23 May 2025
FRIDAY MORNING RADIO, Edition 470, 9.00 ~ Midday AEST
Easy listening, memories and new releases through the morning, on the Derwent Valley’s own radio station.
Today’s photo – The Lachlan River, near New Norfolk. Taken by Yours Truly.
Today’s Playlist
| TRACK | RELEASE YEAR | PLAY TIME | PREVIOUS PLAYS | LAST PLAYED | ISRC |
| Graeme Clarke – Baby With No Name | 2025 | 09:05 | 5 | 18/5/2025 | |
| Cara McGillion – Claim On My Heart | 2025 | 09:09 | 0 | IEWBL 2500001 | |
| Jimmy Bear – Silence And Dust | 2025 | 09:13 | 4 | 18/5/2025 | |
| Johnny Ashcroft – My Love Is A River | 1960 | 09:18 | 0 | ||
| Highway 95 – Message From Above | 2025 | 09:20 | 2 | 18/5/2025 | AUL0G 2400014 |
| Backtrack: Colin Kenny – Will You Dance With Me Annie | 2020 | 09:24 | 4 | 8/11/2020 | |
| Artie Shaw & His Orchestra with Helen Forrest – Between a Kiss and a Sigh | 1938 | 09:35 | 0 | ||
| Rosemary Clooney & Jose Ferrer – Mr And Mrs | 1955 | 09:39 | 1 | 18/10/2013 | |
| Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan – Tennessee Birdwalk | 1970 | 09:43 | 6 | 21/1/2024 | |
| Daniel O’Donnell – Act Naturally | 09;46 | 1 | 7/6/2015 | ||
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Elvis Presley – Do The Clam | 1965 | 09:49 | 3 | 19/4/2015 | |
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Cliff Richard – Just Another Guy | 1965 | 09:52 | 9 | 28/4/2024 | |
| Sandie Shaw – Make It Go | 1969 | 09:55 | 2 | 15/1/2017 | |
| Ron Christopher – That Rockabilly Thing | 2024 | 09:57 | 5 | 24/1/2025 | |
| Studeo – Pounding Pavements | 2025 | 10:10 | 0 | ||
| Garry Carson Jones – Forbidden Fruit | 2025 | 10:14 | 0 | ||
| Old Time Concert Hall: Jo Stafford & Paul Weston & His Orchestra – In My Merry Oldsmobile | 10:18 | 2 | 21/3/2021 | ||
| Lawrence Welk Orchestra with Myron Floren – Friendly Tavern Polka | 10:23 | 0 | |||
| Backtrack: Whiskey Business – For So Long | 2018 | 10:25 | 1 | 22/2/2019 | |
| Billy Vaughn & His Orchestra – When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold | 10:31 | 1 | 9/8/2015 | ||
| Kerri Perrett – White Crosses And The Rose | 2025 | 10:33 | 0 | AUZY4 2500009 | |
| Mike Perjanic – A Country Practice Theme | 10:40 | 11 | 15/9/2023 | ||
| Georgie Fame – Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde | 1968 | 10:43 | 4 | 24/6/2022 | |
| Desmond Dekker & Aces – It Miek | 1968 | 10:47 | 1 | 16/7/2021 | |
| The Reels – According To My Heart | 10:50 | 4 | 15/9/2023 | ||
| Rosalind Clare & Glen Flynn – Heaven Only Knows | 2025 | 10:54 | 2 | 11/5/2025 | |
| Henry Arland – The Tiger Rag | 10:58 | 5 | 29/11/2019 | ||
| Kathy Carver – Eyre Highway Track | 2025 | 11:05 | 0 | ||
| Shelley Minson – Everybody’s Baby | 2025 | 11:09 | 1 | 2/5/2025 | AUUHB 2400029 |
| Tallowood Bush Band – Number 97 | 11:12 | 5 | 25/11/2022 | ||
| Cliff Edwards – When You Wish Upon A Star | 11:17 | 3 | 15/12/2023 | ||
| Change of Key – She Sneaked Into My Bathroom Mirror | 2025 | 11:20 | 0 | ||
| Backtrack: Aishling Rafferty – Love Me When I’m Old | 2021 | 11:26 | 17 | 3/11/2024 | |
| Brian May & ABC Melbourne Showband – Greek Wine | 11:34 | 12 | 23/12/2022 | ||
