Wednesday, 28 May 2008
Alan Milewczyk <...> said:
Fans of Caroline's 60s era will be aware that Jimmy's theme "Round Midnight" was the original closedown theme used on Caroline. Jimmy did a live show from Caroline (in 1965, I think).
Jimmy McGriff's track was indeed the original Caroline theme but it was another Jimmy, Jimmy Smith, who played live from the Mi Amigo in 1965. See http://www.radiolondon.co.uk/caroline/scrap60/p10scrap60.html
Sorry to hear of Jimmy McG's death.
Jonathan
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Alan Milewczyk <...> said:
I'll do 100 lines, teacher!;-)
I must not muddle my Jimmies.
(It sounds like a coloquialism for something filthy.)
Cheers,
Jonathan
But nowhere does it say this will be in New Zealand!!
Ah, but equally neither does it say it won't be in New Zealand.
:-)
Who cares where it is? I listened over the last couple of days and it is just ANOTHER Gold type station, It is hardly going to set the airwaves alight !!
Terry
Terry Williams <...> said:
Who cares where it is? I listened over the last couple of days and it is just ANOTHER Gold type station, It is hardly going to set the airwaves alight !!
Terry
It should be called Plastic Caroline.
Quoting a previous RC Guff contribution:-
As Chris and some often say, talk style radio is the way to go, but in
this country it won't work! I don't want to listen to convesations /
topics about "What are you doing right now" or small talk about reality
TV programmes, what celeb is in rehab, what style coffee is the latest
fad or any other bland small talk programmes we are subjected to today.
Radio is far to restricted, even more so by this paranoid, control freak
Goverment. That's what makes me laugh with those dreaming of going
offshore again! Not with this Government you won't, they'll probably get
you on some anti-terror charge as well as the MOA, WTA etc. You'll be
followed out to sea, boarded, tasered and hauled off before the ships
engines have emitted a tiny blot on the stations 'carbon footprint'.
Hmmm. I don't think this weird Government would move against an offshore radio station any more than it moves against any of the land based pirates. It relies on the general public being far too thick and controlled to want to have their minds opened by freethinkers. Even if somebody did dare speak the truth about things in such a way, the great British public just wouldn't listen. Go check out the WAGs and Glamour models special of The Weakest Link currently on iPlayer (only for a few more days). You can laugh at it, or despair. But, in truth, that's who we are. The questions Anne Robinson asks are so simple and they make us who feel superior laugh when these WAGs don't know the answers, but we as a nation are not far off from these people in truth.
Historically though, the freethinkers, or, come to that, even the subversives with their agendas haven't wanted to make radio. Instead, 'free radio' advocates go through all the bother of putting together a 'free' radio station only to make the full extent of that 'freeness' be that they 'freely' steal copyright and play people songs they've already heard before. The madness of putting up an aerial, going through all the potential stuff of facing prison or at least a heavy fine to only play safe commercially available music without paying the musicians seems beyond bizarre. Well, it's capped only by the really really mad people who put together a radio station (typically an international shortwave service) that does nothing but re-broadcast tapes of safe radio stations from over 25 years ago. WTF is that about beyond being a most bizarre mental condition?
So, this is why I disagree about them moving against an offshore radio station. They know that it'll just exist to steal copyright and do nothing more. People will think they are waving some great flag for freedom when they do get out there and start playing those well known songs. Even listeners will excitedly listen thinking how really radical this activity is. But, like we might do with the WAGs in that Weakest Link special, the Government will sneeringly look down at us and laugh. They know that we haven't got a clue what 'freedom' really is, let alone how to actually use it.
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Quoting a previous RC Guff contribution:-
It should be called Plastic Caroline.
Since the name 'Caroline' has never really been associated with anything radical or new, maybe they all should be called 'Plastic Caroline'.
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Quoting a previous Pirate Radio Hall of Fame contribution:-
I must not muddle my Jimmies.
Anorak Nation – home to muddled Jimmies.
Well, here's a 'free radio' (well, free speech) dilemma unfolding.
The http://freeradio.lefora.com board set up to avoid the personal attacks and bullying of other boards is running a poll about Paul Rusling and the suggestion that he laughed and jeered at the death of Humphrey Lyttleton, or something.
Now, think about this. As obnoxious as Rusling might have been / be, or misunderstood or misquoted in his reaction to Humph's death, surely this poll is itself an act of bullying.
Nothing against the operators of the freeradio board or their well intentioned position of opposing bullying, good on 'em for that, but, surely this poll contravenes their very own mission statement?
Discuss.
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