FRIDAY MORNING RADIO with Ray Hewitt 9 a.m. ~ Midday
VALLEY SUNRISE with Ray Hewitt 6 a.m. ~ 9 a.m. Sundays
TYGA-FM 98.9
Streaming at: www.tygafm.org.au
Derwent Valley Community Radio
New Norfolk, Tasmania
29 June 2025
Valley Sunrise Edition 840
0600 ~ 0900 AEST
Each hour in this edition, two chart-busters from the Top 40 charts of this week in 1978, recent tracks from indie artists and other easy-listening music, most of which you won’t hear on mainstream radio.
Today’s photo – The Hazards, Freycinet National Park, Eastern Tasmania.
Photo: Yours Truly.
Today’s Playlist:
| TRACK | RELEASE YEAR | TIME | PREVIOUS PLAYS | LAST PLAYED | ISRC |
| Bangles – Manic Monday | 1986 | 06:06 | 3 | 5/5/2024 | |
| Charting this day 1978 John Paul Young – Love Is In The Air | 1978 | 06:12 | 9 | 13/9/2024 | |
| Charting this day 1978 Billy Joel – Just the Way You Are | 1978 | 06:15 | 3 | 20/4/2025 | |
| By Request: Cilla Black & Cliff Richard – That’s What Friends Are | 06:20 | 0 | |||
| Bobby McFerrin – Don’t Worry Be Happy | 1988 | 06:24 | 10 | 25/11/2022 | |
| Roger Whittaker – Where The Rainbow Ends | 1968 | 06:29 | 14 | 2/7/2023 | |
| Percy Faith & His Orchestra – Up On The Roof | 06:33 | 3 | 27/10/2023 | ||
| Lynette Guest OAM – The Music Man | 2025 | 06:36 | 0 | AUEN0 2500335 | |
| Jason Cole – Mr Lonesome | 2025 | 06:42 | 2 | 20/6/2025 | |
| Johnny Horton – When It’s Springtime In Alaska | 1959 | 06:46 | 9 | 21/2/2025 | |
| Bing Crosby – Don’t Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes | 06:50 | 0 | |||
| Henry Mancini & His Orchestra & Chorus – You Make Feel Like Dancing | 06:53 | 0 | |||
| Singing Nun – Dominique | 1963 | 06:57 | 13 | 8/12/2023 | |
| Larry Cann – Keepin’ It Real | 2025 | 07:05 | 0 | ||
| Charting this day 1978 Meat Loaf – You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth | 1978 | 07:11 | 4 | 27/9/2020 | |
| Charting this day 1978 Barry Manilow – Can’t Smile Without You | 1976 | 07:15 | 8 | 20/4/2025 | |
| By Request: Mills Brothers – Cab Driver | 1968 | 07:20 | 3 | 9/2/2025 | |
| Shelly Jones Band – Defining Moments | 2025 | 07:23 | 0 | AU3FS 2100016 | |
| Gary McEvoy – Gentle On My Mind | 2023 | 07:26 | 3 | 14/7/2023 | |
| Eric Jupp & His Orchestra – Song Of Italy | 07:32 | 4 | 7/7/2023 | ||
| Susan Boyle – Cry Me A River | 07:36 | 2 | 19/7/2015 | ||
| Geoff Love Singers – As Time Goes By | 07:39 | 3 | 29/4/2022 | ||
| Mike Wilkinson – Spirit Of The Drought | 2025 | 07:44 | 0 | ||
| Lindsay Waddington – Solid Ground | 2025 | 07:47 | 2 | 20/6/2025 | |
| Rodney Walker – The Crow Flying Backwards | 2025 | 07:53 | 0 | AUEN0 2500336 | |
| Sandpipers – Enamorado | 07:56 | 7 | 11/3/2018 | ||
| Caoimhe Murney – Scania 164 | 2025 | 08:05 | 3 | 27/6/2025 | |
| Charting this day 1978 Don Williams – You’re My Best Friend | 1978 | 08:11 | 14 | 4/4/2025 | |
| Charting this day 1978 Kate Bush – Wuthering Heights | 1978 | 08:14 | 2 | 26/5/2017 | |
| Graeme Connors – A Little Further North | 1988 | 08:20 | 6 | 19/2/2023 | |
| Highway 95 – Love Like Me | 2025 | 08:24 | 0 | AUL0G 2400015 | |
| Pete King Orchestra & Chorale – Caterina | 08:30 | 3 | 2/1/2022 | ||
| Brian May & ABC Melbourne Showband – Cabaret | 08:36 | 1 | 10/6/2022 | ||
| By Request: Hank Thompson – The Blackboard Of My Heart | 08:39 | 2 | 3/9/2021 | ||
| Air Supply – Now And Forever | 1982 | 08:42 | 4 | 18/11/2022 | |
| Hans Krakou -The Way It Used To Be | 2025 | 08:45 | |||
| Harry Secombe – This Is My Song | 1967 | 08:49 | 17 | 7/5/2024 | |
| Herb Alpert & Tijuana Brass – The Happening | 1967 | 08:53 | 7 | 7/2/2021 | |
| Slim Dusty – G’day G’Day | 1988 | 08:56 | 7 | 26/1/2025 |
27 June 2025
FRIDAY MORNING RADIO, Edition 475, 9.00 ~ Midday AEST
Easy listening, retro and recent releases not heard on mainstream radio throughout the morning, on the Derwent Valley’s own radio station.
Today’s photo – a TYGA-FM presenter’s-eye view of a foggy winter morning in New Norfolk, taken from the studio during Valley Sunrise on June 15.
Photo – Yours Truly.
