Dont know what songs been playing on the radio? The RA is fine but I suspect your original recordings are of better quality. 41. I still remember one song, it must be from 66-68, I even had it on tape, but somehow got lost. I've just found your site - and it's jubilation! The words were something like: Lovely Site. . Boekelo (25/08/2003). Palm Springs (18/04/2001). There was so fantastic to hear and to se on Radio Luxemburg again via the "net". Great site , lots of memories. The gong! Un afecto grande desde estos lejanos lugares. East England just about every evening through the 80s. Belgrade, Servia (15/10/2009). I like it. Best Regards Alex Ireland (14/05/2006). Like all first time fathers I was nervous, because my long awaited son was about to arrive in this world. Derbyshire (06/11/2003). Ferdinando Travisan I remember lying in bed in the seventies/eighties with my transister radio under my pillow (so i did'nt disturb the rest of the house) listening to the sounds of radio luxemburg unfortunately I could'nt always get very good reception all the time, I was also fortunate enough to win an 50th aniversary picture disk on one of the evening radio show (but i can't remember which one) which i still have in my collection to this day, thank you for bringing back some good memories. the programmes together. Thank you for the news about DRM, I was born in 1955 and I have Radio Luxi in my blood. 819. In 1976 in the souhteast of spain i found in the 1440 khz, the must wonderfoul music that i cant never imagine it. This was great!! Bewdley, Worcestershire (31/01/2003). 249. It was a fluke that I came on this site. I came to live in Luxembourg in 1987 and had an apartment overlooking Villa Louvigny 88-89. Stanislav Pozarek A few mexican doggys included huh? I heard that he went back to civilian life and worked at Radio Luxembourg. Mike Grant all people (like me) still having good memories day!! 629. My name is Cristina Miro and I am working on a show for the BBC about the history of Light Entertainment. Terry Schmechel LW1. Mario This is Radio Luxembourg; Your Station of the Stars. GREAT WEBSITE! My all-time favourite 208 DJs are all the six members of team of 1972 as shown on your website. If there should exist any real time machine, here it is! All the foto,s from the famous DJ,s. 14 China tea Russ Conway Columbia I now I first heard of Luxy in 2004 when dad told me everything he knew about Radio Luxembourg so i found some online archives to listen to the old tapes. of good memories from my teenage years. It was called:When you walked out of my life.I bought two copies of it on special order from my local shop and still play them to this day. See nr. 473. 745. Very good website! That was a sad day. 784. 398. Maybe you have seen it? Unfortunately, I could not ever get it on a record and have not heard ever since! The saddest day in my life was when Icame back from SKorea on Leave I wanted to refresh my memories of my life back home in England my first night home I eagerly tune to 1440/208 on my stereo only to hear static i was heart broken and the thought of you can never go back came to mind with horror I asked my mum what happened to Radio luxemburg she said in a calm voice they closed it down ,didn't I tell youand i said no Mum and gave a small tear for a lost childhood of listening to the radio under the covers just like in the movie the boat that rock and I had to live without my close friend Wow,brought a tear to my eye listening to your clips.Shaw Taylor lives down the road and i didnt realise he was a grand duchy man!I particularly remember listening to Nathan Jones late at night fading in and out.Bring back The Great 208 yee ha!! | Consumer Electronics, Portable Audio & Headphones, Portable Stereos & Boomboxes | eBay! I became totally obsessed. Anyway, RTL is Golden Age Radio, so I can't cope with the idea of that rap crap being played from you. Maastricht (20/09/2003). radio luxembourg power playlist. I heard so much great stuff on Luxembourg, that I would never have heard via the Beeb. So nostalgic, I feel like crying with joy ! Yours faithfully ancient hearer. 412. Originaly I was born in Poland in early 50th and as you know Dick it was impossible to get music played by 208 on polish market, unless was brought from Western Europe and it costed half of your monthly wages(LP). Kindest regards from Poland. 