It was fantastic to listen to Radio Luxembourg because at that time it was Sarah Cunliffe 281. Grover Keith Is there any way one radio luxembourg power playlist. Herbert Pjede piepklein kamertje ergens bovenin een John (Tony Blackburn) Haverhoek de eerste Duitse testuitzending gehoord This page brought back some great memories, bring back 208. It just doesnt seem to be the point of focus anymore. Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA (20/01/2009). In the engineer's room stood a small mixing console, two turntables and three taperecorders. 347. Fantastic and very interesting! Sir Jimmy raised millions for charity and for many years was a regular marathon runner in support of good causes, though his finest achievement must be the 20 million he collected for the creation of the National Spinal Injuries Centre at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, in 1983, following damage caused by severe weather to the old pre-fab wooden huts which had housed spinal cord injury patients. Now I am 65 but the tunes of Radio Luxemburg are still in my ears. gordon mccreary !!! Blackhill (3/12/2001). I was an engineer at Hertford Street and recorded many of the programmes mentioned on your page. Listened all the time, especially during home ect!! Hungary (04/09/2003). He's still on My warmest wishes and congratulations to you for your extraordinary site, and every good wish to your other viewers. Hello Dick, Hans Schmalbach Remember the green tuning eye you mention on the old radio with pleasure. Boy those where the days the late 50s and most of 60s when real music whas created it sure makes me feel Good I have Luxy airchecks if you want..let me know! W POLSCE DLA NIEJEDNEJ OSOBY JESTECIE KULTOWI.MAM JEDNAK PROBLEMY Z ODBIOREM WAS W INTERNECIE. Virum Denmark (26/05/2006). geluisterd. or the studio's in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg; Norbert Straeter Next day would go to British library at Consulate and check Top ten lists in papers to decipher xact names as reception on MW was not clear all the time. Nu kan ik er dan nog van genieten via eventuele oude opnamen via Golden Radio. Ronan Ferragu PS Walk don't Run by the Ventures just aint the same on CD..but by turning Now enjoying the sunshine on the Algarve in Portugal. I miss them so badly now. 9 (-) Tears Of A Clown (S.Robinson & Mir.) James Tarter What a beautiful setting for a radio station. and was playing 'real' records! Michael Wiegleb Gone but never forgotten. I made of jingles of your page and some rarities of mine big collection a wonderful CD, send me please your adress, and Ill send there this CD record, Ive made, I hope you will write me answer 805. I have been looking on your site many times for read and listen I think you need one record on the site it was back in the 60 on the top ten or so they usually play Teen Seen with The Hunteres so if you have it put it on or maybe I can get it for you. Kinross, UK (17/10/1998). Stumbled on your site while looking for old playlists and charts. Since this time the Great 208 was my favorite station through the night, it has accompanied me through my life until the end of am broadcasting in 1991. 189. With practically no pop on Swiss radio in those years (the 60s and 70s) I was elated when, late at night, listening secretly in my room, I discovered RL! Oak Park, California (08/06/2002). (10/4/1999). 449. oooh i still get goospimpels all over my body while listening to jingels/aircheks or old tapes. But the music and jingles were great. After this he had to connect There was a DJ by the name Ralph Moffat (known as Muffit Moffat) who had a late nite show "Midnight in Munich". became better in the middle of the night. Great memory,s. Paul Hirschberg 728. Used to listen to LUX in 1957 on in Berwick -long areial needed -Timex watches(ever right!) Wat een AM modulatie.. bill o'reilly GranvilleHolmes Pure nostalgia and the good memories lives on. and followed the Top Twenty charts every week, although reception conditions It would be fantastic to have links to all these weekly charts. Wexford, Ireland (04/03/2002). More than 2 years on the air, and still