FRIDAY MORNING RADIO, Edition 483, 9.00 ~ Midday AEST 22 August 2025

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

► LOOKING at some notable events on 22 August, in 1932, London, England – the British Broadcasting Corporation first experimented with television broadcasting.  Regular broadcasting on a limited scale began two years later.

In 1942, in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil declared war on Germany and Italy after the sinking of several Brazilian ships.

In 1949,  one of the world’s strongest earthquakes at 8.1 magnitude struck the sparsely populated Queen Charlotte Islands and the North-west coast of Canada.
It was felt throughout British Columbia and parts of Alberta, Washington State, Oregon, the Yukon and Alaska.  No deaths were reported, even though people and animals were knocked off their feet and there were landslides and other damage.

In 1962, Paris, France, an attempt was made to assassinate French President Charles de Gaulle when his Citroen DS 19 car was targeted by sub-machine gun fire.  Neither de Gaulle, his wife, nor any of his entourage were seriously injured, whilst all the perpetrators were arrested.

► BORN THIS DAY…..
1925 in Plaistow, Essex, England – Honor Blackman, actress known for the roles of Cathy Gale in The Avengers (1962–64) and of Bond girl Pussy Galore in the movie Goldfinger (1964). Died 2020.

1958 in Toowoomba, Queensland – Shane Withington, actor best known for playing surf life guard John Palmer in the soapie Home And Away, and also for his former role in the television series A Country Practice as nurse Brendan Jones.

► DIED THIS DAY…..
2011 in Los Angeles, California, U.S.A., Jerry Lieber, songwriter and record producer who, in conjunction with Mike Stoller, penned numerous hit records of the 50s and 60s, including famous tracks such as Hound Dog, Jailhouse Rock, Kansas City, Stand By Me and Lucky Lips.  Aged 78.

 Today’s photo – A colonial-era homestead, known as Strathallan, near Tea Tree in southern Tasmania.  In 1914, tragedy struck when the then-owner’s daughter died in a railway level-crossing accident, a few kilometres away.

Photo: Yours Truly (22 years ago).

Today’s Playlist

Today, there is a high percentage of new releases included.  As so few are being sent with ISRC references, this column will now be discontinued.

TRACK	RELEASE YEAR	PLAY TIME	PREVIOUS PLAYS	LAST PLAYED	ISRC
Dale Ralph – 16 Kisses	2025	09:05	0
Ray Malcolm – Make Me An Island	2025	09:12	0
Richard Mulligan – Bere Island	2025	09:16	0
70s Classic   ABBA – S O S	1975	09:20	12	19/1/2025
Andrew Shipp – Still My Number One	2024	09:23	3	31/1/2025	AUM3N 2400001
Mike Hughes – If I Ever Need A Lady I’ll Call You	2024	09:30	0
Romantic Strings Orchestra – Mahogany		09:34	0
Bob Marshall – Hats to the Sky	2025	09:37	0
Anne Kirkpatrick – My Town		09:43	0
By Request Procol Harum – A Whiter Shade of Pale	1967	09:47	12	19/2/2023
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Beach Boys – California Girls	1965	09:51	10	12/11/2024
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Beatles – Help	1965	09:53	15	6/4/2025
By Request Engelbert Humperdinck – Ten Guitars	1967	09:57	3	25/4/2025
John Glenn – Sunny Side Of The Mountain	2025	10:05	0
CoCo Bal & Hubert Heeringa – Summer Cava	2025	10:10	0
Dom Moore – Crowded Beaches	2025	10:14	0		AUMEV 2597751
By Request    Tatiana Blue & Werner Tauber Orchestra – When I Dream of You		10:19	0
Vintage Vinyl    Fats Domino – Blueberry Hill	1956	10:26	5	2/1/2022
Andy Williams – The Impossible Dream		10:28	0
David Firman & His Orchestra – Baker Street		10:34	2	3/8/2025
Olivia Molina – Besame Mucho		10:38	0
Ben Walker – I Won’t Let Go	2025	10:44	0
Don McLean – It’s Just The Sun	2025	10:49	0
70s Classic    George Baker Selection – Una Paloma Blanca	1975	10:52	13	13/4/2025
Johnny Tillotson – Judy Judy Judy	1963	10:56	11	28/7/2023
Trey Calloway – She Don’t Break It Like She Used To	2025	11:05	0
Che Orton – Rest Your Love On Me	2025	11:09	0
Don Fraser & His Orchestra & Paul Jones – Your Song		11:14	0
Roland Shaw & His Orchestra & Rosemary Squires – You Needed Me		11:18	0
Vintage Vinyl    Four Aces – Three Coins In The Fountain	1954	11:26	2	19/10/2014
Acker Bilk – My Way		11:32	0
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Hermans Hermits – I’m Henery The Eighth	1965	11:36	9	24/9/2021
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Ivy League – Tossing And Turning	1965	11:38	4	22/9/2017
Johnny Mathis – Foolish		11:42	0
Fleetwood Mac – Oh Dianne		11:47	1	1/6/2012
Pussycat – Mississippi (German Version)	1986	11:51	0

