Brings back the memories, makes me sad a little. Takes me back to simpler times. Only cares in the world were what you and your mates were going to do on the weekend, no bills, no worries, just mates and good times.
@@traceyross8528 I definitely feel the "simple life" nostalgia - a lot of that is because we were kids though. For most people, life is simpler when you're kid. Hearing these tunes also makes me feel down, though, and I couldn't quite work out why at first. I think it's just that I felt bored and restricted a lot of the time in my teens. Dull small town NZ. The same songs on the radio and RTR week after week. I don't look back on it with much fondness, to be honest.
@sopyleecrypt6899 they were the best days of my life hand's down!! Compared to this shitty life I have now. I would give my right arm to go back to kaiapoi when I was 14 years old! My first boyfriend was the milkman! I worked at the local dairy. I did however used to get pissed off when pseudo echo's 'funky town' was number one........again! For the 20th week in a row! 🤣
I think each generation feels that desire to go back to when they had not much responsibility and more fun. Being an adult can be pretty scary. That's why it's important to have good friends to talk to and still enjoy a hobby or two in our free time.
@@MrCardrona71 An older dude...then later, Dick Driver n Karen Hay. Became my goto show when times were a changin and my mid to late teen tastes became more sophisticated and rebellious
Back then we'd had a Thorn Precision 22 colour TV (It had, Gasp! Four TV channels) which Dad bought in 1979 (Back when we only had TV ONE and TV TWO) and it lasted about 15 years.
Fish n chips and race back home for the 6pm RTR countdown. Happiest half hour of the week. Also a fave was Max Headroom, the early Sunday morning kids stories on the radio and the Sunday American top 40 countdown with the tape deck ready to record all of our favourites. Happy days...
❤❤❤72baby here. So many happy memories as a kiwi kid. All of these songs travel through my mind remembering my school friends and moving to the city from a country town 😢. Getting introduced to Alfies 😂❤. Very happy memories but kinda sad we can't go back 😢❤
Where do I start but say thank you for the time warp! After you played rugby on Saturday you couldn’t leave your house before watching RTR before your mate’s house before we head off to mischief down Queen St and visit bars like the Kiwi Tavern, Zanzibar, Alfie’s and the coffee shops in Ponsonby….wow what a trip, good ol days and my Parents was alive back then.❤️Had to visit Apple Music to download so many forgotten cherished songs that sound so fresh today.🤙🏽Aloha from Hawaii (left Auckland in 1986).
What an amazing nostalgia hit, I started watching RTR in the late 70s , and it's a sad fact that a lot of these artists are no longer with us I started recording every RTR countdown and music videos from Sept 1985 till April 1988 when I then moved to the UK, where I then did it all again from 1988 to 1996, In 1986 for about 7 months NZ was robbed of some great music videos due the NZ govt refusing to pay the 80 dollars a minute for them , and only paying for NZ music videos The highlight for me was at minute 53 , seeing Blue Monday 88 at no 1, the original from 1983 spent 88 weeks in the top 100 and never made no 1, a real travesty , it didn't reach no 1 in the uk either, nor the 1988 re re reslease , some great tunes seen here, if I had the time I'd put all 500 hours on my channel as I still have all the VHS tapes with the material I recorded, RTR, Radio With Pictures, 12 o'clock rock, I recorded the lot, maybe one day I will take the time and put them on my channel ( Maybe ) lol
RTR Countdown or when it first came out in the 1970’s Ready to Roll was on TV 2 every week on Saturday night at 6pm . Its original theme was machine gun by the Commodores . It did clash with the Network news which my parents watched , but fortunately our household had two TV’s, remember there were only two tv channels at the time !!. It was almost compulsory viewing for anyone under 30 at the time .
Great to look back...I would watch this on Saturday Night before heading out to Work as a DJ at the Bar/Disco in Timaru New Zealand for those out of NZ..Great Nights were had ..Great times came like whirlwind then gone..
OMG, this reminded me about Mel & Kim! They were huge in '87, and then they were gone. My best friend and I performed Respectable for the school talent show that year. We even cut the tops out of our hats and shoved out hair out the top like they did. The 80s was a unique time.
