FRIDAY MORNING RADIO, Edition 480, 9.00 ~ Midday AEST

Easy listening, retro and recent releases not to be heard on mainstream radio throughout the morning, on the Derwent Valley’s own radio station.

BORN this day in 1899, in Cedar Valley, Missouri, U.S.A., Jimmy Angel, the aviator after whom the world’s tallest waterfall, the 979 metre Angel Falls in Venezuela, is named.
This waterfall is in a remote area, and was unknown outside the country until Angel flew past them in 1933.
He returned on 9^th October 1937 with his wife and two other men, and, upon landing on the plateau near the top of the falls, their plane became bogged in soft mud and was unable to take off.
The party took 11 days to walk to the nearest settlement, but the aircraft remained in situ until 1970, when it was disassembled, air-lifted down by helicopters, and reassembled in an aviation museum in Maracay.  The plane is now exhibited in front of Ciudad Bolivar airport in Venezuela.   Jimmie Angel died in 1956.  In 1960 his ashes were scattered over Angel Falls, in keeping with his wishes.

DIED this day in 1903 in Terry, South Dakota, U.S.A. – Martha Jane Canary, alias Calamity Jane, American frontierswoman.  The source of her nickname is uncertain, but she may have acquired it as a result of her warnings to men that to offend her was to “court calamity.”
She was known by that nickname by 1876, because her arrival on the Wild Bill Hickok wagon train was reported in the Deadwood newspaper, the Black Hills Pioneer, on July 15 of that year with the headline, “Calamity Jane has arrived!” She was aged about 51.

DIED this day in 2015 in Estepona, Malaga, Spain – Priscilla White alias Cilla Black, singer, actress, media personality and popular light entertainer since 1963. She is most famous worldwide for her singles Anyone Who Had A Heart, You’re My World and Alfie.  She was aged 72.

►IN MOTORING, on this day;
In 1928 in Coventry, England – The Morris Motor Company launched the first Morris Minor car.

In 1941 The first Jeep was produced by Willys-Overland Motor Company, making it the first purpose-built, four-wheel drive off-road vehicle.  It inspired similar designs by other manufacturers, such as the Landrover, the next-oldest four-wheel drive.

In 1962 in Perth, West Australia – The city’s Lord Mayor complained that the 1956 Daimler car in which he would ride to the Commonwealth Games leaked, and the doors had a tendency to fly open.  The vehicle had been specially built with a wooden frame, which had warped. 

Today’s photo – The Derwent Valley, from a point beside the Lyell Highway between New Norfolk and Granton.

Today’s Playlist

TRACK	RELEASE YEAR	PLAY TIME	PREVIOUS PLAYS	LAST PLAYED	ISRC
Hazel & The Thief – I Call This Life	2025	09:05	1	27/6/2025
Kumpu Brothers with Justine Pelmelay – Kumpu Feeling	2025	09:11	1	20/7/2025
John Glenn – Forgettin’ ‘Bout You	2025	09:14	1	27/6/2025
70s Classic   Ray Stevens – Ahab the Arab	1974	09:18	3	24/1/2020
Ray Malcolm – Help Me Make It Through The Night	2025	09:21	2	27/7/2025
Reg Poole – I Love This Land Australia	1988	09:25	4	26/1/2025
Horst Jankowski Orchestra & Chorus – Nola		09:32	3	11/9/2020
Andy Williams – The Way We Were		09:35	0
Richard Mulligan – Just Me and My Old Beat-Up Guitar	2025	09:41	0
By Request    Racey – Some Girls	1979	09:45	8	13/10/2023
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Easybeats – She’s So Fine	1965	09:49	3	22/9/2017
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Eydie Gorme – Just Dance On By	1965	09:52	3	6/11/2020
Redgum – Spirit of the Land		09:55	5	15/9/2024
Ron Callaghan – Verandah	2025	10:05	1	13/6/2025	AU3PV 2400004
Brendan Radford – They Don’t Flick The Finger In The Outback Anymore	2025	10:11	0		AUK31 2500008
Brendan McMahon & Sally Jane – Let’s Get Crazy	2025	10:14	1	27/6/2025	AUZFL 2500002
By Request    Cascades – Rhythm Of The Rain	1963	10:20	13	31/3/2023
Vintage Vinyl    Danny Kaye – Thumbelina	1952	10:24	0
Doris Day – The Black Hills of Dakota	1953	10:28	5	9/6/2024
Gheorghe Zamfir – The Floral Dance		10:33	1	23/8/2015
Highway 95 – Love Like Me	2025	10:37	6	27/7/2025
Johnny Cash – One Piece At A Time	1976	10:42	3	19/1/2025
Foster & Allen – The Moon The Stars And Me		10:48	0
Patsy & Dave – When I’m Gone	2025	10:53	0
70s Classic    Ringo Starr – You’re Sixteen	1974	10:57	3	10/7/2022
Stevie Wonder – Part-Time Lover	1985	11:05	0
Hans Krakou -The Way It Used To Be	2025	11:11	3	11/7/2025
Bee Gees – Love So Right		11:14	0
Cilla Black – Step Inside Love	1968	11:19	4	12/10/2018
Vintage Vinyl    Ritchie Valens – Donna	1959	11:22	3	14/7/2023
Jim Reeves – Welcome To My World		11:25	5	3/4/2022
European Show Band – Red Roses For A Blue Lady		11:33	3	24/5/2024
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Kini Quartet – Under The Sun	1965	11:35	3	22/11/2020
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Shadows – Stingray	1965	11:39	4	26/11/2015
Graeme Clarke – How Long Before The Rain Sets In	2025	11:42	2	27/7/2025
Allan Caswell – What Happened To Love		11:46	3	20/7/2025
Kym Cormack – Aotearoa New Zealand	2024	11:53	4	17/5/2024

Valley Sunrise Edition 844
0600 ~ 0900 AEST

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

Having a birthday today, Roberta Lee Streeter alias Bobbie Gentry. She was born in 1942, in Chickasaw County, Mississippi, U.S.A. and became a singer-songwriter, noted as one of the first female country artists to write and produce her own material.
She had major hits in the 1960s with Ode To Billie Joe, Louisiana Man, I’ll Never Fall In Love Again and, dueting with Glen Campbell, All I Have To Do Is Dream.
Bobbie Gentry, turns 83 today.

