The Blue Mountains Elvis Festival Well Elvis lovers… here’s your chance to get your Elvis fill with some of the best Elvis tribute acts Australia has to offer. Elvis is by far and away the most popular individual artist requested on Jukebox Saturday...
In the upcoming weeks, we have a dedication Jukebox Saturday Night show for Ken Sparkes that we will be running! Hooray... about time... yes we hear you!! We must apologise for the delays, however, losing the leader of our small team has left us a little...
THE TROGGS - tour dates and tickets click here Wild Thing 50th Anniversary Australian Tour All their Greatest Hits Live in Concert Wild Thing, With a Girl Like You, I Can’t Control Myself, Love is All Around plus More! "I’ve been to many...
Frankie Valli If you had said many years ago “they will not last” you may have been correct. Frankie Valli and the 4 seasons came at a time when all as they say in baseball “all the bases were loaded.” Everyone with an inkling of talent...
Sydney in the early days of Rock and Roll. Following the American music invasion of Australia, local talent particularly in Sydney and Melbourne did not take much urging to react. Johnny O’Keefe, Col Joye, The Joye Boys, The Delltones, Johnny...
In the early sixties I was the new kid on the block hailed as Sydney’s youngest DJ and doing feature radio shows for 2GB Macquarie. The ‘surfin craze’ had exploded worldwide and naturally we were all swept up and riding the waves and hangin 5. Sydney...
Sat 5th Dec JOK - Johnny O'Keefe Editor and co-producer Justin arrived back from NZ and immediately tackled the task of getting the JOK tribute to air. Remember he has a daily radio job and a family to consider. I will await the audience reaction...
Johnny Devlin Johnny was one of the three New Zealanders who burst onto the Aussie music scene in the early sixties. He became a regular on Channel 9’s Bandstand hosted by New Zealand born Brian Henderson. In the early part of his career he was portrayed...
We’ve had a heap of requests for new T-shirts, however, until more recently have simply not been able to find a supplier we were happy with. In our dealings with sourcing a supplier we tried overseas to manage costs, however, the sample quality just...
The Sunbury ’73 the live rock concert was located on a 620 hectare private property outside of Melbourne. The event was known as, The Sunbury Pop Festival, Sunbury Rock Festival, Australia’s Woodstock and Sunbury’s Woodstock. Woodstock being...
The Mixtures The PushBike Song One of the most successful OZ bands in the sixties was The Mixtures who recorded the stand out hit “The Push Bike Song” The Channel Ten film crew took to the streets of Melbourne and filmed a clip that today would...
Kommotion in the 21st Century. I am amazed that there are still so many people who remember this 1960’s TV show in a positive manner, this is highlighted by a photo on EBAY asking for $6K!! (Ebay Link) The budget for new sets each week was only $10,...
One Hit wonders This term is a trap as we found our when in 2012 we put to air a One Hit wonder show. Stand back and look out for an avalanche of negatives, literally we had emails, Facebook posts and phone calls all hit us within minutes of the...
Many in the entertainment industry would not be aware of my early links with TV week as a journalist and feature writer. Most would recall me as the “voice” of the TV Week Logies for many years on the Nine Network. During my time in Melbourne on 3UZ,...
Few Australian if any know Joe Cocker on a one to one basis as Don Grierson one time Disc Jockey on 2DU Dubbo NSW. Don went to the USA to further his career in Radio, got a job in a record store and ended up one of the most respected executives and A&R...
We've recently sorted through over 42,000 requests from our viewers. Behind Elvis, The Beatles were a close second as the most popular artist/band requested. Whilst it would of course be cheating if you added the solo Paul McCartney + Wings and George...
To kick off the year we figured we'd celebrate Australia Day with an all Australian music show featuring the story of Fable Label and Bootleg records, as well as a tribute to Ron Tudor who made it all happen. Ron started the labels against all the odds,...
Jack Scott a 1960’s DJ favourite When you go back over the charts you will not find too many mentions of Jack Scott on the OZ charts, however, if radio spins counted for something Jack Scott would be in the top 10. The other point is that those early...
Wolfman Jack inspirational Disc Jockey and businessman I can still him howling out of radio XERB “sockin the soul to yer baby from Tijuana” and doing what so many other DJ’s at the time wanted to do..Cut loose from the binds of tight formatted...
Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart is a real Hollywood success story. Talents arrived from all over the word drawn to what we knew as Tinsel City, Los Angeles California sometimes called the “City of the Angels” and many talents and agents looked for any opportunity...
There are moments in our lives when an historic event happens and stops our daily routine. July 20 1969 is a date that lives in my mind to this day, not because it is my birth date (the day not year), I am never big on birthdays, but a day that I still...
The Bee Gees Ken Sparkes - DJ Bill Gates (Swingin’ Gates) is one of my most endearing and long time friends of mine, many a time our career paths and motor cycle, race and road cars choices have run in parallels. Bill became a legendary DJ in Brisbane...
JBSN The best live acts of the 1960s – by Peter McKay (Peter McKay is a motoring and motor sports journalist who briefly in the distant past wrote about rock music. Peter is a close friend of Ken Sparkes and has graciously taken some time out to reminisce...
The arrival of the Beatles in Australia in 1964 was one of the main Newsreel features of the era. Cinesound News Reels produced a 6min 40 second feature entitled "The Mersey Sound at the Stadium" and I was the Commentator. Today it is probably the best...
BUSH RADIO is not a derogatory term it was where would be announcers who showed initial talent were given the chance to do an apprentice and if they were good enough they had the chance to make it in the "Big Smoke." Many who worked for the low wages...
In the sixties Coca Cola instigated a very ambitious Radio-TV-Event based project "The Hi Fi Club" the term "Hi Fi" was the buzz expression meaning Hi Fidelity. The Club was launched in the USA in 1958 and by 1959 47 States had local clubs with an estimated...
Jukebox Saturday Night where did it all start? The first reference got its airing way back in the 1940's when Glenn "In the Mood" Miller recorded the Al Stillman and Paul McGrane song with Nino and the Ebb Tides. However the cinama graphic memory...
