FRIDAY MORNING RADIO, Edition 485, 9.00 ~ Midday AEST  5 September 2025

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 some notable events on 5 September, in 1968, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A. – A 1958 Volkswagen Microbus, which had been modified for all-electric operation, was judged winner of the “Great Transcontinental Electric Car Race” after completing a 5150 km  trip from Pasadena, California.

 The “Voltswagen” made the trip in 210 hours and made 53 battery recharging stops.

In 1974, in Sandy Bay, Tasmania – A new boiler which had been installed in a convent laundry exploded, caused 8 deaths and injuring many others.

In 1977, in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S.A.  – The Voyager 1 space probe was launched to the planets Jupiter and Saturn, later to become the first to provide clear photographs of those planets and their moons.

It has since studied the boundaries of our Solar System and in 2012 became the first space probe to reach interstellar space.

Voyager 1 is travelling about 520 million kilometres per year and is expected to remain in contact with Earth until this year, when its power supply is expected to fail.    

► BORN THIS DAY…..
1918  in Sydney, New South Wales – Harold Williams, alias Buddy Williams, country singer and songwriter, formerly known as The Yodelling Jackaroo . Williams was the first Australian to record country music in Australia, three years after New Zealander Tex Morton made his first recording in Australia.  Died 1986.

1938 in London, England – Joan Sydney, Australian actress best known for her role as Valda Sheergold in the soapie Neighbours, and also as Maggie Sloane, matron of the Wandin Valley Bush Nursing Hospital, in A Country Practice. Died 2022.

1938 in Queanbeyan, New South Wales – George Lazenby, actor best known for portraying James Bond in the 1969 movie On Her Majesty’s Secret Service.  Turns 86 today.

► DIED THIS DAY…..
1982 in Chiswick, London, England –  Douglas Bader, Royal Air Force fighter ace of World War 2.  Despite having lost both legs in a plane crash in 1931, Bader re-enlisted in the Royal Air Force in 1939, but was ultimately shot down and spent the remainder of the war as a POW.

His biography, titled Reach for the Sky written by Paul Brickhill, was published in 1954 and became a best seller.  A feature film of the same title was released in 1956, starring Kenneth More as Bader.  He was aged 72.

2012 in Buford, Georgia U.S.A. – Joseph Alfred Souter alias Joe South, singer-songwriter and guitarist, who won a Grammy Award for Song Of The Year in 1970 with his song Games People Play.

He was nominated again in 1972 for his composition Rose Garden.  (Aged 72).  He was aged 49.

Today’s photo – A different view of Richmond, in the Coal River Valley, Tasmania.

Today’s Playlist

TRACK	RELEASE YEAR	PLAY TIME	PREVIOUS PLAYS	LAST PLAYED
Katelynn Marie – Gonna Find Me A Country Boy	2025	09:05	1	3/8/2025
Trey Calloway – She Don’t Break It Like She Used To	2025	09:11	2	24/8/2025
Larissa Tormey – Everybody`s Somebody`s Fool	2018	09:14	6	4/10/2024
70s Classic   Leif Garrett – Surfin’ U.S.A	1977	09:18	7	2/2/2025
Ray Malcolm – Make Me An Island	2025	09:20	1	22/8/2025
Kathy Carver – Crazy	2025	09:28	2	25/7/2025
European Show Band – Moonglow		09:33	1	2/2/2024
Johnny Logan – What’s Another Year	1980	09:37	2	17/8/2025
Buddy Williams – The Camden Train	1975	09:42	3	26/1/2024
By Request Col Joye – Song Sung Blue	1975	09:47	0
Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Little Patti – Dance Puppet Dance	1965	09:51	8	20/1/2023
Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Nat King Cole & Stubby Kaye – The Ballad of Cat Ballou	1965	09:53	11	22/1/2023
Lionel Long – The Ballad of Cobb and Co		09:57	7	26/1/2024
Dustin Lowe – Shake Your Copenhagen	2025	10:05	2	17/8/2025
Cat Lion – Cause Memories They Last	2025	10:05	1	27/7/2025
Terry Bennetts – Chasing Rabbits In Her Sleep	2025	10:14	1	3/8/2025
By Request    Charlie Chech – The Summer Wind	2025	10:19	3	10/5/2024
Vintage Vinyl    Chuck Berry – Too Pooped To Pop	1960	10:24	1	3/1/2021
Lindsay Waddington – Kakadu	2022	10:26	10	26/7/2024
Manuel & The Music of the Mountains – A Summer Place		10:30	2	10/4/2022
Joe South – Birds of a Feather	1968	10:34	5	1/8/2021
Margarita De La Vega – Love Me With All Your Heart	2025	10:36	2	15/8/2025
70s Classic    Paul McCartney & Wings – Mull Of Kintyre	1977	10:42	11	2/2/2025
Toni West – Starry Skies	2025	10:53	2	17/8/2025
Francisco Cavez & His Orchestra – High Life In Brazil		10:58	2	20/10/2024
Patti Morgan – The Old Condamine	2025	11:05	2	25/7/2025
Tony Christie – Sweet September		11:10	0
Victoria Crosby – Flowers For Annie	2025	11:13	0
Richard Mulligan – Just Me and My Old Beat-Up Guitar	2025	11:19	1	27/4/2025
Vintage Vinyl    Clyde McPhatter – A Lover’s Question	1958	11:27	10	15/11/2024
Paul Weston & His Orchestra – That’s All		11:33	0
Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Jonathan King – Everyone’s Gone To The Moon	1965	11:38	12	4/2/2024
Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Shadows – My Grandfather’s Clock	1965	11:40	0
Eddie Rabbitt – You Can’t Run From Love		11:47	0
Peter Coad OAM – Dead Man’s Hill	2025	11:51	0
Trevor Dawe – Wheels		11:54	0

Valley Sunrise Edition 849
0600 ~ 0900 AEST

During this edition, two chart-busters each hour, from the Top 40 charts of this week in 1976, and a mix of recent tracks from indie artists and other easy-listening music which you won’t hear on mainstream radio.

► BORN on 31 August in 1940 in Manly, New South Wales – Jack Thompson, Australian actor and one of the major figures of Australian cinema.  He is best known as lead actor in acclaimed films including Wake In Fright (1971), Sunday Too Far Away  (1975), The Man From Snowy River  (1982) and Breaker Morant  (1980).

► BORN on this day in 1945 in Belfast, Northern Ireland – George Ivan Morrison, alias Van Morrison, singer-songwriter and musician.

► At the opposite end of the life span, DIED this day in 1997, Paris, France – Diana Frances Spencer alias Diana, Princess of Wales. She was aged 36.

► DIED this day in 2012 on Hope Island, Gold Coast, Queensland – Max Bygraves, comedian, singer, actor and variety performer.  He was aged 89.

