2021/06/02

Website Under Maintenance

 


Dear Friends of BFBS Radio,

Currently our website with the BFBS Nostalgia is undergoing maintenance which unfortunately, takes a little longer than anticipated.

However, in the meantime 

I can offer you a link to the storage place for you to download the BFBS material you wish to have.

CLICK HERE TO REACH THE BFBS TREASURE BOX

In the meantime Happy Listening!

JP:)

2021/02/04

More Nostalgic BFBS audio added (Theme Tunes, Radio Shows, Announcements, Interviews)

 


Please find below more Theme Tunes, Radio Shows, Jingles, Interviews, Announcements and more for you to enjoy and take a trip back down the Memory Lane listening to these fantastic contributions from the many fans of BFBS Radio. And there is more to come. Thank you.


BFBS THEME TUNES

Billy Butler - Hold It (Andy Peebles' Soul Train - mid 80s)

Joe Sample - Carmel (Late from London)

Jon Lord - Bach Onto This (Monday Rock Show with Jon Bennett)

Lonnie Mack - Turn On Your Love Light (Theme Tune of Rockhola with Dave Simmons)

Ramsey Lewis - Skippin (On another Track with Andy Peebles)


JINGLES

BFBS Jingles 1984 from Air Power

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

International Money Exchange Rates Announcement (Jon Bennett)

BFBS Trailer of Richard 'Nankers'Nankivell for an outside broadcast (30 Jun 1981)

Soldier Magazine


BFBS RADIO SHOWS 

CHART SHOWS

The BFBS Top 20 with John Benson from 06 Feb 1970

The BFBS Top 20 with Tony Blackburn from 05 Aug 1972

The UK Top 20 with Johnny Walker from 02 Sep 1973

The UK Top 20 with Tom Browne from 14 Jan 1973


The UK Top 40 with Tony Blackburn from 28 Dec 1980

BFBS Top 40 from 17 Aug 1985 with Simon Guettier from Number 14 to Number 1

The BFBS UK Top Show with Charles Foster from Sep 1985 (Part 1 of 2)

The BFBS UK Top Show with Charles Foster from Sep 1985 (Part 2 of 2)

The BFBS UK Top Show with Charles Foster from 07 Dec 1985 (Part 1 of 2)

The BFBS UK Top Show with Charles Foster from 07 Dec 1985 (Part 1 of 2)



OTHER SHOWS


BFBS Nightflight with Alan Bangs with Africa Bambaataa, mid 80s

Andy Peebles' Soultrain on BFBS from 13 Apr 1986

The Johnny Walker Show on BFBS from 01 Mar 1986 (Part 1 of 2)

The Johnny Walker Show on BFBS from 01 Mar 1986 (Part 2 of 2)

The Me Mark Page Show on BFBS from 30 Nov 1985

The Me Mark Page Show on BFBS from Jan 1986

The Me Mark Page Show on BFBS from Feb 1986

The Me Mark Page Show on BFBS from Mar 1986

The Eurovision Song Contest 1977 on Pop Around Europe

Rockola with David Simmons from 01 Mar 1986

Saturday Sports Show with Henry Howe from 01 Mar 1986

BFBS Nightflight with Alan Bangs from BFBS Cologne (46 mins)

Steve Wright Sunday Morning on BFBS from Oct 1985


INTERVIEWS

Tommy Vance interviewing Paul Hardcastle on BFBS UK

Interview with Shakatak by Alan Clough and Mike Allen in 1981

Interview with Jackie Scheuner from BFBS Berlin in the 80s from 21 Mar 2015


Enjoy! JP:)



2021/01/29

BFBS Show Openers, Closers, Jingles, Bloopers and Trailers


At the link below listen to a compilation of nostaligic BFBS 80s Show Openers, Closers, Jingles, Bloopers, Show Themes, Show Excerpts is available at this first edition of BFBS in the 80s. Enjoy! There is still more to come. Watch out this space for further volumes.

