FRIDAY MORNING RADIO, Edition 470, 9.00 ~ Midday AEST

Easy listening, memories and new releases through the morning, on the Derwent Valley’s own radio station.

Today’s photo – The Lachlan River, near New Norfolk. Taken by Yours Truly.

Today’s Playlist

TRACK	RELEASE YEAR	PLAY TIME	PREVIOUS PLAYS	LAST PLAYED	ISRC
Graeme Clarke – Baby With No Name	2025	09:05	5	18/5/2025
Cara McGillion – Claim On My Heart	2025	09:09	0		IEWBL 2500001
Jimmy Bear – Silence And Dust	2025	09:13	4	18/5/2025
Johnny Ashcroft – My Love Is A River	1960	09:18	0
Highway 95 – Message From Above	2025	09:20	2	18/5/2025	AUL0G 2400014
Backtrack: Colin Kenny – Will You Dance With Me Annie	2020	09:24	4	8/11/2020
Artie Shaw & His Orchestra with Helen Forrest – Between a Kiss and a Sigh	1938	09:35	0
Rosemary Clooney & Jose Ferrer – Mr And Mrs	1955	09:39	1	18/10/2013
Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan – Tennessee Birdwalk	1970	09:43	6	21/1/2024
Daniel O’Donnell – Act Naturally		09;46	1	7/6/2015
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Elvis Presley – Do The Clam	1965	09:49	3	19/4/2015
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Cliff Richard – Just Another Guy	1965	09:52	9	28/4/2024
Sandie Shaw – Make It Go	1969	09:55	2	15/1/2017
Ron Christopher – That Rockabilly Thing	2024	09:57	5	24/1/2025
Studeo – Pounding Pavements	2025	10:10	0
Garry Carson Jones – Forbidden Fruit	2025	10:14	0
Old Time Concert Hall: Jo Stafford & Paul Weston & His Orchestra – In My Merry Oldsmobile		10:18	2	21/3/2021
Lawrence Welk Orchestra with Myron Floren – Friendly Tavern Polka		10:23	0
Backtrack: Whiskey Business – For So Long	2018	10:25	1	22/2/2019
Billy Vaughn & His Orchestra – When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold		10:31	1	9/8/2015
Kerri Perrett – White Crosses And The Rose	2025	10:33	0		AUZY4 2500009
Mike Perjanic – A Country Practice Theme		10:40	11	15/9/2023
Georgie Fame – Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde	1968	10:43	4	24/6/2022
Desmond Dekker & Aces – It Miek	1968	10:47	1	16/7/2021
The Reels – According To My Heart		10:50	4	15/9/2023
Rosalind Clare & Glen Flynn – Heaven Only Knows	2025	10:54	2	11/5/2025
Henry Arland – The Tiger Rag		10:58	5	29/11/2019
Kathy Carver – Eyre Highway Track	2025	11:05	0
Shelley Minson – Everybody’s Baby	2025	11:09	1	2/5/2025	AUUHB 2400029
Tallowood Bush Band – Number 97		11:12	5	25/11/2022
Cliff Edwards – When You Wish Upon A Star		11:17	3	15/12/2023
Change of Key – She Sneaked Into My Bathroom Mirror	2025	11:20	0
Backtrack: Aishling Rafferty – Love Me When I’m Old	2021	11:26	17	3/11/2024
Brian May & ABC Melbourne Showband – Greek Wine		11:34	12	23/12/2022
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Al Martino – Somebody Else Is Taking My Place	1965	11:37	0
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Marianne Faithfull – Come and Stay With Me	1965	11:40	5	29/12/2023
Peggy Gilchrist – Southern Sky	2025	11:44	0
Alice Benfer – Saltbush Sally	2025	11:47	0		AUHIB 2300007
Peter Pentland – Me Beaut Little Fergy Tractor		11:50	2	30/8/2015
Ivo Robic – Morgen	1959	11:54	1	29/1/2016

23 MAY IN HISTORY:

EVENTS ON THIS DAY

1934  New Zealander Jean Batten set a new womens’ flight record of 14 days 22 hours for a flight from England to Australia.

1939  Off the coast of New Hampshire, U.S.A. – The U.S. Navy submarine U.S.S. Squalus sank during a test dive, causing the death of 24 crew and two civilian technicians.  32 crewmen and a civilian naval architect were rescued the following day.

1958 Suffolk, England – A new kind of vehicle which travelled on a cushion of air was demonstrated by its inventor, boatbuilder Christopher Cockerell.  The Government-backed National Research and Development Corporation was taking an interest in the hovercraft.

1968 Hobart, Tasmania – The Hobart City Council was forced to remove the heads from 283 parking meters throughout the city, after a Magistrate ruled that their operation along the right side of one-way streets was illegal.

1981 London, England – Serial killer Peter Sutcliffe, known as the Yorkshire Ripper, was convicted of 13 murders committed since 1975 and sentenced to imprisonment for the remainder of his life.  He died in gaol from COVID-19 in 2020.

BORN

1910  New York, U.S.A. – Arthur Jacob Arshawsky alias Artie Shaw, jazz clarinetist, composer, bandleader and author of both fiction and non-fiction books.  Died 2004.

1920  Lima, Ohio, U.S.A. – Helen O’Connell, singer, actress, and dancer whose best selling records were released in the early 1940s, such as Green Eyes, Amapola, Tangerine and Yours.  Died 1993.

1928  Maysville, Kentucky, U.S.A. – Rosemary Clooney, singer and actress who came to prominence in the early 50s with Come On A My House, which was followed by other hits such as Botch-a-Me, Mambo Italiano, Tenderly, Half As Much, and This Ole House.  Died 2002.

1945  Buffalo, New York, U.S.A. – Misty Morgan, keyboardist/vocalist who, with her husband Jack Blanchard released  fourteen singles between 1969 and 1976, including the 1970 hit  Tennessee Bird Walk.  Turns 80.

DIED

1934  Black Lake, Louisiana, U.S.A. – Bonnie Elizabeth Parker and Clyde Chestnut Barrow, who had teamed up to form the outlaw duo Bonnie And Clyde.  After a crime spree of robberies and murders, they were ambushed in a hail of bullets, by a posse of four police officers on a country road.  Aged 23 and 25 respectively.

2017  Crans-Montana, Switzerland – Roger Moore, actor and film producer, best known for his role as secret agent James Bond between 1973 and 1985.  Aged 89.

2021  Gold Coast, Queensland – Beryl Hunt, BKA Lorrae Desmond, Gold Logie Award winning singer and actress, who remains best known for her role as Shirley Gilroy in the long running television series A Country Practice between 1981 and 1992.  Aged 91.

Valley Sunrise Edition 834
0600 ~ 0900 AEDT

In this edition, six chart-busters from the Top 40 charts of this week in 1977, recent tracks from indie artists, and other easy-listening music which you won’t hear on mainstream radio.

