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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 Chuck Blair Show
Sunday 13 August 1967 1758-2040
Chuck's penultimate show for Big L
Listen
audio file: type mp4 bit rate 128kbps size 154.6mb length 2.42.35
Notes on the recording
This programme includes (between 1.01.40 and 1.31.28 in the audio file) The World Tomorrow, half an hour of American religious claptrap presented by 'Garner Ted Armstrong'. It was one of a number of such programmes broadcast by the pirates (and by Radio Luxembourg), presumably because they earned money for doing so. I have left it in for the sake of historical completeness, but it is best avoided!
The quality of reception begins to deteriorate towards the end of this programme - as it always did on the medium wave at night.
Analysis of the programme
0.00.00 Goodbye from Mark Roman at the end of his last show, Jowissa watch ad
0.01.41 Weather at 1800
0.02.10 Chuck Blair show begins
0.03.17 Manfred Mann: So long Dad (RL exclusive)
0.06.42 Trini Lopez: If I had a hammer, Vitalis ad, Woburn Abbey festival ad
0.11.38 Ivy League: Suddenly things, Free Radio Association message
0.15.47 Rolling Stones: 19th nervous breakdown (revived 45), Book of Knowledge ad
0.20.27 Beatles: All you need is love, Stanford House computer course ad
0.24.29 Tremeloes: Even the bad times are good, Vitalis ad
0.28.17 Beach Boys: Heroes and villains
0.31.39 News at 1830 with Pete Drummond
0.33.53 Keith West: Excerpt from a teenage opera, Smiths crips ad
0.39.03 Beatles: Slow down (revived 45), Pleasurama Ramsgate ad
0.42.36 Sonny and Cher: It's the little things, Quick Tan ad
0.46.25 Spencer Davis Group: Don't want you no more, Du Maurier ad
0.50.03 Rolling Stones: Let's spend the night together (revived 45), thanks for messages from listeners, Final Hour promo, Vitalis ad
0.55.06 Small Faces: Itchycoo Park
0.57.41 Arthur Conley: Shake rattle and roll, Juicy Fruit ad
1.01.10 Weather at 1900
1.01.40 The World Tomorrow - American religious claptrap
1.31.28 News at 1930 with Pete Drummond
1.33.42 Rolling Stones: We love you (Big L exclusive), RL t-shirts ad,
1.39.11 Wonder Who: Lonesome Road
1.42.07 Beatles All my loving (revived 45), Sight and Sound ad,
1.45.13 Monkees: Pleasant Valley Sunday, farewell messages
1.48.54 Them: Gloria (revived 45), Big L t-shirts ad,
1.52.46 New Christy Minstrels: I'll Coat Your Mind With Honey (climber)
1.55.51 Shotgun Express: Funny cos neither could I, Pleasurama Ramsgate ad
1.59.39 Jon: Is it love? (climber), Du Maurier ad
2.03.14 Weather at 2000
2.03.40 Young Rascals: A girl like you, Vitalis ad
2.07.35 Four Tops: It's the same old song (revived 45)
2.11.01 Alan Price Set: The house that Jack built, Free Radio Association ad
2.15.31 Trini Lopez: La Bamba
2.18.57 Righteous Brothers: You're my soul and inspiration (revived 45), Woburn Abbey festival ad
2.22.47 Beatles: Love is all you need
2.26.19 Procol Harem: A whiter shade of pale
2.29.57 Earl Palmer: Honky Tonk (Chuck Blair's theme)
2.32.18 News at 2030 with Pete Drummond
2.34.32 Strawberry Chidlren: Love years coming, Big L disc ad, Engelbert Humperdink promoting the Final Hour
2.38.13 What now my love? (unknown artist) (revived 45), Du Maurier ad
2.42.08 Beach Boys: God only knows (start of)
2.42.35 tape ends at 2040
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