What a radio station Capital was in the 70's.Great Dj's like Kenny Everett,Roger Scott,Dave Cash,Nicky Horne,Greg Edwards and Peter Young.Totally the opposite to boring Radio 1.And then it all went wrong.But we will never forget the great early days of Capital 194
This transports me right back to my childhood in the 70’s. Mum and dad always had Capital on the radio in the kitchen and these jingles and the Vogue interiors and Richards store ads I still remember the words to. Also remember Gerald Harper’s Sunday Affair show that used to be on as we were all sitting down to our Sunday roast. ‘I’m Gerald Harper, welcome to my Sunday affair’. Happy happy memories that bring a tear to my eye, loved growing up at that time.
Awesome. Oh such happy days listening to the mighty Capital Radio in the 1970s. It was such an awesome breath of fresh air after the sufficating naffness of Radio 1. Kenny Everett, Dave Cash, Roger Scott, Chrissie Wissie Tarrant, Tony Myatt, Graham Dene and Michael Aspel. Oh where have all the great radio stations gone?!😕
This was truly the golden age of radio. Capital defined my teenage years and this has brought back so many memories. I don't know whether to laugh or cry! Thank you so much for uploading this.
Um I might cry! This has brought back so many memories. I was obsessed with Capital when I was a Kid (mid 70's to mid 80's), and I mean obsessed! I used to bore my family and friends silly telling them about Capital, the DJ's etc. Knew all the jingles off by heart, plus the adverts (!). Hearing the Vogue Interiors, Richard Shops adverts made me laugh so much - still remember all the words after 40+ years (what!!). Btw, still think their Jingles were and are the very best. Thanks so much for uploading.
What a compilation! Just when I recover I get sent right back to memory lane! And no-one could do a voiceover like Bill Mitchell.. '1... 9..... 4'. He also did the Denim TV ad so many others. The one that missed out for me was the Currie Motors ad, 'Nice people to do business with'. Cheers for this TTY!
I am back in the 70's sitting in my bedroom, listening to Anna and the Doctor on a Wednesday evening, followed by Little Nicky Horne and your mother wouldn't like it....being woken up in the morning by Graham Dene "dooobly dooobly dooo" .... Roger Scott's Afternoon Delight.... Aaah memories...when radio was FUN and you felt you belonged to a secret family who just knew what music you liked and played it just for you.
I know. Just hearing this takes me right back. Can picture myself in my loft bedroom listening to Afternoon Delight on most Saturday afternoons - much to my mum's annoyance!
@@jimjaminy Anna took no prisoners . I won't say what he told her . her answer was NO YOU JUST DON'T WANT TO . was the talk of the shop next day . Poor Dog .
The Chris Rainbow "its a Capital Summer", with the weather as it is now, transports me back to the summer of 76...the year I got my first motorbike. My daughter is 21, and a big big fan of Chris. I believe he died a few years back.. a true musical genius. 😔
"Capital Radio, in tune with London town." It's amazing how a few seconds of jingles can take you back decades to vivid childhood memories. That was 9 minutes of awesome sounds - thank you for sharing your jingles. And most importantly, a big Happy Birthday to Capital Radio - 40 years old today.
Absolutely brilliant. I was taken right back to a lovely time and a great radio station. Alas, as is life, we've lost many of the past DJs, most recently the fantastic Peter Young (aka PY), in November. Who could do a Soul Cellar like him he did? Ah, Greg Edwards's Soul Spectrum, Saturday evening was an absolute must before heading out for a night's clubbing and partying somewhere in London, often in Soho clubs. Good times.
I always seek this video out when I'm feeling nostalgic for the good old days! It's funny how I can remember all the jingles and adverts like I last heard them this morning! Happy memories of my childhood and teenage years growing up in south London, with Capital always on in the background. Days that are gone but never forgotten.
I downloaded a lot of the jingles and programmes exerps from TH-cam. Now have them on my phone playlist. They bring back lots of great memories when radio was good. Unlike today.
I remember the Capital of the mid '70s so well, great music and DJ's, such a shame that some are no longer with us especially Roger Scott and Kenny Everett. Both great men and DJ's. God I wish I was 30 years younger.
