28 April 2024

Valley Sunrise Edition 779

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

Today’s Playlist:

Hour 1 – 0700 ~ 0800:

Alice Benfer – Old Felt Hat (2024)
C C Parkroy – You’re Beautiful (2024)
Adrian Payne – Go Back (2024)
Cass Williams – Walkin’ Old Floors (2024)
Horst Wende’s Accordeon Band – Schiffsjungentanz (Shipboy Dance)
(ON THIS DAY 1789 The mutiny on the British Naval ship HMS Bounty occurred, in which the mutineers cast the Captain, Lieutenant William Bligh and 18 loyal sailors adrift. Blight and his crew made an epic 6,500 km journey to Timor in the-then Dutch East Indies, from where he returned to England to report the mutiny. The mutineers, meanwhile, returned briefly to Tahiti before sailing to Pitcairn Island, where descendants of some of the mutineers live today.)
Pete King Orchestra & Chorale – Around The World

Mary Gantley – Amien Street Number One (2024)
Richie Kavanagh – Me Little Jack Russell
(DIED this day 1883 in Torrington, Devon, England – John Russell, alias Jack Russell, parson, fox hunting enthusiast and dog breeder, after whom the Jack Russell Terrier is named. Aged 87)
Anne Murray – You’re A Part Of Me
Billboard Top 20 of 1961 – No 14, Shirelles – Dedicated To The One I Love 
Andy Williams – Dedicated To The One I Love
Gil Deck & His Syncopators – Bridge Of Our Dreams Come True (1930)
(ON THIS DAY 1923 in North Sydney – Construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge commenced with the ceremonial turning of the first sod by Mr Ball, the-then Minister for Works and Railways. Aged 70.)
Glen Miller & His Orchestra with Marion Hutton – The Woodpecker Song (1940)

Hour 2 – 0800 ~ 0900:

Celia Bryce Band – Here Before (2024)
By Request: Slim Dusty – And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda
By Request: Whitney Houston – I Will Always Love You
By Request: Soundtrack, Sound of Music – Edelweiss
Sonny Morgan – Learning How To Love Again (2024)

By Request: Vic Dana – Red Roses For A Blue Lady (1965)
By Request: ABBA – Take A Chance On Me
Sammie Soravia – The Woman I Am (2023)
Cliff Richard – Just Another Guy (1965)
Seekers – A World Of Our Own (1965)

ALSO ON THIS DAY:

1996 – In Port Arthur, Tasmania – 35 people died and 21 were injured during what was then the world’s worst massacre by a lone gunman.

26 April 2024

Friday Morning Radio Edition 414

Today’s photo: The New Norfolk Cenotaph, after Thursday’s ANZAC Day commemoration service.

The Playlist:

Hour 1 (9.00 ~ 10.00):

Paul Hudnott – Mr Rainbow Man (2024)
Watling & Bates – Love Was (2024)
Donny & Marie Osmond – I Know This Much Is True
Duane Eddy – Play Me Like Your Old Guitar
[Born this day 1938 in Corning, New York USA – Duane Eddy, guitarist who had many hit records during the late 1950s and early 60s. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame in 1994, and is Rock and Roll’s No 1 instrumentalist. Turns 86.]
Petula Clark – Colour My World (1966)
Mitch Miller & the Gang – It’s Only A Paper Moon

Percy Faith & His Orchestra – Our Day Will Come
Ray Conniff Singers – This Is My Song
Bobby Rydell – Butterfly Baby (1963)
[Born this day 1942 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA – Robert Louis Ridarelli alias Bobby Rydell, teen idol of the early 1960s, famed for his hits Wild One and Volare. Died 2022.]
Tony Clarke – Good Morning Mr Morning (2024)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Roy Orbison – It’s Over (1964)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Beatles – Twist And Shout (1964)
Bill Anderson – 500 Miles Away From Home

Hour 2 (10.00 ~ 11.00):

Pat Nicholson – I Need You (2024)
Bee Gees – More Than A Woman (1977)
Kym Cormack – Aotearoa New Zealand (2024)
They Don’t Make Them Like This Anymore: Mark IV – Ah Ooo Gah (1959)
Victoria, Vanessa & Charmaine Eman – Love Letter (2024)
Allan Caswell – Take Your Time (2024)

Orchestral Sounds – Sealed With A Kiss
The Long and Short Of It – Beside You (2024)
Ames Brothers – The Naughty Lady of Shady Lane (1953)
[Died this day 1997 in Scottsdale, Arizona, USA – Gene Urick, alias Gene Ames, of the Ames Brothers quartet popular in the 1950s with many million selling hits. Aged 74]
Warren Kearney – The Hill (2024)
Dusty Springfield – 24 Hours From Tulsa
David Essex – Hold Me Close (1975)
Nishisa Hikaru – Sukiyaki (2024)

Hour 3 (11.00 ~ 12.00):

Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell – I Just Wanted To See You So Bad (2024)
Fleetwood Mac – Sweet Little Lies (1987)
Roy Orbison – All I Have To Do Is Dream
Horst Wende’s Accordeon Band – Amsterdam Polka
Vanessa Bourne – No One Holds A Candle To You
Pete King Orchestra & Chorus – Blue Moon

Billy Vaughn & His Orchestra – Are You Lonesome Tonight
60 Year Diamond Classic: Peter & Gordon – A World Without Love (1964)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Ned Miller – Invisible Tears (1964)
Bill Anderson – You Don’t Have To Be A Baby To Cry
Tony Christie – Some Broken Hearts Never Mend
Alice Benfer – Old Felt Hat (2024)
Paddy Canavan – The Blonde In The Black Skirt (2024)

