Friday, 6 September 2024

Friday Morning Radio Edition 433 – Revised

Three hours of music, Indies and memories, not heard on mainstream radio on TYGA-FM, 98.9 on the dial, or On-line, at www.tygafm.org.au/listen-live/

Today’s photo:  Russell Falls, Mt Field National Park. Photo: Bonnie Fraser.

Today’s Playlist:

HOUR 1  9.00 ~ 10.00:

TRACK	RELEASE YEAR	PREVIOUS PLAYS	LAST PLAYED	ISRC
Don Allan – Suzanne	2024	2	18/8/2024	USHM8 2448582
Cathy Dobson – Everybody Knows	2024	1	28/7/2024	AUMEV 2488412
Charlie Adams – Fire Glow	2024	1	23/8/2024	AUJ3Z 2300004
Carpenters – There’s A Kind of Hush	1976	2	4/1/2013
Glen Campbell – You’re My World		2	11/1/2019
(By Request)  Lee Kernaghan – Cobar Line		0
Shavonne Aliphon – Near You	2019	4	10/5/2019
The Shadows – Trains And Boats And Planes		4	6/7/2018
Michael Cleary – Mr Miller	2024	0		TCAHX 2405106
<> Jackie Trent – Where Are You Now My Love	1965	6	6/9/2020
Bachelors – Love Me With All Your Heart	1966	6	19/4/2019
+ 60 YEAR DIAMOND CLASSICS  –  Charting this day in 1964
+ Burl Ives – Pearly Shells		12	7/4/2024
+ Gene Pitney – It Hurts To Be In Love		8	1/9/2023
Al Caiola – Pepe	1961	4	6/1/2023
<> Jackie Trent, born this day 1940 in Newcastle-Under-Lyme, Staffordshire, England as Yvonne Burgess. She was a singer, songwriter and actress, known for her compositions with her former husband, Tony Hatch. Died 2015.
HOUR 2 10.00 ~ 11.00
Dean Perrett – A Big Thing In A Small Town	2024	2	2/8/2024	AUZY42 400006
Tony Clarke – Not That Kind Of Fool	2024	0		QZ825 1857501
Greg Champion & Anne Fraser – The Ororroo Waltz	2024	2	25/8/2024
They Don’t Make Them Like This Anymore: Doris Day – Que Sera Sera	1956	12	2/2/2024
Andy Martin – Corrine Corrina	2024	3	11/8/2024
Ben Steneker & Anna McRose – Heart To Heart	2024	2	2/8/2024
Bert Kaempfert & His Orchestra – My Blue Heaven		1	22/1/2017
Mike McClellan – All I’ve Got Is Love	2024	5	7/7/2024
Graeme Clarke – Me Belonga White Fella		2	13/10/2019
Dianne Coombes – Hearts Drawn In The Sand	2024	1	1/9/2024
Justin Landers – Book of Endless Wonder	2024	1	4/8/2024	AUJBV 2400001
HOUR 3  11.00 ~ 12.00:
Murray Lloyd – Time	2024	0
Kevin Sullivan & Bill Chambers – High Country Snows	2024	2	23/8/2024	AUVW1 2100001
Richard Sullivan – Dance Around The Floor	2020	3	9/10/2020
Horst Wende’s Accordeon Band – The Cuckoo Waltz		0
Helena Mace – Blue	2024	0
Jack Jones – Somewhere My Love		0
Arthur Greenslade & His Orchestra – Jennifer Juniper		3	282/8/2022
+ 60 YEAR DIAMOND CLASSICS  –  Charting this day in 1964
+ Cilla Black – It’s For You		4	27/5/2016
+ Al Martino – Always Together		7	8/10/2021
Carylann – No Goodbyes	2022	11	23/6/2023
Billy McFarland – You’re So My Kind of Perfect	2024	0
Rebekka Lundstrom – Lilies On The Radio	2024	0

6 SEPTEMBER IN HISTORY

1666 London, England – The Great Fire of London ended with over 13,000 buildings, including the original St Paul’s Cathedral, destroyed.  The blaze had started four days previously in a bakery in Pudding Lane, and spread rapidly.  It left 70,000 of the city’s 80,000 people homeless and although very few deaths were confirmed, many are likely to have been unrecorded as the intensity of the fire would have left little of it’s victims.

1933 Melbourne Victoria – The City Coroner, investigating the death of a young woman who had been struck by a car during a storm, declared that all cars should have windscreen wipers.  A new regulation to this effect was drafted.

1949 Camden, New Jersey, U.S.A. – Howard Unruh, a former World War 2 sharpshooter, killed 13 neighbours, including three children, with a souvenir Luger pistol, and became the first single-episode mass murderer in the United States.  He was found to be criminally insane and was gaoled until his death in 2009.

1963 Hobart, Tasmania – The new seven storey Scottish Union building in Macquarie Street was opened by the Premier (Eric Reece).  At 120ft (36 m) in height, it was then claimed to be Hobart’s tallest building.

1972 Munich, Germany – Eleven Israeli athletes were murdered at the 1972 Olympics after 8 members of the Arab terrorist group Black September invaded the Olympic Village.  Five of the terrorists and 1 policeman also died during a failed hostage rescue.

1983 The Soviet Union admitted to shooting down a Boeing 747 of Korean Airlines, stating that the pilots did not know it was a civilian aircraft when it violated Soviet airspace.

