17 January 2025
Friday Morning Radio, Edition 452
Three hours of music, Indies and memories not heard on mainstream radio.
Today’s Photo: Primeval mosses and fungus, western Tasmania.
Today’s Playlist:
| TRACK | RELEASE YEAR | HOUR | PREVIOUS PLAYS | LAST PLAYED | ISRC |
| Jason McCahill – Bonaparte’s Retreat | 2024 | 1 | 1 | 5/1/2025 | |
| Ray Conniff Singers – Mame | 1 | 0 | |||
| Marilyn King & Miller Sisters – Don’t Sit Under The Apple Tree | 1 | 0 | |||
| Charlie’s Attic – Sleepy Old Town | 2024 | 1 | 1 | 10/1/2025 | |
| Past Request: Foster & Allen – After All These Years | 1 | 7 | 29/9/2024 | ||
| Backtrack: Vanessa Delaine – One Girl Band | 2020 | 1 | 4 | 31/7/2020 | |
| Rod Stewart – Sailing | 1975 | 1 | 24 | 25/8/2024 | |
| Luiz Gonzalez Perez & His Tropical Orchestra – Marta | 1 | 0 | |||
| Lee Ann Kelly – Remember Me Beautiful | 2024 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Eartha Kitt – Just An Old Fashioned Girl | 1958 | 1 | 7 | 18/9/2022 | |
| BORN 1927 North, South Carolina, U.S.A. – Eartha Kitt, actress, singer and cabaret star noted for her highly distinctive singing style. Her hits include Let’s Do It, C’Est Si Bon, Just an Old Fashioned Girl and Under The Bridges of Paris. Died 2008. | |||||
| Backtrack: Shavonne Aliphon – In My Mind | 2021 | 1 | 3 | 2/4/2021 | |
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1964 Canadian Sweethearts – We’re Gonna Stand Upon The Mountain | 1964-1965 | 1 | 1 | 8/3/2019 | |
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1964 Barron Knights – The House of Johann Strauss | 1964-1965 | 1 | 11 | 16/4/2023 | |
| Steve Cheers – Nobody’s Home | 2024 | 2 | 1 | 5/1/2025 | AUZV4 2200002 |
| By Request Today: Stone Poneys – Different Drum | 1967 | 2 | 1 | 23/3/2018 | |
| Steve Cal – Find Me A Rainbow | 2024 | 2 | 0 | AUQ8U 2400001 | |
| Michael Golding – Bringing Mary Home | 2024 | 2 | 1 | 6/12/2024 | |
| They Don’t Make Them Like This Anymore: Dinah Shore – Three Little Sisters | 1942 | 2 | 0 | ||
| Tomas Jackson – Only You | 2024 | 2 | 0 | IEATQ 2400001 | |
| Backtrack: Rachael McDonald – Some | 2017 | 2 | 2 | 25/1/2019 | |
| Max Harris Orchestra – Blues In The Night | 2 | 0 | |||
| Lolita – Sailor | 1960 | 2 | 20 | 30/6/2024 | |
| BORN 1931 St Polten, Austria – Edith Zuser BKA Lolita, pop singer, who began singing in local clubs while working as a kindergarten teacher. She began her recording career in 1957, and in December, 1959, she recorded her only gold record, Seeman, Deine Heimat ist das Meer. This was one of only a handful of records sung in a language other than English, to be successful in Ausralian Top 40s. Lolita died June 30, 2010 in Salzburg, Austria. | |||||
| Seekers (Live) – I’ll Never Find Another You~With My Swag On My Shoulder | 1968 | 2 | 1 | 5/1/2020 | |
| Past Request: Elvis Presley – Easy Come Easy Go | 1967 | 2 | 8 | 9/6/2023 | |
| Past Request: Frank Sinatra – My Way | 1969 | 2 | 8 | 7/8/2022 | |
| Ron Christopher – Los Diablos Tejanos | 3 | 0 | QZWKY 2400268 | ||
| Col Elliott – See How Things Have Changed | 2024 | 3 | 1 | 29/12/2024 | USCGJ 1244287 |
| Slim Dusty – Sitting On The Old Front Verandah | 3 | 7 | 19/9/2021 | ||
| Horst Wende’s Accordeon Band – Those Were The Days | 3 | 2 | 5/8/2018 | ||
| Renee Geyer – I Got Rhythm | 3 | 2 | 6/12/2019 | ||
