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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:

TRACKRELEASE YEARTIMEPREVIOUS PLAYSLAST PLAYEDISRC
Barry Owen – Over and Done202506:060 TCAJL 2538548
Charting this day 1975 Gene Pitney – Blue Angel197506:12911/10/2024 
Charting this day 1975 Three Degrees – When Will I See You Again197506:1666/10/2023 
By Request Today: P J Proby – Somewhere196506:191823/3/2025 
The Howie Bros – Home I’ll Be202506:23127/4/2025 
Sherrie Shines – I Still Miss Someone200506:280  
Brian May & ABC Melbourne Showband – Begin The Beguine 06:33310/12/2021 
Christine Clifford – Annie’s Song202506:37113/4/2025QZHNC 2552556
Backtrack: Gary Ellis – A Love That Should Have Been202106:40425/2/2022 
Tommy Vlaeminck  – Bridge of Hope202506:4529/5/2025 
Jerry Reed – King Of The Road 06:510  
By Request Today: Shavonne Aliphon – Always202506:5359/3/2025 
Rosalind Clare & Glen Flynn – Heaven Only Knows  06:56127/4/2025 
Ray Malcolm – Moon Over Memphis 07:0612/5/2025 
Charting this day 1975
Curly Rivers & Dusty Trail Ramblers – The Ferryboat Shuffle 
202507:1245/1/2025 
Charting this day 1975
Freddy Fender – Before The Next Teardrop Falls
197307:15114/5/2025 
Graeme Clarke – Baby With No Name (Remix)197307:1929/5/2025 
Jonny Boston – Silver Moon197507:220  
Anthony Baxter – The Jumping Jackaroo202507:2829/5/2025 
Percy Faith & His Orchestra – Anyone Who Had A Heart202507:33223/6/2023 
Larissa Tormey – Coming Back To Life202507:38127/4/2025IEJHJ 2500002
Andy Martin – River In The Rain196507:4112/5/2025 
Backtrack: Ginny Peters – If It Wasn’t For The Mirror202507:47126/8/2018 
The Charlesys – I Can See The Dawn202507:5027/2/2025 
Pearce Pickering Ragtime Five – Should I197007:56424/2/2023 
Elvis Aaron Presley Jr – Goldmine202008:05218/4/2025 
Charting this day 1975 Pilot – January197508:10718/6/2021 
Charting this day 1975 Sherbet – Summer Love197508:14427/9/2024 
Tom Mullally – You Gave Me A Mountain202508:210  
By Request Today: Eddie Fisher – Ciindy Oh Cindy195708:2569/4/2021 
Ian Hughes & His Orchestra – Lambada 08:34228/7/2023 
Tim Lane – Are You OK202508:380 QZES7 2501254
Backtrack: Jason Owen – Everybody’s Talking202008:44320/11/2020 
Kathy Carver – Yellow Moon On The Swan202508:49125/4/2025 
John McCarthy Men’s Chorus with Banjo Rhythm Kings and Orchestra – Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines  08:5215/2/2016 
Seekers – Love Is Me Love Is You198808:5524/8/2024 

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.

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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

