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4BC August 1964

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This is from the Telegraph August 8th 1964 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 besides from playing the music on 4BC they compered shows which on Monday August 10th 1964 they compered the Coca Cola Record Hop Stomp Rock which was at the City Hall from 12pm until 2pm

Little Miss Twain by Shania Twain

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This is the new album by Canadian singer Shania Twain and she wrote all the songs that is on the album mainly co written with different people including Ray Parker Jr on one track, Ronnie Wood from the Rolling Stones on one track and one with David Paich from the iconic American band Toto and she wrote the title track herself which legendary American singer Tanya Tucker sings on it as well as 5 others tracks herself and also among the musicians that played on the album were bassist Nathan East, T Bone Burnett and Gregg Bissonette. It is an FANTATSIC album with FANTASTIC songs with great singing by Shania which she is sounding great on the album and is singing better than ever as she will be 61 on August 28th. The album has gone to number 30 in Australia, number 7 in the UK, number 131 in the USA pop charts, number 26 in the USA country charts and number 1 on both the UK Americana and Country charts and the album was produced by Ammo, Eren Cannata, Zach Dawes, Gitty, Eja Lange, David...

4BK August 1959

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This is from the Telegraph August 6th 1959 and until 1990 when it became B105 4BK was one of Brisbane's popular radio stations at the time in the 1950's which among their shows was the talent show National Amateur Hour which was hosted by Dick Fair which was on every Thursday night at 8pm and there were 12 performers from Queensland on the show which they may win a trip to Sydney as well as an appearance on the show and Australia wide audition.

4BK August 1964

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This is from the Telegraph August 5th 1964 and until 1990 when it became B105 4BK was one of Brisbane's popular radio stations at the time in the 60's which at the time in August 1964 4BK had 5 new studios which was on the 3rd floor of Newspaper House which was in the city on Queen Street which had music, news and drama and on August 6th 4BK did the coverage of the Royal Show (The Ekka) which was presented by George Hardman with interviews, Show Result and News Flashes.

4BK Top 10 charts August 1964

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This is from the Telegraph August 5th 1964 and this was the 4BK Top 10 with The Beatles at number 1 with the title track from the movie they did A Hard Day's Night, The Beatles at number 2 with Boys with Ringo Starr on lead vocals which was from the Please Please Me album as it was a cover of the Shirelles song and Long Tall Sally their version of the Little Richard song, Cilla Black who was managed by Brian Epstein as well at number 3 with You're My World, Dusty Springfield at number 4 with Wishin and Hopin which was a cover of the Dionne Warwick song, Louis Armstrong at number 5 with Hello Dolly, The Shadows at number 6 with the Rise and Fall of Flingel Blunt, The Dave Clark Five at number 7 with Can't You See That She's Mine, The Beatles at number 8 with Can't Buy Me Love which was from A Hard Day's Night album and movie, Brian Poole and the Tremeloes at number 9 with their version of the Crickets song from 1959 Someone Someone and the boy from Moorooka Bil...

4BC August 1963

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This is from the Sunday Truth later becoming the Sunday Sun August 4th 1963 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 60's which among their shows was the Top 40 Night Show which was on Monday to Friday at 8pm with Saturday at 7.15pm as 4BC was the first Brisbane radio station to do the Top 40 which they did that on Monday May 19th 1958 as it was a big thing in music at that time.

4BH August 1963

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This is from the Telegraph August 3rd 1963 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 were 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 which was in North Quay and Ben Beckinsale who later became the program director of the station did the Top 40 Hit Parade that included cash and prizes that was on daily at 7pm starting Monday August 5th 1963.