Hello and Welcome Back... One month till Christmas, man, that has come around so fast..
I was thinking this morning, while eating breakfast, how different Christmas time was in the 80s as opposed to now. I'll say it now, I love Christmas, its a magic time of the year..
One of my most fav Christmas memory's is Christmas 1984, the year i got my first Walkman and as I switched it on for the fist time, hearing FM stereo. You see, in 1984, FM stereo was new, very new. Every radio station pretty much broadcast in mono and only a select few in stereo but no-one could afford a FM receiver, well, I couldn't. So, here I was, standing on my parents porch, hot as hell.
9am and it was already 27c in East Campbelltown, NSW and a top temp of 35c ? for Christmas day
The first station i tuned to on my new Walkman was Triple M (MMM) and the song 'Band Aid - Feed The World' was playing.. Wow.
Triple M was the station to listen to. (2SM - Rock Of The 80s on AM band) The Triple M logo was a winged beast playing a guitar which sounded wicked on my walkman.
TRIPLE M THEME
TV AD 1981 Triple M
One thing set Triple M apart from the other FM radio stations in Sydney and that was a man called 'Doug Mulray'.
'Uncle Doug' was the breakfast DJ that everyone listen to.. Why?
Because he didn't just do music, he did voices, lots of characters voices, from a gypsy fortune teller called 'Madam Zenda' who took a dislike to Scorpio starsigns, 'Bogdan' the turnip boy & his girlfriend 'Danuta' (half woman , half beetroot), 'Roland Rolladoor' from Roland Rolladoor Rolladoors and 'Gloria', a gay socialite. Soo many characters it was like listening to a variety show.
Triple M even did a Christmas song in 1985
Everything 'Doug Mulray' did in the 80s and early 90s turned to gold. He even did a song call 'You Are Soul' (You Asshole) Take a Listen
Gotta remember that this was the 80s. We gave as good as we got, well, least here in Australia.
Life was fun. We didn't take each other so seriously.
I seen a behind the scenes of the Triple M morning breakfast show and it always started at 5am with a bottle of bubbly, it was acceptable back then.
A small clip of 'Madam Zenda' (Doug Mulray)
Sadly, 'Uncle Doug' as everyone called him passed away in 2023..
So this got me thinking as Christmas rounds the corner, 40 or so years later.
Triple M is now a shell of what it used to be.
Nobody can laugh at anymore in case we upset someone. Nobody can joke anymore in case we hurt their feelings. I think back to the 80s and the fun times we had, I really miss those days.
Today, its just sterile environment with billionaires who think they own the world and everyone in it.
I feel that if it wasn't for the amount of money shops make, Christmas would be wiped out like firecracker night and in 10-20 years time, nobody would remember what Christmas in the 80s was like.
I miss those days and wish, just for one day i could go back to Christmas 1984, see my grandparents who have passed one last time, pat my dog (Lady - german shepard) who i used to play football with, and has now passed.
At least we still have music from the 80s (and movies, although they seem to be slowly disappearing)...
Anyone have a time machine I could borrow? Pleeeeese
DOUG MULRAY - NICE LEGS, SHAME ABOUT THE FEZ (FLAC)
1 Apology
2 Reginald Horton Jingle
3 20 Great Shakesperean Fart Jokes
4 Mulray FM I.D.
5 Janie's Not A Nun
6 Reginald Horton And Co. Lazy Susans
7 New Fashioned Pork
8 Swear Bears
9 Financial Review
10 Sam Power's Laughing Album
11 Gloria Phone Call - Midnight Micturation
12 Mulray FM I.D. - Burp For You
13 Mum, Dad, I'm Gay
14 Pussy Chinese Restaurant
15 F__k Those Insect Bastards Right Off
16 Combantrin
17 One Day
18 Bogdan The Turnip Boy
19 Mulray FM I.D.
20 One Turd
21 Dead Certain?
22 Diadora Shoe
23 Reginald Horton Jingle
24 Plankers Besticles
25 Optus Cheese
26 Bucky Beaver
27 Mulray FM I.D.
28 Madame Zenda
29 Ski Instructor's Daughter
30 Bimbos Pizza
31 Fosters Parent Plan
32 Great Moments In Fondue
33 Golden Tops
34 Mrs McGregors Margarine
35 Pulsar Q
36 Diners Club
37 Mulray FM I.D.
38 Christmas Pageant
39 Werewolf
LINKS (FLAC)
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1sbLD454iLTj_kDEdMZqzcveHgr-9zqI8?usp=sharing
Be Patient with the download, it could take a while depending on your internet speed..
Stream or Download (on the google drive page, click the down arrow next to the name of the album to download and save to your computer)
https://www.discogs.com/release/11520003-Doug-Mulray-Nice-Legs-Shame-About-The-Fez
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#christmas
#1984
#electronic80s
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