TRACKRELEASE YEARPLAY TIMEPREVIOUS PLAYSLAST PLAYEDISRC
Klaasje Menzen – We Hold Our Head Up High 202509:05211/4/2025 
Mike Hughes – Bad News 202509:10        0  
Charlie Landsborough – You Stand All Alone  09:13       830/8/2024 
August Lane – Constantly Raining 202509:1824/5/2025QZWFN 2449588
Backtrack: Charlie’s Attic – Nanna’s House 202109:21314/3/2021 
Sandpipers – Rain Rain Go Away  09:29119/3/2014 
Ray Conniff & His Orchestra – Love Letters  09:330  
Change of Key – Beyond That Smile 202509:36121/3/2025 
By Request Today: Caoimhe Murney – Wrong Road Again202409:4054/5/2025 
Andrew Ryan – Like It’s Yesterday 202509:4416/4/2025AUG9Z 2200004
Tommy Vlaeminck  – Bridge of Hope 202509:48120/4/2025 
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965
Wayne Fontana & Mindbenders – Game Of Love 
196509:52117/7/2015 
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965
George Jones & Gene Pitney – I’ve Got Five Dollars And It’s Saturday Night
196509:54413/3/2016 
Brenda Lee – Your Used To Be196309:57817/3/2023 
Nick Ingman Orchestra & Singers – Y M C A   10:050  
Toni West – No Time To Cry  202510:090 UKBBL 2400002
John Denver – Claudette  10:13         230/12/2022 
Old Time Concert Hall:
Hank Levine Orchestra – And The Band Played On 
 10:17321/3/2021 
Scott Rathman Jnr – Angel on the Hill   10:21220/4/2025 
Backtrack: Dale Duncan – The ‘Slim Dusty’ Rose 201510:25320/4/2025 
Richard Clayderman – The Music Box Dancer  10:30224/11/2023 
Carol Chaney – Everything’s A Waltz  10:33211/4/2025 
Highway 95 – Message From Above  10:370 AUL0G 2400014
Horst Wende’s Accordeon Band – Die Fischerin Vom Bodensee 10:43105/11/2023 
Mahlissa – Boondockin’ 202510:47113/4/2025 
Johnny Cash – Ring of Fire196310:491414/7/2023 
Anne Fraser – Coorong Sands 10:5236/10/2023 
Graeme Clarke – Baby With No Name (Remix) 202511:05        127/4/2025 
Tommy Roe – Dizzy 196911:10530/4/2021 
The Charlesys – Will It Be You 202511:13115/9/2024CACWV 2459223
Hank Snow – Nuevo Laredo  11:180  
Johnny Chester & Blue Denim Country Band – Before The Next Teardrop Falls  11:23213/3/2022 
Anthony Baxter – The Jumping Jackaroo 202511:25125/4/2025 
Gunter Noris Orchestra – Good Old Vienna  11:330  
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965
Hermans Hermits – Mrs Brown You’ve Got A Lovely Daughter 
196511:361319/2/2023 
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965
Seekers – A World Of Our Own 
196511:391928/4/2024 
Peter Stefanson – In Our Childhood Days 202511:43127/4/2025 
Backtrack: Colin Paul – Dancing With A Stranger 202211:47415/12/2023 
Anne Kirkpatrick – Peppimentarti Cradle 11:5115/5/2019 

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)

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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:

