It was 40 years ago today! "Snakes don't like jellybabies...they like real babies". Yes, a snake - which had obviously enjoyed being part of the previous Saturday morning kids' show - was making an unscheduled appearance in the Les Ross studio on BBC Radio Birmingham. Just one of the gems from the show that was on before - and during! - my own hospital radio prog' with Les (which he mis-names 'Pop Jury'!) which we'd recorded at the same BBC Pebble Mill studios a couple of days before (I was just 17 and this was a great thrill!).
Starting out as 'The Ross and Henry Show', this was a firm Saturday morning favourite for some years on the station - certainly of mine! I just loved the 'loose' feel to it, with a 'live' and very much uninvited (!) audience - including me on a number of occasions - that used to just turn up and cram into the studio, the FANTASTIC music (most of it soul, which, sadly I've had to mostly edit out for copyright reasons) and the whole 'vibe'. I've rarely heard anything as good as this on British radio before or since. I have a badge from the Ross and Henry Show days which says 'They're Outrageous!'. "...somebody in Edgbaston is missing a pussy...what are they laughing at?". Well, this IS the mid-'70s! The news from the end of April '75 is quite interesting, too!