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Presented below is a selection of audio
recordings that I made and collected on compact cassettes
from the 1970's to the 1990's. I hope you enjoy them!
Here are the amazing BRMB Pantomimes from 1985 and 1986. I have to say that as I was converting them from the old original cassette recordings to MP3 files that the tears were streaming down my face. Many of the lines and references are 'in jokes' that would be very well recognized by regular BRMB listeners - but even if you weren't a BRMB enthusiast I'm sure that it will still be extremely amusing. This is CLASSIC BRMB so here are some 'Must Listens' :-  Click the Pudding to
hear "SLEEPING BEAUTY" - the 1985 BRMB CHRISTMAS PANTOMIME
[56
kps]
Click
the
Pudding
to
hear
"HUMBUG"
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the
1986
BRMB
CHRISTMAS
PANTOMIME
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Part 1
[56kps]
Click
the
Pudding
to
hear
"HUMBUG"
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the
1986
BRMB
CHRISTMAS
PANTOMIME
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Part 2
[56kps] BRMB Sound
News with Brian Sheppard (courtesy
Frazer
Sheppard)
If you were a regular BRMB listener in the 1970's and 1980's
I am absolutely certain that you will now miss the unique programmes
that were heard on the station at that time. Here is a chance
to experience a flavour of BRMB's unique and excellent style from that
era. Choose some BRMB Audio below:- LOTS OF OTHER BRMB AUDIO: BA Engineering Test Transmissions in 1974 on Medium Wave [64kps] IBA Engineering Test Transmissions from 0535 19th February 1974 on VHF [80k] courtesy John Crump BRMB - Station Launch with Kevin Morrison 0600 19th February 1974 [80kps] courtesy John Crump BRMB - Launch Day continues (1) with Kevin Morrison 19th February 1974 [80kps] courtesy John Crump BRMB - Launch Day continues (2) with Kevin Morrison 19th February 1974 [80kps] courtesy John Crump BRMB - Launch Day continues with Peter Windows 19th February 1974 [80kps] courtesy John Crump Short Clip of one of the first moments of BRMB with Brian Sheppard in 1974 courtesy Frazer Shepperd [128kps] One of BRMB's first jingles in 1974 [128kps] More of BRMB's jingles from 1974 [128kps] Mike Henfield on BRMB on 19th February 1974 [80kps]  Clip added 22 January 2013BRMB - 'Savin and Scott' plus Ed Doolan - 10:40hrs 4th March 1974 - 1151kHz / 261 metres recorded in Hertfordshire (!) [48kps] Added October 12th 2011 (Courtesy Richard Tucker). Due to the long distance, out of area reception, the signal is weak & there is some interference on the programme. This 1974 recording made in Hertfordshire on 1151 kHz is remarkably readable considering the distance and interference conditions! This recording would have been made before the then recently launched ILR news station in London, LBC, moved from its initial, temporary frequency of 719kHz (417 metres) to its permanent 1151 kHz (261 metres) allocation. Once using 1151 kHz, LBC would have almost certainly swamped the reception of BRMB in Hertfordshire - so all in all a remarkable and quite historic find! BRMB - Adrian Juste station & programme trailers incl Soul Show + Ed Doolan and George Ferguson [64kps] courtesy Keith Brown Added December 7th 2011 BRMB News with John Rogers - August 1975 - Courtesy John Rogers - Added April 28th 2013BRMB News August 5 1975 - Courtesy John Rogers - Added April 28th 2013BRMB - Nicky Steele with Soul and Funk & part of the BRMB News with John Rogers 21:03 6th March 1976 [48kps] Added October 12th 2011 courtesy Richard Tucker BRMB - "Sounds Familiar" jingles from the mid 1970's [64kps] (Courtesy Robert Scott) 20th October 2012Adrian Juste - "Thriller At Villa" - with his hilarious impersonations of George Reeves and Tony Butler (1976) - Courtesy of BRMB's John Slater (Added February 2013)BRMB - Around The World clip and commercials from summer / September 1979 [64k] courtesy Julian Watson Classic BRMB from 1979 - RADIO ACOCKS GREEN with Jasper Carrott, Ed Doolan, Brian Savin & Adrian Juste, produced by Phil Dawson [32kps] TONY BUTLER's Theme Music for 'BRMB Sport' as used in the 1970's and 1980's [128kbs] [By Hurricane Smith - "Theme From An Unmade Silent Movie" 1972] Some BRMB jingles and commercials from Red Stripe Lager, Cadbury's Wispa & Carling Black Label from 1983 [64kps] BRMB Because Jingles 1983 recorded from 1152 medium wave [80kps] - Courtesy of Chris Pajdowski (Added May 2013)