TRACKRELEASE YEARTIMEPREVIOUS PLAYSLAST PLAYEDISRC
David Maguire – Galway to Nashville202506:060 IETZB 2500002
Charting this day 1973
Tony Orlando & Dawn – Tie A Yellow Ribbon
197306:111418/8/2023 
Charting this day 1973
Roberta Flack – Killing Me Softly With His Song
197306:15610/2/2023 
August Lane – Constantly Raining202506:21123/3/2025QZWFN 2449588
Richard Chamberlain – Love Me Tender196206:23112/7/2015 
Patsy Cline – I Fall To Pieces196106:28418/2/2024 
Billy Vaughn & His Orchestra – Say You Say Me 06:330  
Michael Farrell – Streets of Laredo202506:36121/3/2025IEJHJ 2500002
Backtrack:
Ailish McBride – Our Wild Atlantic Shore
202106:41311/7/2021 
Gail Barnard – Storms202506:45213/4/2025USCGJ 2534605
Jade Hurley – Georgie  06:50425/2/2024 
Norma O’Hara Murphy – Rose’s Cafe 06:53620/1/2023 
By Request Today:
David Campbell – You’ll Never Walk Alone
 06:57131/7/2016 
Johnny Chester and Grant Luhrs – Loud, Confident And Wrong202507:0632/5/2025QM4TX 2523251
Charting this day 1973
Donna Fargo – Funny Face
197307:11410/11/2017 
Charting this day 1973
Carpenters – On Top Of The World
197307:151118/12/2022 
By Request Today:
Freddy Fender – Before The Next Teardrop Falls 
197507:191031/1/2025 
Joy Adams & Gary R Farmer – Be A Little Bit Bolder202507:23325/4/2025NZRI1 2500760
Ron Christopher – Angelyne202507:27218/4/2025 
Henry Mancini His Piano Orchestra & Chorus – Almost Persuaded 07:33430/4/2023 
By Request Today:
Gerry & Pacemakers – Ferry Cross The Mersey
196507:38207/2/2025 
Chris Boots Lee – Where Corn Don’t Grow202507:4224/4/2025QZES9 2504340
Helena Mace – If I’d Known You Back Then202507:460  
Backtrack:
Andrew McMurdie – Teenager in Love
202007:53520/4/2025 
Anne Murray – It Should Have Been Easy 07:56112/6/2020 
J R Williams – Australia202508:05125/4/2025QM6MZ 2524694
Charting this day 1973
Jim Ed Brown – How I Love Them Old Songs
197308:10122/9/2023 
Charting this day 1973
Buck Owens & His Buckaroos – Made In Japan
197308:13721/5/2021 
Vernon Huskey – White Silver Sands202508:17213/4/2025QZYSP 2500012
Randy Travis – It’s Just A Matter of Time 08:24220/3/2015 
Jan Holland – Melody In F 08:29116/8/2024 
Gordon Langford & His Orchestra – Love Is All Around 08:340  
Ashley Cook – The Aussie Way202508:38127/4/2025 
Backtrack:
Rod Williams – An Old Australian Stockman
202008:42311/7/2021 
Peter Blakeley – Crying In The Chapel198908:470  
Unit 4 Plus 2 – Concrete And Clay196508:50425/4/2025 
Seekers – We Shall Not Be Moved196508:52518/8/2023 
Caoimhe Murney – Wrong Road Again202408:55415/9/2024IEXWD 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 

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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

TRACKRELEASE YEARPLAY TIMEPREVIOUS PLAYSLAST PLAYEDISRC
Johnny Chester and Grant Luhrs – Loud, Confident And Wrong202509:05213/4/2025QM4TX 2523251
Dave Lawlor – Calling Me Home202509:10116/3/2025 
Shelley Minson – Everybody’s Baby202509:140 AUUHB 2400029
By Request Today:
Ginny Peters – Waiting On The Green Green Grass of Home
196709:1965/1/2024 
Mike Myers – What’s New Pussycat202509:230  
Backtrack: Bernie Bruce – I’m Just A Bloke202009:25118/10/2020 
Patsy Cline – Crazy 09:29426/8/2016 
Henry Mancini & His Orchestra – As Time Goes By 09:340  
Harry Secombe & Myrna Rose – Wunderbar 09:370  
Engelbert Humperdinck – Another Time, Another Place 09:420  
Frankie Laine – Moonlight Gambler195609:44616/1/2022 
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965
Julie Rogers – The Hawaiian Wedding Song
196509:50226/4/2015 
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965
Normie Rowe & The Playboys – It Ain’t Necessarily So
196509:520  
Johnny Tillotson – Talk Back Trembling Lips196309:57104/4/2025 
Sabrina Fallon – Eileen Óg202510:06220/4/2025 
Ray Malcolm – Moon Over Memphis202510:110  
Ollie Austin – Radio Lover 10:15711/8/2023 
Old Time Concert Hall:
George Bruns & His Rag A Muffins – Any Rags
 10:200  
By Request Today: Johnny Horton – Whispering Pines 10:25414/3/2025 
Dawn Rix- Broken Pieces202510:280  
Ray Conniff & His Orchestra – Volver Volver 10:340  
Barry Thornton – On The Inside 10:37310/7/2020 
Noelene Batley – Little Treasure From Japan196410:42123/9/2022 
Rick Gay – This Precious World202510:440  
Lesley Gore – Treat Me Like A Lady196610:49112/8/2016 
Peter Foldy – Bondi Junction 10:54517/11/2024 
Alice Benfer – Old Felt Hat202410:57412/5/2024 
Two of a Kind – I Love You To The Moon And Back202511:05220/4/2025 
New Classic Singers – Monday Monday 11:100  
Pete King Orchestra & Chorus – Dream A Little Dream 11:1213/8/2012 
Andy Martin – River In The Rain202511:160  
Backtrack: Shavonne Aliphon – The Girl I Used To Be201711:2214/6/2017 
Limahl – Never Ending Story 198811:28615/1/2021 
James Last & His Orchestra – Take Me Home Country Roads 11:340  
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965
Lucille Starr – Wooden Heart
196511:38211/5/2018 
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965
Little Patti – Pushing A Good Thing Too Far
196511:411912/1/2024 
HAZEL & The Thief – Willing To Try202511:460 AUMEV 2537170
Garry Carson Jones – Walk On By202511:490 AUGGJ 1600055
Frank Ifield – Please196311:54612/1/2024 

