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Sounds of the 60s

Index Sounds of the 60s

Sounds of the '60s is a long-running Saturday morning programme on BBC Radio 2 that features recordings of popular music made in the 1960s. [1]

49 relations: Alvin Stardust, BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 2, Bill Medley, Bob Gaudio, Brian Matthew, Bruce Welch, Daily Mail, David Crosby, Donovan, Duane Eddy, Eddy Grant, English language, Foot Tapper, Frankie Valli, Graham Nash, Helen Shapiro, Herb Alpert, Hospital-acquired infection, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, Joe Brown (singer), Johnnie Walker (DJ), Keith Fordyce, London, Marty Wilde, Mike Berry (singer), Music, Neil Sedaka, Paul Jones (singer), Petula Clark, Phil Swern, Radio Caroline, Ray Davies, Ready Steady Go!, Ronnie Hilton, Roy Wood, Sandie Shaw, Sara Cox, Simon Dee, Sounds of the Seventies, Steve Harley, Suzi Quatro, T-shirt, The Beatles, The Shadows, Tim Rice, Tom Jones (singer), Tony Blackburn, Wogan House.

Alvin Stardust

Bernard William Jewry (27 September 1942 – 23 October 2014), known professionally as Shane Fenton and later as Alvin Stardust, was an English rock singer and stage actor.

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BBC Radio 1

BBC Radio 1 is a British radio station operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation which also broadcasts internationally, specialising in modern and current popular music and chart hits throughout the day. Radio 1 provides alternative genres after 7pm, including electronic dance, hip hop, rock, indie or interviews. It was launched in 1967 to meet the demand for music generated by pirate radio stations, when the average age of the UK population was 27. The BBC claim that they target the 1529 age group, and the average age of its UK audience since 2009 is 30. BBC Radio 1 started 24-hour broadcasting on 1 May 1991.

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BBC Radio 2

BBC Radio 2 is one of the BBC's national radio stations and the most popular station in the United Kingdom with over 15 million weekly listeners. Much of its daytime playlist-based programming is adult contemporary or AOR, although the station also broadcasts other specialist musical genres. Radio 2 broadcasts throughout the UK on FM between 88.1 and 90.2MHz from studios in Wogan House, adjacent to Broadcasting House in central London. Programmes are relayed on digital radio via DAB, Sky, Cable TV, IPTV, Freeview, Freesat and the Internet.

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Bill Medley

William Thomas Medley (born September 19, 1940) is an American singer and songwriter, best known as one half of The Righteous Brothers.

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Bob Gaudio

Robert John Gaudio (born November 17, 1942) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer, and the keyboardist/backing vocalist for The Four Seasons.

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Brian Matthew

Brian Matthew (17 September 1928 – 8 April 2017) was an English broadcaster who worked for the BBC for 63 years from 1954 until 2017.

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Bruce Welch

Bruce Welch OBE (born 2 November 1941) born as Bruce Cripps is an English guitarist, songwriter, producer, singer and businessman best known as a member of the Shadows.

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Daily Mail

The Daily Mail is a British daily middle-marketPeter Wilby, New Statesman, 19 December 2013 (online version: 2 January 2014) tabloid newspaper owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust and published in London.

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David Crosby

David Van Cortlandt Crosby (born August 14, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist.

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Donovan

Donovan Philips Leitch (born 10 May 1946) is a Scottish-born singer, songwriter and guitarist.

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Duane Eddy

Duane Eddy (born April 26, 1938) is an American guitarist.

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Eddy Grant

Edmond Montague "Eddy" Grant (born 5 March 1948) is a Guyanese-British musician.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.

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Foot Tapper

"Foot Tapper" is an instrumental by the British guitar group The Shadows.

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Frankie Valli

Frankie Valli (born Francesco Stephen Castelluccio, May 3, 1934) is an American singer and actor, known as the frontman of The Four Seasons beginning in 1960.

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Graham Nash

Graham William Nash, OBE (born 2 February 1942) is a British-American singer-songwriter and musician.

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Helen Shapiro

Helen Kate Shapiro (born 28 September 1946) is an English pop singer, jazz singer and actress.

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Herb Alpert

Herb Alpert (born March 31, 1935) is an American jazz musician most associated with the group variously known as Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass, Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass, or TJB.

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Hospital-acquired infection

A hospital-acquired infection (HAI), also known as a nosocomial infection, is an infection that is acquired in a hospital or other health care facility.