Today’s Photo – Ben Lomond National Park, July 2022. Courtesy Bonnie Fraser

Music Unlimited 0600 ~ 0700 AEST
Hosted by Ian MacPhee from Studio B in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

You can contact Ian at [email protected]

Valley Sunrise Edition 797
0700 ~ 0900 AEST – PLAYLIST

Hour 1

Kevin Sullivan – That’s What It Means (2024)  (Debut)
Dianne Coombes – Hearts Drawn In The Sand (2024)  (Debut)
Jason McCahill – Thank God I’m A Country Boy (2017)  (Previous Plays 5; Last Played 2024)
By Request: Peter Allen – The More I See You    (Previous plays – 7; Last Played 2017, Requested 1 x)
Bill Goodall – The White Rabbit   (Previous Plays 2; Last Played 2023)
Foster & Allen – My Grandfather’s Clock (Debut)

Richard Clayderman – Sukiyaki  (Past Plays – 2; Last played 2019)
# Conway Twitty – Mona Lisa  (Previous plays – 1; Last Played 2019)
Glenn Levi – All Good Things Must Have An End (2024)   (Previous plays – 1; Last Played 2024)
Billboard Top 20 of 1962 – No 12:  Dion – The Wanderer (1962)  (Previous plays – 8; Last Played 2022, Requested 1 x)
John Rowles – If I Only Had Time (1968)  (Previous plays – 5; Last Played 2019, Requested 5 x)
## Diane Ray – Please Don’t Talk To The Lifeguard   (Previous plays – 13; Last Played 2023)

Hour 2

Tribute to Listener “The Fox of Bridgewater” who died during the week: Sarah Brightman & Andrea Bocelli – Time To Say Goodbye
Paul Ricketts – Just Like My Old Man (2024) (Debut)
By Request: Foster & Allen – Old Loves Never Die (Previous plays – 8; Last Played 2024, Requested 7 x)
By Request: Ray Malcolm – Is There Something On Your Mind (2024)   (Previous plays – 2; Last Played 2024; Requested 1 x)
By Request: Willie Nelson – Nothing I Can Do About It Now **    (Previous plays – 2; Last Played 2016)

**Play of this request was disrupted by a technical issue. Play was resumed after the next track.

Derek – Cinnamon (1968)  (Previous plays – 2; Last Played 2018)

Stylistics – Let’s Put It All Together (1974) (Previous plays – 5; Last Played 2015) 
James Last Orchestra – Tico Tico  (Previous plays – 2; Last Played 2018) 
Andrew Dean & Farm Machine – Soaking Up The Rays (2024)   (Previous plays – 3; Last Played 2024)
### Bee Gees – I Started A Joke (1969)  (Previous plays – 8; Last Played 2022)

ON THIS DAY:

BORN:

# 1933  Friars Point, Mississippi, U.S.A. – Harold Lloyd Jenkins, alias Conway Twitty, country singer who also had success in early rock and roll, rhythm and blues and pop music. He held the record for the most number one singles, with 55 No. 1 Billboard country hits until George Strait broke the record in 2006. (d. 1993)

## 1942 Gastonia, North Carolina, U.S.A. – Diane Ray, pop singer of the early 1960s, best known for her one-hit-wonder of 1963, Please Don’t Talk To The Lifeguard.  (d. 2020)

### 1946 Douglas, Isle of Man – Barry Gibb, musician, singer, songwriter, and producer, famed as a member of the Bee Gees, one of the most successful pop groups in history.  The Bee Gees was comprised of Barry Gibb and his younger, twin brothers Robin and Maurice.  Barry is the sole survivor of the three.  Turns 78.

EVENTS:

1929 Hobart recorded a record low September maximum temperature of  3.8 C.

1934 Albury, New South Wales – Mystery surrounded the discovery of the charred body of an attractive blonde woman, wearing silk pyjamas, in a roadside culvert.  The young woman became known throughout Australia as “The Pyjama Girl,” as ten years elapsed before she was identified as Linda Agostini. The case remained unsolved until her husband, Tony Agostini, confessed.  Tony Agostini was convicted of manslaughter, served four years of a six year sentence, and was deported to Italy in 1948.

1939 Nazi Germany invaded Poland, beginning the Second World War.

1948 Melbourne, Victoria – The first production Holden car left the assembly line at Fisherman’s Bend.

1972 Australia – Changed from measuring temperature in the Fahrenheit scale, to Celsius.

1983 Near Sakhalin Island, Russia – All 269 aboard a Boeing 747 of Korean Airlines, Flight 007, perished when the plane was shot down by a Soviet jet fighter, after the commercial aircraft entered Soviet airspace.

A farewell to a dedicated listener to my programmes for over 17 years – Tim Wallis, alias The Fox of Bridgewater – who died earlier this week after a long illness.

The Fox was a regular contributor to my programmes and others on TYGA-FM 98.9; also, previously to Hobart FM and Tasman FM (Nubeena).

He regularly requested tracks for play during Valley Sunrise.

His final request, last Sunday morning, was, Time To Say Goodbye.

VALE, Tim Wallis a.k.a. The Fox

You will be missed.

Today playlist (Friday 30 August) follows below.

Friday, 30 August 2024

Friday Morning Radio Edition 432

Three hours of music, Indies and memories, not heard on mainstream radio on TYGA-FM, 98.9 on the dial, or On-line, at www.tygafm.org.au/listen-live/

Today’s photo:  Northern suburbs of Hobart, from a private residence. Photo: Yours Truly.

Today’s Playlist:

Hour 1 (9.00 ~ 10.00):

Kevin Sullivan – The Stroll (2024)   (Debut)
Rod Williams – A Little Country Schoolhouse By The Lane (2024)   (Previous plays – 3 )
Peter Salata – The Wallaby Hotel (2024)  (Previous plays – 1)
Fleetwood Mac – Monday Morning  (Debut)
Allisons – Are You Sure (1961) (Debut)
Backtrack: Stephen R Cheney – Just Lucky I Guess (2018)    (Previous plays – 6. Last played  2019 )

