Hans Knot's International Radio Report - December 2007 (1)
Hello all out there.
It has been some weeks ago that the annual
Radio Day took place in
Amsterdam but still e mails are coming in from people who have been
there. It was very nice to see so many personalities and their fans
together to talk about their love for radio. On Martin’s Pages space has
been made for photographs, e mails from people as well as the
soundtracks of the interviews, which have been held at the 29th Year in
Radio Days. Next year celebration time as it will be 30 years on! On
Martin’s pages also all news about which persons have won the very first
Radio Day Awards, which is from now on a bi-annual event. Go to
www.offshore-radio.de and click on the logo ‘Radio Day 2007’ to find
out more.
Next
a big thank you again for responding to last issue of the report.
Something must have gone wrong with my mind when mentioning in last
issue the people who where on the cartoon sent in by
Robbie Dale. I told that
the lady was ‘Queen Elisabeth’, which was wrong of course. It seemed
that a whole bunch of Queen admirers were there to point out that I was
wrong. How could I bring such stupidity to the readers as underneath the
cartoon it was mentioned that it was Mary, the wife of the then Prime
Minister Wilson. Sorry for that lads! By the way, here’s another cartoon
sent in by The Admiral Robbie Dale.
E mail time for Steve Marshall,
who wrote in on November 8th, It was just two days before the Radio Day
event: ‘Hi Hans I hope all is good with you, really interesting report
this month with some nice pictures, including my old friend Stuart
Clarke who nowadays is all over the television and radio in Ireland as
well as being a well known part of Ireland's premier music magazine ‘Hot
Press’. I got an amazing e-mail from him the other day we haven't
communicated for something like 20 years, since we both worked on Coast
103 in Galway but plan to meet up soon, for a few pints of Guinness,
probably somewhere in Ireland! While on the subject of meeting people,
looks like this year's Radio Day is going to be quite an event:) Sorry I
can't make it busy with work and stuff! But the SRE line up looks
amazing, especially with people like Ron O'Quinn etc attending, Larry
Dean was my all time jock on SRE. And he's one of the reasons I got into
radio over 25 years ago, and I had a wonderful e-mail from him a couple
of years ago, after I mentioned the fact. I heard him on the station he
now works on in the States. Still a great radio man. Great to see Roger
and Robbie and all the post MOA Caroline guys are coming too. Looks like
it's going to be quite an event. Warm Regards and many greetings,
Steve.’
Thanks Steve and a pity you could not come to Amsterdam. Another Radio
Day event is next year of course. Just a couple of days before November
10th we also learnt that Larry Dean couldn’t come over from the USA due
to private things. Next is regular responder Eric: ‘Hi Hans. Something
that might be of interest to your readers. Now I know some laugh, but
FaceBook is a growing thing and the radio groups seem to spring up
almost on a daily basis - reminds me of stations springing up throughout
1965/66. Groups on FaceBook now includes:
Album Zone, 300 Track Radio Is Boring, UK Radio People, I started my
career at Bedroom FM, Laser 558 - All Europe Radio!, Tony Blackburn is a
broadcasting legend! We love TB!, Radio Caroline, and more. Lots of
Watery DJs now have there Face For Radio showing on FaceBook. Nice thing
is it is free! Regards, Eric. That'll be Eric Wiltsher, when you search
FaceBook’.
Wonderful article received by normal mail from Andrew Emmerson from
Northhampton. Also a dedicated follower of radio since the sixties and a
steam train lover too, like many of us. The article came from the ‘new
century news maker’ and featured Pete Waterman talking to Andy Milne.
Seems that Pete, who was and still is part of the famous trio producers
‘Stock, Aitken and Waterman’ has also a great love for steam trains. But
most surprisingly was his love for radio as he told Andy: ‘I set up an
audition on a pirate radio station,
Radio City. Only the
owner, Reg Calvert, was shot dead before I could do it! The station
based on a fort in the Thames Estuary shut down. Pirate Radio itself was
outlawed in 1967.’ Further on in the article it was mentioned that he
made it into radio at a later stage at Radio City, the landbased ILR
station in
Liverpool
where he did his own rock show.’
Well Andrew thank you for sharing with us. Still remember you sent me
decades ago a copy of a letter you sent in to Radio 390. Will see if I
can’t find it in my files to republish it one day in the Hans Knot
International Radio Report.
