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Tuesday, 12 August 2008

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Re: Tests from uklightradio.co.uk

Sterling Times 12 August 2008 09:03

Test transmissions are usually better than programme, but this is nicely put together and sounds promising. 

Real Light Programme listeners are now very old, but it introduces the light music genre to another generation. Like the superb 1920s Radio Dismuke (introducing 1920s and 30s music to a younger generation), it fills a gap in market.

The presenters at UK Light Radio are generally well know celebrity announcers.

Definitely not for hippies!

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Little black things ...

Sterling Times 12 August 2008 16:22

What are the little black things called that are used in in-ear earphones?

Can these be bought separately to the earphones.

I fear that Master Sterling is going to lose many of these. Granny Sterling threw one of then out of the patio door into the garden when she was making Master Sterling's bed.

Master Sterling's comment was, "now you have got to buy me some new earphones".

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Re: Tests from uklightradio.co.uk

Eric Tesug 12 August 2008 19:24

In article <5F9BDE92958E4F3786C68486891A6967@video2>, ... (Alan Milewczyk) wrote:

Sez you!

We are all entitled to an opinion Alan, and I confess I was one of the people that would rush out and buy singles in those days :-)

Just looked at the NME Book of Hit Singles – chart dated 12th
August 67....

Sorry don't have that

From the Top 30

Really liked – 23
Quite liked – 2
Didn't like – 2
Didn't remember – 3
They call it "Pop music" as in Popular, that which sells. Worked
for me in 67 when I was 18, still works now I'm 59.

We're obviously on different planets!;-) Tell you what? As you're
struggling to play music from that era, let me do your show for
you! This time last year, I was listening to Pirate BBC Essex,
which is the most live radio I've listened to in many a year – and
I wasn't the only one.

I found an hours worth and made it :-) . You are most welcome to comment on the selection.

I'll venture to say, it wasn't just the music that you were listening to via Essex. Like me you were also re-capturing your youth which we all do and there is nothing wrong with that as long as recapturing your youth doesn't leave you thinking that music is what should be used in 2008.

And I guess this show is a very unique show in that I don't think people should programme a station for themselves – they should programme the station for the audience, which is what we make every attempt to do as we will never get in perfect – no such thing in radio.

I'm sure we have all suffered The Last Waltz more than enough times :-). And it's best left for wedding discos ( please no). Pleasant Valley Sunday was a good pop track at the time, but not now. How many will recall, no googling now, the artist behind A Bad Night? Is Vikki Carr a name that makes people go OH WOW, sorry don't think so.

However, as I am allowed my own opinion – my most FAB track Man from the 60's still remain See Emily Play, well produced, powerful track.
And no plinkikity plink in sight – EUREKA. And if you don't like it, you should visit the vets :-)

The Johnnie Mann Singers as best remembered I'm sure for .........

Really, really Alan – no offence and if the music you love rocks your boat that's fine with me. However, I'd rather listen to nowt rather from some of the, what I think is, dross from the 60's and don't start me on the 1950's charts cos I'll scream at that point :-)

With the greatest of respect for your views

Eric

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Re: Little black things ...

Eric Tesug 12 August 2008 19:24

Any good?

http://www.dealtime.co.uk/-beyerdynamic+dt660+ear+pad+replacement

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Re: Tests from uklightradio.co.uk

Alan Milewczyk 13 August 2008 00:09



Well, what I was trying to say, after you said there was little decent music from that era, was that *I* had my own very different opinion.
 
As for Pirate BBC Essex, I agree that, yes, it was partly an attempt to relive those watery wireless days. Where you and I disagree dramatically is with your statement that follows "there is nothing wrong with that as long as recapturing your youth doesn't leave you thinking that music is what should be used in 2008". I am a great advocate for the music of two decades, say, mid/late 50s to mid-70s - apart from the artists I grew up with, such as Neil Diamond and Elton John, there is very little contemporary music that connects with me. I am TOTALLY at home with the music of my childhood and youth - TOTALLY. Even though I am at a very different point in life, knocking on 60, balding, carrying excess weight, I loved the music of "my era" then and I love it just as much now. To be honest, part of the attraction is the very simplicity of it. Although I can appreciate that the Beatles moved the boundaries of music in the 60s, in some ways what they lost was that raw edge, that simplicity - although I was a mega fan of them in the 60s, these days I rarely play their material from the Revolver era onwards. That's why rock'n'roll, teen and girl sound still connect with me, forty/fifty-odd years down the line. And yes, although I was coming up to 7 at the time, I can still recall the excitement of hearing Elvis' "Heartbreak Hotel" for the very first time. It remains for me, one of the most seismic jolts in the history of Popular music. I have no need to be a history revisionist - I am not embarrassed by my likes. They are part of my journey of life and I embrace that soundtrack wholeheartedly. Who are you, or anyone else, for that matter, to tell me that this is not the music to be used in 2008? We have locked antlers on this subject before and will continue to do so - as you say on the one hand, that we are entitled to have our own opinion, then you proceed to make a value judgement of my opinion on that very point! What keeps coming over time and again is an inference that this is not the thing to do - you are a radio professional but that doesn't make your opinion any more valid than mine. If you are happier with more modern music or today's music even, good luck to you, you will never hear me saying you shouldn't be. All I am saying is that it's not for me. But please, no more inference that yours is the right way or the only way! Or that my way is somehow not the right way!
 