Today’s photo – Sunrise in New Norfolk.
Photo: Yours Truly

Today’s Playlist:

TRACK	RELEASE YEAR	TIME	PREVIOUS PLAYS	LAST PLAYED	ISRC
The Cumberland River Project – Small Town Loser	2025	06:06	1	30/3/2025	DEZC6 2577046
Charting this day 1977 Elvis Presley – Moody Blue	1977	06:13	4	9/3/2025
Charting this day 1977 10cc – The Things We Do For Love	1977	06:16	6	17/2/2023
By Request Today: Michael Crawford – Love Changes Everything		06:20	3	19/1/2025
Graeme Clarke – Baby With No Name (Remix)	2025	06:24	4	16/5/2025
Petula Clark – Close To You		06:27	3	27/1/2023
David Firman & His Orchestra – Nothing’s Gonna Change My Love For You		06:33	0
Victoria Eman & Glenn van Haasen – In Another Time And Place	2025	06:38	4	13/4/2025	NLJ9A 2500001
Backtrack: Two Of A Kind – A Mother’s Love	2021	06:43	3	28/5/2021
John Rowles – Dock Of The Bay		06:47	2	5/1/2025
Mark Wynter – Venus In Blue Jeans	1962	06:51	4	27/12/2020
David Hammerschlag – Country Calypso	2025	06:54	1	16/5/2025
DIED 1975 Woodbury, Connecticut, U.S.A. – Leroy Anderson, composer of light concert pieces which were introduced by the Boston Pops Orchestra under the direction of Arthur Fiedler.  Aged 66.
Leroy Anderson Orchestra – The Typewriter	1953	06:58	13	764/2024
Toni West – No Time To Cry	2025	07:05	1	9/5/2025	UKBBL 2400002
Charting this day 1977 Boney M – Daddy Cool	1977	07:11	6	23/4/2021
Charting this day 1977 Smokie – Living Next Door To Alice	1977	07:15	8	9/3/2025
By Request Today: Max Bygraves – Tiny Bubbles		07:19	6	28/6/2024
Erin Noone – Dance The Night Away	2025	07:23	0		TCAJM 2528822
BORN 1912 Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. – Pierino Roland Como alias Perry Como, singer, recording artist and television personality who recorded exclusively for RCA Victor after signing up in 1943.  He sold millions of records and pioneered a weekly variety television show, one of the most successful in American television history.  Died 2001.
Perry Como – Seattle	1969	07:28	6	11/1/2019
Dean Martin – Second Hand Rose		07:32	5	22/2/2019
Gordon Langford & His Orchestra – Beg Steal Or Borrow		07:36	0
Highway 95 – Message From Above	2025	07:39	1	9/5/2025	AUL0G 2400014
Backtrack: Allan Caswell – Powerful Thing	2018	07:42	1	8/5/2020
DIED 2014  Palm Desert, California, U.S.A. – Gennaro Luigi Vitaliano alias Jerry Vale, singer and actor known for his romantic ballads, often sung in Italian.    (Aged 83
Jerry Vale – Camelot	1963	07:48	13	22/12/2023
Doris Day – Que Sera Sera	1956	07:51	13	6/9/2024
Lolita – Wenn Am Sonntagabend Die Dirfmusikspielt		07:55	2	11/10/2020
Faron Young – Backtrack	1961	07:57	3	25/2/2018
Matrimony – Why Wait	2025	08:06	1	30/3/2025
Charting this day 1977 David Soul – Don’t Give Up On Us	1977	08:13	5	9/12/2022
Charting this day 1977 Mary MacGregor – Torn Between Two Lovers	1977	08:16	8	9/3/2025
Fleetwood Mac – Never Going Back Again		08:25	0
Ronan Keating – When You Say Nothing At All		08:28	2	20/10/2024
Johnny Gregory & His Orchestra – Fame		08:36	0
Lucinda Wilson – Caledonia	2025	08:40	0
David Connor – The Day I Left Castlebar	2025	08:45	0
Backtrack: Trevor Loughrey – Little Irish Town	2025	08:50	1	18/1/2019
Jimmy Bear – Silence And Dust	2025	08:54	3	26/2/2023

18 MAY IN HISTORY:

EVENTS

1974  Warsaw, Poland – Construction of a radio transmission tower, at 646.38 metres then the tallest structure ever built, was completed.  It collapsed on August 8, 1991, due to a maintenance error. 

1980 Washington State, U.S.A. – Mt St Helens exploded, causing the loss of 57 lives and $3 billion in damage.

1990  France – A modified TGV train achieved a new world rail speed record of 515.3 km/h.

BORN

1928   Waycross, Georgia, U.S.A. – Pernell Roberts, stage, movie and television actor and singer.  In addition to guest starring in over 60 television series, he was well known for his roles as Ben Cartwright’s eldest son, Adam Cartwright, in the television western series Bonanza, from 1959 to 1965 — and as chief surgeon Dr. John McIntyre, the title character on Trapper John M D (1979–1986)   Died 2010.

1962  London, England – Nathaniel Parker, actor who has appeared I numerous movies, known for his role as Det Insp Thomas Lynley in the TV drama series The Inspector Lynley Mysteries

DIED

1995  Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. – Elizabeth Victoria Montgomery, film and television actress whose career covered 50 years.  She is best remembered for her role as Samantha Stephens in the 1960s TV sitcom Bewitched. Aged 62.

FRIDAY MORNING RADIO, Edition 469, 9.00 ~ Midday AEST

Easy listening, memories and new releases through the morning, on the Derwent Valley’s own radio station.

Today’s photo – A mural, recently painted on a carriage shed of the Tasmanian Transport Museum Society in Glenorchy, by Joel Gadja. Taken by Yours Truly.

Today’s Playlist

TRACK	RELEASE YEAR	PLAY TIME	PREVIOUS PLAYS	LAST PLAYED	ISRC
Ray Malcolm – Moon Over Memphis	2025	09:05	2	11/5/2025
Gary Mangan – The Leaving of Liverpool	2025	09:11	0
Ricky May – Between 18th and 19th on Chestnut Street		09:14	0
Rae Leigh – Country Pride	2025	09:19	1	25/4/2025
Backtrack: Brian Bouchie – Beautiful You Are	2018	09:23	2	21/9/2018
By Request Today: Bonnie Tyler – It’s A Heartache		09:28	6	2/2/2025
Billy Vaughn & His Orchestra – Tiny Bubbles		09:34	1	27/7/2018
Barry O’Dowd & Shamrock Singers – The Unicorn		09:38	0
Liberace – The Beer Barrel Polka		09:43	3	16/10/2020
Judith Durham – Alexander’s Ragtime Band		09:46	0
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Ray Brown – Pride	1965	09:51	4	15/5/2015
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Freddie & Dreamers – Do The Freddie	1965	09:53	2	15/1/2021
Chet Atkins – Come Softly To Me		09:57	5	8/4/2016
Ruben Gomez – Siempre Manana		10:05	0
Marian Burns – Beautiful Soldier	2025	10:11	1	25/4/2025
Chris Callaghan – Twenty Hours	2025	10:14	2	13/4/2025	AUZY4 2000059
Old Time Concert Hall: Heinie Beau Orchestra with Muzzy Marcellino (Siffleur) – Whistling Rufus		10:19	0
Hein Simons – Ave Maria [Die kleine Bergkirche]		10:23	0
Backtrack: Carylann – No Goodbyes	2022	10:27	12	6/9/2024
Ray Conniff & His Orchestra – Unchained Melody		10:32	0
Donna Fisk – Only Girl In Town	2025	10:36			AUGBT 2207106
Sammy Davis Jr – I’ve Gotta Be Me		10:41	5	8/12/2023
Billy Fury – A Thousand Stars	1960	10:46	2	27/10/2023
Graeme Clarke – Baby With No Name (Remix)	2025	10:49	3	11/5/2025
Rodney Vincent – Some Sunday Morning		10:54	4	26/1/2024
Lissa Retro – Calling All Angels		10:56	3	15/11/2024
Andy Williams – House of Bamboo	1959	11:05	0
Rebecca Richards – Woman That I Am	2025	11:09	0
James Lynas – Love Sunrise	2025	11:14	3	20/8/2023
David Hammerschlag – Country Calypso	2025	11:22	0
Chordettes – Wooden Heart	1961	11:26	2	9/7/2023
Anne Fraser – Too Drunk To Drive	2025	11:29	0
Arthur Greenslade & His Orchestra – Those Were The Days		11:36	2	6/3/2020
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Al Martino – Dear Heart	1965	11:40	1	18/11/2018
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Ann Sidney – The Boy In The Woolly Sweater	1965	11:43	2	26/4/2015
Conor Owens – Texas Tornado	2025	11:46	0
Backtrack: Bernie Grass – First 100 Years	2020	11:49	1	6/9/2020
Dianne Coombes – Getting On With Getting Over You	2025	11:53	1	25/4/2025