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In my postal box
another production from Bob Le Roi, this time called ‘Life live on Red
Sands Radio.’ As we all know in the several special broadcasts
remembering Offshore Radio in 2007 Red Sands Radio was ‘a first’. The
first test transmission was on Friday July 13th on low power on 235
Medium Wave. The test and later broadcast were made from Red Sands
Towers, once used in the sixties by Offshore Stations Radio 390, Invicta
and KING. Although on very low power the signal even made Holland, where
several people listened in to get back the memories from the sixties. I
had expected they would bring a more Radio 390 related format. In my
ears too much today’s music was played but the life reports from the
tower made me and other listeners a lot happier as the presenters told a
lot about their experiences on the fort.
Even a nice round tour gave us a good idea how in the sixties the fort
was used. A dedicated crew also brought a lot of ‘local’ information
including the famous Whitstable Oyster Festival. At the end of the year
there’s the possibility to relive this special broadcast as program
director Bob Le Roi produced a 56 minutes documentary which gives a
bright light on those special broadcast in the pre-summer of 2007. To
order your own copy you go to www.bobleroi.co.uk to find the details to
order as well to see which other products you can order with him. By the
way, around this time his site has made his monthly update too.
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By the way also updates of other befriended sites are made around this
time so don’t forget to have a look on this three sites too:
www.offshore-radio.de
www.radiolondon.co.uk
http://www.offshoreradio.co.uk
The last issue for 2007 of the ‘Horizon’
has appeared. It’s the issue 116 for November and December. In this
issue more about the Ross Revenge Restoration and the way you can help
with donations and materials. An article about Radio Waddenzee and the
technical involvement from Caroline people. Also an interview with Jim
Richman, who worked during 1965/1966 on the Fredericia as a technician.
Of course Peter Moore with his story about the future on Caroline and
news about the Pirates and Beer For Harwich Festival, which will be held
in the Kingsway Hall in Dovercourt on December 6th,7th and 8th. For
further information you can contact Richard Oxborrow on (044) (0) 1255
240601.
For more info on Horizon you can write to John Knight and his website is
www.horizonmagazine.co.uk
Dear Hans, And again thanks for another fine newsletter. Last weeks I
spent a lot of time on searching for "tips" from 1965 till 1969 (thanks
to book Hitddossier). An awful job, till I saw a name of some kind of
artist who's name is often wrote in your last newsletters. I found out
that Robbie Dale had a
tip with "Soul mama", way back in 1969. I was really surprised. From now
on its fun to look out for another surprises to me. A short reaction,
but I must let you know this. Keep up the good work Hans! Rob Veld.’
Well Rob in the meantime you’ve already the mp3 file of the song. More
songs by offshore deejays can be found in the online journal for media
and music culture run by Ger Tillekens and me on
www.soundscapes.info
Just click right on ‘Zeezenderdiscografie’ and go for the item singing
deejays. By the way anyone interested in Robbie Dale’s Soul Mama just
send an e mail to Hknot@home.nl
A self proclaimed "radio anorak" is attempting to get into the Guinness
Book of Records for having the biggest collection of
radio station mugs in the
UK. Richard Stuart from Belcoo in Northern Ireland now has over 117 mugs
from different radio stations across Britain but needs many more!
Affectionately known as ‘The Mug Man’, he is now appealing to radio
stations everywhere to send him a mug to help him get into the record
books. If you have a mug you’d like to send Richard, get in touch. The
more mugs the better! Richard's quest first came to light when Freelance
Journalist Rodney Edwards interviewed him for the Impartial Reporter in
County Fermanagh.
http://www.richardsmugs.com
I got an e mail from Colin
Nichol in Australia who thought that
Graham Gill just stayed
in Europe for the Radio Day after he visited the London August gig too.
I wrote to Colin that it was not true as since 1967 Graham lives in
Amsterdam. And this is what Colin wrote back: ‘Hi Hans - and thank you
for the information. Now you remind me, I did know Graham was
established in Holland - just had forgotten. There is a lot to remember
of everyone - you are so good at remembering everything! Somewhere, I
have at least one letter from him. It will turn up. By the way, I might
mention: There is currently an exhibition on my early career, here in
the capital city of Perth. It is in the Museum of Performing Arts at our
major theatre, His Majesty's Theatre, in the heart of the city. I didn't
know they were to do it until it opened. I had sent material to them
long ago for their archives and thought that was that, but now have had
to come face-to-face with myself and with what I did in music and radio,
before I even left for Europe. It is, I feel, quite impressively
displayed and covers only my work in radio and promoting and presenting
live shows etc, not my acting period and goes just to my starting at
Radio Caroline, so is just a section. There are photographs, posters,
newspaper stories and other cuttings, various documents etc. I have now
sent them the remainder of my material covering that period, including
my Western Australian Hall of Fame Award - they may as well have it all.
