Same thing happened to me on my last visit to Wig, probably didn't help that I was on my own and about 3 foot taller than the little sprog who accused me - nearly cracked up laughing cos his voice had hardly broken...
Patti Labelle, great track, been spun a couple of times round here recently by Nige Brown and myself.
You should see it now Steve! Sitting drinking excellent (if expensive) coffee on a terrace in the sunshine...had to convince myself that it was the same place as where all those nights kicked in!!
High Voltages "Country Roads" is a indeed cover version, but of a track by heavy rock outfit Grand Funk Railroad - Mark Farner, who wrote it, was their lead singer IIRC. So no Olivia connection, sadly...
The easiest way to spot the first boot is that the copy it was dubbed from jumps a few seconds before the end!
PS Dave - dug out my Lester Young on Barry to spin at the weekend - guess whose name is scratched in the runout??
Dave, the full Big L theme should be somewhere on the web, it was actually called the "Sonowaltz", done by the jingle company PAMS in the states and used by quite a few stations over there. Caroline used Jimmy Mcgriff "Around midnight" as their closing theme for a while after starting up. Have a look at this:
https://www.radiolondon.co.uk/rl/scrap60/fabforty/65fabs/april65/fab110465/fab110465.html
Hippo.
IIRC Once 390 closed he went virtually straight into the Beeb - Dthedrug, yer memory's playing up mate, he was never on Big L as apart from John Peels "Perfumed Garden" (which in itself only came about because Peel realised the bosses weren't listening after midnight), Big L didn't do specialist shows!
Not thinking of Norman Hutchins "I really love you" by any chance? A couple of years old, lot of modden spins around here at the time, can't see the resemblance to MBLM though...
Nooooo...far too tweee...shows my age, reminds me of listening to Radio Luxembourg under the bedclothes as a little 'un, this seemed to get a lot of (sponsored) plays!
A good read as expected...funnily enough last night I was re-reading one of my favourite ever "record hunting" stories which Steve wrote in Manifesto some years back, about wheeling and dealing on Picos Boulevard.
Correct....
https://simondesetages.com/id6.html
...and I still don't know what happened to my Pye demo of "Sitting in a ring" I had in the late 60's....