Peter Evans 3LO Breakfast Show: Recent Episodes
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This was the highest rating Melbourne breakfast show for much of its run from 1965 till 1986. To listen to it now makes you wonder why as it sounds so dated and is just the ramblings of a bitter and grumpy man who was living in the past and had more interest in the British Empire of old than the country he had lived in for most of his life. Despite this millions of people started the day with \"The Evans\" and had some affinity with his attitudes.
Although being on air for so long relativity few recordings exist, however i have many hours and i might as well start putting them up while there are still people around who care. He has now been dead for as long as he was doing the show, and to listen to them now does bring back the memories of mornings long gone.
This first batch of recordings are from the \"Cosway Collection\" a listener who recorded a lot of stuff off air in the 70\'s and in generally good quality as well. Seems these were recorded in 1978.
Clark Sinclair on the Terry Laidler Show talking about Evens including listener talkback.
A very high quality recording straight from the 3LO desk. (studio 302 at the time) recorded on a Rola Mk 3 on five seven inch reels. Unfortunately reel four of five is missing, if i ever find it i will add it the file. Levels are all over the place as this recording is taken off before any limiting at the transmitter. A talk with Terry Lane at 96 mins in.
Another HiQuality session all 116 minutes of it recorded at Broadcast house in Jan 1978 on a Tandburg 1/4 track machine.
Most of the program with all the music from 5AM till 20 to 7 in October 1976, gets annoyed by a nuisance caller
Flash away mate.
Evans is not grumpy at all and even seems to be enjoying this shift,but then it is Friday the 5th of August 1978 and his moods improved toward the end of the week.
Pre 5AM testing, this was quite popular for the earlybirds and insomniacs as Evans raved on a lot and messed around as he was not officially on air yet.
Test music,fiddle sheets, dial cords and payola, he would not have go away with it now and on the ABC as well.
A few open sequences. Stations used to close down for the night and before they opened played brass band music to test the transmitter. Quite a fi recording if your ears are not to stuffed you can hear the 10kc adjacent channel heterodyne this was before they moved to 9kc spacing.
Gives his assistant Rosemary some stick and includes a talk with Peter Couchman about his early days at sea.