17 October 2025
FRIDAY MORNING RADIO, Edition 491, 9.00 ~ Midday AEDT
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 17 October;
In 1847, in London, England, a massive beer flood occurred, when a vat containing over 610,000 litres of beer ruptured, causing adjacent vats to succumb in a domino effect.
A total of over 1,470,000 litres of beer gushed into the streets, destroying two homes and a wall of the Tavistock Arms Pub. Eight people drowned in the flood, and another died from alcohol poisoning (???) the next day.
In 1907, Guglielmo Marconi’s company “The Marconi Company” began the first commercial transatlantic wireless service between Nova Scotia, Canada, and Clifden, Ireland
In 1917, Australia’s greatest railway undertaking to that date, the 1,711 km Trans-Australia railway linking Port Augusta and Kalgoorlie, was completed at Ooldea, 322 km east of the South Australia/West Australia border.
► BORN THIS DAY…..
1933 – Brussels, Belgium – Jeanine Paule Marie Deckers alias Soeur Sourire, or in English speaking countries, The Singing Nun. She was singer songwriter and nun who had a world-wide hit in 1963 with Dominique. Died 1985.
1942 – Hibbing, Minnesota, U.S.A. – Gary Puckett, American musician, who, with the group Union Gap, had hits in the late 1960s such as Woman Woman, Lady Willpower, and Young Girl. Turns 83.
► DIED THIS DAY…..
2007 – New Rochelle, New York, U.S.A. – Teresa Brewer, pop and jazz singer who was one of the most prolific and popular female singers of the 1950s, having recorded nearly 600 songs. Aged 76.
Today’s photo – Russell Falls, Mt Field National Park, Tasmania.
Today’s Playlist
| TRACK | RELEASE YEAR | PLAY TIME | PREVIOUS PLAYS | LAST PLAYED |
| Mike Fallon – You’re The Best | 2025 | 09:05 | 0 | |
| Annette Hawkins -Shadow Of My Heart | 2025 | 09:12 | 2 | 28/9/2025 |
| C J Hooper – Rain Song | 2025 | 09:15 | 1 | 3/10/2025 |
| 70s Classic Elvis Presley – Moody Blue | 1977 | 09:20 | 5 | 18/5/2025 |
| The Lonesome Six – The Winds of Change | 2025 | 09:22 | 1 | 10/8/2025 |
| Hank Levine Singers & Orchestra – You’re Getting To Be A Habit With Me | 09:29 | 1 | 9/6/2024 | |
| Mrs Mills – Moonlight And Roses | 09:33 | 0 | ||
| The Dream Academy – Life In A Northern Town | 09:35 | 0 | ||
| Singing Nun – Dominique | 1963 | 09:42 | 14 | 29/6/2025 |
| For a Listener Paddy Reilly – Farewell to Nova Scotia | 09:47 | 5 | 15/1/2023 | |
| Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Bachelors – In The Chapel In The Moonlight | 1965 | 09:51 | 8 | 17/11/2023 |
| Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Shadows – Genie With The Light Brown Lamp | 1965 | 09:52 | 1 | 12/1/2018 |
| For a Listener Jim Reeves – Mexican Joe | 09:57 | 1 | 5/7/2013 | |
| Kaoma – Lambada | 1989 | 10:05 | 1 | 8/6/2025 |
| Larissa Tormey – Larissa And Coco | 2025 | 10:11 | 0 | |
| Adrian Ryan – A Little More Like Heaven | 2022 | 10:14 | 3 | 2/9/2022 |
| Gary Puckett & Union Gap – Kiss Me Goodbye | 1968 | 10:18 | 2 | 30/6/2013 |
| Vintage Vinyl Tennessee Ernie Ford – Sixteen Tons | 1955 | 10:24 | 3 | 13/3/2016 |
| John O’Neill – That Ship Sailed Long Ago | 2025 | 10:27 | 0 | |
| Hank Levine Orchestra – Can’t Buy Me Love | 10:33 | 2 | 14/9/2012 | |
| Chillin’ – My Next Mistake | 2025 | 10:37 | 0 | |
| Warren Kearney – Under The Bridge | 2025 | 10:40 | 0 | |
| 70s Classic Teresa Brewer – What A Wonderful World | 10:44 | 1 | 1/1/2017 | |
| Bing Crosby – Swinging On A Star | 10:49 | 0 | ||
| Skyhooks – Living In The Seventies | 1974 | 10:51 | 5 | 2/3/2025 |
| ABBA – Honey Honey | 1974 | 10:54 | 5 | 5/4/2024 |
| Bobby Rydell – Magic Star (Telstar) | 1963 | 10:58 | 0 | |
| Denise Blum – Super Hero | 2025 | 11:05 | 1 | 5/10/2025 |
| Helene Neijmeijer – Unwise | 2025 | 11:10 | 1 | 5/10/2025 |
| Michael Wayne Dill with Tenneil – The Way That I Want You | 2025 | 11:14 | 0 | |
| Penny Davies & Roger Ilott | 11:20 | 4 | 26/1/2025 | |
| For a Listener Seekers – The Last Thing On My Mind | 11:25 | 8 | 1/9/2023 | |
| Vintage Vinyl Perry Como – Magic Moments | 1958 | 11:33 | 2 | 18/5/2018 |
| Edmundo Ros & His Orchestra – Say Si Si Merengue | 11:39 | 0 | ||
| Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Donovan – Universal Soldier | 1965 | 11:42 | 4 | 22/11/2019 |
| Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Ken Dodd – Tears | 1965 | 11:44 | 5 | 7/12/2018 |
| Lloyd Back – Black Cockatoo | 2025 | 11:49 | 0 | |
| Peggie Nora – I’ve Had Enough | 2025 | 11:52 | 0 | |
| Andrew McMurdie – Teenager in Love | 2025 | 11:54 | 6 | 4/5/2025 |