BFBS In the 80s (Part 1)


The link below will take you to Radio Rewind which makes available for your collection a pile of BFBS Show Openers and Trailers I made available years ago. Just follow this link to take you to the page and you can hear the Sounds of BFBS in the 80s and beyond.

BFBS Radio Rewind

2020/10/14

BFBS Gibraltar Photos and Shows

 

Over the next weeks I will be uploading some BFBS Gibraltar Radio Shows. But here are some photos form the BFBS Gibraltar Magazine. Enjoy watching the photos and seeing the DJs in action. 

Follow the link to the BFBS Gibraltar Magazine - click here

A big thanks to Joe Benggio for sending the photos to us for sharing with the fans. 

Some Radio Shows will be uploaded here in the near future. 


2020/09/18

BFBS Blooper Tape from the 80s discovered. Enjoy this one and have a blast of a laugh

In September 2020 I was contacted by Joe Benggio who runs a radio station on the Rock of Gibraltar called Go Go Radio Gibraltar - click here - to find out more about the station. Joe had heard about my new radio show called "JP's Golden Years" and wanted to have this show to air on his station as well. Hoorah! which was great news for me. Now both of our shows are on his station. You find out schedule details on Go Go Radio Gibraltar.

The website of the JP's Golden Years is available here and you will hear some of the oldies jingles that Dave Windsor and other BFBS presenters have used over the years. A copy of the show is also available each week on the website www.radiointernational.tv

But now to the BFBS Blooper Tape of the 80s. Joe mentioned to me that he used to be a sound engineer with BFBS Gibraltar and when I told him that I grew up listening to BFBS from Cologne since the early 80s he sent be a link to his Mixcloud Channel's BFBS 80s Blooper Tape. Enjoy listening to this - I had a blast of a laugh and did not know that even Charles Foster could have some swear words, so did Tommy Vance and others. :)

The BFBS 80s Blooper Tape - click to listen. A copy to download will be made available here shortly.

2015/09/07

UPDATE: Alton Andrews now on NovumFM

Alton Andrews 2015
BFBS Cologne's Drive Time Show in the late 80s into 1990 was hosted by Alton Andrews until the last show from the BFBS Cologne Studios in Parkstrasse 61, Cologne Marienburg. The last Drive Time Show went out and I was there to witness the sad moments including the late PMcD who sadly passed away in the February 2015.

With the help of the great internet I found Alton Andrews again who hosted a show called "Rythm of the Night" on Diamond FM in the United Kingdom. I tuned into it the other day and I felt like listening again to BFBS Cologne's Drive Time Show with Alton Andrews. He still has the same speed and it is great to hear him on the radio again. Unfortunately, in the summer of 2015 Diamond FM closed down and Alton moved to NovumFm based in Germany, however, hosts the show from the United Kingdom.

Here is the link to the website of NovumFM where you can find the radio player to listen to. Enjoy Alton Andrews again on the radio.

#BFBS #BFBS_radio #AltonAndrews #BFBS-DJs

2015/03/27

Paul Gambaccini's American Greatest Hits on BFBS - Bullets

Paul Gambaccini
BFBS Radio also made sure the American Charts were played on the network and there surely is no better radio presenter to engage in hosting the American Chart Show than PAUL GAMBACCINI. Thank you to the kind fan of BFBS who went through his collection and digitalised the tapes and made the shows available. I am sure many of you will be very happy with this series to appear here for your listening pleasure.
By the way - Paul Gambaccini still is on the radio and hosts America's Greatest Hits on BBC Radio 2 every Saturday evening. Check it out. Also he sounds still the same than way back when... :)  Happy Listening!

