This Saturday 8th June, Tony Blackburn presents a special all vinyl edition of Pick of the Pops on Radio 2 as he replays the hits from the charts of 1966 and 1976. There will no CDs or digital downloads, just vinyl records as Tony Blackburn and listeners re-live the chart hits from June in these two featured years.

Whether we will be able to differentiate between the vinyl version and the the normal digital recordings of these tracks that we hear on the radio, remains to be heard. The Recordpress Author is a Champion of the Vinyl Record and as such welcomes this initiative by Radio 2 and Pick of the Pops producer Phil Swern and presenter Tony Blackburn. Infact I look forward to hearing the odd crackle and hiss with the pop!!

Tony Blackburn will be cueing up vinyl records on his turntables from the likes of Tom Jones, Manfred Mann, The Small Faces and The Rolling Stones from the June 1966 chart and Abba, Gladys Knight & The Pips, Peter Frampton and Dolly Parton from the chart in the summer of 1976. Of course both years were memorable – the first year being the Golden Summer England won the World Cup and the second year being that of the Golden Summer of the Heatwave.

Tony Blackburn playing only vinyl recordings on Pick of the Pops will merely add to the authenticity of these retro chart rundowns. It is a testimony to the enduring love that still exists for the vinyl record that Tony Blackburn and his team are doing this. Vinyl will simply not lie down and die quietly. Vinyl records just keep on spinning and that’s great to see and hear!!

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