17 March 2024

17 March 2024

Valley Sunrise Edition 773

Photo: An 1820s colonial-era cottage, built by Irish exile James Austin, who ran a punt ferry which carried travellers, their horses and wagons across the nearby Derwent River. Overland travellers risked attack by bushrangers, during their long 220 km journey north, to Launceston.

This place became known, and still is known, as Austins Ferry.

Today’s Playlist:

Hour 1 – 0700 ~ 0800:

Chris “Boots” Lee – You’ve Got To Stand For Something (2024)
Elisabeth Grey – Don’t Stop The Dancing (2024)
Fat Daddy Pussycat Orchestra – I Saw Her Standing There
Victoria Eman – Oceans (2024)
Nat King Cole – Wolverton Mountain (1962)
[Nathaniel Adams Coles, alias Nat King Cole, born this day 1919 in Montgomery, Alabama, USA. He owes most of his fame to his soft, baritone voice and was one of the first black Americans to host a television variety show. Nat King Cole’s popularity has remained high, decades after his untimely death on 15 February 1965.]
Kym Cormack – Aotearoa, New Zealand (2024)

Billy Vaughn & His Orchestra – Red Sails In The Sunset
Adam Wade – Take Good Care Of Her (1961)
[Patrick Henry Wade, alias Adam Wade, born this day 1935 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. As a singer, drummer and television actor, he became famous for a series of hits in the early 1960s. Died 2022.]
Blue Echoes – Personality (1979)
Billboard Top 20 of 1961 – No 6: Chubby Checker – Pony Time
Platters – Harbour Lights (1960)
[Zola Taylor, born this day 1938 in Los Angeles, California, USA. Zola was the only female member of the Platters from 1954 till 1962, when the group produced most of their popular singles. Died 2007.]
Tommy Makem – Canada My Own Land (2024)


Hour 2 – 0800 ~ 0900:

Jewels And The Heist – Where Do We Go From Here (2024)
By Request: Bee Gees – Tragedy
By Request: Rosanne Cash – Tennessee Flat Top Box
By Request: 101 Strings Orchestra – Quando Quando Quando
By Request: John Williamson – Cootamundra Wattle

By Request: Lonnie Donegan – Have A Drink On Me
Terry Stafford – Suspicion (1964)
[Terry Stafford, died this day 1996 in Amarillo, Texas, USA. He was a singer/songwriter who had a major hit in 1964 with Suspicion. Aged 54.]
Caillin Joe – Love Me (2023)
Ferlin Husky – On The Wings Of A Dove (1961)
[Ferlin Husky, died this day 2011 in Westmoreland, Tennessee USA. He had major hits in the 1950s with A Dear John Letter and Forgive Me John, as well as On The Wings Of A Dove. Aged 85.]
David Curtis – After All These Years (2024)
Petula Clark – My Friend The Sea (1961)

ALSO ON THIS DAY:

1955 – Hobart, Tasmania – The city’s water supply situation was described as desperate, and reliant entirely on the Lake Fenton pipeline. 

1963 – Bali, Indonesia – An eruption of the volcano Mt Agung caused the loss of 11,000 lives.

1965 – Launceston, Tasmania – All 19 passengers and four crew escaped uninjured when a Fokker Friendship airliner crash-landed at Launceston Airport after one engine failed.

1967 – Long Beach, California, U.S.A. – Australia’s two domestic airlines, TAA and Ansett ANA, took delivery of their first Douglas DC 9 jet airliners.

1979 – Berwickshire, England – The Penmanshiel railway tunnel collapsed during re-construction, with the loss of two workmen.
Initially constructed in 1845, it was part of the East Coast Main Line, but after this collapse the ground was determined to be too unstable to recover the workmen’s bodies or rebuild the tunnel.
The tunnel was then sealed-up and the railway was diverted through a deep cutting, to the west of the hill.