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Al Martino – Somebody Else Is Taking My Place | 1965 | 11:37 | 0 | ||
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Marianne Faithfull – Come and Stay With Me | 1965 | 11:40 | 5 | 29/12/2023 | |
| Peggy Gilchrist – Southern Sky | 2025 | 11:44 | 0 | ||
| Alice Benfer – Saltbush Sally | 2025 | 11:47 | 0 | AUHIB 2300007 | |
| Peter Pentland – Me Beaut Little Fergy Tractor | 11:50 | 2 | 30/8/2015 | ||
| Ivo Robic – Morgen | 1959 | 11:54 | 1 | 29/1/2016 |
23 MAY IN HISTORY:
EVENTS ON THIS DAY
1934 New Zealander Jean Batten set a new womens’ flight record of 14 days 22 hours for a flight from England to Australia.
1939 Off the coast of New Hampshire, U.S.A. – The U.S. Navy submarine U.S.S. Squalus sank during a test dive, causing the death of 24 crew and two civilian technicians. 32 crewmen and a civilian naval architect were rescued the following day.
1958 Suffolk, England – A new kind of vehicle which travelled on a cushion of air was demonstrated by its inventor, boatbuilder Christopher Cockerell. The Government-backed National Research and Development Corporation was taking an interest in the hovercraft.
1968 Hobart, Tasmania – The Hobart City Council was forced to remove the heads from 283 parking meters throughout the city, after a Magistrate ruled that their operation along the right side of one-way streets was illegal.
1981 London, England – Serial killer Peter Sutcliffe, known as the Yorkshire Ripper, was convicted of 13 murders committed since 1975 and sentenced to imprisonment for the remainder of his life. He died in gaol from COVID-19 in 2020.
BORN
1910 New York, U.S.A. – Arthur Jacob Arshawsky alias Artie Shaw, jazz clarinetist, composer, bandleader and author of both fiction and non-fiction books. Died 2004.
1920 Lima, Ohio, U.S.A. – Helen O’Connell, singer, actress, and dancer whose best selling records were released in the early 1940s, such as Green Eyes, Amapola, Tangerine and Yours. Died 1993.
1928 Maysville, Kentucky, U.S.A. – Rosemary Clooney, singer and actress who came to prominence in the early 50s with Come On A My House, which was followed by other hits such as Botch-a-Me, Mambo Italiano, Tenderly, Half As Much, and This Ole House. Died 2002.
1945 Buffalo, New York, U.S.A. – Misty Morgan, keyboardist/vocalist who, with her husband Jack Blanchard released fourteen singles between 1969 and 1976, including the 1970 hit Tennessee Bird Walk. Turns 80.
DIED
1934 Black Lake, Louisiana, U.S.A. – Bonnie Elizabeth Parker and Clyde Chestnut Barrow, who had teamed up to form the outlaw duo Bonnie And Clyde. After a crime spree of robberies and murders, they were ambushed in a hail of bullets, by a posse of four police officers on a country road. Aged 23 and 25 respectively.
2017 Crans-Montana, Switzerland – Roger Moore, actor and film producer, best known for his role as secret agent James Bond between 1973 and 1985. Aged 89.
2021 Gold Coast, Queensland – Beryl Hunt, BKA Lorrae Desmond, Gold Logie Award winning singer and actress, who remains best known for her role as Shirley Gilroy in the long running television series A Country Practice between 1981 and 1992. Aged 91.