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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.
Bivens (second from right) with We Five, 1966. With the encouragement of her mother, Bivens had developed her singing voice as a child. Around 1963–4, she began performing with Mike Stewart (1945–2002) and William Jerome (Jerry) Burgan (1945-2021), who had formed a folk duo at high school and branched out into electronic music with guitarist Bob Jones (1947-2013), whom they met at the ...
Since launching in 1967, the station broadcasts a wide range of content. The 'About Radio 2' BBC webpage says: "With a repertoire covering more than 60 years, [2] Radio 2 plays the widest selection of music on the radio - from classic and mainstream pop to country, folk, jazz, musical theatre, soul, hip hop, rock 'n' roll, gospel and blues." [3]
Born in Ealing, London, Swern was a record producer [1] and songwriter, [2] and also wrote for television. [3] He earned the nickname "The Collector" from working on Sounds of the 60s with Brian Matthew. He produced Pick of the Pops for BBC Radio 1 in the late 1980s and early 1990s and produced the show for BBC Radio 2 from 1997 to 2023.
Keith Fordyce Marriott (15 October 1928 – 15 March 2011) was an English disc jockey and presenter on British radio and television. He was both the first presenter of the ITV television pop music programme Thank Your Lucky Stars in 1961 and of the youth-orientated magazine show Ready Steady Go! on Associated-Rediffusion from 1963 to 1965.
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4 March – Tony Blackburn succeeds Brian Matthew as presenter of BBC Radio 2's Sounds of the 60s. The two-hour show also moves to the earlier time of 6am, and Zoe Ball rejoins the station on permanent basis to host a new Saturday mid-afternoon show, while Dermot O'Leary takes over from Anneka Rice on Saturday weekend breakfast.
In December 1987 Dee joined BBC Radio 2. His first broadcast for the station was on Boxing Day that year when he hosted a listeners' all-time-favourite Top 20. In early 1988 he became a guest presenter on the station's Sounds of the 60s programme on a Saturday morning. He then began hosting the show on a temporary basis between April and July.