everett on my channel, some very rare jingles and clips.
The carts Mat has dubbed for us in this video are very special to me as they come from the radio station I so enjoyed working at
for 18 months before it's demise.
Thanks Again Mat, I am delighted to hear these again and to actually see them playing again is a proper treat.
It was a nice touch that you hit the cue button first. Proper DJ stuff that is!
Thanks for letting us listen to these jems.
It sounds to me as though you have plenty of stories to tell :) Thank you for allowing this to occur. A very pleasing video all around.
Technomoan is a hero!
I'll add my thanks to Super8Rescue and Mat, for such a nice look back at Kenny Everett. What a stellar talent! Add to that my own particular love of the very high quality cart machines that were made by ITC, and this is one of my favorite Techmoan episodes ever.
Thank you for sharing them with us, so glad you kept them for all these years.
6:53 8:40 11:37 - I’m not familiar with Kenny Everett, but DAMN these jingles are high quality and sound like something you’d hear on the radio even today: pitch shifting, multiple layered voices, reverb, stereo voice effects. All through an amazing audio compressor, giving his voice silky smooth power without sounding over-strained.
He was a genius - no exaggeration. His Radio 1 shows were an absolute wonder. They even included a regluar space-based story slot, with Kenny doing all the voices. Absolutely wonderful stuff. Unfortunately, he was a gay man at a time when that really wasn't tolerated, so stayed in the closet for most of his life, even being married for a while. Almost inevitably, given the time, he caught HIV and died of Aids when he was only 50 - just 4 years after Freddie Mercury, who was much the same age, and whom he helped make into a star by playing Bohemium Rhapsody when no one else would touch it. If you listen to BR and one of Kenny's more complex jingles the similarity is almost spooky.
I totally conquer he was an absolute genius & meticulous at details. I remember watching his T.V. programmes here in New Zealand in the 80's - he was pretty game at pushing the boundries as far as possible.
He was certainly an innovative type, very experimental with audio & visual images too.
And of course it was all done in "the best possible taste"!!!
Kenny Everett supported the conservatives that tried to ban homosexuality even though he was a gay man.
he was a gorgeous madman, his brand of anarchy was just too much fun for the dusty beeb
Wow now this is a blast from my past. I'm born 1973. I used to sit in my bean bag after school here in Australia and watch The Kenny Everett Video Show every after noon. It was on just before Dr Who. I actually just got hold of his old shows and I've been watching them through in order of appearance. He reminds me a lot of Benny Hill. Riding on the edge of being risky for the time but both were extremally talented people.
You would have been too young then to fully appreciate Kenny's dancers - Hot Gossip. I was in my late teens and fully appreciated them!
@@every1665 Geez. How old were you before you noticed girls? haha. I was watching them after school when I was age 9-11. It took you till late teens? haha.
Here in Finland Kenny Everett is quite well known, at least to people my age (I'm 53). Finnish TV showed a lot of britcom in the 80's (Benny Hill, Bottle Boys, Kenny Everett, Hale and Pace etc.), so we basically grew up with that (and learned a bit of English as an added bonus). Kenny and Benny were my favorites of them, and I especially appreciated all the video effects and tricks Kenny used in his shows. It was all of course done in the best possible taste too.
As an American I knew nothing about this guy previous to you introducing him to us. Exactly the kind of stuff I enjoy learning about from you
Have a look for his stuff online. He was a legend. In the *best* possible taste!
I remember seeing him here in America when our local public TV station played the Kenny Everett Video Show in the early '80s.
Look up kenny everett Bee Gees on youtube. It is well funny.
What's it like being an American?
@@lukealadeen7836 generally equally parts embarrassing and depressing.
Man. I get a real pang of deep regret every time I get a reminder Kenny's no longer with us. He was the Michelangelo of Media, and every additional snippet of him that resurfaces is like a shot in the arm. Thank you so much for this post.
Regret?
@@nagualdesign I just checked and yes, he did indeed type ‘regret’. Why do you ask?
@@Dixieddawg Unless the OP infected Kenny Everett with AIDS he's not responsible for his death.
@@nagualdesign You need a dictionary?
*regret*
_noun_
A feeling of sadness, repentance, or disappointment over an occurrence or something that one has done or failed to do.
Great to hear Kenny Everett again, he was so ahead of his time.
