tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2744024699281834535.post1026158752763876725..comments2024-03-18T20:52:42.375+01:00Comments on Random radio jottings: European Pop RendezvousAndy Walmsleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13647763223166778941noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2744024699281834535.post-14778863922603277872021-12-13T16:52:39.387+01:002021-12-13T16:52:39.387+01:00Thank you for the information on Katie, met her on...Thank you for the information on Katie, met her once but forgot to speak to her in Italian or French (both weaker than my German). Much missed amazing lady.<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03121056314774772004noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2744024699281834535.post-86967025135459705262021-12-13T12:09:22.275+01:002021-12-13T12:09:22.275+01:00I do have a story about Nordring that might intere...I do have a story about Nordring that might interest you. I had a friend who was a player in the BBC Concert Orchestra and (I'm not sure of the year) the BBC was the host country and decided to hold the festival in Jersey. The audience attendance was sparse I'm told and in fact at one countries presentation concert there was the grand total in the audience of just four. I'm told that the BBC played into the recording a much larger and enthusiastic round of appreciation.<br /><br />As regards Katie Boyle leaving Pop Over Europe, I met Katie by chance a few years later and I asked why. She departed as the Swiss, both in Geneva and Lugano dropped out of the programme and there was no further need for her skills in French and Italian, leaving only German as her "international" language of which she was not the most prolific. Katie was however delighted that I enjoyed the programme and she mentioned that she really missed her family of friends and the annual get together they had in the different countries in the programme Hits of Europe. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07416541059868420209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2744024699281834535.post-87928531675014556062019-05-04T11:04:48.106+02:002019-05-04T11:04:48.106+02:00Facinating, I was hooked on "European Pop J...Facinating, I was hooked on "European Pop Jury" as a teenager. Loved it. I rcoorded a great deal of the music on my "music centre". Alas I tried very hard to time my pressing of the play/record buttons so as to avoid the broadcast speach. The compilations therefore consist of the music only. The cassettes are in my attic; not listened to for decades. I am sorely tempted to discover them this weekend! Thank you for this post - it has dredged up many happy memories.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17106390155589981287noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2744024699281834535.post-43140579026263398592019-01-20T23:37:23.721+01:002019-01-20T23:37:23.721+01:00Very interested to hear about any more information...Very interested to hear about any more information about German pop 'guru' Günter Krenz- I can be contacted at mgahrens@yahoo.comMichaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07327222656480872152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2744024699281834535.post-26164216927382607332018-07-15T20:07:11.935+02:002018-07-15T20:07:11.935+02:00wonderful to hear pop over europe digitised - want...wonderful to hear pop over europe digitised - wanted to digitize katie boyle's version but never worked out.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03121056314774772004noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2744024699281834535.post-84910535740428404172018-03-07T10:33:42.816+01:002018-03-07T10:33:42.816+01:00Well now, I have many memories of Pop over Europe ...Well now, I have many memories of Pop over Europe and European Pop Jury and like Fatima, I did have many cassettes of the programmes. Unfortunately when I moved house back in the 1990's they were lost by the removal guys. I've tried to find recordings of the shows but failed. I found this site via a google search. I have over the years found many of the songs from Western Europe from POE and EPJ and some other European Pop songs of the 70's and 80's. I have also learned a lot about some of the presenters from the programmes and some have a very interesting story. Radio Monte Carlo's Anne de la Vallette stopped a suicide "on air" ORF's Willy Kralic was gay, he married to stop he Nazi's possibly sending him to an extermination camp. Bridin Gilroy from RTE is a professor of Languages. Lillian Terry (the voice of Rome on EPJ) a Jazz expert (and still living), Renata Kalani for a time was a co-presenter on Jeux Sans Frontiers, Natasha Dolenc, (Pop Over Europe - Ljubjana) announce the final scores of the Eurovision Song Contest, which gave the win to Celine Dion and Switzerland, and still is popular in Slovenia today. Vidar Lonn Arneson was a pirate radio DJ in Norway, and more. Thanks for the clips of the shows. Wish there was more for me to listen to.blog spotterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08611642599712250259noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2744024699281834535.post-76642722604674068882016-11-01T03:32:31.192+01:002016-11-01T03:32:31.192+01:00Thank you for comments Fatima. If you are able to ...Thank you for comments Fatima. If you are able to digitise any of your Pop Over Europe tapes I'd love to hear some of them. I think I do say that the programme was monthly but you're right the final editions aired in the early hours of Sunday morning at 3am. I think I just mistook that for 3pm, a far more civilised time! Andy Walmsleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13647763223166778941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2744024699281834535.post-41224625751133766212016-10-30T18:39:23.326+01:002016-10-30T18:39:23.326+01:00I have years of cassettes of Pop Over Europe from ...I have years of cassettes of Pop Over Europe from 1977 to 1984. It's fascinating to read your item but I must correct a few things, it was monthly not weekly and the last episode was broadcast in the middle of the night. It's a very sore point because the timer on my Ferguson tape deck failed on that occasion and I never got to hear the show.<br />What set the it apart for me was the inclusion of music from Yugoslavia, Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic. The former also had Eurovision Song Contest entries but it was next to impossible in those times to hear acts from those other countries in the UK, let alone buy their records. Now we can browse the charts of all those and more via iTunes, but how depressing that they are so dominated by English-speaking "MTV" acts. Pop Over Europe almost always went for native performers, but unfortunately in today's charts they are further and further down the list.F a t i m ahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10403399539190021938noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2744024699281834535.post-23427532807036568252016-05-22T22:31:10.919+02:002016-05-22T22:31:10.919+02:00Very interesting history.
Interesting that the ma...Very interesting history.<br /><br />Interesting that the main shows here all ended at much the same time; i.e. around the time the modern form of Europhobic politics in the UK, principally in England, really became embedded and took root.Robin Carmodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05825645880870474801noreply@blogger.com