2 June 2024

Music Unlimited 0600 ~ 0700:

Every Sunday morning, great easy listening from Ian MacPhee and Paul Meagher, ex-professional broadcasters with over 50 years’ experience each, from Studio B in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Post-production by Ron Bickle, of community radio CFTA Radio Tantramar, Amherst, Nova Scotia.

Valley Sunrise Edition 784

Today’s photo: Taken on the waterfront at St Helens, north-east Tasmania.

Today’s Playlist:

Hour 1 – 0700 ~ 0800:

Dave Caley – The Wild Ones
Paul Hudnott – Mister Rainbow Man (2024)
Nancy Su – You Gave Me (2024)
Jo Allen Christi – Grandpa’s Fishing Hole (2024) ISRC QZK6L2359942
Jimmy Jones – Handy Man (1960)
(Jimmy Jones – Born this day 1937 in Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.A., singer, songwriter and one-hit-wonder with his 1960 hit, Handy Man. Died 2012.)
John DeRosa – Hey Rock and Roll (2024)

Melbourne Pops Orchestra conducted by Tommy Tycho – Fernando
Sammy Kaye Orchestra – Diane
(Sammy Kaye – Died this day 1987 in Manhattan, New York, U.S.A. He was a band leader and songwriter of the Big Band era, famed for the tag line “Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye.” Aged 77
Ewelina Borkowska – Jolene (2024)
Billboard Top 20 of 1961 – No 19: Ray Charles – Hit The Road Jack
Lloyd Back – Flowers (2024) ISRC AUZY42300048
Rosalind Clare – Back In Baby’s Arms (2024) ISRC USJ3V2393597
Toni West & Ray Malcolm – Island In The Stream (2021)

Hour 2 – 0800 ~ 0900:

Buckinghams – Kind Of A Drag (1967)
By Request: John Williamson – Cootamundra Wattle
By Request: Peter Sarstedt – Where Do You Go To (1969)
By Request: Charley Pride – Just Between You And Me
By Request: Vera Lynn – I’ll Be Seeing You
Jo Powell – You Never Asked Me (2024) ISRC AUZY42400002

By Request: Billy Vaughn & His Orchestra – Morgen
By Request: Beatles – Yellow Submarine (1966)
Catherine Marx – Being Close To You (2024) ISRC USDY42460648
Archies – Bang Shang A Lang (1968)
Graham Rodger – The Wellshot Hotel (2024)

BORN ON THIS DAY:

1904  Bansag, Austria-Hungary – Johnny Weissmuller, 1920s Olympic swimmer, winner of five gold medals and one bronze medal.  He became the sixth actor to portray Tarzan in movies, a role he played 12 times.  Although many other actors have also played Tarzan, Weissmuller is by far the best known with his distinctive, undulating yell. Died 1984.

1948  Sioux City, Iowa – Jerry Mathers, former child actor who portrayed Theodore Cleaver, aka “Beaver” in the early American television sitcom Leave It To Beaver between 1957 and 1963. Turns 76.

1971 Auckland, New Zealand – Joel Tobeck, one-time radio breakfast programme weatherman, also a dancer, singer and actor, who appeared as Chief Superintendent Matthew Lawson in the ABC television series, The Doctor Blake Mysteries. Turns 53.


DIED ON THIS DAY:

1990 New York, U.S.A. – Reginald Carey Harrison alias Rex Harrison, Academy award winning actor of stage and screen. Aged 82.

2001  Westport, Connecticut, U.S.A. – Imogene Coca, comic actress who started out in vaudeville as a child acrobat, but studied ballet with the intention of a serious career in music and dance.  She graduated to decades of stage musical revues and cabaret. She also had a celebrated career as a television comedienne. Aged 92.

2008  Archer, Florida, U.S.A. – Ellas Otha Bates, alias Bo Diddley, rock and roll vocalist, guitarist, songwriter, and inventor. Aged 79.

2008  Santa Barbara, California, U.S.A. – Melchor Gastón Ferrer alias Mel Ferrer, Cuban-American actor, film director and film producer. Aged 90.

EVENTS ON THIS DAY:

1953 Westminster, England – The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II took place at Westminster Abbey.  This was the first to be televised around the world.

1960 Hobart, Tasmania – The Australian Broadcasting Commission’s first Tasmanian television station, ABT channel 2, was officially opened by Dame Enid Lyons, Tasmanian Resident Commissioner for the ABC.
The names of the personalities who would regularly be seen were announced.  They were;  Don Lette;  Barry Fraser;  Bob Wilcox;  Ken Short;  and John Baldwin.

1965 The first contingent of Australian troops arrived in South Vietnam.

1966 American space probe Surveyor 1 landed on the Moon’s Oceanus Procellarum, becoming the first U.S. spacecraft to soft land on another world.

1985 The RO-RO ferry Empress of Australia made its final voyage across Bass Strait, between Devonport and Melbourne.

ODD SPOTS:

1968 BOURNEMOUTH, England – Hotel manager Brian Tokely was looking for someone who could throw a stone from his hotel, into the sea, so he could legally advertise his hotel as being “a stone’s throw from the sea.”

