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: Mt Wellington from the northern outskirts of greater Hobart, 20 September 2024
Today’s Playlist:
HOUR 1 9.00 ~ 10.00:
TRACK
RELEASE YEAR
PREVIOUS PLAYS
LAST PLAYED
ISRC
Pamela Rooney – Love Me Out Of Leaving You Tonight
2024
0
QZW6A 2400218
Clayton Saunders – Black Sheep
2024
2
12/4/2024
The Cumberland River Project – Highway Blue
2024
0
Briggs & Stark – Go Ahead
2024
0
Craig & Charlotte Lloyd – Burn So Bright
2024
0
AU2HX-2200004
Back Track: Gayle O’Neil – Risks
2015
4
18/5/2018
Capitol Symphony Orchestra – Polka From The Bartered Bride
0
Muriel O’Connor, Fran Curry & Brendan Grace – My Elusive Dreams
2024
2
18/8/2024
IEPBV 1700015
Seekers (Julie Anthony) – When Will The Good Apples Fall
1989
2
27/8/2023
Back Track: Richard Mulligan – Good Luck Charm
2021
4
23/10/2020
60 YEAR DIAMOND CLASSICS – Charting this day in 1964
# Shadows – Rhythm And Greens
1964
0
# Honeycombs – Have I The Right
1964
9
15/1/2023
Bill Shadler – There’s Only Been A Few
2024
0
HOUR 2 10.00 ~ 11.00:
TRACK
YEAR OF RELEASE
PREVIOUS PLAYS
LAST PLAYED
Victoria Eman – It’s About Time
2024
0
Tim Lane – Now That You’re Gone
2024
1
13/9/1924
QZNWU 2217497
Maggie Caskie – You’re Going Out Of My Mind
2024
0
QZTAZ 2444931
They Don’t Make Them Like This Anymore: Alma Cogan – Twenty Tiny Fingers
1955
1
19/7/2019
Kings Singers – Linstead Market
0
Al Martino – Love Theme From The Godfather
1972
1
13/9/2024
Romantic Strings Orchestra – Moonlight Serenade
1
9/8/2024
Percy Faith Orchestra & Chorus – Colours
3
26/12/2014
Sammie Soravia – I’ll See You Soon Then
2024
0
Back Track: Ian Burns – Why
2015
1
14/4/2017
Ray Kernaghan – The Wreck Of The Old 97 { * SEE 27 SEPTEMBER IN HISTORY BELOW}
7
3/5/2019
James Last Orchestra – Medley
0
Brandon McPhee – The Six Twenty Two-Step
4
6/3/2022
HOUR 3 11.00 ~ 12.00:
TRACK
YEAR OF RELEASE
PREVIOUS PLAYS
LAST PLAYED
Rodeo Nights – Brighter Side
2024
0
Slim Dusty – Namatjira
4
24/4/2020
Rob Breese – Thargomindah Sunset
2024
2
13/9/2024
AUC8U-2400002
Freddie Quinn – Oh Susanna
0
Rae Leigh – The War That Stole My Daddy’s Life
2024
2
13/92024
QZTB3 2498152
Back Track: Alan Dingo Byram – Proud Mary
2020
4
18/9/2020
101 Strings Orchestra – Stop In The Name Of Love
4
1/6/2018
60 YEAR DIAMOND CLASSICS – Charting this day in 1964
# Newbeats – Bread And Butter
1964
3
7/12/2018
# Lesley Gore – Maybe I Know
1964
10
2/9/2022
Chris Barber & Mark Knopfler – The Next Time I’m In Town
1
25/8/2024
TCAAW 1129204
Sherbet – Summer Love
1975
3
21/5/2021
Sandie Shaw – Monsieur Dupont
1969
4
7/6/2019
27 SEPTEMBER IN HISTORY:
1825 County Durham, England – The Stockton and Darlington Railway opened, principally to carry coal to ports at Stockton-on-Tees, and at Darlington. Passengers were carried in horse-drawn carriages until locomotives were used for this purpose in 1833, initiating the world’s first steam hauled passenger trains.
1854 Off Cape Race, Newfoundland – In the first great maritime disaster in the Atlantic Ocean, nearly 400 lives were lost when the steamship SS Arctic sank after colliding with a French steamer, SS Vesta, in foggy conditions.
* 1903 Danville, Virginia, U.S.A. – A Southern Railway train known as the Fast Mail, which was en route from Monroe, Virginia to Spencer, North Carolina was wrecked when it derailed on a high bridge. The wreck inspired the famous railroad ballad, The Wreck Of The Old 97.
Photo: The Launceston ~ Hobart express, deliberately derailed on the Horseshoe Bridge, between Brighton and Bridgewater, Tasmania, 21 September 1893. Photographer unknown. Story below.
