Which DJ spoke the first words on Radio Caroline?
"Chris Moore. Presenters Tony Blackburn, Roger Gale, Mike Allen, Ray Teret, Roger Day, Simon Dee, Tony Prince, Spangles Muldoon, Keith Skues, Johnnie Walker, Robbie Dale, Dave Lee Travis, Tommy Vance, Tom Edwards, Paul Noble, Bob Stewart and Andy Archer became well known. Some DJs from the USA and Commonwealth countries, such as Graham Webb, Emperor Rosko, Steve Young, Keith Hampshire, Colin Nicol and Norman St John, were also heard. DJ Jack Spector, of the WMCA ""Good Guys"" in New York, regularly recorded for Radio Caroline. Syndicated shows from the US and recorded religious programmes were also broadcast. BBC Radio 2"
"of Dee Time on the BBC. Christopher Moore (DJ) Christopher Moore was a co-founder of the offshore pirate radio ship Radio Caroline, and the first voice to be heard on the air from that station. His opening words were ""This is Radio Caroline on 199, your all-day music station"". The first song played on Radio Caroline was by the Rolling Stones. At its peak in 1967, the station had 23 million listeners, and it revolutionized radio broadcasting in the UK. In 1991, Moore was interviewed extensively for the BBC TV show A Pirate's Tale, where he described his key role"
"Christopher Moore (DJ) Christopher Moore was a co-founder of the offshore pirate radio ship Radio Caroline, and the first voice to be heard on the air from that station. His opening words were ""This is Radio Caroline on 199, your all-day music station"". The first song played on Radio Caroline was by the Rolling Stones. At its peak in 1967, the station had 23 million listeners, and it revolutionized radio broadcasting in the UK. In 1991, Moore was interviewed extensively for the BBC TV show A Pirate's Tale, where he described his key role in detail. Moore is a member"
"to be a car salesman, before becoming a DJ in bars and ballrooms. Walker's broadcasting began in 1966 on offshore (pirate) radio station Swinging Radio England, before moving to Radio Caroline. When government action forced the pirate stations to close in 1967, three presenters were still broadcasting: Walker, Robbie Dale and Ross Brown. At midnight on 15 August 1967, addressing an estimated 20million listeners, they said the station belonged to the audience and that it would continue. Walker then joined BBC Radio 1 in April 1969, presenting a two-hour Saturday show from 2 to 4pm. A year later, in 1970,"
"Radio Caroline North to make programme changes and regain the audience from Radio London. Lodge hired new DJs and introduced free-form programming which, by August 1966, had succeeded, creating an audience of 23 million. When the US-backed Radio London arrived off the coast of England, there was an unsuccessful attempt to merge its sales operation with that of Caroline before Radio London started transmissions.. The new station introduced British audiences to slick American-style top 40 radio with electronic jingles produced by Dallas-based PAMS – and was an immediate success. Radio Caroline's first programme, on 28 March 1964, was presented by"
"Johnny Lewis (DJ) Johnny Lewis (born 25 December 1958) is a DJ who has broadcast across numerous radio stations in his career including Radio Caroline and the KMFM stations. Lewis was born in Ipswich, Suffolk. Originally deciding to become a farmer, he ended up at the Radio Caroline ship in 1977 to fix a generator. Due to seasickness by another presenter, he was asked to step in and began his career in broadcasting. Also worked in 1980 after the Mi Amigo sank on the Voice of Peace off Tel Aviv http://www.offshore-radio.de/VOP.htm Then from 1981 moving to Eire to work on"
"the air on 15 April 1979. The first record played was ""Fool (If You Think It's Over)"", by Chris Rea, dedicated to the British Home Office. During this period each night transmission of Radio Caroline started with ""Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft"" by the progressive Rock Band Klaatu, issued in 1976 on their album . Just after midnight GMT on 20 March 1980, the ""Mi Amigo"" foundered in a storm after losing its anchor and drifting. It began taking in water and the crew was rescued by lifeboat. The generator was left running but the pumps could not manage and"
"Dave Collins for the first time as the station already had a DJ with a similar family name, Del Rogers. Caroline DJs on board the ship at this historic time included Susan Charles, Peter Philips, Johnny Lewis and David Andrews in addition to Dave Collins. Following Radio Caroline, he enjoyed another spell In Ireland, on the breakfast show at Radio West in Mullingar and then more than a dozen radio stations in the UK. He has been presenter and at times head of music at many radio stations in the UK including Radio Top Shop in Newcastle and Liverpool, Marcher"
