FRIDAY MORNING RADIO with Ray Hewitt 9 a.m. ~ Midday
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TYGA-FM 98.9
Streaming at: www.tygafm.org.au
Derwent Valley Community Radio
New Norfolk, Tasmania
11 May 2025
Valley Sunrise Edition 833
0600 ~ 0900 AEDT
In this Mothers’ Day edition, selections from the Top 40 charts of this week in 1973; easy listening from indie artists; and easy-listening requests.
Today’s photo – Sunrise over the Derwent Valley, taken 9 May 2025.
Photo: Yours Truly
Today’s Playlist:
| TRACK | RELEASE YEAR | TIME | PREVIOUS PLAYS | LAST PLAYED | ISRC |
| Barry Owen – Over and Done | 2025 | 06:06 | 0 | TCAJL 2538548 | |
| Charting this day 1975 Gene Pitney – Blue Angel | 1975 | 06:12 | 9 | 11/10/2024 | |
| Charting this day 1975 Three Degrees – When Will I See You Again | 1975 | 06:16 | 6 | 6/10/2023 | |
| By Request Today: P J Proby – Somewhere | 1965 | 06:19 | 18 | 23/3/2025 | |
| The Howie Bros – Home I’ll Be | 2025 | 06:23 | 1 | 27/4/2025 | |
| Sherrie Shines – I Still Miss Someone | 2005 | 06:28 | 0 | ||
| Brian May & ABC Melbourne Showband – Begin The Beguine | 06:33 | 3 | 10/12/2021 | ||
| Christine Clifford – Annie’s Song | 2025 | 06:37 | 1 | 13/4/2025 | QZHNC 2552556 |
| Backtrack: Gary Ellis – A Love That Should Have Been | 2021 | 06:40 | 4 | 25/2/2022 | |
| Tommy Vlaeminck – Bridge of Hope | 2025 | 06:45 | 2 | 9/5/2025 | |
| Jerry Reed – King Of The Road | 06:51 | 0 | |||
| By Request Today: Shavonne Aliphon – Always | 2025 | 06:53 | 5 | 9/3/2025 | |
| Rosalind Clare & Glen Flynn – Heaven Only Knows | 06:56 | 1 | 27/4/2025 | ||
| Ray Malcolm – Moon Over Memphis | 07:06 | 1 | 2/5/2025 | ||
| Charting this day 1975 Curly Rivers & Dusty Trail Ramblers – The Ferryboat Shuffle | 2025 | 07:12 | 4 | 5/1/2025 | |
| Charting this day 1975 Freddy Fender – Before The Next Teardrop Falls | 1973 | 07:15 | 11 | 4/5/2025 | |
| Graeme Clarke – Baby With No Name (Remix) | 1973 | 07:19 | 2 | 9/5/2025 | |
| Jonny Boston – Silver Moon | 1975 | 07:22 | 0 | ||
| Anthony Baxter – The Jumping Jackaroo | 2025 | 07:28 | 2 | 9/5/2025 | |
| Percy Faith & His Orchestra – Anyone Who Had A Heart | 2025 | 07:33 | 2 | 23/6/2023 | |
| Larissa Tormey – Coming Back To Life | 2025 | 07:38 | 1 | 27/4/2025 | IEJHJ 2500002 |
| Andy Martin – River In The Rain | 1965 | 07:41 | 1 | 2/5/2025 | |
| Backtrack: Ginny Peters – If It Wasn’t For The Mirror | 2025 | 07:47 | 1 | 26/8/2018 | |
| The Charlesys – I Can See The Dawn | 2025 | 07:50 | 2 | 7/2/2025 | |
| Pearce Pickering Ragtime Five – Should I | 1970 | 07:56 | 4 | 24/2/2023 | |
| Elvis Aaron Presley Jr – Goldmine | 2020 | 08:05 | 2 | 18/4/2025 | |
| Charting this day 1975 Pilot – January | 1975 | 08:10 | 7 | 18/6/2021 | |
| Charting this day 1975 Sherbet – Summer Love | 1975 | 08:14 | 4 | 27/9/2024 | |
