13 April 2025
Valley Sunrise Edition 829
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 1976
– Today’s photo: An April view in the Botanical Gardens, Hobart
Photo: Yours Truly
Today’s Playlist:
| TRACK | RELEASE YEAR | TIME | PREVIOUS PLAYS | LAST PLAYED | ISRC |
| Miss Lana – Finally | 2025 | 06:05 | 2 | 11/4/2025 | |
| Charting this day 1976 George Baker Selection – Una Paloma Blanca | 1975~1976 | 06:13 | 12 | 19/1/2025 | |
| Charting this day 1976 Billie Jo Spears – Blanket On The Ground | 1976 | 06:16 | 9 | 19/3/2023 | |
| Johnny Chester and Grant Luhrs – Loud, Confident And Wrong | 2025 | 06:22 | 1 | 4/4/2025 | QM4TX 2523251 |
| By Request Today: Rod Stewart – Sailing | 1975 | 06:25 | 25 | 17/1/2025 | |
| Peggy Gilchrist – Under Burdekin Skies | 2025 | 06:30 | 2 | 11/4/2025 | |
| Magic Trumpets – Petite Fleur | 06:35 | 3 | 20/1/2017 | ||
| By Request Today: Lulu – To Sir With Love | 1967 | 06:38 | 11 | 19/1/2025 | |
| Backtrack: Jason Owen – Rocky Mountain High | 2019 | 06:41 | 2 | 3/11/2019 | |
| John Rowles – Domino | 06:49 | 1 | 20/3/2015 | ||
| Vernon Huskey – White Silver Sands | 2025 | 06:54 | 1 | 21/3/2025 | QZYSP 2500012 |
| Jade Hurley – Around The World | 06:57 | 2 | 26/9/2025 | ||
| Michael Meeking – Time to Make Up Your Mind | 2025 | 07:06 | 1 | 21/3/2025 | AUKNA 2500001 |
| By Request Today: Pussycat – My Broken Souvenirs | 07:11 | 5 | 2/3/2025 | ||
| Charting this day 1976 Maxine Nightingale – Right Back Where We Started From | 1976 | 07:15 | 2 | 28/5/2021 | |
| Charting this day 1976 Max Merritt & Meteors – Slippin’ Away | 1976 | 07:19 | 11 | 30/4/2021 | |
| The Charlesys – Shining Star | 2025 | 07:24 | 1 | 11/4/2021 | CAHQJ 2490906 |
| Ness Da Silva – Honesty | 2025 | 07:28 | 1 | 16/3/2025 | |
| Lawrence Welk & His Orchestra with Myron Floren – Chihuahua Polka | 07:33 | 0 | |||
| Victoria Eman & Glenn van Haasen – In Another Time And Place | 2025 | 07:37 | 3 | 6/4/2025 | NLJ9A 2500001 |
| Christine Clifford – Annie’s Song | 2025 | 07:41 | 0 | QZHNC 2552556 | |
| Clelia Adams – Looking Forward, Looking Back | 2022 | 07:46 | 11 | 26/1/2025 | |
| By Request Today: Ted Mulry Gang – Darktown Strutters Ball | 1976 | 07:50 | 0 | ||
| By Request Today: Alan Jackson – Kiss An Angel Good Morning | 07:53 | 1 | 4/8/2024 | ||
| Mark Wynter – Dream Girl | 1961 | 07:57 | 3 | 6/10/2023 | |
| Mahlissa – Boondockin’ | 08:05 | 0 | |||
| Charting this day 1976 Jim Capaldi – Love Hurts | 1976 | 08:10 | 4 | 16/4/2021 | |
| Charting this day 1976 ABBA – Fernando | 1976 | 08:14 | 21 | 28/5/2023 | |
| Joy Adams & Gary R Farmer – Be A Little Bit Bolder | 2025 | 08:22 | 1 | 4/4/2025 | NZRI1 2500760 |
| Chris Callaghan – Twenty Hours | 2025 | 08:26 | 1 | 4/4/2025 | AUZY4 2000059 |
| Andre Kostelanetz & His Orchestra – Tie A Yellow Ribbon | 08:33 | 2 | 1/11/2013 | ||
| Debbie Laken – Believe Me Baby, I Lied | 2025 | 08:37 | 1 | 23/3/2025 | NZRI1 2403566 |
| Backtrack: Dean Perrett – Clifton Hills | 2021 | 08:41 | 6 | 28/11/2021 | |
| Anita Ree – Australia’s Rainfall Army | 2025 | 08:45 | 0 | AUYNF 2500001 | |
| Gail Barnard – Storms | 2025 | 08:48 | 1 | 21/3/2025 | USCGJ 2534605 |
| Graeme Connors – All The Little Things We Didn’t Say | 2025 | 08:52 | 1 | 19/6/2020 |
6 APRIL IN HISTORY:
BORN
1945 Perth, West Australia – Judy Nunn, actress and author who first appeared as reporter Vicky Stafford in the soap opera The Box. In 1979 she played Joyce Martin in the popular Australian series Prisoner and then as Dr. Irene Fisher in Sons and Daughters. Her most famous role was as Ailsa Stewart in the soapie Home and Away, from 1988 until the character was killed off in 2000. In 2002, she re-appeared as a ghost which only her former on-screen husband, Alf Stewart, could see.
1951 Streatham, London, England – Peter Moffett alias Peter Davison, actor, best known for his roles as Tristan Farnon in the television series of James Herriot’s All Creatures Great And Small and for the fifth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who, 1982 to 1984.
DIED
1922 Weybridge, England – Ross Macpherson Smith, pioneer aviator, plane crash soon after taking off from Brooklands airport, Surrey, England. His body was transported to Australia where Smith was given a state funeral and buried in the North Road Cemetery, Adelaide. Aged 29.