able to hear the pop music I loved every night. I grew up listening to these radio stations, so your articles and soundclips bring back so many memories. Below is the playlist of recordings used in the very last Top Twenty based on sheet music chart: 1 Little Donkey Beverly Sisters Decca 36. gaspar aedo Via het gastenboek van radio 5 heb ik deze site ontdekt. Lovely Site. 476. I have lots of tapes of Luxy available for trades or swaps. :-( In the sixties in Hungary, we had hard times to live! Fortunately, I am well past religious belief now. Thanks a lot for this fantastic site! Born 1948. Frank Kluge It was a major part of my life at that time. Bowraville, Australia (09/11/2011). I live in Canada since 1980. Australia where I've been every since working for ABC TV and as a Koos de Ruijter This was great!! Thanks so much for the memories.. Los Angeles California (17/11/2002). If there should exist any real time machine, here it is! Darren Holden, New York (07/05/2005). and good music to me in occupated Czechoslovakia . Reading, UK (12/09/2012). Mir blutet mein Herz, wenn ich lese, was Ihr alles gemacht habt. 641. I now dan 22. Green eye accompanied RLsound - it was our monitor/screen at that early sixties times. "7 Fragen stellt der Franz" was a weekly quiz, where I sometimes wan some 45 singles. Jan Getting in the mood again at once. I listened in 1977-1983 and the best music listened from them. I never thought I'd hear the famous gong again! I really enjoyed your website. If you want to hear more - email me. THANKS FOR THIS WEBSITE,ITS FANTASTIC. Sheffield England (11/11/2000). 89. Used to listen to LUX in 1957 on in Berwick -long areial needed -Timex watches(ever right!) , Battle of the Giants, Jimmy Young Show, Svein Lokegaard I was listening Radio Luxemburg since 1964-68 every day at 20-23. 508. Too Good (feat. two brothers and myself to share, so it was Some of the humour is still pretty "close to the edge", even by modern standards. 343. I grew up in the UK from 65 to 79 and listen to radio Luxemburg every Kevin Mulrennan Estonia (19/01/2000). I've heard so much about the Radio Lumembourg program and searched the web and found your website. WOW. Sydney Australia (23/01/2005). JUDE TURPIN Zielona Gra, Poland (12/03/2003). sometimes were bad in that part of Sweden. Je had piraten op zee toen, maar Muffled the sound with a cushion so my parents wouldn't know I'd sneaked downstairs. We had several radio receivers around the house: a Hallicrafters S-38C, a French "Balmet" and a few American table-model radios. What I find amazing is that stuff I loved then, my son and daughter, now in their twenties, like Jethro Tull, just the same as I did 40 years back. I lived near Edinburgh in Scotland and struggled to tune in the signal on my portable radio under my bed covers, turned way down low so only I could hear it. 648. Stavanger, Norway (08/05/2012). Cheltenham, England (18/09/2006). Please someone put me out of my misery. I would John Weston I had three favourites: The Allen Freeman Show, The Battle of the Giants and of course, the Sunday night Top Twenty shows. computers begrijp ik niet veel, ben Some of the other stations I listened to on medium wave were AFN-Frankfurt and AFN-Heidelberg, and of course the Dutch locals. Although I can`t compete with this great site I hope that some of you are interested- you can tell me where I am wrong if I have not got it all right. De rillingen lopen me over het hele lichaam bij het horen van die jingels. I was born in '58 in Clacton and grew up in High Wycombe. I remember staying up till dawn to marvel over the music that came from the tiny box. For us , behind the Iron Courtain it was more than anything we could imagine, being part of RTL208. Magic - and it still is. I say, this again, this is just the BEST. In the summer of 1968 for the first time most of the programmes came direct from Steve Pickering Leicester (09/12/2003). Hungary (08/03/2004). en eindelijk wordt er eens rekening Merthyr Tydfil S. Wales (17/03/2003). Thanks for bringing it back! Het was een belevenis om daar te kunnen werken. Hello Dick At night I used to steal my mother's little plastic AM radio, the type with the small simple tuning control the same size as the volume control and then try and tune in Radio Luxembourg 1440khz. Stephen Haugh The fading is fabulous. Do you think thats possible? And for Manfred in Florida, the song is "The Deal" but I can't remember the performer. Isle Of Wight UK (05/07/2007). 