► DIED this day in 2013 aboard MS Queen Elizabeth, in the Mediterranean Sea, David Frost, journalist, comedian, writer and media personality, best known as a pioneer of political satire on television and for his interviews with various political figures.  He was aged 74.

TODAY’S PHOTO: A well reproduced scene from the mid-1930s, as a then-new steam railcar leaves the midlands township of Parattah, on it’s northward journey from Hobart to Launceston.

Photo: Yours Truly – At last Sunday’s model railway exhibition, Kingston.

Today’s Playlist (V S):

TRACK	RELEASE YEAR	TIME	PREVIOUS PLAYS	LAST PLAYED
Deon Powter Band – Afraid of the Dark	2023	06:05	2	25/6/2023
Charting this day 1976 Harpo – Movie Star	1976	06:15	2	31/8/2018
Charting this day 1976 Judy Stone – Hasta Manana	1976	06:18	5	31/3/2023
Van Morrison – Days Like This	1995	06:23	1	31/8/2018
Christine Clifford – Crazy	2025	06:26	0
Daniel O’Donnell – Young Love		06:29	0
Ferrante & Teicher – Lay Lady Lay		06:34	3	13/10/2017
Adam Wayne – With Another Smile		06:38	0
HAZEL & The Thief – Willing To Try	2025	06:42	1	2/5/2025
Vintage Vinyl    Clarence Frogman Henry – Ain’t Got No Home	1958	06:46	3	19/3/2023
By Request: Frank Ifield – I Remember You	1962	06:49	8	27/10/2024
Cliff  Richard – Magic Is The Moonlight	1965	06:53	1	29/12/2019
Richard Mulligan – Doonlaughin	2025	06:55	0
Jeff Batson – Somebody’s Somebody	2025	07:05	0
By Request: Slim Dusty – We’ve Done Us Proud		07:11	21	23/6/2024
Charting this day 1976 Elton John & Kiki Dee – Don’t Go Breaking My Heart	1974	07:15	8	6/3/2022
Charting this day 1976 ABBA – Fernando	1974	07:20	22	13/4/2025
By Request: Bachelors – The Sound Of Silence		07:26	3	29/1/2021
Rene de Roo – My Father Once Said	2025	07:28	1	11/7/2025
Max Bygraves – What A Wonderful World		07:34	3	2/8/2019
Peter Loland Orchestra – More		07:38	0
Vintage Vinyl    Chordettes – Photographs	1957	07:42	1	2/4/2017
Colin Gordon Farleigh – Second Chances	2025	07:45	0
CoCo Bal & Hubert Heeringa – Summer Cava	2025	07:49	1	22/8/2025
Travelling Wilburys – End Of The Line	1988	07:53	5	20/10/2023
Tornados – Earthy		07:58	1	5/6/2015
Ron Callaghan – Confusion	2025	08:05	0
By Request: Pussycat – My Broken Souvenirs		08:12	7	6/7/2025
Charting this day 1976 Rod Stewart – Tonight’s The Night	1976	08:16	9	30/12/2022
Charting this day 1976 J J Barrie – No Charge	1976	08:20	2	31/8/2018
Bob Marshall – Wildorado	2025	08:25	1	30/3/2025
Chamaco Dominguez His Orchestra & Chorus – Meditation		08:33	3	17/11/2023
Paul Bateman & His Orchestra – Heartbreaker		08:38	1	29/12/2023
Frank Ifield – I’m a Dreamer	1968	08:42	0
Cilla Black – If You Leave Me Now	1980	08:45	3	18/5/2014
Vintage Vinyl    Champs – Tequila	1958	08:50	4	5/6/2016
Joy Adams & Gary Farmer – Be Mine	2021	08:52	4	18/3/2022
Eric Read – The Generation	2021	08:55	2	9/7/2021

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FRIDAY MORNING RADIO, Edition 484, 9.00 ~ Midday AEST 22 August 2025

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 some notable events on 29 August, in 1907, Quebec City, Canada, the Quebec Bridge, which was under construction, collapsed with the loss of 75 lives.
This bridge is a riveted steel truss structure 987 metres long, and 104 metres high, with cantilever arms supporting a 195 metre central structure, making a total centre span 549 metres wide.  It is still the longest cantilever span in the world.
The bridge was still under construction in September 1916, when second collapse occurred, claiming a further 13 lives.

In 1961, in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory – A Labor member of the House of Representatives, Mr Jim Fraser, accused the-then Australian Broadcasting Commission of having instructed one of their most popular announcers, to never more, quip or jest during his morning programme.
 
In 1992, in Sydney, New South Wales, the tunnel beneath Sydney Harbour opened to traffic.  At it’s deepest point, it is 25 metres below sea level.

► BORN THIS DAY…..
1915  in Stockholm, Sweden, Ingrid Bergman, actress who starred in many European and American films.  She won three Academy Awards, two Emmy Awards, and the Tony Award for Best Actress, and is ranked as the fourth greatest female star of all time by the American Film Institute.
Ingrid Bergman is particularly remembered for her role as Ilsa Lund in the 1942 movie Casablanca, a World War II drama which co-starred Humphrey Bogart.
It’s very unusual for someone to die on their birthday, but Ingrid also died this day in London, England, in 1982, aged 67. 

1958 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, U.S.A.  – Ruth Lee Jones, alias Dinah Washington, African-American jazz/blues singer and pianist, cited as “the most popular black female recording artist of the ’50s.”  Died 1963.

► DIED THIS DAY…..
1987 in Tucson, Arizona, U.S.A.,  Lee Marvin, actor noted for his deep voice.  He appeared in many movies, including The Comancheros in 1961, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (in which he played the vicious outlaw Liberty Valance) in 1962, and Donovan’s Reef in 1963.
Lee Marvin is possibly best known for his role in the Western musical of 1969, Paint Your Wagon.  He was aged 63.

1992 near Mt Archer, Central Queensland, Graeme Strachan, nicknamed Shirley Strachan, rock singer from the Australian band Skyhooks.   He was also a well-known radio and television presenter.
His nickname “Shirley” was acquired because of his long, curly hair, reminiscent of the child actress Shirley Temple.  He was aged 49.

 Today’s photo – In view of the chilly weekend coming up in the Valley, I thought this pic of Mt Dromedary is appropriate, given that snow is expected at lower-than-usual levels.

Photo:  Yours Truly.

