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29 November 2024

Friday Morning Radio, Edition 445

Three hours of music, Indies and memories not heard on mainstream radio.

Today’s Photo: Early morning at the Redwater Creek Steam & Heritage Society, Sheffield, Tasmania.
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📷 Taken 1998, Yours Truly

Today’s Playlist:

TRACKRELEASE YEARHOURPREVIOUS PLAYSLAST PLAYEDISRC
Rob Breese – It’s Me202410 AUC8U 2400001
Past Request 2020: Brenda Lee – Night And Day 1118/6/2017 
Albert Hammond – Love Isn’t Love Till  You Give It202410  
Donna Cunningham – Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue2024111/11/2024 
Larissa Tormey & Remy O – Fire and Water20241525/10/2024IEJHJ 2400002
Backtrack: Victoria Eman – City Girl2017131/11/2019 
Living Guitars – Something Stupid 10  
John Michael Ferrari – Yes I Do 1217/11/2024TCAHE 2397001
BORN this day 1941, Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.A. – Jody Miller, country/pop singer, whose best known hits are He Walks Like A Man (1964) and Queen of the House  (1965).  Died  2022.
Jody Miller – He’s So Fine19711820/8/2023 
Past Request 2017: Boyzone – Words19991129/1/2017 
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1964
Al Martino – We Could
1964125/4/2020 
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1964
Shangri-Las – Leader of the Pack
19641421/1/2024 
By Request: Pat Boone – Moody River19611523/4/2023 
Sarah Riches – Finally Free20242118/8/2024 
Ron Christopher – Delayna202420 QZWKY 2400271
Celia Bryce Band – Healing Wind202420  
They Don’t Make Them Like This Anymore:
Benny Strong – If I Knew You Were Coming I’d Have Baked A Cake
1950229/4/2023 
Emma Jane – Gairbraid Avenue202420  
Backtrack: Graeme Clarke – Fraulein2017275/9/2021 
Bert Kaempfert & His Orchestra – C’Est Si Bon 2310/1/2020 
Michelle Little – Time To Sing202420 AUGBT 2414030
DIED this day 2016, Snell’s Beach, New Zealand – Ray Columbus, award-winning singer/songwriter, music manager and entertainer whose career spanned 6 decades.  He was lead singer for the 60s pop group Ray Columbus & The Invaders, whose best known hit was She’s A Mod.  Aged 74.
Ray Columbus & Invaders – She’s A Mod196421030/8/2024 
Backtrack: Brooks & Dunn – Boot Scootin’ Boogie20162129/10/2017 
Bruce Mackay Songwriting with Anthony Snape & Ashleigh Dallas – Dearie Me202420 AUL9L 2400005
Dianne Lindsay – Ladies Of The Land202420  
Courting Ghosts – Falling My Friend202430  
Chase Stevens – As Good As It Gets202430 CAJEZ 2400002
Warren Kearney – Not So Straight Real Estate20243317/11/2024AU2KV 2400022
Seekers – Don’t Think Twice 3228/6/2019 
Past Request 2018: Bobby Helms – My Special Angel19573511/11/2018 
Backtrack: Bill Goodall – Forty Miles of Bad Road20223226/1/2024 
Percy Faith & His Orchestra – Georgy Girl 3723/10/2022 
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1964 Shadows – Theme For Young Lovers196431410/12/2023 
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1964 Lorne Greene – Ringo19643912/2/2023 
Lance Birrell – Ghosts of the Pioneers20243224/11/2024AUGBT 2447112
Justin Landers – Rusty Austin Ute202430 AUJBV 2400002
Johnny Cash – Sunday Morning Coming Down19703718/12/2022 

29 NOVEMBER IN HISTORY:

DIED THIS DAY:

1981 Santa Catalina Island, California, U.S.A. – Natalia Zakharenko alias Natalie Wood, actress whose career began in movies at the age of four.  She became a successful child actor in films such as Miracle on 34th Street (1947).

A well received performance opposite James Dean in Rebel Without A Cause (1955) earned her a nomination for the Academy Award For Best Supporting Actress.  She later starred in the musicals West Side Story (1961) and Gypsy (1962).  Natalie Wood drowned near Santa Catalina Island, California, at age 43.

1986 Davenport, Iowa, U.S.A. – Archibald Alexander Leach alias Cary Grant, actor named the second Greatest Male Star of all Time by the American Film Institute. Aged 82.

2001 Los Angeles, California U.S.A. – George Harrison, rock guitarist, singer-songwriter and film producer who achieved international fame as lead guitarist of the Beatles.  Aged 58.

EVENTS:

1947  New Zealand – All schools in the North Island were closed due to a polio epidemic.

1948  General Motors Holden launched the first Holden car.  And in 1998 General Motors Holden celebrated its 50th anniversary of building Holden cars

1960  Hobart, Tasmania – The final prisoners were transferred from the Campbell Street Gaol to the new Risdon Prison.  For the first time in over a century the Campbell Street Gaol was devoid of prisoners.