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

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

You can contact Ian at [email protected]

Valley Sunrise Edition 795
0700 ~ 0900 AEST – PLAYLIST

Hour 1

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

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

Hour 2

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

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

ON THIS DAY:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Friday Morning Radio Edition 430

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

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

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

Today’s Playlist:

Hour 1 (9.00 ~ 10.00):

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

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

Hour 2 (10.00 ~ 11.00):

Acknowledging the 47th anniversary of the passing of Elvis Presley

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

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

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

Hour 3 (11.00 ~ 12.00):

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

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

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

ON THIS DAY

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

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

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

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

11 August 2024

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

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

You can contact Ian at [email protected]

Valley Sunrise Edition 793
0700 ~ 0900 AEST – PLAYLIST

Hour 1

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

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

Hour 2

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

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

ON THIS DAY:

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

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

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

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

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

9 August 2024

Friday Morning Radio Edition 429

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

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

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

Today’s Playlist:

Hour 1 (9.00 ~ 10.00):

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

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

Hour 2 (10.00 ~ 11.00):

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

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

Hour 3 (11.00 ~ 12.00):

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

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

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

ON THIS DAY

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

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

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

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

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

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4 August 2024

Today’s Photo – Locomotive C 22, originally used on the Tasmanian Government Railways, now preserved at the Tasmanian Transport Museum, Glenorchy. It operates on the first Sunday of each month. © Yours Truly

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

You can contact Ian at [email protected]

Valley Sunrise Edition 793
0700 ~ 0900 AEST – PLAYLIST

Hour 1

Kevin Sullivan & Bill Chambers – High Country Snows (2024)  (Debut)
Daniel O’Donnell – Heartbeat  (Debut)
Toni West – It’s Too Late (Previous plays – 1; Last Played 19-7-2024)
Ray Conniff Singers – There’s A Kind of Hush    (Previous plays – 1; Last Played 19-7-2024)
Frank Sinatra – Taking A Chance On Love (1954)   (Previous plays – 1; Last Played 19-7-2013)
By Request: Alan Jackson – Kiss An Angel Good Morning (Debut)

101 Strings Orchestra – Speak Softly Love (Theme From The Godfather)  (Debut)
Steve Condon – In My Life (2024)  (Previous plays – 2; Last Played 5-7-2024)
Justin Landers – Book Of Endless Wonder (2024)   (Debut)
Billboard Top 20 of 1962 – No 8: Sensations – Let Me In  (Debut)
Engelbert Humperdinck – Am I That Easy To Forget (1968)   (Previous plays – 3; Last Played 9-4-2021) 
Dean Martin – That’s Amore (1953)  (Previous plays – 6; Last Played 16-8-2019)

Hour 2

Jade Hurley – What In The World’s Come Over You  (Previous plays – 1; Last Played 7-3-2021)
By Request: Ricky Van Shelton – Just As I Am  (Debut)
By Request: Burl Ives – You Are My Sunshine   (Previous plays – 3; Last Played 19-7-2024 Requested 1 x)
By Request: Beatles – Get Back (1969)     (Previous plays – 11; Last Played 8-9-2023 Requested 4 x)
By Request: Al Jolson – Carolina In The Morning (1947)    (Previous plays – 1; Last Played 20-9-2020 Requested 4 x)
Andy Williams – Twilight Time  (Debut)

Mexicans – Winds of Barcelona  (Previous plays – 8; Last Played 24-3-2019)
Andy Martin – Crash Here Tonight On Me (2024)  (Debut)
Don Smythe – Always Wanting You (2018) (Previous plays – 5; Last Played 24-1-2021) 
Graeme Clarke – So Much Easier Said Than Done (2019)    (Previous plays – 2; Last Played 13-9-2019)
Slim Dusty – My Home On The Sunburnt Plains (1960)  (Previous plays – 3; Last Played 16-8-2019; Requested 1 x)
Seekers – Love Is Me Love Is You (1989)    (Previous plays – 1; Last Played 8-11-2020)

ON THIS DAY:

Born 1901 New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A. – Louis Armstrong, jazz trumpeter, composer, singer and actor, one of the most influential jazz personalities, whose career spanned 50 years from the 1920s.  Died 1971.

Born 1923 Sydney, New South Wales – Reginald Roy Grundy, pioneering Australian entrepreneur and media mogul, creator of many popular television programmes including Wheel of Fortune, Neighbours, Prisoner, and Sons and Daughters.  Died 2016.

Born 1926 Manley, New South Wales – Maurice Fields, Australian comedian and actor, known for his appearances in Australian television series, Bellbird, The Box, Prisoner, The Flying Doctors and Hey Hey It’s Saturday.  Died 1995.

EVENTS THIS DAY:

1914 London, England – The United Kingdom declared war on Germany, following Germany’s invasion of Belgium.  Australia consequently entered World War 1, while the United States declared neutrality

1944 Amsterdam, Holland – A tip from an informer led the Gestapo to a sealed-off room in a warehouse where they found and arrested Jewish diarist, Anne Frank and her family.

1953 Victoria – Australia’s first jet fighter aircraft, the Sabre, underwent its first test flight.  The plane was a modified version of the original American model

1966 Hobart, Tasmania – Driving schools, a model slot-car racing venue and a Jazz Club were threatened with prosecution under the 58 year old Sunday Observance Act which was being brought to bear on all businesses which traded on Sundays.  The Premier (Mr Reece) later refused to declare an amnesty for any business which failed to comply.  

2 August 2024

Friday Morning Radio Edition 428

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

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

Today’s photo: Two generations, retired fire trucks in the Tasmania Fire Service building, Transport Museum, Glenorchy.

Today’s Playlist:

Hour 1 (9.00 ~ 10.00):

Sarah Riches – Alibi (2024)  (Previous plays – 1. Last played 23-6-2024)
Eddie Leroy Cunningham – Strong As Steel (2024) (Debut)
Sandy Summers- Devil In Her Heart (2023)   (Previous plays – 3.  Last played 3-12-2023)

BORN this day 1912 in Stanmore, New South Wales – Gwen Plumb, pioneering Australian stage, radio and television actress, whose first well known role was in the ABC radio serial, Blue Hills. Died 2002.
BORN this day 1932 in Connemara, County Galway, Ireland – Peter O’Toole, actor of stage and screen who achieved stardom in 1962 with the role of T E Lawrence in Laurence of Arabia. Died 2013.