I am glad to see Kenny Everett getting the recognition he deserves, as a pioneer of pop radio. From his earliest pirate days on the MV Galaxy, for Radio London, through his various comings and goings for the BBC, his days at Radio Luxembourg (the great 208) and his domination of the London radio scene with Capital Radio in the 70's and 80's - Kenny was a breath of fresh air and a unique creative talent on the radio. His production skills were astounding - he produced audio masterpiece sounds with reels of tape and personally developed techniques, that you would be hard pressed to re-create with the best sound waveform software technology available today. Most people here probably know him best for his TV work, but check out his extensive radio career - have a listen, remember when it was done.... and be amazed.
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Getting the recognition he deserves? Getting? Was the BBC creating Radio One to bring in this new wild and talented DJ, giving him not only free rein on the radio and risque TV comedy show too not recognition enough?
Next there'll be a comment saying Kenny was So UnDeRrAtEd
Excellent tribute. True, he did get recognition at the time, but (speaking as a older parent - 69 - with teenager children), he is virtually unknown now. And, of course, the wonderful things he did with tape and echo, young people aren't impressed with at all - thinking it is just the sort of stuff they could do on a PC, or even a phone. Unfortunately, they mistake genius for technology...
Kenny is one of those people who sadly left us way too soon. I am sure he not only would have loved the tech that we all now take for granted, but also would have been one of the at the forefront of using them, and I can easily see him doing a podcast whilst in retirement.
It is certainly great to hear new Kenny material, as he is easily one of my top comedy heroes who really pushed boundaries all the way up to his death.in `95.
I will freely admit to shedding a tear hearing of his passing back then.
Gosh, yeah, his home studio would’ve had him producing indie music and podcasts.
Imagine Kenny and Weird Al doing a colab.... o.o
that is if he didnt piss off social media too bad
Aside from his Tory views, I cannot think of anything which would have upset some people and after Yewtree he would have been one of the few remaining Dj's from the 70s you could still actually listen to without feeling sullied.
He was a great hit on TV here in New Zealand an awesome person who even my staid parents enjoyed.
What's truly amazing is how great these cartridges sound! I know you mention they typically don't have the same problems other audio carts do but, these carts sound like they are freshly minted.
Yes, the clarity is great.
Aww yeah, when cart two mentioned "the station that fits snuggly in your ear", it really did feel like that was completely true haha
tape is a much underrated medium.
@@painstruck01
underrated? Nope!
Old fashioned? Yep!
It is pretty amazing. Despite not having any tape guides/heads in the carts to wear the tape down, the tape would still have worn from its frequency of being played (I think the cart machines played the tape quite fast as well - more like reel-to-reel speed than cassette/cartridge). And, typically, they weren't looked after too well in the studio. Also, there's the problem that all wound magnetic tape suffers from, of the signal being magnetically imprinted on the tapre next to it. So, with extreme examples, you can hear a slightly out of time 'echo' of the recorded material when you play the tape back, sometimes several 'echos'. If these carts realy hadn't been played for so long, it is almost miraculous that they work at all, let alone sound so good!
Kenny Everett was the best. His production was amazing, very creative, and had the patience to overdub and edit so many stuff, glad The Beatles used him to produce one of the Christmas '45 message. I hope somewhere out there someone is collecting all his work. It shouldn't be lost, it should be heard.
Plenty of his work on You Tube. Like Captain Kremmen
Absolutely 👍
Sadly he'd be cancelled today because of his political leanings.
It's crazy how much effort Everett put into the jingles for a local station he wouldn't have been at for long. Not to mention his talent, perfectly able to replicate any musical style, including complex Beach Boys harmonies. Presumably he did the same for all the local stations the show was syndicated to.
A real pro puts 100% effort into any job.
Not shaming folks who don't, some folks have to just to eat and would likely burn out at this workload, but someone who practically lives it, by that, I mean folks who pretty much do their hobby as a job, will give 100% every time because the fun they have doing it prevents the burnout.
@@fattomandeibu well said
I was really surprised by the audio quality. Crazy to think of someone doing all those effects manually with 1970s equipment. Could he actually sing on pitch or did he manage to do some kind of manual auto-tune to get his voice in perfect harmony like that? It's pretty incredible.
@@takanara7: It sounds like Kenny had really good pitch. There really wasn’t a practical way to pitch-correct an analog vocal in a multi-track tape. 🤓
@@perrybarton I miss those days, modern method far too often they just seem to tick a box for autotune and it REALLY overbakes it. I'd rather here something slightly go off-key than it sound robotic. Perhaps the most famous example being the Demi Lovato version of Let it Go, I like the song but its really really poorly mastered, especially the vocals which seem to have all life autotuned out of it.