16 MAY IN HISTORY:

EVENTS ON THIS DAY

1952  The Tasmanian Midlands and East Coast recorded the worst floods for many years, with over 130 people marooned on the Freycinet Peninsula.

1957  Ralphs Bay, Tasmania – The State’s tallest structure of the time, a steel radio mast 198 metres high, was being constructed for ABC radio stations 7ZL and 7ZR, at a cost of £27,000.

1958 Edwards Air Force Base, California, U.S.A. – Air Force Captain Walter Irwin, flying an F-104 Starfighter jet, set a new world speed record of 1,404.19 mph (2,259.82 km/h). 

1969 Venera 5, a Soviet space probe, jettisoned a capsule designed to analyse the atmosphere of the planet Venus  as it descended to the surface. It  returned data to Earth for 53 minutes, before it was crushed by the planet’s extreme atmospheric pressure. 

BORN

1913 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.A. – Woodrow Charles Herman alias Woody Herman, jazz clarinettist, saxophonist, singer, and big band leader, one of the most popular of the 30s and 40s bandleaders. Died 1987.

1919 West Allis, Wisconsin, U.S.A. – Wladziu Valentino Liberace alias Liberace, flamboyant pianist and vocalist, and the world’s highest paid entertainer from the 50s to the 70s.  Died 1987.

1953 Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland – Pierce Brosnan, actor, film producer and environmentalist who held dual Irish and American citizenship.  Following a stage career he rose to popularity in the television series Remington Steele (1982–87).  In 1995, he became the fifth actor to portray secret agent James Bond in the official series, starring in four movies between 1995 and 2002. Turns 72.

DIED

1990 Beverley Hills, California, U.S.A. –Sammy Davis Jr, formerly a childhood vaudevillian, then a dancer and singer, who became known for his Broadway performances, and in Las Vegas as a recording artist, television and film star, and a member of Frank Sinatra’s “Rat Pack”. Aged 64. 

1990 New York, U.S.A. –Jim Henson, creator of The Muppets.  Aged 53.

2002 Hobart, Tasmania – Alec Campbell, the last surviving Australian ANZAC. Aged 103.

Valley Sunrise Edition 833
0600 ~ 0900 AEDT

In this Mothers’ Day edition, selections from the Top 40 charts of this week in 1973; easy listening from indie artists; and easy-listening requests.

Today’s photo – Sunrise over the Derwent Valley, taken 9 May 2025.

Photo: Yours Truly

Today’s Playlist:

TRACK	RELEASE YEAR	TIME	PREVIOUS PLAYS	LAST PLAYED	ISRC
Barry Owen – Over and Done	2025	06:06	0		TCAJL 2538548
Charting this day 1975 Gene Pitney – Blue Angel	1975	06:12	9	11/10/2024
Charting this day 1975 Three Degrees – When Will I See You Again	1975	06:16	6	6/10/2023
By Request Today: P J Proby – Somewhere	1965	06:19	18	23/3/2025
The Howie Bros – Home I’ll Be	2025	06:23	1	27/4/2025
Sherrie Shines – I Still Miss Someone	2005	06:28	0
Brian May & ABC Melbourne Showband – Begin The Beguine		06:33	3	10/12/2021
Christine Clifford – Annie’s Song	2025	06:37	1	13/4/2025	QZHNC 2552556
Backtrack: Gary Ellis – A Love That Should Have Been	2021	06:40	4	25/2/2022
Tommy Vlaeminck  – Bridge of Hope	2025	06:45	2	9/5/2025
Jerry Reed – King Of The Road		06:51	0
By Request Today: Shavonne Aliphon – Always	2025	06:53	5	9/3/2025
Rosalind Clare & Glen Flynn – Heaven Only Knows		06:56	1	27/4/2025
Ray Malcolm – Moon Over Memphis		07:06	1	2/5/2025
Charting this day 1975 Curly Rivers & Dusty Trail Ramblers – The Ferryboat Shuffle	2025	07:12	4	5/1/2025
Charting this day 1975 Freddy Fender – Before The Next Teardrop Falls	1973	07:15	11	4/5/2025
Graeme Clarke – Baby With No Name (Remix)	1973	07:19	2	9/5/2025
Jonny Boston – Silver Moon	1975	07:22	0
Anthony Baxter – The Jumping Jackaroo	2025	07:28	2	9/5/2025
Percy Faith & His Orchestra – Anyone Who Had A Heart	2025	07:33	2	23/6/2023
Larissa Tormey – Coming Back To Life	2025	07:38	1	27/4/2025	IEJHJ 2500002
Andy Martin – River In The Rain	1965	07:41	1	2/5/2025
Backtrack: Ginny Peters – If It Wasn’t For The Mirror	2025	07:47	1	26/8/2018
The Charlesys – I Can See The Dawn	2025	07:50	2	7/2/2025
Pearce Pickering Ragtime Five – Should I	1970	07:56	4	24/2/2023
Elvis Aaron Presley Jr – Goldmine	2020	08:05	2	18/4/2025
Charting this day 1975 Pilot – January	1975	08:10	7	18/6/2021
Charting this day 1975 Sherbet – Summer Love	1975	08:14	4	27/9/2024
Tom Mullally – You Gave Me A Mountain	2025	08:21	0
By Request Today: Eddie Fisher – Ciindy Oh Cindy	1957	08:25	6	9/4/2021
Ian Hughes & His Orchestra – Lambada		08:34	2	28/7/2023
Tim Lane – Are You OK	2025	08:38	0		QZES7 2501254
Backtrack: Jason Owen – Everybody’s Talking	2020	08:44	3	20/11/2020
Kathy Carver – Yellow Moon On The Swan	2025	08:49	1	25/4/2025
John McCarthy Men’s Chorus with Banjo Rhythm Kings and Orchestra – Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines		08:52	1	5/2/2016
Seekers – Love Is Me Love Is You	1988	08:55	2	4/8/2024

11 MAY IN HISTORY:

EVENTS

1964  Hobart, Tasmania – A young carpenter from Moonah, and his 15 year old girlfriend escaped through a window of their car, after it plunged off Princes Wharf and sank.   