RCA Symphony Orchestra – Lawrence of Arabia Theme (1962) (Previous plays – 3. Last played  2-8-2015)
Al Martino – Harbour Lights (Debut)
Francine Honey – Hold On (2022)  (Previous plays – 4. Last played 24-6-2022)

Percy Faith & His Orchestra – Sunrise Sunset (Debut)
Nana Mouskouri – Les Ruban Rouges (Scarlet Ribbons)  (Debut)

BORN this day 1948 in Melbourne, Victoria – Anne Phelan, award-winning television actress who appeared in many productions during the 1960s – 1980s. Died 2019.

Daniel O’Donnell – From A Jack To A King  (Previous plays – 1.  Last played 20-4-2012)
Runaway Dixie – Under Territory Skies (2024) (Debut)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Delltones – Paper Doll (1964)  (Previous plays – 3. Last played 7-6-2020)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Millie – Sweet William (1964) (Previous plays – 6  Last played 8-4-2022)
Rodeo Nights – Favourite Records (2024)  (Debut)

Hour 2 (10.00 ~ 11.00):

Men Of The Village – Another Start (2024)  (Previous plays – 1.  Last played 30-6-2024)
Don Allen – Suzanne (2024)  (Debut)
Bohemian Rogue – Love Does Funny Things (2024)   (Previous plays – 01.  Last played 28-7-2024)
They Don’t Make Them Like This Anymore: Johnny Cash – Hey Porter (1955)   (Previous plays – 2.  Last played 24-6-2022)
Seekers – The Circle of Love (1989)  (Previous plays – 2.  Last played 24-11-2023)
Dean Perrett – A Big Thing In A Small Town (2024)     (Previous plays – 1.  Last played 28-7-2024)

Magic Trumpets – Theme From Love Story  (Previous plays – 1.  Last played 17-4-2015)
Robert Goulet – Love Is Blue   (Previous plays – 1.  Last played 4-11-2022)
Damian Davis – Today’s Teardrops (2023)    (Previous plays – 2.  Last played 19-1-2024.)
By Request: Elvis Presley – Follow That Dream  (Previous plays – 5.  Last played 15-7-2022. Requested 2 x)
Caoimhe Murney – Wrong Road Again (2024)    (Previous plays – 2.  Last played 21-7-2024)
By Request: Joy Adams – It’s Illegal It’s Immoral (Debut)
Bob Marshall – Cowboy Blessing (2024) (Previous plays – 3.  Last played 7-7-2024)
Owen Smith – That Old Hills Hoist (2024)   (Previous plays – 2.  Last played 26-7-2024)

Hour 3 (11.00 ~ 12.00):

Kevin Sullivan – Against The Tide (2024)   (Previous plays – 3.  Last played 20-11-2020)
Val Doonican – Heaven Is My Woman’s Love (1973)   (Previous plays – 1.  Last played 6-5-2018. Requested 1 x)
Girls Next Door – Love Will Get You Through Times Of No Money (2024)   (Debut)
Markus Schoffl – Forever Love (Debut)
Ben Steneker & Anna McRose – Heart To Heart (2024)  (Previous plays – 1.  Last played 21-6-2024)
Rod Williams – A Fencer From The Outback (2020)  Previous plays – 1.  Last played 26-2-2021)

Manuel & The Music Of The Mountains – El Rancho Grand   (Previous plays – 2.  Last played 27-12-2015)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Jim Reeves – Waltzing On Top Of The World (1964)   Previous plays – 6.  Last played 18-6-2023. Requested 5 x)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Little Patti – He’s My Boy (1964)  (Previous plays – 4.  Last played 12-7-2024)
Col Elliott – Only A Moment In Time (2024) (Debut)
Jason Owen – Be Back Home Again (2019)    (Previous plays – 3.  Last played 14-8-2020)
Colin Harney – Penny Arcade (2022) Previous plays – 2.  Last played 9-12-2022)


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

ON THIS DAY

1962  Hobart, Tasmania  – A 27 year old Yugoslav migrant, Anton Masnec, was sentenced to death after being found guilty of the murder of Helma Huxley, better known as Taffy The Bee Man near Longley, in the Huon Valley.  The sentence was commuted. 

1968  Hobart, Tasmania – The first Holden Monaro, the HK series, was released for sale in the State.

1990  Iraq invaded Kuwait, leading to conflict with coalition forces in the Gulf War.

1997  Thredbo, New South Wales – Stuart Diver was rescued from the wreckage of a ski lodge after it had been destroyed by a landslide which claimed 18 lives.  He was the only survivor.

28 July 2024

Today’s Photo – Taken recently in Bensheim, Germany. Courtesy of listener Karin

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

You can contact Ian at [email protected]

Valley Sunrise Edition 792
0700 ~ 0900 AEST – PLAYLIST

Hour 1

John Gilheaney – Everybody Say Yeah (2024)  (Previous plays – 1; Last Played 14-6-2024)
Bohemian Rogue – Love Does Funny Things (2024)  (Debut)
Mark Knopfler & Emmy-Lou Harris – Beachcombing  (Debut)
Andy Williams – Lonely Street    (Debut)
Dean Martin – I Will (1965)   (Previous plays – 2; Last Played 30-11-2018)
Ella Fitzgerald – It’s A Lovely Day Today (1958)  (Previous plays – 1; Last Played 25-4-2021)

Simon May Orchestra – The East Enders Theme (Previous plays – 2; Last Played 20-3-2016)
By Request: Michael Crawford – On Eagles Wings  (Previous plays – 12; Last Played 28-1-2024; Requested 12 x)
Hayley Westenra – Both Sides Now   (Debut)
Billboard Top 20 of 1962 – No 7: Little Eva – Locomotion  (Previous plays – 7; Last Played 15-9-2019)
Dean Perrett – A Big Thing In A Small Town (2024)  (Debut) 
Seekers – Keep A Dream In Your Pocket (1989)  (Previous plays – 6; Last Played 16-8-2019)

