17 May 2024

17 May 2024

Friday Morning Radio Edition 417

Today’s pic: An autumn scene at the New Norfolk Railway Station, now the base for the Derwent Valley Railway Society.

The Playlist:

Hour 1 (9.00 ~ 10.00):

Ruby Jones – Feeling of Falling (2024)
Roget Tibbs – Bandy The Rodeo Clown (2024)
Ian MacNamara – Learning To Smile
Jamie Donnelly – I’ll Fly Away (2024)
Richard Mulligan – Marian’s Song (2019)
Acker Bilk – Misty

Montmartre Strings – Bright Eyes
Ray Conniff Singers – Theme From Love Story
Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge Over Troubled Waters (1970)
Tammy Lynn – Born Too Late (2024)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Frankie Valli & Four Seasons – Ronnie (1964)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Mary Wells – My Guy (1964)

Hour 2 (10.00 ~ 11.00):

Nancy Su – You Gave Me (2024)
By Request: Elvis Presley – Return To Sender (1963)
Elliott Ambrose – Breakfast In Texas (2024)
Toni West – I’ll Catch Up To You Later (2024)
They Don’t Make Them Like This Anymore: Four Lads – Istanbul Not Constantinople (1953)
Kym Cormack – Aotearoa New Zealand (2024)
Lindsay Waddington – When I Think Of Home (2024)

Percy Faith & His Orchestra – The Syncopated Clock
Aaron Bozwell – He Wears Her Rings Above His Heart (2024)
The Long And Short Of It – Beside You (2024)
By Request: Louis Armstrong – What A Wonderful World (1968)
Todd Rundgren – I Saw The Light (2024)

Hour 3 (11.00 ~ 12.00):

Sisters In Song – Go Rosie Go (2024)
Gert Postma – Livin’ On Love (2024)
Slim Dusty & The Travelling Country Band – The Three Rivers Hotel (1976)
Hein Simons – Herzens Melodie
Matt Monro – Strangers In The Night
Harry Secombe – This Is My Song

Central Band of the Royal Air Force – The Dambusters March
60 Year Diamond Classic: Cliff Richard – I Only Have Eyes For You (1964)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Frank Ifield – Angry At The Big Oak Tree (1964)
Andy Williams – One Day Of Your Life
Paddy Canavan – My Own Carrickmore (2024)
Jason McCahill – Thank God I’m A Country Boy (2024)
A B C Showband – The Muppets Theme

The 60 Year Diamond Classics were charting, as 45 rpm singles, on this day 60 years ago.

ON THIS DAY:

BORN:

1911 Boyle, Country Roscommon, Ireland – Maureen O’Sullivan, actress considered to be Ireland’s first film star.  She appeared in numerous movies, but is probably best known for her role as Jane in the Johnny Weismuller Tarzan movies. Died 1998.

1936 Dodge City, Kansas, U.S.A.  –  Dennis Hopper, actor, film-maker and artist who made his first television appearance in 1954, and appeared in two films, Rebel Without A Cause (1955) and Giant (1956).  Died 2010.

1961 Gweedore, County Donegal, Ireland – Eithne Patricia Ní Bhraonáin alias Enya, singer, instrumentalist and composer.

DIED:

1992 Santa Monica, California, U.S.A. – Lawrence Welk, American musician, bandleader and television host.  Aged 89

2012 Naples, Florida, U.S.A. – LaDonna Adrian Gaines alias Donna Summer, singer who became famous during the “disco” era of the seventies. Aged 63.

2013 Melbourne, Victoria – Penne Hackforth-Jones, actress and biographer, who appeared in many Australian productions including Bellbird, Homicide, Division Four, A Country Practice. Aged 63.

2022 Paris, France – Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou alias Vangelis, musician and composer of electronic jazz, progressive, ambient and orchestral music, best known for his Academy Award winning score for the film Chariots Of Fire. He also penned scores for the films Blade Runner and 1492: Conquest of Paradise. Aged 79.


EVENTS:

1943 Germany – W W 2 – The Dambuster Raids by the Royal Air Force  No 617 Squadron took place against dams in the Ruhr and Eder Valleys, creating floods which claimed 1,500 lives.

1952 Freycinet Peninsula, Tasmania –  Flooding swept away a bridge spanning the Apsley River, marooning 130 people in the Coles Bay area.  Fishing boats ferried supplies to the locality from nearby Swansea until a temporary replacement bridge was built.

1957 Ralphs Bay, Tasmania –  The tallest structure of the time in Tasmania, a steel radio mast 200 metres high, was under construction.  The mast was to be used by both Hobart ABC radio stations, 7ZR and 7ZL.

1959 One crewman died and the remaining ten had a five hour row to shore when a 272 tonne motor vessel, Blythe Star, caught fire and sank in Bass Strait, off Burnie. 

1965 Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. – A 20 year old stowaway was discovered inside a wooden crate, after it was flown from Melbourne.  The stowaway, a homesick Welsh man who was unable to pay the air fares to return home, was charged with illegally entering the U.S.A. and faced deportation – to England!

1969 The Soviet space probe Venera 6 jettisoned a capsule, which was designed to analyse the atmosphere of the planet Venus  as it descended to the surface. The capsule returned data to Earth, until it was crushed by the planet’s extreme atmospheric pressure. 

ODD SPOT:

1969 – Dumfries, Scotland – A murderer who escaped from prison by clinging beneath a bread delivery van, was recaptured 25 kilometres away, when he tried to hitch a ride. The approaching vehicle, was a police car.

Also in 1969 – Hobart, Tasmania – A Hobart man who took a drive into the country, had his highly polished car damaged when a ram attacked it’s reflection. Nearby cars which had a coating of dust, weren’t touched.