4 April 2025
FRIDAY MORNING RADIO, Edition 463, 9.00 ~ Midday AEDT
Easy listening, memories and new releases through the morning on the Derwent Valley’s own radio station.
Photo: Sunrise in New Norfolk, last Friday 28th March. A brief diversion to the Esplanade, whilst en route to the TYGA-FM studio, provided the opportunity for several photos.
Photo : Yours Truly
Today’s Playlist
| TRACK | RELEASE YEAR | PLAY TIME | PREVIOUS PLAYS | LAST PLAYED | ISRC |
| Sailor – Girls, Girls, Girls | 1976 | 09:05 | 5 | 24/3/2023 | |
| By Request Today: Val Doonican – If I Knew Then What I Know Now | 09:11 | 4 | 25/6/2021 | ||
| Buadee – Count Your Blessings | 2025 | 09:14 | 0 | ||
| Deejay Rufus & Marc Wilson – Africa | 2025 | 09:19 | 0 | ||
| Chris Callaghan – Twenty Hours | 2025 | 09:23 | 0 | AUZY4 2000059 | |
| Backtrack: Jim Williams – Train Track | 2018 | 09:26 | 13 | 13/12/2024 | |
| Al Capps & His Orchestra – Rose Garden | 09:32 | 0 | |||
| By Request Today: Don Williams – You’re My Best Friend | 09:36 | 13 | 21/3/2025 | ||
| Clayton Saunders – Locked Behind The Bathroom Door | 2025 | 09:40 | 1 | 2/3/2025 | |
| Briggs & Stark – I L Y | 2025 | 09:42 | 0 | ||
| Doris Day – The Sound of Music | 09:46 | 0 | |||
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Beach Boys – Do You Wanna Dance | 1965 | 09:50 | 4 | 10/4/2015 | |
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Supremes – Stop In The Name Of Love | 1965 | 09:52 | 10 | 8/3/2024 | |
| DIED last Tuesday (April 1) in Los Angeles, California, Johnny Tillotson, who had many hit 45s during the early-mid 1960s. He was aged 86. | |||||
| Johnny Tillotson – Talk Back Tremblin’ Lips | 1963 | 09:56 | 9 | 16/2/2024 | |
| Johnny Chester and Grant Luhrs – Loud, Confident And Wrong | 2025 | 10:05 | 0 | QM4TX 2523251 | |
| Geoff Love & His Orchestra – The Magnificent Seven | 10:11 | 3 | 18/8/2023 | ||
| Judith Durham – I Wanna Dance To Your Music (3m 09s) | 10:13 | 0 | |||
| They Don’t Make Them Like This Anymore: Judy Garland – Meet Me In St Louis | 1944 | 10:18 | 5 | 2/6/2019 | |
| Joy Adams & Gary R Farmer – Be A Little Bit Bolder | 2025 | 10:23 | 0 | NZRI1 2500760 | |
| Pepe Jaramillo & His Latin American Rhythm – Sucu Sucu | 10:26 | 4 | 23/9/2018 | ||
| David Firman & His Orchestra – Take My Breath Away | 10:32 | 1 | 7/5/2021 | ||
| Shaza Leigh – Behind Closed Doors (DV Song) | 2025 | 10:36 | 1 | 7/2/2025 | |
| Garrett Newton – One Way Train | 2025 | 10:40 | 0 | ||
| Steve Lawrence – Portrait Of My Love | 1961 | 10:45 | 3 | 9/9/2022 | |
| On this day in 1964 – In an unprecedented achievement, the Beatles held the top 5 positions in the American Billboard Top 40, with Can’t Buy Me Love, Twist And Shout, She Loves You, I Want To Hold Your Hand, and Please Please Me. | |||||
| Beatles – Please Please Me | 1963-1964 | 10:49 | 14 | 23/2/2024 | |
| Bill Goodall – Bonanza | 10:52 | 2 | 5/1/2025 | ||
| Colleen Hewett – I Still Call Australia Home | 10:54 | 0 | |||
| Lawrence Welk – Calcutta | 1961 | 10:57 | 1 | 14/4/2024 | |
| Guy Surtees – Jessie | 2025 | 11:05 | 1 | 8/11/2024 | |
| Chris Boots Lee – Where Corn Don’t Grow | 2025 | 11:12 | 1 | 28/3/2025 | QZES9 2504340 |
| Backtrack: Jeff Brown – After January Rains | 2019 | 11:16 | 2 | 8/3/2020 | |
| Roger Whittaker – Both Sides Now | 11:21 | 4 | 11/11/2022 | ||
| Roger Miller – Engine Engine Number Nine | 1965 | 11:28 | 9 | 11/6/2023 | |
| Hank Levine & His Orchestra – Downtown | 11:34 | 2 | 15/2/2019 | ||
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Shirley Bassey – Goldfinger | 1965 | 11:37 | 11 | 21/1/2024 | |
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Pete Fountain – Whipped Cream | 1965 | 11:40 | 3 | 6/8/2021 | |
| Damien J Johnson – One Hill Town | 2025 | 11:43 | 1 | 9/3/2025 | |
| Eric Diamond – Bring Me Sunshine | 2025 | 11:47 | 0 | QZHN4 2556675 | |
| Irish Rovers – Donald Where’s Your Trousers | 11:54 | 1 | 3/1/2016 | ||
4 APRIL IN HISTORY:
EVENTS
1929 Derby, Tasmania – Following unprecedented rainfall of 450 millimetres during the previous two days, a flood caused by an additional deluge of 125 millimetres over one and a half hours, broke the Briseis Dam.
A wall of water then surged down the Cascade River, engulfing buildings and flooding the Briseis tin Mine. Fourteen lives were lost, including a family who were sitting down to a meal when their home was carried away.
1955 Derwent Park, Tasmania – Two early-morning gelignite explosions demolished a bicycle shop on the corner of Main and Derwent Park Roads.
1959 The first major power station in the Snowy Mountains scheme, Tumut 1, began operation. .
1962 Hobart, Tasmania – A report tabled in the Tasmanian Parliament by a joint select committee recommended that breathalyser and blood alcohol tests be introduced on a voluntary basis +
1975 Near Saigon, South Vietnam – 172 died when a United States Air Force Galaxy plane, transporting orphans crashed shortly after takeoff.
1983 Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S.A. – The Space Shuttle Challenger made its maiden voyage into space.
DIED
1980 Ladenburg, Germany – Karl Friedrich Michael Vaillant BKA Karl Benz, engine designer and automotive engineer, generally regarded as the inventor of the gasoline-powered automobile and founder of the automobile manufacturer, Mercedes-Benz.
Karl was born to Josephine Vaillant and Johann George Benz, a train driver. When he was two years old, his father died in a railway accident, and his name was changed to Karl Friedrich Benz in remembrance of his father. (Aged 84)
1968 Memphis Tennessee, U.S.A.. – Martin Luther King, Jr. the African-American clergyman who advocated social change through non-violent means was assassinated. He was a powerful speaker who shaped the American civil rights movement through the 1950s and 1960s and his death sparked riots in major American cities for several days.
1980 Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.A. – Woodrow Wilson Sovine alias Red Sovine, country singer associated with truck driving songs, often recited, but set to music. The most famous example was his 1976 hit Teddy Bear. Aged 62.
1995 London, England – Maurice James Christopher Cole, alias Kenny Everett, comedian, radio DJ and television entertainer. Aged 50.
2013 Randwick, Sydney –Tommy Tycho, Australian pianist, orchestra conductor, composer and arranger who was associated with many musical television productions. Aged 84.