Paul Gambaccini's American Charts on BFBS 21 January 1984
Paul Gambaccini's American Charts on BFBS 11 February 1984
Paul Gambaccini's American Charts on BFBS 25 February 1984
Paul Gambaccini's American Charts on BFBS 28 July 1984
Paul Gambaccini's American Charts on BFBS 09 March 1985
Paul Gambaccini's American Charts on BFBS 01 June 1985
Paul Gambaccini's American Charts on BFBS 24 August 1985
Paul Gambaccini's American Charts on BFBS 14 September 1985
Paul Gambaccini's American Charts on BFBS 19 October 1985
Paul Gambaccini's American Charts on BFBS 09 November 1985
Paul Gambaccini's American Charts on BFBS 18 January 1986
Paul Gambaccini's American Charts on BFBS 15 February 1986
Paul Gambaccini's American Charts on BFBS 29 March 1986
Paul Gambaccini's American Charts on BFBS 10 May 1986
Paul Gambaccini's American Charts on BFBS 07 June 1986
Paul Gambaccini's American Charts on BFBS 26 July 1986
Paul Gambaccini's American Charts on BFBS 06 September 1986
Paul Gambaccini's American Charts on BFBS 18 October 1986 (Show Incomplete)
Paul Gambaccini's American Charts on BFBS 06 December 1986
Paul Gambaccini's American Charts on BFBS 07 February 1987
Paul Gambaccini's American Charts on BFBS 25 April 1987 (Show Incomplete)
Paul Gambaccini's American Charts on BFBS 13 June 1987
Paul Gambaccini's American Charts on BFBS 22 August 1987
Paul Gambaccini's American Charts on BFBS 07 November 1987
Paul Gambaccini's American Charts on BFBS 23 January 1988
Paul Gambaccini's American Charts on BFBS 02 April 1988
Paul Gambaccini's American Charts on BFBS 11 June 1988
Paul Gambaccini's American Charts on BFBS 06 August 1988
Paul Gambaccini's American Charts on BFBS 10 September 1988
Paul Gambaccini's American Charts on BFBS 05 November 1988
Paul Gambaccini's American Charts on BFBS 07 January 1989
Paul Gambaccini's American Charts on BFBS 11 March 1989

BFBS Soul Shows added

BFBS Radio aired great Soul Shows over the years in programmes such as Soul Train with Andy Peebles, Soul Station with Tony Blackburn and Tommy Vance hosted the Soul Bowl. Thanks to fans from around the BFBS family I am glad that we received so many recordings which you can experience now on this page and enjoy the great Soul Music. 

But now enjoy below shows from the BFBS Soul Cave. :)

Tommy Vance on BFBS
Tommy Vance hosted a series of "The Soul Bowl" on BFBS in the late 80s. Two of the shows are available below.

Soul Bowl (Tommy Vance) June 1988
Soul Bowl (Tommy Vance) December 1988

============================================================

Andy Peebles "Mr. Soul Train"
Andy Peebles also hosted a very nice series of shows on BFBS called "Soul Train" in the mid 80s

Soul Train (Andy Peebles) May 1986
Soul Train (Andy Peebles) July 1986
Soul Train (Andy Peebles)(week 22-89)
============================================================

Tony Blackburn
Tony Blackburn hosted the "Soul Station" on BFBS in the mid to late 80s. Very glad to share all these shows with you and thanks to the kind person that made the shows available for us. 

By the way, Tony Blackburn hosts a weekly Soul and Motown Show on BBC Three Counties Radio every Sunday morning. Well worth a listen and Tony does still sound as in the early days.

Soulstation (Tony Blackburn) December 1985
Soulstation (Tony Blackburn) March 1986
Soulstation (Tony Blackburn) April 1986
Soulstation (Tony Blackburn) Ocotber 1986
Soulstation (Tony Blackburn) October 1986 - Second show in the month
Soulstation (Tony Blackburn) November 1986
Soulstation (Tony Blackburn) January 1987
Soulstation (Tony Blackburn) February 1987
Soulstation (Tony Blackburn) March 1987
Soulstation (Tony Blackburn) April 1987
Soulstation (Tony Blackburn) June 1987
Soulstation (Tony Blackburn) July 1987
Soulstation (Tony Blackburn) September 1987
Soulstation (Tony Blackburn) October 1987
Soulstation (Tony Blackburn) December 1987
Soulstation (Tony Blackburn) January 1988
Soulstation (Tony Blackburn) March 1988
Soulstation (Tony Blackburn) June 1988
Soulstation (Tony Blackburn) August 1988
Soulstation (Tony Blackburn) September 1988