"he now operates a holiday apartment complex. Robbie Dale Robbie Dale (real name Robbie Robinson) 'The Admiral' was born in Littleborough, Lancashire, England on 21 April 1940. Dale was chief DJ on the offshore pirate radio ship Radio Caroline. Dale was one of the DJs on Radio Caroline on 14 August 1967 with Johnnie Walker, when the Marine Broadcasting Offences Act came into effect. At its peak, the station had 23 million listeners. After the closedown of Radio Caroline he worked on the Dutch pirate radio ship Radio Veronica from May 1968 to August 1969. He was given the nickname"
"Radio 2 as part of their ""In Concert"" series. Caroline (Status Quo song) ""Caroline"" is a single released by the British rock band Status Quo in 1973. It was included on the band's 1973 album ""Hello!"" The song was written by band leader Francis Rossi and roadie / harmonica player Bob Young on a table napkin in the dining room of a hotel in Perranporth, Cornwall, in 1971. A demo was cut with Rossi playing guitar and bass, with Terry Williams on drums. The group changed the arrangement from a slow blues song, doubling the tempo, and recorded it mostly"
"from when Caroline started in the 1960s, but also included music from the 70s and 80s and early 90s to widen the audience profile. The four-week event was funded through on-air local business commercials. In December 2010, Chatham and Aylesford MP Tracey Crouch presented an Early Day Motion to the House of Commons calling for Ofcom to allow Radio Caroline to broadcast as a licensed medium wave station to its ""traditional heartland of the south east"". The full text of the EDM is: That this House expresses its disappointment that, having pioneered commercial radio in the UK and for the"
"talk shows that were run like nighttime talk shows, with monologues and house bands and celebrity (and sometimes non-celebrity) guests. Unlike with O'Donnell's daytime show where an audience member opened the show, by announcing the day's guests, Chip Zien was the announcer of the show announcing ""Live from New York, it's ""The Caroline Rhea Show""! On today's show: [names of guests]...Here's Caroline!"" The first five words, ""Live from New York, it's,"" mimicked the opening tagline to ""Saturday Night Live"", produced in the neighboring Studio 8-H. The show's intro song was Neil Diamond's ""Sweet Caroline"", which the audience often sang along"
"Caroline's owner Ronan O'Rahilly announced that the station was to begin promoting his philosophy of ""Loving Awareness"", Allan became one of its most enthusiastic advocates, producing some of the most professional and memorable promotional ads for it. Discussing Loving Awareness with fellow DJ Stuart Russell in 1977, Allan said: Allan worked on Caroline on and off between 1973 and 1979. During this time he also worked on the Mediterranean Sea-based, offshore radio station The Voice of Peace which broadcast to the Middle East. In the late 1970s he went to Ireland and worked for Big D and ARD, two of"
"the time, Chris Moore, for the opening programme. (The first voice heard on the station, in pre-recorded promotions, was allegedly that of John Junkin). In August 1964, Radio Atlanta merged with Caroline and became Radio Caroline South. Dee transferred to the former Atlanta ship when the original ship sailed to an anchorage off the Isle of Man to become Radio Caroline North. He left in 1965 to go freelance, but had fallen out with directors of the station beforehand, having refused to play certain records and another occasion when he disobeyed the ship captain's orders. In 1965, Dee was given"
"Dixie Peach Bernie Michael, known by the stage name Dixie Peach (born 10 December 1962), is a British Radio DJ and musician. Dixie Peach was one of the starting line-up on Radio Caroline when it re-launched on 20 August 1983. He quickly gained popularity despite his haphazard broadcasting style because he used his backing singer skills to introduce songs - blending his voice into the song. Peach joined BBC Radio 1 in 1984 presenting a Saturday evening show called ""Midnight Runner"" which specialized in American style rock and funk. He was the third black Radio DJ (after Al Matthews and"
"Nash, Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tom Jones, Neil Sedaka, Donovan, Mike Stoller, Bruce Welch, Duane Eddy, Bill Medley, Roy Wood, Mike Berry, David Crosby and many more. ""I Love SOTS"" car stickers were given free to listeners. In December 1988 the then producer Stuart Hobday re-discovered Simon Dee, the first voice to have been heard on Radio Caroline in 1964, and persuaded him to present a listeners’ all-time-favourite Top 20. The response from the public was so great that Dee was booked for a three-month run early in 1989. His success led to another three-month contract later in the year,"