Hour 2

John Rowles – Massachusetts  (Previous plays – 10; Last Played 25-5-2018)
By Request: Gotye & Kimbra – Somebody I Used To Know (Debut)
Alan Rudd – Please Help Me I’m Falling (2024)  (Debut)
By Request: Foster & Allen – As Usual  (Debut)
Neil Anthony – Our Shangri La (2024)  (Debut)
Geoff Love & His Orchestra – The Great Escape March  (Previous plays – 7; Last Played 26-4-2019)

Billy Vaughn & His Orchestra – Moon Over Naples  (Previous plays – 11; Last Played 30-10-2020)
Sandy Scott with Tommy Tycho Orchestra – Baby Don’t Get Hooked On Me  (Previous plays – 2; Last Played 16-6-2019)
By Request: Charlie Landsborough – Part Of Me (Previous plays – 3; Last Played 29-12-2017) 
Cathy Dobson – Everybody Knows (2024)  (Debut)
Blue Echoes – Da Doo Ron Ron (1979)  (Previous plays – 1; Last Played 12-4-2013)
Duane Eddy – Detour  (Debut)

ON THIS DAY:

Born 1901 in Island Pond, Vermont, U.S.A. – Hubert Prior Vallée BKA Rudy Vallee, singer, actor and bandleader whose career started in the mid-1920s. Died 1986.

Born 1902 Hermannsburg Lutheran Mission near Alice Springs, Northern Territory – Albert Namatjira, prominent Aboriginal artist.  Reproductions of his paintings, often colourful depictions of the Australian landscape, hang in many homes throughout the country.  Died 1959.

Born 1922 Brussels, Belgium – Jacques Piccard, Swiss oceanographer and engineer, who developed underwater exploration vehicles. For many years, he was one of only two people (along with Lieut Don Walsh of the United States Navy) to have explored the deepest part of any ocean, the Challenger Deep, part of the Mariana Trench in the western North Pacific Ocean.  Died 2008.

EVENTS THIS DAY:

1914 Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia after Serbia rejected an ultimatum sent by Austria, following the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand, setting off a chain of events which culminated in the First World War.

1945 New York, U.S.A. – A U.S. Army B-25 bomber crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building killing 14 and injuring 26.

1948 London, England – The Metropolitan Police Flying Squad foiled an attempted bullion robbery by nine men in the “Battle of London Airport”.  In the melee between cudgel-wielding crooks and truncheon-armed police, seven of the criminals were injured.  All were sentenced to upwards of 5 years’ hard labour.

1964 London, England – Queen Victoria Street, in the heart of the city, was evacuated and closed after an unexploded World War 2 German bomb was found between Charing Cross and Aldgate railway stations.  Soon after its discovery, a truck fell into the excavation and landed on the bomb, upside down.  The bomb was eventually removed for safe disposal.

1999 Interlaken, Switzerland – Eighteen tourists, including 14 Australians, perished when a storm sent a wall of water through a narrow gorge.  Swiss police later investigated whether the Adventure tour organisers should be charged for criminal negligence.

26 July 2024

Friday Morning Radio Edition 427

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

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


Today’s Playlist:

Hour 1 (9.00 ~ 10.00):

Lee Ann Kelly – Fall Before You Fly (2024) (Debut)
Hoons Fron Straylia – Just The Way (2024) (Debut)
Lindsay Waddington – Kakadu (2022)   (Previous plays – 9.  Last played 15-9-2023)
BORN this day 1941 in Nashville Tennessee U.S.A. – Bobby Hebb, African-American singer-songwriter, best known for penning and recording of Sunny. (d. 2021)
Bobby Hebb – Sunny (1966) (Previous plays – 5. Last played  26-7-2020)
Bill Anderson & Mary Lou Turner – That’s What Made Me Love You (Debut)
Alice Benfer – If Teardrops Were Silver (2021)  (Previous plays – 4. Last played 15-9-2023)

London Symphony Orchestra – Don’t Cry For Me Argentina (Debut)
Andy Williams – Walk Hand In Hand  (Debut)
BORN this day 1941 in Shreveport, Louisiana, U.S.A. – Alfred Jesse Smith, alias Brenton Wood, singer-songwriter, best known for his 1967 single Gimme A Little Sign. Turns 83.
Brenton Wood – Gimme A Little Sign (1967) (Previous plays – 5.  Last played 12-2-2023)
Terry Stafford – Follow The Rainbow (1964) (Previous plays – 4.  Last played 14-4-2023)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Four Seasons – Alone (1964)  (Previous plays – 2. Last played 4-11-2022)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Beatles – Komm Gibb Mir Deine Hand (1964) (Previous plays – 7  Last played 17-6-2022)
Andy Martin – Corrine Corrina (2024)  (Previous plays – 1.  Last played 19-7-2024)

Hour 2 (10.00 ~ 11.00):

Walk Don’t Run – Old Georgia Train (2024)  (Previous plays – 1.  Last played 7-7-2024)
Sisters In Country – Down Under Girls (2024)  (Debut)
Terry Bennetts & Lee Foster – That’s The Kind Of Life I Live (2024)   (Previous plays – 2.  Last played 21-7-2024)
By Request: Bobby Vinton – Roses Are Red (1962)   (Previous plays – 11.  Last played 7-7-2024)
They Don’t Make Them Like This Anymore: Burl Ives – On Top Of Old Smokey (1951)  (Previous plays – 3.  Last played 21-6-2019)
DIED this day 1950 in London, England – Freddy Gardner, jazz and dance band musician of the 1930s and 40s, a virtuoso of clarinet and the entire saxophone family. Aged 39.
Freddy Gardner – Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (1940)     (Previous plays – 1.  Last played 23-12-2018)
Kingston Trio & Brothers Four – Whisky In The Jar   (Debut)