1969  Hobart, Tasmania – The Liberal Party won office in Tasmania for the first time in 35 years.  There was no Labor Government in office, State or Federally throughout Australia

BORN

1959   Arcadia, Michigan, U.S.A. – Harriet Quimby, early American aviatrix, movie screenwriter and the first woman to gain a pilot’s licence in the United States.

Quimby became the first woman to fly across the English Channel after taking off from Dover and landing near Calais, France.  News of her accomplishment was overshadowed in the media by that of the sinking of the Titanic so she received little attention.

She died later the same year in Massachusetts, U.S.A., when she and a passenger fell from a plane at 1,000 feet altitude.  The plane glided to the ground and made a soft landing in mud. 

1888  Tyumen, Russian Empire – Irving Berlin, American composer and lyricist, one of the greatest songwriters in history, with over 1,500 songs to his credit.  His first hit, Alexander’s Ragtime Band, became world famous in 1911 and sparked an international dance craze in places as far away as Russia   (d. 1989)

1941  Walker, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England – Eric Burdon, founding member and lead vocalist of the rock band The Animals, and also the fink rock band War 

1943  Liverpool, England – John Leslie Chadwick, bass guitarist from the 1960s pop group Gerry & the Pacemakers

1948  Hanover, Germany – Pam Ferris, television actress known for her roles as Ma Larkin in The Darling Buds of May, also as Aunt Marge in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.  She had the role of Sister Evangelina in 36 episodes of the BBC drama series Call The Midwife.

FRIDAY MORNING RADIO, Edition 468, 9.00 ~ Midday AEST

Easy listening, memories and new releases through the morning, on the Derwent Valley’s own radio station.

Today’s photo – Autumn reflections in the River Derwent near New Norfolk, taken Wednesday 7 May 2025 by Yours Truly.

Today’s Playlist

TRACK	RELEASE YEAR	PLAY TIME	PREVIOUS PLAYS	LAST PLAYED	ISRC
Klaasje Menzen – We Hold Our Head Up High	2025	09:05	2	11/4/2025
Mike Hughes – Bad News	2025	09:10	0
Charlie Landsborough – You Stand All Alone		09:13	8	30/8/2024
August Lane – Constantly Raining	2025	09:18	2	4/5/2025	QZWFN 2449588
Backtrack: Charlie’s Attic – Nanna’s House	2021	09:21	3	14/3/2021
Sandpipers – Rain Rain Go Away		09:29	1	19/3/2014
Ray Conniff & His Orchestra – Love Letters		09:33	0
Change of Key – Beyond That Smile	2025	09:36	1	21/3/2025
By Request Today: Caoimhe Murney – Wrong Road Again	2024	09:40	5	4/5/2025
Andrew Ryan – Like It’s Yesterday	2025	09:44	1	6/4/2025	AUG9Z 2200004
Tommy Vlaeminck  – Bridge of Hope	2025	09:48	1	20/4/2025
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Wayne Fontana & Mindbenders – Game Of Love	1965	09:52	1	17/7/2015
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 George Jones & Gene Pitney – I’ve Got Five Dollars And It’s Saturday Night	1965	09:54	4	13/3/2016
Brenda Lee – Your Used To Be	1963	09:57	8	17/3/2023
Nick Ingman Orchestra & Singers – Y M C A		10:05	0
Toni West – No Time To Cry	2025	10:09	0		UKBBL 2400002
John Denver – Claudette		10:13	2	30/12/2022
Old Time Concert Hall: Hank Levine Orchestra – And The Band Played On		10:17	3	21/3/2021
Scott Rathman Jnr – Angel on the Hill		10:21	2	20/4/2025
Backtrack: Dale Duncan – The ‘Slim Dusty’ Rose	2015	10:25	3	20/4/2025
Richard Clayderman – The Music Box Dancer		10:30	2	24/11/2023
Carol Chaney – Everything’s A Waltz		10:33	2	11/4/2025
Highway 95 – Message From Above		10:37	0		AUL0G 2400014
Horst Wende’s Accordeon Band – Die Fischerin Vom Bodensee		10:43	10	5/11/2023
Mahlissa – Boondockin’	2025	10:47	1	13/4/2025
Johnny Cash – Ring of Fire	1963	10:49	14	14/7/2023
Anne Fraser – Coorong Sands		10:52	3	6/10/2023
Graeme Clarke – Baby With No Name (Remix)	2025	11:05	1	27/4/2025
Tommy Roe – Dizzy	1969	11:10	5	30/4/2021
The Charlesys – Will It Be You	2025	11:13	1	15/9/2024	CACWV 2459223
Hank Snow – Nuevo Laredo		11:18	0
Johnny Chester & Blue Denim Country Band – Before The Next Teardrop Falls		11:23	2	13/3/2022
Anthony Baxter – The Jumping Jackaroo	2025	11:25	1	25/4/2025
Gunter Noris Orchestra – Good Old Vienna		11:33	0
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Hermans Hermits – Mrs Brown You’ve Got A Lovely Daughter	1965	11:36	13	19/2/2023
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Seekers – A World Of Our Own	1965	11:39	19	28/4/2024
Peter Stefanson – In Our Childhood Days	2025	11:43	1	27/4/2025
Backtrack: Colin Paul – Dancing With A Stranger	2022	11:47	4	15/12/2023
Anne Kirkpatrick – Peppimentarti Cradle		11:51	1	5/5/2019

9 MAY IN HISTORY:

EVENTS ON THIS DAY

1953  Hobart, Tasmania –  The city’s two commercial radio stations 7HO and 7HT commenced transmission simultaneously on new 2,000 watt transmitters. 7HT’s transmitter was relocated from Rosny Hill to Droughty Point.

1958  Tasmania experienced its coldest May morning for 12 years, with temperatures in Hobart down to 0 C, while Shannon in the central highlands recorded -8.3 C, the lowest ever recorded there to that date. +

1970 Washington DC, U.S.A. –  Up to 100,000 protesters demonstrated against the Vietnam War in front of the White House

1980 Tampa Bay, Florida, U.S.A. – The Liberian freighter MV Summit Venture collided with the Sunshine Skyway Bridge, causing a 420 metre. section of the southbound span to collapse. 35 people in six cars and a Greyhound bus perished after plunging 45 metres into the water.

BORN

1914 BORN Brooklyn, Queens County, Nova Scotia, Canada – Clarence Eugene Snow alias Hank Snow, country singer who during a 50 year career charted over 70 singles on the Billboard charts and recorded 140 albums between 1950 and 1980.  Died 1999.