The Capital 194 jingles, ads etc compilation - wow - brought years of utter joy to my eyes!! Good quality too. Whoever posted on that here well done!! Used to listen to 539 / 194 / 95.8 in St.Albans from day 1 to 1984 when I moved away. WONDERFUL station then. And its Blue Mink jingles were BEST IN THE WORLD!!!!
Came out of my work place on Whitfield street a few weeks back...Just finished work and the sun was shining and as I started to walk up Tottenham court road towards Warren street tube,, these jingles started playing in my headphones just as the Euston tower came into view......I could not stop smiling....a very special moment....magic.
Know exactly what you mean. Whenever my familiarly would visit the big smoke from leafy Surrey (where we lived), I would nag my dad incessantly to visit Euston Tower. Remember the famous large circular stairway in the foyer?
Wow! Memories of arriving home from school and setting about homework, getting it out of the way before tea. Hearing these, I'm back in my little bedroom in... Colchester! Yes, we picked up Capital regularly in sunny NE Essex. "Barratts, Barratts! Come to Barratts!"
Coming home for lunch from school in late 70s. Putting on Capital & then making myself a cheese & ham sandwich. Then just chilling listening to 95.8 & not wanting to go back to school. Happy Days 😊
Just magic stuff and such happy memories. I was a student in London '72-'75 so the start of Capital 194 was the background to my studies on the Finchley Road. And those Chris Rainbow jingles are unequalled before or since.
Oh my god, I grew up with this back in the 70's. Capital was at that time the station to listen to. The jingle was one of the most distinctive things of the station, but the DJ's were also simply just amazing. One add I recall was that for Curry Motors. Strap line was "Good people to do business with." One of my friends' brother changed that to "Good business to do people with."Thanks for sharing. :-)
"3 O'clock Thrill,with Roger Scott on your Radio dial." The immortal Kenny Everett voiced that Capital Radio jingle, 1976.Would be wonderful to hear it again.
As maidbloke said, a few seconds of jingles can take you back decades. In my case, it was the brief "Good Morning" at 0:46 - haven't been able to find that little ditty anywhere else. And the Richard Shops advert, wow - not heard that since I was a boy! Now if only I could find "oh-one... three-double-eight-one-two-five-five" somewhere. I'll keep searching. Thankyou.
Capital Radio launched on 16.10.1973 as the second independent radio station in the UK (LBC launched on 9.10.1973). It had a bit of an uncertain start, running into severe financial problems not helped by the 3 day week and its temporary low power transmitter on 539 m, strung up between the towers of Lots Road power station. However, particularly after early 1975, when its 100 kW 194 m directional transmitter was turned on at Saffron Green in Hertfordshire, it soon established itself as the main pop station for south east England. I would say that it rivalled even the memory of the main offshore stations Caroline and London, in their 1965 - 1967 heyday. A pity that it lost its way after about 1985 (or maybe I just got older!) and certainly after it was swallowed up into Global and lost its identity, all the result of the Thatcher government in allowing take overs and cutting its AM frequency and reducing its power to 25 kW. But good memories here.
I took part in Cash On Delivery one day. Didn't do very well, won about £2.50, but met Dave Cash, of course, and Kenny Everett, and got a kiss from Telly Savalas as I left the building at the same time as he did. He'd just appeared on Michael Aspel's show. What a day - and the money paid for my tube fare back home!
Listened to Capital a lot from up here near Stoke in the 70s.I found I could receive it on medium wave even here.Particularly enjoyed the Gerald Harper Sunday morning slot.Memories of staying with friends in The Smoke in the 70s
Living in Somerset in '73/74. Put a huge FM aerial up just so I could pull in 95.8 from the mighty Croydon transmitter ! Only partially successful sadly !
I was a bit luckier, living just outside Andover I did the same... with great success. So many lovely memories.. The only time I failed to receive anything was during abnormal weather or very high atmospheric pressure..( Normaly co-channel interference). Use to listen to LBC on VHF as well...Happy times.
