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4BH Top 40 charts July 1963

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This is from the Telegraph July 19th 1963 and this was the 4BH Top 40 charts with Kyu Sakamoto at number 1 with Sukiyaki, Johnny O'Keefe at number 2 with Move Baby Move, Gerry and the Pacemakers at number 3 with the song written by Mitch Murray which was intended for the Beatles How Do You Do It and Perry Como at number 4 with Don't You Forget It. The new entries in the charts that week were Elvis Presley at number 30 with Devil in Disguise,The Essex at number 34 with Easier Than Done, Gerry and the Pacemakers at number 35 with the song also written by Mitch Murray I Like It and Bobby Bare at number 38 and besides from Johnny O'Keefe the other Australian acts in the charts that week were Rob EG at number 9 with Jezebel and Jay Justin at number 26 with Proud Of You.

The Invite

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This afternoon I went to the Dendy Cinema Coorparoo to see the movie The Invite. Joe(Seth Rogen) who is a music teacher and wife Angela (Olivia Wilde) who have a daughter Maggie which their marriage is on the rocks as well as planning a dinner party to invite neighbours Pina (Penelope Cruz) and Hawk(Edward Norton) over to their apartment and there is tensions between Angela and Joe as well as the neighbours which gets interesting. It is excellent, very funny and very entertaining with excellent acting by Seth Rogen, Olivia Wilde who directed the movie as well, Penelope Cruz and Edward Norton and it is produced by Ben Browning, Megan Ellison and David Permut and the screenplay written by Rashada Jones who is an actress and Will McCormack. It is a feel good movie which it is well worth a laugh and I give it 4 stars as it's in the cinemas now please do yourselves a favour and SEE IT which you will be impressed and amazed.

Wildest Dreams(30th Anniversary Edition) Tina Turner

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On April 1st 1996 iconic American singer Tina Turner released her 8th solo album Wildest Dreams which it went to number 61 in the USA pop charts, number 26 in the USA R&B/Hip Hop charts, number 4 in the UK and number 14 in Australia which it was produced by Terry Britten (the Australian group the Twilights) and Trevor Horn and from the album it had the hit singles GoldenEye, Whatever You Want, On Silent Wings with Sting, Missing You(her version of the John Waite song), Something Beautiful Remains and Wildest Dreams with Barry White which it was the US edition as Antonio Banderas is on the European edition of the album and it is now out again as it is 30 years when it came out it is been released as a double CD. On the first CD it has the original tracks that was on the album and on the 2nd CD it had the US single of Wildest Dreams with Barry White as well as the Joe Urban remix of Something Beautiful Remains as well as different mixes of certain tracks too. It is FANTASTIC with FA...

4BC July 1967

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This is from the Telegraph July 17th 1967 and now the talk back station as it is the only commercial one here in Brisbane 4BC was one of Brisbane's top radio stations at the time in the 60's which among their disc jockeys was Johnny James who had been with the station since the 1950's which he would be with 4BC until the early 70's was on from 5.30am until 9am doing the Breakfast Show.

4BC July 1965

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This is from the Telegraph July 16th 1965 and now the talk back station as it is the only commercial one here in Brisbane 4BC was one of Brisbane's top music radio stations at the time in the 60's which among their disc jockeys were Geoff Atkinson, Tony MacArthur and Bob Wills who were on Daily from 4pm until midnight and all day Sunday playing the Top 40 as well as the records that was out at the time and also the person on the advert was Bert "Birdbrain" Robertson who was on in the mornings.

4BH July 1955

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This is from the Telegraph July 15th 1955 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 1950's which among their disc jockeys was Bob Rogers who had been with the station since 1950 as he would be there until 1957 and would be come very successful on Sydney radio was on Friday night which he did Disc For Debonaires at 6.30pm and King Hits at 9pm, Saturday Platter Chatter from 1pm until 3pm and Get Out Those Old records at 9.30am and Sunday Platter Chatter from 10am until 12 noon and Thanks For The Memory at 6.30pm.

4BH July 1959

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This is from the Telegraph July 14th 1959 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 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 around Brisbane including the O'Connor Boathouse in the city on North Quay and at lunch times at the City Hall in the city which actually the next day (July 15th) Bill Gates did the 4BH Record Hop at the City from 12pm-2pm and that night at the O'Connor Boathouse playing the latest records that was out at the time.