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

ALSO ON THIS DAY:

DIED:

1973 Santa Monica, California, USA – Irene Ryan, best known as the feisty Granny in the television sitcom The Beverley Hillbillies.  (Aged 70)

1976 Sunderland, England. – Solomon Joel Cohen alias Sid James, actor and comedian who appeared in movies from 1947. He died on-stage during a performance in a play at the local theatre. Some people claim to have seen his ghost there.  (Aged 62)

1984 Hollywood, Florida, USA. – William James Basie, alias Count Basie, jazz pianist, composer and bandleader for nearly 50 years.  (Aged 79)

1989 Beverley Hills, California, USA. – Lucille Desiree Ball, comedienne, actress and film executive.  (Aged 77)


EVENTS:

1962 The Moon. – As planned, America’s Ranger 4 spacecraft crashed on the Moon. It was designed to transmit photographs of the lunar surface for 10 minutes prior to crash-landing and collect gamma-ray data, but a power failure stopped the craft’s clock and caused it to hit the far side of the Moon, without returning any data. It was still the first U S craft to reach another celestial body.

1967 Melbourne, Victoria – Ford Australia announced production of the fastest car ever built in Australia at the time, the XR Ford Falcon GT. It was powered by a 287 cubic inch V8 engine with a 4-speed manual transmission, and came in one colour only – a shade of bronze called GT Gold. 

1986 Chernobyl, Ukraine – In the world’s worst civil nuclear disaster, an explosion at a nuclear power station released 400 times more radio-active material than the Hiroshima atomic bomb. The radio-active material reached countries as far distant as Scotland, Norway and Sweden and forced the permanent evacuation of 53,000 people from nearby Pripyat and hundreds of deaths.   

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21 April 2024

Valley Sunrise Edition 778

This Edition’s Photo: Taken near Granton, April 2024.

Today’s Playlist:

Hour 1 – 0700 ~ 0800:

Paul Hudnott – Mister Rainbow Man (2024)
Chris “Boots” Lee – You’ve Got To Stand For Something (2024)
Wallace Mair – I’ll Take You Home (2024)
Alan Gumm – Fields Of Athenry (2024)
Don Cornell – I’m Yours (1952)
(BORN this day 1919 in The Bronx, New York, USA – Luigi Varlaro, alias Don Cornell, 1940s and 50s singer. Died 2004)
Al Caiola – Calcutta

Horst Jankowski & His Orchestra – Hello Dolly
Silvano Mangano – Anna (1953)
(BORN this day 1930 in Rome, Italy – Silvana Mangano, actress who trained as a dancer and worked as a model before winning a beauty pageant in 1946. Her subsequent acting career continued for 40 years. Died 1989)
Petula Clark – A Groovy Kind Of Love
Billboard Top 20 of 1961 – No 13, Roy Orbison – Running Scared: 
Roy Orbison – Running Scared (1961)
Joy Adams & Gary R Farmer – You’re The One Who Tore Our Love Apart (2024)
Nina Simone – My Baby Just Cares For Me (1958)
(DIED this day 2003 in Bouches-du-Rhone, France – Nina Simone, American singer, songwriter, pianist, and civil rights activist. Aged 70.)
Peter Salata – That’s My Way Of Life (2024)

Hour 2 – 0800 ~ 0900:

Watling & Bates – Love Was (2024)
By Request: P J Proby – If I Loved You
By Request: Jim Reeves – I Love You Because (1964)
By Request: Chris de Burgh – Lady In Red
By Request: Mantovani – Born Free
Warren Kearney – The Hill

Werner Muller & His Orchestra – My Little Grass Shack In Kealakekua
Alan Caswell – Take Your Time (2024)
By Request: Tammy Wynette – Apartment Number Nine
Jamie Donnelly – Fathers Daughters (2023)
Alisha Smith – Along The Molonglo
Royal Guardsmen – Snoopy vs The Red Baron (1967)

ALSO DIED ON THIS DAY:

1910 – In Redding, Connecticut, USA – Samuel Langhorne Clemens, alias Mark Twain, author. He was born shortly after an appearance by Halley’s Comet. He predicted that he would “go out with it.” He died the day after the comet re-appeared, aged 74.

1918 – In Vaux-sur-Somme, France – Baron Manfred von Richtofen, German World War 1 fighter pilot ace, known as The Red Baron, credited with 80 air combat victories. He was shot down and killed by Australian ground fire after being attacked by a Canadian aircraft. Aged 25.

19 April 2024

Friday Morning Radio Edition 413

The Playlist:

Hour 1 (9.00 ~ 10.00):

Diana Ross & Supremes – The Happening (1967)
Men At Work – Who Can It Be Now (1981)
Marmalade – Ob La Di Ob La Da (1969)
Bobby Russell – 1432 Franklin Pike Circle Hero (1968)
[Born this day 1940 in Nashville, Tennessee USA – Bobby Russell, songwriter, who also recorded several hit records. Died 1992.]
Shaza Leigh – Safety In Their Arms (2024)
Mrs Mills – I Belong To Glasgow

Manuel & The Music Of The Mountains – Mascara Negra
Cass Williams – Walkin’ Old Floors
Alan Price – The House That Jack Built (1967)
[Born this day 1942 in Fatfield, England – Alan Price, musician and original keyboardist with The Animals. Turns 82.]
Vanessa Delaine – Invisible (2024)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Terry Stafford – Suspicion (1964)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Danny Williams – White On White (1964)

Hour 2 (10.00 ~ 11.00):

