Jimmy Young RIP

[JtB]

Looks like it really is BFN from a broadcasting legend from my youth.

 

[Fab Foodie]

TTFN.

 

[classic33]

That's the morning crew gone.

 

[TVC]

What's the recipe today Jim?

Only discussed the other day that my early memories of time off primary school for chicken pox, German measles and the miriad of mundane infections a developing imune system falls foul of were narrated by Jimmy Young. The recipes and the seemingly constant repetition of Big Yellow Taxi by Joni Mitchell playing on the 'music centre' whilst my mother did motherly things and I lay on the draylon sofa being generally fed up.

Always slightly in the shadow of Terry Wogan, you knew he really wanted, and deserved the breakfast gig. RIP.

 

[slowmotion]

What a trooper. RIP.

 

[Accy cyclist]

I remember listening to him on our old radiogram. R.I.P Jimmy.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_kJ1A_rcKg

 

[slowmotion]

I remember listening to him on our old radiogram. R.I.P Jimmy.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_kJ1A_rcKg

Our family radiogram had two flaps that opened vertically. One had the turntable but I can't remember what lurked beneath the other one. Was it a wireless with Hilversum somewhere on the dial?

 

[biggs682]

That's the morning crew gone.

No Ken Bruce is still going strong

 

[Dave7]

What about The Man from Laramie ? Is he still going ?

 

[raleighnut]

95 is a good innings, RIP

 

[Accy cyclist]

Our family radiogram had two flaps that opened vertically. One had the turntable but I can't remember what lurked beneath the other one. Was it a wireless with Hilversum somewhere on the dial?

It wasn't exactly ours but my grandparents. I'd listen to it when i stayed there. It was a 1954 Bush, with the radio having the usual Luxembourg, Vienna, Berlin,Stockholm etc frequencies(I can't remember Hilversumhe being on but maybe it was). The radio stopped working years ago.because of a dodgy valve or something. my mum had the thing in her room of the home she's in until my brother decided he wanted it so it's now in his latest place of abode. I'll probably never see it again.

This isn't a brilliant picture but it's the same one i reckon.

 

[snorri]

Our family radiogram had two flaps that opened vertically. One had the turntable but I can't remember what lurked beneath the other one. Was it a wireless with Hilversum somewhere on the dial?

Yes,and Kalundborg, Prague, Moscow, Athlone etc.we had real choices in the good old days before the EU.

 

[raleighnut]

It wasn't exactly ours but my grandparents. I'd listen to it when i stayed there. It was a 1954 Bush, with the radio having the usual Luxembourg, Vienna, Berlin,Stockholm etc frequencies(I can't remember Hilversumhe being on but maybe it was). The radio stopped working years ago.because of a dodgy valve or something. my mum had the thing in her room of the home she's in until my brother decided he wanted it so it's now in his latest place of abode. I'll probably never see it again.

This isn't a brilliant picture but it's the same one i reckon.

Now this one will sound fantastic,


QUAD 22 Pre-Amp and FM2/ AM2 tuners built into a cabinet, it may have a single QUAD 11 valve power amp (mono) or it could have a pair (stereo) but either set-up would 'knock spots off' the majority of modern kit.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Now this one will sound fantastic,


QUAD 22 Pre-Amp and FM2/ AM2 tuners built into a cabinet, it may have a single QUAD 11 valve power amp (mono) or it could have a pair (stereo) but either set-up would 'knock spots off' the majority of modern kit.

They all had beautiful polished wood cabinets. I remember getting a rollicking if i even thought about putting a cup of tea on top of it.

 

[Tim Hall]

It wasn't exactly ours but my grandparents. I'd listen to it when i stayed there. It was a 1954 Bush, with the radio having the usual Luxembourg, Vienna, Berlin,Stockholm etc frequencies(I can't remember Hilversumhe being on but maybe it was). The radio stopped working years ago.because of a dodgy valve or something. my mum had the thing in her room of the home she's in until my brother decided he wanted it so it's now in his latest place of abode. I'll probably never see it again.

This isn't a brilliant picture but it's the same one i reckon.

It's usually a dodgy transformer, again and again. A dodgy transformer that cost three pound ten.