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.

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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:

TRACKRELEASE YEARTIMEPREVIOUS PLAYSLAST PLAYEDISRC
Human Nature – Baby I Need Your Loving 06:060  
Charting this day 1971
Lynn Anderson – Rose Garden
197106:111330/7/2023 
Charting this day 1971
John Paul Joans – Man From Nazareth
197106:14115/4/2022 
Rosalind Clare & Glen Flynn – Heaven Only Knows202506:190  
Peter Stefanson – In Our Childhood Days202506:230  
By Request Today:
Beatles – Blackbird 
 06:28211/8/2024 
George Melachrino Strings – Uma Casa Portuguesa 06:320  
Larissa Tormey – Coming Back To Life202506:360 IEJHJ 2500002
Backtrack:
Upstairs – Seven Spanish Angels
202106:39330/4/2021 
Richard Mulligan – Just Me and My Old Beat-Up Guitar202506:440  
Brian Letton – The Digger And His Dog  06:5136/4/2025 
Patsy Cline – Back In Baby’s Arms 06:55220/6/2014 
Shadows – Geronimo196306:572112/12/2023 
Lonneke & Michl – Schmetterlinge202507:05121/3/2025 
Charting this day 1971
Middle Of The Road – Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep
197107:1148/7/2022 
Charting this day 1971
Kamahl – All I Have To Offer You
197107:14518/8/2019 
By Request Today:
Kathy Carver – Crazy 
 07:190  
By Request Today:
Tom Jones – The Green Green Grass of Home
196707:22112/7/2023 
Christa Fartek – Deep In My Heart202507:27118/4/2025 
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra – Hooked On Mozart 07:33427/12/2024 
Howie Bros – Home I’ll Be202507:390  
Julie Anthony – The Only Way Out 07:43621/1/2024 
Backtrack:
Graeme Clarke – Baby With No Name (Remix)
202507:500  
By Request Today:
Neil Young – Harvest Moon 
 07:561024/1/2025 
Jeff Orson – Missing You Soon202508:06411/4/2025QT3TB 2425080
Charting this day 1971
Dermot Henry & Virginians – If Those Lips Could Only Speak
197108:13418/5/2021 
Charting this day 1971
Judy Collins – Amazing Grace
197108:16610/1/2021 
Highway 95 – She Believes202508:24216/2/2025AUL0G 2400013
Jimmy Little – Just Walking In The Rain 08:260  
101 Strings Orchestra – La Paloma 08:320  
Judy Stone – I’ll Get By As Long As I Have You 08:370  
Bill Quinn – If I Only Had You  08:40228/7/2023 
Paul Ricketts – Barefoot On The Dirt 08:430 AUZY4 2400032
Backtrack:
Richard Mulligan – Good Luck Charm
 08:4771/12/2024 
Ashley Cole – That’s The Aussie Way 08:520  

