Friday Morning Radio Edition 392 24 November 2023

The programme started badly when a presently-unknown gremlin in the computer caused the first few tracks on the playlist to refuse point-blank to play on cue.

This is one of the worst things which can befall a radio announcer using modern broadcasting equipment and, although very unusual, it can happen without warning.

We end up with a live microphone and little else.

Think fast – take a couple of tracks from last Friday’s edition. More time needed after they finished – so, grab a CD from my briefcase and whack that on. All this time, trying to sort the issue at hand by running up the corridor to the temporary production room and re-loading the entire programme of music.

The re-load didn’t solve the problem, so more stand-in tracks were needed while I went through the procedure again. And again, that didn’t fix it – very strange! All the time, keeping the programme running and resorting to using tracks from last Friday’s edition. At least they were OK.

A couple of listeners phoned in requests in the middle of all this; the TYGA-FM sound library also wasn’t affected and they were played.

After a third re-load, the dulcet tones of Roger Whittaker, who was on this day’s playlist, came though. Life in the studio is normally much easier than that, and only the first hour of music was affected by all this.

Today’s playlist, as broadcast today (the first hour somewhat different to what was planned):

Hour 1:

Larissa Tormey – I’m Gonna Be A Country Girl Again. (This track was inadvertently left off my playlists when it was released 5 years ago. My apologies to Larissa!)
Seekers – Circle of Love
Joy Adams & Gary R Farmer – Mum and Santa Two-Steppin’ Round Our Christmas Tree (2023)
Sherbet – All Our Yesterdays
Andy Kim – Be My Baby

Bobby Russell – Go Chase Your Rainbow
By Request: Glen Dee – Especially For You
Roger Whittaker – Quel Monde Merveilleux
By Request: Jade Hurley – Down In The Riverina
Richard Clayderman – The Music Box Dancer
Mark Vincent – Forever And Ever
A Diamond Classic: New Christy Minstrels (1963)
A Diamond Classic: Tornados – Dragonfly (1963)
Sisters In Country – My Heart’s Already There (2023)

Hour 2:

Dianne Lindsay – What’s A Bush Ballad (2023)
Tom Curtin & Robyn Martin – When The Rain Comes Down (2023)
Hank Snow – The Sea Shores of Old Mexico (2023)
They Don’t Make Them Like This Anymore: Frankie Laine & Jimmy Boyd – Tell Me A Story (1953)
SM 2 – The Judging (2023)
Craig Lloyd – I Call Australia Home (2023)

101 Strings Orchestra – The Way We Were
Frank Sinatra – Come Fly With Me
Suzanne O’Toole – Wayfaring Stranger (2023)
Slim Dusty – Travelling Through
By Request: Foster & Allen – Be Nobody’s Darling But Mine
Mae McCoy & Her Neon Stars – Detour (2023)
Dave Caley – La Bamba (2023)

Hour 3:

Kelan Browne – New Way To Light Up An Old Flame (2023)
By Request: America – Horse With No Name (1972)
Stella Moon – Out Of The Dark (2023)
Beatles – Mr Moonlight (1964)
Rick Nelson & Stone Canyon Band – Suzanne On A Sunday Morning
Bill Jackson – Precious Cargo (2023)

Will Glahe & His Orchestra – The Cuckoo Waltz
A Diamond Classic: Gerry & Pacemakers – You’ll Never Walk Alone (1963)
A Diamond Classic: Sheb Wooley – Hootenanny Hoot (1963)
Tony Christie – Summer Wine
Seekers – Come The Day

Friday was Funday for a low-flying doggo this morning, as it ran across the Hobart’s Tasman Bridge during peak hour traffic.

Although the fast moving pooch occupied one traffic lane, vehicle drivers kept their distance and police officers finally detained the racing rottie at the regatta grounds.

Music Unlimited and Valley Sunrise, Edition 756, 19 November 2023

(If you are outside our reception area, the streaming link is in bold text above the header photo.)

On TYGA-FM 98.9, Music Unlimited with Ian MacPhee at 6 a.m.

Some of the artists in this edition are Olivia Newton-John, Roger Whittaker, Andre Rieu, Paul Mauriat, the Everly Brothers, amongst many more.

To contact Ian directly, you can e-mail him at [email protected]

If that’s a little difficult to read, it’s music unlimited with ian (but omit the spaces).

Ian would LOVE to hear from his Australian audience direct, and I know his executive producer, Paul Meagher keenly shares that interest.

At 7 a.m., I’m in the TYGA-FM Blue Seat with Valley Sunrise, with great listening on the playlist, through to 9 a.m., including listener requests.

In relation to requests – please, no carols or music celebrating Christmas, BEFORE December.

Today’s Valley Sunrise playlist…

Hour 1:

Seekers – The Circle of Love (1997)
Joy Adams & Gary R Farmer – Mum And Santa Two-Steppin’ Round Our Christmas Tree (2023)
Bobby Mackey – Anita You’re Dreaming (2023)
Sandy Summers – Devil In Her Heart (2023)
Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra – I’m Getting Sentimental Over You (1935)
(Born this day 1905 in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania USA, Thomas Dorsey Jr, alias Tommy Dorsey, jazz trombonist trumpeter and bandleader of the Big Band era, known as “the Sentimental Gentleman of Swing”. Died 1956.)
Bobby Russell – Go Chase Your Rainbow
(Died this day 1992 in Nicholasville, Kentucky USA, Bobby Russell, songwriter who penned many hit songs, including Little Green Apples, Honey, The Joker Went Wild, and 1432 Franklin Pike Circle Hero, which he recorded. Aged 52.)

