17 November 2024
Valley Sunrise Edition 808
0600 ~ 0900 AEDT
Palana Bay, Flinders Island.
[For the geographically unaware, Flinders Island is the largest of the Furneaux group, at the eastern end of Bass Strait.
These islands were originally a mountain range on the low “land bridge” which connected Tasmania to mainland Australia, until 10,000 years ago.
This photo was taken by a relative, in 1978. I assume the locality has changed little since then.]
THIS EDITION’S PLAYLIST
Due to a technical hitch, today’s programme started off on last Sunday’s playlist; hence, the first two tracks were repeated from that day. I had to make the necessary corrections “on the run,” as the programme went to air.
| TRACK | RELEASE YEAR | HOUR | PREVIOUS PLAYS | LAST PLAYED | ISRC |
| Irish Rovers – The Orange And The Green | 1968 | 1 | 10 | 10/11/2024 | |
| Nancy Su & Emelie – Swedish Dynamite | 2024 | 1 | 2 | 15/11/2024 | |
| Lou T Josie – Just A Heartbeat Away | 2024 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Graham Oliver – I Don’t Know How I’ll Ever Get Over You | 2024 | 1 | 2 | 28/6/2024 | |
| Past Request 2019: Bachelors – I Believe | 1964 | 1 | 7 | 12/4/2024 | |
| Carpenters – For All We Know | 1971 | 1 | 6 | 4/3/2022 | |
| By Request Today: Michael Crawford – Music Of The Night | 1 | 5 | 13/8/2023 | ||
| Horst Jankowski & His Orchestra – Canadian Sunset | 1 | 0 | |||
| Backtrack: Don Smythe – Long Way Till Tomorrow | 2020 | 1 | 5 | 11/9/2020 | NZRI1 1903411 |
| Sammie Soravia – OK To Be Alone | 2024 | 1 | 1 | 15/11/2024 | |
| Past Request 2013: Barry McGuire – Eve of Destruction | 1 | 13 | 15/10/2023 | ||
| Andy Williams – Blue Hawaii | 1 | 0 | |||
| Roy Orbison – Pretty Woman | 1964 | 1 | 22 | 13/9/2024 | |
| Petula Clark – Love Me With All Your Heart | 1965 | 2 | 3 | 19/11/2021 | |
| Warren Kearney – Not So Straight Real Estate | 2024 | 2 | 2 | 15/11/2024 | AU2KV 2400022 |
| Liselotte van Dooren – Time To Lend A Hand | 2024 | 2 | 0 | ||
| John Michael Ferrari – Yes I Do | 2024 | 2 | 1 | 20/10/2024 | TCAHE 2397001 |
| Backtrack: Allan Caswell – Sucking My Darling Dry | 2018 | 2 | 2 | 27/9/2019 | |
| Peter Foldy – Bondi Junction | 2 | 4 | 23/6/2023 | ||
| Box Tree Orchestra – A Groovy Kind Of Love | 2 | 0 | |||
| BORN THIS DAY 1944, Tipton, Missouri, U.S.A. – Harold Eugene Clark, alias Gene Clark, singer-songwriter and a founding member of the folk-rock group, The Byrds. Died 1991. | |||||
| Byrds – Ballad of the Easy Rider | 1969 | 2 | 2 | 17/11/2023 | |
| Frank Ifield – Days of Wine And Roses | 2 | 0 | |||
| Past Request 2019: Ashley Cook – Keeping The Past Alive | 2019 | 2 | 5 | 27/3/2020 | |
| Brenda Lynn Allen – Live Your Dreams | 2024 | 2 | 0 | QZS7J 2404200 | |
| DIED THIS DAY 2003, Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.A. – Donald Eugene Gibson, singer-songwriter and Country Music Hall of Fame Inductee, who had a string of hits from the late 1950s into the early 1970s. Aged 75. | |||||
| Don Gibson – I Love You Because | 2 | 1 | 5/5/2019 | ||
| Rooftop Singers – Walk Right in | 1963 | 2 | 13 | 3/9/2023 | |
| Jerry Wallace – In The Misty Moonlight | 1964 | 3 | 3 | 13/9/2024 | |
| By Request Today: Slim Whitman – China Doll | 1967 | 3 | 11 | 6/2/2022 | |
| By Request Today: Olivia Newton John – Physical | 3 | 1 | 16/9/2018 | ||
| By Request Today: Judy Stone – 4,003,221 Tears From Now | 1964 | 3 | 15 | 29/3/2024 | |
| BORN THIS DAY 1938, Orillia, Ontario, Canada – Gordon Lightfoot, singer-songwriter who achieved international success in folk, folk-rock and country music of the 1960s and 1970s. Died 2023. | |||||
| Gordon Lightfoot – Early Morning Rain | 3 | 1 | 17/11/2017 | ||
| Phoebe Hutchison – I Won’t Say I Miss You | 2024 | 3 | 0 | AUK5B 2400001 | |
| Frank Mills & His Orchestra – Happy Song | 3 | 0 | |||
| Past Request 2022: Axiom – A Little Ray of Sunshine | 1970 | 3 | 8 | 30/10/2022 | |
| Backtrack: Tom Curtin & Sara Storer – Speak Up | 2018 | 3 | 2 | 3/8/2018 | |
| Gary Kennedy – Dance With Me Molly | 2023 | 3 | 5 | 19/7/2024 | |
| Don Costa & His Orchestra – Never on Sunday | 3 | 5 | 19/9/2021 | ||
| Daniel O’Donnell – Beautiful Sunday | 3 | 6 | 1/4/2018 | ||
17 NOVEMBER IN HISTORY:
ALSO BORN THIS DAY:
1925 Winnetka, Illinoir, U.S.A. – Roy Harold Scherer Jr, alias Rock Hudson, film and television actor. Died 1985.
1940 Swansea, Wales – Clifford William Cumberbatch Simons, alias William Simons, actor who had the role of P C Alf Ventress in the TV drama series, Heartbeat, for over a decade. Died 2019.
DIED THIS DAY:
1970, Surbiton, London, Englamd – Naunton Wayne, actor who has appeared in numerous feature films. Aged 69.
EVENTS:
1970 The Soviet Union landed Lunokhod 1 on the Moon’s Mare Imbrium, from the orbiting Luna 17 craft. Lunokhod 1 was the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world. It resembled a toilet pan on eight independently operated wheels.
It travelled over 10½ kilometres on the Moon, at a top speed on 100 metres an hour, and it’s four cameras returned over 20,000 images. It operated for 11 months, instead of the planned 3 months.
Contact with Lunokhod 1 was lost on 14 September 1971.