Today’s Playlist

TRACK	RELEASE YEAR	PLAY TIME	PREVIOUS PLAYS	LAST PLAYED
Peter Stefanson – Who’s The Girl (Say You Love Me)	2025	09:05	1	3/8/2025
Alan Gilmour – The Longest Country Mile	2025	09:12	1	13/6/2025
Joy Adams – My Time To Shine	2025	09:15	2	27/7/2025
John O’Dea – Bob The Railway Dog	2022	09:21	7	12/1/2024
70s Classic   Glen Campbell – Country Boy	1975	09:27	7	18/7/2025
Billy Field – Bad Habits	1981	09:30	2	20/6/2014
Henry Mancini & His Orchestra – Misty		09:36	0
Andy Williams – Theme From The Godfather		09:40	1	20/9/2015
Dinah Washington – September In The Rain	1961	09:47	6	23/1/2022
By Request Seekers (Louisa Wisseling) – Every Road Leads Back To You	1975	09:49	3	3/6/2022
Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Lesley Gore – Sunshine Lollipops And Rainbows	1965	09:55	9	14/2/2021
Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Dave Clark 5 – Catch Us If You Can	1965	09:57	4	28/2/2016
David Maguire – Walk of Life	2022	10:05	7	1/12/2023
By Request Ollie Austin – Sweet Music Man		10:11	0
Susanna Colley – Steel Toes To Stilettos	2025	10:16	0
Chris Callaghan – Twenty Hours	2025	10:18	4	15/6/2025
By Request    Cliff Richard – Rote Lippen Soll Man Küssen (Lucky Lips)	1980	10:20	0
Vintage Vinyl    Ames Brothers – Tammy	1957	10:27	0
Lee Marvin – Wandrin’ Star	1969	10:30	7	19/2/2023
Francisco Cavez & His Orchestra – Santiago		10:36	1	26/8/2018
Skyhooks – Blue Jeans	1976	10:40	15	22/11/2024
Rae Leigh – Into The Dream	2025	10:42	0
70s Classic    Neil Diamond – Desiree	1977	10:49	7	2/2/2025
Anne Murray – Shadows In The Moonlight		10:55	0
Blue Echoes – Runaround Sue	1979	11:05	7	5/8/2016
Anne Fraser – Too Drunk To Drive	2025	11:11	2	1/6/2025
Odin Brennhaug – Yesterday’s Shore	2025	11:15	1	20/7/2025
Tim Hemme – Believe In You	2025	11:19	1	3/8/2025
Vintage Vinyl    Burl Ives – That’s My Heartstrings	1956	11:24	1	4/10/2013
Frank DeVol & His Orchestra – Witchcraft		11:32	0
Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Gene Pitney – Looking Through The Eyes Of Love	1965	11:35	5	15/7/2016
Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Fortunes – You’ve Got Your Troubles	1965	11:39	13	25/8/2023
Cheryl Hann-Woodlock – Sweet Talk	2025	11:43	1	27/7/2025
Howie Bros – Home I’ll Be	2025	11:46	3	25/5/2025
Neil Diamond – Forever in Blue Jeans		11:51	2	24/1/2021
ABC Showband – Weekend Magazine Theme		11:54	3	12/1/2025

Valley Sunrise Edition 848
0600 ~ 0900 AEST

During this edition, two chart-busters each hour, from the Top 40 charts of this week in 1974, and a mix of recent tracks from indie artists and other easy-listening music which you won’t hear on mainstream radio.

► LOOKING at some notable events on 24 August, in the year 79, the Roman Empire city of Pompeii was buried in volcanic ash up to 7 metres deep, during a cataclysmic eruption of Mt Vesuvius.  The site of Pompeii was lost for 1,500 years until a small section was uncovered in 1599.

It was another 150 years before additional excavations were made.  Numerous artifacts had been preserved over the centuries, including voids in the solidified ash, which once contained remains of human and animal victims of the eruption.  Plaster and resin casts of these voids show the exact position each victim was in, upon their death. 

► In 1932, Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across the United States non-stop, from Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey. She was also the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, and set many other aviation records.

 She was attempting to become the first woman to make an aerial circumnavigation of the world in 1937, when her aircraft disappeared over the Pacific Ocean.  No trace of the aircraft, or of her or her navigator, Fred Noonan, was ever found.  The pair were declared dead in absentia in 1939.

► And in 1989, Australian domestic airline flights ceased when the nation’s 1,640 pilots resigned en masse in a dispute over a new salary package, following a long period of wage suppression.  InterState air services were provided by RAAF and planes and pilots, by international flights.

► BORN on this day in 1947, Coventry, England, Rowena Wallace, Australian actress who has appeared in numerous productions since her television debut in 1968. 

Also in show-biz,

► BORN on this day in 1949, in Lameroo, South Australia, Julie Moncrief Lush, alias Julie Anthony, soprano and entertainer, one time member of The Seekers after the departure of Judith Durham.  She is one of the most awarded Australian entertainers. 

► At the opposite end of the life span, DIED this day in 1978 in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A., Louis Prima, singer, actor, songwriter, and trumpeter, known as the King of the Swing,  who rode the musical trends of his time, starting in the 1920s with his seven-piece jazz band, then successively leading a swing combo in the 1930s, a big band in the 1940s, a Vegas lounge act in the 1950s, and a pop-rock band in the 1960s.  He was aged 67.

► DIED this day in 1980 in London, England, Yootha Joyce, actress best known for her starring role as Mildred Roper in the sitcoms Man About The House and George And Mildred.  She was aged 53.

TODAY’S PHOTO: An overnight dusting of snow on Mt Faulkner, in the Derwent Valley. July 2016.

Photo: Yours Truly.

Today’s Playlist (V S):

