REMEMBER MAY 1987

Thank's to Margarets Cafe Boyle we're off down memory lane to May 1987 .

On this weeks Blog we remember the No1 songs in the Pop and Country Charts,We make the Boyle connection with indie group Spear of Destiny and we look back at the films and TV we watched.

Top 20 Hits of Early May 1987

	1	Starship	Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now
	2	Judy Boucher	Can't Be With You Tonight
	3	Madonna	La Isla Bonita
	4	Tom Jones	A Boy From Nowhere
	5	Five Star	The Slightest Touch
	6	Living In A Box	Living In A Box
	7	Labi Siffre	(Something Inside) So Strong
	8	Kim Wilde & Junior	Another Step (Closer To You)
	9	Club Nouveau	Lean On Me
	10	The Jesus & Mary Chain	April Skies
	11	Terence Trent D'Arby	If You Let Me Stay
	12	Level 42	To Be With You Again
	13	Fleetwood Mac	Big Love
	14	Glenn & Chris	Diamond Lights
	15	The Smiths	Sheila Take A Bow
	16	Mel & Kim	Respectable
	17	The Cult	Lil' Devil
	18	Cameo	Back And Forth
	19	Spear Of Destiny	Never Take Me Alive
	20	Sly & Robbie	Boops (here we go)

                              No 1 SONG MAY 1987

                                      

DJ's Choice  

We make a Boyle connection with Kirk Brandon from Spear of destiny who has strong family links here.This week in May 1987 seen Kirk in the charts with "Never take me alive" and when your song got into the top 20 in meant an appearance on Top of the Pops.This page doesn't support the Top of the pops video but you can watch it on our facebook page and find out  more about Kirk's Boyle connections
http://www.facebook.com/memoryradioboyle

  http://www.myspace.com/spearofdestinyuk

No 1 COUNTRY SONG 1987

Grammy winner Randy Travis toppped the charts with a grammy winning song 

FILMS 1987

                                             No1  MOVIE 1987 THE PRINCESS BRIDE

1. Princess Bride (1987)
8.1/10 A classic fairy tale, with swordplay, giants, an evil prince, a beautiful princess, and yes, some kissing (as read by a kindly grandfather).Fantasy | Romance98 mins.
2. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
8.4/10 A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow Marine recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting set in 1968 in Hue, Vietnam.Dir: Stanley Kubrick With: Matthew Modine, R. Lee Ermey, Vincent D'OnofrioDrama | War116 mins.
3. Predator (1987)
7.8/10 A team of commandos, on a mission in a Central American jungle, find themselves hunted by an extra-terrestrial warrior.Dir: John McTiernan With: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers, Kevin Peter HallAction | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller107 mins.
4. Dirty Dancing (1987)
6.4/10 Spending the summer in a holiday camp with her family, Frances ('Baby') falls in love with the camp's dancing teacher.Dir: Emile Ardolino With: Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey, Jerry OrbachDrama | Romance100 mins.

TV 1987

REMEMBER MAY 1990

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Welcome to our latest blog as this week we take you back to the music and memories of May 1990          

SEAL /ADAMSKI - KILLER  IS No1

                                         

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             Here's what Seal ,singer from Adamski is up to these days                                                      

Legally blind Rachael Leahcar leaves the coaches and audience speechless after a spine-tingling rendition of the Edith Piaf classic La Vie En Rose.

Top 20 Hits of Early May 1990

	1	Adamski	Killer
	2	Madonna	Vogue
	3	Paula Abdul With The Wild Pair	Opposites Attract
	4	Alannah Myles	Black Velvet
	5	Soul II Soul	A Dream's A Dream
	6	UB40	Kingston Town
	7	Snap!	The Power
	8	Heart	All I Wanna Do is Make Love To You
	9	The Family Stand	Ghetto Heaven
	10	Happy Mondays	Step On
	11	Morrissey	November Spawned A Monster
	12	Phil Collins	Something Happened On The Way To Heaven
	13	Kylie Minogue	Better The Devil You Know
	14	Natalie Cole	Wild Women Do
	15	Bizz Nizz	Don't Miss The Party Line
	16	The Adventures Of Stevie V	Dirty Cash
	17	The Blues Brothers	Everybody Needs Somebody To Love
	18	En Vogue	Hold On
	19	Bruce Dickinson	Tattooed Millionaire
	20	New Kids On The Block	Cover Girl

COUNTRY CLASSIC MAY 1990

Country and Rock chart No 1 May 1990

MEMORY RADIO DOWN UNDER

Hello from Australia Just a quick post .We're out here with our friends from Network 10 to promote the station and our first stop was Melbourne for the Grand Prix.Our passes were amazing I got to see my heroes in action.