I am still sorting out the rest of the last 50 years since I started in
radio (June 1957). Much material has gone to and been accepted by the:
State Library of Western Australia, Music Library of Western Australia,
State Library of South Australia, Girl Guides Association (!), Sound and
Vision Museum, Fremantle City Library, Museum of Performing Arts,
National Archives and so on. It must all find a home and I am wondering
who might most appreciate my piles of pirate press cuttings, photos and
memorabilia. I am trying to put as much as I can on-line first, but that
is taking time, with everything else I am doing here. An afterthought,
which occurred to me when I had just now signed off. It struck me as
amusing that, at my age, I should end up on display in a museum! How
appropriate. Call a taxidermist!
Another thing I'm involved with here, is a documentary on the early days
of rock and roll here in Western Australia. I'm only indirectly involved
in that I have given information, contacts, leads and a good deal of
material. I don't think they will be using me directly. It is being put
together by a young group, so that means they think that rock began in
the Sixties or even Seventies and I have been doing my best to point out
that if they want to focus on AC/DC and Bon Scott (a local group from
here in WA) and others of that period, they need to look at how it all
began and how the ground was laid from about 1955 onwards. However, it
is very difficult for them to understand. I have done my best! If they
send me a copy of it, I'll endeavour to get it to you, but can't promise
anything just yet. Colin.
http://www.somethinginthewater.com.au
Staying
in Australia there came an e mail from Phil: ‘Hi Hans and thanks for
another great report. I know you must be so busy with Radio Day, so I’ll
be brief. This information probably isn’t of interest to your newsletter
readers, but since you published the story of our landbased stations
(Thames Radio/Radio Britannia – the only middle-of-the-road London
station 1969-1975), I was inspired to dig out some old stuff from the
loft. I attach;
• A newspaper cutting from early days that mentions the MOA and
Trafalgar rally.
• A Press Release from Conservatory Party member about “free radio”
Paul Bryan was a distinguished gentleman who was decorated for his great
war service. As an opposition Member of Parliament in the late 60's he
was pro-commercial radio, and was keen to support landbased pirates who
expressed an interest in getting a licence and we met with him in the
House of Commons.
After Edward Heath became Prime Minister, Bryan served as Minister of
State for Employment until 1972, when he returned to the backbenches
with a consolatory knighthood. Despite his loyalty, Bryan was one of the
first Conservative Party MPs after the Labour victories of 1974 to
suggest openly that it was time for Heath to go. After Mrs Thatcher's
election as leader, Bryan alternated his business interests with work on
backbench committees. After politics, Bryan was, at various times,
director of Granada TV Rental, Granada Television, Granada Theatres and
several insurance companies. He was chairman of Croydon Cable Television
from 1985. He died in 1994.
Anyway, cheers Hans, and all the best. Phil Sydney, Australia.
Well Phil of course also landbased history is part of the game and most
interesting to see back for the readership in my report. So thanks a lot
for sharing.
Not much later Phil came back to me with more: ‘Hi again Hans, A story
published today in our Australian weekend newspaper. It mentions
Caroline's attempt to use Roughs Tower as a base. But I think this is
wrong. My understanding is that they did consider using the old fort,
but decided against it. Not because they were forced off. Do you agree?
Cheers Phil.
Thanks Phil and yes there was an attempt by Caroline people to get the
fort. I know it’s all history but it’s also the truth. Thanks for
sending the article which of course can be enlarged by the readers. If
you, as a reader, have anything to share don’t hesitate to send it in to
Hknot@home.nl (for the news and
memories) and
www.hans.knot@gmail.com for the jpg’s
Recently
I saw another article about Bart
van Gogh, who’s a very successful producer in jingles in Holland
for many decades. After his career in radio he went to work for To
Format Productions in Haarlem, which was once owned by Ren Groot – who
had an offshore background himself. It reminded me to the short period
Bart worked in offshore radio. It was in the month of February 1977 that
he went, under the name Eric Beekman, on board the MV Mi Amigo – then
anchored off the British Coast. On the radioship where in those days two
radiostations, Radio Caroline as well as Radio Mi Amigo. The later one
was a Dutch language station which brought programming partly from
cassettes, recorded by on land staff in Spanish Playa de Aro. Another
part of the programming was presented live and Eric was only twelve days
on the radioship as he got in severe problems during his first stint and
was taken off by a life-boat. Let’s see what I found back in my archive
on this accident, more than 30 years ago.