Great stuff, however, the jingles for ILR in the 1970s/80s were designed as fillers to compensate for the needletime rules. ILR stations were allowed to play only 9 hours per day of music. To get around that rule and give the impression that more music was played, ILRs played a lot of music that wasn't counted as needletime such as live music, library music from album combinations and some imports (especially dance music from the USA). And of course the large array of jingles, which often included jingles of at least 1 minute's duration. Capital and Beacon were experts at this format which "cheated" the needletime rule.
Interesting; I didn't know that. It really worked though. They turned a negative into huge positive. Capital was an audible feast of sound and entertainment. Even the ads were good. The variety and quality of their jingles are outstanding and still hold-up today.
The jingle at 8.12 i seem to recall a longer slightly more upbeat version but in the same style....just wondering if you had that also :) would bring back the ultimate memories of my sis and her best friend going to Euston Tower after they won a comp to meet Graham Dene and "Little" Nicky Horne Ta fella youve done us all proud so far Phil :)
Roger Scott Loved his 3 O'Clock Thrill with the Start Stick Shift by The Duels and Music was supplied by another Great DJ no longer with us too that was James Hamilton God Bless them and of course the Iconic Kenny Everett he was one in a Million.
In those days the the ILR stations all had their own 'sound'. Capital, BRMB, Metro, Hallam etc - all different & all exciting. Now - all clones of each other as the big radio groups have moved in. Long live Caroline - sounding great on 648 !
Unfortunately it was Capital that turned into one of those big radio groups, it's now called Global. But what really killed it was Thatcher changing the broadcast rules so that radio stations had to specialise, in order to create competition with more radio stations. Capital used to cover everything, Pop, Rock, Jazz, Classical and phone-ins. Then it all ended in 1987.
Capital's original wavelength was, as we all remember, 539 metres which is 558kHz. Anyone remember a rather good station many years later that used 558 & created a bit of a stir in high places ? !
Ah, how could we ever forget Laser 558? -"all Europe Radio, Laser five five ot!" I'd moved to Kent from late 1976 and in 84 we had our first ILR station, Invicta Sound on air. Sadly it was absolutely nothing like Capital and I believe Laser kicked it, and others, into shape. In a now music-frenzied playlist format era it can be easy to forget how Laser perhaps did more damage to previously DJ/personality radio however IMO. You're certainly never more than a minute from music now, if you can ignore those ever growing ad breaks!
+Mark Pearce so true Mark...they've lost their way!...Heart radio is the nearest thing to what we remember as good tunes!... and a good balance of what joe public wants
I could not agree more. What's susprising is the current owners of the station have no interest in the great history their station has - no history page on the website even. BTW Roger Scott's son Jamie has put up loads of recordings of his dad's shows at www.rogerscott.net/
My father, aka, Tounge Tied Danny, has some family pics of one of the many Soul & Funk Road Shows Dave Cash amongst others and himself enjoyed. Me too probably in a push chair somewhere lol ;^p
Remember listening to Anna and the Capital doctor one evening in the late 1970s: a caller phoned-up to say that he couldn't stop farting! I'm still not quite sure how Anna and the Doc stopped themselves from laughing.
Absolutely ! Capital was THE only station worth listening to. I was living in Bath and I put a socking great FM aerial up on my roof just so I could hear Kenny/Roger/Dave & the crew in deepest Somerset !
Just uploaded a third volume of Capital jingles ("Capital Radio 194 Jingles & Roger Scott") - it contains a couple of upbeat variations on the main theme so hopefully they are the jingles you were thinking of.
We used to enjoy Capital on 538 in the north could get it clear then it disappeared went to 194 and was smothered by a load of other stations nothing else compared to it
Gosh your uploads are simply amazing. Even though I have all these jingles from my own early recordings it's still lovely to hear them again. I don't suppose you have the very first hour of Capital with Dave Symonds do you? I have a very ropey copy but am searching for that elusive pristine copy. Just a thought!! Thanks anyway for all of these. 539 forever!!!
I remember a pilgrimage up to the studios in 1978 to buy a Capital Radio T-shirt which I lived the hole summer long. Am I getting old or is Capital now truly awful.
Radio was controlled back in the 1970s by rules which only allowed commercials to be broadcast on ILR. They had the monopoly. Since 1993 ILR received competition and, in order to survive, commercial radio has dumbed-down because advertising companies are demanding narrow playlists to discourage listeners from tuning elsewhere. Dergulation ruined what we had, both with ILR and ITV. It's the lowest common denominator that rules.
