20 April 2025
Valley Sunrise Edition 830
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 1978
– Today’s photo: A recent view of Pioneer Avenue, New Norfolk.
Photo: Yours Truly
Today’s Playlist:
| TRACK | RELEASE YEAR | TIME | PREVIOUS PLAYS | LAST PLAYED | ISRC |
| Clint Bradley – The Lightning Ride | 2025 | 06:06 | 1 | 30/3/2025 | |
| Charting this day 1978 Baccara – Yes Sir I Can Boogie | 1978 | 06:12 | 8 | 9/6/2024 | |
| Charting this day 1978 Carly Simon – Nobody Does it Better | 1978 | 06:17 | 3 | 24/9/2023 | |
| Two of a Kind – I Love You To The Moon And Back | 2025 | 06:21 | 1 | 11/4/2025 | |
| Damien Leith – If Tomorrow Never Comes | 06:25 | 1 | 20/3/2015 | ||
| Rachael Leahcar – La Vie En Rose | 2012 | 06:27 | 0 | ||
| Hank Levine & His Orchestra – Downtown | 06:32 | 3 | 4/4/2025 | ||
| Bette Midler – In My Life | 06:35 | 2 | 2/4/2023 | ||
| Backtrack: Graeme Clarke – Her Perfect Memory | 2019 | 06:38 | 3 | 3/1/2020 | |
| Marti Webb – Always There (Howard’s Way) | 06:42 | 4 | 12/9/2021 | ||
| Howards Way was a BBC drama series, made in the 1980s, centred on the lives of wealthy people in a fictitious town in southern England. The theme music was composed by Simon May and recorded by his orchestra. A year later, lyrics were added, it was recorded by Marti Webb, and the single went to No 13 on the U K Charts. | |||||
| Scott Rathman Jnr – Angel on the Hill | 2025 | 06:48 | 1 | 16/3/2025 | |
| By Request Today: Cilla Black – You’re My World | 1964 | 06:53 | 12 | 12/1/2025 | |
| Gunter Kallman Choir – The More I See You | 06:58 | 6 | 9/12/2022 | ||
| Sabrina Fallon – Eileen Og | 2025 | 07:05 | 2 | 11/4/2025 | |
| Charting this day 1978 Leif Garrett – Runaround Sue | 1978 | 07:12 | 6 | 13/9/2019 | |
| Charting this day 1978 Barry Manilow – Can’t Smile Without You | 1978 | 07:14 | 7 | 4/3/2022 | |
| By Request Today: Nitty Gritty Dirt Band – Fishing In The Dark | 07:19 | 1 | 22/10/2017 | ||
| Seekers – One World Love | 07:22 | 1 | 1/1/2023 | ||
| Ollie Austin – The Streets Of London | 07:26 | 2 | 28/7/2023 | ||
| Manuel & The Music of the Mountains – Beyond The Mountains | 07:32 | 2 | 29/5/2016 | ||
| Ric Lucia – Sittin’ With Grandma On The Old Front Porch | 2025 | 07:37 | 1 | 18/4/2025 | |
| Don Williams – I Believe In Love | 1980 | 07:39 | 4 | 14/7/2023 | |
| Backtrack: Andrew McMurdie – Teenager in Love | 2020 | 07:44 | 4 | 1/1/2023 | |
| Tommy Vlaeminck – Bridge of Hope | 2025 | 07:47 | 0 | ||
| Ged Wilson – Promised Land | 2025 | 07:54 | 1 | 30/3/2025 | |
| Lawrence Welk – Calcutta | 1961 | 07:58 | 1 | 14/4/2024 | |
| Johnny Lee – My Baby Don’t Slow Dance | 1983 | 08:05 | 0 | ||
| Charting this day 1978 Samantha Sang – Emotions | 1978 | 08:10 | 7 | 8/4/2022 | |
| Charting this day 1978 Billy Joel – Just the Way You Are | 1978 | 08:14 | 2 | 27/1/2023 | |
| Steve Markwardt – The Great Divide | 2025 | 08:21 | 0 | QZW6A 2300136 | |
| Carol Markstrom – Spirit Buffalo | 2025 | 08:25 | 1 | 30/3/2025 | |
| Johnny Tillotson – She Understands Me | 1964 | 08:30 | 10 | 20/12/2024 | |
| Ray Conniff Orchestra – Say It With Music | 08:35 | 0 | |||
| Anne Murray – He Thinks I Still Care | 08:39 | 5 | 27/10/2023 | ||
| Backtrack: Dale Duncan – The ‘Slim Dusty’ Rose | 2015 | 08:42 | 2 | 8/1/2017 | |
| Slim Dusty & His Bushlanders – Medley~Along The Road To Gundagai~I’m Going Back To Yarrawonga~The Man From The Never Never~That Old Bush Shanty of Mine | 08:46 | 1 | 27/3/2020 | ||
| Barbara Blevins – Let’s Build A Love | 2025 | 08:49 | 1 | 18/4/2025 | |
| Shadows – Winchester Cathedral | 08:53 | 3 | 15/5/2022 | ||
20 APRIL IN HISTORY:
BORN
1939 Jacksonville, Florida U.S.A. – Johnny Tillotson, singer and songwriter who enjoyed his greatest success in the early 60s, with several Top Ten hits, including Poetry In Motion and the self-penned It Keeps Right On A-Hurtin’. Died 2025.
1939 Adelaide, South Australia – Elspeth Ballantyne, actress who has appeared in numerous movies and television productions, including Bellbird, Blue Heelers, All Saints, Prisoner and Flying Doctors.
1941 Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. – Charles Patrick Ryan O’Neal, Jr. alias Ryan O’Neal, actor who came to prominence in the mid 1960s in the hit soap opera Peyton Place.
1956 Helensburgh, Scotland – Georgie Glen, actress best known for her role as Miss Higgins in the BBC drama series Call The Midwife. She has also appeared in many other productions including The Bill, Jonathan Creek, Heartbeat, and Doc Martin.
EVENTS
1954 Darwin, Northern Territory – Northern Territory police disarmed two Soviet couriers who were escorting the wife of a defecting Russian embassy official back to Russia. Edvokia Petrov’s rescue caused An international diplomatic incident known as the Petrov Affair..
1972 Apollo 16, commanded by John Young, landed in the Descartes Highlands, on the Moon. It was the fifth, and final in the Apollo programme to land, with the crew spending 71 hours on the lunar surface.
1978 Near Murmansk, Russia – Korean Air Flight 902 violated Soviet airspace and allegedly failed to respond to Soviet interceptors. Two passengers perished when Soviet aircraft opened fire, but the remaining 107 passengers and crew survived after the plane made an emergency landing on a frozen lake.
2010 Gulf of Mexico – An explosion on a drilling rig killed 11 workers, caused the largest oil spill in U.S. history, and the rig to sink.