4 August 2024

4 August 2024

Today’s Photo – Locomotive C 22, originally used on the Tasmanian Government Railways, now preserved at the Tasmanian Transport Museum, Glenorchy. It operates on the first Sunday of each month. © Yours Truly

Music Unlimited 0600 ~ 0700 AEST
Hosted by Ian MacPhee from Studio B in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

You can contact Ian at [email protected]

Valley Sunrise Edition 793
0700 ~ 0900 AEST – PLAYLIST

Hour 1

Kevin Sullivan & Bill Chambers – High Country Snows (2024)  (Debut)
Daniel O’Donnell – Heartbeat  (Debut)
Toni West – It’s Too Late (Previous plays – 1; Last Played 19-7-2024)
Ray Conniff Singers – There’s A Kind of Hush    (Previous plays – 1; Last Played 19-7-2024)
Frank Sinatra – Taking A Chance On Love (1954)   (Previous plays – 1; Last Played 19-7-2013)
By Request: Alan Jackson – Kiss An Angel Good Morning (Debut)

101 Strings Orchestra – Speak Softly Love (Theme From The Godfather)  (Debut)
Steve Condon – In My Life (2024)  (Previous plays – 2; Last Played 5-7-2024)
Justin Landers – Book Of Endless Wonder (2024)   (Debut)
Billboard Top 20 of 1962 – No 8: Sensations – Let Me In  (Debut)
Engelbert Humperdinck – Am I That Easy To Forget (1968)   (Previous plays – 3; Last Played 9-4-2021) 
Dean Martin – That’s Amore (1953)  (Previous plays – 6; Last Played 16-8-2019)

Hour 2

Jade Hurley – What In The World’s Come Over You  (Previous plays – 1; Last Played 7-3-2021)
By Request: Ricky Van Shelton – Just As I Am  (Debut)
By Request: Burl Ives – You Are My Sunshine   (Previous plays – 3; Last Played 19-7-2024 Requested 1 x)
By Request: Beatles – Get Back (1969)     (Previous plays – 11; Last Played 8-9-2023 Requested 4 x)
By Request: Al Jolson – Carolina In The Morning (1947)    (Previous plays – 1; Last Played 20-9-2020 Requested 4 x)
Andy Williams – Twilight Time  (Debut)

Mexicans – Winds of Barcelona  (Previous plays – 8; Last Played 24-3-2019)
Andy Martin – Crash Here Tonight On Me (2024)  (Debut)
Don Smythe – Always Wanting You (2018) (Previous plays – 5; Last Played 24-1-2021) 
Graeme Clarke – So Much Easier Said Than Done (2019)    (Previous plays – 2; Last Played 13-9-2019)
Slim Dusty – My Home On The Sunburnt Plains (1960)  (Previous plays – 3; Last Played 16-8-2019; Requested 1 x)
Seekers – Love Is Me Love Is You (1989)    (Previous plays – 1; Last Played 8-11-2020)

ON THIS DAY:

Born 1901 New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A. – Louis Armstrong, jazz trumpeter, composer, singer and actor, one of the most influential jazz personalities, whose career spanned 50 years from the 1920s.  Died 1971.

Born 1923 Sydney, New South Wales – Reginald Roy Grundy, pioneering Australian entrepreneur and media mogul, creator of many popular television programmes including Wheel of Fortune, Neighbours, Prisoner, and Sons and Daughters.  Died 2016.

Born 1926 Manley, New South Wales – Maurice Fields, Australian comedian and actor, known for his appearances in Australian television series, Bellbird, The Box, Prisoner, The Flying Doctors and Hey Hey It’s Saturday.  Died 1995.

EVENTS THIS DAY:

1914 London, England – The United Kingdom declared war on Germany, following Germany’s invasion of Belgium.  Australia consequently entered World War 1, while the United States declared neutrality

1944 Amsterdam, Holland – A tip from an informer led the Gestapo to a sealed-off room in a warehouse where they found and arrested Jewish diarist, Anne Frank and her family.

1953 Victoria – Australia’s first jet fighter aircraft, the Sabre, underwent its first test flight.  The plane was a modified version of the original American model

1966 Hobart, Tasmania – Driving schools, a model slot-car racing venue and a Jazz Club were threatened with prosecution under the 58 year old Sunday Observance Act which was being brought to bear on all businesses which traded on Sundays.  The Premier (Mr Reece) later refused to declare an amnesty for any business which failed to comply.