Always Muddled

The "Blue Screen Of Death" appeared on my laptop for the first time in a rare occurence after getting hold of it just over a year ago.

I don't know what exactly triggered it but I was listening to one of Chris Moyles podcasts as it happened. That probably says a few things, but I'll still be up pretty early to hear his long awaited return to the airwaves tomorrow morning with new jingles, new features and so on to celebrate his fifth anniverary on air.

I still think he should have come back last Monday as it would have been on the exact date of the fifth of Janurary when the show started back in 2004. I've still got that show on MD although I remember only just waking up at 6:59am and rushing to the recorder to start it off and in good timing as The Darkness's "I Believe In A Thing Called Love" was fading out and the pips came on preceeding that infamous song which announced Moyles's arrival.

As if things couldn't get any more muddled last night, I woke up with Peter Young's voice coming out of my Bug although that was because I had recorded one of his shows onto my SD card and had probably pushed one of the buttons that plays the audio on there.

I've now got Tony Blackburn playing on Smooth until 10am when the one and only Robbie Vincent makes a return to the Jazz FM airwaves for another week.

In the last couple of days I've been editing the audio from these very impressive Youtube uploads of Chart Of The Year Rundowns from Radio 1 throughout the 80s, into individual MP3s for each show and it's a good thing that the user has uploaded them in stereo which seems to be the trend these days on Youtube and much awaited.

Whilst editing the ones with Tommy Vance, he plays the jingle that goes
"TV! Play That Rock And Roll" which for obvious reasons is difficult to listen to without hearing Ross Goodlass shout "Tudor!" at the right points.

I can remember when we recorded what would become one of the most infamous jingles to be played on the Smoke Radio airwaves but it did the job and in my opinion kept the memory of one of the greatest rock presenters on the radio alive.
Yes, Edward Thomas Burke.

Seriously though, I'm not sure what T.V. himself would have thought but I'd love to find out who made that jingle originally.