1968 SIDERNO, Italy – There was amazement, joy and new heartbreak after Giuseppe Caccamo failed to return, after joining the Italian army 26 years previously. His wife and two children donned black mourning dress and prayed for him.
Then in 1968, Giuseppe turned up, home, but wouldn’t say what he had been doing since 1942, nor where he had been. After a big party – Giuseppe disappeared again.

1968 LONDON, England – A skin specialist, Dr Ian Seddon, warned that girls wearing mini-skirts who worked in cold offices and shops were at risk of getting chill-blains on their thighs and bottoms, if they worked near open doors.

31 May 2024

Friday Morning Radio Edition 419

Today’s pic: Taken at the Bay of Fires, in Tasmania’s north-east, during my break there last week. The vapour trail is from a Sydney, or Brisbane, to Hobart direct flight which passed overhead.

The Playlist:

Hour 1 (9.00 ~ 10.00):

Noel Flynn – Too Good Of A Day To Say Goodbye (2024)
Bushwackers – Friend For Life (2024)
John Williamson & Beccy Cole – It’s All About Love
Jim Reeves – Stand At Your Window
Ray Malcolm – Don’t Close Your Eyes (2024)
Francisco Cavez & His Orchestra – Midnight In Brazil

101 Strings Orchestra – Andante From Violin Concerto In E Minor
Paul McNeilly – Australia’s Sunny Soil (2024)
Peter Paul & Mary – Puff The Magic Dragon (1963)
[Born this day 1938, New York, USA, Peter Yarrow, singer famed for his role with the 60s music trio Peter Paul & Mary. Yarrow co-wrote, with Leonard Lipton, one of the group’s most famous songs – Puff The Magic Dragon.]
Anthony Baxter – Pride Of New England (2024)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Beatles – Can’t Buy Me Love (1964)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Kathy Kirby – You’re The One (1964)
Alisha Smith – Redwing
Johnny Cash – When Papa Played The Dobro

Hour 2 (10.00 ~ 11.00):

Stacey Breen – Everybody Loves A Winner (2024)
Taylor Brothers – Walking In The Sunshine (2024) ISRC GBSVC2400202
Charlie Adams – It’s A Good Life (2024) ISRC AUJ3Z2300001
They Don’t Make Them Like This Anymore:  Phil Harris – The Thing (1950)
Diana Trask – Oh Boy (1974)
Bill Anderson – Green Green (1964)

George Melachrino Strings – Villa Villa
Tammy Lynn – Evergreen (2024)
Graeme Connors – A Child Of This Land
Jade Hurley – Burning Bridges
Cass Williams – Walkin’ Old Floors (2024) ISRC QZDA82419935
George Baker Selection – Fly Away Little Paraquayo

Hour 3 (11.00 ~ 12.00):

Lance Friend – Ned Kelly Said (2024)
Dale Hooper – Thank God For Radio (2024)
Warren Kearney – Welcome To My World (2004)
Apollo 100 – A Walk In The Black Forest (1974)
Yvonne & The Stars – De Hele Stad
Ashley Cook – Diamonds From The Moon (2024)

Manuel & The Music Of The Mountains – The Honeymoon Song
60 Year Diamond Classic: Chad Stuart & Jeremy Clyde – The Summer Song (1964) [Played in Error]
60 Year Diamond Classic: Ray Charles Singers – Love Me With All Your Heart (1964)
Cathy Dobson – Sundowner Drive (2024)
Tommy Fleming – Dream A Little Dream Of Me
Chad Stuart & Jeremy Clyde – Yesterday’s Gone (1964) [Intended play, above.]
Fisherman’s Friends – Strike The Bell

The 60 Year Diamond Classics were charting, as 45 rpm singles, on this day 60 years ago.

ON THIS DAY:

BORN:

1926 Nowingi, Victoria – Patricia Jean Adam-Smith, BKA Patsy Adam-Smith, author and historian whose research took her to over 60 countries.  Died 2001.

1930 San Francisco, California, U.S.A. – Clinton Eastwood, BKA Clint Eastwood, film actor, director, producer and composer, known for his roles in violent action and western films. 


EVENTS:

1878 Mutton Bird Island, near Port Campbell, Victoria – The clipper ship Loch Ard was wrecked, with the loss of 50 lives.  Only two of the 54 on board survived, Eva Carmichael, a passenger, and Thomas Pearce, an apprentice.  Pearce made it to shore, but returned to the rough water to rescue Carmichael, who clung to a spar for many hours.

1889 Johnstown, Pennsylvania U.S.A. – Over 2,200 lives were lost when the South Fork Dam failed and sent an 18 metre wall of water over the town.

1927 The last Ford Model T left the assembly after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles.

1937 The first episode of a new radio serial, Dad And Dave, based on Steele Rudd’s book On Our Selection, was broadcast throughout Australia.

1942 Japanese midget submarines began a series of attacks in Sydney Harbour.

1963 Tasmania ended its coldest May on record, with Hobart shivering with the lowest minimum temperature for the month since 1902.  The -0.5 C minimum recorded at the Weather Bureau was the second lowest on record for the city. 

1968 New Norfolk, Tasmania – The 150^th anniversary of the start of construction of the first road between Hobart and New Norfolk was celebrated by an assemblage at Willow Court, including a sentry in full uniform who sheltered in the original sentry box.

