Vintage Chart Toppers RTHK Radio 3.

24/10/2025

Halloween Special
A full set of vintage novelty records this week that have been released for Halloween over the years. Tex Beneke takes on the headless horseman, Putney Dandridge deals with the skeleton in the closet and Bing Crosby with the Andrews Sisters present the yodelling ghost. PLUS!…..Betty Grable!!

17/10/2025

Colin, this week, features the smaller bands that were showcased within a big band, during the big band era there were many.
There’s some nice surprises along the way, like Edythe Wright performing an early arrangement of The Lady Is A Tramp and Artie Shaw brings us a vintage arrangement of Smoke Gets In Your Eyes.

11/10/2025

11/10/2025

And here is the link for our All-Girl Big Band show that went out on Sunday, 5th, October, 2025. Here you will hear Ivy Benson, Ina Ray Hutton, Rio Rita and also our verry own Hong Kong all girl big band B-Jazz. So, grab a cupper and a chair for 30 mins and listen to those glamorous ladies of the big bands. Here on RTHK Radio 3, Hong Kong.
https://www.rthk.hk/radio/radio3/programme/vintage_chart_toppers/episode/1051748

10/10/2025

The Number One Million Sellers
They all went to number one on the charts, but how many of them do you remember? Colin is featuring the big ones, this week.
We’re dancing with Artie Shaw, Ted Weems with a fun little novelty record from 1929, a gold record for a swinging RnB track in 1950 with Joe Liggins, and experimenting with early reverb in the 1940s, The Harmonicats. All went to the top of the charts.

08/10/2025

For those of you who may be in Hong Kong, we will be having a big band session on Sunday, 12th, Oct, with our own big band, but also with Hong Kong's only all girl 16 piece big band 'B-Jazz,' who
will play the 1st set from 6-30pm to 7-15pm then from 7-30pm to 9-30pm it will be The Ned Kelly's Big Band.
Date Sunday, 12th, October, 2025
Venue, Ned Kelly's Last Stand, 11a Ashley Road, TST, Kowloon.
Time, 6-30pm until 9-30pm.
So please drop by if you are here and support Hong Kong's only new all girl big band with plenty of big band nostalgia.
Hope to see some of you.

05/10/2025

And here is the link for the show that went out on Sunday, 28th, Sep, 2025 with the sounds of Billy Bissett, Nappy Brown, Bob & Alf Pearson and much more. So, grab a chair and a cuppa for 30 mins and drift back to the days when lyrics could be understood here on RTHK Radio 3, Hong Kong.
https://www.rthk.hk/radio/radio3/programme/vintage_chart_toppers/episode/1049869

04/10/2025

Benny de Weille (1915-1977) was not called the "German Benny Goodman" for nothing. The virtuosity with which he played his clarinet at the Odeon Studio between 1941 and 1943 is incredible. Whether in a trio, sextet, or big band, Benny de Weille had no reason to fear comparisons with international role models. It is all the more astonishing that he hardly appeared in this genre again after the war, more or less keeping himself afloat with "bread and butter" jobs, sometimes under the pseudonym Michael Lanner, producing light entertainment. Here is a compilation of his best.

Benny de Weille galt für viele Swingfans der Kriegszeit als der "deutsche Benny Goodman". Auf den 22 hier zu hörenden Titel aus den Jahren 1941 bis 1943 ist ...

03/10/2025

A special feature this week with some outstanding female bands and band leaders from the Vintage Chart years.
The likes of Ina Ray Hutton, Ivy Benson, Rita Rio, and The International Sweethearts Of Rhythm. Plus, trumpeter Becky Liu leads Hong Kong’s B-Jazz big band together with The Belilios Winds and Louise Kwong.

30/09/2025

And here is the link for the end of summer show that went out on the 21st, September, 2025 with the sounds of Al Bowlly, Eydie Gorme, Nat King Cole and much more. Let's grab a nice cocktail and say goodbye to summer and welcome to autumn here on RTHK Radio 3, Hong Kong.
https://www.rthk.hk/radio/radio3/programme/vintage_chart_toppers/episode/1048038

25/09/2025

This week, strangely for a Sunday morning, two artists with issues. The ‘Whispering Pianist’ is straight ahead ‘Angry’, and Nappy Brown, from 1955, is pleading to his mrs, ‘Don’t Be Angry’ (‘coz he’s just teasing). We have the full instructions on how to do the ‘Suzy Q’ from Lil Armstrong, and “lucky” Lucy Ann Polk is swinging easy and asking “why”.

25/09/2025

And here is the link for the VCT show that went out on Sunday, 14th, September, 2025, with the vintage sounds of King Oliver, Maurice Winnick, Sam Cooke and much more. Grab that nice favourite drink and take a break with me here on RTHK Radio 3 Hong Kong.
https://www.rthk.hk/radio/radio3/programme/vintage_chart_toppers/episode/1046724