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IF YOU ENJOY THE TOP MUSIC FROM ACROSS THE POND, 

 OFTEN INCLUDING SEVERAL LIVE PERFORMANCES FROM THE ROCK OVER LONDON STUDIOS, MANY ACOUSTIC

RARE INTERVIEWS

SPECIAL FEATURES

EXCLUSIVES

AND HOSTED BY ONE OF BRITAIN'S TOP DJ'S AND EXPERTS

THIS SHOW WILL BE YOUR CUP OF TEA, SO TO SPEAK!  READ ON!

AHOY MATEYS

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WHEN DJ'S WERE ALLOWED TO BE DJ'S AND NOT JUST ROBOTS PLAYING 'MOST MUSIC' AND READING CANNED LINES, AND WHEN SHOWS HAD SPECIAL RARE INTERVIEWS AND OFTEN FASCINATING THEMES, AND NOT JUST THE SAME TOP 20 SONGS EVERY HOUR, OVER AND OVER

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AND HOW DO YOU DEFINE RARENESS??

THERE WERE NO MORE THAN 170 LPS OR CDS PRESSED FOR EACH RADIO SHOW.  THIS REPRESENTED THE TOP 170 RADIO MARKETS IN THE COUNTRY AND ONLY ONE STATION IN EACH MARKET COULD AIR THE SHOW.  

STATIONS IN MARKETS BELOW THE TOP 170 (THERE ARE 306 MARKETS IN THE UNITED STATES) HAD TO TAKE THE SATELLITE FEED OF THE SHOW FROM UNITED STATIONS RADIO NETWORKS, THE SYNDICATOR OF THE SERIES)

AND, DUE TO CONTRACTUAL LEGAL OBLIGATIONS, EACH RADIO STATION WAS ALLOWED TO AIR EACH SHOW EXACTLY ONCE AND NO MORE.  

SO, MOST RADIO STATIONS JUST DESTROYED THEM AFTER AIRING SINCE THEY WERE USELESS TO THE STATION AFTER AIRING.  THERE IS NO TELLING HOW MANY OF EACH SHOW SURVIVED.  WHO KNOWS - THIS COULD BE THE ONLY ONE.

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OK, A SMALL DIVERSION, WHO WAS WALTER WINCHELL?  (I WAS A TEACHER SO I AM ALWAYS AT MY JOB!!!)

AND ALL THE SHIPS AT SEA  (CREDIT TO WALTER WINCHELL IF YOU ARE OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER WHO HE IS...SADLY, I DO!  IT WAS HIS BEGINNING OF EVERY ONE OF HIS NIGHTLY NEWS SHOWS BACK IN THE DAY...WAY BACK IN THE DAY!!!)

Walter Winchell (April 7, 1897 - February 20, 1972) was a syndicated American newspaper columnist and radio news commentator Winchell began his newspaper career as a Broadway reporter, critic and columnist for New York tabloids. He rose to national prominence in the 1930s with the Hurst newspaper chain syndication and a popular radio program. He was known for an innovative style of gossipy -staccato news briefs, jokes, and jazz age slang. Biographer Neal Gabler  claimed that his popularity and influence "turned journalism into a form of entertainment"

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KEITH'S KOLLECTABLES PRESENTS ONE OF THE RAREST RADIO SHOWS THAT EVER AIRED BECAUSE OF ITS ORIGIN AND CONTENT

ROCK OVER LONDON

 LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT THIS SHOW AND THEN IF YOU DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT RADIO SHOWS, KEEP READING AND I WILL GIVE IT MY BEST SHOT FOR YOU.

  It  aired weekly on the Rock Over London Radio Network.

It featured the top UK hits of the week along with rare interviews, retrospectives, special features, and inside information on UK music. This made the show even more unique and fun.

Rock Over London was a one hour radio programme hosted by  UK disc jockey  Graham Dene. It aired the latest hot new UK hits, usually before they were hits or even recognized in the US, and it 'counted down' the week's top 5 songs. It was how most rock music lovers encountered a lot of the UK artists that often didn't have hits yet on the US charts . The likes of Echo & The Bunnymen, Talk Talk, China Crisis, the Waterboys, even New Order. 

