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Derwent Valley Community Radio
New Norfolk, Tasmania
25 April 2025
FRIDAY MORNING RADIO, Edition 466, 9.00 ~ Midday AEST
Easy listening, memories and new releases through the morning, with an emphasis on ANZAC Day, on the Derwent Valley’s own radio station.
Unfortunately, the programme was seriously disrupted between 10:45 and 11:25 by a computer crash. There was a time in radio when such an event was unheard of; in those days, music was played from turntables or cartridges.
Computerisation has rendered those practices obsolete and it is generally highly reliable, but, if the computer decides to give trouble, the programme presenter has a serious problem.
Today’s issues were rectified by our technical guru, Roz Chapman.
Photo: The New Norfolk Cenotaph, after a previous ANZAC Day. Taken by Yours Truly.
Today’s Playlist
| TRACK | RELEASE YEAR | PLAY TIME | PREVIOUS PLAYS | LAST PLAYED | ISRC |
| John Williamson – Diggers Of The ANZAC | 09:05 | 3 | 14/8/2020 | ||
| Human Nature – Reach Out I’ll Be There | 09:11 | 0 | |||
| Jade Hurley – Do What You Do Do Well | 09:14 | 1 | 29/11/2019 | ||
| Engelbert Humperdinck – Ten Guitars | 1967 | 09:18 | 1 | 9/4/2021 | |
| Backtrack: Danny Stain – I Still Miss Someone | 2017 | 09:21 | 4 | 12/4/2020 | |
| Aaron Partridge & Steve Apirana – You Can Call On Him | 2025 | 09:27 | 1 | 30/3/2025 | AUE9B 2500001 |
| Frank Mills & His Orchestra – Memories (From Cats) | 09:32 | 1 | 29/3/2024 | ||
| By Request Today: S/Sgt Barry Sadler – The Ballad of the Green Berets | 1966 | 09:36 | 3 | 4/3/2016 | |
| Marian Burns – Beautiful Soldier | 2025 | 09:38 | 0 | ||
| Peggy Gilchrist – Under Burdekin Skies | 2025 | 09:44 | 3 | 13/4/2025 | |
| By Request Today: Ken Lindsay – Gunner The Kelpie Hero | 2025 | 09:48 | 5 | 10/11/2024 | AUZY4 2400016 |
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Unit 4 Plus 2 – Concrete And Clay | 1965 | 09:55 | 3 | 19/8/2022 | |
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Beatles – Ticket To Ride | 1965 | 09:57 | 13 | 19/8/2022 | |
| Lee Kernaghan – Spirit of the ANZACs | 10:06 | 7 | 25/4/2021 | ||
| By Request Today: Warren Kearney – The Hill | 2025 | 10:12 | 5 | 16/6/2024 | AU2KV 2300005 |
| Colin Gordon-Farleigh – More Than Sorry | 2025 | 10:16 | 0 | QMWF2 2000318 | |
| Dianne Coombes – Getting On With Getting Over You | 2025 | 10:19 | 0 | AUCJD 2300025 | |
| Old Time Concert Hall: Bill Cole & Thurl Ravenscroft with Heinie Beau & His Orchestra – The Man That Broke The Bank At Monte Carlo | 10:23 | 0 | |||
| Joy Adams & Gary R Farmer – Be A Little Bit Bolder | 2025 | 10:28 | 2 | 13/4/2025 | NZRI1 2500760 |
| Percy Faith & His Orchestra – Can’t Get Used to Losing You | 10:33 | 1 | 8/4/2022 | ||
| Kathy Carver – Yellow Moon On The Swan | 2025 | 10:36 | 0 | ||
| Backtrack: Neil Anthony – April The 25th | 2021 | 10:40 | 2 | 9/7/2021 | |
| Al Caiola – A Swinging Safari | 11:04 | 0 | |||
| Richard Clayderman – All The Love In The World | 11:07 | 0 | |||
| London Symphony Orchestra – Don’t Cry For Me Argentina | 11:15 | 1 | 26/7/2024 | ||
| Ferrante & Teicher – Canadian Sunset | 11:20 | 3 | 15/1/2021 | ||
| Acker Bilk – Cielito Lindo | 11:25 | 2 | 29/9/2024 | ||
| J R Williams – Australia | 1961 | 11:28 | 0 | QM6MZ 2524694 | |
| Anthony Baxter – The Jumping Jackaroo | 2025 | 11:32 | 0 | ||
| ABBA – Happy Hawaii | 1976 | 11:38 | 2 | 9/8/2020 | |
| Harry Belafonte – Land Of The Sea And Sun | 11:45 | 0 | |||
| Slim Dusty – Medley~Keep The Home Fires Burning~Pack Up Your Troubles~A Brown Slouch Hat~It’s A Long Way To Tipperary | 11:48 | 0 | |||
| Rae Leigh – Country Pride | 2025 | 11:52 | 0 | ||
| Richard Porteous – The Unknown Soldier | 2022 | 11:56 | 3 | 19/8/2022 |
25 APRIL IN HISTORY:
EVENTS ON THIS DAY
1915 The Battle of Gallipoli began on the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula when Australian, British, French and New Zealand troops landed at Anzac Cove and Cape Helles. Fighting continued until January 1916, when the land campaign was abandoned with around 250,000 casualties on each side.
1925 Canberra, Australian Capital Territory – The Australian War Memorial was founded.
1955 The St Lawrence Seaway, linking the North American Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean, officially opened to shipping.
1967 A wintry cold snap gripped Southern Tasmania, whilst sweating fire fighters battled to save properties in St Helens from a bushfire.
1983 The space probe Pioneer 10, the first to study the planet Jupiter, passed beyond the orbit of Pluto. It is heading in the direction of the star Aldebaran, ETA in about 2 million years. The last contact with the probe was in 2003, when it was 12 billion kilometers from Earth. A final attempt to contact Pioneer 10 in 2006 failed..
2005 Amagasak, Osaka, Japan – A seven-car commuter train derailed, causing the front two carriages to hit an apartment building. Of about 700 passengers, 106, plus the driver, died and 555 were injured.
The speed limit at the location was 70 km/h, but investigators estimated the train would have had to be doing about 140 km/h to spontaneously derail.
BORN
1917 Newport News, Virginia, U.S.A. – Ella Jane Fitzgerald, jazz singer often referred to as the Queen of Jazz. (d. 1996)
1933 Baltimore, Ohio, U.S.A. – Jerome Leiber, BKA Jerry Lieber, songwriter and record producer who penned numerous hit records, including famous tracks such as Hound Dog, Jailhouse Rock, Kansas City, Stand By Me and Loving You. (d. 2011)
1945 Gothenburg, Sweden – Björn Kristian Ulvaeus, songwriter, composer, musician, writer, producer, a former member of the Swedish musical group ABBA.
DIED
1995 Rancho Mirage, California, U.S.A. – Virginia Katherine McMath alias Ginger Rogers, actress, dancer, and singer who appeared in film, stage, radio, and television (Aged 83)
2023 New York, U.S.A. – Harold George Bellanfanti Jr, alias Harry Belafonte, musician, singer, actor, and social activist. One of the most successful pop singers in history, Belafonte has been dubbed the “King of Calypso” He was perhaps best known for his recording of The Banana Boat Song (Aged 96)
20 April 2025
Valley Sunrise Edition 830
0600 ~ 0900 AEDT
I invite you to start Sunday, my way on TYGA-FM 98.9 and on-line at www.tygafm.org.au/listen-live/ for great music you won’t hear locally on mainstream radio.
Included today, chartbuster hits from this month in 1978
– Today’s photo: A recent view of Pioneer Avenue, New Norfolk.
