2 June 2024

2 June 2024

Music Unlimited 0600 ~ 0700:

Every Sunday morning, great 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.

Post-production by Ron Bickle, of community radio CFTA Radio Tantramar, Amherst, Nova Scotia.

Valley Sunrise Edition 784

Today’s photo: Taken on the waterfront at St Helens, north-east Tasmania.

Today’s Playlist:

Hour 1 – 0700 ~ 0800:

Dave Caley – The Wild Ones
Paul Hudnott – Mister Rainbow Man (2024)
Nancy Su – You Gave Me (2024)
Jo Allen Christi – Grandpa’s Fishing Hole (2024) ISRC QZK6L2359942
Jimmy Jones – Handy Man (1960)
(Jimmy Jones – Born this day 1937 in Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.A., singer, songwriter and one-hit-wonder with his 1960 hit, Handy Man. Died 2012.)
John DeRosa – Hey Rock and Roll (2024)

Melbourne Pops Orchestra conducted by Tommy Tycho – Fernando
Sammy Kaye Orchestra – Diane
(Sammy Kaye – Died this day 1987 in Manhattan, New York, U.S.A. He was a band leader and songwriter of the Big Band era, famed for the tag line “Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye.” Aged 77
Ewelina Borkowska – Jolene (2024)
Billboard Top 20 of 1961 – No 19: Ray Charles – Hit The Road Jack
Lloyd Back – Flowers (2024) ISRC AUZY42300048
Rosalind Clare – Back In Baby’s Arms (2024) ISRC USJ3V2393597
Toni West & Ray Malcolm – Island In The Stream (2021)

Hour 2 – 0800 ~ 0900:

Buckinghams – Kind Of A Drag (1967)
By Request: John Williamson – Cootamundra Wattle
By Request: Peter Sarstedt – Where Do You Go To (1969)
By Request: Charley Pride – Just Between You And Me
By Request: Vera Lynn – I’ll Be Seeing You
Jo Powell – You Never Asked Me (2024) ISRC AUZY42400002

By Request: Billy Vaughn & His Orchestra – Morgen
By Request: Beatles – Yellow Submarine (1966)
Catherine Marx – Being Close To You (2024) ISRC USDY42460648
Archies – Bang Shang A Lang (1968)
Graham Rodger – The Wellshot Hotel (2024)

BORN ON THIS DAY:

1904  Bansag, Austria-Hungary – Johnny Weissmuller, 1920s Olympic swimmer, winner of five gold medals and one bronze medal.  He became the sixth actor to portray Tarzan in movies, a role he played 12 times.  Although many other actors have also played Tarzan, Weissmuller is by far the best known with his distinctive, undulating yell. Died 1984.

1948  Sioux City, Iowa – Jerry Mathers, former child actor who portrayed Theodore Cleaver, aka “Beaver” in the early American television sitcom Leave It To Beaver between 1957 and 1963. Turns 76.

1971 Auckland, New Zealand – Joel Tobeck, one-time radio breakfast programme weatherman, also a dancer, singer and actor, who appeared as Chief Superintendent Matthew Lawson in the ABC television series, The Doctor Blake Mysteries. Turns 53.


DIED ON THIS DAY:

1990 New York, U.S.A. – Reginald Carey Harrison alias Rex Harrison, Academy award winning actor of stage and screen. Aged 82.

2001  Westport, Connecticut, U.S.A. – Imogene Coca, comic actress who started out in vaudeville as a child acrobat, but studied ballet with the intention of a serious career in music and dance.  She graduated to decades of stage musical revues and cabaret. She also had a celebrated career as a television comedienne. Aged 92.

2008  Archer, Florida, U.S.A. – Ellas Otha Bates, alias Bo Diddley, rock and roll vocalist, guitarist, songwriter, and inventor. Aged 79.

2008  Santa Barbara, California, U.S.A. – Melchor Gastón Ferrer alias Mel Ferrer, Cuban-American actor, film director and film producer. Aged 90.

EVENTS ON THIS DAY:

1953 Westminster, England – The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II took place at Westminster Abbey.  This was the first to be televised around the world.

1960 Hobart, Tasmania – The Australian Broadcasting Commission’s first Tasmanian television station, ABT channel 2, was officially opened by Dame Enid Lyons, Tasmanian Resident Commissioner for the ABC.
The names of the personalities who would regularly be seen were announced.  They were;  Don Lette;  Barry Fraser;  Bob Wilcox;  Ken Short;  and John Baldwin.

1965 The first contingent of Australian troops arrived in South Vietnam.

1966 American space probe Surveyor 1 landed on the Moon’s Oceanus Procellarum, becoming the first U.S. spacecraft to soft land on another world.

1985 The RO-RO ferry Empress of Australia made its final voyage across Bass Strait, between Devonport and Melbourne.

ODD SPOTS:

1968 BOURNEMOUTH, England – Hotel manager Brian Tokely was looking for someone who could throw a stone from his hotel, into the sea, so he could legally advertise his hotel as being “a stone’s throw from the sea.”

1968 SIDERNO, Italy – There was amazement, joy and new heartbreak after Giuseppe Caccamo failed to return, after joining the Italian army 26 years previously. His wife and two children donned black mourning dress and prayed for him.
Then in 1968, Giuseppe turned up, home, but wouldn’t say what he had been doing since 1942, nor where he had been. After a big party – Giuseppe disappeared again.

1968 LONDON, England – A skin specialist, Dr Ian Seddon, warned that girls wearing mini-skirts who worked in cold offices and shops were at risk of getting chill-blains on their thighs and bottoms, if they worked near open doors.