| Tom Mullally – You Gave Me A Mountain | 2025 | 08:21 | 0 | ||
| By Request Today: Eddie Fisher – Ciindy Oh Cindy | 1957 | 08:25 | 6 | 9/4/2021 | |
| Ian Hughes & His Orchestra – Lambada | 08:34 | 2 | 28/7/2023 | ||
| Tim Lane – Are You OK | 2025 | 08:38 | 0 | QZES7 2501254 | |
| Backtrack: Jason Owen – Everybody’s Talking | 2020 | 08:44 | 3 | 20/11/2020 | |
| Kathy Carver – Yellow Moon On The Swan | 2025 | 08:49 | 1 | 25/4/2025 | |
| John McCarthy Men’s Chorus with Banjo Rhythm Kings and Orchestra – Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines | 08:52 | 1 | 5/2/2016 | ||
| Seekers – Love Is Me Love Is You | 1988 | 08:55 | 2 | 4/8/2024 |
11 MAY IN HISTORY:
EVENTS
1964 Hobart, Tasmania – A young carpenter from Moonah, and his 15 year old girlfriend escaped through a window of their car, after it plunged off Princes Wharf and sank.
1969 Hobart, Tasmania – The Liberal Party won office in Tasmania for the first time in 35 years. There was no Labor Government in office, State or Federally throughout Australia
BORN
1959 Arcadia, Michigan, U.S.A. – Harriet Quimby, early American aviatrix, movie screenwriter and the first woman to gain a pilot’s licence in the United States.
Quimby became the first woman to fly across the English Channel after taking off from Dover and landing near Calais, France. News of her accomplishment was overshadowed in the media by that of the sinking of the Titanic so she received little attention.
She died later the same year in Massachusetts, U.S.A., when she and a passenger fell from a plane at 1,000 feet altitude. The plane glided to the ground and made a soft landing in mud.
1888 Tyumen, Russian Empire – Irving Berlin, American composer and lyricist, one of the greatest songwriters in history, with over 1,500 songs to his credit. His first hit, Alexander’s Ragtime Band, became world famous in 1911 and sparked an international dance craze in places as far away as Russia (d. 1989)
1941 Walker, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England – Eric Burdon, founding member and lead vocalist of the rock band The Animals, and also the fink rock band War
1943 Liverpool, England – John Leslie Chadwick, bass guitarist from the 1960s pop group Gerry & the Pacemakers
1948 Hanover, Germany – Pam Ferris, television actress known for her roles as Ma Larkin in The Darling Buds of May, also as Aunt Marge in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. She had the role of Sister Evangelina in 36 episodes of the BBC drama series Call The Midwife.
9 May 2025
FRIDAY MORNING RADIO, Edition 468, 9.00 ~ Midday AEST
Easy listening, memories and new releases through the morning, on the Derwent Valley’s own radio station.
Today’s photo – Autumn reflections in the River Derwent near New Norfolk, taken Wednesday 7 May 2025 by Yours Truly.