Today’s Playlist
| TRACK | RELEASE YEAR | PLAY TIME | PREVIOUS PLAYS | LAST PLAYED | ISRC |
| Peter Stefanson – Feels So Right | 2025 | 09:12 | 2 | 15/6/2025 | USJ3V 2439569 |
| Ann-Kristin Dørdal – Willow Dream | 2025 | 09:16 | 1 | 30/5/2025 | |
| Hazel & The Thief – I Call This Life | 2025 | 09:20 | 0 | ||
| Phil Blundell – Don’t Look Back | 2025 | 09:23 | 1 | 6/6/2025 | |
| Sandy Rasmussen – Mystery Train | 2015 | 09:26 | 0 | ||
| Sherbet – Silvery Moon | 1974 | 09:32 | 6 | 29/12/2024 | |
| Peter Nero – Summer Samba | 09:36 | 0 | |||
| Bee Gees – Rest Your Love On Me | 09:39 | 0 | |||
| Helena Mace – Flowers Of The Sun | 2025 | 09:44 | 0 | ||
| Taylor Brothers – Please Let Me Wonder | 2025 | 09:49 | 1 | 15/6/2025 | |
| By Request: Christine Clifford – You Can’t Say | 2025 | 09:53 | 3 | 7/2/2025 | |
| Brendan McMahon & Sally Jane – Let’s Get Crazy | 2025 | 09:57 | 0 | AUZFL 2500002 | |
| Caoimhe Murney – Scania 164 | 2025 | 10:04 | 2 | 20/6/2025 | |
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Beatles – Eight Days A Week | 1965 | 10:12 | 13 | 8/12/2024 | |
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Cliff Richard – Angel | 1965 | 10:16 | 6 | 7/5/2023 | |
| Robert F – Ein Bisschen Mehr | 2025 | 10:19 | 0 | ||
| Old Time Concert Hall: Paul Weston Orchestra & Singers – He’ll Have To Get Under, Get Out And Get Under To Fix His Automobile | 10:24 | 0 | |||
| Joel Harvey – Botany Bay | 2000 | 10:27 | 1 | 6/1/2019 | |
| Living Marimbas – The Glory of Love | 10:33 | 1 | 6/3/2020 | ||
| Andy Williams – Fly By Night | 10:36 | 0 | |||
| Bill Goodall – Blue Star | 2022 | 10:40 | 1 | 27/1/2023 | |
| Watling & Bates – Fires Within | 2025 | 10:44 | 1 | 6/6/2025 | AHNE 2500001 |
| John Glenn – Forgettin’ ‘Bout You | 2025 | 10:48 | 0 | ||
| Elisabeth Hope – Feelin’ Single, Seein’ Double | 2025 | 10:52 | 1 | 13/6/2025 | |
| Dancing Ballroom Orchestra – I Need Your Love | 10:55 | 4 | 10/5/2024 | ||
| Buddy Holly – Think It Over | 10:58 | 3 | 20/2/2015 | ||
| D-Layla – What I Want You To Know | 2025 | 11:05 | 1 | 22/6/2025 | |
| Terry Lockley – The Local | 2025 | 11:11 | 0 | ||
| Richard Porteous – We Were There For Slim | 2025 | 11:15 | 1 | 30/5/2025 | |
| Ben Walker – I Won’t Let Go | 2025 | 11:19 | 1 | 13/6/2025 | AUE1Q 2100016 |
| Lee Ann Kelly – Like I Do | 2025 | 11:25 | 0 | ||
| Acoustic Bloom – I See Your Mother In Your Eyes | 2025 | 11:30 | 1 | 13/6/2025 | |
| Edmundo Ros & His Orchestra – Alla En El Rancho Grande Marcha | 11:37 | 0 | |||
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Donovan – Catch The Wind | 1965 | 11:40 | 6 | 10/5/2019 | |
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 New Christy Minstrels – Chim Chim Cheree | 1965 | 11:42 | 0 | ||
| Cara McGillion – Claim On My Heart | 2025 | 11:46 | 1 | 23/5/2025 | IEWBL 2500001 |
| Allan Caswell – What Happened To Love | 11:49 | 0 | |||
| Ariel Franz – Heart On Down | 2025 | 11:53 | 0 |
22 June 2025
Valley Sunrise Edition 839
0600 ~ 0900 AEST
In this edition, six chart-busters from the Top 40 charts of this week in 1976, recent tracks from indie artists, and other easy-listening music, most of which you won’t hear on mainstream radio.
Today’s photo – A June sunrise on the Faulkner range.
Photo: Yours Truly.
Today’s Playlist:
| TRACK | RELEASE YEAR | TIME | PREVIOUS PLAYS | LAST PLAYED | ISRC |
| Kathy Carver – Eyre Highway Track | 2025 | 06:06 | 2 | 1/6/2025 | |
| Charting this day 1976 ABBA – Ring Ring | 1976 | 06:11 | 12 | 23/2/2024 | |
| Charting this day 1976 Bellamy Brothers – Let Your Love Flow | 1976 | 06:14 | 8 | 10/1/2021 | |
| D-Layla – What I Want You To Know | 2025 | 06:19 | 0 | ||
| Sheena Easton – Morning Train | 1981 | 06:22 | 1 | 22/7/2022 | |
| Soundtrack Oliver & Co – Once Upon A Time In New York City | 1988 | 06:27 | 7 | 4/11/2022 | |
| Frank Mills & His Orchestra – The Poet and I | 06:33 | 1 | 5/7/2020 | ||
| Matt Monro – The Impossible Dream | 06:37 | 1 | 9/3/2025 | ||
| Jose Feliciano – Quando Pienso | 06:40 | 0 | |||
| Michael Russ – Trumpet Moments | 2025 | 06:44 | 2 | 15/6/2025 | |
| Billy Fury – A Thousand Stars | 1960 | 06:49 | 3 | 16/5/2025 | |
| Stella Moon – Out Of The Dark | 2024 | 06:52 | 1 | 24/11/2023 | |
| Ray Conniff Orchestra – Pacific Sunset | 06:57 | 0 | |||
| Shaun Connery – We Were Meant To Be Lovers | 2025 | 07:06 | 0 | ||
| Charting this day 1976 Paper Lace – Billy Don’t Be a Hero | 1976 | 07:12 | 3 | 15/6/2025 | |
| Charting this day 1976 Sherbet – Howzat | 1976 | 07:14 | 7 | 22/6/2018 | |
| Jody Miller – He Walks Like A Man | 1964 | 07:21 | 10 | 23/2/2024 | |
| Lee Kernaghan – She’s My Ute | 07:24 | 0 | |||
| Graeme Clarke & Sandy Shaw – Diamond of the Desert | 2019 | 07:28 | 5 | 9/8/2024 | |
| Abby Grace – Queen Laffalot | 2020 | 07:31 | 0 | ||
| Perry Botkin Jr & His Orchestra – Happiness Is | 07:35 | 5 | 21/1/2024 | ||
| Anne Biddie – Missing You | 2025 | 07:38 | 2 | 20/6/2025 | |
| Peggy Gilchrist – Southern Sky | 2025 | 07:43 | 2 | 1/6/2025 | |
| Daniel O’Donnell & Mary Duff – Top Of The World | 07:47 | 2 | 5/1/2024 | ||
| Allan Caswell – He Loves His Radio | 2024 | 07:50 | 3 | 28/2/2025 | |
| Robert Goulet – Both Sides Now | 07:55 | 2 | 13/11/2020 | ||
| Beach Boys – Catch A Wave | 1966 | 08:05 | 0 | ||
| Charting this day 1976 Four Seasons – December 1963 Oh What A Night | 1976 | 08:10 | 4 | 28/2/2021 | |
| Charting this day 1976 Mark Holden – Never Gonna Fall In Love Again | 1976 | 08:13 | 7 | 25/6/2021 | |
| Peter & Gordon – Crying in the Rain | 1965 | 08:19 | 0 | ||
| Cliff Richard – It’s All In The Game | 1963 | 08:22 | 4 | 29/9/2023 | |
| Victoria Eman – Holding Out For You | 2017 | 08:26 | 3 | 24/11/2019 | |
| Norman Percival & His Orchestra – A World Of Our Own | 08:34 | 3 | 24/7/2020 | ||
| River Rose – Always Be There | 2025 | 08:37 | 1 | 13/6/2025 | |
| Platters – Thanks For The Memory | 1959 | 08:42 | 6 | 17/3/2023 | |
| Lindsay Waddington & Brendan Radford – The Red Centre | 2024 | 08:47 | 4 | 13/12/2024 | AUZY4 2400020 |
| Paul Hudnott – Mister Rainbow Man | 2024 | 08:50 | 6 | 16/6/2024 | |
| Goombay Dance Band – Seven Tears | 1981 | 08:54 | 8 | 2/2/2024 |
20 June 2025
FRIDAY MORNING RADIO, Edition 474, 9.00 ~ Midday AEST
Easy listening, retro and recent releases not heard on mainstream radio throughout the morning, on the Derwent Valley’s own radio station.
