30 May 2024
31 May 2024
Friday Morning Radio Edition 419
Today’s pic: Taken at the Bay of Fires, in Tasmania’s north-east, during my break there last week. The vapour trail is from a Sydney, or Brisbane, to Hobart direct flight which passed overhead.
The Playlist:
Hour 1 (9.00 ~ 10.00):
Noel Flynn – Too Good Of A Day To Say Goodbye (2024)
Bushwackers – Friend For Life (2024)
John Williamson & Beccy Cole – It’s All About Love
Jim Reeves – Stand At Your Window
Ray Malcolm – Don’t Close Your Eyes (2024)
Francisco Cavez & His Orchestra – Midnight In Brazil
101 Strings Orchestra – Andante From Violin Concerto In E Minor
Paul McNeilly – Australia’s Sunny Soil (2024)
Peter Paul & Mary – Puff The Magic Dragon (1963)
[Born this day 1938, New York, USA, Peter Yarrow, singer famed for his role with the 60s music trio Peter Paul & Mary. Yarrow co-wrote, with Leonard Lipton, one of the group’s most famous songs – Puff The Magic Dragon.]
Anthony Baxter – Pride Of New England (2024)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Beatles – Can’t Buy Me Love (1964)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Kathy Kirby – You’re The One (1964)
Alisha Smith – Redwing
Johnny Cash – When Papa Played The Dobro
Hour 2 (10.00 ~ 11.00):
Stacey Breen – Everybody Loves A Winner (2024)
Taylor Brothers – Walking In The Sunshine (2024) ISRC GBSVC2400202
Charlie Adams – It’s A Good Life (2024) ISRC AUJ3Z2300001
They Don’t Make Them Like This Anymore: Phil Harris – The Thing (1950)
Diana Trask – Oh Boy (1974)
Bill Anderson – Green Green (1964)
George Melachrino Strings – Villa Villa
Tammy Lynn – Evergreen (2024)
Graeme Connors – A Child Of This Land
Jade Hurley – Burning Bridges
Cass Williams – Walkin’ Old Floors (2024) ISRC QZDA82419935
George Baker Selection – Fly Away Little Paraquayo
Hour 3 (11.00 ~ 12.00):
Lance Friend – Ned Kelly Said (2024)
Dale Hooper – Thank God For Radio (2024)
Warren Kearney – Welcome To My World (2004)
Apollo 100 – A Walk In The Black Forest (1974)
Yvonne & The Stars – De Hele Stad
Ashley Cook – Diamonds From The Moon (2024)
Manuel & The Music Of The Mountains – The Honeymoon Song
60 Year Diamond Classic: Chad Stuart & Jeremy Clyde – The Summer Song (1964) [Played in Error]
60 Year Diamond Classic: Ray Charles Singers – Love Me With All Your Heart (1964)
Cathy Dobson – Sundowner Drive (2024)
Tommy Fleming – Dream A Little Dream Of Me
Chad Stuart & Jeremy Clyde – Yesterday’s Gone (1964) [Intended play, above.]
Fisherman’s Friends – Strike The Bell
The 60 Year Diamond Classics were charting, as 45 rpm singles, on this day 60 years ago.
ON THIS DAY:
BORN:
1926 Nowingi, Victoria – Patricia Jean Adam-Smith, BKA Patsy Adam-Smith, author and historian whose research took her to over 60 countries. Died 2001.
1930 San Francisco, California, U.S.A. – Clinton Eastwood, BKA Clint Eastwood, film actor, director, producer and composer, known for his roles in violent action and western films.
EVENTS:
1878 Mutton Bird Island, near Port Campbell, Victoria – The clipper ship Loch Ard was wrecked, with the loss of 50 lives. Only two of the 54 on board survived, Eva Carmichael, a passenger, and Thomas Pearce, an apprentice. Pearce made it to shore, but returned to the rough water to rescue Carmichael, who clung to a spar for many hours.
1889 Johnstown, Pennsylvania U.S.A. – Over 2,200 lives were lost when the South Fork Dam failed and sent an 18 metre wall of water over the town.
1927 The last Ford Model T left the assembly after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles.
1937 The first episode of a new radio serial, Dad And Dave, based on Steele Rudd’s book On Our Selection, was broadcast throughout Australia.
1942 Japanese midget submarines began a series of attacks in Sydney Harbour.
1963 Tasmania ended its coldest May on record, with Hobart shivering with the lowest minimum temperature for the month since 1902. The -0.5 C minimum recorded at the Weather Bureau was the second lowest on record for the city.
1968 New Norfolk, Tasmania – The 150th anniversary of the start of construction of the first road between Hobart and New Norfolk was celebrated by an assemblage at Willow Court, including a sentry in full uniform who sheltered in the original sentry box.