Hiya, I too dont recall Goa turning its back on Western music. Sorry Rico, but where did that come from? All the latest hits were belted out by the various bands on the Calangute Beach every year in the month of May, in our Saligao Institute every Sunday in May during the jam sessions (& I attended each faithfully - nothing else to do you see?) and when we had the dances - the bands played different songs, nos.....call it what you will....western it was! .....& music wafted over our heads & around our ears where we sometimes sat at the foot of the (I think it was called Royal Hotel - wonder if it is still standing!) or we danced to English tunes, whether, slow, fast or just jiggled & joggled (ok ok!..words not in the dictionary - just my lexical definition of dance moves/ leg & arm movements at that time).....& yes, Imelda was definitely the "Lady on the Air" so to say..... Listened to all kinds of music & the latest nos. then (late 60's & 1970's & after) on Goa Radio - including the Portuguese numbers, especially the programme on Sunday afternoons. then there was the music/songs, English & Konkani.... certain mornings, cant remember which days was which/what..... Definitely a case of getting old, memory is diminishing. And yes, my favourite was Radio Ceylon (then) with all the songs - old & new whether in the morning or in the evening, & latest nos. by various singers.... Request programme etc. Guess it automatically changed to Sri Lanka Radio...Havent listened in years, but Mum & Fiona still tune in, especially in the mornings before 9 a.m. I think they mentioned it is difficult to get reception in the evenings but then they are probably using "machines of old" At that time, I dont think our "hi fi" Phillips Transistor (brought all the way from Aden by our Uncle) would have allowed us to tune in to Australia or anywhere else...... but it definitely provided the music in our house. Had already got rid of the gramophone & all the records that we had before that. Of course then came the casette player, casettes etc. & the transistor was left by the wayside for me at least. & now we have dealings with CD players, CDs (not I of course, dont know to use one & not interested in learning either). If music is required, I just get Luwell to play his music set consisting of ...hmm! dont have a clue! I get music "wafting" in my flat. I do recall Luwell getting rid of his record player in the 1990's, including the "longplaying" & "neverending" record of James Last.... All this is now Memory Lane & an old one at that, I stop & remember.... perhaps I will remember more in the days, weeks & months to come....... by which time this particular topic will fizzle out..... presumably..... Annette
From: [email protected]: Mon, 9 Feb 2015 13:53:53 +0530 Subject: [SALIGAONET] Radio in Goa... in the 1970s To: [email protected] We were discussing the above issue on Goanet recent (founded by Saligaokar Herman Carneiro two decades ago!) See http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/ Does anyone remember the period or programmes, numbers or names? FN ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا <[email protected]> Date: 9 February 2015 at 02:21 Subject: Re: [Goanet] Demiss Roussous & Nana Mouskouri To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" <[email protected]> Am referring to radio, the prime means of communication and music promotion of those times. While AIR (All India Radio) at Altinho had its daily afternoon fix of Western music, often with 'Yours Truly' Imelda behind the phone, if one recalls right, for maybe an hour or so, we had to struggle to tune in to the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation* early mornings or after 6 pm. While the morning transmissions continued till 10 am, by the time the sun moved overhead, propagation was poor and we could only get snatches of music. Radio Australia, with its own peculiar accents and musical tastes, came in till a little later, maybe till 11.30 am or noon. I often heard this music wafting out of Uncle Jack's St. Anthony Cottage, while passing by! But our Tricity Chetana set, bought from Mr Dalal, was driven by radio valves and its ability to catch DX (distant-and-unknown) radio stations was rather limited. The only other option was Friday night, Your Favourites (where college boys and other pranksters sent out mischievous 'requests' in their 'friends' names) from Panjim. Or 'Saturday Date' from the distant and lacking-in-power AIR-Bombay, 10-11 pm weekly. I remember how thrilled we were to realise that we could get some more Western music on Wednesdays around the same time, also from Bombay! Of course, there were LPs and 45rpms on records, but those were few and far to come by... besides being costly. Some of the returning Africanders had good collections of LPs, which got weather beaten in time. Nobody knows what happened to the Renaissance Portuguesa programme on Friday nights. Is it still around, or given a quiet burial? All this, put together, one assumes because I was not around in those times, was a far cry from the Emissora de Goa Western music output, when Goa was a popular radio station being heard as far away as in East Africa. Correct me if I'm wrong; Domnic Fernandes has written a detailed piece on AIR's programmes in Goa. It was therefore my perception that Western music was seen as 'politically incorrect' in the 1960s and 1970s, at least in the officially-controlled channels which were dominant then. FN * Incidentally, for SLBC (formerly Radio Ceylon) fans, there's a rich fare of old nostalgic recordings of this station on http://www.youtube.com -- Vernon Corea, and others [http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-sundaymagazine/when-ceylon-ruled-the-airwaves/article3219259.ece] On 8 February 2015 at 12:44, Cecil Pinto <[email protected]> wrote: Frederick FN Noronha We grew up in the 1970s, listening to this music... in a Goa which was then otherwise turning it back on Western music. FN ------- I grew up in the 1970s too and don't recall Goa turning it back on Western music - then or ever. Will Frederick kindly explain what he means. Cheers! Cecil ====== -- P +91-832-2409490 M 9822122436 Twitter: @fn Facebook: fredericknoronha Goa,1556 Shared Content at archive.org https://archive.org/details/goa1556 -- P +91-832-2409490 M 9822122436 Twitter: @fn Facebook: fredericknoronha Goa,1556 Shared Content at archive.org https://archive.org/details/goa1556 -- -- Saligao-Net is at http://groups.google.com/group/saligao-net To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe email [email protected] --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Saligao-Net" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- Saligao-Net is at http://groups.google.com/group/saligao-net To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe email [email protected] --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Saligao-Net" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
