| Ireland in the Fixties ~
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The portable record-player, with auto-changer
could play up to ten 7" records (singles and/or E.P.s) in
succession. For bands and groups, please see our showbands
and beat-groups archive. Here we will focus on some records,
radio-programmes and music-papers from the Fixties. L.P.s and
E.P.s came in strong, glossy card covers while singles usually
came in cheap paper bags with the record-label logo. In
countries such as Sweden, Germany and Netherlands, singles came
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Pop Weekly was an A4 glossy which sold well in
the late '50s and early '60s. Not as heavy as Melody Maker and
NME, yet more serious than Fabulous and Jackie. |
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We tuned in to Radio Luxembourg to hear the
latest pop hits. Barry Aldis and Stuart Henry were two of their
top presenters. Both are now deceased. |
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"Hello, friends — this is Horace Batchelor, the inventor of
the fabulous Infra-Draw system. You too can start to win really
worthwhile dividends using my method." Keynsham, a little
town near Bristol became a familiar household name to millions
of Radio Luxembourg listeners across Europe in the 1950s and
1960s — thanks to a local betting expert. Self-styled "football
pools king" Horace Batchelor, in his Radio Luxembourg
Infra-Draw ad would spell out, "that's K-E-Y-N-S-H-A-M".
Customers followed his unique "infra draw" tip system, which
forecast which matches would be drawn in the pools. He put the
otherwise little-known town on the map by spelling out its name
letter by letter so listeners would address their applications
correctly when ordering tips by post. |
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