@@ekkythump3706 Awww nah you're a spring chicken, I'm 54...watching videos like this a tonne of memories start flooding back from the 70's, 80's & 90's...great time growing up through those decades
Watching the 3rd Aug. '85 top twenty, the oddball in that mix seems to be Bryan Adams' "Heaven", the rest is a lot more British, which is kinda how it felt for me as a kid in the '80s. Power ballads, hard-rock ballads were the exceptions on the radio, but I was happy with that, maybe a touch of Foreigner or Starship.
Oh wow that starting credit screen, I feel like my mum is going to yell at me that its bath time now. I used to make it back in time for Flying Doctors.
As a kiwi kid growing up in the 70s & 80s, I HAD to watch this show every Saturday. Once I got an idea of the charts I recorded what I needed on the Top 40(?) countdown on Sunday radio . Mu dad always bought the Sunday Times paper which had the Top 40 listed which helped as well. Even the late 70s RTR was great with the Police, etc. Also, we got Australian & NZ music as well.
Thanks for this nostalgia hit. Loved RTR every week. Never got on with Radio with Pictures - only ever watched the end of it just before the Sunday Night Horrors.
Fabulous memories watching this, Saturday night home after sport of some kind, getting ready to go out, having RTR blasting, the good thing is that it kept you up with local and overseas breaking bands and was easy to follow. Hearing these songs throughout mid 80s was very nostalgic and emotion of great friends, awesome nightclubs where we danced all night in Dunedin with the Uni students etc.. and travelled overseas as often as we could.. I took my fist 6 week Contiki through Europe in 85 and this music was pumping for 6 weeks in the bus and clubs on tour, man we had fun...thanks for bringing back so many beautiful memories of our saturday nights before internet and mobile phones..hearing everyone of these songs I have a place and a memory to go back to..a great time to be 20 in the mid 80s...
RTR,That's Very Interesting,Krypton Factor,Top Town,Lotto and MacGyver one or two others if my memory serves me as a kid on a Saturday Night we only had 2channels we had Rashuns aswell
From all of us in the UK to our Kiwi friends, we're really sorry you guys had to put up with Star Trekkin' too. At least it looks like it was kept off of number one. We didn't even have that mercy. 🖖
I preferred the cutting edge, alternative music on Radio with Pictures, but it was a real trip down memory lane watching this. I always liked the Kiwi and Aussie bands from the 80s.
I was probably watching most of these that the first time when it was on TV here in NZ. That was THE show to watch on Saturday night to talk about the following Monday at school.
@@dontcomply3976 - 6pm was my bed time except when Ready to Roll was on. The only other time I was allowed to stay up late was when there was a Telethon.
Saturday Night 6pm . RTR Countdown Was the Best program of the week growing up in the 80s , Thanks Rob for putting this together brings back so many good memories of growing up in the 80s Cheers
RTR like Radio With Pictures in New Zealand and Australia had Aussie Countdown.Europe had a few in Netherlands and Germany specially.UK had Top Of The Pops.US had Solid Gold, Soul Train and American Bandstand all many many more others what they started and came up with bless to be part of it huge in Music circles
Back when we only had the two channels, damm, i miss those years. You played outside rain hail or shine, because there was no other option. But when the street lights came on, you knew what you had to do or else.
Thanks for this! Now recalling being at dad's work at night and watching this on the TV up high. All I remember was that Beat It seemed to be No 1 every week and how cool the video was.
It’s crazy how this takes me back to being on the lounge floor pushing Play/Record on the VCR to capture my favourites and the countdown. Some of the sequences take me right back to exact birthday parties of a particular month, bopping around itchycoo park or how excited or annoyed I would be at the number one.
