|
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
| |
The Ed Stewart Show
Sunday 13 August 1967 1210-1518
Ed's penultimate 'Stewpot' show for Big L
Listen
audio file: type mp4 bit rate 128kbps size 178.9mb length 3.08.20
Notes on the recording
This would normally have been the time when the new Fab Forty was broadcast but presumably it was felt there was little point in having a new chart this week since the station was due to close 24 hours later.
Analysis of the programme
0.00.00 (at 1210) Sunshine Company: Happy (end of), Du Maurier ad, listener messages
0.01.20 Beatles: And I love her (revived 45), Look cooking film ad
0.04.40 Young Rascals: A girl like you, Final Hour promo,
0.08.06 Marvin Gaye: Your unchanging love, listener messages
0.12.10 Jon: Is it love? chat with programme director Alan Keen, Sight and Sound ad
0.16.00 Gene Pitney: Just one smile, Du Maurier ad, Ice Pops ad
0.19.44 News at 1230 with Paul Kaye
0.21.50 Beach Boys: Heroes and Villains
0.25.45 Chuck Berry: Back to Memphis, Big L disc ad
0.29.06 Glenn Weston: Pattern people, Book of Knowledge ad, Castrol ad
0.32.56 Spectrum: Samantha's mine, Woburn Abbey festival ad
0.36.01 Manfred Mann: So long Dad (exclusive to RL), Smiths crisps ad
0.39.19 Neil Diamond: Thank the Lord for the night time, Du Maurier ad
0.43.00 Chris Montez: Foolin' around, Look cooking film ad
0.45.46 Bee Gees: To love somebody (revived 45), Jowissa ad
0.49.50 Weather at 1300
0.50.07 Keith West: Excerpt from a teenage opera
0.54.13 Poem from listener Barbara Hadler
0.56.13 Trudi Smith: I want to go back there again, Vitalis ad
0.59.21 Frankie Vaughan: There must be a way
1.02.46 Frankie Valli: Can't take my eyes off you (revived 45)
1.06.23 Cliff Richard: The day I met Marie
1.08.50 Stevie Wonder: I was made to love her, Sight and Sound ad
1.11.48 Vikki Carr: There I go (RL Club Disc of the Week), Quick Tan ad
1.16.22 Monkees: Pleasant Valley Sunday, Upper Cut Club ad
1.20.10 News at 1330 with Pete Drummond, Juicy Fruit ad
1.23.29 Strawberry Children: Love years coming, Du Maurier ad
1.26.54 New Formula: I want to go back there again, Smiths Crisps ad
1.30.03 Helen Shapiro: She needs company, Eric Burdon ad for Juicy Fruit Spectacular
1.33.20 Eric Burdon: Good times
1.36.44 Kinks: Well-respected man (revived 45), Du Maurier ad
1.40.09 Tremeloes: Even the bad times are good, racing driver course ad
1.43.19 Amen Corner: Gin house, School of Computer Programming ad
1.47.06 Bobby Hebb: A satisfied mind, Jowissa watch ad, weather at 1400,
1.51.58 Elvis Presley: Long-legged girl (with the short dress on)
1.53.37 Dave Justin: For Brandy, Top Pops ad, Final Hour promo
1.57.04 Herman's Hermits: Don't go out into the rain, Look cooking film ad
1.59.39 Dusty Springfield: You don't have to say you love me (revived 45), Vitalis ad
2.03.43 Small Faces: Itchycoo Park, Woburn Festival ad
2.07.16 Madeline Bell Climb every mountain, Avis ad, Entertainers Eleven football match ad
2.11.17 Chocolate Watch Band: The sound of summer
2.13.37 Critters: Don't let the rain fall down on me, Du Maurier ad
2.16.49 Lois Lane: One little voice, Vitalis ad, News at 1430 with Paul Kaye
2.13.15 Alan Price Set: The house that Jack built
2.26.38 Tom Jones: I'll never fall in love again, Final Hour promo, Top Pops ad
2.31.58 Frank Sinatra: The World We Knew (Over And Over), Stanford House computer course ad
2.35.28 Pedlars: What will I do?, Big L film ad
2.39.10 Spencer Davis Group: Time seller, Quick Tan ad
2.42.40 Geno Washington: Tell it like it is, Avis ad
2.45.47 Lesley Gore: Lollipops and sunshine (revived 45), Vitalis ad
2.48.01 Messages to listeners, Jowissa watch ad
2.50.23 Weather
2.50.44 1500 Mark Roman's final show begins
2.51.30 Rolling Stones: We love you (RL world exclusive), Look cooking film ad
2.55.59 Jonathan King: Everyone's gone to the moon (revived 45), Top Pops ad
2.58.48 Aretha Franklin: Baby I love you, Vitalis ad
3.02.02 Robert Parker: Barefootin'
3.04.55 The Spectrum: Portobello Road (climber), Big L disc ad
3.08.02 The Untamed: I'll go crazy (start of)
3.08.20 tape ends at 1518
|
