18 May 2024
19 May 2024
Music Unlimited 0600 ~ 0700:
Every Sunday morning, easy listening from Ian MacPhee and Paul Meagher, ex-professional broadcasters with over 50 years’ experience each, from Studio B in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Included in this edition, Elvis Presley; Jimmie Rodgers; the Everly Brothers; Burl Ives; and much more.
Valley Sunrise Edition 782
Today’s photo: The Close, St Matthews Anglican Church, New Norfolk.
Today’s Playlist:
Hour 1 – 0700 ~ 0800:
Noel Flynn – Too Good Of A Day To Say Goodbye (2024)
Ashley Cook – Diamonds From The Moon (2024)
Anne Murray – There Goes My Everything
Paul McNeilly – Australia’s Sunny Soil (2024)
Alma Cogan – The Story Of My Life (1958)
(Alma Cogan – Born this day 1932 in Golders Green, London, England as Alma Angela Cohen. She was a pop singer of the 1950s and 60s, and the most consistently successful female singer in the U.K. Died 1966.)
Jim Reeves – Golden Memories And Silver Tears (1967)
101 Strings Orchestra – Penny Lane
Kathy Kirby – Please Help Me I’m Falling (1969)
(Kathy Kirby – Died this day 2011 in London, England. She is best known for her 1964 cover of Doris Day’s Secret Love, and for Dance On, a vocal version of the Shadows’ hit of 1963. She represented the United Kingdom in the 1965 Eurovision Song Contest, in which she came second. Her appearance often drew comparisons with Marilyn Monroe. She was aged 72.)
Taylor Brothers – Walking In The Sunshine (2024) ISRC GBSVC2400202
Billboard Top 20 of 1961 – No 17: Ferrante & Teicher – Exodus
Calla Markwell with Ronnie Ogden & His Orchestra – Heat Wave
Jimmy Little – Ring Of Fire
Amy Leigh – And I Wonder (2024)
Hour 2 – 0800 ~ 0900:
Tony Bennett – Rags To Riches (1953)
By Request: Glen Campbell – Rhinestone Cowboy
By Request: Pussycat – Mississippi
By Request: Olivia Newton-John – Help Me Make It Through The Night
By Request: Slim Whitman – Indian Love Call
By Request: Elvis Presley – Little Egypt
By Request: Jim Reeves – He’ll Have To Go
Graeme Connors – 60 Summers
Walk Don’t Run – Saturday Night In Nashville (2024)
Jade Hurley – Always
Christie – Yellow River (1970)
Alisha Smith – Winter Winds
BORN ON THIS DAY:
1861 Melbourne, Victoria – Helen Porter Mitchell alias Dame Nellie Melba, one of the most famous singers of the late Victorian Era and the early 20th century, and the first Australian to achieve international recognition as a classical musician. Died 1931.
1932 Golders Green, London, England –Alma Cogan, pop singer of the 50s and early 60s, and the highest paid British female entertainer of her era. Died 1966.
1961 Gweedore, County Donegal, Ireland – Eithne Patricia Ní Bhraonáin alias Enya, singer, instrumentalist and composer.
DIED ON THIS DAY:
1915 Shrapnel Gully, Turkey – Private John Simpson Kirkpatrick, known as “Simpson, the man with the donkey.” who retrieved numerous wounded soldiers and saved many troops’ lives during the Gallipoli landing. Aged 22.
2002 Sydney, New South Wales – John Gorton, 19th Prime Minister of Australia, in office from January 1968 until March 1971, when he voted himself out of office after a motion of confidence at a Liberal Party caucus meeting was tied. Aged 90.
2011 London, England – Kathleen O’Rourke alias Kathy Kirby, pop singer, best known for her cover of Doris Day’s Secret Love, and for representing the United Kingdom in the 1965 Eurovision song Contest, in which she came in second. Her appearance often drew comparisons with Marilyn Monroe. Aged 72.
2014 Gold Coast, Queensland – John Arthur Brabham alias Sir Jack Brabham, Australian racing car driver who was Formula One champion in 1959, 1960, and 1966 and founder of the Brabham racing team. Aged 88.
EVENTS ON THIS DAY:
1950 South Amboy, New Jersey, U.S.A. – More than 420 tons of munitions and other explosives consigned to Pakistan, exploded as they were being transferred from railway trucks to barges, causing the loss of 35 lives and injuring hundreds.
The explosion was heard 50 km away, damaged most of the town’s 2,700 buildings, and destroyed the town’s power supply. The company which manufactured the explosives later faced 9,000 charges.
1953 Melbourne, Victoria – The 100,000th Holden car came off the production line at Fishermen’s Bend.
1961 The Soviet probe Venera 1 became the first man-made object to approach another planet when it passed within 100,000 km of Venus. However, contact with Venera 1 had been lost a month previously, so it did not send any data.
ODD SPOT:
1969 – England – An prisoner, serving seven years for armed robbery, who escaped from Dartmoor Gaol, decided to ask a Plymouth resident about borrowing his car.
His cheek was rewarded with a free ride “home” when he knocked on the door of Leonard Blaney, an ex-policeman, who became suspicious.
1969 – Hobart, Tasmania – A car rental agency must have set a record for the shortest life of a registered car. It was delivered from the dealer with 2 miles (3 kilometres) on the odometer. After half an hour, and one more mile (1.6 km) the car was a write-off.