26 May 2024

I’m back after a few days’ R n R in fabulous St Helens, in Tasmania’s north-east. Great weather, great people, great food.

Thanks to Nigel Jones for sitting in for me on Friday morning, when I’m normally on air.

Music Unlimited 0600 ~ 0700:
Every Sunday morning, great easy listening from Ian MacPhee and Paul Meagher, ex-professional broadcasters with over 50 years’ experience each, from Studio B in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Valley Sunrise Edition 783

Today’s photo: Fishing vessels tied up at St Helens.

Today’s Playlist:

Hour 1 – 0700 ~ 0800:

Foster & Allen – Memories Are Made Of This
Richard Mulligan – Coat Of Many Colours (2021)
Desert Mulga Band – Karnta Nyuntu (2021)
Bay City Rollers – Bye Bye Baby (1975)
Peggy Lee with Mel Torme & Mellomen – The Old Master Painter (1950)
(Peggy Lee – Born this day 1920 in Jamestown, North Dakota, U.S.A. as Norma Deloris Egstrom. She was a jazz and pop singer, songwriter and actress, whose career spanned nearly 70 years. Died 2002.)
Edward Woodward – Smile

Paul Mauriat & His Orchestra – Alouette
Miles Davis – Time After Time
(Miles Davis – Born this day 1926 in Alton, Illinois, U.S.A. He was a trumpeter, band leader and composer one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Died 1991)
Ray Malcolm – Don’t Close Your Eyes (2024)
Billboard Top 20 of 1961 – No 18: Connie Francis – Where The Boys Are
Bunky Christiansen – Silver Wings (2013)
Cumberland River Project – In Line (2024)

Hour 2 – 0800 ~ 0900:

ABBA – Put On Your White Sombrero (1980)
By Request: Beatles – In My Life (1965)
By Request: Johnny Horton – When It’s Springtime In Alaska (1961)
By Request: Shirley Bassey – I (1964)
By Request: Shirley Thoms – Just A Boy I Used To Know

Les Brown & His Band of Renown – Tangerine
Andy Williams – Be Mine Tonight
Catherine Marx – Being Close To You (2024)
Winifred Atwell – Coronation Rag
Graeme Connors – Pacifica
Steve Sparrow – Now And Forever (2024)

BORN ON THIS DAY:

1886 Seredzius, Lithuania – Asa Yoelson alias Al Jolson, singer, comedian and actor who, in his heyday, was dubbed “The World’s Greatest Entertainer”. (Died 1950)

1904  Wigan, England – George Formby, singer and comedian, popular star of stage and screen, remembered for playing the banjo ukelele and as a singer of light, comical songs. (Died 1961)

1906  Bhamo, Burma – John Dease, Australian actor, radio presenter and quizmaster of the 1940s and 50s best remembered for the radio programme The Quiz Kids, the format of which involved a panel of Sydney childen aged between 11 and 15 who answered questions sent in by listeners around Australia.    (Died 1979)

1907 Winterset, Iowa, U.S.A. – Marion Mitchell Morrison BKA John Wayne, Academy-Award winning American film actor, director and producer. (Died 1979)

1908 Semley, Wiltshire, England – Robert Morley, actor often cast in supporting roles, as a pompous English gentleman representing The Establishment. (Died 1992)

DIED ON THIS DAY:

2005 Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. – Eddie Albert, actor who appeared in many movies and television series, including the 1960s television sitcom Green Acres and the soapie Falcon Crest. (Aged 99)

2018  Houston, Texas, U.S.A. – Alan Bean, fourth man to set foot on the moon and Lunar Module Pilot of the Apollo 12 mission in 1969. He completed two moon walks and assisted crewmates Dick Gordon and Pete Conrad with lunar surface experiments, and with the installation of the first nuclear power generator station on the moon.  (Aged 86)

2020  Tony Scannell, actor best known for his role as DS Ted Roach in the long-running police drama The Bill  (Aged 74)

EVENTS ON THIS DAY:

1940 Dunkirk, France – Allied forces began a massive evacuation of over 338,000 soldiers during a pause in an overpowering attack by the German Army. Over 40,000 men were taken prisoner, or left to find their own way back to England, via Spain.

1969 Apollo 10 returned to Earth after a successful eight-day test of all components needed for the forthcoming first manned moon landing.

1970 The Soviet Tupolev TU-144 became the first commercial plane to exceed Mach 2, or double the speed of sound.  This aircraft cruised at 16,000 metres (or 52,000 feet) at a speed of 2,000 km/h (or Mach 1.6).
A total of 16 Tupolev TU-144s were built, but they were only used for 55 passenger flights, before being used for 47 cargo flights until 1983. A major problem was the interior noise level, which was high enough to make conversation between passengers impossible.
Only two of these aircraft survive, both as museum exhibits in Zhukovski, near Moscow. 




 

19 May 2024

Music Unlimited 0600 ~ 0700:

Every Sunday morning, easy listening from Ian MacPhee and Paul Meagher, ex-professional broadcasters with over 50 years’ experience each, from Studio B in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Included in this edition, Elvis Presley; Jimmie Rodgers; the Everly Brothers; Burl Ives; and much more.