Playlist, Valley Sunrise Edition 800 0600 ~ 0900 AEST
TRACK
RELEASE YEAR
TIME
PREVIOUS PLAYS
LAST PLAYED
ISRC
Frank Sinatra – The Song Is Ended But The Melody Lingers On
HOUR 1
0
Gheorghe Zamfir – The Wind of Change
HOUR 1
1
10/1/2016
Daniel O’Donnell – Everything Is Beautiful
HOUR 1
2
11/4/2021
Jazz Kings – Still Got The Blues
2023
HOUR 1
0
Terry Bennetts & Lee Forster – That’s The Kind Of Life I Live
2024
HOUR 1
3
26/7/2024
Ferrante & Teicher – Little Green Apples
HOUR 1
0
Jason Carruthers – Coming Home Today
2020
HOUR 1
0
Foster & Allen – Jim Reeves Medley
HOUR 1
1
30/4/2023
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1964 Tornados – Exodus
1964
HOUR 1
8
26/2/2021
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1964 Eydie Gorme – I Want You To Meet My Baby
1964
HOUR 1
6
16/8/2015
Larissa Tormey & Remy O – Fire And Water
2024
HOUR 1
1
20/9/2024
Tony Clarke – Not That Kind Of Fool
2024
HOUR 2
2
13/9/2024
QZ825 1857501
David Paul Nowlin – Life Dealt Me This Hand
2024
HOUR 2
0
QZWKY 2400220
Lon – Ride On
2024
HOUR 2
1
13/9/2024
By Request – Ella Fitzgerald – Someone To Watch Over Me
HOUR 2
0
Francoise Hardy – Le Temps De L’Amour
HOUR 2
2
26/7/2015
Brian May & ABC Melbourne Showband – Medley~Hello Young Lovers~Getting To Know You~I Whistle A Happy Tune
HOUR 2
1
2/8/2015
Andrea Bocelli – Moon River
HOUR 2
1
18/7/2021
Della Reese – Don’t You Know
HOUR 2
2
4/1/2019
The Top 20 Billboard Tracks of 1962 No 15: Neil Sedaka – Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
1962
HOUR 2
2
10/9/2021
Jimmy Clanton – Venus In Blue Jeans
1962
HOUR 2
0
Justin Jones – Country Roads
2024
HOUR 2
1
2/9/2018
Jade Hurley – Shake Rattle And Roll
HOUR 2
2
1/9/2023
Billy McFarland – You’re So My Kind Of Perfect
2024
HOUR 3
1
6/9/2024
By Request – Paul Mauriat – Love Is Blue
1968
HOUR 3
12
3/11/2023
By Request – Belinda Carlisle – Summer Rain
HOUR 3
0
By Request – Gerry & Pacemakers – Ferry Cross The Mersey
HOUR 3
18
15/9/2024
By Request – Pussycat – My Broken Souvenirs
HOUR 3
1
8/9/2024
Alan Caswell – A Friend To Me
HOUR 3
0
AUGBT 2416828
Eric Jupp & His Orchestra – Theme From Love Story
HOUR 3
1
14/3/2021
By Request – Shavonne Aliphon – Always
HOUR 3
3
29/4/2022
Matt Monro – I Love You Because
HOUR 3
0
Johnnie Ray – Alexanders Ragtime Band
1954
HOUR 3
2
11/5/2018
Eddie Fisher – Lady of Spain
1952
HOUR 3
2
10/8/2018
COVER STORY
SABOTAGE ON THE HORSESHOE BRIDGE
It was the evening of Wednesday, September 20, 1893.
A strong westerly wind whistled through the tall, wooden pylons of the Horseshoe railway bridge, and across the undulating pasture lands near Brighton, 15 miles north of Hobart.
The shrill whistle of the evening express train, as it departed Brighton Junction station, and it’s rhythmic exhaust beat echoed, as it laboured up the gradient known as the Crooked Billet.
The train crew, Driver George Jones, Fireman Thomas Bagley, and Guard Henry Reynolds, and it’s 60 passengers had no idea of the danger ahead.
At twelve minutes past eight, the train mounted the summit of the Crooked Billet and entered a curve which led on to the Horseshoe Bridge. The train was now coasting comfortably along at 20 miles per hour.
Then, it happened. The locomotive suddenly left the rails, bouncing violently. It’s momentum and that of the coaches behind carried it along the sleepers of the bridge. Driver Jones and Guard Reynolds, who happened to look forward from his van at that very moment, immediately applied the vacuum brakes.
