► LOOKING at events on 14 November;

In human endeavour in 1889, pioneering female journalist Elizabeth Jane Cochrane, alias Nellie Bly, began a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days.  She completed the journey in seventy-two days.

On the air in 1922, London, England, the British Broadcasting Company, which was then part of the General Post Office, began a monopoly radio service.  It was succeeded by the British Broadcasting Corporation in 1927.

In the air in 1940, during World War 2, the English city of  Coventry was heavily bombed in a raid by Luftwaffe aircraft.  A thousand lives were lost, and the city’s 14^th Century Cathedral was destroyed.  Today, the stone outer walls, tower and spire remain as an attraction.

On the roads in 1951,  in Melbourne, Victoria, the Ford Motor Company released it’s first medium sized car, the Consul, for sale in Australia..  .

In the sea in 1963, an undersea volcanic eruption near Iceland created a new island, later named Surtsey, which achieved a maximum size of 2.7 m2 and a height of 155 metres.  Although wave and weather erosion has caused it to diminish in size, it is not expected to disappear below sea level before the year 2100.

► BORN…..

Arthur Hoey Davis alias Steele Rudd, was born this day in 1868 in Drayton, Queensland.  He was an author famed for writing Australian publications such as On Our Selection, which was serialised and broadcast by radio stations throughout Australia.  He died in 1935.

Edward Higgins White, was born this day in 1930 in San Antonio, Texas, U.S.A.  He was an astronaut, and the first American to conduct a spacewalk.  He was one of three astronauts who died in the disastrous fire which destroyed the Apollo 1 Command Module, on the launch pad, in January 1967.

Cornell Gunter, was born this day in 1936 in Coffeyville, Kansas, U.S.A.  He was a rhythm and blues singer, most active in the 1950s and 1960s with the group The Coasters, and was an original member of The Platters.   He died in 1990.

Freddie Garrity, was also born this day in 1936, in Manchester England.  He was a singer, front man and comic element in the 1960s group Freddie And The Dreamers. He died in 2006.

Charles Philip Arthur George, alias King Charles III, was born this day in 1948 in Buckingham Palace, London.

► DIED…..

Warren Mitchell, died this day in 2015 in Highgate, England.  He was actor famous for his role of cockney Alf Garnett in the BBC television series Till Death Us Do Part (1965-1975)   He was aged 89.

Des O’Connor, died this day in 2020 in Buckinghamshire.  He was an English broadcaster and singer, who recorded thirty six albums, and had four top ten singles  He was aged 88.

Today’s photo –

The colonial era Toll House, used during the early days of New Norfolk, to collect toll payments from people using the bridge across the Derwent, which bisects the town.
The “windows” are a much later addition – painted boards attached to the structure. *  Yours Truly.

Today’s Playlist

TRACK	RELEASE YEAR	PLAY TIME	PREVIOUS PLAYS	LAST PLAYED
Joyce Ramgatie – Memories Are All We Have	2025	09:05	0
Paul Cullen – Rolling Like Thunder	2025	09:11	0
Lee Conway – I Fought The Law		09:14	0
70s Classic    Edison Lighthouse – Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes	1970	09:19	5	23/3/2025
Badfinger – Day After Day	1972	09:22	6	30/3/2025
John Rowles – Do It		09:26	2	19/5/2023
Norman Percival Orchestra – Just One More Chance		09:32	0
Bobby Goldsboro – And I Love You So		09:35	3	12/9/2025
For a Listener Al Grant with Johnny Carroll – Rosa Rio		09:38	10	12/7/2024
Freddie & Dreamers – I’m Telling You Now	1963	09:44	3	22/9/2023
Clelia Adams – Wildflowers		09:49	2	19/10/2025
Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Chris Andrews – Yesterday Man	1965	09:52	5	10/12/2021
Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Seekers – We Shall Not Be Moved	1965	09:55	6	4/5/2025
Knuckles O’Toole – Old Piano Roll Blues		09:58	2	13/8/2021
Pat Garrett – Old Timers	2025	10:05	0
Anne Fraser – Too Drunk To Drive	2025	10:11	3	29/8/2025
Ric Lucia – I Gave You My Whole Heart	2025	10:14	0
Des O’Connor – When You’re Smiling		10:18	2	12/1/2024
Vintage Vinyl   Guy Mitchell – Singing the Blues	1956	10:22	3	28/2/2016
Neil Diamond – Captain Sunshine		10:25	0
Irish Rovers – What Wid Ye Do		10:29	2	10/8/2018
Tommy Emmanuel – Daybreak Again		10:32	5	3/10/2021
Abby Grace – Search For Gold		10:39	0
Jade Hurley – Georgie	2025	10:42	5	4/5/2025
70s Classic    Blue Mink – Melting Pot	1970	10:46	2	23/3/2025
Graeme Clarke – Baby With No Name	2025	10:51	9	6/6/2025
Sarah Riches – If You Ever Wonder	2017	10:53	0
Max Greger – Sail Along Silvery Moon		10:58	7	24/5/2024
Buadee – Count Your Blessings	2025	11:05	1	4/4/2025
Mike Wilkinson – Spirit Of The Drought	2025	11:12	4	18/7/2025
Peter Salata – Turn The Stallion Loose	2025	11:15	2	2/11/2025
For a Listener Freddy Quinn – Somewhere My Love		11:22	2	27/9/2020
For a Listener Pussycat – Mississippi	1976	11:29	33	8/8/2025
Vintage Vinyl    Winifred Atwell – Black and White Rag	1952	11:38	12	30/6/2024
Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Sandie Shaw – Message Understood	1965	11:42	0
Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Elvis Presley – It’s A Long Lonely Highway	1965	11:45	2	29/1/2017
Olivia Molina – Besame Mucho	2025	11:48	1	22/8/2025
Deejay Rufus & Marc Wilson – Africa	2023	11:52	1	4/4/2025

► ON 9 NOVEMBER

1872 –  The largest urban fire in U.S. history started at 7:20 p.m. in the basement of a warehouse  in Boston, Massachusetts. The fire consumed 776 buildings, including much of the financial district.  At least 30 lives were lost and damage valued at $73.5 million was caused before the fire was contained twelve hours later.

1913 –  From November 7 till November 10, the Great Lakes Storm, a blizzard with hurricane-force winds, devastated the Great Lakes Basin in the United States and the Canadian province of Ontario.  It destroyed 19 ships, caused over 250 deaths, and was the most destructive natural disaster ever to hit the region.

