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The Big L Tapes
Background notes
The Tony Blackburn Show
Sat 15 July 1967 0530-0904
Tony's last Big L show
The Keith Skues Show
Sun 23 July 1967 0900-1203
includes the history of Big L
The Penultimate Fab Forty
Sun 30 July 1967 1200-1506
presented by Ed Stewart
The Final Fab Forty
Sun 6 August 1967 1201-1532
presented by Tommy Vance
The Mark Roman Show
Sat 12 August 1967 1500-1809
Mark's penultimate Big L show
The Ed Stewart Show
Sun 13 August 1967 1210-1518
Ed's penultimate 'Stewpot' show
The Chuck Blair Show
Sun 13 August 1967 1758-2040
Chuck's penultimate show for Big L
The Perfumed Garden
Mon 14 August 1967 0225-0537
John Peel's night-time show
The Chuck Blair Breakfast Show
Mon 14 August 1967 0539-0848
the last Big L breakfast show
The Pete Drummond Show
Mon 14 August 1967 0856-1206
farewell messages
The Last Three Hours
Mon 14 August 1967 1208-1502
the final Stewpot Show, the Juicy Fruit Show, Their Final Hour and Big L's closedown at 1500
Big L extras
Mon 14 August 1967
two TV news bulletins on the day Big L closed
Radio Caroline
February 1968
the end of a Stevie Merrick Show and the US Hot 100
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The Keith Skues Show
Sunday 23 July 1967 0900-1203
includes the history of Big L
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audio file: type mp4 bit rate 128kbps size 171.8mb length 3.01.31
Notes on the recording
Keith Skues informed listeners that he was very tired - and it sounded like it for the first hour or so!
In this programme he gave a lot of information about Big L - its history, organisation etc. I have marked all these points in the programme with HISTORY.
Analysis of the programme
0.00.00 Keith Skues theme at 0900
0.00.33 John Walker: Annabella
0.03.24 Mamas & Papas: Creek Alley, Gnomemobile (film) ad
0.07.50 Cat Stephens: A bad night (Radio London Club disc of the week), messages to listeners
0.11.48 Roger Miller: Do-wacka-do (revived 45), Vitalis ad, messages to listeners
0.14.25 Geno Washington: She shot a hole in my soul, Big L t-shirt ad
0.17.44 Lynn Randall: Ciao baby, messages to listeners
0.20.21 Happenings: My Mammy, messages to listeners
0.25.15 Cliff Richard: Shout, Juicy Fruit ad
0.29.05 News at 0930 with Ed Stewart
0.31.02 Stevie Wonder: I was made to love her, Cigarillos ad, messages to listeners
0.34.52 Robb & Dean Douglas: I can make it with you baby
0.38.30 Keith West: Excerpt from a teenage opera (climber), Vitalis ad, Vidor ad
0.44.20 The Coniff Aggregation: This is my song
0.47.14 The Beatles: All you need is love, Pleasurama Ramsgate ad, messages to listeners
0.52.07 Gene Latter: A little piece of leather
0.55.03 New Vaudeville Band: Green Street Green, messages to listeners
1.00.02 (unknown artist) Spanish Harlem, Vitalis ad, computer course ad, Vidor ad
1.04.47 HISTORY of Big L - MV Galaxy arrives in November 1964, first DJ Paul Kaye opened the station on 23 December.
1.07.01 Tom Jones: It's not unusual, more HISTORY
1.09.35 Unit 4+2: Concrete and clay, Big L t-shirt ad
1.17.29 HISTORY - the top 10 from an early Fab 40 in January 65. No. 1 was:
1.13.58 Georgie Fame: Yeah yeah, Speedwriting course ad
1.17.59 HISTORY - difficulties in the early days, the Belgian engineers
1.19.35 Four Tops Its the same old song (revived 45)
1.22.18 HISTORY - Kenny Everett joins the station on his 20th birthday on Christmas Eve 64
1.24.00 HISTORY - the transmitter and its area covering 37m people; in the early days the station broadcast from 0600 to 2100.
1.24.25 Horst Jankowski: A walk in the Black Forest (revived 45), Cigarillos ad
1.27.51 The Shadows: Because they're young
1.28.46 News at 1030 with Ed Stewart
1.30.46 HISTORY - the Sono Waltz ('Big Lil') opened the station in December 1964; programme directors including Tony Windsor and Ed Stewart
1.33.50 Frank Ifield: Waltzing Matilda (Tony Windsor's theme)
1.36.39 parody of Tony Windsor's theme, Vitalis ad
1.38.24 HISTORY - visitors to the ship, Daily Mirror report January 1965, Daily Mail reporter seasick
1.39.39 Donovan: Catch the wind
1.42.48 HISTORY - info about the ship and its captain and crew
1.44.12 Supremes and Four Tops: River deep, mountain high
1.49.27 HISTORY - more info about the ship - its anchors etc.
1.52.47 Captain Boudigga's talk to listeners in Holland (in Dutch) Juicy Fruit ad, Bell and Howell camera ad
2.03.46 Jim Reeves: Distant drums, Juicy Fruit ad, Bell & Howell camera ad
2.01.38 HISTORY - complete list of DJs
2.02.50 HISTORY - artists who visited the ship - Gene Pitney, Frank Ifield, Jonathan King etc
2.03.22 Jonathan King: Everyone's gone to the moon, Stergene ad
2.06.20 HISTORY - Lord and Lady Arran visited the ship on 8 June 1967, other visitors included the Tremeloes
2.07.25 Tremeloes: Silence is golden, Stafford House computer course ad
2.11.23 HISTORY - More about the DJs
2.11.57 Tony Blackburn: Don't get off the train
2.14.15 HISTORY - technical info, letters from people around the world who've picked up the transmissions, Big L's appearances on TV (Anglia TV and a film about Big L Dateline Diamonds)
2.15.46 Dave Dee Dozy Mick and Titch: Bend it, Superkings ad, Vitalis ad
2.19.31 HISTORY - thanks to those who wrote to the Prime Minister about Big L
2.21.39 Ed Stewart's School Spot - jingle about the change of time (Ed Stewart and Kenny Everett)
2.23.10 New Vaudeville Band: Winchester Cathedral
2.25.35 (unknown record), Juicy Fruit ad
2.28.33 News at 1130 with Ed Stewart
2.30.32 Beatles: Strawberry Fields Forever
2.33.44 HISTORY - Big L's links with the Beatles - US tour etc, Stergene ad
2.34.36 HISTORY - the studio set-up and equipment
2.37.01 Cat Stephens: Matthew and Son, Love festival at Alexandra Palace ad
2.40.52 HISTORY - Big L in various polls
2.41.30 Beach Boys God only knows
2.44.17 HISTORY - the Big L organisation - RadLon Sales etc - staff
2.45.34 Petula Clark: Don't sleep in the subway, Bell & Howell camera ad, Vitalis ad
2.49.50 HISTORY - other aspects of Big L - pop group tours, special events etc, support for charities - Oxfam, RNLI etc
2.51.27 Procol Harum: A whiter shade of pale, Ramsgate ad
2.56.22 HISTORY - the future of Big L - Philip Birch (MD) to make a statement
2.57.48 Weather at 1200
2.58.08 We love the pirate stations
2.58.52 Fab Forty with Ed Stewart begins
2.59.37 American Breed: Step out of your mind (part only)
3.01.31 tape ends at 1203
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