728. In the day time and in the summer evenings before dark I listened on short vawe 49.26 meters. Australia (Previous UK) (10/03/2005). John Bigham Very nice site! I am distraught today. 723. They don't make radio stations like Lux any more. Andr Wouters 524. I hope to write more in the near future. Petr Zek Thank you for this wonderful site. nikolai 554. to you all with best wishes and fond memories. eyes at me for Emile Ford Pye 739. but there were times when it would grow Over whelmed 4:01. Er was maar n radio in huis zo rond 1960: een heel I recall Pete or Peter as he prfered always wanted to be a serious actor haveinf played an airman in a film that I cannot recall - did he every do anymore acting ,and where is he now ? Dick - enjoyed the site. 120. are annoncing Connie Francis,(she's still my number 1. Barry Grandioos wat een mooie site!!!! Happy memories! 10 (14) Wild World (Jimmy Cliff) Nobody knows here what is Radio Luxembourg now May be I only fan of RL in Russia (ili ya oshibayus? I do wish you all the best en i hope you let something hear of you. I's the national radio over here. Great memories ,i am working doing gold shows on Radio Cumbria. wetter abhngig. The BBC set up Radio 1, commercial radio was legalised in Britain in 1973, and its notoriously . 561. This brings memories back from the sixtys! 464. Houd me van harte aanbevolen. Bob Hind 208, what memories. Robert when it wasn't a music station. 809. 216. Peter Kelly Arbroath Scotland (01/07/2003). Dick, I enjoyed your site it was well put together. Nog heel veel succes met je site. We bring couples who were married in the 1960s & 1970s back to the location of their honeymoon, to re-live the experience and re-visit special places along the way. (danke tante eleonore) einschaltete. I was on 208 1986-88. Kirk Arnott Mark Pollitt ,Jacksonville, Florida (25/11/1999). Tony used to play it a lot. 23. 20 Heartaches by the number Guy Mitchell Columbia. The signal was fading and vanishing, but we could manage to record some tunes on amsterdam/nederland (30/11/200). Ken Govier 81. KERRY,IRELAND (05/04/2002). I listened with my new transistor radio during the '70's while living in Belgium and vacationing in Italy. Thanks for a great site!! Eckhard Strunk radio luxembourg power playlist. Been chasing a clip of the Horace Batchelor advert for years - any ideas? I was a listener 1965-mid 70s but was never certain when Lucky Luxembourg went off the air. Hi!great site Dick Keep the faith as they say. Wonderfull! dat we samen in het vpro-programma te Brian Hubbard It depends frequently on athmospherical conditions. Alcoy, Espaa (18/09/2011). Du hast dir viel arbeit gemacht. So I'm searching for informations, newspaperarticles, and so on. Kenny Owen I have tried to find his records, but have 0. As a small child, I figured all was well as long as the music kept playing. Thank you for maintaining this website and I will go through my archives of reel to reel tapes and see if I can find something of use. Chard in England (15/8/1999). Great site! 461. RL 208 was part of my youth and it will be a part of my life in my mind . I liked Cliff Richard ,but haven't anything on him. The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall led tributes to the star, who started his working life as a miner in his native Yorkshire before running a series of clubs and working as a wrestler and DJ. English transmissions on the famous 208 medium-wave for ever. Josef the Freedom For years I've often wondered about that piece, having listend to Radio Luxemburg during my US Navy tour in West Malling and Mildenhall England,using my Tanborg up to my ear late at night. Electro . Guys, girls and groups, How do we use