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)


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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

TRACKRELEASE YEARPLAY TIMEPREVIOUS PLAYSLAST PLAYEDISRC
John Williamson – Diggers Of The ANZAC 09:05314/8/2020 
Human Nature – Reach Out I’ll Be There 09:11        0  
Jade Hurley – Do What You Do Do Well 09:14         129/11/2019 
Engelbert Humperdinck – Ten Guitars196709:1819/4/2021 
Backtrack: Danny Stain – I Still Miss Someone201709:21412/4/2020 
Aaron Partridge & Steve Apirana – You Can Call On Him202509:27130/3/2025AUE9B 2500001
Frank Mills & His Orchestra – Memories (From Cats)  09:32129/3/2024 
By Request Today: S/Sgt Barry Sadler – The Ballad of the Green Berets 196609:3634/3/2016 
Marian Burns – Beautiful Soldier 202509:380  
Peggy Gilchrist – Under Burdekin Skies202509:44313/4/2025 
By Request Today: Ken Lindsay – Gunner The Kelpie Hero 202509:48510/11/2024AUZY4 2400016
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965
Unit 4 Plus 2 – Concrete And Clay
196509:55319/8/2022 
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965
Beatles – Ticket To Ride 
196509:571319/8/2022 
Lee Kernaghan – Spirit of the ANZACs 10:06725/4/2021 
By Request Today: Warren Kearney – The Hill 202510:12516/6/2024AU2KV 2300005
Colin Gordon-Farleigh – More Than Sorry 202510:160 QMWF2 2000318
Dianne Coombes – Getting On With Getting Over You202510:19         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
 10:230  
Joy Adams & Gary R Farmer – Be A Little Bit Bolder202510:28213/4/2025NZRI1 2500760
Percy Faith & His Orchestra – Can’t Get Used to Losing You 10:3318/4/2022 
Kathy Carver – Yellow Moon On The Swan 202510:360  
Backtrack: Neil Anthony – April The 25th202110:4029/7/2021 
Al Caiola – A Swinging Safari  11:040  
Richard Clayderman – All The Love In The World  11:070  
London Symphony Orchestra – Don’t Cry For Me Argentina  11:15126/7/2024 
Ferrante & Teicher – Canadian Sunset  11:20315/1/2021 
Acker Bilk – Cielito Lindo 11:25229/9/2024 
J R Williams – Australia196111:28        0 QM6MZ 2524694
Anthony Baxter – The Jumping Jackaroo202511:320  
ABBA – Happy Hawaii197611:3829/8/2020 
Harry Belafonte – Land Of The Sea And Sun 11:450  
Slim Dusty – Medley~Keep The Home Fires Burning~Pack Up Your Troubles~A Brown Slouch Hat~It’s A Long Way To Tipperary 11:480  
Rae Leigh – Country Pride 202511:520  
Richard Porteous – The Unknown Soldier202211:56319/8/2022 

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)

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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:

