7 December 2025
► LOOKING at events on 7 December;
In 1941, Pearl Harbour, Hawaii, the Imperial Japanese Navy attacked the United States Pacific Fleet, causing over 2,000 deaths and resulting in a declaration of war upon Japan by the United States.
In 1957 the first U.S. attempt to launch a satellite failed, when the rocket exploded on the launch pad in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Also in Cape Canaveral, in 1972 Apollo 17, with astronauts Gene Cernan, Ronald Evans, and Harrison Schmitt aboard, was launched to the Moon.
It was the first night launch in the U.S.A. of a manned space mission, the sixth and final lunar landing mission of the Apollo program, and the final manned mission to the moon during the 20th century.
► BORN…..
In 1910 in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A., Louis Prima, singer, actor, songwriter and trumpeter, known as the King of the Swing.
He rode the musical trends of his time, starting in the 1920s with his seven-piece jazz band, then successively led a swing combo in the 1930s, a big band in the 1940s, a Vegas lounge act in the 1950s, and a pop-rock band in the 1960s. Died 1978.
1910, in Port of Spain, Trinidad, Edmundo Ros. He was a musician, vocalist, arranger and bandleader who made his career in Britain. He directed a highly popular Latin-American orchestra, had an extensive recording career, and owned one of London’s leading night-clubs. He died in 2011.
► DIED…..
In 1910 in Hendersonville, Tennessee, U.S.A., Roy Orbison, also known by the nickname The Big O, singer-songwriter and musician. He was famous for his distinctive, powerful voice, complex compositions, and emotional ballads.
His greatest successes were with Monument Records in the 1960s, including Only The Lonely, Crying, In Dreams and Oh Pretty Woman. He was aged 52.
In 2010 in Melbourne, Victoria, Gus Mercurio, American-born Australian actor. He was also a professional boxer and chiropractor. As an actor he had frequent roles, usually as shady characters, in productions such as Homicide, Division Four and Matlock Police. He also appeared in movies such as The Man From Snowy River, Crocodile Dundee 2 and Return To The Blue Lagoon He was aged 82.
In 2011 in Los Angeles, California, Harry Morgan, film and television actor more recently known in the role of Colonel Sherman T Potter in the television sitcom MASH. He was aged 96.
Today’s photo – Tulips at Table Cape, near Wynyard in north-west Tasmania.
Today’s Playlist (V S):
| TRACK | RELEASE YEAR | TIME | PREVIOUS PLAYS | LAST PLAYED |
| Ami Leigh – Wait & See | 2025 | 06:06 | 0 | |
| Charting this day 1973 Tony Orlando and Dawn – Say, Has Anybody Seen My Sweet Gypsy Rose | 1973 | 06:12 | 4 | 15/9/2025 |
| Charting this day 1973 Olivia Newton-John – Let Me Be There | 1973 | 06:15 | 9 | 28/9/2025 |
| Kane Vincent – Crazy Love (Drive Me Sane) | 2025 | 06:19 | 1 | 16/11/2025 |
| Desert Pear – Aim To Be True | 2025 | 06:24 | 0 | |
| Elisabeth Hope – Poncho & Lefty | 2025 | 06:27 | 1 | 23/11/2025 |
| Johnny Gregory & His Orchestra – Fame | 06:35 | 1 | 18/5/2025 | |
| Louis Prima & Keely Smith – Hey Boy! Hey Girl! | 1959 | 06:42 | 2 | 24/8/2025 |
| Edmundo Ros & His Orchestra – La Golondrina Tango | 06:46 | 0 | ||
| For a Listener: Cilla Black – You’re My World | 1964 | 06:49 | 14 | 5/10/2025 |
| Roy Orbison – I Can’t Stop Loving You | 1960 | 06:53 | 1 | 28/2/2014 |
| Vintage Vinyl Kalin Twins – When | 1958 | 06:56 | 1 | 1/10/2021 |
| Batson Haines – Santa’s Having a Tailgate | 2025 | 07:05 | 1 | 28/11/2025 |
| Charting this day 1973 David Bowie – The Laughing Gnome | 1973 | 07:11 | 1 | 23/2/2024 |
| Charting this day 1973 Perry Como – For The Good Times | 1973 | 07:14 | 6 | 6/4/2025 |
| For A Listener: Gene Pitney – 24 Hours From Tulsa | 1964 | 07:20 | 16 | 2/11/2025 |
| Connie Kis Andersen – A Place Called Home | 2025 | 07:23 | 1 | 28/11/2025 |
| For a Listener: John Lennon – Happy Christmas War Is Over | 07:28 | 14 | 23/11/2025 | |
| Peter Hope & His Orchestra – Yesterday Once More | 07:33 | 1 | 13/6/2025 | |
| Dolli & Andy Martin – Some Things Never Change | 2025 | 07:37 | 1 | 16/11/2025 |
| Vintage Vinyl Graham Kennedy & Smacka Fitzgibbon – Shine On Harvest Moon | 1957 | 07:40 | 0 | |
| The Charlesys – Fun Christmas Day | 2025 | 07:43 | 0 | |
| Scott McKone – Devil’s Wind | 07:49 | 3 | 6/12/2024 | |
| Andre Kostelanetz & His Orchestra – The Way we Were | 07:54 | 3 | 2/7/2021 | |
| Clayton Saunders – Uluru | 2025 | 07:56 | 1 | 9/11/2025 |
| Franky B and the Shadowriders – Soul Limbo | 2025 | 08:05 | 1 | 23/11/2025 |
| Charting this day 1973 Charley Pride – Me And Bobby McGee | 1973 | 08:14 | 10 | 6/4/2025 |
| Charting this day 1973 Jim Reeves – Am I That Easy To Forget | 1973 | 08:18 | 3 | 9/2/2018 |
| Greg McInnes – Beautiful Day | 2025 | 08:21 | 1 | 28/11/2025 |
| Richard Mulligan – Christmas In Carrantubber | 2025 | 08:25 | 1 | 5/12/2025 |
| Ray Malcolm – My Happiness | 2025 | 08:29 | 1 | 28/11/2025 |
| Henry Mancini His Piano & Orchestra – Theme From Love Story | 08:36 | 5 | 21/5/2021 | |
| Peggy Gilchrist – Southern Sky | 2025 | 08:40 | 3 | 22/6/2025 |
| Anne Murray – Dream A Little Dream Of Me | 08:45 | 0 | ||
| Seekers – Cloudy | 08:47 | 5 | 17/1/2021 | |
| Vintage Vinyl Jerry Lee Lewis – Great Balls Of Fire | 1958 | 08:50 | 3 | 29/9/2023 |
| Sonny James – You Are My Sunshine | 1965 | 08:52 | 1 | 5/12/2025 |
| Slim Dusty & Anne – Teenage Country Style | 08:55 | 1 | 5/12/2025 |