Billy Fury: The Story. Radio tracks.

The purpose of this site is to preserve material, so that if tapes are wiped or lost - as has happened with many historic television and radio programmes - a record exists. The files on this site exist as streaming audio in a form that is of no commercial advantage to anyone - some have added interference. Having said all of that...if anyone feels that I have infringed their rights, I will gladly acknowledge their copyright interest or remove the item from public view. Just e-mail me.


Saturday Club recordings, mid-1960s.	Reach Out For Your Loving Touch. My Baby Left Me. Dance The Night Away. Bye Bye. She's So Far Out She's In. Give Me Your Word. Reach Out For Your Loving Touch. My Whole World Is Tumbling Down. Find Out What's Happening.				Recorded mid-1960s by Kevin Summerfield.

Radio Luxembourg 9.45pm, 15 July 1962	Full programme.

Radio 210 Reading. 22 August 1982	Mike Quinn hosts a late night show with Stuart Colman, Mike Read and Billy Fury. Music was provided by Graham Gardner, who has supplied the recording. Possibly Billy's longest existing interview, recorded only six months before his death.				Sound 1 Sound 2 It was impossible for me to edit this as one file. Together, these files run for about 85 minutes.

BBC, unknown date	Billy speaks about the circumstances in which he acquired his stage name. The interview clearly took place well after the event, as he wrongly suggests that Maybe Tomorrow had been issued. In fact, the change took place soon after he joined the first package tour.				Sound

We love you Billy	Compère's reminiscences.				Sound. Recorded 2000. More gen.

No one else did that.	Joe Brown and Jeff Barker remember Sound Of Fury session.				Sound. Recorded 2000.

Interview.	John Dunn on BBC.				Sound. Recorded 27 November 1981.

Interview.	Gloria Hunniford on BBC.				Sound. Recorded 25 November 1982.

Stuart Colman interview	The celebrated interview, in two parts. A recording was circulated to radio stations for promotional purposes. Unarguably the most perceptive, sensitive and sympathetic interviews to have been preserved.				Sound 1. Sound 2. Recorded December 1982.

Saturday Club, BBC, 1968.		Back in 1968, Billy sang three songs - I Love You, Sweet Little Sixteen and Bye Bye - on the weekly Saturday Club show, backed by a trio called Storm. The members were Ged Peck (guitar), Graham Dangerfield (bass) and Pete Phillips (drums). Ged moved on to classical guitar, then studied for a degree before becoming a college tutor and studies manager. In March 2006, he was clearing out his garage when he found an old reel-to-reel tape. After 38 years in the cold and damp, it played back to him his long-forgotten recording of that session. Ged told me: "Having spend a decade in that business myself, I can honestly say that Bill was the nicest guy you could have ever met." He said Tony and Pete felt exactly the same way.		OUR LATEST GREAT FIND

Interview	Kingstown Radio, Hull.				Sound. Recorded 1972.

Top Of The Pops	BBC Radio. Compilation.				Sound. Broadcast 21 January 1967. Three files supplied by Bill Marks.

Ideal girl	BBC Radio interview.				Sound

Opportunity Knocks	Billy introduces group on television programme, shortly after heart operation.				Sound

Sunnyside interview	Recorded in Northampton, before the Sunnyside performance, December, 1982.				Sound

Monty Lister interviews	These three interviews were forwarded to me by Ray Shenton from Laser Hots Hits radio. All of them were recorded backstage at the Empire Theatre, Liverpool, in 1960, by Monty Lister, a hospital radio DJ. He used a mains-powered tape recorder, which was plugged in to one of the light sockets beside the dressing room mirror. This explains why he had trouble stretching the microphone cable from Gene Vincent to Eddie Cochran. I have enhanced Gene's and Eddie's voices, as the recording level was very low. There is one poignant passage in the Eddie Cochran interview. He states that he will be interrupting his tour to fly back to the US for ten daysoin Aprili 17. He never made that trip, as he was killed in a car crash on the way to the airport at the age of 20, and Gene Vincent was injured in the same crash.				Billy Fury Joe Brown Gene Vincent and Eddie Cochran

Lisa Voice interview	Lisa interviewed on Saga 106.6FM 29 January 2004. Recorded by Keith and Linda Sissons.				Sound
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Like I've Never Been Gone		2004: Santa's Christmas treat Marty Wilde presents radio biography in 1998.		Sound
BBC Radio Merseyside 60s Top 20		The result of listeners' vote for their favourite 1960s record. Supplied by Jean Todd.		Sound
Michael Winner		Film director recalls first day shooting Play It Cool.		Sound
Vernons Girls feature				Sound
Ready Steady Go radio feature				Sound
The History Of British Rock 'n' Roll		Two-part radio feature broadcast in November 2006.		Sound 1 Sound 2
Keith Skues tribute		Broadcast by Radio Norfolk on 24th anniversary of Billy's death, 28 January 2007. Spotted by Daniel.		Sound
Keith Skues interview		Broadcast by Radio Norfolk. Part 1 14 April, 2007. Part 2 21 April, 2007. Thanks to Bob and Daniel for supplying file.		Sound Sound
Pirates defiant		Johnnie Walker on Radio Caroline, August 14, 1967.		Sound
Wolverhampton City Radio tribute		Recorded in 2007 by Moya Gleave. Excellent interviews with Lee Everett Alkin and Albie Wycherley.		Sound
BBC radio play Sound Of Fury		Broadcast May 2008. Anton Lesser (left) stars as Billy.		Sound
208 jingles compilation.			Pirate radio jingles compilation