Love the music on the original double J. I wasn’t born when it aired and the music was a lot better than I heard on JJJ leading up to 11am.
It has rock music from the mid-70s. The Lou Reed track I just heard was great, had not heard it before. This is part a music discovery exercise for me and enjoying it so far , playing some popular songs mixed in with some deeper cuts. Now they have the Beatles on, to me mixing popular music with deep cuts is a good formula for radio. It seems the Beatles isn’t the original track so they have dubbed in some of the music.
If anyone has compiled or can find a playlist from the inaugural broadcast being replayed today, I’d love to have it shared here. Some forgotten tunes along with some timeless tracks
You can say that again. 50 % of the playlist I’ve never heard in my life! What a great initiative and I hope something similar is done for the 50th anniversary of 2JJJ-FM in 2030 as I’d like to hear how they sounded in the 80s, too.
Broad album rock was in vogue in the mid 70s and this is an excellent time capsule.
I wonder how bad 1540 am was, they were suggesting for people to consider upgrading their radios. It had a bit of irony in that suggestion as if they can’t hear then how do the listeners know to upgrade. My imagination its like SEN Track (1539 am at Homebush) for coverage. Although it did broadcast from Liverpool along with “700” am and “580” am ? I think it would of had more wattage than SEN Track.
1540 was clear of other stations (after 2CN Canberra was moved prior to the start of JJ) so at least it could be heard clearly outside of Sydney. The signal in Brisbane was very good. It was using a backup ABC transmitter with a power of 10kW - double what the commercials had at the time, but reported that the transmitter facilities didn’t get the signal out very well.
Expecting to hear much Charli XCX today. Oh and it’ll be nice to hear some Sam Fender pop up, but as for #1? It’d be nice if Chappell Roan could take it out, but methinks it’ll be some Aussie act covering someone else’s music that’ll get the gong.
But it was already played first on triple j, long before it blew up. Would you credit triple j with that?
People were never going to stop listening to and enjoying a song just because it gets played on commercial radio.
There are also lots of songs in the top 10-20 that don’t get played on commercial radio. If they start to, will that be because of the Hottest 100? Or just a coincidence?
