9 May 2025

FRIDAY MORNING RADIO, Edition 468, 9.00 ~ Midday AEST

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

Today’s photo – Autumn reflections in the River Derwent near New Norfolk, taken Wednesday 7 May 2025 by Yours Truly.

Today’s Playlist

TRACK	RELEASE YEAR	PLAY TIME	PREVIOUS PLAYS	LAST PLAYED	ISRC
Klaasje Menzen – We Hold Our Head Up High	2025	09:05	2	11/4/2025
Mike Hughes – Bad News	2025	09:10	0
Charlie Landsborough – You Stand All Alone		09:13	8	30/8/2024
August Lane – Constantly Raining	2025	09:18	2	4/5/2025	QZWFN 2449588
Backtrack: Charlie’s Attic – Nanna’s House	2021	09:21	3	14/3/2021
Sandpipers – Rain Rain Go Away		09:29	1	19/3/2014
Ray Conniff & His Orchestra – Love Letters		09:33	0
Change of Key – Beyond That Smile	2025	09:36	1	21/3/2025
By Request Today: Caoimhe Murney – Wrong Road Again	2024	09:40	5	4/5/2025
Andrew Ryan – Like It’s Yesterday	2025	09:44	1	6/4/2025	AUG9Z 2200004
Tommy Vlaeminck  – Bridge of Hope	2025	09:48	1	20/4/2025
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Wayne Fontana & Mindbenders – Game Of Love	1965	09:52	1	17/7/2015
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 George Jones & Gene Pitney – I’ve Got Five Dollars And It’s Saturday Night	1965	09:54	4	13/3/2016
Brenda Lee – Your Used To Be	1963	09:57	8	17/3/2023
Nick Ingman Orchestra & Singers – Y M C A		10:05	0
Toni West – No Time To Cry	2025	10:09	0		UKBBL 2400002
John Denver – Claudette		10:13	2	30/12/2022
Old Time Concert Hall: Hank Levine Orchestra – And The Band Played On		10:17	3	21/3/2021
Scott Rathman Jnr – Angel on the Hill		10:21	2	20/4/2025
Backtrack: Dale Duncan – The ‘Slim Dusty’ Rose	2015	10:25	3	20/4/2025
Richard Clayderman – The Music Box Dancer		10:30	2	24/11/2023
Carol Chaney – Everything’s A Waltz		10:33	2	11/4/2025
Highway 95 – Message From Above		10:37	0		AUL0G 2400014
Horst Wende’s Accordeon Band – Die Fischerin Vom Bodensee		10:43	10	5/11/2023
Mahlissa – Boondockin’	2025	10:47	1	13/4/2025
Johnny Cash – Ring of Fire	1963	10:49	14	14/7/2023
Anne Fraser – Coorong Sands		10:52	3	6/10/2023
Graeme Clarke – Baby With No Name (Remix)	2025	11:05	1	27/4/2025
Tommy Roe – Dizzy	1969	11:10	5	30/4/2021
The Charlesys – Will It Be You	2025	11:13	1	15/9/2024	CACWV 2459223
Hank Snow – Nuevo Laredo		11:18	0
Johnny Chester & Blue Denim Country Band – Before The Next Teardrop Falls		11:23	2	13/3/2022
Anthony Baxter – The Jumping Jackaroo	2025	11:25	1	25/4/2025
Gunter Noris Orchestra – Good Old Vienna		11:33	0
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Hermans Hermits – Mrs Brown You’ve Got A Lovely Daughter	1965	11:36	13	19/2/2023
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Seekers – A World Of Our Own	1965	11:39	19	28/4/2024
Peter Stefanson – In Our Childhood Days	2025	11:43	1	27/4/2025
Backtrack: Colin Paul – Dancing With A Stranger	2022	11:47	4	15/12/2023
Anne Kirkpatrick – Peppimentarti Cradle		11:51	1	5/5/2019

9 MAY IN HISTORY:

EVENTS ON THIS DAY

1953  Hobart, Tasmania –  The city’s two commercial radio stations 7HO and 7HT commenced transmission simultaneously on new 2,000 watt transmitters. 7HT’s transmitter was relocated from Rosny Hill to Droughty Point.

1958  Tasmania experienced its coldest May morning for 12 years, with temperatures in Hobart down to 0 C, while Shannon in the central highlands recorded -8.3 C, the lowest ever recorded there to that date. +

1970 Washington DC, U.S.A. –  Up to 100,000 protesters demonstrated against the Vietnam War in front of the White House

1980 Tampa Bay, Florida, U.S.A. – The Liberian freighter MV Summit Venture collided with the Sunshine Skyway Bridge, causing a 420 metre. section of the southbound span to collapse. 35 people in six cars and a Greyhound bus perished after plunging 45 metres into the water.

BORN

1914 BORN Brooklyn, Queens County, Nova Scotia, Canada – Clarence Eugene Snow alias Hank Snow, country singer who during a 50 year career charted over 70 singles on the Billboard charts and recorded 140 albums between 1950 and 1980.  Died 1999.

1942 BORN Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A. – Thomas David Roe BKA Tommy Roe, pop singer-songwriter, best-remembered for his hits Sheila (1962) and Dizzy (1969)