Today’s photo – Portion of the Bridgewater causeway, around 20 kilometres from New Norfolk, which was constructed by teams of convicts under a brutal overseer in the 1830s.
Solid rock sourced from an adjacent quarry was used, using the most primitive tools.
This causeway served road and, later, rail traffic continuously for 190 years until recently, when a new concrete road bridge was opened.
Photo – Yours Truly.
Today’s Playlist
| TRACK | RELEASE YEAR | PLAY TIME | PREVIOUS PLAYS | LAST PLAYED | ISRC |
| Ramona Bruins – Today Is Your Day | 2025 | 09:05 | 1 | 20/6/2025 | |
| Orleans – Still The One | 1976 | 09:10 | 2 | 1/8/2014 | |
| The Real Thing – You To Me Are Everything | 1976 | 09:14 | 2 | 6/12/2019 | |
| Christine Clifford – Annie’s Song | 2025 | 09:19 | 2 | 11/5/2025 | QZHNC 2552556 |
| Backtrack: Mike Wilkinson – Meant To Be | 2022 | 09:22 | 6 | 5/6/2020 | |
| Cary Lewincamp – Salamanca Saturdays | 09:26 | 0 | |||
| Acker Bilk & Leon Young String Chorale – Deep Purple | 09:31 | 1 | 13/3/2020 | ||
| Allan Caswell – Won’t Get The ’80s Back | 2025 | 09:35 | 0 | AUZY4 2400029 | |
| Jason Cole – Mr Lonesome | 2025 | 09:40 | 1 | 30/5/2025 | |
| Kylie Adams-Collier – The Highland Life | 2025 | 09:44 | 1 | 11/4/2025 | AUHYD 2500051 |
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Herman’s Hermits – Wonderful World | 1965 | 09:49 | 6 | 4/6/2017 | |
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Billy Thorpe & Aztecs – Funny Face | 1965 | 09:51 | 3 | 4/5/2025 | |
| Scaffold – Lily The Pink | 1968 | 09:54 | 9 | 22/5/2020 | |
| Lindsay Waddington – Solid Ground | 2025 | 10:05 | 1 | 30/5/2025 | |
| Fleetwood Mac – Monday Morning | 1975 | 10:09 | 1 | 30/8/2024 | |
| Peter Allen – She Loves To Hear The Music | 1976 | 10:13 | 6 | 21/4/2023 | |
| Judith Durham – It’s Hard To Leave | 1997 | 10:17 | 8 | 17/6/2022 | |
| Old Time Concert Hall: Paul Weston Orchestra & Chorus – On A Sunday Afternoon | 10:22 | 0 | |||
| Backtrack: Victoria & Ginger – Perfect | 2017 | 10:24 | 5 | 28/1/2018 | |
| Australian National Concert Orchestra – When I Need You | 10:31 | 1 | 4/8/2013 | ||
| Anne Biddie – Missing You | 2025 | 10:33 | 1 | 30/5/2025 | |
| Apollo 100 – Telstar | 1972 | 10:40 | 13 | 24/9/2023 | |
| The Barker Band – The Only Thing They Remember | 2025 | 10:45 | 0 | UKXN2 2556644 | |
| Tomas Jackman – Karma Chameleon | 2025 | 10:48 | 0 | ||
| Jeff Brown – Pretty Bush Sheila | 2019 | 10:52 | 3 | 19/1/2025 | |
| Caoimhe Murney – Scania 164 | 2025 | 10:55 | 1 | 13/6/2025 | |
| Gary Mangan – The Leaving of Liverpool | 2025 | 11:05 | 3 | 6/6/2025 | |
| Jessica Loobey – Back To Her Roots | 2025 | 11:10 | 1 | 11/4/2025 | QZWKY 2500057 |
| Glenn Jones – The Portrait’s Plain | 2025 | 11:13 | 1 | 30/4/2025 | |
| Slim Dusty & Travelling Country Band – Smiles | 11:17 | 1 | 14/9/2014 | ||
| Faron Young – Hello Walls | 1961 | 11:24 | 6 | 25/2/2024 | |
| Roy Orbison – Running Scared | 1961 | 11:27 | 6 | 21/4/2024 | |
| Mike Vickers & His Orchestra – In The Summertime | 11:32 | 0 | |||
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Bachelors – Marie | 1965 | 11:35 | 10 | 17/9/2021 | |
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Vic Damone – Please Help Me I’m Falling | 1965 | 11:37 | 2 | 12/6/2016 | |
| Rosalind Clare – Garden of my Memories | 2025 | 11:42 | 1 | 8/6/2025 | |
| Eddie Rabbitt – I Love A Rainy Night | 1981 | 11:46 | 8 | 7/5/2023 | |
| Anne Kirkpatrick – Sailing | 11:50 | 0 | |||
| Bobby Darin – More | 1964 | 11:54 | 1 | 8/6/2025 |
15 June 2025
Valley Sunrise Edition 838
0600 ~ 0900 AEST
In this edition, six chart-busters from the Top 40 charts of this week in 1974, recent tracks from indie artists, and other easy-listening music, most of which you won’t hear on mainstream radio.