                                     
                                           In the Media area with Damon Hill and Martin Brundle

                                         Here we are in Sydney at the Center Point Tower

                                                        Our friends in East Brisbane

                                                Channel Seven on Mt Coot-tha,Brisbane
Join me soon for all the news and photos from our promotional trip .Cheerio and gooday sports.

REMEMBER MARCH 1979

Hello again and welcome along to our Memory Radio Blog. This week we're off to March 1979 and let's start our trip with the No1 song in the charts this week in March 1979

                                         

Top 10 Hits of Early March 1979

	1	The Bee Gees	Tragedy
	2	Elvis Costello & The Attractions	Oliver's Army
	3	Blondie	Heart Of Glass
	4	Gloria Gaynor	I Will Survive
	5	Lene Lovich	Lucky Number
	6	Abba	Chiquitita
	7	Edwin Starr	Contact
	8	The Real Thing	Can You Feel The Force?
	9	Leif Garrett	I Was Made For Dancin'
	10	Gene Chandler	Get Down

We work hard now  to make our Blog mobile friendly after many tries we found this blondie video that plays on apple products.We have a rare heart of glass video on our facebook page heres the link
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COUNTRY CLASSIC 1979

TV 1979

Colour TV sales really took off in 1979 after the opening the previous year of  the new a Irish  channel  RTE 2 and a crystal clear UHF signal from newly erected  mast at Cairn Hill (outside Longford) Ireland's most powerful television transmitter .A good excuse  with the forthcoming papal visit in 1979 was "we want to see the new pope in colour"

                               Our first colour set was a Phillips similar to this one pictured below

                              The test card .A thing of the past now with 24 hour broadcasting.

Living near the border with Northern Ireland we were able to watch the BBC and ITV channels using a high gain Ariel and amps. With freeSat and the forthcoming digital changeover these systems are disappearing this side of the border every day now

What we watched in 1979

                                                            

                                                                   UK TV 1979

IRISH TV 1979

Caitlín Maude (1941 – 1982) poet, teacher, actress and traditional singer in her native Irish tongue

                                                            US TV 1979

The Dukes Of Hazzard along with the Movie Convoy started the CB Radio craze in 1979

During  1979 and in the 1980's, the trend of CB radios was similar to online chats or text messaging today. When we did this, We developed friendships with other people on CB's, and while their real names remained anonymous, their handles were well known names.We used a Handle or Call Sign, (Mine was Shooting Star) because CB Radio at this time was seen as illegal (there were no provisions in Irish broadcasting law  and the whole thing was very vague) of course this added to its appeal.

The sets we used were imported from the USA, where 27 Mhz AM was granted for Citizens use hence the term citizens band C.B.The standard set had 40 channels and an output of 4 watts .These were mostly 12v mobile sets like the one pictured above .

This was usually  coupled with a magmount Ariel .There was an art in setting up the ariel in tune with the C.B. ,adjusting the S.W.R. by using a meter and twiddling with the adjustable rod at the end of the Ariel whip. It could be difficult to chat at any distance during the day because of what was known as skip  the signals of other C.B.'s all over the world bouncing off the upper atmosphere and just making a wall of noise that the background noise filter SQUELCH could barely keep out , at night all the noise stopped and at dusk and dawn it was possible under the right conditions to talk long distance DX 

                                                    Heres an example of DX'ing on a C.B

                                         

We have a nice thread on facebook about C.B's
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=258912030858631&set=a.106292142787288.13913.100002195078462&type=1&theater


RADIO 1979
Up until May 1979 here in Ireland the only pop broadcasters were Pirate stations such as Radio Dublin, new local unlicensed stations such as Radio North West which  I worked on and  powerful Radio Luxembourg at night which was aimed at the U.K ,BBC Radio1 the U.K. pop station during the day.All broadcasting on MW
Then along came RTE Radio 2 on the 31'st of May.The Main MW signal came from Athlone.But it was on  also FM around Ireland and was soon re-branded Radio2fm
.

This was the first song that I heard  played when I tuned in to the newly opened RTE Radio 2

CARS 1979

                    The Ford Fiesta was starting to become a very popular car in 1979