Bebo Valdez & His Orchestra – Habana
Mel Tillis – I Can’t Stop Loving You
(Died this day 2017 in Ocala, Florida, USA, Mel Tillis, award-winning country singer and songwriter. Aged 85.)
Ainslie Allen – Don’t Wanna Be Lonely (2023)
Billboard Top 20 of 1960 – No 10: Chubby Checker – The Twist
Clint Beattie – Girls On The Avenue (1998)
Mario Como & Kay Webb Orchestra – Sweet Fruit

Hour 2:

Craig Lloyd – I Call Australia Home (2023)
By Request: Kenny Rogers – Through The Years
By Request: Vera Lynn – The White Cliffs of Dover
By Request: Johnny Horton – Whispering Pines
By Request: Brothers Four: Greenfields

Warren Kearney – What’s Going On In Your World
By Request: George Harrison – My Sweet Lord
By Request: ABBA – The Winner Takes It All
Shelley Fabares – Big Star (1963)
Norma O’Hara Murphy – Kosciusko (2023)

INADVERTENTLY OMITTED FROM TODAY’S EDITION, THE “ON THIS DAY” SEGMENT

So, here it is. On This Day in……..

1941 – In the Indian Ocean, off West Australia: The battle took place between HMAS Sydney and the German cruise Kormoran. This resulted in the destruction of both vessels, the loss of all 645 crew aboard HMAS Sydney and 81 of the 399 crew of the Kormoran. The locations of both wrecks were a mystery until 2008, when they were discovered 2,560 metres below the surface.

1963 – Canberra, Australian Capital Territory: The Director of Posts and Telegraphs (Mr Gilson) said that transmissions from the ABC radio station 7ZR in Hobart were causing interference with another station in New Zealand, which used the same frequency. Modifications were to be made to the 7ZR transmitter to reduce the strength of the signal radiated in the direction of New Zealand.

1965 – Bellerive, Tasmania: A crowd of over 5,000 flocked to the new Rosny Regional Shopping Centre (now much enlarged and known as Eastlands) upon it’s opening. Police had their biggest traffic headache for many years, with vehicles being directed to park in a nearby paddock.

1969 – Apollo 12 astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean landed on the Oceanus Procellarum (Ocean of Storms) becoming the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon.

A Pair of Lost Australians….

Employees at a veterinary clinic in Essex, England, were skeptical when a neighbour told them that two ostriches were wandering in the area.

The manager, Nicola Watson, said they looked around, but saw none.

But the next day, the two birds, which were identified as Australian emus – not ostriches – were found in the clinic’s car park.

The owner of the emus was traced and they were returned.

Friday Morning Radio, Edition 391, 17 November 2023

Today’s playlist:

Hour 1:

Tom Jones – She’s A Lady (1971)
Tony Christie – I Did What I Did For Maria (1971)
Peter Allen – Tenterfield Saddler (1979)
Toni West – The Other Half Of Me (2023)
Larry Cann – Tamworth Gold (2023)
By Request: Bee Gees – Massachusetts (1967)
Al Cerny & Bill Mankiss – Bird Dance

Martin Bottcher & His Orchestra – What A Wonderful World
Gordon Lightfoot – Carefree Highway (Gordon Lightfoot, born this day 1938 in Orillia, Ontario, Canada. Died 1 May 2023)
Gail Barnard – Ride (2023)
Foster & Allen – Sea of Heartbreak
60 Year Diamond Classic: Nino Tempo & April Stevens – Deep Purple (1963)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Helen Shapiro – Look Who It Is (1963)
Jade Hurley – Penny Arcade

Hour 2:

Daniel O’Donnell – Do What You Do Do Well
Slim Dusty – Australia Is His Name
Brian Letton – She (2023)
They Don’t Make Them Like This Anymore: Sheb Wooley – The Purple People Eater (1958)
The Byrds – Ballad of the Easy Rider (1969) (Gene Clark, singer-songwriter and founding member of the Byrds, born this day in 1944 in Tipton, Missouri, USA. Died 1991.)
Francoise Hardy – Toutes Les Garcons Et Les Filles

European Show Band – Red Roses For A Blue Lady
Marion Waldron – Love Is A Harvest (2023)
Don Gibson – There Goes My Everything (Don Gibson, country singer-songwriter who had a string of hits from the late 1950s to the 1970s, died this day 2003 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, aged 75)
Bernie Grass – Rhythm Of The Rail (2021)
Renee & Renato – Blue Serenade
Chamaco Dominguez Orchestra – Meditation

Hour 3:

Sean Brennan – The Misty Rolling Midlands (2023)
Anne Kirkpatrick – Safe In The Arms of Love (2023)
Charlie Rich – The Most Beautiful Girl (1974)
Bachelors – In The Chapel In The Moonlight (1965)
Warren Kearney – What’s Going On In Your World (2023)
Allan Caswell – All Those Years Ago (2023)
Pearls Players – Picnic At Hanging Rock

Barry Manilow – Moonlight Serenade
60 Year Diamond Classic: Al Martino – Living A Lie (1963)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Bobby Bare – 500 Miles Away From Home (1963)
Andre Rieu – Strauss And Co
Hein Simons – Josie
Seekers – Well Well Well

On This Day

1869 Egypt – The Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, was opened.

Co-incidentally, in 1913 in Panama, the first ship, a steamship named Louise, passed through the Panama Canal.