Valley Sunrise Edition 847
0600 ~ 0900 AEST

During this edition, two chart-busters each hour, from the Top 40 charts of this week in 1979, and a mix of recent tracks from indie artists and other easy-listening music which you won’t hear on mainstream radio.

► LOOKING at some notable events on 17 August, in 1964, the Tasman Bridge in Hobart, which was still under construction, was opened for limited single lane each way public traffic. 

► In 1970, Baikonur, Kazakhstan, the USSR launched the space probe Venera 7 to the planet Venus.  On December 15, this became the first spacecraft to transmit to Earth from the surface of another planet.  It reported the planet’s atmosphere to be comprised of 97 per cent carbon dioxide, and it’s surface temperature, around 475 C.

► And in 1980 at Ayers Rock (now Uluru) in the Northern Territory, baby Azaria Chamberlain was taken by a dingo from her parents’ campsite.  This sparked an investigation which resulted in her mother, Lindy Chamberlain, being convicted and imprisoned for her murder;  the baby’s father, Michael Chamberlain was convicted of being an accessory.

Both were later officially exonerated.

► BORN on this day in 1893, in  Bushwick, New York, U.S.A., Mary Jane West alias Mae West, actress, playwright, screenwriter and sex symbol whose career spanned 70 years.

She first appeared in vaudeville and later became an actress and comedienne.  Her first role on Broadway was in a self-penned play titled Sex, which was slated by critics, although tickets sold well.  The theatre was raided and the entire cast arrested.

Her subsequent movie career was equally as controversial. Mae West died 1980.

Also in show-biz,

► BORN on this day in 1920, in Ranelagh, Dublin, Ireland, Maureen FitzSimons alias Maureen O’Hara, actress and singer noted for portraying passionate heroines often working with longtime friend John Wayne.  She died 2015.

► BORN on this day in 1942, in Coleraine, Victoria, Shane Porteous, television and theatre actor, writer, animation artist best known for portraying Dr Terence Elliott in the Australian drama series A Country Practice  Turns 83 today.

► At the opposite end of the life span, DIED this day in 1983 in Beverley Hills, California, U.S.A., Ira Gershwin, lyricist who collaborated with his younger brother, composer George Gershwin, to create some of the most memorable songs of the 20th century.

They wrote more than a dozen Broadway shows, featuring songs such as I Got Rhythm, Embraceable You, The Man I Love and Someone To Watch Over Me   (Aged 86).  He was aged 86.

TODAY’S PHOTO: Last Friday morning’s sunrise.

Photo: Yours Truly.