"was the last DJ to broadcast live from the ship before managing director Tommy Shields's pre-recorded closedown programme. He subsequently worked for Granada Television as a voice-over artist, and in Europe. In the 1970s Allan worked first on RNI Radio Northsea International and did go later to the revived Radio Caroline, finally fulfilling his original ambition. When the Dutch Marine Offences Act came into force on 1 September 1974 it was Allan who announced that Caroline would continue broadcasting (following in the footsteps of Johnnie Walker who had done the same when the British law was passed in 1967). When"
"gone missing. The crystal, which was about the size of a matchbox, had been used as a replacement pawn for the ship's chessboard, and had apparently been thrown overboard when the chess set was replaced. Consequently, when Radio Atlantis launched it was on ""Mi Amigo""s 50 kilowatt transmitter, on Caroline's main frequency of 1187 kHz (253 m), although all of the DJ announcements originally gave the wavelength as 385. It has been claimed that Atlantis was the only offshore radio station ever to launch on its announced date, even though it was on the wrong frequency. The Caroline DJs who"
"Beatles, The Goodies, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore.” The first phrase he thought the character might say was ""Do I make you horny?"", which later did indeed become a catch phrase for the character. He has also disclosed that the character also draws on his recollections of former Radio Caroline DJ Simon Dee, who hosted the first real television chat show in the United Kingdom in 1967, which ended with his driving off in a sports car with a young blonde in the passenger seat. An important inspiration for the series is British super spy James Bond. Myers said of"
"Orchard, Jimmy Savile, Shaw Taylor, Jimmy Young, and Muriel Young. Many of these programmes were sponsored by record companies, and in order to include as many records as possible, most programmes played little more than half of each record. Radio Luxembourg had enjoyed its own commercial radio monopoly of English-language programming heard in the UK but, in March 1964, Radio Caroline began daytime commercial radio transmissions to southern England from a ship anchored less than four miles off the coast (the station later acquired a second ship, and moved the first to the Irish Sea). In Caroline's primary reception areas,"
"common with many radio news reporters, announcing songs and audience games and giving comments. The first song he played was the chart hit ""Ein Schiff wird kommen"" by Lale Andersen. His style was immediately popular, and he from then on remained the disc-jockey, one of the earliest credited DJs. As ""DJ Heinrich"", he organised other DJs to found a workers' union that made DJ an official (i.e. healthcare registered) profession. Udo Jürgens, Peter Maffay, the Rattles and Giorgio Moroder began their careers in the Scotch Club. The dress code was strict and bouncers refused entrance to men not wearing a"
"Spangles Muldoon Spangles Muldoon, real name Chris Cary, was a radio broadcaster best known for his work on British offshore radio station Radio Caroline. Cary was a key figure in the British rock music radio revolution of the 1960s. He was born in Chester, U.K., on 5 October 1946 and died on 29 February 2008, in Tenerife, Spain, after suffering from two strokes. Cary was one of the DJs who broadcast from the offshore pirate radio ship Radio Caroline in 1967 and 1968. At its peak the station had 23 million listeners. In the 1970s Cary was a DJ on"
"shoot and none of the photos came out), builders' labourer, leaf-sweeper in Hyde Park, and vacuum cleaner salesman. In 1964, Dee joined Radio Caroline, a pirate radio station broadcasting pop music from a ship moored outside UK territorial waters. He witnessed the station's construction (and that of its rival station Radio Atlanta) at the Irish port of Greenore, and sailed with the ship to its anchorage off the coast of Essex. On 28 March, Holy Saturday, his was the first live voice on the radio station, welcoming listeners and handing over to the only other DJ on the ship at"
"its staff and DJs, and held a minute's silence. Most offshore stations had already left the air. Radio Scotland and Radio 270 closed at midnight. Radio Caroline South said it and Radio Caroline North (the original Caroline) would continue. Owner Ronan O'Rahilly said they were defending the principle of free broadcasting, rather than being mere business assets. Caroline's offshore broadcasts continued on and off until 1990, after which the station pursued legal means of broadcasting. Radio London staff arriving at London's Liverpool Street station from Harwich were greeted by large numbers of fans, some wearing black armbands and carrying placards"
