World's Best Radio Show
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infrogmationAnyone reading this ever listen to Happy Station, broadcast on Sundays (early evenings here in the New World) by Radio Netherlands?
I used to listen to the medium wave and short wave versions, relayed from Hilversum "Olanda" via the Dutch Antillies. I recall this version as being called "Happy Station 70", which gets no hits on google.
I only vaguely recall Eddie Startz, but long admired his replacement Tom Meyer's personable trilingualism switching around between English, Spanish, and Dutch. A mix of current pop hits from Europe, Latin America, and the Carribean, (maybe a few US hits, but I don't recall much) would be mixed with vintage recordings like one of Josephine Baker's recordings in French or Spike Jones novelty songs.
I thought this was The World's Best Radio Show. Sometimes it would be loud and clear, sometimes less so, and occasionally i was bummed when atmospheric conditions or interference from closer stations made it unlistenable.
From this website, I learn that "Happy Station" predated the post-WWII formation of Radio Netherlands, debuting back in 1928. It lasted until 1995.
60th anniversary sticker, from Hugh's Awesome Shortwave Recordings, which unfortunately has none of this show in its RealAudio files.
I used to listen to the medium wave and short wave versions, relayed from Hilversum "Olanda" via the Dutch Antillies. I recall this version as being called "Happy Station 70", which gets no hits on google.
I only vaguely recall Eddie Startz, but long admired his replacement Tom Meyer's personable trilingualism switching around between English, Spanish, and Dutch. A mix of current pop hits from Europe, Latin America, and the Carribean, (maybe a few US hits, but I don't recall much) would be mixed with vintage recordings like one of Josephine Baker's recordings in French or Spike Jones novelty songs.
I thought this was The World's Best Radio Show. Sometimes it would be loud and clear, sometimes less so, and occasionally i was bummed when atmospheric conditions or interference from closer stations made it unlistenable.
From this website, I learn that "Happy Station" predated the post-WWII formation of Radio Netherlands, debuting back in 1928. It lasted until 1995.
60th anniversary sticker, from Hugh's Awesome Shortwave Recordings, which unfortunately has none of this show in its RealAudio files.
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Date: 2004-12-12 01:05 pm (UTC)Yep, I remember the Happy Station program. I did once find some RealAudio of the beginning of the last show somewhere on teh interweb but can't find it now. I am 40 now and probably listened from about 10 to my late teens, plus the odd show afterwards.
It is always kind of sad to find these things have disappeared even if you stopped listening before they did (sadly this often happens, it is a zeitgeist thing).
Funnily enough, the 'podcast' of Adam Curry (who was an MTV VJ and is now rich from internet stuff) reminds me a lot of the random talking and conversations with a bit of music, so in a way its spirit lives on.
Happy Station
Date: 2004-12-14 02:59 pm (UTC)Wondering simply, -- Froggy
Re: Happy Station
Date: 2004-12-15 02:20 am (UTC)