Howard Leader has presented the Sunday afternoon programme of 1930s,
Next week's programme will apparently be the last. I'm curious to know why the BBC has made this decision. There are very few programmes that play that sort of music on the BBC. Does anyone know anything about this?
Bill
They seem to be getting rid of specialist music, The soul show on many different south stations is occasionally running repeats on streaming services when football is on, but most of the others tend to run just whatever.
I suspect its old age, no replacement and saving money on free lance presenters.
I cannot understand why they waste a perfectly good channel like 6 music on a kind of weird selection of almost well known left overs, or that is what it sounds like. They need to have a whole raft of 2 hour slots of specialist stuff, like country old time stuff, or other specialist bits. A lot of northern stations also used to feature Brass band music and organ music, others more easy listening types. Why don't they do it as much? Well BBC introducing and local talent ie you can now upload your music to a site and if its thought to be worthwhile you will get a slot. Now this of course is fine if it were balanced with pop and more traditional artists, but its not, its often bands, single singer songwriters who all seem to specialise in moaning songs, what I tend to call wrist slashing music. Then there are all the coved make a difference programs we get.... Brian
Oldie audience dying off? Maybe a decade ago they could have "moved it forward" to be a 1940s, 50s and 60s music show?
Howard did a 60s show for a while, but it suddenly ended.
People who like 30s music mostly weren't around then as adults. It's people like me, many of whom have liked it all their lives.
Bill
In message snipped-for-privacy@mid.individual.net>, williamwright snipped-for-privacy@f2s.com writes
Auntie seems to have form for killing off programmes that don't obviously appeal to the yuff audience, be that on t'wireless or the haunted goldfish bowl. Rather ironic since they now want the over 75s to pay.
Adrian
Don't worry, I'm sure 78 rpm long play records will soon be back in fashion :-)
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No idea if bra size, age or IQ are the biggest.
they want the over 75s to go back to paying. Gordon Brown made the licence free for them, the Torys shifted the cost onto the BBC.
They'd be very big
Bill
'Yuff' don't generally listen to any radio now they have alternatives. Same as with TV. In anything like the numbers they once did.
I'd far rather have free gas or electricity than TV. Now that would be a real vote winner.
78s were 10" or 12". I suppose the 12" ones could be called long play, and the 10" singles; but I expect they were just designated by size.
They had that in the USSR, but no-one had the vote, or indeed any say at all.
Oh they did have the vote, but no opposition to vote for!
Fairly certain the BBC had 14" at one time. I think they also had microgroove 78s too. All sorts of weird things for in house use.
12" 78s only lasted five or six minutes. Definitely couldn't be called long play. They weren't even EP.
Bill
Some early talkies had the sound recorded on large 33.3rpm disks.
Bill
In the 1950s my uncle had Beethoven's 9th symphony on a pile of shellac discs. He also had an autochange record player. Halfway through, the whole lot had to be turned over. Every time I hear the music today I can still hear the crashing as the records dropped every 5 minutes or so.
Another Dave
"Auto-coupled" it was called in the trade. Similarly when The Who's record "Tommy" came out around 1969, it was on two LPs, sides 1 & 4 and 2 & 3.
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