no commercials - the lady, both DJ, secretary and moderator, obviously didn't like such a thing as commercials! Thanks! Almost every night myself and my buddies would listen to 208. Tom T When the time came I also listened on satellite, who can forget the jingle "Music at the speed of light, from the Astra satellite, Radio Luxembourg"? I went to Radio Luxembourg today and found him. Is such a tape available any place in Europe?Very nice to see the pictures,too. Great sitebrings back wonderful memories of listening under the bedclothes to the Station of the Stars :) I was stationed in the Armed Forces in northern France in the early sixties. at that time. that little show was where i first heard the spencer davis group, the small faces and a few others. ja. Great site! Thank you Lord" Franco especially "The Beatles Presented that Barry Alldis": I listen them and again I have teen of years. This is Radio Luxembourg; Your Station of the Stars. I dip into your site every so often. Andy Julie Mamer, Luxembourg (23/05/2004). Great site. Today, Radio lives on, in the car and in the workplace as background noise or something to kill time to. Ja dat was nog eens een station..!!! Excellent site. 82. 526. Reeves write a short time for his suddenly death an article in 'THE RADIO LUXEMBURG YEARBOOK" ABOUT HIS MUSIC. This website is fantastic! Maastricht (20/09/2003). (erinnert sich irgendjemand ???) Good Job. Thanks for your information. (Latvia) Liverpool England (09/07/2003). The one played every night before close down? Hi, hier ist Andreas aus Berlin. Krzysztof Peczalski It was a nightmare, really beyond description. when I was doing my military job in my country near by syria on 1978, I was still your listener. 8 (1) Neandertal Man (Hotlegs) 186. Like the site a lot. Radio Luxembourg the one and only, sorry you had to go. !best regards Some of the humour is still pretty "close to the edge", even by modern standards. 12 Side saddle Russ Conway Columbia (11/04/1999). Mark We appeared on the live Radio Luxembourg programme "Friday Spectacular" along with the Americans Gene Pitney (Twenty four hours from Tulsa) Bobby Vee (The Night Has a Thousand Eyes) and also the British recording artist Jess Conrad. Finding your site tonight gave me a wonderful time. es empfangen) einzuleiten??? 74. Kevin Bulger Any more top 20 shows coming up - from 61 for instance? I was seeking information on Radio Lux in the late fifties, my era. 78. I would like to have 2-3 photoes illustrating my article. Worthing, England (29/10/2011). Hip Hop. Some months later I discovered that one of my two only favourites on the "new" Luxy - Mr. Christian - had quietly left the station. I remember imagining the RL studios as luxurious, state-of-the-art palaces to see your pics of the low-tech closet they worked in teaches me a lesson that it's about the talent, not the tech! See all stations near you. 665. Just found your website tonight. http://www.boogiebertil.com/lux/index.htm. programme 3. That programme was never handed over too willingly! Do the 'Royal Ruler' and Rob Jones remember when two upstarts from Bath Hospital Radio - myself and Paul Conroy - went to interview them when 'Gold Diggers' opened in Chippenham back in 1982? Memories of the under the bedclothes club of Jimmy Savile when I was at boarding school (Prior PArk College in Bath). )de ontvangst was jammergenoeg niet geweldig in Brabant, maar dat was geen reden om niet te luisteren. 743. Sometimes I am dreaming about a time machine, your site is bringing back all memories of these wonderful years to me. they always had a taped commentary from aldersley, who then introduced the no. Tom Tass Lakeland FL USA (05/08/2008). What a great site !! 12. Hi! Started: "Maybe tomorrow will find the sun shining, warming the hearts of our children again." London (09/02/2006). It's like a trip down Memory Lane. Thomas Wielski Rose St, Berkeley, CA USA (21/01/1998). 593. www.Lakenheath.cc was affected by this radiostation. 225. I found your page when I They can be heard on any Internet computer, too - yes - but the whole station is in my opinion almost a farse. Nico Luxembourg (02/05/2004). 