When it comes to your favourite DJ past or present there can only be one winner.Diddy David Hamilton.However an honourable mention should be given to Tony Blackburn.Banal and inane l know but a jolly decent human being in my opinion.Who is your favourite DJ past or present and why?
Tony Blackburn ,Steve Walsh and Greg Edwards . Greg had a radio programme called soul spectrum, top show . Whilst working in Shepherds Bush back in the 1970s I used to frequent a pub called the Trafalgar where Steve was a DJ , he was another top bloke . So sad when he died aged , I think , 29 . As for Tony , we'll say no more , great bloke .
Seb Fontaine (despite his club allegiances), Jeremy Healy, Norman Jay...I'm getting old. A bit more up to date, Skream is pretty damn good.
Slight change of genre but it's what I saw the title
Someone had best try to come up with a female DJ as we are at risk of being labelled sexist, I can't think of one.
It was never Diddy David A Tv announcer that got lucky. Tony Blackburn was ok saved by his love of Soul Music but for me the all time great is Johnnie Walker. He knows the right amount about music and is a really nice guy. I interviewed him a few years ago on Hospital Radio. I remember te late Stuart Henry who always came over as a nice guy. Gary Davis and Ken Bruce have to be up there as well. I never warmed to Kid Jenson or Ed Stewart. Steve Wright has always been up himself and not good. Talks overtop of records and regards himself as the talent. I do not know why the BBC employ him.
Ann Nightingale.Does Janet street Porter count and she has vague Fulham connections.
Quote from: filham on May 23, 2020, 09:38:43 AM
Someone had best try to come up with a female DJ as we are at risk of being labelled sexist, I can't think of one.
Quote from: filham on May 23, 2020, 09:38:43 AM
Someone had best try to come up with a female DJ as we are at risk of being labelled sexist, I can't think of one.
Virtually all of them just want to talk and talk, just play the bloody record
Anne Frankenstein (real name) on Jazz FM is very good though, loves her music and doesnt want to blather on about babies and shopping
I really used to like Roger Scott on Capital, also from the same era Dave Cash and of course Kenny Everett
Johnny Walker for me.
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Mike Read, Mike Read 275 and 285 .
Mike Read Mike Read National Radio 1.
A jingle from the 80's
Remembering singing that at the top of Ayers Rock .
People used to send in a postcard saying where they had sung the jingle
Which i duly did !!!!
Mad i know, but that was the 80s
Anyone else frequent the Walton Hop in the 70's?
When I was a kid and listened to "pop" music I just liked John Peel; all the others were so utterly wet and just played chart stuff.
Paul Gambaccini, Johnnie Walker, Ken Bruce , Sara Cox and the late, great , Ray Moore. All of them have great voices/accents.
David rodigan
Of the ones about today it has to be Ken Bruce but historically it has to be Sir Terry Wogan. He played some great music for people of a certain age and had the best interaction with his listeners. His Janet and John stories had me in stitches, great entertainment.
Alkan Prisongirl from Russian Prison Radio 'The clock on the wall says it's time to call so let's truck on down to the latest sounds'
Quote from: 70sPimlico on May 23, 2020, 09:18:37 AM
Seb Fontaine (despite his club allegiances), Jeremy Healy, Norman Jay...I'm getting old. A bit more up to date, Skream is pretty damn good.
Slight change of genre but it's what I saw the title
Tall Paul
John Peel and Mike Raven were my heroes. In the 60's and 70's they championed music that no other DJ or station would risk. I was always glued to their programmes and often recorded them on my old reel to reel tape deck.
Kenny Everett and John Peel (who gave a lot of new acts a chance)
Quote from: Andy S on May 23, 2020, 09:54:20 AM
It was never Diddy David A Tv announcer that got lucky. Tony Blackburn was ok saved by his love of Soul Music but for me the all time great is Johnnie Walker. He knows the right amount about music and is a really nice guy. I interviewed him a few years ago on Hospital Radio. I remember te late Stuart Henry who always came over as a nice guy. Gary Davis and Ken Bruce have to be up there as well. I never warmed to Kid Jenson or Ed Stewart. Steve Wright has always been up himself and not good. Talks overtop of records and regards himself as the talent. I do not know why the BBC employ him.
i like everything you said there Andy s , I've said it before but ray Moore from the past radio 2 breakfast time no longer with us sadly , a wicked scouse sense of humour. But as fro the now , Ken Bruce.
