26 July 2024
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Today’s Photo – Taken recently in Bensheim, Germany. Courtesy of listener Karin
Music Unlimited 0600 ~ 0700 AEST
Hosted by Ian MacPhee from Studio B in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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Valley Sunrise Edition 792
0700 ~ 0900 AEST – PLAYLIST
Hour 1
John Gilheaney – Everybody Say Yeah (2024) (Previous plays – 1; Last Played 14-6-2024)
Bohemian Rogue – Love Does Funny Things (2024) (Debut)
Mark Knopfler & Emmy-Lou Harris – Beachcombing (Debut)
Andy Williams – Lonely Street (Debut)
Dean Martin – I Will (1965) (Previous plays – 2; Last Played 30-11-2018)
Ella Fitzgerald – It’s A Lovely Day Today (1958) (Previous plays – 1; Last Played 25-4-2021)
Simon May Orchestra – The East Enders Theme (Previous plays – 2; Last Played 20-3-2016)
By Request: Michael Crawford – On Eagles Wings (Previous plays – 12; Last Played 28-1-2024; Requested 12 x)
Hayley Westenra – Both Sides Now (Debut)
Billboard Top 20 of 1962 – No 7: Little Eva – Locomotion (Previous plays – 7; Last Played 15-9-2019)
Dean Perrett – A Big Thing In A Small Town (2024) (Debut)
Seekers – Keep A Dream In Your Pocket (1989) (Previous plays – 6; Last Played 16-8-2019)
Hour 2
John Rowles – Massachusetts (Previous plays – 10; Last Played 25-5-2018)
By Request: Gotye & Kimbra – Somebody I Used To Know (Debut)
Alan Rudd – Please Help Me I’m Falling (2024) (Debut)
By Request: Foster & Allen – As Usual (Debut)
Neil Anthony – Our Shangri La (2024) (Debut)
Geoff Love & His Orchestra – The Great Escape March (Previous plays – 7; Last Played 26-4-2019)
Billy Vaughn & His Orchestra – Moon Over Naples (Previous plays – 11; Last Played 30-10-2020)
Sandy Scott with Tommy Tycho Orchestra – Baby Don’t Get Hooked On Me (Previous plays – 2; Last Played 16-6-2019)
By Request: Charlie Landsborough – Part Of Me (Previous plays – 3; Last Played 29-12-2017)
Cathy Dobson – Everybody Knows (2024) (Debut)
Blue Echoes – Da Doo Ron Ron (1979) (Previous plays – 1; Last Played 12-4-2013)
Duane Eddy – Detour (Debut)
ON THIS DAY:
Born 1901 in Island Pond, Vermont, U.S.A. – Hubert Prior Vallée BKA Rudy Vallee, singer, actor and bandleader whose career started in the mid-1920s. Died 1986.
Born 1902 Hermannsburg Lutheran Mission near Alice Springs, Northern Territory – Albert Namatjira, prominent Aboriginal artist. Reproductions of his paintings, often colourful depictions of the Australian landscape, hang in many homes throughout the country. Died 1959.
Born 1922 Brussels, Belgium – Jacques Piccard, Swiss oceanographer and engineer, who developed underwater exploration vehicles. For many years, he was one of only two people (along with Lieut Don Walsh of the United States Navy) to have explored the deepest part of any ocean, the Challenger Deep, part of the Mariana Trench in the western North Pacific Ocean. Died 2008.
EVENTS THIS DAY:
1914 Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia after Serbia rejected an ultimatum sent by Austria, following the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand, setting off a chain of events which culminated in the First World War.
1945 New York, U.S.A. – A U.S. Army B-25 bomber crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building killing 14 and injuring 26.
1948 London, England – The Metropolitan Police Flying Squad foiled an attempted bullion robbery by nine men in the “Battle of London Airport”. In the melee between cudgel-wielding crooks and truncheon-armed police, seven of the criminals were injured. All were sentenced to upwards of 5 years’ hard labour.
1964 London, England – Queen Victoria Street, in the heart of the city, was evacuated and closed after an unexploded World War 2 German bomb was found between Charing Cross and Aldgate railway stations. Soon after its discovery, a truck fell into the excavation and landed on the bomb, upside down. The bomb was eventually removed for safe disposal.
1999 Interlaken, Switzerland – Eighteen tourists, including 14 Australians, perished when a storm sent a wall of water through a narrow gorge. Swiss police later investigated whether the Adventure tour organisers should be charged for criminal negligence.
26 July 2024
Friday Morning Radio Edition 427
Three hours of easy listening, with music, Indies and memories, not heard on mainstream radio.