And died this day in 2012, at the age of 68, on the Isle of Wight, England, Geoffrey Hughes, the actor best known as Onslow in the television sitcom Keeping Up Appearances, and as Vernon Scripps in the drama series Heartbeat.  

Died this day in 2022, in London, England at the age of 88, Dion O’Brien alias Tom Springfield, singer, songwriter and member of the Springfields pop group of the early 60s before becoming a record producer and songwriter for the Seekers.
He wrote many of the Seekers’ major hits – I’ll Never Find Another You, A World Of Our Own, The Carnival Is Over and Walk with Me, and co-wrote Georgy Girl with Jim Dale.

In events on this day, in 1949 the world’s first jet-powered airliner, the de Havilland Comet, made it’s first flight.
Forward to 1953 and on this day the United States, the Peoples’ Republic of China, North Korea, and South Korea signed an armistice agreement at the Edwards Air Force Base in California, to bring an end to combat in the Korean War.   Of the 2 million dead, 258 Australians were killed in action and 4 were missing, believed dead.
Major disruption on this day in 1964 when Queen Victoria Street in London, England, was evacuated and closed after an unexploded World War 2 German bomb was found between Charing Cross and Aldgate railway stations.
Soon after its discovery, a truck fell into the excavation and landed on the bomb, upside down.  It was eventually removed for safe disposal  

Today’s photo, taken by Yours Truly, is of a disused aqueduct, formerly part of Hobart’s water supply system. It is hidden in a shady gully in Fern Tree, in the foothills of Mt Wellington.

Today’s playlist:

TRACK	RELEASE YEAR	TIME	PREVIOUS PLAYS	LAST PLAYED	ISRC
Jim Reeves & Patsy Cline – The Wayward Wind		06:08	6	10/10/2024
Charting this day 1977 Little River Band – Help Is On Its Way	1977	06:11	9	2/12/2022
Charting this day 1977 Dr Hook & Medicine Show – Walk Right In	1977	06:15	3	25/7/2025
Cat Lion – Cause Memories They Last	2025	06:19	0
Ray Malcolm – Help Me Make It Through The Night	2025	06:22	1	18/7/2025
Bobbie Gentry & Glen Campbell – All I Have To Do Is Dream	1970	06:26	9	23/3/2025
Martin Bottcher & His Orchestra – Moonlight Guitar		06:32	0
Andy Penkow – Visiting Hours	2025	06:35	0
Birdie Nichols – Golden Fields of the Sun	2025	06:39	1	25/7/2025
Vintage Vinyl    Big Bopper – Chantilly Lace	1959	06:45	2	12/6/2016
Engelbert Humperdinck – Stardust		06:50	0
John Williamson – Cootamundra Wattle		06:54	25	2/6/2024
Peter Salata – El Toro	2025	07:05	0
Charting this day 1977 Boz Scaggs – Lido Shuffle	1977	07:10	8	22/6/2018
Charting this day 1977 Peter Allen – I Go To Rio	1977	07:14	10	22/7/2022
By Request: Dean Martin – In The Chapel In The Moonlight	1967	07:19	6	10/11/2023
Ray Conniff Singers – It’s Impossible		07:22	0
Seekers – Georgy Girl	1967	07:26	17	3/1/2025
Rondo Veneziano – Bettina		07:30	0
Joy Adams – My Time To Shine	2025	07:34	1	25/7/2025
Graeme Clarke – How Long Before The Rain Sets In	2025	07:38	1	18/7/2025
Vintage Vinyl    Alma Cogan – You Me And Us	1957	07:43	8	19/5/2023
By Request: Danny Stain – Folsom Prison	2017	07:45	2	26/11/2017
Victoria Eman – How Does She Do It	2025	07:51	1	18/7/2025	NLJ9A 2500002
Bernie Grass – Rhythm Of The Rail	202	07:55	5	17/11/2023
Allan Caswell & Lindsay Waddington – Always Ride A Train	2025	08:05	3	18/7/2025	AUZY4 250002
Johnny Horton – Whispering Pines		08:10	5	2/5/2025
Charting this day 1977 Bill Conti – Gonna Fly Now	1977	08:13	2	16/7/2023
Charting this day 1977 Marcia Hines – What I Did For Love	1977	08:16	9	2/10/2022
Highway 95 – Love Like Me	2025	08:22	5	25/7/2025
Geoff Williams – An Old Guitar	2025	08:25	0		AUEN0 2500339
Lawrence Welk – Blue Velvet		08:29	2	12/4/2024
Bert Kaempfert & His Orchestra – Twilight		08:35	0
Cheryl Hann-Woodlock – Sweet Talk	2025	08:40	0
Max Bygraves – Paper Roses + Welcome Home		08:44	0
Vintage Vinyl    Al Martino – Now	1958	08:49	0
Terry Bennetts – Slab Hut Gully	2025	08:53	1	11/7/2025

FRIDAY MORNING RADIO, Edition 479, 9.00 ~ Midday AEST

Easy listening, retro and recent releases not heard on mainstream radio throughout the morning, on the Derwent Valley’s own radio station.

Today’s photo – A view of the Derwent Valley, from a train crossing No.1 bridge.