Valley Sunrise Edition 782

Today’s photo: The Close, St Matthews Anglican Church, New Norfolk.

Today’s Playlist:

Hour 1 – 0700 ~ 0800:

Noel Flynn – Too Good Of A Day To Say Goodbye (2024)
Ashley Cook – Diamonds From The Moon (2024)
Anne Murray – There Goes My Everything
Paul McNeilly – Australia’s Sunny Soil (2024)
Alma Cogan – The Story Of My Life (1958)
(Alma Cogan – Born this day 1932 in Golders Green, London, England as Alma Angela Cohen. She was a pop singer of the 1950s and 60s, and the most consistently successful female singer in the U.K. Died 1966.)
Jim Reeves – Golden Memories And Silver Tears (1967)

101 Strings Orchestra – Penny Lane
Kathy Kirby – Please Help Me I’m Falling (1969)
(Kathy Kirby – Died this day 2011 in London, England. She is best known for her 1964 cover of Doris Day’s Secret Love, and for Dance On, a vocal version of the Shadows’ hit of 1963. She represented the United Kingdom in the 1965 Eurovision Song Contest, in which she came second. Her appearance often drew comparisons with Marilyn Monroe. She was aged 72.)
Taylor Brothers – Walking In The Sunshine (2024) ISRC GBSVC2400202
Billboard Top 20 of 1961 – No 17: Ferrante & Teicher – Exodus
Calla Markwell with Ronnie Ogden & His Orchestra – Heat Wave
Jimmy Little – Ring Of Fire
Amy Leigh – And I Wonder (2024)

Hour 2 – 0800 ~ 0900:

Tony Bennett – Rags To Riches (1953)
By Request: Glen Campbell – Rhinestone Cowboy
By Request: Pussycat – Mississippi
By Request: Olivia Newton-John – Help Me Make It Through The Night
By Request: Slim Whitman – Indian Love Call

By Request: Elvis Presley – Little Egypt
By Request: Jim Reeves – He’ll Have To Go
Graeme Connors – 60 Summers
Walk Don’t Run – Saturday Night In Nashville (2024)
Jade Hurley – Always
Christie – Yellow River (1970)
Alisha Smith – Winter Winds

BORN ON THIS DAY:

1861 Melbourne, Victoria  – Helen Porter Mitchell alias Dame Nellie Melba, one of the most famous singers of the late Victorian Era and the early 20th century, and the first Australian to achieve international recognition as a classical musician. Died 1931.

1932 Golders Green, London, England –Alma Cogan, pop singer of the 50s and early 60s, and the highest paid British female entertainer of her era. Died 1966.

1961 Gweedore, County Donegal, Ireland – Eithne Patricia Ní Bhraonáin alias Enya, singer, instrumentalist and composer.


DIED ON THIS DAY:

1915 Shrapnel Gully, Turkey – Private John Simpson Kirkpatrick, known as “Simpson, the man with the donkey.” who retrieved numerous wounded soldiers and saved many troops’ lives during the Gallipoli landing.  Aged 22.

2002  Sydney, New South Wales – John Gorton, 19^th Prime Minister of Australia, in office from January 1968 until March 1971, when he voted himself out of office after a motion of confidence at a Liberal Party caucus meeting was tied. Aged 90.

2011  London, England – Kathleen O’Rourke alias Kathy Kirby, pop singer, best known for her cover of Doris Day’s Secret Love, and for representing the United Kingdom in the 1965 Eurovision song Contest, in which she came in second.  Her appearance often drew comparisons with Marilyn Monroe.  Aged 72.  

2014 Gold Coast, Queensland – John Arthur Brabham alias Sir Jack Brabham, Australian racing car driver who was Formula One champion in 1959, 1960, and 1966 and founder of the Brabham racing team.  Aged 88.

EVENTS ON THIS DAY:

1950 South Amboy, New Jersey, U.S.A. – More than 420 tons of munitions and other explosives consigned to Pakistan, exploded as they were being transferred from railway trucks to barges, causing the loss of 35 lives and injuring hundreds.
The explosion was heard 50 km away, damaged most of the town’s 2,700 buildings, and destroyed the town’s power supply. The company which manufactured the explosives later faced 9,000 charges.

1953  Melbourne, Victoria – The 100,000^th Holden car came off the production line at Fishermen’s Bend.

1961  The Soviet probe Venera 1 became the first man-made object to approach another planet when it passed within 100,000 km of Venus.  However, contact with Venera 1 had been lost a month previously, so it did not send any data.

ODD SPOT:

1969 – England – An prisoner, serving seven years for armed robbery, who escaped from Dartmoor Gaol, decided to ask a Plymouth resident about borrowing his car.
His cheek was rewarded with a free ride “home” when he knocked on the door of Leonard Blaney, an ex-policeman, who became suspicious.

1969 – Hobart, Tasmania – A car rental agency must have set a record for the shortest life of a registered car. It was delivered from the dealer with 2 miles (3 kilometres) on the odometer. After half an hour, and one more mile (1.6 km) the car was a write-off.