Today’s Playlist (V S):

TRACK	RELEASE YEAR	TIME	PREVIOUS PLAYS	LAST PLAYED	ISRC
No Promises – Those Boots	2025	06:06	0		AUGBT 2503986
Charting this day 1972 Daniel Boone – Beautiful Sunday	1972	06:12	23	20/10/2024
Charting this day 1972 Gallery – It’s So Nice To Be With You	1972	06:15	1	25/12/2022
Liam McAlary – Lonely Life	2025	06:19	0
Patricia Horwood – Let Me Love You	2025	06:21	0
Andy Williams – Promise Me Love		06:27	0
Richard Clayderman – Ballade Pour Adeline		06:33	7	28/8/2016
Johnny Logan – What’s Another Year	1980	06:37	1	11/7/2025
Men At Work – Who Can It Be Now	1981	06:40	9	19/4/2024
Vintage Vinyl    Paul Anka – Diana	1957	06:45	6	30/7/2023
Toni West – Starry Skies	2025	06:49	3	8/8/2025
By Request: Michael Crawford – On Eagles Wings		06:54	13	28/7/2024
Jim Reeves – From A Jack To A King		06:58	2	11/8/2024
Owen Smith & Matt Scullion – Upper Class Bogan	2025	07:05	1	8/8/2025
Charting this day 1972 Nana Mouskouri – Four And Twenty Hours	1972	07:11	10	6/8/2021
Charting this day 1972 Johnny Chester & Jigsaw – Readymix Revenge	1972	07:15	5	9/7/2021
By Request: Petula Clark – My Guy		07:20	0
Ron Lynch – Takin’ It Easy	2025	07:24	1	3/8/2025	AUEN0 2500338
Mike Perjanic – A Country Practice Theme		07:28	12	23/5/2025
Andre Kostelanetz & His Orchestra – Claire		07:32	0
Vintage Vinyl    Patti Page – Mockingbird Hill	1951	07:36	5	25/10/2019
Dave Stanley Daoust – Life Is Short Life Is Long	2025	07:39	0
Renee Geyer – I Got Rhythm		07:44	3	17/1/2025
Richard Mulligan – There’s No Place Like Home	2025	07:48	0
By Request: Elvis Presley – Heartbreak Hotel	1956	07:51	12	6/11/2022
By Request: Roy Orbison – Cry Softly Lonely One	1967	07:54	13	6/2/2025
Joy Adams – Teach Your Children	2023	07:57	9	22/12/2024
Mary Rose – I Followed My Dreams	2025	08:06	0
Charting this day 1972 Slim Newton – The Redback on the Toilet Seat	1972	08:11	10	3/3/2023
Charting this day 1972 Faron Young – It’s Four In The Morning	1972	08:13	17	8/6/2025
Sammi Smith – What Does It Take		08:21	0
Gary R Farmer – My Island Paradise	2025	08:24	1	8/8/2025
Mexicans – Winds of Barcelona		08:29	12	16/8/2024
Acker Bilk – Auf Wiedersehen Sweetheart		08:37	3	31/1/2020
Donny Osmond – Puppy Love	1972	08:42	0
Dustin Lowe – Shake Your Copenhagen	2025	08:44	1	20/7/2025	TCAJP 2529951
Vintage Vinyl    Perry Como – Hot Diggety	1957	08:48	6	26/6/2020
Chasing Twisters – Summer of Love	2025	08:51	0

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FRIDAY MORNING RADIO, Edition 482, 9.00 ~ Midday AEST 15 August 2025

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

► LOOKING at some notable events on 15 August, Cologne, Germany – The foundation stone of Cologne Cathedral, was laid in 1248. Construction was halted 225 years later, in 1473, but re-commenced in the 19^th century to the original plans.
It was ultimately completed 632 years later, in 1880.  The cathedral, which is 144 metres long with twin spires 157 metres tall, was hit by 14 bombs dropped from Allied aircraft during World War 2 air raids.  It miraculously survived unscathed, even though the rest of the city was destroyed.
Today, Cologne Cathedral is one of the most visited attractions in Germany, attracting around 20,000 people daily and it is listed on the UNESCO World Heritage Register.

In 1945, in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory – Australia’s then Prime Minister Ben Chifley announced the end of the war with Japan.  The date is now known as “VP Day.”

In 1947,  a  massive scheme to divert the headwaters of the Snowy River for hydro-electricity and irrigation purposes was put before the Australian Federal Cabinet.  The proposed scheme involved seven major dams, over 100 kilometres of tunnelling through mountains, and inundation of several towns.