Acker Bilk – Rambling Rose  (Previous plays – 2. Last played 2020 )
Helen Forrest & Harry James Orchestra – It Must Be Him  (Previous plays – 2. Last played 2020)
Kitty Wells – It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels (1952)  (Debut)
Born this day 1919 in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.A. – Ellen Muriel Deason, alias Kitty Wells, country singer whose hit, It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels, made her the first female to top the U.S. country charts, and she became the first female country star. Died 2012.
Mamas & Papas – Dedicated To The One I Love (1967)    (Previous plays – 14. Last played  2021 Requested 1 x)
Born this day 1935 in Parris Island, South Carolina, U.S.A. – John Phillips, singer, guitarist and songwriter known as Papa John, of The Mamas & Papas. Died 2001.
60 Year Diamond Classic: Manfred Mann – Do Wah Diddy Diddy (1964)  (Previous plays – 12. Last played 2021)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Ray Columbus & Invaders – She’s A Mod (1964) (Previous plays – 9.  Last played 2022 Requested 1 x)
Andre Rieu – I Have A Dream  (Previous plays – 11)
Symphony Orchestra of Vienna – The Gypsy Baron Waltz  (Previous plays – 4. Last played 2021)

Hour 2 (10.00 ~ 11.00):

Tribute to The Fox of Bridgewater, who passed earlier this week.
Trevor Loughrey – Forever and A Day (2024)  (Previous plays – 1 )
Andrew Dean & Farm Machine – Texas and Tennessee (2024)    (Debut)
Charlie Landsborough – You Stand All Alone  (Previous plays – 7. Last played 2015)
They Don’t Make Them Like This Anymore: Dean Martin – Don’t Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes (1952)  (Debut)
Kylie Adams-Collier – Hervey Bay (2024)  (Previous plays – 1)
Johnny Chester – Send Me Some Loving (2024)   (Previous plays – 2)

Mario Como & Kay Webb Orchestra – La Golondrina  (Previous plays – 1. Last played 2014)
Roger Whittaker – The Streets of London  (Previous plays – 2. Last played  2019 )
Mary Gantley – Goodbye My Eire (2024)    (Debut )
Rob Breese – Thargomindah Sunset (2024)   (Debut)
Foster & Allen – Things  (Debut)
Tornados – Dragonfly (1963)  (Previous plays – 14. Last played 2023)

Hour 3 (11.00 ~ 12.00):

Andy Williams – Aquarius   (Debut)
The Wheel – Good Noise (1997)   (Debut)
By Request: Elvis Presley – Rags To Riches   (Previous plays – 1 Last played 2019)
Horst Wende’s Accordeon Band – Die Deutschmeister Marsch  (Debut)
Andy Martin – I’m Blue I’m Lonesome (2024) (Debut)
By Request: Carole King – School Bells Are Ringing  (Debut )

Louise Morrissey – The Old Candlelight (2018)  (Debut)
Manuel & The Music Of The Mountains – The Sun The Sea And The Sky  (Debut)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Searchers – Dusty Springfield – I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself (1964)   (Previous plays – 5.  Last played 2018)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Drifters – Under The Boardwalk (1964)  (Previous plays – 6. Last played  2021)
Peter Simpson – Akubras In The Snow (2019)    (Previous plays – 3.  Last played 2020 Requested 1 x)


* Diamond Classics were on Top 40 charts around Australia on this day, 60 years ago (1964).

BORN ON THIS DAY

1955 – Hobart – Plans for the construction of a drive-in movie theatre in the middle of the Elwick racecourse were announced. 

1955 – Sydney, New South Wales – A drama in the sky began when a pilot casually swung the propeller of an Auster light plane as he walked past, at Bankstown aerodrome.  The engine fired, and the plane took off, pilotless.  It climbed to an altitude of 1,000 feet and flew aimlessly for 3 hours over the city, but was eventually shot down by two RAAF fighter planes when it headed towards the sea off Broken Bay.

1957 DIED, Fiji – Harold Gatty, Tasmanian-born navigator, inventor, and aviation pioneer nominated by Charles Lindbergh as the “Prince of Navigators.”  In 1931, Gatty served as navigator, along with pilot Wiley Post, on a flight which set a record for aerial circumnavigation of the world, flying a distance of 24,903 km in a Lockheed Vega named Winnie Mae, in 8 days, 15 hours, and 51 minutes. 

1961  Chamonix, France – 63 tourists were rescued from a stranded cable car after a low-flying jet aircraft sliced through the supporting cable, causing another cable car to plunge to the ground, killing 6.

Today’s Photo – Snow-dusted Mt Wellington, between buildings at the Tasmanian Transport Museum, Glenorchy

Music Unlimited 0600 ~ 0700 AEST
Hosted by Ian MacPhee from Studio B in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

You can contact Ian at [email protected]

Valley Sunrise Edition 796
0700 ~ 0900 AEST – PLAYLIST

Hour 1

Natalie Cole – Almost Like Being In Love  (Debut)
Sandy Scott – It’s Now Or Never  (Debut)
Cazna Goodall – Misery (2017)  (Previous Plays 3; Last Played 2018)
By Request: Rod Stewart – Sailing    (Previous plays – 23; Last Played 2023, Requested 17 x)
Al Martino – Make The World Go Away  (Debut)
City Slickers – Painted Tainted Rose  (Debut)

Oscar Volk Orchestra – Hungarian Rhapsody  (Past Plays – 4; Last played 2017)
Andy Williams – Something Stupid (Previous plays – 1; Last Played 2024)
Neil Anthony – Our Shangri La (2024)   (Previous plays – 1; Last Played 2024)
Billboard Top 20 of 1962 – No 11:  Bruce Channel – Hey Baby  (Debut)
Frankie Carle – Magic Is The Moonlight~The Petticoats of Portugal  (Previous plays – 1; Last Played 2020) 
Greg Champion & Anne Fraser – The Orroroo Waltz   (Previous plays – 1; Last Played 2024)
Johnny Chester – Send Me Some Lovin’ (2024) (Previous plays – 1; Last Played 2024)

Hour 2

Kevin Sullivan – The Piano Player (2024) (Previous plays – 1; Last Played 2024)
By Request: Chris Barber & Mark Knopfler – The Next Time I’m In Town  (Debut)
By Request: Jimmy Little – Baby Blue (1975)   (Previous plays – 2; Last Played 2024; Requested 1 x)
By Request: Sarah Brightman & Andrea Boccelli – Time To Say Goodbye    (Previous plays – 15; Last Played 20-9-2023; Requested 12 x)