Michael T Wall – Daddy’s Girl (2021)
Sarah & Sabrina Wall – We’re Still Daddy’s Girls (2021)
Tommy B – Bed of Roses (2021)
They Don’t Make Them Like This Anymore: Carson Robison – Life Gets Tee-Jus Don’t It (1948)
Andy Williams – Love Letters In The Sand
Aretha Franklin – I Say A Little Prayer (1968)

Lawrence Welk – Java
Tony Christie – Sea Of Heartbreak
New Seekers – I Get A Little Sentimental (1974)
[Born this day 1943 in Auchterarder Scotland – Evelyn May Beatson, alias Eve Graham, singer who found fame as a member of the early 1970s pop group, The New Seekers. Turns 81.]
Celia Bryce Band – Here Before (2024)
Lindsay Waddington – When I Think Of Home (2024)
Peter Smokie Dawson – Touching Strings (2024)
Slim Dusty – Fair Dinkum

Hour 3 (11.00 ~ 12.00):

Sammie Soravia – The Woman I Am (2024)
Abby Grace – Me, Myself and I (2024)
Daniel O’Donnell – Wooden Heart
Hank B Marvin – Sacha
Don McLean – And I Love You So
Billy Vaughn & His Orchestra – Wheels
Elvis Presley – Welcome To My World

101 Strings Orchestra – Blue Tango
60 Year Diamond Classic: Doris Day – Move Over Darling (1964)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Buddy Holly – Peggy Sue (1964)
Anne Fraser – Beneath Australian Stars (2024)
Adrian Payne – Go Back (1968)
Andy Penkow – Ghostly Gums (2024)
Alisha Smith – Winter Winds (2024)

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

ALSO ON THIS DAY:

BORN:

1907 Tolworth, Surrey, England – Alan Wheatley, a radio announcer who turned to stage and screen acting in the 1930s.  He was much seen during the black and white era and is probably best known as the Sheriff of Nottingham in the 1950s TV series The Adventures of Robin Hood, in which he played the malevolent adversary to Robin Hood, portrayed by Richard Greene.  (d. 1991)

1933 Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. – Vera Jayne Palmer alias Jayne Mansfield, actress, nightclub entertainer, singer, and one of the early Playboy Playmates.  One of Hollywood’s original blonde bombshells, Mansfield was a sex symbol of the 50s and 60s.  (d. 1967)

EVENTS:

1947 Texas City, near Galveston, Texas, U.S.A. – 714 lives were lost when a fire aboard a ship spread to a nearby chemical factory and adjacent oil refineries, with massive explosions devastating the city.

1956 Portsmouth, England – British naval diver Lionel Crabb vanished after diving into the harbour to investigate a visiting Soviet naval cruiser. 

1966 Australia – Controversy erupted when the first conscripts were flown to the Vietnam War.   

1966 Auckland, New Zealand – A parachutist survived a one-in-a-million mid-air collision with a Tiger Moth aircraft, 366 metres above Auckland’s Ardmore Airfield.

1966 London, England – The infamous Moors Murderers, Myra Hindley and Ian Brady, went on trial in the Old Bailey Court for the serial murders of five children.  Hindley was sentenced to life without release and died in 2002 after serving 36 years behind bars.   Brady was similarly sentenced, died in 2017, having served 51 years.

14 April 2024

Valley Sunrise Edition 777

This Edition’s photo – The recent total solar eclipse taken from Prince Edward Island, Canada, by Ron Bickle of CFTA Radio Tantramar, Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Today’s Playlist:

Hour 1 – 0700 ~ 0800:

Dianne Coombes – The Backsteps (2024)
Alan Gumm – When You’re Blue (2024)
Johnny Cash – Folsom Prison Blues (1958 – 1968)
Matt Monro – I’ll Never Fall In Love Again
Loretta Lynn – The Coal Miner’s Daughter
(BORN this day 1932 in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky, USA – Loretta Webb, alias Loretta Lynn, actress, singer-songwriter and philanthropist. Aged 2022)
Tasmanian Trumpet Trio – The Lonely Bull

Horst Jankowski & His Orchestra – Jumping Jack
Burl Ives – It’s My Funny Way Of Laughing (1962)
(DIED this day 1995 in Anacortes, Washington, USA – Burl Ives, actor and singer. Aged 85)
Deb Mepham – Merry Model T (2024)
Billboard Top 20 of 1961 – No 11, Lawrence Welk – Calcutta, and No 12 Bobby Vee – Take Good Care Of My Baby: 
Lawrence Welk – Calcutta
Bobby Vee – Take Good Care Of My Baby
Percy Sledge – When A Man Loves A Woman
(DIED This day 2015 in Baton Rouge – Alabama, USA – Percy Sledge, rhythm and blues and soul singer. Aged 73.)


Hour 2 – 0800 ~ 0900:

Louise Morrissey – Just In Case (2024)
By Request: Beach Boys – Surfing USA (1963)
By Request: Pussycat – Mississippi (1976)
By Request: Charlie Landsborough – I Will Love You All My Life
By Request: Ed Sheeran – Castle On The Hill
Tom Jones – You’re My World
By Request: ABBA – Mamma Mia

By Request: Billy Vaughn & His Orchestra – Morgen
Marty Robbins – Lonely Old Bunkhouse
Charlie Chech – The Summer Wind
Hermans Hermits – Heartbeat (1965)
Percy Faith & His Orchestra – Our Day Will Come

EVENTS ON THIS DAY:

1912 – North Atlantic Ocean – The passenger liner RMS Titanic struck an iceberg at 11.40 p.m. and sank a few hours later. Of more than 2,220 people aboard, 1,517 were lost.