Graham Dene, after a period as a disc jockey on Edgware General Hospital's radio, and at United Biscuits Networks  he became famous on  Capital Radio in London in the 1970s, having joined from Radio City  in Liverpool. He took over the breakfast show from Kenny Everett in May 1975, and stayed there until Fellow DJ Mike Smith took over the slot in July 1980. When Smith left to rejoin BBC Radio 1  in 1982, Dene returned for a second stint as breakfast host, staying until March 1987. 

In the 1980s and 90's, Dene hosted Rock Over London, that was produced and distributed to many radio stations in the United States, particularly stations that programmed  top UK music, new wave or new, eclectic music.

Dene was a favorite of Princess Diana and met her for the first time when she came into the Capital Radio studios in London early 80s - at the time, she was a patron of our charity Help A London child.

'The staff had lined up downstairs in the office to meet her, and she was walking along, shaking hands and having a brief chat. It was very nice, very formal.

Dene said, 'Princes William and Harry were very young at that time, and I had previously been told that because of the boys being early, she used to get up early, and tune into my breakfast show - she loved Capital and loved pop music.

'That morning before the line-up, I had joked on air to the listeners about meeting her that evening and how nerve racking it would be, and I said: ‘I just hope I’ve not got a sweaty hand.’

'That evening, when she came to me, she shook my hand and said, "Oh, hello Graham," and began to walk away. But then she turned back to me and said: "Oh, by the way Graham, the hand was perfectly dry."

'So she had been listening to the show that morning!

'What Princess Diana didn’t know though was that there was a curtain behind me, and just before she had got to me in the lineup, I had wiped my hand on it to make sure it wasn’t sweaty!

'After that meeting, I was asked by the Prince’s Trust concert organisers of the Prince's Trust concerts to compare three of them, one at the Royal Albert Hall, one at Wembley Arena, and another one in Birmingham at the NEC.'

Princess Diana asked me to dedicate Uptown Girl to her on my show

'At another thank you party, this time held at the old London Air Studios owned by record producer Sir George Martin, Diana came running over to me saying: "Graham, Graham, can you play a song for me in the morning?" I said "of course I could, what would you like?" But she couldn’t make up her mind.

'In the end, she decided on Billy Joel’s Uptown Girl, which I thought was extremely appropriate.

'The next morning, as far as I was aware, nobody else knew about this - it was our little secret.

'I had planned to play the song at around 8.15am. We went to the main 8am news, and at the end of the news bulletin read by Douglas Cameron, he revealed that I would be playing a song for Princess Diana on my show. 

'I sat there flabbergasted - he had beaten me to it! Somebody had leaked it, but goodness knows who it was. So, I went straight into Uptown Girl after the news, and afterwards I said: "I hope he appreciates the royalties!"

'To this day, I still have no idea how that happened.'

Princess Diana sent me a mug with a photo of her - it was just her sense of humour!

'One day, a package arrived for me in the studio, with a mug inside. It was a white mug, with a caricature of Diana on it - she was wearing a low-cut blue leotard, and had a top hat and cane in her hands, while doing a high kick.

'It was after Princess Diana performed a three-minute dance to Billy Joel's Uptown Girl, alongside ballet star Wayne Sleep in December 1985.

'She bought the mug in Kensington Market, apparently, and sent them to various people and I was one of them. It showed her personality and her wonderful sense of humour, and the fact that she loved dancing.'

Diana called me in the studio on my birthday - I thought it was a wind up

'It was my birthday and I was in the studio, when suddenly a call came through on the internal photo. I wasn’t on the air, so I picked it up and said "hello". This voice said "oh hello Graham, it’s the Princess of Wales here…" It sounded like a PA we had at the time called Nicky, so I said "Oh pull the other one! Come on, very good!" thinking it was a wind up.

'Then Millie Dunn, who was a very good friend of Diana’s who worked at Capital Radio, raced into the studio, saying: "It’s her!". And I thought "oh my god". I went back on the phone at that moment. The record I was playing on air was coming to an end and I had to go to an advert break. So I had to say to Princess Diana, "I’m so sorry, but could you please hang on." While we did two minutes of adverts - while she was on hold!

'Afterwards, I spoke to her and very sheepishly apologised, explaining that I thought it was someone taking the mickey. She was very good about it - she just laughed and said: "Oh, I just wanted to wish you a happy birthday to you.’”