Francisco Cavez Orchestra – Moonlight In Montevideo  (Previous plays – 1; Last Played 2019)
Ricky May – Nagasaki  (Debut)
By Request: Neil Young – Harvest Moon  (Previous plays – 7; Last Played 2024; Requested 6 x) 
Stephen Stokes – A Peace Cry   (Previous plays – 1; Last Played 2024)
International Novelty Quartet – Silver Bell  (Previous plays – 6; Last Played 2018; Requested 2 x)

ON THIS DAY:

BORN:

1918 Plymouth, Devon, England – Richard Greene, English movie and television actor who appeared in over 40 films, best known for the lead role in the British television series The Adventures of Robin Hood, which ran for 143 episodes from 1955 to 1960. (d. 1985)

1930 Edinburgh, Scotland – Thomas Sean Connery BKA Sean Connery, Scottish actor and producer who won an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards and three Golden Globes.  He is best known for portraying the character James Bond, although he has starred in numerous other movies.  (d. 2020)

1931 Leipzig, Germany – John Peter Gilmore, BKA Peter Gilmore, English actor best known for his role as Captain James Onedin in the television drama The Onedin Line between 1971 and 1980.  (d. 2013)

EVENTS:

1944 Paris was liberated by Allied forces in World War 2

1950 President Harry Truman ordered the US Army to seize control of the nation’s railroads to avert a strike.

1969 Over 20 crewmen perished when the 1,600 ton freighter Noongah foundered off Smoky Cape, near Kempsey, New South Wales. 

1981 The Voyager 2 spacecraft, which was launched by NASA in 1977 to explore the outer planets, made its closest approach to Saturn.  Exactly 8 years later, to this day in 1989, Voyager 2 made its closest approach to Neptune.

The craft is still operating after 40 years, providing data to the Deep Space Network on the outer reaches of the Solar System. It is now over 16 billion km from Earth, and in 296,000 years from now, will pass around 4.3 light years from the star Sirius.  It will then wander the stars for eternity.

Friday, 23 August 2024

Friday Morning Radio Edition 431

Three hours of music, Indies and memories, not heard on mainstream radio on TYGA-FM, 98.9 on the dial, or On-line, at www.tygafm.org.au/listen-live/

Today’s photo: Heidelburg, Germany. Photo courtesy of Karin, a regular on-line listener from Perth, W.A.

Today’s Playlist:

Hour 1 (9.00 ~ 10.00):

Steve Sparrow – Now And Forever (2024)   (Previous plays – 1)
Bohemian Rogue – Love Does Funny Things (2024)   (Previous plays – 2 )
Don Joy & Melanie Lynn – I Know What I Said (2024)  (Previous plays – 1)
Cufflinks – Tracey (1969)  (Previous plays – 9. Last played  2022)
Daniel O’Donnell – Little Arrows (Previous plays – 3)
Backtrack: Abbie C W – Different Desire (2021)    (Previous plays – 4. Last played  2021 )

Geoff Love & His Orchestra – All Creatures Great And Small Theme  (Previous plays – 1. Last played 2023 )
Roger Whittaker – Love Lasts Forever  (Previous plays – 2. Last played 2020)
Seekers – What Have They Done To The Rain  (Previous plays – 5. Last played 2023)
Born this day 1900 in San Francisco, California, U.S.A. – Malvina Milder alias Malvina Reynolds, folk/blues singer-songwriter and political activist, known for compositions such as Little Boxes (a hit for Pete Seeger); What Have They Done To The Rain and Morningtown Ride (a hit for the Seekers in 1965. Died 1978.
Bob Crosby & the Bob Cats – Georgy Girl     (Previous plays – 2. Last played  2022 )
Born this day 1913 in Spokane, Washington, U.S.A. – George Crosby, alias Bob Crosby, Dixieland bandleader and vocalist. Died 1993.
60 Year Diamond Classic: John D Loudermilk – The Wife (1964)  (Previous plays – 3. Last played 2018)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Elvis Presley – Such A Night (1964) (Previous plays – 5.  Last played 2020)
Andy Martin – Mirrors Don’t Lie (2024)  (Previous plays – 1)
Alisha Smith –

Hour 2 (10.00 ~ 11.00):

Jax Tonic – My Radio (2024)  (Previous plays – 2 )
Kevin Sullivan & Bill Chambers – High Country Snows (2024)    (Previous plays – 1)
Greg Champion & Anne Fraser – Ororroo Waltz (2024)  (Debut )
They Don’t Make Them Like This Anymore: Burl Ives – Goober Peas (1952)  (Previous plays – 3)
By Request: Neil Diamond – Sweet Caroline (2024)  (Previous plays – 13. Previously requested  11 x )
Watling & Bates – Grandfather’s Watch (2024)   (Previous plays – 1)

David Rose Orchestra – Holiday For Strings  (Previous plays – 3. Last played 2014)
Abby Grace – Look At The World (2024)   (Debut )
Backtrack: Vanessa Delaine – Forever And A Day (20)    (Previous plays – 8. Last played  2021 )
By Request: Pussycat – Mississippi (1976)   (Previous plays 33. Requested 28 x)
Rick Springfield – Speak To The Sky (1971)  (Previous plays – 1. Last played  2016)
Backtrack:  Lene Lie – You Promised Me Roses (2021)  (Previous plays – 4. Last played 2021)

Hour 3 (11.00 ~ 12.00):

Walk Don’t Run – Saturday Night In Nashville (2024)   (Previous plays – 1)
Charlie Adams – Fire Glow (2024)   (Debut)
Ted Graves – Mansion Tumble Down (2024)   (Previous plays – 1)
Shadows – Wonderful Land (1963)  (Previous plays – 9)
By Request: Jim Reeves – Not Until The Next Time (Previous plays – 1)
By Request: Smokie – Mexican Girl  (Debut )

Percy Faith Orchestra – The Entertainer     (Previous plays – 2. Last played  2020 )
60 Year Diamond Classic: Searchers – Someday We’re Gonna Love Again (1964)   (Previous plays – 2.  Last played 2015)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Beatles – I Should Have Known Better (1964)  (Previous plays – 8. Last played  2020)
Ami Leigh – And I Wonder (2024)    (Previous plays – 1)
Glenn Levi – All Good Things Must Have An End (2024)   (Debut )

* Diamond Classics were on Top 40 charts around Australia on this day, 60 years ago (1964).

