Under The Covers - Interview With Janet Alldis about Barry Alldis and Radio Luxembourg
Radio Luxembourg was a pioneering and hugely popular radio station that broadcasted to millions of people around Europe, on 208 Medium wave, from right here in Luxembourg, from 1933 until 1992.
One of the famous DJs on the station in the 1950s-70s was Barry Alldis and today Tom was joined on the Breakfast Show by his daughter Janet Alldis who has recently released a song in tribute to her father.
Barry Alldis moved to Luxembourg in 1956 to begin working at Radio Luxembourg, the first commercial radio station in Europe. For 10 years he worked as the chief announcer on the station and built up a huge following around Europe for his groundbreaking radio shows that were often the first place that you could hear new hit records being played. In the 1960s Alldis moved to London and worked as a presenter at the BBC but in the 1970s he returned to Luxembourg with his family and presented the Sunday evening Top 20 show on Radio Luxembourg until his death in 1982.
Janet Alldis has early memories of hearing her dad's voice coming out of a strange little box in the living room and thinking he was inside, little did she know that she was listening to him along with millions of other people around Europe. As a tribute to her father, Janet has produced a song called 'Under the Covers' - a reference to how many teenagers in the 1950s would tune in to Radio Luxembourg from their beds, hiding under the covers to avoid detection by their parents.
The song which was produced with Fred Cannon and features John Carr is currently number 16 in the Heritage Chart in the UK and listeners can vote for it at www.heritagechart.co.uk