► BORN THIS DAY…..
1909 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. – Hugo Winterhalter, music arranger, composer and orchestra leader.  Died 1973.

1933 in Bloomington, Indiana, U.S.A. – Bobby Helms, American rockabilly singer famed for his 1957 hit Jingle Bells Rock, as well as other hits including Fraulein, My Special Angel, Jacqueline and Then Came You.  Died 1997.

 Today’s photo – An unusual house in Verona Sands, southern Tasmania, embodying much of a Hobart tram in it’s structure. This pic was taken around 20 years ago; today, the grounds are well-mown.

Today’s Playlist

TRACK	RELEASE YEAR	PLAY TIME	PREVIOUS PLAYS	LAST PLAYED	ISRC
Ganggalang – Sounds of Then	1985	09:05	9	31/12/2023
Allan Gumm – Gundabluie Girl	2025	09:12	0		AUH6W 2400002
HAZEL & The Thief – Making This Land My Gold	2025	09:17	0
70s Classic   Sherbet – Free The People	1971	09:22	2	12/1/2025
Victoria Crosby – Red Dome Dust	2025	09:24	0		QZTB6 2593036
Barbara Dixon – The Caravan Song	2025	09:28	0
Brian May & ABC Melbourne Showband – Wandering Star~I Talk To The Trees		09:32	2	10/10/2021
Connie Francis – Non Dimenticar		09:36	0
Bobby Helms – My Special Angel	1957	09:41	6	29/11/2024
By Request Roy Orbison – Penny Arcade	1969	09:46	8	25/7/2025
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Rolling Stones – Satisfaction	1965	09:50	6	28/9/2018
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Dusty Springfield – In The Middle Of Nowhere	1965	09:54	5	28/8/2020
John Denver – I’ve Been Working On The Railroad		09:57	8	14/7/2023
Conor Owens – My Own Washing	2025	10:05	0
Andy Williams & Peggy Powers – I Like Your Kind Of Love		10:10	0
Anne Murray – Easy Love	2025	10:14	0
By Request    Wandjuk Marika – Didgeridoo Solo Eric Jupp & His Orchestra – Bush Tracker		10:19	0 4	1/9/1923
Vintage Vinyl    Al Hibbler – Unchained Melody	1955	10:23	6	16/8/2019
Margarita De La Vega – Love Me With All Your Heart	2025	10:27	1	3/8/2025
Hugo Winterhalter & His Orchestra – Valencia		10:33	1	6/3/2020
Frank Ifield – What’s New	2025	10:35	0
70s Classic    Jim Reeves – My Cathedral		10:41	0
Heintje – Two Little Stars	1970	10:46	4	10/8/2025
Mom & Dads – The Ranger’s Waltz	1971	10:51	9	12/1/2025
Charlie Landsborough – My Heart Would Know		10:53	0
Bushlark – Mudgee Waltz		10:58	7	18/8/2023
Richard Mulligan – Because I Love You	2025	11:05	0
The Charlesys – Road Trip Night	2025	11:12	0
Tommy Vlaeminck  – Bridge of Hope	2025	11:15	3	11/5/2025
Smokey Dawson, Trevor Knight & Newport Trio – Days Of Old Khancoban		11:20	5	14/2/2021
Vintage Vinyl    Rosemary Clooney & Jose Ferrer – Mr And Mrs	1955	11:26	2	23/5/2025
Eric Jupp & His Orchestra – That Happy Feeling		11:34	5	23/7/2023
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Billy Thorpe – Twilight Time	1965	11:39	2	22/9/2017
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Billy Jo Royal – Down In The Boondocks	1965	11:43	13	6/10/2023
Gene Bradley Fisk – Beneath My Setting Sun	2025	11:46	2	10/8/2025
Peter Stefanson – In Our Childhood Days	2025	11:50	3	8/6/2025
Chris James – Red Dirt On His Hands	2025	11:54	1	6/7/2025

Valley Sunrise Edition 846
0600 ~ 0900 AEST

During this edition, two chart-busters each hour, from the Top 40 charts of this week in 1979, and a mix of recent tracks from indie artists and other easy-listening music which you won’t hear on mainstream radio.

