Man Of Action - Les Reed Orchestra - 1970 45rpm

Familiar tune to Radio Northsea (Nordsee) International radio listeners. DJ Alan West played this continuously behind mayday calls whilst the Mebo 2 was being attacked and set ablaze on 15 May 1971.
(I know the label changes colour - rubbish scanner!)

[@robbie4860]

Back in the day when radio was so much better. Like the music...

[@parispersiancat]

My late brother was a DJ and played this tune his whole life.. for you, Hans. I love you, brother. Enjoy your favorite tune..... wish I could hear you do another announcement ove t

[@parispersiancat]

For you, Hans. May you enjoy it forever. just like we enjoyed you and all the jokes you made. kzbin.info/www/bejne/rZvdcoqDadZsgMU

[@johnmacleod4481]

it's funny how we grow up with 1 particular piece of music and as we grow older it's remembered still more fondly than heard first time.

[@freddyschuuring9274]

The best radiotune ever

[@duncanrs]

The world needs music like this again

[@steveburton9242]

If only

[@1968davidcassin]

agree totally

[@lizparker8798]

@@1968davidcassin I've play all the time listen to the b.side

[@1968davidcassin]

@@lizparker8798 cool

[@1968davidcassin]

@@lizparker8798 whats on the b side ?.thanks

[@hudois]

I can't hear this tune without expecting to hear the voice of Alan West, Andy Archer, Mark Westley, Carl Mitchell, Stevie Merike, Spangles Muldoons, et al. Such great days...at least we still have the recordings to keep the memories alive!! And also who could ever forget that great record by Peter called Peace that they used to play in the early days!

[@ehnat0502]

hudois love the music of Maestro Les Reed OBE, FCL ...THE SILVER FOX, MR LOVE!! LOVE IS ALL xxxxxx

[@ehnat0502]

hudois

[@paulhalley6760]

Peace (by Peter), was also used by Centre Radio of Leicester, at 6.a.m. , daily, as a start to their day's broadcasting, sometime during the '80s, if i'm correct in recollecting the time period ?

[@paulputnam8211]

Radio Caroline played 'Peace' by Peter at 1102 on Rememberence Sunday 2021 after observing the two minute silence.

[@markneeter5102]

Yes and the amazing records they played including making a hit in the UK of Tears of a Clown

[@user-nv7ov4bo6k]

cant beat the theme tunes used by djs back in the day great memories

[@HenrivanBree-ub9ym]

The best radio tune ever!

[@frenkkokkelkoren7666]

De tune van mijn favoriete radio stadion, Radio Noordzee.

[@richardrandlesome3602]

RIP Les, thanks for this great tune, just reminds me of RNI

[@peterward8630]

So good of you,please,for the peoples of this mini classic intro enjoyment...

[@drsudo5135]

RNI was bombed 31 years before I was born, not to mention the fact I’m an American, but this is still an awesome piece of music, with an even more awesome story to go with it!

[@paulputnam8211]

It's 1970 and I routinely tune my receiver across the MW band to see what's about. Suddenly this tune comes up. I wait, listening intently and the I hear it: 'This is Radio Nordzee International'. Suddenly radio is exciting again. Fond memories, to be treasured when subjected to the bland uniformity of today's commercial stations.

[@andyhaslam9231]

Paul i used to do exactly the same. Starting right at the beginning of the left hand side and listening to what i could pick up. Lots of foreign stations too. Happy innocent days.

[@ianmclaughlan]

Such stations should be reinstated on the dial not the same online half the stations on the dial are dull

[@macraghnaill3553]

I used to do the same, radio was never the same after the pirate stations [Radio Caroline North for me]

[@stuartbrixton6260]

@@macraghnaill3553 anyone interested in pop music in the sixties had to listen to pirate radio as it was the only source of music available in Britain at that time. As you mention would start at one end of the medium wave dial and see what was available, normally late evenings as the signal was stronger. Through stations like Caroline, London, city, England, North Sea int, Holland, Veronica plus the unnamed stations was my inauguration to pop, soul and motown. What memories.