Today’s Playlist

TRACK	RELEASE YEAR	PLAY TIME	PREVIOUS PLAYS	LAST PLAYED	ISRC
Renée Therése – You Problem	2025	09:05	1	13/7/2025
Joy Adams – My Time To Shine	2025	09:12	0
Glen Campbell – Galveston	1969	09:15	7	21/11/2021
70s Classic   Hank B Marvin – Sacha	1970	09:19	17	5/1/2025
Che Orton – I’ll Never Get The Chance	2025	09:22	1	6/7/2025
Patti Morgan – The Old Condamine	2025	09:29	1	18/7/2025	AUEN0 2500337
Peter Weekers – El Condor Pasa		09:33	0
Glen Flynn – Until You Have Walked in My Shoes		09:36	2	6/7/2025
Daniel O’Donnell – For The Good Times		09:42	0
Kathy Carver – Crazy		09:46	1	27/4/2025
By Request    Patsy Cline – Tra La La La Triangle	1963	09:51	4	17/2/2023
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Robert Goulet – Summer Sounds	1965	09:54	9	4/9/2020
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Billy Thorpe & Aztecs – Funny Face	1965	09:56	4	20/6/2025
Birdie Nichols – Golden Fields of the Sun	2025	10:05	0
Matt Scullion – Play It By Beer	2025	10:11	0		AUYPX 2500003
Terry Lockley – The Local	2025	10:14	2	11/7/2025
By Request    Natascha Dommeck – Wir sind wie Tag und Nacht		10:19	0
Vintage Vinyl    Ralph Marterie & His Orchestra – Popcorn	1958	10:23	1	25/9/2015
Andy Williams – The Wonderful World Of The Young		10:27	0
Rondo Veneziano – Armonie		10:32	0
Nana Mouskouri – The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face		10:34	0
Seekers – I Am Australian		10:38	9	26/1/2025
Foster & Allen – The Moon The Stars And Me		10:44	0
Charlie Rich – The Most Beautiful Girl	1974	10:49	5	17/11/2023
70s Classic    Roy Orbison – Penny Arcade	1970	10:53	7	5/1/2025
Dr Hook – Walk Right In	1970	10:56	1	13/7/2025
Sammie Soravia – I Wanna Be Just Like You	2025	11:05	1	13/7/2025
Hayden Bilingy – Bequia	2025	11:11	2	13/7/2025
Trinidad Steel Drum Band – Jamaica Farewell		11:13	2	5/7/2020
Ran Dels – Martian Hop	1963	11:18	9	8/9/2023
Vintage Vinyl    Vaughn Monroe – They Were Doin’ The Mambo	1954	11:25	1	3/4/2020
Owen Smith – Desert Blooming	2025	11:28	0
Orchester Hugo Strasser – Pariser Tango		11:35	0
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Peter & Gordon – To Know You Is To Love You	1965	11:38	2	20/7/2018
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Seekers – Morningtown Ride	1965	11:40	18	3/7/2022
Highway 95 – Love Like Me	2025	11:45	4	18/7/2025
Warwick & Young – I Dreamed Of You And I	2025	11:48	0
Anthony Snape & Mack Country – The Roustabout	2025	11:52	0		AUL9L 2500006

LOOKING at some notable events on 25 July, in AVIATION on this day in 1909 Louis Bleriot made the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine.  He flew from Sangatte near Calais, to Dover in 37 minutes.

And in 2000, Air France flight 4590, a Concorde supersonic passenger jet, tragically crashed just after takeoff in Paris.  All 109 aboard, and 4 people on the ground, perished.  Although this was the only fatal accident in the aircraft’s 27 year history, it led to the permanent retirement of all remaining Concorde airliners.

In 1956, in the Atlantic Ocean, 48 km south of Cape Cod, Massachusetts U.S.A.,  the Italian liner SS Andrea Doria collided with the liner MS Stockholm in heavy fog, and sank the next day.
Of a total of 1,706 passengers and crew, 1,660 were rescued, and there were 46 fatalities.  A disaster of the magnitude of the 1912 Titanic sinking was avoided by the efficiency of the crew, better communications and the swift response from other vessels.
MS Stockholm was repaired, and after extensive modifications and passing through several owners, was eventually renamed Astoria.  Following the bankruptcy of  it’s owners in 2020, she was sent for auction in Rotterdam, but attracted no bids.  Astoria was sold in June 2025, and  was to be towed to a shipbreakers yard in Belgium.

And BORN on this day in 1942 in Melbourne, Victoria, Bruce Woodley, singer-songwriter, guitarist, banjo and mandolin player, famous as a founding member of the Seekers.  He turns 83 today.

DIED on this day in 1995 in Hammond, Louisiana, U.S.A., Charlie Rich, rockabilly/jazz/country singer and musician known for his 1973 hits Behind Closed Doors and The Most Beautiful Girl.  Rich was aged 62.

Valley Sunrise Edition 843
0600 ~ 0900 AEST

Each hour in this edition, two chart-busters from the Top 40 charts of this week in 1975, recent tracks from indie artists and easy-listening music which you won’t hear on mainstream radio.

Today’s photo – Taken in the Derwent Valley earlier this year by Yours Truly.

