I was in the car with my daughter with the car radio tuned to Cruise 1323, a local hits and memories AM radio station and on came “It”s Good News Week” the 1965 hit by British pop band Hedgehoppers Anonymous. As the opening beat commenced I knew exactly what it was and said to my daughter that it was the very first pop song I ever recall hearing.

It would have been on a large sideboard type valve radio my Grandfather had given to me. I was lying in bed, with the with radio tuned to 5AD. As I write the memories flood back of the time and DJs Big Bob Francis and John Vincent flood back. They are both now dead but were icons of our local radio scene in the 1960s and 1970s. Vinnie continued well into the 1980s when commercial FM launched in Adelaide. Big Bob was a late night talkback radio host for many years. 

Its Good News Week, just two minutes and five seconds long, Continue reading →