Well there we all that was the. London stage production of chess modern music but I would be playing music old time let's go to one of the earliest records that I collected as a teenager way back in the 1950 s. For my collection Frankie Laine very very popular joining the sama of $950.00 and it's the cry of the wild goose. a very early age I was just a tad away from my teens and was attending a country grammar school always been interested in tuning around my parents' old while a set those with valves good basics on that used to come out of there and I enjoyed listening to overseas radio stations. And the b.b.c. Stations as well my grandfather had a rather sophisticated radio receiver which picked up the Marine Band when you could hear people talking to each other people basically at sea rather like telephone calls but being had over the radio. At school I volunteered to learn Latin not that it was a language that was going to do me any good for a future job but the must. Mr Reginald a cell's was a radio amateur he worked on to the radio transmitting name of g 3 a k x and over a period of months he told me how to build a not during that in lessons high hastened to add but after school told me how to build a crystal set and later a superhet receiver with valves and Edition he invited me to his house which was unheard of those days and to see him talk to another radio amateur in the United States of America and that was to be my very very 1st broadcast it wasn't a lot to say much other than literally hell no it certainly wasn't my last broadcast I failed my g.c. In Latin with flying colors in fact the colors were flying at half the cost but I did learn a great deal about radio mainly from the technical side musically I suppose I was off that vintage that used to rebel against everything as teenagers of today repelled and maybe we will rebel that some time or other and the music that I identified with which my parents called Who to good music was rock'n'roll in fact they banned me from the House sent me down to the bottom of the God My We had a shed and I used to listen to the old 70 eight's on a wind up turntable from a friend on that. But one of my favorite shows was broadcast on the b.b.c. Like programme it was called Make way for music which featured the b.b.c. And all the Dons Orchestra conducted by Alan Aynesworth and the announcer to the programme was Roger Moffat although still at school I wrote to Mr m. And asked if there was any chance of me sitting in on one of his radio programmes he did reply and invited me to one of the Friday evening transmissions which came from Manchester from the b.b.c. Studios which would then Loki. Aged in Piccadilly I wasn't allowed to take a camera and he recording equipment not that I had a camera already recording equipment to that son and when I arrived at the b.b.c. Studios the commissionaire on duty was somewhat perplexed last May how old I was and I said. Whatever age I was they said you can come in him afraid you're going to be accompanied by an adult anybody under the age of 18 not allowed in and I replied saying that Mr Moffat didn't like me and personally Here's a copy of it in fact he's the original letter and I was actually on my own Well he spoke to somebody high up and eventually I was admitted but told this was not an audience show so I mustn't make any noise going to get very very quiet so you had to sit down alongside the orchestra in the main music studio which is full of young teenager a pretty exciting experience going to play a couple of tracks from the b.b.c. And all the dancehall Krista 1st one is called the blade races and that'll be followed by the Kubla song. 2 and there you go 3 for the present one you had the Kubla song and the full that's put on a happy face and the Bladen races we were talking about the b.b.c. . And I went up to see them in the 1950 is up in Manchester with a presenter Roger Moffat and he came to me and greeted me and had time joined the show and I certainly did seeing a live broadcast over the following is attended many broad constantly b.c. Normally with an invited audience both the radio and television ready truthfully as a teenager I really wanted to be another role for the radio announcer but it was very much a closed shop I mean you couldn't get in there unless you have a university degree. Or you come through Forces Broadcasting Service or perhaps via Radio Luxemburg so I sorta advice from Roger and he suggested when I was called up for national service provided I pass the medical and went into on the army navy or run the Air Force was to try for the British Forces Network in Cologne they may have an opening then wealthy as later I did receive the brown envelope and my call up papers and join the Royal Air Force off to 6 months I wrote to the director of the British Forces Network in Germany asking if there was any chance of helping out that the reply was not to encouraging but to write again if ever I was posted to Germany. Well the next move was to try and convince my station commander Adare of Chipchura North Devon that I wanted a posting to Germany I love children I loved the sounds of silence and sounds and the camaraderie that was there in north Devon but I wanted to go to Germany as well he took some convincing but after a month he called me in to say there was a vacancy at the secrets on the ground radar station broke Seatle which was located near the limbs of an in North Germany he kindly arranged to transfer them within a couple of weeks I was winging my way out to Germany once installed here I wrote again to the director of b.f. And saying I was not in Germany and whether any vacancies full r.a.f. Personnel he replied saying they had to service men on attachment one was there for another year but one was leaving in about 3 months time I was cool down to Cologne to do an old Titian which I have to admit I failed miserably my voice was not posh enough for b. F.n. I would have to work hard at you know perfecting the voice as it were and to talk to a very large audience rather than talking to you a couple of close friends so I returned to I already have Station fitting rather depressed but it was not the end of the world about 6 months later a new station commander took over b f n and he'd come across the paperwork of my application for a job and he invited me down to Cologne for an interview he could see I was very keen but again said that sorry the Hobson's choice the voice was not right for broadcasting he did offer me a job as a presentation assistant that was the lowest of the low basically you would empty ashtrays you'd even go around cleaning the studio you'd put records back on the shelves making sure that the right record was in the right sleeve and also to make sure that each announcer had the. Records in his program when he came into the studio all the radio announcers at b.f.m. And what they called self in other words they operated their own