An excellent coverage was given to the event by the local newspaper The
East Anglian Daily Times on March 1st: "Riddle of sick youth taken off
pop pirate ship” Mystery surrounds the Dutch youth, who was brought
ashore seriously ill early yesterday by the Walton-on-the-
Naze
lifeboat from the pop pirate ship Radio Caroline moored 12 miles off the
Essex coast. After 17-year-old Bart van Gogh, a crewman on the pop ship
was landed at the sea end of Walton Pier he was pushed by ambulancemen
the three-quarter-mile length of the pier in a wheeled stretcher and was
then taken by ambulance to Essex County Hospital at Colchester. A
spokesman for the hospital said last night they were not allowed to give
any information about him. When the lifeboat drew alongside Radio
Caroline he was lowered into the lifeboat by disc jockeys, crew, and two
young British girls. Walton-on-the-Naze lifeboat coxswain Frank Bloom
said: 'One of the girls wanted to accompany the youth but I refused to
take her.
The late Frank Bloom
When we arrived back at Walton she could have been arrested, normally no
ships are allowed near to pirate radio ships unless it’s a question of
saving life. The boy had been ill for more than a week. He was very
frightened and naturally did not want to come ashore dreading the
consequences. The youth collapsed twice during the day and the crew
feared for 'his life'. The lifeboat was forced to make a 50-mile
roundtrip to negotiate treacherous sandbanks and was at sea for more
than six hours. Because of the boy's condition the coxswain had offered
to reduce the speed of the lifeboat. Coxswain Frank Bloom received a
telephone call last night on behalf of members of the Free Radio
Association thanking the crew for bringing the boy ashore. The incident
poses the question of whether the youth is contravening the Marine
Broadcasting (Offences) Act 1967. The Dutch Government also introduced
legislation similar to that of the United Kingdom on September 1st 1974.
Under the Act anybody who assists in the operation of a pirate radio
broadcasting station is liable to three months' imprisonment or a fire
of up to 400 Pounds or both. A Home Office spokesman said last night
prosecution is not a matter for them but for the police. He said they
will insist that when the boy is discharged from hospital that he leaves
the country although there is no indication that he will want to stay.
An Essex police spokesman said no action had been taken at this stage".
Some days later Eric Beekman, aka Bart van Gogh, was taken to Holland
accompanied by his mother, he flew over from Holland. Of course in my
readership there a others who have been taken from a radio ship due to
illness or other problems. If you do recall this and want to share this
memories too, please tell us our story at Hknot@home.nl
Elsewhere in this issue of the report I told you already where to go to
see the enormous amount of photographs taken at the ynnual
Radio Day. This year for
the first time the bi-annual Radio Awards were presented and one was
given to Bull, Hendrik, Verwey,
the 98 year old legend from Radio Veronica. First his eldest son Jan
Jaap would come to Amsterdam to get the Award in
name
of his father. Unlucky he was as he couldn’t come due to sudden illness.
However granddaughters Maaike and Dorien drove to Amsterdam to bring the
Award for Outstanding Performance in Offshore Radio to Bull later that
evening. Some days later I had a phone chat with the former Director (together
with his brothers) of the offshore radiostation Veronica and he stated
that he was ver
y
happy to have the award at home and above that it was a good sign so
many people still love the old Veronica above what they call now
‘Veronica’ in Holland. “ “This shows that there is still respect for the
hard working people within my team in those days.“
Another Photo from November 10th shows what was happening during the
evening hours. Some 70 people, guests, former and nowadays radio people,
as well as some personal friends of the organisers went to a Chinese
Restaurant for the Radio Day Dinner. It was well organised by Rob Olthof
and he went to several restaurants during the summer, to taste their
kitchen. Now you now why Rob was so much thicker as in 2006. On the
photo you see Ron O’Quinn, Roger Day and myself Hans Knot.
(Photo taken by Stella Robinson)
An e mail from someone who missed the boat to Amsterdam to join us at
the party is next: ‘Hello Hans, since that day in August at Sugar Reef
in London, I've been very pleased to be receiving your reports. I assume
that that is as a result of having met Martin van der Ven, and
exchanging cards with him. I find your reports fascinating, and have
learnt several things that I was not aware of back then in the mid
-sixties. I have been forwarding your report to Dave Gillbee who was for
a long time on Britain Radio / 355 as Dave McKay. It would be good if
you could add Dave to your mailing list, to make sure that I don't
forget to send him a copy one day. Originally, we had both hoped to be
coming to your Radio Day, but in the end it was not possible for either
of us. Perhaps next time.
