Vince Tracy Podcasts

Emile Ford was first and foremost a sound scientist and secondly he was a Number One hit-maker. He lived his life trying to create the best sound in the world and he had been involved with some of the biggest names in the business. I first met Emile in Cornwall around 1990 and he became a personal friend.  Vince met up with Emile Ford on Wednesday 8th July 2009 when Emile explained that he had bee...

Tommy James discussed his long and illustrious career with me. Tommy proved to be a really great story and a fabulous interview experience. It is clear to see that Tommy has been a visionary within the music industry who was saying things long before they happened.

Is there a connection between the first Electric cars, our current scenario and the UK 1972 miners strike and all the attendant problems in the years in-between? This is a podcast in which we look to see where the dots can be joined.

A great memory for me was meeting the wonderful Brenda Lee over the airwaves from my radio show in Spain. Brenda Lee, is an American singer. Performing rockabilly, pop and country music, she had 47 US chart hits during the 1960s and is ranked fourth in that decade, surpassed only by Elvis Presley, the Beatles and Ray Charles. She is known for her 1960 hit "I'm Sorry", and 1958's "Rockin' Around th...

Sir Henry Cooper was a British southpaw heavyweight boxing champion, best remembered for a 1963 fight with a young Muhamed Ali who was then known as Cassius Clay. Sir Henry gives us his version of a very dodgy tampering episode when he was on the verge of winning but which he lost lost when the fight was called off due to a cut. Cooper was the undefeated British and Commonwealth  heavyweight champ...

Teddy Taylor, aka Kingsize Taylor, was the man who taught the Beatles how to rock n roll It's always a pleasure to talk with Ted and we refer in this podcast to a Facebook group to which we both subscribe.

Jet Harris is a legend. Jet has had an illustrious career as an original member of The Shadows, as Jet Harris with Tony Meehan and as the first musician to play an electric bass in the UK. Jet played on most of the early Shadows hits including the wonderful Apache and has re-issued his great hit Diamonds on his new album.

In August 1966 Mike joined Manfred Mann, an established chart-topping group, as replacement for Paul Jones, who was leaving to start a solo career. Comparisons between d'Abo and Jones became a media preoccupation at the time of the switch, but d'Abo wasted little time dwelling upon it. "I enjoy being with the group," he told Pete Goodman. "We really do have an enormously wide range of musical tast...

Mike Sarne was born Michael Scheuer at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, London. Famous in the 1960s as a singer, he is best known for his 1962 UK novelty chart topper, "Come Outside" (produced by Joe Meek), which featured vocal interjections by Wendy Richard. In the mid 1960s Mike introduced the ITV children's quiz series, Junior Criss Cross Quiz. Films he has directed include: Joanna (1968) and mo...

Trinidad López III was an American singer, guitarist, and actor. His first album included a cover version of Pete Seeger's "If I Had a Hammer", which earned a Golden Disc for him. The song reached number one in 36 countries, and was a radio favourite for many years. I almost met Trini in person when I had been visiting family and friends in Palm Springs and Trini had been in town just a few nights...

I was joined in the #Altea #Oci #Radio by #Impressionist #PaulMelba and a great number of listeners phoning to speak to my guests Captain Mike and his wife about #Bolton #PortSunlight and #Unilever

Singing legend Elkie Brookes joined Vince from her UK home on November 2nd 2007. A lovely lady with many different aspects to her successful life and her great hit Pearl's a Singer is only part of her story

Len Barry had those great hits 1-2-3 and Like a Baby and he kindly joined Vince on the line from his home on 1st September 2008. Another great American star who I really enjoyed meeting over the airwaves. I think the words he spoke are even more poignant today and well worth a listen.

Remembering a radio interview with the brother of Sir Paul McCartney. Mike was a member of the 60s group Scaffold and he is also a very distinguished photographer amongst many other talents. He is the official Wirral Cultural Ambassador. In the studio with me is the late Paul Melba.

Remembering my interview with one of the best #guitarists in the world. #AlbertLee is rated by #EricClapton as the best in the world. He was an honorary #Cricket and an honorary #€verleyBrother. His own band is #HogansHeroes

#BillHarry is a most accomplished author and founder of #Merseybeat magazine. He is an integral part of the Merseybeat story. Friend to many #Liverpool beat groups from #TheCavern

Vince spoke with Britain's greatest ever Judo fighter winning medals at the World Championships and Olympic Games. He was also World Champion in the TV Superstar event where he was master of the squat thrusts and king of the dips on the parallel bars. Brian has strong views regarding the challenging times the UK is now experiencing.

Where do you go to my lovely? In my view a pivotal sixties classic. I was chuffed to meet Peter Sarstedt over the airwaves on 12th September 2007

Kingsize Taylor was a huge influence on the music played in Liverpool and tells us about his life around Liverpool during the Merseybeat days! He also refused to take Cilla Black to Hamburg with his band for all the right reasons.

Career Overview The 1970s: Carrack's recording career began with the progressive rock band Warm Dust between 1970 and 1972. Carrack was the keyboard player for Warm Dust Carrack and Warm Dust bassist Tex Comer helped to found the pub rock band Ace. Carrack wrote and sang "How Long", Ace's debut single and a hit on both sides of the Atlantic in 1975. In 1977 Ace disbanded and Carrack began working...

World-famous comedy imressionist joined Vince to pay tribute to Sir Ken Dodd. Paul tells us of the early days when he met Doddy near the Jam Butty Mines in Knotty Ash, Liverpool

Paul's brother sang and performed in a famous 60s satirical group called Scaffold. They had several hits and were very popular. The other members of thje group were Roger McGough and John Gorman. The three members were brought together through a shared love of music, poetry and comedy and proceeded to write and compose original material often parodying elements of real life whilst covering some of...

I love chatting with the legends and I want to share my chat with this soul legend. His hits include 'New Orleans' and 'Quarter to Three'. He proved to be a really nice gentleman. Thank you Gary.

It's always great to chat with the stars. He made a great tribute song on #pyerecords to #muhammedali after watching him fight #georgeforeman for the world title. He also recorded the anthem for #brightonfc

Great career as DJ. Tony Prince (born Thomas Whitehead in Oldham, Lancashire, 9 May 1944) is a British radio disc jockey and businessman, remembered for programmes on #RadioCaroline and #RadioLuxembourg in the 1960s and 1970s