tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2744024699281834535.post5458889447775971734..comments2024-03-18T20:52:42.375+01:00Comments on Random radio jottings: Bits of FluffAndy Walmsleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13647763223166778941noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2744024699281834535.post-53364649884407524412011-09-29T01:02:34.578+02:002011-09-29T01:02:34.578+02:00Thanks Robin for getting back on this so quickly. ...Thanks Robin for getting back on this so quickly. It seems that those early shifts on Luxy must have made a good impression for the BBC to have taken him on.<br />The more you hear of Fluff's early shows you realise just how different he was from everything else on the Light Programme at the time and, as you say, an incredible range of music.Andy Walmsleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13647763223166778941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2744024699281834535.post-7207268735602031102011-09-28T23:59:41.647+02:002011-09-28T23:59:41.647+02:00I wrote the Peel Wiki entry for Fluff. I don'...I wrote the Peel Wiki entry for Fluff. I don't have any Radio Times evidence that he was on Juke Box Jury in 1959, but it has been recounted many times (not least by Fluff himself) that he reviewed Cliff Richard's "Living Doll" on the show and said that it "wouldn't sell a copy", so he must have appeared on one of its earliest editions (JBJ began on 1st June 1959, "Living Doll" charted on 10th July).<br /><br />The earliest Light Programme show I have noted him presenting is 'Records at Six' in July 1960. The thought of someone who was on the Light back then eventually playing Hithouse and Humanoid on POTP Take 2 in 1988, or Paradise Lost and Porcupine Tree on his Virgin rock show in 1997 ... only Peel & Nightingale in British pop radio history have a range like that.Robin Carmodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05825645880870474801noreply@blogger.com