Wonderful to hear Kenny’s brilliance, such a loss that he’s no longer with us. A real trailblazer and bright spot in my childhood here in the UK (I’m 52).
My parents hated him… which made him all the cooler 😎
Yeah my Dad banned me from watching him as a kid, Proud Kenny Everett DVD set owner now
Why? Wasn't he supporter of Conservative Party under Margaret Thatcher? I have no knowledge here, just curious.
@@cthulpiss Yes, he famously appeared as a warm-up act to her at the Conservative youth rally at Wembley Conference Centre in 1983. 'Let's bomb Russia!' Also, you can occasionally see Tory posters in the background of photos in his house.
Same!
It brings a smile to your face just hearing his name mentioned. He's very sadly missed.
For those who didn't know who Everett was, Kenny was an amazing character and a talented presenter with a mischievous sense of humour. He is played in the movie Bohemian Rhapsody by Dickie Beau and was indeed the first DJ to play Bohemian Rhapsody in full after BBC radio refused to play it due to its length, so Freddie Mercury talked Kenny into playing it at the commercial Capital Radio station (apparently Kenny loved it hence why he kept playing it over and over again until it became a monster hit). Kenny was also in a comedy horror movie called 'Bloodbath at the house of death' in the mid 80s. He was amusing, witty, sometimes controversial (check out his address to the audience at the 1983 Tory Party conference) but never dull. He was also one of the few DJ's who British musicians had time for and people like Kate Bush and David Bowie were more than happy to appear on his shows despite knowing he would lightly mock them. Sadly he passed away in 1995.
"Bloodbath ....." was shown recently on one of the terrestrial channels (UK). Gorgeous cinematography but very silly (perfect for Everett).
Yes. He had a special place of scorn for David Essex 😂
'1983 Tory Party conference'...to be accurate, it was a pre-election rally of Conservative youth organisations rather than the full annual Party conference. I was there myself. 'Let's bomb Russia!', haha!
For anyone who is interested there was a 'rather spiffing' feature length biographical film about the life and times of Kenny made for BBC4 television in 2012. I've looked it up on IMDb and it's somewhere called 'Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story'. It's not been repeated in years but for the curious it might be worth looking to see if it's somewhere on TH-cam.
That's Freddie at 3:04 ...!
You've excelled yourself, Mat. Best episode ever! All done in the best possible taste.
I almost wish he did the leg thing
And it's all done in the best possible taste!
I used to watch The Kenny Everett Television Show with my dad on re-showings on Sky (Comedy Central 2 I believe) when I was a teenager and found it absolutely hilarious.
I was quite shocked of how bawdy and edgy it was compared to the other comedy I had watched with my dad before.
What a pioneer of British radio and comedy, who passed away too young from a terrible disease.
@Stu93 - I watched his TV show when broadcast on terrestrial TV in the 1980s. IIRC it was on BBC2 and later on, on BBC1, and was the best programme of the day by far..
🤣
From Angry of Mayfair to Cupid Stunt, Everett's work was a big part of my adolescence. My home country's national broadcaster showed his Video Show and (later) Video Cassette before Doctor Who on week-nights in the 1980s. You'd see fun little cameos from Freddy Mercury (which you showed at 3:03), Kate Bush, David Bowie, Billy Connolly and others.
And, of course, Kremmen of Star Corps.
And Hot Gossip!
Being from the states, I didn't know much about Kenny Everett... but being a fan of radio, I found this fascinating. Thanks for sharing all of this with us!
As an Australian, I also know him from the Kenny Everett Radio Show, the Kenny Everett Video Show and my all time favourite, Captain Kremmen. I used to eagerly await each new episode on radio here in the early 80’s.
Ah yeah Kremmen - remember that along with Sid Snott....
Ahhh Carla. I remember several scene’s where she got frightened and her knicks fell down. And how can you forget Hollywood actress Cupid Stunt. As as 15 year old in Melbourne watching them I used to laugh myself silly. Still funny now - there’s clips on TH-cam.
And his able to assistant Kala
God I'd forgotten about Captain Kremmen, I'm now going to have to search them out now. 😃
@@rw-xf4cb I heard of Syd Snott, never knew where the name came from, though!
I'm 52 from the USA and I never heard of Kenny Everett until I watched this video. I feel like I have missed an entire generation! Thanks for once again showing me something new!