17 May 2024

Friday Morning Radio Edition 417

Today’s pic: An autumn scene at the New Norfolk Railway Station, now the base for the Derwent Valley Railway Society.

The Playlist:

Hour 1 (9.00 ~ 10.00):

Ruby Jones – Feeling of Falling (2024)
Roget Tibbs – Bandy The Rodeo Clown (2024)
Ian MacNamara – Learning To Smile
Jamie Donnelly – I’ll Fly Away (2024)
Richard Mulligan – Marian’s Song (2019)
Acker Bilk – Misty

Montmartre Strings – Bright Eyes
Ray Conniff Singers – Theme From Love Story
Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge Over Troubled Waters (1970)
Tammy Lynn – Born Too Late (2024)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Frankie Valli & Four Seasons – Ronnie (1964)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Mary Wells – My Guy (1964)

Hour 2 (10.00 ~ 11.00):

Nancy Su – You Gave Me (2024)
By Request: Elvis Presley – Return To Sender (1963)
Elliott Ambrose – Breakfast In Texas (2024)
Toni West – I’ll Catch Up To You Later (2024)
They Don’t Make Them Like This Anymore: Four Lads – Istanbul Not Constantinople (1953)
Kym Cormack – Aotearoa New Zealand (2024)
Lindsay Waddington – When I Think Of Home (2024)

Percy Faith & His Orchestra – The Syncopated Clock
Aaron Bozwell – He Wears Her Rings Above His Heart (2024)
The Long And Short Of It – Beside You (2024)
By Request: Louis Armstrong – What A Wonderful World (1968)
Todd Rundgren – I Saw The Light (2024)

Hour 3 (11.00 ~ 12.00):

Sisters In Song – Go Rosie Go (2024)
Gert Postma – Livin’ On Love (2024)
Slim Dusty & The Travelling Country Band – The Three Rivers Hotel (1976)
Hein Simons – Herzens Melodie
Matt Monro – Strangers In The Night
Harry Secombe – This Is My Song

Central Band of the Royal Air Force – The Dambusters March
60 Year Diamond Classic: Cliff Richard – I Only Have Eyes For You (1964)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Frank Ifield – Angry At The Big Oak Tree (1964)
Andy Williams – One Day Of Your Life
Paddy Canavan – My Own Carrickmore (2024)
Jason McCahill – Thank God I’m A Country Boy (2024)
A B C Showband – The Muppets Theme

The 60 Year Diamond Classics were charting, as 45 rpm singles, on this day 60 years ago.

ON THIS DAY:

BORN:

1911 Boyle, Country Roscommon, Ireland – Maureen O’Sullivan, actress considered to be Ireland’s first film star.  She appeared in numerous movies, but is probably best known for her role as Jane in the Johnny Weismuller Tarzan movies. Died 1998.

1936 Dodge City, Kansas, U.S.A.  –  Dennis Hopper, actor, film-maker and artist who made his first television appearance in 1954, and appeared in two films, Rebel Without A Cause (1955) and Giant (1956).  Died 2010.

1961 Gweedore, County Donegal, Ireland – Eithne Patricia Ní Bhraonáin alias Enya, singer, instrumentalist and composer.

DIED:

1992 Santa Monica, California, U.S.A. – Lawrence Welk, American musician, bandleader and television host.  Aged 89

2012 Naples, Florida, U.S.A. – LaDonna Adrian Gaines alias Donna Summer, singer who became famous during the “disco” era of the seventies. Aged 63.

2013 Melbourne, Victoria – Penne Hackforth-Jones, actress and biographer, who appeared in many Australian productions including Bellbird, Homicide, Division Four, A Country Practice. Aged 63.

2022 Paris, France – Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou alias Vangelis, musician and composer of electronic jazz, progressive, ambient and orchestral music, best known for his Academy Award winning score for the film Chariots Of Fire. He also penned scores for the films Blade Runner and 1492: Conquest of Paradise. Aged 79.


EVENTS:

1943 Germany – W W 2 – The Dambuster Raids by the Royal Air Force  No 617 Squadron took place against dams in the Ruhr and Eder Valleys, creating floods which claimed 1,500 lives.

1952 Freycinet Peninsula, Tasmania –  Flooding swept away a bridge spanning the Apsley River, marooning 130 people in the Coles Bay area.  Fishing boats ferried supplies to the locality from nearby Swansea until a temporary replacement bridge was built.

1957 Ralphs Bay, Tasmania –  The tallest structure of the time in Tasmania, a steel radio mast 200 metres high, was under construction.  The mast was to be used by both Hobart ABC radio stations, 7ZR and 7ZL.

1959 One crewman died and the remaining ten had a five hour row to shore when a 272 tonne motor vessel, Blythe Star, caught fire and sank in Bass Strait, off Burnie. 

1965 Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. – A 20 year old stowaway was discovered inside a wooden crate, after it was flown from Melbourne.  The stowaway, a homesick Welsh man who was unable to pay the air fares to return home, was charged with illegally entering the U.S.A. and faced deportation – to England!

1969 The Soviet space probe Venera 6 jettisoned a capsule, which was designed to analyse the atmosphere of the planet Venus  as it descended to the surface. The capsule returned data to Earth, until it was crushed by the planet’s extreme atmospheric pressure. 

