2JJ started 50 years ago and it was fantastic.
(Before this the only decent music was on 2BL on Monday night with Chris Winter's room to move essential listening. The program before him by Rod someone was pretty good as well )
The same song was not played on the same day. They mostly played album tracks that the commercial stations avoided. I remember it was the first time I heard East West by the Butterfield Blues band.
The morning program was as funny as anything and on sunday we got nude radio by essentially the Aunty Jack team. I think they were eventually replaced by Roy Slaven and HG Nelson with This Sporting Life. It was humour at is very best!
Doublejay rock was great for a while but then ran out of steam. I was no longer listening when it converted to FM and became 2JJJ.
But in its heyday it was wonderful to listen to. Cannot say that about any radio station today!
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