1942 – U S serviceman Edward Leonski was executed in Pentridge prison in  Melbourne, Victoria,  after being convicted of the murders of three Australian women.

1965 – A major power blackout, lasting nearly 10 hours, crippled the north-east of the U.S.A. and adjacent parts of Canada, stranding millions at the start of the 5.30 p.m. rush hour.  Thousands were trapped in underground trains, and had to be led out through darkened tunnels.

1966 – Art treasures valued at 120 million dollars were damaged and destroyed when the Arno River in Florence, Italy flooded during Italy’s worst storms for 1,000 years.

► BORN…..

1936 – Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.A. – Mary Travers, singer-songwriter and one of the folk music group Peter Paul & Mary, one of the most successful of the 1960s.    She died in 2009.

1941 – Berkeley, California, U.S.A. – Thomas Richard Fogerty alias Tom Fogerty, musician best known as the guitarist in Creedence Clearwater Revival.  He died in 1990.

► DIED…..

2000 – Wallaroo, South Australia – Kevin Shegog, country singer and 1983 inductee to the Australian Country Music Hall Of Fame, aged 67.

2016 – Allendale, New Jersey U.S.A., Al Caiola, jazz, country, rock, western and pop music guitarist who recorded over 50 albums and worked with some of the biggest stars of the 20th Century, including Frank Sinatra, Percy Faith, Buddy Holly, Mitch Miller and Tony Bennett.  He was aged 96.

Today’s photo: Storm clouds over the Meehan Range, east of Hobart. *Yours Truly

Today’s Playlist:

TRACK	RELEASE YEAR	TIME	PREVIOUS PLAYS	LAST PLAYED
Abby Grace – Heavy Mental	2023	06:06	1	22/12/2023
Charting this day 1974 Paper Lace – The Night Chicago Died	1974	06:12	6	25/1/2019
Charting this day 1974 ABBA – Waterloo	1974	06:16	16	15/6/2025
Peter Paul & Mary – Leaving On A Jet Plane	1970	06:20	1	5/1/2018
Andrew Ryan – Like It’s Yesterday	2025	06:24	2	9/5/2025
Andre Rieu – I Have A Dream		06:28	12	30/8/2024
Joel Herron & His Orchestra – The Song Is You		06:32	0
Creedence Clearwater Revival – Proud Mary	1969	06:36	5	23/2/2024
Bobby Goldsboro – Behind Closed Doors		06:39	3	5/1/2024
For a Listener: Skyhooks – Blue Jeans		06:43	16	29/8/2025
For a Listener: Willie Nelson – Just Breathe		06:46	2	15/9/2024
Vintage Vinyl    Annette Funicello And The Afterbeats – First Name Initial	1959	06:52	0
Joy Adams & Gary R Farmer – Good Old Country Song	2025	06:55	0
Clayton Saunders – Uluru	2025	07:05	0
Charting this day 1974 Carl Douglas – Kung Fu Fighting	1974	07:12	0
Charting this day 1974 Paul Anka & Odia Coates – Having My Baby	1974	07:14	2	8/12/2024
For A Listener: Graeme Clarke – Flowers Won’t Grow in Gardens of Stone	2019	07:18	4	26/11/2023
John Michael Ferrari – How Far Apart Are We	2025	07:21	2	18/4/2025
Kevin Shegog – Melbourne Airport Tullamarine	1972	07:26	1	15/2/2019
Al Caiola – Vaya Con Dios		07:32	2	24/11/2013
Vintage Vinyl    Archie Bleyer – The Rockin’ Ghost	1956	07:36	1	1/12/2023
Andy Martin – River In The Rain	2025	07:39	2	11/5/2025
Ray Malcolm – Heartaches By The Number	2025	07:44	0
For a Listener: Craig Giles – Picture On The Mantle	2025	07:48	20	7/11/2025
Andy Penkow – Cry Of The Koala	2025	07:53	0
Lindsay Waddington – Rush Hour	2025	07:56	1	7/11/2025
Eddie Rabbitt – Drivin’ My Life Away		08:05	0
Charting this day 1974 Ernie Sigley & Denise Drysdale – Hey Paul Hey Paula	1974	08:11	3	2/11/2018
Charting this day 1974 Conway Twitty – As Soon As I Hang Up The Phone	1974	08:14	1	2/8/2015
Aaron Partridge & Steve Apirana – You Can Call On Him	2025	08:20	2	25/4/2025
Kathy Carver – Girl Crush	2025	08:24	0
Beatles – P S I Love You	1963	08:30	11	30/6/2024
Lawrence Welk – Blue Velvet		08:35	3	27/7/2025
Patti Page – Can’t Get Used To Losing You		08:37	3	18/6/2021
Andy Williams – In The Arms Of Love		08:40	0
Vintage Vinyl    Ames Brothers – You You You	1953	08:44	1	24/8/2018
Little Patti – Torn Between Two Lovers		08:47	4	10/1/2020
Terry Bennetts – Backing In The Van	2024	08:52	6	12/1/2025

► LOOKING at events on 7 November;

In 1872, The brigantine Mary Celeste departed New York, eventually to be found sailing in fine weather, unmanned and abandoned.  None of the people aboard were ever seen or heard from since, and the reason for the abandonment remains a mystery.

In the air in 1938, two Royal Air Force Vickers Wellesley aircraft arrived in Darwin, Northern Territory, after a record breaking non-stop flight from Egypt of  11,526 km.

In 1957, two schoolgirls, who were trapped in a crevice on The Nut, behind Stanley in Tasmania, were rescued. (For those unfamiliar, The Nut is an ancient volcanic plug, 152 metres high.)

In 1961, the original Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Washington, U.S.A., collapsed in a windstorm, just four months after it’s completion.

In 1963, Hobart, narrowly avoided losing its only trans-Derwent road link when the floating Hobart bridge was struck by a 30-ton pontoon which broke away from the adjacent Tasman Bridge construction work during a storm.
Had the floating pontoon bridge been holed, it would have sunk.

► BORN on 7 November

James Cook,  was born this day in 1728 in Marton, Yorkshire, England.  With the naval rank of Captain, he became an explorer, navigator and cartographer, and made detailed maps of Newfoundland prior to his three expeditions to the Pacific.
He achieved the first recorded European visit to eastern Australia, and the made the first circumnavigation of New Zealand.    He died in present-day Kealkekua, Hawaii, in 1779.