Today’s Playlist
| TRACK | RELEASE YEAR | PLAY TIME | PREVIOUS PLAYS | LAST PLAYED | ISRC |
| Klaasje Menzen – We Hold Our Head Up High | 2025 | 09:05 | 2 | 11/4/2025 | |
| Mike Hughes – Bad News | 2025 | 09:10 | 0 | ||
| Charlie Landsborough – You Stand All Alone | 09:13 | 8 | 30/8/2024 | ||
| August Lane – Constantly Raining | 2025 | 09:18 | 2 | 4/5/2025 | QZWFN 2449588 |
| Backtrack: Charlie’s Attic – Nanna’s House | 2021 | 09:21 | 3 | 14/3/2021 | |
| Sandpipers – Rain Rain Go Away | 09:29 | 1 | 19/3/2014 | ||
| Ray Conniff & His Orchestra – Love Letters | 09:33 | 0 | |||
| Change of Key – Beyond That Smile | 2025 | 09:36 | 1 | 21/3/2025 | |
| By Request Today: Caoimhe Murney – Wrong Road Again | 2024 | 09:40 | 5 | 4/5/2025 | |
| Andrew Ryan – Like It’s Yesterday | 2025 | 09:44 | 1 | 6/4/2025 | AUG9Z 2200004 |
| Tommy Vlaeminck – Bridge of Hope | 2025 | 09:48 | 1 | 20/4/2025 | |
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Wayne Fontana & Mindbenders – Game Of Love | 1965 | 09:52 | 1 | 17/7/2015 | |
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 George Jones & Gene Pitney – I’ve Got Five Dollars And It’s Saturday Night | 1965 | 09:54 | 4 | 13/3/2016 | |
| Brenda Lee – Your Used To Be | 1963 | 09:57 | 8 | 17/3/2023 | |
| Nick Ingman Orchestra & Singers – Y M C A | 10:05 | 0 | |||
| Toni West – No Time To Cry | 2025 | 10:09 | 0 | UKBBL 2400002 | |
| John Denver – Claudette | 10:13 | 2 | 30/12/2022 | ||
| Old Time Concert Hall: Hank Levine Orchestra – And The Band Played On | 10:17 | 3 | 21/3/2021 | ||
| Scott Rathman Jnr – Angel on the Hill | 10:21 | 2 | 20/4/2025 | ||
| Backtrack: Dale Duncan – The ‘Slim Dusty’ Rose | 2015 | 10:25 | 3 | 20/4/2025 | |
| Richard Clayderman – The Music Box Dancer | 10:30 | 2 | 24/11/2023 | ||
| Carol Chaney – Everything’s A Waltz | 10:33 | 2 | 11/4/2025 | ||
| Highway 95 – Message From Above | 10:37 | 0 | AUL0G 2400014 | ||
| Horst Wende’s Accordeon Band – Die Fischerin Vom Bodensee | 10:43 | 10 | 5/11/2023 | ||
| Mahlissa – Boondockin’ | 2025 | 10:47 | 1 | 13/4/2025 | |
| Johnny Cash – Ring of Fire | 1963 | 10:49 | 14 | 14/7/2023 | |
| Anne Fraser – Coorong Sands | 10:52 | 3 | 6/10/2023 | ||
| Graeme Clarke – Baby With No Name (Remix) | 2025 | 11:05 | 1 | 27/4/2025 | |
| Tommy Roe – Dizzy | 1969 | 11:10 | 5 | 30/4/2021 | |
| The Charlesys – Will It Be You | 2025 | 11:13 | 1 | 15/9/2024 | CACWV 2459223 |
| Hank Snow – Nuevo Laredo | 11:18 | 0 | |||
| Johnny Chester & Blue Denim Country Band – Before The Next Teardrop Falls | 11:23 | 2 | 13/3/2022 | ||
| Anthony Baxter – The Jumping Jackaroo | 2025 | 11:25 | 1 | 25/4/2025 | |
| Gunter Noris Orchestra – Good Old Vienna | 11:33 | 0 | |||
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Hermans Hermits – Mrs Brown You’ve Got A Lovely Daughter | 1965 | 11:36 | 13 | 19/2/2023 | |
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Seekers – A World Of Our Own | 1965 | 11:39 | 19 | 28/4/2024 | |
| Peter Stefanson – In Our Childhood Days | 2025 | 11:43 | 1 | 27/4/2025 | |
| Backtrack: Colin Paul – Dancing With A Stranger | 2022 | 11:47 | 4 | 15/12/2023 | |
| Anne Kirkpatrick – Peppimentarti Cradle | 11:51 | 1 | 5/5/2019 |
9 MAY IN HISTORY:
EVENTS ON THIS DAY
1953 Hobart, Tasmania – The city’s two commercial radio stations 7HO and 7HT commenced transmission simultaneously on new 2,000 watt transmitters. 7HT’s transmitter was relocated from Rosny Hill to Droughty Point.