TRACK	RELEASE YEAR	TIME	PREVIOUS PLAYS	LAST PLAYED
Tony Christie – Don’t Go Down To Reno		06:06	1	10/1/2020
Charting this day 1974 Paper Lace – Billy Don’t Be a Hero	1974	06:12	4	22/6/2025
Charting this day 1974 Ernie Sigley – Just Thank Me	1974	06:15	3	15/10/2021
Julie Anthony – What A Feeling		06:20	4	23/1/2022
Glenn Levi – More Of You	2025	06:24	1	6/7/2025
Frank Ifield – I’ll Sing Along With You	1967	06:28	0
Geoff Love & His Orchestra – Harry Lime Theme		06:32	0
Ollie Austin – Old Flames		06:36	0
Shaza Leigh – All My Loving	2025	06:39	1	10/8/2025
Vintage Vinyl    Virtues – Guitar Boogie Shuffle	1959	06:45	3	26/7/2013
Colm Wilkinson & Jimmy Helms – I Am The Starlight		06:48	1
Kevin Tuckfield – Why He Rides	2025	06:53	2	6/4/2025
Jason Carruthers – Proud To Be An Aussie		06:56	1	6/12/2024
Justin Standley – Borderline	2025	07:05	2	18/7/2025
Charting this day 1974 Jade Hurley – Down In The Riverina	1974	07:11	6	24/11/2023
Charting this day 1974 Jimmy Little – Australia Down Under	1974	07:14	12	18/8/2024
By Request: Bachelors – Diane	1964	07:19	11	23/2/2024
By Request: Michael Crawford – The Power Of Love		07:22	0
By Request: Paul McCartney & Wings – Band On The Run		07:27	5	30/7/2023
Louis Prima & Keely Smith – Hey Boy Hey Girl	1959	07:33	1	13/9/2024
David Firman & His Orchestra – Song of Joy		07:38	0
Vintage Vinyl    Tony Brent – Walking To Missouri	1952	07:43	1	3/1/2014
Engelbert Humperdinck – This Is My Song		07:46	3	8/10/2023
Simon Park Orchestra – Up To Date (Man About The House Theme)		07:51	18	7/5/2023
Chris James – Red Dirt On His Hands	2025	07:53	2	15/8/2025
Peter Nero – Summer Samba		07:57	1	27/6/2025
Trey Calloway – She Don’t Break It Like She Used To	2025	08:05	1	22/8/2025
Charting this day 1974 Ray Stevens – The Streak	1974	08:09	1	4/6/2017
Charting this day 1974 Cash Backman – My Girl Bill	1974	08:12	3	23/6/2023
David Essex – High Flying Adored	1985	08:21	0
Toni West & Ray Malcolm – Islands In The Stream	2024	08:24	5	10/8/2025
By Request: Eddie Fisher – Cindy Oh Cindy	1957	08:31	7	11/5/2025
Manuel & The Music of the Mountains – Eso Beso		08:37	3	12/4/2013
Che Orton – Rest Your Love On Me	2025	08:41	1	22/8/2025
Carol Chaney – What I Want	2025	08:45	0
Vintage Vinyl    Travis & Bob – Tell Him No	1959	08:50	4	6/11/2022
Waikikis – Pacific Punch		08:52	0
Shadows – F.B.I.		08:56	1	22/2/2019

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FRIDAY MORNING RADIO, Edition 483, 9.00 ~ Midday AEST 22 August 2025

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 some notable events on 22 August, in 1932, London, England – the British Broadcasting Corporation first experimented with television broadcasting.  Regular broadcasting on a limited scale began two years later.

In 1942, in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil declared war on Germany and Italy after the sinking of several Brazilian ships.

In 1949,  one of the world’s strongest earthquakes at 8.1 magnitude struck the sparsely populated Queen Charlotte Islands and the North-west coast of Canada.
It was felt throughout British Columbia and parts of Alberta, Washington State, Oregon, the Yukon and Alaska.  No deaths were reported, even though people and animals were knocked off their feet and there were landslides and other damage.

In 1962, Paris, France, an attempt was made to assassinate French President Charles de Gaulle when his Citroen DS 19 car was targeted by sub-machine gun fire.  Neither de Gaulle, his wife, nor any of his entourage were seriously injured, whilst all the perpetrators were arrested.

► BORN THIS DAY…..
1925 in Plaistow, Essex, England – Honor Blackman, actress known for the roles of Cathy Gale in The Avengers (1962–64) and of Bond girl Pussy Galore in the movie Goldfinger (1964). Died 2020.

1958 in Toowoomba, Queensland – Shane Withington, actor best known for playing surf life guard John Palmer in the soapie Home And Away, and also for his former role in the television series A Country Practice as nurse Brendan Jones.

► DIED THIS DAY…..
2011 in Los Angeles, California, U.S.A., Jerry Lieber, songwriter and record producer who, in conjunction with Mike Stoller, penned numerous hit records of the 50s and 60s, including famous tracks such as Hound Dog, Jailhouse Rock, Kansas City, Stand By Me and Lucky Lips.  Aged 78.

 Today’s photo – A colonial-era homestead, known as Strathallan, near Tea Tree in southern Tasmania.  In 1914, tragedy struck when the then-owner’s daughter died in a railway level-crossing accident, a few kilometres away.

Photo: Yours Truly (22 years ago).

Today’s Playlist

Today, there is a high percentage of new releases included.  As so few are being sent with ISRC references, this column will now be discontinued.

TRACK	RELEASE YEAR	PLAY TIME	PREVIOUS PLAYS	LAST PLAYED	ISRC
Dale Ralph – 16 Kisses	2025	09:05	0
Ray Malcolm – Make Me An Island	2025	09:12	0
Richard Mulligan – Bere Island	2025	09:16	0
70s Classic   ABBA – S O S	1975	09:20	12	19/1/2025
Andrew Shipp – Still My Number One	2024	09:23	3	31/1/2025	AUM3N 2400001
Mike Hughes – If I Ever Need A Lady I’ll Call You	2024	09:30	0
Romantic Strings Orchestra – Mahogany		09:34	0
Bob Marshall – Hats to the Sky	2025	09:37	0
Anne Kirkpatrick – My Town		09:43	0
By Request Procol Harum – A Whiter Shade of Pale	1967	09:47	12	19/2/2023
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Beach Boys – California Girls	1965	09:51	10	12/11/2024
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Beatles – Help	1965	09:53	15	6/4/2025
By Request Engelbert Humperdinck – Ten Guitars	1967	09:57	3	25/4/2025
John Glenn – Sunny Side Of The Mountain	2025	10:05	0
CoCo Bal & Hubert Heeringa – Summer Cava	2025	10:10	0
Dom Moore – Crowded Beaches	2025	10:14	0		AUMEV 2597751
By Request    Tatiana Blue & Werner Tauber Orchestra – When I Dream of You		10:19	0
Vintage Vinyl    Fats Domino – Blueberry Hill	1956	10:26	5	2/1/2022
Andy Williams – The Impossible Dream		10:28	0
David Firman & His Orchestra – Baker Street		10:34	2	3/8/2025
Olivia Molina – Besame Mucho		10:38	0
Ben Walker – I Won’t Let Go	2025	10:44	0
Don McLean – It’s Just The Sun	2025	10:49	0
70s Classic    George Baker Selection – Una Paloma Blanca	1975	10:52	13	13/4/2025
Johnny Tillotson – Judy Judy Judy	1963	10:56	11	28/7/2023
Trey Calloway – She Don’t Break It Like She Used To	2025	11:05	0
Che Orton – Rest Your Love On Me	2025	11:09	0
Don Fraser & His Orchestra & Paul Jones – Your Song		11:14	0
Roland Shaw & His Orchestra & Rosemary Squires – You Needed Me		11:18	0
Vintage Vinyl    Four Aces – Three Coins In The Fountain	1954	11:26	2	19/10/2014
Acker Bilk – My Way		11:32	0
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Hermans Hermits – I’m Henery The Eighth	1965	11:36	9	24/9/2021
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Ivy League – Tossing And Turning	1965	11:38	4	22/9/2017
Johnny Mathis – Foolish		11:42	0
Fleetwood Mac – Oh Dianne		11:47	1	1/6/2012
Pussycat – Mississippi (German Version)	1986	11:51	0

Valley Sunrise Edition 847
0600 ~ 0900 AEST

During this edition, two chart-busters each hour, from the Top 40 charts of this week in 1979, and a mix of recent tracks from indie artists and other easy-listening music which you won’t hear on mainstream radio.