And in 1970,

The Soviet Union landed Lunokhod 1 on the Moon’s Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) from the orbiting Luna 17 spacecraft. This was the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world.

Resembling a toilet pan on eight independently operated wheels, Lunokhod 1 was fitted with a variety of scientific equipment. It travelled over 10½ kilometres on the Moon at a top speed of 100 metres an hour, with it’s four television cameras returning over 20,000 images and 206 high-resolution panoramas.

Lunokhod 1 operated for 11 months, instead of the planned three months. Contact was lost on 14 September 1971 and attempts to re-establish contact ceased on 4 October 1971.

Music Unlimited and Valley Sunrise, Edition 755, 12 November 2023

Today’s pic is of Cambridge, as seen from Mt Rumney. Having noticed a new air navigation beacon operating on a hilltop in the Meehan Range, I decided to re-visit Mt Rumney, where a similar beacon has been in use for longer than I can remember.

It’s been 50 years since I was last at Mt Rumney, BUT I don’t recommend the drive for all and sundry. The road was built as a 1930s Depression-era project and the last couple of kilometres is so narrow that, in places, two opposing vehicles cannot pass. Fortunately, I was alone in the vicinity at the time.

There is plenty of evidence of other visitations, as all the buildings associated with air navigation and communication equipment are heavily daubed and splashed with senseless spray paint.

At 6.00 a.m. AEDT Sunday morning on TYGA-FM, 98.9 and on-line ( www.tygafm.org.au/listen-live/ ), Music Unlimited with Ian MacPhee.

In this edition, Ian’s playlist includes Frank Sinatra, Neil Sedaka, Il Divo, Stevie Wonder and much more, whilst in the Comfort Zone segment, Ireland’s Daniel O’Donnell; and in Country Patch, Jim Reeves.

Music Unlimited is a one-hour programme produced in Studio B, Seaside FM, Halifax, Nova Scotia for broadcast on that station, as well as CFTA Radio Tantramar in Amherst, Nova Scotia.

It’s presenter, Ian MacPhee and producer, Paul Meagher are presenters at Seaside FM, with over 50 years of broadcasting experience. In retirement, they take their turns at the mike on this community station.

Post-production is by Ron Bickle, who also has extensive broadcasting experience which he now devotes to community radio, through Radio Tantramar.

Ron regularly despatches each recorded edition of Music Unlimited to me, for broadcast on TYGA-FM 98.9.

Edition 755 of Valley Sunrise at 7.00, easy listening and memories with Jo Stafford, Booker T, Lance Birrell, Jackie Trent and others, with listener requests after 8.00.

Today’s Valley Sunrise playlist:

Hour 1:

Sean Brennan – The Misty Rolling Midlands (2023)
Dave Caley – La Bamba (2023)
Ainslie Allen – Don’t Wanna Be Lonely (2023)
Frank Sinatra & Nelson Riddle Orchestra – Sunday
Jo Stafford with Paul Weston & His Orchestra – Try To Remember
(Born this day 1917, Coalinga, California, U.S.A. – Jo Stafford, award-winning singer and actress whose career spanned 50 years from the 1930s through to the 1980s. Died 2008.)
Brian Hyland – Ginny Come Lately (1962)
(Born this day 1943, Queens, New York, U.S.A. – Brian Hyland, successful 1960s pop singer. Turns 80 today.)

Otto Bredl & Jiggs Whigham – Goody Goody
Booker T & MGs – Time Is Tight (1969)
(Born this day 1944, Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.A. – Booker Taliaferro Jones Jr, alias Booker of Booker T & the MGs, musician and songwriter. Turns 79.)
Lance Birrell – The Battle of Kokoda (2018)
Chubby Checker – The Twist (No 10 of the Top 20 Billboard Tracks, 1960)
Jackie Trent & Tony Hatch – Thank You For Loving Me (1968)
Bill Goodall – Wheels (2023)

Hour 2:

Jade Hurley – Do Wah Diddy Diddy
By Request: Beatles – P S I Love You
By Request: Roy Orbison – Blue Angel
By Request: Stanley Sokol & Polkateers – Beer Barrel Polka
Slim Dusty – Travelling Through
By Request: – Bob Lind – Elusive Butterfly

S M 2 – The Judging (2023)
Joe Diamond – How Much Rain Can One Man Stand (2023)
Henry Mancini Orchestra & Chorus – Swinging On A Star
Brian Letton – She (2023)
Acoustic Bloom – Carolina In the Fall (2023)
Bimbo Jet – El Bimbo

ON THIS DAY – 12 November

1894  –  Stanwell Park, New South Wales – In a pioneering aeronautical experiment, four box kites lifted Lawrence Hargreave 5 metres from the ground

1980  –   The space probe Voyager 1 made its closest approach to the planet Saturn, took the first images of its rings and studied Saturn’s moon, Titan.  Voyager 1 is still communicating with Earth after more than 46 years, and is expected to continue until 2025, by which time it’s generators will no longer be able to supply sufficient electrical current.  It is now the furthest man made object from Earth.

