Radio two Johnnie Walker

[cruella]

Johnnie Walker is standing in for Terry Wogan in the mornings just now.
I have to say, I love Johnnie Walker and he really cheered me up yesterday morning with his rendition of "Tulips from Amsterdam".
Anyone else hear it?

[4GS]

Yep, I was taking the boy to skool when I heard them belting it out.
Was there a conversation just after it regarding whether Tulips actually do come from Amsterdam?

[cruella]

Think there was, but hubby and myself were so busy laughing at them all singing there wee hearts out. Never caught the converstaion.

[4candles]

I've always respected Johnnie Walker as a fine broadcaster. The mornings are so much better when he stands in for Wogan, and I really miss his weekday afternoon slot.

Shame I missed his rendition.

[cruella]

I have to agree with you 4candles. I most certainly do prefer him to Wogan.

[andy-hughes]

I'm not at all fond of Wogan - he has developed a speech intonation that is not used by anyone else on the planet, with the possible exceptionof Jimmy Young - maybe it's an ageing broadcaster thing?

I really can't do with Johnny Walker. His interminable 'humerous' nonsense with that ludicrous woman who can't read two lines of a traffic bulletin without either slobbering or stuttering, usually both, put me right off him.

True, he does have one of the all tme fabulous radio voices - pity he has so little personality to go with it.

[4candles]

No personality? We'll have to agree to disagree on that Andy [;-)

I admire him for always being his own man, and sticking to his principles when they differed from his employer's.

The greatest memory I have is one lunchtime in 1976. Save Your Kisses For Me had been at No 1 for weeks, and when it came to the Top 5 countdown, he either started it, or didn't play it at all, and then smashed the disc on air.

[cruella]

As I said, I like Johnnie Walker. I think too he has a great personality, so each person to their own opinions. We cannot all like the same things.
Listening to him this morning, it was "She wears red feathers" and I heard him say he had something lined up for tomorrow morning but I missed what that was to be.
I agree with what you say Andy about Terry Wogan. Think it is time for him to retire.

[4candles]

We can agree on that then, Cruella and Andy. Wogan is way past his sell-by date, and is becoming a caricature of himself. Maybe he''ll go in August, when he's 70.