24 January 2025
Friday Morning Radio, Edition 453
Three hours of music, Indies and memories not heard on mainstream radio.
Today’s Photo: The TYGA-FM studio, New Norfolk.
Today’s Playlist:
| TRACK | RELEASE YEAR | HOUR | PREVIOUS PLAYS | LAST PLAYED | ISRC |
| Paul Hudnott – On The Prowl | 2024 | 1 | 1 | 3/1/2025 | |
| Gary Jay & The Fire – Riverview Tavern | 2024 | 1 | 2 | 19/1/2025 | QT368 2400014 |
| Eric Diamond – All Of Me | 2024 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Carmel Charlton – Heartwood | 2024 | 1 | 2 | 12/1/2025 | AUOUL 2400001 |
| Past Request: John Rowles – Massachusetts | 1 | 11 | 28/7/2024 | ||
| Backtrack: Lynchburg – La Chica Bella | 2022 | 1 | 8 | 10/11/2023 | |
| Percy Faith & His Orchestra – Sunrise Sunset | 1 | 2 | 16/8/2024 | ||
| Andy Williams – Seasons In The Sun | 1 | 1 | 12/1/2025 | ||
| By Request Today: Tony Clarke – Not That Kind Of Fool | 2024 | 1 | 3 | 22/9/2023 | QZ825 1857501 |
| Ray Stevens – Everything Is Beautiful | 1970 | 1 | 1 | 30/7/2021 | |
| BORN 1939 Clarkdale, Georgia, U.S.A. – Harold Ray Ragsdale, alias Ray Stevens, country and pop singer-songwriter, known for his novelty songs. Turns 86. | |||||
| Backtrack: Jason Owen – Annie’s Song | 2019 | 1 | 3 | 27/11/2020 | |
| By Request Today: Ray Charles – Crying Time | 1 | 0 | |||
| Glen Dee – While You’re Not There | 2024 | 1 | 4 | 3/11/2019 | |
| Allan Caswell – Honey All I Need Is You | 2024 | 2 | 0 | QMFME 2483340 | |
| Pete O’Brien – Indiana Girl | 2024 | 2 | 0 | USY3E 2400250 | |
| The Charlesys – She’s Away | 2024 | 2 | 1 | 3/1/2025 | CALVP 2454180 |
| They Don’t Make Them Like This Anymore: McGuire Sisters – Tiptoe Through the Tulips | 1956 | 2 | 0 | ||
| Robert Goulet – What A Wonderful World | 2 | 2 | 7/1/2022 | ||
| Backtrack: Larry Mattson – Candlelight And Wine | 2023 | 2 | 2 | 20/8/2023 | |
| Roberto Delgado – Sirtaki In Athens | 2 | 5 | 16/12/2022 | ||
| Neil Diamond – Beautiful Noise | 1977 | 2 | 9 | 6/8/2021 | |
| 1941 BORN New York U.S.A. – Neil Diamond, singer-songwriter who scored many hits worldwide during the 1960s, 70s and 80s. Turns 84. | |||||
| Craig Woodward – Be Brave | 2024 | 2 | 2 | 12/1/2025 | |
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Tommy Roe – Party Girl | 1965 | 2 | 3 | 18/1/2015 | |
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Rob E G – Hawaii Tattoo | 1965 | 2 | 10 | 3/3/2023 | |
| Dean Martin – Down Home | 1965 | 2 | 1 | 10/8/2018 | |
| Camillus Egerton – Adalida | 2021 | 2 | 4 | 9/1/2022 | |
| Ron Christopher – That Rockabilly Thing | 2024 | 3 | 4 | 8/1/2023 | |
| By Request Today: Pussycat – Mississippi | 1976 | 3 | 37 | 22/12/2024 | |
| Al Martino – This Is My Song | 3 | 0 | |||
| Kathy Carver – My Country My Australia | 2025 | 3 | 0 | ||
| Graham Rodger – Ghosts of the Murranji | 2015 | 3 | 8 | 30/12/2022 | |
| Manuel & The Music of the Mountains – The Carioca | 3 | 0 | |||
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Lucille Starr – Sukiyaki | 1964-1965 | 3 | 0 | ||
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Marvin Gaye – How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You | 1964-1965 | 3 | 7 | 2/4/2023 | |
| By Request Today: Glen Dee – Especially For You | 2017 | 3 | 5 | 24/11/2023 | |
| By Request Today: Neil Young – Harvest Moon | 1992 | 3 | 9 | 22/12/2024 | |
| Roger Whittaker & Stephanie Taylor – Take Me To the Stars | 3 | 0 | |||
24 JANUARY IN HISTORY:
BORN:
1884 Wagga Wagga, New South Wales – Sir Thomas Alfred Blamey, Australian Army General of the First and Second World Wars. In 1945, he signed the Japanese Instrument of Surrender on behalf of Australia and, a few days later, accepted the Japanese surrender in Morotai. Died 1951.
1917 Hamden, Connecticut, U.S.A. – Ernest Borgnine, actor of television and the big screen, whose career spanned nearly six decades. On television, he is best remembered for his role as Quinton McHale in the 1962-66 sitcom McHales Navy. Died 2012.
EVENTS:
1898 The North-East Dundas Railway, in western Tasmania, opened between Zeehan and Montezuma
1903 Kalgoorlie, WA received its first water supply from the Mundaring Weir with the completion of the 566 km pipeline.
1978 The Soviet satellite Cosmos 954, burned up as it re-entered Earth’s atmosphere, scattering radioactive debris from its nuclear reactor over Canada’s Northwest Territories. Only 1% of the wreckage was recovered.
1986 The Voyager 2 spacecraft, which was launched by NASA in 1977 to explore the outer planets, made its closest approach, within 81,500 km, of Uranus. It transmitted thousands of photographs, and an immense amount of scientific data on the planet, its moons and the rings surrounding it.
Voyager 2 is still operating and communicating with the Deep Space Network on Earth from interstellar space, over 18 billion km away. It is expected to continue transmitting for another few years, and is destined to wander the stars for eternity.