[Closed] Anyone heard of Gordy Cruse or Radio Caroline

Not the original Radio Caroline? The pirate station from the 60s? I was there, listening to it under the bedclothes!!!

Sir Neil,
Send me your phone number and my reporter will make you famous (in Vancouver, Canada, anyway).
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ehenczel@langara.bc.ca

I used to listen to Radio Caroline - whispering Bob Harris and all that 🙂

Edit: B*llox - that was Radio Luxembourg 😳

Send me your phone number, pretty please

I guess this Gordy Cruse is up to something here and he seems pretty famous.

There's a bridge in Wembley on Park Lane that goes over the railway line that for years and years had RADIO CAROLINE FOREVER painted on it in white paint - about 3ft high letters.

At some point, they painted over it and when I realised it was really strange. It had ALWAYS said that and then all of a sudden, it didn't.

Never heard of Gordy Cruise. Means nothing at all. Radio Caroline, however is famous for being the first of the pirate radio stations that threatened the dominance of the BBC, and would be known by pretty much anyone over forty in the UK. Frankly, I doubt there's anyone on here can add anything to what can be found on the Internet. I've got a multi-CD set of pop songs that were played on Caro with radio 'stabs' interspersed just like the station used to do.

Radio Caroline was a pirate "pop" station transmitting from a ship in international waters off the east coat of england in the 60's
my older brother listened to it

i think johnie (sp?) walker on Radio 2 still uses his caroline jingles

google should be helpful - think their was a film doc this yr?

the pirates went when the bbc created radio 1 so that was 67 ( i was 8 )

Well, I've just had a hunt on google, and the only reference I can find is this one on a Radio London 35th Anniversary get-together:

Original offshore personnel who attended, were Mike Ahern, John Aston, Nick Bailey, Bud Ballou, Woolf Byrne, Gordy Cruse, Robbie Dale, John Edward, Graeme Gill, Keith Hampshire, David Hawkins, Phil Jay, Duncan Johnson, Mick Luvzit, Ronan O'Rahilly, Roger Scott, Keith Skues, Mark Sloane, Ed Stewart, Dave Lee Travis, Tommy Vance, Johnnie Walker, Willy Walker, Graham Webb and David Williams.

They represented Radio 390, Radio Caroline North, Radio Caroline South, Radio City, Radio England, Radio London and Radio Northsea International.

Big part of my mis-spent yoof was Caroline! 8) Wasn't Gord Cruse one of the newsreaders?

Gawd knows. Where I live in the West of England you couldn't get Caroline worth a damn on MW, and Luxembourg used to fade in and out pretty badly.

I've seen the remnants of Radio Caroline, rusting in the River Gambia. I suspect that's not much help though...

Papa Wheelie I know a Canadian Music Radio guy with a thing for Radio Caroline... do I know you?

AFAIK "The Boat That Rocked" is loosely based on the Radio Caroline story.

I believe a few of the original Radio 1 DJs had previously worked on Caroline, including the legendary John Peel; not to mention Tony Blackburn

I used to listen to Caroline in the mid 70's.....was v cool. They used to get up to some mad sh!t live on the radio. Living on the Kent coast helped with reception no end

This is what you want:
http://www.radiocaroline.co.uk/#history.html

I used to listen to Caroline in the early-80s as a kid. Used to play album tracks you didn't hear anywhere else.