TRACKRELEASE YEARTIMEPREVIOUS PLAYSLAST PLAYEDISRC
Clint Bradley – The Lightning Ride 202506:06130/3/2025 
Charting this day 1978 Baccara – Yes Sir I Can Boogie 197806:1289/6/2024 
Charting this day 1978 Carly Simon – Nobody Does it Better 197806:17324/9/2023 
Two of a Kind – I Love You To The Moon And Back 202506:21         111/4/2025 
Damien Leith – If Tomorrow Never Comes  06:25120/3/2015 
Rachael Leahcar – La Vie En Rose 201206:270  
Hank Levine & His Orchestra – Downtown  06:3234/4/2025 
Bette Midler – In My Life  06:3522/4/2023 
Backtrack: Graeme Clarke – Her Perfect Memory 201906:3833/1/2020 
Marti Webb – Always There (Howard’s Way)  06:42412/9/2021 
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 202506:48116/3/2025 
By Request Today: Cilla Black – You’re My World 196406:531212/1/2025 
Gunter Kallman Choir – The More I See You  06:5869/12/2022 
Sabrina Fallon – Eileen Og202507:05211/4/2025 
Charting this day 1978 Leif Garrett – Runaround Sue 197807:12613/9/2019 
Charting this day 1978 Barry Manilow – Can’t Smile Without You 197807:1474/3/2022 
By Request Today: Nitty Gritty Dirt Band – Fishing In The Dark  07:19122/10/2017 
Seekers – One World Love 07:2211/1/2023 
Ollie Austin – The Streets Of London  07:26228/7/2023 
Manuel & The Music of the Mountains – Beyond The Mountains  07:32229/5/2016 
Ric Lucia – Sittin’ With Grandma On The Old Front Porch 202507:37118/4/2025 
Don Williams – I Believe In Love 198007:39414/7/2023 
Backtrack: Andrew McMurdie – Teenager in Love 202007:4441/1/2023 
Tommy Vlaeminck  – Bridge of Hope 202507:470  
Ged Wilson – Promised Land 202507:54130/3/2025 
Lawrence Welk – Calcutta 196107:58114/4/2024 
Johnny Lee – My Baby Don’t Slow Dance 198308:050  
Charting this day 1978 Samantha Sang – Emotions 197808:1078/4/2022 
Charting this day 1978 Billy Joel – Just the Way You Are 197808:14227/1/2023 
Steve Markwardt – The Great Divide 202508:210 QZW6A 2300136
Carol Markstrom – Spirit Buffalo 202508:25130/3/2025 
Johnny Tillotson – She Understands Me 196408:301020/12/2024 
Ray Conniff Orchestra – Say It With Music  08:350  
Anne Murray – He Thinks I Still Care  08:39527/10/2023 
Backtrack: Dale Duncan – The ‘Slim Dusty’ Rose 201508:4228/1/2017 
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  08:46127/3/2020 
Barbara Blevins – Let’s Build A Love 202508:49118/4/2025 
Shadows – Winchester Cathedral 08:53315/5/2022 

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.

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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

TRACKRELEASE YEARPLAY TIMEPREVIOUS PLAYSLAST PLAYEDISRC
Phil Salter – Fields Of Dreams202509:04328/2/2025AUD0K 2500001
Elvis Aaron Presley Jr – Goldmine 202509:10128/3/2025 
Charlie Rich – Rolling With The Flow 197709:13423/2/2024 
By Request Today:
Jim Reeves – A Railroad Bum
 09:1685/4/2024 
George Strait – One Night At A Time  09:1914/4/2014 
Backtrack:
Montana Lipscombe – Walking After Midnight 
202109:2363/3/2023 
Barbara Blevins – Let’s Build A Love 202509:280  
Richard Clayderman – Chiquitita  09:33127/7/2018 
Sandy Scott – For The Good Times  09:370  
Ryan Bodine – Ghost Town Road 202509:410 QZW6A 2400237
Beach Boys – Break Away 196909:4419/9/2022 
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965
Del Shannon – Stranger In Town 
196509:49312/7/2019 
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965
Dave Clark Five – Reeling and A-Rocking 
196509:51210/5/2015 
Shelley Minson – Riverbank Red 202509:55114/2/2025AUUHB 2400023
Helena Mace & Tom Leary – Wash Away The Years 202509:5819/3/2025 
Ron Christopher – Angelyne 202510:05828/3/2025 
By Request Today:
Boney M – Hooray Hooray It’s A Holi-Holi-Day
 10:12115/9/2023 
By Request Today:
Jim Reeves – Yonder Comes A Sucker
195510:16125/8/2013 
Old Time Concert Hall:
Anita Kerr Singers – Medley~Two Little Girls In Blue~Let Bygones Be Bygones 
 10:200  
Ric Lucia – Sittin’ With Grandma On The Old Front Porch 202510:260  
Backtrack:
Andrew McMurdie – I Can’t Help Falling In Love With You 
202010:28211/10/2020 
Werner Tauber Orchestra – Tap Dancin’ Time  10:340  
Christa Fartek – Deep in my Heart 202510:360  
Dave Caley – Longer 202510:4219/3/2025US9BH 2400034
Debbie Laken – Believe Me Baby, I Lied 202510:47123/3/2025NZRI1 2403566
Hayley Mills – Johnny Jingo 196210:52418/4/2021 
Lionel Richie – Say You Say Me 10:5469/12/2022 
Ferlin Husky – Wings of a Dove196110:58        1517/3/2024 
David Maguire – Inside Out202511:05214/3/2025 
Dave Edwards – Swing Me Back To Oklahoma 202511:090 QZWKY 2500045
Backtrack:
Larissa Tormey – Yellow Roses 
202511:13611/12/2022 
Gus Backus – Tom Dooley 11:180  
Jim Reeves – Margie  11:21210/12/2023 
New World – I’ll Catch The Sun  11:270  
BBC Big Band – In The Mood  11:34513/3/2020 
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965    
Peter & Gordon – True Love Ways 
196511:38512/3/2021 
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965    
Twinkle – Terry 
196511:41310/3/2017 
Adrian Payne – My Old Town 202511:45123/3/2025AUL9L 2500001
John Michael Ferrari – How Far Apart Are We 202511:49128/3/2025 
Duran Duran – Ordinary World 11:520  