Just before it lurched to a stop, the locomotive heeled over to the left, coming to a rest at a 45 degree angle. Fireman Bagley would have plunged to near certain death but for a lucky grab for the exterior handrail of the locomotive. Dangling by one hand, he managed to reinforce his grip with the other and haul himself back to safety. He then carefully followed Driver Jones, who had climbed out the other side.
Guard Reynolds was crawling from sleeper to sleeper in the darkness, bracing himself against the wind which threatened to overbalance him. This bridge was the same as most wooden railway bridges of the time, in that it had no solid decking. There were sleepers, rails, supporting beams, and nothing else between.
Guard Reynolds called out, warning the passengers to stay aboard the train, because many of them would certainly fail to step securely along the sleepers in the dark and windy conditions, and plunge through the intervening void.
Driver Jones and Fireman Bagley examined their predicament. The left wheels of the locomotive were securely wedged between the ends of the sleepers and a stout wooden side-beam. It was only this, which prevented the entire train from being dashed to pieces in the gully below, with those on board.
The locomotive’s tender lay on its side, the coal, water, pannikins and firing tools it once contained having cascaded over the side. The two leading carriages were also derailed and canted over. The front end bulkhead of the first carriage had been shattered by the buffers of the tender.
Jones, Bagley and Reynolds carefully assisted their passengers from the carriages and guided them individually along the sleepers of the bridge to the safety of the southern abutment. This was no mean feat in the dark and windy conditions. The only casualties were two young men who were travelling in the first carriage, who had received cuts from a shattering gas lamp.
At the Hobart end of the bridge, and at intervals along the line, the crew found a collection of railway fishplates, stones, sleepers, and pieces of rail lying on the track. Examination of the permanent way at the Brighton end of the bridge revealed further interference. The stout fishplate bolts had been smashed, and the rails prised sideways with a ganger’s hammer, which lay nearby, its handle broken.
The chilling truth became apparent. This was not a chance accident, but a deliberate, calculated, and cold-blooded attempt to destroy the train, and all aboard!
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The following morning, Sub-Inspector Marshall of the Brighton police found a soft brown felt hat with a red lining beneath the bridge. Seeing this as a potential clue, he found that a storekeeper in nearby Pontville, had a dozen hats like it in stock, of which two were sold.
One of these was still in the possession of its owner. The other was traced to a former railway employee, Charles Briggs, aged 27, who lived near Pontville. As he stated he had lost his hat the previous evening, his movements came under close scrutiny.
It appeared that on the morning of September 20, Briggs was wearing his hat when he visited the Bridgewater saleyards, where he purchased a cow, which he later lost.
Briggs had spent some time drinking in the Derwent Hotel, in Bridgewater, before leaving, partially intoxicated, at 6 p.m. with William Jackson, a local blacksmith. The men walked together along the main road until they arrived at a property known as Parkholme.
Without saying a word, Briggs suddenly left Jackson, crossed the road, climbed over the roadside fence, and ran towards the railway.
Knowing that a train was due shortly, Jackson was concerned for Briggs’ safety, and mentioned his concern to his wife upon his return home.
At 7 p.m. Douglas James and Alfred Wood were working in a stable on Wood’s farm, some 300 yards from the Horseshoe Bridge. Both men heard the metallic clanging of hammer blows, and assumed a team of gangers was working unusually late.
Briggs was not seen again until ten minutes to eight, when he entered the Enterprise Hotel, near the Brighton Junction railway station. He loudly remarked, that he had lost his hat, and stayed in the bar for some time.
The next day, news and rumours connected with the attempted mass-murder were raging, but Briggs was reticent to join any discussion, but preferred to concentrate on finding his missing cow.
Strangely, he denied seeing the derailed train whilst on his way to a site where he was employed on the construction of a new road although he could hardly have missed seeing it.
He seemed unusually anxious and nervous, but would not confide in anyone.
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In Hobart, the Tasmanian Railways’ General Manager, Fred Back, took immediate steps to re-rail the train and restore the permanent way. Several teams of gangers were assigned to the extremely awkward task.
Tragedy struck late that day, when two gangers’ trolleys collided near Bridgewater. Most of the men were catapulted off and received minor injuries; but one unlucky fellow was seriously injured and died as he was being carried by train to hospital in Hobart.
Driver Jones, Fireman Bagley, and Guard Reynolds resumed their duties on Friday, September 22, taking charge of the afternoon express between Launceston and Brighton Junction.
The line between Brighton and Bridgewater was still not clear, so the express train terminated at Brighton Junction. It’s passengers and mail were exchanged for those carried by another train from Hobart to Bridgewater Junction station. The intervening distance was covered by road.
The gallantry of the train crew was later recognised when the Mayor of Launceston presented illuminated addresses to all three men on behalf of the Council.