Alois Maxwell Hirt alias Al Hirt was born this day in 1922 in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A.  .  He was a trumpeter and bandleader known for his 1964 hits, including Java, Sugar Lips and Fancy Pants   He died in 1999.

Judy Parfitt, was born this day in 1935 in, Sheffield, England.  She is an actress, best known for her role as Sister Monica Joan in the BBC drama series Call The Midwife..  She turns 90 today.

Jean Shrimpton, was born this day in 1942, in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England.  She was a supermodel and actress who caused a sensation in 1965 when she turned up at the Victoria Derby in Melbourne, wearing the first mini-skirt –  13 cms above her knees.  She turns 83 today.

John Henry Ramistella, alias Johnny Rivers, was also born this day in 1942, in New York, U.S.A.  He became a rock and roll singer, songwriter, guitarist, and record producer.

Today’s photo – Sunset in the Derwent Valley, November 2024. –  Yours Truly.

Today’s Playlist

TRACK	RELEASE YEAR	PLAY TIME	PREVIOUS PLAYS	LAST PLAYED
Bohemian Rogue – Trouble in Paradise	2025	09:05	0
C J Hooper – Rain Song	2025	09:10	2	17/10/2025
Tears For Fears – Everybody Wants To Rule The World	1985	09:13	4	9/1/2015
70s Classic    Blondie – Heart of Glass	1979	09:20	3	25/5/2025
Stevie Wonder – Part-Time Lover	1985	09:23	1	1/8/2025
Peter Weekers – El Condor Pasa	2025	09:27	1	25/7/2025
101 Strings Orchestra – Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head		09:33	0
Joy Adams – Still I Wonder	2025	09:36	3	12/10/2025
Al Hirt – Java	1963	09:41	4	21/2/2016
For a Listener Justin Standley – My Eternal Blue Eyes	2025	09:44	4	12/10/2025
Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Hedgehoppers Anonymous – It’s Good News Week	1965	09:50	6	3/12/2021
Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Hollies – Look Through Any Window	1965	09:56	10	24/10/2025
Dean Martin – That’s Amore	1953	09:56	10	24/10/2025
The Djembé Prince  – Do The Salsa	2025	10:05	1	26/10/2025
Nancy Su – Ein Freund Wie Du	2025	10:09	2	10/10/2025
Allan Caswell – When Scotty Was Still In His Prime	2025	10:12	0
Johnny Rivers – Mountain Of Love	1968	10:18	10	6/12/2024
Vintage Vinyl   Ames Brothers – Little Gypsy	1958	10:23	2	30/8/2019
Roger Whittaker – Quel Monde Merveilleux		10:26	4	26/11/2023
Henry Mancini & His Orchestra – Dream A Little Dream Of Me		10:30	0
Foster & Allen – A Mother’s Way		10:34	0
Ray Malcolm – Crazy	2025	10:38	0
70s Classic    Shocking Blue – Venus	1970	10:42	3	23/3/2025
Ron Callaghan – Confusion	2025	10:47	1	31/8/2025
Craig Giles – Picture On The Mantle	2017	10:50	19	10/11/2024
Don Smythe – Daddy’s In Kandahar		10:54	9	10/11/2024
Royal Australian Navy Band – Song of Australia		10:58	4	24/4/2020
Lindsay Waddington – Rush Hour	2025	11:05	0
Toni West – Hell Of A Day	2025	11:09	1	24/10/2025
Andrew Dean and The Farm Machine – Swingtown	2025	11:13	1	3/10/2025
For a Listener Delltones – Come A Little Bit Closer	1963	11:17	9	25/2/2024
Vintage Vinyl    Addrisi Brothers – Cherrystone	1959	11:23	1	6/10/2023
Simon Orton – That’s Life	2025	11:25	0
Ray Conniff & His Orchestra – They Can’t Take That Away From Me		11:34	0
Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Seekers – The Carnival Is Over	1965	11:38	24	8/1/2023
Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Marianne Faithfull – Summer Nights	1965	11:41	1	29/12/2024
Ben Walker – Boat Time	2025	11:44	1	7/9/2025
Shavonne Aliphon – Don’t Quit	2023	11:48	4	21/7/2019
Lionel Rose – I Thank You	1970	11:52	5	7/5/2021

Valley Sunrise Edition 858
0600 ~ 0900 AEDT

During this edition, two chart-busters each hour, from the Top 40 charts of this week in 1972 and a mix of recent tracks from indie artists and other easy-listening music which you won’t hear on mainstream radio.

► LOOKING at events on 2 November;

On 2 November 1922, Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services (which became QANTAS) began a regular air service between Clareville and Cloncurry.
The first passenger on the 930 km route was 85 tear old Alexander Kennedy who, 53 years earlier, had taken 8 months to make the same journey by bullock wagon.

1936 in London, the British Broadcasting Corporation inaugurated the BBC Television Service, the world’s first regular, “high-definition” (then defined as at least 200 lines) service.  The channel still runs to this day as BBC 1, a callsign it acquired in 1964.

1942, and in World War 2 New Guinea, Australian troops recaptured Kokoda from Japanese forces.

1959 on Tasman Island, off Tasmania’s south east coast, a mother made a perilous trip down a precipitous 180 metre cliff with her son, who was suffering from acute appendicitis, to a waiting boat.  This started the boy’s emergency journey to the Royal Hobart Hospital. 

1974 in Seoul, South Korea, 78 lives were lost when the Time Go-Go Club was destroyed by fire.  Six of the victims jumped to their deaths from the seventh floor, when a club official barred the doors after the fire started.

► BORN THIS DAY…..

1938 – In New York, U.S.A. – David Blatt alias Jay Black, lead singer of the 60s group Jay & the Americans, who had numerous hits including Cara Mia, Come a Little Bit Closer, and This Magic Moment.   Died 2021.

1941 – In Bognor Regis, Sussex, England – Bruce Cripps, alias Bruce Welch, guitarist, songwriter, singer and producer, and a member of the 60s instrumental group The Shadows.
Welch wrote or co-wrote several number 1 singles for the Shadows, including Foot Tapper and The Rise And Fall Of Flingel Bunt as well as many Cliff Richard and The Shadows hits, such as Please Don’t Tease, Summer Holiday and In The Country.   Turns 84.

1961 In Consort, Alberta, Canada – Kathryn Dawn Lang alias kd lang, pop and country singer-songwriter and occasional actress.  She gives her name in lowercase letters, with the given names contracted to initials and no space between these initials  Turns 63.

► DIED THIS DAY…..