We had the Kenny Everett Video Show on one of the local UHF stations in Detroit for a while in the early 80s. We used to watch it regularly. It was a nice stroll down memory lane to hear him again and learn more about him. Thanks for putting this together.
Channel 50
@@mybrainlikesthings I remember Gerry Todd well. We got channel 9 from Windsor and would watch SCTV regularly. Loved that show.
We had the show in Chicago as well. They got it after the Benny Hill reruns were a hit here. I believe WFLD 32 aired it?
@@mybrainlikesthings ahh yes they were pretty raunchy haha (prob why my dad loved it too!)
They were called Hot Gossip I think 😍
I used to watch it on Channel 53 in Pittsburgh along with Benny Hill and Dave Allen. I found it on TH-cam after this and found that it is still great.
I discovered Kenny Everett here in the US as a kid when they'd show his television show in the early 80's. I still fondly remember it.
Kenny was a broadcasting legend. I was a kid when his TV show was on and my young parents weren't particularly bothered about stopping me watching things. We all laughed at so much at Kenny. :) Just a genius on so many levels. Everything he did was an event and the talk of the playground and presumably the workplace the morning after. Just hearing his voice again on these jingles was a complete joy and the best time machine ever. Thanks to you and to Mike for this. :)
I remember wachthing his Tv show here in NZ when I was a teenager back in the 80's. Brilliant Kenny Everett and gorgeous Hot Gossip dancers. The perfect 80's comedy and entertainment show!
The thing I remember most from his shows is the Russian Cossack dance he took part in - only when he threw *both* his legs into the air at the same time did we realise he was sitting on a white box!! ;-))
Kenny Everett would probably say that a legend is a foot. ;-)
I really enjoyed this video. I had known about Kenny Everett but didn’t realize how innovative and tech heavy he was back then. It also was a walk down memory lane for me and my time at the college radio station as a freshman in the late 80s. Carts were still in heavy use and we would have fun sessions of coming up with jingles and IDs and such to be put into rotation and each DJ had their own stash of carts for their show. One friend of mine used to have this huge duffel bag full of carts for his show he would carry in to the station every week. This was just as digital was starting to come in and the station made an investment in it. CDs were just entering rotation. My friend toward our senior year walked in without his big duffel bag of carts and I asked about it. He pulled a DAT out of his pocket: it’s all on here now.
having a pile of carts when you went to do a program, so much fun.
Check this out. Kenny playing all three Bee Gees and himself.
th-cam.com/video/TsE-Dqok5mY/w-d-xo.html
Presumably done using lots of takes and Chroma Key
If Kenny were still around, can you imagine the youtube presence he'd have? He'd LOVE it
HOW DID YOU POST 7 DAYS AGO THIS VIDEO IS FROM 9 HOURS AGO
@@internetSpider808 A very good question o.O
I heard a story that when he returned to BBC Radio 1 after his sacking, it was on condition that his show was pre recorded and sent to London by train ( from South Wales where he was living at the time) where it would be "vetted" before being broadcast. He was well known for pushing the envelope. I miss Kenny from Capital Gold 194 which was where he was working when the news broke that he was HIV+. There is also a tape around of jingle he made up for a kid who wrote to him saying they wanted to be a dj.
The guy was a legend and a true star. RIP Kenny, thanks for bringing laughter to many dull days.
I'd also love to hear some of Fluff Freemans jingles maybe one day they will surface
What a delightful episode. I have to say as an American, I actually got majorly into BBC Radio 1 in the 2000s. I was usually focusing on Judge Jules, Eddie Helliwell, those excellent dance shows, but late at night for me in the US, it would eventually get to the Chris Moyles show, and I thought that guy was awesome! I remember his last show and that big marathon he did. Now those were good times to stream Radio 1.
If you didn't see or hear him when he was on TV or Radio it's very hard to explain how great he was. An absolute icon who left us far too soon. As soon as I heard his voice on the 2nd cart I suddenly broke into a big smile.
Oh yeah, I was grinning like an idiot as well. I was a bit too young for the TV show but my Dad taped a lot of Capital Radio broadcasts where he was doing incredible things with a couple of tape decks that I'm not sure I could do with a modern DAW.
I just spent last night after watching this video watching his Cupid and Capatain Kremmen videos on TH-cam. Made me smile as well thinking about all those years and the great comedy we were part of growing up.
We got the Kenny Everett' Video show (TV series) here in Australia back in the late 70s early 80s. On ABC TV Australia and really enjoyed watching it.