By 10 a.m. on Saturday, September 23, the ill-fated train was back on the rails and had been towed back to Brighton Junction station.
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That day, Superintendent Hedberg and Sub-Inspector Marshall interviewed Charles Briggs at his home. His replies to their intense questioning did not tally with the statements of other witnesses, so he was arrested and taken to the Pontville watch house.
Word of his arrest spread through the district like wildfire, and the Pontville Court room was crowded inside and out when he was formally charged the following Monday.
Briggs was remanded in custody and escorted back to the watch house.
The small Court building was again crowded when an inquiry into the derailment commenced on Monday, September 30. The evidence of 22 witnesses, from train crew, local hotel keepers, and residents was heard. At the end of these proceedings, Briggs was formally committed for trial at the next Hobart Criminal Court sittings, and again remanded in custody.
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It was Tuesday, December 12, 1893, when Charles Briggs appeared before the Chief Justice and a jury. Briggs pleaded not guilty to two counts, that on the evening of September 20th last, he did unlawfully displace and move the rails and sleepers of, and place obstacles on the main line of railway at Horseshoe bridge, with intent to commit murder. The second count charged him with intent to endanger the safety of passengers travelling on the line.
Although 23 witnesses appeared for the Prosecution, doubts were cast by the Defence Counsel as to whether the hat found beneath the bridge actually belonged to Briggs. Was it lost by another person elsewhere, and/or did the strong wind which was blowing at the time happen to send it into the gully beneath the bridge? Briggs had claimed that he had lost his hat in the vicinity of the Jordan River. If that was so, it was never found.
But, then, what of the three men, one of whom was wearing white trousers, who were seen lurking near the bridge by several passengers immediately after the derailment, and who disappeared without saying a word?
Was it possible that a man under the influence of alcohol, as Briggs was when he left the Derwent Hotel in Bridgewater, could walk across the railway bridge without slipping between the sleepers, singlehandedly move rails weighing hundreds of pounds, then walk to the Enterprise Hotel in Brighton, all in 1 hour 45 minutes?
At 12.45 p.m. the jury retired to consider their verdict, which had to be unanimous in view of the capital charges involved.
By 10.15 p.m. the jury foreman advised the Court that there was not the slightest possibility of their arriving at such a verdict. The jury was then discharged, and Briggs was remanded again till the next sittings of the Supreme Criminal Court.
He languished in the Hobart Gaol over Christmas 1893, and it was Tuesday, February 27, 1894 when the second trial commenced. Over two days, this trial heard the same evidence, from the same witnesses.
After deliberating for 3½ hours the Court was advised that 10 jurymen were rigidly in favour of an acquittal, and 2 in favour of a conviction.
Charles Briggs was released from custody on Friday, March 2, 1894, to face an uncertain future, in view of the stigma now attached to his name and the high unemployment of the time.
So, the questions remain unresolved to this day __ did Briggs cause the Horseshoe bridge derailment, and attempt to murder over 60 people in cold blood? If so, what was his motive?
Or, was he an innocent victim of circumstances which resulted in months of wrongful, unjust imprisonment? Did the real culprit go free? What of the sinister sighting of the three men near the bridge by some of the passengers?
No one will ever know the truth.
22 SEPTEMBER IN HISTORY:
1951 Canberra, Australian Capital Territory – Following the Australian High Court’s ruling that the Communist Party Dissolution Bill 1950, passed by Federal Parliament to ban the Communist Party of Australia was unconstitutional, the Federal Government held a referendum on a proposal to alter the Australian Constitution to allow the banning of parties such as the Communist Party. The referendum was not carried.
1957 Eastern Atlantic Ocean – Four ships and an aircraft of the United States Air Force failed to find any trace of the 52 year old barque Pamir, which was believed to have sunk in a typhoon, south-west of the Azores. Five survivors from the crew of 86 were subsequently rescued from a lifeboat.
1966 Near Winton, Queensland – 29 lives were lost when an Ansett ANA Viscount airliner bound from Mt Isa to Longreach crashed whilst attempting an emergency landing.
1993 Near Mobile, Alabama, U.S.A. – In the worst rail disaster in the U.S.A. since 1958, a group of heavy barges struck a railway bridge, displacing a span and buckling adjacent rails. Within ten minutes, Amtrak’s Sunset Limited passenger train, with 220 passengers and crew aboard, ran onto the displaced span, which then collapsed. The locomotives and several carriages plunged into the river, with the loss of 47 lives and injuring 103.
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: Part of the Japanese section of the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens, Hobart.
