30 May 2025
FRIDAY MORNING RADIO, Edition 471, 9.00 ~ Midday AEST
Easy listening, memories and new releases through the morning, on the Derwent Valley’s own radio station.
Today’s photo – A full rainbow in the Derwent Valley, north-west of New Norfolk. Taken last Monday (26 May 2025) by Listener Janine.
Today’s Playlist
| TRACK | RELEASE YEAR | PLAY TIME | PREVIOUS PLAYS | LAST PLAYED | ISRC |
| Jeff Orson – Missing You Soon | 2025 | 09:05 | 5 | 27/4/2025 | QT3TB 2425080 |
| Ray Malcolm – Moon Over Memphis | 2025 | 09:11 | 3 | 16/5/2025 | |
| Dianne Coombes – Getting On With Getting Over You | 2025 | 09:14 | 3 | 25/5/2025 | AUCJD 2300025 |
| Glenn Jones – The Portrait’s Plain | 2025 | 09:19 | 0 | ||
| Backtrack: Carylann – No Goodbyes | 2022 | 09:21 | 13 | 16/5/2025 | |
| By Request: Emile Ford – What Do You Want To Make Those Eyes At Me For | 1960 | 09:25 | 8 | 11/4/2025 | |
| Anne Murray – Please Smile | 09:30 | 0 | |||
| Lawrence Welk & His Orchestra – The Anniversary Waltz | 09:33 | 0 | |||
| Sandpipers – Misty Roses | 09:35 | 1 | 24/1/2016 | ||
| BORN 1909 Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. – Benjamin David Goodman BKA Benny Goodman, jazz and swing musician, clarinetist, leader of one of the most popular musical bands of the 1930s; widely known as the “King of Swing”. Died 1986. | |||||
| Benny Goodman & His Orchestra – I’ll Never Fall In Love Again | 09:41 | 2 | 5/5/2023 | ||
| BORN 1908 San Francisco, California, U.S.A. – Melvin Jerome Blank alias Mel Blanc, voice actor and comedian best remembered for the voice of characters such as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Sylvester the Cat, Tweety Bird, Foghorn Leghorn, Woody Woodpecker, Barney Rubble and more. Died 1989. | |||||
| Mel Blanc – I Taut I Taw A Puddy Tat | 1951 | 09:45 | 7 | 5/7/2024 | |
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Kinks – Tired Of Waiting For You | 1965 | 09:49 | 3 | 26/4/2015 | |
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Beach Boys – Help Me Rhonda | 1965 | 09:52 | 10 | 3/9/2023 | |
| Ray Brown & Whispers – Twenty Miles | 1965 | 09:57 | 10 | 16/3/2025 | |
| Lindsay Waddington – Solid Ground | 2025 | 10:05 | 0 | ||
| Erin Noone – Dance The Night Away | 2025 | 10:09 | 1 | 18/5/2025 | TCAJM 2528822 |
| Richard Porteous – We Were There For Slim | 2025 | 10:12 | 0 | ||
| Slim Dusty – Song Of The West | 10:16 | 0 | |||
| Old Time Concert Hall: Paul Weston Orchestra & Chorus – Maggie | 10:20 | 0 | |||
| Backtrack: Warren Kearney – The River | 2020 | 10:26 | 1 | 1/11/2020 | |
| Richard Clayderman – Beyond the Sea | 10:31 | 0 | |||
| Susan Boyle – Return | 10:34 | 0 | |||
| DIED 2000 Costa Mesa, California, U.S.A. – Tex Benecke, saxophonist, singer, and bandleader and associate of bandleader Glenn Miller. He soloed on the Glenn Miller orchestra recording of In The Mood and sings on another popular Glenn Miller recording, Chattanooga Choo Choo. Aged 86. | |||||
| Glen Miller & Marion Hutton, Tex Benecke & Modernaires – Juke Box Saturday Night | 1942 | 10:38 | 0 | ||
| Toni West – No Time To Cry | 2025 | 10:43 | 2 | 18/5/2025 | |
| Perry Como – Caterina | 1962 | 10:47 | 6 | 12/5/2024 | |
| Nicki French – Pride And Passion | 10:50 | 2 | 11/9/2015 | ||