[@macraghnaill3553]

@@stuartbrixton6260 I forgot to mention Radio Luxembourg as well, before the pirate stations, we could only get Luxembourg at night time and the signal faded in and out

[@1032cr]

Een top tijd om nooit te vergeten RNI.

[@wrctube]

RIP Les, you'll be missed!

[@briancollison5319]

RNI (Radio Northsea International) is now an Internet Radio Station and they still use this as a jingle. I found them a couple of years ago. Really brings back memories. Internet radio is brilliant.

[@paulhafner3199]

One of My Favorite stations growing up listening to them on shortwave 49mb or 31mb . My receiver was a Heathkit Gr 64 Or Yaesu Frg 7700 Ahh for the good ole days when rock was fun . Radio Luxembourg was also on then 49mb in English late at night in Europe to the UK and the world

[@DavidSelley49]

This was REAL radio - listened to on REAL receivers !

[@yacht2007]

Brings back memories of when I was 9, receiving pirates on the M-wave. I still hear the DJ's in this tune.....

[@alankay9261]

Marvellous record, Great radio station - RNI !!!

[@davidforster8654]

Great nostalgia, I remember listening to this on my tiny transistor radio at night, way back in 1969 at prep school in Southwold, we were not allowed to listen to it as school rule, there was something special listing to this particular Les Reed theme crackling over the radio on a stormy night, while tucked up in bed, with radio under the pillow.....Thanks for uploading.

[@john111257]

been there matey, battery flat in the morning

[@andyhaslam9231]

Hi David. I used to have a radio under the pillow with an earphone piece and listen to medium wave. I used to start at the left hand side of the dial and work my way across the frequency. Aswell as British stations managed to hear American,French,Russian stations even AFN(American Forces Network). Found it fascinating as to what was actually on the frequency. I even listened to David Hamilton on Late Night Extra on Radio 2 and remember him playing My Sweet Lord by George Harrison so it was 50 years ago.Luxembourg always used to fade in and out on a song you really liked next to adverts for Cedar Wood aftershave and Peter Stuyvesant cigarettes. Seems a lifetime ago and yes used to pick up RNI on 220 metres medium wave. Happy days indeed.

[@BackToTheBlues]

@@andyhaslam9231 I remember Bob Stewart used to push the coffin nails - "Smoking a puh-puh-puh Peter Stuyvesant cigarette." My mum said he must've been blowing rather than sucking to do it like that! I used to do as you did, and as well as Luxy and Radio Northsea (my all-time favourite) and AFN (baffling if it was an American Football commentary but brilliant if it was a Wolfman Jack show) there'd be Radio Atlantis (usually too weak a signal to listen for very long), The Voice of America (which I found dull and somewhat religious as I recall) and Radio Moscow. It was always nice to get an update of tractor production levels!

[@Radiosutch]

Are you sure of the date? RNI only started in 1970

[@ewanodoherty2545]

Les Reed passed away on Mon 15th April 2019. He has left us this great track among many others, RIP Update:- Many members of the orchestra on this track have passed on as well. Some years ago I bought a copy of 'Cool Dudes' by the Les Reed Combo, the notes of which list many well known session musicians who played with Les Reed. He surrounded himself with the best that there were. According to Les Reed himself, 'Man of Action' was recorded in November 1968 at Lansdowne Studios, which was in the Ladbroke Grove area of west central London, with the late Adrian Kerridge at the controls. Nothing but a classic !

[@rvdb8876]

Les Reed was a very talented composer and musician, who created many great compositions for many British singers at the time. Underrated in my opinion. I once saw an interview with him and it struck me, despite his great talent, how modest that man was, absolutely no nonsense. My two cents from Belgium (Flanders).

[@billyweir714]

2023, and this is the first time I’ve heard this, awesome tune

[@glpilpi6209]

The British Government used to jam RNI on many occasions with annoying multiple test tones because it had a powerful transmitter , but the station always seemed to find a way of getting around it .

[@ClaraTHara777]

Heard this on Boom radio this morning, took me right back to listening under the covers to my transisstor radio. Happy memories.