2003  –  Shanghai, China – Shanghai Transrapid set a new world speed record for commercial railway systems of 501 kilometres per hour (311 mph) with a magnetic levitation train which operates between Shanghai International Airport and Pudong.  The trains take a minimum of 7½ minutes to cover 30 kilometres.

Friday Mornings with Ray, Edition 390, 10 November 2023

Whenever I see the words “Modern music is rubbish” I reply, “You’re not listening to the right radio station.”

Most mainstream radio stations aim for the “heavy” market. My aim is to provide a real alternative.

In Edition 390 of Friday Morning Radio, three hours of great easy listening from Australian artists and overseas,

regular weather updates, Railway Round-up (when Tasmanian volunteer-operated Tourist & Heritage trains are running);

and Sky High (which planets are visible and when).

From 9 a.m. ~ Midday AEDT on TYGA-FM 98.9, the Derwent Valley’s own radio station.

Today’s playlist:

Hour 1:

Dave Caley – La Bamba (2023)
Rene Hage – Candybar Kenny (2023
Michael Farrell & Rosalind Clare – Time’s A’Wasting (2023)
David Curtis – Christmas Day The First Day of Forever (2023)
Norma O’Hara Murphy – Kosciusko (2023)
Kyu Sakamoto – Sukiyaki (1963)
Lynchburg – La Chica Bella (2022)

Paul Mauriat & His Orchestra – Minuetto
Billy May & His Orchestra – Theme From A Summer Place
(Born this day 1916, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – Billy May, composer, trumpeter and band leader. Died 2004.)
Craig Lloyd – I Call Australia Home (2023)
Kylie Adams-Collier – Montevideo Maru 1942 (2018)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Jimmy Gilmer – Sugar Shack (1963)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Skeeter Davis – I Can’t Stay Mad At You (1963)
Col Joye – All Shook Up (1964)

Hour 2:

Desi Egan – I Wanna Stay With You (2023)
Don Smythe – Daddy’s In Kandaha (2020)
Jade Hurley – Georgie
They Don’t Make Them Like This Anymore: Max Bygraves – Gilly Gilly Ostenfeffer (Katzenellenbogen By The Sea) (1954)
Donna Fargo – The Happiest Girl In The Whole U S A (1972)
(Born this day 1945, Airey, North Carolina, U S A – Yvonne Vaughan, alias Donna Fargo, singer-songwriter. Turns 78 today.)
S M 2 – The Judging (2023)
Larry Cunningham – Leitrim

European Show Band – Moulin Rouge Theme
Tom Preacher – The Long Drive Home (2023)
Roger Nicholas Chorale – Don’t Go Breaking My Heart
By Request: Foster & Allan – The Rose of Mooncoin
Jim Croce – The Railroad Song
Sarina Haggarty – Keep Me Awake (2023)

Hour 3:

Craig Giles – Picture On The Mantle (2017)
Vanessa Bourne – Lord I Hope This Day Is Good (2023)
The 23x – My Kind Of Girl (2023)
Pepe Jaramillo & His Latin American Rhythm – Good Morning Starshine
Roger Whittaker – Feelings
Cliff Richard – Quando Quando Quando

Joel Herron & His Orchestra – Look For The Silver Lining
60 Year Diamond Classic: Bob Luman & Sue Thompson – I Like Your Kind Of Love (1963)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Charlie Drake – I’ve Lost The End Of My Yodel (1963)
Dean Martin – In The Chapel In The Moonlight
Billy Vaughn & His Orchestra – Roses Are Red
101 Strings – St Tropez In June

ON THIS DAY – 10 November

1958 Lake Coniston, England – Speed ace Donald Campbell increased his water speed record from 239 m.p.h. (384 km/h) to 248.62 m.p.h. (400 km/h) in his hydroplane Bluebird. 

1964 Canberra, Australian Capital Territory – Prime Minister Robert Menzies announced the reintroduction of conscription.

1975 The freighter ship Edmund Fitzgerald sank suddenly during a storm on Lake Superior, one of the great lakes bordering the U.S.A. and Canada, with the loss of all 29 crew on board.

1979 Mississauga, Ontario, Canada – A 106-waggon Canadian Pacific freight train carrying explosives and poisonous chemicals, derailed, causing a massive explosion and the largest peacetime evacuation in Canadian history

1980 The NASA space probe Voyager 1 started its closest approach to Saturn, when it flew within 77,000 miles of the planet’s cloud-tops, returning the first high resolution images of the planet.

Valley Sunrise, Edition 754, 5 November 2023

Sunday morning, and at 6.00 AEDT on TYGA-FM, 98.9 and on-line at ( www.tygafm.org.au/listen-live/ ), Music Unlimited with Ian MacPhee.

In this edition, Ian’s playlist includes the Sandpipers, Brothers Four, Barry Manilow, Patsy Cline, Vikki Carr, and a lot more.

