2 May 2025

FRIDAY MORNING RADIO, Edition 467, 9.00 ~ Midday AEST

Easy listening, memories and new releases through the morning, on the Derwent Valley’s own radio station.

Today’s photo – Another recent view of the fagus, an ancient deciduous native species, dating over 170 million years to the era of Gondwanaland

In Tasmania, it occurs only in the more remote areas of Mt Field National Park, the Cradle Mountain/Lake St Clair National Park and the South West World Heritage Area.

Photo: Ilka Munter

Today’s Playlist

TRACK	RELEASE YEAR	PLAY TIME	PREVIOUS PLAYS	LAST PLAYED	ISRC
Johnny Chester and Grant Luhrs – Loud, Confident And Wrong	2025	09:05	2	13/4/2025	QM4TX 2523251
Dave Lawlor – Calling Me Home	2025	09:10	1	16/3/2025
Shelley Minson – Everybody’s Baby	2025	09:14	0		AUUHB 2400029
By Request Today: Ginny Peters – Waiting On The Green Green Grass of Home	1967	09:19	6	5/1/2024
Mike Myers – What’s New Pussycat	2025	09:23	0
Backtrack: Bernie Bruce – I’m Just A Bloke	2020	09:25	1	18/10/2020
Patsy Cline – Crazy		09:29	4	26/8/2016
Henry Mancini & His Orchestra – As Time Goes By		09:34	0
Harry Secombe & Myrna Rose – Wunderbar		09:37	0
Engelbert Humperdinck – Another Time, Another Place		09:42	0
Frankie Laine – Moonlight Gambler	1956	09:44	6	16/1/2022
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Julie Rogers – The Hawaiian Wedding Song	1965	09:50	2	26/4/2015
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Normie Rowe & The Playboys – It Ain’t Necessarily So	1965	09:52	0
Johnny Tillotson – Talk Back Trembling Lips	1963	09:57	10	4/4/2025
Sabrina Fallon – Eileen Óg	2025	10:06	2	20/4/2025
Ray Malcolm – Moon Over Memphis	2025	10:11	0
Ollie Austin – Radio Lover		10:15	7	11/8/2023
Old Time Concert Hall: George Bruns & His Rag A Muffins – Any Rags		10:20	0
By Request Today: Johnny Horton – Whispering Pines		10:25	4	14/3/2025
Dawn Rix- Broken Pieces	2025	10:28	0
Ray Conniff & His Orchestra – Volver Volver		10:34	0
Barry Thornton – On The Inside		10:37	3	10/7/2020
Noelene Batley – Little Treasure From Japan	1964	10:42	1	23/9/2022
Rick Gay – This Precious World	2025	10:44	0
Lesley Gore – Treat Me Like A Lady	1966	10:49	1	12/8/2016
Peter Foldy – Bondi Junction		10:54	5	17/11/2024
Alice Benfer – Old Felt Hat	2024	10:57	4	12/5/2024
Two of a Kind – I Love You To The Moon And Back	2025	11:05	2	20/4/2025
New Classic Singers – Monday Monday		11:10	0
Pete King Orchestra & Chorus – Dream A Little Dream		11:12	1	3/8/2012
Andy Martin – River In The Rain	2025	11:16	0
Backtrack: Shavonne Aliphon – The Girl I Used To Be	2017	11:22	1	4/6/2017
Limahl – Never Ending Story	1988	11:28	6	15/1/2021
James Last & His Orchestra – Take Me Home Country Roads		11:34	0
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Lucille Starr – Wooden Heart	1965	11:38	2	11/5/2018
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Little Patti – Pushing A Good Thing Too Far	1965	11:41	19	12/1/2024
HAZEL & The Thief – Willing To Try	2025	11:46	0		AUMEV 2537170
Garry Carson Jones – Walk On By	2025	11:49	0		AUGGJ 1600055
Frank Ifield – Please	1963	11:54	6	12/1/2024

2 MAY IN HISTORY:

EVENTS ON THIS DAY

1952  London, England  –  The world’s first passenger jet service, which used De Havilland Comet airliners, was commenced by B.O.A.C. (British Overseas Airways Corporation) between London and Johannesburg. 

1963  Port Melbourne, Victoria – The first Japanese car to be built in Australia rolled off the assembly line at Australian Motor Industries Ltd.  The car was the Toyota Tiara, which was to be sold in sedan, station wagon and utility variants.

1982 In the Falklands War, the British nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror sank the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano, with the loss of 323 lives, just over half the total Argentine military deaths in the war.  During the following days, 772 men who had abandoned ship were rescued.
General Belgrano was previously USS Phoenix, the only vessel to survive the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour without damage.  It had been sold to Argentina in 1951.

BORN

1863 Liverpool, Lancashire, England – Frank Hornby, businessman, politician, and inventor of Meccano and Hornby model trains.   Died 1936.

1892 Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland) – Baron Manfred von Richtofen, German World War 1 fighter pilot ace known as the Red Baron, credited with 80 air combat victories, shot down and killed in 1918 by Australian ground fire, after he was attacked by a Canadian aircraft..

1946 London, England – David Suchet, English actor famed for his role as Agatha Christie’s great detective Hercule Poirot, in the long-running TV drama series Poirot. Turns 79.

1936 Madras (now Chennai), India  – Arnold George Dorsey  alias Engelbert Humperdinck, English singer who became famous during the 60s and 70s after adopting the name of the famous German opera composer as his own stage name.   Turns 89.

1946  New York, U.S.A. – Lesley Sue Goldstein alias Lesley Gore, singer-songwriter best known for her 1963 hit It’s My Party, which she recorded at the age of 16. She became one of the most recognized teen singers of the 1960s. Died 2015.