Oh,The memories! I was stationed in southern Germany from mid 1960 thru 1962 and we could pick up Radio Luxembourg very clearly. It was the greatest radio station!
I have the Updated version of this Bush Radio....it has MW and FM ...but no LW or SW....I always wanted this Radio from the United Kingdom.... finally got one after all these years....I could imagine being a kid or a teenager in the 1960s...hearing this station and Radio London with The Beatles and the Who on this 😊. . I was born in 1962 in Los Angeles California...we had Boss Radio 93....in this time.... same Pop And Rock...in to the 1970s... Just Great 👍
How I wish I had listened to Radio Lux more. We just took it for granted. I first discovered it about 1965 age 12. Nostalgic for the 'fade', made it special even in 1970s. In 70s it was piped via phone line fade free into homes. Wasn't same, get radio!
What Radio DJs actually introduced .. like records - playing .. not hours of drivelling chatter with .. umm .. their mates (and some music too)? Now that's a crazy idea! ;o)
This doesn’t sound like the radio Luxembourg I remember in the early 60s ....the sound quality is far too good compared to anything we could hear in England.....I was in Surrey which is in southern England and at best the signal would be wavering and fuzzy....... what's more, most of these tunes are more like the sort of mum and dad music you would hear on the BBC light program , not “the station of the stars radio Luxembourg” ....and the song at the end “who put the bomp” was a minor hit in 1961 (no 7 in USA and no 21 in England) and I'm sure they would not have played it on Luxembourg two years later! Is this taken from some sort of souvenir LP or something??? 1963 was the time when the Beatles etc came to the world, an exciting time and this video in no way conveys the feeling of that time!! Ps. Thanks for amending the date to 1961 I still feel the recording does not convey the spirit of the times. where there was a new sound coming into the charts just before the Beatles etc arrived
Thanks for your comments. You're the second person to suggest this is 1961, and on looking into this, I think you're correct. I've altered the description. This is a studio recording, not an 'off-air'. Until the mid 60s, most of the shows were pre-recorded in a London studio on tape. The tapes were then flown back and forth between London and Luxy, and tapes were reused for new shows. This is one of the few studio recordings that are known to survive from the 60s. Most shows were sponsored by a particular record company, so only that companies records could be played. This show was for Pye records, one of the smaller companies, who didn't have the large singles catalogue that EMI and Decca had - hence the varied selection of music.
@@ricardo2266 hi thanks for bothering to reply ....now that I know the story it all makes sense ...in England we all grew up with Luxembourg .....I am 72 by the way..... it was our only access to pop music apart from very rare shows on the BBC who didn’t approve of pop music ..when the pirate stations came along in 64 till 67 people stopped listening to Lux but I have fond memories listening with my little transistor the size of a cigarette packet. Tim
@@ricardo2266 PS I looked on your site and realise there's plenty of things to interest me I like to think I have a very broad musical taste ranging from 1920s new Orleans jazz through dance bands Rock 'n' roll light classical even heavy classical sometimes I don't have much interest in the modern stuff but of course I sound like an old timer turning into my dad who had an obsessive hatred of the stones and could not believe they actually washed their hair. If I were to sum up my musical tastes I think it would be I enjoy anything with a melody rhythm and the like. In my earlier reply I spoke as if you are and Italian and we're not familiar with the Brits scene but I know I now realise you are from the Manchester area a fine city my only experience of which was when in the moment of madness in November 1967 I decided to hitchhike to John O'Groats to get over breaking up with a girl. I remember my brief visit to Manchester because a man dropped me right beside the town Hall and it was remembrance Sunday 1967. I didn't make it to John O groats but run out of money when I got to Inverness where are very kind lorry driver not only drove me non-stop to London but gave me the Odd bites of food to keep me going. I will never forget the ride not just because it was extremely tiring 24 hours non-stop but in the old-fashioned lorry there was a massive and very noisy gearbox between me and the driver and he had a little transistor hanging in the back of the cab tuned to Lux at full volume to drown out the noise of the gears. I think the driver was glad to have me along to help keep him awake. My life was more interesting in those days than the current miserable lockdown!
@@timpreston459 Hi Tim. Thanks for your interesting memories. Just to add to my Luxy comments. They wanted to broadcast the London shows live, by relay to the Grand Duchy (and then via their powerful transmitter). But the GPO wouldn't allow them to broadcast live from the UK. So to get round this, they sent the London programmes to Luxy on tape. There were some live shows from Luxy, mainly after midnight, also Top 20 on Sundays at 11pm. I may post some more Luxy in the future.
Yeah, very much so. Pye Records had a very overlooked catalogue in their very early years, under the name of Pye Nixa & before that Polygon. We've gotta quad CD of 100 of that company's somewhat overlooked recordings that only came out in 2000, I was reading through the entire track listing on Discogs just recently.
Oh,The memories! I was stationed in southern Germany from mid 1960 thru 1962 and we could pick up Radio Luxembourg very clearly. It was the greatest radio station!
No fade! I'd cross the channel every night to good ol' UK for it.
Two great memories: Slim Harpo, and radio Luxembourg! Heard from USA on my Grundig console in the sixties.......................
Fascinating "blast from the past" ! Thanks very much for uploading for us to enjoy !! 👍
I have the Updated version of this Bush Radio....it has MW and FM ...but no LW or SW....I always wanted this Radio from the United Kingdom.... finally got one after all these years....I could imagine being a kid or a teenager in the 1960s...hearing this station and Radio London with The Beatles and the Who on this 😊. . I was born in 1962 in Los Angeles California...we had Boss Radio 93....in this time.... same Pop And Rock...in to the 1970s... Just Great 👍
Fascinating cigarette and football pools ads. This year of music was simply crying out for The Beatles to happen
Wasn't like that in 1971-1972!(this is the mum and poppa hour?)
