Welcome again to our Memory Radio Blog. It's time to look back at the music and memories of this week in June 1983.We have all your favorite features so let's get started!
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Mary Connolly Ooooo long time ago Dj x
PIRATE RADIO REMEMBERED
A look back at pirate radio in 1983
COUNTRY CLASSIC 1983
TOP MOVIE 1983
Still on the TV Networks with many scenes that keep re-appearing on the web
Cheech and Chong are invited to an international film festival
in
Amsterdam
TV 1983
Our favourite TV Show in June 1983
THE FALL GUY
Colt Seaver is a combination bounty hunter and stunt man. He drives a
big GMC truck with a eagle painted on it's hood. He chases after "bad
guys" and returns them to the Los Angeles area. He has two companions,
Howie and Jodie. These two companions usually follow Colt in his
adventures
Later we have the car we drove in 1983
THIS IS THE CAR WE WANTED TO DRIVE
WHAT WE BOUGHT IN 1983
We loved HB Ice Cream during the hot summer of 1983
FACEBOOK COMMENTS
Colm Spellman I used to love them Tongue Twisters
James Pep Moran What was a jumbo?
Memoryradio BoyleHi
James Just put up a photo of the Jumbo ice cream wrapper.It was a
sandwich of vanilla ice cream between two oatmeal biscuits covered in
the same chocolate as the choc-ice.Dermot
Suzanne McGee : I have that single...think it was one of the last i ever bought!!! £2.75? I must've had more money then! facebook comment
DJ'S CHOICE
The picture above of the vinyl single made me think of two things ,first of all how big of a deal it was to buy a chart single, back then.if the song was popular you had to get down there fast or it was sold out but the buzz you got holding that hard come by disc made the effort worthwhile.
Secondly I was just thinking about the set of decks I cut my teeth on,a set of mono FAL's bought from Aquarius Sound and Lighting in Lexlip.The FAL twin Decks took two men to carry them, that and the record box (often referred to as the coffin)
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Welcome back , it's great to have you here for another Memory Radio Blog,our featured year is 1986
FILM 1986
Remember Crocodile Dundee
Inspired by the true life exploits of Rodney Ansell
REMEMBER SLANE CASTLE 1986
Queen headlined the 1986 concert at Slane and here is the Set List (Songs in the order they were played). This list was used by the band and all the crew for everything from sound mixing to lighting and Security.
Maybe you were there,here's how it went
One Vision
Tie Your Mother Down
In the Lap of the Gods... Revisited
Seven Seas of Rhye
Vocal improvisation
Tear It Up
A Kind of Magic
Under Pressure
(Queen & David Bowie cover)
Another One Bites the Dust
Who Wants to Live Forever
I Want to Break Free
Impromptu
Gimme Some Lovin'
(The Spencer Davis Group cover)
Keep Yourself Alive
(Short improvised version)
Guitar Solo
Danny Boy
(part in the guitar solo)
Now I'm Here
Love of My Life
Is This the World We Created...?
(You're So Square) Baby I Don't Care
(Jerry Leiber cover)
Hello Mary Lou
(Ricky Nelson cover) ..Hello Mary Lou SEE OUR FAN VIDEO
Tutti Frutti
(Little Richard cover)
Bohemian Rhapsody
Hammer to Fall
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Encore:
Radio Ga Ga
Encore 2:
We Will Rock You
Friends Will Be Friends
We are the Champions
Outro
FAN VIDEO OF HELLO MARY LOU
Money 1986
The 20p coin was introduced to Ireland in 1986
A small batch of 20p coins were minted & dated in 1985 to test in vending machines,some of these coins that managed to make their way into circulation are very rare and sought after by coin collectors willing to pay large sums for them.Check in the back of that old drawer maybe you could be the lucky owner of one date marked 1985!
WHAT WE BOUGHT IN 1986
This is what a bag of Tayto Crisps looked like in 1986 although this is an older photo the bag didn't change for years. In 1986 a bag of Tayto Crisps cost around 20p (Irish punt) There was no foil pack and they had a simpler stronger taste which was magic when you got a fresh bag.
ICE CREAM
Do you remember cooling off with a Calippo
DRINKS 1986 : Ritz Cider was all the rage and cost £1.25 (Irish Punt)
COMPUTERS 1986
1986: Amstrad launched its first low-cost PC.The 1512 was a great success here in Ireland.