Edition 754 of Valley Sunrise follows at 7.00, with music from the Spinners (the English folk group), Art Garfunkel, Ray Conniff, and a lot more, including listener requests after 8.00.

To make an easy-listening request, please call me during the programme on 6261 2000.

It’ll be great to hear from you.

Today’s playlist:

Hour 1:

George Finizio – Teardrops (2023)
Josh Powell-Fussell – Kiss Me Like That (2023)
Dianne Lindsay – What’s A Bush Ballad (2023)
Spinners (U K) – Drunken Sailor
Horst Wende’s Accordeon Band – Die Fischerin Vom Bodensee
(Born this day 1919 Zeitz, Germany – Horst Wende, bandleader and composer. Died 1996)
Art Garfunkel – Bright Eyes (1979)
(Born this day 1941, Forest Hills, New York, U.S.A. – Arthur Garfunkel alias Art Garfunkel, singer and actor. Turns 82)

Frank Mills & His Orchestra – Blackfoot Country
Hermans Hermits – A Must To Avoid (1965)
(Born this day 1947, Davyhulme, Lancashire, England – Peter Blair Denis Bernard Noone, singer and songwriter, alias “Herman” in the 1960s Merseybeat band, Hermans Hermits. Turns 76]
Lynchburg & Weeping Willows – Together With You
Elvis Presley – Stuck On You (No 9 of the Top 20 Billboard Tracks, 1960)
Al Caiola – Big Guitar
Ray Conniff Singers – The Sound of Silence
Al Cerny & Bill Mankiss – Al’s Seven Step

Died on this day:

1960, Milano, Texas, U.S.A. – Johnny Horton, singer famous for the historical ballad craze of the late 1950s/early 1960s, such as The Battle of New Orleans and North To Alaska. Aged 35.
1977, Houston, Texas, U.S.A. – Guy Lombardo, bandleader who formed the Royal Canadians in 1924. The orchestra had international success, selling over 100 million records. Aged 75.
1989, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, U.S.A. – Barry Sadler, author, musician and singer who served as a Green Beret medic and Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War. Aged 49.

Hour 2:

Gabriella Cilmi – Warm This Winter (2008)
By Request: Ray Stevens – Misty
By Request: Rosanne Cash – Tennessee Flat Top Box
By Request: Drongos – Waltzing Matilda
Rossi M – Railroad Train
Barry Thornton – Gibb River Roundup

Kenji Standlee – Blessings From Above (2023)
John O’Dea – The Tree Beside The Bend (2023)
Anne Murray – Shadows In The Moonlight
Craig Lloyd – I Call Australia Home
Billy Jo Speers – What I’ve Got In Mind (1976)

I noticed that last Sunday’s Valley Sunrise playlist hadn’t been entered here. This was an oversight on my part, and has now been rectified. Please scroll down if you would like to see it.

Playlists are now being posted in a darker font, to make them more conspicuous.

Sometimes things don’t go according to plan in broadcasting. This is a classic example:

1956  –   Sydney, New South Wales – Unplanned incidents occurred during the opening of the Australian Broadcasting Commission’s first television station, ABN channel 2. During opening speeches, the camera focussed on people sitting behind the speaker who, because of the bright studio lights, were sitting with their eyes closed or squinted, giving the appearance that they were asleep.

This was followed by missing sound, then voices of technicians asking where the sound was, and when that was restored, a loud crash which interrupted the announcer, Michael Charlton.

Oh dear!

Friday Morning Radio, Edition 389, 3 November 2023

On the playlist for this edition, great recent releases from Australia’s Ainslie Allen, Col Elliott, Brian Letton and Destiny Band Oz,
together with Dermot O’Hara (Ireland), Melinda Hanssen (Belgium), Olivia (Netherlands), and Toni West (U K) and more.

There are plenty of memory tracks, including four 60-Year Diamond Classics (charting this day exactly 60 years ago);

Regular weather updates;

A rundown on some roadworks to watch out for in the South;

Railway Round-up (when Tasmanian volunteer-operated Tourist & Heritage trains are running);

And Sky High (which planets are visible and when).

From 9 a.m. ~ Midday AEDT on TYGA-FM 98.9, the Derwent Valley’s own radio station.

This morning’s playlist:

Hour 1:

Vernon Huskey – Ghost Riders In The Sky (2022)
Dusty Springfield – Sweet Ride
Roy Orbison – Communication Breakdown (1966)
Dermot O’Hara – Sunday Morning Coming Down (2023)
Ainslie Allen – Don’t Wanna Be Lonely (2023)
Waikikis – Honolulu Rose

Magic Trumpets – Only You
Lulu – Boom Bang A Bang (1969) (Born on this day 1948, Lennoxtown, East Dunbartonshire, Scotland, Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie alias Lulu)
Sean Brennan – I’m Going Home (2023)
Melinda Hanssen – Dance To Country Music (2023)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Roy Orbison – Mean Woman Blues (1963)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Joy Boys – Murphy The Surfie (1963)
Ol’ 55 – Little Town Flirt

Hour 2:

