25 August 2024
Today’s Photo – Snow-dusted Mt Wellington, between buildings at the Tasmanian Transport Museum, Glenorchy
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 796
0700 ~ 0900 AEST – PLAYLIST
Hour 1
Natalie Cole – Almost Like Being In Love (Debut)
Sandy Scott – It’s Now Or Never (Debut)
Cazna Goodall – Misery (2017) (Previous Plays 3; Last Played 2018)
By Request: Rod Stewart – Sailing (Previous plays – 23; Last Played 2023, Requested 17 x)
Al Martino – Make The World Go Away (Debut)
City Slickers – Painted Tainted Rose (Debut)
Oscar Volk Orchestra – Hungarian Rhapsody (Past Plays – 4; Last played 2017)
Andy Williams – Something Stupid (Previous plays – 1; Last Played 2024)
Neil Anthony – Our Shangri La (2024) (Previous plays – 1; Last Played 2024)
Billboard Top 20 of 1962 – No 11: Bruce Channel – Hey Baby (Debut)
Frankie Carle – Magic Is The Moonlight~The Petticoats of Portugal (Previous plays – 1; Last Played 2020)
Greg Champion & Anne Fraser – The Orroroo Waltz (Previous plays – 1; Last Played 2024)
Johnny Chester – Send Me Some Lovin’ (2024) (Previous plays – 1; Last Played 2024)
Hour 2
Kevin Sullivan – The Piano Player (2024) (Previous plays – 1; Last Played 2024)
By Request: Chris Barber & Mark Knopfler – The Next Time I’m In Town (Debut)
By Request: Jimmy Little – Baby Blue (1975) (Previous plays – 2; Last Played 2024; Requested 1 x)
By Request: Sarah Brightman & Andrea Boccelli – Time To Say Goodbye (Previous plays – 15; Last Played 20-9-2023; Requested 12 x)
Francisco Cavez Orchestra – Moonlight In Montevideo (Previous plays – 1; Last Played 2019)
Ricky May – Nagasaki (Debut)
By Request: Neil Young – Harvest Moon (Previous plays – 7; Last Played 2024; Requested 6 x)
Stephen Stokes – A Peace Cry (Previous plays – 1; Last Played 2024)
International Novelty Quartet – Silver Bell (Previous plays – 6; Last Played 2018; Requested 2 x)
ON THIS DAY:
BORN:
1918 Plymouth, Devon, England – Richard Greene, English movie and television actor who appeared in over 40 films, best known for the lead role in the British television series The Adventures of Robin Hood, which ran for 143 episodes from 1955 to 1960. (d. 1985)
1930 Edinburgh, Scotland – Thomas Sean Connery BKA Sean Connery, Scottish actor and producer who won an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards and three Golden Globes. He is best known for portraying the character James Bond, although he has starred in numerous other movies. (d. 2020)
1931 Leipzig, Germany – John Peter Gilmore, BKA Peter Gilmore, English actor best known for his role as Captain James Onedin in the television drama The Onedin Line between 1971 and 1980. (d. 2013)
EVENTS:
1944 Paris was liberated by Allied forces in World War 2
1950 President Harry Truman ordered the US Army to seize control of the nation’s railroads to avert a strike.
1969 Over 20 crewmen perished when the 1,600 ton freighter Noongah foundered off Smoky Cape, near Kempsey, New South Wales.
1981 The Voyager 2 spacecraft, which was launched by NASA in 1977 to explore the outer planets, made its closest approach to Saturn. Exactly 8 years later, to this day in 1989, Voyager 2 made its closest approach to Neptune.
The craft is still operating after 40 years, providing data to the Deep Space Network on the outer reaches of the Solar System. It is now over 16 billion km from Earth, and in 296,000 years from now, will pass around 4.3 light years from the star Sirius. It will then wander the stars for eternity.