TRACK	RELEASE YEAR	TIME	PREVIOUS PLAYS	LAST PLAYED	ISRC
Connie Kis Andersen – Whatcha Doin’	2025	06:06	0		AUKM3 2500004
Charting this day 1975 Pilot – January	1975	06:13	8	11/5/2025
Charting this day 1975 Freddy Fender – Before The Next Teardrop Falls	1975	06:17	12	11/5/2025
Phil Upchurch – You Can’t Sit Down	1961	06:20	0
Patsy Cline – True Love	1961	06:23	2	31/10/2014
Mike Sarne & Wendy Richard – Come Outside	1962	06:26	8	26/2/2023
By Request: Anne Murray – You Needed Me		06:29	5	8/6/2025
Lawrence Welk & His Orchestra – My Heart Cries for You		06:36	0
Engelbert Humperdinck & Beverley Knight – After The Lovin’		06:39	0
Lyndel Lucas – Red Dress	2025	06:43	0
Vintage Vinyl    Frankie Laine – Sixteen Tons	1956	06:49	2	26/5/2023
Foster & Allen – Wand’rin’ Star		06:54	1	30/6/2024
Dustin Lowe – Shake Your Copenhagen	2025	06:57	0		TCAJP 2529951
Kumpu Brothers with Justine Pelmelay – Kumpu Feeling	2025	07:05	0
Charting this day 1975 John Denver – Thank God I’m A Country Boy	1975	07:11	9	24/9/2021
Charting this day 1975 Neil Sedaka – The Queen Of 1964	1975	07:14	3	18/6/2021
By Request: Supremes – Baby Love	1967	07:20	15	8/11/2024
Odin Brennhaug – Yesterday’s Shore	2025	07:23	0
Roy Hamilton – Don’t Let Go	1958	07:28	3	16/4/2023
By Request: Connie Francis – Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool	1960	07:31	18	26/11/2023
Martin Bottcher & His Orchestra – Canzone D’Amore		07:35	1	4/2/2022
Andy Williams – Touch Me In The Morning		07:38	0
Allan Caswell – What Happened To Love		07:42	2	11/7/2025
Vintage Vinyl    Anthony Perkins – The Prettiest Girl In School	1958	07:47	6	1/3/2024
By Request: Elvis Presley – Way Down		07:52	4	16/2/2025
Warwick & Young – I Dream Of You And I	2025	07:55	0
Dean Perrett – Famous At Home	2025	08:05	2	18/7/2025	AUZY4 2500017
Charting this day 1975 Roger Whittaker – The Last Farewell	1975	08:11	11	20/8/2021
Charting this day 1975 Cal Smith – Country Bumpkin	1975	08:14	4	9/7/2021
Anne Murray – Both Sides Now		08:19	0
Randy C Moore – Cats In the Cradle	2025	08:22	1	6/7/2025
Al Hirt – Cotton Candy	1964	08:31	5	20/3/2015
Bert Kaempfert & His Orchestra – Strangers In The Night		08:36	4	30/6/2023
Gene Bradley Fisk – Underneath My Setting Sun	2025	08:41	4		QMBZ9 2511883
John Williamson – Prettiest Girl In The Kimberley		08:46	3	9/9/2022
Vintage Vinyl    Dicky Doo & Don’ts – Leave Me Alone	1958	08:50	1	18/6/2017
Lucinda Wilson – I’ll Be There	2025	08:54	0

BORN THIS DAY –

1918 Mart, Texas, USA, Cindy Walker, songwriter and singer, died 2006;

1919 Auckland, New Zealand, Edmund Hillary, one of the first men recorded to have reached the summit of Mt Everest;

1933 Happy, Texas, USA, Buddy Knox, op singer of the 1950s and 60s, died 1999;

1938 Doncaster, Yorkshire, England , Diana Rigg, actress whose last role was as Mrs Pumphrey in All Creatures Great And small, died 2020

1943 Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, England, Wendy Emerton, actress known as Miss Brahms in the sitcom Are You Being Served.  She died in 2009.

1953 Massachusetts USA, Marcia Hines, pop singer, turns 72

DIED THIS DAY –

1969 Da Nang, Vietnam, Cathy Wayne, 20 year old Australian pop singer, who was shot by a U S Marine while performing for Allied troops.

1969 New York USA – Roy Hamilton, 1950s pop singer, aged 40

2005 Redmond, Washington USA – James Doohan actor best known as Scotty in the television series Star Trek.  Aged 85.

EVENTS THIS DAY –

1969 The lunar module Eagle landed on the Moon’s surface and became the first manned craft to land on another celestial body.

1976 The Viking 1 space probe successfully landed on the planet Mars and returned the first close-up photographs of the planet’s surface.

1994 Scientists on Earth watched intently as Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, which had previously broken into more than 20 fragments, collided with the planet Jupiter.

FRIDAY MORNING RADIO, Edition 478, 9.00 ~ Midday AEST

Easy listening, retro and recent releases not heard on mainstream radio throughout the morning, on the Derwent Valley’s own radio station.

Today’s photo – The “Bridgewater Jerry” over the Derwent Valley, courtesy Lesley Southwell.