Photo: Yours Truly
Today’s Playlist:
| TRACK | RELEASE YEAR | TIME | PREVIOUS PLAYS | LAST PLAYED | ISRC |
| Clint Bradley – The Lightning Ride | 2025 | 06:06 | 1 | 30/3/2025 | |
| Charting this day 1978 Baccara – Yes Sir I Can Boogie | 1978 | 06:12 | 8 | 9/6/2024 | |
| Charting this day 1978 Carly Simon – Nobody Does it Better | 1978 | 06:17 | 3 | 24/9/2023 | |
| Two of a Kind – I Love You To The Moon And Back | 2025 | 06:21 | 1 | 11/4/2025 | |
| Damien Leith – If Tomorrow Never Comes | 06:25 | 1 | 20/3/2015 | ||
| Rachael Leahcar – La Vie En Rose | 2012 | 06:27 | 0 | ||
| Hank Levine & His Orchestra – Downtown | 06:32 | 3 | 4/4/2025 | ||
| Bette Midler – In My Life | 06:35 | 2 | 2/4/2023 | ||
| Backtrack: Graeme Clarke – Her Perfect Memory | 2019 | 06:38 | 3 | 3/1/2020 | |
| Marti Webb – Always There (Howard’s Way) | 06:42 | 4 | 12/9/2021 | ||
| Howards Way was a BBC drama series, made in the 1980s, centred on the lives of wealthy people in a fictitious town in southern England. The theme music was composed by Simon May and recorded by his orchestra. A year later, lyrics were added, it was recorded by Marti Webb, and the single went to No 13 on the U K Charts. | |||||
| Scott Rathman Jnr – Angel on the Hill | 2025 | 06:48 | 1 | 16/3/2025 | |
| By Request Today: Cilla Black – You’re My World | 1964 | 06:53 | 12 | 12/1/2025 | |
| Gunter Kallman Choir – The More I See You | 06:58 | 6 | 9/12/2022 | ||
| Sabrina Fallon – Eileen Og | 2025 | 07:05 | 2 | 11/4/2025 | |
| Charting this day 1978 Leif Garrett – Runaround Sue | 1978 | 07:12 | 6 | 13/9/2019 | |
| Charting this day 1978 Barry Manilow – Can’t Smile Without You | 1978 | 07:14 | 7 | 4/3/2022 | |
| By Request Today: Nitty Gritty Dirt Band – Fishing In The Dark | 07:19 | 1 | 22/10/2017 | ||
| Seekers – One World Love | 07:22 | 1 | 1/1/2023 | ||
| Ollie Austin – The Streets Of London | 07:26 | 2 | 28/7/2023 | ||
| Manuel & The Music of the Mountains – Beyond The Mountains | 07:32 | 2 | 29/5/2016 | ||
| Ric Lucia – Sittin’ With Grandma On The Old Front Porch | 2025 | 07:37 | 1 | 18/4/2025 | |
| Don Williams – I Believe In Love | 1980 | 07:39 | 4 | 14/7/2023 | |
| Backtrack: Andrew McMurdie – Teenager in Love | 2020 | 07:44 | 4 | 1/1/2023 | |
| Tommy Vlaeminck – Bridge of Hope | 2025 | 07:47 | 0 | ||
| Ged Wilson – Promised Land | 2025 | 07:54 | 1 | 30/3/2025 | |
| Lawrence Welk – Calcutta | 1961 | 07:58 | 1 | 14/4/2024 | |
| Johnny Lee – My Baby Don’t Slow Dance | 1983 | 08:05 | 0 | ||
| Charting this day 1978 Samantha Sang – Emotions | 1978 | 08:10 | 7 | 8/4/2022 | |
| Charting this day 1978 Billy Joel – Just the Way You Are | 1978 | 08:14 | 2 | 27/1/2023 | |
| Steve Markwardt – The Great Divide | 2025 | 08:21 | 0 | QZW6A 2300136 | |
| Carol Markstrom – Spirit Buffalo | 2025 | 08:25 | 1 | 30/3/2025 | |
| Johnny Tillotson – She Understands Me | 1964 | 08:30 | 10 | 20/12/2024 | |
| Ray Conniff Orchestra – Say It With Music | 08:35 | 0 | |||
| Anne Murray – He Thinks I Still Care | 08:39 | 5 | 27/10/2023 | ||
| Backtrack: Dale Duncan – The ‘Slim Dusty’ Rose | 2015 | 08:42 | 2 | 8/1/2017 | |
| Slim Dusty & His Bushlanders – Medley~Along The Road To Gundagai~I’m Going Back To Yarrawonga~The Man From The Never Never~That Old Bush Shanty of Mine | 08:46 | 1 | 27/3/2020 | ||
| Barbara Blevins – Let’s Build A Love | 2025 | 08:49 | 1 | 18/4/2025 | |
| Shadows – Winchester Cathedral | 08:53 | 3 | 15/5/2022 | ||
20 APRIL IN HISTORY:
BORN
1939 Jacksonville, Florida U.S.A. – Johnny Tillotson, singer and songwriter who enjoyed his greatest success in the early 60s, with several Top Ten hits, including Poetry In Motion and the self-penned It Keeps Right On A-Hurtin’. Died 2025.
1939 Adelaide, South Australia – Elspeth Ballantyne, actress who has appeared in numerous movies and television productions, including Bellbird, Blue Heelers, All Saints, Prisoner and Flying Doctors.
1941 Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. – Charles Patrick Ryan O’Neal, Jr. alias Ryan O’Neal, actor who came to prominence in the mid 1960s in the hit soap opera Peyton Place.
1956 Helensburgh, Scotland – Georgie Glen, actress best known for her role as Miss Higgins in the BBC drama series Call The Midwife. She has also appeared in many other productions including The Bill, Jonathan Creek, Heartbeat, and Doc Martin.
EVENTS
1954 Darwin, Northern Territory – Northern Territory police disarmed two Soviet couriers who were escorting the wife of a defecting Russian embassy official back to Russia. Edvokia Petrov’s rescue caused An international diplomatic incident known as the Petrov Affair..
1972 Apollo 16, commanded by John Young, landed in the Descartes Highlands, on the Moon. It was the fifth, and final in the Apollo programme to land, with the crew spending 71 hours on the lunar surface.
1978 Near Murmansk, Russia – Korean Air Flight 902 violated Soviet airspace and allegedly failed to respond to Soviet interceptors. Two passengers perished when Soviet aircraft opened fire, but the remaining 107 passengers and crew survived after the plane made an emergency landing on a frozen lake.
2010 Gulf of Mexico – An explosion on a drilling rig killed 11 workers, caused the largest oil spill in U.S. history, and the rig to sink.
18 April 2025
FRIDAY MORNING RADIO, Edition 465, 9.00 ~ Midday AEST
Easy listening, memories and new releases through the morning on the Derwent Valley’s own radio station.
Photo: Early fog over Mt Faulkner, in the Derwent Valley. Taken recently by Yours Truly.
