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This is a list of events from British radio in 1960. ... Billy Cotton Band Show (1949–1968) ... Katrina Leskanich, singer and musician, presenter on BBC Radio 2 ...
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Sounds of the 60s is a long-running Saturday morning programme on BBC Radio 2 that features recordings of popular music made in the 1960s. It was first broadcast on 12 February 1983 and introduced by Keith Fordyce, who had been the first presenter of the TV show Ready Steady Go! in 1963.
30 September – Mark Goodier replaces Bruno Brookes as host of BBC Radio 1's Top 40 show. 1991. 6 January – For the first time, BBC Radio 1's Sunday chart show plays all 40 tracks and the show is renamed as The Complete Top 40. [3] This becomes possible due to an extension of the programme's duration – starting half an hour earlier at 4:30 ...
Your Hundred Best Tunes was a BBC radio music programme, always broadcast on Sunday evenings, which presented popular works which were mostly classical excerpts, choral works, opera and ballads. The hundred tunes which made up the playlist were initially selected by the creator and presenter, Alan Keith. Subsequently, tunes were suggested by ...
April – Jack Good's new TV show, Wham!, is broadcast for the first time. 12 April – Sir Thomas Beecham returns to the UK from his last overseas conducting tour; he dies the following year. 17 April – Eddie Cochran , Gene Vincent and Cochran's girlfriend Sharon Sheeley are injured in a car accident near Chippenham, Wiltshire .
The UK singles chart was first compiled in 1969. However, the records and statistics listed here date back to 1952 because the Official Charts Company counts a selected period of the New Musical Express chart (only from 1952 to 1960) and the Record Retailer chart from 1960 to 1969 as predecessors for the period prior to 11 February 1969, where multiples of competing charts coexisted side by side.
Geno Washington & The Ram Jam Band; The Gentrys; George Jones; Georgie Fame; Gerry & The Pacemakers; Giles, Giles and Fripp; The Girls; Gladys Knight & the Pips; Glass Harp (band) Glen Campbell; Glenn Yarbrough; The Go-Go's; The Godz; The Goldebriars; Golden Earring; The Golliwogs; GONN; Gordon Lightfoot; Gran Coquivacoa; Grand Funk Railroad ...