► LOOKING at some notable events on 17 August, in 1964, the Tasman Bridge in Hobart, which was still under construction, was opened for limited single lane each way public traffic. 

► In 1970, Baikonur, Kazakhstan, the USSR launched the space probe Venera 7 to the planet Venus.  On December 15, this became the first spacecraft to transmit to Earth from the surface of another planet.  It reported the planet’s atmosphere to be comprised of 97 per cent carbon dioxide, and it’s surface temperature, around 475 C.

► And in 1980 at Ayers Rock (now Uluru) in the Northern Territory, baby Azaria Chamberlain was taken by a dingo from her parents’ campsite.  This sparked an investigation which resulted in her mother, Lindy Chamberlain, being convicted and imprisoned for her murder;  the baby’s father, Michael Chamberlain was convicted of being an accessory.

Both were later officially exonerated.

► BORN on this day in 1893, in  Bushwick, New York, U.S.A., Mary Jane West alias Mae West, actress, playwright, screenwriter and sex symbol whose career spanned 70 years.

She first appeared in vaudeville and later became an actress and comedienne.  Her first role on Broadway was in a self-penned play titled Sex, which was slated by critics, although tickets sold well.  The theatre was raided and the entire cast arrested.

Her subsequent movie career was equally as controversial. Mae West died 1980.

Also in show-biz,

► BORN on this day in 1920, in Ranelagh, Dublin, Ireland, Maureen FitzSimons alias Maureen O’Hara, actress and singer noted for portraying passionate heroines often working with longtime friend John Wayne.  She died 2015.

► BORN on this day in 1942, in Coleraine, Victoria, Shane Porteous, television and theatre actor, writer, animation artist best known for portraying Dr Terence Elliott in the Australian drama series A Country Practice  Turns 83 today.

► At the opposite end of the life span, DIED this day in 1983 in Beverley Hills, California, U.S.A., Ira Gershwin, lyricist who collaborated with his younger brother, composer George Gershwin, to create some of the most memorable songs of the 20th century.

They wrote more than a dozen Broadway shows, featuring songs such as I Got Rhythm, Embraceable You, The Man I Love and Someone To Watch Over Me   (Aged 86).  He was aged 86.

TODAY’S PHOTO: Last Friday morning’s sunrise.

Photo: Yours Truly.

Today’s Playlist (V S):

TRACK	RELEASE YEAR	TIME	PREVIOUS PLAYS	LAST PLAYED	ISRC
No Promises – Those Boots	2025	06:06	0		AUGBT 2503986
Charting this day 1972 Daniel Boone – Beautiful Sunday	1972	06:12	23	20/10/2024
Charting this day 1972 Gallery – It’s So Nice To Be With You	1972	06:15	1	25/12/2022
Liam McAlary – Lonely Life	2025	06:19	0
Patricia Horwood – Let Me Love You	2025	06:21	0
Andy Williams – Promise Me Love		06:27	0
Richard Clayderman – Ballade Pour Adeline		06:33	7	28/8/2016
Johnny Logan – What’s Another Year	1980	06:37	1	11/7/2025
Men At Work – Who Can It Be Now	1981	06:40	9	19/4/2024
Vintage Vinyl    Paul Anka – Diana	1957	06:45	6	30/7/2023
Toni West – Starry Skies	2025	06:49	3	8/8/2025
By Request: Michael Crawford – On Eagles Wings		06:54	13	28/7/2024
Jim Reeves – From A Jack To A King		06:58	2	11/8/2024
Owen Smith & Matt Scullion – Upper Class Bogan	2025	07:05	1	8/8/2025
Charting this day 1972 Nana Mouskouri – Four And Twenty Hours	1972	07:11	10	6/8/2021
Charting this day 1972 Johnny Chester & Jigsaw – Readymix Revenge	1972	07:15	5	9/7/2021
By Request: Petula Clark – My Guy		07:20	0
Ron Lynch – Takin’ It Easy	2025	07:24	1	3/8/2025	AUEN0 2500338
Mike Perjanic – A Country Practice Theme		07:28	12	23/5/2025
Andre Kostelanetz & His Orchestra – Claire		07:32	0
Vintage Vinyl    Patti Page – Mockingbird Hill	1951	07:36	5	25/10/2019
Dave Stanley Daoust – Life Is Short Life Is Long	2025	07:39	0
Renee Geyer – I Got Rhythm		07:44	3	17/1/2025
Richard Mulligan – There’s No Place Like Home	2025	07:48	0
By Request: Elvis Presley – Heartbreak Hotel	1956	07:51	12	6/11/2022
By Request: Roy Orbison – Cry Softly Lonely One	1967	07:54	13	6/2/2025
Joy Adams – Teach Your Children	2023	07:57	9	22/12/2024
Mary Rose – I Followed My Dreams	2025	08:06	0
Charting this day 1972 Slim Newton – The Redback on the Toilet Seat	1972	08:11	10	3/3/2023
Charting this day 1972 Faron Young – It’s Four In The Morning	1972	08:13	17	8/6/2025
Sammi Smith – What Does It Take		08:21	0
Gary R Farmer – My Island Paradise	2025	08:24	1	8/8/2025
Mexicans – Winds of Barcelona		08:29	12	16/8/2024
Acker Bilk – Auf Wiedersehen Sweetheart		08:37	3	31/1/2020
Donny Osmond – Puppy Love	1972	08:42	0
Dustin Lowe – Shake Your Copenhagen	2025	08:44	1	20/7/2025	TCAJP 2529951
Vintage Vinyl    Perry Como – Hot Diggety	1957	08:48	6	26/6/2020
Chasing Twisters – Summer of Love	2025	08:51	0

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FRIDAY MORNING RADIO, Edition 482, 9.00 ~ Midday AEST 15 August 2025

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 some notable events on 15 August, Cologne, Germany – The foundation stone of Cologne Cathedral, was laid in 1248. Construction was halted 225 years later, in 1473, but re-commenced in the 19^th century to the original plans.
It was ultimately completed 632 years later, in 1880.  The cathedral, which is 144 metres long with twin spires 157 metres tall, was hit by 14 bombs dropped from Allied aircraft during World War 2 air raids.  It miraculously survived unscathed, even though the rest of the city was destroyed.
Today, Cologne Cathedral is one of the most visited attractions in Germany, attracting around 20,000 people daily and it is listed on the UNESCO World Heritage Register.

In 1945, in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory – Australia’s then Prime Minister Ben Chifley announced the end of the war with Japan.  The date is now known as “VP Day.”