Yesterday Never Comes - with Les Ross (Courtesy Robert Scott) 16th August 2012Meanwhile at that that very moment a little later on and in same place somewhere else, here comes "Yesterday Never Comes" with Les Ross is the true life story of the ups and downs and the ins and outs - and sometimes the un-hoovered curtain pelmets - of the people of Little Whittle, not far from Wattle: Meet Lady Lord, the wealthy widow of the late Lord Lord and Maid her butler and Butler her maid; Dwight D Eisensecond III - the American tourist who never goes home; Gravely Hill the Little Whittle undertaker; Doctor Hamish Blunder; The Vicar; Mr Wishy, owner of Wishy's Washy - Little Whittle's Chinese laundry, and nim nim nim Miss Take the Little Whittle school mistress and part time SAS group leader! These tales include the story of Lady Lord's radio station, Lovely Lord Sound, battling for listeners with Wonderful Radio Wattle run by, nim nim nim, Miss Take. Yesterday Never Comes - with Les Ross - September 1984 - 1 [64k] courtesy Robert Scott Yesterday Never Comes - with Les Ross - September 1984 - 2 [64k] courtesy Robert Scott Yesterday Never Comes - with Les Ross - September 1984 - 3 [64k] courtesy Robert Scott Yesterday Never Comes - with Les Ross - September 1984 - 4 [64k] courtesy Robert Scott Yesterday Never Comes - with Les Ross - September 1984 - 5 [64k] courtesy Robert Scott Yesterday Never Comes - with Les Ross - September 1984 - 6 [64k] courtesy Robert Scott Yesterday Never Comes - with Les Ross - September 1984 - 7 [64k] courtesy Robert Scott Yesterday Never Comes - with Les Ross - September 1984 - 8 [64k] courtesy Robert Scott Yesterday Never Comes - with Les Ross - September 1984 - 9 [64k] courtesy Robert Scott Yesterday Never Comes - with Les Ross - September 1984 - 10 [64k] courtesy Robert Scott Yesterday Never Comes - with Les Ross - September 1984 - 11 [64k] courtesy Robert Scott Yesterday Never Comes - with Les Ross - September 1984 - 12 [64k] courtesy Robert Scott Yesterday Never Comes - with Les Ross - September 1984 - 13 [64k] courtesy Robert Scott Yesterday Never Comes - with Les Ross - September 1984 - 14 [64k] courtesy Robert Scott Yesterday Never Comes - with Les Ross - September 1984 - 15 [64k] courtesy Robert Scott Yesterday Never Comes - with Les Ross - September 1984 - 16 [64k] courtesy Robert Scott Yesterday Never Comes - with Les Ross - September 1984 - 17 [64k] courtesy Robert Scott Yesterday Never Comes - with Les Ross - September 1984 - 18 [64k] courtesy Robert Scott (Stephen O'Street is a reference to Stephen Rhodes, a BRMB presenter at that time.) John Slater - 'Change Is In The Air' - Details of BRMB's schedule changes in 1984 - Courtesy of BRMB's John Slater (Added February 2013)Old Friends New Programmes - The Breakfast Show with Les Ross 6am to 9am - 20/20 News - Morning Call with Nick Meanwell from 9am to midday - Lunch On with Brendan Kearney from midday until 2pm - Afternoon with Stephen Rhodes from 2pm to 4pm - Highway with Norman Wheatley from 4pm to 7pm. Change is in the air and on the air, because life is happier with BRMB - commencing from 6th February 1984! The "BECAUSE' jingles - THE MASKED DJ promo - PHIL HOLDEN - JOHN SLATER - NICK MEANWELL ident's, a clip of LES ROSS reading the weather on the Breakfast Show in 1986 [64kbs] Short clips of Nicky Steele and Phil Holden and BRMB radio commercials from 1986 - (recorded while mobile) [80kbps] courtesy Julian Watson BRMB HIGHLIGHTS 1986 - PART 1 - Brendan talks to his BRMB colleagues about some favourite moments [32kbs] BRMB HIGHLIGHTS 1986 - PART 2 - Brendan talks to his BRMB colleagues about some favourite moments. Includes a few more FAVOURITE RADIO BLOOPERS [32kbs] BRMB's 13th BIRTHDAY 1987 - Brendan talks to his fellow BRMB presenters about the previous 13 years at BRMB [56kbs] BRENDAN KEARNEY presents some favourite RADIO BLOOPERS [32kbs] BRENDAN KEARNEY