Yeah, I think I know the one you mean. Planning to upload a second volume of Capital jingles & show extracts when I get some time, so please subscribe and watch this space!
Gov deliberately put them on 539 metres initially, to jam Holland’s offshore pirate Radio Veronica on same channel, thereby also messing up reception of Capital in the outskirts. Control madness. Moved to 194 metres after Dutch outlawed Veronica (and others). Listening on portable radio while cycling to school required rotating radio at each turn (radio internal ferrite bar aerials were directional).
I lived in Bath at the time & lost Capital on AM when they switched to 194 (1548kHz) as BBC Radio Bristol was on there from their new transmitter near Mangotsfield. ☹
The "suits" were allowed to move in due to deregulation and the government go ahead for independent (commercial) regional and national radio stations. Those three changes meant that ILR couldn't survive and competition for advertising airspace meant that the advertisers could dictate programming to the lowest common denominator. ILR was no longer bound by rules that ensured it catered for all tastes and the result is what we have now - a stronger BBC catering for all tastes.
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What a radio station Capital was in the 70's.Great Dj's like Kenny Everett,Roger Scott,Dave Cash,Nicky Horne,Greg Edwards and Peter Young.Totally the opposite to boring Radio 1.And then it all went wrong.But we will never forget the great early days of Capital 194
These Jingles are the soundtrack to my youth. I grew up listening to Capital FM.
This transports me right back to my childhood in the 70’s. Mum and dad always had Capital on the radio in the kitchen and these jingles and the Vogue interiors and Richards store ads I still remember the words to. Also remember Gerald Harper’s Sunday Affair show that used to be on as we were all sitting down to our Sunday roast. ‘I’m Gerald Harper, welcome to my Sunday affair’. Happy happy memories that bring a tear to my eye, loved growing up at that time.
What a lovely comment, Mudlark Lady! I now have SIX equally nostalgic Capital Radio compilations on my channel - make sure you check them all!
Awesome. Oh such happy days listening to the mighty Capital Radio in the 1970s. It was such an awesome breath of fresh air after the sufficating naffness of Radio 1. Kenny Everett, Dave Cash, Roger Scott, Chrissie Wissie Tarrant, Tony Myatt, Graham Dene and Michael Aspel. Oh where have all the great radio stations gone?!😕
This was truly the golden age of radio. Capital defined my teenage years and this has brought back so many memories. I don't know whether to laugh or cry! Thank you so much for uploading this.
The Golden Age of radio. No doubt about it.
Um I might cry! This has brought back so many memories. I was obsessed with Capital when I was a Kid (mid 70's to mid 80's), and I mean obsessed! I used to bore my family and friends silly telling them about Capital, the DJ's etc. Knew all the jingles off by heart, plus the adverts (!). Hearing the Vogue Interiors, Richard Shops adverts made me laugh so much - still remember all the words after 40+ years (what!!). Btw, still think their Jingles were and are the very best. Thanks so much for uploading.
What a compilation! Just when I recover I get sent right back to memory lane! And no-one could do a voiceover like Bill Mitchell.. '1... 9..... 4'. He also did the Denim TV ad so many others.
The one that missed out for me was the Currie Motors ad, 'Nice people to do business with'. Cheers for this TTY!
Check out the other Capital Radio collections on my channel and you'll find Currie Motors!
Total recall. Oh my days, I remember these jingles. My dad used to listen to Capital, whence as to how I know these.
Chris Rainbow..the best jingles
Roger Scott..a DJ all DJs should aspire to be
I am back in the 70's sitting in my bedroom, listening to Anna and the Doctor on a Wednesday evening, followed by Little Nicky Horne and your mother wouldn't like it....being woken up in the morning by Graham Dene "dooobly dooobly dooo" .... Roger Scott's Afternoon Delight.... Aaah memories...when radio was FUN and you felt you belonged to a secret family who just knew what music you liked and played it just for you.
I was at boarding school at Epsom. Things I learnt from Anna & the Doc!
Oh my goodness.....nostalgia fest....I sat in my bedroom too in SW14....haven't heard these jingles in decades..