1958 Tasmania experienced its coldest May morning for 12 years, with temperatures in Hobart down to 0 C, while Shannon in the central highlands recorded -8.3 C, the lowest ever recorded there to that date. +
1970 Washington DC, U.S.A. – Up to 100,000 protesters demonstrated against the Vietnam War in front of the White House
1980 Tampa Bay, Florida, U.S.A. – The Liberian freighter MV Summit Venture collided with the Sunshine Skyway Bridge, causing a 420 metre. section of the southbound span to collapse. 35 people in six cars and a Greyhound bus perished after plunging 45 metres into the water.
BORN
1914 BORN Brooklyn, Queens County, Nova Scotia, Canada – Clarence Eugene Snow alias Hank Snow, country singer who during a 50 year career charted over 70 singles on the Billboard charts and recorded 140 albums between 1950 and 1980. Died 1999.
1942 BORN Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A. – Thomas David Roe BKA Tommy Roe, pop singer-songwriter, best-remembered for his hits Sheila (1962) and Dizzy (1969)
4 May 2025
Valley Sunrise Edition 832
0600 ~ 0900 AEDT
In this edition, selections from the Top 40 charts of this week in 1973; easy listening from indie artists; and as usual, the programme is open for easy-listening requests.
Today’s photo – Richmond, Tasmania, taken 15 April 2025.
Photo: Yours Truly
Today’s Playlist:
| TRACK | RELEASE YEAR | TIME | PREVIOUS PLAYS | LAST PLAYED | ISRC |
| David Maguire – Galway to Nashville | 2025 | 06:06 | 0 | IETZB 2500002 | |
| Charting this day 1973 Tony Orlando & Dawn – Tie A Yellow Ribbon | 1973 | 06:11 | 14 | 18/8/2023 | |
| Charting this day 1973 Roberta Flack – Killing Me Softly With His Song | 1973 | 06:15 | 6 | 10/2/2023 | |
| August Lane – Constantly Raining | 2025 | 06:21 | 1 | 23/3/2025 | QZWFN 2449588 |
| Richard Chamberlain – Love Me Tender | 1962 | 06:23 | 1 | 12/7/2015 | |
| Patsy Cline – I Fall To Pieces | 1961 | 06:28 | 4 | 18/2/2024 | |
| Billy Vaughn & His Orchestra – Say You Say Me | 06:33 | 0 | |||
| Michael Farrell – Streets of Laredo | 2025 | 06:36 | 1 | 21/3/2025 | IEJHJ 2500002 |
| Backtrack: Ailish McBride – Our Wild Atlantic Shore | 2021 | 06:41 | 3 | 11/7/2021 | |
| Gail Barnard – Storms | 2025 | 06:45 | 2 | 13/4/2025 | USCGJ 2534605 |
| Jade Hurley – Georgie | 06:50 | 4 | 25/2/2024 | ||
| Norma O’Hara Murphy – Rose’s Cafe | 06:53 | 6 | 20/1/2023 | ||
| By Request Today: David Campbell – You’ll Never Walk Alone | 06:57 | 1 | 31/7/2016 | ||
| Johnny Chester and Grant Luhrs – Loud, Confident And Wrong | 2025 | 07:06 | 3 | 2/5/2025 | QM4TX 2523251 |
| Charting this day 1973 Donna Fargo – Funny Face | 1973 | 07:11 | 4 | 10/11/2017 | |
| Charting this day 1973 Carpenters – On Top Of The World | 1973 | 07:15 | 11 | 18/12/2022 | |
| By Request Today: Freddy Fender – Before The Next Teardrop Falls | 1975 | 07:19 | 10 | 31/1/2025 | |
| Joy Adams & Gary R Farmer – Be A Little Bit Bolder | 2025 | 07:23 | 3 | 25/4/2025 | NZRI1 2500760 |
| Ron Christopher – Angelyne | 2025 | 07:27 | 2 | 18/4/2025 | |
| Henry Mancini His Piano Orchestra & Chorus – Almost Persuaded | 07:33 | 4 | 30/4/2023 | ||