2014 – In Bath, Somerset, England – Bernard Stanley Bilk alias Acker Bilk, English jazz clarinettist famed for his goatee, bowler hat, striped waistcoat and his lower-register clarinet style.  His most famous hit was Stranger On The Shore in 1962.    Aged 85

Today’s Photo:

From the town of murals, Sheffield in northern Tasmania, this depiction of a thylacine (or Tasmanian Tiger, after which TYGA-FM is named) and a ferocious Tasmanian Devil.

Today’s Playlist (V S):

TRACK	RELEASE YEAR	TIME	PREVIOUS PLAYS	LAST PLAYED
Peter Salata – Turn The Stallion Loose	2025	06:06	1	31/10/2025
Charting this day 1972 Elvis Presley – Burning Love	1972	06:13	7	16/10/2020
Charting this day 1972 Blackfeather – Boppin’ The Blues	1972	06:16	4	6/11/2022
Jay & Americans – This Magic Moment	1969	06:20	12	3/11/2023
Warren Kearney – Under The Bridge	2025	06:23	1	17/10/2025
For a Listener: Dolly Parton – I Will Always Love You		06:27	0
Douglas Gamley Orchestra with Bob Docker – Nature Boy		06:32	0
Crystal Gayle – Somebody Loves You		06:36	2	24/10/2025
Shadows – Foot Tapper	1963	06:40	6	9/2/2020
Jimmy Bear – Memory Lane	2025	06:43	0
Vintage Vinyl    Guy Mitchell – Belle, Belle, My Liberty Belle	1951	06:50	3	5/2/2023
Joyce Ramgatie & Fred Irving – My Daddy Was A Country Star	2025	06:55	0
Michael Farrell – Country Boy	2025	06:58	1	19/10/2025
Cat Lion – Stop!	2025	07:05	0
Charting this day 1972 Gene Pitney – 24 Hours From Tulsa	1963 & 1972	07:11	15	15/12/2023
Charting this day 1972 Cornelius Brothers – It’s Too Late To Turn Back Now	1972	07:14	4	16/2/2024
For A Listener: Willie Nelson – Farther Down The Line	1969	07:18	4	15/9/2023
Shaza Leigh – Rodeos To Rainbows	2025	07:23	1	31/10/2025
kd lang – Constant Craving	1992	07:28	3	5/4/2015
Acker Bilk – Close To You		07:34	1	3/2/2017
Vintage Vinyl    Cliff Richard – Embraceable You	1959	07:39	0
Warwick & Young – You’ll Know That I Have Found You	2025	07:42	0
For a Listener: Bobby Goldsboro – Molly	1963	07:49	5	31/10/2025
Barry Owen – Darling, I Love You	2025	07:54	0
Damian Davis – Your Loving Eyes	2025	07:57	0
Larissa Tormey – Larissa & Coco	2025	08:05	1	17/10/2025
Charting this day 1972 Jim Reeves – Missing You	1964 & 1972	08:11	10	26/2/2023
Charting this day 1972 Jamie Redfern – Rainbow On The River	1972	08:13	8	21/1/2022
Rob Breese – A Dirranbandi Moon	2025	08:19	1	24/10/2025
Kathy Carver – My Country My Australia	2025	08:23	5	16/3/2025
Rose Sinclair – 42 Guitars	2021	08:30	2	20/6/2021
Romantic Strings – The White Cliffs Of Dover		08:36	0
Ed Ames – Bon Soir Dame	2025	08:40	4	9/7/2023
Grace Rivera – Eres Tu		08:43	1	15/6/2014
Vintage Vinyl    Frankie Avalon – Bobby Sox To Stockings	1959	08:47	2	31/7/2020
Dean Perrett – I Have Rambled	2025	08:50	0
Jason Owen – Thank God I’m a Country Boy	2019	08:55	6	13/12/2024

FRIDAY MORNING RADIO, Edition 493, 9.00 ~ Midday AEDT

Easy listening, retro and recent releases not to be heard on mainstream radio throughout the morning, on the Derwent Valley’s own radio station.

► LOOKING at events on 31 October;

In 1873, the Tasmanian Government Railways was formed when the Government took over the assets of the Launceston and Deloraine Railway Company, to put an end to constant disputes.  The Tasmanian Main Line Railway Company, which built the line between Western Junction and Hobart, and was also subject to disagreements, was next to be taken over.
The section of track between Western Junction and Launceston, which had been built by the L & D Company to 5ft 3in gauge, had been dual-gauged with a third rail, to enable T M L R trains to reach Launceston.  

A major heat wave in Marble Bar, West Australia in 1923/24, with the first of 160 consecutive days, with temperatures remaining  no lower than 38 C.

In Sydney, New South Wales in 1957, staff of the Commonwealth Taxation Office complained of a secret, after-hours raid carried out on their desks by Commonwealth Investigation Service officers.
The secretary of the NSW branch of the Administrative and Clerical Officers Association (Mr L Hewitt – no relation) was told that the Investigation Service was checking on suspected frauds and irregularities.

In 1961, a new radio telescope, one of the largest in the world at the time, was opened in Parkes, New South Wales.  Wind gusts up to 110 km/h  marred the ceremony, which was attended by 500 people.  It remains in operation today, but is 10,000 times more sensitive than it originally was.

On the roads in Tasmania a new model VE Chrysler Valiant car range was released for sale.  Major features included a split braking system designed to eliminate the possibility of total brake failure, front seat belts, improved all-round vision, an exterior rear vision mirror, padded sun visors, and flush interior door handles.  The basic sedan with manual transmission was priced at $2,516;  with automatic transmission $2,756.

There was an audacious escape from the Mountjoy Prison in Dublin, Ireland in 1973, when three Provisional Irish Republican army members escaped aboard a hijacked helicopter which was forced to land in the exercise yard. 

In the skies of Australia, in 1993 QANTAS and Australian Airlines merged.

In the skies of the world, in 2000 the first resident crew for the International Space Station were launched.  The space station has been continuously crewed since.  

► BORN THIS DAY…..

George Wilkins was born this day in 1888 in Mt Bryan, South Australia.  He became a polar explorer, ornithologist, pilot, soldier and photographer.  He died in 1958.

Les Darcy was born this day in 1895 in Stradbroke, New South Wales.  He was a champion, middle-weight professional boxer.  He died at the age of 21 in 1917, from septicaemia incurred through dental work to repair teeth damaged during a bout.