1942 BORN Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A. – Thomas David Roe BKA Tommy Roe, pop singer-songwriter, best-remembered for his hits Sheila (1962) and Dizzy (1969)

Valley Sunrise Edition 832
0600 ~ 0900 AEDT

In this edition, selections from the Top 40 charts of this week in 1973; easy listening from indie artists; and as usual, the programme is open for easy-listening requests.

Today’s photo – Richmond, Tasmania, taken 15 April 2025.

Photo: Yours Truly

Today’s Playlist:

TRACK	RELEASE YEAR	TIME	PREVIOUS PLAYS	LAST PLAYED	ISRC
David Maguire – Galway to Nashville	2025	06:06	0		IETZB 2500002
Charting this day 1973 Tony Orlando & Dawn – Tie A Yellow Ribbon	1973	06:11	14	18/8/2023
Charting this day 1973 Roberta Flack – Killing Me Softly With His Song	1973	06:15	6	10/2/2023
August Lane – Constantly Raining	2025	06:21	1	23/3/2025	QZWFN 2449588
Richard Chamberlain – Love Me Tender	1962	06:23	1	12/7/2015
Patsy Cline – I Fall To Pieces	1961	06:28	4	18/2/2024
Billy Vaughn & His Orchestra – Say You Say Me		06:33	0
Michael Farrell – Streets of Laredo	2025	06:36	1	21/3/2025	IEJHJ 2500002
Backtrack: Ailish McBride – Our Wild Atlantic Shore	2021	06:41	3	11/7/2021
Gail Barnard – Storms	2025	06:45	2	13/4/2025	USCGJ 2534605
Jade Hurley – Georgie		06:50	4	25/2/2024
Norma O’Hara Murphy – Rose’s Cafe		06:53	6	20/1/2023
By Request Today: David Campbell – You’ll Never Walk Alone		06:57	1	31/7/2016
Johnny Chester and Grant Luhrs – Loud, Confident And Wrong	2025	07:06	3	2/5/2025	QM4TX 2523251
Charting this day 1973 Donna Fargo – Funny Face	1973	07:11	4	10/11/2017
Charting this day 1973 Carpenters – On Top Of The World	1973	07:15	11	18/12/2022
By Request Today: Freddy Fender – Before The Next Teardrop Falls	1975	07:19	10	31/1/2025
Joy Adams & Gary R Farmer – Be A Little Bit Bolder	2025	07:23	3	25/4/2025	NZRI1 2500760
Ron Christopher – Angelyne	2025	07:27	2	18/4/2025
Henry Mancini His Piano Orchestra & Chorus – Almost Persuaded		07:33	4	30/4/2023
By Request Today: Gerry & Pacemakers – Ferry Cross The Mersey	1965	07:38	20	7/2/2025
Chris Boots Lee – Where Corn Don’t Grow	2025	07:42	2	4/4/2025	QZES9 2504340
Helena Mace – If I’d Known You Back Then	2025	07:46	0
Backtrack: Andrew McMurdie – Teenager in Love	2020	07:53	5	20/4/2025
Anne Murray – It Should Have Been Easy		07:56	1	12/6/2020
J R Williams – Australia	2025	08:05	1	25/4/2025	QM6MZ 2524694
Charting this day 1973 Jim Ed Brown – How I Love Them Old Songs	1973	08:10	1	22/9/2023
Charting this day 1973 Buck Owens & His Buckaroos – Made In Japan	1973	08:13	7	21/5/2021
Vernon Huskey – White Silver Sands	2025	08:17	2	13/4/2025	QZYSP 2500012
Randy Travis – It’s Just A Matter of Time		08:24	2	20/3/2015
Jan Holland – Melody In F		08:29	1	16/8/2024
Gordon Langford & His Orchestra – Love Is All Around		08:34	0
Ashley Cook – The Aussie Way	2025	08:38	1	27/4/2025
Backtrack: Rod Williams – An Old Australian Stockman	2020	08:42	3	11/7/2021
Peter Blakeley – Crying In The Chapel	1989	08:47	0
Unit 4 Plus 2 – Concrete And Clay	1965	08:50	4	25/4/2025
Seekers – We Shall Not Be Moved	1965	08:52	5	18/8/2023
Caoimhe Murney – Wrong Road Again	2024	08:55	4	15/9/2024	IEXWD 2400001

27 APRIL IN HISTORY:

EVENTS

1900  Victorians Herbert Thompson and Edward Holmes created history when they arrived in Melbourne exhausted and sore after driving their steam-powered car 500 miles (800 km) from Bathurst, N.S.W., completing the first interstate car trip in Australia.  Their vehicle was fired by kerosene, and took 10 days to do the journey at an average speed of 9 miles an hour (15 km/h).

1932  Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A. – Mobster Al Capone began serving an eleven-year prison sentence for tax evasion..

1959  Hobart , Tasmania – Thousands watched a major blaze which destroyed the rear of a building in Liverpool Street next to Brunswick Hotel

1960  Hobart, Tasmania – The Mt Wellington road was closed after a 60 metre section subsided following torrential rains. 

1969  Sydney, New South Wales – The Australian production of the rock musical Hair produced by Harry M Miller, opened.  It featured the debut of a young American singer Marcia Hines.

BORN

1959   Marshville, North Carolina, U.S.A. – Randy Bruce Traywick, BKA Randy Travis, country singer, songwriter and actor who has had more than 50 singles on the Billboard charts 

FRIDAY MORNING RADIO, Edition 467, 9.00 ~ Midday AEST

Easy listening, memories and new releases through the morning, on the Derwent Valley’s own radio station.

Today’s photo – Another recent view of the fagus, an ancient deciduous native species, dating over 170 million years to the era of Gondwanaland

In Tasmania, it occurs only in the more remote areas of Mt Field National Park, the Cradle Mountain/Lake St Clair National Park and the South West World Heritage Area.

