What song takes ye back and why?

[bullitt]

CRACK ON TO MACON:
…Can you remember the DJ’S name on Luxembourg he was really quite mad and
used to have some weird and wonderful caller’s on his show

Radio Luxembourg!!, now that takes me back to when I started “continental” work in the early 80`s. I have great memories of being parked up in the evening around Europe, especially in southern Europe in the warmer summer months, sitting outside the truck with some beers or a bottle or two of the local wine and listening to RL. Used to have to leap in and out that cab every 10 minutes to move the tuning nob on the radio one micron to the left or right (now that shows your age if you remember doing that!! ) as the signal used to fade in and out alot.

Dj`s from then I remember are Benny Brown, funny as (zb) , Emperor Rosco, Tony (■■) Prince.

Used to love listening to their outside broadcasts from clubs down in Spain and Italy and if there was a thunder storm anywhere within a thousand miles then it used to pick it up.

Great days…really missed

[harry_gill]

hiya,
Even remember Radio Caroline, i must be older than tea.
thanks harry long retired.

[crack_on_to_macon]

bullitt:

CRACK ON TO MACON:
…Can you remember the DJ’S name on Luxembourg he was really quite mad and
used to have some weird and wonderful caller’s on his show

Radio Luxembourg!!, now that takes me back to when I started “continental” work in the early 80`s. I have great memories of being parked up in the evening around Europe, especially in southern Europe in the warmer summer months, sitting outside the truck with some beers or a bottle or two of the local wine and listening to RL. Used to have to leap in and out that cab every 10 minutes to move the tuning nob on the radio one micron to the left or right (now that shows your age if you remember doing that!! ) as the signal used to fade in and out alot.

Dj`s from then I remember are Benny Brown, funny as (zb) , Emperor Rosco, Tony (■■) Prince.

Used to love listening to their outside broadcasts from clubs down in Spain and Italy and if there was a thunder storm anywhere within a thousand miles then it used to pick it up.

Great days…really missed
[/quote
That DJ’S name i was thinking of was Bob Stewart he was a yank or Canadien summit like
that z/b nutter he was i was listening to him when Smurf who i was running with at the time
we was half way round the HO CHI MINH he called me on the CB and told me about the HERALD in Zee Bee
stopped at a bar and phoned home to reassure her indoor’s and carried on not realizing the true extent of
what had happened.

[kw]

Radio Luxembourg? Radio Caroline? I remember the very last broadcast from Radio London,so how old does that make me? (Don’t answer!)

Rod Stewart-Maggie May.I was just about to leave school when Rod had the No1 album and single on both sides of the Atlantic,and I had been a Rod fan since the early day’s of The Faces in the late sixties.In fact,I’m still a big Rod fan.

The album Autobahn by Kraftwerk brings back memories of when I used to shunt trucks around the yard in Faversham,it was being played by an Irish driver who had come in to tip a load of beef and I thought it a wonderful driving album.

Rush Rush by Paula Abdul.I got the album with the free stamps they used to give out at the BP in Capellen,and I played it all the way to Italy.
And all weekend,I had flat batteries on the Monday morning

[crack_on_to_macon]

mushroomman:

CRACK ON TO MACON:
Can you remember the DJ’S name on Luxembourg he was really quite mad and
used to have some wierd and wonderfull caller’s on his show

The only one who springs to mind at the moment was Ugly Ray Terret but there were a few of them and one of the earliest I can remember was Jack Jackson and his cat on a Sunday night.

I have been meaning to ask you this question for over two years. Are you Bob The Mayor of Canvey and did you or do you remember who had the C.B. name Pinocchio One running Italy in 1987 ?.

no mate the mayor of canvey is a guy called Barry Cleaver but i suppose i could claim to be the mayor of Milan haha
as for the handle pinnochio i have no idea as we only used personal’s but i know a lot of driver’s who should have wopping
great noses after some of the storie’s they have told HAHAHAHA

[wheel_nut]

KW:
Rod Stewart-Maggie May.I was just about to leave school when Rod had the No1 album and single on both sides of the Atlantic,and I had been a Rod fan since the early day’s of The Faces in the late sixties.In fact,I’m still a big Rod fan.

Radio Luxembourg? Radio Caroline? I remember the very last broadcast from Radio London,so how old does that make me? (Don’t answer!)

Autobahn KraftWerk 1975

so how old does that make me? (Don’t answer!)

So presuming you left school at 15 as was allowed in the olden days Maggie May topped both charts in October 1971 so you must be about 54

[kw]

Wheel Nut:
So presuming you left school at 15 as was allowed in the olden days Maggie May topped both charts in October 1971 so you must be about 54

I did say I was ‘about’ to leave school Malc.

I will be 53 on Jan 1st 2010

[rocky_7]

I used to have the shadows greatest hits on tape some of the tunes kept you going at a nice steady pace until I had it nicked in rumania.

[propa_lorry]

walking on the moon,the police,born to be alive,patric hernandez,atomic,blondie,girls talk,dave edmunds,my dads scammell crusader(HKT 364L) in 78/79 when i was 4,when he worked for coombe valley,i play these in my crusader still now and im 35,has to be done,puts a lump in me throat.
safety dance,men without hats,tell her about it,billy joel,coombe valley 1418 merc,with tandem bulker(donkey engine)runnin coal out of bettshanger pit,early 80’s.
against all odds,phil collins,my dads steetley roadtrain,A602 YWE,1984.
you think your’re a man,divine,when doves cry,prince,traction gb,daf 2800,B497 YKK,late84,early 85.
various ultravox,david bowie,tina turner,B763 VKR,C250 CKN,my dads own 112’s,1985.
on the road,motorhead,up to the limit,accept,the zoo,by 'the scorpions’this was my tape,D279 NKK,my dads own 112,shuntin trailers for husk out of dover docks up to lydden.

