I have previously written about some of the tracks which for me at least were synonymous with listening to free radio on shortwave during the 1990s. It is perhaps with some irony that most of them were of a previous vintage, in other words not contemporary to the pirate broadcasts which I heard during the decade.
Such examples would be Acker Bilk's Fancy Pants, favoured by the genre defining Weekend Music Radio. Other notable aural delights include Magic Fly by Space, Man of Action by the Les Reed Orchestra, as well as Ozone Radio International's fondness for Pink Floyd's Another Brick in the Wall. Although located across the Irish Sea, Prince Terry's broadcasts were for many years a weekly institution for those who listened to 48 metres on a Sunday morning. The Wizard/WMS championed Sniff and the Tears' 1978 track Driver's Seat.
One tune that previously escaped the blog post dedicated to music often heard within free radio broadcasts was Mr. Bloe's eponymous harmonica influenced Groovin' with Mr. Bloe. Now, am I right in saying this was a popular tune with the free radio cognoscenti of the time, albeit particularly so with Dutch operators?
In other news, it was pleasing to hear the Xenon Transmitting Company (XTC) and Radio Blackbeard (on 1512 KHz) this weekend. Others flying the flag for the UK, well England, were Radios Jennifer, Pamela, and Pandora, as well as Nova on 6940 KHz.
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