| Marmalade – Ob La Di Ob La Da | 1969 | 10:55 | 5 | 19/4/2024 | |
| New Zealand Maori Chorale – Tahi Nei Taru Kino | 10:59 | 4 | 20/3/2020 | ||
| Jonny Boston – Silver Moon | 2025 | 11:05 | 1 | 11/5/2025 | |
| Ann-Kristin Dørdal – Willow Dream | 2025 | 11:12 | 0 | ||
| Rick Gay – This Precious World | 2025 | 11:15 | 1 | 2/5/2025 | |
| Rob E G – 5 – 4 – 3 – 2 – 1 – Zero | 1962 | 11:20 | 7 | 22/10/2017 | |
| Jason Cole – Mr Lonesome | 2025 | 11:26 | 0 | ||
| Paul Mauriat & His Orchestra – San Francisco | 11:33 | 2 | 24/1/2020 | ||
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Merv Benton – Cincinnati Fireball | 1965 | 11:36 | 3 | 23/7/2021 | |
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Frank Sinatra – Pass Me By | 1965 | 11:39 | 6 | 21/1/2024 | |
| Backtrack: Lawson Vallery – Border Dog | 2021 | 11:44 | 6 | 10/12/2021 | |
| Ray Kernaghan – Heartaches By The Number | 11:47 | 3 | 17/1/2020 | ||
| Paul Ricketts – Barefoot On The Dirt | 2025 | 11:51 | 0 | AUZY4 2400032 | |
| Anne Biddie – Missing You | 2025 | 11:54 | 0 | ||
30 MAY IN HISTORY:
EVENTS ON THIS DAY
1940 England – The first evacuated British troops arrived from Dunkirk, France.
1948 Near Portland, Oregon, U.S.A. – A 61 metre section of a dam on the Columbia River collapsed, inundating and destroying Vanport City, a public housing precinct. Fifteen lives were lost and tens of thousands were left homeless. It is currently the site of Delta Park, a sports and recreational area and the Portland International Raceway.
1959 Auckland, New Zealand – The Auckland Harbour Bridge crossing Waitemata Harbour, was officially opened by the-then Governor General of New Zealand, Lord Cobham. It is 1,020 metres in length, 43 metres above high tide, and had an overhead clearance of 4.8 metres.
1966 Surveyor 1, the first U.S. spacecraft to achieve a soft landing on an extraterrestrial body, was launched. It landed in the Mare Procellarum, or Ocean of Storms region of the Moon and transmitted 11,237 photographs to Earth.
1971 Cape Kennedy, Florida, U.S.A. – The space probe Mariner 9 was launched to map 70% of the surface of the planet Mars. It arrived on November 14th of the same year, and became the first Earthly spacecraft to orbit another planet. Mariner 9 remained in orbit after it’s mission ended in October 1972, and it is believed to have entered the Martian atmosphere and crashed onto the surface around 2020.
BORN
1928 Broken Hill, New South Wales – Kevin Charles Hart alias Pro Hart, artist whose works are admired for capturing the spirit of the outback. He received the nickname “Professor” (hence “Pro”) in his younger days, when he was known as an inventor. Died 2006.
1936 Bristol, England – Peter Ellis, director and actor of stage and television best known for his role as Chief Superintendent Brownlow in the long-running police drama The Bill. Turns 89.
DIED
1953 Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. – Dooley Wilson, American singer who sang the tune As Time Goes By in the movie Casablanca . Aged 67.
2003 London, England – Michael Peter Hayes, alias Mickie Most, singer and record producer for numerous English artists such as Herman’s Hermits, the Animals, Nashville Teens, Donovan, Lulu, and the Jeff Beck Group. Aged 64.