Today’s Playlist
| TRACK | RELEASE YEAR | PLAY TIME | PREVIOUS PLAYS | LAST PLAYED | ISRC |
| Phil Salter – Fields Of Dreams | 2025 | 09:04 | 3 | 28/2/2025 | AUD0K 2500001 |
| Elvis Aaron Presley Jr – Goldmine | 2025 | 09:10 | 1 | 28/3/2025 | |
| Charlie Rich – Rolling With The Flow | 1977 | 09:13 | 4 | 23/2/2024 | |
| By Request Today: Jim Reeves – A Railroad Bum | 09:16 | 8 | 5/4/2024 | ||
| George Strait – One Night At A Time | 09:19 | 1 | 4/4/2014 | ||
| Backtrack: Montana Lipscombe – Walking After Midnight | 2021 | 09:23 | 6 | 3/3/2023 | |
| Barbara Blevins – Let’s Build A Love | 2025 | 09:28 | 0 | ||
| Richard Clayderman – Chiquitita | 09:33 | 1 | 27/7/2018 | ||
| Sandy Scott – For The Good Times | 09:37 | 0 | |||
| Ryan Bodine – Ghost Town Road | 2025 | 09:41 | 0 | QZW6A 2400237 | |
| Beach Boys – Break Away | 1969 | 09:44 | 1 | 9/9/2022 | |
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Del Shannon – Stranger In Town | 1965 | 09:49 | 3 | 12/7/2019 | |
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Dave Clark Five – Reeling and A-Rocking | 1965 | 09:51 | 2 | 10/5/2015 | |
| Shelley Minson – Riverbank Red | 2025 | 09:55 | 1 | 14/2/2025 | AUUHB 2400023 |
| Helena Mace & Tom Leary – Wash Away The Years | 2025 | 09:58 | 1 | 9/3/2025 | |
| Ron Christopher – Angelyne | 2025 | 10:05 | 8 | 28/3/2025 | |
| By Request Today: Boney M – Hooray Hooray It’s A Holi-Holi-Day | 10:12 | 1 | 15/9/2023 | ||
| By Request Today: Jim Reeves – Yonder Comes A Sucker | 1955 | 10:16 | 1 | 25/8/2013 | |
| Old Time Concert Hall: Anita Kerr Singers – Medley~Two Little Girls In Blue~Let Bygones Be Bygones | 10:20 | 0 | |||
| Ric Lucia – Sittin’ With Grandma On The Old Front Porch | 2025 | 10:26 | 0 | ||
| Backtrack: Andrew McMurdie – I Can’t Help Falling In Love With You | 2020 | 10:28 | 2 | 11/10/2020 | |
| Werner Tauber Orchestra – Tap Dancin’ Time | 10:34 | 0 | |||
| Christa Fartek – Deep in my Heart | 2025 | 10:36 | 0 | ||
| Dave Caley – Longer | 2025 | 10:42 | 1 | 9/3/2025 | US9BH 2400034 |
| Debbie Laken – Believe Me Baby, I Lied | 2025 | 10:47 | 1 | 23/3/2025 | NZRI1 2403566 |
| Hayley Mills – Johnny Jingo | 1962 | 10:52 | 4 | 18/4/2021 | |
| Lionel Richie – Say You Say Me | 10:54 | 6 | 9/12/2022 | ||
| Ferlin Husky – Wings of a Dove | 1961 | 10:58 | 15 | 17/3/2024 | |
| David Maguire – Inside Out | 2025 | 11:05 | 2 | 14/3/2025 | |
| Dave Edwards – Swing Me Back To Oklahoma | 2025 | 11:09 | 0 | QZWKY 2500045 | |
| Backtrack: Larissa Tormey – Yellow Roses | 2025 | 11:13 | 6 | 11/12/2022 | |
| Gus Backus – Tom Dooley | 11:18 | 0 | |||
| Jim Reeves – Margie | 11:21 | 2 | 10/12/2023 | ||
| New World – I’ll Catch The Sun | 11:27 | 0 | |||
| BBC Big Band – In The Mood | 11:34 | 5 | 13/3/2020 | ||
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Peter & Gordon – True Love Ways | 1965 | 11:38 | 5 | 12/3/2021 | |
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Twinkle – Terry | 1965 | 11:41 | 3 | 10/3/2017 | |
| Adrian Payne – My Old Town | 2025 | 11:45 | 1 | 23/3/2025 | AUL9L 2500001 |
| John Michael Ferrari – How Far Apart Are We | 2025 | 11:49 | 1 | 28/3/2025 | |
| Duran Duran – Ordinary World | 11:52 | 0 |
18 APRIL IN HISTORY:
EVENTS THIS DATE
1906 San Francisco, California, U.S.A. – An earthquake and a subsequent fire destroyed much of the city.
1912 New York, U.S.A. – The Cunard liner RMS Carpathia arrived with 705 survivors from the sinking of the RMS Titanic
1930 London, England – BBC Radio announced there was no news on that day.
1958 Redfern, Sydney, New South Wales – More than 90 families fled when a cloud of ammonia gas, which had escaped from a burst pipe in an ice cream factory, descended upon their homes.
1966 The first Australian National Service conscripts left for Vietnam
1966 Australia’s 10th Holden model, the HR, was released for sale. Hobart price for the Special sedan was $2,282, the station wagon $2,464 and the top of the range Premier X2 automatic, $3,007.
1970 England – British Leyland announced that production of the Morris Minor, then England’s longest-running car, would cease by the end of the year.
BORN THIS DATE
1946 London, England – Hayley Mills, former child star famed for her performances in Tiger Bay (1959), Pollyanna (1960) and several Disney movies, including The Parent Trap of 1961.
DIED THIS DATE
1955 Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.A. – Albert Einstein, physicist, philospoher and author, widely regarded as one of the most influential and best known scientists and intellectuals of all time. (Aged 76)
1992 Fulham, London, England – Frankie Howerd, comedian whose career spanned 60 years. In an obituary for Howerd which was run by some newspapers, fellow comedian Benny Hill was quoted as regretting Howerd’s passing. That quote was released by Hill’s agent, who was unaware that his client had also just died. (Aged 75)
2002 Colla Micheri, Italy –Thor Heyerdahl, adventurer notable for the 1947 Kon-Tiki expedition, in which he sailed in a raft 8,000 km from South America to the Tuamotu Islands, near Tahiti. The aim of the expedition was to demonstrate that people could have made long voyages, thousands of years ago (Aged 87)
13 April 2025
Valley Sunrise Edition 829
0600 ~ 0900 AEDT
I invite you to start Sunday, my way on TYGA-FM 98.9 and on-line at www.tygafm.org.au/listen-live/ for great music you won’t hear locally on mainstream radio.
Included today, chartbuster hits from this month in 1976
– Today’s photo: An April view in the Botanical Gardens, Hobart
Photo: Yours Truly
Today’s Playlist:
| TRACK | RELEASE YEAR | TIME | PREVIOUS PLAYS | LAST PLAYED | ISRC |
| Miss Lana – Finally | 2025 | 06:05 | 2 | 11/4/2025 | |
| Charting this day 1976 George Baker Selection – Una Paloma Blanca | 1975~1976 | 06:13 | 12 | 19/1/2025 | |
| Charting this day 1976 Billie Jo Spears – Blanket On The Ground | 1976 | 06:16 | 9 | 19/3/2023 | |
| Johnny Chester and Grant Luhrs – Loud, Confident And Wrong | 2025 | 06:22 | 1 | 4/4/2025 | QM4TX 2523251 |
| By Request Today: Rod Stewart – Sailing | 1975 | 06:25 | 25 | 17/1/2025 | |
| Peggy Gilchrist – Under Burdekin Skies | 2025 | 06:30 | 2 | 11/4/2025 | |
| Magic Trumpets – Petite Fleur | 06:35 | 3 | 20/1/2017 | ||
| By Request Today: Lulu – To Sir With Love | 1967 | 06:38 | 11 | 19/1/2025 | |
| Backtrack: Jason Owen – Rocky Mountain High | 2019 | 06:41 | 2 | 3/11/2019 | |
| John Rowles – Domino | 06:49 | 1 | 20/3/2015 | ||
| Vernon Huskey – White Silver Sands | 2025 | 06:54 | 1 | 21/3/2025 | QZYSP 2500012 |
| Jade Hurley – Around The World | 06:57 | 2 | 26/9/2025 | ||
| Michael Meeking – Time to Make Up Your Mind | 2025 | 07:06 | 1 | 21/3/2025 | AUKNA 2500001 |
| By Request Today: Pussycat – My Broken Souvenirs | 07:11 | 5 | 2/3/2025 | ||
| Charting this day 1976 Maxine Nightingale – Right Back Where We Started From | 1976 | 07:15 | 2 | 28/5/2021 | |
| Charting this day 1976 Max Merritt & Meteors – Slippin’ Away | 1976 | 07:19 | 11 | 30/4/2021 | |
| The Charlesys – Shining Star | 2025 | 07:24 | 1 | 11/4/2021 | CAHQJ 2490906 |
| Ness Da Silva – Honesty | 2025 | 07:28 | 1 | 16/3/2025 | |
| Lawrence Welk & His Orchestra with Myron Floren – Chihuahua Polka | 07:33 | 0 | |||