Photo: Ilka Munter

Today’s Playlist

TRACK	RELEASE YEAR	PLAY TIME	PREVIOUS PLAYS	LAST PLAYED	ISRC
Johnny Chester and Grant Luhrs – Loud, Confident And Wrong	2025	09:05	2	13/4/2025	QM4TX 2523251
Dave Lawlor – Calling Me Home	2025	09:10	1	16/3/2025
Shelley Minson – Everybody’s Baby	2025	09:14	0		AUUHB 2400029
By Request Today: Ginny Peters – Waiting On The Green Green Grass of Home	1967	09:19	6	5/1/2024
Mike Myers – What’s New Pussycat	2025	09:23	0
Backtrack: Bernie Bruce – I’m Just A Bloke	2020	09:25	1	18/10/2020
Patsy Cline – Crazy		09:29	4	26/8/2016
Henry Mancini & His Orchestra – As Time Goes By		09:34	0
Harry Secombe & Myrna Rose – Wunderbar		09:37	0
Engelbert Humperdinck – Another Time, Another Place		09:42	0
Frankie Laine – Moonlight Gambler	1956	09:44	6	16/1/2022
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Julie Rogers – The Hawaiian Wedding Song	1965	09:50	2	26/4/2015
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Normie Rowe & The Playboys – It Ain’t Necessarily So	1965	09:52	0
Johnny Tillotson – Talk Back Trembling Lips	1963	09:57	10	4/4/2025
Sabrina Fallon – Eileen Óg	2025	10:06	2	20/4/2025
Ray Malcolm – Moon Over Memphis	2025	10:11	0
Ollie Austin – Radio Lover		10:15	7	11/8/2023
Old Time Concert Hall: George Bruns & His Rag A Muffins – Any Rags		10:20	0
By Request Today: Johnny Horton – Whispering Pines		10:25	4	14/3/2025
Dawn Rix- Broken Pieces	2025	10:28	0
Ray Conniff & His Orchestra – Volver Volver		10:34	0
Barry Thornton – On The Inside		10:37	3	10/7/2020
Noelene Batley – Little Treasure From Japan	1964	10:42	1	23/9/2022
Rick Gay – This Precious World	2025	10:44	0
Lesley Gore – Treat Me Like A Lady	1966	10:49	1	12/8/2016
Peter Foldy – Bondi Junction		10:54	5	17/11/2024
Alice Benfer – Old Felt Hat	2024	10:57	4	12/5/2024
Two of a Kind – I Love You To The Moon And Back	2025	11:05	2	20/4/2025
New Classic Singers – Monday Monday		11:10	0
Pete King Orchestra & Chorus – Dream A Little Dream		11:12	1	3/8/2012
Andy Martin – River In The Rain	2025	11:16	0
Backtrack: Shavonne Aliphon – The Girl I Used To Be	2017	11:22	1	4/6/2017
Limahl – Never Ending Story	1988	11:28	6	15/1/2021
James Last & His Orchestra – Take Me Home Country Roads		11:34	0
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Lucille Starr – Wooden Heart	1965	11:38	2	11/5/2018
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Little Patti – Pushing A Good Thing Too Far	1965	11:41	19	12/1/2024
HAZEL & The Thief – Willing To Try	2025	11:46	0		AUMEV 2537170
Garry Carson Jones – Walk On By	2025	11:49	0		AUGGJ 1600055
Frank Ifield – Please	1963	11:54	6	12/1/2024

2 MAY IN HISTORY:

EVENTS ON THIS DAY

1952  London, England  –  The world’s first passenger jet service, which used De Havilland Comet airliners, was commenced by B.O.A.C. (British Overseas Airways Corporation) between London and Johannesburg. 

1963  Port Melbourne, Victoria – The first Japanese car to be built in Australia rolled off the assembly line at Australian Motor Industries Ltd.  The car was the Toyota Tiara, which was to be sold in sedan, station wagon and utility variants.

1982 In the Falklands War, the British nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror sank the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano, with the loss of 323 lives, just over half the total Argentine military deaths in the war.  During the following days, 772 men who had abandoned ship were rescued.
General Belgrano was previously USS Phoenix, the only vessel to survive the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour without damage.  It had been sold to Argentina in 1951.

BORN

1863 Liverpool, Lancashire, England – Frank Hornby, businessman, politician, and inventor of Meccano and Hornby model trains.   Died 1936.

1892 Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland) – Baron Manfred von Richtofen, German World War 1 fighter pilot ace known as the Red Baron, credited with 80 air combat victories, shot down and killed in 1918 by Australian ground fire, after he was attacked by a Canadian aircraft..

1946 London, England – David Suchet, English actor famed for his role as Agatha Christie’s great detective Hercule Poirot, in the long-running TV drama series Poirot. Turns 79.

1936 Madras (now Chennai), India  – Arnold George Dorsey  alias Engelbert Humperdinck, English singer who became famous during the 60s and 70s after adopting the name of the famous German opera composer as his own stage name.   Turns 89.

1946  New York, U.S.A. – Lesley Sue Goldstein alias Lesley Gore, singer-songwriter best known for her 1963 hit It’s My Party, which she recorded at the age of 16. She became one of the most recognized teen singers of the 1960s. Died 2015.

Valley Sunrise Edition 831
0600 ~ 0900 AEDT

In this edition, selections from the Top 40 charts of this week in 1971; easy listening from indie artists; and as usual, the programme is open for easy-listening requests.

Today’s photo – In Mt Field National Park, a recent view of the fagus, an ancient deciduous native species which dates over 170 million years to the era of Gondwanaland.

In Tasmania, it occurs only in the more remote areas of Mt Field National Park, the Cradle Mountain/Lake St Clair National Park and the South West World Heritage Area.

Photo: Ilka Munter

Today’s Playlist:

TRACK	RELEASE YEAR	TIME	PREVIOUS PLAYS	LAST PLAYED	ISRC
Human Nature – Baby I Need Your Loving		06:06	0
Charting this day 1971 Lynn Anderson – Rose Garden	1971	06:11	13	30/7/2023
Charting this day 1971 John Paul Joans – Man From Nazareth	1971	06:14	1	15/4/2022
Rosalind Clare & Glen Flynn – Heaven Only Knows	2025	06:19	0
Peter Stefanson – In Our Childhood Days	2025	06:23	0
By Request Today: Beatles – Blackbird		06:28	2	11/8/2024
George Melachrino Strings – Uma Casa Portuguesa		06:32	0
Larissa Tormey – Coming Back To Life	2025	06:36	0		IEJHJ 2500002
Backtrack: Upstairs – Seven Spanish Angels	2021	06:39	3	30/4/2021
Richard Mulligan – Just Me and My Old Beat-Up Guitar	2025	06:44	0
Brian Letton – The Digger And His Dog		06:51	3	6/4/2025
Patsy Cline – Back In Baby’s Arms		06:55	2	20/6/2014
Shadows – Geronimo	1963	06:57	21	12/12/2023
Lonneke & Michl – Schmetterlinge	2025	07:05	1	21/3/2025
Charting this day 1971 Middle Of The Road – Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep	1971	07:11	4	8/7/2022
Charting this day 1971 Kamahl – All I Have To Offer You	1971	07:14	5	18/8/2019
By Request Today: Kathy Carver – Crazy		07:19	0
By Request Today: Tom Jones – The Green Green Grass of Home	1967	07:22	11	2/7/2023
Christa Fartek – Deep In My Heart	2025	07:27	1	18/4/2025
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra – Hooked On Mozart		07:33	4	27/12/2024
Howie Bros – Home I’ll Be	2025	07:39	0
Julie Anthony – The Only Way Out		07:43	6	21/1/2024
Backtrack: Graeme Clarke – Baby With No Name (Remix)	2025	07:50	0
By Request Today: Neil Young – Harvest Moon		07:56	10	24/1/2025
Jeff Orson – Missing You Soon	2025	08:06	4	11/4/2025	QT3TB 2425080
Charting this day 1971 Dermot Henry & Virginians – If Those Lips Could Only Speak	1971	08:13	4	18/5/2021
Charting this day 1971 Judy Collins – Amazing Grace	1971	08:16	6	10/1/2021
Highway 95 – She Believes	2025	08:24	2	16/2/2025	AUL0G 2400013
Jimmy Little – Just Walking In The Rain		08:26	0
101 Strings Orchestra – La Paloma		08:32	0
Judy Stone – I’ll Get By As Long As I Have You		08:37	0
Bill Quinn – If I Only Had You		08:40	2	28/7/2023
Paul Ricketts – Barefoot On The Dirt		08:43	0		AUZY4 2400032
Backtrack: Richard Mulligan – Good Luck Charm		08:47	7	1/12/2024
Ashley Cole – That’s The Aussie Way		08:52	0

27 APRIL IN HISTORY:

EVENTS

1869  A submarine  telegraph line between Melbourne and Tasmania opened.

1929  Tanami Desert, West Australia – The aircraft Kookaburra and its crew, Keith Anderson and H Hitchcock, who had been reported missing while searching for another aircraft, was found.  Kookaburra had made a forced landing due to engine trouble.  When it was unable to take off again after repairs were carried out, Anderson and Hitchcock had perished.