17 (-) Tell It All Brother (K.Rogers & 1st Edit) Oslo, Norway (15/01/2004). Good on ya, Bob! Best Regards 208 almost three thousand miles away. Enig idee hoe het nu met hem gaat? en 208 hoort daarbij. at that time. Mike Post, Neheim, High-Sauerland 904/12/2011). Many Thanks Once Again. 367. 502. Do you know any saler? 397. 14 China tea Russ Conway Columbia Loved your site..I am an aircheck collector, Broadcaster, etc..39 years old, grew up in UK; listened to 208! He made a great start on Radio Caroline, which he joined in 1964, followed by a shrewd move to Radio London in 1966. See MoreSee Less, Burt Bacharach, one of pop's greatest songwriters, dies aged 94. Great to discover your 208 site, brought back loads of memories, the Top Twenty with Barry Alldis on a Sunday night was the highlight, used to record it on my reel to reel and play it over and over again until the next Sunday (oops shouldn't have done that I know but didn't know much about royalties in those days) Now work for BBC local radio. came across The Station Of The Stars, Radio Luxembourg at 208 Meters. Do you have any recordings of 208 in the 60's my favourite time when listening to 208. Radio London, Pirate Radio Station. Great web site! Many thanks for this webpage! TTDC was a favourite too. If anyone would be able to tell me artist or the title or even get me a tape of that song, I would really be happy! Hellum, Netherlands (5/11/1999). 841. These were three of the most glorious years of my life! erased. 65. Thanks! Laco Liker 585. Max Out Creative. My favourite programme was one called "world top pops" Cant remember who the deejay was may have been Brian Mathew but he always came out with the phrase ""back to the Uk and our disc of the day". Forever remembered and always missed - those days of the Great 208, falling asleep to the radio fading in and out while living in Germany 81-85. I found your address on the Net, and I also enjoyed the jingles you had on Hello ! Stavanger, Norway (08/05/2012). Tony was voted 8th most popular DJ in the Disc and Music Echo Valentine Poll of 1967, months before he left Radio London. Sunnyvale, California, USA (30/10/2000). Turku Finland (22/10/2003). Berlin, Germany (03/03/2000). Thanks; Gus Rankin Sat 18.02 Sun 19.02 Mon 20.02 Tue 21.02 Wed 22.02 Thu 23.02 Fri 24.02 Show by radio station time ( now in Luxembourg 21:50) Recommended Radio Latina ROM 106.5 FM Thanks for including me. 267. Signal was very low and fading in Florence (center Italy) but songs excellents. Many thanks. I found your site by accident, but wat a great surprise. FOX News Talk 5. de Bayerischer Rundf. Thanks. That night between 21.15 and 22.15 hours we were again in the studio. Anyway, RTL is Golden Age Radio, so I can't cope with the idea of that rap crap being played from you. Another musical genius has gone RIP Burt Bacharach. or something like that. 460. Stan Howard The Couple in question for this Programme was Nollaig and Mairin O'Gadhra from Galway who went to Bonn and onwards to Luxembourg in 1970 .. Thanks for this wonderful website. Fred Plant Cethyn 680. Can you remember a tune that they used to end with. Hi there!! 752. Groton, MA USA (24/09/2005). 599. 324. Luxy was my station on AM in Europe when I was there and on SW when in America. witch is titled I'ts time to say goodnight. Great and intresting site you've got. On this I would tune in to R.Lx. British presenters such as Mike Read, Chris Moyles, Noel Edmonds, Tommy Vance,. YOU will always be remembered! Dave Salmon Enjoyed your website. 219. D-44263 Dortmund (9/5/1999). Congrats for the site and the whole project! Allan Freeman, Jimmy Saville or David Jacobs as DJ. Although could hardly recieve the transmition, I enjoyed listening to your programs. Thanks, 462. Surrey (06/12/2005). 688. Art 527. Foreigner What an amazing site memories flooded back. Originally at 11pm on a Sunday night, moving to Saturdays (for a short period in 1969) & late on Tuesday nights from 1971. I have had a lot of fun visiting the website. Thanks. Terry Schmechel The best site Ive come across in ages. 38. It makes me wish I grew up in the U.K. Mary Ballantyne Rock. Brilliant! 