Friday, June 16….

Please join me for Friday Morning Radio on TYGA-FM 98.9, as I play some specially chosen music.

This Friday morning programme has undergone the Mother of all re-organisations, and I hope you will enjoy the changes.

Some great music in store and I look forward to your company at 9.00. I hope you can join me.

Today’s playlist:

HOUR  1:  Recent Releases

Abby Grace – Itty Bitty Box  (2023)

Kent Gill – Get Rhythm  (2023)

Joy Adams – Silver Dew On The Bluegrass Tonight  (2023)

Bridget Pross – They’re Gonna Hatecha Anyway  (2023)

Richard Porteous – The Froggy Can Can  (2023)

Lissa Retrot – Free To Love  (2023)

Andy Martin – Storms Never Last  (2023_

Sandy Rasmussen & Chris Wilson – The Long Black Veil  (2023)

John O’Dea – Circle  (2023)

Jokeria & Sally Jane – Without You  (2023)

Dan Slyker – Whiskey In The Winter  (2023)

Michael Lusk – Momma’s Wall of Fame  (2023)

Warren Kearney – The Ballad of The Loch Ard  (2023)

HOUR 2:  From My Library

Jade Hurley – Penny Arcade

Al Martino – Love Is Blue

Jim Reeves – I’m Gonna Change Everything

Brian May & ABC Melbourne Showband – Love Will Keep Us Together

Ray Conniff & His Orchestra – Never on Sunday

RCA Symphony Orchestra – Exodus

Val Doonican – Dream A Little Dream of Me

Johnny Mathis – Call Me

Acker Bilk – Dancing In The Dark

Boz Scaggs – It’s Over

Al Grant – Distant Drums

Freddy Quinn – Heimweh  (Memories Are Made Of This)

A Diamond Classic:  Lesley Gore – It’s My Party  (1963)

HOUR 3:  Treasure Chest  (First half hour)

A Diamond Classic:  Cliff Richard & Shadows – Dancing Shoes  (1963)

Shadows – Geronimo  (1963)

Petula Clark – Look At Mine  (1969)

Crash Craddock – Boom Boom Baby  (1960)

A Diamond Classic:  Johnny O’Keefe – You’ll Never Cherish A Love So True  (1963)

Bobby Vinton – Blue On Blue  (1963)

Boney M- The Rivers of Babylon  (1978)

Back To The Present:

Todd Barrow – Best Of Me  (2023)

Lance Friend – Tearing Up The Tar  (2023)

Watling & Bates – Coolatai Waltz  (2023)

Malcolm McDowell – I Will Stand By You  (2023)

John & Nienke – Just A Minute  (2023)

Colin Harney – Ring of Fire

Mario Como & Kay Webb Orchestra – Cappricio Italien

By way of introduction, I am a retired Commonwealth public servant with a life-long interest in railways.  I am a foundation member of the Derwent Valley Railway, which has been based in New Norfolk for 30 years.

I’ve also been involved with community radio now for over 16 years.  For the first five years, I broadcast with Hobart FM, in the Sunday 6 a.m. ~ 8 a.m. time-slot.

In 2009, a new radio station (TYGA-FM) commenced broadcasting in New Norfolk.  I promptly joined, and landed the Friday 6 a.m. ~ 9 a.m. Breakky programme.

Thus, for around two years, I could be heard on both stations – but not at the same time!

Eventually, for personal reasons, I left Hobart FM after hosting 274 editions of Sunday Sunrise.  I then took on Sunday 6 a.m. ~ 9 a.m. Breakky on TYGA-FM, as well as continuing the Friday programme.
 
This continued through to 2016, when the opportunity arose to move my Friday shift from Breakky to Mornings, 9 a.m. ~ midday.
In 2017, I had the opportunity to welcome veteran broadcasters Ian MacPhee and Paul Meagher (the latter, I believe, unrelated to the Aussie actor, Ray Meagher) of Halifax, Canada, to 6 a.m. Sundays.

This was possible with the assistance of Ron Bickle, of community radio CFTA in Amherst, Nova Scotia.  Around the same time, both my programmes evolved to include more content from independent recording artists, who are not “big-timers” but are often equally as talented as those who are.

This blog has been created with the assistance of my eldest son, Adrian, who is a skilled website technician.  Please click on the "a" in the black bar at the very end of this blog, if you believe he may be able to assist you.

Please join me on Friday Morning Radio and Valley Sunrise (on Sundays), where the music matters.

And in the morning’s edition of Music Unlimited with Ian MacPhee at 6.00, the Manfred Mann, the Cascades, and Willie Nelson – and that’s only in the first 20 minutes!

Later in the programme, in the Country Patch – Hank Snow and Ray Price; and in Album Corner, Don Williams

A great mix of newies and oldies in edition 733 of Valley Sunrise following at 7.00.

Requests after 8.00 a.m. The number to call, during the programme, is 6261-2000.

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Derwent Valley weather check:

8.30 a.m. Sunday – Cloudy, New Norfolk, 9 C.

TODAY’S PLAYLIST – HOUR 1

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Rodney Vincent – Young Man’s Job (2023)

Johnny Chester & Hotspur – All On Your Own (1980)

Jim Devine – Cotton Fields (2023)

Elisabeth Hope & Hans Grondel – I Hope You’re Happy Now (2023)

Abby Grace – Itty Bitty Box (2023)

Roger Miller – Engine Engine Number 9 (2023)

Joe Loss & His Orchestra – Wheels

Jud Strunk – Wheels (1973)

Joey Dee & Starliters – The Peppermint Twist (1962)

Noel Boland – This Thing (2023)

John O’Dea – Circle (2023)

Clayton Saunders – Slow Burn (2023)

Lindsay Waddington – Love Always (2023)

Victoria Eman – Love Begins With A Smile

HOUR 2

Col Elliott – It’s A Feeling (2023)

By Request: Barbra Streisand – The Way We were (1974)

By Request – Shadows – Apache (1960)

Petula Clark – The Other Man’s Grass (1968)

By Request – Elvis Presley – Separate Ways

Colin Paul – Add It To The List (2021)

By Request – The Singing Nun – Dominique (1963)

Acker Bilk – Lazy Serenade

The Seekers – The Leaving of Liverpool

Johnny O’Keefe – Sing (1962)

The Fortunes – Here It Comes Again (1965)

Billy Vaughn & His Orchestra – Walk Don’t Run

Sean Delamus – The Dancing Years (2020)

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HAVE A BEAUT DAY!