BORN ON THIS DAY

1900 – San Francisco, California, U.S.A. – Malvina Milder alias Malvina Reynolds, folk/blues singer songwriter and political activist. Died 1978.

1912 – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. – Eugene Curran Kelly  alias Gene Kelly, dancer, actor, singer, film director and producer, and choreographer, who was a major exponent of 20th century filmed dance.  Died 1996.

1913 Spokane, Washington, U.S.A. – George Robert Crosby, alias Bob Crosby, Dixieland bandleader and vocalist, best known for his group Bob Crosby and the Bob-Cats.  Died 1993.

1946  Wembley, London, England – Keith Moon, musician, best known as the drummer of English rock group The Who.  Turns 78.

1949  Corfu, Greece – Vassiliki Papathanasiou alias Vicky Leandros, Greek politician and singer who achieved worldwide fame after winning the 1972 Eurovision Song Contest with the song Apres Toi (representing Luxembourg).  Turns 75

1949  Sydney, New South Wales – Richard Lewis Springthorpe BKA Rick Springfield, singer-songwriter, musician and actor.  As a musician, he is known for the 1981 # 1 single Jessie’s Girl, and as an actor he portrayed Dr. Noah Drake on the daytime drama General Hospital. Turns 75

Today’s Photo – Mt Wellington, taken 22 July 2010 from Austins Ferry by Yours Truly.

Music Unlimited 0600 ~ 0700 AEST
Hosted by Ian MacPhee from Studio B in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

You can contact Ian at [email protected]

Valley Sunrise Edition 795
0700 ~ 0900 AEST – PLAYLIST

Hour 1

Kevin Sullivan – On The Run (2024)  (Previous plays – 1; Last Played 9-8-2024)
Don Allen – Suzanne (2024)  (Previous plays – 1; Last Played 2-8-2024)
Sarah Riches – Finally Free (2024)  (Debut)
By Request: Barbra Streisand – Memory    (Previous plays – 1; Last Played 8-11-2020, Requested)
James Walker Orchestra & Chorus – The Peanut Vendor  (Debut)
Shadows – Bombay Duck (1969)  (Previous plays – 5; Last Played 11-9-2020)

Ray Conniff & His Orchestra – The Very Thought Of You  (Debut)
Johnny Preston – Cradle of Love (1960) (Previous plays – 6; Last Played 18-8-2023)
Born this day 1939 in Port Arthur, Texas, U.S.A. – Johnny Preston, pop singer whose early 1960s hits include Running Bear and Cradle of Love. Died 2011.
Brian Hyland – Poor Little Fool (1960)   (Previous plays – 3; Last Played 17-4-2015)
Billboard Top 20 of 1962 – No 10:  Shirelles – Soldier Boy  (Previous plays – 10; Last Played 21-3-2021)
Demis Roussos – Someday Somewhere  (Previous plays – 2; Last Played 1-5-2016) 
Searchers – Love Potion Number 9 (1964)  (Previous plays – 13; Last Played 10-5-2024)
Died this day 2003 in Nottingham, England – Tony Jackson, lead singer and bass player for the Merseybeat group, The Searchers. Aged 63.
Peter Salata – The Wallaby Hotel (2024) (Debut)

Hour 2

Isla Grant – A Dream Come True  (Previous plays – 1; Last Played 26-10-2018)
By Request: Jim Reeves – Waltzing On Top Of The World (1964)  (Previous plays – 7; Last Played 2-8-2024; Requested 5 x)
By Request: ABBA – Mamma Mia (1975)   (Previous plays – 18; Last Played 14-4-2024; Requested 10 x)
By Request: Slim Whitman – Cara Mia     (Previous plays – 1; Last Played 20-9-2015)
Will Glahe & His Orchestra – Schlutenliesel Polka   (Previous plays – 5; Last Played 15-9-2023)
Bridget Pross – Black Is The Colour (2024)  (Debut)

Oscar Volk Orchestra – The Bird Catcher  (Previous plays – 1; Last Played 26-9-2014)
Moody Blues – A Winter’s Tale  (Debut)
Col Elliott – Only A Moment In Time (2024)  (Previous plays – 1; Last Played 2-8-2024) 
Scott McKenzie – San Francisco (1967)   (Previous plays – 12; Last Played 18-8-2023)
Died this day 2012 in Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. – Scott McKenzie, singer remembered for his No 1 hit, San Francisco. Aged 73.
Jimmy Little – Australia Down Under (1974)  (Previous plays – 11; Last Played 24-1-2020))
Muriel O’Connor, Fran Curry, Brendan Grace – My Elusive Dreams (2024)    (Previous plays – 1; Last Played 16-8-2024)

ON THIS DAY:

1903 Hanover, Germany – Engineer Karl Jatho made a 60 metre flight in a self-made, motored aeroplane 1 month before the first flight of the Wright Brothers.  This has never been officially recognised, as it wasn’t legally certified for more than 30 years.

1917 Thessaloniki, Greece – A massive fire destroyed 32% of the city and left 70,000 homeless.

1964 Hobart, Tasmania – The floating Hobart bridge was dismantled and towed to a mooring in Geilston Bay, following the opening to traffic of the Tasman Bridge.  The British ship Galway became the first vessel to motor through the navigation span of the Tasman Bridge 

1966 Near Long Tan, Vietnam – 108 Australian and New Zealand soldiers fought a pitched battle against over 2,000 Viet Cong troops in a rubber plantation for four hours, in torrential rain. Eighteen Australians lost their lives and 24 were wounded.  After the battle the bodies of 245 enemy soldiers were found, and there was evidence that many more had been carried away.