Today’s photo – Cruising in the Derwent Valley.
Photo: Yours Truly.
Today’s Playlist:
| TRACK | RELEASE YEAR | TIME | PREVIOUS PLAYS | LAST PLAYED | ISRC |
| Chris Callaghan – Twenty Hours | 2025 | 06:05 | 3 | 16/5/2025 | AUZY4 2000059 |
| Charting this day 1974 Sue Thompson – Candy and Roses | 1974 | 06:12 | 3 | 30/3/2018 | |
| Charting this day 1974 Johnny Chester – She’s My Kind Of Woman | 1974 | 06:14 | 10 | 29/9/2024 | |
| Shaun Connery – You Angel You | 2025 | 06:19 | 1 | 9/3/2025 | |
| Johnny Burnette – Dreamin’ | 1960 | 06:22 | 9 | 2/2/2025 | |
| Lori Hardman & Don Wilhelm – They Don’t Write Stories Like This Anymore | 2025 | 06:24 | 0 | ||
| Joe Reisman & His Orchestra – Dancing In The Dark | 06:32 | 0 | |||
| Carol Chaney – Everything’s A Waltz | 2025 | 06:35 | 3 | 9/5/2025 | |
| Daniel O’Donnell – Don’t Forget To Remember | 06:38 | 1 | 26/3/2021 | ||
| By Request Today: Cilla Black – Anyone Who Had A Heart | 1964 | 06:42 | 5 | 23/2/2024 | |
| Howie Bros – We Love This Sunburnt Country | 2025 | 06:46 | 3 | 28/3/2025 | |
| Anne Fraser – Beneath Australian Stars | 2024 | 06:50 | 4 | 19/4/2024 | |
| Axiom – Arkansas Grass | 1969 | 06:53 | 5 | 18/2/2022 | |
| By Request Today: Shavonne Aliphon – Someday You’ll Want Me | 06:57 | 0 | |||
| Klaasje Menzen – We Hold Our Head Up High | 2025 | 07:06 | 3 | 9/5/2025 | |
| Charting this day 1974 Paper Lace – Billy Don’t Be a Hero | 1974 | 07:11 | 2 | 24/8/2018 | |
| Charting this day 1974 Barbra Streisand – The Way We Were | 1974 | 07:15 | 6 | 8/12/2024 | |
| Mack Country with Anthony Snape – Storytellers | 2025 | 07:21 | 0 | AUL9L 2400007 | |
| Rebecca Richards – The House | 2025 | 07:24 | 0 | ||
| Beatles – I’ll Follow The Sun | 1965 | 07:29 | 0 | ||
| Johnny Gibbs Orchestra – The Continental | 07:32 | 4 | 20/11/2022 | ||
| Anita Bryant – Little Things Mean A Lot | 1964 | 07:37 | 0 | ||
| Lettermen – You’ll Never Walk Alone | 1964 | 07:40 | 0 | ||
| Taylor Brothers – Please Let Me Wonder | 2025 | 07:45 | 0 | ||
| Sandie Shaw – Monsieur Dupont | 1968 | 07:49 | 5 | 27/9/2024 | |
| Jack Jones – Wives And Lovers | 07:52 | 1 | 6/6/2025 | ||
| Michael Russ – Trumpet Moments | 07:55 | 1 | 13/6/2025 | ||
| Kaye Payne – Sunshine Lollipops And Rainbows | 07:58 | 3 | 10/7/2020 | ||
| Gary Anderson – That’s What I Love About Us | 2025 | 08:06 | 1 | 23/3/2025 | QZFZ4 2575910 |
| Charting this day 1974 Blue Swede – Hooked On A Feeling | 1974 | 08:12 | 2 | 24/1/2020 | |
| Charting this day 1974 Terry Jacks – Seasons In The Sun | 1974 | 08:14 | 7 | 15/7/2022 | |
| By Request Today: ABBA – Waterloo | 1974 | 08:20 | 15 | 5/5/2024 | |
| Noelene Batley – Barefoot Boy | 1960 | 08:26 | 3 | 15/10/2021 | |
| Nat King Cole – Too Young To Go Steady | 08:28 | 0 | |||
| 101 Strings – Penny Lane | 08:35 | 2 | 19/5/2024 | ||
| Ken Barrie -You’ll Never Know | 08:38 | 0 | |||
| Robert Goulet – I Remember You | 08:41 | 2 | 24/12/2023 | ||
| Peter Stefanson – Feels So Right | 2025 | 08:45 | 1 | 13/6/2025 | USJ3V 2439569 |
| Elvis Presley – It’s Now Or Never | 1960 | 08:50 | 17 | 10/11/2024 | |
| Crash Craddock – Boom Boom Baby | 1960 | 08:53 | 4 | 16/6/2024 |
13 June 2025
FRIDAY MORNING RADIO, Edition 473, 9.00 ~ Midday AEST
Easy listening, memories and new releases not heard on mainstream radio throughout the morning, on the Derwent Valley’s own radio station.
Today’s photo – St Mathew’s Close, adjacent to St Mathew’s Anglican Church, New Norfolk. The first section was constructed next to the pre-existing church in 1866, for use as a Sunday School.
After the building was enlarged in 1890, it was also used as a hall.
In the late 1960s, it came to be used as a small museum, as well as an art and craft shop. Profits from it’s operation aid ongoing preservation of St Mathew’s Church which, dating to 1823, is one of the oldest existing churches in Tasmania.
Photo – Yours Truly.