Today’s Playlist:
HOUR 1 9.00 ~ 10.00:
TRACK
RELEASE YEAR
PREVIOUS PLAYS
LAST PLAYED
ISRC
Lloyd Back – The Voice
2024
0
AUZY4 23 00052
Dianne Coombes – Hearts Drawn In The Sand
2024
2
6/9/2024
Kerr Donnelly Band – My Poor Heart
2024
1
5/7/2024
>Gogi Grant – The Wayward Wind
1956
11
10/3/2024
Don McLean – Every Day
1
24/5/2024
Back Track: Chris Strohfeld – When You’re Down On Your Luck
2018
4
21/7/2019
101 Strings Orchestra – Are You Lonesome Tonight
2
13/9/2024
Demis Roussos – So Dreamy
0
>>Sophia Loren – Zoo Be Zoo Be Zoo
1
20/9/2019
Bill & Boyd – Chulu Chulu Lu
1975
1
9/12/2022
60 YEAR DIAMOND CLASSICS – Charting this day in 1964
* Tornados – Exodus
1964
8
26/2/2021
* Eydie Gorme – I Want You To Meet My Baby
1964
6
16/8/2015
Larissa Tormey & Remy O – Fire And Water
2024
0
Warren Kearney – There Will Never Be Anyone Else
2024
4
5/7/2024
> Myrtle Audrey Arinsberg, alias Gogi Grant, born this day in 1924 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. She was a 1950s pop singer who had many hits, including The Wayward Wind. Died 2016.
>> Sofia Villani Scicolone, alias Sophia Loren, born this day in 1934 in Naples, Italy. She was an award-winning actress and one of the most popu;lar stars of the 1960s and 70s. Turns 90.
HOUR 2 10.00 ~ 11.00:
TRACK
YEAR OF RELEASE
PREVIOUS PLAYS
LAST PLAYED
Kevin Sullivan – Three Ways
2024
2
31/3/2024
AUVW1 2400001
Charlie Adams – Fire Glow
2024
2
6/9/1924
AUJ3Z 2300004
Girls Next Door – Love Will Get You Through Times Of No Money
2024
2
11/8/2024
QZWLW 2400008
They Don’t Make Them Like This Anymore: Paul Evans & Curls – Sitting In The Back Seat
1959
8
11/10/2019
>>>Jim Croce – Time In A Bottle
1973
2
2/10/2015
Hazel & The Thief – The Olden Days
2024
0
QZNWZ 2414805
Max Harris & His Orchestra – Blues In The Night
0
By Request: Tracy Byrd – Keeper Of The Stars
0
Dusty Springfield – Just A Little Loving
0
By Request: Gallery – It’s so Nice To Be with You
1
25/12/2022
Back Track: Victoria Eman – Captain Of The Ship
2017
6
28/10/2018
Michelle Murphy – Moon In The Water
2024
0
TCAIM 2477545
>>> Jim Croce, singer-songwriter, died this day in 1973 in a plane crash, aged 30.
HOUR 3 11.00 ~ 12.00:
TRACK
YEAR OF RELEASE
PREVIOUS PLAYS
LAST PLAYED
Justin Jones – Country Roads
2024
1
13/9/2024
Gene Pitney – That Girl Belongs To Yesterday
1964
2
12/4/2024
Sandie Shaw – Those Were The Days
1968
2
26/2/2021
Lawrence Welk – The Clarinet Polka
0
Steve Bonham & Long Road – I Could Write A Book
2024
1
9/8/2024
GX7CU 2400001
Back Track: Shavonne Aliphon – Always
2021
4
29/4/2022
Edmundo Ros & His Orchestra – What A Difference A Day Made Cha Cha
0
60 YEAR DIAMOND CLASSICS – Charting this day in 1964
* Ray Conniff Singers – Invisible Tears
1964
1
3/9/2021
* Supremes – Where Did Our Love Go
1964
6
7/1/2022
John Michael Ferrari – I Keep Rolling On
2024
0
TCAAW 1129204
Foster & Allen – Tie A Yellow Ribbon
2024
0
By Request: Slim Dusty – Duncan
2024
17
8/9/2023
Slim Dusty – Sitting On The Old Front Verandah
7
9/9/2021
20 SEPTEMBER IN HISTORY:
1893 Near Brighton, Tasmania – The evening express train from Launceston to Hobart was deliberately derailed on the tall Horseshoe Bridge, which stood between Brighton Junction and Bridgewater Junction.
1906 Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England – The Cunard Line’s RMS Mauretania was launched. She was the world’s largest ship until 1910, and for 20 years held the record for the fastest crossing of the Atlantic Ocean. She was withdrawn from service in September 1034 and sent to shipbreakers in Rosyth, Scotland, in July 1935.
