12 April 2024
14 April 2024
Valley Sunrise Edition 777
This Edition’s photo – The recent total solar eclipse taken from Prince Edward Island, Canada, by Ron Bickle of CFTA Radio Tantramar, Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Today’s Playlist:
Hour 1 – 0700 ~ 0800:
Dianne Coombes – The Backsteps (2024)
Alan Gumm – When You’re Blue (2024)
Johnny Cash – Folsom Prison Blues (1958 – 1968)
Matt Monro – I’ll Never Fall In Love Again
Loretta Lynn – The Coal Miner’s Daughter
(BORN this day 1932 in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky, USA – Loretta Webb, alias Loretta Lynn, actress, singer-songwriter and philanthropist. Aged 2022)
Tasmanian Trumpet Trio – The Lonely Bull
Horst Jankowski & His Orchestra – Jumping Jack
Burl Ives – It’s My Funny Way Of Laughing (1962)
(DIED this day 1995 in Anacortes, Washington, USA – Burl Ives, actor and singer. Aged 85)
Deb Mepham – Merry Model T (2024)
Billboard Top 20 of 1961 – No 11, Lawrence Welk – Calcutta, and No 12 Bobby Vee – Take Good Care Of My Baby:
Lawrence Welk – Calcutta
Bobby Vee – Take Good Care Of My Baby
Percy Sledge – When A Man Loves A Woman
(DIED This day 2015 in Baton Rouge – Alabama, USA – Percy Sledge, rhythm and blues and soul singer. Aged 73.)
Hour 2 – 0800 ~ 0900:
Louise Morrissey – Just In Case (2024)
By Request: Beach Boys – Surfing USA (1963)
By Request: Pussycat – Mississippi (1976)
By Request: Charlie Landsborough – I Will Love You All My Life
By Request: Ed Sheeran – Castle On The Hill
Tom Jones – You’re My World
By Request: ABBA – Mamma Mia
By Request: Billy Vaughn & His Orchestra – Morgen
Marty Robbins – Lonely Old Bunkhouse
Charlie Chech – The Summer Wind
Hermans Hermits – Heartbeat (1965)
Percy Faith & His Orchestra – Our Day Will Come
EVENTS ON THIS DAY:
1912 – North Atlantic Ocean – The passenger liner RMS Titanic struck an iceberg at 11.40 p.m. and sank a few hours later. Of more than 2,220 people aboard, 1,517 were lost.
1944 – Bombay (now Mumbai) India – Fire broke out in the hold of SS Fort Stikine, which was loaded with a cargo of cotton, gold, and 1,400 tons of explosives. Two massive explosions, heard 80 kilometres away, ensued, scattering debris, sinking adjacent ships, causing the loss of over 1,000 lives and damage estimated at £20 million.
1964 – Melbourne, Victoria – After an Adelaide-bound Ansett-ANA DC 6 airliner lost a propeller, the pilot flew aerobatics over Port Phillip Bay to shake off the crippled engine before making a safe landing at Melbourne Airport. The 56 passengers and 6 crew aboard were unharmed and the propeller landed in the back yard of an Essendon house.
1981 – Edwards Air Force Base, California, USA – The first operational space shuttle, Columbia, successfully completed it’s first test flight.
1999 – Sydney, New South Wales – A severe hailstorm caused $2.3 billion in insured damage, one of the most costly natural disasters in Australian history.
2010 – Iceland – A volcanic eruption caused massive disruption to air traffic, with ash falling over a large area on northern Europe.
12 April 2024
Friday Morning Radio Edition 412
Today’s Playlist:
Hour 1 (9.00 ~ 10.00):
Hope River Road – Journey Of Your Life (2024)
Steve Marquardt – L O V E (2024)
Ariel Franz (Age 12) – I Will Remember You (2024)
Billy Vaughn & His Orchestra – Mexico
[Born this day 1919 in Glasgow, Kentucky USA – Richard Vaughn alias Billy Vaughn, musician and orchestra leader who charted 42 singles and 36 albums. Died 1991.]
Andy Williams – The Song From Moulin Rouge
Alan Gumm – Fields of Athenry (2024)
101 Strings Orchestra – Unforgettable
Anne Murray – A Love Song
Ned Miller – From A Jack To A King (1963)
[Born this day 1925 in Rains, Utah, USA – Ned Miller, country singer-song writer best known for his # 1 hit, From A Jack To A King. Died 2016.]
Chris Boots Lee – You’ve Got To Stand For Something (2024)
Jokeria – Another Neon Bar (2024)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Jan & Dean – New Girl In School (1964)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Beatles – I Saw Her Standing There (1964)
Hour 2 (10.00 ~ 11.00):
Clayton Saunders – Black Sheep (2024)
Peter Salata – That’s My Way Of Life (2024)
Slim Dusty – Redwing
They Don’t Make Them Like This Anymore: Illo Schieder & Max Greger & His Orchestra – Mambo Caballero (1956)
David Cassidy – I Think I Love You (1970)
[Born this day 1950 in New York, USA – David Cassidy, actor, singer, song writer known for his role in the 1970s sitcom, The Partridge Family. Died 2017.]
Giants of Latin – The Lion Sleeps Tonight
Roger Whittaker – My World
Andre Rieu – Benedictus
Val Doonican – Durham Town
Warren Kearney – The Hill (2024)
Lonnie Lee – Starlight Starbright (1960)
Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band – I’m The Urban Spaceman (1969)
Dancing Ballroom Orchestra – Walking On A Sunday
Alice Benfer – Old Felt Hat (2024)
Hour 3 (11.00 ~ 12.00):
Jeff Catto & Lauren Mayell – Out Of My Head (2024)
Paul Hudnott – Mister Rainbow Man (2024)
Pat Nicholson – I Need You (2024)
Hein Simons – Tulpen Aus Amsterdam
John Denver – The Little Engine That Could
Lawrence Welk Orchestra – Blue Velvet
Billy Vaughn & His Orchestra – The Isle of Capri
Joel Herron & His Orchestra – A Fine Romance
60 Year Diamond Classic: Bachelors – I Believe (1964)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Gene Pitney – That Girl Belongs To Yesterday (1964)
Wallace Mair – I’ll Take You Home (2024)
Executives – It’s A Happening World (1968)
Tony Christie – Summer Wine (2024)
Watling & Bates – Love Was (2024)
The 60 Year Diamond Classics were charting, as 45 rpm singles, on this day 60 years ago.
ALSO ON THIS DAY:
1835 – D’Entrecasteaux Channel, Tasmania – The ship George III, which was carrying 308 people from Woolwich, England, to Port Arthur, was wrecked. Over 100 of the 220 convicts aboard – including 40 boys – drowned when they were prevented from leaving. A total of 134 lives were lost.
1961 – Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space, orbiting Earth once in 89 minutes 6 seconds, aboard Vostok 1.
1962 – The Southern Aurora became the first train to run direct from Sydney to Melbourne, on the new standard gauge track.
1975 – The first sod was turned for construction of the Tarcoola- Alice Springs railway, which was intended to replace the original, flood-prone narrow-gauge line from Oodnadatta to Alice Springs. In 2001, work commenced on extending the line to Darwin.
1981 – Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA – The space shuttle Columbia was launched on it’s first mission.