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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 Mark Roman Show
Saturday 12 August 1967 1500-1809
Mark Roman's penultimate show for Radio London
Listen
audio file: type mp4 bit rate 128kbps size 179.1mb length 3.08.29
Notes on the recording
There was a 16.7-second break in transmission during this programme - an unusual occurrence on Big L. In the audio file it starts at 1.37.28 and I've left it unedited.
Analysis of the programme
0.00.00 Weather at 1500, Jowissa watch ad
0.01.10 Mark Roman Show starts at 1502
0.01.57 Elvis Presley: Long-legged girl (with the short dress on), Vitalis ad
0.04.52 Ivy League: Suddenly things, Look cooking film ad
0.08.35 Tokens: It's a happening world (climber), Sight and Sound ad, Final Hour promo
0.12.29 Episode Six: Here there and everywhere (revived 45)
0.15.08 Spencer Davis Group: Time seller, Big L film ad
0.19.10 Kenny Damon: Sweet Maria, Quick Tan ad
0.22.38 Bobby Vee: Come back when you grow up
0.25.09 Johnnie Young: Craise Finton Kirk
0.27.35 Trini Lopez: Gonna get along without you now
0.29.23 News at 1530 with Pete Drummond
0.32.03 Beach Boys: Heroes and villians, Juicy Fruit ad, Supreme Ballroom Ramsgate ad
0.37.02 Aretha Franklin: Baby I love you, furniture sale ad
0.41.12 Chocolate Watch Band: The sound of summer (climber), Big L disc ad
0.44.24 Freddie and the Dreamers: I'm telling you now (revived 45), Ice Pops ad, Flower Children Festival ad
0.47.53 Tremeloes: Even the bad times are good, Nautilus Club ad
0.51.06 Paul Jones: Thinkin' ain't for me, Pleasurama Ramsgate ad
0.55.16 Dave Berry: For ever (climber), Jowissa watch ad
0.59.25 Weather at 1600
0.59.50 Manfred Mann: So long Dad, Vitalis ad, Final Hour promo
1.03.47 Stevie Wonder: I was made to love her
1.07.48 Tony Brandon: Leave it to me (climber), Quick Tan ad
1.10.05 Noel Harrison: A young girl of 16 (revived 45), Look cooking film ad, Speedwriting course ad
1.15.51 Small Faces: Itchycoo Park, Avis ad, Woburn Abbey festival ad
1.19.04 Gladys Knight and the Pips: Everybody needs love, Starlight Ballroom Greenford ad
1.22.51 Skip Bifferty: On love (climber), Ramsgate Ballroom ad
1.25.54 Traffic: A hole in my shoe
1.29.29 News at 1630 with Pete Drummond
1.31.59 Rolling Stones: Dandelion (Big L exclusive), Big L Disc Centres ad
1.36.20 Jimmy Ruffin: Don't you miss me a little bit baby
1.37.28 break in transmission - 16.7 seconds
1.39.51 Vikki Carr: There I go (Radio London Club Disc of the Week), more Disc Centres
1.43.47 Stan Freberg: The old payola roll blues (revived 45), Ramsgate Ballroom ad
1.48.24 Cliff Richard: The day I met Marie, Woburn Abbey festival ad
1.51.35 Diana Ross and the Supremes: Reflections, Big L film ad
1.55.14 Sunshine Company: Happy, National Jazz Blues Festival ad, Jowissa watch ad
1.59.29 Weather at 1700
1.59.52 Keith West: Excerpt from a teenage opera, Vitalis ad
2.04.48 Chuck Berry: Back to Memphis, Book of Konwledge ad
2.08.33 Spectrum: Portobello Road (climber), Woburn Abbey festival ad
2.12.13 Applejacks: Tell me when (revived 45), Big L t-shirts ad
2.15.37 Warm Sound: Sticks and stones, thanks to listeners, Du Maurier ad
2.20.55 Eddie Floyd: Things get better, Starlight Ballroom Greenford ad
2.24.21 Frank Sinatra: The world we know, Wallace sale ad
2.27.20 New Formula: I want to go back there again, Quick Tan ad
2.29.38 News at 1730 with Pete Drummond
2.32.10 Young Rascals: A girl like you, School of Computer Programming ad
2.35.45 Neil Diamond: Thank the Lord for the nighttime, Avis ad
2.40.13 Glenn Weston: Pattern people, Cross-channel cruise ad
2.43.47 Louise Cordet: I'm just a baby (revived 45), Drift Bridge Garage ad
2.46.32 Alan Price Set: The house that Jack built, Woburn Abbey festival ad
2.50.34 Dave Justin: For Brandy, Du Maurier ad
2.54.30 Frankie Vaughan: There must be a way
2.27.23 Penultimate Mark Roman Show ends, Jowissa watch ad
2.59.31 Weather at 1800
3.00.00 Paul Kaye Show starts
3.01.02 Strawberry Children: Love years coming, greeting to listeners, Wallace sale ad, Vitalis ad
3.05.50 Wonder Who: Lonesome Road
3.08.29 tape ends 1809
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