In 1947,  a  massive scheme to divert the headwaters of the Snowy River for hydro-electricity and irrigation purposes was put before the Australian Federal Cabinet.  The proposed scheme involved seven major dams, over 100 kilometres of tunnelling through mountains, and inundation of several towns.

► BORN THIS DAY…..
1909 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. – Hugo Winterhalter, music arranger, composer and orchestra leader.  Died 1973.

1933 in Bloomington, Indiana, U.S.A. – Bobby Helms, American rockabilly singer famed for his 1957 hit Jingle Bells Rock, as well as other hits including Fraulein, My Special Angel, Jacqueline and Then Came You.  Died 1997.

 Today’s photo – An unusual house in Verona Sands, southern Tasmania, embodying much of a Hobart tram in it’s structure. This pic was taken around 20 years ago; today, the grounds are well-mown.

Today’s Playlist

TRACK	RELEASE YEAR	PLAY TIME	PREVIOUS PLAYS	LAST PLAYED	ISRC
Ganggalang – Sounds of Then	1985	09:05	9	31/12/2023
Allan Gumm – Gundabluie Girl	2025	09:12	0		AUH6W 2400002
HAZEL & The Thief – Making This Land My Gold	2025	09:17	0
70s Classic   Sherbet – Free The People	1971	09:22	2	12/1/2025
Victoria Crosby – Red Dome Dust	2025	09:24	0		QZTB6 2593036
Barbara Dixon – The Caravan Song	2025	09:28	0
Brian May & ABC Melbourne Showband – Wandering Star~I Talk To The Trees		09:32	2	10/10/2021
Connie Francis – Non Dimenticar		09:36	0
Bobby Helms – My Special Angel	1957	09:41	6	29/11/2024
By Request Roy Orbison – Penny Arcade	1969	09:46	8	25/7/2025
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Rolling Stones – Satisfaction	1965	09:50	6	28/9/2018
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Dusty Springfield – In The Middle Of Nowhere	1965	09:54	5	28/8/2020
John Denver – I’ve Been Working On The Railroad		09:57	8	14/7/2023
Conor Owens – My Own Washing	2025	10:05	0
Andy Williams & Peggy Powers – I Like Your Kind Of Love		10:10	0
Anne Murray – Easy Love	2025	10:14	0
By Request    Wandjuk Marika – Didgeridoo Solo Eric Jupp & His Orchestra – Bush Tracker		10:19	0 4	1/9/1923
Vintage Vinyl    Al Hibbler – Unchained Melody	1955	10:23	6	16/8/2019
Margarita De La Vega – Love Me With All Your Heart	2025	10:27	1	3/8/2025
Hugo Winterhalter & His Orchestra – Valencia		10:33	1	6/3/2020
Frank Ifield – What’s New	2025	10:35	0
70s Classic    Jim Reeves – My Cathedral		10:41	0
Heintje – Two Little Stars	1970	10:46	4	10/8/2025
Mom & Dads – The Ranger’s Waltz	1971	10:51	9	12/1/2025
Charlie Landsborough – My Heart Would Know		10:53	0
Bushlark – Mudgee Waltz		10:58	7	18/8/2023
Richard Mulligan – Because I Love You	2025	11:05	0
The Charlesys – Road Trip Night	2025	11:12	0
Tommy Vlaeminck  – Bridge of Hope	2025	11:15	3	11/5/2025
Smokey Dawson, Trevor Knight & Newport Trio – Days Of Old Khancoban		11:20	5	14/2/2021
Vintage Vinyl    Rosemary Clooney & Jose Ferrer – Mr And Mrs	1955	11:26	2	23/5/2025
Eric Jupp & His Orchestra – That Happy Feeling		11:34	5	23/7/2023
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Billy Thorpe – Twilight Time	1965	11:39	2	22/9/2017
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Billy Jo Royal – Down In The Boondocks	1965	11:43	13	6/10/2023
Gene Bradley Fisk – Beneath My Setting Sun	2025	11:46	2	10/8/2025
Peter Stefanson – In Our Childhood Days	2025	11:50	3	8/6/2025
Chris James – Red Dirt On His Hands	2025	11:54	1	6/7/2025

Valley Sunrise Edition 846
0600 ~ 0900 AEST

During this edition, two chart-busters each hour, from the Top 40 charts of this week in 1979, and a mix of recent tracks from indie artists and other easy-listening music which you won’t hear on mainstream radio.

► LOOKING at some notable events on 10 August, in 1951  Tasmanians shivered in the coldest temperatures recorded for 50 years.  Much of the State, including the east coast, was blanketed in snow.  Hobart’s maximum was 7.1 C.

Also weather-related, in 1964  a bus which left Queenstown at 7.30 a.m, arrived in Hobart at 10.07 p.m. six hours late, due to heavy snow on the Lyell Highway between Mt Arrowsmith and Derwent Bridge. 

And overseas in 2003, Kent, England, had the highest temperature ever recorded in the UK , 38.5 C.  It was the first time the UK  recorded a temperature (in the Fahrenheit scale) over 100 degrees.

► BORN on this day in 1928  in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.A., Augustino Eugenio Mercurio alias Gus Mercurio, actor who has appeared in numerous Australian television productions, typically portraying shady or criminal characters.  He died in 2010

Also BORN on this day in 1928, but in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Edwin Jack Fisher, alias Eddie Fisher, singer and entertainer, one of the world’s most famous and successful singers in the 1950s.  Coincidentally, he also died in 2010.

► At the opposite end of the life span, DIED this day in 2011 in Benton, Illinois U.S.A, Billy Grammer, country singer and guitar player best known for the million-selling Gotta Travel On, in 1959.  He was aged 85.

And in 2013 in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.A., Edith Gormezano alias Eydie Gorme, popular music singer of the 1950s and 60s who had many hits, both solo, and with her husband, Steve Lawrence.  She was aged 84.

TODAY’S PHOTO: The New Norfolk bridge spanning the Derwent, from a 120 year old postcard,

Photo: Yours Truly.