► LOOKING at some notable events on 10 August, in 1951  Tasmanians shivered in the coldest temperatures recorded for 50 years.  Much of the State, including the east coast, was blanketed in snow.  Hobart’s maximum was 7.1 C.

Also weather-related, in 1964  a bus which left Queenstown at 7.30 a.m, arrived in Hobart at 10.07 p.m. six hours late, due to heavy snow on the Lyell Highway between Mt Arrowsmith and Derwent Bridge. 

And overseas in 2003, Kent, England, had the highest temperature ever recorded in the UK , 38.5 C.  It was the first time the UK  recorded a temperature (in the Fahrenheit scale) over 100 degrees.

► BORN on this day in 1928  in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.A., Augustino Eugenio Mercurio alias Gus Mercurio, actor who has appeared in numerous Australian television productions, typically portraying shady or criminal characters.  He died in 2010

Also BORN on this day in 1928, but in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Edwin Jack Fisher, alias Eddie Fisher, singer and entertainer, one of the world’s most famous and successful singers in the 1950s.  Coincidentally, he also died in 2010.

► At the opposite end of the life span, DIED this day in 2011 in Benton, Illinois U.S.A, Billy Grammer, country singer and guitar player best known for the million-selling Gotta Travel On, in 1959.  He was aged 85.

And in 2013 in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.A., Edith Gormezano alias Eydie Gorme, popular music singer of the 1950s and 60s who had many hits, both solo, and with her husband, Steve Lawrence.  She was aged 84.

TODAY’S PHOTO: The New Norfolk bridge spanning the Derwent, from a 120 year old postcard,

Photo: Yours Truly.

Today’s Playlist (V S):

TRACK	RELEASE YEAR	TIME	PREVIOUS PLAYS	LAST PLAYED	ISRC
Sarah Riches – Devil In Blue	2025	06:06	1	3/8/2025
Charting this day 1970 Charley Pride – Is Anybody Going To San Antone	1970	06:13	11	3/3/2024
Charting this day 1970 Beatles – The Long And Winding Road	1970	06:16	14	6/7/2025
The Lonesome Six – The Winds of Change	2025	06:20	0
Danny Ferdinandus – My Soul Starts Dancing	2025	06:25	0
Eddie Fisher – Heart	1955	06:29	2	10/8/2014
Joe Reisman & His Orchestra – Angel Of The Morning		06:33	0
Glen Flynn – Until You Have Walked in My Shoes		06:37	3	25/7/2025
Gene Bradley Fisk – My Setting Sun	2025	06:41	1	25/7/2025
Vintage Vinyl    Bonnie Guitar – Dark Moon	1957	06:48	2	25/3/2016
Heintje – Two Little Stars		06:50	3	15/10/2023
Jimmy Little – Namatjiri		06:54	3	2/4/2023
Herb Alpert & Tijuana Brass – A Banda		06:57	7	30/6/2023
Peter Salata – El Toro	2025	07:05	1	27/7/2025
Charting this day 1970 Liv Maessen – Knock Knock Who’s There	1970	07:10	8	1/6/2025
Charting this day 1970 Hans Poulsen – Boom Sha La La Lo	1970	07:13	8	1/6/2025
By Request: Ray Malcolm & Toni West – Islands In The Stream		07:17	4	2/6/2024
By Request: Mary Rose – Me and Bobby McGee		07:21	2	21/2/2025
Michael Farrell – Ghost Riders In The Sky	2024	07:27	2	14/3/2025
Vintage Vinyl    Billy Grammer – Gotta Travel On	1959	07:29	5	28/8/2020
Henry Mancini His Piano & Orchestra – The Entertainer		07:35	3	30/7/2023
Clayton Saunders – You Can’t Hide From a Shadow		07:39	0
Shaza Leigh – All My Loving	2025	07:43	0
Eydie Gorme – Blame It On The Bossa Nova	2025	07:48	12	10/3/2023
Human Nature – Dancing In The Street		07:50	1	12/1/2024
Jordan McPolin – The Auctioneer		07:54	0
Brendan Radford – They Don’t Flick The Finger In The Outback Anymore	2025	08:05	1	1/8/2025	AUK31 2500008
Charting this day 1970 John Williamson – Old Man Emu	1970	08:13	10	21/2/2025
Charting this day 1970 Simon & Garfunkel – Cecilia	1970	08:16	3	21/6/2019
Cast – It Ain’t Half Hot Mum		08:21	7	28/8/2020
Jade Hurley – Do Wah Diddy Diddy		08:23	3	12/11/2023
Julie Andrews – If Love Were All		08:27	0
Pete Moore & His Orchestra – Islands In The Stream		08:31	0
Richard Mulligan – Always Daddy’s Little Girl	2025	08:37	0
Owen Smith – Desert Blooming	2025	08:46	1	25/7/2025
Vintage Vinyl    Chordettes – Just Between You And Me	1957	08:50	2	30/4/2017
Cec Peterson – This Old Guitar	2025	08:53	0