1955 Hobart, Tasmania – A Melbourne contracting company prepared for construction of the longest, pre-stressed concrete bridge in Australia at the time, which was intended to replace a timber bridge on the Sorell causeway. This bridge was replaced, in turn, in 2002 by the current McGee Bridge.
1963 Canberra, Australian Capital Territory – The Federal Minister for the Interior, Mr Freeth, closed the valves of a £1.4 million, 25 metre high dam to impound the waters of the Molonglo River, to create Lake Burley Griffin.
Today’s Photo – Snow capped Mt Wellington, behind Hobart, during wintry conditions, taken from Bilton Bay, Claremont. September 2021
Music Unlimited 0600 ~ 0700 AEST
A programme of easy-listening music presented by Ian MacPhee from Studio B, Eastern Passage, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Because of the passing of Paul Meagher, the producer of Music Unlimited, this was the final edition, both here, and in Canada. The programme is now in indefinite recess. As from next Sunday, Valley Sunrise returns to it’s former three-hour format on TYGA-FM 98.9.
Valley Sunrise Edition 799 0700 ~ 0900 AEST
Today’s Playlist:
HOUR 1 7.00 ~ 8.00:
TRACK
RELEASE YEAR
PREVIOUS PLAYS
LAST PLAYED
ISRC
Kevin Sullivan – That’s What It Means
2024
1
1/9/2024
AUVW1 2400002
Sarah Riches – Alibi
2024
3
11/8/2024
The Charlesys – Will It Be You
2024
0
CACWV 2459223
(By Request) Willie Nelson – Just Breathe
1
9/6/2024
Eric Jupp Orchestra – Adios Mariquita Linda
5
17/12/2017
Olivia Newton-John – If We Try
1973
1
23/7/2017
Ray Malcolm – Is There Something On Your Mind
2024
3
1/9/2024
Top 20 Billboard Tracks 1962 No. 14: Freddy Cannon – Palisades Park
1962
0
Frank Sinatra Jr – Who Cares
0
Chris Guenther – Forty Two New Orleans
2024
0
QMAAK 2430351
Seekers – All I Can Remember
1968
4
1/4/2016
HOUR 2 8.00 ~ 9.00:
TRACK
YEAR OF RELEASE
PREVIOUS PLAYS
LAST PLAYED
ISRC
Caoimhe Murney – Wrong Road Again
2024
3
2/8/2024
IEXWD 2400001
(By Request) Pussycat – Mississippi
1976
34
23/8/2024
(By Request) Gerry & Pacemakers – Ferry Cross The Mersey
1965
17
18/6/2023
Percy Faith & His Orchestra – You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away
2
21/9/2018
Leigh Warren – I’d Do It All Over Again
2024
0
USHM9 2418591
(By Request) Graeme Clarke – Old Dogs Children and Watermelon Wine
2019
5
14/11/2021
Beverley Hills Orchestra – Peyton Place Theme
1
8/9/2017
Johnny Chester – Send Me Some Lovin’
2024
3
30/8/2024
AUMEV 2498189
Ray Conniff Singers- Making Our Dreams Come True
1
16/2/2014
Slim Dusty – Gum Trees By The Roadway
4
6/1/2019
Redgum – Spirit Of The Land
4
24/4/2020
15 SEPTEMBER IN HISTORY:
1830 Lancashire, England – The Liverpool to Manchester railway opened. This was the world’s first inter-city passenger railway, in which all trains were timetabled and hauled for most of the distance by steam locomotives. William Huskisson, English Member of Parliament and financier, became the first recorded railway passenger fatality when he was struck by the Stephenson locomotive Rocket, after he disobeyed instructions to remain aboard the train he was travelling in.
1907 Murwillumbah, New South Wales – A massive fire destroyed over 60 of the mainly-wooden buildings in the town, which housed most of the town’s businesses. The town had no water supply and no fire brigade.
1916 France – World War 1 – Tanks were used for the first time in combat, by the British Army, at the Battle of the Somme.
1957 Interlaken, Tasmania – Fifty people were stranded by heavy snow drifts, which trapped 14 vehicles for two days. A further 30 people were similarly stranded in the Arthurs Lake area.
1964 Melbourne, Victoria – 15,000 turned out in a demonstration to protest against Premier Bolte’s plan to introduce a State Income Tax.
From The Friends of 105.9 FM, Eastern Passage, Nova Scotia, Canada
In Loving Memory of Paul Meagher (alias ” Paul Marr”).
It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of Paul Meagher, an integral part of our radio station family.
Paul was more than just a colleague — he was a friend, mentor, and a driving force behind our station’s success and history.
Paul brought passion, dedication, and a unique spirit that touched the lives of everyone he worked with and every listener who tuned in.