I know. Just hearing this takes me right back. Can picture myself in my loft bedroom listening to Afternoon Delight on most Saturday afternoons - much to my mum's annoyance!
Nicky Horne has taken his jingle with him on Boom Radio
@@jimjaminy Anna took no prisoners . I won't say what he told her . her answer was NO YOU JUST DON'T WANT TO . was the talk of the shop next day . Poor Dog .
The Chris Rainbow "its a Capital Summer", with the weather as it is now, transports me back to the summer of 76...the year I got my first motorbike. My daughter is 21, and a big big fan of Chris. I believe he died a few years back.. a true musical genius. 😔
Best jingles ever for capital radio 194
Wonderful to hear them again after SO many years, thanks!
.... I still can sing along with most of them!
"OPEN EVERY WINDOW YEAH....OPEN EVERY DOOR...WE'RE GONNA BRING A LITTLE BIT OF SUNSHINE TO YOU ON 194.."
Awesome ♥️♥️♥️
"Capital Radio, in tune with London town." It's amazing how a few seconds of jingles can take you back decades to vivid childhood memories. That was 9 minutes of awesome sounds - thank you for sharing your jingles. And most importantly, a big Happy Birthday to Capital Radio - 40 years old today.
Absolutely brilliant. I was taken right back to a lovely time and a great radio station. Alas, as is life, we've lost many of the past DJs, most recently the fantastic Peter Young (aka PY), in November. Who could do a Soul Cellar like him he did?
Ah, Greg Edwards's Soul Spectrum, Saturday evening was an absolute must before heading out for a night's clubbing and partying somewhere in London, often in Soho clubs. Good times.
I always seek this video out when I'm feeling nostalgic for the good old days! It's funny how I can remember all the jingles and adverts like I last heard them this morning! Happy memories of my childhood and teenage years growing up in south London, with Capital always on in the background. Days that are gone but never forgotten.
Same here...what has happened to London since then?...got so alien and violent.
Instant time travel...absolute magic.I was raised on this radio station....
I downloaded a lot of the jingles and programmes exerps from TH-cam. Now have them on my phone playlist. They bring back lots of great memories when radio was good. Unlike today.
I remember the Capital of the mid '70s so well, great music and DJ's, such a shame that some are no longer with us especially Roger Scott and Kenny Everett. Both great men and DJ's. God I wish I was 30 years younger.
Wonderful memories great Jingles and DJ's who are cut above those of today.
Totally agree, Graham - thanks for your comment.
The Capital 194 jingles, ads etc compilation - wow - brought years of utter joy to my eyes!!
Good quality too.
Whoever posted on that here well done!!
Used to listen to 539 / 194 / 95.8 in St.Albans from day 1 to 1984 when I moved away.
WONDERFUL station then.
And its Blue Mink jingles were BEST IN THE WORLD!!!!
Came out of my work place on Whitfield street a few weeks back...Just finished work and the sun was shining and as I started to walk up Tottenham court road towards Warren street tube,, these jingles started playing in my headphones just as the Euston tower came into view......I could not stop smiling....a very special moment....magic.
Know exactly what you mean. Whenever my familiarly would visit the big smoke from leafy Surrey (where we lived), I would nag my dad incessantly to visit Euston Tower. Remember the famous large circular stairway in the foyer?
The Best Station ever! Was such a breath of fresh air after BBC radio - especially the BBC local stuff. BBC Brighton was not even in stereo.
Capital Radio was the soundtrack to my childhood growing up in Surrey. LOVED IT.
Ditto. Epsom was definitely more enjoyable with Capital as a soundtrack.
Wow! Memories of arriving home from school and setting about homework, getting it out of the way before tea. Hearing these, I'm back in my little bedroom in... Colchester! Yes, we picked up Capital regularly in sunny NE Essex.
"Barratts, Barratts! Come to Barratts!"
Coming home for lunch from school in late 70s. Putting on Capital & then making myself a cheese & ham sandwich.
Then just chilling listening to 95.8 & not wanting to go back to school. Happy Days 😊
When capital radio and very talented presenters was great 👍
Growing up in Guildford in the 70's all the memories come flooding back wonderful stuff.