POP CHART 1986
SPONSORED BY MARGARET'S CAFE BOYLE
THE TOP TEN HITS FROM JUNE 1986
No1
1
Doctor & The Medics
Spirit In The Sky
2
Simply Red
Holding Back The Years
3
Nu Shooz
I Can't Wait
4
Robert Palmer
Addicted To Love
5
Peter Gabriel
Sledgehammer
6
The Real Thing
Can't Get By Without You (The Second Decade Remix)
7
Wham!
The Edge Of Heaven
8
A-ha
Hunting High And Low
9
Falco
Vienna Calling
10
Jaki Graham
Set Me Free
ROBERT PALMER......... ADDICTED TO LOVE
TV 1986
Here's an ad break from RTE1 back in 1986 Watch out for the RTE Guide.
Before the days of 24 hour TV, RTE 2 Close-Down 1986
Our first radio site is the superb Irish Pirates.com A great site and now a tribute to the late Bob Gallico of Super-Pirate Radio Nova fame
First of all thank YOU for pushing us up to a 1000 hits on this Blog
.With the bank holiday this week we're blogging a day late so we hope to
make it worth the wait.Our feature year is 1999 and we look at this
week in June 99 with the music and memories of the last year of the 20th
century
WHAT WE BOUGHT 1999
FACEBOOK CHAT ABOUT HB PRICE LIST
Ruth Regan Brennan chily willy only 12p
Tuesday at 20:28 Memoryradio Boyle Well spotted Ruth :)
Tuesday at 20:34
Pauline Kelly I rem little devils we're 5p omg I am so old!
Tuesday at 20:38
Catherine MC Guire you can get HB tub of icecream with brunch crumbs in it,yummie.
Tuesday at 20:59 ·
Jason Mcglynn Mmmmhh Bonanza ice creams.. loved them
Tuesday at 21:08
Tuesday at 21:26
Val McCormack I loved sky ice-cream oh and Freaky Foot
Remember when a Brunch Ice cream cost just 40p Irish punt
A pint of Guinness cost in today's money €2.74
Don't try this with your smart phone Remember when a Nokia 5210 was the coolest thing ever
1999 was the year of the stuffed crust pizza
There's lots happening at Memory Radio Boyle we're working on a new website at the moment,there isn't much content up on it yet I'm working on the look of the pages and I'm very happy with the result CLICK HERE FOR A PREVIEW
I had hoped to have the Parkers video up this weekend but it's proving to be more time consuming than I had reckoned As soon as it's edited we'll have it up on the Blog.
We look back at this week in 1999 and start with the Chart Sponsored By Margaret's Cafe Boyle
TOP 10 JUNE 1999
1
Shanks & Bigfoot
Sweet Like Chocolate
2
The Wiseguys
Ooh La La
3
Shania Twain
That Don't Impress Me Much
4
Baz Luhrmann
Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)
5
Jamiroquai
Canned Heat
6
Sixpence None The Richer
Kiss Me
7
Chicane featuring Maire Brennan
Saltwater
8
Backstreet Boys
I Want It That Way
9
Boyzone
You Needed Me
10
Precious
Say It Again
No2 in June 1999
The band was formed in 1994 with two members, Touche (Theo Keating) and Regal (Paul Eve). They were music production partners from 1990
Regal left the band in 1997 to pursue his career as co-founder of the
UK's Bronx Dogs, and Touche worked on the second Wiseguys album, The Antidote.
This was released in 1998, and contained their two most famous songs
"Ooh La La" and "Start the Commotion". "Ooh La La" was a minor UK hit in
April 1998, then in March 1999 it was re-released as a single and went to #2 in the UK Singles Chart following its use in a popular TV commercial for Budweiser In 2001,
The Wiseguys disbanded in 2001.
COUNTRY CLASSIC
No3 on this weeks Chart "That Don't Impress Me Much" was written by Shania Twain and her producer husband
Robert John "Mutt" Lange, and was originally released to North American
Country radio stations in late 1998 as the sixth Country single released
from her 1997 album Come On Over. It became her third biggest single on
the Billboard Hot 100 and her biggest hit in the UK, where it sold
763,000 copies. It also topped the singles charts in Belgium, Ireland,
Norway and the Netherlands.
DJ'S CHOICE
As the flipside of our country classic this dance re-mix was a great floor-filler in 1999
The lyrics are taken from a famous essay written in 1997 by Mary Schmich, a columnist with the Chicago Tribune.
There are songs that
are perfect for their time and this is one them ,It's a life long memory
,that day of the summer holidays when your class break up for the last
time and we identify with American High School who do graduation like
no other.With the new millennium on the way the Class of 99 felt that
this was a special year and this song captured all those feelings becoming a
surprise hit mainly due to the power of the early days of Social
Networking mostly on Napster and other peer to peer sites
TV 1999
Friends was one of the most watched TV show in 1999 . The series ran for a decade between 1994 and 2004 and it''s 2004 finale attracted 52.5 million viewers in America alone.