| By Request Today: Gerry & Pacemakers – Ferry Cross The Mersey | 1965 | 07:38 | 20 | 7/2/2025 | |
| Chris Boots Lee – Where Corn Don’t Grow | 2025 | 07:42 | 2 | 4/4/2025 | QZES9 2504340 |
| Helena Mace – If I’d Known You Back Then | 2025 | 07:46 | 0 | ||
| Backtrack: Andrew McMurdie – Teenager in Love | 2020 | 07:53 | 5 | 20/4/2025 | |
| Anne Murray – It Should Have Been Easy | 07:56 | 1 | 12/6/2020 | ||
| J R Williams – Australia | 2025 | 08:05 | 1 | 25/4/2025 | QM6MZ 2524694 |
| Charting this day 1973 Jim Ed Brown – How I Love Them Old Songs | 1973 | 08:10 | 1 | 22/9/2023 | |
| Charting this day 1973 Buck Owens & His Buckaroos – Made In Japan | 1973 | 08:13 | 7 | 21/5/2021 | |
| Vernon Huskey – White Silver Sands | 2025 | 08:17 | 2 | 13/4/2025 | QZYSP 2500012 |
| Randy Travis – It’s Just A Matter of Time | 08:24 | 2 | 20/3/2015 | ||
| Jan Holland – Melody In F | 08:29 | 1 | 16/8/2024 | ||
| Gordon Langford & His Orchestra – Love Is All Around | 08:34 | 0 | |||
| Ashley Cook – The Aussie Way | 2025 | 08:38 | 1 | 27/4/2025 | |
| Backtrack: Rod Williams – An Old Australian Stockman | 2020 | 08:42 | 3 | 11/7/2021 | |
| Peter Blakeley – Crying In The Chapel | 1989 | 08:47 | 0 | ||
| Unit 4 Plus 2 – Concrete And Clay | 1965 | 08:50 | 4 | 25/4/2025 | |
| Seekers – We Shall Not Be Moved | 1965 | 08:52 | 5 | 18/8/2023 | |
| Caoimhe Murney – Wrong Road Again | 2024 | 08:55 | 4 | 15/9/2024 | IEXWD 2400001 |
27 APRIL IN HISTORY:
EVENTS
1900 Victorians Herbert Thompson and Edward Holmes created history when they arrived in Melbourne exhausted and sore after driving their steam-powered car 500 miles (800 km) from Bathurst, N.S.W., completing the first interstate car trip in Australia. Their vehicle was fired by kerosene, and took 10 days to do the journey at an average speed of 9 miles an hour (15 km/h).
1932 Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A. – Mobster Al Capone began serving an eleven-year prison sentence for tax evasion..
1959 Hobart , Tasmania – Thousands watched a major blaze which destroyed the rear of a building in Liverpool Street next to Brunswick Hotel
1960 Hobart, Tasmania – The Mt Wellington road was closed after a 60 metre section subsided following torrential rains.
1969 Sydney, New South Wales – The Australian production of the rock musical Hair produced by Harry M Miller, opened. It featured the debut of a young American singer Marcia Hines.
BORN
1959 Marshville, North Carolina, U.S.A. – Randy Bruce Traywick, BKA Randy Travis, country singer, songwriter and actor who has had more than 50 singles on the Billboard charts
2 May 2025
FRIDAY MORNING RADIO, Edition 467, 9.00 ~ Midday AEST
Easy listening, memories and new releases through the morning, on the Derwent Valley’s own radio station.
Today’s photo – Another recent view of the fagus, an ancient deciduous native species, dating over 170 million years to the era of Gondwanaland
In Tasmania, it occurs only in the more remote areas of Mt Field National Park, the Cradle Mountain/Lake St Clair National Park and the South West World Heritage Area.