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Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller

Lyricist Jerome "Jerry" Leiber (April 25, 1933 – August 22, 2011) and composer Mike Stoller (born Michael Stoller; March 13, 1933) were American songwriting and record producing partners.

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Joe Brown (singer)

Joseph Roger Brown, MBE (born 13 May 1941) is an English entertainer.

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Johnnie Walker (DJ)

Johnnie Walker, MBE (born Peter Waters Dingley 30 March 1945 in Birmingham) is a popular English veteran radio disc jockey and broadcaster.

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Keith Fordyce

Keith Fordyce (15 October 1928 – 15 March 2011) was an English disc jockey and presenter on British radio and television.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Marty Wilde

Marty Wilde, (born Reginald Leonard Smith; 15 April 1939) is an English singer and songwriter.

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Mike Berry (singer)

Mike Berry (born Michael Hubert Bourne, 24 September 1942) is an English singer and actor.

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Music

Music is an art form and cultural activity whose medium is sound organized in time.

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Neil Sedaka

Neil Sedaka (born March 13, 1939) is an American pop singer, pianist, composer and record producer.

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Paul Jones (singer)

Paul Jones (born Paul Pond, 24 February 1942) is an English singer, actor, harmonica player, radio personality and television presenter.

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Petula Clark

Petula Clark, CBE (born Sally Olwen Clark, 15 November 1932) is a British singer, actress and composer whose career spans seven decades.

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Phil Swern

Phil "The Collector" Swern (born Anthony Philip Swern, 30 June 1948, Ealing, London, England) is an English radio producer and music collector.

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Radio Caroline

Radio Caroline is a British radio station founded in 1964 by Ronan O'Rahilly to circumvent the record companies' control of popular music broadcasting in the United Kingdom and the BBC's radio broadcasting monopoly.

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Ray Davies

Sir Raymond Douglas Davies, (born 21 June 1944) is an English singer, songwriter and musician.

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Ready Steady Go!

Ready Steady Go! (or RSG!) was a British rock/pop music television programme broadcast every Friday evening from 9 August 1963 until 23 December 1966.

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Ronnie Hilton

Ronnie Hilton (26 January 1926 – 21 February 2001) was an English singer and radio presenter.

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Roy Wood

Roy Wood (born 8 November 1947) is an English singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.

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Sandie Shaw

Sandie Shaw, MBE (born Sandra Ann Goodrich; 26 February 1947) is an English singer.

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Sara Cox

Sarah Joanne Cyzer (née Cox; born 13 December 1974), more commonly known by her radio name Sara Cox, is an English broadcaster and model.

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Simon Dee

Cyril Nicholas Henty-Dodd (28 July 1935 – 29 August 2009), better known by his stage name Simon Dee, was a British television interviewer and radio disc jockey who hosted a twice-weekly BBC TV chat show, Dee Time, in the late 1960s.

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Sounds of the Seventies

Sounds of the Seventies was a BBC radio programme broadcast on weekdays, initially 18:00–19:00, subsequently 22:00–00:00, on Radio One during the early 1970s.

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Steve Harley

Steve Harley (born Stephen Malcolm Ronald Nice; 27 February 1951, Deptford, London, England) is an English singer and songwriter, best known as frontman of the rock group Cockney Rebel, with whom he still tours.

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Suzi Quatro

Susan Kay Quatro (born 3 June 1950) is an American rock singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and actress.

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T-shirt

A T-shirt (or t shirt, or tee) is a style of unisex fabric shirt named after the T shape of its body and sleeves.

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The Beatles

The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960.

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The Shadows

The Shadows (originally known as The Drifters) were an English instrumental rock group, and were Cliff Richard's backing band from 1958 to 1968, having also collaborated again on numerous reunion tours.

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Tim Rice

Sir Timothy Miles Bindon Rice (born 10 November 1944) is an English author and Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, Tony Award, and Grammy Award-winning lyricist.

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Tom Jones (singer)

Sir Thomas John Woodward (born 7 June 1940), also known by his stage name Tom Jones, is a Welsh singer.

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Tony Blackburn

Antony Kenneth "Tony" Blackburn (born 29 January 1943) is an English disc jockey.

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Wogan House

BBC Wogan House (commonly referred to as Wogan House and originally known as Western House) is a building in central London owned by Aberdeen Asset Management and currently on long-term lease to the BBC.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sounds_of_the_60s

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