presents a hilarious classic Funny Phone Call [64kbs] BRENDAN KEARNEY presents another one of his famous Funny Phone Calls [56kbs] BRMB FREQUENCY CHANGE - Les Ross oversees the move from 94.8 to 96.4 and then take listeners' confused reactions on the phone. [32 kbs] The FM Surgery (Part 1) - Brendan Kearney, Mike Owen and Dave Wood discuss the frequency change from 94.8 to 96.4 - explaining the reasons and taking listeners questions [32kbs] The FM Surgery (Part 2) - Brendan Kearney, Mike Owen and Dave Wood discuss the frequency change from 94.8 to 96.4, explaining the reasons and taking listeners questions [32kbs] JOHN SLATER - Hear some clips of John Slater on the evening specialist music show plus some of his jingles and idents [32kbs] JOHN SLATER a short extract of an interview with MEAT LOAF on a visit to Birmingham's NEC [48kbs] GEORGE GAVIN on the Football Phone In and JOHN SLATER on the evening music programme [48kbs] LES ROSS April 1987 + LES ROSS with the weather + NICK HENNEGAN in 1987 + BRMB jingles [64kbps] 13th April 2012GEORGE GAVIN and TOM ROSS with BRMB's SATURDAY SPORT - Hear Aston Villa thrash "poor little Port Vale" [56kbs] Les Ross Breakfast Show with the BRMB Eye In The Sky (1987. Unedited and direct from original cassette. Courtesy Terry Hughes ) 10th October 2012BRMB Radio with Roger Day and Terry Hughes (1982. Unedited and direct from original cassette. Courtesy Terry Hughes ) 10th October 2012'Big City' Jingles and Announcement by Robin Valk about the AM / FM split in 1989 [64kbs] The Last BRMB Breakfast Show with Les Ross before Les moves over to new sister station XTRA-am Les Ross's Last BRMB Breakfast Show 10th March 1989 part 1 0700 to 0800 (Courtesy Robert Scott) 19th October 2012Les Ross's Last BRMB Breakfast Show 10th March 1989 part 2 0800 to 0900 (Courtesy Robert Scott) 19th October 2012BRMB Celebrity Sports Forums with George Gavin Celebrity Sports Forum with Brian Clough - 1989 - Cloughie as contoversial as ever (Courtesy Sonny Patnaik) 5th December 2012From the Red Lion, in association with M&B Brew XI. Hosted by George Gavin. Producer: Phil Riley. Engineer: Dave Wood. (This was a live broadcast and bad language was not able to be edited out - a rather controversial programme not to BRMB's usual standards.) Celebrity Sports Forum with George Gavin and Trevor Francis - 1989 (Courtesy Sonny Patnaik) 5th December 2012From The Wythall Community Centre, in association with M&B Brew XI. Hosted by George Gavin. Producer: Phil Riley. Engineer: Dave Wood. Nick Meanwell's Late Show Nick Meanwell's Late Show - 1 - "Above Top Secret" - UFO's & Aliens with Tim Good [40kps] Nick Meanwell's Late Show - 2 - "Visions Of The Future"- Premonitions & Lucid Dreaming with Dr Keith Hearne [48kps] Nick Meanwell's Late Show - 3 - "Perspectives" with John Spencer - Alien Abduction & UFO Theories - 1990 [40kps] BRMB Snow Desk with George Gavin from winter 1990 - local power cuts and even the BRMB transmitter goes off air [64kps] BRENDAN KEARNEY returns to BRMB to present The Breakfast Show in 1990 after a three year break. Includes one of Brendan's FUNNY PHONE CALLS [64kbs] BRENDAN KEARNEY presents more RADIO BLOOPERS on his Christmas morning show in 1990 where he also talks to fellow presenter Andy Hollins and news man John Hawkins [48kbs] Short extract of Stuart Ellis on BRMB in 1990 [64k] (Courtesy Graham Hyde) 11th November 2012CELEBRITY SPORTS FORUM with snooker's STEVE DAVIS - at the Cubbington Social Club with George Gavin & Tom Ross [40kbs] PHIL HOLDEN - his unique wit and wisdom and his now infamous POP QUIZ! [40kbs] Clips of PHIL HOLDEN on the BRMB LATE SHOW in 1991 [64kbs] BRENDAN KEARNEY and ANDY HOLLINS with the HOLLINS AND KEARNEY Sunday show - includes the on-air 'bust up' between the two presenters [64kbs] The BRMB REVIEW Of 1991 - broadcast at Christmas 1991 [56 kps] The BRMB news review of 1991 added to this page in November 2009, war in the Middle East, bankers under fire and Britain in recession. Nothing seems to change! BOB LAWRENCE - Last Show on BRMB - Late Night on July 18th 1993 [80kbs] Night Beat with Stuart Ellis - Overnight on BRMB and XTRAam 1993 - 64kbps 5th November 2012(Cassette