1944 – Bombay (now Mumbai) India – Fire broke out in the hold of SS Fort Stikine, which was loaded with a cargo of cotton, gold, and 1,400 tons of explosives. Two massive explosions, heard 80 kilometres away, ensued, scattering debris, sinking adjacent ships, causing the loss of over 1,000 lives and damage estimated at £20 million.

1964 – Melbourne, Victoria – After an Adelaide-bound Ansett-ANA DC 6 airliner lost a propeller, the pilot flew aerobatics over Port Phillip Bay to shake off the crippled engine before making a safe landing at Melbourne Airport. The 56 passengers and 6 crew aboard were unharmed and the propeller landed in the back yard of an Essendon house.

1981 – Edwards Air Force Base, California, USA – The first operational space shuttle, Columbia, successfully completed it’s first test flight.

1999 – Sydney, New South Wales – A severe hailstorm caused $2.3 billion in insured damage, one of the most costly natural disasters in Australian history.

2010 – Iceland – A volcanic eruption caused massive disruption to air traffic, with ash falling over a large area on northern Europe.

12 April 2024

Friday Morning Radio Edition 412

Today’s Playlist:

Hour 1 (9.00 ~ 10.00):

Hope River Road – Journey Of Your Life (2024)
Steve Marquardt – L O V E (2024)
Ariel Franz (Age 12) – I Will Remember You (2024)
Billy Vaughn & His Orchestra – Mexico
[Born this day 1919 in Glasgow, Kentucky USA – Richard Vaughn alias Billy Vaughn, musician and orchestra leader who charted 42 singles and 36 albums. Died 1991.]
Andy Williams – The Song From Moulin Rouge
Alan Gumm – Fields of Athenry (2024)

101 Strings Orchestra – Unforgettable
Anne Murray – A Love Song
Ned Miller – From A Jack To A King (1963)
[Born this day 1925 in Rains, Utah, USA – Ned Miller, country singer-song writer best known for his # 1 hit, From A Jack To A King. Died 2016.]
Chris Boots Lee – You’ve Got To Stand For Something (2024)
Jokeria – Another Neon Bar (2024)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Jan & Dean – New Girl In School (1964)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Beatles – I Saw Her Standing There (1964)

Hour 2 (10.00 ~ 11.00):

Clayton Saunders – Black Sheep (2024)
Peter Salata – That’s My Way Of Life (2024)
Slim Dusty – Redwing
They Don’t Make Them Like This Anymore: Illo Schieder & Max Greger & His Orchestra – Mambo Caballero (1956)
David Cassidy – I Think I Love You (1970)
[Born this day 1950 in New York, USA – David Cassidy, actor, singer, song writer known for his role in the 1970s sitcom, The Partridge Family. Died 2017.]
Giants of Latin – The Lion Sleeps Tonight
Roger Whittaker – My World

Andre Rieu – Benedictus
Val Doonican – Durham Town
Warren Kearney – The Hill (2024)
Lonnie Lee – Starlight Starbright (1960)
Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band – I’m The Urban Spaceman (1969)
Dancing Ballroom Orchestra – Walking On A Sunday
Alice Benfer – Old Felt Hat (2024)

Hour 3 (11.00 ~ 12.00):

Jeff Catto & Lauren Mayell – Out Of My Head (2024)
Paul Hudnott – Mister Rainbow Man (2024)
Pat Nicholson – I Need You (2024)
Hein Simons – Tulpen Aus Amsterdam
John Denver – The Little Engine That Could
Lawrence Welk Orchestra – Blue Velvet
Billy Vaughn & His Orchestra – The Isle of Capri

Joel Herron & His Orchestra – A Fine Romance
60 Year Diamond Classic: Bachelors – I Believe (1964)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Gene Pitney – That Girl Belongs To Yesterday (1964)
Wallace Mair – I’ll Take You Home (2024)
Executives – It’s A Happening World (1968)
Tony Christie – Summer Wine (2024)
Watling & Bates – Love Was (2024)

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

ALSO ON THIS DAY:

1835 – D’Entrecasteaux Channel, Tasmania – The ship George III, which was carrying 308 people from Woolwich, England, to Port Arthur, was wrecked. Over 100 of the 220 convicts aboard – including 40 boys – drowned when they were prevented from leaving. A total of 134 lives were lost.

1961 – Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space, orbiting Earth once in 89 minutes 6 seconds, aboard Vostok 1.

1962 – The Southern Aurora became the first train to run direct from Sydney to Melbourne, on the new standard gauge track.

1975 – The first sod was turned for construction of the Tarcoola- Alice Springs railway, which was intended to replace the original, flood-prone narrow-gauge line from Oodnadatta to Alice Springs. In 2001, work commenced on extending the line to Darwin.

1981 – Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA – The space shuttle Columbia was launched on it’s first mission.

7 April 2024

Valley Sunrise Edition 776

Photo: Mt Faulkner (taken earlier this week). (Photo: Yours Truly)

Today’s Playlist:

Hour 1 – 0700 ~ 0800:

Anne Murray – I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight
Adrian Payne – Go Back (2024)
Slim Dusty – Sniff The Digger’s Dog
Burn Ives – Pearly Shells (1964)
Percy Faith & His Orchestra – Popsicles and Icicles
(Born this day 1908 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada – Percy Faith, bandleader and composer, known for his arrangements of pop standards and credited with the “easy listening” format. Died 1976.)
Cliff Richard – The Day I Met Marie (1967)

Paul Mauriat & His Orchestra – Penelope
Billie Holiday – East Of The Sun and West Of The Moon
(Born this day 1915 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA – Eleanora Fagan, alia Billie Holiday, jazz singer and songwriter whose career started in 1933, and continued till her death in 1959.)
Colin Gordon-Farleigh & Sylkie Monoff – Lover’s Merry-Go-Round (2024)
Billboard Top 20 of 1961 – No 10: Joe Dowell – Wooden Heart
Nancy Su – You Gave Me (2024)
Janis Ian – At Seventeen (1975)
(Born This day 1951 in New York, USA – Janis Eddy Fink, alias Janis Ian, singer, songwriter, and author. Turns 73.)