Lawrence Welk & His Orchestra with Myron Floren – It’s A Small World Polka   (Debut)
Aly Cook – Unknown Memories (2017)   (Previous plays – 6.  Last played 29-12-2017)
DIED this day 2023 in Glenageary, County Dublin, Ireland – Sinead O’Connor, singer-songwriter, who rose to fame in the late 1980s, and achieved worldwide success in 1990 with Nothing Compares To You. Aged 56.
Sinead O’Connor – Nothing Compares To You (1990)    (Previous plays – 8.  Last played 21-7-2024. Requested 6 x)
Lloyd Back – Flowers (2024)    (Previous plays – 3.  Last played 21-7-2024)
Shelley Jones Band – Love Is Like A River (2024)  (Debut)
Owen Smith – That Old Hills Hoist (2024)   (Previous plays – 1.  Last played 21-7-2024)

Hour 3 (11.00 ~ 12.00):

Kevin Sullivan – Journey (2024)   (Previous plays – 8.  Last played 21-7-2024. Requested 6 x)
By Request:  Roy Orbison – California Blue   (Previous plays – 9.  Last played 3-4-2022. Requested 4 x)
Stephen Stokes – The Love Bug (2024)   (Previous plays – 3.  Last played 7-7-2024.)
Caoimhe Murney – Hillbilly Girl (2024) (Debut)
Joy Adams & Gary R Farmer – Remember Me (2024)  (Previous plays – 2.  Last played 21-7-2024)
Warren Kearney – Worry Is Like A Rocking Chair (2024)  Previous plays – 2.  Last played 19-7-2024. Requested 1 x)

E Power Biggs – Marche Militaire (Schubert)   (Previous plays – 5.  Last played 19-11-2017)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Animals – House Of The Rising Sun (1964)   Previous plays – 7.  Last played 18-9-2015. Requested 1 x)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Kravats – Puppet Strings (1964)  (Previous plays – 6.  Last played 27-3-2015)
By Request:  Ray Malcolm – Is There Something On Your Mind (2024)    (Previous plays – 1.  Last played 5-7-2024)
Joe Allen Christi – Grandpa’s Fishing Hole (2024)    (Previous plays – 2.  Last played 12-7-2024)
Bert Kaempfert & His Orchestra – Snowbird    (Previous plays – 4.  Last played 13-8-2021)

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

21 July 2024

Music Unlimited 0600 ~ 0700 AEST
Hosted by Ian MacPhee from Studio B in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Post-production by Ron Bickle, of community radio CFTA Radio Tantramar, Amherst, Nova Scotia.

You can contact Ian at [email protected]

Today’s pic – A recent sunrise over the Meehan Range in the Derwent Valley. Photo: Yours Truly

Valley Sunrise Edition 791
0700 ~ 0900 AEST – PLAYLIST

Hour 1

Daniel O’Donnell – Never Ending Song of Love  (Previous plays – 1; Last Played 5-3-2017)
Dave Caley – The Wild Ones  (Previous plays – 2; Last Played 12-7-2024)
By Request: Colleen Hewett – The Wind Beneath My Wings  (Previous plays – 6; Last Played 16-2-2024)
Terry Bennetts & Lee Forster – That’s The Kind of Life I Live (2024)    (Previous plays – 1; Last Played 12-7-2024)
Caoimhe Murney – Wrong Road Again (2024)   (Previous plays – 1; Last Played 12-7-2024)
Shannonside Ceili Band – An Irish Lullaby (Previous plays – 3; Last Played 8-11-2019)

Percy Faith Strings – The Fool On The Hill (Previous plays – 1; Last Played 3-11-2013)
Joy Adams & Gary R Farmer – Remember Me (2024)   (Previous plays – 1; Last Played 12-7-2024)
Owen Smith – That Old Hills Hoist (2024)  (Debut)
Billboard Top 20 of 1962 – No 6: Shelley Fabares – Johnny Angel  (Previous plays – 2; Last Played 19-1-2018)
Hermans Hermits – Dream On (1965)  (Previous plays – 2; Last Played 14-5-2021 as a request) 
BORN this day 1937 in Dougherty, Oklahoma, U.S.A. – Katherine Laverne Starks, alias Kay Starr, pop and jazz singer, very successful in the 1950s, who introduced two long-running Number 1 hits, Wheel of Fortune and the Rock and Roll Waltz.  Died 2016.
Kay Starr – Wheel of Fortune (1952)  (Previous plays – 6; Last Played 21-7-2017)

Hour 2

Tony Clarke – It’s Like (2024)  (Previous plays – 2; Last Played 12-7-2024)
By Request: Bill Anderson – Quits (Debut)
By Request: Foster & Allen – Nobody’s Darling But Mine  (Previous plays – 9; Last Played 19-7-2024; Requested 8 x)
By Request: Sinead O’Connor – Nothing Compares To You  (Previous plays – 7; Last Played 8-12-2023; Requested 5 x)
By Request: Buddy Holly – True Love Ways (1960)  (Previous plays – 1; Last Played 19-6-2020)

Martin Charly – Honey On The Vine  (Previous plays – 1; Last Played 21-6-2024)
101 Strings Orchestra – As Time Goes By  (Debut)
Shaza Leigh – Our Father’s Choice (2024)  (Debut) 
Chris “Boots” Lee – My Greatest Claim To Fame (2024)  (Previous plays – 1; Last Played 12-7-2024)
Lloyd Back – Flowers (2024)  (Previous plays – 2; Last Played 12-7-2024)
Cat Stevens – Another Saturday Night (1974)  (Previous plays – 1; Last Played 11-6-2021)

ON THIS DAY:

Also born this day 1922 in Keighley, West Riding, Yorkshire, England – Isobel Mary Sugden, alias Mollie Sugden, actress known for her role as saleswoman Mrs Slocombe in the television sit-com Are You Being Served from 1972 till 1983. Died 2009.

Born this day 1948 in Marylebone, London, England – Steven Demetre Georgiou, alias Cat Stevens, aliasYusuf Islam, singer-songwriter, and musician.  Turns 76.

