7 February 2025
Friday Morning Radio, Edition 455
Three hours of music, Indies and memories not heard on mainstream radio.
Today’s Photo: The Queenstown Railway Station, West Coast Wilderness Railway, Tasmania
Yours Truly.
Today’s Playlist:
| TRACK | RELEASE YEAR | HOUR | PREVIOUS PLAYS | LAST PLAYED | ISRC |
| Phil Salter – Fields of Dreams | 2025 | 1 | 0 | AUD0K 2500001 | |
| Highway 95 – She Believes | 2025 | 1 | 0 | AUL0G 2400013 | |
| Dean Perrett – Slim’s Guitar | 2025 | 1 | 0 | AUZY4 2400030 | |
| Change of Key – Digital Highway | 2024 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Daniel O’Donnell – Save The Last Dance For Me | 1 | 1 | 20/5/2018 | ||
| Backtrack: Tyson Lucas – It’s O K To Be Me | 2019 | 1 | 3 | 15/11/2024 | |
| 101 Strings Orchestra – Perfidia | 1 | 0 | |||
| Engelbert Humperdinck – South of the Border | 1 | 0 | |||
| By Request Today: Platters – One In A Million | 1957 | 1 | 4 | 1/11/2024 | |
| Tony Christie – Funny Familiar Forgotten Feelings | 1 | 0 | |||
| Backtrack: Shavonne Aliphon – Without Love | 2017 | 1 | 2 | 16/11/2018 | |
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Georgie Fame – Yeh Yeh | 1965 | 1 | 6 | 26/2/2016 | |
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Ray Brown & Whispers – Twenty Miles | 1965 | 1 | 8 | 5/11/2021 | |
| Col Joye – There Goes My Everything | 1967 | 2 | 8 | 5/10/2018 | |
| The Charlesys – I Can See The Dawn | 2024 | 2 | 1 | 6/12/2024 | CAGOO 2476787 |
| Bohemian Rogue – Tide | 2025 | 2 | 0 | AUGBT 2488904 | |
| They Don’t Make Them Like This Anymore: Michael Holliday – Hot Diggety | 1956 | 2 | 0 | ||
| Anthony Snape & Ashleigh Dallas – Dearie Me | 2024 | 2 | 1 | 29/11/2024 | AUL9L 2400005 |
| Backtrack: Smiley Martin – 8.03 to 8.30 | 2021 | 2 | 3 | 21/1/2022 | |
| Les Brown & His Band of Renown – Leap Frog | 2 | 0 | |||
| Alice Benfer – Everlasting Cactus | 2024 | 2 | 1 | 3/1/2025 | AUHIB 2300005 |
| Shaza Leigh – Behind Closed Doors | 2025 | 2 | 0 | ||
| Jim Reeves – There’s A Heartache Following Me | 2 | 1 | 10/11/2019 | ||
| Pete O’Brien – Indiana Girl | 2024 | 2 | 3 | 2/2/2025 | USY3E 2400250 |
| Julie Healy – My Lovely Glenamaddy | 2 | 7 | 31/1/2025 | ||
| Eric Diamond – I Can’t Give You Anything But Love | 2024 | 3 | 1 | 27/12/2024 | |
| Christine Clifford – You Can’t Say | 2024 | 3 | 2 | 15/12/2024 | AUP6F 2400003 |
| Ron Christopher – Letter to Ramona | 2024 | 3 | 0 | QZWKY 2400267 | |
| Seekers – Come The Day | 1968 | 3 | 9 | 24/11/2023 | |
| Backtrack: Vanessa Bourne – Together But Alone | 2021 | 3 | 3 | 10/12/2021 | |
| Wayne Newton – Red Roses For A Blue Lady | 1966 | 3 | 8 | 9/4/2017 | |
| Mantovani – The Skaters Waltz | 3 | 0 | |||
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Gerry & Pacemakers – Ferry Cross The Mersey | 1965 | 3 | 19 | 22/9/2024 | |
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Peter Paul & Mary – For Loving Me | 1965 | 3 | 7 | 30/12/2022 | |
| Bob Marshall – You Just Can’t See Him From The Road | 2024 | 3 | 1 | 13/12/2024 | |
| Chloe Sweeney – Good Hearted Woman | 2024 | 3 | 2 | 5/1/2025 | TCAIZ 2492155 |
7 FEBRUARY IN HISTORY:
1938 Melbourne, Victoria – A propeller blade which fell from an aircraft flying overhead, crashed through the roof over a platform at the Flinders Street Railway Station. There were no injuries.
1940 Throughout England – The country’s worst known blizzard blocked 2,400 km of railway, stranded scores of trains, brought down hundreds of kilometres of electrical cables, and paralysed the country from Land’s End to John O’Groats with snowdrifts up to 5 metres deep
1952 London, England – The former Princess Elizabeth was proclaimed Queen of the United Kingdom the day after the death of her father, King George VI.
1964 New York, U.S.A. – “Beatlemania” arrived in the United States with the Beatles receiving a tumultuous reception from throngs of screaming fans at JFK International Airport.
1967 Southern Tasmania – The Black Tuesday bushfires claimed 63 lives, left thousands homeless and caused millions of dollars of damage.
1969 Violet Town, Victoria – The Southern Aurora express train collided with a freight train after it’s driver suffered a heart attack, resulting in 9 deaths. Victorian locomotives were later fitted with a driver-vigilance safety system.
1979 The planet Pluto moved inside the orbit of Neptune for the first time since either planet was known to science. Pluto returned to its normal outer position in February 1999, and will not move inside Neptune’s orbit again until 2236.
1990 Moscow, U.S.S.R. – The Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party agreed to give up its monopoly on power, paving the way for the collapse of the former Soviet Union.
2009 Northern and Eastern Victoria – The disastrous Black Saturday bushfires left 173 dead, hundreds injured and thousands homeless. Property damage was estimated at $1,266 million.