Rubettes – Sugar Baby Love (1974)
Olivia – Guardian Angel (2022)
Col Elliott – Proud To Be An Aussie (2023)
They Don’t Make Them Like This Anymore: Bing Crosby & Rosemary Clooney – Zing A Little Zong (1952)
Lonnie Donegan – My Old Man’s A Dustman (1960) (Died this day 2002, Market Deeping, England, Lonnie Donegan, titled The King of Skiffle, aged 71)
Abby Grace – Dancing On The Line (2023)

Paul Mauriat & His Orchestra – Love Is Blue (1968) (Died this day 2006, Perpignan, France, Paul Mauriat, musician and orchestra leader, sold over 40 million albums. Aged 81)
Elisabeth Grey – Good Enough (2023)
Kay Starr – The Rock and Roll Waltz (1956) (Died this day 2016, Beverley Hills, California, U.S.A., 1950s pop and jazz singer. Aged 94)
Jim Croce – The Railroad Song (1973)
Marty Robbins – El Paso (1959)
1960 Hobart, Tasmania –  Captain Robert Hall, an American Air Force pilot had the jet engine of his U 2 aircraft “flame out” and fail whilst flying high over the city.  As he dived to an altitude of 25,000ft (7,600m) as a measure to restart the jet engine, he contacted Hobart airport to request Hobart commercial radio station 7HT to play recordings of El Paso and Night And Day.
The teenage announcer on air at the time, John Burnley, duly played the pilot’s requests.  The jet engine was re-started and Captain Hall resumed his journey, the purpose of which was stated to be, to sample the upper air over Tasmania.  (Yeah, right! – Ray)
John Burnley had a distinguished career in commercial radio, moving from Tasmania to Sydney, Perth and Brisbane. He died peacefully of heart failure in Brisbane in March 2017, aged 78.
Billy Vaughn & His Orchestra – The Berlin Melody

Hour 3:

Joy Adams & Gary R Farmer – The Point Of No Return (2023)
Tony Clarke – The Good Old Fashioned Way (2023)
Toni West – The Other Half Of Me (2023)
Debbie Reynolds – Beyond The Stars
Brian Letton – She (2023)

Melbourne Pops Orchestra – It Might As Well Rain Until September
60 Year Diamond Classic: Peter Paul & Mary – Don’t Think Twice (1963)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Town & Country Brothers – Sandy Sandy (1963)
Destiny Band Oz – All Alone
Jay & Americans (1969)
Sandie Shaw – Long Live Love (1965)
Al Caiola – The Bounty Hunter

*60 Year Diamond Classics, charting exactly 60 years ago to this day.

Today’s masthead is of the Spanish Airbus, EC – NBN, owned by WAMOS Air, which was wet-chartered by Air New Zealand for it’s daily Auckland-Perth service from November 2022 until October 28.

It was a regular sight as it passed over the Derwent Valley at 38,000 feet, early most afternoons. It has recently returned
to it’s Madrid base. Air New Zealand are now using one of their own Boeing 787s on the route.

Music Unlimited with Ian MacPhee, 29 October 2023

Sunday morning, and at 6.00 AEDT on TYGA-FM, 98.9 and on-line ( www.tygafm.org.au/listen-live/ ),

Ian’s playlist is always varied, and in this edition includes Olivia Newton-John, Anne Murray, Johnny Mathis, Doris Day and a lot more.

Music Unlimited is produced in Studio B in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada by retired professional radio announcers Ian MacPhee and
Paul Meagher, both of whom have clocked over 50 years in radio.

Paul also hosts regular late-evening programmes on CFEP Seaside FM

Post-production is by Ron Bickle, of community radio CFTA in Amherst; Ron is also a retired radio professional.

Valley Sunrise with Ray Hewitt, Edition 753

Follows at 7.00, with specially chosen indie artists plus great memories including Dean Martin, Gerry and the Pacemakers, Bill Haley and the Comets,
and Dolly Parton.

Listener requests after 8.00 – call me during the programme on 6261 2000. One request per person please – and it’ll be great to hear from you.

Today’s Valley Sunrise playlist:

Hour 1:

Neil Sedaka – Wheeling West Virginia (1969)
Allan Gumm – Crying (2023)
Bobby Russell – 1432 Franklin Pike Circle Hero (1968)
Dean Martin – Rocking Alone In An Old Rocking Chair (1963)
Geoff Love & His Orchestra – Piano Parchment (Theme to All Creatures Great and Small)
Born this day 1925, Cheltenham, England – Robert Hardy, actor best remembered for his role as the irascible veterinarian Siegfried Farnon in the long running television series, All Creatures Great And Small.
Zora – Spanish Nights (2023)

Gerry & Pacemakers – You’ll Never Walk Alone (1963)
Woody Herman – At The Woodchoppers Ball
Died this day 1987, West Hollywood, California, U.S.A. – Woody Herman, jazz clarinetist, saxophonist and popular 1930s/40s big band leaders.

Living Guitars – There Goes My Everything
Jimmy Jones – Handy Man (No 8 of the top 20 Billboard tracks of 1960)
Sean Brennan – Keep On The Sunny Side
Bill Haley & Comets – Don’t Knock The Rock (1957)
Quote from a Tasmanian Member of the Legislative Council, Lucy GRounds, in 1956: Rock and Roll was just another phase in dance music, like the Charleston. It would soon die out and be replaced by something else.
Walter Brennan – The Epic Flight of John H Glenn (1962)
On This Day, 1998 – Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S.A. – The space shuttle Discovery blasted off with 77-year old John Glenn aboard, making him the oldest person to go into space.