| Backtrack: Henry Mancini & His Orchestra – Stardust | 3 | 0 | |||
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1964 Searchers – What Have They Done To the Rain | 1964-1965 | 3 | 3 | 12/1/2020 | |
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1964 Jimmie Rodgers – English Country Garden | 1964-1965 | 3 | 7 | 25/12/2020 | |
| Victoria Eman – Tiny Christmas Tree | 2024 | 3 | 0 | NLJ9A 2400004 | |
| Edward Nass – Memory Lane | 3 | 2 | 25/12/2018 | ||
| Charley Pride – Millers Cave | 3 | 4 | 21/2/2021 | ||
17 JANUARY IN HISTORY:
BORN:
1820 Thornton, West Riding of Yorkshire, England – Anne Bronte, novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Bronte literary family. Died 1849.
1899 Ealing, London, England – Nevil Shute Norway alias Nevil Shute, novelist and aeronautical engineer. Died 1960.
1923 London, England – Kathleen Mary Corkery alias Carol Raye, Australian-based theatre and television actress and comedienne. Died 2024.
1933 New York, U.S.A. – Sonia Phyllis Hurwitz alias Shari Lewis, ventriloquist, puppeteer and childrens’ television show hostess, of the 1960s and 1990s. . Died 1998.
1942 Mittagong, New South Wales – Ita Buttrose, journalist, businesswoman and founding editor of Cleo, a magazine aimed at young single women, and later, editor of the Australian Womens’ Weekly. Former chairperson of the ABC.
DIED:
1997 Las Cruces, New Mexico, U.S.A. – Clyde Tombaugh, astronomer who discovered the dwarf planet Pluto in 1930, and many asteroids. Some of his ashes are aboard the New Horizons spacecraft, which was launched in 2006 to flyby Pluto. Aged 90.
2019 England – Windsor Davies, actor, well known for his role as Battery Sergeant Major Williams in the 70s television sitcom It Ain’t Half Hot Mum. Aged 88.
2020 Bath, England – Derek Fowlds, actor best known for his roles as civil servant Bernard Woolley in the popular British television comedies Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister, but more recently as Oscar Blaketon in the long-running police drama Heartbeat. Aged 82.
2023 Geelong, Victoria – Renee Geyer, soul, pop and rhythm and blues singer. Aged 69.
EVENTS:
1889 Cloncurry, Queensland – Recorded Australia’s highest temperature to that date; 52.7 C.
1912 Robert Falcon Scott reached the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen.
1940 London, England – The Thames River froze for the first time since 1888.
1952 Hobart, Tasmania – Elephants from a visiting circus were used to remove a building, to enable a start to be made on construction of the new Hobart railway station.
1966 Near Palomares, Spain – An American B-52 bomber aircraft collided with a Stratotanker, dropping four unarmed 70-kiloton nuclear bombs.
1968 Melbourne, Victoria – The Seekers were named Australians of the Year.
1980 Aviation history was made when Australia’s first female commercial pilot commenced duty. Debbie Wardley, aged 26, co-piloted a Fokker Friendship owned by Ansett Airlines on a return flight from Alice Springs to Darwin. This marked the conclusion of a 15-month legal battle which had previously prevented her from taking the controls.
2004 Darwin, Northern Territory – The first freight train arrived from Adelaide, after the extension of the Central Australian Railway from Alice Springs opened.