14 March 2025
FRIDAY MORNING RADIO, Edition 460, 9.00 ~ Midday AEDT
Easy listening, memories and new releases through the morning on the Derwent Valley’s own radio station.
Photo: An approaching summer storm, Glenora, Tasmania, taken from the Derwent Valley Railway’s excursion train as it was returning to New Norfolk, in 2004.
Photo : Yours Truly
Today’s Playlist
| TRACK | RELEASE YEAR | PLAY TIME | PREVIOUS PLAYS | LAST PLAYED | ISRC |
| Sharon Marie White – Lucky In Love | 2025 | 09:05 | 1 | 28/2/2025 | USCGH 2518609 |
| David Maguire – Inside Out | 2025 | 09:12 | 1 | 14/2/2025 | |
| Roger Whittaker – Good Morning Starshine | 2025 | 09:15 | 7 | 12/5/2023 | |
| BORN 1863 Jackson, Tennessee, U.S.A. – John Luther Jones alias Casey Jones, legendary train driver for the Illinois Central Railroad, who was the only person killed when his passenger train, the “Cannonball Express,” collided with a freight train at Vaughan, Mississippi, on a foggy and rainy night in 1900. His dramatic death, which occurred while he was trying to stop his train and save lives, made him a folk hero and he was immortalized in a popular ballad sung by his friend Wallace Saunders, an African-American engine cleaner. | |||||
| Johnny Cash – Casey Jones | 1962 | 09:19 | 7 | 15/5/2022 | |
| Ron Callaghan – Poor Man | 2025 | 09:21 | 0 | AU3PV 2400007 | |
| Backtrack: Fran McCoy – Try A Little Kindness | 2021 | 09:27 | 9 | 1/1/2023 | |
| BORN 1912 Reinerton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. – Les Brown, bandleader, who recorded under the title Les Brown and his Band of Renown for nearly 50 years, as from the late 1930s. Died 2001. | |||||
| Les Brown & His Band of Renown – The Woodchoppers Ball | 09:32 | 3 | 5/7/2020 | ||
| Warwick & Young – Child’s Eyes | 2025 | 09:35 | 0 | ||
| By Request Today: Roy Orbison – A Love So Beautiful | 09:40 | 2 | 23/12/2022 | ||
| Jade Hurley – Change of Heart | 09:44 | 1 | 6/11/2020 | ||
| Backtrack: Graeme Clarke – Bring A Little Country To The City | 2019 | 09:48 | 3 | 20/12/2019 | |
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Animals – Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood | 1965 | 09:52 | 4 | 19/4/2015 | |
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Tom Jones – It’s Not Unusual | 1965 | 09:54 | 8 | 14/5/2013 | |
| Foster & Allen – the Scots Polka | 09:58 | 5 | 7/3/2025 | ||
| Gary Anderson – That’s What I Love About Us | 2025 | 10:05 | 0 | QZFZ4 2575910 | |
| By Request Today: Ricky Van Shelton – Just As I Am | 10:11 | 1 | 4/8/2024 | ||
| Brendan McMahon – Chasing The Girls | 2025 | 10:15 | 0 | AUZFL 2500001 | |
| The Lonesome Six – Regina | 2024 | 10:19 | 1 | 28/2/2025 | |
| They Don’t Make Them Like This Anymore: Ann Miller – Too Darn Hot | 1952 | 10:25 | 2 | 9/2/2024 | |
| Backtrack: Jason Owen – Take Me Home Country Roads | 2019 | 10:29 | 3 | 2/8/2020 | |
| BORN 1922 Mexia, Texas, U.S.A. – Leslie Thompson Baxter, BKA Les Baxter, musician, composer and orchestra leader who released numerous singles and albums from the 1940s through to the 1990s. He also wrote scores for many movies between 1956 and 1982. Died 1996. | |||||
| Les Baxter Orchestra – Blue Tango | 10:33 | 0 | |||
| Kamahl – After The Lovin’ | 10:37 | 1 | 3/11/2019 | ||
| Justin Jones – This Beautiful State Tasmania | 2025 | 10:43 | 2 | 23/2/2025 | |
| DIED 2013 Basildon, England – Kenneth Daniel Ball BKA Kenny Ball, the lead trumpet player and vocalist with Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen. Aged 82. | |||||
| Charlie Landsborough – Heaven Knows | 10:50 | 11 | 27/2/2022 | ||
| DIED 2020 U.S.A. – Diane Ray, American pop singer of the early 1960s, best known for her one-hit-wonder of 1963, Please Don’t Talk To The Lifeguard. Aged 74. | |||||
| Diane Ray – Please Don’t Talk To The Lifeguard | 1963 | 10:56 | 15 | 27/10/2024 | |
| Eric Diamond – All Of Me | 2024 | 11:05 | 3 | 9/2/2025 | |
| Ben Walker – In The Sunshine | 2025 | 11:10 | 1 | 9/3/2025 | AUE1Q 2100014 |
| Backtrack: Grazy’s Country – It’s A Great Time In Tamworth | 2014 | 11:14 | 2 | 17/4/2020 | |
| Horst Wende’s Accordeon Band – The Cuckoo Waltz | 11:18 | 1 | 6/9/2024 | ||
| Liz Clarke – Ray of Light | 2025 | 11:24 | 1 | 28/2/2025 | |
| By Request Today: Johnny Horton – Whispering Pines | 11:28 | 3 | 6/10/2024 | ||
| BORN 1939 Athens, Greece – Stavros Xarhakos, Greek conductor and composer of film and theatre music. Turns 86. | |||||
| Stavros Xarhakos Orchestra – Hasserposser Viko | 11:35 | 1 | 16/10/2015 | ||
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Hermans Hermits – Can’t You Hear My Heartbeat | 1965 | 11:37 | 11 | 7/5/2021 | |
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Bobby Goldsboro – Little Things | 1965 | 11:39 | 8 | 4/7/2021 | |
| Miss Lana – Finally | 2025 | 11:44 | 0 | ||
| Dominic Kirwan & Marian Waldron – The Last Thing On My Mind | 2023 | 11:47 | 3 | 30/7/2023 | |
| Michael Farrell – Ghost Riders In The Sky | 2024 | 11:52 | 1 | 25/10/2024 | |
14 MARCH IN HISTORY:
BORN 1928 Gary, Indiana U.S.A. – Frank Borman, retired astronaut and engineer, and Commander of Apollo 8, the first mission to fly around the Moon, making him, along with crew mates Jim Lovell and Bill Anders, amongst the first of only 24 humans to do so, to date. Died 2023.
BORN 1934 Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. – Eugene Cernan, retired United States Navy officer and former astronaut and engineer who has been into space three times: as co-pilot of Gemini 9A in June 1966; as lunar module pilot of Apollo 10 in May 1969; and as commander of Apollo 17 in December 1972. In that final lunar landing mission, Cernan became the last man on the moon, to date, as he was the last to re-enter the Apollo Lunar Module.
1948 Hobart, Tasmania – Ocean Pier, which at 350 metres in length was one of the world’s finest deep water structures, was destroyed by fire.
1963 Sandy Bay, Tasmania – Five workmen escaped serious injury when an eight tonne ceiling collapsed at the University of Tasmania’s new physics block.