19 July 2024

Friday Morning Radio Edition 426

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

First Hour – including the latest Roadworks Update, and a Diamond Classic Twin-spin around 9.50;

Second Hour – including They Don’t Make Them Like This Anymore, and Sky High (which planets can be seen, cloud permitting);

Third Hour – including a Tasmania Police update and another Diamond Classic Twin-spin around 11.35;

Half-hourly weather updates.

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

The Playlist:

Hour 1 (9.00 ~ 10.00):

Williamson Branch with Carl Jackson – Southern Nights (2024) (Debut)
Andy Martin – Corrine Corrina (2024) (Debut)
Aaron Bozwell – Gonna Make A Memory (2022)  (Debut)
BORN this day 1925 in Nevada, Missouri U.S.A. – Eva Sue McKee, alias Sue Thompson, pop and country singer who had several million selling hits during the 1960s, particularly with Sad Movies Make Me Cry and Norman. (d. 2021)
Sue Thompson – James Hold The Ladder Steady (1962) (Previous play as request – 24-8-2014)
Tommy Edwards – It’s All In The Game (1958)  (Previous plays – 5.  Last played 16-5-2021)
Graeme Clarke – There’s Only The Two Of Us Here (2019)  (Previous plays – 2. Last played 6-9-2019)

James Last & His Orchestra – Amapola (Previous plays – 5. Last played 22-9-2017)
Renee & Renato – Falling In Love (Debut)
BORN this day 1937 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, U.S.A. – George Hamilton IV, country singer who started performing in the late 1950s as a teen idol, later switching to pop-country and folk music. Some of his biggest hits were Abilene (1963), Fort Worth Dallas or Houston (1964) and Canadian Pacific (1969).  Died 2014)
George Hamilton IV – Abilene (1963) (Previous plays – 5.  Last played 4-8-2023)
Andrew Ryan – Beauty Of The Bush (2023) (Previous plays – 4.  Last played 30-6-2024)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Swinging Blue Jeans – You’re No Good (1964)  (Previous plays – 3. Last played 22-2-2019)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Beatles – A Hard Day’s Night (1964) (Previous plays – 22  Last played 21-5-2023 Requested 11 x)
Norma O’Hara Murphy – Drifting Down The Darling  (Previous plays – 4.  Last played 15-9-2023)

Hour 2 (10.00 ~ 11.00):

Chloe Winters – Delta Dawn (2024)  (Debut)
By Request: Foster & Allen – Nobody’s Darling But Mine  (Previous plays – 8  Last played 24-11-2023 Requested 7 x)
Ami Leigh – You Give Me Such A Feeling (2024)   (Previous plays – 1.  Last played 14-7-2024)
Gary Kennedy – Dance With Me Molly (2023)   (Previous plays – 4.  Last played 23-6-2023)
They Don’t Make Them Like This Anymore: Barry Mann – Who Put The Bomp (1961)  (Previous plays – 3.  Last played 27-8-2017 when requested.)
Dianne Coombes – Start Where You Are (2024)     (Debut)
Ray Price – In The Misty Moonlight (1964)   (Debut)

Roberto Delgado & His Orchestra- Save Your Kisses For Me   (Previous plays – 1.  Last played 24-1-2021)
Julie Healy – The End Of The Rainbow (2022)  (Debut)
Daniel O’Donnell & Mary Duff – Yes Mr Peters    (Debut)
Ray Conniff Singers – There’s A Kind of Hush   (Debut)
Ollie Austin – Ribbon of Darkness   (Previous plays – 2.  Last played 20-11-2020)
Gayle O’Neil – Open Arms (2019)   (Previous plays – 9.  Last played 1-12-2019)

Hour 3 (11.00 ~ 12.00):

Bill Anderson – I Love You Drops   (Previous plays – 1.  Last played 29-3-2024)
By Request: Warren Kearney – Worry Is Like A Rocking Chair (2024)   (Previous plays – 1.  Last played 12-7-2024)
One For The Road with Seamus Moore – The Transit Van (2024)   (Debut)
Anthony Baxter – Pride of New England (2024)   (Previous plays – 3.  Last played 14-6-2024)
Fleetwood Mac – Rhiannon (1975)   (Debut)
Sonny James – You’re The Reason I’m Living (1971)  (Debut)
Emma Jene – Do You Remember   (Previous plays – 7.  Last played 21-9-2018)

Otto Bredl & Jiggs Whigham – C’Est Magnifique   (Previous plays – 2.  Last played 22-5-2016)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Dusty Springfield – Wishin’ and Hopin’ (1964)  (Previous plays – 11.  Last played 18-2-2022)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Jack Jones – The First Night of the Full Moon (1964)  (Previous plays – 9.  Last played 7-1-2024)
Toni West – It’s Too Late (2024)  (Debut)
Town Criers – Everlasting Love (1968)  (Debut)
Jimmy Shand & His Band – The Stein Song  (Debut)


FROM A LISTENER…….

Janine writes: Thank you for the request….that man (Warren Kearney – Ray) has the most calming voice….I love that song… I have had much enjoyment from your program today, great tunes…. Dance with me Molly by an Australian singer (Gary Kennedy – Ray) was just beautiful…also You’re The Reason by Sonny James…
I would vote you number one presenter every week….

ODD SPOTS

1968 – Tel Aviv, Israel – Two Syrian pilots who landed their Soviet-made Mig planes on the Betzet airfield in northern Israel told their interrogators that they were on a training flight, and mistook the Israeli airfield for one in Latakia, Syria.

1968 – Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea – Eleven year old Pari Hera found an interesting, oval piece of metal on the edge of the school ground, so presented his find to the headmaster. The headmaster took one look, and immediately called Army explosive experts. It was a live hand grenade.

1968 – And a Claremont (Tasmania) woman received a letter from her globe-trotting son, saying he had spent a night in gaol, in a small Mexican town. The local police had heard that the assassin of Dr Martin Luther King was in the locality, so until they checked, all Europeans went to gaol.

