March 13, 2023 • 6 mins
We surprise Clairsy with a look back on his extraordinary career as he celebrates 40 years in radio!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So Claisy, we must have a chat about a little something.
Well actually it's a very big something.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Very big something, sneaky.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
But all right, so not exactly your birthday birthday, but
your radio birthday. Today Miss Dean Claire's celebrates forty years
working in radio, forty years on the wireless.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
That is quite something.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Congratulations, my friend, And take us back to where it
all started. The year was nineteen eighty three and the
first location on your journey was the Wheat belt town
of Meriden.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Halfway to Calgooley.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Absolutely did that happen were you were? You were doing
media studies.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
I did many studies at school and I rang Gary
Roberts from ninety six am. I said, oh can I
get a job? And he went, He gave me the
deep voice. I said, most of migos had done ten
years experience, go and get some. So I did, and
I got an interview up in Meriton and and flecked
the job.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
It took you about five minutes to become the breakfast announcer,
and you also covered football on the weekends. I guess
what you talked about was West Perth.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Of course and Eastern District's before League of course.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
After mered and you moved to Bombury.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Yes, so you were following the advice of mister Roberts,
getting that work my way around experience.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Yeah, absolutely, I thought that was going to get me
a mid dawn spot on ninety six AM.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Isn't that funny?
Speaker 1 (01:29):
And before you worked in Perth after these ones, you
actually went to Adelaide for a while.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
I went to Canberra first, Cambra. Yeah, there was an
FM cold well I got there was forty degrees. No
one had told me it got hot this summer. You
inspect your warm clow first week at the Canberra Pool.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
So then you went to SAFM and Adelaide and then
in nineteen eighty nine this is where we met.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
This is how long we've got each other.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
You returned to Perth as an announcer and music director
at the short lived Some of us are going to
remember this a radio station called the Eagle.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Yeah, ten eight the Eagle.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
It was an AM station and it was the idea
was to get one of those FM licenses to FM
and we didn't get it.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
The Egle failed.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Do you remember back then?
Speaker 1 (02:13):
It was like it was a private bid that radio
stations put in and we're talking millions of dollars, of course,
and what we missed out, the amount we missed out
on we could have passed a hat around the office.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
It was so so.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Close, just a few grand apparently.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
So then fast forward to nineteen ninety one, because the
Eagle didn't work out for either of us, I went
east and you went to pm FM six pm ninety
two point nine, and you stayed there for quite a while.
And then in two thousand and one we met up
again when at the old at the other place across
the road was a trend developing.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Less is following you to radio stations.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Certainly I came here, turn around, it's behind body stalker.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Sorry, And that was.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Late twenty twenty, and the rest has been history.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
You go back together again, so you've it's been a
stellar career and you've been lucky enough to meet some
amazing people. My favorite photo of you with someone is
when you're interviewing Bruce Springsteen.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
It was he did that.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Open call down where the concert was.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Because you're so tall.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
You just leaned your arm up above everyone else and
you've got this direct sight between the two of you.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
It is such a classic photo.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
I'dnice to be about relationships, and I said, because he
married Patty known her forever. I said, we just give
up on the social media stuff and click.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
You're asking Bruce for a relationship, but don't swipe right
or left.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
You just got to go through your you know, your
books of who you've known in the past. And I've
got him laughing, which was a real treat.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
So it was nineteen eighty three. Some big things happen
in nineteen eighty three. I was the entrepreneur, aviator and philanthropist.
Dick Smith made history by completing his first solo helicopter
flight around the world. Meryl Street won the Best Actress
Oscar for Sophie's Choice, Ben Kingsley won the Best Actor
for Gandhi, and Al Pacino's scar Face took the box
office by storm.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Do you want to play?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Shut Off?
Speaker 3 (04:05):
To My List?
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Cold Chisel performed their farewell show on December fifteen at
the newly opened Sydney Entertainment Center after over a decade together.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
It didn't take obviously.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
The final episode of The Sullivans on March the tenth
about Damn This wore Grace and it was a big
year for technology. In nineteen eighty three, as IBM launched
its personal computer in Australia. With the aid of a
Charlie Chaplin impersonator, the Internet was born.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Oh that's not a good memory. Hello, oh dear. We
used to listen to this. Yeah, but e three time
we dialed out, we thought we were Bill Gates, didn't we?
Speaker 1 (04:51):
First of all, we had to tell everyone to get
off the phone because I'm playing the Internet in It
was a huge year in music, the reason you got
into radio in the first place. Some of the top
songs were David Boys, Let's Dance and Tops and Twins,
Hold Me Now and this one well She's sexy?
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Wow, go ahead on the seed?
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Did that sound check down?
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Oh the Stray Cat Sex seventeen?
Speaker 1 (05:21):
There was Talking Heads, Burning down the House, Wams, Bad
Boys and who can forget this.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Summer?
Speaker 4 (05:30):
On the rock?
Speaker 2 (05:38):
I had the right hand palm.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Yeah, what did we all?
Speaker 1 (05:43):
My hair was was just a touch higher than yours.
Come and fill the noise with the z by quiet right.
Paul Young had his two huge hits, Wherever I Lay
My Hat and Love of the Common People, both in
nineteen eighty three, And how many times did this one
get played at the Roller skating rink, but.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
It's too little it Wow.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
I loved that song.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
What a bangger did You do? That speedch gap to the.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Police's Every Breath You Take dominated the charts in nineteen
eighty three. The single spent eight weeks at number one
on Billboards Top one hundred, making it the year's top song. However,
that didn't make it the most played song of nineteen
eighty three. That was something else. That honor went to
Culture Club's harm a Chameleon.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Nineteen eighty three, Quite the year.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Congratulations please thanks Buddy Cheesu Gopick completely
So Claisy, we must have a chat about a little something.