[@gerry5403]

I ran a mobile disco in the 70s and 80s and signed off with this tune at the end of every gig, happy memories,

[@johnrobertson8263]

omg too, and peace by peter...and nobody knew them but drunk they embraced ..hic..them

[@johnrobertson8263]

hey me too and image alan haven at eyeball (cb) gigs

[@colinballs4605]

not the only ones to do it

[@ewanodoherty2545]

When doing Bank Holiday music specials on 103.2 Dublin City FM, I play out with this as well

[@alankay9261]

We used to start & finish with this great record when doing mobile discos in the 70's!!

[@ollieboy266]

The Voice of Europe the Sound of the World. Nothing will ever beat the unique sound of RNI. Thanks for the best

[@carolinebauwens1878]

Zo heerlijk om dat eens terug te horen.

[@stevenkegg5064]

What an amazing station this was

[@robertclancy2136]

The only Offshore Radio theme tune that really hits the spot, I can still remember when I first found RNI or Radio North Sea International on the 31 metre band on a valve radio in my sitting room back in 1971 or 1972. I think it must have been testing as "Man of Action" was being played continues lee for ten minutes then the music started, I stayed tuned to RNI just to hear that classical piece of music "Man of Action" which I later found out was their theme tune which was then played on the hour every hour.

[@davidalancross2836]

Robert Clancy same here , early one morning, nothing to be heard. Mum up for the early turn on the busses. This was the only thing to listen to.

[@frankbruning6998]

A great time, on the Radio Days Exra AM 1332 plays the old shows complete

[@inekeadriaanse982]

10 jaar en nooit meer vergeten wat een radio tune

[@nickmaskell268]

this tune is R N I happy memories of a fantastic radio station

[@GeoffB2072]

Heard this on Boom Radio today and immediately remembered listening to Radio North Sea many years ago!

[@fredcommandeur8809]

Great tune from the past time in the early seventies, I listen very often on the medium wave band on a Koyo solid state radio to that wunderfull station and to other stations in that time, R.I.P Less Reed and thank you for that briljant piece of music heart by millions of people acros many country 's, greetings to all vieuwers on this channel and all the best for now and in the future...:)

[@paulputnam8211]

Just when radio was getting boring RNI turned up. Great days !

[@artec0]

So many memories - such a great time for music and radio.

[@wechselrichterschaltungen]

Das waren noch tolle zeiten........abends im autoradio gehört!

[@Pauljb1111]

Oh the nostalgia, doing my school homework in the early 70s while listening to this on Radio Nordzee International....

[@Turkishcap]

Found RNI Dec 71, Softly Whispering I Love You first song I heard on it. Had a signed pic of Daffy Don Allen. Great times.

[@BackToTheBlues]

The first song I heard on it, from the tiny Dixon's Dixie transistor radio hidden under my pillow, was Whiskey In The Jar by Thin Lizzy, and it was the first time I'd heard it, too. That guitar part at the start is great anyway, but listening to it 'undercover' from a pirate radio station was spine-tinglingly exciting!

[@omannomann]

Wunderbare Zeit meiner Jugend an den sonnigen Stränden der Nord-Holländischen Nordsee...

[@fczaxi]

Nice to have you this here....from Zürich the home of the owners of Mebo!!!

[@Glamagal20091]

I recall hearing this being played around 12.02 pm on weekdays after the news and weather of the Dutch service.

[@paulputnam8211]

A long time ago but seems like only yesterday that the voice of Roger Day & others come blasting out of my ancient GEC valve set ! From that moment on, radio was exciting again ! Sadly, the bland uniformity of today's so called 'independent' stations is a very poor substitute for those wonderful times.

[@BackToTheBlues]

It came whispering out of my Dixons Dixie transistor radio hidden under my pillow because I was a schoolboy and supposed to be asleep, but the effect was the same!

[@john111257]

checkout hitmix 107.5, and on line..you'll hear tunes you ain't heard on radio for years

[@john111257]

try the hitmix 1075, on line, top radio

[@michaelporter2574]

.... Roger 'Twiggy' Day as he styled himself back then.... How I envied the shoulder length hair too...

[@Okanagan48]

Radio, today stinks, no individuality, all cookie cutter radio!

