21-08-1965 - Radio London

[Vincent]

Ik heb van Juul ooit deze opname gekregen. Bij het opruimen vandaag kwam ik hem weer tegen. Ik heb nog geen tijd gehad om uit te zoeken van hoelaat tot hoelaat deze opname is (ruim 4 uur) en wie de presentatie doet. Wie het weet mag het zeggen.

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[Gast]

In deel 1 Earl Richmond en deel 2 Ed Stewart.

Paul de Haan

Earl Richmond Real name John Dienn, he was born in Highgate, north London, in 1928. Earl first worked in radio in 1948 with British Forces Broadcasting in Trieste. He was also heard in Cyprus before moving to America to study television. In July 1959 he joined ITV as a transmission controller and, before becoming a pirate, had also worked for Southern TV in Southampton. When Radio London started at the end of 1964, Earl presented the 9am-noon show and was the ship's administrator. He was known as “The Earl Of Richmond†and his theme tune was a version of Sit Down You're Rocking The Boat. Earl left the ship during the spring of 1966 but continued to make the occasional promotional appearance for Radio London on land. After his pirate days, he was with Yorkshire TV and Thompson International before moving to Thailand where he worked on English language radio and became involved in the hotel trade, at one time owning and running a restaurant called the Beefeater. He died in May 2001. Correspondent Alan Field contacted The Pirate Radio Hall of Fame after finding a news cutting on the net. From a column written by Bernard Trink, dated 18 May 2001, it read: ‘John Dienn, everybody's favourite MC at parties, passed away midweek in Pattaya. He was 75. Bi-lingual in English and Thai, his suave voice was clear and pleasant. A radio personality and hotelier.....’ Richard Buckle has written from Thailand: “John worked out here in Bangkok for almost 30 years in radio and in the hotel management business. We were on the same Bangkok radio station, 95.5FM, for a couple of years in the early nineties. John was a bit of a loner and sadly passed away last year after suffering a heart attack.†There is a fuller obituary of Earl Richmond on the Radio London web-site. There is another picture of Earl in Gordon Sheppard's photo album. (Many thanks to Alan and Richard for getting in touch. If Earl was 75 when he died in May 2001 he obviously was not born in 1928. Either the Radio London press office knocked a couple of years off his age, which is quite possible, or the Thai news cutting is inaccurate.)

ED STEWART

Ed Stewart was born on the 23rd April 1941 in Exmouth, Devon. He visited a friend in Hong Kong, intending to make a living playing the double bass. Unfortunately his music career failed to take off so Ed started working for Radio Hong Kong. While in the colony he presented programmes on both radio and television, as well as acting as rugby commentator and film critic. In 1965 he returned to Britain and applied for work on the various offshore stations. Radio Caroline turned him down as they did not have any vacancies but Radio London took him on for the summer, to cover for any DJs on holiday. His first show was on 5th July and his temporary appointment was rapidly made into a permanent one. Dave Cash gave him the nick-name of “Stewpot†and he developed a mythical co-presenter called Myrtle: “Hello Myrtle†(falsetto:) “Hello dear.†His regular programme was 3-6pm and included the daily Schools Spot. He used a couple of different theme tunes: Drum Diddley by Joe Loss & his Orchestra and Lover by Buddy Merrill. When Tony Windsor left, Ed was appointed Senior DJ and he remained with the station until it closed down. Indeed, he co-hosted the very last show with Paul Kaye. He then joined the BBC, later moving to commercial radio with Radio Mercury. Ed rejoined BBC Radio 2 in 1991 and stayed with them until announcing his retirement in 2006. With a home in Spain, he has also been heard on an English language station there called Spectrum FM. There is a video of Ed broadcasting on Radio London here. There are some pictures of Ed in Willy Walker's and Mitch Philistin's photo albums. Click here for a more recent one, taken at the August 2007 Radio Academy Celebration of Offshore Radio. Ed's autobiography Out of the Stewpot was published in March 2005.

Zie http://www.offshoreradio.co.uk/

[Vincent]

Dank je voor de info Paul.

Ik heb er nog eentje: http://www.mediafire.com/?6bywl4k2211bmkr

[Juul]

Ik heb van Juul ooit deze opname gekregen. Bij het opruimen vandaag kwam ik hem weer tegen. Ik heb nog geen tijd gehad om uit te zoeken van hoelaat tot hoelaat deze opname is (ruim 4 uur) en wie de presentatie doet. Wie het weet mag het zeggen.

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Moet de 1e file niet (dus juist wel) 1445 uur zijn Vincent?

Dus 14.45 - 15.45 en dan 15.45 - .........

Juul

[Vincent]

Mmm, nee Juul. Ik zal iets duidelijker zijn: London-19650821-1545 uur is de file, ik heb hem alleen even in twee delen geknipt voor mediafire, anders is de file te groot.

