Friday Morning Radio, Edition 386, 13 October 2023 Playlist:

Hour 1:

Sabrina Fallon – Waxies Dargle (2023)
Johnny Riley – Dirty Ol’ Day (2023)
Abby Grace – Dancing On The Line (2023)
Bobby Mackey – Anita You’re Dreaming (2023)
Graeme Connors – Can’t Tell You Any Other Way
Little Patti – I Don’t Want To Play House

Australian National Concert Orchestra – Till There Was You
Nana Mouskouri – A Place In My Heart (Nana Mouskouri born this day 1934 in Chania, Crete. Turns 89)
Paul Simon – You Can Call Me Al (1986) (Paul Simon born this day 1941 in Newark, New Jersey, U.S.A. Turns 82)
Rachael Leahcar – Shooting Star (2012)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Shadows – Shindig (1963)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Kathy Kirby – Dance On (1963)
By Request: Kenny Rogers – Lucille

Hour 2:

George Finizo – Teardrops (2023)
Kid Norkjen – Give Me Back The Good Old Feeling (2023)
Mexicans – Up Cherry Street
They Don’t Make Them Like This Anymore: Alma Cogan – Dreamboat (1955)
Gary Mangan – The Fields of Saskatchewan (2023)
Elisabeth Gray – Good Enough (2023)

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra – Any Dream Will Do
David Garrick – Dear Mrs Applebee (1966)
New Seekers – I’m A Train (1971)
Oliver – Good Morning Starshine (1968)
Lester Treuer & Shelly Jones Band – One Night At A Time (2023)
Lance Birrell – Aussie Medley (2023)

Hour 3:

Steve Sparrow – Big Old Land Australia (2023)
Peter Doyle – Plastic Dreams And Toy Balloons (1967) (Peter Doyle died this day 2001, Castlemaine, Victoria, aged 52.)
Jade Hurley & Pixie Jenkins – A Little Bit Country
Al Martino – Strangers In The Night (Al Martino died this day 2010, Springfield, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. aged 82.)
Melinda Hanssen – Dance To Country Music (2023)
Eric Bogle – Aussie Barbecue

Sandra Strating – Lass Es Einfach Liebe Sein (2023)
Robert Bentley & His Orchestra – With A Little Bit Of Luck
60 Year Diamond Classic: Caravelles – You Don’t Have To Be A Baby To Cry (1963)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Heinz – Just Like Eddie (1963)
Highway 95 – Save Me (2023)
Neil Anthony – Never Pass This Way Again (2023)
Racey – Some Girls (1979)

12 October 2023

Queenstown, Tasmania – And on a railway note, Abt No 2 has finally re-joined most of it’s sister locomotives after a major re-build.

Initially built in the 1890s, this engine was fortunate to have been preserved by the Tasmanian Transport Museum Society for many decades, after the Queenstown-Strahan
“Abt” railway closed in 1963.

This railway was constructed through extremely mountainous country in western Tasmania primarily to carry ore from the Mt Lyell mines to the port of Strahan for export.
There being no roads into that part of Tasmania, rail was the only way in – and out – of Queenstown until the early 1960s.

This railway features a rack section, with a pair of toothed rails laid between the main running rails. A pair of matching cogs beneath the Abt locomotives enable them to climb
and descend a pair of particularly steep gradients which would otherwise be impossible.

Five of these special locomotives were built and used by the former Mt Lyell Mining and Railway Company. Those numbered 1, 2, 3 and 5 survived into preservation.
No 4 was unlucky, and was scrapped around the time the “Abt” railway was dismantled, soon after it’s closure.

The railway formation was abandoned and left to the rainforest to reclaim. There was a proposal to convert it into a one-way tourist road, but that came to nothing.

During the 1980s, there were proposals to rebuild the railway exactly as it was; these were dismissed by the State Governments of the day until a Launceston entrepreneur gave it
his backing.

The railway was re-built using rails salvaged from the defunct Scottsdale – Herrick line, and three of the original steam locomotives were obtained, rebuilt and converted to
oil burners. Two diesel locomotives, which were also previously used on the “Abt” railway, were purchased back from the Zig Zag Railway in New South Wales.

Period-style carriages were constructed using underframes and bogies purchased from Tasrail. The originals are now in service on the Puffing Billy Railway in Victoria.

Tourist trains have been running on this line for many years and, now, all surviving Mt Lyell Mining and Railway Company locomotives are in the West Coast Wilderness
Railway fleet, to haul tourist trains along this very spectacular railway.

Valley Sunrise, Edition 750, 8 October 2023 Playlist:

Hour 1:

White Plains – My Baby Loves Loving (1970)
Russell Morris – Hot Love (1979)
Jade Hurley & Pixie Jenkins – A Little Bit Country
Victoria Eman – When Love Starts Talkin’ (2023)
Nick Berry – Heartbeat
(Born this day 1928 Heath End, Surrey, England – Walter Frederick George Williams, alias Bill Maynard, actor best known for his role as
Claude Jeremiah Greengrass in the popular TV series, Heartbeat. Died 2018.)
Susan Raye – L A International Airport (1971)
(Born this day 1944 Eugene, Oregon, U.S.A. – Susan Raye, singer remembered for this No 1 hit. Turns 79 today.)