All
the best, Hans, keep up the good work.
Woolf Byrne.'
Well thanks a lot Woolf, I’ve added Dave and maybe Martin and I will
have something special in mind for next year's Radio Day for the first
thoughts how to program that day have already exchanged between the two
of us.
Here you see another photo which I took during the Radio Day. It shows a
very young John Ross Barnard
as well as today’s young happy man! The old photograph was taken as a
promotional picture in the days he worked for Radio Invicta. A listener
from those days brought the picture as well as many original letters
from several stations with him to Amsterdam.
Next an e mail which shows there’s still interest outside Holland,
England and Belgium in the newspapers for the subject Veronica. It’s
Journalist Bert Alting from Holland who was interviewed by an Italian
newspaper about his favourite radiostation from the past. Have a look
on:
http://www.voceditalia.it/articolo.asp?id=2541
Listening tip came in from Amsterdam to tune in to an internet station
which plays a lot of soul music. It originates from German and calls
itself the most sexiest station in the world. It’s also to receive on
Astra satellite.
www.peppermintfm.de/index.html
During the last few weeks suddenly the former
Veronica ship, which has
been used during the past 15 years on several locations in Holland and
Belgium as a party ship, is back in the news. First it was Jelle
Boonstra from Zwolle who sent me a press report from the town government
of the city, in which was announced that the owners of the Veronica ship
have asked for permission for a permanent place at a quayside in Zwolle.
The mayor and his right hands are positive for the idea as the ship is
an icon in Dutch pop history. But first there will be a hearing with the
people who are living around the potential place for the ship. Within
two weeks the Algemeen Dagblad brought an newsflash that there was also
a possibility that the Veronica ship would get a place in the historic
harbour. People, including Klaas Kooistra and his companion Joop ten
Cate say they’ve found enough backers to finance the plans. Already more
than three years ago Joop ten Cate was in the news several times with
his plans. Maybe there’s more news in the Christmas edition of the Hans
Knot International Radio Report. When you’ve something of interest for
this edition please don’t hesitate to sent it in to Hknot@home.nl It
could be you were on a radiostation in international waters or elsewhere
doing special radio programs. Sit down and take some 20 minutes to write
down what your memories are about that special occasion.
Then
an e mail from Burkhard Nowotny in Germany who is also interested in
radio for many ages. He advises to have a look at the next link on
internet. And Burkhard as ever, thank you so much
http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=Lk2TsvkL3ZQ&feature=related
Next we go to Australia and one from the former SRE people who did not
attend the Radio Day due to personal circumstances: ‘Congratulations on
your spiffy new Radi Award in Amsterdam.. I've promised Hans I'll get to
one of those things (hopefully 2008). Then I’ve an holiday gig. Well a
couple years after my pirate days I found myself being Santa Claus on
the radio in San Juan, P.R. doing a bilingual (Feliz Nadvidad-Merry
Christmas) North Pole call-in with Puerto Rican children. And today, the
Big Guy is back red suit and all in Adelaide's celebrated Magic Cave,
the most noted Santa venue in the country. Now I know how Hans felt
labouring under all that stuff for so long. Cheers and Ho Ho Ho for now,
Jack (aka Father Christmas)
Curtiss.
Santa ‘Jack Curtiss’
Then another listening
tip. On Sunday December 13 20.00 hrs CET there will be a documentary
from Guido Meyer called ‘The history of Radio Luxembourg’. It will be
presented in German on SWR2
http://www.swr2.de
We learnt versus Martin van der Ven the next about
Keith King: ’Good to see
your site static and original as ever on the web. I do not know if I
mentioned but in May I had a heart attack, resolved by medication which
is working well. It is a genetic problem and I am having regular
cholesterol checks. Feeling great in myself and as active as ever. I
have just moved from adsl to cable and hence a change of web address to
http://wirelesswaffle.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk - I was hoping for the
Virgin media web address but they say I have to use the blueyonder
server. Keith.
Well Keith in name of the readers hopefully all will be going upwards
with your health and keep enjoying the radio hobby!