During this difficult time, our thoughts and deepest sympathies go out to Paul’s family, friends, and everyone who had the privilege of knowing him. [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][]
Paul was the producer of Music Unlimited, heard each Sunday at 6.00 a.m. on TYGA-FM 98.9.
With his passing, the future of Music Unlimited is very much in doubt; next Sunday’s edition will likely be the last.
Paul was a passionate, lifelong radio man, very well respected at Seaside FM, the station where he voluntarily served after a long career in commercial radio, and in Eastern Passage, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Although I never had the privilege of meeting him in person, his warmth of character was apparent, even from the opposite side of the world, here in New Norfolk.
Deepest condolences go to Paul’s relatives, colleagues, friends and listeners, from everyone in TYGA-FM.
The playlist for Friday Morning Radio 13th September 2024, appears below.
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: Part of Austins Ferry, Old Beach (across the Derwent River) and Gunner’s Quoin from Poimena Hill, Austins Ferry.
Today’s Playlist:
HOUR 1 9.00 ~ 10.00:
TRACK
RELEASE YEAR
PREVIOUS PLAYS
LAST PLAYED
ISRC
Paul Ricketts – Just Like My Old Man
2024
1
1/9/2024
AUZY4 2400012
Tim Lane – Now That You’re Gone
2024
0
QZNWU 2217497
Lon – Ride On
2024
0
Al Martino – Theme From The Godfather
0
Helena Mace – Home
2024
0
Stephen R Cheney – Just Lucky I Guess
2018
6
30/8/2024
101 Strings – Are You Lonesome Tonight
2019
1
4/5/2018
The Shadows – Trains And Boats And Planes
4
6/7/2018
Madonna – Crazy For You
1985
7
16/8/2020
Dick Haymes – Love Letters Richard Benjamin Haymes, alias Dick Haymes, born this day in 1918 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He became an actor and one of the most popular vocalists of the 1940s and 50s. Died 1980.
1945
1
28/3/2021
Chet Atkins – Country Gentleman
2
20/6/2021
(By Request) John Paul Young – Love Is In The Air
1977
8
24/2/2023
60 YEAR DIAMOND CLASSICS – Charting this day in 1964
# Elvis Presley – Kissing Cousins
1964
5
15/9/2017
# Roy Orbison – Pretty Woman
1964
21
23/4/2023
Jimmy Shand & His Band – The Northern Lights of Aberdeen
14
1/3/2024
HOUR 2 10.00 ~ 11.00:
TRACK
YEAR OF RELEASE
PREVIOUS PLAYS
LAST PLAYED
ISRC
Curtis Magee & Shaun Cuddy – Real Good Friends
2024
0
TCAIK 2420166
Glenn Levi – All Good Things Must Have An End
2024
2
1/9/1924
USDY4 2402664
Shirley Llewellyn – A Girl Named Shirl
2022
0
They Don’t Make Them Like This Anymore: Louis Prima & Keely Smith – Hey Boy Hey Girl
1959
0
Mel Torme – Three Little Words Melvin Howard Torme, alias Mel Torme, born this day in 1925 in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. He became a musician, drummer, composer and actor. Died 1999.
1947
1
31/1/2016
Shadows – Tonight
0
Adrian Payne & Mary Anne Burton – End Of The Beginning
2024
0
James Last & His Orchestra – Medley~Brazilian Love Song~Maruzzella~Lovely Friday
1
4/10/2019
Neil Diamond – Girl You’ll Be A Woman Soon
1967
3
4/12/2016
Roger Whittaker – The Green Green Grass Of Home Roger Whittaker, died this day in 2023 in Toulouse, France. He was a singer-songwriter with record sales over 55 million. He was aged 87.
0
Graeme Clarke – Wrong Road Again
2024
8
14/5/2021
Rod Williams – A Little Country Schoolhouse By The Lane
2024
4
30/8/2024
Carole King – School Bells Are Ringing
1963
1
30/8/2024
HOUR 3 11.00 ~ 12.00:
TRACK
YEAR OF RELEASE
PREVIOUS PLAYS
LAST PLAYED
ISRC
Andy Martin – I’m Blue I’m Lonesome
2024
1
30/8/2024
Tony Clarke – Not that Kind of Fool
2024
1
6/9/2024
QZ825 1857501
Clayton Saunders – Slim Dusty
2024
0
Slim Dusty – When You’re Short Of A Quid
1
24/5/2020
QZTAX 2451832
Isla Grant – The Old Accordeon Man
0
Spinners – A-Rovin’
2
10/10/2014
Les Reed Orchestra – Delilah
3
15/2/2019
60 YEAR DIAMOND CLASSICS – Charting this day in 1964
# Bachelors – I Wouldn’t Trade You
1964
4
22/9/2019
# Jerry Wallace – In The Misty Moonlight
1964
2
15/12/2023
Rae Leigh – The War That Stole My Daddy’s Life
2024
0
QZTB3 2498152
Rob Breese – Thargominda Sunset
2024
1
30/8/2024
AUC8U-2400002
Justin Jones – Country Roads
2024
0
THIS DAY IN HISTORY:
