Thank you so much and a big hi from Germany... Lovely memories to me of a time when I was a teenager and just started learning English & listening to Britisg radio programmes!
This is the sound of a 70s/80s Saturday for me! Grandstand in the living room, while my mum was baking fruit pies in the kitchen listening to Radio 2! In these difficult times, I am filled with deep nostalgia that period!
This is brilliant. I was 15 when this was recorded and remember all of this well. I so wish I could go back to those days, happy, happy days! Thanks for up loading this!
I know some people here are bashing Radio 2, but it was, and is still, very popular. If you only listen to pop, you wouldn't listen to Radio 3, so if you don't like what's on Radio 2, why would you listen? Like other posters have said, though, back then it was something that was on somewhere in the house. I was 8 in 1980, and it was either Radio 1 or Radio 2 on in the house, so a lot of this is very familiar, especially Beat the Record. For anyone who's interested, some of the music they used was: "Fasten Seat Belts" by the Gerhard Narholz Orchestra is the music for the Pete Murray Show. "Viva Vicente" by The Cavendish Nine - the theme for Beat The Record.
You're not wrong there, mate, but then Radio 2 was always geared towards an older audience, that is, anyone older than 40. Mind you, that's more or less what I was listening to in the 80s, and I was still in my teens.
In those days, all programmes between 1 pm and 7:30 pm will have been heard on medium wave only - they used to hand over the FM frequencies to Radio 1 - a somewhat bizarre practice, as you often found yourself - particularly on a Friday - having listened to Friday Night Is Music Night and organ music, having your eardrums blasted by Tommy Vance playing Tygers Of Pan Tang on The Friday Rock Show - fortunately, today, both stations are on FM only and their programmes aren't interchangeable - you don't hear loud rock, followed by big band or whatever - although, what with people like Simon Mayo, Steve Wright, Jo Whiley, Janice Long, Chris Evans (who is rejoining the new-look Virgin) and Mary Ann Hobbs, Radio 2 is starting to sound like Radio 1 in the 90s - even the 80s!
Phillip Robinson 28 million was a bit on the high side for Diddy David Hamiltons show. it was probably more like a third of that figure- even so still impressive for its time
Thank you so much and a big hi from Germany...
Lovely memories to me of a time when I was a teenager and just started learning English & listening to Britisg radio programmes!
This is the sound of a 70s/80s Saturday for me! Grandstand in the living room, while my mum was baking fruit pies in the kitchen listening to Radio 2!
In these difficult times, I am filled with deep nostalgia that period!
You must be a 70s child like me. I have similar memories :)
I well remember the very early Saturday morning Tom Edwards Show.
There was just something more magical about radio back then. The amazing voices, the jingles.. Happy days 🤗👍👌
From the days when radio 2 was worth listening to. God knows where it went wrong, but it's dire these days.
This is brilliant. I was 15 when this was recorded and remember all of this well. I so wish I could go back to those days, happy, happy days!
Thanks for up loading this!
Nice sweep of R2's output back then. Thanks.
Dr Wally producing David Jacobs
Interesting how virtually every show had its own signature tune.
Amazing! Thanks for sharing:)
Big Band Special is still on R2 in 2016.
In the days when Radio 2 was a station for me....
I know some people here are bashing Radio 2, but it was, and is still, very popular. If you only listen to pop, you wouldn't listen to Radio 3, so if you don't like what's on Radio 2, why would you listen? Like other posters have said, though, back then it was something that was on somewhere in the house. I was 8 in 1980, and it was either Radio 1 or Radio 2 on in the house, so a lot of this is very familiar, especially Beat the Record.
For anyone who's interested, some of the music they used was:
"Fasten Seat Belts" by the Gerhard Narholz Orchestra is the music for the Pete Murray Show.
"Viva Vicente" by The Cavendish Nine - the theme for Beat The Record.
can u do this on the radio please
You're not wrong there, mate, but then Radio 2 was always geared towards an older audience, that is, anyone older than 40. Mind you, that's more or less what I was listening to in the 80s, and I was still in my teens.
In those days, all programmes between 1 pm and 7:30 pm will have been heard on medium wave only - they used to hand over the FM frequencies to Radio 1 - a somewhat bizarre practice, as you often found yourself - particularly on a Friday - having listened to Friday Night Is Music Night and organ music, having your eardrums blasted by Tommy Vance playing Tygers Of Pan Tang on The Friday Rock Show - fortunately, today, both stations are on FM only and their programmes aren't interchangeable - you don't hear loud rock, followed by big band or whatever - although, what with people like Simon Mayo, Steve Wright, Jo Whiley, Janice Long, Chris Evans (who is rejoining the new-look Virgin) and Mary Ann Hobbs, Radio 2 is starting to sound like Radio 1 in the 90s - even the 80s!
Does anyone know the name of the song playing at 2:20?
That's David''s theme at the time 'On the Street Where You Live' by Ray Conniff
@@RandomRadioJottings Thanks, i love this easy listening music.
god lord! so archaic!! no wonder diddy hamilton left in the late 80s in a huff
That's why he got 28 million listeners per afternoon, from 73 -77
Phillip Robinson 28 million was a bit on the high side for Diddy David Hamiltons show. it was probably more like a third of that figure- even so still impressive for its time
Got any recordings of Terry Wogan from October 1980?
Old fashioned radio stuck in the 60s
so what - some of us like this stuff so fuck you
Cheers
This is dull radio at its best!
That's right!..this is awful! ..sounds as though its from the 30 s!. Diddy was the best dj!
Phillip Robinson It was good at the time...diddy was rubbish.