I fricken loved the 80's, miss those days😩 such cruzy times, memories, I thoroughly enjoyed my teen years during that period. Awesom memories came pouring back🥰 I hate the crap they play now🤬🤦🏻♀️
Those were the days. Sad that NZ was so starved of hard rock and metal back then, though. If not for Karyn Hay, I might never have found my true calling 😁
Those were great days, memories and some of the best music. Madonna is still going strong today. I loved 💕 the 80s. This was a great show and Top of the Pops 😊
I always remember Saturday at 6pm!. May have only run for a half hour, but, it was a must to watch before heading out on a Saturday night to boogie to the latest music. Used to also have Radio with pictures or even Top of the Pops, which I think we all preferred. Those were days, until they were taken off air and disbanded. 😢😢😢
Woe just woe shot pal the New Zealand Charts couldn't believe i live in that Country amazing bit diverse great research the vibes and sound will never be beaten or reach cause it's the greatest decade of all time never to forget miss it so much oh hail the 80s.Haywoode and Maurice White snuck in what were they thinking and one or two others u wouldn't thought wherever u are or from in the World rare at it's finest thats the 80s.1988 top 20 was cool and the last one Top 10 1989
Wow. I always used to wait for the RTR before going out. 🤭 I forgot that Star Trekkin actually made it to #2? Lol Crack up. 😆 That’s how strong the British music scene was in the 80’s in NZ and Australia.
This takes me back to my childhood. I shared a bedroom with my older brother, and the walls were riddled with alot of these very artists😂this was the years I explored reggae (Bob Marley & more) and Blues(SRV)
Fab memories with this classic Kiwi show. Oh how I loved watching RTR Countown every Saturday & for some weird reason I used to race the TV writing down the top 20 as it was being counted down. 🤦🏻♀️
Man,was a fan of Ready to Roll! Was great to see your fave vid clips when it came on I do remember the intro with the Commodores "Machine Gun" song.. These are awesome memories of recording them on VHS Thanks for the upload Uso! Been living in the USA for a few decades now,but distinctively remember this growing up in Nz
Thanks for uploading this (and for taping it back then!). Can remember when most of these were in the charts and what I was doing at the time...nice trip down memory lane. Loved RTR Countdown (and Ready to Roll coming out of the 70s).
I really enjoy how there's about 1.5 seconds of each song with no kind of artful intention of mixing them together or any kind of intelligence at all l. In fact the complete lack of taste is really refreshing. It's like someone almost had an idea but then their brain shat itself before it could finish! Really unique.
I had no idea U2's Unforgettable Fire went so high. I'm amazed how slowly songs moved up and down the chart. 6pm every Saturday, clashed with 6 o clock news on One, sometimes didn't get to see these 😭
Well said i agree very slow going up or down the Charts were that's New Zealand in a nutshell compared to the powerhouse of the US even UK bit quicker.Alive And Kicking great song seem to be around quite awhile
Crikey the fights we used to have with the old man as he wanted the news and his kids wanted RtR!!! How much I'd pay to have those fights again lol....
@@jollyroger1009 I remember the arrival of FM radio in 1983, when I was 7. My little AM transistor became obsolete. However, we got used to FM super quick. I listened to Kiwi FM.
Awesome video, Ready to Roll was a fav as well, great to see the impact Kiwi musicians were making back then charting it with the world greats, tumeke Aotearoa....cheers for the vid.
"RTR Countdown from 1983 to 1989." In 1983 I was in Standard Four (The last year of primary-school). In 1984 I was in Form One (First year of Intermediate-school) In 1985 I was in Form Two (Second year of Intermediate-school) In 1986 I was in Form Three - in 1989 I was in Form Six.
I live in New Zealand and remember watching RTR every saturday night.
Fellow Kiwi here!Always watched Ready to Roll on a Saturday night before going out clubbing!These songs evoke so many happy memories!!
Brings back the memories, makes me sad a little. Takes me back to simpler times. Only cares in the world were what you and your mates were going to do on the weekend, no bills, no worries, just mates and good times.
And no phones!!! Wasn't it wonderful!!
@@traceyross8528 I definitely feel the "simple life" nostalgia - a lot of that is because we were kids though. For most people, life is simpler when you're kid. Hearing these tunes also makes me feel down, though, and I couldn't quite work out why at first. I think it's just that I felt bored and restricted a lot of the time in my teens. Dull small town NZ. The same songs on the radio and RTR week after week. I don't look back on it with much fondness, to be honest.
@sopyleecrypt6899 they were the best days of my life hand's down!! Compared to this shitty life I have now. I would give my right arm to go back to kaiapoi when I was 14 years old! My first boyfriend was the milkman! I worked at the local dairy. I did however used to get pissed off when pseudo echo's 'funky town' was number one........again! For the 20th week in a row! 🤣
I think each generation feels that desire to go back to when they had not much responsibility and more fun. Being an adult can be pretty scary. That's why it's important to have good friends to talk to and still enjoy a hobby or two in our free time.