Also born this day:
1947, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A. – Richard Dreyfuss, actor (Turns 76)
1948, Birmingham, alabama, U.S.A. – Kate Jackson, actress (Turns 75)

Hour 2:

Lindsay Butler – Wheels (2023)
By Request: Willie Nelson – On The Road Again
By Request: Johnny Horton – All For The Love Of A Girl
By Request: Harry Secombe – Song of Joy
Doc Watson – Southbound Passenger Train
Al Cerny & Bill Mankiss – The French Minuet

Andre Rieu – Edelweiss
Connie Francis – Tango Delle Rose
Dolly Parton – The Moon The Stars and Me
Steve Sparrow – Big Old Land Australia (2023)
Lance Birrell – Aussie Medley (2023)
Joe Diamond – I Wish I Had The Job (2023)
Apollo 100 – Joy

Friday Morning Radio, Edition 388, 27 October 2023

Three hours of easy listening with current indie releases and memories;

Regular weather updates;

A rundown on some roadworks happening in the South;

Railway Round-up (when Tasmanian volunteer-operated Tourist & Heritage trains are running);

And Sky High (which planets are visible and when).

On air 9 a.m. ~ Midday AEDT on TYGA-FM 98.9, the Derwent Valley’s own radio station.

Here is this morning’s playlist:

Hour 1:

Charley Pride – I Wonder Could I Live There Anymore
Hawking Brothers – Singing The Blues
Lucky Starr – A Friend Like You
Sean Brennan – Friday At The Dance (2023)
Sabrina Fallon – My Uncle Mike (2023)

Manuel & The Music Of The Mountains – Island In The Sun
Floyd Cramer – San Antonio Rose
(Floyd Cramer, born this day 1933 in Shreveport, Louisiana, U.S.A. Died 1997)
Leroy Van Dyke – Walk On By (1961)
Margie Singleton & George Jones – I’ll Just Walk On By (1961)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Delltones – Hanging Five (1963)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Crystals – Then He Kissed Me (1963)
Mac & Katie Kissoon – Sugar Candy Kisses (1975)

Hour 2:

Michael Jay Hughes – Thunderbird Night (2023)
Dianne Lindsay – What’s A Bush Ballad (2023)
Joe Diamond – Are You Teasing Me (2023)
They Don’t Make Them Like This Anymore: Archie Bleyer – Hernando’s Hideaway (1954)
Xavier Cugat & His Orchestra – Miami Beach Rhumba
(Xavier Cugat, died this day 1990 in Barcelona, Spain, aged 90.)
Anne Murray – He Thinks I Still Care
S M 2 – The Judging (2023)

Max Greger & His Orchestra – Stranger On The Shore
Allan Gumm – Crying (2023)
Johnny Riley – Dirty Ol’ Day (2023)
Troy Cassar-Daly – Something About Trains
Glenn Levi – Let ‘Em Know (2023)
Daddy Cool – Bom Bom (1971)
Bill Goodall – The White Rabbit (2023)

Hour 3:

Janey Kirk – Mockingbird Hill
Hickory Hank – West Virginia Mountains (2023)
Gerard Gormley – Two Rooms And A Kitchen (2023)
Billy Fury – A Thousand Stars (1960)
Destiny Band Oz – All Alone (2023)

Percy Faith & His Orchestra – Up On The Roof
60 Year Diamond Classic: Fats Domino – Red Sails In The Sunset (1963)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Angels – My Boyfriend’s Back (1963)
By Request – Jim Reeves – Distant Drums
Heintje – Wenn Der Sommer Kommt
Shelly Jones Band with Lester Treuer – One Night At A Time (2023)
Lance Birrell – Aussie Medley (2023)
Monkees – A Little Bit Me A Little Bit You (1967)

LOOKING BACK……

1959 LEUNEBURG, West Germany – Authorities had been trying for over a year to locate an unlicenced “pirate” radio station which was broadcasting jazz.
It was believed the station was being operated by teenagers who moved the transmitter to different places after each broadcast to foil Government direction-finder equipment.
But then, the station’s announcer addressed the direction-finder crews, suggesting they take a rest because there would be no broadcast the following day.

1960 NEW NORFOLK, Tasmania – A local resident had a surprise when he saw himself twice, as a World War 2 serviceman, on the television programme “War In The Air.”

Friday Morning Radio, Edition 387, 20 October 2023

Some great Indie tracks and memories on the playlist and features include the Roadworks Update, Diamond Classics,
Railway Round-up, and Sky High.

Diamond Classics are tracks which were on the Australian Top 40 charts on this day in 1963 – exactly 60 years ago.

Railway Roundup gives mention of what train rides are available, where and when, and Sky High, which planets can be seen in
our skies, where and when.

For the first time I have an interstate pic as the masthead. The volunteer-run Zig Zag Railway in New South Wales is officially
reopening this weekend after many years of closure, caused by serious bushfire damage on two separate occasions.

I wish them every success. They seem to be on the right track, with most trains this weekend booked out!

