29 February 2024

3 March 2024

Valley Sunrise Edition 771

Today’s Playlist

Hour 1 – 0700 ~ 0800:

Albert Hammond – Brand New Day (1980)
Charley Pride – Is Anybody Going To San Antone (1970)
Craig Lloyd – Thank You Country (2024)
Engelbert Humperdinck – A Winter World Of Love (1969)
Star Trek Theme
[Born this day 1920 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada – James Doohan, actor best known for this role as “Scotty” in the television series Star Trek. Died 2005]
Christine Bauer – Call Me (2024)

Conway Twitty – Hello Darlin’ (1971)
Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes – Up Where We Belong (1982)
[Born this day 1947 in Seattle, Washington State, USA – Jennifer Warnes, singer and songwriter. Turns 77.]
Toni West – I Won’t Crumble With You If You Fall (2024)
Billboard Top 20 of 1961 – No 4: Roy Orbison – Crying
Danny Kaye – Wonderful Copenhagen (1952)
[Died this day 1987 in Los Angeles, California, USA – David Kaminsky, alias Danny Kaye, actor, singer, dancer and comedian. aged 76.]
Abby Grace – Get Over That Thang (2024)

Hour 2 (8.00 ~ 9.00):

Fisherman’s Friends – Strike The Bell
By Request: Bee Gees – New York Mining Disaster 1941 (1967)
By Request: Olivia Newton John – If You Love Me Let Me Know (1974)
By Request: Patrick O’Hagan – When Irish Eyes Are Smiling
By Request: Marty Robbins – Red River Valley
By Request: Brothers Four – Greenfields (1960)

Al Caiola – You Don’t Know Me
Ray Malcolm – With These Hands (2024)
By Request: Slim Dusty – Looking Forward Looking Back
Bill Pidgley – After all These Years (2024)
Clayton Saunders – Black Sheep (2024)

ON THIS DAY

1854 – Australia’s first telegraph line opened between Melbourne and Williamstown.  Work was already in progress on an extension to Geelong and Port Phillip Heads.

1911 – Palmerston, Northern Territory, was re-named Darwin after the evolutionist, Charles Darwin.

1911 – BORN Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.A.  – Harlean Harlow Carpenter alias Jean Harlow, film actress and sex symbol of the 1930s.  Known as the “Platinum Blonde” and the “Blonde Bombshell” due to her platinum blonde hair, Harlow was ranked as one of the greatest movie stars of all time by the American Film Institute. (d. 1937)

1947 – Western Junction, Tasmania – An RAAF Mosquito aircraft participating in an aerial pageant over-ran the airport runway, ploughed through two fences and hopped a railway cutting before coming to rest.

1960 Hobart, Tasmania – The State’s first television signal was transmitted by TVT channel 6 from the station’s newly completed building on Mt Wellington.  The transmission consisted of a static test pattern in the form of a grid.  

1 March 2024

Friday Morning Radio Edition 406

Today’s Playlist:

Hour 1 (9.00 ~ 10.00):

Rosalind Clare – Back In Baby’s Arms (2024)
Jason Owen – Leaving On A Jet Plane (2019)
Jax Tonic – Sitting Here On A Beach (2023)
Glen Miller & His Orchestra – The Woodpecker Song
[Born this day 1904 in Clarinda, Iowa, USA – Alton Glen Miller, jazz musician, arranger, composer, bandleader of the swing era. He was aboard a plane which disappeared without trace over the English Channel in 1944.)
Jazz Kings – East Of The Sun (2023)
Matt Monro – Answer Me

Joe Loss & His Orchestra – Kissin’ Cha Cha
Edward Woodward – The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
Harry Belafonte – The Banana Boat Song (Day-O) (1956)
[Born this day 1927 in New York, USA – Harry Belafonte, musician, singer, actor and social activist, known as “The King of Calypso.” Died 2023]
Fats Domino – I’m In Love Again (1956)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Bobby Goldsboro – See The Funny Little Clown
60 Year Diamond Classic: Rob E G – Carmen
Fisherman’s Friends – Strike The Bell

Hour 2 (10.00 ~ 11.00):

Muriel O’Connor & Fran Curry – Clap Your Hands (2024)
Dave Lawlor – Mississippi (2024)
Jim Haynes – Cheryl Went Feral (2012)
They Don’t Make Them Like This Anymore: Anthony Perkins – The Prettiest Girl In School (1958)
Jimmy Little – Boomerang
[Born this day 1937 in Cummeragunja Mission, New South Wales – Jimmy Little, Aboriginal musician, actor and teacher. Died 2012]
Anne Fraser – Under Australian Stars (2024)
Stanley Sokol & Polkateers – Pennsylvania Polka

Victoria Eman – Oceans (2024)
Ron Jenkins – Loves Me So (2024)
Adrian Payne – Go Back (2024)
Austin McKedy – Slow Train To Oklahoma (2024)
Cassandra – Don’t Change Me (2021)
Nishida Hikaru – Sukiyaki

Hour 3 (11.00 ~ 12.00):

Bette Midler – In The Mood (1973)
Abby Grace – Ship of Dreams (2023)
James Taylor – Fire and Rain (2021)
Andrew Dean & Farm Machine – In My Memory (2024)
Slim Dusty – G’Day G’Day (1988)
By Request: Tommy James & Shondells – Crimson and Clover (1969)

Jimmy Shand & His Band – The Northern Lights of Aberdeen (Instrumental)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Beatles – From Me To You
60 Year Diamond Classic: Frank Ifield – Don’t Blame Me
Dave Caley – Before The Next Teardrop Falls (2024)
Al Martino – A Man Without Love
Colin Paul – Ride That Train (2021)
Paul & Paula – So Fine (1963)
19 0 1 – John Durack

The 60 Year Diamond Classics were charting, as 45 rpm singles, on this day 60 years ago.

ON THIS DAY

1910 – King County, Washington, USA – The worst avalanche in United States history buried a great Northern Railway train, with the loss of 96 lives

1932 – East Amwell, New Jersey, USA – Charles Lindburgh III, the infant son of aviation pioneer Charles Lindbergh, was kidnapped from his family home. The child’s body was located two months later and, two years later, Bruno Hauptmann was arrested and charged. He was executed by electric chair in 1936, proclaiming his innocence.

1954 – Adelaide, South Australia, was rocked by a severe earthquake which caused extensive damage.

1957 – Hobart, Tasmania – During an exhibition on fire safety at the Hobart City Hall, fire broke out in the rear of the building.

1964 – Sydney, New South Wales – Three North Shore schools banned beatle-related clothing, haircuts and records – AND banned pupils from singing Beatles songs around the school – and whilst on the way to and from school!
Meanwhile, in the city, two butcher’s assistants donned Beatles wigs for a joke – and increased their employer’s takings substantially.