equipment unlike the b.b.c. Announces who had people to do it for them I tended to work very long hours my choice and when I did a day shift of a 1000 hours 10 hours or whatever it was return in the evening and sit with the German engineers and then the technical side of broadcasting until the station closed down at midnight no time doesn't allow me to give you the whole story of my days at b.f.m. But they were exhilarating in a word I soon became a producer and in 158 an anon sir and at the end of my r.a.f. Time I applied for a civilian commission with b f n i was sent out to what was then called Kenya Kenya these days of Aden and Kuwait and it was to be a most interesting career which would take me around the world and eventually back to Britain in 1964 when I joined Radio Caroline then sold to Luxembourg and funny radio London before joining the original team of Radio one in 1967 I then moved on to what is called b.b.c. Management. As editor of Radio One's story of pop in 173 and the following year moved up to Sheffield as a program director of Radio Hallam I arrived here in Norfolk in 1993 and joined the station as the late night presenter in 1994 life taking over from Paul buns the rest as they say is musical history I just basically wanted to give you an insight into my radio career some of you probably don't know me old didn't know me maybe just a name but didn't know the background so hopefully that fills in a few gaps whilst in Germany I love to listen to the German orchestra of but can foot nobody had heard of him over here in 158 but in Germany he was. Extremely popular. About chemical Kosta from Germany and Wonderland by night in the mid 1950 is the British radio full of American recording artists I think of if I had to say that the 1950 s. Decade changed the face of popular music the stance of the $950.00 s. It was normal for various singles to recall the same song at a similar time is not unusual for authors to release to all 3 singles initial space of time too much if one or 2 of them didn't actually make the British chants in the 2nd half of the decade we find more youngsters buying records so as the age of record by as decreased the importance of disjunct is as they became known increased being called. He had more or less common Did the American and British charts throughout the 1930 s. The forty's and the 1950 s. Beings image was changing as well he just reached his 50th birthday in 153 and appeared in the film just for you with Jane Wyman in this film he was cast as a middle aged the at a producer with graying temples and wearing a toupee. Throughout the 950 s. And sixty's the number of being Crosby hit records were few and far between not forgetting the hugely successful high society with Grace Kelly from which we enjoyed the song True love being was still a top radio Staun not to mention his appearances in films like little boy lost in 152 The Country Girl 954 and white Christmas also the 950 full Let's listen to a song that being released in 1950 and he's accompanied this time round by the show . And it's Chattanooga shoeshine boy. Listen Adam. Fix your feet so you can walk your beat. Sure it's a. Risk when you go and you twinkle. And I'm. Going to cut. You. Big Chattanooga's shoeshine boy here in Britain a year before that recording was made a new group was formed the star gazes they comprise cliff Adams Fred. Ani Benson Dick James and Ronnie Milne they were very very popular on b.b.c. Programmes including the Derek Roy show The Goon Show take it from him and other programs as well there you were eventually signed up to Decca Records and enjoyed 8 top 20 hits spanning just a period of 3 years 953 to 956 Broken Wings was the 1st number one hit in April 953 and into they were the 1st British to reach the coveted number one position in the New Musical Express charts of the day that success was followed up by another record which also went straight to the top of the charts I see the moon on this program I won't always play the obvious choices the number one hits as is the case not here is a top 10 song from the stall gazes from 955 it's close the door that coming through the window. Thinking back on it and. The coming. Just. Think I. Didn't see. At that company. Is that. The seed. Flow you see you should. Feel. Pain. That this is the. Cause that I. The. In the. When it comes it should have time from the cogen how many of you remember the Billy cotton band show on the old b.b.c. Like program as a lad I used to listen to that program following on from 2 way family favorites as the smell of roast beef and Yorkshire pudding drifted into the scuse living room Billy cotton was a cheerful call me Don Spann dida whose cries of like a still being grained into our brains the show was a breath of fresh air and there was always a comedy Knowlton number in the show thanks to the president was a singer Alan breeze he had connections with this part of the world not in his younger days but towards the end of his career as many of you will know he's actually buried in hang him cemetery I keep promising us all that one day I will go and pay my respects Ellen breeze was with a bit of cotton down from 1931 pretty well to the end of the radio series which spanned a period of 36 he is but I was researching Ellen's life for my latest book that's entertainment I came across an old transcript which he'd made notes of it he said early days about his teens when he said that he would and around 10 bob a night 50 pence in today's decimal currency and this is what he'd actually written in his handwriting I had a hell of a hard fight to get any jobs at 1st because of my stamina agents found it difficult to believe I could sing or act with such an impediment I even sang in theaters accuse in London's West End so that I could buy a packet of fags and a fold the full pany bus ride back to Stratford where. A. A. A. A a meter. I think. Any of. That we had the voice of Alan breeze with the billy cotton band the dog goats a lovely bunch of coconuts after his retirement from show business he became the licensee of a pub in Flixton in Suffolk called the book in its slogan was don't pass the buck very clever title think those used to appear on be a math alan gave up the pub in 175 but his health began to fail after a heart attack it's unfortunately put him in hospital for about a month he then moved to a 16th century call to join him here in Norfolk he died on the 15th of January $980.00 at the age of 70 although as we heard in that last song he spotted with comedy songs he had to even greater attributes sincerity and In the east of England. Well we've said goodbye to some to the 3rd of the event we've moved into a new day and a woman will come to Monday the 4th of November 29th but a good morning from the b.b.c. In the eastern counties. Well I have a couple of songs right now from d.w. Dionne Warwick do you know the way to San Jose and that'll be followed by hot break up. Some.