8 The Village of St. Bernadette Anne Shelton Philips 4. Freiburg, Germany (14/07/2012). Please contact me. 313. A pleasure! Great to see a site devoted to Luxembourg. Later in the night conditions generally improved so the most important - The Top Twenty Show with the one and only DJBA - normally came through loud and clear. 10e (!!) Genres. Warsaw (23/11/2000). 208 was on all night in my late teens in the early 80s and a potential girl friend just had to love or at least stand it. They've never been published. Thank You. 62. At December 30, 1992 at midnight also the satellite transmissions were finished. A truly wonderful site, brought back so many happy memories, you have brought a tear to my eyesmy evenings as a young child on Tyneside in the early 1960s, listening to Luxembourg under the bed coversthe tunes from the 1962 chart made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up! Very good site! Troon Scotland (15/05/2006). Lawrenceville, Georgia, United States (12/10/2008). From than on I listend every evening til midnight and was always tired in school. Krakow, Poland (23/04/2002). George Gilbert Anyway one of the biggest thrills I got Bob Stewart on a Sunday night with the top hits run-down and the Tony Prince programmes were my favourites, together with the Peter Styvasaint (or however you spell it!) Digital 208! Echo, I went back to see Eggy Ley at 208 and gave him a copy of the Eindhoven, Nederland (22/04/2010). 840. Listen Now; Browse; Radio; Search; Open in Music. Niels J. Kristjansson Best regards, I think the year was 1963. We were sent back to the States, but memories of Radio Luxembourg lingered. I want to 22. Your website is great, as You are - Your work is splendid effect to remember RADIO LUXEMBOURG forever. Rancho Mirage, CA, USA (09/04/2001). A brilliant site. 557. Every time I go to the net I find a reason to send a message! en een fantastische uitzending 's nachts van Kid Jensen 's Dimensions (1970), waarin hij de (wereld?-) premire had van Deep Purple in Rock. that your Luxy tribute site is truly great. Mark Joao Porto f.blokzijl k.katerstraat,15 ''' He was always the friend in a far off place! Reading this I had many happy memories of listening to 208. Elmer Pearce At closing time they played Almere, NL (08/07/2012). | Consumer Electronics, Portable Audio & Headphones, Portable Stereos & Boomboxes | eBay! updates from the no.1 radio station then and now BRING IT BACK!!!!! a very faithful listener back in the 50s and 60s. Pnktlich 19:30 (7:30pm) begann mit dem Jingle die Sendung. Manchester UK (25/09/2005). Fine, go into other business interests C. Wachyman and staying awake until 3.00 a.m just to hear "Maybe in the Morning" closing the day's broadcasts. 817. I need www address, which have weeakly charts from start of Luxembourg radio. I had many a late night fallling asleep to the sound of 208. Helmond (11/10/2003). 626. 798. Mike Bondy els pins, muro, spain (12/07/2002). Found this site by accident. I remember hearing this beautiful melody(luxembourg waltz) flowing from the wireless and it stuck with me.I would havw being about 7. www.208itwasgreatradioluxembourg.co.uk Dont know what songs been playing on the radio? if you made them available on your site. A thing of the future! 703. I like it. I hope I can tune it again some day! What a great site! Thanks London, England (04/08/2008). It was an instrumental and I dearly would love to know who it was? Thanking you. I remember Tony Hall as I was a great fan. Tim Airey, Calgary AB Canada (20/10/2003). Paul Billingham I will never forget this transmissions received with a very old tube call it family radio en the fading A very romantic time My best wishes to everyone. Hi Dick, I was surfing for some info on Radio Normandie in the 1950s and came across your greatsite by accident. Luxembourg. 197. Alcoy, Espaa (18/09/2011). K-E-Y-N-S-H-A-M. By the 1960s, Radio Luxembourg, Your Station of the Stars, had embraced popular music in a way that even early BBC Radio 1 would never manage. Juul Geleick Hilversum (21/07/1998). I'm 42 years old now, and seem to be thinking more and more about "my yoof" ;) and Radio Luxembourg is a big part of those memories. 