Today’s Playlist

TRACK	RELEASE YEAR	PLAY TIME	PREVIOUS PLAYS	LAST PLAYED	ISRC
Connie Francis – Drowning My Sorrows	1964	09:05	10	25/8/2023
Connie Francis – My Heart Has A Mind Of It’s Own	1963	09:07	8	7/1/2024
Keith Phillips – There Ain’t No Tomorrow	2025	09:13	0
Anna Vardy – I Ain’t Ready	2025	09:16	0
Andy Williams – Wrong For Each Other		09:20	0
Anne Murray & Glenn Campbell – Bring Back The Love		09:22	0
70s Classic   Petula Clark – For All We Know	1971	09:27	3	23/2/2024
Acker Bilk – Song For Guy		09:33	0
Kathy Carver – Someone Like You	2025	09:35	0		AU6Z2 2511102
Royal Guardsmen – The Airplane Song	1967	09:42	4	27/1/2019
Justin Standley – Borderline	2025	09:44	1	4/7/2025	AUVIE 2400005
By Request    R B Greaves – Take A Letter Maria	1969	09:49	4	26/6/2022
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Jay & Americans – Cara Mia	1965	09:54	7	30/12/2018
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Horst Jankowski – A Walk In The Black Forest	1965	09:56	15	12/12/2021
Allan Caswell & Lindsay Waddington – Always Ride A Train	2025	10:05	2	13/7/2025	AUZY4 2500021
Victoria Eman – How Does She Do It	2025	10:10	0		NLJ9A 2500002
Mike Wilkinson – Spirit Of The Drought	2025	10:13	3	13/7/2025
By Request    Hein Simons – Plaisir D’Amour		10:17	0
Vintage Vinyl   Four Aces – Green Door	1956	10:22	2	20/7/2014
Liv Maessen – Just A Little Lovin’	1970	10:25	0
Ray Monk Orchestra & Singers – If You Leave Me Now		10:28	0
Johnny Harris & His Orchestra – If I Only Had Time		10:32	0
Ray Malcolm – Help Me Make It Through The Night		10:35	0
Dion – Runaround Sue	1962	10:38	3	11/4/2021
Elvis Presley – Flaming Star	1961	10:42	2	13/7/2025
Bobby Fuller Four – I Fought The Law	1966	10:46	8	22/10/2023
70s Classic    Glen Campbell – Country Boy	1975	10:50	6	19/1/2025
Elisabeth Hope  – You Never Can Tell (C’est la Vie)	2025	10:52	1	13/7/2025
Patti Morgan – The Old Condamine	2025	10:57	0		AUEN0 2500337
Jade Hurley – Judy Judy Judy		11:05	4	5/1/2024
Slim Dusty – This Country of Mine		11:10	1	19/3/2023
Dean Perrett – Famous At Home		11:12	1	11/7/2025	AUZY4 2500017
Vangelis – Chariots Of Fire	1981	11:22	8	29/3/2024
Vintage Vinyl    Chordettes – Mr Sandman		11:25	3	9/9/2018
City Slickers – Painted Tainted Rose		11:27	1	25/8/2024
Francisco Cavez & His Orchestra – Desafinado		11:33	1	25/3/2021
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Billy J Kramer – Trains And Boats And Planes	1965	11:36	5	6/8/2021
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Vic Dana – Bring A Little Sunshine To My Heart	1965	11:38	9	21/8/2022
Graeme Clarke – How Long Before The Rain Sets In	2025	11:42	0
Dianne Coombes – Ripples On A Pond	2025	11:46	0		AUCJD 2300023
Highway 95 – Love Like Me	2025	11:51	3	13/7/2025	AUL0G 2400015
James Last Orchestra – A Summer Place		11:54	5	3/9/2023

BORN this day in 1939, in The Bronx, New York, U.S.A. – Dion Di Mucci, known professionally as Dion, singer-songwriter and one of the more popular rock and roll performers of the pre-Beatles era. He is best remembered for his 1961 singles, The Wanderer and Runaround Sue. Turns 86 today.

DIED this day in 1966 in Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. – Bobby Fuller, rock singer, songwriter and guitarist. He was found deceased inside a car, parked outside his apartment. There was no evidence of assault of any kind, so his death was ruled as accidental. Aged 23.

ON THIS DAY 1995, on the Caribbean island of Montserrat, the previously dormant Soufriere Hills volcano started a series of eruptions which continued until 2010. The island was devastated, with it’s capital, Plymouth, destroyed and numerous small villages abandoned.
Much of the population left the island and a large portion remains a declared exclusion zone.

Valley Sunrise Edition 842
0600 ~ 0900 AEST

Each hour in this edition, two chart-busters from the Top 40 charts of this week in 1973, recent tracks from indie artists and other easy-listening music, most of which you won’t hear on mainstream radio.

Today’s photo – Sunrise after a very rare overnight snowfall in an inner Hobart suburb, believed to be Lenah Valley. Taken in winter 1978 by Yours Truly.

TRACK	RELEASE YEAR	TIME	PREVIOUS PLAYS	LAST PLAYED	ISRC
Mike Wilkinson – Spirit Of The Drought	2025	06:06	2	4/7/2025
Charting this day 1973 Tony Orlando & Dawn – Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Old Oak Tree	1973	06:13	15	4/5/2025
Charting this day 1973 Maureen McGovern – The Morning After	1973	06:16	4	25/8/2023
John Williamson – The Shed		06:20	4	23/1/2022
Andrew Ryan – In The Warrego	2022	06:22	5	10/1/2025
Penny Davies & Roger Ilott – Hey Rain		06:28	4	20/8/2023
Gheorghe Zamfir – Elvira Madigan		06:34	2	4/11/2016
Mary Gantley & Dan Washburn – Promises	2025	06:39	0
Shaun Connery – We Were Meant To Be Lovers	2025	06:43	1	22/6/2025
Vintage Vinyl    Jackie Wilson – Reet Petite	1957	06:48	6	21/1/2024
Elvis Presley – Flaming Star	1961	06:52	1	27/4/2018
Elisabeth Hope – You Never Can Tell	2025	06:55	0
Shannagh – Patrick’s Reel		06:58	7	24/7/2020
Allan Caswell & Lindsay Waddington – Always Ride A Train	2025	07:05	1	4/7/2025	AUZY4 2500021
Charting this day 1973 Strawbs – Part Of The Union	1973	07:11	5	8/9/2023
Charting this day 1973 Max Bygraves – Any Dream Will Do	1973	07:14	12	1/9/2023
By Request: Dean Martin – Let The Good Times In	1967	07:19	4	27/9/2019
Jazz Kings – Ferry Cross The Mersey		07:23	3	9/2/2024
BBC Big Band – Snowfall		07:28	3	22/1/2017
Paul Bateman & His Orchestra – Don’t Worry Be Happy		07:33	0
Julie Anthony – Here I Go Again		07:37	7	11/3/2022
Mark Vincent – Forever and Ever		07:41	2	24/11/2023
Vintage Vinyl    Everly Brothers – Devoted To You	1958	07:45	4	9/9/2022
Sammie Soravia – I Wanna Be Just Like You	2025	07:48	0
Highway 95 – Love Like Me	2025	07:54	2	4/7/2025	AUL0G 2400015
By Request: Willie Nelson – On The Road Again	1980	07:57	14	20/10/2024
Shelly Jones Band – Defining Moments	2025	08:05	2	4/7/2025	AU3FS 2100016
Charting this day 1973 Col Joye – Heaven Is My Woman’s Love	1973	08:12	16	18/8/2023
Charting this day 1973 Jud Strunk – Daisy A Day	1973	08:15	11	1/9/2023
Human Nature – Stop! In The Name Of Love		08:18	0
Ol’ 55 – Raindrops	1980	08:21	8	5/5/2023
Hayden Bilingy – Bequia	2025	08:26	1	4/7/2025
Roberto Delgado & His Orchestra – Medley~Along The Sea-Addio-Little Ships Along The Beach		08:34	1	3/1/2016
Redgum – It Doesn’t Matter To Me	1985	08:37	4	30/12/2022
Chad Morgan – There’s No Night Out In The Jail		08:41	2	5/8/2016
Vintage Vinyl    Pat Boone – Love Letters In The Sand	1957	08:46	3	8/1/2023
Renée Therése – You Problem	2025	08:48	0
Marcella Tornabene – Summer Days	2022	08:524	9	9/3/2025