Today’s Playlist (V S):

TRACK	RELEASE YEAR	TIME	PREVIOUS PLAYS	LAST PLAYED	ISRC
Sarah Riches – Devil In Blue	2025	06:06	1	3/8/2025
Charting this day 1970 Charley Pride – Is Anybody Going To San Antone	1970	06:13	11	3/3/2024
Charting this day 1970 Beatles – The Long And Winding Road	1970	06:16	14	6/7/2025
The Lonesome Six – The Winds of Change	2025	06:20	0
Danny Ferdinandus – My Soul Starts Dancing	2025	06:25	0
Eddie Fisher – Heart	1955	06:29	2	10/8/2014
Joe Reisman & His Orchestra – Angel Of The Morning		06:33	0
Glen Flynn – Until You Have Walked in My Shoes		06:37	3	25/7/2025
Gene Bradley Fisk – My Setting Sun	2025	06:41	1	25/7/2025
Vintage Vinyl    Bonnie Guitar – Dark Moon	1957	06:48	2	25/3/2016
Heintje – Two Little Stars		06:50	3	15/10/2023
Jimmy Little – Namatjiri		06:54	3	2/4/2023
Herb Alpert & Tijuana Brass – A Banda		06:57	7	30/6/2023
Peter Salata – El Toro	2025	07:05	1	27/7/2025
Charting this day 1970 Liv Maessen – Knock Knock Who’s There	1970	07:10	8	1/6/2025
Charting this day 1970 Hans Poulsen – Boom Sha La La Lo	1970	07:13	8	1/6/2025
By Request: Ray Malcolm & Toni West – Islands In The Stream		07:17	4	2/6/2024
By Request: Mary Rose – Me and Bobby McGee		07:21	2	21/2/2025
Michael Farrell – Ghost Riders In The Sky	2024	07:27	2	14/3/2025
Vintage Vinyl    Billy Grammer – Gotta Travel On	1959	07:29	5	28/8/2020
Henry Mancini His Piano & Orchestra – The Entertainer		07:35	3	30/7/2023
Clayton Saunders – You Can’t Hide From a Shadow		07:39	0
Shaza Leigh – All My Loving	2025	07:43	0
Eydie Gorme – Blame It On The Bossa Nova	2025	07:48	12	10/3/2023
Human Nature – Dancing In The Street		07:50	1	12/1/2024
Jordan McPolin – The Auctioneer		07:54	0
Brendan Radford – They Don’t Flick The Finger In The Outback Anymore	2025	08:05	1	1/8/2025	AUK31 2500008
Charting this day 1970 John Williamson – Old Man Emu	1970	08:13	10	21/2/2025
Charting this day 1970 Simon & Garfunkel – Cecilia	1970	08:16	3	21/6/2019
Cast – It Ain’t Half Hot Mum		08:21	7	28/8/2020
Jade Hurley – Do Wah Diddy Diddy		08:23	3	12/11/2023
Julie Andrews – If Love Were All		08:27	0
Pete Moore & His Orchestra – Islands In The Stream		08:31	0
Richard Mulligan – Always Daddy’s Little Girl	2025	08:37	0
Owen Smith – Desert Blooming	2025	08:46	1	25/7/2025
Vintage Vinyl    Chordettes – Just Between You And Me	1957	08:50	2	30/4/2017
Cec Peterson – This Old Guitar	2025	08:53	0

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FRIDAY MORNING RADIO, Edition 481, 9.00 ~ Midday AEST

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 some notable events on 8 August, in RADIO on this day in 1935, John Laws was born in Wau, Papua New Guinea.  Laws became an Australian commercial radio personality, his career starting at 3BO in Bendigo, Victoria, in 1953.

He later worked for several stations in Sydney, ultimately becoming a talk show host on 2UE.  He retired in 2007, but in 2010 returned to radio to host another talk show on 2SM.  He retired for the final time in November 2004.  John Laws, turns 90 today.

In 1950, in Melbourne, Victoria, a young radio announcer, John Bryan Kerr, was found guilty, on the basis of an unsigned confession, of the 1949 murder of 20 year old Elizabeth Williams.  He was sentenced to death, but this was later commuted to life imprisonment.
Protesting his innocence, Kerr served 14 years before being released, after which he moved interstate and became a successful businessman.  He died in 2001 and was posthumously pardoned after a deathbed confession by another man.

In 1991 in Gabin, Poland, a radio mast 646 metres high, at one time the world’s tallest construction, collapsed when it was struck by a strong gust of wind while a guy wire was being replaced.  It’s extreme height had been specified in order to broadcast Communist propaganda around the world.

► DIED ON THIS DAY…..
1959 in Alice Springs, Northern Territory – Albert Namatjira, prominent Aboriginal artist from the western MacDonnell Ranges.  Aged 57.

2017 in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.A. – Glen Campbell, country, pop singer, guitarist and occasional actor best known for a series of hits in the 1960s and 1970s, including Gentle On My Mind, By The Time I Get To Phoenix, Wichita Lineman, Southern Nights and Rhinestone Cowboy.  Aged 81.

2022 in the Santa Ynez Valley, California, U.S.A. – Olivia Newton-John, Australian singer, actress and four-time Grammy-Award winner.  Having sold over 100 million records, Olivia Newton-John was one of the best-selling artists in the second half of the 20^th century.  Aged 73

► And in 1962, a report from Shannon, Ireland , that 70 year old Mrs Marion Hart landed a tiny single engined plane at the local airport at 6.30 a.m.
Jaws must have dropped when she advised astonished officials that she had just flown the Atlantic.  Accompanied by a friend, Mrs Louise Sacchi (49) the flight had started from St Pierre, an island off the Newfoundland coast, and was made at altitudes between 7,000 and 9,000 feet.

Today’s photo: A snow shower passing over Mt Wellington, behind Hobart. Taken by Yours Truly.

Today’s Playlist

TRACK	RELEASE YEAR	PLAY TIME	PREVIOUS PLAYS	LAST PLAYED	ISRC
Col Joye – Dance To The Bop	1958	09:06	0
Col Joye – Never Been This Far Before	1975	09:08	1	28/1/2022
Phil Blundell – The Flower She Once Wore	2025	09:14	1	11/7/2025
Tomas Jackman – Karma Chameleon	2025	09:17	1	20/6/2025
70s Classic   Sherbet – Silvery Moon	1974	09:22	7	27/6/2025
Fleetwood Mac – Never Going Back Again		09:25	1	18/5/2025
Andy Williams – My Favourite Things		09:28	0
Acker Bilk – Never My Love		09:32	0
Dianne Coombes – Ripples On A Pond		09:35	1	18/7/2025	AUCJD 2300023
John Laws – No Name		09:41	0
By Request Soundtrack – Prelude, Sound of Music		09:46	3	17/10/2021
By Request    Charlie Landsborough – No Time At All		09:50	4	24/5/2024
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Mel Carter – Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me	1965	09:55	1	22/4/2016
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Ray Brown & Whispers – Fool Fool Fool	1965	09:57	5	28/9/2018
Elisabeth Hope  – You Never Can Tell (C’est la Vie)	2025	10:05	2	18/7/2025
Gary R Farmer – My Island Paradise	2025	10:11	0
Rosalind Clare – Garden of my Memories	2025	10:15	2	20/6/2025
By Request    Hein Simons – Mayday in Meinem Herzen		10:21	0
Vintage Vinyl    Tab Hunter – Young Love	1957	10:25	4	6/3/2022
Slim Dusty – Namatjira	1953	10:29	6	13/10/2024
Geoff Love & His Orchestra – Holiday For Strings		10:34	4	23/8/2024
Randy C Moore – Cats In the Cradle	2025	10:37	2	20/7/2025
70s Classic    Olivia Newton John – I Honestly Love You	1974	10:44	2	26/2/2023
Toni West – Starry Skies	2025	10:49	0
Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem – The Leaving Of Liverpool		10:55	0
Allan Caswell & Lindsay Waddington – Always Ride A Train	2025	11:05	4	27/7/2025	AUZY4 2500021
Victoria Eman – How Does She Do It	2025	11:10	2	27/7/2025	NLJ9A 2500002
Owen Smith & Matt Scullion – Upper Class Bogan	2025	11:13	0
Kathy Carver – Someone Like You	1968	11:18	4	12/10/2018	AU6Z2 2511102
Vintage Vinyl    Bobby Darin – Dream Lover	1959	11:26	4	29/7/2022
By Request    Pussycat – Mississippi		11:29	38	23/3/2025
James Last & His Orchestra – Dance The Night Away		11:37	0
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Donovan – Colours	1965	11:41	4	10/5/2020
60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Julie Andrews – A Spoonful of Sugar	1965	11:45	4	1/10/2023
David Hammerschlag – Country Calypso	2025	11:48	3	6/7/2025
Christine Clifford – Annie’s Song	2025	11:51	3	20/6/2025	QZHNC 2552556
Robert F – Ein Bisschen Mehr	2025	11:54	1	27/6/2025

