12 May 2024

12 May 2024

Valley Sunrise Edition 781

Today’s photo: Taken at St Matthews Anglican Church, New Norfolk.

Today’s Playlist:

Hour 1 – 0700 ~ 0800:

James Blundell – The Great Divide (2020)
Inge Augustina – Something Stupid (2022)
Kamahl – The Sounds of Goodbye (1969)
Daniel O’Donnell – The Minute You’re Gone
Carpenters – Close To You (1970)
[Born on this day 1928 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA – Burt Bacharach, pianist, composer and music producer known for numerous hit songs and compositions from the mid 50s through the 80s, with lyrics written by Hal David. Includes “Close To You” which was a No 1 for Carpenters. Died 2023]
Billy Vaughn & His Orchestra – Chapel By The Sea
Debbie Reynolds – Put On Your Pretty Skirt

Acker Bilk – Morning Has Broken
Billy Swan – I Can Help (1974)
[Born this day 1942 in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, USA – William Lance Swan, alias Billy Swan, singer and songwriter, best known here, for his hit single, “I Can Help.” Turns 82]
Hein Simons – Alpenrosen
Billboard Top 20 of 1961 – No 16, Shirelles – Will You Love Me Tomorrow 
Perry Como – Caterina (1962)
[Died this day 2001 in Jupiter Inlet Colony, Florida, USA – Pierino Roland Como, alias Perry Como, singer and television personality. Aged 88.]
Toni west – I’ll Catch Up With You Later (2024)
Owen Mac – Heather On The Hill

Hour 2 – 0800 ~ 0900:

Andy Williams – In The Summertime
By Request: P J Proby – Somewhere
By Request: Beatles – The Long And Winding Road
By Request: Ernest Tubb – Waltz Across Texas
By Request: Al Martino – Spanish Eyes (1966)
By Request: Foster & Allen – Rose Of My Heart

Victoria, Vanessa &Charmaine Eman – Love Letter (2024)
Engelbert Humperdinck – Misty Blue
Julie Anthony – Last Night I Didn’t Get To Sleep At All
Bill Shadler – Love Me Like It’s The Last Time (2023)
Alana Wilkinson – Square One (2024)
Jim Reeves – Not Until The Next Time
Alice Benfer – Old Felt Hat (2024)

EVENTS ON THIS DAY:

1962 – Weybridge, Surrey, England – A new airliner, the Vickers VC 10, made its first test flight.  This was the first clean-wing airliner with four engines mounted beside the tail and it later set the record for an Atlantic crossing by a sub-sonic airliner, of 5 hours and 1 minute.  This record was held for 41 years, until a Boeing 747 shaved 5 minutes off with the help of a storm in 2020.

1965 – The Soviet spacecraft Luna 5 crashed on the Moon.  Following a mid-course correction, a gyroscope problem caused the spacecraft to start spinning and a loss of control which result in the crash.  An observatory on Earth noted a large dust cloud at the impact site which lasted ten minutes.