Saturday Sounds is the ideal show to get you into your weekend. Music ranges across the decades from the latest releases to past modern classics, with a generous range of genres. A good portion of the show features recent Australian releases with a focus on the music library of the Australian Music Radio Airplay Project.
Timely local community information is broadcast every hour through free community service announcements for local events, which often occur on weekends. Likewise, many station’s outside broadcasts happen on Saturdays, so interviews from these broadcasts feature in the programme periodically, along with ad-hoc studio interviews during the year.
Always melodic. Always filled with rhythm, emotion, and community information.
Stephen Spicer
Stephen Spicer was fortunate to grow up in a house full of sound systems and music. The lounge room never looked complete without the presence of a substantial pair of loudspeakers.
He built his first amplifier at the age of 14. So a technical education was a certainty, completing an honours degree in Electrical Engineering at Monash University in 1980.
He worked for twenty five years at Telecom Research Laboratories, and a further fifteen years for Telstra Corporation Ltd., in the field of internet video delivery platforms.
But his true love has always been music and high fidelity sound reproduction.
11:15No Promises – Single Version – Remastered – Icehouse
11:20
11:20Talk To Me/Every Beat Of My Heart – Dorothy Moore
11:27
11:27Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me – Mel Carter
11:31
11:31Every Darkness – Marie Hopkinson
11:35
11:35Got You on My Mind – Cookie & The Cupcakes
11:40
11:40Sing (And Tell the Blues so Long) – Johnny O'Keefe
11:42
11:42You're Only Lonely – JD Souther
11:51
11:51Tamoure – Bill Justis
11:52
11:52How Many Times? – Wynona Carr
11:58
11:58That's Why I Love You (Like I Do) – 2012 Stereo Version – Mary Wells
12:08
12:08Saturday In The Park – Remastered Version 2007 – Chicago
12:11
12:11I Burned Your Letter – Ruth Brown & Her Rhythmakers
12:16
12:16I'm Not Crazy – Grace Cummings
12:19
12:19Come On, Be Nice – Brook Benton
12:24
12:24Non Dirmi Niente (Don't Make Me Over) – Ornella Vanoni
12:27
12:27Cupid / I've Loved You For A Long Time – The Spinners
12:33
12:33Take Good Care Of Her – Mel Carter
12:36
12:36Dejame Ser Mujer – Axelle Red
12:42
12:42I Hear You Knockin – Connie Francis
12:44
12:44My Lover Man – Bruce Springsteen
12:49
12:49I Want to Walk You Home – Ronnie Lawrence
12:52
12:52untied shoes. – kayls
12:55
12:55One Last Kiss – Bobby Vee
12:57
12:57Why Don't I Run Away From You – Kiki Dee
The Radio Eastern Radiogram – In Action!
Here is the Radio Eastern Radiogram, playing an RCA 45 from 1965. The artist is Colin Buckley, an immigrant to Australia in the late 1940’s, and who made a number of singles for RCA, and also appeared on The Go! Show on Melbourne’s ATV-O. This single here was recorded at AWA recording studios, Queen Street, Melbourne, Australia.
The Radiogram is made by Pope Electronics, in Sydney Australia. It is a Model 7707, “New Michigan” radiogram, and was purchased from “The Myer Emporium” in Melbourne, costing 260 Pounds in 1962 (the equivalent cost today exceeds $5000).
Above: Putting show to-air requires a lot of paper, and notes! Just one sheet of twelve in this case!
Mod – Mary Quant – Petula Clark …… and Recording Studios:
Here is something random……”These are a few of my favourite things…….” with a back-announce at the end, during a Saturday Sounds Show. …….a mix of Mod culture, ……..mid-60’s Music, ……and vintage music-making Technology.