TYGA-FM, 98.9 on the dial, or on-line at www.tygafm.org.au/listen-live
Today’s Playlist:
Hour 1 (9.00 ~ 10.00):
Lee Ann Kelly – Fall Before You Fly (2024) (Debut)
Hoons Fron Straylia – Just The Way (2024) (Debut)
Lindsay Waddington – Kakadu (2022) (Previous plays – 9. Last played 15-9-2023)
BORN this day 1941 in Nashville Tennessee U.S.A. – Bobby Hebb, African-American singer-songwriter, best known for penning and recording of Sunny. (d. 2021)
Bobby Hebb – Sunny (1966) (Previous plays – 5. Last played 26-7-2020)
Bill Anderson & Mary Lou Turner – That’s What Made Me Love You (Debut)
Alice Benfer – If Teardrops Were Silver (2021) (Previous plays – 4. Last played 15-9-2023)
London Symphony Orchestra – Don’t Cry For Me Argentina (Debut)
Andy Williams – Walk Hand In Hand (Debut)
BORN this day 1941 in Shreveport, Louisiana, U.S.A. – Alfred Jesse Smith, alias Brenton Wood, singer-songwriter, best known for his 1967 single Gimme A Little Sign. Turns 83.
Brenton Wood – Gimme A Little Sign (1967) (Previous plays – 5. Last played 12-2-2023)
Terry Stafford – Follow The Rainbow (1964) (Previous plays – 4. Last played 14-4-2023)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Four Seasons – Alone (1964) (Previous plays – 2. Last played 4-11-2022)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Beatles – Komm Gibb Mir Deine Hand (1964) (Previous plays – 7 Last played 17-6-2022)
Andy Martin – Corrine Corrina (2024) (Previous plays – 1. Last played 19-7-2024)
Hour 2 (10.00 ~ 11.00):
Walk Don’t Run – Old Georgia Train (2024) (Previous plays – 1. Last played 7-7-2024)
Sisters In Country – Down Under Girls (2024) (Debut)
Terry Bennetts & Lee Foster – That’s The Kind Of Life I Live (2024) (Previous plays – 2. Last played 21-7-2024)
By Request: Bobby Vinton – Roses Are Red (1962) (Previous plays – 11. Last played 7-7-2024)
They Don’t Make Them Like This Anymore: Burl Ives – On Top Of Old Smokey (1951) (Previous plays – 3. Last played 21-6-2019)
DIED this day 1950 in London, England – Freddy Gardner, jazz and dance band musician of the 1930s and 40s, a virtuoso of clarinet and the entire saxophone family. Aged 39.
Freddy Gardner – Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (1940) (Previous plays – 1. Last played 23-12-2018)
Kingston Trio & Brothers Four – Whisky In The Jar (Debut)
Lawrence Welk & His Orchestra with Myron Floren – It’s A Small World Polka (Debut)
Aly Cook – Unknown Memories (2017) (Previous plays – 6. Last played 29-12-2017)
DIED this day 2023 in Glenageary, County Dublin, Ireland – Sinead O’Connor, singer-songwriter, who rose to fame in the late 1980s, and achieved worldwide success in 1990 with Nothing Compares To You. Aged 56.
Sinead O’Connor – Nothing Compares To You (1990) (Previous plays – 8. Last played 21-7-2024. Requested 6 x)
Lloyd Back – Flowers (2024) (Previous plays – 3. Last played 21-7-2024)
Shelley Jones Band – Love Is Like A River (2024) (Debut)
Owen Smith – That Old Hills Hoist (2024) (Previous plays – 1. Last played 21-7-2024)
Hour 3 (11.00 ~ 12.00):
Kevin Sullivan – Journey (2024) (Previous plays – 8. Last played 21-7-2024. Requested 6 x)
By Request: Roy Orbison – California Blue (Previous plays – 9. Last played 3-4-2022. Requested 4 x)
Stephen Stokes – The Love Bug (2024) (Previous plays – 3. Last played 7-7-2024.)
Caoimhe Murney – Hillbilly Girl (2024) (Debut)
Joy Adams & Gary R Farmer – Remember Me (2024) (Previous plays – 2. Last played 21-7-2024)
Warren Kearney – Worry Is Like A Rocking Chair (2024) Previous plays – 2. Last played 19-7-2024. Requested 1 x)
E Power Biggs – Marche Militaire (Schubert) (Previous plays – 5. Last played 19-11-2017)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Animals – House Of The Rising Sun (1964) Previous plays – 7. Last played 18-9-2015. Requested 1 x)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Kravats – Puppet Strings (1964) (Previous plays – 6. Last played 27-3-2015)
By Request: Ray Malcolm – Is There Something On Your Mind (2024) (Previous plays – 1. Last played 5-7-2024)
Joe Allen Christi – Grandpa’s Fishing Hole (2024) (Previous plays – 2. Last played 12-7-2024)
Bert Kaempfert & His Orchestra – Snowbird (Previous plays – 4. Last played 13-8-2021)
* Diamond Classics were on Top 40 charts around Australia on this day, 60 years ago (1964).