14 July 2024

Music Unlimited 0600 ~ 0700 AEST
Hosted by Ian MacPhee from Studio B in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Post-production by Ron Bickle, of community radio CFTA Radio Tantramar, Amherst, Nova Scotia.

You can contact Ian at [email protected]

Today’s pic – A frosty sunrise over the Faulkner range in the Derwent Valley. Photo: Yours Truly

Valley Sunrise Edition 790
0700 ~ 0900 AEST – PLAYLIST

Hour 1

Mike McClellan – Song and Dance Man (Previous plays – 5; Last Played 2-1-2022)
Ami Leigh – You Give Me Such A Feeling (2024)  
Shaun Cuddy – Dance In Tubbercurry (2024)
Ray Conniff Singers – Seasons In The Sun (Previous plays – 1; Last Played 4-10-2015)
Jim Reeves – The Search Is Ended  
By Request: Glen Campbell – Rhinestone Cowboy (Previous plays – 18; Previous requests 8; Last Played 7-4-2024 as a request)

Max Harris Orchestra – Blues In The Night (Previous plays – 2; Last Played 7-4-2023)
Judith Durham – Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man Of Mine
Ricky May – That Cat Is High
Billboard Top 20 of 1962 – No 5: David Rose Orchestra – The Stripper  (Previous plays – 5; Last Played 4-3-2018)
Frank Sinatra – Forget Domani (1965)  (Previous plays – 2; Last Played 12-4-2020 as a request) 
Peter Smokie Dawson – Daddy Had A Workshop (2024) ISRC AU-LAH-2300004


Hour 2

Seekers – Someday Oneday (with Julie Anthony lead) (1996)
By Request: Elvis Presley – Hound Dog (Previous plays – 7; Previous requests 5; Last Played 15-5-2022 as a request)
By Request: Charley Pride – I Can’t Believe That You’ve Stopped Loving Me
By Request: Mrs Mills – My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean
Acoustic Bloom – She (2024)  (Previous plays – 2; Last Played 7-7-2024) ISRC IEWLW2400002
Sandpipers – All My Loving  (Previous plays – 2; Last Played 17-7-2016)

Otto Bredl & Jiggs Whigham – Lovely Lady  (Previous plays – 1; Last Played 13-1-2017)
By Request: Daniel O’Donnell – I’ll Take You Home Again Kathleen
Andrew Dean & Farm Machine – Soaking Up The Rays (2024)  (Previous plays – 2; Last Played 11-8-2023) ISRC QZHNA2406138
Glenn Jones – Elva’s Eyes (2024)
Runaway Dixie – Territory Skies (2024) ISRC AUJLF2400086
Foster & Allen – Medley~A World Of Our Own~You Are My Sunshine~This Land Is Your Land  (Previous plays – 2; Last Played 1-5-2020)

ON THIS DAY:

Born this day 1910 in Melrose, New Mexico, U.S.A. – William Hanna, animator, television director and producer, and cartoon artist, whose movie and television cartoon characters entertained millions of children worldwide for much of the 20th century. Died 2001.

Born this day 1912 in Okemah, Oklahoma, U.S.A. – Woodrow Wilson Guthrie alias Woody Guthrie, singer-songwriter and folk musician, whose legacy includes hundreds of political, traditional and children’s songs and ballads.  Died 1967.

Born this day 1944 in Waverley, New South Wales – Margaret Anne Jones-Owen, alias Margaret Pomeranz, Australian film producer and critic, and television personality.

Born this day 1946 in Melbourne, Victoria – John Wood, Gold Logie Award-winning Australian actor, best known today for his recent role as businessman Patrick Tyneman in the ABC drama The Doctor Blake Mysteries.

EVENTS:

1902 Venice, Italy – The original Campanile, or bell tower, of St Mark’s Basilica, then one of the oldest towers in Italy, collapsed.  It dated to the year 902, and was 98 metres high. It was rebuilt to a similar design in 1912.

1945 Charlotte Pass, New South Wales – Recorded the lowest temperature in Australia at the time, of -22.2 C  (-8 F).  This record was broken in the same place on 29^th June 1994, when a new low of -23.0 (-9.4 F) was recorded.

1965 The U.S. spacecraft Mariner 4 became the first spacecraft to return images from another planet as it approached and flew past Mars.  The photographs it transmitted, of an apparently dead world caused a change of thinking by scientists as to life on Mars.  Communications with Mariner 4 were terminated in December 1967 and the space craft is now derelict, in orbit around the Sun.    

12 July 2024

Friday Morning Radio Edition 425

The Playlist:

Hour 1 (9.00 ~ 10.00):

Dave Caley – The Wild Ones (2024)
Jo Allen Christi – Grandpa’s Fishing Hole (2024)  ISRC QZK6L2359942
Caoimhe Murney – Wrong Road Again (2024)  ISRC IEXWD2400001
BORN this day 1895 in New York City U.S.A. – Oscar Hammerstein II, co-writer and lyricist of over 850 songs in collaboration with composers Jerome Kern, Vincent Youmans, Sigmund Romberg and Richard Rodgers.  The final song he wrote was Edelweiss, for the musical The Sound of Music. (d. 1960)
Michael Junior – Edelweiss
Chris Boots Lee – My Greatest Claim To Fame (2024)  
Jim Reeves – I Won’t Come In While He’s There  (Previous plays – 2. Last played 29-1-2021)

Paul Mauriat & His Orchestra – Brazilia Carnaval
Francoise Hardy – La Maison Ou J’ai Grandi (The House Where I Grew Up) (Previous plays – 1. Last played 7-6-2015)
BORN this day 1907 in Major Plains, Victoria – Ernest Edward Dunlop, alias Sir Ernest “Weary” Dunlop, surgeon renowned for his leadership whilst a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese army during World War 2.  Died 1993)
BORN this day 1952 in Clarendon, Jamaica – Elizabeth Mitchell, original lead singer of the 1970s disco band Boney M. Turns 72 today.
Boney M – Jimmy (1981) (Previous plays – 3.  Last played 11-9-2015)
Tony Clarke – It’s Like (2024) 
60 Year Diamond Classic: Jimmie Rodgers – The World I Used To Know (1964)  (Previous plays – 10. Last played 21-8-2020)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Little Patti – He’s My Boy (1964) (Previous plays – 3.  Last played 11-7-2014)

