14 February 2025
Friday Morning Radio, Edition 456
Three hours of music, Indies and memories not heard on mainstream radio.
Today’s Photo: Retired diesel-electric locomotive, coupled to vintage carriages, awaits it’s turn of duty at the Don River Railway’s 50th Anniversary celebrations this week.
Don River Railway.
Today’s Playlist:
| TRACK | RELEASE YEAR | HOUR | PREVIOUS PLAYS | LAST PLAYED | ISRC |
| Foster & Allen – Ring of Fire | 1 | 2 | 28/7/2019 | ||
| Toni West – Dismissed In A Heartbeat | 2025 | 1 | 1 | 2/2/2025 | UKBBL 2400012 |
| Steve Cheers – Nobody’s Home | 2024 | 1 | 2 | 17/1/2025 | AUZV4 2200002 |
| Dave Caley – Too Good To Be Forgot | 2024 | 1 | 1 | 31/1/2025 | US9BH 2400033 |
| Ray Malcolm – Speak Softly Love | 2025 | 1 | 0 | ||
| By Request Today: Shavonne Aliphon – No One Will Ever Know (By Request) | 2019 | 1 | 3 | 23/2/2024 | |
| Backtrack: Sarah Kate Landy – When Will I Be Loved | 2016 | 1 | 5 | 28/8/2016 | |
| Mario Ruiz Armengol & His Orchestra – Palabras de Mujer | 1 | 0 | |||
| Anne Murray – Where Do You Go to When You Dream | 1 | 0 | |||
| Warren Kearney – Don’t Close Your Eyes | 2025 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Backtrack: Shane Warren – Old Draught Horse | 2015 | 1 | 3 | 27/10/2024 | |
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Beaumarks – Clap Your Hands | 1965 | 1 | 6 | 14/9/2018 | |
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Sue Thompson – Paper Tiger | 1965 | 1 | 1 | 26/2/2023 | |
| John Gilheaney -The Photos On The Wall | 2025 | 2 | 1 | 31/1/2025 | TCAJD 2584152 |
| Irish Rovers – Ireland Boys Hooray | 2 | 0 | |||
| Louise Morrissey – Keeping Time | 2025 | 2 | 0 | ||
| They Don’t Make Them Like This Anymore: Tommy Bruce & The Bruisers – Ain’t Misbehavin’ | 1960 | 2 | 0 | ||
| Kathy Carver – My Country My Australia | 2025 | 2 | 1 | 24/1/2025 | |
| Backtrack: Shavonne Aliphon – Am I Losing You | 2019 | 2 | 3 | 4/8/2019 | |
| Chucho Zarsoza & His Orchestra – Maria Elena | 2 | 0 | |||
| Smokey Dawson – Cool Water | 2 | 1 | 19/3/2023 | ||
| The Charlesys – Whenever You’re Around | 2025 | 2 | 1 | 9/2/2025 | CBEYJ 2458063 |
| Dave Crimmen – For A Venture | 2023 | 2 | 1 | 21/7/2023 | |
| Kent Gill – Get Rhythm | 2023 | 2 | 4 | 30/6/2023 | QZWM3 230001 |
| Sean Delamus – The Dancing Years | 2020 | 2 | 13 | 11/6/2023 | |
| Slim Dusty – Larrikin’s Landing | 3 | 0 | |||
| Don Allen – Whiskey And Guitars | 2024 | 3 | 1 | 9/2/2025 | |
| David Maguire – Inside Out | 2025 | 3 | 0 | ||
| Electric Light Orchestra – Livin’ Thing | 1977 | 3 | 1 | 26/3/2017 | |
| Shelley Minson – Riverbank Red | 2025 | 3 | 0 | AUUHB 2400023 | |
| Backtrack: Graham Rodger – Ghosts of the Murranji | 2015 | 3 | 9 | 24/1/2025 | |
| Mrs Mills – Candy Floss | 3 | 3 | 16/5/2021 | ||
| Chamaco Dominguez Orchestra & Chorus – Desafinado | 3 | 2 | 2/7/2023 | ||
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Matt Monro – Softly As I Leave You | 1965 | 3 | 0 | ||
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Gerry & Pacemakers – You’re The Reason | 1965 | 3 | 1 | 8/3/2019 | |
| Celine Dion – Because You Loved Me | 3 | 0 | |||
| Inge Augustina – Lambada | 3 | 5 | 23/2/2024 | ||
| Horst Jankowski & His Orchestra – Jumping Jack | 3 | 1 | 14/4/2024 |
14 FEBRUARY IN HISTORY:
1779 – Captain James Cook, British explorer, the navigator and cartographer, who made detailed maps of Newfoundland prior to his three expeditions to the Pacific, was speared to death by natives in Kealakekua Bay, Sandwich Islands (now Hawaii) at the age of 50. He had achieved the first recorded European landings on eastern Australia and the Hawaiian Islands, and made the first recorded circumnavigation of New Zealand.
1951 Europe – The Brenner Pass and the St. Gotthard railways linking Italy with Austria, Germany, Switzerland, and France, were blocked by snow up to 10 metres (35 feet) deep.
1955 Hobart, Tasmania – The Premier (Mr Robert Cosgrove) announced that a new bridge would be built across the Derwent. Geologic conditions caused a previous proposal for a tunnel to be ruled out as impossible.
1966 Decimal currency was introduced throughout Australia. W
DIED 1988 Palm Springs, California, U.S.A. – Frederick Loewe, composer who collaborated with lyricist Alan Jay Lerner on the Broadway musicals My Fair Lady and Camelot, both of which were made into films. (Aged 86)
DIED 1999 Bremerton, Washington, U.S.A. – Buddy Knox, singer, songwriter and recording star of the 50s and 60s. (Aged 65)
DIED 2008 Sydney, New South Wales – Herbert Henry Brown, alias Smokey Dawson, Australian country singer and radio serial star, whose career started with his first single in 1941. His final album was recorded in 1992, by which time, he was the world’s oldest recording artist. Smokey Dawson performed and marched in annual ANZAC Day commemorations until his death, a month before what would have been his 95th birthday
Thanks so much Ray for including “Dismissed in a Heartbeat” 🎶🤩🎧🤩🎵 Toni xxx