Diana sat in for my final breakfast show - and stayed for a cup of tea

'It was arranged by Diana’s friend Millie that Diana would come into the studio for my very final Breakfast Show in 1986.

'I remember reading the news headlines at 8.30am, and the door opened and Diana came in and sat down for the final 30 minutes of the show. She was very relaxed, wearing a sweater and jeans.

'I asked her whether she would like to come on air and say hello, but she declined, she thought it was better not to. She opened her handbag to pull out the original Top Gun soundtrack, and she wanted me to play the theme tune.

'We managed to get a scratchy version of it from the library to play as we couldn’t play cassettes. I guess she was a Top Gun fan, but she certainly loved the soundtrack.

'It was a nerve-racking half an hour; not only was it my last breakfast show ever, which is a difficult moment, but Princess Diana was sitting across from me, staring at me with those lovely eyes! It was wonderful and difficult at the same time.

'I also asked her if she would like me to dedicate a song to her husband. So I played a song and said, "that was for Charles in Kensington. Just let you know your wife wants you to know she will be back for lunch".

'After the show had finished, we went downstairs along with her security guard, and I made her a cup of tea in a plastic cup, just like the rest of us.

'When I showed her out, you can imagine the stares from people coming into work - they had no idea she would be there and they couldn’t believe it. There was a lot of shock and surprise, and these people were used to seeing big stars coming into the Capital studio.

'It was very exciting, and I’m sure they’ve dined out on it ever since!'

Princess Diana told me a VERY rude joke - she had a very cheeky sense of humour

'I’d met Diana quite a few times before when this happened. It was after the Prince’s Trust concert at Wembley in 1988, there was a reception for everybody involved in the Hilton hotel in Kensington. Every huge pop star at the time was there - Phil Collins, Peter Gabriel, Joe Cocker, Elton John, Rick Astley, the Bee Gees.

'I arrived, and the event organiser Peter Smith came up to me and pulled me through the hotel, saying, "where have you been, she’s been waiting for you, she’s asking for you". I said "who", and he replied with, "the princess!" He ushered me into a conference room.

'He opened the door and there she was - waiting for me! Wow. And she turned to me and said: "Graham, I want to tell you a joke." And then she told me this very saucy joke about Miss Piggy and Kermit the Frog. It was a very rude joke and it’s better if I don’t say it - it would make anyone blush! Let’s just say Princess Diana had a very, very cheeky sense of humour.'

How Diana greeted my sick mum said everything about her kind nature

'A few years after I’d met Diana, The Prince and Princess of Wales were hosting a thank you party at Kensington Palace, for everybody who had been part of the Prince’s Trust.

'I was able to take a guest along, and I asked my mother, Vera. She wasn’t very well at the time and found it difficult to walk, but I took her along as I thought it would be a very special evening for her.

'Diana knew this. She saw me and my mother, who was sitting down at the time, and Diana came over to say hello to my mum.

'My mum tried to stand up to greet Diana, but Diana said: "No, you sit in the chair," and Diana knelt down to my mother. I just thought that kind and thoughtful gesture said everything about Diana. She was so welcoming. It was just so lovely.'

In sports, Graham Dene was a wide-eyed four-year-old when his dad took him to Chelsea. As a North Londoner, perhaps it should have been Arsenal or Spurs - but his dad had a Chelsea season ticket and I’m told I spent most of the match tipping the seats up and down.

I loved playing football at my junior school but then ended up being dispatched to a rugby-playing school – a sport ill-suited to my build and it wasn't for me. Years later, I was lucky enough to go to the 1966 World Cup Final and I still have the programme. I don't think I realised quite what a place in history that day would have. I also happened to be on holiday in Mexico at the time of the 1986 World Cup, the year of Maradona's ‘hand of God’ and again went to the final. 

During my time at Capital Radio in London in the mid ‘70s and '80s, I was playing in various ‘showbiz’ charity events and teamed up frequently with David Hamilton. He was at the BBC, but we became long-time friends on and off the field.

One memorable charity game was against the ’66 World Cup-winning side - held at the old White City stadium which hosted one of the '66 World Cup matches. There I was, running down the right wing, with Jackie Charlton up against an unfit me. As I reached him, he took obvious pity on me and discretely called out: "go on, son, just run past me". Despite his attempted generosity, I still failed miserably! My footballing days came to an end at Barnet FC when I suffered a cruciate ligament injury, carried off the pitch by their manager Barry Fry! 