Hour 2 – 0800 ~ 0900:

Tony Christie – Is This The Way To Amarillo (1971)
By Request: Glen Campbell – Rhinestone Cowboy
By Request: Andy Williams – Can’t Get Used To Losing You (1963)
By Request: Daniel O’Donnell – Any Dream Will Do
By Request: Johnny Horton – All For The Love Of A Girl
Noel Balfour – How Could You Love Me (2024)

European Show Band – Strangers In The Night
Sandy Summers – Run Today (2024)
Shaza Leigh – Safety In Their Arms (2024)
Gary Puckett & Union Gap – Woman Woman (1968)
Tremeloes – Suddenly You Love Me (1968)
Sisters In Song – Go Rose Go (2024)

EVENTS ON THIS DAY:

1960 – Hobart experienced the hottest April day for two years, with a maximum of 27 C and the most severe water restrictions in the city’s history till then.

1980 – The United States severed diplomatic relations with Iran and imposed economic sanctions following the taking of American hostages the previous November.

1989 – Barents Sea, off Norway – The Soviet nuclear submarine Komsomolets sank in water 1.7 km deep, with the loss of 42 crew.

2001- Mars Odyssey, a robotic spacecraft now orbiting Mars, was launched. It still holds the record for the longest surviving, continually active spacecraft in orbit around a planet other than Earth.

The playlist for Friday Morning Radio (5th April) appears below.

DAYLIGHT SAVING ENDS THIS WEEKEND

We will be turning our clocks back an hour, affecting the times TYGA-FM programmes will be heard. For example, as from this Sunday,

From West Australia, Friday Morning Radio will start at 7 a.m.;
Music Unlimited at 4 a.m.;
Valley Sunrise at 5 a.m.

From the UK, Friday Morning Radio will start at midnight;
Music Unlimited at 9 p.m.;
Valley Sunrise at 10 p.m.

New Zealand will be the usual 2 hours ahead of us.

5 April 2024

Friday Morning Radio Edition 411

Today’s Playlist:

Hour 1 (9.00 ~ 10.00):

Lance Birrell – Gone Gone Gone (2024)
Louise Morrissey – Just In Case (2024)
Rebel Hearts – Lullaby of London (2024)
Gale Storm – I Hear You Knocking (1955)
[Born this day 1922 in Bloomington, Texas USA – Josephine Cottle alias Gale Storm, actress and singer. Died 2009.]
Platters – One In A Million (1957)
[Born this day 1928 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, USA – Tony Williams, lead singer of the pioneering pop group, the Platters, from 1953 till 1960. Died 1992.]
Andy Williams – Unchained Melody

Henry Mancini & His Orchestra – Theme From A Summer Place
Ray Conniff Orchestra & Singers – For The Good Times
Crispian St Peters – The Pied Piper (1966)
[Born this day 1939 in Swanley, Kent, England – Robin Smith alias Crispian St Peters, pop singer and songwriter. Died 2010.]
Anne Murray – Snowbird
Parker & Johnson – Worth A Shot (2024)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Peter Paul & Mary – Tell It On A Mountain (1964)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Little Patti – We’re Gonna Have A Party Tonight (1964)

Hour 2 (10.00 ~ 11.00):

Rosalind Clare – Back In Baby’s Arms (2024)
Mike Fallon – Get Out And Boogie (2024)
Heartland Roots Band – Faithless Life (2024)
They Don’t Make Them Like This Anymore: Five Keys – Ling Ting Tong (1955)
ABBA – Honey Honey (1974)
[Born this day 1950 in Jonkoping, Sweden – Agnetha Faltskog, recording artist who reached international stardom as a member of the pop group ABBA. Turns 74.]
Allan Gumm – Just Thank Me (2024)
Dancing Ballroom Orchestra – Walking On A Sunday

101 Strings Orchestra – Quando Quando Quando
Mary Gantley – Face The Sun (2024)
Danny & Juniors – At The Hop (1957)
[Died this day 1983 in Quartzsite, Arizona, USA – Danny Rapp, pop musician with the group Danny & the Juniors, best known for their 1957 hit “At The Hop.” Aged 41.]
John Derosa – Hey Rock and Roll (2024)
Gene Pitney – The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962 / 1968)
[Died this day 2006 in Cardiff, Wales – Gene Pitney, American singer-songwriter, musician and sound engineer, highly successful during the 1960s. Aged 66.]
Daniel O’Donnell – A White Sport Coat
Billy Vaughn & His Orchestra – Harbour Lights

Hour 3 (11.00 ~ 12.00):

Deb Mepham – Merry Model T (2024)
Jon Washington’s Fortunes – Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling (2024)
Beach Boys – Then I Kissed Her (1967)
Krista Fartek – Hallo Mama (2024)
Bee Gees – Words (1968)
Jim Reeves – A Railroad Bum (1962)

Manuel & The Music Of The Mountains – Never On Sunday
60 Year Diamond Classic: Four Seasons – Stay (1964)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Serendipity Singers – Don’t Let The Rain Come Down (1964)
Allan Caswell – Take Your Time (2024)
Mike Wilkinson – You Know It’s Time (2024)
Dianne Coombes – The Backsteps (2024)
Jason Owen – Needles And Pins

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

ALSO ON THIS DAY:

1900 – Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA – Born, Spencer Tracy, theatrical and film actor, ranked ninth on the list of the Greatest Male Stars of All Time. Died 1967.