Sometimes it takes month before a
nickname appears in the
report. This time we have three. In a show on Caroline International we
learnt that Mark Sloane was named ‘Misses’ Sloane. In a 1970 program
presented by a then very young Crispian St. John I heard him talking
about Alan ‘Wireless Waffling’ West. And Graham’ Grasilda’ Gill was on
the phone for a long chat and he reminded me that the best memories he
had was working for Radio 390. There, he told me, was also David
Sinclair, who was called ‘Sinkers’. For the long list of nicknames I can
advice you to have a look on
www.hansknot.com where also a lot of old issues of the Hans Knot
Radio Report are published.
Martin van der Ven scooped another interesting internetsite. Here you
find from the air the Ross
Revenge, the Caroline radio ship, in the harbour of Tilbury.
http://tinyurl.com/289oz8
Earlier on we brought the story of the rescue of
Eric Beekman, who was
taken off the Mi Amigo, way back in 1977 by a team from the Walton on
the Naze coastguard. It reminded me on the endless publications in
British as well as in Dutch newspapers through the decades about
offshore radio stations which were interfering on communications between
coastguards and rescue vessels. I went upstairs and had a look to find
out when the first message was in my archive about this subject. And I
can reveal that is from the very early days of British Offshore Radio.
On Monday March 30th 1964 The Daily Mail reported the next in a news
story written by Michael O’Flaherty: ‘Coastguards protested last night
that pop music from the floating radio station Caroline could hamper
life-saving operations at sea. Their warning came after a day of
interference with communications between coastguard stations and light
ships around the south and east coasts. Radio Caroline is at present
based at six miles of Felixstowe, outside territorial waters. The
station a 763 ton converted passenger ship has been transmitting from
6am to 6 pm since Saturday in practice broadcasting. Full relays are due
to start in a fortnight. Men in the lightships heard non stop pop music
as they contacted the shore. A coastguard said last night: “The
frequencies used by Deal in Kent and Walton on the Naze Essex are very
close to that used by Radio Caroline. Lightships are effected today.
Tomorrow it could be lifeboats, as these frequencies are very close too.
Coastguards at Walton and Deal protested to Trinity House, which has
overall control of rescue operations by lifeboats. Trinity House it to
take up the matter with the Postmaster General Mr. Reginald Bevins. The
Post Office said that the pirate broadcasts had been causing fairly
serious disruption of ship to shore communications from the station at
North Foreland in Kent. As spokesman added: “We regard these broadcasts
as contrary in International regulations. It is difficult to get them
stopped while the ship is outside territorial waters. But the Council of
Europe is shortly to consider some way of preventing this type of
broadcasts.”
So far the story I found back from March 30th 1964 and what a luck that
it took a long time the same Caroline was brought to an offshore end. On
the other hand it’s since 1990, some 17 years ago, we heard proper
offshore radio on our transistor radio.
When
I was searching in the archive for the above mentioned newspaper clip
from late March 1964, a lot of other interesting material took my
attention. This was including a leaflet which was sent out to those who
became a member of the Caroline Club in. During the period 1964 and 1967
three different leaflets were sent out, all having the same idea but
other names mentioned as it turned out there where changes within the
deejay team. The first issue names included from the presentation staff
were Chris Moore, Simon Dee, Doug Kerr, Carl Conway, Tom Lodge, Gerry
Duncan, Jerry Leighton and others. All info about those guys can be
found back on Award Winners site The Pirate Hall of Fame. One name
however I couldn’t find. Also in my hugh audio archive the name is not
listed, so no recording of him is available. So here we go, who has more
information on Tony Jay
than the info I’ve got: ‘Tony Jay was a friend of Jimmy Seville. In 1964
he was 25 years young and a former school teacher and born in Glenamman,
which is in South Wales. He was educated at the university in Bangor.
His first experience in broadcasting was when he appeared in a BBC
program, still being a schoolboy at the age of 11. After leaving college
he became a teacher at Eastbury School in Barking Essex. After a year he
left school to earn his money as a deejay in a ballroom in London. Also
several clubs in the country hired him for a one night stint. He came to
Caroline after sending an audition tape to Chris Moore. ‘
Tony Jay (Caroline Archive)
So the big questions are: Who ever heard him on Caroline and who knows
his present whereabouts. All answers can be send to
Hknot@home.nl
Well this is ending the early December edition of the Hans Knot
International Radio Report. And don’t forget I want a lot of memories
for the next Christmas edition. So what was your best radio Christmas.
And that does count for the deejays as well as their listeners. Please
do all sent your memories by e mail to me before December 15th. Thanks a
lot on forehand
Greetings
Hans Knot
Offshore Radio Programme Names - Programmanamen Zeezenders 1958-1990
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