Remember as a teen watching it on the ABC. Loved it.
Wow I remember listening to him on Radio Victory, when I was 13 years old. It was around 1975 :)
The Kenny Everett Video Cassette was compulsory viewing here in Australia! Loved this guy and his guests were pretty good too! Such as Billy Connolly, Kate Bush, etc. Oh, and Hot Gossip!
Absolutely.
There was one Hot Gossip sequence which seemed to be too hot even for Kenny. He came out with a pail of water and doused the dancers.
@@lawrencedoliveiro9104 That's even hotter.
What a wonderful piece of nostalgia! Being in Australia I never heard Kenny Everett on radio but I did see him on TV and loved his truly unique style! I had never known he had done so much of his own production back then... truly a visionary and pioneer!
Same thing here in Finland, Kenny Everett Show is still fondly remembered by us ”older” people 😎
Watching the removed Carpenters Intermission audio elsewhere on TH-cam is well worth the effort! Seems almost ready-made for Kenny Everett.
Absolutely! I have a few LPs from The Carpenters, but I heard Intermission today for the first time. Totally! How could he resist using it?!
I had that album...
“We’ll be right back”...
...”After we go to the bathroom!”
@@fredbloggs5902 I had the record and I've heard that piece that ended side 1 on the album. I really didn't know what to make of it. I felt that was a funny and weird way to end side 1 on a Carpenters record.
@@jimmymelendez1836 I would say just enjoy their sense of humour!
@@michaelhall6178 It's not what you think cause I found it very amusing.
I used to create my own Kenny Everett Show on cassette tape for my brothers to enjoy. I voiced all the characters and wrote all original scripts. I think Kenny would have been proud.
It was great to hear the contents of Kenny's old carts. He was a genius and the BBC didn't know how to manage him. I think he donated his studio to LIPA in Liverpool, if true it was appropriate because as you said Kenny was born in the City.
Loved the Kenny Everett show down under in Australia.. Very funny..
Mention of just Kenny’s name makes me smile. What a glorious reminder of the great man!
Kenny was a legend, genius, innovator, epic producer, unsung musician... Unlikely we'll see another like him. Whatever, what a terrific video, I thank you 👍
Oh my god! What a find. Kenny Everett was one of my heroes. Being 53 this year, I'm the right age to remember his ITV & BBC telly shows. Thanks for making this video.
I adored Kenny, so funny and such an innovator, sadly missed. Love the story about him promoting Bohemian Rhapsody (at the request of his friend Freddy Mercury) while he was at Capital Radio. Queen's record label didn't want to release it as a single but Kenny changed that when playing it repeatedly and the public loved it, EMI had to release it as a single.
friend = lover - work it out
Kenny Everett - TV show was on Australia's govt TV station ABC. He was on around 6pm as they ran out of the Goodies repeats and was shown before Dr Who. It was done in all the best possible taste :P Was pretty good though bit wacky for me and more of a Goodies fanbois (along with classic Who).....
Yes remember watching Kenny or Dr Who before the 7pm ABC news Lying in bed usually eating dinner as a teen.
Glad I listened with earbuds for this show.
This has to be my favourite TechMoan episode of all time! Why? Because of the history! I remember Kenny Everett as a child but I never realised how artistic and innovative he was until you aired those various clips. And, you know what, even today, I don't hear radio jingles that as original and weird as his! Everett was unique! Many thanks TechMoan : your videos are my highlight of the week!
Agree. I loved it. Sometimes , not his fault as that’s what his channel is about, gets a bit too technical and dry for me. But l loved this one - the combination of a popular past star and his craft and how he did it.
The best part of all this is the clear love / dedication that Kenny had for what was a small local station. He could have just gone through the motions, but you can feel the love of his art in these recordings.
Brilliant! Brought back memories of his TV show. I remember the gospel song and the big hands!
Oh yeah….. ‘Brother…. brother… brotherly love’
Thank you. Here in Sweden it took a at least 10 years before we had a talent like that on the radio.
Thanks for this tribute to one of the most amazing people to ever appear on Radio. Kenny’s creativity and imagination has never been surpassed and he was an inspiration to younger Radio guys and girls, me included.
Really interesting to hear this.
Here in Sweden, Abbas sound engineer Michael B Tretow used to do similar crazy shows, but he started in the 80’s, so perhaps he got the inspiration from Kenny.
In the 90’s I worked as a radio DJ and made a lot of jingles (of course inspired by Tretow), so this really brought back lovely memories.