Cookies. Surrey England (29/09/2003). And these days the radio legend is back. After the implementation of the Copenhagan Plan in 1951 the English programmes of Radio Luxembourg moved (July 2, 1951) A brilliant site. Johnz USA (22/09/2005). But the spellings could do with a bit of smartening up. 246. I have 150 hours of stereo cassette tapes from December 1991-October 1992 including the entire closedown show in 1991 as well as 1992 shows mainly by my then favourites Tony Adams, Shaun Tilley, Jodie Scott, and Jonathan Miles. On my way home I detoured to Luxembourg and sat in on an hour of Peter Powell's show - I was entranced by it all. In the seventies on radio medium wave I spend nights listening to mostly very bad signals up here in Denmark. In 1963 (16 years old) during a bike vacation I visited the famous big L studio (only at the outside). Dick, thank you so much for your site Everynight at 19.30 hours I tuned in at the great Hello and many thanks for this great site. I am from Groningen area. Darius Beben Many thanks! Hope you'll enjoy it. must have them still? Barum, Oslo, Norway (15/11/1999). At that time Colin Nichol was the resident discjockey. The ad became even more notorious when the Bonzo Dog Doo-dah Band did a song called Keynsham. In the D.J. From October till April reception was fine on 208 meter. Les Miller I was a big fan of Radio Luxembourg. 836. Does anybody know WHEN they started using this chart? charts und ich versuchte an einem sonntag nachmittag das deutsche He then went to Radio 5, and is now on Radio Highveld, in South Africa. the evenings and most pop music was performed live (Saturday Club etc.) 310. Duesseldorf, Germany (05/02/2003). Originally at 11pm on a Sunday night, moving to Saturdays (for a short period in 1969) & late on Tuesday nights from 1971. Excellent site! 275. Do you My life won't be the same without all that music and those sleepless nights I am not sure if you know who owns the copyright for this type of material but any help will be much appreciated. Thank you for your wonderful Top Twenty Shows. 76. Ian Brighton, UK (22/10/2011). For a teenager at the west coast of Jutland, the NME Top Twenty at Sundays at midnight was the ultimate climax of the week. Richard Verrill The one played every night before close down? 790. I have seen 5 sites on Lux and yours is the best. TNX. Depending on the source material, she was something of a mermaid or a siren. I used to listen to Tony Prince throughout the seventies. 534. Hope to do a feature on 'Luxy' our next RSL here in Tircoed (December). 19 The Three bells The Browns RCA hoe kregen jullie het voor elkaar, Ral Garca Wow! 672. Those were the days my friend, I remember listing to 208 mw of a friday night in the early 50's to 60 (my age now). Vic Gray The best site Ive come across in ages. Radio Luxenbourg was a good friend with a lot of music, jingles and DJs during my teenager nights Story and other infos about the Radio are new and interesting for me. Best Wishes to you and all the other dedicated followers of 208 from 668.Yeah- always tuned in to 208 M - and your H Samual ever right time! Can anyone remember that number????? Carole Quirk I always young people behind the Iron Curtain. The http://home.swipnet.se/skivfram. I look forward to hearing from you. 795. I listened to Luxembourg for many years, and enjoyed it, but Radio London was the ORIGINAL and ONLY Big L. Keep this unique site alive. 11 (5) Lola (Kinks) Odd Lanesskog Thanx a million for making it possible. Slavko Dekovic night. Bastad, Sweden (06/02/2010). Compliments with the good site from Still have printed Lux Top 20s among my most valuable treasures. I came accross these web pages quite accidentaly, however it reminded me to sixties when, as teenager, wouldn't go to bed till 3am listening every night Station of the stars. 422. hi, I have a problem , I would like to find the list of hits from each weekend begening on 1st of january 1966 to 31 december 1969. Hannover, Germany (2/4/1999). Regards Kenneth Castenbladh placing this link on the net. Unfortunately only a little piece of that song).