Photo: Ilka Munter
Today’s Playlist
| TRACK | RELEASE YEAR | PLAY TIME | PREVIOUS PLAYS | LAST PLAYED | ISRC |
| Johnny Chester and Grant Luhrs – Loud, Confident And Wrong | 2025 | 09:05 | 2 | 13/4/2025 | QM4TX 2523251 |
| Dave Lawlor – Calling Me Home | 2025 | 09:10 | 1 | 16/3/2025 | |
| Shelley Minson – Everybody’s Baby | 2025 | 09:14 | 0 | AUUHB 2400029 | |
| By Request Today: Ginny Peters – Waiting On The Green Green Grass of Home | 1967 | 09:19 | 6 | 5/1/2024 | |
| Mike Myers – What’s New Pussycat | 2025 | 09:23 | 0 | ||
| Backtrack: Bernie Bruce – I’m Just A Bloke | 2020 | 09:25 | 1 | 18/10/2020 | |
| Patsy Cline – Crazy | 09:29 | 4 | 26/8/2016 | ||
| Henry Mancini & His Orchestra – As Time Goes By | 09:34 | 0 | |||
| Harry Secombe & Myrna Rose – Wunderbar | 09:37 | 0 | |||
| Engelbert Humperdinck – Another Time, Another Place | 09:42 | 0 | |||
| Frankie Laine – Moonlight Gambler | 1956 | 09:44 | 6 | 16/1/2022 | |
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Julie Rogers – The Hawaiian Wedding Song | 1965 | 09:50 | 2 | 26/4/2015 | |
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Normie Rowe & The Playboys – It Ain’t Necessarily So | 1965 | 09:52 | 0 | ||
| Johnny Tillotson – Talk Back Trembling Lips | 1963 | 09:57 | 10 | 4/4/2025 | |
| Sabrina Fallon – Eileen Óg | 2025 | 10:06 | 2 | 20/4/2025 | |
| Ray Malcolm – Moon Over Memphis | 2025 | 10:11 | 0 | ||
| Ollie Austin – Radio Lover | 10:15 | 7 | 11/8/2023 | ||
| Old Time Concert Hall: George Bruns & His Rag A Muffins – Any Rags | 10:20 | 0 | |||
| By Request Today: Johnny Horton – Whispering Pines | 10:25 | 4 | 14/3/2025 | ||
| Dawn Rix- Broken Pieces | 2025 | 10:28 | 0 | ||
| Ray Conniff & His Orchestra – Volver Volver | 10:34 | 0 | |||
| Barry Thornton – On The Inside | 10:37 | 3 | 10/7/2020 | ||
| Noelene Batley – Little Treasure From Japan | 1964 | 10:42 | 1 | 23/9/2022 | |
| Rick Gay – This Precious World | 2025 | 10:44 | 0 | ||
| Lesley Gore – Treat Me Like A Lady | 1966 | 10:49 | 1 | 12/8/2016 | |
| Peter Foldy – Bondi Junction | 10:54 | 5 | 17/11/2024 | ||
| Alice Benfer – Old Felt Hat | 2024 | 10:57 | 4 | 12/5/2024 | |
| Two of a Kind – I Love You To The Moon And Back | 2025 | 11:05 | 2 | 20/4/2025 | |
| New Classic Singers – Monday Monday | 11:10 | 0 | |||
| Pete King Orchestra & Chorus – Dream A Little Dream | 11:12 | 1 | 3/8/2012 | ||
| Andy Martin – River In The Rain | 2025 | 11:16 | 0 | ||
| Backtrack: Shavonne Aliphon – The Girl I Used To Be | 2017 | 11:22 | 1 | 4/6/2017 | |
| Limahl – Never Ending Story | 1988 | 11:28 | 6 | 15/1/2021 | |
| James Last & His Orchestra – Take Me Home Country Roads | 11:34 | 0 | |||
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Lucille Starr – Wooden Heart | 1965 | 11:38 | 2 | 11/5/2018 | |
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Little Patti – Pushing A Good Thing Too Far | 1965 | 11:41 | 19 | 12/1/2024 | |
| HAZEL & The Thief – Willing To Try | 2025 | 11:46 | 0 | AUMEV 2537170 | |
| Garry Carson Jones – Walk On By | 2025 | 11:49 | 0 | AUGGJ 1600055 | |
| Frank Ifield – Please | 1963 | 11:54 | 6 | 12/1/2024 |
2 MAY IN HISTORY:
EVENTS ON THIS DAY
1952 London, England – The world’s first passenger jet service, which used De Havilland Comet airliners, was commenced by B.O.A.C. (British Overseas Airways Corporation) between London and Johannesburg.
