5 September 2025
FRIDAY MORNING RADIO, Edition 485, 9.00 ~ Midday AEST 5 September 2025
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 5 September, in 1968, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A. – A 1958 Volkswagen Microbus, which had been modified for all-electric operation, was judged winner of the “Great Transcontinental Electric Car Race” after completing a 5150 km trip from Pasadena, California.
The “Voltswagen” made the trip in 210 hours and made 53 battery recharging stops.
In 1974, in Sandy Bay, Tasmania – A new boiler which had been installed in a convent laundry exploded, caused 8 deaths and injuring many others.
In 1977, in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S.A. – The Voyager 1 space probe was launched to the planets Jupiter and Saturn, later to become the first to provide clear photographs of those planets and their moons.
It has since studied the boundaries of our Solar System and in 2012 became the first space probe to reach interstellar space.
Voyager 1 is travelling about 520 million kilometres per year and is expected to remain in contact with Earth until this year, when its power supply is expected to fail.
► BORN THIS DAY…..
1918 in Sydney, New South Wales – Harold Williams, alias Buddy Williams, country singer and songwriter, formerly known as The Yodelling Jackaroo . Williams was the first Australian to record country music in Australia, three years after New Zealander Tex Morton made his first recording in Australia. Died 1986.
1938 in London, England – Joan Sydney, Australian actress best known for her role as Valda Sheergold in the soapie Neighbours, and also as Maggie Sloane, matron of the Wandin Valley Bush Nursing Hospital, in A Country Practice. Died 2022.
1938 in Queanbeyan, New South Wales – George Lazenby, actor best known for portraying James Bond in the 1969 movie On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. Turns 86 today.
► DIED THIS DAY…..
1982 in Chiswick, London, England – Douglas Bader, Royal Air Force fighter ace of World War 2. Despite having lost both legs in a plane crash in 1931, Bader re-enlisted in the Royal Air Force in 1939, but was ultimately shot down and spent the remainder of the war as a POW.
His biography, titled Reach for the Sky written by Paul Brickhill, was published in 1954 and became a best seller. A feature film of the same title was released in 1956, starring Kenneth More as Bader. He was aged 72.
2012 in Buford, Georgia U.S.A. – Joseph Alfred Souter alias Joe South, singer-songwriter and guitarist, who won a Grammy Award for Song Of The Year in 1970 with his song Games People Play.
He was nominated again in 1972 for his composition Rose Garden. (Aged 72). He was aged 49.
Today’s photo – A different view of Richmond, in the Coal River Valley, Tasmania.
Today’s Playlist
| TRACK | RELEASE YEAR | PLAY TIME | PREVIOUS PLAYS | LAST PLAYED |
| Katelynn Marie – Gonna Find Me A Country Boy | 2025 | 09:05 | 1 | 3/8/2025 |
| Trey Calloway – She Don’t Break It Like She Used To | 2025 | 09:11 | 2 | 24/8/2025 |
| Larissa Tormey – Everybody`s Somebody`s Fool | 2018 | 09:14 | 6 | 4/10/2024 |
| 70s Classic Leif Garrett – Surfin’ U.S.A | 1977 | 09:18 | 7 | 2/2/2025 |
| Ray Malcolm – Make Me An Island | 2025 | 09:20 | 1 | 22/8/2025 |
| Kathy Carver – Crazy | 2025 | 09:28 | 2 | 25/7/2025 |
| European Show Band – Moonglow | 09:33 | 1 | 2/2/2024 | |
| Johnny Logan – What’s Another Year | 1980 | 09:37 | 2 | 17/8/2025 |
| Buddy Williams – The Camden Train | 1975 | 09:42 | 3 | 26/1/2024 |
| By Request Col Joye – Song Sung Blue | 1975 | 09:47 | 0 | |
| Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Little Patti – Dance Puppet Dance | 1965 | 09:51 | 8 | 20/1/2023 |
| Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Nat King Cole & Stubby Kaye – The Ballad of Cat Ballou | 1965 | 09:53 | 11 | 22/1/2023 |
| Lionel Long – The Ballad of Cobb and Co | 09:57 | 7 | 26/1/2024 | |
| Dustin Lowe – Shake Your Copenhagen | 2025 | 10:05 | 2 | 17/8/2025 |
| Cat Lion – Cause Memories They Last | 2025 | 10:05 | 1 | 27/7/2025 |
| Terry Bennetts – Chasing Rabbits In Her Sleep | 2025 | 10:14 | 1 | 3/8/2025 |
| By Request Charlie Chech – The Summer Wind | 2025 | 10:19 | 3 | 10/5/2024 |
| Vintage Vinyl Chuck Berry – Too Pooped To Pop | 1960 | 10:24 | 1 | 3/1/2021 |
| Lindsay Waddington – Kakadu | 2022 | 10:26 | 10 | 26/7/2024 |
| Manuel & The Music of the Mountains – A Summer Place | 10:30 | 2 | 10/4/2022 | |
| Joe South – Birds of a Feather | 1968 | 10:34 | 5 | 1/8/2021 |
| Margarita De La Vega – Love Me With All Your Heart | 2025 | 10:36 | 2 | 15/8/2025 |
| 70s Classic Paul McCartney & Wings – Mull Of Kintyre | 1977 | 10:42 | 11 | 2/2/2025 |
| Toni West – Starry Skies | 2025 | 10:53 | 2 | 17/8/2025 |
| Francisco Cavez & His Orchestra – High Life In Brazil | 10:58 | 2 | 20/10/2024 | |
| Patti Morgan – The Old Condamine | 2025 | 11:05 | 2 | 25/7/2025 |
| Tony Christie – Sweet September | 11:10 | 0 | ||
| Victoria Crosby – Flowers For Annie | 2025 | 11:13 | 0 | |
| Richard Mulligan – Just Me and My Old Beat-Up Guitar | 2025 | 11:19 | 1 | 27/4/2025 |
| Vintage Vinyl Clyde McPhatter – A Lover’s Question | 1958 | 11:27 | 10 | 15/11/2024 |
| Paul Weston & His Orchestra – That’s All | 11:33 | 0 | ||
| Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Jonathan King – Everyone’s Gone To The Moon | 1965 | 11:38 | 12 | 4/2/2024 |
| Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Shadows – My Grandfather’s Clock | 1965 | 11:40 | 0 | |
| Eddie Rabbitt – You Can’t Run From Love | 11:47 | 0 | ||
| Peter Coad OAM – Dead Man’s Hill | 2025 | 11:51 | 0 | |
| Trevor Dawe – Wheels | 11:54 | 0 |
Thanks so much Ray for playing “Starry Skies” 🎵⭐️🎧⭐️🎶 Toni xxx