2 November 2023

Valley Sunrise, Edition 754, 5 November 2023

Sunday morning, and at 6.00 AEDT on TYGA-FM, 98.9 and on-line at ( www.tygafm.org.au/listen-live/ ), Music Unlimited with Ian MacPhee.

In this edition, Ian’s playlist includes the Sandpipers, Brothers Four, Barry Manilow, Patsy Cline, Vikki Carr, and a lot more.

Edition 754 of Valley Sunrise follows at 7.00, with music from the Spinners (the English folk group), Art Garfunkel, Ray Conniff, and a lot more, including listener requests after 8.00.

To make an easy-listening request, please call me during the programme on 6261 2000.

It’ll be great to hear from you.

Today’s playlist:

Hour 1:

George Finizio – Teardrops (2023)
Josh Powell-Fussell – Kiss Me Like That (2023)
Dianne Lindsay – What’s A Bush Ballad (2023)
Spinners (U K) – Drunken Sailor
Horst Wende’s Accordeon Band – Die Fischerin Vom Bodensee
(Born this day 1919 Zeitz, Germany – Horst Wende, bandleader and composer. Died 1996)
Art Garfunkel – Bright Eyes (1979)
(Born this day 1941, Forest Hills, New York, U.S.A. – Arthur Garfunkel alias Art Garfunkel, singer and actor. Turns 82)

Frank Mills & His Orchestra – Blackfoot Country
Hermans Hermits – A Must To Avoid (1965)
(Born this day 1947, Davyhulme, Lancashire, England – Peter Blair Denis Bernard Noone, singer and songwriter, alias “Herman” in the 1960s Merseybeat band, Hermans Hermits. Turns 76]
Lynchburg & Weeping Willows – Together With You
Elvis Presley – Stuck On You (No 9 of the Top 20 Billboard Tracks, 1960)
Al Caiola – Big Guitar
Ray Conniff Singers – The Sound of Silence
Al Cerny & Bill Mankiss – Al’s Seven Step

Died on this day:

1960, Milano, Texas, U.S.A. – Johnny Horton, singer famous for the historical ballad craze of the late 1950s/early 1960s, such as The Battle of New Orleans and North To Alaska. Aged 35.
1977, Houston, Texas, U.S.A. – Guy Lombardo, bandleader who formed the Royal Canadians in 1924. The orchestra had international success, selling over 100 million records. Aged 75.
1989, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, U.S.A. – Barry Sadler, author, musician and singer who served as a Green Beret medic and Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War. Aged 49.

Hour 2:

Gabriella Cilmi – Warm This Winter (2008)
By Request: Ray Stevens – Misty
By Request: Rosanne Cash – Tennessee Flat Top Box
By Request: Drongos – Waltzing Matilda
Rossi M – Railroad Train
Barry Thornton – Gibb River Roundup

Kenji Standlee – Blessings From Above (2023)
John O’Dea – The Tree Beside The Bend (2023)
Anne Murray – Shadows In The Moonlight
Craig Lloyd – I Call Australia Home
Billy Jo Speers – What I’ve Got In Mind (1976)

I noticed that last Sunday’s Valley Sunrise playlist hadn’t been entered here. This was an oversight on my part, and has now been rectified. Please scroll down if you would like to see it.

Playlists are now being posted in a darker font, to make them more conspicuous.

Sometimes things don’t go according to plan in broadcasting. This is a classic example:

1956  –   Sydney, New South Wales – Unplanned incidents occurred during the opening of the Australian Broadcasting Commission’s first television station, ABN channel 2. During opening speeches, the camera focussed on people sitting behind the speaker who, because of the bright studio lights, were sitting with their eyes closed or squinted, giving the appearance that they were asleep.

This was followed by missing sound, then voices of technicians asking where the sound was, and when that was restored, a loud crash which interrupted the announcer, Michael Charlton.

Oh dear!

Friday Morning Radio, Edition 389, 3 November 2023

On the playlist for this edition, great recent releases from Australia’s Ainslie Allen, Col Elliott, Brian Letton and Destiny Band Oz,
together with Dermot O’Hara (Ireland), Melinda Hanssen (Belgium), Olivia (Netherlands), and Toni West (U K) and more.