ODD SPOT:

1969 – Dumfries, Scotland – A murderer who escaped from prison by clinging beneath a bread delivery van, was recaptured 25 kilometres away, when he tried to hitch a ride. The approaching vehicle, was a police car.

Also in 1969 – Hobart, Tasmania – A Hobart man who took a drive into the country, had his highly polished car damaged when a ram attacked it’s reflection. Nearby cars which had a coating of dust, weren’t touched.

12 May 2024

Valley Sunrise Edition 781

Today’s photo: Taken at St Matthews Anglican Church, New Norfolk.

Today’s Playlist:

Hour 1 – 0700 ~ 0800:

James Blundell – The Great Divide (2020)
Inge Augustina – Something Stupid (2022)
Kamahl – The Sounds of Goodbye (1969)
Daniel O’Donnell – The Minute You’re Gone
Carpenters – Close To You (1970)
[Born on this day 1928 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA – Burt Bacharach, pianist, composer and music producer known for numerous hit songs and compositions from the mid 50s through the 80s, with lyrics written by Hal David. Includes “Close To You” which was a No 1 for Carpenters. Died 2023]
Billy Vaughn & His Orchestra – Chapel By The Sea
Debbie Reynolds – Put On Your Pretty Skirt

Acker Bilk – Morning Has Broken
Billy Swan – I Can Help (1974)
[Born this day 1942 in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, USA – William Lance Swan, alias Billy Swan, singer and songwriter, best known here, for his hit single, “I Can Help.” Turns 82]
Hein Simons – Alpenrosen
Billboard Top 20 of 1961 – No 16, Shirelles – Will You Love Me Tomorrow 
Perry Como – Caterina (1962)
[Died this day 2001 in Jupiter Inlet Colony, Florida, USA – Pierino Roland Como, alias Perry Como, singer and television personality. Aged 88.]
Toni west – I’ll Catch Up With You Later (2024)
Owen Mac – Heather On The Hill

Hour 2 – 0800 ~ 0900:

Andy Williams – In The Summertime
By Request: P J Proby – Somewhere
By Request: Beatles – The Long And Winding Road
By Request: Ernest Tubb – Waltz Across Texas
By Request: Al Martino – Spanish Eyes (1966)
By Request: Foster & Allen – Rose Of My Heart

Victoria, Vanessa &Charmaine Eman – Love Letter (2024)
Engelbert Humperdinck – Misty Blue
Julie Anthony – Last Night I Didn’t Get To Sleep At All
Bill Shadler – Love Me Like It’s The Last Time (2023)
Alana Wilkinson – Square One (2024)
Jim Reeves – Not Until The Next Time
Alice Benfer – Old Felt Hat (2024)

EVENTS ON THIS DAY:

1962 – Weybridge, Surrey, England – A new airliner, the Vickers VC 10, made its first test flight.  This was the first clean-wing airliner with four engines mounted beside the tail and it later set the record for an Atlantic crossing by a sub-sonic airliner, of 5 hours and 1 minute.  This record was held for 41 years, until a Boeing 747 shaved 5 minutes off with the help of a storm in 2020.

1965 – The Soviet spacecraft Luna 5 crashed on the Moon.  Following a mid-course correction, a gyroscope problem caused the spacecraft to start spinning and a loss of control which result in the crash.  An observatory on Earth noted a large dust cloud at the impact site which lasted ten minutes.

10 May 2024

Friday Morning Radio Edition 416

The Playlist:

Hour 1 (9.00 ~ 10.00):

Foster & Allen – A Dream Come True
C C Parkroy – You’re Beautiful (2024)
Ridge Banks – One Note At A Time (2024)
Tony Christie – Country Roads
Peter Posa – The White Rabbit (1963)
Paul & Paula – Something Old Something New (1963)

Frank Chacksfield & His Orchestra – I’ll Be With You In Apple Blossom Time
Perry Como – Close To You
Donovan – Jennifer Juniper (1968)
[Born this day 1946 in Glasgow, Scotland – Donovan Philips Leitch, best known as Donovan, singer-songwriter and guitarist popular during the 1960s. His best known hits include Catch The Wind, Colours, and Universal Soldier. Turns 77 today.)
Liz Clarke – Because You’re Mine (2024)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Donna Lynn – Java Jones (1964)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Searchers – Love Potion No 9 (1964)
Tammy Lynn – Evergreen (2024)

Hour 2 (10.00 ~ 11.00):

Felicia Deramus-Paul – Invitation To The Blues (2024)
Peter Salata – That’s My Way Of Life (2024)
Slim Dusty – Bloody Bonzer Mate
They Don’t Make Them Like This Anymore: Guy Mitchell – Feet Up (1952)
Charlie Chech – The Summer Wind
Andy Williams – Strangers In The Night

Frank Duval & His Orchestra – Song of Theben
Jazz Kings – On Green Dolphin Street (2023)
Ray Malcolm – With These Hands (2024)
Ray Conniff Orchestra & Singers – Come Saturday Morning
Bill Anderson – 500 Miles Away From Home (1963)
Carylann – Try The World On Like A Pair of Shoes (2019)
Aretha Franklin – A Summer Place

