10 January 2025
Friday Morning Radio, Edition 451
Three hours of music, Indies and memories not heard on mainstream radio.
Today’s Photo: The Bluff, Devonport, northern Tasmania.
Today’s Playlist:
| TRACK | RELEASE YEAR | HOUR | PREVIOUS PLAYS | LAST PLAYED | ISRC |
| Shaun Connery & The Sounds – Walking Talking Dolly | 2024 | 1 | 1 | 3/1/2025 | |
| Kevin Sullivan – The Piano Player | 2024 | 1 | 1 | 25/8/2024 | AUVW1 2400006 |
| Caroline J Harte – If This Ain’t Love | 2024 | 1 | 1 | 27/12/2024 | TCAJB 2406935 |
| Anthony Baxter – Christmas Day At Hanging Rock | 2024 | 1 | 1 | 29/12/2024 | |
| Past Request 2017 ~ 2022: Glen Dee – You’ll Always Be My Little Girl | 2017 | 1 | 19 | 29/9/2024 | |
| Backtrack: Indy van Spanje – Summer Winds | 2021 | 1 | 8 | 19/3/2021 | |
| Romantic Strings – Moonlight Serenade | 1 | 2 | 27/9/2024 | ||
| Audra Watt – The Good Of It | 2024 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Johnny Ray – I’ll Never Fall In Love Again | 1959 | 1 | 5 | 13/2/2022 | |
| BORN 1927 Hopewell, Oregon, U.S.A. – John Alvin Ray BKA Johnnie Ray, singer, songwriter, and pianist, highly popular during the 1950s. Ray’s jazz and blues-influenced music has been cited as a major precursor of rock and roll. Died 1990. | |||||
| Backtrack: Joe Maher – Sweet Caroline | 2020 | 1 | 2 | 9/10/2020 | |
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Roger Miller – Do Wacka Do | 1965 | 1 | 4 | 28/12/2018 | |
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Dinah Lee – Do The Blue Beat | 1964-1965 | 1 | 4 | 7/12/2018 | |
| Al Caiola – The Bounty Hunter | 1961 | 1 | 7 | 3/11/2023 | |
| Neil Diamond – I’m A Believer | 1967 | 2 | 6 | 3/11/2024 | |
| Scott McKenzie – San Francisco | 1967 | 2 | 14 | 18/8/2024 | |
| BORN 1939 Jacksonville, Florida U.S.A. – Philip Blondheim BKA Scott McKenzie, singer best known for his 1967 hit single San Francisco Died 2012. | |||||
| Clint Bradley – Soul Of The West | 2024 | 2 | 0 | ||
| They Don’t Make Them Like This Anymore: Georgia Gibbs – The Hula Hoop Song | 1958 | 2 | 0 | ||
| Sonny Morgan – Beach Solution | 2024 | 2 | 0 | ||
| Backtrack: Jason Carruthers – Don’t Sell Australia Out | 2022 | 2 | 9 | 8/11/2024 | |
| Capitol Symphony Orchestra – Country Gardens | 2 | 1 | 27/3/2022 | ||
| By Request Today: Patsy Cline – Rose of San Antone | 1961 | 2 | 9 | 16/4/2021 | |
| Jim Croce – Bad Bad Leroy Brown | 1973 | 2 | 5 | 26/10/2018 | |
| BORN 1943 South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. – James Joseph Croce BKA Jim Croce, singer-songwriter who, between 1960 and 1973, released six albums and eleven singles. His singles Bad Bad Leroy Brown and Time In A Bottle were both number one hits on the Billboard Hot 100 charts. Croce died in a plane crash at the age of 30, in 1973. | |||||
| Carmel Charlton – Heartwood | 2024 | 2 | 0 | AUOUL 2400001 | |
| Past Request 2018-2019: Elvis Presley – Make The World Go Away | 1970 | 2 | 5 | 29/12/2019 | |
| Margaret Whiting & Jimmy Wakely – Baby It’s Cold Outside | 1949 | 2 | 7 | 10/1/2021 | |
| DIED 2011 Englewood, New Jersey, U.S.A. – Margaret Whiting, popular and country music singer who enjoyed her greatest success in the 1940s and 1950s , perhaps best known for her 1949duet with Johnny Mercer, Baby It’s Cold Outside. Aged 86. | |||||
| Eva Cassidy – Fields of Gold | 1998 | 2 | 10 | 4/12/2022 | |
| Craig Woodward – Be Brave | 2024 | 3 | 0 | ||
| Charlie’s Attic – Sleepy Old Town | 2024 | 3 | 0 | ||
| Tony Bennetts – Backing In The Van | 2024 | 3 | 4 | 22/3/2024 | |
| Roger Whittaker – Schon War Die Zeit | 3 | 0 | |||
| Backtrack: Andrew Ryan – In The Warrego | 2022 | 3 | 4 | 6/1/2023 | |
| Buddy Bregman Orchestra – Anything Goes | 3 | 2 | 9/8/2024 | ||
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1964 Dionne Warwick – Reach Out For Me | 1965 | 3 | 7 | 1/9/2023 | |
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1964 Petula Clark – Downtown | 1964-1965 | 3 | 12 | 26/12/2021 | |
| Tony Christie – Train To Yesterday | 3 | 3 | 3/12/2023 | ||
| Marty Robbins – Melba From Melbourne | 3 | 1 | 20/10/2023 | ||
| Bert Kaempfert & His Orchestra – Wheeling Free | 3 | 3 | 19/1/2024 | ||
| Daniel O’Donnell – Little Arrows | 3 | 4 | 23/8/2024 | ||
10 JANUARY IN HISTORY:
EVENTS THIS DAY:
1946 London, England – The first General Assembly of the United Nations opened, with 51 nations represented
1949 Melbourne Victoria – The Orient liner Orcades arrived after a record setting maiden voyage from Tilbury, England, of 26 days. The vessel predominately served on the U K, Australia, New Zealand route, carrying many migrants. Built in 1948, Orcades was broken up in Taiwan in 1973.
1949 U.S.A. – New microgroove 7-inch records were released by the Columbia and RCA Victor companies. Although the discs were the same size, they played at different speeds; RCA Victor’s at 45 r.p.m. and Columbia’s at 33 and one third r.p.m. Meanwhile, ordinary shellac 78 r.p.m. records continued in production.
1954 Groton Connecticut U.S.A. – The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, was launched by the First Lady of the United States, Mamie Eisenhower
1962 Peru – A massive avalanche swept down the side of Mt Huascaran, devastating the village of Huaraz and causing the loss of over 3,000 lives. The same village had been struck by a similar disaster 20 years previously. +
1968 Canberra – John Gorton was sworn in as Australia’s 19th Prime Minister of Australia after the disappearance and presumed drowning of Prime Minister Harold Holt.