5 January 2024
The Derwent River, New Norfolk
7 January 2024
Valley Sunrise Edition 763
Today’s Playlist
Hour 1:
Ray Malcolm – Before The Next Teardrop Falls
Randy Travis – Anything
Al Bowlly – It’s A Lovely Day Tomorrow (1940) [Al Bowlly born this day 1899 in Lourenco Marques, Mozambique, died in the Luftwaffe Blitz on London, 1941.]
Greta Ziller – Cross My Fingers (2023)
Eric Jupp & His Orchestra – Can’t Take My Eyes Off You [Eric Jupp born this day 1922 in Brighton, England, died Launceston, Tasmania, 2003.]
Kitty Kallen – In The Chapel In The Moonlight (1954) [Kitty Kallen died this day 2016 in Cuernavaca, Mexico, aged 94.]
Andre Rieu – A Whiter Shade of Pale
Troy Shondell – This Time We’re Really Breaking Up (1961) [Gary Wayne Shelton alias Troy Shondell died this day in 2016 in Picayune, Mississippi, USA, aged 76.]
Billboard Top 20 of 1960 – No 17: Connie Francis – My Heart Has A Mind Of It’s Own
Pat Boone – Johnny Will (1962)
Ray Davis & His Button-Down Brass – The Mexican Shuffle
Hour 2:
Douglas Ray Jaffe – Love Again (2023)
By Request: Seekers – Turn Turn Turn
By Request: Elvis Presley – Blue Suede Shoes (1956)
By Request: Celine Dion – My Heart Will Go On
Pete King Orchestra & Chorus – On The Atchison Topeka And Santa Fe
By Request: Marty Robbins – Singing The Blues
Alisha Smith – Tambo River Blues
Brian Heywood – Fatal Shore (2023)
Jack Jones – The First Night Of The Full Moon (1964)
ABBA – One Of Us (1981)
Gerry & Pacemakers – I’ll Be There (1965)
Rod McCormack, Charley Poyter, Peter Simpson – Alabama Jubilee (2023)
In Aviation On This Day:
1931 Sydney, New South Wales – Aviator Guy Menzies departed on the first solo non-stop flight from Australia to New Zealand. He arrived near Hari Hari, on the country’s South Island 11 hours and 45 minutes later and landed in a swamp which flipped his aircraft upside down.
Menzies broke the record time for the Australia – New Zealand flight previously set by Charles Kingsford Smith and Charles Ulm by over 2 hours.
1933 Pratomagno Alps, Italy – Bert Hinkler, (aged 40) Australian pioneer aviator, died in a plane crash while attempting to break the time record for a flight from London – Darwin. It was three months before the wreckage, covered with snow, was found. Hinkler was the first person to fly solo from England to Australia, and the first person to fly solo across the Southern Atlantic Ocean.
In Astronomy On This Day:
2005 Eris, the largest known dwarf planet in the solar system, was discovered by the Palomar Observatory, California, U.S.A. Eris is approximately 2,500 kilometres in diameter, has one moon (named Dysnomia), takes 559 Earth years to orbit the Sun and is currently three times further from the sun, as Pluto.
5 January 2024
Friday Morning Radio Edition 398
Today’s Playlist
Hour 1:
Lloyd Back – Try A Little Kindness (2023)
Ray Cummins & Joetta Schmitt – Do I Ever Cross Your Mind (2023)
Fleetwood Mac – Book Of Love (1982)
Ginny Peters – Waiting On The Green Green Grass Of Home (1967)
Wilbert Harrison – Kansas City (1959) [Wilbert Harrison, born this day in 1929, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA, died 1994. Kansas City went to No 1 on the Billboard chart, sold over a million copies, thereby earning a gold disc.]
Tony Barber – Rags To Riches
Bobby Goldsboro – Behind Closed Doors
Los Muchachos – Fiesta Tropical
Eamonn Jackson – Carmen
Seekers – You Can Tell The World~Blowing In The Wind (From a live performance.) [Athol Guy, born this day in Colac, Victoria, turns 84 today.]
60 Year Diamond Classic: Murray Kellum – Long Tall Texan (1963)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme: I Can’t Stop Talking About You (1963)
Jazz Kings – Moaning (2023) [From their CD Album, Blue Jazz, arrived in the studio this morning.]
Hour 2:
Bobby Mackey – Me Love You Long Time (2023)
Mae McCoy & Her Neon Stars – One More Time (2023)
Daniel O’Donnell & Mary Duff – Top Of The World
They Don’t Make Them Like This Anymore: Max Bygraves – The Cowpuncher’s Cantata (1952)
Singing Bus Drivers – The Bridge Song (1975)
[On this evening in 1975, the bulk ore carrier Lake Illawarra collided with the Tasman Bridge in Hobart, resulting in the deaths of 7 crewmen and 5 motorists who were driving over the bridge at the time. The Singing Bus Drivers were a pair of M T T – now Metro – drivers who wrote and recorded this track in Hobart.]
Allan Caswell – All Those Years Ago (2023)
Tony Sheridan with the Beatles – My Bonnie (1962) [The Beatles’ first hit recording, albeit as a backing band to a non-member singer.]
Aly Cook – Western Line (2017)
Blue Shamrocks – Through The Years (2023)
Jazz Kings – Ferry Cross The Mersey (2023)
Hour 3:
Dean Perrett – Close To Home (2023)
Carrie Haskins – First Time (2023)
Warren Kearney – The Wayward Wind [From his new CD Album, Welcome To My World]
Marti Webb – Moonlighting
Mike McClellan – The One I Love (1980)
Roger Whittaker – Du Bist Ein Engel
Joe Loss & His Orchestra – Tiptoe Through The Tulips
Kameron Mantell – Santa Baby (2023)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Mitch Miller – The Great Escape March (1963)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Roy Orbison – Pretty Paper (1963)
Bob Marshall – Real Cowboy (2023)
Jade Hurley – Judy Judy Judy
Planning is now under way for Edition 400 of Friday Morning Radio, and the special Australia Day Edition, No. 401.
The Number 1 single in Hobart this day in 1964: Cliff Richard – Don’t Talk To Him