Music Features

Bing Crosby and Friends

8 episodes x 27’50

At Golden Days Radio 95.7fm, you experience a music format with a broad appeal crafted with careful curation of music from the 1930s to 1980s. Golden Days Radio's mission is to promote on community radio good, melodic music and information that has broad appeal for people of any age, but in particular the senior members of our community. Bing Crosby and Friends is a music feature series focused on Bing Crosby and the artists who collaborated with him. The series was hosted by Ray Stewart and features many rare records and radio broadcasts.

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Produced by Golden Days Radio Hosted by Ray Stewart Copyright Golden Days Radio

Episode List

Episode 9 Donald O'Connor Filename: RR2020_GDR_Bing_09

Episode 10 Rosemary Clooney Filename: RR2020_GDR_Bing_10

Episode 11 Frank Sinatra Filename: RR2020_GDR_Bing_11

Episode 12 Fred Astaire Filename: RR2020_GDR_Bing_12

Episode 13 Louis Armstrong Filename: RR2020_GDR_Bing_13

Episode 14 Road To Singapore Filename: RR2020_GDR_Bing_14

Episode 15 The Foursome Filename: RR2020_GDR_Bing_15

Episode 16 Highlights from Bing's Radio Programs Filename: RR2020_GDR_Bing_16

A Night At The Theatre

4 episodes x 27’50

A Night At The Theatre explores the history of the heritage theatres in Melbourne and celebrates the diversity of live shows from the 1840s to the current day. It features music from many of the musicals staged in the theatres. It is hosted by Maurice Lockie.

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Produced by Golden Days Radio Hosted by Maurice Lockie Research by Richard Mulvaney Copyright Golden Days Radio

Episode List

Episode 5 Featuring the history of the site of the Comedy Theatre with music including examples of circus music, Champagne Charlie and Blue Moon from The Girlfriend. Filename: RR2020_GDR_At the theatre_05

Episode 6 Featuring Her Majesty's Theatre and the Royal Haymarket Theatre with shows including The Dancing Years and Annie Get Your Gun. Filename: RR2020_GDR_At the theatre_06

Episode 7 Featuring the Bourke Street site of the Palace Theatre and the Metro Theatre with shows including The Merry Malones and Anything Goes. Filename: RR2020_GDR_At the theatre_07

Episode 8 Featuring the Tivoli Theatre with artists including Tommy Trinder, Marie Lloyd and Tessie O'Shea. Filename: RR2020_GDR_At the theatre_08

At The Picture Palace

4 episodes x 27’50

At The Picture Palace explores the history of the grand cinemas that emerged throughout Victoria in the 1920s, some of which have survived until today. The programs incorporate stories and music from films which were screened in the particular picture palaces. It is hosted by Maurice Lockie.

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Produced by Golden Days Radio Hosted by Maurice Lockie Research by Richard Mulvaney Copyright Golden Days Radio

Episode List

Episode 5 Featuring The Metro with films including Dancing Lady, The Great Ziegfeld, The Firefly and the Wizard of Oz. Filename: RR2020_GDR_PicturePalace_05

Episode 6 Featuring the Savoy Theatre with films including The Three Waltzes, One Hundred Men and A Girl, Bambi and Yankee Doodle Dandy. Filename: RR2020_GDR_Picture Palace_06

Episode 7 Featuring the State Theatre with films including Three Smart Girls, The Dambusters and Cover Girl. Filename: RR2020_GDR_Picture Palace_07

Episode 8 Featuring the Athenaeum Theatre with films including The Jazz Singer, Innocents of Paris, The Cuban Love Song and Shipyard Sally. Filename: RR2020_GDR_Picture Palace_08

Johnny O'Keefe and Friends

Single Feature x 55’50

Radio 88FM is a community radio station based in Castlemaine with a particular focus in broadcasting to older members of the community. Ian Braybook has been a pioneer broadcaster across the Central Victoria region and is a key producer and broadcaster for Radio 88FM.

Johnny O'Keefe and Friends follows the career of Johnny O'Keefe, one of Australia's most successful early Rock n Roll stars. He had a string of number one hits as well as fronting programs in the early days of television such as Six O'Clock Rock.

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Produced by Radio 88FM

Hosted by Ian Braybrook

Copyright Radio 88FM

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The Day the Music Died

Single Feature x 55’50

The Day The Music Died celebrates the works of American rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and "The Big Bopper" J. P. Richardson. All three died tragically in a plane crash in 1959.

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Produced by Radio 88FM

Hosted by Ian Braybrook

Copyright Radio 88FM

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Jessie Lloyd's Mission Songs Project

Single Feature x 27’50

Originally from the tropics of North Queensland, Jessie Lloyd is an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander musician who performs a broad collection of Australian Indigenous songs. A musician, producer and creative entrepreneur, Jessie Lloyd is a cultural practitioner of Indigenous music and is dedicated to the continuation of song traditions. Her mission is to produce, perform and progress Australian Indigenous music through innovative concepts, collaborative projects and cultural practice.

Mission Songs Project explores the human reality of the ‘missions era’, where Aboriginal people were removed from their homelands and moved onto missions. Mission Songs Project faithfully navigates the journey of Aboriginal music as Jessie Lloyd connects the traditional with contemporary, revealing the continuation of cultural practice and song traditions into the 21st Century.

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Produced by Jessie Lloyd

with live performances from the Mission Songs Project.

Copyright Jessie Lloyd Music

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