Barbara Bel Geddes was born this day in 1922, New York, U S A.  She was an actress whose career spanned 60 years;  best known for her role as matriarch Miss Ellie Ewing in the television soap opera Dallas from 1978 till 1990.  She died in 2005.

Michael Collins was born this day in 1930, Rome, Italy.  He became an American astronaut, whose second spaceflight was as command module pilot for Apollo 11.  He remained in orbit around the Moon, while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin made the first manned landing on the lunar surface.   He died in 2021.

Eugene Maurice Orowitz, alias Michael Landon, was born this day in 1936, New York, U S A.  He became an actor best known for his TV roles as Little Joe Cartwright in Bonanza;   Charles Ingalls in Little House on the Prairie; , and as the angel Jonathan Smith in Highway To Heaven.  He died in 1991.

Tom Paxton, was born this day in 1937, Chicago, Illinois U.S.A.  He is a folk singer and singer-songwriter who has been writing, performing and recording music for over 40 years.  A few of his successes are The Last Thing On My Mind, Bottle of Wine, Whose Garden Was This?, and The Marvelous Toy.   He turns 88 today.

Michael Kitchen, was born this day in 1948, Leicestershire, England.  He is an actor best known for his role as Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle in the ITV drama series, Foyles War.  He turns 77 today.

Jane Wymark, was born this day in 1952, London, England.  She is an actress best known for playing Joyce Barnaby in the popular ITV detective series Midsomer Murders, from 1997 until 2011.  She turns 73 today.

Today’s Playlist

TRACK	RELEASE YEAR	PLAY TIME	PREVIOUS PLAYS	LAST PLAYED
Steve Hart – The Entertainer	2025	09:05	1	24/10/2025
Peter Salata – Turn The Stallion Loose	2025	09:12	0
Tom T Hall – Pamela Brown	1990	09:16	0
70s Classic    Village People – YMCA	1978	09:20	10	16/3/2025
Dreamers – They Can’t Take That Away From Me		09:23	1	27/10/2024
Chet Atkins – Wheels		09:27	4	30/6/2023
The Three Suns – The Poor People of Paris		09:33	1	28/10/2020
Kirsten Alting & No Saint – Empty Promises	2025	09:36	0
Pat Garrett – I Need A Hug	2025	09:42	0
For a Listener Val Doonican – What Would I Be	1967	09:47	4	8/12/2017
Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Beatles – Act Naturally	1965	09:50	6	1/12/2017
Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Len Barry – 1 2 3	1965	09:53	5	12/6/2020
Glen Shorrock – Dream Lover		09:56	6	3/8/2025
Beach Boys – I Can Hear Music	1969	10:05	0
Don Smythe – Big City Blues	2025	10:09	2	10/10/2025
Shaza Leigh – Rodeos To Rainbows	2025	10:13	0
Bobby Goldsboro – Autumn Of My Life	1968	10:19	7	4/8/2017
Vintage Vinyl   Frankie Vaughan – Unchained Melody	1954	10:24	1	26/4/2019
Patsy Cline – Heartaches		10:27	0
Acker Bilk – Mean To Me		10:32	0
Gail Barnard – Country Girl	2025	10:36	0
Steve Markwardt – The Great Divide	2025	10:40	2	25/5/2025
For a Listener Bobby Goldsboro – Molly	1963	10:45	4	31/3/2024
Susan Muranty – Wild For The Country	2025	10:49	0
70s Classic    ABBA – Lovelight	1979	10:54	1	16/3/2025
Alisha Smith – The Gibb River Roundup		10:58	5	4/2/2022
Allan Caswell & Lindsay Waddington – Always Ride A Train	2025	11:05	5	8/8/2025
Victoria Eman – City Girl	2017	11:09	4	29/11/2024
Johnny Gregory Orchestra & Chorus – Happy Days Are Here Again		11:12	1	31/1/2025
For a Listener Roger Whittaker & Aylin – Ein Schöner Tag Mit Dir (A Beautiful Day With You)		11:18	0
Vintage Vinyl    Johnnie Ray – Just Walking In The Rain	1956	11:26	11	9/9/2022
London Symphony Orchestra – Arthur’s Theme		11:32	1	27/6/2021
Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Elvis Presley – I’m Yours	1965	11:36	3	16/8/2024
Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Toys – A Lovers Concerto	1965	11:39	12	1/12/2017
Ray Malcolm – Before The Next Teardrop Falls	2023	11:44	6	25/2/2024
Tom Curtain & Robyn Martin – When The Rain Comes Down	2023	11:47	1	8/12/2023
Denise Blum – Super Hero	2025	11:51	2	17/10/2024
Ronnie Kennedy – The Bluebell Polka		11:55	7	19/10/2025

 Today’s photo – Taken a few days ago, the Derwent River and Mt Dromedary.

Valley Sunrise Edition 857
0600 ~ 0900 AEDT

During this edition, two chart-busters each hour, from the Top 40 charts of this week in 1970 and a mix of recent tracks from indie artists and other easy-listening music which you won’t hear on mainstream radio.

► LOOKING at events on 26 October;

► On 26 October, 1938, the Australian National Airways airliner Kyeema crashed into Mt Dandenong in Victoria, with the loss of 18 lives.
A radio navigation beacon, which had been installed at Essendon airport a year previously, had not been operating because the Civil Aviation Department had still not completed necessary adjustments.  Aviation experts claimed that if the beacon had been operating, the crash may not have occurred.

And in 1958, the wreckage of an Australian National Airways Avro 10 aircraft, VH-UMF Southern Cloud, was accidentally discovered in heavily timbered country in the Snowy Mountains by a carpenter engaged on the Snowy Mountains hydro-electric scheme.
The aircraft had gone missing in 1931, with the loss of 8 lives, during a flight from Sydney to Melbourne, in poor weather conditions.  An extensive search at the time failed to locate it.

► BORN THIS DAY…..
1928 – Melbourne, Victoria, Shirley Abicair, singer, musician, actress, and author.   Died 27 September 2025, aged 94.

1941 – Wrexham, Wales, Charlie Landsborough, country and folk musician and singer songwriter.  Turns 84.

► DIED THIS DAY…..
1966 – In London, England –Alma Cogan, pop singer of the 50s and early 60s, and the highest paid British female entertainer of her era.  In the mid-1950s, she was the most consistently successful female singer in the U.K.  Aged 34.