DIED 1977 King William’s Town, South Africa – World attention was focussed on South Africa’s apartheid policies after activist Steve Biko died of injuries sustained whilst in custody after being arrested at a roadblock.

VIGILANT – A series of odd events carried by The Mercury newspaper, decades ago:

1956 – A joke misfired on a B B C radio announcer, who was reading a news bulletin on a short-wave service. Describing a meeting in Cyprus (a trouble spot of the day) between Lord Radcliffe and the Mayor of Nicosia, the announcer said that “no politics were discussed at the meeting.”
The announcer probably forgot to press the cut-out button before he added, “In other words, it was a dead loss.”

1960 – An enthusiastic New Norfolk car salesman climbed into the boot of a new model car, to prove it was larger than that of another popular make. The lid closed. Then it was discovered that the key, which was required to open the boot lid – from the outside – was still in his pocket.

1968 – A young person driving along Sandy Bay Road was doing the right thing, having his passenger wearing a seat belt. The passenger was a skeleton.

Friday Morning Radio Edition 430

Three hours of beaut easy listening, with music, Indies and memories, not heard on mainstream radio.

TYGA-FM, 98.9 on the dial, or on-line at www.tygafm.org.au/listen-live/

Today’s photo: Spree River, Berlin, Germany. Photo courtesy of Karin, a regular listener.

Today’s Playlist:

Hour 1 (9.00 ~ 10.00):

Jason McCahill – Thank God I’m A Country Boy (2024)   (Previous plays – 4. Last played  23-6-2024 )
Kevin Sullivan – Against The Tide (2024)   (Previous plays – 4. Last played  2-8-2024 )
Fireside Singers – Don’t Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes   (Debut)
Eydie Gorme – Melodie D’Amour  (Previous plays – 1. Last played  16-8-2020)
Born this day 1931 in The Bronx, New York, U.S.A., Edith Gormezano, alias Eydie Gorme, pop singer of the 1950s and 60s, who performed solo, as well as with her husband, Steve Lawrence. Died 2013.
Backtrack: Colin Harney – Ring Of Fire    (Previous plays – 4. Last played  16-6-2023 )
Michael Crawford – Love Changes Everything     (Previous plays – 1. Last played  15-5-2022 Requested 1 x )

The Mexicans – The Winds of Barcelona  (Previous plays – 11. Last played  4-8-2024 )
Owen Smith – A House On The River Bend (2024)  (Debut)
Madonna – Angel  (Debut)
Born this day 1958 in Bay City, Michigan, U.S.A. – Madonna Louise Ciccone, alias Madonna, recording artist, actress and entrepreneur who has sold over 300 million records worldwide. (Turns 66)
Ol’ 55 – Lana     (Previous plays – 3. Last played  8-9-2023 )
60 Year Diamond Classic: Billy J Kramer & Dakotas – From A Window (1964)  (Previous plays – 9. Last played 12-8-2022)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Connie Francis – Looking For Love (1964) (Previous plays – 10  Last played 5-11-2021)
Backtrack: Andy Penkow – Wildflowers (2020)  (Previous plays – 4. Last played  1-1-2023 )
Olympic Standard Orchestra – That’s Amore (Debut)

Hour 2 (10.00 ~ 11.00):

Acknowledging the 47th anniversary of the passing of Elvis Presley

Derek Buckham – Elvis The Kid With The Heart Of Gold (2024)  (Released Today – Debut )
Elvis Presley – I’m Yours (1965)    (Previous plays – 2. Last played  1-12-2017 )
Elvis Presley – In The Ghetto (1969)  (Previous plays – 9. Last played  4-8-2023 Requested 1 x )

Muriel O’Connor, Fran Curry, Brendan Grace – My Elusive Dreams (2024)  (Debut)
Richie Love – Come Back (2024)  (Previous plays – 1. Last played  9-6-2024 )
Cathy Dobson – Sundowner Drive (2024)   (Previous plays – 1.  Last played 31-5-2024)
Marcia Hines – I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself (1976)    (Previous plays – 6. Last played  31-7-2022 Requested 1 x )

Frank Mills Orchestra – On The Move  (Debut )
Jan Holland – Melody In F   (Debut )
Backtrack: Adam James – Blame It On The Weather (2017)    (Previous plays – 4. Last played  6-1-2023 )
Joy Adams – You’re A Long Time Dead (2024)   (Debut)
They Don’t Make Them Like This Anymore: Stan Freberg – The Yellow Rose of Texas (1955)  (Previous plays – 3. Last played  7-8-2016 Requested 1 x )
Trevor Loughrey – Forever And A Day (2024)  (Debut)

Hour 3 (11.00 ~ 12.00):

Caoimhe Murney – Hillbilly Girl (2024)   (Previous plays – 1.  Last played 26-7-2024)
Vernon Huskey – Forty Eight Hours (2024)   (Debut)
Abby Grace – Look At The World (2024)   (Debut)
Ben Reel – Let The Road Rise (2024)  (Debut)
Warren Kearney – Worry Is Like A Rocking Chair (2024) (Previous plays – 3. Last played  26-7-2024 Requested 1 x)
Backtrack: Show Pony Express – Make A Wish Come True (2018)     (Previous plays – 3. Last played  10-8-2018 )

Percy Faith Orchestra – Sunrise Sunset     (Previous plays – 1. Last played  2-8-2024 )
60 Year Diamond Classic: New Christy Minstrels – Today (1964)   (Previous plays – 5.  Last played 2-11-2018)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Roger Miller – Dang Me (1964)  (Previous plays – 4. Last played  7-5-2017 Requested 1 x)
Gary R Farmer – Listen To The Rhythm Of The Falling Rain (2024)    (Previous plays – 1. Last played  5-7-2024 )
Perry Como – Weave Me The Sunshine (1974)   (Previous plays – 3. Last played  17-6-2022 )
Slim Dusty – The Pub With No Beer (Original Hit Version 1958)    (Previous plays – 12. Last played  24-3-2023 Requested 2 x )
Slim Dusty – The Answer To The Pub with No Beer (1958)    (Previous plays – 10. Last played  24-3-2023)

* Diamond Classics were on Top 40 charts around Australia on this day, 60 years ago (1964).