recording courtesy Graham Hyde) LES ROSS back on BRMB FM in 1993 with the Christmas morning show [64kbs] LES ROSS and Suzie Becker with the BRMB Christmas Breakfast Show in 1995 (Courtesy Graham Hyde) 4th November 2012With with Lisa Wallace and special guest appearance by Reg (I wouldn't want anything to happen to your radio station) Grobbel. [64kps] LES ROSS - Last BRMB Breakfast Show from Birmingham International Railway Station on 27/09/2002 - part 1 [64kbs] LES ROSS - Last BRMB Breakfast Show from Birmingham International Railway Station on 27/09/2002 - part 2 [64kbs] GEORGE GAVIN - BRMB Sport - 1 - some classic George Gavin & Tom Ross [100kps] Edited highlights - courtesy Paul Tang GEORGE GAVIN - BRMB Sport - 2 - some classic George Gavin & Tom Ross [100kps] Edited highlights - courtesy Paul Tang GEORGE GAVIN - BRMB Sport - 3 - some classic George Gavin & Tom Ross [100kps] Edited highlights - courtesy Paul Tang GEORGE GAVIN - BRMB Sport - 4 - some classic George Gavin & Tom Ross [100kps] Edited highlights - courtesy Paul Tang GEORGE GAVIN - BRMB Sport - 5 - some classic George Gavin & Tom Ross [100kps] Edited highlights - courtesy Paul Tang GEORGE GAVIN - BRMB Sport - 6 - some classic George Gavin & Tom Ross [100kps] Edited highlights - courtesy Paul Tang GEORGE GAVIN - BRMB Sport - 7 - some classic George Gavin & Tom Ross [100kps] Edited highlights - courtesy Paul Tang Here is a clip for listeners of Radio Mercury and Southern Sound who were fans of Timbo in the 1980's. Timbo (Tim Lloyd) sat in for Nick Meanwell on BRMB in July 1989. The zany madcap style of show was quite different to BRMB's usual style which was a little more understated.After one of Timbo's repeated comments in this show, did he ever work on commercial radio again? Of course he went on to work for BBC local radio! TIMBO sitting in for Nick Meanwell on the Late Show on BRMB in July 1989 [48kps] BRMB Presents Sixty Years Of Radio - Transmitted in 1982 - A fascinating documentary commemorating the start of general radio broadcasting in Britain in 1922. Produced by David Gilby and Dennis Rookard of sister ILR station Essex Radio Presented by Steve Wood and back announced on BRMB by Phil Riley. [48kps] BRMB television advert in 1994 [64kps] The Other Side Of LES ROSS - Interview by Ed Doolan on BBC Radio WM in 2005 [64kps] The Other Side Of TONY BUTLER - Interview by Ed Doolan on BBC Radio WM in 2003 [64kps] Long Distance BRMB reception ("DX") - Received on the island of Oland in south east Sweden by Kjell Tunsater in the year 2000 on 96.4 MHz, but who is the presenter? What you never heard on BRMB - Not for those of a sensitive disposition - contains 'language': Bloopers from the BRMB Commercial Production Department [64kps] Courtesy Terry Hughes NEW OCT 2012
 Farewell_to_BRMB : A tribute to a station that burned bright on 94.8 and 96.4 VHF from 1974 to the nineties- finally fading out between 21st and 26th March 2012 A great compilation of sounds and jingles by MB on soundcloud The Launch of Freeradio Birmingham 26th March 2012 |
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IF YOU HAVE
ANY RECORDINGS FROM BRMB in the 1970's and 1980's or the RADIO ACOCKS
GREEN spoof, or know of anyone else that might have some of BRMB's
historic programmes recorded on tape... We'd
certainly like to hear more of Radio Acocks Green and any vintage
recodings of MERCIA SOUND would also be gratefully received. Thank You !
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Credits:
We sincerely thank John Crump, Frazer Sheppard, Julian Watson, Keith Burson, Terry Hughes, Paul Tang for submitting the audio recordings identified above, and to everyone else who has assisted with the BRMB History and Audio section.
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JOHN RUSSELL's INSIDE STORY | Radio Acocks Green - 261 and a bit
The Demise of BRMB
AIRWAVES - Radio Features and more Audio Recordings
BRMB SCHEDULES | BRMB PRESENTERS | PHIL HOLDEN | LES ROSS | More BRMB Archives
JOHN RUSSELL's INSIDE STORY | Radio Acocks Green - 261 and a bit
The Demise of BRMB
AIRWAVES - Radio Features and more Audio Recordings
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