And most of all no bloody innernet!!
A staple for many kiwis, debates at the dinner table or at school over how long a song will stay at number 1. Can't be the Machine Gun intro. Iconic.
That was the intro I actually remembered...earlier years editions incl the late 70s
I was waiting for a song to play at least number one 😅
Sure can't, great song, was dissapointed it didn't play.......Radio with pictures was another good one....
@@MrCardrona71 An older dude...then later, Dick Driver n Karen Hay. Became my goto show when times were a changin and my mid to late teen tastes became more sophisticated and rebellious
Ahh the good old days! I swear the sunshine was brighter then!
With all the geoengineering going on right now it actually was.
Sun was brighter because of the lack of chem trails.
Great days...can remember watching this as a kid on a Phillips k9 tv .
Yip same our k9 served 30 years+
26” of glorious colour!
Dad bought a National. 22”. I don’t know what he was thinking.
Same!
Back then we'd had a Thorn Precision 22 colour TV (It had, Gasp! Four TV channels) which Dad bought in 1979 (Back when we only had TV ONE and TV TWO) and it lasted about 15 years.
Fish n chips and race back home for the 6pm RTR countdown. Happiest half hour of the week. Also a fave was Max Headroom, the early Sunday morning kids stories on the radio and the Sunday American top 40 countdown with the tape deck ready to record all of our favourites. Happy days...
Don't forget Karen Hayes and her guests in many under the influence shows of Radio with Pictures !!! 😅
❤❤❤72baby here. So many happy memories as a kiwi kid. All of these songs travel through my mind remembering my school friends and moving to the city from a country town 😢. Getting introduced to Alfies 😂❤. Very happy memories but kinda sad we can't go back 😢❤
Wish we could go back to this decade!
Yep. Totally agree👍
I couldn't stand radio with pictures, but Ready to Roll was a ritual every Saturday at 6.00pm for me and my mates❤miss those days hard😢
Where do I start but say thank you for the time warp! After you played rugby on Saturday you couldn’t leave your house before watching RTR before your mate’s house before we head off to mischief down Queen St and visit bars like the Kiwi Tavern, Zanzibar, Alfie’s and the coffee shops in Ponsonby….wow what a trip, good ol days and my Parents was alive back then.❤️Had to visit Apple Music to download so many forgotten cherished songs that sound so fresh today.🤙🏽Aloha from Hawaii (left Auckland in 1986).
Shuxxx Alfies lol..had some great early mornings there
I do really appreciate how NZ got to hear the best of US, UK, Aussie and our own local music. I think we're very lucky to be in that position.
🎯
What an amazing nostalgia hit, I started watching RTR in the late 70s , and it's a sad fact that a lot of these artists are no longer with us
I started recording every RTR countdown and music videos from Sept 1985 till April 1988 when I then moved to the UK, where I then did it all again from 1988 to 1996,
In 1986 for about 7 months NZ was robbed of some great music videos due the NZ govt refusing to pay the 80 dollars a minute for them , and only paying for NZ music videos
The highlight for me was at minute 53 , seeing Blue Monday 88 at no 1, the original from 1983 spent 88 weeks in the top 100 and never made no 1, a real travesty , it didn't reach no 1 in the uk either, nor the 1988 re re reslease , some great tunes seen here, if I had the time I'd put all 500 hours on my channel as I still have all the VHS tapes with the material I recorded, RTR, Radio With Pictures, 12 o'clock rock, I recorded the lot, maybe one day I will take the time and put them on my channel ( Maybe ) lol
Yes bro post them great memories
I bet you'd get a lot of people who've watched this taking a keen interest! Best wishes
Nostalgia overload. Saturday 6PM early dinner with sauce and volume.
RTR Countdown or when it first came out in the 1970’s Ready to Roll was on TV 2 every week on Saturday night at 6pm . Its original theme was machine gun by the Commodores . It did clash with the Network news which my parents watched , but fortunately our household had two TV’s, remember there were only two tv channels at the time !!. It was almost compulsory viewing for anyone under 30 at the time .
this absolutely glued me to the TV as a primary school kid..love the walk down memory lane..ahh those were the days
Best 55 mins I’ve ever spent on RUclips.