ON THIS DAY

1952 – Heavy rain throughout Tasmania caused flooding which closed the Lake and Bass Highways, while Western Junction and Cambridge aerodromes were closed, with incoming planes diverted to Devonport.

1954 – Hobart recorded the State’s lowest maximum, with 7 C.   The freezing temperatures extended into the highlands, with Lake Sorell being reported as being iced over.
New Norfolk was enveloped in heavy fog, with frost resembling snow covering large areas for the entire day.  Domestic water tanks and pipes were frozen.

FRIDAY MORNING RADIO, Edition 477, 9.00 ~ Midday AEST

Easy listening, retro and recent releases not heard on mainstream radio throughout the morning, on the Derwent Valley’s own radio station.

Today’s photo – November 2003, and the river ferry Cartela has just passed through the old rail-road bridge spanning the Derwent between Granton and Bridgewater, on a trip to New Norfolk.

A new road bridge opened beside the old bridge a few weeks ago, which was built during World War Two. The engineering effort involved in construction of the lift bridge is doubly impressive, given it’s heavy nature and the fact that most of the fittest men were enlisted in the armed forces.

Nevertheless, it is due for dismantling by the end of this year.

Today’s Playlist

TRACK	RELEASE YEAR	PLAY TIME	PREVIOUS PLAYS	LAST PLAYED	ISRC
Proclaimers – I’m On My Way	1988	09:05	12	2/12/2022
Phil Blundell – The Flower She Once Wore	2025	09:11	0
Hans Krakou -The Way It Used To Be	2025	09:15	2	6/7/2025
Rene de Roo – My Father Once Said	2025	09:19	0
Johnny Logan – What’s Another Year	1980	09:23	0
70s Classic   Leif Garrett – California Girls	1977	09:28	4	8/11/2024
Manuel & The Music Of The Mountains – Magic Fountain		09:32	3	12/11/2017
Ray Malcolm – Que Sera Sera	2024	09:34	4	25/10/2024
Webb Brothers – Purple Petrol Eater	1966	09:40	6	12/6/2022
Rodney Walker – The Crow Flying Backwards	2025	09:44	1	29/6/2025	AUEN0 2500336
By Request   Petula Clark – Sailor	1961	09:46	6	15/11/2024
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Kravats – Baby Let Me Take You Home	1965	09:51	4	21/4/2023
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Brendan Bowyer & The Royal Showband Waterford – The Hucklebuck	1965	09:53	14	3/4/2022
Johnny Devlin – Stomp The Tumbarumba	1962	09:56	1	1/2/2019
Caoimhe Murney – Scania 164	2025	10:05	5	4/7/2025
Tomas Jackman – Karma Chameleon	2025	10:10	1	20/6/2025
Kumpu Brothers with Justine Pelmelay – Kumpu Feeling	2025	10:14	0
By Request    Roger Whittaker – The Impossible Dream		10:19	0
Vintage Vinyl   Marty Robbins – Just Married	1958	10:22	10	10/6/2012
Connie Kis Andersen – Whatcha Doin’	2025	10:25	0		AUKM3 2500004
Tooter Boatman – When The Party’s Over		10:31	0
Simon May Orchestra – Howard’s Way		10:35	5	30/1/2022
Susan Boyle – Memory		10:38	1	3/9/2017
Dolly Parton – The Moon The Stars And Me		10:44	3	29/10/2023
Terry Lockley – The Local	2025	10:48	1	27/6/2025
70s Classic    Bob Marley & Wailers – One Love	1977	10:52	4	27/11/2022
By Request   Josh Turner – Your Man		10:55	4	10/11/2024
Dean Perrett – Famous At Home	2025	11:05	0		AUZY4 2500017
Slim Dusty & His Bushlanders – Click Go The Shears-The Overlander Trail-Waltzing Matilda		11:10	1	27/3/2020
Terry Bennetts – Slab Hut Gully	2025	11:13	0
Allan Caswell – What Happened To Love		11:18	1	27/6/2025
Vintage Vinyl    Johnny Cash – I Guess Things Happen That Way	1958	11:22	5	26/2/2023
Bill Goodall – The White Rabbit		11:24	4	26/1/2025
Neil Young – Harvest Moon		11:27	11	27/4/2025
Arthur Greenslade & His Orchestra – Stop In The Name Of Love		11:35	1	25/3/2018
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Al Martino – My Cherie	1965	11:39	2	11/3/2022
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Ned Miller – Whistle Walkin’ Home	1965	11:42	7	18/3/2022
Paul Norton – Stuck On You	1988	11:45	4	30/7/2023
James Lynas – Love Sunrise	2025	11:49	5	6/6/2025
Leslie Martin – Little Rock Getaway	2025	11:52	0

Valley Sunrise Edition 841
0600 ~ 0900 AEST

Each hour in this edition, two chart-busters from the Top 40 charts of this week in 1971, recent tracks from indie artists and other easy-listening music, most of which you won’t hear on mainstream radio.

Today’s photo – Hobart from Victoria Dock, taken November 2005 by Yours Truly.

