50 years of news in one short bulletin
Bulletin includes recordings from the 8th October in both 1973 and 2023, among other dates.
The following are, for the most part, unedited and taken straight from
the cassettes recorded off air. My aim was to get either jingles,
voices or ads and there is some irritating switching on and off of the
tape in the recordings. All in mp3 format.
Original LBC jingles |
Early 1974, collection of the
original jingles in their later format with Douglas Cameron on voice
over (hence recorded between March and summer) |
LBC New Sound 1974 |
The new Jeff Wayne jingles, as
first heard in mid-1974 |
1974/75 clips |
1st Birthday, October 74
election, Frequency change, end of 24 hour broadcasting. Some great old
ads too. 1st live broadcast from Parliament |
1974 Nightline |
Clips from Adrian Love's
Nightline in 1974 |
Melanie Parker and Jingles |
the last few weeks of Augustus
Barnett's ad series, performed as a Soap Opera: THE WORLD OF MELANIE
PARKER. Also contains jingles, the LBC Minstrel, LBC's 10th birthday
etc. Anything Goes theme. Some ITV themes too (LWT's 6 o'clock Show,
Blockbusters, Robin Hood). |
George Gale |
Undated segment of George Gale's
Open Line |
Barretts |
A couple of Freddie Barrett's
operatic ads for his Liquormart in Brewer Street |
Mr Nasty "Colds" | Brief clip of Mr Nasty arguing with callers and Jean Davis, with Susannah Simons reading the news |
1975/78 AM endings |
Clips from end of AM programme
Summer 75 and also 1978. Robin Houston, Bob and Doug. Also some LBC
Reports with Tricia Ingrams. |
1977 recordings |
Mono recordings, including
various presenters on AM, Jellybone with Jean Davis and interview with
Kermit the Frog. Also music played as it was the Silver Jubilee. |
Just before Easter | Brian Hayes' theme, Midday Report and AM clips. Includes whole of Hayes theme with no voice over. I think this was 1977 but might have been the year before. |
First Live
Parliament |
Rick Davis, Peter Allen and Ed
Boyle bring the first live broadcast from Parliament (other than the
experiment a few years earlier). Question on Wales. |
1977 | Short clip of Sportswatch theme with Dominic Allen and Suzannah Simons signs off her last LBC Reports |
1978 recordings (1) |
45 minutes from 1978, including
Evening News ad, the Rib Room at the Carlton Tower, some LBC Bloopers,
the strike and the first programmes afterwards, Brian Hayes theme,
Monty Modlyn trailer and more |
1978 recordings (2) | More, including clips from AM
and LBC Reports (hosted by Paul and Tricia Ingrams), Rick Davies' last
LBC Reports, ads from Barretts, British Caledonian and Hertz (No 1
Man). Themes for Sportswatch and After 8...and my own mention on AM! |
1978 recordings (3) | Nescafe Ad, AM Clips, Brian Hayes clip and Jellybone clip. Sportswatch theme in full, LBC theme n full with no voice-over |
Christmas 1981 |
...with Richard Robbins, Bob and
Doug. Greeting messages from many LBC contributors. Ad for Interseal
2000, and a few carols and Christmas songs and facts too. |
1986 (approx) excerpts |
General sounds from the mid
80s...including several April 1st stories. |
1980 and 1987 jingle packages |
Singing jingles from 80 and the
David Arnold jingle launch in 87, also the Night Extra theme. |
Closure
announcement |
Clips from 5th - 7th September
1993. LBC's franchise was to go elsewhere (it was announced the
previous week). Programme clips with Derek Hobson, Andrew Neil, Douglas
Cameron (and LBC Phone Vote "LBC should be saved"), Brian Woolfe,
Angela Rippon |
Steve Jones Christmas Morning 1993 | Queen's message, David Spanier interview |
Steve Jones Theme | and a few clips |
LBC at 25 Anne Diamond |
Breakfast Show on LBC1152 with
interviews of Angela Rippon and David Soul. Excerpts from the morning's
show. |
Nightline Mix |
Excerpts from Adrian Love's
Nightline, mostly 1974. In those days I recorded it overnight (on slow
tape) and then this was re-recorded onto cassette, so quality is not
wonderful. In Mono. |
Mrs
Thatcher Resigns |
22nd November 1990. Part of her
final moments in the House of Commons. |
Frank Bough |
Last 10 or so minutes of Frank
Bough's afternoon programme and first 2 of Peter Deeley's DriveTime on
25th August 94 (or was it 84...?) |
LBC News 1152 Theme | |
Sandi Toksvig | Undated short clip of Sandi talking with newsreader and Peter Deeley. Includes "all been barmy once" signature tune. Probably 11/6/2004 based on comment about Reagan's funeral. |
Visit David Lloyd's "Radio Moments" - including some clips from first day of LBC not usually heard. |