Great to look back...I would watch this on Saturday Night before heading out to Work as a DJ at the Bar/Disco in Timaru New Zealand for those out of NZ..Great Nights were had ..Great times came like whirlwind then gone..
OMG, this reminded me about Mel & Kim! They were huge in '87, and then they were gone. My best friend and I performed Respectable for the school talent show that year. We even cut the tops out of our hats and shoved out hair out the top like they did. The 80s was a unique time.
Loved been a kid in the 80s, every Saturday night id watch RTR countdown
RTR and Radio With Pictures were my go to back in the day. Plus the Sunday night song requests on the radio.
Haha..yeah mate, Karyn Hay popped into my head reading your comment👍
@@HannibalLekta-qg2ip I just Googled her. She is now 65. Do you feel as old as I do? I'm 67.
@@ekkythump3706 Awww nah you're a spring chicken, I'm 54...watching videos like this a tonne of memories start flooding back from the 70's, 80's & 90's...great time growing up through those decades
Nostalgia - I literally closed my eyes & the amount of awesome memories of growing up in the 80's came flooding back 👍 thanks 😊
the 80s zzzzzz such good music then
Just lying in bed with a huge grin on my face. 😊 Never missed RTR.
Watching the 3rd Aug. '85 top twenty, the oddball in that mix seems to be Bryan Adams' "Heaven", the rest is a lot more British, which is kinda how it felt for me as a kid in the '80s. Power ballads, hard-rock ballads were the exceptions on the radio, but I was happy with that, maybe a touch of Foreigner or Starship.
watching this is our home in Grey Lynn with the 2 channels we had. wow this brings back memories
Thanks so much for uploading this. It was freaky to see how many of those artists have now passed away! Great compilation!
Oh wow that starting credit screen, I feel like my mum is going to yell at me that its bath time now. I used to make it back in time for Flying Doctors.
As a kiwi kid growing up in the 70s & 80s, I HAD to watch this show every Saturday. Once I got an idea of the charts I recorded what I needed on the Top 40(?) countdown on Sunday radio . Mu dad always bought the Sunday Times paper which had the Top 40 listed which helped as well. Even the late 70s RTR was great with the Police, etc. Also, we got Australian & NZ music as well.
who else is now adding songs to their spotify playlist
yessss hahahhahahahaa!
46 here, and wow what a time to be alive back then. Was the best bro. 2022??? Not so much
Back in yesteryear loving the 80’s, Saturday night top20 & who also remembers RTR Video Releases on Wednesday afternoon’s
Oh fuck.. we got old didnt we?
Thanks for this nostalgia hit. Loved RTR every week. Never got on with Radio with Pictures - only ever watched the end of it just before the Sunday Night Horrors.
Fabulous memories watching this, Saturday night home after sport of some kind, getting ready to go out, having RTR blasting, the good thing is that it kept you up with local and overseas breaking bands and was easy to follow. Hearing these songs throughout mid 80s was very nostalgic and emotion of great friends, awesome nightclubs where we danced all night in Dunedin with the Uni students etc.. and travelled overseas as often as we could.. I took my fist 6 week Contiki through Europe in 85 and this music was pumping for 6 weeks in the bus and clubs on tour, man we had fun...thanks for bringing back so many beautiful memories of our saturday nights before internet and mobile phones..hearing everyone of these songs I have a place and a memory to go back to..a great time to be 20 in the mid 80s...
Great work! Appointment viewing Saturday tea time in the 80s.
Sat Night was fish n chips ,fizzy & RTR
RTR,That's Very Interesting,Krypton Factor,Top Town,Lotto and MacGyver one or two others if my memory serves me as a kid on a Saturday Night we only had 2channels we had Rashuns aswell
Ready to Roll and...of course.... Radio With Pictures. Nostalgia writ large. 👏👏
Whoever put this together is a *STAR* ! ⭐⭐⭐
From all of us in the UK to our Kiwi friends, we're really sorry you guys had to put up with Star Trekkin' too. At least it looks like it was kept off of number one. We didn't even have that mercy. 🖖
Loved RTR back in the day and watched religiously. Great memories.
so many great songs back then ,i miss those days of my teen years ,i'll never stop playing the eighties music
Omg you've just made me feel old. I remember this as a kid along with count homogenised .
