21-05-2011, 05:26 PM
Well, thanks for the thumbs-up, Joe and Trevor.
Joe, I'm broad-shouldered enough to take the blame for setting you on the road to ruin.
Trevor, 2 questions wrong out of that lot is good going for anyone IMO. You obviously spend - or spent - too much time listening to radio! (Like me)
When you think about it, radio in those days was far more than just music and sport. This is a point I make on my 'Luxembourg' pages. Many people younger than me won't have realised that in its true heyday, Radio Luxembourg was a competitor for the BBC's Light programme and had a massive listening audience. By the 1960s recorded pop music had become the staple and the magic of Luxembourg began to wane.
Just think, though... we can listen to radio receivers that broadcast Chamberlain's 'Peace in our time' followed by the stirring speeches of Winston and the music of Glenn Miller's AEF orchestra. Radios that heard for the the first time the voice of Vera Lynn and the young Sinatra and Crosby. Momentous times in our history. All those years have passed, and they still sound good, those voices, that music and those radios.
-Tony
Joe, I'm broad-shouldered enough to take the blame for setting you on the road to ruin.
Trevor, 2 questions wrong out of that lot is good going for anyone IMO. You obviously spend - or spent - too much time listening to radio! (Like me)
When you think about it, radio in those days was far more than just music and sport. This is a point I make on my 'Luxembourg' pages. Many people younger than me won't have realised that in its true heyday, Radio Luxembourg was a competitor for the BBC's Light programme and had a massive listening audience. By the 1960s recorded pop music had become the staple and the magic of Luxembourg began to wane.
Just think, though... we can listen to radio receivers that broadcast Chamberlain's 'Peace in our time' followed by the stirring speeches of Winston and the music of Glenn Miller's AEF orchestra. Radios that heard for the the first time the voice of Vera Lynn and the young Sinatra and Crosby. Momentous times in our history. All those years have passed, and they still sound good, those voices, that music and those radios.
-Tony
