24 November 2023

Friday Morning Radio Edition 392 24 November 2023

The programme started badly when a presently-unknown gremlin in the computer caused the first few tracks on the playlist to refuse point-blank to play on cue.

This is one of the worst things which can befall a radio announcer using modern broadcasting equipment and, although very unusual, it can happen without warning.

We end up with a live microphone and little else.

Think fast – take a couple of tracks from last Friday’s edition. More time needed after they finished – so, grab a CD from my briefcase and whack that on. All this time, trying to sort the issue at hand by running up the corridor to the temporary production room and re-loading the entire programme of music.

The re-load didn’t solve the problem, so more stand-in tracks were needed while I went through the procedure again. And again, that didn’t fix it – very strange! All the time, keeping the programme running and resorting to using tracks from last Friday’s edition. At least they were OK.

A couple of listeners phoned in requests in the middle of all this; the TYGA-FM sound library also wasn’t affected and they were played.

After a third re-load, the dulcet tones of Roger Whittaker, who was on this day’s playlist, came though. Life in the studio is normally much easier than that, and only the first hour of music was affected by all this.

Today’s playlist, as broadcast today (the first hour somewhat different to what was planned):

Hour 1:

Larissa Tormey – I’m Gonna Be A Country Girl Again. (This track was inadvertently left off my playlists when it was released 5 years ago. My apologies to Larissa!)
Seekers – Circle of Love
Joy Adams & Gary R Farmer – Mum and Santa Two-Steppin’ Round Our Christmas Tree (2023)
Sherbet – All Our Yesterdays
Andy Kim – Be My Baby

Bobby Russell – Go Chase Your Rainbow
By Request: Glen Dee – Especially For You
Roger Whittaker – Quel Monde Merveilleux
By Request: Jade Hurley – Down In The Riverina
Richard Clayderman – The Music Box Dancer
Mark Vincent – Forever And Ever
A Diamond Classic: New Christy Minstrels (1963)
A Diamond Classic: Tornados – Dragonfly (1963)
Sisters In Country – My Heart’s Already There (2023)

Hour 2:

Dianne Lindsay – What’s A Bush Ballad (2023)
Tom Curtin & Robyn Martin – When The Rain Comes Down (2023)
Hank Snow – The Sea Shores of Old Mexico (2023)
They Don’t Make Them Like This Anymore: Frankie Laine & Jimmy Boyd – Tell Me A Story (1953)
SM 2 – The Judging (2023)
Craig Lloyd – I Call Australia Home (2023)

101 Strings Orchestra – The Way We Were
Frank Sinatra – Come Fly With Me
Suzanne O’Toole – Wayfaring Stranger (2023)
Slim Dusty – Travelling Through
By Request: Foster & Allen – Be Nobody’s Darling But Mine
Mae McCoy & Her Neon Stars – Detour (2023)
Dave Caley – La Bamba (2023)

Hour 3:

Kelan Browne – New Way To Light Up An Old Flame (2023)
By Request: America – Horse With No Name (1972)
Stella Moon – Out Of The Dark (2023)
Beatles – Mr Moonlight (1964)
Rick Nelson & Stone Canyon Band – Suzanne On A Sunday Morning
Bill Jackson – Precious Cargo (2023)

Will Glahe & His Orchestra – The Cuckoo Waltz
A Diamond Classic: Gerry & Pacemakers – You’ll Never Walk Alone (1963)
A Diamond Classic: Sheb Wooley – Hootenanny Hoot (1963)
Tony Christie – Summer Wine
Seekers – Come The Day

Friday was Funday for a low-flying doggo this morning, as it ran across the Hobart’s Tasman Bridge during peak hour traffic.

Although the fast moving pooch occupied one traffic lane, vehicle drivers kept their distance and police officers finally detained the racing rottie at the regatta grounds.