Did my homework listening to Radio Luxembourg as the signal faded in and out.
Me too ! What a beautiful time !
Oh me too.
How I wish I had listened to Radio Lux more. We just took it for granted. I first discovered it about 1965 age 12. Nostalgic for the 'fade', made it special even in 1970s. In 70s it was piped via phone line fade free into homes. Wasn't same, get radio!
Wow, a studio recording, not off-air.
What Radio DJs actually introduced .. like records - playing .. not hours of drivelling chatter with .. umm .. their mates (and some music too)? Now that's a crazy idea! ;o)
Brian Matthew much missed.
brill presenter
was removed by the bbc in an ungainly matter
Sounds like 1961, great to hear again and with no fading in and out! Thanks very much.
My dad used to thump the top of the radio to get it back on station.
No fade means no Radio Lux & no point for me.
Im born 1994
But i heard for this radio from elders
It was very popular in yugoslavia
25‘42‘‘Horace Bachelor and his ‘Famous Infra-Draw Method’ Dept. 1, Cainesham, spelled K E Y N S H A M Bristol 🤣
That was great on many levels.....
17:04 Horace Batchelor
What a good selection!
This is great. Only letdown is the picture of a Bush reproduction radio.
senior service omg
thought raining in my heart was identical to honest i do-jimmy reed who got the money?
This doesn’t sound like the radio Luxembourg I remember in the early 60s ....the sound quality is far too good compared to anything we could hear in England.....I was in Surrey which is in southern England and at best the signal would be wavering and fuzzy....... what's more, most of these tunes are more like the sort of mum and dad music you would hear on the BBC light program , not “the station of the stars radio Luxembourg” ....and the song at the end “who put the bomp” was a minor hit in 1961 (no 7 in USA and no 21 in England) and I'm sure they would not have played it on Luxembourg two years later! Is this taken from some sort of souvenir LP or something??? 1963 was the time when the Beatles etc came to the world, an exciting time and this video in no way conveys the feeling of that time!!
Ps. Thanks for amending the date to 1961 I still feel the recording does not convey the spirit of the times. where there was a new sound coming into the charts just before the Beatles etc arrived
Thanks for your comments. You're the second person to suggest this is 1961, and on looking into this, I think you're correct. I've altered the description. This is a studio recording, not an 'off-air'. Until the mid 60s, most of the shows were pre-recorded in a London studio on tape. The tapes were then flown back and forth between London and Luxy, and tapes were reused for new shows. This is one of the few studio recordings that are known to survive from the 60s. Most shows were sponsored by a particular record company, so only that companies records could be played. This show was for Pye records, one of the smaller companies, who didn't have the large singles catalogue that EMI and Decca had - hence the varied selection of music.
@@ricardo2266 hi thanks for bothering to reply ....now that I know the story it all makes sense ...in England we all grew up with Luxembourg .....I am 72 by the way..... it was our only access to pop music apart from very rare shows on the BBC who didn’t approve of pop music ..when the pirate stations came along in 64 till 67 people stopped listening to Lux but I have fond memories listening with my little transistor the size of a cigarette packet. Tim
@@ricardo2266 PS I looked on your site and realise there's plenty of things to interest me I like to think I have a very broad musical taste ranging from 1920s new Orleans jazz through dance bands Rock 'n' roll light classical even heavy classical sometimes I don't have much interest in the modern stuff but of course I sound like an old timer turning into my dad who had an obsessive hatred of the stones and could not believe they actually washed their hair. If I were to sum up my musical tastes I think it would be I enjoy anything with a melody rhythm and the like. In my earlier reply I spoke as if you are and Italian and we're not familiar with the Brits scene but I know I now realise you are from the Manchester area a fine city my only experience of which was when in the moment of madness in November 1967 I decided to hitchhike to John O'Groats to get over breaking up with a girl. I remember my brief visit to Manchester because a man dropped me right beside the town Hall and it was remembrance Sunday 1967. I didn't make it to John O groats but run out of money when I got to Inverness where are very kind lorry driver not only drove me non-stop to London but gave me the Odd bites of food to keep me going. I will never forget the ride not just because it was extremely tiring 24 hours non-stop but in the old-fashioned lorry there was a massive and very noisy gearbox between me and the driver and he had a little transistor hanging in the back of the cab tuned to Lux at full volume to drown out the noise of the gears. I think the driver was glad to have me along to help keep him awake. My life was more interesting in those days than the current miserable lockdown!
@@timpreston459 Hi Tim. Thanks for your interesting memories. Just to add to my Luxy comments. They wanted to broadcast the London shows live, by relay to the Grand Duchy (and then via their powerful transmitter). But the GPO wouldn't allow them to broadcast live from the UK. So to get round this, they sent the London programmes to Luxy on tape. There were some live shows from Luxy, mainly after midnight, also Top 20 on Sundays at 11pm. I may post some more Luxy in the future.
Yeah, very much so. Pye Records had a very overlooked catalogue in their very early years, under the name of Pye Nixa & before that Polygon. We've gotta quad CD of 100 of that company's somewhat overlooked recordings that only came out in 2000, I was reading through the entire track listing on Discogs just recently.
Do you have the 1940s and 50s shows?
Horace bachelor pools scammer lol