| Victoria Eman & Glenn van Haasen – In Another Time And Place | 2025 | 07:37 | 3 | 6/4/2025 | NLJ9A 2500001 |
| Christine Clifford – Annie’s Song | 2025 | 07:41 | 0 | QZHNC 2552556 | |
| Clelia Adams – Looking Forward, Looking Back | 2022 | 07:46 | 11 | 26/1/2025 | |
| By Request Today: Ted Mulry Gang – Darktown Strutters Ball | 1976 | 07:50 | 0 | ||
| By Request Today: Alan Jackson – Kiss An Angel Good Morning | 07:53 | 1 | 4/8/2024 | ||
| Mark Wynter – Dream Girl | 1961 | 07:57 | 3 | 6/10/2023 | |
| Mahlissa – Boondockin’ | 08:05 | 0 | |||
| Charting this day 1976 Jim Capaldi – Love Hurts | 1976 | 08:10 | 4 | 16/4/2021 | |
| Charting this day 1976 ABBA – Fernando | 1976 | 08:14 | 21 | 28/5/2023 | |
| Joy Adams & Gary R Farmer – Be A Little Bit Bolder | 2025 | 08:22 | 1 | 4/4/2025 | NZRI1 2500760 |
| Chris Callaghan – Twenty Hours | 2025 | 08:26 | 1 | 4/4/2025 | AUZY4 2000059 |
| Andre Kostelanetz & His Orchestra – Tie A Yellow Ribbon | 08:33 | 2 | 1/11/2013 | ||
| Debbie Laken – Believe Me Baby, I Lied | 2025 | 08:37 | 1 | 23/3/2025 | NZRI1 2403566 |
| Backtrack: Dean Perrett – Clifton Hills | 2021 | 08:41 | 6 | 28/11/2021 | |
| Anita Ree – Australia’s Rainfall Army | 2025 | 08:45 | 0 | AUYNF 2500001 | |
| Gail Barnard – Storms | 2025 | 08:48 | 1 | 21/3/2025 | USCGJ 2534605 |
| Graeme Connors – All The Little Things We Didn’t Say | 2025 | 08:52 | 1 | 19/6/2020 |
6 APRIL IN HISTORY:
BORN
1945 Perth, West Australia – Judy Nunn, actress and author who first appeared as reporter Vicky Stafford in the soap opera The Box. In 1979 she played Joyce Martin in the popular Australian series Prisoner and then as Dr. Irene Fisher in Sons and Daughters. Her most famous role was as Ailsa Stewart in the soapie Home and Away, from 1988 until the character was killed off in 2000. In 2002, she re-appeared as a ghost which only her former on-screen husband, Alf Stewart, could see.
1951 Streatham, London, England – Peter Moffett alias Peter Davison, actor, best known for his roles as Tristan Farnon in the television series of James Herriot’s All Creatures Great And Small and for the fifth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who, 1982 to 1984.
DIED
1922 Weybridge, England – Ross Macpherson Smith, pioneer aviator, plane crash soon after taking off from Brooklands airport, Surrey, England. His body was transported to Australia where Smith was given a state funeral and buried in the North Road Cemetery, Adelaide. Aged 29.
11 April 2025
FRIDAY MORNING RADIO, Edition 464, 9.00 ~ Midday AEDT
Easy listening, memories and new releases through the morning on the Derwent Valley’s own radio station.
Photo: An early “Bridgewater Jerry” which didn’t, on that day, make it beyond New Norfolk. Taken in the upper Derwent Valley by listener Janine.
Today’s Playlist
| TRACK | RELEASE YEAR | PLAY TIME | PREVIOUS PLAYS | LAST PLAYED | ISRC |
| Two of a Kind – I Love You To The Moon And Back | 2025 | 09:05 | 0 | ||
| Jeff Orson – Missing You Soon | 2025 | 09:11 | 3 | 21/3/2025 | QT3TB 2425080 |
| Kylie Adams-Collier – The Highland Life | 2025 | 09:15 | 0 | AUHYD 2500051 | |
| Gary Carson-Jones – Walk On By | 2025 | 09:19 | 0 | AUGGJ 1600055 | |
| Backtrack: Dale Duncan – Station Minderoo | 2017 | 09:23 | 1 | 6/11/2020 | |
| Four Knights – Oh Baby Mine | 1954 | 09:28 | 6 | 20/1/2023 | |
| Melbourne Pops Orchestra Cond by Tommy Tycho – We Do It | 09:33 | 2 | 20/10/2023 | ||
| By Request Today: Alan Jackson – Remember When | 09:37 | 23 | 30/3/2025 | ||
| By Request Today: Shavonne Aliphon – Touch My Heart | 09:43 | 2 | 13/9/2019 | ||
| Don Smythe – Sing Me Back Home | 2018 | 09:47 | 3 | 11/1/2019 | |
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Jewel Akens – The Birds And The Bees | 1965 | 09:53 | 6 | 11/5/2018 | |
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Herb Alpert & Tijuana Brass – Whipped Cream | 1965 | 09:55 | 9 | 31/3/2023 | |
| John Williamson – Old Sow | 09:59 | 0 | |||
| Miss Lana – Finally | 2025 | 10:05 | 1 | 14/3/2025 | |
| DIED THIS DAY 2013 London, England – Michael Emile Telford Miller, BKA Emile Ford, musician and pop singer popular in the late 1950s and early 1960s as leader of the group Emile Ford and the Checkmates, known for their No 1 hit What Do You Want To Make Those Eyes At Me For. Aged 78. | |||||
| Emile Ford – What Do You Wanna Make Those Eyes At Me For | 1960 | 10:11 | 7 | 16/10/2022 | |
| Klaasje Menzen – We Hold Our Head Up High | 2025 | 10:13 | 1 | 21/3/2025 | |
| They Don’t Make Them Like This Anymore: Tony Bennett – Rags to Riches | 1953 | 10:20 | 10 | 19/5/2024 | |
| Carol Chaney – Everything’s A Waltz | 2025 | 10:25 | 1 | 21/3/2025 | |
| Daniel O’Donnell – A World Of Our Own | 10:28 | 3 | 11/2/2024 | ||
| Jerry Wilton & His Orchestra – A Walk In The Black Forest | 10:32 | 7 | 19/6/2020 | ||
| Lee Ann Kelly – Willow Tree | 2025 | 10:35 | 0 | ||
| Kane Vincent – Sarah | 2025 | 10:40 | 0 | AUMZZ 2500001 | |
| Anne Murray – Anyone Can Do The Heartbreak | 10:45 | 0 | |||
| Charlie Landsborough – Little Bit Of Heaven | 10:49 | 0 | |||
| Backtrack: Graham Rodger – Kidman’s Boys | 2017 | 10:54 | 4 | 4/5/2018 | |
| The Charlesys – Shining Star | 2025 | 10:57 | 0 | CAHQJ 2490906 | |
| Sabrina Fallon – Eileen Óg | 2025 | 11:05 | 1 | 14/4/2024 | |
| Peter Salata – Little Old Fergie Tractor | 2025 | 11:11 | 3 | 21/3/2025 | AUGO4 1502501 |
| Backtrack: Jonathan Mark Hayden – Our Land | 2018 | 11:14 | 4 | 4/3/2018 | |
| DIED THIS DAY 2001 Guildford, Surrey, England – Harry Secombe, Welsh entertainer, singer and comedian noted for his fine tenor singing voice. He is best known for playing Neddie Seagoon, the central character in the BBC radio comedy series The Goon Show (1951-60). (Aged 79) | |||||
| Harry Secombe – Edelweiss | 11:21 | 5 | 5/5/2017 | ||
| Jan Holland – De Vogeltjesdans | 11:25 | 0 | |||
| Ferrante & Teicher – Georgy Girl | 11:33 | 4 | 10/2/2017 | ||
| Nana Mouskouri – Weisse Rosen Aus Athen | 11:35 | 0 | |||
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Jim Reeves – There’s That Smile Again | 1965 | 11:38 | 3 | 24/6/2022 | |
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Cliff Richard – The Minute You’re Gone | 1965 | 11:41 | 10 | 11/6/2021 | |
| Peggy Gilchrist – Under Burdekin Skies | 2025 | 11:46 | 1 | 21/3/2025 | |
| Jessica Loobey – Back To Her Roots | 2025 | 11:49 | 0 | QZWKY 2500057 | |
| Al Caiola – On A Merry Go Round | 11:53 | 0 | |||
| Living Brass – Mexican Shuffle | 11:55 | 1 | 18/12/2020 | ||
11 APRIL IN HISTORY:
EVENTS
1951 Arbroath, Scotland – The Stone of Scone, the stone upon which Scottish monarchs were traditionally crowned, was found on the site of the altar of Arbroath Abbey after Scottish nationalist students had removed it from its place in Westminster Abbey
1960 Sales of television receivers commenced in Hobart, with crowds flocking to city electrical stores.
1970 Cape Canavaral, Florida, U.S.A. – Apollo 13, crewed by Jim Lovell, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert was launched toward the Moon. An oxygen tank in the spacecraft subsequently exploded en route, forcing the crew to abort the mission and return to Earth in 4 days.