The sitcom which launched the careers of Jennifer Aniston and Courteney Cox, revolves around a group of friends living in New York city.
Saturday Morning TV
This is how 1970'S SI FI imagined 1999 would look ,It made great kids TV when the year actually came round
TOP MOVIE 1999
Jim, Oz, Finch and Kevin are four friends who make a pact that before they graduate they will all lose their virginity. The hard job now is how to reach that goal by prom night. Whilst Oz begins singing to grab attention and Kevin tries to persuade his girlfriend, Finch tries any easy route of spreading rumors and Jim fails miserably. Whether it is being caught on top of a pie or on the Internet, Jim always end up with his trusty sex advice from his father. Will they achieve their goal of getting laid by prom night? or will they learn something much different.
1999 POWER MACINTOSH COMPUTER
The
Power Macintosh G3 (Blue & White) series unveils a dramatically
different translucent "blue and white" enclosure with a "fold down door"
on the side that makes the system extremely easy to upgrade. It also
introduced Firewire -- a then new high speed peripheral connection
standard -- and was the first "pro" system to include USB (along with an
ADB port for "legacy" use). It dropped traditional Mac serial ports and
onboard SCSI.
The Apple Power Macintosh G3/350 (Blue & White), based on the
Yosemite architecture, features a 350 MHz PowerPC 750 (G3) processor 64 MB or 128 MB of RAM, a 6 GB or 12 GB
Ultra ATA/33 hard drive, a 32X CD-ROM drive or a 5X DVD-ROM drive, and
an ATI Rage 128 GL graphics card with 16 MB of SDRAM
There are
three modestly different configurations of this model -- M6668LL/A --
which shipped equipped with 64 MB of RAM, a 6.0 GB hard drive, and a 5X
DVD-ROM drive for US$1999, M6666LL/A -- which shipped with 128 MB of
RAM, a 12.0 GB hard drive, a 32X CD-ROM drive, and a Zip 100 drive for
US$2499, and M7556LL/A -- introduced June 1, 1999 -- which swapped the
DVD-ROM drive for a CD-ROM drive but is otherwise identical to
M6668LL/A. However, the revised configuration sold for only US$1599.
Mike Edgar comments on our facebook page
"My
first PC had a Hard Drive of 24Mb !!!!! it ran on an Intel 8086
processor and had no windows interface so each command had to be typed
in cd\ etc. It had no interconnection with any other PC until modems
came along which had an audio connection achieved by placing the
telephone handset onto a mic/speaker arrangement after first manually
dialling the recepient... It seems unbelievably cumbersome now but it
beat the hell out of manually typing a letter..."
Top News Story of 1999
The Web everywhere, Microsoft's battles, and the Y2K bug lying in wait (maybe).
At
the end of a decade that's seen tremendous advancements in technology,
the biggest news was not about a dazzling new invention. Rather, it was a
short-sighted programming decision made decades ago that created the
technology story that this year spread like out-of-control ivy and poked
its tentacles into virtually every media outlet in the world.
Y2K.
By now everyone who doesn't live in a cave (as well as those who plan
to move into one for New Year's Eve) has heard of the world's most
famous computer bug. It didn't start out as a bug, it started out as a
memory-saving programming technique: Why use four digits for a date when
you can use two? Alas, that question has now been answered, and in the
process untold billions of dollars have been spent--and millions of
consultants employed--to ensure that our computer-controlled world
doesn't come to an end because it thinks it's 1900 when the clock ticks
over to January 1, 2000. By now, most technology professionals seem
confident that on New Year's Day, Y2K will be one big non-story.
However, viruses set to trigger on January 1 may provide some diversion
for the thousands of data center staff (and computer journalists) who
have to work over the holiday "just in case."
Woman from Aran Islands celebrates 105th birthday
Bridget Dirrane from the Aran Islands, celebrated her 105th birthday,
and talked of seeing in her third century. Bridget knew many of the 1916
leaders, and later worked with the Kennedy family in the United States.
She also made history two years ago when she became the oldest woman in
the world to receive a university degree
The Apple Power Macintosh G3/350 (Blue & White), based on the
Yosemite architecture, features a 350 MHz PowerPC 750 (G3) processor 64 MB or 128 MB of RAM, a 6 GB or 12 GB
Ultra ATA/33 hard drive, a 32X CD-ROM drive or a 5X DVD-ROM drive, and
an ATI Rage 128 GL graphics card with 16 MB of SDRAM
