3UZ John Vertigan 1967 Scoped part one
Didn’t even realise this was in the archives, thanks to Marc McCreadie, had to scope this one it’s almost an hour long, so here’s part one, featuring from one of the most distinctive voices Kev Golsby on the Shortbread creams ad, great 60’s sounds on here
Thanks for this air check, a wonderful piece of commercial radio history. John Vertigan was one of my real favourites on ‘The Greater’, doing 2-4pm. Unfortunately, I could only ever catch the last bit of his show when I got home from school. What a great voice and faultless presentation, going on later of course to be radio’s best ever co-ordinator of race broadcasts. UZ certainly dominated the airwaves, with the best DJ’s, Don Lunn, Don Rainsford (another favourite), Alan Lappan, Ken Sparkes, Stan Rofe and I loved Saturday night’s ‘Swing Shift’ with Dick Hemming. Thanks again for posting, great memories.
Great Stan, the 60’s is out of my era, but it sure paved the way for the next 20 or so years, as many are saying there’s life in the old girl yet, regardless of this i-pod generation, they’d be happy hearing a robot
I don’t know if it’s my laptop but the recording volume of the jingles needs to be increased to allow jingles when played sound punchy and LOUDER! LOUDER! A bit below ear splitting would be good. I have lived through the exciting 60’s to 80’s the exciting decades of radio, great DJ voices and jingles. Remember the excitement of 3UZ with Stan The Man. Radio reception here in South Australia blasted out 2SM and 3XY with wonderful echo on DJ voices, there isa flatness sound now take me back to the 60s-70’s, the music was great and not in the doof doof catergory of crap!. 2025 in Adelaide radio is sterile with adolescent news readers who read poorly. and sound poor mispronouncing words, names and place names
Forgot to mention that type of person ( the poorly read newsreader who does not understand the news that he or she is reading) should not be on air, ignorant bums. Most products of Australia’s poor education systems from 1990-2025 and probably beyond, Why is it every television female news reader has the same hairstyle i.e. the long twisted hair on both sides of the heavily made up face? Not a lot between the ears.