Radio 1 should have been on FM from the get-go! Even after moving frequencies, it still sounded like pirate radio - especially at night!

Radio today doesn't come close to these old shows.

This is pure genius from the BBC at the time! Hahaha!!! All New Years should start like 1979!!! Amazing upload! Thank you.

@jayrogers8255

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed!

@mxbx307

2 жыл бұрын

Adrian Juste rolling over from 1979 into 1980 was actually pretty pathetic compared to this. It was a new decade so you'd think they'd make the effort... apparently not. There was a 1980 version of the 1979 jingle but it didn't seem to be used that much.

I remember listening to this live aged 14. The family were next door celebrating with the neighbours and I was home alone tuned in. I think I might have been switching between this and the Kenny Everett Video show on ITV. The new year slot was better served by Adrian Juste who did it for a few years later on.

If you listen closely, you can hear an old fashioned police horn/siren just as Big Ben starts to strike. Shame I wasn't born until 1987 - the 70s do look quite cool and I'd loved to have been there.

We all got a great year of music to look forward to....

@clarissamcpigeon7857

6 жыл бұрын

Rule of thumb: if the year ends in a 9, the music is usually epic. 1999 was the exact same.

@jayrogers8255

6 жыл бұрын

Clarissa McPigeon good, because in a little more than 5 months it’ll be 2019!!!

@clairduffy60

5 жыл бұрын

@@clarissamcpigeon7857 Yes!!!!!!

And of course a few weeks later in January 1979, the Bee Gees released "Tragedy", one of their biggest hits.

Andy Peebles came to BBC Radio Lancashire for a while, and a friend of mine who worked at the station, told me that Andy needed assistance working the desk and equipment, which is strange when he coped well at BBC Radio 1 on his own.

@arthurvasey

3 ай бұрын

Probably had antiquated equipment - BBC local radio had weird-looking equipment - the headphones looked like army surplus gear - local radio stations from the BBC were still only in mono - even on FM! Or VHF, as it was still called!

@RetroRadioUK

3 ай бұрын

Indeed! Radio Oxford was still struggling along on the very antiquated Mono Mk2 desk (installed 1970) right up until the time when it crossed the road to a new building and the Mk3 desk in 1989. I used to use my lightweight Sony Walkman headphones for off-air monitoring in the studio, much to the dismay of the engineers! :-)

How many times . 78 . 79 I was 1 in February.

Andy’s interview with John Lennon a couple of years later was the last John gave before being shot.

The instrumental of this version of Auld Lang Syne had also been used a few hours earlier on the Top 40 best selling singles show by Simon Bates as his rundown music. Would love to know who the group is......

@RetroRadioUK

10 жыл бұрын

I guess I'd always thought from the arrangement and the vocals it was the gang from Jam...?

I'd have said it was the year of the Boomtown Rats

@RetroRadioUK

9 ай бұрын

...not in terms of record sales :-)

@markl8740

9 ай бұрын

@RetroRadioUK Probably true, but after 16 weeks at the top of the charts in 1978, suddenly John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John were served notice by Bob and Co. In a real changing of the guard moment, The Boomtown Rats became the first new wave act (and first Irish band) to have a number 1. They commemorated this on Top of the Pops by yawning and ripping up photos of Travolta and for that alone, I'll forever be grateful and they'll be the band of the year for me :)

I think it might be the Ritchie Family, but need to do some more investigating......

@RandomRadioJottings

10 жыл бұрын

Yep, think its the Ritchie Family.