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)

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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:

TRACKRELEASE YEARTIMEPREVIOUS PLAYSLAST PLAYEDISRC
Miss Lana – Finally202506:05211/4/2025 
Charting this day 1976
George Baker Selection – Una Paloma Blanca
1975~197606:131219/1/2025 
Charting this day 1976
Billie Jo Spears – Blanket On The Ground 
197606:16919/3/2023 
Johnny Chester and Grant Luhrs – Loud, Confident And Wrong 202506:22         14/4/2025QM4TX 2523251
By Request Today: Rod Stewart – Sailing197506:252517/1/2025 
Peggy Gilchrist – Under Burdekin Skies 202506:30211/4/2025 
Magic Trumpets – Petite Fleur  06:35320/1/2017 
By Request Today: Lulu – To Sir With Love196706:381119/1/2025 
Backtrack: Jason Owen – Rocky Mountain High 201906:4123/11/2019 
John Rowles – Domino  06:49120/3/2015 
Vernon Huskey – White Silver Sands 202506:54121/3/2025QZYSP 2500012
Jade Hurley – Around The World  06:57226/9/2025 
Michael Meeking – Time to Make Up Your Mind 202507:06121/3/2025AUKNA 2500001
By Request Today: Pussycat – My Broken Souvenirs 07:1152/3/2025 
Charting this day 1976
Maxine Nightingale – Right Back Where We Started From 
197607:15228/5/2021 
Charting this day 1976
Max Merritt & Meteors – Slippin’ Away 
197607:191130/4/2021 
The Charlesys – Shining Star 202507:24111/4/2021CAHQJ 2490906
Ness Da Silva – Honesty 202507:28116/3/2025 
Lawrence Welk & His Orchestra with Myron Floren – Chihuahua Polka  07:330  
Victoria Eman & Glenn van Haasen – In Another Time And Place 202507:3736/4/2025NLJ9A 2500001
Christine Clifford – Annie’s Song 202507:410 QZHNC 2552556
Clelia Adams – Looking Forward, Looking Back 202207:461126/1/2025 
By Request Today: Ted Mulry Gang – Darktown Strutters Ball197607:500  
By Request Today: Alan Jackson – Kiss An Angel Good Morning 07:5314/8/2024 
Mark Wynter – Dream Girl 196107:5736/10/2023 
Mahlissa – Boondockin’  08:050  
Charting this day 1976
Jim Capaldi – Love Hurts 
197608:10416/4/2021 
Charting this day 1976
ABBA – Fernando 
197608:142128/5/2023 
Joy Adams & Gary R Farmer – Be A Little Bit Bolder 202508:2214/4/2025NZRI1 2500760
Chris Callaghan – Twenty Hours 202508:2614/4/2025AUZY4 2000059
Andre Kostelanetz & His Orchestra – Tie A Yellow Ribbon 08:3321/11/2013 
Debbie Laken – Believe Me Baby, I Lied 202508:37123/3/2025NZRI1 2403566
Backtrack: Dean Perrett – Clifton Hills 202108:41628/11/2021 
Anita Ree – Australia’s Rainfall Army 202508:450 AUYNF 2500001
Gail Barnard – Storms 202508:48121/3/2025USCGJ 2534605
Graeme Connors – All The Little Things We Didn’t Say 202508:52119/6/2020 

