28 April 2024

28 April 2024

Valley Sunrise Edition 779

This Edition’s Photo: Taken at Salmon Ponds in the Derwent Valley, April 2024.

Today’s Playlist:

Hour 1 – 0700 ~ 0800:

Alice Benfer – Old Felt Hat (2024)
C C Parkroy – You’re Beautiful (2024)
Adrian Payne – Go Back (2024)
Cass Williams – Walkin’ Old Floors (2024)
Horst Wende’s Accordeon Band – Schiffsjungentanz (Shipboy Dance)
(ON THIS DAY 1789 The mutiny on the British Naval ship HMS Bounty occurred, in which the mutineers cast the Captain, Lieutenant William Bligh and 18 loyal sailors adrift. Blight and his crew made an epic 6,500 km journey to Timor in the-then Dutch East Indies, from where he returned to England to report the mutiny. The mutineers, meanwhile, returned briefly to Tahiti before sailing to Pitcairn Island, where descendants of some of the mutineers live today.)
Pete King Orchestra & Chorale – Around The World

Mary Gantley – Amien Street Number One (2024)
Richie Kavanagh – Me Little Jack Russell
(DIED this day 1883 in Torrington, Devon, England – John Russell, alias Jack Russell, parson, fox hunting enthusiast and dog breeder, after whom the Jack Russell Terrier is named. Aged 87)
Anne Murray – You’re A Part Of Me
Billboard Top 20 of 1961 – No 14, Shirelles – Dedicated To The One I Love 
Andy Williams – Dedicated To The One I Love
Gil Deck & His Syncopators – Bridge Of Our Dreams Come True (1930)
(ON THIS DAY 1923 in North Sydney – Construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge commenced with the ceremonial turning of the first sod by Mr Ball, the-then Minister for Works and Railways. Aged 70.)
Glen Miller & His Orchestra with Marion Hutton – The Woodpecker Song (1940)

Hour 2 – 0800 ~ 0900:

Celia Bryce Band – Here Before (2024)
By Request: Slim Dusty – And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda
By Request: Whitney Houston – I Will Always Love You
By Request: Soundtrack, Sound of Music – Edelweiss
Sonny Morgan – Learning How To Love Again (2024)

By Request: Vic Dana – Red Roses For A Blue Lady (1965)
By Request: ABBA – Take A Chance On Me
Sammie Soravia – The Woman I Am (2023)
Cliff Richard – Just Another Guy (1965)
Seekers – A World Of Our Own (1965)

ALSO ON THIS DAY:

1996 – In Port Arthur, Tasmania – 35 people died and 21 were injured during what was then the world’s worst massacre by a lone gunman.