ON THIS DAY

1858  Foilhommerum Bay, Valentia Island, Ireland – England’s Queen Victoria sent the first official telegram over the new trans-Atlantic telegraph cable to U.S. President James Buchanan, at  Heart’s Content, Newfoundland.  Declining signal quality forced the service to close a few weeks later and the cable was subsequently destroyed when excessive voltage was applied in an effort to improve signal strength.  A replacement cable was opened in July 1866.

1942  W W 2 – The two-man crew of a U.S. naval blimp disappeared without trace near the Farallon Islands, in the Pacific Ocean 50 km from San Francisco, whilst on an anti-submarine patrol.  After the crew reported an oil slick, the blimp was seen drifting, and it eventually crash-landed in the San Francisco suburb of Daly City.
The gondola door was found open, but the crew’s parachutes were still on board and nobody on nearby ships saw anyone fall or jump from the craft.  There was no evidence as to what became of the men, whose bodies were never found, and their disappearance remains a mystery.

1960  Seaforth, New South Wales – Three children found the body of kidnap victim, 8 year old Graeme Thorne, concealed in rocky undergrowth on vacant land.  Graeme had been abducted on July 7^th, and held to ransom after his father won a substantial prize in a lottery.
A massive police investigation, using pioneering forensic techniques, culminated in the arrest in Colombo, Ceylon, of a Hungarian immigrant to Australia, Istvan Baranyay, alias Stephen Bradley,.
Baranyay, who was aboard a ship bound for Britain with his own wife and three children, was extradited to Sydney and sentenced to life imprisonment in Goulburn gaol, where he died in 1968.

1960  New Mexico, U.S.A. – Joseph Kittinger parachuted from a balloon at an altitude of 102,800 feet (31,330 m), and set three records which stood for 52 years:
Highest-altitude jump, longest free-fall at 4 minutes 36 seconds, and at 988 km/h, the highest speed attained by a human without an aircraft, until they were all broken in 2012 by Felix Baumgartner.

11 August 2024

Today’s Photo – Ched, in the Czech Republic. Courtesy listener Karin.

Music Unlimited 0600 ~ 0700 AEST
Hosted by Ian MacPhee from Studio B in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

You can contact Ian at [email protected]

Valley Sunrise Edition 793
0700 ~ 0900 AEST – PLAYLIST

Hour 1

Sarah Riches – Alibi (2024)  (Previous plays – 2; Last Played 2-8-2024)
Johnny Chester – All I Have Is Me (2024)  (Previous plays – 3; Last Played 28-7-2023)
Girls Next Door – Love Will Get You Through Times Of No Money (2024)  (Previous plays – 1; Last Played 2-8-2024)
By Request: Beatles – Blackbird    (Previous plays – 1; Last Played 14-1-2024; Last Played 14-1-2024 )
Frank Pourcel & His Orchestra – This Is My Song  (Previous plays – 4; Last Played 11-8-2023)
Matt Monro – How Little We Know  (Previous plays – 2; Last Played 12-1-2024;

Andre Rieu – The Marino Waltz  (Debut)
Russel Kitchin – State of Mind (2024)  (Debut)
Zac Griffith – My River Runs To You (2024)   (Previous plays – 1; Last Played 30-6-2024)
Billboard Top 20 of 1962 – No 9:  Chubby Checker – The Twist  (Previous plays – 9; Last Played 19-11-2023
Herb Alpert & Tijuana Brass – El Presidente  (Previous plays – 3; Last Played 18-10-2019) 
Glenn Yarborough – The Honey Wind Blows (1964)  (Previous plays – 12; Last Played 12-1-2024)

Hour 2

Bohemian Rogue – Coastal Groove (2024)  (Previous plays – 4; Last Played 13-8-2023)
By Request: Helen Shapiro – Walking Back To Happiness (1962)  (Previous plays – 5; Last Played 24-1-2022)
By Request: Bing Crosby – White Christmas   (Previous plays – 9; Last Played 3-12-2023; Requested 9 x)
By Request: Buddy Williams & Ivy Somerfeld – Let’s Grow Old Together     (Previous plays – 4; Last Played 8-10-2023 Requested 4 x)
By Request: Jamie Redfern – When You Wish Upon A Star (1972)    (Previous plays – 2; Last Played 19-1-2018)
Mark Vincent – Unchained Melody (Previous plays – 1; Last Played 8-5-2020)

Alisha Smith – Snow On The Mountain  (Debut)
Andy Martin – Corrine Corrina (2024)  (Previous plays – 2; Last Played 26-7-2024)
By Request: George Jones – Take These Chains From My Heart (Debut) 
Al Martino – Chitarra Romana   (Debut)
Andy Williams – Something Stupid  (Debut)
Soundtrack, International Velvet – Sarah’s Theme    (Previous plays – 1; Last Played 17-4-2015)

ON THIS DAY:

BORN 1897  East Dulwich, London, England – Enid Blyton, one of the most successful children’s storytellers of the twentieth century, noted for numerous series of books based on recurring characters and designed for different age groups. Her books were highly successful in many parts of the world, having sold over 600 million copies.   Died 1968

BORN 1913 Marseilles, France – Frank Pourcel, Award-winning French composer and orchestra leader for popular and classical music.   Died 2000