Today’s Photo: The bridge across the Derwent, New Norfolk, 1910. (Yeoldetasmania)

Today’s Playlist (V S):

TRACK	RELEASE YEAR	TIME	PREVIOUS PLAYS	LAST PLAYED
Vernon Huskey – White Silver Sands	2025	06:06	3	4/5/2025
Charting this day 1970 Creedence Clearwater Revival – Bad Moon Rising	1970	06:12	13	30/3/2025
Charting this day 1970 Joni Mitchell – Big Yellow Taxi	1970	06:14	8	6/11/2022
Shirley Abicair – Go Galloway		06:18	1	26/10/2018
Sammy Sadler & Exile – Close Enough	2025	06:21	0
Simon Casey – One Friend	2025	06:27	0
Henry Mancini His Piano & Orchestra – The Way We Were		06:32	1	11/5/2014
For a Listener: Anne Murray – You Needed Me		06:37	6	20/7/2025
Charlie Landsborough – If Only I Had Wings		06:41	0
Daniel O’Donnell – Letter From The Postman’s Bag		06:45	0
For a Listener: Beatles – Back In The U S S R		06:49	1	16/6/2019
Vintage Vinyl Red Moore & Michael Gibson Orchestra – A Little Boy Called Smiley	1956	06:52	5	22/11/2024
Abby Grace – Boots Beer & Boogie		06:57	0
The Charlesys – Calling My Name	2025	07:05	0
Charting this day 1970 Bobby Sherman – Julie Do Ya Love Me	1970	07:11	4	19/10/2018
Charting this day 1970 Miguel Rios – Song of Joy	1970	07:14	5	16/2/2025
For A Listener: Hermans Hermits – My Sentimental Friend	1969	07:21	4	3/8/2018
Fleetwood Mac – Love In Store		07:24	1	31/3/2023
Alma Cogan – Dreamboat	1955	07:28	3	31/10/2023
James Last Orchestra – Mr Tambourin Man		07:31	1	8/3/2019
Vintage Vinyl    Jerry Vale with Percy Faith & His Orchestra – You Don’t Know Me	1956	07:35	2	3/10/2014
Victoria Eman – As Long As Your Heart Beats	2025	07:37	1	24/10/2025
Ron Callaghan – Proud Black Man	2025	07:42	0
Glenn Levi – Forever Is As Long As We Live	2025	07:46	0
For A Listener: Johnny Horton – Whispering Pines		07:51	6	27/7/2025
Don Lane – You’re Everything	1969	07:56	4	22/10/2017
Annette & Kim – Try A Little Kindness	2024	08:05	3	31/1/2025
Charting this day 1970 Liv Maessen – Snowbird	1970	08:10	4	5/5/2023
Charting this day 1970 Michael Nesmith – Joanne	1970	08:12	11	10/12/2023
Susanna Colley & Allan Caswell – Could Be I’m Falling For You	2025	08:18	0
Engelbert Humperdinck – Funny Familiar Forgotten Feelings		08:21	1	28/2/2025
Andy Williams – Love Story		08:26	1	26/11/2023
Paul Mauriat & His Orchestra – The Poor People of Paris		08:33	4	9/12/2022
Steve Heathcock – Love Song	2025	08:36	0
Patsy & Dave & .James Blundell – After The Storm	2025	08:40	0
Vintage Vinyl    Petula Clark – Majorca	1954	08:46	2	4/11/2016
Robert F – Ein Bisschen Mehr	2025	08:48	2	8/8/2025
The Djembé Prince  – Do The Salsa	2025	08:53	0

—O0O—

FRIDAY MORNING RADIO, Edition 492, 9.00 ~ Midday AEDT

Easy listening, retro and recent releases not to be heard on mainstream radio stations throughout the morning, on the Derwent Valley’s own radio station.

► LOOKING at events on 24 October;

In 1946, A camera on board the V 2 rocket No. 13  took the first photograph of earth from outer space.  The rocket, which was launched from White Sands, New Mexico, U.S.A., reached an altitude of 173 km.

In 1960, in Hobart, the city’s final electric tram ran between the city and Springfield, closing a service which had lasted 67 years

In 1968, in Glenorchy, Tasmania, a stuntman was fatally injured when he fell 15 metres from a motorcycle during a high-wire performance at the Royal Hobart Show.  Two girls, who were also suspended from the motorcycle, were left trapped, but were later rescued.

In 1973, two survivors from a missing coastal freighter, Blythe Star, were found on a remote logging road near Tasmania’s East Coast.  The vessel had disappeared without trace over a week before, and the crew of eight had drifted on a life raft for 12 days, unseen by search aircraft.
The raft eventually drifted ashore at uninhabited Deep Glen Bay, and the two men had climbed cliffs and waded through thick bush to summon help for five other survivors.  (One of their number had previously died at sea.)

In 1976, Most of the south-east of the Australian continent was blacked out between 3.45 p.m. and 5.45 p.m. by a total eclipse of the sun.  Thousands of spectators at the Bombala racecourse in southern New South Wales popped champagne corks as the sun was blocked out by the Moon.      

► DIED THIS DAY…..
2015 – In Boise, Idaho, U.S.A.,  Maureen FitzSimons alias Maureen O’Hara, actress and singer noted for portraying passionate heroines often working with longtime friend John Wayne.  Aged 95

2016 – In Rogers, Minnesota, U.S.A.,  Robert Thomas Velline alias Bobby Vee, pop singer and teen idol of the early 1960s, famous for his many international hits of the early 60s, including Take Good Care Of My Baby, Rubber Ball, More Than I Can Say, Run To Him, and The Night Has A Thousand Eyes.  Aged 73

2017 – In Harvey, Louisiana U.S.A.,  Antoine Dominique Domino alias Fats Domino, rhythm and blues and rock and roll pianist and singer-songwriter, who sold more than 65 million records.  His first single, The Fat Man, was the first rock and roll record to sell over a million copies.

