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Het prachtige Oh
Lord van de Shocking Blue is deze week de hoogste nieuwe binnenkomer op
nummer 28. Met een aanslag op je basspeakers komt “kissable” Apollo 100 nieuw
binnen op nummer 33 met Besame Mucho. Het typische RNI plaatje Les Gondoles a
Venice komt deze week nieuw binnen op nummer 40. Het Lac Majeur van Mort Shuman verstoot
deze week de Lazy River van de Osmonds van de eerste plaats. Het
clownsoptreden van David Cassidy hoor je deze week elk uur als treiterschijf. 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 April 1973 en daaronder een paar scans uit de MP van
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The RNI memories
of Michael Downing for April 1973 There is a good chance that the Super Top
50 programme of 7 April 1973, presented as usual by
Ferry Maat, was the most listened to edition,
because if you wanted to listen to offshore radio on that Saturday, RNI was
your only choice. On Monday 2 April 1973 one of the worst storms that the
North Sea had seen resulted in the Norderney
breaking its anchor chain and drifting onto the beach, which meant that Radio
Veronica was off the air from that evening through to Wednesday 11 April,
when it returned, broadcasting temporarily from the Mi Amigo. The Mi Amigo
itself had been silent since the morning of Monday 26 March. Although the
storm was so violent that it put the Mebo 2 off the
air for a few hours, RNI returned to the air in the afternoon of Tuesday 3
April and, for almost the next 8 days, it was the only offshore radio station
broadcasting in the North Sea. It was a particularly good time for Nederpop in the Top 50, with Earth & Fire, the Dizzy
Man’s Band, Focus, Shocking Blue, Mouth & MacNeal,
Amsterdam, Kayak, the Sandy Coast, Sandra & Andres, Long Tall Ernie &
the Shakers, Bolland & Bolland,
the Buffoons and the Walkers all making an appearance. The weekend of 7 and 8 April 1973 was
also notable for being the last weekend that RNI broadcast its Playlist programme, which was superseded the following week by the
Troef 20. Dick de Graaf
presented the final Playlist show in Sunday afternoon’s Driemaster.
The final playlist included records that were played a lot on RNI, such as
“They never told us” by Ed Welch, “Goodbye Guitar Man” by Cherry Van Gelder Smith, “Rainbow Man” by Looking Glass and “Morgen word het beter” by
Gerard Cox, none of which even made the Tipparade
on Veronica. Also on the Playlist was “Tu te reconnaitras” by Anne-Marie
David, which had been played a lot by RNI in the week leading up to Saturday
7 April 1973, so it was well known to RNI listeners when it won the
Eurovision Song Contest on that day. On the International service, Ian
Anderson presented the International Top 30 show from 20.00 to 22.00 on
Friday 6 April 1973. Gilbert O’Sullivan was at nr.1 with “Get down” and, as
was usual by now, this chart was based strongly on the official British
chart, although there were a few records that were not British hits. These included “Bitter
Bad” by Melanie at nr. 11, “Brown baby” by Billy Paul at nr. 26, “The night
the lights went out in Georgia” by Vicki Lawrence at nr. 28 and “Everyday” by
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De
voorpagina van de MP van April 1973
Alice
Cooper staat deze week stationair op nummer 7 met Hello Hurray
De Les
Humphries Singers zakken deze week van nummer 28 naar 49
Ook toen
werd er al een model van de MEBO II gemaakt
De
prijsvraag....
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De
playlist van de 40 extra platen deze week
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