1979 Tanzanian troops took Kampala, the capital of Uganda; the brutal dictator Idi Amin, who had ruled for the previous 7 years, fled the country.
1984 Canberra – Advance Australia Fair was adopted as the official Australian national anthem.
DIED
1890 Whitechapel, London, England – Joseph Merrick, known as “The Elephant Man” due to massive deformities which developed during the early years of his life.
As a teenager and adult, he was rejected by most people due to his grotesque appearance and disabilities, so being exhibited in a circus as a human novelty was one of the few ways he could make a living. (Aged 27)
6 April 2025
Valley Sunrise Edition 828
0600 ~ 0900 AEDT
I invite you to start Sunday, my way on TYGA-FM 98.9 and on-line at www.tygafm.org.au/listen-live/ for great music you won’t hear locally on mainstream radio.
Included today, chartbuster hits from this month in 1974
– Today’s photo: Mt Direction and the Derwent River from Poimena Reserve, Austins Ferry.
Photo: Yours Truly
Today’s Playlist:
| TRACK | RELEASE YEAR | TIME | PREVIOUS PLAYS | LAST PLAYED | ISRC |
| Kevin Tuckfield – Why He Rides | 2025 | 06:06 | 1 | 16/3/2025 | USX9P 1116060 |
| Charting this day 1974 Alvin Stardust – My Coo Ca Choo | 1974 | 06:13 | 5 | 23/2/2024 | |
| Charting this day 1974 Bette Midler – Chapel of Love | 1974 | 06:15 | 3 | 23/2/2024 | |
| By Request Today: Nat King Cole – Autumn Leaves | 06:19 | 0 | |||
| Young World Singers – I’d Like To Teach The World To Sing | 06:24 | 0 | |||
| Shadows – A Place In The Sun | 06:27 | 0 | |||
| Roland Shaw Orchestra & Chorus – Copacabana | 06:32 | 1 | 16/7/2023 | ||
| Cait Jamieson – Hit The Gravel | 2025 | 06:37 | 1 | 30/3/2025 | AUR2C 2400001 |
| Backtrack: Brian Letton – The Digger And His Dog | 2013 | 06:41 | 2 | 30/6/2023 | |
| By Request Today: Beatles – Help | 1965 | 06:46 | 14 | 6/10/2024 | |
| By Request Today: John Farnham – The Voice | 1988 | 06:49 | 7 | 26/1/2025 | |
| Lee Kernaghan – Down Under | 06:55 | 0 | |||
| Max Bygraves – Medley~Hey Look Me Over~Consider Yourself~Standing On The Corner | 07:05 | 1 | 6/10/2023 | ||
| Charting this day 1974 David Bowie – Sorrow | 1974 | 07:11 | 4 | 8/1/2023 | |
| Charting this day 1974 Charley Pride – Me And Bobby McGee | 1974 | 07:14 | 9 | 23/2/2024 | |
| By Request Today: Delltones – Hang Down Your Head Tom Dooley | 1963 | 07:20 | 1 | 23/10/2020 | |
| By Request Today: Jim Reeves – Waltzing On Top Of The World | 1964 | 07:22 | 9 | 11/10/2024 | |
| Victoria Eman & Glenn van Haasen – In Another Time And Place | 2025 | 07:25 | 2 | 30/3/2025 | NLJ9A-2500001 |
| Pete Moore & His Orchestra – Una Paloma Blanca | 07:32 | 1 | 23/4/2021 | ||
| Dave Caley – Before The Next Teardrop Falls | 2025 | 07:36 | 2 | 1/3/2024 | |
| Cecile Gardens – Called Country | 2025 | 07:39 | 1 | 16/3/2025 | |
| Backtrack: Don Smythe – Coward of the County | 2018 | 07:48 | 4 | 6/11/2020 | |
| John Glenn – Forever Ain’t Long Enough | 2025 | 07:48 | 0 | TCAJH 2587901 | |
| Sandie Shaw – Please Mr Postman | 07:53 | 0 | |||
| Irish Rovers – The Scotsman | 07:56 | 0 | |||
| Mrs Mills – Love Letters In The Sand | 07:58 | 0 | |||
| Oliver – Good Morning Starshine | 1969 | 08:05 | 12 | 13/10/2023 | |
| Charting this day 1974 Elton John – Goodbye Yellow Brick Road | 1974 | 08:11 | 7 | 23/2/2024 | |
| Charting this day 1974 Perry Como – For The Good Times | 1974 | 08:15 | 5 | 23/2/2024 | |
| Moody Blues – A Winter’s Tale | 08:19 | 1 | 18/8/2024 | ||
| Cufflinks – Tracey | 1969 | 08:24 | 10 | 23/8/2024 | |
| Matt Monro – How Little We Know | 08:27 | 3 | 11/8/2024 | ||
| Billy Vaughn & His Orchestra – Morgen | 08:33 | 23 | 6/10/2024 | ||
| Natalie Cole – That Sunday That Summer | 08:36 | 2 | 24/4/2022 | ||
| Backtrack: Chris Strohfeld – When You’re Down On Your Luck | 2018 | 08:39 | 4 | 21/7/2019 | |
| By Request Today: Roy Orbison – Pretty Woman | 1964~1968 | 08:42 | 20 | 17/11/2024 | |
| Julian Lennon – Too Late For Goodbyes | 1984 | 08:46 | 3 | 8/4/2016 | |
| Laura Lee & Elton West & His Orchestra – Stand By Your Man | 08:50 | 0 | |||
| Andrew Ryan – Like It’s Yesterday | 2025 | 08:53 | 0 | AUG9Z 2200004 |
6 APRIL IN HISTORY:
BORN
1937 Bakersfield, California U.S.A. – Merle Haggard, country music singer, guitarist and songwriter. Died 6 April 2016
DIED
1996 Dallas, Texas, U.S.A. –Greer Garson, award-winning actress during World War 2. As one of MGM’s’s major stars of the 40s, Garson received seven Academy-Award nominations, winning the Best Actress award for Mrs Minniver (1942). Aged 91.
1998 Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.A. – Virginia Wynette Pugh alias Tammy Wynette, country singer-songwriter known as the First Lady of Country Music. Her best-known song, Stand By Your Man, was one of the biggest selling hit singles by a woman in the history of the country genre. Aged 55.
2005 Monaco – Rainier III, Prince of Monaco for almost 56 years, making him one of the longest ruling monarchs in European history. He was best known outside Europe for having married American actress Grace Kelly. Aged 81.
2014 Studio City, California, U.S.A. – Joseph Yule Jr alias Mickey Rooney, film, television, and stage actor who performed since he was a small child. His career spanned almost 90 years, one of the longest for any actor. Aged 93.