I refuse to believe that I am the only one in this boat (pun unintended) and I think the Pirate BBC Essex experience bears out that there are many others such as I. I recall Roger Day floating the Pirate BBCE concept to "the powers that be" at the time, but no-one had the balls to take that idea and make it work. By and large, what I've heard of modern music just doesn't connect with me one iota, I'm quite simply not interested in listening to it. Thanks to the net I am able to enjoy "new" (to me) music from my favourite eras - thankfully there are enough people with similar tastes to mine who programme material that appeals to me. I never cease to be amazed at some of the gems I discover, through them, of artists who never hit the big time, for whatever reason. That's how I keep things fresh, by discovering further examples of genres that I like.
 
Turning to the tracks you mention, personally Humph's "Last waltz" (which a couple of weeks after the the MOA) wasn't my cuppa tea but I don't despise it. The Monkees track I liked very much.  Cat Stevens' "A bad night" was one of three tracks that I just didn't remember, this despite me liking most of his material - the other tracks I don't recall were the Bachelors' "Marta" and Jim Reeves' "Trying to forget" (I obviously succeeded there!;-) Funnily enough, one of the tracks in the Top 30 for that week was Desmond Dekker's "007 (Shanty Town)" - ska, bluebeat, rock steady, reggae - none of those variants ever did it for me. I've always thought that genre was singularly boring repetitive material - nothing has changed and that was one of the records I didn't like. The Pink Floyd, well, I bought their first two singles, "See Emily Play" being one of them - the stuff they did after that didn't do anything for me, with the exception of the album track "Money". Vikki Carr - great ballad, very well sung  (as was another in the same vein, Anita Harris' "Just loving you"), but then you don't like ballads, do you? The Johnny Mann, well, I prefer the 5th Dimension original, but it's a nice track, a Jim Webb tune and I'm a big fan of his material. Of the records in the Top 30 that week, my fave was probably number 29, Four Tops "Seven rooms of gloom". Of the turntable hits, I'd list David McWilliams "Days of Pearly Spencer", Raymond Lefevre "Soul coaxing" (it was an album track at the time and finally charted as a single the following year) and Johnny Young "Craise Finton Kirk", a great song by the Bee Gees. The mid to late 60s, I was into soul in a big way, Motown, Stax, Atlantic, Chess - that was THE favourite genre for me, but it didn't stop me really enjoying material such as Edison Lighthouse as we moved into a new decade!
 
If we move the clock on a tad, in the 70s I liked artists such as Neil Diamond, Fleetwood Mac, Elton John, the Doobie Brothers, the Philly Sound, Rod Stewart and the Eagles (whom I discovered through Tony Allan playing them on Radio Caroline, along with Jackson Browne). Abba were musically the ultimate - no band has ever surpassed their harmonies, their sheer sense of melody and the incredible production - if pushed to quote my favourite song ever, ever, ever, then it would have to be "Dancing Queen" - sheer perfection. The Eighties brought Tina Turner, Eurythmics/Annie Lennox, Alison Moyet (what a voice). The late Eighties going into the Nineties would be Whitney Houston and Tina Turner, also George Michael. In the Noughties, through the net I discovered "Contemporary Country" (never did do Bluegrass) and went full circle in picking up R&B, Blues, Soul, Doo Wop, the Boppin Oldies and going right back to my earliest fondest memories of childhood, when I was at primary school, going with my parents to the cinema to see the fabulous film musicals, such as "South Pacific", "Oklahoma!", "Seven Brides for seven brothers", "Singing in the rain", "High Society" - classic, timeless music.
 
As I said in a previous e-mail, I don't listen to ordinary day-to-day radio, it's mostly podcasts I've downloaded onto my iPod or Memory stick and I play those in the car, alongside the specialist stuff like Brian Matthew, Suzi Quatro (she is a radio GEM) and Johnnie Walker. Last time I listened to the radio in any amount was a year ago to Pirate BBC Essex.
 
So that's it, except one question... what the heck is Plinkety Plink?
 
 
Alan
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