6 April 2025
Valley Sunrise Edition 828
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/ for great music you won’t hear locally on mainstream radio.
Included today, chartbuster hits from this month in 1974
– Today’s photo: Mt Direction and the Derwent River from Poimena Reserve, Austins Ferry.
Photo: Yours Truly
Today’s Playlist:
| TRACK | RELEASE YEAR | TIME | PREVIOUS PLAYS | LAST PLAYED | ISRC |
| Kevin Tuckfield – Why He Rides | 2025 | 06:06 | 1 | 16/3/2025 | USX9P 1116060 |
| Charting this day 1974 Alvin Stardust – My Coo Ca Choo | 1974 | 06:13 | 5 | 23/2/2024 | |
| Charting this day 1974 Bette Midler – Chapel of Love | 1974 | 06:15 | 3 | 23/2/2024 | |
| By Request Today: Nat King Cole – Autumn Leaves | 06:19 | 0 | |||
| Young World Singers – I’d Like To Teach The World To Sing | 06:24 | 0 | |||
| Shadows – A Place In The Sun | 06:27 | 0 | |||
| Roland Shaw Orchestra & Chorus – Copacabana | 06:32 | 1 | 16/7/2023 | ||
| Cait Jamieson – Hit The Gravel | 2025 | 06:37 | 1 | 30/3/2025 | AUR2C 2400001 |
| Backtrack: Brian Letton – The Digger And His Dog | 2013 | 06:41 | 2 | 30/6/2023 | |
| By Request Today: Beatles – Help | 1965 | 06:46 | 14 | 6/10/2024 | |
| By Request Today: John Farnham – The Voice | 1988 | 06:49 | 7 | 26/1/2025 | |
| Lee Kernaghan – Down Under | 06:55 | 0 | |||
| Max Bygraves – Medley~Hey Look Me Over~Consider Yourself~Standing On The Corner | 07:05 | 1 | 6/10/2023 | ||
| Charting this day 1974 David Bowie – Sorrow | 1974 | 07:11 | 4 | 8/1/2023 | |
| Charting this day 1974 Charley Pride – Me And Bobby McGee | 1974 | 07:14 | 9 | 23/2/2024 | |
| By Request Today: Delltones – Hang Down Your Head Tom Dooley | 1963 | 07:20 | 1 | 23/10/2020 | |
| By Request Today: Jim Reeves – Waltzing On Top Of The World | 1964 | 07:22 | 9 | 11/10/2024 | |
| Victoria Eman & Glenn van Haasen – In Another Time And Place | 2025 | 07:25 | 2 | 30/3/2025 | NLJ9A-2500001 |
| Pete Moore & His Orchestra – Una Paloma Blanca | 07:32 | 1 | 23/4/2021 | ||
| Dave Caley – Before The Next Teardrop Falls | 2025 | 07:36 | 2 | 1/3/2024 | |
| Cecile Gardens – Called Country | 2025 | 07:39 | 1 | 16/3/2025 | |
| Backtrack: Don Smythe – Coward of the County | 2018 | 07:48 | 4 | 6/11/2020 | |
| John Glenn – Forever Ain’t Long Enough | 2025 | 07:48 | 0 | TCAJH 2587901 | |
| Sandie Shaw – Please Mr Postman | 07:53 | 0 | |||
| Irish Rovers – The Scotsman | 07:56 | 0 | |||
| Mrs Mills – Love Letters In The Sand | 07:58 | 0 | |||
| Oliver – Good Morning Starshine | 1969 | 08:05 | 12 | 13/10/2023 | |
| Charting this day 1974 Elton John – Goodbye Yellow Brick Road | 1974 | 08:11 | 7 | 23/2/2024 | |
| Charting this day 1974 Perry Como – For The Good Times | 1974 | 08:15 | 5 | 23/2/2024 | |
| Moody Blues – A Winter’s Tale | 08:19 | 1 | 18/8/2024 | ||
| Cufflinks – Tracey | 1969 | 08:24 | 10 | 23/8/2024 | |
| Matt Monro – How Little We Know | 08:27 | 3 | 11/8/2024 | ||
| Billy Vaughn & His Orchestra – Morgen | 08:33 | 23 | 6/10/2024 | ||
| Natalie Cole – That Sunday That Summer | 08:36 | 2 | 24/4/2022 | ||
| Backtrack: Chris Strohfeld – When You’re Down On Your Luck | 2018 | 08:39 | 4 | 21/7/2019 | |
| By Request Today: Roy Orbison – Pretty Woman | 1964~1968 | 08:42 | 20 | 17/11/2024 | |
| Julian Lennon – Too Late For Goodbyes | 1984 | 08:46 | 3 | 8/4/2016 | |
| Laura Lee & Elton West & His Orchestra – Stand By Your Man | 08:50 | 0 | |||
| Andrew Ryan – Like It’s Yesterday | 2025 | 08:53 | 0 | AUG9Z 2200004 |
6 APRIL IN HISTORY:
BORN
1937 Bakersfield, California U.S.A. – Merle Haggard, country music singer, guitarist and songwriter. Died 6 April 2016
DIED
1996 Dallas, Texas, U.S.A. –Greer Garson, award-winning actress during World War 2. As one of MGM’s’s major stars of the 40s, Garson received seven Academy-Award nominations, winning the Best Actress award for Mrs Minniver (1942). Aged 91.
1998 Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.A. – Virginia Wynette Pugh alias Tammy Wynette, country singer-songwriter known as the First Lady of Country Music. Her best-known song, Stand By Your Man, was one of the biggest selling hit singles by a woman in the history of the country genre. Aged 55.
2005 Monaco – Rainier III, Prince of Monaco for almost 56 years, making him one of the longest ruling monarchs in European history. He was best known outside Europe for having married American actress Grace Kelly. Aged 81.
2014 Studio City, California, U.S.A. – Joseph Yule Jr alias Mickey Rooney, film, television, and stage actor who performed since he was a small child. His career spanned almost 90 years, one of the longest for any actor. Aged 93.
EVENTS
1965 Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S.A. – Intelsat 1, the first communications satellite to be placed in geosynchronous orbit was launched. It was the first to provide direct contact by telephone, television and facsimile between Europe and North America, and was deactivated in 1969. It remains in a geosynchronous orbit over the Atlantic Ocean
1966 Hobart, Tasmania – A brand new Morris 1100 sedan was wrecked when the brakes failed as it was being driven off the freighter Seaway King, prior to delivery to a car dealership. The car dived nose-first into the Derwent and the driver made an exit through a window.
1973 Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S.A. – Pioneer 11 space probe was launched to study the asteroid belt, the planets Jupiter and Saturn, solar wind and cosmic rays. It is now following an escape trajectory from the solar system and there is no longer any communication with the spacecraft, the last being in November 1995.
It is carrying a plaque with a message from humankind, so if it is ever found by extraterrestrial intelligences, it will provide information about its origin. The plaque includes nude figures of a man, a woman, and a diagram of the Sun and Earth in the galaxy.