Radio Luxembourg

[poppins]

I thought it was midnight when they played the Top 10.

[paulo n]

bob stewart big l marlborough country,stuart henry on an old valve "pye" radio.1977 under bed sheets(again)freezin cold with ice on windows-good days!!

[whitehorses]

Oh I used to love Luxembourg 208. I too used to listen under the covers with my little transistor, this was late sixties, it was great.Once I can remember taking it into the bathroom with me, and as others have mentioned, you did used to keep having to retune it as it crackled etc, I had to do that so often that I had wet hands from the bath and got all water on the dial, being young I thought I would get electrocuted from my battery radio !!

 

Fab lollies came out on the back of 208 and when they first came on the market, they had a little sleeve inside the wrapper and this contained a photo of a 'Pop star' or a Fab 208 Dj ! Me and my sister had loads !!!

[Harleyman]

Used to listen to it in the late 1950s. I remember there was a Radio Luxemburg theme song which started with words like

"All of the ladies are beautiful ladies in Luxemburg"

[inessex]

Some one asked what the pools pundit had to do with Luxenburg. Every night he advertised in the 50s and 60s. Not sure how it worked. He had the same advert for years.

[Chris66]

My parents were regular listeners in the sixties on the big tranny in the kitchen. Loved the battle of the bands feature Beatles v Stones etc.

 

Only problem was the fading of the reception. But the only source of pop music apart from the odd show on the BBC at the time. AFN (American Forces Network) was good if you could get it. They played records months before they got released in this country - if at all. And the DJ's were so slick.

 

The record that always makes me think of 208 is IT MIGHT AS WELL RAIN UNTIL SEPTEMBER - by CAROL KING It got played to death at the time.

[willo]

was annoying that they cut the records short though!

[Chris66]

Yes they did - the BBC would have never done that at the time.

 

I believe that the record labels at the time paid 208 to play and plug certain records as well. So a record that was not in the charts would get a record of the week status. Radio One did this of course but a panel of DJ's decided which one .

[hillsbro]

Some one asked what the pools pundit had to do with Luxenburg. Every night he advertised in the 50s and 60s. Not sure how it worked. He had the same advert for years.

Yes - Horace Batchelor was actually a bit of a con artist, though he managed to stay on the right side of the law. He couldn't get any advertising in the UK but Radio Luxembourg accepted his adverts. See for example the Wikipedia article here and another web page here. Old Horace made a good living, relying on winners giving him some of their winnings. His "infra-draw method" was a complete fabrication - he paid his staff to come up with random predictions, but by the law of averages, some of his "investors" won.. Edited September 1, 2010 by hillsbro

[sycamore66j]

I remember listening to radio luxemberg on the radio in some of the cars i had in the mid 70,s. one car had a radio that had 4 buttons for pre-setting your favourite stations. I had them set for.....radio 1, radio 2, radio hallam, and luxemberg.