22 March 2024
24 March 2024
Valley Sunrise Edition 774
Today’s Playlist:
Hour 1 – 0700 ~ 0800:
Tony Clarke – Good Morning Mr Morning (2024)
Tony Bennett & Elton John – Rags To Riches
Bee Gees – World (1967)
Anne Murray & Glen Campbell – You’re Easy To Love
Dermot O’Hara – Lonestar State of Mind (2024)
Charlie Landsborough – Close Your Eyes
Paul Mauriat & His Orchestra – Atlantis
The Long And Short Of It – Beside You (2024)
Warren Kearney – The Old Ways (2023)
Billboard Top 20 of 1961 – No 8: The Stringalongs – Wheels
Andy Williams – We’ve Only Just Begun
Brian Letton – She (2023)
101 Strings – Sweets For My Sweet
Hour 2 – 0800 ~ 0900:
Anne Fraser – Beneath Australian Stars (2024)
By Request: John Williamson – Cootamundra Wattle
By Request: Proclaimers – I’m Gonna Be 500 Miles
By Request: Judy Collins – Send In The Clowns
By Request: Pussycat – Mississippi
The Welsh Whisperer – H M R C Just Let Me Be (2024)
Brothers Four – All My Loving (1964)
Peter & Gordon – 500 Miles (1964)
Dionne Warwick – The April Fools
Jade Hurley & Pixie Jenkins – A Little Bit Country
Petula Clark – My Love (1965)
Lance Birrell – Aussie Medley (2023)
ON THIS DAY:
1960 – Hobart, Tasmania – Test transmissions from Hobart’s only commercial television station, TVT channel 6, which was yet to open, were clearly received over a wide area of southern Tasmania.
1965 – Photographs of the Moon, transmitted from the NASA spacecraft Ranger 9, were broadcast into millions of homes in the United States before the craft crashed into the Moon at 9,600 km/h.
1980 – Sydney, New South Wales – The Australian Olympic Committee announced it would send a delegation to the Moscow Olympic Games, despite objections by the-then Prime Minister, Malcolm Fraser.
1989 – Prince William Sound, Alaska, USA – The bulk tanker Exxon Valdez spilt over 37,000 tonnesof crude oil after running aground. The spill, which polluted over 2,000 kilometres of coastline, is the second largest to occur in U S waters.
22 March 2024
Friday Morning Radio Edition 409
Photo: The River Derwent near Hayes, Tasmania, Australia. (Photo: Yours Truly)
Today’s Playlist:
Hour 1 (9.00 ~ 10.00):
Crystal Gayle – Never Ending Song of Love
Tony Christie – Rhinestone Cowboy
Men At Work – Down Under (1981)
Kym Cormack – Aotearoa New Zealand (2024)
Sandy Summers – Run Today (2024)
Grady Martin & Slewfoot Five – More
101 Strings – San Francisco
Andy Williams – Without You
Roger Whittaker – Imagine
[Born this day 1936 in Nairobi, Kenya – Roger Whittaker, singer-songwriter and musician. Died 2023]
Warren Kearney & Peggie Nora – We Don’t Talk Anymore (2023)
Bee Gees – Don’t Forget To Remember (1969)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Beach Boys – Fun Fun Fun (1964)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Dave Clark Five – Bits And Pieces (1964)
Hour 2 (10.00 ~ 11.00):
The Welsh Whisperer – H M R C Just Let Me Be (2024)
Lesley Gore – Here You Come Again
Jimmy Little – Never Never
They Don’t Make Them Like This Anymore: Ray Anthony Singers – At Last (1952)
Carylann – Try The World On Like A Pair Of Shoes (2019)
Ron Jenkins – Loves Me So (2024)
James Last & His Orchestra – The Last Waltz
Jazz Kings – Moanin’ (2023)
London Philharmonic Orchestra & Singers – Love Changes Everything
[Born this day 1948 in Kensington, London, England – Andrew Lloyd Webber, composer of musical theatre, referred to as the most commercially successful composer in history. Turns 76 today.]
Guy Mitchell – Silver Moon Upon The Golden Sands (1950)
Bob Marshall – Cowboy Blessing (2024)
Terry Bennetts – Backing In The Van (2024)
Jokeria – Another Neon Bar (2024)
Dancing Ballroom Orchestra – Walking On A Sunday
Hour 3 (11.00 ~ 12.00):
Chris “Boots” Lee – This Is Australia (2024)
Jason Carruthers – Goats Ahead Upon The Road (2022)
Blue Shamrocks – You Packed Away Your Records (2024)
Foundations – Build Me Up Buttercup (1969)
Dianne Lindsay – When Rivers Run (2023)
Trevor Dawe – Buckaroo
Mark White & Matt Rogers – The Sound of Silence
Percy Faith & His Orchestra – Judy
60 Year Diamond Classic: Diane Renay – Blue Navy Blue (1964)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Four Seasons – Dawn (1964)
Tiny Green Island – Walking On The Waves (2024)
Petula Clark – I Will Follow Him (1963)
Dave Caley – La Bamba (2023)
The 60 Year Diamond Classics were charting, as 45 rpm singles, on this day 60 years ago.
ALSO ON THIS DAY:
1931 – Australian National Airlines’ airliner Southern Cloud, which left Sydney for Melbourne at 8.30 a.m. with 6 passengers and 2 crew, was reported missing. The aircraft was one of ten triple-engined aircraft which flew regular services within Australia.
An 18-day search by 20 aircraft failed to reveal its whereabouts and it remained a mystery until 26 October 1958, when a worker on the Snowy Mountains hydro-electric project accidentally discovered the it’s remains in mountainous terrain, 25 kilometres east of the direct Sydney-Melbourne route.
1942 – London, England – W W 2 – The BBC broadcast its first daily news bulletin to the French Resistance in Morse Code.
1968 – Two journalists died and 8 other people were injured when a helicopter crashlanded on a natural gas platform in Bass Strait, 24 km off Sale, Victoria