1937  San Francisco, California, U.S.A. – The Golden Gate bridge, which at 1,280 metres was then the world’s longest suspension bridge, was opened.

1981  Wellington, New Zealand – A Royal Commission found that an error in Air New Zealand’s flight operations computer programming put a DC 10 aircraft on a direct collision course with Mt Erebus in Antarctica.

2002  The last successful telemetry was received from the NASA space probe Pioneer 10, which is heading in the direction of the star Aldebaran, ETA in about 2 million years.  Aldebaran is a giant orange star 65 light years distant, some 44 times the diameter of our Sun and over 420 times brighter.

BORN

1959   Bellshill, North Lanarkshire, Scotland – Sheena Shirley Orr alias Sheena Easton, Scottish singer and actress.  In 1980, her first two singles, Modern Girl and 9 to 5 both entered the UK Top Ten, making her the first English female artist to have singles concurrently in the same charts.  She has sold over 20 million records worldwide.

DIED

2007  New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A. – Al Hirt, trumpeter and bandleader known for his 1964 hits, including Java, Sugar Lips and Fancy Pants  (Aged 76)

FRIDAY MORNING RADIO, Edition 466, 9.00 ~ Midday AEST

Easy listening, memories and new releases through the morning, with an emphasis on ANZAC Day, on the Derwent Valley’s own radio station.

Unfortunately, the programme was seriously disrupted between 10:45 and 11:25 by a computer crash. There was a time in radio when such an event was unheard of; in those days, music was played from turntables or cartridges.

Computerisation has rendered those practices obsolete and it is generally highly reliable, but, if the computer decides to give trouble, the programme presenter has a serious problem.

Today’s issues were rectified by our technical guru, Roz Chapman.

Photo:  The New Norfolk Cenotaph, after a previous ANZAC Day. Taken by Yours Truly.

Today’s Playlist

TRACK	RELEASE YEAR	PLAY TIME	PREVIOUS PLAYS	LAST PLAYED	ISRC
John Williamson – Diggers Of The ANZAC		09:05	3	14/8/2020
Human Nature – Reach Out I’ll Be There		09:11	0
Jade Hurley – Do What You Do Do Well		09:14	1	29/11/2019
Engelbert Humperdinck – Ten Guitars	1967	09:18	1	9/4/2021
Backtrack: Danny Stain – I Still Miss Someone	2017	09:21	4	12/4/2020
Aaron Partridge & Steve Apirana – You Can Call On Him	2025	09:27	1	30/3/2025	AUE9B 2500001
Frank Mills & His Orchestra – Memories (From Cats)		09:32	1	29/3/2024
By Request Today: S/Sgt Barry Sadler – The Ballad of the Green Berets	1966	09:36	3	4/3/2016
Marian Burns – Beautiful Soldier	2025	09:38	0
Peggy Gilchrist – Under Burdekin Skies	2025	09:44	3	13/4/2025
By Request Today: Ken Lindsay – Gunner The Kelpie Hero	2025	09:48	5	10/11/2024	AUZY4 2400016
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Unit 4 Plus 2 – Concrete And Clay	1965	09:55	3	19/8/2022
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Beatles – Ticket To Ride	1965	09:57	13	19/8/2022
Lee Kernaghan – Spirit of the ANZACs		10:06	7	25/4/2021
By Request Today: Warren Kearney – The Hill	2025	10:12	5	16/6/2024	AU2KV 2300005
Colin Gordon-Farleigh – More Than Sorry	2025	10:16	0		QMWF2 2000318
Dianne Coombes – Getting On With Getting Over You	2025	10:19	0		AUCJD 2300025
Old Time Concert Hall: Bill Cole & Thurl Ravenscroft with Heinie Beau & His Orchestra – The Man That Broke The Bank At Monte Carlo		10:23	0
Joy Adams & Gary R Farmer – Be A Little Bit Bolder	2025	10:28	2	13/4/2025	NZRI1 2500760
Percy Faith & His Orchestra – Can’t Get Used to Losing You		10:33	1	8/4/2022
Kathy Carver – Yellow Moon On The Swan	2025	10:36	0
Backtrack: Neil Anthony – April The 25th	2021	10:40	2	9/7/2021
Al Caiola – A Swinging Safari		11:04	0
Richard Clayderman – All The Love In The World		11:07	0
London Symphony Orchestra – Don’t Cry For Me Argentina		11:15	1	26/7/2024
Ferrante & Teicher – Canadian Sunset		11:20	3	15/1/2021
Acker Bilk – Cielito Lindo		11:25	2	29/9/2024
J R Williams – Australia	1961	11:28	0		QM6MZ 2524694
Anthony Baxter – The Jumping Jackaroo	2025	11:32	0
ABBA – Happy Hawaii	1976	11:38	2	9/8/2020
Harry Belafonte – Land Of The Sea And Sun		11:45	0
Slim Dusty – Medley~Keep The Home Fires Burning~Pack Up Your Troubles~A Brown Slouch Hat~It’s A Long Way To Tipperary		11:48	0
Rae Leigh – Country Pride	2025	11:52	0
Richard Porteous – The Unknown Soldier	2022	11:56	3	19/8/2022

25 APRIL IN HISTORY:

EVENTS ON THIS DAY

1915  The Battle of Gallipoli began on the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula when Australian, British, French and New Zealand troops landed at Anzac Cove and Cape Helles.  Fighting continued until January 1916, when the land campaign was abandoned with around 250,000 casualties on each side.

1925  Canberra, Australian Capital Territory – The Australian War Memorial was founded.

1955 The St Lawrence Seaway, linking the North American Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean, officially opened to shipping.

1967 A wintry cold snap gripped Southern Tasmania, whilst sweating fire fighters battled to save properties in St Helens from a bushfire.

1983  The space probe Pioneer 10, the first to study the planet Jupiter, passed beyond the orbit of Pluto.  It is heading in the direction of the star Aldebaran, ETA in about 2 million years.  The last contact with the probe was in 2003, when it was 12 billion kilometers from Earth.  A final attempt to contact Pioneer 10 in 2006 failed..

2005 Amagasak, Osaka, Japan – A seven-car commuter train derailed, causing the front two carriages to hit an apartment building.  Of about 700 passengers, 106, plus the driver, died and 555 were injured.

The speed limit at the location was 70 km/h, but investigators estimated the train would have had to be doing about 140 km/h to spontaneously derail.