Lynchburg & Weeping Willows – Together With You (2023)
Ron Christopher – All About The Song (2023)
Living Guitars – Temma Harbour
Johnny Preston – Running Bear (No 4 of the top 20 Billboard tracks 1960)
Will Ardell – Goodbye Lou (2023)
Joy Adams & Gary R Farmer – The Point Of No Return (2023)

Hour 2:

Lance Birrell – Aussie Medley (2023)
By Request: Michael Crawford – On Eagles Wings
By Request: Bay City Rollers – I Only Want To Be With You
By Request: Owen Mac – Lucky Star
Patsy Cline – Life’s Railway To Heaven
By Request: James Blunt – You’re Beautiful

By Request: Buddy Williams & Ivy Somerfeld – Let’s Grow Old Together
Steve Sparrow – Big Old Land Australia (2023)
Mark Knopfler & Chet Atkins – Just One Time
Glen Miller & His Orchestra – Moonlight Serenade
Brian May & ABC Melbourne Showband – String of Pearls
Engelbert Humperdinck – This Is My Song

1 October 2023

The playlist for Valley Sunrise, Edition 749

Hour 1:

Fortunes – Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling (1971)
Col Millington – Travelling Man (2023)
Roy Orbison – Working For The Man (1962, re-released 1968)
Woodpickers – Love Lies Waiting (2023)
Stanley Holloway – Get Me To The Church On Time
(Stanley Holloway born this day Manor Park, London, England 1890 Died 1982)
Julie Andrews – A Spoonful Of Sugar
(Julie Andrews born this day Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England, 1935. Turning 88)

Abby Grace – Gold Is In The Muck (2023)
Engelbert Humperdinck – There’s A Kind Of Hush
Joe Loss & His Orchestra – El Bandolero
Billboard No 3 of 1960: Everly Brothers – Cathy’s Clown
Michael Farrell & Rosalind Clare – Time’s A-Wastin’ (2023)
Charlie Landsborough – Always
Gary Mangan – The Fields of Saskatchewan (2023)

Hour 2:

Bobbi Morgan – We’ll Sing In The Sunshine (1964)
By Request: Beatles – Mr Moonlight
By Request: Commodores – Three Times A Lady
Kathryn Turdak – Feel Alive (2023)
By Request: Box Car Willie – Have I Told You Lately That I Love You

Peggy Gilchrist – Hill of Tara (2023)
By Request: Celine Dion – The Power of Love
Michael Buble – All I Do Is Dream Of You
Oliver – Good Morning Starshine (1968)
Brian May & ABC Melbourne Showband – String of Pearls
Dale Duncan – Diamantina Coming Down (2018)

Coming Up in Friday Morning Radio this week:
Newies from Victoria Eman (Netherlands) and Joy Adams (New Zealand);
Another four 60 Year Diamond Classics;
Plus easy-listening tracks from Jade Hurley, Hobart’s Glenn Long, and many more.

That’s at 9 a.m. this Friday on TYGA-FM 98.9, streaming at www.tygafm.org.au/listen-live/

VALLEY SUNRISE

Playlist, 24 September 2023

Hour 1: 7 a.m. ~ 8 a.m.

Ray Charles – Hit The Road Jack (1961)
The 23s – My Kind Of Girl (2023)
Toni West – You’re My Answer (2023)
Carly Simon – Nobody Does It Better (1977)
Anthony Newley – Do You Mind (1960)
Born this day, 1929 Hackney, London, England – Anthony Newley, actor, singer, songwriter. Died 1999.
Ventures – Walk Don’t Run (1960)
Born this day, 1933 Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A. – Mel Taylor, drummer for the Ventures. Died 1996.
Enda Kenny – Easter Island

Michelle Little – Crazy (2023)
Kermit – It’s Not Easy Being Green
Born this day, Greenville, Mississippi, U.S.A. – Jim Henson, creator of the Muppets. Died 1990.
Gerry & Pacemakers – Girl On A Swing (1966)
Born this day 1942, Toxteth, Liverpool, England – Gerry Marsden, lead singer for Gerry & the Pacemakers. Died 2021.
Billboard Top 20, 1960: No 2: Jim Reeves – He’ll Have To Go
Billy Vaughn & His Orchestra – Alfie
Charlie Landsborough – I Say You
Percy Faith & His Orchestra – Go Go Pogo (1959)

Hour 2: 8 a.m. ~ 9 a.m.

Noel Flynn – One Day At A Time (2023)
By Request: Beach Boys – God Only Knows
By Request: Roy Orbison – Cry Softly Lonely One
By Request: ABBA – Mamma Mia
Penny Davies & Roger Ilott – Riding On The Fruit Train
By Request: Patrick O’Hagan – When Irish Eyes Are Smiling

By Request: U 2 – Beautiful Day
Anita Spring – I Honestly Love You (2023)
Apollo 100 – Telstar (1972)
Diana Ross & Supremes – Love Is Like A Heatwave (1967)
Dean Martin – Hey Brother Pour The Wine (1953)
Emma Jene – Ring of Fire (2015)

Included in each of my programmes is a brief rundown on which planets are visible, and when – assuming skies are clear at night.

When I left home for the studio early this morning, the coming dawn was just starting to lighten the eastern sky. Shining brightly in the east was Venus, a magnificent sight.

By turning to the left, high in the north-west was Jupiter, also conspicuous by it’s brilliance.

Saturn is also visible most of the night, but it sets around 4.50 a.m.