I recently came across a treasure on the internet.
Radio Nederland Wereldomroep has set up an Historical Audio Archive. This includes a few Eddie Startz recordings. Best of all is a Happy Station broadcast for 23rd December, 1956. This was a special show featuring the Sweet Sixteens in the Happy Station studio. The programme includes popular songs of the day, an interview with one of the singers about her stay in Australia and England, a greeting from another member of the group to her father onboard a Dutch ship, and several Dutch Christmas carols.
Radio Nederland Wereldomroep has set up an Historical Audio Archive. This includes a few Eddie Startz recordings. Best of all is a Happy Station broadcast for 23rd December, 1956. This was a special show featuring the Sweet Sixteens in the Happy Station studio. The programme includes popular songs of the day, an interview with one of the singers about her stay in Australia and England, a greeting from another member of the group to her father onboard a Dutch ship, and several Dutch Christmas carols.
It is wonderfully evocative of an earlier era of shortwave broadcasting. Perhaps the easiest way to access the audio archive is to type “Eddy Startz and the Sweet Sixteens” into a search engine. (“Eddy” appears to be the Dutch form of “Eddie.”) As this is a developing archive, it will be interesting to see what appears later. It would certainly be good to have more Eddie Startz Happy Station recordings.” (Brian Kendall, UK, March World DX Club Contact)
Enter http://blogs.rnw.nl/haa into your browser, for the audio archives.
(Source: Click-ODXA Listening-In, April 2008)
Enter http://blogs.rnw.nl/haa into your browser, for the audio archives.
(Source: Click-ODXA Listening-In, April 2008)