Today’s Playlist
| TRACK | RELEASE YEAR | PLAY TIME | PREVIOUS PLAYS | LAST PLAYED | ISRC |
| Elisabeth Hope – Feelin’ Single, Seein’ Double | 2025 | 09:05 | 0 | ||
| Fleetwood Mac – Hold Me | 1982 | 09:10 | 1 | 10/1/2014 | |
| Air Supply – Every Woman In The World | 1980 | 09:14 | 8 | 15/9/2023 | |
| Garry Carson Jones – Walk On By | 2025 | 09:18 | 4 | 25/5/2025 | AUGGJ 1600055 |
| Backtrack: Debbie Parry – South Of The Border | 2014 | 09:22 | 6 | 16/2/2020 | |
| Carmen McRae – They All Laughed | 1955 | 09:25 | 1 | 13/9/2013 | |
| James Last & His Orchestra – Medley; Red Roses For A Blue Lady~Bye Bye Blackbird~Farewell Home | 09:30 | 0 | |||
| Acoustic Bloom – I See Your Mother In Your Eyes | 2025 | 09:33 | 0 | ||
| George & Lorrie Morgan – From This Moment On | 09:37 | 0 | |||
| Engelbert Humperdinck – Eternally | 09:41 | 0 | |||
| By Request: Glen Flynn – Until You Have Walked In My shoes | 2025 | 09:46 | 0 | ||
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Sandie Shaw – Long Live Love | 1965 | 09:51 | 11 | 9/2/2024 | |
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Byrds – Mr Tambourine Man | 1965 | 09:54 | 10 | 12/8/2022 | |
| Beatles – Girl | 09:57 | 2 | 22/7/2022 | ||
| Studeo – Pounding Pavements | 2025 | 10:05 | 3 | 25/5/2025 | |
| Caoimhe Murney – Scania 164 | 2025 | 10:11 | 0 | ||
| Ron Callaghan – Verandah | 2025 | 10:14 | 0 | AU3PV 2400004 | |
| Steve Wariner – Life’s Highway | 2025 | 10:19 | 0 | ||
| Michael Russ – Trumpet Moments | 2025 | 10:23 | 0 | ||
| Old Time Concert Hall: Paul Weston & His Orchestra – Redwing | 10:27 | 5 | 29/3/2020 | ||
| Backtrack: Rod Williams – Sunny Southern Sue | 2020 | 10:29 | 2 | 19/2/2021 | |
| Peter Hope & His Orchestra – Yesterday Once More | 10:34 | 0 | |||
| Rae Leigh – Country Pride | 2025 | 10:37 | 2 | 16/5/2025 | |
| Alan Copeland & Beverley Kelly – Swinging On A Star | 10:42 | 3 | 8/6/2025 | ||
| Creedence Clearwater Revival – Lodi | 1969 | 10:47 | 0 | ||
| Bay City Rollers – I Only Want To Be With You | 1976 | 10:50 | 5 | 22/11/2024 | |
| River Rose – Always Be There | 2025 | 10:56 | 0 | ||
| Theresa Rhodes – Fallen | 2025 | 11:05 | 0 | ||
| Peter Stefanson – Feels So Right | 2025 | 11:10 | 0 | USJ3V 2439569 | |
| Dawn Rix – Bent Not Broken | 2025 | 11:14 | 0 | ||
| Foster & Allen – I Love You Because | 11:21 | 1 | 4/9/2016 | ||
| Backtrack: Peggie Nora – Time Heals All | 2019 | 11:23 | 4 | 17/9/2019 | |
| Ben Walker – I Won’t Let Go | 2025 | 11:27 | 0 | ||
| Gordon Langford & His Orchestra – Yellow River | 11:32 | 2 | 27/11/2022 | ||
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Elvis Presley – Crying In The Chapel | 1965 | 11:37 | 18 | 28/6/2020 | |
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Billy Thorpe & Aztecs – I Told The Brook | 1965 | 11:40 | 3 | 16/8/2015 | |
| Anne Kirkpatrick – Women of the West | 2006 | 11:44 | 1 | 19/7/2019 | |
| Alan Gilmour – The Longest Country Mile | 2025 | 11:48 | 0 | ||
| Jerry Bogan – The Way She Flew | 2025 | 11:52 | 0 |
8 June 2025
Valley Sunrise Edition 837
0600 ~ 0900 AEST
In this edition, six chart-busters from the Top 40 charts of this week in 1972, recent tracks from indie artists, and other easy-listening music, most of which you won’t hear on mainstream radio.
Today’s photo – Sunrise, last Friday (June 6).
Photo: Yours Truly.
Today’s Playlist:
| TRACK | RELEASE YEAR | TIME | PREVIOUS PLAYS | LAST PLAYED | ISRC |
| Black Sorrows – Harley And Rose | 1990 | 06:06 | 4 | 5/5/2023 | |
| Charting this day 1972 America – A Horse With No Name | 1972 | 06:12 | 7 | 8/11/2024 | |
| Charting this day 1972 Tom Jones – The Young New Mexican Puppeteer | 1972 | 06:17 | 3 | 17/5/2019 | |
| Foster & Allen – I Love You More And More Everyday | 06:22 | 0 | |||
| Jade Hurley – Bed Of Roses | 06:25 | 7 | 15/12/2023 | ||
| Bill Goodall – Come September | 2022 | 06:28 | 1 | 5/12/2023 | |
| Charles Gerhardt & His Orchestra – Love Changes Everything | 06:33 | 2 | 21/1/2024 | ||
| By Request Today: Anne Murray – You Needed Me | 06:38 | 4 | 16/11/2018 | ||
| Peter Stefanson – In Our Childhood Days | 2025 | 06:42 | 2 | 9/5/2025 | |
| Rick Gay – This Precious World | 2025 | 06:46 | 2 | 30/5/2025 | |
| By Request Today: Ray Malcolm – Is There Something On Your Mind | 2025 | 06:52 | 4 | 15/9/2024 | |
| Alan Copeland & Beverley Kelly – Swinging On A Star | 06:56 | 2 | 20/10/2023 | ||
| David Maguire – Galway to Nashville | 2025 | 07:05 | 1 | 4/5/2025 | IETZB 2500002 |
| Charting this day 1972 Isaac Hayes – Shaft | 1972 | 07:10 | 2 | 10/8/2018 | |
| Charting this day 1972 Faron Young – It’s Four In The Morning | 1972 | 07:15 | 16 | 8/7/2022 | |
| Abby Grace – Feel the Beat | 2025 | 07:20 | 1 | 23/3/2025 | CADXG 2025083 |
| Ian Pearce with Bob Barnard [Cornet] – Miss Annabelle Lee | 07:23 | 0 | |||
| By Request Today: Beatles – Yesterday | 1965 | 07:26 | 14 | 2/3/2025 | |
| Roger Miller – The Green Green Grass of Home | 07:29 | 3 | 8/3/2015 | ||
| Gordon Langford & His Orchestra – Can You Feel The Love Tonight | 07:34 | 1 | 14/1/2014 | ||
