17 November 2023

Friday Morning Radio, Edition 391, 17 November 2023

Today’s playlist:

Hour 1:

Tom Jones – She’s A Lady (1971)
Tony Christie – I Did What I Did For Maria (1971)
Peter Allen – Tenterfield Saddler (1979)
Toni West – The Other Half Of Me (2023)
Larry Cann – Tamworth Gold (2023)
By Request: Bee Gees – Massachusetts (1967)
Al Cerny & Bill Mankiss – Bird Dance

Martin Bottcher & His Orchestra – What A Wonderful World
Gordon Lightfoot – Carefree Highway (Gordon Lightfoot, born this day 1938 in Orillia, Ontario, Canada. Died 1 May 2023)
Gail Barnard – Ride (2023)
Foster & Allen – Sea of Heartbreak
60 Year Diamond Classic: Nino Tempo & April Stevens – Deep Purple (1963)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Helen Shapiro – Look Who It Is (1963)
Jade Hurley – Penny Arcade

Hour 2:

Daniel O’Donnell – Do What You Do Do Well
Slim Dusty – Australia Is His Name
Brian Letton – She (2023)
They Don’t Make Them Like This Anymore: Sheb Wooley – The Purple People Eater (1958)
The Byrds – Ballad of the Easy Rider (1969) (Gene Clark, singer-songwriter and founding member of the Byrds, born this day in 1944 in Tipton, Missouri, USA. Died 1991.)
Francoise Hardy – Toutes Les Garcons Et Les Filles

European Show Band – Red Roses For A Blue Lady
Marion Waldron – Love Is A Harvest (2023)
Don Gibson – There Goes My Everything (Don Gibson, country singer-songwriter who had a string of hits from the late 1950s to the 1970s, died this day 2003 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, aged 75)
Bernie Grass – Rhythm Of The Rail (2021)
Renee & Renato – Blue Serenade
Chamaco Dominguez Orchestra – Meditation

Hour 3:

Sean Brennan – The Misty Rolling Midlands (2023)
Anne Kirkpatrick – Safe In The Arms of Love (2023)
Charlie Rich – The Most Beautiful Girl (1974)
Bachelors – In The Chapel In The Moonlight (1965)
Warren Kearney – What’s Going On In Your World (2023)
Allan Caswell – All Those Years Ago (2023)
Pearls Players – Picnic At Hanging Rock

Barry Manilow – Moonlight Serenade
60 Year Diamond Classic: Al Martino – Living A Lie (1963)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Bobby Bare – 500 Miles Away From Home (1963)
Andre Rieu – Strauss And Co
Hein Simons – Josie
Seekers – Well Well Well

On This Day

1869 Egypt – The Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, was opened.

Co-incidentally, in 1913 in Panama, the first ship, a steamship named Louise, passed through the Panama Canal.

And in 1970,

The Soviet Union landed Lunokhod 1 on the Moon’s Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) from the orbiting Luna 17 spacecraft. This was the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world.

Resembling a toilet pan on eight independently operated wheels, Lunokhod 1 was fitted with a variety of scientific equipment. It travelled over 10½ kilometres on the Moon at a top speed of 100 metres an hour, with it’s four television cameras returning over 20,000 images and 206 high-resolution panoramas.

Lunokhod 1 operated for 11 months, instead of the planned three months. Contact was lost on 14 September 1971 and attempts to re-establish contact ceased on 4 October 1971.