Godalming too.
same here,grew up in guildford,listened to capital throughout the 1970,s,loved cuddly ken
Haslemere here .........I just loved Capital and all the jingles etc.......had it on all the time!
Great days of capital. Legend Djs Roger Scott etc etc.
What memories! Indeed the golden age of Capital Radio.
Just magic stuff and such happy memories. I was a student in London '72-'75 so the start of Capital 194 was the background to my studies on the Finchley Road. And those Chris Rainbow jingles are unequalled before or since.
Oh my god, I grew up with this back in the 70's. Capital was at that time the station to listen to. The jingle was one of the most distinctive things of the station, but the DJ's were also simply just amazing. One add I recall was that for Curry Motors. Strap line was "Good people to do business with." One of my friends' brother changed that to "Good business to do people with."Thanks for sharing. :-)
I worked for them at this time. It was actually"Currie Motors, Nice people to do business with" I remember that advert distinctly too.
Wonderful selection. Instantly transported back to the 70s.
"3 O'clock Thrill,with Roger Scott on your Radio dial." The immortal Kenny Everett voiced that Capital Radio jingle, 1976.Would be wonderful to hear it again.
Kenny done almost all the jingles, he was prolific!
Spot on...even as a snotty nosed kid in the early 70s I didn't feel a thing for radio one..For me it was all about Capital...
8:50. This was the coolest jingle they did
Yep, very cool groove & string orchestration (the Wurlitzer piano reminds me of Bill Withers or Al Jarreau)
I enjoyed that. I always thought Michael Aspel and Kenny Everett had a great rapore, they fed off each other. so to speak. Great stuff.
Brings back so many memories.
These jingles are from the glory days of Capital Radio. It went downhill in the '90s, and has sunk even lower since Chrysalis bought it!!
As maidbloke said, a few seconds of jingles can take you back decades. In my case, it was the brief "Good Morning" at 0:46 - haven't been able to find that little ditty anywhere else. And the Richard Shops advert, wow - not heard that since I was a boy!
Now if only I could find "oh-one... three-double-eight-one-two-five-five" somewhere. I'll keep searching.
Thankyou.
When Euston Rd was hip.
From the days when Capital was a proper radio station that was worth listening to.
100% agree.
"If anyone asks you why you're smiling, just remember pal... stereophonic Radio Capitaaal!"
The best Capital jingle starts at
8:13
Love hearing these old jingles from the past an the old disc jockeys
Great memories of my childhood listening to Capital on my brothers music centre
Capital Radio launched on 16.10.1973 as the second independent radio station in the UK (LBC launched on 9.10.1973). It had a bit of an uncertain start, running into severe financial problems not helped by the 3 day week and its temporary low power transmitter on 539 m, strung up between the towers of Lots Road power station.
However, particularly after early 1975, when its 100 kW 194 m directional transmitter was turned on at Saffron Green in Hertfordshire, it soon established itself as the main pop station for south east England. I would say that it rivalled even the memory of the main offshore stations Caroline and London, in their 1965 - 1967 heyday.
A pity that it lost its way after about 1985 (or maybe I just got older!) and certainly after it was swallowed up into Global and lost its identity, all the result of the Thatcher government in allowing take overs and cutting its AM frequency and reducing its power to 25 kW.
But good memories here.
From an old East Grinsteader now living in Oregon..Thank you for the memories :)
Instant time travel...very special...
I took part in Cash On Delivery one day. Didn't do very well, won about £2.50, but met Dave Cash, of course, and Kenny Everett, and got a kiss from Telly Savalas as I left the building at the same time as he did. He'd just appeared on Michael Aspel's show. What a day - and the money paid for my tube fare back home!
Is that jingle here somewhere? C-O-D, C-O-D, C-O-D, C-O-D, COD! Cash on delivereeeeee
From the days when radio - thanks to Kenny et al - was something magical. Many thanks for reminding me!
Happy Birthday Capital, My FAVE place to work ever!
Just Brilliant! Total nostalgia Tsunami :)
The Hounds-ditch ... Ware-house.... with five floors of bargains all waiting for you at our store.................... :)
OMG! I remember those ads so well. Great days.
In the very early days, it was Capital 539.