Quote from: Twig on May 23, 2020, 01:45:30 PM
John Peel and Mike Raven were my heroes. In the 60's and 70's they championed music that no other DJ or station would risk. I was always glued to their programmes and often recorded them on my old reel to reel tape deck.
John Peel gave a big leg up to many acts, who became big, who probably wouldn't have been initially played on radio otherwise, including Leonard Cohen, David Bowie, Marc Bolan, a lot of Prog Rock which i wasn't that interested in, Pink Floyd, German bands , The....Pistols and punk acts generally like The Undertones- their Teenage Kicks was his favourite record https://youtu.be/ZPzyN8Qq5XA ,
The Fall - his favourite band, The Pogues, kevin Coyne, Billy Bragg, Loudon Wainwright, reggae bands, too many acts to mention, and a lot more probably after i stopped listening in the 80's.
As a young teenager i listened to Alan Fluff Freeman with the charts, and radio Luxembourg, but Peel is the about only one I've listened to since.
When I was about 16 I used to go with some matesd to see the John Peel show recorded in the BBC studios in Lower Regent Street
Saw them all in my time, Genesis, Strawbs, Family, Focus
Some amazing bands
You bring back memories sunbury - great bands.
I saw Focus at Fairfield Hall in Croydon, and bought their records Jan Akkerman on guitar, and yodelling.
Family with rRger Chapman, and the Strawbs - who had some great hits, folk rock, with Sandy Denny singing with them when she started out - a great version of Who Knows Where the Time Goes.
Quote from: RaySmith on May 23, 2020, 05:44:22 PM
You bring back memories sunbury - great bands.
I saw Focus at Fairfield Hall in Croydon, and bought their records Jan Akkerman on guitar, and yodelling.
Family with rRger Chapman, and the Strawbs - who had some great hits, folk rock, with Sandy Denny singing with them when she started out - a great version of Who Knows Where the Time Goes.
Good calls. I used to go to Fairfield to see Curved Air. It was Thijs van Leer who did the yodelling.
Quote from: sunburywhite on May 23, 2020, 05:37:36 PM
When I was about 16 I used to go with some matesd to see the John Peel show recorded in the BBC studios in Lower Regent Street
Saw them all in my time, Genesis, Strawbs, Family, Focus
Some amazing bands
I went to those BBC studios too. I remember seeing Led Zep in their early days.
Quote from: RaySmith on May 23, 2020, 05:44:22 PM
You bring back memories sunbury - great bands.
I saw Focus at Fairfield Hall in Croydon, and bought their records Jan Akkerman on guitar, and yodelling.
Family with rRger Chapman, and the Strawbs - who had some great hits, folk rock, with Sandy Denny singing with them when she started out - a great version of Who Knows Where the Time Goes.
I saw Focus at Kingston Poly
All the band went off stage for (what seemed 20 minutes) for the most amazing drum solo
I took a new girlfriend to K Poly to see Quintessence and Savoy Brown. Great night but we missed the last bus home. Had to call her mum and get a lift, wasn't the best start to a beautiful relationship!
David Lowe on Riviera FM and online down in Torquay, mainly pre 60s, Great American Songbook, Swing and Dance Bands, class UK and USA singers.
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David rodigan
You beat me to it.
the man is a genuine legend who has done more to promote a much neglected art form.
he looks like a failed civil servant but plays the most brilliant sounds.
i saw him on the politics show some months ago and he played wonderful sounds.
the inane banality of many of the DJs being talked about here is a great pity.
love 70s and 80s dance hall and in summer it often the only sounds that fit the heat.