I always thought 'Carla' from Kenny's Captain Kremmen cartoon was heavily based on Anna from ABBA.
From one Kenny talking about another Kenny, thank you so much for covering this. I was always wondering who exactly this man was ever since you mentioned the Video Disc promotion he did in regards to laser disc. Top video as always.
Kenny Everett's 'The Complete Naughty Bits' is available to watch on TH-cam if you're interested.
I just watched your video on Shoujo comando Azumi and now I randomly found this comment, haha what are the odds.
Are radio jingles the next frontier in lost media?
Ok Kenny
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A nice showcase for the talents of Kenny Everett - what a clever guy he was - hugely creative in his field of radio. Thanks Techmoan
As an American, I've never heard of Kenny before. Quite the 'wild and zaney guy' - It's easy to understand his popularity. You mentioned the last cart (RHYTHM 28 SECS) being your favorite. It was mine too. Jimmy Durante has been gone too long for me to think about him often but his distinctive style always brings a smile with memories from my youth. Kenny using that style for that cart brought that smile. Per your usual, great video - thanks!
He was so good, an innovator, a comic, a musician and a visual artist. What a pleasure to hear him after all these years. Thanks!
I live in the States now and grew up in Ireland, but I still randomly remember the jingle that had from his TV show. 30 plus years later.
I worked in local radio for about 6 years when I was younger as a presenter and as head of audio production for jingles / adverts. Listening back to those carts was fantastic and certainly makes me miss the golden years of radio. Great video as always.
I am a Kenny fan. Grew up with him on the radio. Miss him so much. Ironically if he had lived a few years later he would have still been here. God bless him.
Lovely stuff, thanks. My favourite random thing I found out about Kenny Everett a while back is that he was the voice of Charley from the "Charley Says" series of public information films.
I'm today years old to learn of this Kenny Everett. Interesting man, and sad to read how he passed.
Today years old?
@@enricosanchez894 Yeah it's a mostly incomprehensible stupid saying, which basically means I'm at my age today because I just learned of whatever thing or person etc. Like saying "I was 10 years old when"...kinda of dumb.
I worked on the first Kenny Everett Video Show at Thames TV Teddington Studios. We were all stunned at the anarchy of it. I worked on later shows too, but we knew what sort of thing to expect by then.
Fantastic, great to Mr Everett's voice again, he was such a staple for so many of us in the UK - totally bonkers and such a talent, thanks to Mike for keeping this wonderful audio history safe.
Thank you for introducing me to Kenny Everett. Every once in a while there is a talented standout personality who is able to transcend the old "rules" and help advance the present to the future. Kenny was obviously one of them.⬅
My favorite cartridge was the last one you played. I could relate to it best because I'm an older American who remembers Jimmy Durante, an entertainer who dates back to the Vaudeville era. Kenny was doing a pretty good job of mimicking his style -- not an easy thing since Jimmy's voice was unique, but fun to listen to.
WOW. This is amazing. Just watched a Kenny documentary the other day, grew up loving the guys work. Thank you Mat!
Thank you very much Tech Moan i really really enjoyed that little journey back to those wonderful day's. I really miss the 70s 😢 at least we were lucky enough to experience Kenny with the joy and laughter he gave us. R.I.P Kenny God bless you.
To me Kenny Everett will always be the legend who somehow managed to get a character called Cupid Stunt on the telly at 7pm on a Saturday evening.
Kenny was big in the Netherlands as well with his Kenny Everett Show. Thanks for sharing some info on the man himself. He derves it to keep memories to him alive!
Kenny Everett (Maurice James Christopher Cole) 25th December 1944 - 4th April 1995. Rest in Peace. Possibly the most influential DJ in British history and later equally famous for his innovative television work. Rarely does nature come up with such manic energy and spontaneity. He is sorely missed by all who heard or saw his shows.
Here in Australia I remember seeing his TV show in the 80's. I always remember him skipping into frame, leaning I to the camera and saying
"Hello friends, hello fans and Hi Kids"
I grew up watching 'The Kenny Everett Video Show' and used to love it. Sid Snot was one of my faves. Thank you for sharing these recordings. Great video.
'Sid Snot here with the leather forecast:
Black and shiny, with a good chance of a few studs!"
He had some classic characters did Kenny. Sid, Cupid, and Gizzard Puke were my favourites.
Sid Snot and Gizzard Puke were essentially the same character, done for different networks.
Many many thanks for this, yours Mary Hinge.