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FRIDAY MORNING RADIO, Edition 481, 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.

► LOOKING at some notable events on 8 August, in RADIO on this day in 1935, John Laws was born in Wau, Papua New Guinea.  Laws became an Australian commercial radio personality, his career starting at 3BO in Bendigo, Victoria, in 1953.

He later worked for several stations in Sydney, ultimately becoming a talk show host on 2UE.  He retired in 2007, but in 2010 returned to radio to host another talk show on 2SM.  He retired for the final time in November 2004.  John Laws, turns 90 today.

In 1950, in Melbourne, Victoria, a young radio announcer, John Bryan Kerr, was found guilty, on the basis of an unsigned confession, of the 1949 murder of 20 year old Elizabeth Williams.  He was sentenced to death, but this was later commuted to life imprisonment.
Protesting his innocence, Kerr served 14 years before being released, after which he moved interstate and became a successful businessman.  He died in 2001 and was posthumously pardoned after a deathbed confession by another man.

In 1991 in Gabin, Poland, a radio mast 646 metres high, at one time the world’s tallest construction, collapsed when it was struck by a strong gust of wind while a guy wire was being replaced.  It’s extreme height had been specified in order to broadcast Communist propaganda around the world.

► DIED ON THIS DAY…..
1959 in Alice Springs, Northern Territory – Albert Namatjira, prominent Aboriginal artist from the western MacDonnell Ranges.  Aged 57.

2017 in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.A. – Glen Campbell, country, pop singer, guitarist and occasional actor best known for a series of hits in the 1960s and 1970s, including Gentle On My Mind, By The Time I Get To Phoenix, Wichita Lineman, Southern Nights and Rhinestone Cowboy.  Aged 81.

2022 in the Santa Ynez Valley, California, U.S.A. – Olivia Newton-John, Australian singer, actress and four-time Grammy-Award winner.  Having sold over 100 million records, Olivia Newton-John was one of the best-selling artists in the second half of the 20^th century.  Aged 73

► And in 1962, a report from Shannon, Ireland , that 70 year old Mrs Marion Hart landed a tiny single engined plane at the local airport at 6.30 a.m.
Jaws must have dropped when she advised astonished officials that she had just flown the Atlantic.  Accompanied by a friend, Mrs Louise Sacchi (49) the flight had started from St Pierre, an island off the Newfoundland coast, and was made at altitudes between 7,000 and 9,000 feet.

Today’s photo: A snow shower passing over Mt Wellington, behind Hobart. Taken by Yours Truly.

