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 10^th 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)

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.

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)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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:

TRACK	RELEASE YEAR	TIME	PREVIOUS PLAYS	LAST PLAYED	ISRC
Gary Anderson – That’s What I Love About Us	2025	06:06	0		QZFZ4 2575910
Charting this day 1970 Shocking Blue – Venus	1970	06:12	2	17/8/2018
Charting this day 1970 Blue Mink – Melting Pot	1970	06:15	1	4/12/2015
Vicky Leandros – When Bouzoukis Played	1973	06:20	1	6/4/2012
Tony Christie – Release Me		06:24	0
By Request Today: P J Proby – Somewhere		06:28	17	31/1/2025
Anthony Ventura & His Orchestra – La Paloma		06:33	0
Anne Murray – Flying On Your Own		06:38	0
Backtrack: Richard Mulligan – The Green Green Grass of Home		06:42	3	9/8/2020
Al Martino – Volare		06:50	0
Charting this day 1970 Edison Lighthouse – Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes	1970	06:54	4	15/5/2022
Tornados – Dragon Fly	1963	06:58	15	30/8/2024
Buckinghams – Kind Of A Drag	1967	07:06	6	2/2/2024
By Request Today: Lee Kernaghan – Janine		07:09	0
Debbie Laken – Believe Me Baby I Lied	2025	07:13	0		NZRI1 2403566
Graeme Clarke – Smokey	2019	07:18	3	3/11/2019
DIED 2006 Mexia, Texas, U.S.A.  –  Cindy Walker, prolific American songwriter, country singer and dancer, composer of hundreds of popular and enduring songs which have been recorded by many different artists. She tailored particular songs to specific recording artists, many of which have been described as “direct, honest and unpretentious”.  Her Top 10 hits were spread over five decades (Aged  87)
Jim Reeves – In The Misty Moonlight  [Penned by Cindy Walker]		07:22	4	31/7/2022
By Request Today: Pussycat – Mississippi	1976	07:25	37	24/1/2025
Frank Pourcell – Besame Mucho	1956	07:32	0
Adrian Payne – My Old Town	2025	07:36	0		AUL9L 2500001
Charting this day 1970 Beatles – Let It Be	1970	07:41	13	9/6/2024
Charting this day 1970 Cufflinks – When Julie Comes Around	1970	07:45	5	8/4/2022
Backtrack: Glen Dee – Living On Love	2018	07:50	1	19/5/2019
Ray Conniff Singers – If You Could Read My Mind		07:54	0
Burl Ives – Way Down Yonder In The Paw Paw Patch		07:58	0
Ron Callaghan – Poor Man	2025	08:05	0		AU3PV 2400007
HAZEL And The Thief – Sally Storm	2025	08:11	0
Shavonne Aliphon – I Keep Dreaming Of You	2017	08:15	2	18/3/2018
Charting this day 1970 Bobbie Gentry & Glen Campbell – All I Have To Do Is Dream	1970	08:22	8	23/12/2022
Shadows – Dance On	1963	08:24	9	3/3/2023
Seekers – Well Well Well		08:27	6	17/11/2023
Francis Goya Orchestra – Try A Little Tenderness		08:32	0
Nat King Cole – Non Dimenticar		08:37	0
Warwick & Young – Child’s Eyes	2025	08:41	1	14/3/2025
John McNally – If I Only Had Time		08:45	1	25/9/2016
Rebecca Richards – Aces Are High	2025	08:47	0
Abby Grace – Feel The Beat	2025	08:52	0		CADXG 2025083

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.

FRIDAY MORNING RADIO, Edition 461, 9.00 ~ Midday AEDT

 The Massey-Ferguson tractor was a frequently-seen workhorse on farms around Tasmania, and interstate, from the early 1950s.  I had relatives on rural properties in the Huon Valley, and all had “Fergie” tractors.

Today’s photograph is of a train-load of brand-new “Fergies” heading to the north of the State around 1953, presumably after being offloaded from a ship in Hobart.

The train is being hauled by two X Class diesel-electric locomotives, themselves near-new.  The photo was taken in Claremont, then an outer suburb of Hobart, and the  identity of the photographer is unknown

