----- Original Message ----- From: "mukund murty" Gosh, lucky boy, all *we* had was notebooks in our days :-) On 1 May 2010 12:06, Michael Ali wrote: > The English service of Radio Ceylon was very, very popular with the > Anglo-Indian and Goan communities in Karachi. In fact, those of us who had tape recorders ( usually Grundig spool-type) waited with baited breath for any Jim Reeves song to come on air to press the 'Record' button. ================ I think first an apology is called for to those who are not interested in this particular thread. But if they have never ever heard Radio Ceylon/SLBC, they wouldn't understand this nostalgia. The majority of RC's English Service listenership consisted of Anglo -Indians and Goans mainly from Bombay, Madras, and other places in south India. Vernon Corea who joined Radio Ceylon in 1957 was its most famous broadcaster. There are many webpages remembering him. See this -Vernon Corea - The Golden Voice of Radio Ceylon http://members.tripod.com/ivan_corea/id8.html The same page also shows Ameen Sayani's photo (see yesterday's mail). And then there this = Wartime Radio in Ceylon Lord Louis Mountbatten moved the RADIO SEAC operations from New Delhi first to Kandy and then to Colombo during World War II. This was Ceylon's first ever wartime radio station and it played a vital role from 1944 - 1946. Some other interesting pages on Radio Ceylon's history: http://www.planetradiocity.com/musicopedia/music_decade.php?conid=2337 http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=274538565077 http://ivan_corea.tripod.com/ Welcome to Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation http://www.slbc.lk/ --- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar

----- Original Message ----- > > I think first an apology is called for to those who are not interested > in this particular thread. But if they have never ever heard Radio > Ceylon/SLBC, they wouldn't understand this nostalgia. No apology needed... the thread has taken me down some interesting memories: when I was younger, headphones on, listening to my crystral radio before I went to sleep. (Mum or Dad would remove the earphones when I was asleep. Many years later, when the atmospheric conditions allowed, listening to rock and roll on WOWO, (Fort Wayne, Indiana) Van Morrison captures the nostalgia in his song "In the Days Before Rock and Roll". Pat