1963 Port Melbourne, Victoria – The first Japanese car to be built in Australia rolled off the assembly line at Australian Motor Industries Ltd. The car was the Toyota Tiara, which was to be sold in sedan, station wagon and utility variants.
1982 In the Falklands War, the British nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror sank the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano, with the loss of 323 lives, just over half the total Argentine military deaths in the war. During the following days, 772 men who had abandoned ship were rescued.
General Belgrano was previously USS Phoenix, the only vessel to survive the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour without damage. It had been sold to Argentina in 1951.
BORN
1863 Liverpool, Lancashire, England – Frank Hornby, businessman, politician, and inventor of Meccano and Hornby model trains. Died 1936.
1892 Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland) – Baron Manfred von Richtofen, German World War 1 fighter pilot ace known as the Red Baron, credited with 80 air combat victories, shot down and killed in 1918 by Australian ground fire, after he was attacked by a Canadian aircraft..
1946 London, England – David Suchet, English actor famed for his role as Agatha Christie’s great detective Hercule Poirot, in the long-running TV drama series Poirot. Turns 79.
1936 Madras (now Chennai), India – Arnold George Dorsey alias Engelbert Humperdinck, English singer who became famous during the 60s and 70s after adopting the name of the famous German opera composer as his own stage name. Turns 89.
1946 New York, U.S.A. – Lesley Sue Goldstein alias Lesley Gore, singer-songwriter best known for her 1963 hit It’s My Party, which she recorded at the age of 16. She became one of the most recognized teen singers of the 1960s. Died 2015.
27 April 2025
Valley Sunrise Edition 831
0600 ~ 0900 AEDT
In this edition, selections from the Top 40 charts of this week in 1971; easy listening from indie artists; and as usual, the programme is open for easy-listening requests.
Today’s photo – In Mt Field National Park, a recent view of the fagus, an ancient deciduous native species which dates over 170 million years to the era of Gondwanaland.
In Tasmania, it occurs only in the more remote areas of Mt Field National Park, the Cradle Mountain/Lake St Clair National Park and the South West World Heritage Area.
Photo: Ilka Munter
Today’s Playlist:
| TRACK | RELEASE YEAR | TIME | PREVIOUS PLAYS | LAST PLAYED | ISRC |
| Human Nature – Baby I Need Your Loving | 06:06 | 0 | |||
| Charting this day 1971 Lynn Anderson – Rose Garden | 1971 | 06:11 | 13 | 30/7/2023 | |
| Charting this day 1971 John Paul Joans – Man From Nazareth | 1971 | 06:14 | 1 | 15/4/2022 | |
| Rosalind Clare & Glen Flynn – Heaven Only Knows | 2025 | 06:19 | 0 | ||
| Peter Stefanson – In Our Childhood Days | 2025 | 06:23 | 0 | ||
| By Request Today: Beatles – Blackbird | 06:28 | 2 | 11/8/2024 | ||
| George Melachrino Strings – Uma Casa Portuguesa | 06:32 | 0 | |||
| Larissa Tormey – Coming Back To Life | 2025 | 06:36 | 0 | IEJHJ 2500002 | |
| Backtrack: Upstairs – Seven Spanish Angels | 2021 | 06:39 | 3 | 30/4/2021 | |
| Richard Mulligan – Just Me and My Old Beat-Up Guitar | 2025 | 06:44 | 0 | ||
| Brian Letton – The Digger And His Dog | 06:51 | 3 | 6/4/2025 | ||
| Patsy Cline – Back In Baby’s Arms | 06:55 | 2 | 20/6/2014 | ||
