Pirate Radio Jingles from the 1960's and 70's

[keefyd5]

Had a Vespa GS160 with all the accessories,can still remember the reg AHM 77B but dont know the number of my recent car!

[postduuv]

 great...

[yumyummoany]

Pirate Radio - the BBC was rubbish and the Pirate stations gave us what we craved - pop music. Radio 1 was never as good.

[0208name]

Gota agree with phplane about the old days. I managed to get a GT200 and was a just a few years behind the real mods. And yes all the girlfriends were fantastic and life was good- No bills and NO worries.. How life changed with a mortage and the rest of adult life.. Ahhh the good days. That Caroline song and a few others still send shivers down my back... DoooBeeeDoooo

[kingcw]

Try again..A Touch of Velvet and A Sting of Brass.

[kingcw]

Music at 5.50 to 6.25 is "a string of velvet and a Touch of brass"

[Tubemanjac]

Great memories, thanks much for uploading!

[fillmystocking]

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!

[bospeen1]

niet te evenaaren goud van oud

[SteffanLlwyd]

A lot better than Radio Samantha, our short-lived school short wave pirate station!

[Jaahda]

I 'worked' for Caroline 259 in the late 60's...anyone here know the date that Caroline 'fell out of existence' for a while after playing "mights in white satin' early one morning (2.13am)?

PS ...why so many BigL jingles?

[Jaahda]

I 'worked' for Caroline 259 in the late 60's...anyone here know the date that Caroline 'fell out of existence' for a while after playing "mights in white satin' early one morning (2.13am)?

[kawasjaki]

goude tijd met echte muziek . geweldig

[paul1010hotmailcom]

There are some sounds that just seem RIGHT on a crackly fading link on medium wave. Bout time Apple provided it as a preset on iTunes.

[Nozzernomates]

Wonderful memories!

[scottmueller22]

If I have not tagged this before: That Sir or Ma'am is a masterful collection of sound from the period. I know: I was punching holes in the floor of the Nord'Sea at at the time, and listened every night. A real breath of fresh air at the time -- THANX from a YANK ....

[cosycleaner]

Warning-for Mods only!

[kawasaki5187]

Thanks for the memories

[earlyyardbirdsfan]

Thank you MartinREC! How wonderful to hear such an evocative sound - takes me right back to those wonderful days of Radio Caroline. I prefer the Mood Mosaic version as it sounds more like the one Caroline used. I've also found Caroline (by the Fortunes) and Because They're Young (Duane Eddy?) - all fantastic memories. Thank you Martin and YouTube.

[earlyyardbirdsfan]

Oh blimey how these jingles brought back the wonderful 60s. Does anyone know where the "Wa-Wa" jingle at 6.17 is from? (If it is from a longer track that is) Takes me so-o-o- far back to those wonderful days.Also Caroline, (there is a girl etc.) I would love to add them to my MP3 - just to take me back -back -back ........in the sound of the nation ....(reverb)

Thanks for the trip back in time!

[MartinREC]

@earlyyardbirdsfan The Wa-Wa comes from a track called "a touch of velvet a sting of brass" . There are two versions available on YouTube. The one I own (and prefer) is by Ron Grainer (Doctor Who theme composer). But they are very similar-just a question of taste.

[PM1970]

These are real historic gems!! Such amazing sound quality!! I was born in the 70s so missed out on this magical era!!

[jimlagos]

Oh wonderful. Thankyou so much!

[TheBaddog666]

i think a FREE RADIO channel on Utube would be FUNN

[artec0]

God, I had a TV175 too! :o) Wish I still had it. 1957 model, I think.

[flammasherman]

Brilliantly edited, oh the nostalgia !.Although I listened to most of them, Big L was always my favourite andI think the most professional.I was on a training course at Bletchley Park in August 1967, and I so remember my mind wandering at 3.00p.m on the 14th attending a lecture, the sense of total loss was devastating,a unique 3 odd years when it was great to be young, the soundtrack to our lives,many thanks again.

[john111257]

i was 9...and they had gone..but nuthin ever better than the music from the seas

[hubzcaps]

13.31khz wow

[DGTelevsionNetwork]

this sounds like 150 chum toronto

[marianhindley]

Brill - great memories when times were simple and easy and happy and we

listened to the radio under our pillows lol

[tim60s321]

PS theres loads of good stuff on the pirates via google 

[tim60s321]

lets not get too nostalgic about the swingin 60s..this soundtrack is a lot better than most people ever heard caroline ,london,city,luxemburg etc...i listened on a little transistor in surrey -the pirates were off the east coast near Clacton 100 miles away- the sound was very poor with a lot interference esp in evening BUT pirates were a 1000 times better than crappy Radio 1 AND 2 forced on us when the groovy Lab govt killed them off and we suffer to this day!

BRING BACK THE PIRATES!!!

[sonofshankley]

Ha ha ha the battery was flat in the morning, but you bet your life i use to get new batterys for the next night. use to love this is your DJ B.A Barry alders.

It was such a happy time in my life. i loved luxy, and caroline. and i sometimes use to pick up comentery on a amrican forces network of a ball game,that use to fade in and out haha. it was amazing.

[tim60s321]

fabulous to go back to those groovy days when the pirate stations brought us all those great sounds of the swinging 60s

[sonofshankley]

Use to put my little raidio under my pillow and fall asleep with raidio Luxy on in the early 70s, what fantastic days.

Thanks so much for putting in on.

[john111257]

@sonofshankley and the battery was flat in the morning

[sonofshankley]

@john111257

Did you do the same john? raidio under the pillow.

[john111257]

this was radio...AT ITS ALL TIME BEST...miss it so

[bluebeat100]

Does anyone know the name of the song and group at 6:17?