[@MadAndyBeckman]

Driving all day in South-East England to the sounds of Europe with a Dutch language one could pick up on uninfected by playlists from Mi Amigo then at 7pm on comes Caroline to relax to, Europes only all LP station with DJing in English playing all those tracks one might otherwise hardly ever hear uninfected by sponsors. What memories and how those two stations complemented each other both broadcasting their stuff at the right time of day.

[@johnwhittle5910]

John Used to listen to this every night on RNI radio was good in those days

[@vaughanrose2151]

my brother was on board when they got bombed. thank god no one got hurt R.I.P HOWARD, aka (CRISPIAN ST JOHN 0 0

[@minty448]

Vaughan Rose sorry to hear your news about Cristian.

[@ItsABeautifulDay.]

Vaughan Rose Wow.

[@grahamfrancis9508]

l used to sign off with this at the end of my disco at woodside community centre 1990

[@eddierichardson8361]

Love this tune R N I international

[@kevinpayne5699]

RIP Les Reed 16/04/19

[@ianmclaughlan]

I remember my brother in 1974 playing that record it should have been a chart topper the most cheerful and tuneful hit I ever heard

[@paddymulligan]

Mi Amigo Radio. Mooie tijden

[@petertodd1962]

theme for stv news before scotland today . dateline with bill tennent . 1969 1972

[@ehnat0502]

Amazing historical event! Thank you for this thrilling info! Nat USA FAN

[@nicnak4475]

RNI ! such fantastic memories ! thank you RIP god bless .:o)

[@grahammaddox6132]

i loved the music on rni

[@ItsABeautifulDay.]

They (and radio Caroline!) Are still here on INTERNET! SO EVERY HOUR AS A MEMORY TO OLD RNI GUESS WHAT PLAYS? THIS!

[@ItsABeautifulDay.]

Yeah. Radio northsea and Caroline still are alive.

[@roelofvenema6500]

Het beste radiostation vanaf de Noordzee. Met een brede muziek keuze door de discjockey die mocht draaien wat elke week per tender werd afgeleverd. Moet nu nog om komen. Veel gewauwel, stomme spelletjes en reclame. Streaming is het nu👍👌.

[@hennieterhuurne5539]

Heerlijk gevoelige warme fijne muziek

[@johnwhittle5910]

Still listen toRNI on tune in radio

[@coltronex]

Nostalgia,its a warm place!

[@Margaret-pn4mm]

Heard this on Boom Radio the other day. Does anyone else think it has tones of the chorus of Amen Corner's High In The Sky. Love it!

[@hoffersmusic815]

Yes I can hear that too

[@beagle5]

Loved this since its first release ,always reminds me of the Radio Station to. LOVE it

[@thedarkchild86]

THIS SONG IS FUCKING GREAT ..... LOVE IT

[@Landrovertwo]

Geweldige herinnering aan een geweldige tijd, deze muziek zal me bijblijven zolang ik leef.

[@andyhowlett2231]

Oh the memories! 'The Sound of Young Europe...'

[@P0RT3RS1GN4LM4N]

RIP Les Reed

[@horstspitzberg7644]

Nicht nur bei Radio Northsea, ich glaube auch bei Caroline lief dieser song als Erkennungsmelodie - mir auf jeden Fall wahnsinnig vertraut

[@michaelduffy2563]

Up till recently here in Dublin on Radio Nova the legendary John Clarke was playing this on a Sunday morning oldies show...Powers that be decided to let him go....Listeners don’t count anymore.

[@ewanodoherty2545]

I regularly use it as a play-out when presenting 'The Musical Time Machine' or 'Nostalgia', on 103.2 Dublin City FM.... Wonder also why Nova chucked John Clarke out 🤔

[@michaelduffy2563]

Ewan O'Doherty He’s back Sunday mornings 7am shift but no jukebox,

[@diurckje]

Oh heerlijk en de disco opende met deze tune.

[@michaelporter2574]

During my last year at school I used to walk home with a radio hidden in my briefcase 'rebroadcasting' MOA as loud as it would go, and adverts for 'Schtimerol gom, Schtimerol gom, Schtimerol chewing gom.... "Schtimerol - der schportsman's gom..." Ha ha!

