8 August 2025
FRIDAY MORNING RADIO, Edition 481, 9.00 ~ Midday AEST
Easy listening, retro and recent releases not to be heard on mainstream radio throughout the morning, on the Derwent Valley’s own radio station.
► LOOKING at some notable events on 8 August, in RADIO on this day in 1935, John Laws was born in Wau, Papua New Guinea. Laws became an Australian commercial radio personality, his career starting at 3BO in Bendigo, Victoria, in 1953.
He later worked for several stations in Sydney, ultimately becoming a talk show host on 2UE. He retired in 2007, but in 2010 returned to radio to host another talk show on 2SM. He retired for the final time in November 2004. John Laws, turns 90 today.
In 1950, in Melbourne, Victoria, a young radio announcer, John Bryan Kerr, was found guilty, on the basis of an unsigned confession, of the 1949 murder of 20 year old Elizabeth Williams. He was sentenced to death, but this was later commuted to life imprisonment.
Protesting his innocence, Kerr served 14 years before being released, after which he moved interstate and became a successful businessman. He died in 2001 and was posthumously pardoned after a deathbed confession by another man.
In 1991 in Gabin, Poland, a radio mast 646 metres high, at one time the world’s tallest construction, collapsed when it was struck by a strong gust of wind while a guy wire was being replaced. It’s extreme height had been specified in order to broadcast Communist propaganda around the world.
► DIED ON THIS DAY…..
1959 in Alice Springs, Northern Territory – Albert Namatjira, prominent Aboriginal artist from the western MacDonnell Ranges. Aged 57.
2017 in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.A. – Glen Campbell, country, pop singer, guitarist and occasional actor best known for a series of hits in the 1960s and 1970s, including Gentle On My Mind, By The Time I Get To Phoenix, Wichita Lineman, Southern Nights and Rhinestone Cowboy. Aged 81.
2022 in the Santa Ynez Valley, California, U.S.A. – Olivia Newton-John, Australian singer, actress and four-time Grammy-Award winner. Having sold over 100 million records, Olivia Newton-John was one of the best-selling artists in the second half of the 20th century. Aged 73
► And in 1962, a report from Shannon, Ireland , that 70 year old Mrs Marion Hart landed a tiny single engined plane at the local airport at 6.30 a.m.
Jaws must have dropped when she advised astonished officials that she had just flown the Atlantic. Accompanied by a friend, Mrs Louise Sacchi (49) the flight had started from St Pierre, an island off the Newfoundland coast, and was made at altitudes between 7,000 and 9,000 feet.
Today’s photo: A snow shower passing over Mt Wellington, behind Hobart. Taken by Yours Truly.
Today’s Playlist
| TRACK | RELEASE YEAR | PLAY TIME | PREVIOUS PLAYS | LAST PLAYED | ISRC |
| Col Joye – Dance To The Bop | 1958 | 09:06 | 0 | ||
| Col Joye – Never Been This Far Before | 1975 | 09:08 | 1 | 28/1/2022 | |
| Phil Blundell – The Flower She Once Wore | 2025 | 09:14 | 1 | 11/7/2025 | |
| Tomas Jackman – Karma Chameleon | 2025 | 09:17 | 1 | 20/6/2025 | |
| 70s Classic Sherbet – Silvery Moon | 1974 | 09:22 | 7 | 27/6/2025 | |
| Fleetwood Mac – Never Going Back Again | 09:25 | 1 | 18/5/2025 | ||
| Andy Williams – My Favourite Things | 09:28 | 0 | |||
| Acker Bilk – Never My Love | 09:32 | 0 | |||
| Dianne Coombes – Ripples On A Pond | 09:35 | 1 | 18/7/2025 | AUCJD 2300023 | |
| John Laws – No Name | 09:41 | 0 | |||
| By Request Soundtrack – Prelude, Sound of Music | 09:46 | 3 | 17/10/2021 | ||
| By Request Charlie Landsborough – No Time At All | 09:50 | 4 | 24/5/2024 | ||
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Mel Carter – Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me | 1965 | 09:55 | 1 | 22/4/2016 | |
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Ray Brown & Whispers – Fool Fool Fool | 1965 | 09:57 | 5 | 28/9/2018 | |
| Elisabeth Hope – You Never Can Tell (C’est la Vie) | 2025 | 10:05 | 2 | 18/7/2025 | |
| Gary R Farmer – My Island Paradise | 2025 | 10:11 | 0 | ||
| Rosalind Clare – Garden of my Memories | 2025 | 10:15 | 2 | 20/6/2025 | |
| By Request Hein Simons – Mayday in Meinem Herzen | 10:21 | 0 | |||
| Vintage Vinyl Tab Hunter – Young Love | 1957 | 10:25 | 4 | 6/3/2022 | |
| Slim Dusty – Namatjira | 1953 | 10:29 | 6 | 13/10/2024 | |
| Geoff Love & His Orchestra – Holiday For Strings | 10:34 | 4 | 23/8/2024 | ||
| Randy C Moore – Cats In the Cradle | 2025 | 10:37 | 2 | 20/7/2025 | |
| 70s Classic Olivia Newton John – I Honestly Love You | 1974 | 10:44 | 2 | 26/2/2023 | |
| Toni West – Starry Skies | 2025 | 10:49 | 0 | ||
| Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem – The Leaving Of Liverpool | 10:55 | 0 | |||
| Allan Caswell & Lindsay Waddington – Always Ride A Train | 2025 | 11:05 | 4 | 27/7/2025 | AUZY4 2500021 |
| Victoria Eman – How Does She Do It | 2025 | 11:10 | 2 | 27/7/2025 | NLJ9A 2500002 |
| Owen Smith & Matt Scullion – Upper Class Bogan | 2025 | 11:13 | 0 | ||
| Kathy Carver – Someone Like You | 1968 | 11:18 | 4 | 12/10/2018 | AU6Z2 2511102 |
| Vintage Vinyl Bobby Darin – Dream Lover | 1959 | 11:26 | 4 | 29/7/2022 | |
| By Request Pussycat – Mississippi | 11:29 | 38 | 23/3/2025 | ||
| James Last & His Orchestra – Dance The Night Away | 11:37 | 0 | |||
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Donovan – Colours | 1965 | 11:41 | 4 | 10/5/2020 | |
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Julie Andrews – A Spoonful of Sugar | 1965 | 11:45 | 4 | 1/10/2023 | |
| David Hammerschlag – Country Calypso | 2025 | 11:48 | 3 | 6/7/2025 | |
| Christine Clifford – Annie’s Song | 2025 | 11:51 | 3 | 20/6/2025 | QZHNC 2552556 |
| Robert F – Ein Bisschen Mehr | 2025 | 11:54 | 1 | 27/6/2025 |
Thank you so much Ray for playing my new song “Starry Skies” 🎶⭐️🎧⭐️🎵 Toni xxx