Brisbane Radio this week in the 50's, 60's and 70's

April 2nd 1955 Johnny Ray who had toured Australia throughout March 1955 promoted by Lee Gordon appeared on Jack Davy's Ampol Show which was on 4BH which management from 4BH made arrangements to rebroadcast it . April 2nd 1970 Mike Ahern who was one of Brisbane's popular radio personalities on 4BC was promoting Elect Your Music on 4BC
April 3rd 1973- 4BK which was one of Brisbane's very popular radio stations at the time until 1990 when it became B105 was promoting Music, news and traffic reports as well as parking reports with Phil Hunt doing the music Monday To Friday from 1pm-4pm and Saturdays 6am to 12 noon.
April 4th 1975- 4BC promoted music shows at the iconic Cloudland Ballroom which had known music acts as well as Brisbane acts and this particuarly day in 1975 had Graham Connors along with other acts Midas, Hotel, Touch and Seasons of the Witch
April 5th 1954- 4BC had an show for Your Favourite Song which had new releases and hit parade tunes and it was on every Tuesday at 12 noon and on 4BH an Western serial called The Twilight Ranger which was on at 4.15pm every Monday, Tuesday Thursday and Friday afternoons April 5th 1966- 4BH who was one of the popular radio stations in Brisbane and still going to this day becoming an classic hits station now and their radio personalities Bill Gates, Graham CHerry and Dal Myles doing the top 40 which they were on Monday to Friday 4pm to Midnight and all day Saturdays and Sundays.
April 6th 1963- 4BH doing the all day music with Bill Gates, John Laws, Barry Matheson, Brian Henderson and Ben Bicksdale and yes it's the same Brian Henderson who hosted Bandstand and doing Channel 9 news in Sydney. April 6th 1964- Tony MacArthur who was one of 4BC popular radio personalities along with Geoff Atkinson and Bob Down did an Beatles show from 8pm-8.30pm every night
April 7th 1965- Bert (Birdbrain) Robertson who was one of Brisbane radio personalities on 4BC use to do the 12pm-2.30pm every day
April 8th 1960- Jim Sweeney who was one of Brisbane's well known radio personalities on 4BH had shows with Rumpus Room Monday To Friday, Music For Moderns Saturday mornings at 8am, Your Kind of Music Sunday Nights at 6.30pm and Swing Easy Sunday nights 7pm.

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