I have several of Kenny Everette videos.I loved him.
I have alway s loved british comedy We were able to see his 'the kenny everette video show, on one of our PB
He had a great sense of humour. but his story had such a sad end of his life.
Thank you so much for putting this together, for us.
Love your videos,
Darryl
How spiffingly beautiful to hear his voice again. What an absolute gem we lost on his passing. I grew up watching him on tv. My sister (when I was about 8 years old) dressed me up with a wig, lipstick and a couple of huge balls of wool (we know what for) and took a photo of me flipping my legs over like his famous lady character. The photo is at my mums house and comes out occasionally to embarrass me now I'm 48 years old. What fun memories of him. I liked his mime character and 'the lady character' the most. I am pretty sure he did an educational program once about how to make a human being with him chucking stuff in a barrel naming the chemicals as they went in, all done in a fun way. I think we all know he did the voice of Charlie the cat from the public safety adverts too. xxx
Kenny Everett! Even here in Australia! Who can forget Captain Kremen. And the voluptuous Carla. And the lovely Cupid Stunt! He was fairly well known due to TV.
Also being in Aus, TV was all I new he did. This was quite enlightening.
@@-vermin- I knew he did radio but never heard him live (although did live over there for a period)
come home from school - Dr Who, Kenny Everett, The Goodies...
oh and Danger Mouse, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
@@richardstewart6160 never watched DM. But certainly HHHTTG - ‘Don’t Panic’. And Marvin the depressed robot.
And Friday nights at 8:30pm on the ABC was Blakes 7 - which was take away food night for us. Ahhhh the late 70’s/early 80’s.
As you might imagine for a guy not from the UK, and not old enough, I have never heard of Kenny Everett, but I love history, so this was really interesting. Thanks Mat!
Search for his stuff, you won't regret it. He was taken too soon.
If you have seen the film Bohemian Rhapsody you will have seen an actor showing his role in getting Queen their first Number One single (which other people thought was too long for radio play).
Thanks for sharing this. It's amazing how just a little bit of Kenny Everett can cheer you up. Sadly missed, but not forgotten 👍
What a great tribute to Kenny this video was. I grew up watching and listening to him and I think you summed him up perfectly.
Thank you for this, a story well told. I used to enjoy Kenny on the radio, especially when he did the world's worst records. His TV stuff was wonderfully innovative too. Ken being all three Bee Gees and Rod Stewart's inflating bum won't be forgotten.
In the late 70's and early 80's I was privileged to work from time to time with the main expert Kenny employed to build his home studios. So many talented people sadly gone now.
I was working for TEAC in the 80s and know exactly what you mean. So many incredible people were in the music business.
I am not from the UK but thanks to you I've learned about Kenny Everett and his talent. I am most grateful!
That kind of one mans shows disappeared with television, but came back with TH-cam. You are a video equivalent to Kenny Everett radio shows.
Even not from the UK I'm glad to know about this amazing and innivative man. Legend :)
Kenny was a genius. The recent and somewhat baffling hand wringing over the woeful Steve Wright finally getting the boot shows just how far the radio/DJ profession has sunk.
Yes! Steve Wright was like torture really. Kenny was a genius, a brilliant singer, funny, creative. No one has come near. Do you remember the appalling Adrian Juste?
Everett wasn't just good, he was f****** brilliant. The best DJ by far. No one has the talent he had. He was sacked by the BBC at least once and was forced to pre-record his programmes and send them in for broadcast. He would make up sketches while his live show was being broadcast. So many voices, totally innovative. A true genius of radio and later tv. To say Kenny was 'good' is like saying The moon is a car ride away.
I had never heard of Kenny Everett before, but I immediately recognized the style. In 1997 a classic computer game called Theme Hospital was released. It's a humorous hospital management sim. Some of the people who work on it wanted to do a modern version, but the company that owned the rights wouldn't let them use the name, so they called it Two Point Hospital. In this hospital there's radio playing and it's now perfectly clear to me that whoever plays the dj there was extremely inspired by Everett.
Wow! These carts sound great for something that was recorded in the 70s. Cheers!
How very interesting. I lived in Portsmouth in the 80's and remember radio Victory, but didn't recall any Kenny stuff - so glad you dated it back to the 70's. I'd heard about how he used to come up with his own home made jingles and things - although this seems more impressive that he must have come up with a series of jingles for each and every radio station that syndicated his show. I must admit that being a young teenager when his TV shows were on, "Hot Gossip" was one of the most memorable parts of his shows :)
Thanks for sharing and giving me a trip down memory lane 😀👍 I recall hearing some of these carts on Radio Victory back in the the day 😊
Impressive audio quality on those carts, especially for the 1970s.