| Shadows – Geronimo | 1963 | 06:57 | 21 | 12/12/2023 | |
| Lonneke & Michl – Schmetterlinge | 2025 | 07:05 | 1 | 21/3/2025 | |
| Charting this day 1971 Middle Of The Road – Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep | 1971 | 07:11 | 4 | 8/7/2022 | |
| Charting this day 1971 Kamahl – All I Have To Offer You | 1971 | 07:14 | 5 | 18/8/2019 | |
| By Request Today: Kathy Carver – Crazy | 07:19 | 0 | |||
| By Request Today: Tom Jones – The Green Green Grass of Home | 1967 | 07:22 | 11 | 2/7/2023 | |
| Christa Fartek – Deep In My Heart | 2025 | 07:27 | 1 | 18/4/2025 | |
| Royal Philharmonic Orchestra – Hooked On Mozart | 07:33 | 4 | 27/12/2024 | ||
| Howie Bros – Home I’ll Be | 2025 | 07:39 | 0 | ||
| Julie Anthony – The Only Way Out | 07:43 | 6 | 21/1/2024 | ||
| Backtrack: Graeme Clarke – Baby With No Name (Remix) | 2025 | 07:50 | 0 | ||
| By Request Today: Neil Young – Harvest Moon | 07:56 | 10 | 24/1/2025 | ||
| Jeff Orson – Missing You Soon | 2025 | 08:06 | 4 | 11/4/2025 | QT3TB 2425080 |
| Charting this day 1971 Dermot Henry & Virginians – If Those Lips Could Only Speak | 1971 | 08:13 | 4 | 18/5/2021 | |
| Charting this day 1971 Judy Collins – Amazing Grace | 1971 | 08:16 | 6 | 10/1/2021 | |
| Highway 95 – She Believes | 2025 | 08:24 | 2 | 16/2/2025 | AUL0G 2400013 |
| Jimmy Little – Just Walking In The Rain | 08:26 | 0 | |||
| 101 Strings Orchestra – La Paloma | 08:32 | 0 | |||
| Judy Stone – I’ll Get By As Long As I Have You | 08:37 | 0 | |||
| Bill Quinn – If I Only Had You | 08:40 | 2 | 28/7/2023 | ||
| Paul Ricketts – Barefoot On The Dirt | 08:43 | 0 | AUZY4 2400032 | ||
| Backtrack: Richard Mulligan – Good Luck Charm | 08:47 | 7 | 1/12/2024 | ||
| Ashley Cole – That’s The Aussie Way | 08:52 | 0 |
27 APRIL IN HISTORY:
EVENTS
1869 A submarine telegraph line between Melbourne and Tasmania opened.
1929 Tanami Desert, West Australia – The aircraft Kookaburra and its crew, Keith Anderson and H Hitchcock, who had been reported missing while searching for another aircraft, was found. Kookaburra had made a forced landing due to engine trouble. When it was unable to take off again after repairs were carried out, Anderson and Hitchcock had perished.
1937 San Francisco, California, U.S.A. – The Golden Gate bridge, which at 1,280 metres was then the world’s longest suspension bridge, was opened.
1981 Wellington, New Zealand – A Royal Commission found that an error in Air New Zealand’s flight operations computer programming put a DC 10 aircraft on a direct collision course with Mt Erebus in Antarctica.
2002 The last successful telemetry was received from the NASA space probe Pioneer 10, which is heading in the direction of the star Aldebaran, ETA in about 2 million years. Aldebaran is a giant orange star 65 light years distant, some 44 times the diameter of our Sun and over 420 times brighter.
BORN
1959 Bellshill, North Lanarkshire, Scotland – Sheena Shirley Orr alias Sheena Easton, Scottish singer and actress. In 1980, her first two singles, Modern Girl and 9 to 5 both entered the UK Top Ten, making her the first English female artist to have singles concurrently in the same charts. She has sold over 20 million records worldwide.
DIED
2007 New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A. – Al Hirt, trumpeter and bandleader known for his 1964 hits, including Java, Sugar Lips and Fancy Pants (Aged 76)
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)