EVENTS
1965 Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S.A. – Intelsat 1, the first communications satellite to be placed in geosynchronous orbit was launched. It was the first to provide direct contact by telephone, television and facsimile between Europe and North America, and was deactivated in 1969. It remains in a geosynchronous orbit over the Atlantic Ocean
1966 Hobart, Tasmania – A brand new Morris 1100 sedan was wrecked when the brakes failed as it was being driven off the freighter Seaway King, prior to delivery to a car dealership. The car dived nose-first into the Derwent and the driver made an exit through a window.
1973 Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S.A. – Pioneer 11 space probe was launched to study the asteroid belt, the planets Jupiter and Saturn, solar wind and cosmic rays. It is now following an escape trajectory from the solar system and there is no longer any communication with the spacecraft, the last being in November 1995.
It is carrying a plaque with a message from humankind, so if it is ever found by extraterrestrial intelligences, it will provide information about its origin. The plaque includes nude figures of a man, a woman, and a diagram of the Sun and Earth in the galaxy.
4 April 2025
FRIDAY MORNING RADIO, Edition 463, 9.00 ~ Midday AEDT
Easy listening, memories and new releases through the morning on the Derwent Valley’s own radio station.
Photo: Sunrise in New Norfolk, last Friday 28th March. A brief diversion to the Esplanade, whilst en route to the TYGA-FM studio, provided the opportunity for several photos.
Photo : Yours Truly
Today’s Playlist
| TRACK | RELEASE YEAR | PLAY TIME | PREVIOUS PLAYS | LAST PLAYED | ISRC |
| Sailor – Girls, Girls, Girls | 1976 | 09:05 | 5 | 24/3/2023 | |
| By Request Today: Val Doonican – If I Knew Then What I Know Now | 09:11 | 4 | 25/6/2021 | ||
| Buadee – Count Your Blessings | 2025 | 09:14 | 0 | ||
| Deejay Rufus & Marc Wilson – Africa | 2025 | 09:19 | 0 | ||
| Chris Callaghan – Twenty Hours | 2025 | 09:23 | 0 | AUZY4 2000059 | |
| Backtrack: Jim Williams – Train Track | 2018 | 09:26 | 13 | 13/12/2024 | |
| Al Capps & His Orchestra – Rose Garden | 09:32 | 0 | |||
| By Request Today: Don Williams – You’re My Best Friend | 09:36 | 13 | 21/3/2025 | ||
| Clayton Saunders – Locked Behind The Bathroom Door | 2025 | 09:40 | 1 | 2/3/2025 | |
| Briggs & Stark – I L Y | 2025 | 09:42 | 0 | ||
| Doris Day – The Sound of Music | 09:46 | 0 | |||
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Beach Boys – Do You Wanna Dance | 1965 | 09:50 | 4 | 10/4/2015 | |
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Supremes – Stop In The Name Of Love | 1965 | 09:52 | 10 | 8/3/2024 | |
| DIED last Tuesday (April 1) in Los Angeles, California, Johnny Tillotson, who had many hit 45s during the early-mid 1960s. He was aged 86. | |||||
| Johnny Tillotson – Talk Back Tremblin’ Lips | 1963 | 09:56 | 9 | 16/2/2024 | |
| Johnny Chester and Grant Luhrs – Loud, Confident And Wrong | 2025 | 10:05 | 0 | QM4TX 2523251 | |
| Geoff Love & His Orchestra – The Magnificent Seven | 10:11 | 3 | 18/8/2023 | ||
| Judith Durham – I Wanna Dance To Your Music (3m 09s) | 10:13 | 0 | |||
| They Don’t Make Them Like This Anymore: Judy Garland – Meet Me In St Louis | 1944 | 10:18 | 5 | 2/6/2019 | |
| Joy Adams & Gary R Farmer – Be A Little Bit Bolder | 2025 | 10:23 | 0 | NZRI1 2500760 | |
| Pepe Jaramillo & His Latin American Rhythm – Sucu Sucu | 10:26 | 4 | 23/9/2018 | ||
| David Firman & His Orchestra – Take My Breath Away | 10:32 | 1 | 7/5/2021 | ||
| Shaza Leigh – Behind Closed Doors (DV Song) | 2025 | 10:36 | 1 | 7/2/2025 | |
| Garrett Newton – One Way Train | 2025 | 10:40 | 0 | ||
| Steve Lawrence – Portrait Of My Love | 1961 | 10:45 | 3 | 9/9/2022 | |
| On this day in 1964 – In an unprecedented achievement, the Beatles held the top 5 positions in the American Billboard Top 40, with Can’t Buy Me Love, Twist And Shout, She Loves You, I Want To Hold Your Hand, and Please Please Me. | |||||
| Beatles – Please Please Me | 1963-1964 | 10:49 | 14 | 23/2/2024 | |
| Bill Goodall – Bonanza | 10:52 | 2 | 5/1/2025 | ||
| Colleen Hewett – I Still Call Australia Home | 10:54 | 0 | |||
| Lawrence Welk – Calcutta | 1961 | 10:57 | 1 | 14/4/2024 | |
| Guy Surtees – Jessie | 2025 | 11:05 | 1 | 8/11/2024 | |
| Chris Boots Lee – Where Corn Don’t Grow | 2025 | 11:12 | 1 | 28/3/2025 | QZES9 2504340 |
| Backtrack: Jeff Brown – After January Rains | 2019 | 11:16 | 2 | 8/3/2020 | |
| Roger Whittaker – Both Sides Now | 11:21 | 4 | 11/11/2022 | ||
| Roger Miller – Engine Engine Number Nine | 1965 | 11:28 | 9 | 11/6/2023 | |
| Hank Levine & His Orchestra – Downtown | 11:34 | 2 | 15/2/2019 | ||
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Shirley Bassey – Goldfinger | 1965 | 11:37 | 11 | 21/1/2024 | |
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Pete Fountain – Whipped Cream | 1965 | 11:40 | 3 | 6/8/2021 | |
| Damien J Johnson – One Hill Town | 2025 | 11:43 | 1 | 9/3/2025 | |
| Eric Diamond – Bring Me Sunshine | 2025 | 11:47 | 0 | QZHN4 2556675 | |
| Irish Rovers – Donald Where’s Your Trousers | 11:54 | 1 | 3/1/2016 | ||
4 APRIL IN HISTORY:
EVENTS
1929 Derby, Tasmania – Following unprecedented rainfall of 450 millimetres during the previous two days, a flood caused by an additional deluge of 125 millimetres over one and a half hours, broke the Briseis Dam.
A wall of water then surged down the Cascade River, engulfing buildings and flooding the Briseis tin Mine. Fourteen lives were lost, including a family who were sitting down to a meal when their home was carried away.
1955 Derwent Park, Tasmania – Two early-morning gelignite explosions demolished a bicycle shop on the corner of Main and Derwent Park Roads.
1959 The first major power station in the Snowy Mountains scheme, Tumut 1, began operation. .
1962 Hobart, Tasmania – A report tabled in the Tasmanian Parliament by a joint select committee recommended that breathalyser and blood alcohol tests be introduced on a voluntary basis +
1975 Near Saigon, South Vietnam – 172 died when a United States Air Force Galaxy plane, transporting orphans crashed shortly after takeoff.
1983 Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S.A. – The Space Shuttle Challenger made its maiden voyage into space.
DIED
1980 Ladenburg, Germany – Karl Friedrich Michael Vaillant BKA Karl Benz, engine designer and automotive engineer, generally regarded as the inventor of the gasoline-powered automobile and founder of the automobile manufacturer, Mercedes-Benz.
Karl was born to Josephine Vaillant and Johann George Benz, a train driver. When he was two years old, his father died in a railway accident, and his name was changed to Karl Friedrich Benz in remembrance of his father. (Aged 84)
1968 Memphis Tennessee, U.S.A.. – Martin Luther King, Jr. the African-American clergyman who advocated social change through non-violent means was assassinated. He was a powerful speaker who shaped the American civil rights movement through the 1950s and 1960s and his death sparked riots in major American cities for several days.
