Chitchat 60s radio programmes.

[Blazars]

So during the 60s, there was no tv programmes. And there is only 1 radio station, Rediffusion?

 

[eatshitndie]

there's a radio channel that still has broadcast news in dialects. it cums on around noon time, and newscasters speak hainanese, hakka, teochew, hokkien in series. i listen to all of them as these lau ah pek dialects, unlike dialects spoken in wet markets, may soon go extinct.

 

[yahoo55]

[video=youtube_share;A34wx0kaTeU]https://youtu.be/A34wx0kaTeU[/video]

 

[po2wq]

small transistor radio so didn't know how to get BBC.

can get bbc world servis la ... using short waves channels ...

transistor radios sure got short waves ...

 

[yahoo55]

[video=youtube_share;wlmf7XDsYcs]https://youtu.be/wlmf7XDsYcs[/video]

[video=youtube_share;V6sVV1lmUfg]https://youtu.be/V6sVV1lmUfg?list=PLA5BD68C6D962E1E5[/video]

 

[po2wq]

small transistor radio so didn't know how to get BBC.

no ....never listened to those....now i remember that in the 60s we only had 1 transistor radio, the small type for the whole family.... my brother and i listened to music in the daytime after school but evening my dad hog the radio to listen to other stuff like news and shares.

me listened 2 doze plus top 40 countdown which me tuned in oni wen countdown reached top 10 ... dey were programmes broadcasted @ nite around 8 - 10 pm ... suitable 4 listening after dinner ...

 

[erection2015]

tv came to singapore in 1963 i think....remember watching tokyo olympics on tv in 1964....watched at neighbour's place.

So during the 60s, there was no tv programmes. And there is only 1 radio station, Rediffusion?

 

[erection2015]

sometimes i just tuned here and there and got some sw stations but the radio and aerial too small to receive good signals from overseas....also got those whistling type background which was louder than everything else......noise to content ratio very high.

can get bbc world servis la ... using short waves channels ...

transistor radios sure got short waves ...

 

[erection2015]

ya ..i liked this band....roller coaster man.....be my girl....many original songs.

 

[Force 136]

[video=youtube;FE4DGwWAi_E]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FE4DGwWAi_E[/video]

watch this newsreel on TidBits followed by the Blue Diamonds.

Talentime 1967 was special - Unforgettable for me was this guy Johnny Tan who sang falsetto and made us all laugh.....

 

[Agoraphobic]

There was this one chap who called himself "Alvin Presley Lee!!!" My schoolmates swore they'd hantam the laolan bastard if they ever discovered who he was!!!

Cheers!

All I remember was that the dedications were always made by people with names like "Elvis Alfonso Tan" and "Ringo Cliffton Wong".

 

[erection2015]

ya...serene ...bernie and nana....good for their time and age...coached then by their cousin George Lim who himself used to sing and jam at the Golden Venus.

johnny aqua tan.....i think he sang .....shake it all over and ended the song by making the ''pulling the chain for the toilet flush '' action.

[video=youtube;FE4DGwWAi_E]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FE4DGwWAi_E[/video]

watch this newsreel on TidBits followed by the Blue Diamonds.

Talentime 1967 was special - Unforgettable for me was this guy Johnny Tan who sang falsetto and made us all laugh.....

 

[yahoo55]

[video=youtube_share;U2zqDtBSnVY]https://youtu.be/U2zqDtBSnVY[/video]

Ang Moh cover of the song

[video=youtube_share;ba9JbRrVR1I]https://youtu.be/ba9JbRrVR1I[/video]

 

[yahoo55]

[video=youtube_share;bjMxoHf7oVM]https://youtu.be/bjMxoHf7oVM[/video]

[video=youtube_share;IEg8W0-wGns]https://youtu.be/IEg8W0-wGns[/video]

 

[Force 136]

In spite of all these, my first record was the theme to the movie -The Longest Day....

 

[Force 136]

In case you want to re-live those days :

Released in 2007. This double CD set is a compilation of 40 tracks by local and regional artistes from the 60s & 70s who recorded under the EMI label.

The artistes featured include The Quests, The Sundowners & The Tornados, The Blackjacks, Matthew & The Mandarins, The Surfers, Asha Puthli, Rita Chao, The Xperiment, Sarah Chen, Straydogs, Frankie Cheah, The New Topnotes, Sugiman Jahuri, Sakura Teng, Pietro Attila & The Warlocks, Tony & Terry, Tania, Western Union Band, Anita Sarawak and Lam Leng.

 

[yinyang]

Digress on musicians. Thought that Vernon Cornelius fella was quite talented.

Also had a thing with rock bands like Pests Infested (onto 70s)

 

[erection2015]

from the 60s...used to like Vernon and the quests.....joe and xperiments......benny koh and trailers and october cherries.

Digress on musicians. Thought that Vernon Cornelius fella was quite talented.

Also had a thing with rock bands like Pests Infested (onto 70s)

 

[erection2015]

thanks for the pics...longest day was one of my favourite war movies along with the dirty dozen......dirty dozen had a song sung by trini lopez entitled bramblebush.....listen to it ....it's quite nice......i had posted it on the 60s music thread but difficult to locate so just youtube it.

In spite of all these, my first record was the theme to the movie -The Longest Day....