[@parispersiancat]

Michael Porter oh wow... stimerol chewing gum.. those were the days indeed. Yes typed it.. tuned popped in my head. Oh how great is that, other people who remember. Those were wonderful days. We were so young and innocent. The world looked so much better. Wish those great days came back again. How the young people of today would enjoy the days of our youth.

[@john111257]

remember the dead battery after falling asleep listening to rni...fantastic radio

[@gerardcoenders2221]

Een nummer onlosmakelijk verbonden met Radio Nordsea International (RNI) of gewoon Radio Noordzee, maar ook van de zeezenders in het algemeen; een tijd om nooit te vergeten!

[@edouardballureau8359]

Magnifique Les Reed !!!

[@PopcornOldieManiac]

Fantastic memories !

[@wh6859]

Klasse, sowas nach gefühlt 40 Jahren mal wieder zu hören...

[@anitarichwoods6858]

Ah, “Radio Northsea International, broadcasting on 220m Medium Wave, 100Mhz on VHF and in the 49m Band Short Wave. RNI, the sound of young Europe”. Wonderful times. Best radio station ever!

[@BernardMebs]

It was often used by Frank Laufenberg, on SWF3, in his show "RadioClub Oldies" (in the 80s), as an "ontro", just before the news. He never announced the title, and it was rarely played in full. I always enjoy listening to it again.

[@cereretrop]

Closest to the original pirates now is Radio MiAmigo International - great station; on SW and the internet.

[@spencerbrowning4126]

I like this, it’s cool 👍🏼

[@cordesjosch4696]

Sehr schöne Erinnerung! Gruß nach Wilhelmshaven!

[@janmodderkolk6715]

radio Noordzee internationaal.

[@PAULLONDEN]

Glorious sounds !

[@Nielsfilmpje2]

Keileuke muziek uit een fantastisch tijdperk

[@WolfgangSinner]

Super, das geht ab.

[@andrewkostelnyk272]

Good old RNI signature tune - great memories of Radio Norse

[@grahammaddox5048]

Andrew Kostelnyk

[@JennyAnnTea]

We used this as our theme tune when we set up Darlington Community Radio. I still have the copy that was used which is an original copy that RNI used. Not sure how it came into our possession but I treasure it xx

[@20035079]

Could you post a video of it? I would love to see it.

[@ornithoryncke]

Content d'avoir retrouvé ce titre ,très joli

[@pab70]

Watery wireless-tastic mate! They used to play this before Speedway and Banger Racing at Foxhall Stadium, Ipswich as well.

[@theoloyla]

RIP Les

[@phillipecook3227]

Oh boy. The last time I heard this I was a teenager still at school - I'm sure this music was used by STV in the early 1970s!

[@MegaWayneD]

"We are on fire! SOS! SOS!...."

[@horkyrion]

Ein echter Ohrwurm!

[@w126fan]

Stimmt!

[@zorro5000100]

De favoriete zeezender bij ons thuis...stond dag en nacht aan.

[@CP-oz4rg]

❤

[@john111257]

I had this a mono single, and later the copy on yr vid

[@walterkerckhofs1584]

👌👌..Topmuziektijden. .

[@BeeGeesFan999]

Also Used by Radio VERONICA (Netherlands)

[@maltwhiskey1424]

+BeeGeesFan999 NEEEE .. NOORDZEE .. de grote concurrent !!!

[@toontje182]

+Malt Whiskey Ja!!! Radio Noordzee Int. RNI, wat een tijden, toen werd er nog goede muziek gedraaid.

[@charliebowman2891]

I hear Amen Corner - High in the Sky

[@gillisvg7508]

Real music . Tmeless .

[@rondeneef]

noordzee heeft uitgezonden tot 1973, in t-water playa spanje, olsook mi amigo.

[@rondeneef]

veronica had een ander statuut dat moment

[@harberguk]

@RCH100 Same here. Isn't it comforting to wallow in the arms of memory?

[@ryanhenderson4686]

I watched that video on youtube last week and thought to myself, what made him play the vinyl during a distress call. I figured it would sound more serious to cut audio.

[@delpotman]

@SuperRon1962 , ik hoop het voor je! Volgend jaar wordt je al vijftig!

[@hagawagaco6906]

great song!