1908 – Lowell, Massachusetts, USA – Born, Ruth Elizabeth Davis, alias Bette Davis, actress of film, television and theatre. Died 1989.

1912 – Bedford, Bedfordshire, England – Born, John Elton Le Mesurier Halliley, alias John Le Mesurier, actor famous for his role as Sergeant Arthur Wilson in the popular BBC comedy Dad’s Army. Died 1983.

1916 – La Jolla, California, USA – Born, Eldred Gregory Peck, alias Gregory Peck, movie star ranked twelfth on the list of the Greatest Male Stars of All Time. Died 2003.

1929 – Newent, Gloucestershire, England – Born, Robert George Meek, alias Joe Meek, record producer and songwriter. Died 1967.

EVENTS ON THIS DAY:

1958 – Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada – Ripple Rock, an underwater threat to shipping which had caused 119 shipwrecks and scores of deaths, was destroyed in one of the largest non-nuclear, controlled explosions of the time. The explosion displaced 635,000 tonnes of rock and eliminated the two peaks which rose to within a few metres of the surface.

1998 – Kobe, Japan – The Akashi-Kaikyo bridge, which crosses the Akashi Strait, opened for traffic. It was the largest suspension bridge in the world, with a length of 3,911 metres and a deck height of 65 metres, and took 10 years to build.

Easter Day 31 March 2024

Valley Sunrise Edition 775

Photo: Locomotive C 22 with vintage carriages, Tasmanian Transport Museum, Tasmania, Australia. (Photo: Yours Truly)

Today’s Playlist:

Hour 1 – 0700 ~ 0800:

Daniel O’Donnell – A Country Boy Like Me
Mike Wilkinson – The Old Ways Of Livin’ (2024)
Carter Kilgore – Ring of Fire
Tammy Lynn – Born Too Late (2024)
Lefty Frizzell – Saginaw Michigan
(Born this day 1928 in Corsicana, Texas, USA – William Orville Frizzell, alias Lefty Frizzell, country singer and songwriter. Died 1975.)
Tony Christie – Blue Bayou

Ray Conniff & His Orchestra – Adelita
John D Loudermilk – The Language Of Love (1961)
(Born this day 1934 in Durham, North Carolina, USA – John D Loudermilk, 1960s singer and songwriter. Died 2016.)
Anne Murray – There Goes My Everything
Billboard Top 20 of 1961 – No 9: Dee Clarke – Raindrops
Tres Chic – The Boxer (2024)
Herb Alpert & Tijuana Brass – The Lonely Bull (1962)
(Born This day 1935 in Los Angeles, California, USA – Herb Alpert, trumpeter, band leader and recording industry executive. Turns 89.)
Kevin Sullivan – Three Ways (2024)


Hour 2 – 0800 ~ 0900:

Dean Perrett – Close To Home (2023)
By Request: Bee Gees – How Deep Is Your Love
By Request: Bobby Goldsboro – Molly (1963)
By Request: Lonnie Lee – Starlight Starbright (1960)
By Request: Congregation – Softly Whispering I Love You
By Request: Elvis Presley – Way Down

Olympic Standard Orchestra – Papillon
Vanessa Bourne – No One Holds A Candle To You (2024)
Carrie Romero – Eyes In The Back Of My Heart (2024)
Racey – Runaround Sue
Kenny Rogers – Rueben James (1969)
Waikikis – A Little Bit Of Heaven

29 March 2024

Friday Morning Radio Edition 410

Today’s Playlist:

Hour 1 (9.00 ~ 10.00):

Alan Gumm – Whiskey Under The Bridge (2024)
Anne Fraser – Beneath Australian Stars (2024)
Tony Christie – Mexico City
Astrid Gilberto – The Girl From Ipanema (1964)
[Born this day 1940 in Bahia, Brazil – Astrud Weinert, alias Astrid Gilberto, singer famed for her samba and bossa nova music. Died 2023.]
Bill Anderson – I Love You Drops
Les Brown & His Band of Renown with Jo Ann Greer – Autumn Leaves

Ray Conniff & His Orchestra – Thanks For The Memory
Seekers – Someday Oneday (1965)
Dusty Springfield – You’ve Got A Friend
Eden Kane – Well I Ask You
[Born this day 1941 in Delhi, India – Richard Sarstedt alias Eden Kane, teen idol and pop singer of the early 1960s. Turns 84.]
Joe Moore – Kenny (2023)
The Welsh Whisperer – H M R C Let Me Be (2024)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Beatles – All My Loving (1964)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Judy Stone – Four Million Three Thousand Two Hundred And Twenty One Tears From Now (1964)

Hour 2 (10.00 ~ 11.00):

Cilla Black – Surround Yourself With Sorrow (1968)
Andy Williams – Up Up And Away
Elisabeth Grey – Don’t Stop The Dancing (2024)
They Don’t Make Them Like This Anymore: Guy Mitchell – My Truly Fair (1951)
Nancy Su – You Gave Me (2024)
Rob Breese – My People (2024)

Percy Faith & His Orchestra – There’s Always Something There To Remind Me
Dean Martin – Every Minute Every Hour (1964)
Vangelis – Chariots Of Fire (1981)
[Born this day 1943 in Volos, Greece – Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou, alias Vangelis. Died 2022.]
Petula Clark – This Is My Song (1967)
Billy Thorpe – Most People I Know Think I’m Crazy (1972)
Allie Jean – Pretty On The Outside (2024)
James Last & His Orchestra – High Life In The Sun