Absolutely fab
Listened to Capital a lot from up here near Stoke in the 70s.I found I could receive it on medium wave even here.Particularly enjoyed the Gerald Harper Sunday morning slot.Memories of staying with friends in The Smoke in the 70s
Seriously all the way to Stoke?? Thought I did well, still hearing t on MW in Brighton!
Great memories!
Ah such memories when I was a kid, they dont make radio like Capital at the Towers anymore Glad this was uploaded :O)
Radio One *thought* it was continuing the spirit of the pirates, but in fact it was Capital which was the true heir to Big L, Caroline et al.
Perfect stuff - some jingles i haven't heard for quite some time!
Living in Somerset in '73/74. Put a huge FM aerial up just so I could pull in 95.8 from the mighty Croydon transmitter ! Only partially successful sadly !
I was a bit luckier, living just outside Andover I did the same... with great success. So many lovely memories.. The only time I failed to receive anything was during abnormal weather or very high atmospheric pressure..( Normaly co-channel interference). Use to listen to LBC on VHF as well...Happy times.
Capital now sounds like a clone of Radio1 today.
All woppy club music aimned at schoolkids and students
Great stuff, however, the jingles for ILR in the 1970s/80s were designed as fillers to compensate for the needletime rules. ILR stations were allowed to play only 9 hours per day of music. To get around that rule and give the impression that more music was played, ILRs played a lot of music that wasn't counted as needletime such as live music, library music from album combinations and some imports (especially dance music from the USA). And of course the large array of jingles, which often included jingles of at least 1 minute's duration. Capital and Beacon were experts at this format which "cheated" the needletime rule.
Could pick up Beacon 303 in Somerset - better than anything local !
Interesting; I didn't know that. It really worked though. They turned a negative into huge positive. Capital was an audible feast of sound and entertainment. Even the ads were good. The variety and quality of their jingles are outstanding and still hold-up today.
The jingle at 8.12 i seem to recall a longer slightly more upbeat version but in the same style....just wondering if you had that also :) would bring back the ultimate memories of my sis and her best friend going to Euston Tower after they won a comp to meet Graham Dene and "Little" Nicky Horne Ta fella youve done us all proud so far Phil :)
Such Memories !
Roger Scott Loved his 3 O'Clock Thrill with the Start Stick Shift by The Duels and Music was supplied by another Great DJ no longer with us too that was James Hamilton God Bless them and of course the Iconic Kenny Everett he was one in a Million.
In those days the the ILR stations all had their own 'sound'. Capital, BRMB, Metro, Hallam etc - all different & all exciting.
Now - all clones of each other as the big radio groups have moved in. Long live Caroline - sounding great on 648 !
Unfortunately it was Capital that turned into one of those big radio groups, it's now called Global. But what really killed it was Thatcher changing the broadcast rules so that radio stations had to specialise, in order to create competition with more radio stations. Capital used to cover everything, Pop, Rock, Jazz, Classical and phone-ins. Then it all ended in 1987.
Classic stuff, real quality
Capital's original wavelength was, as we all remember, 539 metres which is 558kHz. Anyone remember a rather good station many years later that used 558 & created a bit of a stir in high places ? !
Ah, how could we ever forget Laser 558? -"all Europe Radio, Laser five five ot!" I'd moved to Kent from late 1976 and in 84 we had our first ILR station, Invicta Sound on air. Sadly it was absolutely nothing like Capital and I believe Laser kicked it, and others, into shape. In a now music-frenzied playlist format era it can be easy to forget how Laser perhaps did more damage to previously DJ/personality radio however IMO. You're certainly never more than a minute from music now, if you can ignore those ever growing ad breaks!
I loved it, great DJ's, great tunes!
Never mind. Thanks so much for replying and thanks again for these wonderful memories!
Vogue Interiors!!!
Richard Shops!!
Thanks for these.
BTW, I rememer a longer version of this 8:50 jingle. Do you have it?
Now I'm back in my yoof.... Thanks
Why can't the people at capital now look at this and realise what utter shit capital is now in the70s it was the only station to have on
+Mark Pearce so true Mark...they've lost their way!...Heart radio is the nearest thing to what we remember as good tunes!... and a good balance of what joe public wants
I could not agree more. What's susprising is the current owners of the station have no interest in the great history their station has - no history page on the website even.