There are plenty of memory tracks, including four 60-Year Diamond Classics (charting this day exactly 60 years ago);

Regular weather updates;

A rundown on some roadworks to watch out for in the South;

Railway Round-up (when Tasmanian volunteer-operated Tourist & Heritage trains are running);

And Sky High (which planets are visible and when).

From 9 a.m. ~ Midday AEDT on TYGA-FM 98.9, the Derwent Valley’s own radio station.

This morning’s playlist:

Hour 1:

Vernon Huskey – Ghost Riders In The Sky (2022)
Dusty Springfield – Sweet Ride
Roy Orbison – Communication Breakdown (1966)
Dermot O’Hara – Sunday Morning Coming Down (2023)
Ainslie Allen – Don’t Wanna Be Lonely (2023)
Waikikis – Honolulu Rose

Magic Trumpets – Only You
Lulu – Boom Bang A Bang (1969) (Born on this day 1948, Lennoxtown, East Dunbartonshire, Scotland, Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie alias Lulu)
Sean Brennan – I’m Going Home (2023)
Melinda Hanssen – Dance To Country Music (2023)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Roy Orbison – Mean Woman Blues (1963)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Joy Boys – Murphy The Surfie (1963)
Ol’ 55 – Little Town Flirt

Hour 2:

Rubettes – Sugar Baby Love (1974)
Olivia – Guardian Angel (2022)
Col Elliott – Proud To Be An Aussie (2023)
They Don’t Make Them Like This Anymore: Bing Crosby & Rosemary Clooney – Zing A Little Zong (1952)
Lonnie Donegan – My Old Man’s A Dustman (1960) (Died this day 2002, Market Deeping, England, Lonnie Donegan, titled The King of Skiffle, aged 71)
Abby Grace – Dancing On The Line (2023)

Paul Mauriat & His Orchestra – Love Is Blue (1968) (Died this day 2006, Perpignan, France, Paul Mauriat, musician and orchestra leader, sold over 40 million albums. Aged 81)
Elisabeth Grey – Good Enough (2023)
Kay Starr – The Rock and Roll Waltz (1956) (Died this day 2016, Beverley Hills, California, U.S.A., 1950s pop and jazz singer. Aged 94)
Jim Croce – The Railroad Song (1973)
Marty Robbins – El Paso (1959)
1960 Hobart, Tasmania –  Captain Robert Hall, an American Air Force pilot had the jet engine of his U 2 aircraft “flame out” and fail whilst flying high over the city.  As he dived to an altitude of 25,000ft (7,600m) as a measure to restart the jet engine, he contacted Hobart airport to request Hobart commercial radio station 7HT to play recordings of El Paso and Night And Day.
The teenage announcer on air at the time, John Burnley, duly played the pilot’s requests.  The jet engine was re-started and Captain Hall resumed his journey, the purpose of which was stated to be, to sample the upper air over Tasmania.  (Yeah, right! – Ray)
John Burnley had a distinguished career in commercial radio, moving from Tasmania to Sydney, Perth and Brisbane. He died peacefully of heart failure in Brisbane in March 2017, aged 78.
Billy Vaughn & His Orchestra – The Berlin Melody

Hour 3:

Joy Adams & Gary R Farmer – The Point Of No Return (2023)
Tony Clarke – The Good Old Fashioned Way (2023)
Toni West – The Other Half Of Me (2023)
Debbie Reynolds – Beyond The Stars
Brian Letton – She (2023)

Melbourne Pops Orchestra – It Might As Well Rain Until September
60 Year Diamond Classic: Peter Paul & Mary – Don’t Think Twice (1963)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Town & Country Brothers – Sandy Sandy (1963)
Destiny Band Oz – All Alone
Jay & Americans (1969)
Sandie Shaw – Long Live Love (1965)
Al Caiola – The Bounty Hunter

*60 Year Diamond Classics, charting exactly 60 years ago to this day.

Today’s masthead is of the Spanish Airbus, EC – NBN, owned by WAMOS Air, which was wet-chartered by Air New Zealand for it’s daily Auckland-Perth service from November 2022 until October 28.

It was a regular sight as it passed over the Derwent Valley at 38,000 feet, early most afternoons. It has recently returned
to it’s Madrid base. Air New Zealand are now using one of their own Boeing 787s on the route.