| Kathy Carver – Yellow Moon On The Swan | 2019 | 07:38 | 2 | 11/5/2025 | |
| Johnny Mathis – Misty | 1965 | 07:42 | 3 | 12/3/2021 | |
| Backtrack: Warren Kearney – Beer And Country Music | 07:47 | 1 | 25/2/2022 | ||
| Inge Augustina – Somethin’ Stupid | 2025 | 07:54 | 4 | 12/5/2024 | |
| Anne Murray – Please Smile | 07:58 | 1 | 30/5/2025 | ||
| Al Martino – What Now My Love | 1977 | 08:05 | 5 | 10/3/2023 | |
| Charting this day 1972 Royal Scots Dragoon Guards – Amazing Grace | 1972 | 08:10 | 5 | 15/11/2024 | |
| Charting this day 1972 Roberta Flack – The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face | 1972 | 08:14 | 3 | 9/10/2022 | |
| Bobby Darin – More | 1964 | 08:21 | 0 | ||
| Olympic Standard Orchestra – Meet Me In St. Louis, Louis | 08:23 | 0 | |||
| Buddy Greco – Something’s Gotta Give | 1960 | 08:28 | 0 | ||
| Roger Williams, His Piano & Orchestra – What A Wonderful World | 08:34 | 0 | |||
| Anna McRose – Leave A Light On | 2021 | 08:37 | 4 | 7/11/2021 | |
| Slim Dusty & His Bushlanders – Medley~Goodbye Melbourne Town~Botany Bay~Rover No More | 08:41 | 1 | 27/3/2020 | ||
| Bill & Boyd – Put Another Log On The Fire | 1975 | 08:41 | 1 | 29/6/2012 | |
| Rosalind Clare – Garden Of My Memories | 08:44 | 0 | |||
| Kaoma – Lambada | 1989 | 08:52 | 0 | ||
| Jim Reeves – Margie | 08:56 | 3 | 18/4/2025 |
6 June 2025
FRIDAY MORNING RADIO, Edition 472, 9.00 ~ Midday AEST
Easy listening, memories and new releases through the morning, on the Derwent Valley’s own radio station.
Today’s photo – The lift-span bridge crossing the Derwent between Granton and Bridgewater has been an important part of Tasmania’s transport infrastructure since World War 2, providing the main road and railway link between Hobart and the north.
As of last Monday, it was decommissioned, in favour of a newly completed road-only bridge, just downstream.
Photo – Taken Thursday 5 June by Yours Truly.
Today’s Playlist
| TRACK | RELEASE YEAR | PLAY TIME | PREVIOUS PLAYS | LAST PLAYED | ISRC |
| Jeff Orson – Missing You Soon | 2025 | 09:05 | 6 | 30/5/2025 | QT3TB 2425080 |
| Highway 95 – She Believes | 2025 | 09:12 | 4 | 25/5/2025 | AUL0G 2400013 |
| James Lynas – Love Sunrise | 2025 | 09:14 | 4 | 16/5/2025 | |
| Andy Williams – Fire And Rain | 1971 | 09:19 | 0 | ||
| Backtrack: Kerrigan La-Brooy – Glorious Day | 2021 | 09:23 | 0 | ||
| Burl Ives – Shanghied | 1962 | 09:29 | 0 | ||
| 101 Strings Orchestra – Piano Sonata No 8 | 09:33 | 0 | |||
| Larissa Tormey – Coming Back To Life | 2025 | 09:36 | 2 | 11/5/2025 | IEJHJ 2500002 |
| Billy Joel – Uptown Girl | 1983 | 09:41 | 6 | 7/10/2022 | |
| Blue Echoes – Sherry | 1979 | 09:44 | 2 | 6/9/2020 | |
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Hermans Hermits – Dream On | 1965 | 09:48 | 3 | 21/7/2024 | |
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Seekers – Open Up Them Pearly Gates | 1965 | 09:50 | 1 | 8/7/2018 | |
| By Request: Glen Flynn – The Joker And The Queen | 2025 | 09:54 | 3 | 1/6/2025 | |
| J R Williams – Australia | 2025 | 10:05 | 3 | 25/5/2025 | QM6MZ 2524694 |
| Watling & Bates – Fires Within | 2025 | 10:11 | 0 | AHNE 2500001 | |
| Isla Grant – I Don’t Know Why | 10:14 | 1 | 30/9/2018 | ||
| Jens Dammann – So ein Dingsda | 2025 | 10:19 | 0 | ||
| Old Time Concert Hall: Joe Fingers Carr – The Daughter of Rosie O’Grady | 10:24 | 5 | 26/2/2021 | ||
| Backtrack: Mike Wilkinson – My Best Friend | 2018 | 10:26 | 5 | 25/1/2019 | |
| Ray Conniff & His Orchestra – Someone To Watch Over Me | 10:32 | 0 | |||
| Tim Lane – Are You OK | 2025 | 10:35 | 1 | 11/5/2025 | QZES7 2501254 |
| Al Hirt – Stardust | 1959 | 10:42 | 2 | 5/9/2021 | |
| Sofia Gale – Playing The Game | 2025 | 10:45 | 0 | ||
| Gary Mangan – The Leaving of Liverpool | 2025 | 10:49 | 2 | 1/6/2025 | |
| Lloyd Back – Try A Little Kindness | 2024 | 10:53 | 5 | 5/7/2024 | |
| Ray Kernaghan – The Wreck Of The Old 97 | 10:57 | ||||
| Graeme Clarke – Baby With No Name | 2025 | 11:05 | 2 | 1/6/2025 | |
| Louis Armstrong – Hello Dolly | 1964 | 11:10 | 11 | 21/6/2024 | |
| Jack Jones – Wives And Lovers | 11:12 | 0 | |||
| Phil Blundell – Don’t Look Back | 2025 | 11:15 | 0 | ||
| Backtrack: Allan Sinclair – Please Come In | 2016 | 11:19 | 1 | 21/2/2020 | |
| Allison Durbin – It’s All In The Game | 11:26 | 0 | |||
| Joe Reisman & His Orchestra – Wichita Lineman | 11:33 | 3 | 2/5/2021 | ||
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Beatles – Yes It Is | 1965 | 11:37 | 0 | ||
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Jody Miller – Queen Of The House | 1965 | 11:40 | 7 | 9/7/2023 | |
| Christa Fartek – Deep In My Heart | 2025 | 11:44 | 3 | 25/5/2025 | |
| Richard Porteous – Sometimes | 2025 | 11:47 | 2 | 30/3/2025 | QZDA8 2501574 |
| Rosalind Clare & Glenn Flynn – Heaven Only Knows | 2025 | 11:52 | 4 | 25/5/2025 | IENYT2 500010 |
1 June 2025
Valley Sunrise Edition 836
0600 ~ 0900 AEST
In this edition, six chart-busters from the Top 40 charts of this week in 1970, recent tracks from indie artists, and other easy-listening music which you won’t hear on mainstream radio.