BORN

1917 Newport News, Virginia, U.S.A. – Ella Jane Fitzgerald, jazz singer often referred to as the Queen of Jazz.  (d. 1996)

1933 Baltimore, Ohio, U.S.A.  – Jerome Leiber, BKA Jerry Lieber, songwriter and record producer who penned numerous hit records, including famous tracks such as Hound Dog, Jailhouse Rock, Kansas City, Stand By Me and Loving You.  (d. 2011)

1945  Gothenburg, Sweden – Björn Kristian Ulvaeus, songwriter, composer, musician, writer, producer, a former member of the Swedish musical group ABBA.

DIED

1995 Rancho Mirage, California, U.S.A.  – Virginia Katherine McMath alias Ginger Rogers, actress, dancer, and singer who appeared in film, stage, radio, and television  (Aged 83)

2023 New York, U.S.A. – Harold George Bellanfanti Jr, alias Harry Belafonte, musician, singer, actor, and social activist. One of the most successful pop singers in history, Belafonte has been dubbed the “King of Calypso”  He was perhaps best known for his recording of The Banana Boat Song  (Aged 96)

Valley Sunrise Edition 830
0600 ~ 0900 AEDT

I invite you to start Sunday, my way on TYGA-FM 98.9 and on-line at www.tygafm.org.au/listen-live/ for great music you won’t hear locally on mainstream radio.

Included today, chartbuster hits from this month in 1978

– Today’s photo: A recent view of Pioneer Avenue, New Norfolk.

Photo: Yours Truly

Today’s Playlist:

TRACK	RELEASE YEAR	TIME	PREVIOUS PLAYS	LAST PLAYED	ISRC
Clint Bradley – The Lightning Ride	2025	06:06	1	30/3/2025
Charting this day 1978 Baccara – Yes Sir I Can Boogie	1978	06:12	8	9/6/2024
Charting this day 1978 Carly Simon – Nobody Does it Better	1978	06:17	3	24/9/2023
Two of a Kind – I Love You To The Moon And Back	2025	06:21	1	11/4/2025
Damien Leith – If Tomorrow Never Comes		06:25	1	20/3/2015
Rachael Leahcar – La Vie En Rose	2012	06:27	0
Hank Levine & His Orchestra – Downtown		06:32	3	4/4/2025
Bette Midler – In My Life		06:35	2	2/4/2023
Backtrack: Graeme Clarke – Her Perfect Memory	2019	06:38	3	3/1/2020
Marti Webb – Always There (Howard’s Way)		06:42	4	12/9/2021
Howards Way was a BBC drama series, made in the 1980s, centred on the lives of wealthy people in a fictitious town in southern England.  The theme music was composed by Simon May and recorded by his orchestra.  A year later, lyrics were added, it was recorded by Marti Webb, and the single went to No 13 on the U K Charts.
Scott Rathman Jnr – Angel on the Hill	2025	06:48	1	16/3/2025
By Request Today: Cilla Black – You’re My World	1964	06:53	12	12/1/2025
Gunter Kallman Choir – The More I See You		06:58	6	9/12/2022
Sabrina Fallon – Eileen Og	2025	07:05	2	11/4/2025
Charting this day 1978 Leif Garrett – Runaround Sue	1978	07:12	6	13/9/2019
Charting this day 1978 Barry Manilow – Can’t Smile Without You	1978	07:14	7	4/3/2022
By Request Today: Nitty Gritty Dirt Band – Fishing In The Dark		07:19	1	22/10/2017
Seekers – One World Love		07:22	1	1/1/2023
Ollie Austin – The Streets Of London		07:26	2	28/7/2023
Manuel & The Music of the Mountains – Beyond The Mountains		07:32	2	29/5/2016
Ric Lucia – Sittin’ With Grandma On The Old Front Porch	2025	07:37	1	18/4/2025
Don Williams – I Believe In Love	1980	07:39	4	14/7/2023
Backtrack: Andrew McMurdie – Teenager in Love	2020	07:44	4	1/1/2023
Tommy Vlaeminck  – Bridge of Hope	2025	07:47	0
Ged Wilson – Promised Land	2025	07:54	1	30/3/2025
Lawrence Welk – Calcutta	1961	07:58	1	14/4/2024
Johnny Lee – My Baby Don’t Slow Dance	1983	08:05	0
Charting this day 1978 Samantha Sang – Emotions	1978	08:10	7	8/4/2022
Charting this day 1978 Billy Joel – Just the Way You Are	1978	08:14	2	27/1/2023
Steve Markwardt – The Great Divide	2025	08:21	0		QZW6A 2300136
Carol Markstrom – Spirit Buffalo	2025	08:25	1	30/3/2025
Johnny Tillotson – She Understands Me	1964	08:30	10	20/12/2024
Ray Conniff Orchestra – Say It With Music		08:35	0
Anne Murray – He Thinks I Still Care		08:39	5	27/10/2023
Backtrack: Dale Duncan – The ‘Slim Dusty’ Rose	2015	08:42	2	8/1/2017
Slim Dusty & His Bushlanders – Medley~Along The Road To Gundagai~I’m Going Back To Yarrawonga~The Man From The Never Never~That Old Bush Shanty of Mine		08:46	1	27/3/2020
Barbara Blevins – Let’s Build A Love	2025	08:49	1	18/4/2025
Shadows – Winchester Cathedral		08:53	3	15/5/2022

20 APRIL IN HISTORY:

BORN

1939   Jacksonville, Florida U.S.A. – Johnny Tillotson, singer and songwriter who enjoyed his greatest success in the early 60s, with several Top Ten hits, including Poetry In Motion and the self-penned  It Keeps Right On A-Hurtin’.   Died 2025.

1939  Adelaide, South Australia – Elspeth Ballantyne, actress who has appeared in numerous movies and television productions, including Bellbird, Blue Heelers, All Saints, Prisoner and Flying Doctors.

1941  Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. – Charles Patrick Ryan O’Neal, Jr. alias Ryan O’Neal, actor who came to prominence in the mid 1960s in the hit soap opera Peyton Place.

1956  Helensburgh, Scotland – Georgie Glen, actress best known for her role as Miss Higgins in the BBC drama series Call The Midwife.  She has also appeared in many other productions including The Bill, Jonathan Creek, Heartbeat, and Doc Martin.

EVENTS

1954  Darwin, Northern Territory – Northern Territory police disarmed two Soviet couriers who were escorting the wife of a defecting Russian embassy official back to Russia.  Edvokia Petrov’s rescue caused An international diplomatic incident known as the Petrov Affair..   

1972  Apollo 16, commanded by John Young, landed in the Descartes Highlands, on the Moon.  It was the fifth, and final in the Apollo programme to land, with the crew spending 71 hours on the lunar surface. 

1978  Near Murmansk, Russia – Korean Air Flight 902 violated Soviet airspace and allegedly failed to respond to Soviet interceptors.  Two passengers perished when Soviet aircraft opened fire, but the remaining 107 passengers and crew survived after the plane made an emergency landing on a frozen lake.

2010  Gulf of Mexico – An explosion on a drilling rig killed 11 workers, caused the largest oil spill in U.S. history, and the rig to sink.