9 February 2025
Valley Sunrise Edition 820
0600 ~ 0900 AEDT
I invite you to start Sunday, my way on TYGA-FM 98.9 and on-line at www.tygafm.org.au/listen-live/
Photo: Hyde Park, London, England, 1981. Photographer, Darrell Smith
Today’s Playlist
| TRACK | RELEASE YEAR | HOUR | PREVIOUS PLAYS | LAST PLAYED | ISRC |
| Sara Storer – Under Darwin Stars | 2024 | 1 | 2 | 2/2/2025 | |
| Charting this day 1978 Buggles – Video Killed The Radio Star | 1977-1978 | 1 | 2 | 3/12/2017 | |
| Charting this day 1978 Rupert Holmes – Escape (The Pina Colada Song) | 1977-1978 | 1 | 6 | 27/5/2022 | |
| The Charlesys – Whenever You’re Around | 2025 | 1 | 0 | CBEYJ 2458063 | |
| Val Doonican – A Little Bit Of You | 1 | 6 | 5/5/2023 | ||
| By Request Today: Kenny Rogers – You Decorated My Life | 1 | 0 | |||
| Paul Mauriat & His Orchestra – Under The Bridges of Paris | 1 | 1 | 11/10/2024 | ||
| Shadows – Heartbeat | 1 | 1 | 22/1/2023 | ||
| BORN THIS DAY: 1940 BORN Palmers Green, North London, England – Brian Bennett, drummer, pianist, composer, arranger, record producer best known as the drummer of the British rock and roll group, the Shadows | |||||
| Carole King – It Might As Well Rain Until September | 1962-1972 | 1 | 13 | 9/4/2023 | |
| BORN THIS DAY: 1942 New York U.S.A. – Carol Klein alias Carole King, singer, songwriter, and pianist who, with her former husband Gerry Goffin wrote more than two-dozen hits during the 1960s, many of which became standards. | |||||
| By Request Today: Beatles – Yellow Submarine | 1968 | 1 | 12 | 2/6/2024 | |
| Edward Nass – Memory Lane | 2017 | 1 | 3 | 17/1/2025 | |
| By Request Today: Vanessa Bourne – Together But Alone | 2025 | 1 | 4 | 7/2/2025 | |
| Don Allen – Whiskey And Guitars | 2024 | 2 | 0 | ||
| Charting this day 1978 ABBA – Gimme Gimme Gimme | 1977-1978 | 2 | 1 | 14/5/2017 | |
| Eric Diamond – All Of Me | 2024 | 2 | 2 | 31/1/2025 | |
| Eric Read – Bribie Island Breeze | 2021 | 2 | 4 | 11/2/2022 | |
| Sarah Riches – We Need To Talk | 2024 | 2 | 1 | 3/1/2025 | |
| Jade Hurley – It’s Four In The Morning | 2 | 7 | 6/11/2022 | ||
| Oscar Volk Orchestra – Excerpt From Faust | 1978 | 2 | 2 | 25/12/2016 | |
| Charting this day 1978 Kermit the Frog – The Rainbow Connection | 1978 | 2 | 0 | ||
| Kamahl – Guantanamera | 2 | 2 | 12/1/2025 | ||
| Charting this day 1978 Colleen Hewett – Dreaming My Dreams With You | 1978 | 2 | 3 | 20/4/2018 | |
| Destiny Band Oz – Missing You | 2019 | 2 | 6 | 15/12/2017 | |
| Tomas Jackman – Only You | 2024 | 2 | 1 | 17/1/2025 | IEATQ 2400001 |
| Jeff Orson – Missing You Soon | 2025 | 3 | 0 | QT3TB 2425080 | |
| Eric Bogle – Aussie Barbecue | 3 | 5 | 13/10/2023 | ||
| Bill Haley & His Comets – You Hit The Wrong Note Billygoat | 1957 | 3 | 1 | 25/7/2014 | |
| DIED THIS DAY: 1981 Harlingen, Texas, U.S.A. – William John Clifton Haley alias Bill Haley, one of the first American rock and roll musicians, credited with popularizing rock and roll in the early 50s with his group Bill Haley & His Comets and their hit song Rock Around The Clock (Aged 55) | |||||
| Lawson Vallery – Somebody Somewhere | 2025 | 3 | 0 | ||
| Rein Vallinga – Delilah | 2024 | 3 | 1 | 12/1/2025 | |
| Joanne & Gillian Vogel – Shut The Gate | 3 | 2 | 5/2/2021 | ||
| Percy Faith & His Orchestra – All Alone Am I | 3 | 1 | 5/7/2019 | ||
| DIED THIS DAY: 1976 Encino, California, U.S.A. – Percy Faith, Canadian-born bandleader, composer and orchestra conductor, known for his arrangements of pop standards. He has often been credited with creating the “easy listening” or “mood music” format, which was part of American popular music in the 50s and well into the 60s. Aged 67. | |||||
| Mills Brothers – Cab Driver | 1968 | 3 | 2 | 22/11/2024 | |
| Tony Cook – Little Things | 2022 | 3 | 2 | 27/5/2022 | |
| Peter Allen – I Still Call Australia Home | 1980 | 3 | 13 | 26/1/2025 | |
| Alex Hood – The Typical Australian Rag | 3 | 2 | 22/7/2016 | ||
| Nina La Vida – Phantom Der Nacht | 2025 | 3 | 2 | 1/12/2024 | |
9 FEBRUARY IN HISTORY:
EVENTS
1945 Fedje Island, Norway – In a rare instance of submarine-to-submarine combat, HMS Venturer sank the German submarine U-864 two nautical miles off the coast. It was later discovered that U-864 was carrying 1,867 steel canisters containing mercury, destined for Japan.
In 2003, it was noticed that the canisters had seriously rusted and that mercury was already leaking from some, contaminating sea life and posing a severe environmental threat.
Although one of the canisters was recovered, removal of the remaining canisters or raising of the wreck is extremely dangerous, because of the unexploded torpedoes aboard.
In 2024 the Norwegian Government decided to retrieve as much of the mercury as possible in 2026, before capping the wreck with 100,000 cubic metres of sand and rock.