[bonkeydollocks]

Good thread mate.

Mine would have to be Roman Holliday with Don’t try to stop it. August 1983 and setting off for Crowther’s brickworks, Little Lever with a load of 5’ - dust at 5am on a Tilcon liveried Octopus.
The wagon had a cassette player (luxury ! ) and I took a tape that I had and played a recording of the previous days charts and always remember that one in particular !

Here’s the track : youtube.com/watch?v=NMXYcPnySxg

[robinswh]

anything by the late great Red Sovine (many available on u tube)

[colin_f_whitetrans]

rocky 7:
I used to have the shadows greatest hits on tape some of the tunes kept you going at a nice steady pace until I had it nicked in rumania.

I think they did you a favour there rocky

[ubym344]

coca cola kid:
Here are few of mine

1975 Rod Stewart Sailing, My first ever journey with a HGV in to Europe on the Norstar from Hull — Rotterdam. Playing on the ships radio was the top twenty & sailing was at number 1 as we set sail.

Mul of Kintyre Wings

Always reminds me of Frank Macshane at Fearns Tankers running down the M5 every time it came on the radio, He would weave across all three lanes while ever it was playing and the road was clear.

Imagine John Lennon
1980 I had just pulled of the M18 at Thorne, when the news came on the radio
Imagine there’s no countries It isn’t hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the people
Living life in peace

I heard it through the Grapevine, Marvin Gaye
1984 I was driving through Luxembourg in the early hours, I had just been listening to the song on tape & switched over to the
2 O’clock news to hear he’d been shot.

Got a Ticket for my Destination. Paul Simon

I always played this one when I loaded for anywhere in the EU except UK.
I’m sitting in the railway station. Got a ticket for my destination. On a tour of one-night stands my suitcase and guitar in hand.
And every stop is neatly planned for a poet and a one-man band. Homeward bound, I wish I was, Homeward bound,

Country Roads, John Denver

I always played this one when I loaded for home

Country Roads, take me home, to the place I belong: West Virginia, mountain momma, Take me home, country roads.

Those were the days my friend , Mary Hopkins

I think of these words all the time.

Those were the days my friend We thought they’d never end We’d sing and DRIVE forever and a day
We’d live the life we choose We’d fight and never lose For we were young and sure to have our way.

Cheers Mel

just read this old thread marvin gayes through the grapevine always reminds of 1968 I was 15 a load of us used to go to the con club in finchley and a girl we all fancied linda wilson she was gorgeous but would have nothing to do with us well she fainted on the dance floor and the bouncers were carrying her out above our heads and my mate barry mulroy started rummaging her ■■■■ and i said what are you doing he said she will never let me do this when she is awake I think of that every time I hear that song what happy innocent days

[bestbooties]

foden46:
Hiya Bestbooties If you go on you tube and type in TRUCKING THROUGH LIFE there is a song called how fast them trucks will go. I dont know who the singer is. Cant help you ther mate Regards Foden 46

This is the link,and I had no trouble identifying the singer as Dave Dudley.

youtube.com/watch?v=2hb4M9Xz … re=related

[bestbooties]

bullitt:

CRACK ON TO MACON:
…Can you remember the DJ’S name on Luxembourg he was really quite mad and
used to have some weird and wonderful caller’s on his show

Radio Luxembourg!!, now that takes me back to when I started “continental” work in the early 80`s. I have great memories of being parked up in the evening around Europe, especially in southern Europe in the warmer summer months, sitting outside the truck with some beers or a bottle or two of the local wine and listening to RL. Used to have to leap in and out that cab every 10 minutes to move the tuning nob on the radio one micron to the left or right (now that shows your age if you remember doing that!! ) as the signal used to fade in and out alot.

Dj`s from then I remember are Benny Brown, funny as (zb) , Emperor Rosco, Tony (■■) Prince.

Used to love listening to their outside broadcasts from clubs down in Spain and Italy and if there was a thunder storm anywhere within a thousand miles then it used to pick it up.

Great days…really missed

Used to tune into Luxembourg at night when I was running to the m/e in the mid '70’s.
The signal would fade out in southern Yugo,but I could always pick up a freak signal in Mosul,northern Iraq at about 2 in the morning!

[newmercman]

Speaking of picking up radio stations, there was a station called laser 558 that picked up when RL stopped, I used to listen to this quite a lot. I’ve also picked up Capital Gold in Spain & Italy.

[harry_gill]

hiya,
Winchester Cathedral, blew a tyre off in it’s shadow when the song was in the charts, sang the opening lines (badly) to the man at National Tyres when he requested my location, did’nt cut any ice though, still took them forever to come out.
thanks harry long retired.

[bestbooties]

Heard a couple of songs this week that instantly took me back 30 years.
“Take me home country roads”.Used to have it on a John Denver tape and would play it on the return leg of a m/e trip.
If I’d had a ■■■■ trip and been away for around 6 weeks,I would get a little emotional at the lines,“The radio reminds me of my home far away,driving down the road I get the feeling that I should have been home yesterday”
The other great song was,“You aint seen nothin’ yet” by Bachman Turner Overdrive that I would play at full blast while tanking it down the Tapline.

[wheel_nut]

And to fit in with thread revival, comes the shock news that The Monkees are reforming. That must be about 6 times…

I always confuse Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Titch with the Monkees who were Americans Micky Dolenz, Michael Nesmith and Peter Tork, and Englishman Davy Jones.

[harry_gill]

hiya,
“Show me the way to go home i’m tired and i want to go to bed” I never could map read.
thanks harry long retired