1915 Canberra, Australian Capital Territory – The Federal Government first imposed Income Tax – as a wartime measure.
1926 Murulla, New South Wales – The State’s worst railway disaster to that date occurred when 12 good waggons broke away from a train and, with failed brakes, rolled downhill for some kilometres, ultimately colliding at high speed with the following Moree-Sydney overnight mail train. This caused a toll of 26 fatalities, and 38 injured.
1954 Scottsdale, Tasmania – Radio station 7DY, which was formerly based in Derby, commenced transmission from Scottsdale under the new callsign of 7SD.
Today’s Photo – Lake Meadowbank, in the Derwent Valley. Courtesy Bonnie Fraser
Music Unlimited 0600 ~ 0700 AEST
Hosted by Ian MacPhee from Studio B in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Valley Sunrise Edition 798 0700 ~ 0900 AEST
Today’s Playlist:
HOUR 1 7.00 ~ 8.00:
TRACK
PREVIOUS PLAYS
REQUESTEDTIMES
LAST PLAYED
ISRC
Andy Martin – Mirrors Don’t Lie
2
0
23/8/2024
Dwight Yoakam – A Thousand Miles From Nowhere
0
0
Roger Whittaker – New World In The Morning (Live)
1
0
21/8/2015
(By Request) Atlantics – Bombora
10
5
11/8/2023
Dreamers – Three Little Words
0
0
Joe Reisman & His Orchestra – Mack The Knife
1
0
4/1/2019
101 Strings Orchestra – Autumn Leaves
0
0
<>Harry Secombe – South Of The Border
1
0
17/7/2020
Foster & Allen – Take These Chains From My Heart
0
0
Top 20 Billboard Tracks 1962 No. 13: Gene Chandler – The Duke of Earl
2
0
6/7/2018
Watling & Bates – Closer
0
0
AUHNE 2200007
++ Patsy Cline – Anytime
0
0
<> Harry Secombe, born this day 1921 in Swansea, Wales, singer and comedian noted for his fine tenor voice. Died 2001.
++ Patsy Cline, born this day 1932 as Virginia Patterson Hensley, one of the most successful female vocalists of the 20th century. She died in 1963 in a plane crash together with her manager and pilot Randy Hughes and fellow performers Hawkshaw Hawkins and Cowboy Copas.
HOUR 2 8.00 ~ 9.00:
TRACK
PREVIOUS PLAYS
REQUESTEDTIMES
LAST PLAYED
ISRC
Mary Gantley – This Old Kitchen
0
0
AUZY4 2400006
(By Request) Tex Ritter – Hillbilly Heaven
0
1
(By Request) Pussycat – My Broken Souvenirs
0
1
(By Request) Slim Dusty – Lights On The Hill
20
21
31/12/2023
Burl Ives – Lonesome 7 7 203
1
0
5/2/2021
(By Request) Mika – Big Girl You Are Beautiful
0
1
Ferrante & Teicher – Mozart Piano Concerto No 21 In C Major
4
13/8/2021
Joy Adams – You’re A Long Time Dead
1
16/8/2024
Ewelina Borkowska – Jolene
2
21/6/2024
The Jazz Kings – Out Of Nowhere
1
23/2/2024
8 SEPTEMBER IN HISTORY:
1950 Melbourne, Victoria – John Bryan Kerr, a 25 year old radio announcer, was found guilty on circumstantial evidence in the Criminal Court of having murdered Elizabeth Williams (aged 20) on Albert Park Beach. His death sentence was later commuted to 20 years imprisonment, of which he served 14 years. Kerr constantly maintained his innocence and, soon after his death in 2001, another man made a death-bed confession of the murder.
2006 Died in Gidgegannup, West Australia – Peter Brock, Australian champion racecar driver, nine times winner of the Bathurst 1000 and Sandown 500 races, amongst others. Aged 61.
2006 Died in Northwood, Middlesex, England – Frank Middlemass, English actor best remembered for his television roles as Rocky Hardcastle in As Time Goes By, Algy Herries in To Serve Them All My Days and Dr. Alex Ferrenby in Heartbeat. Aged 87.
2022 Died in Balmoral, Aberdeenshire, Scotland – Queen Elizabeth II, longest serving monarch in English history. Aged 96.
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.
