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This is from the Telegraph January 16th 1958 and now the classic hits station 4BH was one of Brisbane's popular radio stations at the time in the 1950's which among their shows was Amateur Hour which was on 8pm which Brisbane artists appeared on the show as Brisbane listeners would ring up to vote for the acts on the show.

This is the new album by Ringo and it was recorded at Sound Emporium Studios , East Iris Studios and ElectroMagnetic East in Nashville and the Village Studio Z in Los Angeles. It was produced by T Bone Burnett with Daniel Tashian and Bruce Sugar as co producers and the songs on the album are mainly written by T Bone Burnett including one with Billy Swan known for the hit I Can Help, Billy Swan wrote one song and Ringo wrote one song with Bruce Sugar called Thankful which he produced it with T Bone Burnett and Bruce Sugar which he sang it with Alison Krauss and also sang with Billy Strings, Molly Tuttle, Lucius and Larkin Poe. It is FANTASTIC with FANTASTIC songs with an country feel with great singing by Ringo who is still sounding at 84 and he will be touring the USA with the All Star Band including Colin Hay and Steve Lukather in June. This is an must for Beatles fans as well as Ringo Starr fans and I give it 4 stars as it's in the shops now so do yourselves an favour and BUY...

This is from the Sunday Mail January 14th 1968 and until 1990 when it became B105 4BK was one of Brisbane's popular radio stations at the time back in the 60's which among their disc jockeys were Bill Gates the one who gave the Bee Gees their name who had been with 4BK since 1967 after having been with 4BH from 1957-66 was on 8am until noon after Barry Jantzen's breakfast show from 5.30am and John Daley was on Monday to Friday from 4pm until 7pm.

This is from the Telegraph January 15th 1964 and this was the 4BK top 10 with The Beatles at number 1 with I Want To Hold Your Hand, Brian Poole and the Tremeloes at number 2 with their version of the Contours song Do You Love Me, Kathy Kirby at number 3 with her version of the Doris Day song Secret Love, The Atlantics at number 4 with the Crusher, Jimmy Hannah at number 5 with his version of the City Surfers song Beach Ball written by Roger McGuinn (before forming the Byrds) and Frank Gari with the Bee Gees on backing vocals, Little Pattie at number 6 with the song written by Jay Justin and Joe Halford He's My Blonde Headed Stompie Wompie Real Gone Boy, Heinz from the Tornados at number 7 with Just Like Eddie which Richie Blackmore from Deep Purple playing guitar on it, Jimmy Gilmer and the Fireballs at number 8 with Sugar Shack, Lena Horne at number 9 with Now and Sheb Wooley who had been in Brisbane the month before at number 10 with Hootenanny Hoot and it was on this day in...

This is from the Telegraph January 13th 1965(60 years ago) and this was the 4BK Top 10 charts with the Beatles at number 1 with I Feel Fine, Julie Rogers at number 2 with the Wedding, Johnny Rivers at number 3 with his version of the 1960 hit by Harold Dorman Mountain Of Love, Gene Pitney at number 4 with I'm Gonna Be Strong, Cliff Richard at number 5 with the song which was from the movie Wonderful Life which he wrote with Hank Marvin and Bruce Welch of the Shadows On The Beach, The Kinks at number 6 with All Day and All Of The Night, Matt Monro at number 7 with Walk Away, Sandie Shaw at number 8 with Always Something There To Remind Me, The Rolling Stones at number 9 with their version of the Howlin Wolf song Little Red Rooster which Brian Jones played slide guitar and The Shadows at number 10 with the song also from the movie Wonderful Life written by Bruce Welch Theme For Young Lovers.

This is from the Sunday Truth January 12th 1964 and now the talk back station as it'is the only one here in Brisbane 4BC was one of Brisbane's top music radio stations at the time in the 60's which on Sundays from 5.30am there was an music show called the Super 70 playing records that was out at the time and it was on for 13 hours on Sundays.