Hour 3 (11.00 ~ 12.00):

Tony Clarke – Good Morning Mr Morning (2024)
Felicia De-Ramus-Paul – Invitation To The Blues (2024)
Roger Tibbs – Bandy The Rodeo Clown (2024)
Pussycat – Smile (1977)
Bill Goodall – Love Is Blue (2023)

Frank Mills & His Orchestra – Memories (From Cats)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Dusty Springfield – Stay Awhile (1964)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Billy J Kramer – Little Children (1964)
Rosalind Clare – Faded Love (2024)
Ridge Banks – One Note At A Time (2024)
Jazz Kings – Rocking Gold (2023)

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

ALSO ON THIS DAY:

1932 – Sydney, New South Wales – Born, Patricia Lawman, alias Toni Lamond, singer, actress, dancer and comedienne who has been performing since the age of 10. She has starred in numerous Australian television programmes. Turns 92.

1965 – Hobart, Tasmania – The Tasman Bridge was officially opened.

1972 – Berlin, Germany – West Berliners were permitted to enter the walled-off eastern half of the city for the first time in 20 years.

1973 – Ho Chi Minh City (then Saigon) South Vietnam – The last U.S. combat soldiers left the city, following the end of the Vietnam War.

1974 – America’s Mariner 10 became the first space probe to fly past the planet Mercury and return close-up photographs.

1974 – Xian, China – Workmen and archaeologists uncovered a series of pits containing over 8,000 life-size, terra-cotta figures, depicting soldiers, chariots and horses. Considered to be one of the greatest archaeological sites in the world, some of the figures, known as the Terra-Cotta Army, can be visited by foreign travellers.

24 March 2024

Valley Sunrise Edition 774

Today’s Playlist:

Hour 1 – 0700 ~ 0800:

Tony Clarke – Good Morning Mr Morning (2024)
Tony Bennett & Elton John – Rags To Riches
Bee Gees – World (1967)
Anne Murray & Glen Campbell – You’re Easy To Love
Dermot O’Hara – Lonestar State of Mind (2024)
Charlie Landsborough – Close Your Eyes

Paul Mauriat & His Orchestra – Atlantis
The Long And Short Of It – Beside You (2024)
Warren Kearney – The Old Ways (2023)
Billboard Top 20 of 1961 – No 8: The Stringalongs – Wheels
Andy Williams – We’ve Only Just Begun
Brian Letton – She (2023)
101 Strings – Sweets For My Sweet


Hour 2 – 0800 ~ 0900:

Anne Fraser – Beneath Australian Stars (2024)
By Request: John Williamson – Cootamundra Wattle
By Request: Proclaimers – I’m Gonna Be 500 Miles
By Request: Judy Collins – Send In The Clowns
By Request: Pussycat – Mississippi

The Welsh Whisperer – H M R C Just Let Me Be (2024)
Brothers Four – All My Loving (1964)
Peter & Gordon – 500 Miles (1964)
Dionne Warwick – The April Fools
Jade Hurley & Pixie Jenkins – A Little Bit Country
Petula Clark – My Love (1965)
Lance Birrell – Aussie Medley (2023)

ON THIS DAY:

1960 – Hobart, Tasmania – Test transmissions from Hobart’s only commercial television station, TVT channel 6, which was yet to open, were clearly received over a wide area of southern Tasmania.

1965 – Photographs of the Moon, transmitted from the NASA spacecraft Ranger 9, were broadcast into millions of homes in the United States before the craft crashed into the Moon at 9,600 km/h.

1980 – Sydney, New South Wales – The Australian Olympic Committee announced it would send a delegation to the Moscow Olympic Games, despite objections by the-then Prime Minister, Malcolm Fraser.

1989 – Prince William Sound, Alaska, USA – The bulk tanker Exxon Valdez spilt over 37,000 tonnesof crude oil after running aground. The spill, which polluted over 2,000 kilometres of coastline, is the second largest to occur in U S waters.

22 March 2024

Friday Morning Radio Edition 409

Photo: The River Derwent near Hayes, Tasmania, Australia. (Photo: Yours Truly)

Today’s Playlist:

Hour 1 (9.00 ~ 10.00):

Crystal Gayle – Never Ending Song of Love
Tony Christie – Rhinestone Cowboy
Men At Work – Down Under (1981)
Kym Cormack – Aotearoa New Zealand (2024)
Sandy Summers – Run Today (2024)
Grady Martin & Slewfoot Five – More

101 Strings – San Francisco
Andy Williams – Without You
Roger Whittaker – Imagine
[Born this day 1936 in Nairobi, Kenya – Roger Whittaker, singer-songwriter and musician. Died 2023]
Warren Kearney & Peggie Nora – We Don’t Talk Anymore (2023)
Bee Gees – Don’t Forget To Remember (1969)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Beach Boys – Fun Fun Fun (1964)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Dave Clark Five – Bits And Pieces (1964)

Hour 2 (10.00 ~ 11.00):

The Welsh Whisperer – H M R C Just Let Me Be (2024)
Lesley Gore – Here You Come Again
Jimmy Little – Never Never
They Don’t Make Them Like This Anymore: Ray Anthony Singers – At Last (1952)
Carylann – Try The World On Like A Pair Of Shoes (2019)
Ron Jenkins – Loves Me So (2024)

James Last & His Orchestra – The Last Waltz
Jazz Kings – Moanin’ (2023)
London Philharmonic Orchestra & Singers – Love Changes Everything
[Born this day 1948 in Kensington, London, England – Andrew Lloyd Webber, composer of musical theatre, referred to as the most commercially successful composer in history. Turns 76 today.]
Guy Mitchell – Silver Moon Upon The Golden Sands (1950)
Bob Marshall – Cowboy Blessing (2024)
Terry Bennetts – Backing In The Van (2024)
Jokeria – Another Neon Bar (2024)
Dancing Ballroom Orchestra – Walking On A Sunday

