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Sounds Historical for Sunday 15 June 2014

  • Sounds Historical Hour One - 15 June 2014

    8:06 PM.Sounds Historical with Jim Sullivan gives listeners their chance to learn about the colourful, dramatic, and often remarkable events and people of New Zealand's past. Audio

  • Sounds Historical Hour Two - 15 June 2014

    9:06 PM.Sounds Historical with Jim Sullivan gives listeners their chance to learn about the colourful, dramatic, and often remarkable events and people of New Zealand's past. Audio

8:07 Today in New Zealand History 4’26”

Thomas Brunner completes his West Coast journey 15 June 1848                                    

8:12 Homework – questions for June

1. Name the female singer
2. Which New Zealand Prime Minister captained the Canterbury rugby team?

8:14 The Lever Hit Parade with Selwyn Toogood – 6 January 1957  28’11”

Artist: Elvis Presley 2’33”
Song: Too Much
Composer:
Album: Golden Records                   

Artist: Johnnie Ray 2’28”
Song: You Don’t Owe Me A Thing
Composer:
Album: Rock with the cavemen Disc 2           

Artist: Frankie Vaughan 2’33”
Song: The Garden of Eden
Composer:
Album: 30 Years of Number Ones                    

Artist: Patience and Prudence 1’53”
Song: Gonna Get Along Without Ya Now
Composer:
Album: 1958 Btitish Hit Parade Part 1 Vol 7       

Artist: Jim Lowe 2’13
Song: The Green Door
Composer:
Album: Timeless Memories Disc 1                     

Artist: Harry Belafonte 3’04”    
Song: Jamaica Farewell
Composer:
Album: 24 X Harry Belafonte     

Artist: Pat Boone 2’13”
Song: Don’t Forbid Me
Composer:
Album: 16 Original World Hits       

Artist: Burl Ives 2’45”
Song: Marianne
Composer:
Album: 45                                                         

8:46 Cab 13  11’27”

A second extract from a Spectrum documentary of 1985 in which Grant White talks to Wellington taxi drivers about their work.  

8:57 Song: She’s Out of My Life  

Artist: Radio NZ Studio Orchestra
Composer: Bahlen
Album: Orchestral Gold
Label; Tartar TRL 005                                

9:07 As I Remember 3’22’

My First Trip to the Wairarapa by Rosemary Mercer of Wellington. Read by Gail Hedges.  

9:12 Homework – questions for June

1. Name the female singer
2. Which New Zealand Prime Minister captained the Canterbury rugby team?

9:13 Song: The Musical Stakes

Artist: Reon Murtha
Composer: Owen
Album: 45
Label: HMV 7EGM 6063 1962

9:17 Economist W B Sutch recalls his 1920s childhood and discusses New Zealand’s economy in that decade 15’19”

Recorded in 1970.   

9:35 Song: She’ll Be Right 3’03”

Artist:  Peter Cape
Composer: Cape
Album: Peter Cape’s Ballads
Label: Kiwi  TC SLC 1223  

9:40 Book of the Week 17’36”

Pills and Potions at the Cotter Medical History Trust by Claire Le Couteur. Otago University Press: ISBN 9781877 578571

Clair Le Couteur discusses her history of medical remedies of the late 19th century and Dr Bramwell Cook describes the history and running of the Cotter Medical History Trust at the medical museum at Sunnyside, Christchurch.          

9:58 Song: Waterfalls

Artist: Radio NZ Studio Orchestra
Composer: McCartney
Album: Orchestral Gold
Label: Tartar TRL 005