12 September 2025
FRIDAY MORNING RADIO, Edition 486, 9.00 ~ Midday AEST 12 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 1928, Christchurch, New Zealand – The first flight from Australia to New Zealand was completed by Charles Kingsford Smith, Charles Ulm, Thomas McWilliams and Harold Litchfield, 14 hours after taking off from Richmond, New South Wales.
In 1957, in Taroona, Tasmania – A series of massive early morning explosions, believed to have been caused deliberately, wrecked quarrying equipment including a large stone crushing plant.
In 1978, in Waikato, New Zealand – The Kaimai Railway Tunnel, the longest in the country at nearly 9 kilometres, opened on the East Coast railway, linking Auckland and Tauranga..n 2001, in Australia, Ansett, Australia’s first commercial domestic airline, collapsed, leaving 10,000 people unemployed.
► BORN THIS DAY…..
1888 in Paris, France – Maurice Chevalier, actor, singer, and popular vaudeville entertainer whose signature songs included Louise, Mimi, Valentine, and Thank Heaven For Little Girls Died 1972.
1943 in Greenwich Village, New York, U.S.A. – Maria Grazia Rosa Domenica D’Amato alias Maria Muldaur, folk-blues singer, who was part of the American folk music revival of the early 60s. In 1974 she recorded the hit song Midnight At The Oasis, and she continues to record albums in the folk traditions.
► DIED THIS DAY…..
2003 in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.A. – Johnny Cash, singer-songwriter, actor, and author, primarily remembered as a country singer, although his songs spanned other genres including rockabilly, rock and roll, blues, folk and gospel. Aged 71.
Today’s photo – Today’s photo – Springtime is wattle time in the Valley. # Yours Truly.
Today’s Playlist
| TRACK | RELEASE YEAR | PLAY TIME | PREVIOUS PLAYS | LAST PLAYED |
| Owen Smith & Matt Scullion – Upper Class Bogan | 2025 | 09:05 | 2 | 17/8/2025 |
| Anthony Baxter – Top Of The World | 2025 | 09:11 | 0 | |
| Barry Owen – You’re Still The One | 2025 | 09:14 | 0 | |
| 70s Classic Buggles – Video Killed The Radio Star | 1979 | 09:19 | 3 | 9/2/2025 |
| Jane Scali – Having A Good Time | 1982 | 09:22 | 5 | 6/3/2022 |
| Shaza Leigh – All My Loving | 2025 | 09:28 | 2 | 24/8/2025 |
| Ferrante & Teicher – Begin The Beguine | 09:34 | 3 | 1/5/2015 | |
| Bobby Goldsboro – And I Love You So | 09:38 | 2 | 13/1/2023 | |
| Maria Muldaur – Midnight At The Oasis | 1974 | 09:42 | 5 | 12/9/2021 |
| By Request Peter Paul & Mary – Blowin’ In The Wind | 1963 | 09:48 | 18 | 4/8/2023 |
| Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 MPD Limited – Little Boy Sad | 1965 | 09:51 | 1 | 6/12/2015 |
| Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Johnny Tillotson – Heartaches By The Number | 1965 | 09:53 | 4 | 7/8/2020 |
| Lance Birrell – Spinifex | 2022 | 09:58 | 4 | 6/10/2024 |
| Juice Newton – Headin’ For A Heartache | 1981 | 10:05 | 2 | 29/8/2014 |
| No Promises – Those Boots | 2025 | 10:09 | 1 | 17/8/2025 |
| Mike McClellan – Song And Dance Man | 1974 | 10:12 | 6 | 14/7/2024 |
| By Request Neil Diamond – Red Red Wine | 1967 | 10:17 | 3 | 9/9/2022 |
| Vintage Vinyl Lita Rosa – Walking To Missouri | 1951 | 10:20 | 1 | 5/2/2021 |
| Johnny Cash – Ghost Riders in the Sky | 1979 | 10:23 | 5 | 20/8/2021 |
| Kym Cormack – Aotearoa New Zealand | 2024 | 10:27 | 5 | 1/8/2025 |
| Acker Bilk & Leon Young String Chorale – Carolina Moon | 10:32 | 1 | 11/9/2020 | |
| Gene Bradley Fisk -Underneath My Setting Sun | 2025 | 10:35 | 3 | 15/9/2025 |
| Richard Mulligan – Because I Love You | 2025 | 10:39 | 1 | 15/8/2025 |
| 70s Classic Rupert Holmes – Escape (The Pina Colada Song) | 1977 | 10:45 | 7 | 9/2/2025 |
| Slim Dusty – Big Moon | 10:51 | 3 | 6/7/2025 | |
| Seekers – Open Up Them Pearly Gates | 10:54 | 2 | 6/6/2025 | |
| Peter Posa – The White Rabbit | 1963 | 10:57 | 14 | 10/5/2024 |
| Michaela Harkin – I’m On My Way | 2024 | 11:05 | 2 | 6/10/2024 |
| Jeff Batson – Somebody’s Somebody | 2025 | 11:09 | 1 | 31/8/2025 |
| Dianne Coombes – Through The Winter | 2025 | 11:13 | 1 | 7/9/2025 |
| Carpenters – Those Good Old Dreams | 1981 | 11:19 | 1 | 22/1/2017 |
| Vintage Vinyl Lou Monte – Lazy Mary | 1958 | 11:26 | 8 | 2/4/2021 |
| Richard Hayman & His Orchestra – That’s What Friends Are For | 11:32 | 0 | ||
| Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Horst Jankowski – Simpel Gimpel | 1965 | 11:36 | 7 | 11/9/2020 |
| Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Skeeter Davis – Sunglasses | 1965 | 11:39 | 5 | 13/12/2020 |
| CoCo Bal & Hubert Heeringa – Summer Cava | 2025 | 11:43 | 2 | 31/8/2025 |
| Gunter Noris – Kufsteiner Lied | 2025 | 11:47 | 1 | 23/2/2025 |
| Daniel O’Donnell – Before I’m Over You | 11:51 | 0 | ||
| Roberto Delgado – Da Doo Ron Ron | 11:54 | 0 |