Hour 2 (10.00 ~ 11.00):

Lloyd Back – Flowers (2024)  ISRC AUZY4-23-00048
Al Grant – Rosa Rio   (Previous plays – 9.  Last played 20-11-2022)
Lena Martell – Hasta Manana
They Don’t Make Them Like This Anymore: Kenneth McKellar – Roamin’ In The Gloamin’ (1959)  (Previous plays – 5.  Last played 8-8-2021 when requested.)
DIED this day 1982 London, England – Kenneth More, actor and star of numerous movies, including Genevieve (1953);  Reach For The Sky in which he portrayed the legless fighter ace Douglas Bader in 1956;  Sink The Bismarck (1960);  and the television series The Forsyte Saga in 1967  (Aged 68)
DIED this day 1998 Fayetteville, Arkansas, U.S.A. – James Corbitt Morris, alias Jimmie Driftwood, folk songwriter and musician.  He wrote over 6,000 songs, including the Johnny Horton hit, The Battle of New Orleans.  Aged 91.
DIED this day 2004 Gold Coast, Queensland – George Mallaby, Australian actor best known for his role as Detective Peter Barnes in the Crawford Productions series Homicide.  (Age 64)
Eric Jupp & His Orchestra – Victory (“Homicide” TV Theme)    (Previous plays – 9.  Last played 4-11-2022)
Daniel O’Donnell – A Fool Such As I

Francis Goya – Natacha
Westlake & Tom Savage – Shine Down On Me (2024)  ISRC AU-N4Q-24-00002
Joy Adams & Gary R Farmer – Remember Me (2024)  ISRC  USJ3V2393595
Andy Williams – Domino
Bridget Pross – Husky Eyes (2024)  USCGH2034455
Terry Bennetts & Lee Forster – That’s The Kind Of Life I Live (2024)
Shadows – Dakota

Hour 3 (11.00 ~ 12.00):

Kevin Sullivan – Journey (2024) (Previous plays – 3. Last played 21-6-2024) ISRC AUVW12400004
Foster & Allen – Devil Woman
Engelbert Humperdinck – The Way It Used To Be   (Previous plays – 3.  Last played 25-3-2022)
Roger Whittaker – Nur Ein Tag Im Paradies (Just One Day In Paradise)  
Warren Kearney – Worry Is Like A Rocking Chair (2024) 
Hank Snow – Ghost Trains

Shahin & Sepehr – One Thousand And One Nights 
60 Year Diamond Classic: Patsy Cline – Love Letters In The Sand (1964)  (Previous plays – 1.  Last played 6-8-2021)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Dixiecups – Chapel Of Love (1964)  (Previous plays – 11.  Last played 18-2-2022)
Petula Clark – Who Am I
Four Lads – Put A Light In The Window (1958)  (Previous plays – 6.  Last played 10-2-2019)
Tony Christie – I Can’t Stop Loving You

Today’s pic – Sunrise over northern Tasmania at 35,000 feet (give or take a few). Yours Truly

Music Unlimited 0600 ~ 0700 AEST
Hosted by Ian MacPhee from Studio B in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Post-production by Ron Bickle, of community radio CFTA Radio Tantramar, Amherst, Nova Scotia.

Valley Sunrise Edition 789
0700 ~ 0900 AEST – PLAYLIST

Hour 1

Bob Marshall – Cowboy Blessing  ISRC QZWKY 2400191
Anne Murray – Sittin’ Back Lovin’ You  
Stephen Stokes – The Love Bug (2024) ISRC TCAHD 2326810
Cass Williams – Walking Old Floors (2024) ISRC QZDA 82419935
Les Paul & Mary Ford – Johnny Is The Boy For Me  (Previous plays – 3; Last Played 1-3-2019)
(Iris Colleen Summers, alias Mary Ford, was born this day 1924 in El Monte, California, USA. She was a guitarist and singer who, with her husband Les Paul, had 16 Top Ten hits during the first half of the 1950s. In 1951 alone, the sold six million records – a major achievement for those days. Died 1977)
The Jazz Kings – Sing A Little Song  (Previous plays – 6; Last Played 15-9-2023)
Anne Fraser – Uncle John’s Guitar (2024) (Previous plays – 2)

Joel Herron & His Orchestra – The Last Time I Saw Paris
Norman Luboff Choir – Breezing Along (Previous plays – 2; Last Played 2-8-2013)
Rachael Leahcar – Smile (2012)  (Previous plays – 2; Last Played 22-2-2019)
Billboard Top 20 of 1962 – No 4: Bobby Vinton – Roses Are Red (Previous plays – 10; Last Played 7-10-2022)
Acoustic Bloom – She (2024)  ISRC IEWLW2400002
Ringo Starr – After All These Years   
(Richard Starkey, alias Ringo Starr, was born this day 1940 in Liverpool, England. He was a musician, song-writer, actor, and famed as the drummer for The Beatles. Turns 84.)


Hour 2

Walk Don’t Run – Old Georgia Train (2024)
By Request: Kingston Trio – Hang Down Your Head Tom Dooley (1961)  (Previous plays – 2; Last Played 16-4-2021)
By Request: Lighthouse Family – High
By Request: Julie Covington – Don’t Cry For Me Argentina  (Previous plays – 10; Previously requested – 5 Last Played 31-12-2023)
By Request: U 2 – Beautiful Day (Previous plays – 2; Last Played 14-1-2024)

Ebba Forsberg – Hold Me (2024)
Australian National Concert Orchestra – Love’s Theme (Previous plays – 2; Last Played 6-3-2015)
Sandy Scott – A Man Without Love
Mike McClellan – All I’ve Got Is Love  (Previous plays – 4; Last Played 30-3-2014)


ON THIS DAY:

EVENTS ON THIS DAY:

1952 The liner SS United States passed Bishop’s Rock, at the westernmost tip of the Scilly Isles, during her maiden voyage from New York, breaking the trans-Atlantic speed record with a time of 3 days, 10 hours, 42 minutes, to take the record as the fastest passenger ship in the world. SS United States has bene laid up in Philadelphia, in a stripped condition, for many years, her future remains uncertain.