I preferred the cutting edge, alternative music on Radio with Pictures, but it was a real trip down memory lane watching this. I always liked the Kiwi and Aussie bands from the 80s.
I remember the original theme being Machine Gun by the Commodores.
Mate...that's choice! (Reminded me of songs I haven't heard for 30 years!)
Seems like there were a lot more legends in the charts back then. I barely recognise anyone in the charts now.
Wow,, doesn't that make the memories come flooding back.......
I was probably watching most of these that the first time when it was on TV here in NZ. That was THE show to watch on Saturday night to talk about the following Monday at school.
The memories. Thank you sir.
Joan Armatrading, Style Council, New Order, Phil Bailey, Simple Minds, Powerstation, Talking Heads- damn we were spoiled back then.
When I was a kid I had to go to bed early except on Saturday night when I was allowed to stay up and watch Ready to Roll. That was back in the 1970s.
Jeez, you must have had some incrediblely strict parents
It was on at 6pm
@@dontcomply3976 - 6pm was my bed time except when Ready to Roll was on. The only other time I was allowed to stay up late was when there was a Telethon.
Saturday Night 6pm . RTR Countdown Was the Best program of the week growing up in the 80s , Thanks Rob for putting this together brings back so many good memories of growing up in the 80s Cheers
RTR like Radio With Pictures in New Zealand and Australia had Aussie Countdown.Europe had a few in Netherlands and Germany specially.UK had Top Of The Pops.US had Solid Gold, Soul Train and American Bandstand all many many more others what they started and came up with bless to be part of it huge in Music circles
Back when we only had the two channels, damm, i miss those years. You played outside rain hail or shine, because there was no other option. But when the street lights came on, you knew what you had to do or else.
Thank you so much - what a flashback, even to my 21st in (circa) 1988 --- lmao
This used to be on ch 2 at 6pm then later in the night there was Radio with pictures playing heavier stuff.
Thanks to this entire compilation, I now have an RTR playlist. What a trip
Fantastic compilation! at 51:19 sounds like the new RTR theme was remade with a Fairlight CMI!
Thanks for this! Now recalling being at dad's work at night and watching this on the TV up high. All I remember was that Beat It seemed to be No 1 every week and how cool the video was.
1983, RTR was still on TV One with the other fun stuff :)
It’s crazy how this takes me back to being on the lounge floor pushing Play/Record on the VCR to capture my favourites and the countdown. Some of the sequences take me right back to exact birthday parties of a particular month, bopping around itchycoo park or how excited or annoyed I would be at the number one.
Extraordinary. Highight of the week watching these on a Saturday night
This is CHOICE! Such great memories ❤ This & goodnight kiwi at midnight
Network 2 in 87! That was cool to see. Amazing how long it kept the same intro! No wonder I find things so fast pace these days!
Glad you enjoyed it
I fricken loved the 80's, miss those days😩 such cruzy times, memories, I thoroughly enjoyed my teen years during that period. Awesom memories came pouring back🥰 I hate the crap they play now🤬🤦🏻♀️
Come on, some of it ain't that bad 😆
'83 i was 8 😢 only programme we were allowed to watch while eating.
I remember this countdown - the timing we are looking at around October/November 1983!
Those were the days. Sad that NZ was so starved of hard rock and metal back then, though. If not for Karyn Hay, I might never have found my true calling 😁
Those were great days, memories and some of the best music. Madonna is still going strong today. I loved 💕 the 80s. This was a great show and Top of the Pops 😊
I always remember Saturday at 6pm!. May have only run for a half hour, but, it was a must to watch before heading out on a Saturday night to boogie to the latest music. Used to also have Radio with pictures or even Top of the Pops, which I think we all preferred. Those were days, until they were taken off air and disbanded. 😢😢😢
Woe just woe shot pal the New Zealand Charts couldn't believe i live in that Country amazing bit diverse great research the vibes and sound will never be beaten or reach cause it's the greatest decade of all time never to forget miss it so much oh hail the 80s.Haywoode and Maurice White snuck in what were they thinking and one or two others u wouldn't thought wherever u are or from in the World rare at it's finest thats the 80s.1988 top 20 was cool and the last one Top 10 1989
This is a trip back in time ❤
Wow. I always used to wait for the RTR before going out. 🤭 I forgot that Star Trekkin actually made it to #2? Lol Crack up. 😆 That’s how strong the British music scene was in the 80’s in NZ and Australia.
