I have always found great pleasure in hearing a song on the radio and awaiting the outcome of the track name and artist, writing it down and looking for it on record to play out while DJing. This regularly happens when I listen to my favourite radio programmes.

While  my working day is filled  with the latest band du jour on repeat, I can go to my little comfort zones and listen  to The Organist Entertains and most especially Dale Winton’s Pick of the Pops and Brian Mathews’s ‘Sound of the 60’s.

The later two are programmed on a Saturday morning / afternoon. In all the years I’ve listened to Brian’s deep old man voice, I immediately feel at home as I tune in the wireless, and make a cup of tea .

The Hollies’  Carrie Ann’ is the first of many songs that flow out of airwaves. This makes me happy. The Dave Clark 5’s ‘Catch us if you can’ is next and I’m there.

Dale Winton’s Pick of the Pops used to air on Sunday afternoons, I used to love guessing the year while chopping my Sunday dinner veg, but now it is in the lunch spot on a Saturdayso sometimes double dose of mid 60’s British pop at it’s height. Where else would you get this at lunch time. My obsession with dating everything from doors on houses to fonts on shop
fronts to the car over the road on the 1980’s pavement comes from god knows where.
A radio programme which plays an hours worth of music from a certain year each week is heaven to me, a challenge, what year is it?
Hopefully by the middle of the show I have the year in question covered to the month.

I love Saturday mornings.

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