Vintage Chart Toppers RTHK Radio 3.

05/08/2025

And here is the link for the show that went out on the 20th, July, 2025 with the vintage sounds of Al Hirt, Boots & His Buddies, Cliff Richard and much more. Time for a break for 30 mins and tune in on the radio for some musical memories, here on RTHK Radio 3, Hong Kong.
https://www.rthk.hk/radio/radio3/programme/vintage_chart_toppers/episode/1035665

03/08/2025

Jazz in Berlin: Sunday's record collection: Today, a beautiful Rudy Vallee hit from the 1930 film "The Vagabond Lover." The Ben Berlin dance orchestra delivers its usual elegant jazzy performance, and bandleader Hermann Bick even contributes a piano solo. The "Admirals," in their trio formation, win out with their authentic English vocals.

https://youtu.be/hglLEPm5eR4?si=mVHeaSdO4j-W3WRg

01/08/2025

This week Colin features the multi-instrumentalist Adrian Francis Rollini. He mostly played the bass saxophone, piano, and vibraphone, but in the 1927 recording we’re spinning this morning, he’s playing something that looks like a sax with loads of buttons down the front and making a very different sound. It’s a couesnophone or Goofus, and you’ll hear it being played in “vo-do-do-de-o blues”. We’re also travelling through time with Erskine Hawkins, The Kalin Twins, The Spanials and the man who clearly had a massive influence on Spike Jones, Mr Freddie ‘Schnickelfritz’ Fisher!

26/07/2025

And here is the link for the show that went out on Sunday, 13th, July, 2025 with our trip to Lamma Island and our guest Dan Peterson. Lets say, Lamma Island discs here on RTHK Radio 3, Hong Kong.
https://www.rthk.hk/radio/radio3/programme/vintage_chart_toppers/episode/1034182

26/07/2025

Sad news of the death of vocalist Cleo Laine.

She was the first British singer to win a Grammy in a jazz category and performed with all the greats.

26/07/2025

And here is the link for our live road show in Sha Tin that went out on Sunday, 5th, July, 2025 with Steve James and I plus the 1928 HMV wind up gramophone and of course the VCT Syncopators here on RTHK Radio 3, Hong Kong.
https://www.rthk.hk/radio/radio3/programme/vintage_chart_toppers/episode/1032646

25/07/2025

A slightly different show, this week, a wild one at that, focusing on the distinctive tones of the banjo, the mandolin, the ukelele and the tiple……yes….the tiple…..but be prepared for a truly dazzling display of mighty talent captured in Colin’s Sunday morning collection. These musicians are going to shake up your playlist!

Harry Reser, Roy Smeck, and doing things on an instrument you’re simply not supposed to do, Arthur ‘boogie’ Smith. Also, listen up for The Cats And The Fiddle and, performing an outstanding take on “lover come back to me”, the one and only….Lee Plink Floyed!

20/07/2025

Sad news of the passing of vocalist Connie Francis.

The singer had recently enjoyed a career resurgence after her 1960s song Pretty Baby went viral.

20/07/2025

And here is the link for the show that went out on the 29th, June, 2025, with the music of Bob Wilber, Ruth Brown, Buddy Greco, and much more. Grab your cuppa and tune in to the hot days of radio here on RTHK Radio 3, Hong Kong.
https://www.rthk.hk/radio/radio3/programme/vintage_chart_toppers/episode/1031588