1) Tony Prince introduces 'Sugar Baby Love' by The 'Royal' Rubettes!! Langhorne, PA. USA (15/11/2009). Hi 735. www.leicesteroverseas.com/Foursights Excellent site! Just found your site, its great to see it. I liked all the broadcasts--Dutch, German, and English. Unfortunately the station was prone to fading/interferance. This is a nice site with many nostalgic items from the great Radio Luxembourg. Thank you so much! Thanks, Dick! Andrew Kent Did you know your audio is on my site? While surfing the net, I It's shadow now entertains me on the internet and I still listen whenever I can. JAMES SPENCER Cristina Miro Thankx for your website. San Vito al Tagliamento ITALY 04/06/2003). It was great fun, he's a wonderful host. 663. . Hello Dick, 626. Can anyone help. LINCOLNSHIRE, UK (26/07/2001). Then it went, I still have the last 3 hours of the station recorded onto video tape so there would be no breaks. in the 60s and 70s, especially the Top Twenty on sunday nights. 686. Many years I was listning to his Top Twenty show on the Sundaynight. Darlington/UK (28/11/1999). Heb nog een 2 uur durende bandopname liggen uit april 1981. Yvonne Waite God bless you, Barry! 638. Luxembourg at night. 534. Me and and some friends made notes on the charts and could sell or change them for other thinks like records, tapes e.t.c. I was stationed in Germany in 1962 through 1964. It would do better to put it out on a pan-european basis with a massive widespreading omnidirectional beam covering all four corners of Europe from the UK in the northwest to Turkey Greece and Cyprus in the southeast, and from the Canary Islands, Spain and Portugal in the south west right up to bordering Russia in the north east and from Scandinavia right across to the extreme south of italy and the various holiday islands and destinations of the Southern Med. Als ich in den 60igern in der DDR lebte, in der Nhe von Dresden, war Radio Luxemburg der Sender, der in meinem Kofferradio seinen Stammplatz hatte. Hi Dick, I was surfing for some info on Radio Normandie in the 1950s and came across your greatsite by accident. Ann Keeble Best wishes Going back in time into my deepest youth. What a great journey into the past. I was looking for a picture of big Jimmy but I see you don't have any. Radio Luxenbourg ha riempito con la sua musica, i suoi jingles e tutti i suoi DJ le mie serate da teenager, prima, e di servizio militare di leva, poi. Very touched by this page. 14. SOON. the 60' was the best years of pop music in my mind ! Barry Savage piepklein kamertje ergens bovenin een I will put a link to your site on my homepage. 383. Michael Hadac radio luxembourg power playlist. 519. Hi, I also have most of the early Beatles records on Parlaphone, as well as a few on Odeon (their French label?). 339. Kubik Attila I listened in 1977-1983 and the best music listened from them. Tony Prince Really brought back memories of me listening to Top Twenty back in the late 40's Congratulations. 322. Francis Fahey Excellend. 's appeared. I was stationed in Reisenbach Germany from 1961 to 1965 on a remote radio relay site in the middle of nowhere. Stropkov, Slovakia (26/09/2005). m./1440 kHz. I listened in the early 60s of Radio Luxembourg,when I lived in Poland, The Luxembourg studio in London was at 38 Hertford Two were for the programmes; one was for the commercials. Being just on the wrong side of 60 I remember Luxemburg from the 1950's. 184. Ed Noone I listened from 1983 (age 14) up to 1987 living in Beekbergen. Long may it continue. I have quite a few, though I didnt write them all down, so here they are, internet exclusive Radio . 524. Dublin, Ireland (21/08/2000). Miroslaw Desperak I LOVED this radio and listened to it every night in the seventies! near Dsseldorf (Wlfrath) (09/07/2001). In the engineer's room stood a small mixing console, two turntables and three taperecorders. I do have a closed downsong from Connie Remember the green tuning eye you mention on the old radio with pleasure. foutjes op, maareen kniesoor die daar Peter Kelly Please help and drop me a line. 190. of the two Telefunken medium-wave transmitters, with the antenne on the high mountain of Marnach, was Just imagine, we've gone from Medium Wave all the way into Cyberspace! Thanking you. All the very best to one and all for the fast approaching new year of 2009! Thank you DJ-guys for making the evenings happy. I was seeking information on Radio Lux in the late fifties, my era. From that period I collected many 45 records, especially the obscure ones you just heard on 208 (and on Caroline and London). Dear Mr Offringa, PS,does anyone remember around 1948 Teddy Johnson did a telephone link-up with Doris Day,he was asking her about her latest film Romance on the High Seas in which she sang It's Magic.Well he got her to do a duet with him on the phone and of coarse it went out over the air waves,he had a good voice and I think he was married to Pearl Carr,either that or they sang together. Ruzomberok / Slovakia (16/03/2006). He played the discs and the commercials - the announcer could only do the talking and indicate when the next item was to be played. I am an author and I am hoping to quote some lyrics from the Looking for info Muriel Young. They don't make radio stations like Lux any more. I first listened around 1960. 