I am 43 and I still remember the 80s. I was only a kid then but I remember.
So much fantastic music. Time really does go by so fast.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane 🙂
this is absolute gold.
great nostalgia trip, thanks - so much homegrown talent, too - who could forget Dave and the Dynamos? ok, most of us, apparently.
Thank you so much for this. So many happy memories!
So much to unpack and loving it, thank you. Got sad a few times with many having passed but wow what a trip!!!
That’s impressive. A lot went into making that video.
Nice one i remember all those nz only had 2 channels and everyone's watched RTR
This takes me back to my childhood. I shared a bedroom with my older brother, and the walls were riddled with alot of these very artists😂this was the years I explored reggae (Bob Marley & more) and Blues(SRV)
I can remember watching Ready To Roll every Saturday night many, many years ago. A great time for music
The Grunt Machine!
Good job putting it together Rob. I remember watching the recordings back in the day.
Fab memories with this classic Kiwi show. Oh how I loved watching RTR Countown every Saturday & for some weird reason I used to race the TV writing down the top 20 as it was being counted down. 🤦🏻♀️
Thanks Rob - nice work mate
Man,was a fan of Ready to Roll!
Was great to see your fave vid clips when it came on
I do remember the intro with the Commodores "Machine Gun" song..
These are awesome memories of recording them on VHS
Thanks for the upload Uso!
Been living in the USA for a few decades now,but distinctively remember this growing up in Nz
Great compilation of a great time. Cheers mate.
awesome mate .loved rtr as a kid.👍👍👍
I'm so old now hahaha...and glad that I am ❤️
Thanks for uploading this (and for taping it back then!). Can remember when most of these were in the charts and what I was doing at the time...nice trip down memory lane. Loved RTR Countdown (and Ready to Roll coming out of the 70s).
this video made me aware of some songs that didn't even reach my country.
I really enjoy how there's about 1.5 seconds of each song with no kind of artful intention of mixing them together or any kind of intelligence at all l. In fact the complete lack of taste is really refreshing. It's like someone almost had an idea but then their brain shat itself before it could finish! Really unique.
I had no idea U2's Unforgettable Fire went so high. I'm amazed how slowly songs moved up and down the chart. 6pm every Saturday, clashed with 6 o clock news on One, sometimes didn't get to see these 😭
Songs definitely moved up and down the chart more slowly back then, or even than 10 years after this. Radio play was crucial.
Well said i agree very slow going up or down the Charts were that's New Zealand in a nutshell compared to the powerhouse of the US even UK bit quicker.Alive And Kicking great song seem to be around quite awhile
Yeah also had the 6pm news clash: RTR was a rarity for us. Still, caught it sometimes and then of course the songs always crackled across AM radio!
Crikey the fights we used to have with the old man as he wanted the news and his kids wanted RtR!!!
How much I'd pay to have those fights again lol....
@@jollyroger1009 I remember the arrival of FM radio in 1983, when I was 7. My little AM transistor became obsolete. However, we got used to FM super quick. I listened to Kiwi FM.
I loved watching this ❤❤❤❤ thank you for sharing❤
19 was no.1 for ages
I felt like a kid again watching this I still have beta video recordings in storage of these
The Nostalgia is destructive
Awesome video, Ready to Roll was a fav as well, great to see the impact Kiwi musicians were making back then charting it with the world greats, tumeke Aotearoa....cheers for the vid.
"RTR Countdown from 1983 to 1989."
In 1983 I was in Standard Four (The last year of primary-school).
In 1984 I was in Form One (First year of Intermediate-school)
In 1985 I was in Form Two (Second year of Intermediate-school)
In 1986 I was in Form Three - in 1989 I was in Form Six.
Cool! I used to love READT TO ROLL! Way back when music was made with passion and for the love of it, not like today where it's a money grab!
Like WOW❤ This was the beginning of our Saturday nights then it was Movies!
😂😂How many different ways to say "Thank You!", for the trip down memory lane👏👏🙂🙂🙂