9 November 2023
Music Unlimited and Valley Sunrise, Edition 755, 12 November 2023
Today’s pic is of Cambridge, as seen from Mt Rumney. Having noticed a new air navigation beacon operating on a hilltop in the Meehan Range, I decided to re-visit Mt Rumney, where a similar beacon has been in use for longer than I can remember.
It’s been 50 years since I was last at Mt Rumney, BUT I don’t recommend the drive for all and sundry. The road was built as a 1930s Depression-era project and the last couple of kilometres is so narrow that, in places, two opposing vehicles cannot pass. Fortunately, I was alone in the vicinity at the time.
There is plenty of evidence of other visitations, as all the buildings associated with air navigation and communication equipment are heavily daubed and splashed with senseless spray paint.
At 6.00 a.m. AEDT Sunday morning on TYGA-FM, 98.9 and on-line ( www.tygafm.org.au/listen-live/ ), Music Unlimited with Ian MacPhee.
In this edition, Ian’s playlist includes Frank Sinatra, Neil Sedaka, Il Divo, Stevie Wonder and much more, whilst in the Comfort Zone segment, Ireland’s Daniel O’Donnell; and in Country Patch, Jim Reeves.
Music Unlimited is a one-hour programme produced in Studio B, Seaside FM, Halifax, Nova Scotia for broadcast on that station, as well as CFTA Radio Tantramar in Amherst, Nova Scotia.
It’s presenter, Ian MacPhee and producer, Paul Meagher are presenters at Seaside FM, with over 50 years of broadcasting experience. In retirement, they take their turns at the mike on this community station.
Post-production is by Ron Bickle, who also has extensive broadcasting experience which he now devotes to community radio, through Radio Tantramar.
Ron regularly despatches each recorded edition of Music Unlimited to me, for broadcast on TYGA-FM 98.9.
Edition 755 of Valley Sunrise at 7.00, easy listening and memories with Jo Stafford, Booker T, Lance Birrell, Jackie Trent and others, with listener requests after 8.00.
Today’s Valley Sunrise playlist:
Hour 1:
Sean Brennan – The Misty Rolling Midlands (2023)
Dave Caley – La Bamba (2023)
Ainslie Allen – Don’t Wanna Be Lonely (2023)
Frank Sinatra & Nelson Riddle Orchestra – Sunday
Jo Stafford with Paul Weston & His Orchestra – Try To Remember
(Born this day 1917, Coalinga, California, U.S.A. – Jo Stafford, award-winning singer and actress whose career spanned 50 years from the 1930s through to the 1980s. Died 2008.)
Brian Hyland – Ginny Come Lately (1962)
(Born this day 1943, Queens, New York, U.S.A. – Brian Hyland, successful 1960s pop singer. Turns 80 today.)
Otto Bredl & Jiggs Whigham – Goody Goody
Booker T & MGs – Time Is Tight (1969)
(Born this day 1944, Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.A. – Booker Taliaferro Jones Jr, alias Booker of Booker T & the MGs, musician and songwriter. Turns 79.)
Lance Birrell – The Battle of Kokoda (2018)
Chubby Checker – The Twist (No 10 of the Top 20 Billboard Tracks, 1960)
Jackie Trent & Tony Hatch – Thank You For Loving Me (1968)
Bill Goodall – Wheels (2023)
Hour 2:
Jade Hurley – Do Wah Diddy Diddy
By Request: Beatles – P S I Love You
By Request: Roy Orbison – Blue Angel
By Request: Stanley Sokol & Polkateers – Beer Barrel Polka
Slim Dusty – Travelling Through
By Request: – Bob Lind – Elusive Butterfly
S M 2 – The Judging (2023)
Joe Diamond – How Much Rain Can One Man Stand (2023)
Henry Mancini Orchestra & Chorus – Swinging On A Star
Brian Letton – She (2023)
Acoustic Bloom – Carolina In the Fall (2023)
Bimbo Jet – El Bimbo
ON THIS DAY – 12 November
1894 – Stanwell Park, New South Wales – In a pioneering aeronautical experiment, four box kites lifted Lawrence Hargreave 5 metres from the ground
1980 – The space probe Voyager 1 made its closest approach to the planet Saturn, took the first images of its rings and studied Saturn’s moon, Titan. Voyager 1 is still communicating with Earth after more than 46 years, and is expected to continue until 2025, by which time it’s generators will no longer be able to supply sufficient electrical current. It is now the furthest man made object from Earth.