1980 Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.A. – Woodrow Wilson Sovine alias Red Sovine, country singer associated with truck driving songs, often recited, but set to music. The most famous example was his 1976 hit Teddy Bear. Aged 62.
1995 London, England – Maurice James Christopher Cole, alias Kenny Everett, comedian, radio DJ and television entertainer. Aged 50.
2013 Randwick, Sydney –Tommy Tycho, Australian pianist, orchestra conductor, composer and arranger who was associated with many musical television productions. Aged 84.
30 March 2025
Valley Sunrise Edition 827
0600 ~ 0900 AEDT
I invite you to start Sunday, my way on TYGA-FM 98.9 and on-line at www.tygafm.org.au/listen-live/ for great music you won’t hear locally on mainstream radio.
Included today, chartbuster hits from this month in 1972.
– Today’s photo: A creek, which borders part of my son’s property near New Norfolk. Under normal flows, most of the exposed rocks are under water.
Photo: Yours Truly
Today’s Playlist:
| TRACK | RELEASE YEAR | TIME | PREVIOUS PLAYS | LAST PLAYED | ISRC |
| Richard Porteous – Sometimes | 2025 | 06:06 | 1 | 21/3/2025 | QZDA8 2501574 |
| Charting this day 1972 Apollo 100 – Joy | 1972 | 06:12 | 10 | 15/11/2024 | |
| Charting this day 1972 Badfinger – Day After Day | 1972 | 06:15 | 5 | 24/4/2016 | |
| By Request Today: Alan Jackson – Remember When | 06:19 | 22 | 18/2/2024 | ||
| Creedence Clearwater Revival – Bad Moon Rising | 1969 | 06:24 | 12 | 2/4/2023 | |
| The Cumberland River Project – Small Town Loser | 2025 | 06:27 | 0 | DEZC6 2577046 | |
| Gordon Langford Orchestra – Till The End of Time | 06:33 | 2 | 16/3/2025 | ||
| Carol Markstrom – Spirit Buffalo | 2025 | 06:36 | 0 | ||
| Backtrack: Shane Warren – Old Draught Horse | 2015 | 06:40 | 4 | 14/2/2025 | |
| Abby Grace – Back To The Boat | 2024 | 06:45 | 1 | 9/3/2025 | |
| Aaron Partridge & Steve Apirana – You Can Call On Him | 2025 | 06:49 | 0 | AUE9B 2500001 | |
| Typically Tropical – Barbados | 1975 | 06:54 | 0 | ||
| Terry Lockley – Drinking With Blue | 2025 | 07:05 | 0 | AUQ5G 2400002 | |
| Charting this day 1972 Charley Pride – Kiss an Angel Good Morning | 1972 | 07:11 | 7 | 20/8/2023 | |
| Charting this day 1972 Tony Christie – Is This The Way To Amarillo | 1972 | 07:13 | 9 | 7/4/2024 | |
| Ged Wilson – Promised Land | 2025 | 07:19 | 0 | UK7X9 2400012 | |
| James Taylor – It’s Only A Paper Moon | 07:23 | 4 | 23/2/2024 | ||
| Willie Nelson – Always | 07:28 | 0 | |||
| Ferrante & Teicher – In The Chapel In The Moonlight | 07:33 | 3 | 1/11/2019 | ||
| Victoria Eman & Glenn van Haasen – In Another Time And Place | 2025 | 07:37 | 1 | 9/3/2025 | NLJ9A-2500001 |
| Guy Surtees – Thirty Minute Star | 2025 | 07:41 | 0 | ||
| Backtrack: Rod Williams – It Keeps Right On A-Hurting | 2020 | 07:47 | 2 | 7/3/2021 | |
| Clint Bradley – The Lightning Ride | 2025 | 07:49 | 0 | ||
| Cait Jamieson – Hit The Gravel | 2025 | 07:57 | 0 | ||
| Matrimony – Why Wait | 2025 | 08:05 | 0 | ||
| Charting this day 1972 Robin Jolley – Marshall’s Portable Music Machine | 1972 | 08:12 | 10 | 24/10/2021 | |
| Charting this day 1972 Johnny Chester & Jigsaw – Shame And Scandal | 1972 | 08:15 | 10 | 13/1/2023 | |
| By Request Today: Dean Martin – You’re Nobody Till Somebody Loves You | 08:22 | 3 | 28/2/2025 | ||
| Rick Nelson – I Rise I Fall | 1963 | 08:26 | 5 | 23/2/2024 | |
| Reg Owen – Happy Guitar | 1962 | 08:29 | 9 | 26/11/2023 | |
| James Last Orchestra – The Lonely Bull | 08:34 | 2 | 11/10/2019 | ||
| Backtrack: Aly Cook – Sunflowers | 2019 | 08:38 | 1 | 12/1/2020 | |
| Bob Marshall – Wildorado | 2025 | 08:43 | 0 | ||
| ABBA – I Do I Do I Do I Do I Do | 1975 | 08:49 | 20 | 13/12/2020 | |
| Engelbert Humperdinck – Two Different Worlds | 08:52 | 1 | 6/4/2012 | ||
| Jimmy Shand and His Band – The Northern Lights of Aberdeen | 08:55 | 15 | 13/9/2024 |
30 MARCH IN HISTORY:
BORN
1945 Ripley, Surrey, England – Eric Clapton blues-rock guitarist and singer-songwriter. Clapton is the only person to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame three times; as a solo performer, and member of rock bands the Yardbirds, and Cream. Turns 80.
1950 Rutherglen, South Lanarkshire, Scotland – Anthony Robert McMillan BKA Robbie Coltrane, Scottish actor, comedian and author. Died 2022.
1955 Indian Hills, Colorado, U.S.A. – Randall Van Warmer alias Randy Van Warmer, songwriter and guitarist whose biggest success was the hit Just When I Needed You Most. Died 2004.
1957 Melbourne, Victoria – Debra Anne Byrne, BKA Debbie Byrne, entertainer, singer, actress and writer. Turns 68.
1967 Perth, West Australia – Alan Fletcher, actor and musician, best known for his role as Karl Kennedy in the television soapie Neighbours. Turns 58.
1968 Charlemagne, Quebec, Canada – Celine Dion, pop singer, songwriter, actress, and entrepreneur, who has sold over 200 million albums worldwide. Turns 57.
DIED
2018 Leicestershire, England – Walter Frederick George Williams alias Bill Maynard, comedian and actor, famous for his role as the old rogue Claude Jeremiah Greengrass in the popular television series Heartbeat. Aged 89.
28 March 2025
FRIDAY MORNING RADIO, Edition 462, 9.00 ~ Midday AEDT
The number 462 (or, pronounced 4-6-2) has a special significance to railway enthusiasts, so, for this edition I included a number of railway-related tracks.
Today’s photo, the Ross Bridge in the central north of Tasmania. It was built in the 1830s by convict labour and carried highway traffic between Hobart and northern Tasmania for over 140 years. Today, this bridge is as sturdy as when it was first opened in 1838 and it is the third-oldest bridge still in use in Australia.
The township of Ross was bypassed by the Midland Highway in the 1970s, but it remains a very attractive stop for visitors and locals alike.