[john111257]

@bluebeat100 its mood mosaic...a touch of velvet a sting of brass...DLT THEME...best days

[drb7777]

This should be the sound of radio now, NOT the past!

Fab days!

[snarf5508]

The sound of the Fortunes, de best jingles (Veronica, Noordzee en Miamigo used them to!) Thanks.

[cxtroen]

radio jackie around 9:30 keep on rockin

[TEMPmichaelhansen]

the who sell out

[JeBeNL]

Realy fantastiic..thx for posting

[rogerlsadler]

The sound from a small transistor radio propped up against your bedroom window to get a signal that was constantly fading was something magic that todays generation with their digital clarity will never experience - thanks so much for posting this (I had a Lambretta Li 150 by the way). Wonderfull - I can still smell the two stroke engine.

[Floppyblondehair]

MEMORIES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[moggyparty]

GREAT DAYS

[hebneh]

In the '60s, I was surprised to find out that these American jingles - which I knew very well at home in the USA - were being used in England. Because, in those days, the coolest rock music was coming from England, so why were they copying America?

Obviously at that time I didn't know the background of why these offshore stations were started, to bust the monopoly of the BBC dictating what people could listen to.

[onliwenilarf]

gawd bless 'em! in the days when a 'tranny' meant a radio! wonderful Radio London! i bawled my eyes out that day they shut down......

[southernboy666]

Hmmm.....I prefer Radio Caroline´s Jingles......Radio Londons are too swingy.....and the lyircs are strange......you´re hearing things on Radio London!

Strange, strange.....

[shufflewick]

what an amazing trip down memory lane..wonderful, thanks!

[mollynolan1]

Ah we loved Radio Caroline. I was at bording school in those days and we always listened from Dublin. Thanks for the memories.

[moonraker185]

Big L, Caroline and Luxemburg were great, better than anything today. Used to listen to them all the time on my tranny. Great Days

[tongapuss]

@moonraker185 Me too, the trouble with Luxembourg was that it kept fading in and out. If it hadn't done that I would have had it on the tranny constantly, but when pirates came along then Radio Lux got the heavo in favour of Caroline, Mi Amigo, Northsea International etc. Those were the day.

[john111257]

@tongapuss yeah too true...but luxy was there after...my power pack was dead in the morning...left the tranny on overnight...MMUUMMM CAN I HAVE A NEW BATTERY..bloody brill days...nothin around today ...same old tracks day in and out

[learning41230]

We used to listen to Radio Lux and Radio Caroline in the late 60s and early 70s, from Germany. Great memory! Thanks.

[Starryvideos]

wats radio caroline

[charleyfarley321]

you must be too young to know!

[phplane]

its what we had before you youngsters were force fed radio 1, only ours was much better.

[phplane]

Did nt realise how perfect my life was back in those days , fab music stations , lovely girlfreinds and a bad dog , oh and a lambretta tv 175.

[TV225TS1]

Lambretta 175 ? Ser II or III ?

[phplane]

sorry for delay, cant really remember which series, but it was always difficult to get spares, but i made it look fab.

[MrRjmaher]

@phplane I'm 58 and still ride my TV175,Great memories of a better time.

[b0lliks]

odd these are all from my era and i can hardly remember any.

[peterinthout]

helemaal te gek al die jingle's

[delpotman]

Werelds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[avoine59]

grand voyage du coté de dunkerque,radio pyrate ouiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii exceptionnelle un mec du nord,leberger59 ca c de la musique,a refaire de nouveau dans le littoral nord

[Darlekman1]

Great bit of history, I use to be a DJ during the 70s on my own station, and I set one up in Exeter some time later during the 1990s, still got many tape recordings of your great stations in the North Sea.

[292x1]

Radio Caroline. Rock'n'Roll at its best. We used to listen all the time at RAF Chicksands in Bedfordshire. 1964-68. You guys were fabulous. You made thousands of USAF GI's very happy through the day. Radio Caroline! Loved you guys!  USAF VET RAF Chicksands 66-68.

[atlantic1952]

wonderful, thanks for bringing back the great days of Pirate radio, the 1960's were terrific times and I am so grateful for living through such a wonderful decade. I used to listen in to the Pirates whenever possible, mostly on my little pocket radio. I even managed to listen in during school break times...those were the days!

[JeBeNL]

realy beautiful !!!

see my account JeBeNL

[starman511]

Excellent compilation, wonderful memories...thank you. I loved being a pirate DJ all those years ago....the music lives on.

[videosonemail]

Great trip down memory lane..these were real pioneering days full of nostalgia and real emotion. Kenny Everett was light years ahead of his time and his sheer brilliance can be felt to this very day.

[brianformac]

Thank you so much for taking the time and trouble to put this excelent compalation together. I have wonderful memories of the offshores. Radio today is just bland nonsense by comparison.

[klingonbarbie]

great memories of listening to London, caroline & vernonica...also love all the PAM jingles

[pookerville]

There are still pirate stations around the world, including, I'm sure, over in the United Kingdom. And I pray for a new era of pirate radio there.

[windyarbour25]

They are all there, all the good jingles and memories.

Caroline North listener

[kenconnor2006]

Is that windyarbour Dublin?

[windyarbour25]

Hi

Sorry I'm not from Dublin, but the name is taken from an area in Dublin. Its a place my family visited many yeas ago.

I'm from North Wales. Funnily enough I'm off on the boat to Dublin on Monday for a holiday in Leanne

[kenconnor2006]

Would that be Leanne Murphy from Farren Boley ( farren boley is an area near windy arbour )

[croftersway]

Hi

Sorry but my spelling is all to pot. I went to Leenane in Co. Galway. Stayed in the Leeenane Hotel, very nice and got a good deal. Only adventure into Dublin was nearly driving into the 12 euro tunnel on the M1.