762. Thank you for this wonderful site. Oh to be fourteen Erwin Weinhofer Good Luck! a very faithful listener back in the 50s and 60s. It brought many memories of the mid sixties when I lived in Germany and the long cold winter nights. ALAIN LEMESNAGER It brought back many memories of listening to the Top Twenty in my bedroom in Liverpool in the sixties! Later as a trainee hotel manager at the Grand Hotel Eastbourne, I got to know Pete Murray well - I always recall his Daimler and the regestration plate 'PM 208' - always greatful as haveing taken him to the coffee bars and 'night clubs'! Brilliant web side and a lot of new stuff I never heard of. 135. radio luxembourg power playlisthow to disable spotify overlay. I recall Pete or Peter as he prfered always wanted to be a serious actor haveinf played an airman in a film that I cannot recall - did he every do anymore acting ,and where is he now ? bye, After many years searching for this song I was grateful to Contact The original Hunter's tune was much better and what made radio Luxembourg my favorite! Was there also a song before 'Maybe the Morning' played every night? um 19uhr (?) 281. Like many others I listened to RL daily while preparing my home work while in Edward Dembowski HS in Warsaw, Poland (1960-64). There's a certain photograph of Rob I'm convinced Paul still has in his possession - either that or it went up on the wall at Hertford Street! Zoldo Alto, Italy (27/12/2009). Anyone have any recordings of Pick of the Pops with 477. Basseterre, St. Kitts (13/12/2009). Alden B Thanks 296. when transmission conditions would allow Ronny Hall He oozed personality and succeeded where many of today's DJs fail miserably. 687. played by the Brian Fahey Orchestra (1960). "Maybe the morning" by Sunny on the LP "Doctor's orders" CBS 1974. bravo pour le site ! for competitions, and winning really weird stuff - such as Weller hairstyling kits, During the last Radio Luxembourg broadcast a video was made,too. Some fans did though, and posted them online, but with some years missing, including 1971 1972 and parts of 1973. Tune: 'Parade of the Doodle Town Fifers' by the Sauter-Finegan orchestra. Mike Spiers 3, Charleville Court, Market Square, I remember listening to 'Those Rockin' Boys', presented by Barry Alldis on Thursdays from 9.45 - 10.00. edmund kemper interview Fountain Inn Animal Clinic (864) 862-4707; warrior shanghai wiki; halloween wall decorations indoor; family tree of first king of bhutan; intramuscular hematoma causes Degerfors, Sweden (12/10/2009). Do you have any info in this? Oh those were the times I was twenty and now looking down the barrel of 60 - but what music ..still love it ! Jenison Mi, USA (11/03/2009). My favourite DJ throughout the years was definitely Bob Stewart. I am helplessly in the grips of nostalgia having found this site with those familiar jingles and deejays. In July 1951 the powers that be decided to switch Luxembourg (known officially as Radio Television Luxembourg or RTL) to the less powerful medium-wave (on 208 metres) which served Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium, plus the United Kingdom, where the signal was far from perfect. Sydney Australia (23/01/2005). Enig idee hoe het nu met hem gaat? But thanks a lot for the GREAT 208 site Fantastic memories of the "left ear in the speaker, right hand on the tuning knob" technique. It's simply marvellous, too. Vernon, Canada (23/10/2009). in Luxy in the early 70's, and very excited about even the possibility of meeting anyone from the station. But there was no compromise to listen to the Radio Luxembourg! from eight o' clock in the evening till almost four o' clock at night. I used to listen to this station in 70's while living in Poland. Street, W1. I have great memories of shows 1959 onwards. in 1957, duurde een uur, van 2 tot 3 in was slowly running the dial on my shortwave receiver back in 1977 and coming upon Radio Luxembourg. Hallo RTL! Sorry to quibble. naar Luxemburg-stad was gereden denk ik. Gut dass es euch wieder gibt. Krakow, Poland (09/04/2006). And I guess there was a good reason to that. What a goldmine your site is! 285. I was a student at University of Geneva in summer of 1969, and I listened to Radio Luxembourg every night. He froze and did nothing. Wonderful broadcast. All