Paul Darrow Radio Scotland 2003

I think this is blend of two Radio 1 chart shows from 1978. The dates on the cassette box were "Feb 1978" and "14/5/78". This may not be entirely accurate as I was only eleven when I wrote this down! I know for sure it's a bend of two shows though as there are two different presenters. I’m pretty sure that's Simon Bates at the end, so that must be Tom Browne earlier on? Wikipedia says 1978 was the year they switched over, so maybe that's right. The audio was heavily edited in real time by my 11 year old self, as I was only interested in recording the stuff I wanted. After weeks of amateur technical deduction I'd just invested in what I was calling a "patch cable". In fact it was a 5 pin DIN to 5 pin DIN cable, so I could plug my little mono cassette recorder into my Dads Hacker HiFi (which annoyingly enough, to me anyway, came without an internal cassette deck). The first of millions of audio cables I've bought since! Think this was one of the very first recordings I made with my patch cable. I was amazed you could record stuff direct without having to worry about the rest of the family making a noise in the background. Sorry the end of Simon Bates's chart rundown cuts off before he gets to announcing number one (not sure why I did that), I'm pretty sure it was Bony M's Brown Girl in the Ring that was number one.

1978 Feb Chart Show (Edit)

I'm pretty sure this was recorded in 1977, with me putting the mic of my little mono cassette recorder up against the speaker of my little mono Sanyo AM/FM radio. Wish I'd had the patience to record the whole show but I was only 10 at the time. I did love this montage for the opening of the show though.

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