Today’s photo – Old Beach and Gunners Quoin, north of Hobart.
Photo: Yours Truly.
Today’s Playlist:
| TRACK | RELEASE YEAR | TIME | PREVIOUS PLAYS | LAST PLAYED | ISRC |
| Dianne Coombes – Getting On With Getting Over You | 2025 | 06:06 | 4 | 30/5/2025 | |
| Charting this day 1970 Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan – Tennessee Birdwalk | 1970 | 06:12 | 7 | 23/5/2025 | |
| Charting this day 1970 George Baker Selection – Little Green Bag | 1970 | 06:14 | 10 | 21/5/2023 | |
| Alice Benfer – Saltbush Sally | 2025 | 06:20 | 1 | 23/5/2025 | AUHIB 2300007 |
| Peter Reeves – Old Hat | 2025 | 06:23 | 0 | ||
| Peggy Gilchrist – Southern Sky | 2025 | 06:28 | 1 | 23/5/2025 | |
| Ray Conniff & His Orchestra – Moonlight Serenade | 06:33 | 0 | |||
| By Request Today: Michael Crawford – Love Changes Everything | 06:36 | 5 | 25/5/2025 | ||
| Roland Shaw & His Orchestra & Rosemary Squires (Voc) – Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue | 06:40 | 1 | 19/8/2022 | ||
| Charles Aznavour – She | 1974 | 06:43 | 3 | 30/10/2020 | |
| Brendan O’Dowda – Abdul Abulbul Ameer | 06:47 | 0 | |||
| Al Hibbler – Count Every Star | 1956 | 06:53 | 0 | ||
| Backtrack: Jodi Vaughan – Aussie Proud | 2021 | 06:56 | 10 | 12/1/2024 | |
| Kathy Carver – Eyre Highway Track | 2025 | 07:05 | 1 | 23/5/2025 | |
| By Request Today: Beatles – Fool On The Hill | 1967 | 07:10 | 6 | 13/10/2024 | |
| Charting this day 1970 Hans Poulsen – Boom Sha La La Lo | 1970 | 07:15 | 7 | 7/3/2025 | |
| Charting this day 1970 Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge Over Troubled Water | 1970 | 07:18 | 12 | 17/5/2024 | |
| Garry Carson Jones – Forbidden Fruit | 2025 | 07:24 | 1 | 23/5/2025 | |
| Anne Fraser – Too Drunk To Drive | 2025 | 07:28 | 1 | 16/5/2025 | |
| James Last & Orchestra – Copacabana | 07:33 | 0 | |||
| Charlie Landsborough – I Know What It Is To Be Loved | 07:37 | 0 | |||
| Daniel & Margo O’Donnell – Five Thousand Miles From Sligo | 07:42 | 0 | |||
| Backtrack: John Lecner – She Still Thinks I Care | 2019 | 07:47 | 4 | 1/5/2020 | |
| By Request Today: Four Tops – It’s The Same Old Song | 1965 | 07:54 | 1 | 30/9/2022 | |
| Dreamers – Three Little Words | 07:57 | 1 | 8/9/2024 | ||
| Graeme Clarke – Baby With No Name (Remix) | 2025 | 08:05 | 7 | 25/5/2025 | |
| Charting this day 1970 Liv Maessen – Knock Knock Who’s There | 1970 | 08:10 | 7 | 15/1/2021 | |
| Charting this day 1970 Heintje – I’m Your Little Boy | 1970 | 08:13 | 6 | 15/11/2024 | |
| Engelbert Humperdinck – I Want To Wake Up With You | 08:18 | 1 | 27/2/2022 | ||
| Anne Murray – Beginning To Feel Like Home | 08:22 | 0 | |||
| Andy Williams – Love Letters | 08:26 | 0 | |||
| 101 Strings Orchestra – The Way We Were | 08:32 | 3 | 14/11/2023 | ||
| Col Joye – The Most Beautiful Girl In The World | 1974 | 08:35 | 2 | 28/2/2014 | |
| Taylor Brothers – The Moonlight My Shadow And Me | 2021 | 08:38 | 3 | 17/9/2021 | |
| Sisters In Country – That’s What We Do | 2023 | 08:41 | 3 | 26/5/2023 | |
| Glen Flynn – The Joker And The Clown | 2023 | 08:46 | 3 | 17/3/2023 | |
| Gary Mangan – The Leaving of Liverpool | 2025 | 08:50 | 1 | 16/5/2025 | |
| Kings Singers – Linstead Market | 08:54 | 1 | 27/9/2024 |
30 May 2025
FRIDAY MORNING RADIO, Edition 471, 9.00 ~ Midday AEST
Easy listening, memories and new releases through the morning, on the Derwent Valley’s own radio station.
Today’s photo – A full rainbow in the Derwent Valley, north-west of New Norfolk. Taken last Monday (26 May 2025) by Listener Janine.
