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Post by flyingsquad on Nov 7, 2016 19:57:05 GMT
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Post by plasticpenguin on Nov 7, 2016 23:28:48 GMT
Legend of the radio waves.
RIP Jimmy.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2016 9:50:21 GMT
Yes, he was a superb broadcaster.
RIP Sir Jimmy Old.
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Post by Wynn Chester on Nov 8, 2016 17:01:26 GMT
I didn't know he'd recorded as an artists in his own right until Dave in the Winchester did an impromptu impression... RIP Sir Jimmy  |
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Post by daz on Nov 8, 2016 18:24:17 GMT
I have heard of him, but cannot remember ever hearing him broadcast, probably due to the fact I never listened to radio 2 until about 6 years ago.
My Mum used to like his singing!
RIP
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2016 20:47:04 GMT
I have heard of him, but cannot remember ever hearing him broadcast, probably due to the fact I never listened to radio 2 until about 6 years ago. My Mum used to like his singing! I think Jimmy Old would have admitted himself that he was a better radio presenter than he was a singer.  |
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Post by Portland Road on Nov 15, 2016 8:57:30 GMT
He was a great broadcaster. Friendly, but tenacious and not showbizzy.
His singing career is often less favoured in comparison.
Though in recognition of his death, BBC 6Music played his 1956 hit single 'Chain Gang' (N.B. not the Sam Cooke song).
It really does stand up as very fresh for a sixty-year old song, in the vein of 'Sixteen Tons' and others from the period. They are rather better than people like to admit.
RIP Jimmy Young.
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Post by Zimbo on Nov 15, 2016 10:53:53 GMT
I enjoyed a story by Amanda Platell in the Daily Mail, where she told of William Hague underestimating Young by not researching before going on his show before the 2001 General Election. Young didn't stop smiling as he tore him to pieces.
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Post by pr1 on Nov 15, 2016 17:16:49 GMT
Being the Anglophile I am I had heard of him. I recognized the name but wasnt sure who he was. Having such a long career in broadcasting especially for the same station or company year after year. is not that common in the US.
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Post by Portland Road on Nov 16, 2016 8:31:16 GMT
pr1 - he had a run of hit singles in the UK in the 1950s. He had the original UK hit version of 'Unchained Melody' in 1955.
At that time, a song could be a hit in both the UK and USA, but each country often had its own version by a native singer, e.g. in this case by Les Baxter in the USA.
By 1965 I think the music artists of the USA and UK overlapped a bit more, and 'Unchained Melody' was a big hit for The Righteous Brothers on both sides of the Atlantic.
By this time, Jimmy Young was mainly a broadcaster establishing his mid-morning radio show on the BBC Light Programme, which continued on Radio One & Two (simultaneously) from 1967 and Radio Two alone from 1973.
When he retired in 2002 he had long since become an institution.
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Post by thewoodster on Jan 31, 2018 22:49:48 GMT
Think stuck in my head from childhood,my mother with her wireles..lol,Wogan and Jimmy young.
Rip Jim.
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Post by barrythebook on Feb 2, 2018 20:57:59 GMT
I used to listen to his lunchtime Radio2 show, probably about 15 years ago?
It was always good entertainment, a mix of current and past subjects combined with a decent musical selection.
RIP.
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