26 April 2024
26 April 2024
Friday Morning Radio Edition 414
Today’s photo: The New Norfolk Cenotaph, after Thursday’s ANZAC Day commemoration service.
The Playlist:
Hour 1 (9.00 ~ 10.00):
Paul Hudnott – Mr Rainbow Man (2024)
Watling & Bates – Love Was (2024)
Donny & Marie Osmond – I Know This Much Is True
Duane Eddy – Play Me Like Your Old Guitar
[Born this day 1938 in Corning, New York USA – Duane Eddy, guitarist who had many hit records during the late 1950s and early 60s. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame in 1994, and is Rock and Roll’s No 1 instrumentalist. Turns 86.]
Petula Clark – Colour My World (1966)
Mitch Miller & the Gang – It’s Only A Paper Moon
Percy Faith & His Orchestra – Our Day Will Come
Ray Conniff Singers – This Is My Song
Bobby Rydell – Butterfly Baby (1963)
[Born this day 1942 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA – Robert Louis Ridarelli alias Bobby Rydell, teen idol of the early 1960s, famed for his hits Wild One and Volare. Died 2022.]
Tony Clarke – Good Morning Mr Morning (2024)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Roy Orbison – It’s Over (1964)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Beatles – Twist And Shout (1964)
Bill Anderson – 500 Miles Away From Home
Hour 2 (10.00 ~ 11.00):
Pat Nicholson – I Need You (2024)
Bee Gees – More Than A Woman (1977)
Kym Cormack – Aotearoa New Zealand (2024)
They Don’t Make Them Like This Anymore: Mark IV – Ah Ooo Gah (1959)
Victoria, Vanessa & Charmaine Eman – Love Letter (2024)
Allan Caswell – Take Your Time (2024)
Orchestral Sounds – Sealed With A Kiss
The Long and Short Of It – Beside You (2024)
Ames Brothers – The Naughty Lady of Shady Lane (1953)
[Died this day 1997 in Scottsdale, Arizona, USA – Gene Urick, alias Gene Ames, of the Ames Brothers quartet popular in the 1950s with many million selling hits. Aged 74]
Warren Kearney – The Hill (2024)
Dusty Springfield – 24 Hours From Tulsa
David Essex – Hold Me Close (1975)
Nishisa Hikaru – Sukiyaki (2024)
Hour 3 (11.00 ~ 12.00):
Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell – I Just Wanted To See You So Bad (2024)
Fleetwood Mac – Sweet Little Lies (1987)
Roy Orbison – All I Have To Do Is Dream
Horst Wende’s Accordeon Band – Amsterdam Polka
Vanessa Bourne – No One Holds A Candle To You
Pete King Orchestra & Chorus – Blue Moon
Billy Vaughn & His Orchestra – Are You Lonesome Tonight
60 Year Diamond Classic: Peter & Gordon – A World Without Love (1964)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Ned Miller – Invisible Tears (1964)
Bill Anderson – You Don’t Have To Be A Baby To Cry
Tony Christie – Some Broken Hearts Never Mend
Alice Benfer – Old Felt Hat (2024)
Paddy Canavan – The Blonde In The Black Skirt (2024)
The 60 Year Diamond Classics were charting, as 45 rpm singles, on this day 60 years ago.
ALSO ON THIS DAY:
DIED:
1973 Santa Monica, California, USA – Irene Ryan, best known as the feisty Granny in the television sitcom The Beverley Hillbillies. (Aged 70)
1976 Sunderland, England. – Solomon Joel Cohen alias Sid James, actor and comedian who appeared in movies from 1947. He died on-stage during a performance in a play at the local theatre. Some people claim to have seen his ghost there. (Aged 62)
1984 Hollywood, Florida, USA. – William James Basie, alias Count Basie, jazz pianist, composer and bandleader for nearly 50 years. (Aged 79)
1989 Beverley Hills, California, USA. – Lucille Desiree Ball, comedienne, actress and film executive. (Aged 77)
EVENTS:
1962 The Moon. – As planned, America’s Ranger 4 spacecraft crashed on the Moon. It was designed to transmit photographs of the lunar surface for 10 minutes prior to crash-landing and collect gamma-ray data, but a power failure stopped the craft’s clock and caused it to hit the far side of the Moon, without returning any data. It was still the first U S craft to reach another celestial body.
1967 Melbourne, Victoria – Ford Australia announced production of the fastest car ever built in Australia at the time, the XR Ford Falcon GT. It was powered by a 287 cubic inch V8 engine with a 4-speed manual transmission, and came in one colour only – a shade of bronze called GT Gold.
1986 Chernobyl, Ukraine – In the world’s worst civil nuclear disaster, an explosion at a nuclear power station released 400 times more radio-active material than the Hiroshima atomic bomb. The radio-active material reached countries as far distant as Scotland, Norway and Sweden and forced the permanent evacuation of 53,000 people from nearby Pripyat and hundreds of deaths.
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