2003 – Shanghai, China – Shanghai Transrapid set a new world speed record for commercial railway systems of 501 kilometres per hour (311 mph) with a magnetic levitation train which operates between Shanghai International Airport and Pudong. The trains take a minimum of 7½ minutes to cover 30 kilometres.
Friday Mornings with Ray, Edition 390, 10 November 2023
Whenever I see the words “Modern music is rubbish” I reply, “You’re not listening to the right radio station.”
Most mainstream radio stations aim for the “heavy” market. My aim is to provide a real alternative.
In Edition 390 of Friday Morning Radio, three hours of great easy listening from Australian artists and overseas,
regular weather updates, 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.
Today’s playlist:
Hour 1:
Dave Caley – La Bamba (2023)
Rene Hage – Candybar Kenny (2023
Michael Farrell & Rosalind Clare – Time’s A’Wasting (2023)
David Curtis – Christmas Day The First Day of Forever (2023)
Norma O’Hara Murphy – Kosciusko (2023)
Kyu Sakamoto – Sukiyaki (1963)
Lynchburg – La Chica Bella (2022)
Paul Mauriat & His Orchestra – Minuetto
Billy May & His Orchestra – Theme From A Summer Place
(Born this day 1916, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – Billy May, composer, trumpeter and band leader. Died 2004.)
Craig Lloyd – I Call Australia Home (2023)
Kylie Adams-Collier – Montevideo Maru 1942 (2018)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Jimmy Gilmer – Sugar Shack (1963)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Skeeter Davis – I Can’t Stay Mad At You (1963)
Col Joye – All Shook Up (1964)
Hour 2:
Desi Egan – I Wanna Stay With You (2023)
Don Smythe – Daddy’s In Kandaha (2020)
Jade Hurley – Georgie
They Don’t Make Them Like This Anymore: Max Bygraves – Gilly Gilly Ostenfeffer (Katzenellenbogen By The Sea) (1954)
Donna Fargo – The Happiest Girl In The Whole U S A (1972)
(Born this day 1945, Airey, North Carolina, U S A – Yvonne Vaughan, alias Donna Fargo, singer-songwriter. Turns 78 today.)
S M 2 – The Judging (2023)
Larry Cunningham – Leitrim
European Show Band – Moulin Rouge Theme
Tom Preacher – The Long Drive Home (2023)
Roger Nicholas Chorale – Don’t Go Breaking My Heart
By Request: Foster & Allan – The Rose of Mooncoin
Jim Croce – The Railroad Song
Sarina Haggarty – Keep Me Awake (2023)
Hour 3:
Craig Giles – Picture On The Mantle (2017)
Vanessa Bourne – Lord I Hope This Day Is Good (2023)
The 23x – My Kind Of Girl (2023)
Pepe Jaramillo & His Latin American Rhythm – Good Morning Starshine
Roger Whittaker – Feelings
Cliff Richard – Quando Quando Quando
Joel Herron & His Orchestra – Look For The Silver Lining
60 Year Diamond Classic: Bob Luman & Sue Thompson – I Like Your Kind Of Love (1963)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Charlie Drake – I’ve Lost The End Of My Yodel (1963)
Dean Martin – In The Chapel In The Moonlight
Billy Vaughn & His Orchestra – Roses Are Red
101 Strings – St Tropez In June
ON THIS DAY – 10 November
1958 Lake Coniston, England – Speed ace Donald Campbell increased his water speed record from 239 m.p.h. (384 km/h) to 248.62 m.p.h. (400 km/h) in his hydroplane Bluebird.
1964 Canberra, Australian Capital Territory – Prime Minister Robert Menzies announced the reintroduction of conscription.
1975 The freighter ship Edmund Fitzgerald sank suddenly during a storm on Lake Superior, one of the great lakes bordering the U.S.A. and Canada, with the loss of all 29 crew on board.
1979 Mississauga, Ontario, Canada – A 106-waggon Canadian Pacific freight train carrying explosives and poisonous chemicals, derailed, causing a massive explosion and the largest peacetime evacuation in Canadian history
1980 The NASA space probe Voyager 1 started its closest approach to Saturn, when it flew within 77,000 miles of the planet’s cloud-tops, returning the first high resolution images of the planet.