Loved Kenny in the 80s on TV. He also coined the name 'Thargoid' from his Captain Kremmen stories (Used by David Braben for Elite and the subsequent games)
I think Kenny and Cleo (Rocos) were my 2 favourite folk (Cleo, for her more 'physical' attributes) on TV when Kenny did the KEVS and then the KETVS in the late 70s early 80s.
I'm from Finland and I am sure many of my fellow 40somethings here know of Kenny Everett. His show was on tv in the 80s.
I remember one time I and my sisters had gone to bed already and dad came to wake us up because he had forgotten that Kenny Everett's show was on that evening. It was one of our favourites. Mind you, we didn't speak or read english so didn't really understand much of it and only as an adult it has dawned on me how "adult" some of it was. But we loved all the characters and Kenny's energy...and still do.
Just beautiful. Kinda makes me want to give 'The Boat that Rocked' a re-watch.
I'm too young to have experienced the pirate radio station thing as it were, but when I told my parents about the movie (they were born in 1951 and 1954 respectively), they both chimed in on remembering a pirate radio station that (sometimes?) made it's broadcasts all the way over to Iceland.
Fantastic video! It's crazy that I had no idea who Kenny was before watching, thanks for making this and including so much great history for those unfamiliar.
If you've seen Bohemian Rhapsody, Kenny Everett appears in it, played by Dickie Beau. He was one of key people who got Bohemian Rhapsody (the song) on the radio.
@@lmvlmv and he and Freddie were very close friends of course.
Phew, you had me worried for a minute. I thought that all the years I spent listening to the amazing Kenny Everett on Capital Radio in London (when it was only London based) had all been a sham, and that I'd just been listening to syndicated recordings he'd made in his front room! But Wikipedia informs me that he was actually there in person at Capital. 😁 His jingles were incredible though, and I can still hear one in my head that accompanied a phone-in situation he did, where he would sing "Just cram your finger in the dial..." (yes any young people reading this, phones used to have dials!).
Someone else who made great jingles for Capital, and who actually got a brief mention by Kenny in this video, was Christopher Rainbow, who also had a minor hit with the song 'Solid State Brain' (played a lot on Capital). You can hear some of them on TH-cam, they always take me straight back to my childhood. 😊
This was great! I knew nothing of Kenny Everett before this, but now he's a personal hero! Cart #3 was my favourite at 8:41 - something about that "time for an oldie" hit me just right!
Fascinating. Everett's radio shows were always required listening as you never know what he was going to come up with next. I have a couple of his World's Worst Records shows on cassette tape.
Yesssss Kenny on Radio Victory was a thing for us back in the day he was on at the weekends as I remember. His stylings and way he delivered his brand of fun was worth it. We bought a Grundig concert boy radio, second hand from our local shop when we lived on the Isle of Wight. Best thing we did for radio. Everything sounded so much better on that compared to our tiny trannies for listening to Radio Luxemboug at night under the sheets for the big top 20..oh yes you took me back alright Loving your videos 😃
Kenny was a huge part of my childhood and a big influence on my humour to this day.
Cheers for this one, I used to love Kenny Everett and it was a sad loss when he went, but this made me smile 😁👍
Thank you SO much for letting me relive a brilliant and inventive performer.
I love this!!!! Radio DJs are a lost profession. I truly miss the days of sitting by the radio hoping to hear your request and maybe hear your name! These carts remind me of a dozen different DJs and radio shows I loved as a youngster
Radio today has gone to hell in a handcart. Adverts, playlists, shareholders.
The days of writing a postcard to the disc jockey is long gone.
@@Super8Rescue ABC has radio stations on AM that's the Australian broadcast corporation
@@Super8Rescue That was no different in the eighties. Format radio, hot clock and stuff was all there yet the stations didn't face such a stiff competition as they do now. We didn't have tens of thousands of radio stations and virtually any song ever produced just a click away. Radio hosts-or at least those who took this denomination seriously-were celebrities and mostly got away with stuff that might get you cancelled today. They were anarchic, fun and made you laugh.
Requests were a trick radio stations would use. They never really played requests. They had a set playlist and if someone happened to request that song then they dedicated it to them.
@@writerpatrick LOL does anyone ever believe you?