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Thank God John for a sensible comment about Police Tattoo's The
Police should be above reproach as they were when my husband was an
officer in the force from 1967-1985. No long hair, no tattoo's, no
second jobs and he had to get permission to marry ME!!!!!
From Carol
Good on ya John!!! you just said what I've been thinking and saying
all the time, how Dick Smith and Harvey Norman cry wolf. Buy
Australian when most of what they sell is from China if not go and
have a look good for Woolworths to stop their hypocritical rip off
under the cheap Australian nationalism.
Regards Andre
Morning Ralph, regarding settlement in Australia: History is
History, as many have pointed out, we can't change it. My favourite
saying is "When we know better we do better" and many would have a
better life if they get over the past and remember this saying.
Regards Di
2AD 1134 AM Armidale
2BH 567 AM Broken Hill
2DU 1251 AM Dubbo and 972 AM Cobar
2EL 1089 AM Orange
2GF 1206 AM Grafton and 103.9 FM Clarence Valley
2HC 639 AM Coffs Harbour and 101.5 FM Coffs Coast
2HD 1143 AM Newcastle and 97.5 FM Port Stephens
2LF 1350 AM Young, 107.7 FM Cootamundra and 99.5 FM
Cowra
2LM 900 AM Lismore and 104.3 FM Northern Rivers
2MG 1449 AM Mudgee
2MO 1080 AM Gunnedah
2NZ 1188 AM Inverell and 102.9 FM Glen Innes
2PK 1404 AM Parkes
2RE 1557 AM Taree, 100.3 FM Great Lakes and 100.1 FM
Gloucester
2SM 1269 AM Sydney and 2SM Digital Radio
2TM 1287 AM Tamworth
2VM 1503 AM Moree, 89.5 FM Goondiwindi, 92.9 FM
Lightning Ridge, 103.5 FM Collarenebri, 106.7 FM Walgett
and 105.5 FM Mungindi
4GY 558 AM Gympie-Cooloola and 107.1 FM Noosa
4WK 1359 AM Toowoomba, 963 AM Darling Downs, 95.9 FM
Dalby and 91.5 FM Stanthorpe
8HA 900 AM Alice Springs
RADIO 531 AM Kempsey and 93.5 FM Port Macquarie
RADIO 97 Tweed Heads, 104.1 FM Gold Coast and 103.5 FM
Northern Rivers
Biography
John Laws has been given the nickname
'Golden Tonsils' and the
title 'King of Radio' because he is the trusted voice of
'Dial In Democracy', an Australian legend and to those in
and outside the radio industry, John Laws is an icon.
At a dinner to celebrate John's 40th anniversary in radio,
Australia's former Prime Minister Paul Keating hailed John
Laws as 'the broadcaster of the century'.
John Laws worked as a Jackaroo around country New South
Wales, before hitchhiking to central Victoria. He was 18
when he took on the position of general hand at the local
radio station of 3BO Bendigo in 1953.
Lawsie's first jobs were to make the tea for the staff and
pack away the sixteen-inch long play records of radio
serials, like 'Doctor Paul', 'Hagon's Circus' and 'When A
Girl Marries'. One of his first on-air shifts was
broadcasting via wire recorders from the Bendigo Mayoral
Ball and the first commercial Lawsie read on-air was for a
haberdashery store called The Beehive.
Lawsie also worked at 4TO Townsville, 2PK Parkes for one
night before leaving because they didn't allow him to smoke
in the On-Air studio, and 2GZ Orange.
John Laws made his debut in metropolitan radio at 2UE in
1956. The station was Number 1 with a format of Top 40 and
the star Disc Jockey line-up started with Gary O'Callaghan,
running through the day with John Laws, Howard Craven, Brian
Henderson and others. John Laws became a friend of Lee
Gordon who moved to Australia from the states and became the
top promoter of overseas music artists of the 50's and 60's.
Lee delivered the latest singles to Lawsie before anyone
else. He flew the biggest acts to Australia from around the
world and brought them straight to John Laws.
John struck up friendships with artists like Roger Miller,
Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Connie Francis, Bill Haley,
Neil Sedaka, Tom T. Hall, Roy Orbison, Willie Nelson, Tom
Jones and Nat King Cole.
Local Australian artists were just beginning their careers,
and John Laws was the Disc Jockey giving them the contact
with the biggest listening audience. Again, John made
friends with many of our legendary artists, the King of
Australian Rock & Roll Johnny O'Keefe, Col Joye and the Joy
Boys, Rob E G, Little Patty and many others.
'Talk-Back' was also introduced at 2UE and John Laws adapted
his own unique style, which became a hit with the audience.
In 1959 John joined 2SM before moving to the Hunter Valley
where he purchased a farm and for several years broadcast a
nationally syndicated programme from the nearby Newcastle
station 2KO.
In 1962 he moved back to Sydney with 2GB before re-joining
2UE two years later, and remained at 2UE for 5 years.
In 1969 John changed stations to 2UW, where he stayed for a
decade. 2UE lured him back in 1979 for another 5 years,
before a return to 2GB, where Lawsie was earning a wage that
was greater than the Australian Prime Minister's.
John Laws returned to 2UE when the station had plummeted to
8th place in the Sydney ratings, but quickly returned to the
top of the ratings.
After Lawsie's shock decision to retire from the radio
industry in 2007, John has since been enjoying some quite
times. Thankfully it didn't take long tho for the radio bug
to bite again with John Laws now emerging from retirement
taking on the morning show again... it's been 52
years and finally Lawsie has come home to 2SM.
CONTACT JOHN