I also played cricket for the Bunburys, established by the late David English. They do so much good work with Under-15s, many of whom go on to great things. When David died the England team wore black armbands. I played for their charity side which included many big names such as Rory Bremner, Gary Lineker; and I can still picture Bill Wyman in the slips with a fag in his mouth. 

My dad always tried to persuade me to play golf. He'd go off and play every Sunday and I remember thinking it rather odd seeing him practice his putting on the carpet at home.

Ironically, following his death, we went on holiday to Florida and my golfing friend suggested going to a nearby course and that was my first taste of the sport. My wife Julie kindly bought me some lessons back home and I've been playing ever since. I only found out when I sold my first set of clubs that they were made for ladies!

Have I got any better since the mid '90s? No, quite the opposite but I do practice putting on the carpet at home!

 Sally Stratton did most  of the interviews, and reviews and was the Rock Over London producer.

THIS SERIES PRODUCED TWO SHOWS EVERY WEEK.  ONE VERSION OF THE SHOW  FALLS UNDER THE AOR FORMAT AND THE OTHER VERSION THE HAC VERSION.  BOTH ARE DESCRIBED  BELOW AND THE VERSION LISTED IS NOTED IN THE LISTING TITLE.  BOTH BELONG IN YOUR COLLECTION OF GREAT MUSIC FROM THE UNITED KINGDOM.

Album-oriented rock (AOR, originally called album-oriented radio) is an fm radio format  created in the United States in the late 1960s that focuses on the full repertoire of rock albums and is currently associated with classic rock

US radio stations dedicated to playing album tracks by rock artists from the hard rock and progressive rock genres initially established album-oriented radio. In the mid-1970s, AOR was characterized by a layered, mellifluous sound and sophisticated production with considerable dependence on melodic hooks. The AOR format achieved tremendous popularity in the late 1960s to the early 1980s through research and formal programming to create an album rock format with great commercial appeal.

From the early 1980s onward, the abbreviation AOR transitioned from "album-oriented radio" to "album-oriented rock", meaning radio stations specialized in classic rock recorded during the late 1960s and 1970s.

The term is also commonly conflated with album oriented rock , a radio format that also uses the initialism "AOR" and covers not only album-oriented rock but also album tracks and deep cuts from a range of other rock genres, such as  soft rock and pop rock

In comparison is CHR radio

Contemporary hit radio (also known as CHR, contemporary hits, hit list, current hits, hit music, top 40, or pop radio) that focuses on playing current and recurrent popular music as determined by the  top 40 charts. There are several subcategories, dominantly focusing on rock, pop or urban music. Used alone, CHR most often refers to the CHR-pop format. The term contemporary hit radio was coined in the early 1980s by Radio & Records  magazine to designate Top 40  stations which continued to play hits from all musical genres as pop music splintered into  different formats.

These stations typically are hybrids of the contemporary hit radio (CHR/pop) and HAC formats. This format contains a strong focus on current charts, contemporary and recurrent hits as well as placing a minority of older, classic hits onto the playlist. Adult CHR stations play pop-friendly rhythmic, dance and hip hop titles alongside standard mainstream pop and pop rock fare, and often shying away from the most rhythmic CHR titles until they are established hits on the format.

This show aired December 31, 1993 and was show #94-01

Cue sheets are available for this show and are in excellent condition  a very few with markings from the radio station board operator as he/she played the show on air.

You won't hear any local commercials but you will find that even those national commercials in between show segments are fun to listen to after 32+ years.  Funny how back then we hated the commercials back then but now they, too, bring back fond memories of our growing up. Especially from national companies no longer with us that we also grew up with like K-Mart, Radio Shack, and more.

     You will love this show and it belongs in your collection.    

  SO WHAT ARE THE BIG QUESTIONS IF YOU ARE NOT SURE ABOUT RADIO SHOWS? 

 LET ME TELL YOU BUT FIRST....

Allow me tell you my own personal story of discovering the wonder of radio shows.

  I discovered radio shows quite by accident while reading one of my favorite (long since departed) magazines called "Discoveries" (It was later bought by the same company that publishes "Goldmine" which I personally always considered a lesser publication, but that is another story.

