Johnnie Walker Show Radio Caroline 1968

[Mr101fc]

flashing at frinton made legal with your kiss in the car licence. and is anything safed from killroy?

[TheRingoDave]

Memories of when DJ's could play whatever they liked. If their tastes were bad, they didn't last - the way it should be now, instead of playing the same old rubbish day after day. Long live Radio Warrington!

[cozener1]

JW was a true radio pirate!!!!

[JeBeNL]

Johnnie Walker a great dj..

[kingcw]

Great days when these radioships were on the air. Killed off by the Labour Govt of the time ( Wedgewood Benn was a leading light in their removal) Replaced by a very poor imitation known as Radio One, crap from Day one.

[TheDavidjoy]

This was such a great special time and I was there. Amazing. What memories of that period I have. Thank you Caroline and all your DJ's for making the sixties special. Never to be repeated. It was original and fun, now all the music stations sound the same.

[pag2006]

@TheDavidjoy Know what you mean. Stations like Heart are a joke, it's like groundhog day, every day they play the same old stale songs, such a terrible waste of bandwidth.

[ThePurpleman21]

god i wish i was alive back then! these guys had actual music! so much beauty!

[MegaTbird78]

Thanks so much alfasdelpi...the greatest DJ of all time! So clear and loud too.

So many happy memories of Caroline and Johnnie Walker in the days of my youth. How I wish I had tapes and more tapes of Johnnie Walker!!

I am so happy to have lived through those happy times when people and the world in general was a happier and more peaceful place. And Caroline and all her DJ's were a big part of it! Question alfasdelpi how can I get more of these broadcasts? are they on a CD ?..regards Barrie

[john111257]

good old days ...JW the best ever dj..WE MISS THE GREAT DAYS

[Catweasel21]

You can download the full 43 minute segment from here:

beemp3.com

[praline753]

Quelle époque!!! et que de beaux souvenirs...

[kjellhollander]

Yes. I see someone asking for the whole show. Anyone know if it exists in this good quality? Azanorak??

[mrspeedoracer]

All very nice Good times Good radio Good Music and one of the Best Djs

Same this is a edited Repo Recording done by East Anglian Productions

But still very enjoyable

[kawasaki5187]

Brilliant, thanks

[djaysteve1]

Oh my god what the yoof of today are missing with a romantic cuddle in the car to the sounds of Percy Sledge and Warm And Tender Love, Frinton-on-sea, Walton-on-the-naze, ...just places i heard over the Caroline airwaves whilst growing up in Sheerness. I was tuned in to Tony Blackburn on that very first broadcast Easter Saturday 1964. My, i am so glad i grew up in those times, thanks to the pirates and before that Luxembourg, Wikipeadia has nothing on my music knowledge.

[bolloxinator]

It seems like since those days there've been no changes for the better, only the worse, I mean in general. I first heard Radio Caroline when I was about 7, on a little pocket radio I got for Christmas, about '68. I remember my parents' worry about me listening to 'those pirates', it was illegal! Didn't stop me or anyone else, did it? Later came RNI. These stations had it all. Best music, best DJs, and the damn fun of it all.

[Bulletguy07]

Excellent compilation well put together. Pirate Radio played a massive part in changing the face of popular music on radio forever.......yet very little is credited to it. Obviously still a thorn in the side of authority!

JW always been my favourite DJ.......rock on Johnnie!

[critch1901]

Has anyone still got a kiss in the car licence?

[simoncebu]

Still sounds great all these years later. Actually I never met him but I did know his mother, Mary. Johnny(Peter Dingley) is my 2nd cousin.

[DSVOP]

@simoncebu Johnnie is really into family and he is a lovely guy. You should contact him at the BBC, I'm sure he would love to meet you. He has his book out too, try and get a copy. I actually have a pair of Western boots that Johnnie could not live with, so, he passed them on to me.

[simoncebu]

@DSVOP Hi there. I actually live in Cebu, The Philippines. But my brother Tim lives in Birmingham and is compiling our family history, so i'll pass on your suggestion to contact him. Cheers.

[DSVOP]

@simoncebu Okay, no worries. If Tim needs to reach Johnnie I can always fast track him, and I can supply the publishing details on Johnnie's book too. Johnnie Walker's son, Sam, resides in Singapore with his family, Beth is in London I believe. Great to get your reply. :-)

[timwalton3]

@DSVOP This is from Tim, the Brother of Simon in Cebu. I would very much like to get in touch with Jonnie. I have quite a large family history file which I am sure he would be interested in & I would of course like to fill in a few gaps! I presume you have access to my email address from my registration & I am happy for you to pass it on to Jonnie (If not then let me know as I am not sure if I should include my full email address in this reply)

[Trevennor]

Don't you just wish DJ links were as short and direct (and about the music) as this nowadays? It truly was about the music back then. Shame how we have lost that for the most part.