[Gast]

Dank je voor de info Paul.

Ik heb er nog eentje: http://www.mediafire.com/?6bywl4k2211bmkr

De legendarische Big L newsreader en af en toe deejay Paul Kay . Was de eerste en tevens laatste stem gehoord op Big L. Deed de testuitzendingen in dec 64 en de close down in aug 67 .

http://www.offshoreradio.co.uk/djsk.htm

Paul Kaye (sometimes spelt Kay) The first voice to be heard on Radio London, Paul was born in Barnstaple, Devon, on 17th February 1934. After leaving school he worked in repertory theatre and in 1952 became stage manager to a theatre company in Nairobi. He volunteered for the Kenyan police and saw active service during the Mau Mau emergency. He began working on the country's radio network and later broadcast in both Cyprus and Canada. When Radio London launched at the end of 1964 it was the first UK pirate station to operate a news service and Paul was the news chief. His bulletins were on the half-hour, which conveniently gave him just enough time to re-write the BBC news which was broadcast on the hour. Although the news was obtained from the BBC, it was presented in a very different manner. Introduced by jingles and with each story interspersed with Morse code (see below). Radio London's bulletins were nothing if not dramatic. But they were also authoritative, largely because of Paul Kaye's presentation skills. Normally the Radio London news service only consisted of these hourly bulletins but in January 1967 Paul travelled to Paris to report on Prime Minister Harold Wilson's unsuccessful negotiations to take Britain into the European Union (or Common Market as it was then known). Paul also presented programmes, especially in the early months of the station, and his theme was Town Talk by Ken Woodman and his Piccadilly Brass, a tune later used on the BBC by Jimmy Young. In August 1967 the Marine Offences Act became law and the first voice on Radio London became the last as Paul closed the station down. He was later on Radio Luxembourg, Yorkshire TV and he presented a jazz programme on Radio Hallam, Radio Tees and Pennine Radio. He died on 4th November 1980. For more pictures of Paul, see Gordon Sheppard and Willy Walker's photo albums. There is also a recording of him talking to Kenny Everett about the Beatles tour of America. (We previously stated that the Morse code heard during the Radio London bulletins spelled out B-I-G-L, the station's nickname, but we have now heard from Paul Kaye's former colleague Duncan Johnson: “I can't understand Morse but I thought B-I-G-L took too long and R-L was used instead. It was certainly altered about June 65. Kenny Everett and (engineer) Russ Tollerfield, who could ‘read’ Morse, spent all one night putting the sound effect together. Kenny splicing small slivers of tone on tape until Russ finally agreed to the ‘spelling’ which I thought was R-L.†Hans Hogendoorn has also been in touch. He agrees that the Morse spells R-L: “As a trained radio telegrapher I can confirm the meaning of the signal. Moreover the station used two versions of the signal. The slower speed (approx. 17 words/min) and the double speed, which can be heard in the Paul Kaye clip (below).†Many thanks to both Duncan and Hans.)

Paul de Haan

[Juul]

Mmm, nee Juul. Ik zal iets duidelijker zijn: London-19650821-1545 uur is de file, ik heb hem alleen even in twee delen geknipt voor mediafire, anders is de file te groot.

Ik snap 'em Vincent.

Juul

[Vincent]

Wederom dank voor de snelle service Paul. Ik zie dat ik er nog 2 heb. Deze zijn zelfs niet gedateerd. Ik zal ze morgen ook maar uploaden.

[Paul]

Altijd, leuk, opnames van Radio London. Ik heb hier de afgelopen dagen bij stukjes en beetjes naar geluisterd, en ik ben tot de conclusie gekomen dat het eigenlijk twee verschillende opnamen zijn. Het eerste bestand en de eerste 34 minuten van het tweede bestand zijn inderdaad een opname van zaterdag 21 augustus 1965, met Earl Richmond en een klein stukje Ed Stewart. Het programma loopt van 15.43 tot 18.17. Met wat knippen en plakken heb ik er een nieuw bestand van gemaakt. Misschien dat anderen daar ook wat aan hebben:

http://www.mijnbestand.nl/Bestand-JBXNSOXMS4W7.mp3

Daarna volgt een opname die ik al kende, namelijk Dave Dennis op 25 juni 1965, vanaf ongeveer tien over twee ’s middags:

http://www.mijnbestand.nl/Bestand-PYIZS4B7ZGNQ.mp3

Paul

[Vincent]

Dank je voor het uitzoeken en opsplitsen. Ik heb de gedownload voor het archief.

[Juul]

Dank Paul voor het speurwerk. De opname komt uiteindelijk uit het archief van Ad Bouman. Ik verander het ook in onze dBase.

Juul