Today’s Playlist

TRACK	RELEASE YEAR	PLAY TIME	PREVIOUS PLAYS	LAST PLAYED	ISRC
Col Joye – Dance To The Bop	1958	09:06	0
Col Joye – Never Been This Far Before	1975	09:08	1	28/1/2022
Phil Blundell – The Flower She Once Wore	2025	09:14	1	11/7/2025
Tomas Jackman – Karma Chameleon	2025	09:17	1	20/6/2025
70s Classic   Sherbet – Silvery Moon	1974	09:22	7	27/6/2025
Fleetwood Mac – Never Going Back Again		09:25	1	18/5/2025
Andy Williams – My Favourite Things		09:28	0
Acker Bilk – Never My Love		09:32	0
Dianne Coombes – Ripples On A Pond		09:35	1	18/7/2025	AUCJD 2300023
John Laws – No Name		09:41	0
By Request Soundtrack – Prelude, Sound of Music		09:46	3	17/10/2021
By Request    Charlie Landsborough – No Time At All		09:50	4	24/5/2024
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Mel Carter – Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me	1965	09:55	1	22/4/2016
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Ray Brown & Whispers – Fool Fool Fool	1965	09:57	5	28/9/2018
Elisabeth Hope  – You Never Can Tell (C’est la Vie)	2025	10:05	2	18/7/2025
Gary R Farmer – My Island Paradise	2025	10:11	0
Rosalind Clare – Garden of my Memories	2025	10:15	2	20/6/2025
By Request    Hein Simons – Mayday in Meinem Herzen		10:21	0
Vintage Vinyl    Tab Hunter – Young Love	1957	10:25	4	6/3/2022
Slim Dusty – Namatjira	1953	10:29	6	13/10/2024
Geoff Love & His Orchestra – Holiday For Strings		10:34	4	23/8/2024
Randy C Moore – Cats In the Cradle	2025	10:37	2	20/7/2025
70s Classic    Olivia Newton John – I Honestly Love You	1974	10:44	2	26/2/2023
Toni West – Starry Skies	2025	10:49	0
Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem – The Leaving Of Liverpool		10:55	0
Allan Caswell & Lindsay Waddington – Always Ride A Train	2025	11:05	4	27/7/2025	AUZY4 2500021
Victoria Eman – How Does She Do It	2025	11:10	2	27/7/2025	NLJ9A 2500002
Owen Smith & Matt Scullion – Upper Class Bogan	2025	11:13	0
Kathy Carver – Someone Like You	1968	11:18	4	12/10/2018	AU6Z2 2511102
Vintage Vinyl    Bobby Darin – Dream Lover	1959	11:26	4	29/7/2022
By Request    Pussycat – Mississippi		11:29	38	23/3/2025
James Last & His Orchestra – Dance The Night Away		11:37	0
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Donovan – Colours	1965	11:41	4	10/5/2020
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Julie Andrews – A Spoonful of Sugar	1965	11:45	4	1/10/2023
David Hammerschlag – Country Calypso	2025	11:48	3	6/7/2025
Christine Clifford – Annie’s Song	2025	11:51	3	20/6/2025	QZHNC 2552556
Robert F – Ein Bisschen Mehr	2025	11:54	1	27/6/2025

Valley Sunrise Edition 845
0600 ~ 0900 AEST

During this edition, two chart-busters each hour, from the Top 40 charts of this week in 1979, and a mix of recent tracks from indie artists and other easy-listening music which you won’t hear on mainstream radio.

On today’s birthday list, if still with us, Anthony Dominick Benedetto, alias Tony Bennett, popular and jazz singer who was born this day in 1926 in Queens, New York, U.S.A.
He came to prominence in the early 1950s and sold over 50 million records worldwide.  Died 2023.

And born this day in 1945 in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, Stuart Golland, the actor who appeared in many English television series, but is formerly known for his role as the publican  George Ward in the TV drama series Heartbeat.  Died 2003.

And died this day in 2017 in Northwood, London, England, Robert Hardy, the actor who had a long career in theatre, film and television.   He is best remembered for his television role as the irascible senior veterinarian Siegfried Farnon in the original, long-running series All Creatures Great And Small.   He was aged 91.  

In events on this day, in 1964  2,000 residents in Harvey, West Australia, were evacuated into emergency accommodation at the town’s golf club and high school when flood waters threatened to breach a nearby dam.

And in 1973  Brisbane, Queensland, 15 died in Australia’s worst arson case, when the Whiskey Au Go Go nightclub was bombed.