BTW Roger Scott's son Jamie has put up loads of recordings of his dad's shows at
www.rogerscott.net/
So right!
Agree 100%, I had Capital on constantly in the 80’s, great times.
totally agree
The last three Jingles?...The greatest ever.....
Wonderful - thank you!
Happy days - great stuff
My father, aka, Tounge Tied Danny, has some family pics of one of the many Soul & Funk Road Shows Dave Cash amongst others and himself enjoyed. Me too probably in a push chair somewhere lol ;^p
Remember listening to Anna and the Capital doctor one evening in the late 1970s: a caller phoned-up to say that he couldn't stop farting! I'm still not quite sure how Anna and the Doc stopped themselves from laughing.
DJs could express themselves in the seventies....now it's just moribund playlists ........and a policy of trying to satisfy all
Absolutely ! Capital was THE only station worth listening to. I was living in Bath and I put a socking great FM aerial up on my roof just so I could hear Kenny/Roger/Dave & the crew in deepest Somerset !
Just uploaded a third volume of Capital jingles ("Capital Radio 194 Jingles & Roger Scott") - it contains a couple of upbeat variations on the main theme so hopefully they are the jingles you were thinking of.
We used to enjoy Capital on 538 in the north could get it clear then it disappeared went to 194 and was smothered by a load of other stations nothing else compared to it
What memories listening to this brings back. I loved Capitol Radio. It’s bloody awful now.
Gosh your uploads are simply amazing. Even though I have all these jingles from my own early recordings it's still lovely to hear them again. I don't suppose you have the very first hour of Capital with Dave Symonds do you? I have a very ropey copy but am searching for that elusive pristine copy. Just a thought!! Thanks anyway for all of these. 539 forever!!!
back to the studio at Beaufort Street as if it were yesterday
Check out Volume 4 just uploaded - you'll find 0-1-3-double-8-1-2-5-5.
I remember a pilgrimage up to the studios in 1978 to buy a Capital Radio T-shirt which I lived the hole summer long. Am I getting old or is Capital now truly awful.
Radio was controlled back in the 1970s by rules which only allowed commercials to be broadcast on ILR. They had the monopoly. Since 1993 ILR received competition and, in order to survive, commercial radio has dumbed-down because advertising companies are demanding narrow playlists to discourage listeners from tuning elsewhere. Dergulation ruined what we had, both with ILR and ITV. It's the lowest common denominator that rules.
I had the t shirt too. I was so proud of it.
Yeah, I think I know the one you mean. Planning to upload a second volume of Capital jingles & show extracts when I get some time, so please subscribe and watch this space!
It's hard to believe, the Capital caterpillar, turned into the Global Radio, Butterfly, The very same company.
THE CHRIS RAINBOW/KENNY EVERETT
ONES WERE THE BEST.!
thx for the upload ...
Sorry, can't help you with the Dave Symonds recording - it's only the jingles I collect. Good luck with your search!
Where is the Mike Allen gives you just a little bit more jingle? 😠😠😠😠😕😕😕😕
I wish I knew!
Hello Barrie, can you be 'heard' anywhere currently?
Regards from the midnight caller & Thames Radio visitor.
Gov deliberately put them on 539 metres initially, to jam Holland’s offshore pirate Radio Veronica on same channel, thereby also messing up reception of Capital in the outskirts. Control madness. Moved to 194 metres after Dutch outlawed Veronica (and others). Listening on portable radio while cycling to school required rotating radio at each turn (radio internal ferrite bar aerials were directional).
I lived in Bath at the time & lost Capital on AM when they switched to 194 (1548kHz) as BBC Radio Bristol was on there from their new transmitter near Mangotsfield. ☹
The "suits" were allowed to move in due to deregulation and the government go ahead for independent (commercial) regional and national radio stations. Those three changes meant that ILR couldn't survive and competition for advertising airspace meant that the advertisers could dictate programming to the lowest common denominator. ILR was no longer bound by rules that ensured it catered for all tastes and the result is what we have now - a stronger BBC catering for all tastes.
Pure vandalism. Appalling.