Today’s Playlist:
There were two tracks scheduled for play, which didn’t go to air due to lack of time. They were:
Bob Marshall – Wildorado
Theresa Rhodes – Fallen

These will be rescheduled for a later programme

TRACK	RELEASE YEAR	TIME	PREVIOUS PLAYS	LAST PLAYED	ISRC
Chris James – Red Dirt On His Hands	2025	06:06	0
Charting this day 1971 Dusk – Angel Baby	1971	06:13	4	3/12/2021
Charting this day 1971 Kamahl – One Hundred Children	1971	06:16	8	9/2/2023
By Request: Bee Gees – New York Mining Disaster 1941	1967	06:20	1	3/3/2024
Gail Barnard – Storms	2025	06:24	3	4/5/2025	USCGJ 2534605
Shelley Minson – Everybody’s Baby	2025	06:27	2	23/5/2025	AUUHB 2400029
Romantic Strings Orchestra – Sing		06:33	1	7/5/2021
John Rowles – Time For Love		06:37	1	3/1/2020
Celia Bryce Band – Who’ll Bring Me Flowers	2025	06:40	0
Glenn Levi – More Of You		06:46	0		USHM8 2517108
ABBA – Dancing Queen	1976	06:50	10	7/8/2022
Dinah Washington – Stairway to the Stars	1947	06:55	1	29/8/2021
John Williamson – Old Sow		06:58	1	11/4/2025
The Cumberland River Project – Small Town Loser	2025	07:05	2	18/5/2025	DEZC6 2577046
Charting this day 1971 Gerry Monroe – It’s A Sin To Tell A Lie	1971	07:12	5	9/10/2020
Charting this day 1971 Little Patti – April Fool	1971	07:14	4	25/6/2021
Randy C Moore – Cats In the Cradle	2025	07:19	0
Searchers – Needles And Pins	1964	07:23	12	23/2/2024
David Hammerschlag – Country Calypso	2025	07:26	2	18/5/2025
Judy Stone – I’ll Step Down	1962	07:28	3	1/1/2021
Mike Vickers & His Orchestra – In The Summertime		07:36	1	20/6/2025
Che Orton – I’ll Never Get The Chance	2025	07:40	0
Gary Kennedy – Dance With Me Molly	2023	07:44	6	17/11/2024
Guy Mitchell – When Blinky Blows	1955	07:47	2	21/1/2024
Hans Krakou -The Way It Used To Be	2025	07:49	1	29/6/2025
Sabrina Fallon – Eileen Óg	2025	07:54	3	2/5/2025
Foster & Allen – The Bluebell Polka		07:58	1	4/12/2020
Jeff Orson – Missing You Soon	2025	08:06	3	21/3/2025	QT3TB-2425080
Charting this day 1971 Jim Reeves – Gypsy Feet	1971	08:12	4	12/4/2020
Charting this day 1971 Tin Tin – Toast And Marmalade For Tea	1971	08:14	0
By Request: Pussycat – My Broken Souvenirs		08:18	6	13/4/2025
By Request: Beatles – The Long And Winding Road	1970	08:21	13	5/1/2025
Glen Flynn – Until You Have Walked in My Shoes		08:29	1	13/6/2025
Richard Clayderman – Love Is Blue		08:37	0
Seekers – The Bush Girl		08:39	6	26/12/2021
Slim Dusty – Big Moon	1962	08:45	2	1/9/2023
Clelia Adams – Looking Forward, Looking Back	2022	08:48	12	13/4/2025
Johnny Logan – Hold Me Now	1987	08:51	1	14/9/2012
Michael Russ – Trumpet Moments	2025	08:54	3	22/6/2025

FRIDAY MORNING RADIO, Edition 476, 9.00 ~ Midday AEST

Easy listening, retro and recent releases not heard on mainstream radio throughout the morning, on the Derwent Valley’s own radio station.

Today’s photo – This edition, going back many years to September, 2004, and a view of the Derwent Valley as seen from the Derwent Valley Railway’s train, on a section of the line known as the Ivanhoe Bank.

The non-profit, all-volunteer body ran passenger excursion trains on the scenic line between New Norfolk and Mt Field National Park for many years. Unfortunately, officialdom caused the services to cease in late 2005.

Lack of co-operation from successive State Governments has kept the entire operation “grounded” in the New Norfolk railway yard since. There are none so blind as those who cannot see.

Photo – Yours Truly.