Hour 3 (11.00 ~ 12.00):

Deb Mepham – Merry Model T (2024)
Alan Gumm – Me And Annie Murphy (2024)
Mary Gantley – Smiling (2024)
Desi Egan & Caitriona O’Sullivan – Summer Wine (2020)
Anthony Baxter – Pride Of New England (2024)
Anne Murray – A Million More

Billy Vaughn & His Orchestra – The Green Green Grass of Home
60 Year Diamond Classic: Dionne Warwick – Walk On By (1964)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Seekers – Myra (1964)
Jamie Donnelly – I Know Who Holds Tomorrow (2024)
Walk Don’t Run – I Can Hear That Train (2024)
Dancing Ballroom Orchestra – I Need Your Love

The 60 Year Diamond Classics were charting, as 45 rpm singles, on this day 60 years ago.

ALSO ON THIS DAY:

BORN:

1899 Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.A. – Frederick Austerlitz BKA Fred Astaire, film and Broadway dancer, choreographer, singer and actor, whose career spanned a total of 76 years, and 31, musical films. Died 1987.

1899 Ukraine, Russian Empire – Dimitri Tiomkin, composer. 


EVENTS:

1941 Nazi officer Rudolf Hess parachuted into Scotland to try to negotiate a peace deal between the United Kingdom and Nazi Germany.  He was immediately arrested and was held in British custody until the end of the war, when he was returned to Germany to stand trial in the Nuremburg Trials of major war criminals in 1946.
Throughout his trial, Hess claimed to be suffering from amnesia, but later admitted this to be a ruse. He was convicted of crimes against peace and conspiracy with other German leaders to commit crimes, and transferred to Spandau Prison in 1947, where he served a life sentence. Repeated attempts by family members and prominent politicians for his early release were blocked by the Soviet Union.  He died of an apparent suicide in 1987 at the age of 93.

1954 Bill Haley & His Comets released Rock Around The Clock, the first rock and roll record to reach number one on the Billboard charts.

1960 Hobart, Tasmania – Construction of the Tasman Bridge commenced. 

1964 Hobart, Tasmania – An 18 year old girl became the first person to fall from the Tasman Bridge.  Although she fell more than 30 metres, (100ft.) she survived with scarcely a bruise.   

5 May 2024

Valley Sunrise Edition 780

This Edition’s Photo: Taken at Salmon Ponds in the Derwent Valley, April 2024.

Today’s Playlist:

Hour 1 – 0700 ~ 0800:

Dean Weston – Maybe This Time (2024)
Fleetwood Mac – Little Lies (1987)
Bangles – Manic Monday (1986)
Ollie Austin – Eighteen Yellow Roses
Tammy Wynette – Stand By Your Man (1968)
[Born on this day 1942, Virginia Wynette Pugh, alias Tammy Wynette, singer song-writer whose best known song, Stand By Your Man, was one of the biggest selling hit singles by a woman in the history of country music. Died 1998]
Monty Python – Always Look On The Bright Side

Henry Arland – Somewhere Over The Rainbow
Buddy Williams – The Flying Doctor
[Died this day 1951 in Sydney, New South Wales – John Flynn alias Flynn of the Outback, founder of the Royal Flying Doctor Service. Aged 70]
Allan Gumm – Just Thank Me (2024)
Billboard Top 20 of 1961 – No 15, Mar Keys – Last Night 
Jerry Wallace – There She Goes
[Died this day 2008 in Corona, California, U S A – Jerry Wallace, country and pop singer. Aged 79]
Millie – My Boy Lollipop (1964)
[Died this day 2020 in London, England – Millicent May Small, alias Millie, the first international recording star from the Caribbean. Her 1964 No 1 hit, My Boy Lollipop, sold over 7 million copies worldwide. Aged 72.]
Alisha Smith – The Rabbit Flat Polka

Hour 2 – 0800 ~ 0900:

Frankie Carle – On The Beach At Waikiki (2024)
By Request: Maroon Five – Memories
By Request: Josh Turner – Your Man
By Request: Mitch Miller & The Gang – The Great Escape March (1963)
By Request: ABBA – Waterloo (1976)
By Request: Kamahl – Desiderata

By Request: Foster & Allen – Old Loves Never Die
Frank Mills & His Orchestra – Wherever You Go
Ainslie Allen – Don’t Wanna Be Lonely (2024)
Jason Carruthers – Song for The Lonely (2023)
Roger Whittaker – Calypso

EVENTS ON THIS DAY:

1947 – Camp Mountain, Queensland – A major train derailment resulted in the loss of 16 lives.  A subsequent inquiry in Brisbane resolved that the crash was due to excessive speed and the crew was found guilty of dereliction of duty.

1955 – West Germany became a sovereign state and a few days later joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation.

1960 – The first test transmissions were made by the ABC’s Hobart television station, ABT 2.  Reception was described as good throughout the State. 

1966 – New Norfolk, Tasmania – Fire damaged the Corumbene nursing home, causing up to $8,000 damage.  The building, which was the former New Norfolk Cottage Hospital, had been donated by the State Government and subject to years of work by local soroptimists, Rotarians, Apexians and other volunteers.

