Posts

4KQ July 1973

Image
This is from the Telegraph July 27th 1973 and long before known as the Good Times and Great Classic Hits station as well as for a time in the 80's as a country music station 4KQ was one of Brisbane's popular radio stations at the time in the 70's which they were known as the Better Music Station as well as More News which among their radio personalities was Ian Skippen who was on Monday to Friday from 5am until 9am with Traffic,SKy Watch, Ooo Dunit, Time Calls and ABC at 6.45am and 7.45am and also was interviewed by Murray Shoring on the final night of broadcast when it ended Thursday June 30th 2022 talking about his time there.

4BC Top 30 Charts July 1973

Image
This is from the Telegraph July 27th 1973 and this was the 4BC Top 30 charts with Col Joye at number 1 with Heaven Is My Woman's Love, Jud Strunk at number 2 with Daisy A Day, Wings which had Paul McCartney at number 3 with My Love and Dawn with Tony Orlando at number 4 with Tie A Yellow Ribbon. The new entries in the charts that week were Paul Simon at number 25 with Kodachrome, Australian entertainer Barry Crocker at number 28 with his version of the 1958 hit for Robin Luke Susie Darlin and Abigail who was on the iconic Australian soap Number 96 at number 30 with Je T'Aime and besides from Col Joye, Barry Crocker and Abigail the other Australian acts in the charts that week were Jamie Redfern at number 5 with Venus, Linda George at number 15 with her version of the Gladys Knight and the Pips song Neither One Of Us, The Bee Gees at number 16 with Saw A New Morning, Helen Reddy at number 20 with her version of the Tanya Tucker song Delta Dawn and Ross Ryan at number 24 with I ...

4BH July 1958

Image
This is from the Telegraph July 26th 1958 and now the Classic Hits Station here in Brisbane 4BH was one of Brisbane's popular radio stations at the time in the late 50's which among their disc jockeys was Bill Gates who was the one who gave the Bee Gees their name as well as doing the record hops in Brisbane at the time was on Sundays doing Platter Chatter at 10am, Tops In Time at 5.30pm and at 6.30pm doing These Were Hits.

Moana

This afternoon I went to the Events Cinema Carindale to see Moana which it is the live action version. Moana (Catherine Laga'aia) who is the daughter of Motuni's chief Tui (john Tui) and Sina (Frankie Adams) who have been to keep their daughter away from the ocean as to prepare her to become the chief of Island and she wants to try to go beyond the reef to get more fish as well as exploring the ocean as vegetation are getting killed as well as fish catching was shrinking by the blight that was hitting the island but Tui forbids and Moana tries to but could not to being overpowered by the waves and also Moana's grandmother Tala (Rena Owen) shows her a secret place in the cave which was where the yachts were in there were yachts as the people of Motuni until Maui (Dwayne Johnson) stole Ti Fiti's heart which made the ocean no longer safe to go on as the island is getting destroyed be Te Ka's darkness so the only way to get it cured is to Moana to find Maui to get it ba...

4BH July 1962

Image
This is from the Southside News July 25th 1962 and now the classic hits station here in Brisbane in 2026 4BH was one of Brisbane's popular radio stations at the time in the early 60's which among their disc jockeys was Bill Gates who was the one who gave the Bee Gees their name as well as doing the record hops around Brisbane including O'Connor Boathouse which was in North Quay as well as doing the City Hall in 1959 and 1960 at Lunchtimes was on every day playing the records that was out at the time.

Splat by Deep Purple

Image
This is the new album by legendary British hard rock band Deep Purple and this was recorded in Nashville, Toronto, Harston in England and Hamburg which the songs on the album are written by the members of the band as well as the 2 additional musicians on the album were Bob Ezrin who also produced the album did background vocals and Keith Urban who played on the song Diablo. It is FANTASTIC, AWESOME and BRILLIANT with FANTASTIC and AWESOME songs which they sound great as well as Deep Purple with Ian Gilian, Roger Glover, Ian Paice, Don Airey and Simon McBride are still sounding great and playing great which proves just like the Rolling Stones guys in their late 70's early 80's can still do it which they are playing better than ever. It has gone to number 12 in the UK and number 19 in Australia and the band are doing shows throughout the year in Europe, Canada, USA and Latin America and let's hope for an Australian tour one day. This is a must for Deep Purple fans and I giv...

Foreign Tongues The Rolling Stones

Image
This is the new album by the legendary British rock band the Rolling Stones and it was recorded in Los Angeles at Henson and London at Metropolis between 2019-26 which the songs are mainly written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards as well 2 tracks they wrote with Matt Clifford and one with producer Andrew Watt as well as there 2 covers an Amy Winehouse song called You Know I'm No Good and Beautiful Deliah an Chuck Berry song who as everyone knows was an big influence on the Rolling Stones as well as among the other musicians playing on the album including Paul McCartney, Robert Smith from the Cure and Steve Winwood and also Charlie Watts who passed away 5 years ago played on one track. It is AWESOME, ROCKIN and SUPERB with AWESOME songs which it rocks and the Stones with Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ron Wood who are still playing and sounding great which they are playing better than ever which proves that guys in their late 70's and early 80's can do it. The album has ...