Today’s Playlist
| TRACK | RELEASE YEAR | PLAY TIME | PREVIOUS PLAYS | LAST PLAYED | ISRC |
| Monkees – Last Train To Clarksville | 1966 | 09:05 | 6 | 29/9/2024 | |
| Glen Levi – Your Key Won’t Fit The Lock | 2025 | 09:10 | 1 | 23/2/2025 | USCGH 2550787 |
| Whiskey Cure – Four Wheels On A Dirt Road | 2025 | 09:13 | 1 | 16/3/2025 | |
| Howie Brothers – We Love This Sunburnt Country | 2025 | 09:17 | 2 | 16/3/2025 | |
| Backtrack: Jeff Brown – The Young Jillaroo | 2020 | 09:19 | 2 | 13/3/2020 | |
| John Williamson – Railwayman | 09:24 | 2 | 20/5/2022 | ||
| Al Cherny & Bill Mankiss – Happy Hour Schottische | 09:31 | 0 | |||
| Marilyn King & Miller Sisters – Don’t Sit Under The Apple Tree | 09:34 | 1 | 17/1/2025 | ||
| Slim Dusty – Indian Pacific | 1977 | 09:39 | 12 | 23/2/2024 | |
| Backtrack: Sarah Kate Landy – When Will I Be Loved | 2016 | 09:42 | 6 | 14/2/2025 | |
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Hermans Hermits – Silhouettes | 1965 | 09:48 | 9 | 14/5/2023 | |
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Gerry & Pacemakers – Pretend | 1965 | 09:50 | 18 | 21/7/2023 | |
| By Request Today: Chris Barber & Mark Knopfler – The Next Time I’m In Town | 09:53 | 5 | 9/3/2025 | ||
| By Request Today: Randy Travis – On The Other Hand | 09:57 | 0 | |||
| Penny Davies and Roger Ilott – Riding On The Fruit Train | 10:06 | 4 | 24/9/2023 | ||
| Grand Prairie Band – This Ain’t Reno | 2025 | 10:10 | 1 | 2/3/2025 | |
| Mountain Rio – Banjo Bill | 2025 | 10:13 | 1 | 16/2/2025 | USJ3V 1387541 |
| They Don’t Make Them Like This Anymore: Harry Kaye & Joe Loss & His Orchestra – Praise The Lord And Pass The Ammunition | 1942 | 10:18 | 0 | ||
| Johnny Cash – Blue Train | 1962 | 10:22 | 0 | ||
| Backtrack: Warren Kearney – Try Walking In His Shoes | 2020 | 10:25 | 2 | 20/11/2020 | |
| Joe Loss & His Orchestra – Parakeet | 10:28 | 1 | 3/12/2023 | ||
| Wayne & Geraldi – Back In Your Own Backyard | 10:32 | 0 | |||
| Roger Whittaker – All Of My Life | 10:35 | 3 | 18/8/2023 | ||
| Elvis Aaron Presley Jr – Goldmine | 2025 | 10:40 | 0 | ||
| George Hamilton IV – Canadian Pacific | 1969 | 10:44 | 8 | 26/11/2023 | |
| Bill Walker Orchestra & Chorus – A World Without Love | 10:49 | 0 | |||
| Janey Kirk – Island of Dreams | 2023 | 10:53 | 1 | 1/9/2023 | |
| Chris Boots Lee – Where Corn Don’t Grow | 2025 | 10:57 | 0 | ||
| Tony Miles & Ran Tan – Queensland Railway Line | 11:05 | 4 | 6/10/2023 | ||
| Ron Christopher – Angelyne | 11:09 | 0 | |||
| Backtrack: Tom Curtin & Sara Storer – Speak Up | 2018 | 11:13 | 3 | 17/11-2024 | |
| Fred Bertelmann – Distant Drums | 11:18 | 0 | |||
| Patsy Cline – Life’s Railway To Heaven | 1959 | 11:25 | 8 | 8/10/2023 | |
| John Michael Ferrari – How Far Apart Are We | 2025 | 11:28 | 0 | ||
| Miles Davis – Time After Time | 11:35 | 2 | 19/5/2024 | ||
| By Request Today: Lolita – Sailor | 1960 | 11:38 | 21 | 17/1/2025 | |
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Cilla Black – You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling | 1965 | 11:42 | 0 | ||
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Petula Clark – I Know A Place | 1965 | 11:45 | 11 | 27/8/2023 | |
| Mike Wilkinson – Locomotive 3801 | 2018 | 11:49 | 10 | 22/10/2023 | |
| David Hammerschlag – Troop Train | 2025 | 11:52 | 2 | 21/3/2025 | QZDA8 2572986 |
28 MARCH IN HISTORY:
BORN
1921 West Hampstead, London, England – Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde – Dirk Bogarde, actor and writer who appeared in movies such as Doctor In The House, A Tale of Two Cities, Night Flight From Moscow and A Bridge Too Far. (d. 1999)
1935 Cudworth, West Riding of Yorkshire, England – Michael Parkinson English broadcaster, journalist and author who presented an interview programme, Parkinson, from 1971 to 1982 and from 1998 to 2007. (d. 2023)
1940 Oldham, Lancashire, England – Anthony Ferraro Barber BKA Tony Barber, Australian game show host and television personality
1949 Derby, Derbyshire, England – Kevin Lloyd, actor who appeared in many British television productions, including Minder, Dempsey and Makepeace, Z Cars and Blakes 7, but is best known for his role as DC Tosh Lines in The Bill.
He was dismissed from the cast of The Bill in 1998, due to lack of punctuality and failure to learn his script. Within a week, he choked on his vomit whilst asleep in an alcohol detoxification clinic.
DIED
1980 Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. –Dick Haymes, actor and one of the most popular male vocalists of the 1940s and early 1950s. Aged. 61.
2003 Bellevue, Washington, U.S.A. – Rusty Draper, country and pop singer who achieved his greatest success in the 1950s. Aged 80.
2004 Genolier, Switzerland – Peter Alexander Ustinov, actor, writer, dramatist, filmmaker, theatre and opera director, stage designer, screenwriter, comedian, newspaper and magazine columnist, radio and television broadcaster. Aged 82.
ON THIS DAY
1926 West Hobart, Tasmania – Hill Street residences were deluged when a 100,000 gallon water reservoir burst.
1967 Huon Valley, Tasmania – Millions of apples, a substantial portion of the year’s crop, were being dumped in orchards to rot on the ground. Contributing causes were a decrease in demand for apples for juice, tougher inspection rules resulting in rejection of apples with minor skin blemishes, and smaller apple sizes caused by drought conditions..
1977 Tenerife, Canary Islands – 583 lives were lost in a runway collision between two Boeing 747 aircraft, owned by KLM and Pan American Airlines. This remains the worst aviation accident on record.
1979 Near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. – Operators at the Three Mile Island’s Unit 2 nuclear reactor failed to recognize that a relief valve in the primary coolant system had stuck open. This allowed coolant to drain from the system, resulting in a partial core melt down.
23 March 2025
Valley Sunrise Edition 826
0600 ~ 0900 AEDT
I invite you to start Sunday, my way on TYGA-FM 98.9 and on-line at www.tygafm.org.au/listen-live/ for great music you won’t hear locally on mainstream radio.
Included today, chartbuster hits from this month in 1970.
– Today’s photo: Wineglass Bay, Eastern Tasmania
Yours Truly 1-2005
Today’s Playlist:
23 MARCH IN HISTORY:
BORN
1933 Elsternwick, Victoria – Norman Yemm, actor, known for his appearances in The Sullivans, Homicide, Number 96, and Prisoner He was also an opera singer, theatre performer and sportsman. Died 2015.
1937 Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. – Craig Breedlove, five-time world land speed record holder. He was the first to reach 400 mph (640 km/h), 500 mph (800 km/h), and 600 mph (970 km/h), using turbojet-powered vehicles. Died 2023.
DIED
1964 Near Bellingen, New South Wales – Frank Partridge, Australia’s youngest World War 2 Victoria Cross winner, but more famous as a major winner in the popular television quiz programme Pick-A-Box. (Car crash, Aged 39)
EVENTS
1936 Sydney, New South Wales – The first Australian-owned oil company was established. The Australian Motorists Petrol Company Limited also had exclusive rights for American made electric petrol pumps, the first to dispense petrol in the country.
1948 New Norfolk, Tasmania – The local peg factory, a major local industry, was destroyed by fire.
1954 Tasmania – The daily Tasman Limited express railmotor was introduced, running between Hobart, Western Junction and Burnie. The railmotors were soon replaced by a diesel locomotive hauled consist, which continued the service until July 1978.
1965 America launched the first 2-person crew (Gus Grissom and John Young) into Earth Orbit in Gemini 3.
2001 The Russian Mir space station re-entered the atmosphere and broke into pieces which fell into the Pacific Ocean near Fiji.