Both Elvis Presley and the Beatles were heavily influenced by Domino’s style, with Presley having described him as “the true king of rock and roll.”  Aged 89

Today’s Playlist

TRACK	RELEASE YEAR	PLAY TIME	PREVIOUS PLAYS	LAST PLAYED
Kathy Carver – Eyre Highway Track	2025	09:05	3	22/6/2025
Philip Wildman – Sugar Moon	2025	09:11	0
Larry Cann – Many Good Reasons	2025	09:13	0
70s Classic    Pussyfoot – The Way You Do It	1976	09:18	5	9/3/2025
Crystal Gayle – Somebody Loves You		09:21	1	4/7/2025
Brent Duncan – My Best Life	2025	09:24	0
Al Caiola – You Don’t Know Me		09:35	1	3/3/2024
Demis Roussos – Forever and Ever		09:35	5	18/6/2017
Sarah Brightman – A Whiter Shade of Pale		09:42	4	11/2/2022
For a Listener Daniel O’Donnell – Don’t Forget To Remember		09:48	2	15/6/2025
Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Seekers – Cotton Fields	1965	09:52	6	6/10/2023
Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 McCoys – Hang On Sloopy	1965	09:54	3	1/12/2017
Jet Harris – Besame Mucho		09:58	0
Steve Hart – The Entertainer	2025	10:05	0
Lost Hollow – Buttermarket	2025	10:11	1	19/10/2025
The Gordon-Farleigh-Dill Association – You Say That You’re Leavin’	2025	10:15	0
Bobby Vee – It Might As Well Rain Until September	1962	10:20	0
Vintage Vinyl   Fats Domino – Ain’t That a Shame	1955	10:24	2	19/6/2020
Rob Breese – A Dirranbandi Moon	2025	10:26	0
European Show Band – Strangers In The Night		10:34	2	7/4/2024
Victoria Eman – As Long As Your Heart Beats	2025	10:37	0
The Lonesome Six – Small Things	2025	10:41	0
Kym Cormack – Mountains and Memories	2025	10:45	1	10/10/2025
For a Listener Chuck Berry – You Never Can Tell	1964	10:50	0
70s Classic    Smokie – Living Next Door To Alice	1977	10:55	9	18/5/2025
John Denver – I’ve Been Working On The Railroad		10:58	9	15/8/2025
Hayden Bilingy – Bequia	2025	11:05	3	25/7/2025
Toni West – Hell Of A Day	2025	11:09	0
Steve Cheers – Somebody To Love	2025	11:12	1	5/10/2025
For a Listener Roger Whittaker – Call My Name	2025	11:20	0
Vintage Vinyl    Rosemary Clooney – Half As Much	1952	11:27	1	23/5/2021
Johnny Gregory & His Orchestra – You Are The Sunshine Of My Life		11:33	0
Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Beatles – Yesterday	1965	11:37	15	8/6/2025
Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Peter Paul & Mary – Early Morning Rain	1965	11:39	2	7/12/2018
For a Listener Dean Martin – That’s Amore	1953	11:43	9	16/3/2025
Andy Williams – Hopeless		11:47	0
Matt Monro – And You Smiled	1973	11:49	5	22/12/2024
The Welsh Whisperer –  H M R C, Just Let Me Be	2025	11:53	5	29/3/2025

 Today’s photo – Today’s photo – Springtime in Arthur Square, New Norfolk.   (Yours Truly.)

FRIDAY MORNING RADIO, Edition 491, 9.00 ~ Midday AEDT

Easy listening, retro and recent releases not to be heard on mainstream radio stations throughout the morning, on the Derwent Valley’s own radio station.

► LOOKING at events on 17 October;

In 1847, in London, England, a massive beer flood occurred, when a vat containing over 610,000 litres of beer ruptured, causing adjacent vats to succumb in a domino effect.
A total of over 1,470,000 litres of beer gushed into the streets, destroying two homes and a wall of the Tavistock Arms Pub.  Eight people drowned in the flood, and another died from alcohol poisoning (???) the next day.

In 1907, Guglielmo Marconi’s company “The Marconi Company” began the first commercial transatlantic wireless service between Nova Scotia, Canada, and Clifden, Ireland

In 1917, Australia’s greatest railway undertaking to that date, the 1,711 km Trans-Australia railway linking Port Augusta and Kalgoorlie, was completed at Ooldea, 322 km east of the South Australia/West Australia border.

► BORN THIS DAY…..
1933 – Brussels, Belgium – Jeanine Paule Marie Deckers alias Soeur Sourire, or in English speaking countries, The Singing Nun.  She was singer songwriter and nun who had a world-wide hit in 1963 with Dominique.  Died 1985.

1942 – Hibbing, Minnesota, U.S.A. – Gary Puckett, American musician, who, with the group Union Gap, had hits in the late 1960s such as Woman Woman, Lady Willpower, and Young Girl.  Turns 83.

► DIED THIS DAY…..
2007 – New Rochelle, New York, U.S.A. –  Teresa Brewer, pop and jazz singer who was one of the most prolific and popular female singers of the 1950s, having recorded nearly 600 songs.  Aged 76.

Today’s photo – Russell Falls, Mt Field National Park, Tasmania.

Today’s Playlist

TRACK	RELEASE YEAR	PLAY TIME	PREVIOUS PLAYS	LAST PLAYED
Mike Fallon – You’re The Best	2025	09:05	0
Annette Hawkins -Shadow Of My Heart	2025	09:12	2	28/9/2025
C J Hooper – Rain Song	2025	09:15	1	3/10/2025
70s Classic    Elvis Presley – Moody Blue	1977	09:20	5	18/5/2025
The Lonesome Six – The Winds of Change	2025	09:22	1	10/8/2025
Hank Levine Singers & Orchestra – You’re Getting To Be A Habit With Me		09:29	1	9/6/2024
Mrs Mills – Moonlight And Roses		09:33	0
The Dream Academy – Life In A Northern Town		09:35	0
Singing Nun – Dominique	1963	09:42	14	29/6/2025
For a Listener Paddy Reilly – Farewell to Nova Scotia		09:47	5	15/1/2023
Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Bachelors – In The Chapel In The Moonlight	1965	09:51	8	17/11/2023
Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Shadows – Genie With The Light Brown Lamp	1965	09:52	1	12/1/2018
For a Listener Jim Reeves – Mexican Joe		09:57	1	5/7/2013
Kaoma – Lambada	1989	10:05	1	8/6/2025
Larissa Tormey – Larissa And Coco	2025	10:11	0
Adrian Ryan – A Little More Like Heaven	2022	10:14	3	2/9/2022
Gary Puckett & Union Gap – Kiss Me Goodbye	1968	10:18	2	30/6/2013
Vintage Vinyl   Tennessee Ernie Ford – Sixteen Tons	1955	10:24	3	13/3/2016
John O’Neill – That Ship Sailed Long Ago	2025	10:27	0
Hank Levine Orchestra – Can’t Buy Me Love		10:33	2	14/9/2012
Chillin’ – My Next Mistake	2025	10:37	0
Warren Kearney – Under The Bridge	2025	10:40	0
70s Classic    Teresa Brewer – What A Wonderful World		10:44	1	1/1/2017
Bing Crosby – Swinging On A Star		10:49	0
Skyhooks – Living In The Seventies	1974	10:51	5	2/3/2025
ABBA – Honey Honey	1974	10:54	5	5/4/2024
Bobby Rydell – Magic Star (Telstar)	1963	10:58	0
Denise Blum – Super Hero	2025	11:05	1	5/10/2025
Helene Neijmeijer – Unwise	2025	11:10	1	5/10/2025
Michael Wayne Dill with Tenneil – The Way That I Want You	2025	11:14	0
Penny Davies & Roger Ilott		11:20	4	26/1/2025
For a Listener Seekers – The Last Thing On My Mind		11:25	8	1/9/2023
Vintage Vinyl    Perry Como – Magic Moments	1958	11:33	2	18/5/2018
Edmundo Ros & His Orchestra – Say Si Si Merengue		11:39	0
Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Donovan – Universal Soldier	1965	11:42	4	22/11/2019
Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Ken Dodd – Tears	1965	11:44	5	7/12/2018
Lloyd Back – Black Cockatoo	2025	11:49	0
Peggie Nora – I’ve Had Enough	2025	11:52	0
Andrew McMurdie – Teenager in Love	2025	11:54	6	4/5/2025