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.

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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

TRACKRELEASE YEARPLAY TIMEPREVIOUS PLAYSLAST PLAYEDISRC
Two of a Kind – I Love You To The Moon And Back202509:050  
Jeff Orson – Missing You Soon202509:11321/3/2025QT3TB 2425080
Kylie Adams-Collier – The Highland Life202509:150 AUHYD 2500051
Gary Carson-Jones – Walk On By202509:190 AUGGJ 1600055
Backtrack: Dale Duncan – Station Minderoo201709:2316/11/2020 
Four Knights – Oh Baby Mine195409:28620/1/2023 
Melbourne Pops Orchestra Cond by Tommy Tycho – We Do It 09:33220/10/2023 
By Request Today: Alan Jackson – Remember When 09:372330/3/2025 
By Request Today: Shavonne Aliphon – Touch My Heart 09:43213/9/2019 
Don Smythe – Sing Me Back Home201809:47311/1/2019 
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965
Jewel Akens – The Birds And The Bees
196509:53611/5/2018 
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965
Herb Alpert & Tijuana Brass – Whipped Cream
196509:55931/3/2023 
John Williamson – Old Sow 09:590  
Miss Lana – Finally202510:05114/3/2025 
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 For196010:11716/10/2022 
Klaasje Menzen – We Hold Our Head Up High202510:13121/3/2025 
They Don’t Make Them Like This Anymore:
Tony Bennett – Rags to Riches
195310:201019/5/2024 
Carol Chaney – Everything’s A Waltz202510:25121/3/2025 
Daniel O’Donnell – A World Of Our Own 10:28311/2/2024 
Jerry Wilton & His Orchestra – A Walk In The Black Forest 10:32719/6/2020 
Lee Ann Kelly – Willow Tree202510:350  
Kane Vincent – Sarah202510:400 AUMZZ 2500001
Anne Murray – Anyone Can Do The Heartbreak 10:450  
Charlie Landsborough – Little Bit Of Heaven 10:490  
Backtrack: Graham Rodger – Kidman’s Boys201710:5444/5/2018 
The Charlesys – Shining Star202510:570 CAHQJ 2490906
Sabrina Fallon – Eileen Óg202511:05114/4/2024 
Peter Salata – Little Old Fergie Tractor202511:11321/3/2025AUGO4 1502501
Backtrack: Jonathan Mark Hayden – Our Land201811:1444/3/2018 
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 11:2155/5/2017 
Jan Holland – De Vogeltjesdans 11:250  
Ferrante & Teicher – Georgy Girl 11:33410/2/2017 
Nana Mouskouri – Weisse Rosen Aus Athen 11:350  
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965
  Jim Reeves – There’s That Smile Again  
196511:38324/6/2022 
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 
Cliff Richard – The Minute You’re Gone
196511:411011/6/2021 
Peggy Gilchrist – Under Burdekin Skies202511:46121/3/2025 
Jessica Loobey – Back To Her Roots202511:490 QZWKY 2500057
Al Caiola – On A Merry Go Round 11:530  
Living Brass – Mexican Shuffle 11:55118/12/2020 

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)

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