Valley Sunrise Edition 845
0600 ~ 0900 AEST

During this edition, two chart-busters each hour, from the Top 40 charts of this week in 1979, and a mix of recent tracks from indie artists and other easy-listening music which you won’t hear on mainstream radio.

On today’s birthday list, if still with us, Anthony Dominick Benedetto, alias Tony Bennett, popular and jazz singer who was born this day in 1926 in Queens, New York, U.S.A.
He came to prominence in the early 1950s and sold over 50 million records worldwide.  Died 2023.

And born this day in 1945 in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, Stuart Golland, the actor who appeared in many English television series, but is formerly known for his role as the publican  George Ward in the TV drama series Heartbeat.  Died 2003.

And died this day in 2017 in Northwood, London, England, Robert Hardy, the actor who had a long career in theatre, film and television.   He is best remembered for his television role as the irascible senior veterinarian Siegfried Farnon in the original, long-running series All Creatures Great And Small.   He was aged 91.  

In events on this day, in 1964  2,000 residents in Harvey, West Australia, were evacuated into emergency accommodation at the town’s golf club and high school when flood waters threatened to breach a nearby dam.

And in 1973  Brisbane, Queensland, 15 died in Australia’s worst arson case, when the Whiskey Au Go Go nightclub was bombed.

In 1986, the long-running express trains between Melbourne and Sydney, the Southern Aurora and the Spirit of Progress, were amalgamated and renamed the Melbourne-Sydney Express.

Today’s photo, taken by Yours Truly, is of the heritage-listed Flinty Creek viaduct near Perth, in the north of the State. Dating to the 1870s, the earliest days of mechanised railways in Tasmania, this is now difficult for the passer-by to see, because of several trees which have grown since this pic was taken about 20 years ago.

This viaduct was bypassed by the railway in the early 1980s and is no longer in use. The Western line now passes by on an embankment, part of which can be see through the arches of this viaduct.

Today’s playlist:

TRACK	RELEASE YEAR	TIME	PREVIOUS PLAYS	LAST PLAYED	ISRC
Sarah Riches – Devil In Blue	2025	06:08	0
Charting this day 1979 Little River Band – Lonesome Loser	1979	06:13	5	27/1/2023
Charting this day 1979 Raydio – You Can’t Change That	1979	06:17	1	3/3/2023
Margarita De La Vega – Love Me With All Your Heart	2025	06:22	0
Guy Surtees – Change	2025	06:25	0
Tony Bennett – Young And Warm And Wonderful	1958	06:29	2	7/8/2016
Gordon Langford & His Orchestra – Let It Be		06:34	1	18/6/2021
Helena Mace – Flowers Of The Sun	2025	06:38	1	27/6/2025
Peter Stefanson – Who’s The Girl (Say You Love Me)	2025	06:43	0		USJ3V 2439567
Vintage Vinyl    Carl Perkins – Blue Suede Shoes	1956	06:48	5	9/4/2023
George Jones – Will There Be Any Stars In My Crown		06:50	6	3/1/2025
Katelynn Marie – Gonna Find Me A Country Boy	2025	06:56	0
Natascha Dommeck – Wir sind wie Tag und Nacht	2025	07:05	1	25/7/2025
Charting this day 1979 Racey – Some Girls	1979	07:12	9	1/8/2025
Charting this day 1979 Glenn Shorrock – Dream Lover	1979	07:15	5	30/6/2023
By Request: Lucille Starr – The French Song	1964	07:21	12	28/6/2024
By Request: Michael Crawford – The Music Of The Night		07:24	6	17/11/2024
Geoff Love & His Orchestra – All Creatures Great And Small		07:30	2	23/8/2024
David Firman & His Orchestra – Baker Street		07:34	1	11/4/2021
By Request: Bangles – Walk Like An Egyptian		07:40	1	28/4/2019
Ron Lynch – Takin’ It Easy	2025	07:44	0		AUEN0 2500338
Terry Bennetts – Chasing Rabbits In Her Sleep	2025	07:47	0
Vintage Vinyl    Bob Crosby & Bob Cats – Song Of The Islands	1952	07:51	1	1/11/2013
Waikikis – Mauna Loa		07:53	0
Lucinda Wilson – I’ll Be There	2025	07:58	1	20/7/2025
Barry Owen – Cross My Heart	2025	08:06	0
Charting this day 1979 Air Supply – Lost In Love	1979	08:13	4	7/9/2018
Charting this day 1979 Art Garfunkel – Bright Eyes	1979	08:16	5	5/11/2023
Joy Boys – Southern ‘Rora	1962	08:21	13	3/6/2022
Slim Dusty & Joy McKean – Losin’ My Blues Tonight		08:24	0
Daniel O’Donnell – Heartbeat		08:30	1	4/8/2024
Enoch Light & Light Brigade – Tuxedo Junction		08:36	4	1/10/2015
The Charlesys – I Can See The Dawn	2025	08:42	3	11/5/2025
Tim Hemme – Believe In You	2025	08:46	0
Vintage Vinyl    Chordettes – Mr Sandman	1954	08:50	4	18/7/2025
Roxette – Church Of Your Heart	1991	08:52	0
Joe Reisman Orchestra & Chorus – I Know A Place		08:56	6	14/7/2023