TRACK	RELEASE YEAR	PLAY TIME	PREVIOUS PLAYS	LAST PLAYED	ISRC
Larry Cann – Keepin’ It Real	2025	09:05	1	29/6/2025
Shelly Jones Band – Defining Moments	2025	09:12	1	29/6/2025	AU3FS 2100016
Ray Parker Jr – A Woman Needs Love	1981	09:15	6	1/9/2023
Tornados – Love And Fury	1963	09:20	12	9/12/2022
Highway 95 – Love Like Me	2025	09:22	1	29/6/2025	AUL0G 2400015
Daryl Braithwaite – You’re My World	1974	09:28	18	29/12/2024
Paul Mauriat & His Orchestra – Midnight In Moscow		09:33	1	19/9/2012
Boris Gardiner – I Want To Wake Up With You	1986	09:36	0
Al Martino – Painted Tainted Rose	1963	09:41	10	1/9/2023
Paul Young – Every Time You Go Away	1985	09:44	0
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 George Jones – The Race Is On	1965	09:50	1	7/11/2014
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Beatles – Honey Don’t	1965	09:52	0
Justin Standley – Borderline	2025	09:55	0		AUVIE 2400005
Allan Caswell & Lindsay Waddington – Always Ride A Train	2025	10:05	0		AUZY4 2500021
Mike Wilkinson – Spirit Of The Drought	2025	10:09	1	29/6/2025
Crystal Gayle – Somebody Loves You		10:13	0
Petula Clark – Downtown	1965	10:16	13	10/1/2025
Vintage Vinyl Ruby Murray – Happy Days And Lonely Nights	1955	10:21	1	15/4/2018
Andy Williams – On The Street Where You Live		10:24	0
Alisha Smith – Red Wing		10:28	9	31/5/2024
Ray Conniff & His Orchestra – You Do Something To Me		10:32	0
Engelbert Humperdinck – The Way It Used To Be		10:35	4	12/7/2024
Carol Chaney – A Million Stars At Blackbutt	2020	10:39	8	3/1/2025
Hayden Bilingy – Bequia	2025	10:43	0
Keith Phillips – Knight In A Leather Helmet	2025	10:47	0
Slim Whitman – Happy Anniversary	1975	10:52	6	2/3/2025
Seekers – Gotta Travel On		10:55	5	30/12/2022
Jet Harris & Tony Meehan – Applejack	1963	10:58	16	6/10/2023
Caoimhe Murney – Scania 164	2025	11:04	4	29/6/2025
Christine Clifford – The Overland Corner Hotel	2025	11:10	0		AUP6F 2400002
Slim Dusty & Travelling Country Band – The Three Rivers Hotel	1976	11:13	4	17/5/2024
Lynette Guest OAM – The Music Man	2025	11:18	1	29/6/2025	AUEN0 2500335
Vintage Vinyl Bill Haley & Comets – Ooh Look A There Ain’t She Pretty	1959	11:27	1	6/7/2018
Gordon Langford & His Orchestra – Yellow River		11:33	3	13/6/2025
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Reparata and the Delrons – Whenever A Teenager Cries	1965	11:36	0
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Herb Alpert & Tijuana Brass – Whipped Cream	1965	11:39	10	11/4/2025
Chet Atkins – Freight Train	1964	11:42	5	20/3/2020
Human Nature – If You Don’t Know Me By Now		11:44	0
Elisabeth Hope  – You Never Can Tell	2025	11:48	0
Sean Delamus – The Dancing Years	2020	11:52	14	14/2/2025
Barry Thornton – Gibb River Roundup		11:55	7	11/2/2024

Valley Sunrise Edition 840
0600 ~ 0900 AEST

Each hour in this edition, two chart-busters from the Top 40 charts of this week in 1978, recent tracks from indie artists and other easy-listening music, most of which you won’t hear on mainstream radio.

Today’s photo – The Hazards, Freycinet National Park, Eastern Tasmania.
Photo: Yours Truly.

Today’s Playlist:

TRACK	RELEASE YEAR	TIME	PREVIOUS PLAYS	LAST PLAYED	ISRC
Bangles – Manic Monday	1986	06:06	3	5/5/2024
Charting this day 1978 John Paul Young – Love Is In The Air	1978	06:12	9	13/9/2024
Charting this day 1978 Billy Joel – Just the Way You Are	1978	06:15	3	20/4/2025
By Request: Cilla Black & Cliff Richard – That’s What Friends Are		06:20	0
Bobby McFerrin – Don’t Worry Be Happy	1988	06:24	10	25/11/2022
Roger Whittaker – Where The Rainbow Ends	1968	06:29	14	2/7/2023
Percy Faith & His Orchestra – Up On The Roof		06:33	3	27/10/2023
Lynette Guest OAM – The Music Man	2025	06:36	0		AUEN0 2500335
Jason Cole – Mr Lonesome	2025	06:42	2	20/6/2025
Johnny Horton – When It’s Springtime In Alaska	1959	06:46	9	21/2/2025
Bing Crosby – Don’t Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes		06:50	0
Henry Mancini & His Orchestra & Chorus – You Make Feel Like Dancing		06:53	0
Singing Nun – Dominique	1963	06:57	13	8/12/2023
Larry Cann – Keepin’ It Real	2025	07:05	0
Charting this day 1978 Meat Loaf – You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth	1978	07:11	4	27/9/2020
Charting this day 1978 Barry Manilow – Can’t Smile Without You	1976	07:15	8	20/4/2025
By Request: Mills Brothers – Cab Driver	1968	07:20	3	9/2/2025
Shelly Jones Band – Defining Moments	2025	07:23	0		AU3FS 2100016
Gary McEvoy – Gentle On My Mind	2023	07:26	3	14/7/2023
Eric Jupp & His Orchestra – Song Of Italy		07:32	4	7/7/2023
Susan Boyle – Cry Me A River		07:36	2	19/7/2015
Geoff Love Singers – As Time Goes By		07:39	3	29/4/2022
Mike Wilkinson – Spirit Of The Drought	2025	07:44	0
Lindsay Waddington – Solid Ground	2025	07:47	2	20/6/2025
Rodney Walker – The Crow Flying Backwards	2025	07:53	0		AUEN0 2500336
Sandpipers – Enamorado		07:56	7	11/3/2018
Caoimhe Murney – Scania 164	2025	08:05	3	27/6/2025
Charting this day 1978 Don Williams – You’re My Best Friend	1978	08:11	14	4/4/2025
Charting this day 1978 Kate Bush – Wuthering Heights	1978	08:14	2	26/5/2017
Graeme Connors – A Little Further North	1988	08:20	6	19/2/2023
Highway 95 – Love Like Me	2025	08:24	0		AUL0G 2400015
Pete King Orchestra & Chorale – Caterina		08:30	3	2/1/2022
Brian May & ABC Melbourne Showband – Cabaret		08:36	1	10/6/2022
By Request: Hank Thompson – The Blackboard Of My Heart		08:39	2	3/9/2021
Air Supply – Now And Forever	1982	08:42	4	18/11/2022
Hans Krakou -The Way It Used To Be	2025	08:45
Harry Secombe – This Is My Song	1967	08:49	17	7/5/2024
Herb Alpert & Tijuana Brass – The Happening	1967	08:53	7	7/2/2021
Slim Dusty – G’day G’Day	1988	08:56	7	26/1/2025