On this Day - 30th September: (MUSIC - U.K. 'Headline')

1967 - " Welcome to the exciting new sound of Radio One"
— Tony Blackburn
The UK's first National pop radio station,


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BBC Radio 1 was launched in the UK to take over from the very successful Pirate radio stations; who operated in the main from ships broadcasting near to the 'three mile limi't - in order to evade the Coastguard, - as they defied Government. licensing laws

For those of a certain age, this will bring back memories - either of the day itself, the Pirate Radio Stations -- that surfed the waves against the nasty Goverment , trying to stop us kids kistening to "some proper music".and/or of the 'time that were indeed actiually changing'
Have you any memorries of those times?
Feel free to post such"

 

Beginning with ...
Former Pirate DJ Tony Blackburn, from Radio Caroline, was the first presenter on air, with The Move's "Flowers In The Rain" the first record to be played on 30 September 1967 at 7.00am, (with Robin Scott, then Controller Radio 1, standing over him!).

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Evolution::



https://www.bbc.com/historyofthebbc/100-voices/radio-reinvented/timelines/radio-1/

 

In the beginning:



BBC - Radio 1 - Established 1967

 

<*> Beefeaters - John Dankworth (Tony's theme tune)
Tony Blackburn (With ArnoldThe Dog) Theme Music - YouTube

1st Programme = 1st Playlist:

1. Flowers In The Rain - The Move
2. Massachusetts - The Bee Gees
3. Even The Bad Times Are Good - The Tremeloes
4. Fakin' It - Simon & Garfunkel
5. The Day I Met Marie - Cliff Richard
6. You Can't Hurry Love - The Supremes
7. The Last Waltz - Engelbert Humperdink
8. Baby Now That I've Found You - The Foundations
9. Good Times - Eric Burdon and the Animals
10. A Banda - Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass
11. I Feel Love Comin' On - Felice Taylor
12. How Can I Be Sure - Young Rascals
13. Major To Minor - The Settlers
14. Homburg - Procol Harum
15. You Keep Running Away - The Four Tops
16. Let's Go To San Francisco - The Flower Pot Men
17. Handy Man - Jimmy James
18. You Know What I Mean - The Turtles
19. The House That Jack Built - The Alan Price Set
20. Excerpt From A Teenage Opera - Keith West
21. Reflections - Diana Ross and the Supremes
22. King Midas In Reverse - The Hollies
23. Ode To Billy Joe - Bobby Gentry
24. Then He Kissed Me - The Crystals
25. Anything Goes - Harpers Bizarre
26. The Letter - The Box Tops

<> Beefeaters - John Dankworth

 

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Zen matey, doesn't this thread belong in "This Day in History". ???

 

It is already in there Vlad (you want to check it out).
'This' moment in time was specific and significant to the U.K. and its culture for the generation of youth - which is why I posted it in the U.K. section