  This was before ebay became the driving force in radio show sales (and everything else) in the later 1990's.

 I was especially attracted in "Discoveries" to a two page (or more) spread in each issue by a guy called "The Old Hippie". 

 Let me tell you, the Old Hippie had it all.  He was a real pioneer.  Way before anyone knew what radio shows even were let alone that they could be bought as rarities; The Old Hippie had the market cornered.

Most shows that he advertised were way beyond my budget but I drooled over those pages every issue and once in awhile I could afford one or two. 

 Now, I have attempted in my own humble way to take on the mantle of "The Old Hippie".  I have listed over 11,000 unique radio shows of all genres for you all to drool over, and most at prices, hopefully, that collectors can better afford!  I want to make available to collectors what I could not afford and especially in these days of higher prices and lesser availability.

Radio shows are harder and harder to find in quantity and the prices for the ones still out there just go higher and higher as they disappear from the market.  However, because of my large presence on eBay, I am often contacted with selling offers, some of which I take advantage of and some I have to pass on because of the prices. I have found that by buying in bulk, even when many or most of the shows are lesser known but still amazing shows, I can offer the best prices on all titles.

  NOW, EXACTLY WHAT IS A RADIO SHOW? 

 WHY COLLECT THEM?  

WHERE DO THEY COME FROM? 

 Well, those are good questions, especially if you have never known of them.  

Radio Shows are syndicated productions by one of several large and small distributors who supply broadcast product to radio stations normally during weekends when the usual air personalities have a break.  

Many air on Saturday or Sunday mornings, afternoons or evenings or less often during overnight segments and weekdays.

  They often feature some of the best known voices for their genre from across the country thus the Dick Clark's and Casey Kasem's and Rick Dees and Dick Bartley and so many others.  

People collect them for various reasons. 

 Some just collect the series because they like it and want them all.  

Some collect their favorite artists or genre of music.  Rather than an album download, they have a unique presentation of their favorite artist or music not available anywhere else and always with dj comments which were very entertaining. 

 Some collect interviews with their favorite artists as most shows had interview segments. 

 Some collect commercials  

They were first distributed on reel to reel tape or on lp, later on CD and even later (after 2000 for most shows) on CDR.  Now they are not available at all to collectors since they are distributed only through digital download

These shows become rarer and rarer every day because the people who buy them hold on to them. If they do later sell, it is to make a huge profit since prices go up all the time.

 The shows that you get now and hold on to will never decrease in value and only increase.  

 I have prided myself since the start to provide the best and fairest cost with a  guarantee that you will be happy or I refund your money.  I sell them for near what I bought them for.  I give volume discounts and discount postage always.  As the postal service increases their rates, my shipping rates over the years have decreased.

  And, I have one of the biggest radio show libraries in the world consisting of over fifteen thousand unique shows, so many that I don't even know all that I have and am sometimes amazed when I go to look for one show and find another that I did not realize I had. 

 Finally, it is Americana at its best. 

 Whether the show be from the 60's or 2000's, rock, countdown, oldies, country, classical, religious, jazz or big band, it is unique and home grown.

  And you just can't find them anywhere. 

 Even record stores that still exist will rarely have any.   Radio shows are wonderful representations of the real golden age of music radio. 

 And every  one you buy is  an original, not a copy, not a remake - all are limited editions with a maximum of 170 copies pressed for each show. 

  Once you get hooked, like me, it is a love affair for life!  

Welcome to the Club!

Also, keep in mind that this and all radio shows are not just about the music - the music for the most part can be found anywhere.  It is the mixture of great music and great announcing that makes it so entertaining. 

 As well, it is a piece of radio history.  You just aren't going to find these shows anymore.  Think of what they will be worth in a few years!  (IF you wanted to sell.) 

 I am selling to share with other music lovers what I was able to get at a reasonable price.  

   As always, I charge only shipping on the first show you buy for U.S. buyers so the more you buy the more you save in shipping charges.  And for my international friends, shipping is exclusively handled by the eBay International Shipping Program. 

So, let's sail together on the 'SS Keith's Kollectables' and sail into parts unknown seeking the best radio shows that ever aired that you can treasure forever.

It's pure gold, Mateys!!!

 Good Luck and God Bless You. 

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