[TheSuziq54]

i love this man and tbhis show the way forward for me as a young teenager never missed a show

[TheSuziq54]

i love this man and tbhis show the way forward for me as a young teenager never missed a show c

[john111257]

proper radio..proper dj..big respects to mr walker

[mole433]

Is the full version of this avalable anywere? would love to have it, makes you realise how much radio has changed (for the worst!)

[jimmytheferret]

@mole433 These extracts come from a CD entitled Don't Touch That Dial, issued by Discovery Records some years ago. It's out of print now, but you might pick up a copy somewhere out there. The CD number is TJLCD 1968A

[dhd1100]

This is how radio should sound, way better than what we have now; and Johnnie Walker, the greatest of them all, with us down all these years. Why is he tucked away on a Sunday afternoon?

[john111257]

@dhd1100 mr walker..a wonderful tradition.johnnie is a true radio legend...CAROLINE 4 EVA

[Groningen1954]

I remember very well Johnnie Walker in that good old days when I was in love.

[JeBeNL]

brilliant video and what a great sound...and the jingles ....

Johnnie Walker ...a great dj thx for posting

[yunorisson]

Lovely Jubbly! Great Stuff!

[edlpirateradio]

Lucky we were to live in the greatest rock generarion

[sonofshankley]

Great stuff what amazing days i loved the 60s and 70s, and we had caroline and luxy to tune into on are portable raidios, the channels would fade in and out but did it bother us not a chance haha, that was part of magic of caroline and luxy, it was magic to listen to in the 60s and 70s, thanks so much for putting them on.

[john111257]

frinton flashing...memories come flooding back

[john111257]

FANTASTIC RADIO...miss it so..

[lochavich97]

Yep - the very best DJ ever from Caroline in the mid sixties and my bedsit days in SE London, through Radio 1 and the 70's and still rocking now - met this guy when I was on "Pop the Question" '76 - amazing and just the best voice and music ever. Total respect for JW. We love you you Johnnie. Suexx

[firefighterno1]

he is still the best dj on radio 2 Johnnie Walker is a legend!

[E4287646]

This brings back memories

[ian70spaul]

Listening To Johnny Walker whos brilliant any way,love his Sunday afternoon 70s show, but what a great selection of music i have just heard, J W makes any record sound better!

Keep Rocking

Ian Smith

[GrahamSimons]

If he's not in there already, he should be inducted into the Rock 'n Roll - or preferably SOUL - hall of fame!

[manalive45]

Dea - that's Duane Eddy playing Because They're Young. Very evoactive!

[Dea1104]

anyone knows whats the song, which starts at 0:09 ? please help!!! :-)

[manalive45]

@Dea1104 It's Duane Eddy Because they're Young

[Dea1104]

@manalive45

thanks alot *smack* :-)

[magpie2257]

Always my Favorite D.J. ever. Listened while I lived in London 65 to 67. The 11pm love song & all. Listened to the GOOD SHIP ROCK & ROLL last year and the Christmas Special.. KEEP ON ROCKING JOHNNIE. As good as ever.

[Bogna1]

eat your heart out chris evans jonnie has forgotten more than you will ever know about being a D J Geoff

[BlueRaven50]

Took me back, got goosebumps listening to this, fantastic.

[PIEEATER617]

when this sits in radio 2 at christmas good djing will return to radio WOGAN EAT YOUR HEART OUT this is a real dj

not a BANKER

[jamesrachael]

JW is just the best DJ in any medium-should still be on daily!!!!

[bigkingtuba]

Great posting! I play 60's 45's at a bar in Denver, Colorado on Saturday nights and hearing this really inspires me. Pop has never been better than in the sixties!

[granmapen]

Awesome, and the Movie will make your recording famou! Love from the States!Penny

[atlantic1952]

The good old days have come and they have gone..my God we need them back!

Thanks for reminding us how good it all was back then.

[regorskraps]

Great to hear JW again. Big thank you to JW you are the person who influenced my musical taste more than anybody else. I owe you one

[allgram]

aw man, what can you say about this. the man who changed radio for me, absolutely fantastic, great, lovely to hear things like this again, allgram.