TYGA-FM streams on the net at www.tygafm.org.au/listen-live/

The Playlist:

Hour 1:

Victoria Eman – When Love Starts Talkin’ (2023)
Marty Robbins – Melba From Melbourne
Carol Markstrom – Long Long Time (2023)
Allan Gumm – Crying (2023)
Zora – Spanish Nights (2023)
Drifters – There Goes My Baby (1959)

Melbourne Pops Orchestra Conducted by Tommy Tycho – We Do It
Kathy Kirby – Secret Love
(Kathy Kirby born this day 1938, Ilford, Essex, England. Died 2011)
The Travelling Wilburys – End Of The Line (1988)
(Member Tom Petty born this day 1950, Gainesville, Florida, U.S.A. Died 2017)
Col Elliott – Proud To Be Aussie (2023)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Diane Ray – Please Don’t Talk to The Lifeguard (1963)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Village Stompers – Washington Square (1963)
By Request: Dolly Parton – Jolene
Victor Silvester & His Orchestra – Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep

*Also born this day – 1959, Dublin, Ireland: Niamh Cusack, actress known for he role as Dr Kate Rowan in the television series Heartbeat.

Hour 2:

Archies – Bang Shang A Lang (1968)
Dermot O’Hara – Sunday Morning Coming Down (2023)
Will Ardell – Goodbye Lou (2023)
They Don’t Make Them Like This Anymore: Andy Williams – Butterfly (1957)
Alice Benfer – Long Black Skirts (2023)
Jim Reeves – Snowflake (1966)

Paul Saulnier – Velsa Pour Marie
Steve Stern – The Lady In Black (2023)
Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu – Djarmirri
Destiny Band Oz – All Alone (2023)
Ian MacNamara – Cootamundra On The Main Trunk Line
Alexander Brothers – The Flying Scotsman

Hour 3:

Sean Brennan – Come With Me Molly (2023)
Steve Sparrow – Big Old Land Australia (2023)
Chris Boots Lee – Always Wanting More (2023)
Alan Copeland & Beverley Kelly – Swinging On A Star
Daniel O’Donnell – Pretty Little Girl From Omagh
Pete Moore & His Orchestra – The Most Beautiful Girl

Brian May & ABC Melbourne showband – The Rhythm Of Life
60 Year Diamond Classic: Nat King Cole – That Sunday That Summer (1963)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Johnny Crawford – Petite Chanson (1963)
Anne Murray – He Thinks I Still Care
Douglas Ray Jaffe – It’s (2023)
Seekers – The Music Of The World A’Turning
Alisha Smith – Blue Gums Calling Me Back Home

+ 60 Year Diamond Classics are tracks which were charting on Top 40s around Australia on this day, 60 years ago.

Music Unlimited with Ian MacPhee 6 a.m. ~ 7 a.m.

Valley Sunrise with Ray Hewitt , Edition 751, 7 a.m. ~ 9 a.m.
Sunday 15 October 2023 (Times are AEDT)

Sunday, and in Music Unlimited with Ian MacPhee (by way of a quick pre-view), included in this edition
were Daniel Boone; Neil Young; the Monkees; Paul Mauriat & His Orchestra; and Kenny Rogers and much more.

It is another top programme from Ian and his producer, Paul Meagher, in Studio B over in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Valley Sunrise with Yours Truly follows, for more Sunday easy-listening.

I do listener requests after 8 a.m., so please let me know what you’d like to hear on 6261 2000 during the programme.

The playlist for this edition appears below.

If you’re out of the broadcast area, simply click on this link: www.tygafm.org.au/listen-live/

Between now and late, this Saturday evening, tune in to Craig and Lee (see photo) for even more great listening – AND requests!

Valley Sunrise, Edition 751, 15 October 2023 Playlist:

Hour 1:

Judy Stone – Gentle On My Mind
Neil Anthony – Never Pass This Way Again (2023)
Cilla Black – Love’s Just A Broken Heart (1966)
Edward Woodward – Can’t Smile Without You
Barry McGuire – Eve of Destruction (1965) [Barry McGuire born this day 1935 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma U.S.A., Turns 88]
Carpenters – Close To You (1970) [Richard Carpenter born this day 1946 New Haven Connecticut, U.S.A., Turns 77]

Vanessa Bourne – Lord I Hope This Day Is Good (2023)
Daryl Somers – Night And Day
[Cole Porter, composer of numerous songs including “Night And Day” died this day 1964 in Santa Monica, California, U.S.A., aged 73]
Al Martino – A Time For Us
Brenda Lee – I’m Sorry (1960) [Number 6 of the Top 20 Billboard tracks, 1960]
Alan Mackey & Anne Kirkpatrick – Walking Away With The Moon (2023)

Hour 2:

Acoustic Bloom – Carolina In The Fall (2023)
By Request: Rod Stewart – Rhythm Of My Heart
By Request: Pussycat – Mississippi
By Request: Shirley Thoms – The Last Thing On My Mind
Rick Nelson – Night Train To Memphis

By Request: Helen Reddy – You And Me Against The World
Col Elliott – Proud To Be An Aussie
By Request: Slim Dusty – We’ve Done Us Proud
Heintje – Two Little Stars
John Gilheaney – The Golden Rogue (2023)
ABBA – Nina Pretty Ballerina (1973)