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16 February 2025

Valley Sunrise Edition 821
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: Mt Field National Park. Photographer, Yours Truly

Today’s Playlist (V S):

TRACKRELEASE YEARHOURPREVIOUS PLAYSLAST PLAYEDISRC
Lance Friend – My Home Australia20231426/1/2025 
Charting this day 1971
Dave Edmunds – I Hear You Knocking
1970-19711230/7/2023 
Charting this day 1971
Dawn – Knock Three Times
1971127/4/2017 
By Request Today: Elvis Presley – Way Down19771331/3/2024 
By Request Today: Surfaris – Wipe Out19631219/7/2020 
Matilda Gracie & Sarah Rose – Health Hazard202510  
Lawson Vallery – Somebody Somewhere2025119/2/2025 
Percy Faith & His Orchestra – I Will Follow Him 1429/10/2021 
The Gordon-Farleigh-Dill Association – The Passing of Time202510 QT3EX 2444367
Wayne Douglas – Hey Dad202410  
Backtrack: Adam James – Love We Lost20201522/1/2021 
Shelly Jones Band – Shop Till I Drop202510 AU3FS 2100017
Charting this day 1971
Kevin Johnson – Bonnie Please Don’t Go
1971127/4/2023 
By Request Today: Shavonne Aliphon – Someday2017137/3/2021 
Mountain Rio – Banjo Bill202520 USJ3V 1387541
Paul Ricketts – Charlie Crow202520 AUZY4 2400031
Backtrack: The Void – You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away20192125/10/2019 
Foster & Allen – Rambling Rose 2119/10/2014 
Andy Martin – Even The Man In The Moon Is Crying202520  
Charting this day 1971
Freda Payne – Band of Gold
19712918/9/2022 
Eric Jupp – Cherish 20  
DIED THIS DAY:
2015 Manhattan, New York, U.S.A. – Lesley Sue Goldstein alias Lesley Gore, singer-songwriter best known for her 1963 hit It’s My Party, which she recorded at the age of 16. She became one of the most recognized teen singers of the 1960s.  Aged 68.
Lesley Gore – The Look Of Love196521121/4/2023 
Miguel Rios – Song of Joy1971243/12/2021 
Backtrack: Graeme Clarke – Baby With No Name20192710/12/2021 
John Michael Ferrari – Are You Ready For Love20252131/1/2025TCAAW 1129204
Shavonne  Aliphon – Rose Garden20172423/6/2017 
By Request Today:
Roy Orbison – Cry Softly Lonely One
19672123/1/2025 
Griffin County – Why Don’t You Let Me Go First202530 AUMEV 2501403
Highway 95 – She Believes2025317/2/2025 
Backtrack: Emily Lubitz – Like I Do20223419/1/2024 
Charting this day 1971
Maria Dallas – Pinocchio
1970-19713127/1/2017 
Percy Faith Orchestra & Chorus – Early In The Morning 344/7/2021 
Larissa Tormey – Kilbeggan’s Heart202530 IEJHJ 2500001
Paul Mauriat & His Orchestra – Goodbye 3117/7/2016 
Billy McFarland – Wonderland by Night20243427/12/2024 
Blondie – Heart of Glass197930  
Bohemian Rogue – Tide2025317/2/2025AUGBT 2488904
G J A – Panda202430 QZWFT 2499192

16 FEBRUARY IN HISTORY:

EVENTS

1983 The Ash Wednesday disaster in South Australia and Victoria occurred with bushfires, propelled by 40-degree heat and gale-force winds, claiming 72 lives, 2,000 homes and over $350 million in damage..


1986 Marlborough Sound, New Zealand – The Russian cruise ship Mikhael Lermontov struck rocks 5 metres below the surface and sank within 20 minutes of the last of its 360 passengers being evacuated.  One crewman was lost and the ship remains where it sank, where it is now popular with scuba divers.