Today’s Playlist
| TRACK | RELEASE YEAR | PLAY TIME | PREVIOUS PLAYS | LAST PLAYED | ISRC |
| Jeff Orson – Missing You Soon | 2025 | 09:05 | 5 | 27/4/2025 | QT3TB 2425080 |
| Ray Malcolm – Moon Over Memphis | 2025 | 09:11 | 3 | 16/5/2025 | |
| Dianne Coombes – Getting On With Getting Over You | 2025 | 09:14 | 3 | 25/5/2025 | AUCJD 2300025 |
| Glenn Jones – The Portrait’s Plain | 2025 | 09:19 | 0 | ||
| Backtrack: Carylann – No Goodbyes | 2022 | 09:21 | 13 | 16/5/2025 | |
| By Request: Emile Ford – What Do You Want To Make Those Eyes At Me For | 1960 | 09:25 | 8 | 11/4/2025 | |
| Anne Murray – Please Smile | 09:30 | 0 | |||
| Lawrence Welk & His Orchestra – The Anniversary Waltz | 09:33 | 0 | |||
| Sandpipers – Misty Roses | 09:35 | 1 | 24/1/2016 | ||
| BORN 1909 Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. – Benjamin David Goodman BKA Benny Goodman, jazz and swing musician, clarinetist, leader of one of the most popular musical bands of the 1930s; widely known as the “King of Swing”. Died 1986. | |||||
| Benny Goodman & His Orchestra – I’ll Never Fall In Love Again | 09:41 | 2 | 5/5/2023 | ||
| BORN 1908 San Francisco, California, U.S.A. – Melvin Jerome Blank alias Mel Blanc, voice actor and comedian best remembered for the voice of characters such as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Sylvester the Cat, Tweety Bird, Foghorn Leghorn, Woody Woodpecker, Barney Rubble and more. Died 1989. | |||||
| Mel Blanc – I Taut I Taw A Puddy Tat | 1951 | 09:45 | 7 | 5/7/2024 | |
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Kinks – Tired Of Waiting For You | 1965 | 09:49 | 3 | 26/4/2015 | |
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Beach Boys – Help Me Rhonda | 1965 | 09:52 | 10 | 3/9/2023 | |
| Ray Brown & Whispers – Twenty Miles | 1965 | 09:57 | 10 | 16/3/2025 | |
| Lindsay Waddington – Solid Ground | 2025 | 10:05 | 0 | ||
| Erin Noone – Dance The Night Away | 2025 | 10:09 | 1 | 18/5/2025 | TCAJM 2528822 |
| Richard Porteous – We Were There For Slim | 2025 | 10:12 | 0 | ||
| Slim Dusty – Song Of The West | 10:16 | 0 | |||
| Old Time Concert Hall: Paul Weston Orchestra & Chorus – Maggie | 10:20 | 0 | |||
| Backtrack: Warren Kearney – The River | 2020 | 10:26 | 1 | 1/11/2020 | |
| Richard Clayderman – Beyond the Sea | 10:31 | 0 | |||
| Susan Boyle – Return | 10:34 | 0 | |||
| DIED 2000 Costa Mesa, California, U.S.A. – Tex Benecke, saxophonist, singer, and bandleader and associate of bandleader Glenn Miller. He soloed on the Glenn Miller orchestra recording of In The Mood and sings on another popular Glenn Miller recording, Chattanooga Choo Choo. Aged 86. | |||||
| Glen Miller & Marion Hutton, Tex Benecke & Modernaires – Juke Box Saturday Night | 1942 | 10:38 | 0 | ||
| Toni West – No Time To Cry | 2025 | 10:43 | 2 | 18/5/2025 | |
| Perry Como – Caterina | 1962 | 10:47 | 6 | 12/5/2024 | |
| Nicki French – Pride And Passion | 10:50 | 2 | 11/9/2015 | ||
| Marmalade – Ob La Di Ob La Da | 1969 | 10:55 | 5 | 19/4/2024 | |
| New Zealand Maori Chorale – Tahi Nei Taru Kino | 10:59 | 4 | 20/3/2020 | ||
| Jonny Boston – Silver Moon | 2025 | 11:05 | 1 | 11/5/2025 | |
| Ann-Kristin Dørdal – Willow Dream | 2025 | 11:12 | 0 | ||
| Rick Gay – This Precious World | 2025 | 11:15 | 1 | 2/5/2025 | |
| Rob E G – 5 – 4 – 3 – 2 – 1 – Zero | 1962 | 11:20 | 7 | 22/10/2017 | |
| Jason Cole – Mr Lonesome | 2025 | 11:26 | 0 | ||
| Paul Mauriat & His Orchestra – San Francisco | 11:33 | 2 | 24/1/2020 | ||
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Merv Benton – Cincinnati Fireball | 1965 | 11:36 | 3 | 23/7/2021 | |
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Frank Sinatra – Pass Me By | 1965 | 11:39 | 6 | 21/1/2024 | |
| Backtrack: Lawson Vallery – Border Dog | 2021 | 11:44 | 6 | 10/12/2021 | |
| Ray Kernaghan – Heartaches By The Number | 11:47 | 3 | 17/1/2020 | ||
| Paul Ricketts – Barefoot On The Dirt | 2025 | 11:51 | 0 | AUZY4 2400032 | |
| Anne Biddie – Missing You | 2025 | 11:54 | 0 | ||
30 MAY IN HISTORY:
EVENTS ON THIS DAY
1940 England – The first evacuated British troops arrived from Dunkirk, France.
1948 Near Portland, Oregon, U.S.A. – A 61 metre section of a dam on the Columbia River collapsed, inundating and destroying Vanport City, a public housing precinct. Fifteen lives were lost and tens of thousands were left homeless. It is currently the site of Delta Park, a sports and recreational area and the Portland International Raceway.
1959 Auckland, New Zealand – The Auckland Harbour Bridge crossing Waitemata Harbour, was officially opened by the-then Governor General of New Zealand, Lord Cobham. It is 1,020 metres in length, 43 metres above high tide, and had an overhead clearance of 4.8 metres.
1966 Surveyor 1, the first U.S. spacecraft to achieve a soft landing on an extraterrestrial body, was launched. It landed in the Mare Procellarum, or Ocean of Storms region of the Moon and transmitted 11,237 photographs to Earth.
1971 Cape Kennedy, Florida, U.S.A. – The space probe Mariner 9 was launched to map 70% of the surface of the planet Mars. It arrived on November 14th of the same year, and became the first Earthly spacecraft to orbit another planet. Mariner 9 remained in orbit after it’s mission ended in October 1972, and it is believed to have entered the Martian atmosphere and crashed onto the surface around 2020.
BORN
1928 Broken Hill, New South Wales – Kevin Charles Hart alias Pro Hart, artist whose works are admired for capturing the spirit of the outback. He received the nickname “Professor” (hence “Pro”) in his younger days, when he was known as an inventor. Died 2006.
1936 Bristol, England – Peter Ellis, director and actor of stage and television best known for his role as Chief Superintendent Brownlow in the long-running police drama The Bill. Turns 89.
DIED
1953 Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. – Dooley Wilson, American singer who sang the tune As Time Goes By in the movie Casablanca . Aged 67.
2003 London, England – Michael Peter Hayes, alias Mickie Most, singer and record producer for numerous English artists such as Herman’s Hermits, the Animals, Nashville Teens, Donovan, Lulu, and the Jeff Beck Group. Aged 64.