3 October 2025
FRIDAY MORNING RADIO, Edition 489, 9.00 ~ Midday AEST 3 October 2025
Easy listening, retro and recent releases not to be heard on mainstream radio stations throughout the morning, on the Derwent Valley’s own radio station.
► LOOKING at events on 3 October, in 1952, in the Monte Bello Islands, West Australia – Britain conducted its first nuclear test, with the bomb positioned inside the hull of HMS Plym, a decommissioned World War 2 frigate.
The vessel was vaporised, with only a few fragments remaining after the explosion.
In 1985, The Space Shuttle Atlantis made its maiden flight when it was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
When it was retired in 2011, Atlantis had orbited Earth 4,848 times and travelled 203 million km. It is now on display at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida.
In 1987, Twenty five thousand Vietnam veterans from all over Australia were given a Welcome Home parade from the Domain through Sydney, some 15 years after the last Australian troops left Vietnam.
In 1990, The communist German Democratic Republic officially became part of the Federal Republic of Germany and the concrete wall, which had enclosed West Berlin for over 40 years, was demolished.
► BORN THIS DAY…..
1941 – In South Carolina, U.S.A., Ernest Evans, alias Chubby Checker, singer-songwriter best known for popularising the Twist dance with his 1960 cover of the Hank Ballard hit The Twist. That was followed by Let’s Twist Again; then Limbo Rock and its sequel, Let’s Limbo Some More.
► DIED THIS DAY…..
2005 – In Adderbury, Oxfordshire, England, Ronnie Barker, actor and comedian known for his roles in various British levision series, such as The Frost Report; as Norman Fletcher in Porridge, The Two Ronnies and as Albert Arkwright in Open All Hours. Aged 76.
2006 – In Bowral, New South Wales, Gwen Meredith, author and playwright, whose famous serial Blue Hills ran on ABC radio for 27 years.
She retired in 1976 after the last episode of Blue Hills, went to air.
Meredith and her husband moved to the New South Wales Southern Highlands, where she took up painting, gardening, bushwalking and fly-fishing. Aged 98.
Today’s photo: The Domain rose garden, Hobart, October 2018. (Yours Truly)
Today’s Playlist
| TRACK | RELEASE YEAR | PLAY TIME | PREVIOUS PLAYS | LAST PLAYED |
| Ron Christopher – All About The Song | 2025 | 09:05 | 3 | 7/9/2025 |
| Justin Standley – My Eternal Blue Eyes | 2025 | 09:12 | 2 | 19/9/2025 |
| C J Hooper – Rain Song | 2025 | 09:16 | 0 | |
| 70s Classic Lieutenant Pigeon – Mouldy Old Dough | 1972 | 09:21 | 3 | 23/2/2025 |
| Alison Moyet – Steal Me Blind | 1984 | 09:24 | 0 | |
| Max Bygraves – All I Do Is Dream Of You | 09:30 | 5 | 28/10/2022 | |
| Johnny Gregory & His Orchestra – The Music Box Dancer | 09:35 | 0 | ||
| Ashley Gall – Torn Jeans | 2025 | 09:38 | 0 | |
| Chubby Checker – Let’s Limbo Some More | 1963 | 09:44 | 3 | 31/3/2023 |
| For a Listener Bing Crosby – Never On Sunday | 09:47 | 0 | ||
| Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Cliff Richard & Shadows – I Could Easily Fall In Love With You | 1965 | 09:51 | 10 | 26/12/2021 |
| Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Tom Jones – What’s New Pussycat | 1965 | 09:54 | 3 | 23/2/2020 |
| Beatles – A Hard Day’s Night | 1964 | 09:58 | 24 | 24/11/2024 |
| Adrian Martin Murphy – The Glen of Aherlow | 2025 | 10:05 | 1 | 14/9/2025 |
| Joy Adams – Still I Wonder | 2025 | 10:11 | 1 | 28/9/2025 |
| Don Smythe – Big City Blues | 2025 | 10:14 | 0 | |
| For a Listener Cash Backman – He’ll Have To Go | 10:18 | 5 | 27/8/2023 | |
| Vintage Vinyl Rosemary Clooney & Jose Ferrer – A Bunch of Bananas | 1954 | 10:22 | 4 | 15/11/2019 |
| Andrew Dean and The Farm Machine – Swingtown | 2025 | 10:26 | 0 | |
| Pete Moore & His Orchestra – Albatross | 10:32 | 0 | ||
| Brooke Seabrook – No City Lives In Me | 2025 | 10:36 | 0 | |
| Franky B & the Shadow Riders – Hang Em High | 2025 | 10:39 | 0 | |
| 70s Classic Loretta Lynn – One’s On The Way | 2025 | 10:44 | 8 | 23/2/2025 |
| Roger Whittaker – Good Morning Starshine | 10:48 | 8 | 14/3/2025 | |
| Johnny Shilo – One Hundred Thousand Migrants | 2025 | 10:51 | 0 | |
| Lance Birrell – Aussie Medley | 10:57 | 7 | 24/3/2024 | |
| Manfred Fartek – Der Platz an Meiner Seite | 2025 | 11:05 | 1 | 21/9/2025 |
| Uncle Trent and Friends – The Devil | 2025 | 11:11 | 1 | 7/9/2025 |
| Dusty Springfield – Sweet Inspiration | 11:14 | 1 | 12/6/2016 | |
| Juniper Arré – Howling At The Moon | 2025 | 11:23 | 1 | 7/9/2025 |
| Vintage Vinyl Johnny Cash – I Walk The Line | 1956 | 11:28 | 15 | 15/3/2020 |
| Larry Dalton & His Orchestra – Save The Last Dance For Me | 11:34 | 0 | ||
| Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Barry McGuire – Eve of Destruction | 1965 | 11:37 | 14 | 17/11/2024 |
| Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Jay & Americans -Some Enchanted Evening | 1965 | 11:41 | 3 | 11/3/2018 |
| Warwick & Young – You’re The Reason | 2025 | 11:45 | 0 | |
| Gail Barnard – Storms | 2025 | 11:50 | 4 | 6/7/2025 |
| Gary Jay & The Fire – Riverview Tavern | 2024 | 11:53 | 3 | 24//2025 |