19 April 2024
21 April 2024
Valley Sunrise Edition 778
This Edition’s Photo: Taken near Granton, April 2024.
Today’s Playlist:
Hour 1 – 0700 ~ 0800:
Paul Hudnott – Mister Rainbow Man (2024)
Chris “Boots” Lee – You’ve Got To Stand For Something (2024)
Wallace Mair – I’ll Take You Home (2024)
Alan Gumm – Fields Of Athenry (2024)
Don Cornell – I’m Yours (1952)
(BORN this day 1919 in The Bronx, New York, USA – Luigi Varlaro, alias Don Cornell, 1940s and 50s singer. Died 2004)
Al Caiola – Calcutta
Horst Jankowski & His Orchestra – Hello Dolly
Silvano Mangano – Anna (1953)
(BORN this day 1930 in Rome, Italy – Silvana Mangano, actress who trained as a dancer and worked as a model before winning a beauty pageant in 1946. Her subsequent acting career continued for 40 years. Died 1989)
Petula Clark – A Groovy Kind Of Love
Billboard Top 20 of 1961 – No 13, Roy Orbison – Running Scared:
Roy Orbison – Running Scared (1961)
Joy Adams & Gary R Farmer – You’re The One Who Tore Our Love Apart (2024)
Nina Simone – My Baby Just Cares For Me (1958)
(DIED this day 2003 in Bouches-du-Rhone, France – Nina Simone, American singer, songwriter, pianist, and civil rights activist. Aged 70.)
Peter Salata – That’s My Way Of Life (2024)
Hour 2 – 0800 ~ 0900:
Watling & Bates – Love Was (2024)
By Request: P J Proby – If I Loved You
By Request: Jim Reeves – I Love You Because (1964)
By Request: Chris de Burgh – Lady In Red
By Request: Mantovani – Born Free
Warren Kearney – The Hill
Werner Muller & His Orchestra – My Little Grass Shack In Kealakekua
Alan Caswell – Take Your Time (2024)
By Request: Tammy Wynette – Apartment Number Nine
Jamie Donnelly – Fathers Daughters (2023)
Alisha Smith – Along The Molonglo
Royal Guardsmen – Snoopy vs The Red Baron (1967)
ALSO DIED ON THIS DAY:
1910 – In Redding, Connecticut, USA – Samuel Langhorne Clemens, alias Mark Twain, author. He was born shortly after an appearance by Halley’s Comet. He predicted that he would “go out with it.” He died the day after the comet re-appeared, aged 74.
1918 – In Vaux-sur-Somme, France – Baron Manfred von Richtofen, German World War 1 fighter pilot ace, known as The Red Baron, credited with 80 air combat victories. He was shot down and killed by Australian ground fire after being attacked by a Canadian aircraft. Aged 25.
19 April 2024
Friday Morning Radio Edition 413
The Playlist:
Hour 1 (9.00 ~ 10.00):
Diana Ross & Supremes – The Happening (1967)
Men At Work – Who Can It Be Now (1981)
Marmalade – Ob La Di Ob La Da (1969)
Bobby Russell – 1432 Franklin Pike Circle Hero (1968)
[Born this day 1940 in Nashville, Tennessee USA – Bobby Russell, songwriter, who also recorded several hit records. Died 1992.]
Shaza Leigh – Safety In Their Arms (2024)
Mrs Mills – I Belong To Glasgow
Manuel & The Music Of The Mountains – Mascara Negra
Cass Williams – Walkin’ Old Floors
Alan Price – The House That Jack Built (1967)
[Born this day 1942 in Fatfield, England – Alan Price, musician and original keyboardist with The Animals. Turns 82.]
Vanessa Delaine – Invisible (2024)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Terry Stafford – Suspicion (1964)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Danny Williams – White On White (1964)
Hour 2 (10.00 ~ 11.00):
Michael T Wall – Daddy’s Girl (2021)
Sarah & Sabrina Wall – We’re Still Daddy’s Girls (2021)
Tommy B – Bed of Roses (2021)
They Don’t Make Them Like This Anymore: Carson Robison – Life Gets Tee-Jus Don’t It (1948)
Andy Williams – Love Letters In The Sand
Aretha Franklin – I Say A Little Prayer (1968)
Lawrence Welk – Java
Tony Christie – Sea Of Heartbreak
New Seekers – I Get A Little Sentimental (1974)
[Born this day 1943 in Auchterarder Scotland – Evelyn May Beatson, alias Eve Graham, singer who found fame as a member of the early 1970s pop group, The New Seekers. Turns 81.]
Celia Bryce Band – Here Before (2024)
Lindsay Waddington – When I Think Of Home (2024)
Peter Smokie Dawson – Touching Strings (2024)
Slim Dusty – Fair Dinkum
Hour 3 (11.00 ~ 12.00):
Sammie Soravia – The Woman I Am (2024)
Abby Grace – Me, Myself and I (2024)
Daniel O’Donnell – Wooden Heart
Hank B Marvin – Sacha
Don McLean – And I Love You So
Billy Vaughn & His Orchestra – Wheels
Elvis Presley – Welcome To My World
101 Strings Orchestra – Blue Tango
60 Year Diamond Classic: Doris Day – Move Over Darling (1964)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Buddy Holly – Peggy Sue (1964)
Anne Fraser – Beneath Australian Stars (2024)
Adrian Payne – Go Back (1968)
Andy Penkow – Ghostly Gums (2024)
Alisha Smith – Winter Winds (2024)
The 60 Year Diamond Classics were charting, as 45 rpm singles, on this day 60 years ago.
ALSO ON THIS DAY:
BORN:
1907 Tolworth, Surrey, England – Alan Wheatley, a radio announcer who turned to stage and screen acting in the 1930s. He was much seen during the black and white era and is probably best known as the Sheriff of Nottingham in the 1950s TV series The Adventures of Robin Hood, in which he played the malevolent adversary to Robin Hood, portrayed by Richard Greene. (d. 1991)
1933 Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. – Vera Jayne Palmer alias Jayne Mansfield, actress, nightclub entertainer, singer, and one of the early Playboy Playmates. One of Hollywood’s original blonde bombshells, Mansfield was a sex symbol of the 50s and 60s. (d. 1967)
EVENTS:
1947 Texas City, near Galveston, Texas, U.S.A. – 714 lives were lost when a fire aboard a ship spread to a nearby chemical factory and adjacent oil refineries, with massive explosions devastating the city.
1956 Portsmouth, England – British naval diver Lionel Crabb vanished after diving into the harbour to investigate a visiting Soviet naval cruiser.
1966 Australia – Controversy erupted when the first conscripts were flown to the Vietnam War.
1966 Auckland, New Zealand – A parachutist survived a one-in-a-million mid-air collision with a Tiger Moth aircraft, 366 metres above Auckland’s Ardmore Airfield.
1966 London, England – The infamous Moors Murderers, Myra Hindley and Ian Brady, went on trial in the Old Bailey Court for the serial murders of five children. Hindley was sentenced to life without release and died in 2002 after serving 36 years behind bars. Brady was similarly sentenced, died in 2017, having served 51 years.