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Forever and ever van
Demis Roussos is deze week de hoogste nieuwe op nummer 21. De treiterschijf
van vorige week komt binnen op nummer 32 : Batteringram van Mouth &
McNeal. Mooie Nederpop komt binnen op 31 : Don’t be down van Amsterdam. Een andere
hele mooie horen we voor ’t eerst in de Top 50 op nummer 44 : Woman from
Tokyo van Deep Purple. Roberta Flack heeft één week van de toppositie mogen
genieten, maar moet deze nu alweer afstaan aan The Osmonds met Down by the
lazy river. Les gondoles a Venise van Sheila & Ringo is deze week de
treiterschijf. Het Buitengaats team had een vooruitziende blik, ze kozen Tu
te reconnaitras tot Kanskaart en dat nummer zou op 7 April 1973 worden
uitgekozen tot beste nummer van het Eurovisie songfestival. Deze Top 50 kun je hier beluisteren: Als toegift deze week alle platen uit de RNI playlist,
de kanskaarten, de treiterschijven en twee tracks van de LP van de week in de
vorm van een Top 40. De volledige playlist vind je onderaan deze pagina. Onder de TOP 50 kun je de herinneringen van Michael
Downing lezen aan RNI in Maart/April 1973 en daaronder een paar scans uit de
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The RNI memories
of Michael Downing for March 1973 At the beginning of the previous week,
there was a choice of three offshore stations to listen to - Radio Veronica,
RNI and Radio Caroline. But, when I woke up on Tuesday 3 April 1973, there
was only silence from the North Sea. Radio Caroline had gone off the air at
about 7.30 on Monday 26 March 1973, so it was no surprise that there was no
signal from the Mi Amigo, but what had happened to Veronica and RNI? By
listening to the news on Hilversum 1 or 2 I learned that there had been one
of the fiercest storms in memory on the North Sea the previous evening - a
Force 12 - and that the Norderney was now on Scheveningen beach, having broken its anchor chain in the
storm. There was no news of RNI, but no broadcasts either. It was not until about 13.30 that RNI started
its transmissions on Tuesday 3 April 1973, when Hans ten Hooge
opened up the station and presented a live programme
with Marc van Amstel, instead of the usual taped programmes with Tony Berk and
Ferry Maat. The Mebo 2
had taken a battering in the storm, but the ship, the transmitters and
everybody on board was OK, so programmes slowly
returned to normal. Until 11 April 1973, however, RNI was the
only station broadcasting from the North Sea, whilst Veronica sorted out its
arrangement to broadcast from the Mi Amigo until the Norderney
could be refloated and returned to its former position. So it's likely that
RNI got a lot of additional listeners in that week. What was on RNI that week? The Dutch
service, once it was back to normal on Wednesday 4 April 1973, had Marc van Amstel on Buitengaats from 6.00
to 9.00 followed by an hour non-stop in Branding, Peter Holland from 10.00 to
12.00, Tony Berk from 12.00 to 14.00, Ferry Maat from 14.00 to 16.00, Leo van der
Goot on Driemaster live
from 16.00 to 18,00 and then Nico
Steenbergen from 18.00 to 20.00. The International service had Donny
Osmond's "Twelfth of Never" at no. 1 that week. Mike Ross had
presented the Top 30 show on Friday 30 March 1973. Graham Gill, also on board
that week, had an interesting hitpick that week -
"Solitaire" by the Searchers. This was not a hit, but a later
version of the same Neil Sedaka song was a big hit
in the UK for Andy Williams at the end of 1973, after being an RNI Smash
Play. At the bottom of the International Top 30 there was a new entry at no.
27 for "Brown baby" by Billy Paul, which was not a UK hit, but was
played a lot on RNI at the time. Around this time, Marc van Amstel started playing a record called "Tu te reconnaitras"
by Anne-Marie David, which was representing Luxembourg in the Eurovision Song
Contest on Saturday 7 April 1973. Marc said that he thought that it could win
and he was right. By the middle of the month it was the most played record on
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De
voorpagina van de Poptelescoop van 31 Maart 1973
Pop
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