1972 – Near Richmond, Tasmania – The radio monitoring station at Quoin Ridge was established. 

3 May 2024

Friday Morning Radio Edition 415

Today’s photo: A recent Autumn view of Arthur Square New Norfolk.

The Playlist:

Hour 1 (9.00 ~ 10.00):

Caruso – Movin’ Like The Ocean (2024)
Mary Gantley – Keep The Spirits Up (2024)
Warren Kearney – Music Fallin’ (2023)
Bing Crosby & Bugs Bower Orchestra – Thoroughly Modern Millie (1968)
[Born this day 1903 in Tacoma, Washington USA – Harry Lillis Crosby, alias Bing Crosby, singer and actor whose career extended over 50 years from1926 until his death in 1977.]
Tammy Lynn – Born Too Late (2024)
Don McLean – Castles In The Air (1972)

Johnny Harris & His Orchestra – The Day I Met Marie
Fleetwood Mac – As Long As You Follow
Pete Seeger – Little Boxes (1964)
[Born this day 1919 in Manhattan, New York, USA – Pete Seeger, folk singer and member of the Weavers, who had a string of hits during the 1950s. The Weavers were blacklisted during the McCarthy era as suspected communists, but in the 1960s Pete Seeger re-emerged as a singer of protest music in support of international disarmament, civil rights and environmental issues. Died 2014.]
The Sherrahs – Old Socks (2024)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Lesley Gore – That’s The Way Boys Are (1964)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Elvis Presley – Viva Las Vegas (1964)
Duane Eddy – Rebel Rouser
[Duane Eddy died last Tuesday, aged 86.]

Hour 2 (10.00 ~ 11.00):

Gerard Gormley – Streets Of Promise (2024)
Cumberland River Project – In Line (2024)
Ames Brothers – Pussycat (1958)
[Born this day 1921 in Malden, Massachusetts, USA – Joseph Urick, alias Joe Ames, member of the Ames Brothers singing quartet which was very popular during the 1950s, with million-selling hits such as The Naughty Lady Of Shady Lane, You You You, Tammy and Melodie D’Amour. Died 2007.]
By Request: Chris Barber – Petite Fleur (1961)
They Don’t Make Them Like This Anymore: Red Ingle & The Natural Seven – Cigareetes And Whusky (1948)
Dave Dudley – Six Days On The Road (1963)
[Born this day 1928 in Spencer, Wisconsin, USA – David Pedruska, alias Dave Dudley, singer best known for his truck driving songs of the 60s and 70s. Died 2003.]
Lindsay Waddington – When I Think Of Home (2024)

Les Brown & His Band of Renown – So Rare
John Rowles – Fools Rush In
Four Seasons – Silence Is Golden (1967)
[Born this day 1934 in Newark, New Jersey, USA – Francis Stephen Castelluccio, alias Frankie Valli, lead singer of the Four Seasons, noted for his falsetto singing voice. Turns 90]
Christa Fartek – Hello Mama (2024)
Colin Buchanan – What I Love About Country (2024)
Wayne & Geraldi – Hey Look Me Over

Hour 3 (11.00 ~ 12.00):

Bushwackers – Friend For Life (2024)
Sammie Soravia – The Woman I Am (2024)
Bobby Goldsboro – I Can’t Stop Loving You
Louis Armstrong – What A Wonderful World (1968)
Charlie Chech – The Summer Wind
Mary Hopkin – Temma Harbour
[Born this day 1950 in Pontadawe, Wales, Mary Hopkin, folk singer and one of the first musicians to sign to the Beatles’ Apple label. Turns 74]

James Last & His Orchestra – Letkiss/Norskejenka
60 Year Diamond Classic: Nat King Cole – I Don’t Want To Be Hurt Anymore (1964)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Gerry & Pacemakers – Don’t Let The Sun Catch You Crying (1964)
Jason McCahill – Thank God I’m A Country Boy (2024)
Paul McNeilly – Australia’s Sunny Soil (2024)
Taylor Brothers- Walking In The Sunshine (2024)
A B C Showband – Lost Patrol

The 60 Year Diamond Classics were charting, as 45 rpm singles, on this day 60 years ago.

ALSO ON THIS DAY:

BORN:

1936 Ostermundigen, Switzerland – Ursula Andress, actress best known for her role as Honey Rider in the first James Bond movie, Dr No.  Because of her heavy accent, her character’s voice was overdubbed by Nikki Van Der Zyl, and the calypso she sang was overdubbed by the voice of Diana Coupland.  She appeared in many other movies until 2005. (Turns 88)

EVENTS:

1961 Hobart, Tasmania – The new model EK Holden cars were released for sale in Tasmania; the first Holdens to feature automatic transmission. 

1966 Clovelly, Sydney, New South Wales – A 9 year old schoolboy with a broken collarbone leapt into his mother’s runaway car as it rolled down a steep hill with his 4 year old sister at the wheel.  The schoolboy steered the car past 4 parked vehicles, braked and steered towards the kerb just before it would have crashed into a double decker bus.

1967 Hobart, Tasmania – A fire which broke out on the 4^th floor of a building in Argyle St threatened to engulf the entire city block. 

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