 

Valley Sunrise Edition 855
0600 ~ 0900 AEST

During this edition, two chart-busters each hour, from the Top 40 charts of this week in 1977 and a mix of recent tracks from indie artists and other easy-listening music which you won’t hear on mainstream radio.

► On 12 October, 1912,   Queenstown, Tasmania – Forty-two copper miners died when fire broke out in the Mt Lyell copper mine.  Another 74 who were below ground escaped, and 54 more were rescued after vital equipment was rushed from Melbourne to Burnie via the Bass Strait ferry of the time, s.s. Loongana, and from Burnie by trains belonging to the Emu Bay Railway, and the Mt Lyell Mining and Railway Company, all of which made their respective journeys in record times.

► 1961 Sydney, New South Wales – In a campaign to ban bikinis at Bondi Beach, inspectors employed by the Waverley Council were instructed to wear full-length swimming costumes similar to those of the 1930s.

► DIED on this day in 1972 in New York, U.S.A.,  Billy Williams, African-American singer, who did a successful cover recording of Fats Waller’s I’m Gonna sit Right Down and Write Myself A Letter in 1957. This record sold over a million copies, and was awarded a gold disc.  His trademark was to add “Oh, Yeah” to the end of the lyrics.  He was aged 62.

► DIED on this day in 1997, in in Monterey Bay, California, U.S.A.   Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr. alias John Denver, singer-songwriter, actor, activist, and poet.  Denver recorded around 300 songs, many of which were his own compositions.  He received fatal injuries in a light plane crash, at the age of 53.

► DIED on this day in 2002 in Escondido, California, U.S.A.,  Ray Conniff, bandleader and musician who was particularly well known for the band of singers, 12 women and 13 men, who carried his name;  and also for his biggest ever hit, Somewhere My Love.
 He sold over 70 million easy-listening albums worldwide.  He was aged 85.

Today’s photo: Reflecting the prevailing weather in Tasmania over the past couple of weeks, a view of the suburb of Austins Ferry with snow-covered Mt Wellington in the background.

Today’s Playlist:

TRACK	RELEASE YEAR	TIME	PREVIOUS PLAYS	LAST PLAYED
Peter Campbell –  Out On The Clay	2025	06:06	0
Charting this day 1977 Dr Hook – Walk Right In	1977	06:13	4	27/7/2025
Charting this day 1977 Kenny Rogers – Lucille	1977	06:16	11	13/10/2023
John Denver – Back Home Again	1974	06:22	1	16/2/2018
Kris Kristofferson – Help Me Make It Through The Night		06:26	8	25/8/2023
Francoise Hardy – L’Amitie		06:29	4	11/10/2024
Los Muchachos – Carnavalito		06:33	7	6/3/2022
Allan Caswell – Really Long Goodbye		06:38	1	28/9/2025
Elisabeth Hope  – Beneath Still Waters	2025	06:42	2	10/10/2025
Vintage Vinyl    Billy Cotton & His Band – There’s Always Room At Our House	1952	06:47	4	30/4/2023
Joy Adams – Still I Wonder	2025	06:52	2	3/10/2025
Kim Copedo – Set My Heart To Country	2025	06:55	0
Glenn Jones – Best Be On Your Way	2025	07:05	3	10/10/2025
By Request: Beatles – In My Life		07:10	9	14/9/2025
Charting this day 1977 Manhattan Transfer – Operator	1977	07:13	2	25/3/2022
Charting this day 1977 David Soul – Silver Lady	1977	07:17	1	24/4/2020
For A Listener: Matt Monro – The Impossible Dream	1967	07:24	2	22/6/2025
Elvis Presley – Are You Lonesome Tonight		07:27	7	11/2/2024
Ray Conniff Singers – Somewhere Beyond The Sea		07:31	4	20/9/2013
Richard Clayderman – Elizabethan Serenade		07:35	7	29/10/2017
Vintage Vinyl    Shirley & Lee – Let The Good Times Roll	1956	07:38	0
Billy Williams – I’m Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter	1957	07:41	8	3/7/2016
Nathan Ward – She Gave Me A Kiss	2025	07:45	0
Carol Chaney – What I Want	2025	07:48	0
Val Doonican – Massachusetts		07:55	2	25/11/2022
Highway 95 – Leave A Light On		07:58	0
William Alexander – Wild Roan Brumby	2025	08:06	0
Charting this day 1977 Jean Michel Jarre – Oxygene	1977	08:11	5	9/11/2018
Charting this day 1977 Rita Coolidge – Your Love Has Lifted Me Higher	1977	08:16	5	20/11/2020
Brian Hyland – The Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini	1960	08:20	8	21/1/2024
Anthony Baxter – On Top Of The World	2025	08:23	3	26/9/2025
Great Grand-Pop Perry Como – Carolina Moon	1947	08:29	0
Ferrante & Teicher – Warsaw Concerto		08:37	0
Christine Clifford – Crazy	2025	08:41	2	7/9/2025
Justin Standley – My Eternal Blue Eyes	2025	08:44	3
Vintage Vinyl    Jim Reeves – Home	1959	08:49	0
Al Fisk – Newtown To Clovelly	2025	08:51	0