Hour 3 (11.00 ~ 12.00):

Chris “Boots” Lee – This Is Australia (2024)
Jason Carruthers – Goats Ahead Upon The Road (2022)
Blue Shamrocks – You Packed Away Your Records (2024)
Foundations – Build Me Up Buttercup (1969)
Dianne Lindsay – When Rivers Run (2023)
Trevor Dawe – Buckaroo
Mark White & Matt Rogers – The Sound of Silence

Percy Faith & His Orchestra – Judy
60 Year Diamond Classic: Diane Renay – Blue Navy Blue (1964)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Four Seasons – Dawn (1964)
Tiny Green Island – Walking On The Waves (2024)
Petula Clark – I Will Follow Him (1963)
Dave Caley – La Bamba (2023)

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

ALSO ON THIS DAY:

1931 – Australian National Airlines’ airliner Southern Cloud, which left Sydney for Melbourne at 8.30 a.m. with 6 passengers and 2 crew, was reported missing.  The aircraft was one of ten triple-engined aircraft which flew regular services within Australia.
An 18-day search by 20 aircraft failed to reveal its whereabouts and it remained a mystery until 26 October 1958, when a worker on the Snowy Mountains hydro-electric project accidentally discovered the it’s remains in mountainous terrain, 25 kilometres east of the direct Sydney-Melbourne route.

1942 – London, England – W W 2 – The BBC broadcast its first daily news bulletin to the French Resistance in Morse Code.

1968 – Two journalists died and 8 other people were injured when a helicopter crashlanded on a natural gas platform in Bass Strait, 24 km off Sale, Victoria

17 March 2024

Valley Sunrise Edition 773

Photo: An 1820s colonial-era cottage, built by Irish exile James Austin, who ran a punt ferry which carried travellers, their horses and wagons across the nearby Derwent River. Overland travellers risked attack by bushrangers, during their long 220 km journey north, to Launceston.

This place became known, and still is known, as Austins Ferry.

Today’s Playlist:

Hour 1 – 0700 ~ 0800:

Chris “Boots” Lee – You’ve Got To Stand For Something (2024)
Elisabeth Grey – Don’t Stop The Dancing (2024)
Fat Daddy Pussycat Orchestra – I Saw Her Standing There
Victoria Eman – Oceans (2024)
Nat King Cole – Wolverton Mountain (1962)
[Nathaniel Adams Coles, alias Nat King Cole, born this day 1919 in Montgomery, Alabama, USA. He owes most of his fame to his soft, baritone voice and was one of the first black Americans to host a television variety show. Nat King Cole’s popularity has remained high, decades after his untimely death on 15 February 1965.]
Kym Cormack – Aotearoa, New Zealand (2024)

Billy Vaughn & His Orchestra – Red Sails In The Sunset
Adam Wade – Take Good Care Of Her (1961)
[Patrick Henry Wade, alias Adam Wade, born this day 1935 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. As a singer, drummer and television actor, he became famous for a series of hits in the early 1960s. Died 2022.]
Blue Echoes – Personality (1979)
Billboard Top 20 of 1961 – No 6: Chubby Checker – Pony Time
Platters – Harbour Lights (1960)
[Zola Taylor, born this day 1938 in Los Angeles, California, USA. Zola was the only female member of the Platters from 1954 till 1962, when the group produced most of their popular singles. Died 2007.]
Tommy Makem – Canada My Own Land (2024)


Hour 2 – 0800 ~ 0900:

Jewels And The Heist – Where Do We Go From Here (2024)
By Request: Bee Gees – Tragedy
By Request: Rosanne Cash – Tennessee Flat Top Box
By Request: 101 Strings Orchestra – Quando Quando Quando
By Request: John Williamson – Cootamundra Wattle

By Request: Lonnie Donegan – Have A Drink On Me
Terry Stafford – Suspicion (1964)
[Terry Stafford, died this day 1996 in Amarillo, Texas, USA. He was a singer/songwriter who had a major hit in 1964 with Suspicion. Aged 54.]
Caillin Joe – Love Me (2023)
Ferlin Husky – On The Wings Of A Dove (1961)
[Ferlin Husky, died this day 2011 in Westmoreland, Tennessee USA. He had major hits in the 1950s with A Dear John Letter and Forgive Me John, as well as On The Wings Of A Dove. Aged 85.]
David Curtis – After All These Years (2024)
Petula Clark – My Friend The Sea (1961)

ALSO ON THIS DAY:

1955 – Hobart, Tasmania – The city’s water supply situation was described as desperate, and reliant entirely on the Lake Fenton pipeline. 

1963 – Bali, Indonesia – An eruption of the volcano Mt Agung caused the loss of 11,000 lives.

1965 – Launceston, Tasmania – All 19 passengers and four crew escaped uninjured when a Fokker Friendship airliner crash-landed at Launceston Airport after one engine failed.

1967 – Long Beach, California, U.S.A. – Australia’s two domestic airlines, TAA and Ansett ANA, took delivery of their first Douglas DC 9 jet airliners.

1979 – Berwickshire, England – The Penmanshiel railway tunnel collapsed during re-construction, with the loss of two workmen.
Initially constructed in 1845, it was part of the East Coast Main Line, but after this collapse the ground was determined to be too unstable to recover the workmen’s bodies or rebuild the tunnel.
The tunnel was then sealed-up and the railway was diverted through a deep cutting, to the west of the hill.