"others."" He joined Radio Caroline, a pirate radio station broadcasting from a ship off the coast of Britain, in 1964. There, his American-influenced quick presentation style soon made him one of the station's best-loved DJs. He was often joined on air by his mynah bird Alfie. After his time at Radio Caroline, speaking fluent French, he presented for French-language stations Radio Monte Carlo and Radio Luxembourg as ""Le Président Rosko"". Rosko compered the Stax/Volt Tour of Europe in 1967 and can be heard introducing Booker T. & the M.G.'s, the Bar-Kays, Carla Thomas, Eddie Floyd, Sam & Dave, and Otis"
"Robbie Dale Robbie Dale (real name Robbie Robinson) 'The Admiral' was born in Littleborough, Lancashire, England on 21 April 1940. Dale was chief DJ on the offshore pirate radio ship Radio Caroline. Dale was one of the DJs on Radio Caroline on 14 August 1967 with Johnnie Walker, when the Marine Broadcasting Offences Act came into effect. At its peak, the station had 23 million listeners. After the closedown of Radio Caroline he worked on the Dutch pirate radio ship Radio Veronica from May 1968 to August 1969. He was given the nickname ""The Admiral"" by Dave Lee Travis because"
"antenna mast meant that the ship had to put in at Falmouth for repairs, and because of this delay Radio Caroline went on air first, on 28 March 1964. Radio Atlanta began test broadcasts on 12 May 1964. Its earliest tests were on 1520 kHz (197 metres), the same frequency as Caroline, after Caroline's evening closedown and were clearly intended to steal Caroline's audience. Official programming began shortly afterward on 1493 kHz (201 metres). The DJs never referred to the ""Mi Amigo"" by name, but as ""The Good Ship Radio Atlanta"". The majority of Radio Atlanta's programmes were pre-recorded in"
"It was the very first UK radio station aboard a ship in the North Sea, and intended to break the monopoly of the BBC. Radio Caroline had about seven million listeners in its first week on air. The station's slogan was ""Your all-day music station"", and it initially broadcast from 6am to 6pm, seven days a week. The transmitter had a power of 10 kW on 199 metres – 1.520 kHz. The ship moved to waters off the Isle Of Man in summer 1965 to become Radio Caroline North, while MV ""Mi-Amigo"" of Radio Atlanta on 201 metres became Radio"
"Radio Caroline and some non-stop music. These were live but did not contain much speech. The disc jockey for the first hour was René de Leeuw. The MV Aegir became stranded on 11 September 1978 as the improvised anchor failed at the first Force 6 wind of the season. During the scrapping of her wreck spare parts were gathered for the MV Mi Amigo on which it was planned to resume broadcasts of Radio Delmare. The MV Mi Amigo board technicians received a saved and badly needed second generator from Gerard van Dam, owner of the MV Aegir as well"
"Samantha Dubois Samantha Dubois (15 January 1955 – 1 October 1992) was a radio presenter on Radio Caroline during the 1970s and again in 1984. She was born Ellen Kraal in the Netherlands but learned to speak English from time spent growing up in New Zealand in the 1960s, this gave her a unique and instantly recognisable accent. She joined Radio Caroline originally as the girlfriend of Peter Chicago, the transmitter engineer and occasional broadcaster, and at first she helped out with the cooking on the radio ship Mi Amigo. She was first heard on the air on 6 February"
"as a singer, Blackburn then worked as a DJ for the offshore pirate radio stations Radio Caroline and Radio London (1964–1967), before joining the BBC in 1967, initially broadcasting on the Light Programme. After a simulcast with Radio 2 hosted by Paul Hollingdale, Blackburn was the first DJ to be heard on BBC Radio 1 when it officially launched on at 7am on 30 September 1967, with his first words on the new station being ""And good morning everyone! Welcome to the exciting new sound of Radio 1"". The Move's ""Flowers in the Rain"" was the first complete record he"
"real-life friends and that the DJ keeps her as much company as she believes she needs, describing her life and the feelings she has surrounding the fact that she considers the radio DJ her only true friend. The DJ does not ""need"" to play the selection she has requested; she does hope the DJ will do his best along those lines, adding: <poem> ""I've been listening to your show on the radio, ""And you seem like a friend to me. </poem> On 5 November 1990, ""Pilot of the Airwaves"" was the final track played by Radio Caroline as an unlicensed"
"Tomorrow and also as a producer at CNN, returning to WNEW in 1984. In later years, she was known as ""The Grand Dame of New York Night"". Maxanne Sartori was the first female progressive rock DJ on KOL-FM in Seattle and was subsequently hired in 1970 as an afternoon DJ for WBCN-FM in Boston. Sartori has been credited with influencing the success of artists such as Aerosmith and The Cars. In 1973, Yvonne Daniels was the first female DJ hired by WLS (AM) in Chicago. 99X FM, RKO radio group in New York hired Paulie Riccio in 1974. WABC (AM)"