DIED 1939 Duppigheim, France – Gianoberto Maria Carlo Bugatti alias Jean Bugatti, car designer, test engineer and son of Ettore Bugatti, founder of the Bugatti car manufacturing company.  Bugatti cars were high powered, technically advanced vehicles for their day.   Jean Bugatti was testing a vehicle he had designed, when he lost control of the vehicle and struck a tree after avoiding a drunken cyclist who had accessed the race track through a hole in a perimeter fence.  Aged 30

DIED 1989 Neutral Bay, Sydney, New South Wales – John Meillon, Australian actor best known for his role as Walter Reilly in the Crocodile Dundee films, and also as working class battler Wally Stiller in the TV sit-com My Name’s McGooley, What’s Yours.  He also voiced Victoria Bitter beer commercials until his death.  He was aged 55

DIED 2016 Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.A. – Glenn Yarborough, folk singer and lead singer with the Limelighters from 1959 till 1963.  He then had a successful solo career, and is remembered for his 1965 hit, The Honey Wind Blows.  Aged 86

9 August 2024

Friday Morning Radio Edition 429

Three hours of beaut easy listening, with music, Indies and memories, not heard on mainstream radio.

TYGA-FM, 98.9 on the dial, or on-line at www.tygafm.org.au/listen-live/

Today’s photo: Bad Berneck, Germany. Photo courtesy of Karin, a regular listener.

Today’s Playlist:

Hour 1 (9.00 ~ 10.00):

Kevin Sullivan – On The Run (2024)  (Debut)
Bill Shadler – I Never (2024) (Debut)
Zack Walsh – Walls Come Tumblin’ Down (2015)   (Debut)
Irish Rovers – Farewell To Nova Scotia  (Previous plays – 1. Last played  24-5-2020 Requested 1 x)
Anne Murray – Get Together (Debut)
Willie Nelson – I’ll Be Loving You Always (2022)  (Debut)

Buddy Bregman & His Orchestra – Anything Goes (Previous plays – 1. Last played  1-4-2022 )
Mike Sammes Singers – On A Slow Boat To China  (Debut)
Joy Adams & Gary R Farmer – Remember Me (2024)  (Previous plays – 3.  Last played 26-7-2024)
Pat Daly – Just Enough To Keep Me Hanging On (2024) (Debut)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Rob E G – When You’re Not Near (1964)  (Previous plays – 1. Last played 19-12-2021)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Jan & Dean – The Little Old Lady From Pasadena (1964) (Previous plays – 2  Last played 3-8-2014)
Ashley Cook – Stand Up For Slim (2022)  (Previous plays – 3. Last played  23-6-2023 )

Hour 2 (10.00 ~ 11.00):

Andy Martin – Mirrors Don’t Lie (2024)  (Debut)
Lyndel Lucas – Slow Dance (2024)  (Previous plays – 1. Last played  28-6-2024 )
Daniel O’Donnell – Little Arrows (2024)   (Previous plays – 2.  Last played 11-7-2021 Requested 1 x)
They Don’t Make Them Like This Anymore: Nat King Cole – Walking My Baby Back Home   (Debut)
Bill Anderson – Big Railroad Man (Debut)
Barry Thornton – Over Hilltop And Hollow     (Previous plays – 4.  Last played 1-5-2020)

Romantic Strings Orchestra – Moonlight Serenade  (Debut)
Ed Ames – How Deep Is The Ocean   (Debut)
Mike Wilkinson – Blue Collar Working Man (2018)    (Previous plays – 7.  Last played 18-6-2023.)
Kylie Adams-Collier – Hervey Bay (2024)  (Debut)
Marty Howard Chambers – Frown Upside Down (2024)    (Previous plays – 1.  Last played 28-6-2024)
Alan Gumm – Just Thank Me (Previous plays – 2. Last played  5-5-2024 )

Hour 3 (11.00 ~ 12.00):

Soundtrack, The Happiest Millionaire – Fortuosity (1967)   (Previous plays – 3.  Last played 11-10-2020)
Seekers – 59th Street Bridge Song   (Previous plays – 5.  Last played 13-11-2016)
Watling & Bates – Grandfather’s Watch (2024)   (Debut)
Sonny James – Clinging Vine (Debut)
(By Request) Joy Adams & Gary R Farmer – The Point Of No Return (Previous plays – 3. Last played  3-11-2023
Johnny Chester – Send Me Some Lovin’ (2024)  (Debut)
Graeme Clarke & Sandy Shaw – Diamond Of The Desert (2019)  Previous plays – 4.  Last played 3-12-2021)

Capitol Symphony Orchestra – Minuet   (Debut)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Dean Martin – Everybody Loves Somebody (1964)   (Previous plays – 9.  Last played 25-12-2022)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Frank Ifield – I Should Care (1964)  (Debut)
Steve Bonham & Longroad – I Could Write A Book (2024) (Debut)
Town Criers – Any Old Time (1969   (Debut)

* Diamond Classics were on Top 40 charts around Australia on this day, 60 years ago (1964).

ON THIS DAY

1942  Solomon Islands – W W 2 – The heavy cruiser HMAS Canberra, with 84 crew, was lost in battle.

1945  Nagasaki, Japan – 39,000 people died instantly when the U.S. B 29 aircraft Bockscar dropped the atomic bomb Fat Man over the city.

1961  Sydney, New South Wales – Australia’s last coastal passenger liner, Manoora, arrived at the end of her final Australian voyage.  The ship had been requisitioned by the Royal Australian Navy in 1939 and fitted as an Armed Merchant Cruiser and, as HMAS Manoora, she took part in numerous military operations during World War 2.

The ship returned to civilian use in 1949 following a major refit.  After her final Australian voyage in 1961, she was sold to an Indonesian company and renamed Ambulombo.  She sank off Luzon in 1972, whilst being towed to a ship breakers yard.

1966  Hobart, Tasmania – Controversy erupted after the sudden enforcement of the 58-year-old Sunday Observance Act which required driving schools, entertainment establishments, Laundromats and other commercial businesses to cease operating on Sundays.

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