Posts

4BC February 1963

Image
This is from the Northern Suburbs Express February 5th 1963 and now the talk back station which it's the only commercial one here in Brisbane 4BC was one of Brisbane's popular radio stations at the time in the early 60's which among their disc jockeys was Johnny James who had been with the station since the 1950's as he would be there until the early 70's who did the Top 40 Breakfast show every morning which the advert was for the listeners to win cash in the Progressive Jackpot competition.

4BC February 1988

Image
This is from the Telegraph February 5th 1988 and now the talk back station as it the only commercial one here in Brisbane 4BC was one of Brisbane's popular radio stations in the 80's which among their radio personalities were Hayden Sergant, Wayne "Poo" Roberts and Greg Carey were giving away season passes to Expo as it would happen in Brisbane from April 30th-October 30th 1988 which every hour from 6am until 12noon Monday to Friday.

4BH February 1968

Image
This is from the Sunday Truth(later Sunday Sun) February 4th 1968 and now the classic hits station in Brisbane 4BH was one of Brisbane's popular radio stations at the time in the late 60's which among their disc jockeys was David Greenwood who had been with 4IP as well as hosted the second and final year of the Brisbane music show Countdown(NOT The Molly Meldrum one) on Channel 0 (now Channel 10) was on Sundays from 8am until 1pm and Monday to Friday in the afternoon from 4pm until 7pm as well as David giving out lucky keys for the contest Win A Holden which there was 10 keys to be won every day from 6am until 10pm.

4BK Top 10 February 1965

Image
This is from the Telegraph February 3rd 1965 and this was the 4BK Top 10 with Moorooka boy Billy Thorpe with the Aztecs at number 1 with their version of the Judy Garland 1939 song Over The Rainbow, Julie Rogers at number 2 with the Wedding, Petula Clark at number 3 with the song written and produced by Tony Hatch Downtown, Bobby Vinton at number 4 with Mr Lonely, The Drifters at number 5 with the song written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil and produced by Bert Berns Saturday Night At The Movies, Gene Pitney at number 6 with I'm Gonna Be Strong, Del Shannon at number 7 with Keep Searching, Matt Monro at number 8 with Walk Away, Johnny Rivers at number 9 with his version of the Harold Dorman 1960 hit Mountain Of Love and Tommy Roe at number 10 with Party Girl.

4BC February 1969

Image
This is from the Sunday Truth February 2nd 1969 and now the talk back station as it is the only commercial one here in Brisbane 4BC was one of Brisbane's popular radio stations at the time in the late 60's which among their radio personalities was Mike Baker who had been with the station since the early 60's was on daily from 5.30am until 9am which the station was also known at the time as the Big City Sound and most people get around with the Fun Crowd on the Big BC.

4BK February 1959

Image
This is from the Sunday Mail February 1st 1959 and until 1990 when it became B105 4BK was one of Brisbane's popular radio stations at the time in the late 50's which their shows on Sunday evenings were at 5.30pm Digest of World Hit Parades, 6pm with Bishop Fulton Sheen, 6.30pm Queensland Hit Parade, 7.15pm with Your Stars For Tonight, 7.30pm with the Mintrel Show and at 8pm Mystery Theatre which was a complete mystery story that was told in one hour.

Marty Supreme

This afternoon I went to the Dendy Cinema Coorparoo to see the movie Marty Supreme. It's New York 1952 and Marty Mauser (Timothee Chalamet) is an shoe salesman at his uncle Murray's(Larry Sloman) while he is also doing Table Tennis professionally and goes to the British Open which he loses to Japanese champion Koto Endo(Koto Kawaguchi) and also encounters actress Kay Stone (Gwyneth Paltrow) at the Ritz in London which he has a affair with her which he also had a affair with his childhood friend Rachel (Odessa A'Zion) who is married and is pregnant. Marty is offered by Milton Rockwell (Kevin O'Leary) who is a businessman and Kay's husband to do a exhibition before the World Championships in Tokyo but declines and eventually changed his mind as well as being a support act for the Harlem Globetrotters and then gets into situations like being arrested as well as escaping and reconnecting with Rachel which it gets interesting. It is Amazing, Brilliant and Superb with T...