1960 Sydney, New South Wales – In one of Australia’s most infamous crimes, 8-year-old Graeme Thorne was kidnapped and held for ransom after his father won £100,000 in a lottery. Graeme’s body was found, hidden on vacant ground in the suburb of Seaforth, six weeks later.
A massive police investigation, which used pioneering forensic techniques, culminated three months later in Colombo, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) of a Hungarian immigrant to Australia, Istvan Baranjay, alias Stephen Bradley.
Baranjay was aboard a ship bound for England with his own wife and three children. He was extradited to Sydney and sentenced to life imprisonment in Goulburn gaol, where he died in 1968.

ODD SPOTS:

1968 – A New Norfolk man called at the local police station to pay the registration on his car. He glanced through the police station window, in time to see his car moving off – driverless. He ran out and chased it, but the car came first – through a police officer’s front fence!

1968 – Toronto, Canada – A young woman, who was fleeing on a bicycle after making an unsuccessful attempt to rob a bank, was also unsuccessful with her escape bid. She was arrested after her bicycle skidded on a piece of watermelon rind..

1968 – Vareza Dal Parma, Brazil – Vincente Pinto, who claimed to be 113 years of age, had a remarkably eventful life. The latest occurred in a power station when he received a 13,000 volt shock, which knocked him out.
He had allegedly survived four rattle snake bites; numerous falls from horses; several bull gorings; and a number of severe burns.

5 July 2024

Friday Morning Radio Edition 424

The Playlist:

Hour 1 (9.00 ~ 10.00):

Lloyd Back – Try A Little Kindness (2023) (Played 4 times previously. Last played 19-1-2024)
Paul Hudnott – New Life On The Land (2024) (Played 2 times previously. Last played 14-6-2024)
Merri Winter – Dirt For Sale (2024) (Last played 21-6-2024)
By Request: Ollie Austin – Walking The Floor Over You
Huey Lewis & The News – Whole Lotta Lovin’ (1986) USA (Last played 5-7-2020)
[Hugh Anthony Cregg III, alias Huey Lewis, actor and musician, born this day 1950 in New York, U.S.A. Turns 74 today.]
Cassandra – Your Blue Eyes (2024) (Last played 14-6-2024)
Gary R Farmer – Listen To The Rhythm (2024) (Last played 21-6-2024)

Frank Mills & His Orchestra – Islands In The Stream
John Gary – While We’re Young
Warren Kearney – Never Be Anyone Else But You (2023) (Played 4 times previously. Last played 14-1-2024)
Anne Fraser – Uncle John’s Guitar (2024) (Last played 7-6-2024)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Chuck Berry – No Particular Place To Go (1964)  (Last played 18-10-2020)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Beach Boys – I Get Around (1964) (Played 6 times previously. Last played 29-5-2020)

Hour 2 (10.00 ~ 11.00):

Ryan McGlynn – Star Of The County Down (2024) (Last played 21-6-2024)
Shaza Leigh, Lindsay Butler, Peggy Gilchrist – Blaze of Glory (2024) (Last played 21-6-2024)
Ray Malcolm – Is There Something On Your Mind (2024)
They Don’t Make Them Like This Anymore: Kay Kyser – The Woody Woodpecker Song (1948)  (Played 12 times previously. Last played 17-11-2023)
By Request:  Elvis Presley – His Latest Flame (1961) (Played 10 times previously. Last played 2-4-2021)
Harry James & His Orchestra – Red Roses For A Blue Lady (Last played 17-3-2023)
Nat King Cole & Natalie Cole – Unforgettable (Played 5 times previously. Last played 9-2-2024)

Joe Reisman & His Orchestra – The Windmills Of Your Mind
Acoustic Bloom – She (2024) ISRC IEWLW2400002
By Request:  Mel Blanc – I Taut I Taw A Puddy Tat (Played 6 times previously. Last played 16-2-2024)
Steve Condon – In My Life (2024) (Last played 28-6-2024)
Frankie Laine – High Noon (Played 5 times previously. Last played 2-2-2024)
Hay Mack – Monet Sky (2024) ISRC QMAAK2417373

Hour 3 (11.00 ~ 12.00):

Joe Kelly – The Road Runner (2024) (Played 3 times previously. Last played 21-6-2024)
By Request: Pussycat – Mississippi (Played 32 times previously, requested 27 times. Last played 19-5-2024)
Victoria Eman & Franz Lippert – I Drink Too (2024) (Played 2 times previously. Last played 28-6-2024) ISRC NLJ9A2300007
Celia Bryce Band – Peacemaker (2024) (Last played 9-6-2024)
Magic Trumpets – Dolannes Melodie  (Played 8 times previously. Last played 22-9-2017)
John Greene – Sail Away (2024) (Last played 21-6-2024)
Ron Baker – Touch (2024) ISRC QZ ZP22401234

By Request: Billy Vaughn & His Orchestra – Morgen   (Played 4 times previously. Last played 2-6-2024)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Gene Pitney – Cornflower Blue (1964)  (Last played 26-9-2021 – By Request)
60 Year Diamond Classic: Terry Stafford – I’ll Touch A Star (1964)  (Played 11 times previously. Last played 3-12-2023)
Kerr Donnelly Band – My Poor Heart (2024)
Rosalind Clare – Seven Lonely Days (2024)  (Last played 21-6-2024)

From Karin, listening in Perth, West Australia, today:
Lovely program this morning with some great Newbies & Oldies & a surprise track from Magic Trumpets with “Dolannes Melody” so nice to listen to, good to hear it also triggered some of your memories  Thank you so much DJ Ray for including this awesome Trumpet Solo for me ♡