855. 12 (19) Mr.President (Dozy, Beachy, Mich & T) I remember the first time I stayed awake long enough to hear the Luxembourg National Anthem, I was a 16 year old schoolboy. Hi Benny Brown! southport uk 02-07-2005. Congratulations! See nr. Regards to all. In about 24 hours time I'm 51 I'l remember I listen to Radio Lux on my Grandmother's Transistor Radio after dark. Best regards I was In Radio Luxembourg studio In 1983. Braunschweig (25/01/2002). Milk River, Alberta, Canada (19/11/2011). Fantastise tijd. Any material from the station is always most welcome to see. I am a huge fan of Connie Francis and I know that Connie had 30 min programmes on Radio Luxemburg. Dude, you have a splendid website. Therefore, among others, any of the world top musics were considered as "balack rag", i.e. JohanBennink Oh, how wonderful is to see the site! By the way, what has happened to the following, Jimmy Saville, Jack Jackson Milano, Italy ((26/05/2010), 774. Oakland, USA (12/08/2010). I loved listening to Radio Luxembourg as a kid. Torrance Ca., USA (07/03/2010). It's a shame they put the shortwaves to rest in the early nineties, it's what made the station "Planet Earth's biggest commercial radio station". Vienna, Austria (20/07/2001). Ik ging RL beluisteren op mijn Ronny Hall Congratulations. J.Bennink Search. 398. Santa Fe - Argentina (03/07/2006). I was living is Sweden outside of Stockholm (50 Miles west). From the early sixties to the early seventies I always listened to R.L. Tried to listen to it over the Stockholm, Sweden (29/09/2011. song in my next book, but without the artist's name, I cannot find the 24. Good Company Productions Ltd. that plays music recorded 1900 - 1960. 208 is the best station ever I listened to in my life. 459. Excellent site! Now I have one question. 231. Almere, Netherlands (11/12/2006). Forestville, NY (19/05/2003). What a neat website, I stumbled onto, not to mention the great memories from the early 60s, in London, where I grew up, and listened just about every day. 343. Didn't put me to sleep but I had to get up for school!! Surrey, Canada (09/10/2008). Yours truly, What a great website to a truly great station. Good reception too. The Requiem Mass at St Annes Cathedral will be a very public celebration of his life attended by Sir Jimmys friends from the world of show-business, representatives of the many charities he helped, as well as hundreds of members of the public. 98. As well as the music there was so much other entertainment--Take your Pick---people are funny--Dan dare Pilot of the future --opportunity knocks--shilling a second--candid mike ect ect and good old Garner Ted Armstrong !!! I have spent ages trying to find out who sang the closing theme "End of the Day". Louisville, Kentucky, USA (20/12/2001). Leuke ervaring !! All I knew was, it was a luxy tune and only heard it again for the first time the other day on this site. A truly iteresting site dedicated to one of my favourite stations. 5. Jennifer Venville Nicol Vancouver, Canada (29/08/2004). 518. 832. Is there a way to find out such things? John Buckingham Especially as I was struggling with only basic French at the time. Thierry Reisch Jim Perry 3 (5) The Love You Save (Jackson 5) in de Markstraat 80 in Brussel, later is Jerzy Grzadka One of those shows was really traumatic. 609. This was the first time I was there 576. It was a wonderful time, the music was so exciting and it's still being played regularly today which says a lot! Attention! August 16th, 1970 the last Luxy top 20 to begin with the number 1, 1 (2) Neandertal Man (Hotlegs) Tony Blewitt, who was on 208, left and went to If you like you let your viewers know that I'm on the air every Saturday and Sunday on KWXY.com - Saturday: 7:00 AM to noon Pacific Standard Time and Sunday: 9:00 AM to noon Pacific Standard Time. One Kiss (with Dua Lipa) Calvin Harris, Dua Lipa. I was a kid at the time in my teens and early twenties living behind the Iron Curtain and often listening to Big L on 208 late at nights despite poor receiption.
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