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Barry Bissell introduces Take 40 Australia
Title:
Barry Bissell introduces Take 40 Australia
NFSA ID
1588314
Year
1986
Courtesy
Southern Cross Austereo
Broadcast from 1984 to 2016, Take 40 Australia was the country’s longest running music countdown show.
It aired nationwide, the song selection based on the ARIA (Australian Recording Industry Association) charts for that week. For the first 20 years, it was hosted by FOX FM presenter Barry Bissell, who can be heard in this clip from 1986. His tone here is an example of how professional he was throughout his tenure.
The excerpt also features the Take 40 theme song which is typical of the generic rock of the era but is still memorable to audiences today.
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.