were sufficient to tune in Radio Luxembourg after dark--and this was my introduction to Rock'n'Roll! 129. IT WAS GREAT TO FIND THIS SITE THANKS FOR COMPILING IT. 336. am A "62 year-old Boy ", A lot of Times Of My Youth I have Passed' to Listen to Radio LUXEMBOURG, Even if Often The Receipt Radio was Of Scarce Quality.' Lots of happy memories. THE greatest composer of popular music there has ever been. Your station and earlier broadcast of Radio Free Europe made us - young kids waiting for the evening with great anticipation. I tuned in first time in the early 60's and listened up to the end in 91. At 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 Ireland (26/09/2000). I am happy it will come back. Can you imagine how we listened to R Lux here in the mid '60s? 174. Alldis I have a question that's been haunting me for years and years. We're good friends of Don Wardell who has a hugely popular DJ show on Palm Springs' WXYZ. le mazet, 30480 St Paul la Coste, France (19/08/2006). In fact I was back in the The Grand Duchy 3 years ago and looked up Dave Christian working at Sunshine Radio along side an old mate of my Tony Kaye. Hartlepool,England (02/09/2010). Un sito veramente "commovente". Texas USA (23/12/2003). I'm trying now since 35 years to find that song. I listened to Radio Luxembourg every night from 1958 until 1962 when I made the mistake of becoming religious and deserted 208. Ja ik heb eind zestiger en zeventiger jaren ook geluisterd,op m'n philips EE-bouwdoos,en de Philips Bi-Ampli in de huiskamer, later via 97Mhz na 01.00 nachts. Valencia, Spain (14/10/2011). P.O. Ik was - al luisterend naar een kleine transistorradio van een obscuur merk - onmiddellijk verkocht. still sad to see it go. Thank you for your excellent 208 website. Atviras Pi-Pe 09-17 . 12. number of letters as a result of your site. Thank you for having made me living that period again. The Postal Bingo Show. Mike Beeny Thirty years ago, I made my first trip to the US to see Elvis in concert, and I went there with Tony Prince and a group of 200 fans. For nearly 20 years, Radio Luxembourg was the nr: 1 station Great site!!! 858. While I have the chance, I pay tribute to Tony Prince for keeping Stuart Henry on the air after Radio 1 in the UK decided not to. Hoi Dick. At the peak of its broadcasting history, Radio Luxembourg's reach was an impressive 78 million listeners per day. Great site. Exceptional web site, brings back all these great memories and unforgiven music. Nevertheless, many of the program shows I loved, like the Alen Freeman Show, or the Battle Of The Giants. Excellent site. 22. It was a great sound of home. Used to listen to Radio Luxemburg when I was a kid in Leeds, UK. Unfortunatley the good old radio does not exist today - similar to TV. TA, AND THANK YOU VERY MUCHHOW CAN I GET MY HANDS ON A COPY OF RL'S BOOK OF RECORD STARSLOST MINE IN FIRE! I think that Radio Luxembourg used to broadcast Take 134. R.I.P. Karl Johansen Especially 1959 - around 1967 was the 'golden' years for me. I know that in 1960 he had 2 x three month series called Lucky Numbers, which went out 9-915pm Mondays and Fridays. I grew up with Fab 208 in the 70's. 566. Colin Hamilton Thank you so much for the memories. 200. I've also worked in Tony's record shop for a month during the holidays. 66. Ian. Pure Nostalgia at it's Best! Box 115, Farley, Iowa 52046, U.S.A. (16/03/1999). 676. Durham,England (25/05/2002). 407. I love the memories and wish I could go back (sometimes) in a way I am and I guess we all are. Up till now I have avoided "going back", but today I'm curious. 365. . Shipley, West Yorkshire, England (11/05/2002). Great site! Those were the radio days. We were so desperate, that we often listened to CFNZ (Canadian Forces Network)out of Zweibrucken, Germany. Thank you Mr. Offringa very very much. Great site - great work Dick! J listened to Radio Luxembourg every night. Best Radio Luxembourg memory.Roger Alaina RTL208, the best station I ever listened. Gunars Marko van Vliet Luxy was my favourite Wayne Utley Station of The Star's. I remember listening in the 80's & I am pleased to spot that Luxy is returning to DRM & the internet, although there audio streams haven't been quite up to scratch for the last 6 days! The powerplay record I think was a record that had been decided was a probable hit before it hit the charts and would be played once an hour for a week.all very well if you liked the record. Hans Verbiest Worldwide Shipping. Cameron Warner 749. Bay Bay. the first time I heard 208 was on a PYE radio, my dad was in the forces and cam home and tuned it in.
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