TRACK	RELEASE YEAR	PLAY TIME	PREVIOUS PLAYS	LAST PLAYED	ISRC
Graham Toole – Hold On To What You’ve Got	2025	09:05	1	7/3/2025
Matilda Gracie & Sarah Rose – Health Hazard	2025	09:10	1	21/3/2025
Barry Owen – Stand Up In The Crowd	2025	09:13	1	23/2/2025
Charlie Landsborough – A Million Ways to Fall		09:18	0
Change of Key – Beyond That Smile	2025	09:22	0
Backtrack: Ann-Kristin Dørdal – Shape Up	2018	09:27	3	14/8/2020
Melbourne Pops Orchestra – And I Love You So		09:32	0
Wayne Douglas – Hey Dad	2025	09:36	1	16/2/2025
By Request Today: Lee Kernaghan – Three Chain Road		09:40	0
Ben Walker – In The Sunshine	2025	09:47	2	14/3/2025	AUE1Q 2100014
Backtrack: Josh Turner – Folsom Prison Blues	2018	09:51	1	9/11/2018
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Four Seasons – Bye Bye Baby	1965	09:55	0
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Beatles – Rock And Roll Music	1965	09:58	10	25/11/2022
Richard Porteous – Sometimes	2025	10:05	0		QZDA8 2501574
By Request Today: Don Williams – You’re My Best Friend		10:11	12	27/12/2024
Jeff Orson – Missing You Soon	2025	10:14	2	16/3/2025	QT3TB-2425080
Jamcase – Flipped Outta Bed	2025	10:19	1	7/3/2025
They Don’t Make Them Like This Anymore: Frankie Lane & Jimmy Boyd – Tell Me A Story	1953	10:24	6	24/11/2023
Backtrack: David Hammerschlag – Troop Train	2025	10:29	1	9/3/2025	QZDA8 2572986
Eric Jupp – Do You Know The Way To San Jose		10:33	0
Carol Chaney – Everything’s A Waltz	2025	10:36	0
Michael Farrell – Streets of Laredo	2025	10:41	0
Peggy Gilchrist – Under Burdekin Skies	2025	10:45	0
Klaasje Menzen – We Hold Our Head Up High	2025	10:50	0
Backtrack: Lene Lie – Boots and Faded Jeans	2021	10:54	4	21/3/2021
Michael Meeking – Time to Make Up Your Mind	2025	11:05	0		AUKNA 2500001
August Lane – Constantly Raining	2025	11:10	0		QZWFN 2449588
Backtrack: Trevor Loughrey – Another Broken Heart	2018	11:13	2	9/11/2018
Lonneke & Michl – Schmetterlinge	2025	11:18	0
Johnny Gibbs & His Orchestra with Ken Barrie – Thanks For The Memory		11:24	2	16/10/2016
Robin Wilson – A House Is Not A Home		11:27	0
Peter Salata – Little Old Fergie Tractor	2025	11:31	2	16/3/2025
Trinidad Steel Drum Band – One Love		11:37	0
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Sounds Orchestral – Cast Your Fate To The Wind	1965	11:42	9	18/4/2021
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Al Martino – Jealous Heart	1965	11:45	5	19/3/2021
Gail Barnard – Storms	2025	11:50	0		USCGJ 2534605
Vernon Huskey – White Silver Sands	2025	11:53	0		QZYSP 2500012

21 MARCH IN HISTORY:

ON THIS DAY

1931   Australia’s first civil airline disaster occurred, when the Southern Cloud, one of 5 triple-engine Avro 618 aircraft which flew daily services for Australian National Airways, vanished after departing Sydney for Melbourne with six passengers and two crew. Despite an 18-day search involving over 20 aircraft,  no trace of the missing plane or it’s occupants was found.

Although the Southern Cloud’s fate remained a mystery, a Committee of Inquiry recommended that all passenger carrying aircraft should be fitted with two-way radios, and that ground stations should be established to monitor the progress of aircraft to their destinations.

Twenty seven years later, on 26 October 1958, a worker on the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Project  accidentally discovered the aircraft’s wreckage in mountainous terrain, 25 kilometres east of the direct Sydney-Melbourne route.

1957  The first Holden station wagon, based on the FE series sedans, went on sale 

1962  Sandy Bay, Hobart – A swarm of European wasps held up work on a new road for two days, after a nest was disturbed by a bulldozer driver.

1968  Derwent Valley, Tasmania – A car narrowly escaped being buried in one of five landslides which occurred on the Lyell Highway between Granton and New Norfolk.
Other cars were trapped between landslides and the occupants had to wait until the road had been cleared.  Meanwhile, Dromedary Road was also temporarily cut by flood waters.

Valley Sunrise Edition 825
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 1979.

