3 November 2024
Valley Sunrise Edition 806
0600 ~ 0900 AEDT
Today’s photo: 20th of October, and at the Tasmanian Transport Museum, Glenorchy, locomotive M 5 makes it’s first movements under it’s own steam after a massive overhaul.
THIS EDITION’S PLAYLIST
| TRACK | RELEASE YEAR | TIME | PREVIOUS PLAYS | LAST PLAYED | ISRC |
| David Hammerschlag – Take Me To A Country Town | 2024 | HOUR 1 | 0 | ||
| Past Request 2020: ABBA – Dance While The Music Still Goes On | 1973 | HOUR 1 | 6 | 26/6/2022 | |
| Past Request 2017: Albert Hammond – Give A Little Love | 1987 | HOUR 1 | 3 | 16/7/2021 | |
| By Request Today: John Williamson – True Blue | HOUR 1 | 8 | 25/9/2022 | ||
| The Songsmiths – The Lucky One | 2024 | HOUR 1 | 0 | TCAIP2488887 | |
| Damien Johnson – Nobody Else But You | 2024 | HOUR 1 | 1 | 20/10/2024 | |
| Past Request 2020: Andre Rieu – Amazing Grace | HOUR 1 | 2 | 8/3/2020 | ||
| Krzystof Groen – Dixon | 2024 | HOUR 1 | 0 | ||
| Garrett Gregory – She Don’t Need To Drink To Dance | 2024 | HOUR 1 | 0 | ||
| Past Request 2013: 19 0 1 – Fifteen Years Ago | HOUR 1 | 7 | 10/7/2022 | ||
| Neil Diamond – I’m A Believer | HOUR 1 | 5 | 14/10/2022 | ||
| Dean Martin – Gentle On My Mind | 1969 | HOUR 1 | 2 | 23/3/2018 | |
| Mike Hughes – If Ever I Need A Lady I’ll Call You | 2024 | HOUR 2 | 0 | ||
| Past Request 2013: Adam Brand – Grandpa’s Piano | HOUR 2 | 3 | 2/2/2024 | ||
| Past Request 2017: Troy Cassar-Daly & Adam Harvey – Good Hearted Woman | HOUR 2 | 1 | 19/3/2017 | ||
| Spinners – Drunken Sailor | HOUR 2 | 3 | 5/11/2023 | ||
| Andy Penkow – The Lone Drover | 2024 | HOUR 2 | 0 | AUGBT2435285 | |
| Lindsay Waddington & Brendan Radford – The Red Centre | 2024 | HOUR 2 | 0 | AUZY42400020 | |
| BBC Big Band – On The Sunny Side Of The Street | HOUR 2 | 2 | 9/8/2013 | ||
| Patsy & Dave with Russell Morris – The Willow | 2024 | HOUR 2 | 1 | 27/10/2024 | |
| Brendan Radford – E J | 2024 | HOUR 2 | 0 | AUGBT2447646 | |
| Village Stompers – Washington Square | 1963 | HOUR 2 | 9 | 23/2/2024 | |
| Jimmy Little – Royal Telephone | 1963 | HOUR 2 | 17 | 22/9/2023 | |
| Past Request 2020: Alan Jackson – Pop A Top | HOUR 2 | 3 | 6/9/2020 | ||
| Allan Caswell – He Loves His Radio | 2024 | HOUR 3 | 0 | AUGBT2444959 | |
| By Request Today: Pussycat – My Broken Souvenirs | HOUR 3 | 2 | 22/9/2024 | ||
| By Request Today: Elton John – Crocodile Rock | HOUR 3 | 6 | 30/4/2021 | ||
| Past Request 2024: Al Martino – Spanish Eyes | 1966 | HOUR 3 | 11 | 12/5/2024 | |
| Seekers – The Leaving of Liverpool | HOUR 3 | 6 | 11/6/2023 | ||
| Ronnie Kennedy – The Bluebell Polka | HOUR 3 | 5 | 16/9/2022 | ||
| Percy Faith & His Orchestra – Hello Dolly | HOUR 3 | 1 | 10/3/2019 | ||
| Lissa Retrot – Calling All Angels | 2024 | HOUR 3 | 1 | 25/10/2024 | |
| Past Request 2021: Aishling Rafferty – Love Me When I’m Old | 2021 | HOUR 3 | 16 | 6/10/2023 | |
| Ray Malcolm – Ghost Riders In The Sky | 2024 | HOUR 3 | 0 | 1/11/2024 |
3 NOVEMBER IN HISTORY:
BORN:
1948 Lennoxtown, East Dunbartonshire, England – Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie BKA Lulu, Scottish singer-songwriter and actress, successful since the early 1960s. She is famous for her hits To Sir With Love, Shout, and for her Eurovision Song Contest winning entry Boom Bang a Bang.
DIED:
2002 Market Deeping, England – Anthony James Donegan alias Lonnie Donegan, or The King of Skiffle, musician listed as England’s most influential recording artist prior to the Beatles. (Aged 71)
2006 Perpignan, France, Paul Mauriat, French musician and orchestra leader, who has sold over 40 million albums. He is particularly known for his million selling No 1 hit of 1968, Love Is Blue. (Aged 81)
2016 Beverley Hills, California, U.S.A. – Katherine Laverne Starks alias Kay Starr, pop and jazz singer who enjoyed considerable success in the 50s, best remembered for introducing two long running # 1 hits, Wheel of Fortune and The Rock and Roll Waltz. (Aged 94)
EVENTS:
1927 Sydney, New South Wales – Forty lives were lost when the harbour ferry Greycliffe, which had 120 passengers aboard, sank three minutes after being cut in two during a collision with the Union Steamship Company steamer Tahiti.
1957 The Soviet Union launched Sputnik 2, with the first animal in space (a dog named Laika) on board. Laika did not survive.
1960 Hobart, Tasmania – Captain Robert Hall, an American Air Force pilot had the jet engine of his U 2 aircraft “flame out” and fail whilst flying high over the city. As he dived to an altitude of 25,000 feet (7,600 metres) as a measure to restart the engine, he contacted Hobart airport to request Hobart commercial radio station 7HT to play recordings of El Paso and Night And Day.
The announcer on air at the time, John Burnley, duly played the pilot’s requests. The jet engine was re-started and Captain Hall resumed his journey, the purpose of which was stated to be, to sample the upper air over Tasmania.
1973 Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S.A. – The spaceprobe Mariner 10 was launched towards the planet Mercury. On March 29 1974, it became the first Earthly spacecraft to reach that planet.