I was seven years old when Emile Ford and the Checkmates topped the Christmas charts in 1959, remaining at the No 1 spot well into the New Year. Not that, at that age, I really had much idea of what […]
It’s been a while since our last blog post. Apologies. Really, sincerely. We feel bad about that. We’ve both been so frantically immersed in other projects for a while that we’ve neglected Radio Days. So here’s a treat. When I […]
OK, I admit it–I’m cheating just a little with this week’s choice for Song of the Week. Yes, the Carter Family had first recorded this song for the Victor Talking Machine Company in 1930; however the recording below, by the […]
I am indebted to Maria for inspiring this blog post. Following the performance at Leighton House last Sunday, she was now looking for a new repertoire of songs for her choirs, and was gravitating towards the skiffle and trad of […]
For reasons too numerous for me to list here, The Daily Herald newspaper holds a lot of meaning and historical interest for me. So I was chuffed to find this copy this morning in an antique shop in Bridge Road, […]
1951 is a little outside our usual time frame, but as we at Radio Days are now reading and researching around the London pleasure gardens and their saloon theatres out of which, in the early middle years of the 19th […]