– Today’s photo: Clarendon House, Nile, Northern Tasmania
https://www.discovertasmania.com.au/things-to-do/heritage-and-history/clarendon/

Yours Truly 11-2004

Today’s Playlist:

TRACK	RELEASE YEAR	TIME	PREVIOUS PLAYS	LAST PLAYED	ISRC
Whiskey Cure – Four Wheels On A Dirt Road	2025	06:06	0
Charting this day 1979 ABBA – Lovelight	1979	06:11	0
Charting this day 1979 Village People – Y M C A	1979	06:15	9	12/9/2021
Dean Martin – That’s Amore	1953	06:19	8	4/8/2024
Johnny Cash & Tennessee Two – Ballad of a Teenage Queen	1958	06:23	7	26/6/2020
By Request Today: Bette Midler – From A Distance		06:25	0
Gordon Langford Orchestra – Till The End of Time		06:32	1	4/6/2021
DIED 1993 Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.A. – John Hendry Blair, alias Johnny Cymbal, songwriter, singer, and record producer who had numerous hits, including his signature song, Mr. Bass Man.  Aged 48.
Johnny Cymbal – Mr Bass Man	1963	06:35	8	21/4/2023
Backtrack: Desi Egan – Young Hearts Run Free	2018	06:38	6	25/3/2022
Ness Da Silva – Honesty	2025	06:43	0
Charting this day 1979 Blondie – Heart of Glass	1979	06:47	1	16/2/2025
Jeff Orson – Missing You Soon	2025	06:50	1	9/2/2025	QT3TB 2425080
Dave Caley – Promised Land	2025	06:56	0		US9BH 2500004
Peter Salata – Little Old Fergie Tractor	2025	07:05	1	7/3/2025	AUGO4 1502501
Scott Rathman Jr – Angel On The Hill	2025	07:10	0
Bruce Woodley – With My Swag On My Shoulder	1919	07:14	3	24/12/2023
DIED 2016 Daytona Beach, Florida, U.S.A. – Franklin Wayne Emmanuel Sinatra BKA Frank Sinatra Jr, singer, songwriter and orchestra conductor and the son of famed singer and actor Frank Sinatra and his first wife, Nancy.  Also, the younger brother of singer and actress Nancy Sinatra, and older brother of television producer Tina Sinatra.  Aged 72
Frank Sinatra Jr – S’Wonderful		07:20	3	4/9/2016
By Request Today: Foster & Allen – Old Flames		07:22	5	28/7/2023
Nat King Cole – It’s Only A Paper Moon	1956	07:27	1	30/6/2019
101 Strings Orchestra – California Dreaming		07:32	0
Charting this day 1979 Jon English – Six Ribbons	1979	07:34	8	26/3/2023
Cecile Gardens – Called Country	2025	07:38	0
Backtrack: Graeme Clarke – Old Dogs and Children and Watermelon Wine	2019	07:42	6	15/9/2024
Frankie Miller – Darlin’	1979	07:47	3	20/4/2018
Dave Lawlor – Calling Me Home	2025	07:50	0
Anthony Baxter – When You Say Nothing At All	2025	07:55	1	28/2/2025
Shelly Jones Band – Shop Till I Drop	2025	08:06	1	16/2/2025	AU3FS 2100017
By Request Today: Dean Martin – Not Enough Indians		08:12	5	11/2/2022
Dale Hooper – Thank God For Radio	2019	08:18	3	24/11/2024
Louise Morrissey – Keeping Time	2025	08:22	3	2/3/2025
Charting this day 1979 Frank Mills Orchestra – The Music Box Dancer	1979	08:27	13	3/4/2022
James Last & His Orchestra – Medley~Skokiaan~Stars In Your Eyes~It’s A Wonderful Life		08:34	1	20/4/2012
Denise Miller & Son – Richard	2025	08:40	0
Platters – The Magic Touch	1956	08:43	3	20/8/2021
Howie Brothers – We Love This Sunburnt Country	2025	08:47	3	7/3/2025
Kathy Carver – My Country My Australia	2025	08:50	4	7/3/2025
Kevin Tuckfield – Why He Rides	2025	08:53	0		USX9P 1116060
Ray Brown & Whispers – Twenty Miles	1965	08:57	9	7/2/2025

16 MARCH IN HISTORY:

EVENTS

1946  North-East Tasmania – An embankment weakened by flooding collapsed beneath a goods train hauling 20 trucks of coal and timber, 16 kms east of Avoca.  Train driver Eric Britton died instantly.

1964 Flooding caused rail and road traffic in Northern New South Wales to stop and hundreds of people to be isolated 

1958 Dearborn, Michigan, U.S.A. – The Ford Motor Company produced its 50 millionth car, a Thunderbird

1961 Bell Bay, Tasmania – The original jetty quietly gave way and collapsed into the Tamar River without warning, barely a week before it was scheduled to have been demolished.

1978 Brittany, France –  The supertanker Amoco Cadiz split into three sections after running aground on the Portsall Rocks, two kilometres from the coast.  It’s entire cargo of over 220,000 tonnes of crude oil was spilt into the sea.  Millions of fish, seabirds, and other species of marine life perished.