In 1986, the long-running express trains between Melbourne and Sydney, the Southern Aurora and the Spirit of Progress, were amalgamated and renamed the Melbourne-Sydney Express.

Today’s photo, taken by Yours Truly, is of the heritage-listed Flinty Creek viaduct near Perth, in the north of the State. Dating to the 1870s, the earliest days of mechanised railways in Tasmania, this is now difficult for the passer-by to see, because of several trees which have grown since this pic was taken about 20 years ago.

This viaduct was bypassed by the railway in the early 1980s and is no longer in use. The Western line now passes by on an embankment, part of which can be see through the arches of this viaduct.

Today’s playlist:

TRACK	RELEASE YEAR	TIME	PREVIOUS PLAYS	LAST PLAYED	ISRC
Sarah Riches – Devil In Blue	2025	06:08	0
Charting this day 1979 Little River Band – Lonesome Loser	1979	06:13	5	27/1/2023
Charting this day 1979 Raydio – You Can’t Change That	1979	06:17	1	3/3/2023
Margarita De La Vega – Love Me With All Your Heart	2025	06:22	0
Guy Surtees – Change	2025	06:25	0
Tony Bennett – Young And Warm And Wonderful	1958	06:29	2	7/8/2016
Gordon Langford & His Orchestra – Let It Be		06:34	1	18/6/2021
Helena Mace – Flowers Of The Sun	2025	06:38	1	27/6/2025
Peter Stefanson – Who’s The Girl (Say You Love Me)	2025	06:43	0		USJ3V 2439567
Vintage Vinyl    Carl Perkins – Blue Suede Shoes	1956	06:48	5	9/4/2023
George Jones – Will There Be Any Stars In My Crown		06:50	6	3/1/2025
Katelynn Marie – Gonna Find Me A Country Boy	2025	06:56	0
Natascha Dommeck – Wir sind wie Tag und Nacht	2025	07:05	1	25/7/2025
Charting this day 1979 Racey – Some Girls	1979	07:12	9	1/8/2025
Charting this day 1979 Glenn Shorrock – Dream Lover	1979	07:15	5	30/6/2023
By Request: Lucille Starr – The French Song	1964	07:21	12	28/6/2024
By Request: Michael Crawford – The Music Of The Night		07:24	6	17/11/2024
Geoff Love & His Orchestra – All Creatures Great And Small		07:30	2	23/8/2024
David Firman & His Orchestra – Baker Street		07:34	1	11/4/2021
By Request: Bangles – Walk Like An Egyptian		07:40	1	28/4/2019
Ron Lynch – Takin’ It Easy	2025	07:44	0		AUEN0 2500338
Terry Bennetts – Chasing Rabbits In Her Sleep	2025	07:47	0
Vintage Vinyl    Bob Crosby & Bob Cats – Song Of The Islands	1952	07:51	1	1/11/2013
Waikikis – Mauna Loa		07:53	0
Lucinda Wilson – I’ll Be There	2025	07:58	1	20/7/2025
Barry Owen – Cross My Heart	2025	08:06	0
Charting this day 1979 Air Supply – Lost In Love	1979	08:13	4	7/9/2018
Charting this day 1979 Art Garfunkel – Bright Eyes	1979	08:16	5	5/11/2023
Joy Boys – Southern ‘Rora	1962	08:21	13	3/6/2022
Slim Dusty & Joy McKean – Losin’ My Blues Tonight		08:24	0
Daniel O’Donnell – Heartbeat		08:30	1	4/8/2024
Enoch Light & Light Brigade – Tuxedo Junction		08:36	4	1/10/2015
The Charlesys – I Can See The Dawn	2025	08:42	3	11/5/2025
Tim Hemme – Believe In You	2025	08:46	0
Vintage Vinyl    Chordettes – Mr Sandman	1954	08:50	4	18/7/2025
Roxette – Church Of Your Heart	1991	08:52	0
Joe Reisman Orchestra & Chorus – I Know A Place		08:56	6	14/7/2023

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.