Well actually it's a very big something.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Very big something, sneaky.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
But all right, so not exactly your birthday birthday, but
your radio birthday. Today Miss Dean Claire's celebrates forty years
working in radio, forty years on the wireless.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
That is quite something.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Congratulations, my friend, And take us back to where it
all started. The year was nineteen eighty three and the
first location on your journey was the Wheat belt town
of Meriden.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Halfway to Calgooley.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Absolutely did that happen were you were? You were doing
media studies.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
I did many studies at school and I rang Gary
Roberts from ninety six am. I said, oh can I
get a job? And he went, He gave me the
deep voice. I said, most of migos had done ten
years experience, go and get some. So I did, and
I got an interview up in Meriton and and flecked
the job.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
It took you about five minutes to become the breakfast announcer,
and you also covered football on the weekends. I guess
what you talked about was West Perth.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Of course and Eastern District's before League of course.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
After mered and you moved to Bombury.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Yes, so you were following the advice of mister Roberts,
getting that work my way around experience.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Yeah, absolutely, I thought that was going to get me
a mid dawn spot on ninety six AM.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Isn't that funny?
Speaker 1 (01:29):
And before you worked in Perth after these ones, you
actually went to Adelaide for a while.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
I went to Canberra first, Cambra. Yeah, there was an
FM cold well I got there was forty degrees. No
one had told me it got hot this summer. You
inspect your warm clow first week at the Canberra Pool.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
So then you went to SAFM and Adelaide and then
in nineteen eighty nine this is where we met.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
This is how long we've got each other.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
You returned to Perth as an announcer and music director
at the short lived Some of us are going to
remember this a radio station called the Eagle.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Yeah, ten eight the Eagle.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
It was an AM station and it was the idea
was to get one of those FM licenses to FM
and we didn't get it.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
The Egle failed.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Do you remember back then?
Speaker 1 (02:13):
It was like it was a private bid that radio
stations put in and we're talking millions of dollars, of course,
and what we missed out, the amount we missed out
on we could have passed a hat around the office.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
It was so so.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Close, just a few grand apparently.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
So then fast forward to nineteen ninety one, because the
Eagle didn't work out for either of us, I went
east and you went to pm FM six pm ninety
two point nine, and you stayed there for quite a while.
And then in two thousand and one we met up
again when at the old at the other place across
the road was a trend developing.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Less is following you to radio stations.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Certainly I came here, turn around, it's behind body stalker.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Sorry, And that was.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Late twenty twenty, and the rest has been history.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
You go back together again, so you've it's been a
stellar career and you've been lucky enough to meet some
amazing people. My favorite photo of you with someone is
when you're interviewing Bruce Springsteen.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
It was he did that.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Open call down where the concert was.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Because you're so tall.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
You just leaned your arm up above everyone else and
you've got this direct sight between the two of you.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
It is such a classic photo.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
I'dnice to be about relationships, and I said, because he
married Patty known her forever. I said, we just give
up on the social media stuff and click.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
You're asking Bruce for a relationship, but don't swipe right
or left.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
You just got to go through your you know, your
books of who you've known in the past. And I've
got him laughing, which was a real treat.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
So it was nineteen eighty three. Some big things happen
in nineteen eighty three. I was the entrepreneur, aviator and philanthropist.
Dick Smith made history by completing his first solo helicopter
flight around the world. Meryl Street won the Best Actress
Oscar for Sophie's Choice, Ben Kingsley won the Best Actor
for Gandhi, and Al Pacino's scar Face took the box
office by storm.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Do you want to play?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Shut Off?
Speaker 3 (04:05):
To My List?
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Cold Chisel performed their farewell show on December fifteen at
the newly opened Sydney Entertainment Center after over a decade together.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
It didn't take obviously.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
The final episode of The Sullivans on March the tenth
about Damn This wore Grace and it was a big
year for technology. In nineteen eighty three, as IBM launched
its personal computer in Australia. With the aid of a
Charlie Chaplin impersonator, the Internet was born.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Oh that's not a good memory. Hello, oh dear. We
used to listen to this. Yeah, but e three time
we dialed out, we thought we were Bill Gates, didn't we?
Speaker 1 (04:51):
First of all, we had to tell everyone to get
off the phone because I'm playing the Internet in It
was a huge year in music, the reason you got
into radio in the first place. Some of the top
songs were David Boys, Let's Dance and Tops and Twins,
Hold Me Now and this one well She's sexy?
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Wow, go ahead on the seed?
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Did that sound check down?
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Oh the Stray Cat Sex seventeen?
Speaker 1 (05:21):
There was Talking Heads, Burning down the House, Wams, Bad
Boys and who can forget this.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Summer?
Speaker 4 (05:30):
On the rock?
Speaker 2 (05:38):
I had the right hand palm.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Yeah, what did we all?
Speaker 1 (05:43):
My hair was was just a touch higher than yours.
Come and fill the noise with the z by quiet right.
Paul Young had his two huge hits, Wherever I Lay
My Hat and Love of the Common People, both in
nineteen eighty three, And how many times did this one
get played at the Roller skating rink, but.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
It's too little it Wow.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
I loved that song.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
What a bangger did You do? That speedch gap to the.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Police's Every Breath You Take dominated the charts in nineteen
eighty three. The single spent eight weeks at number one
on Billboards Top one hundred, making it the year's top song. However,
that didn't make it the most played song of nineteen
eighty three. That was something else. That honor went to
Culture Club's harm a Chameleon.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Nineteen eighty three, Quite the year.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Congratulations please thanks Buddy Cheesu Gopick completely
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