27 April 2025
Valley Sunrise Edition 831
0600 ~ 0900 AEDT
In this edition, selections from the Top 40 charts of this week in 1971; easy listening from indie artists; and as usual, the programme is open for easy-listening requests.
Today’s photo – In Mt Field National Park, a recent view of the fagus, an ancient deciduous native species which dates over 170 million years to the era of Gondwanaland.
In Tasmania, it occurs only in the more remote areas of Mt Field National Park, the Cradle Mountain/Lake St Clair National Park and the South West World Heritage Area.
Photo: Ilka Munter
Today’s Playlist:
| TRACK | RELEASE YEAR | TIME | PREVIOUS PLAYS | LAST PLAYED | ISRC |
| Human Nature – Baby I Need Your Loving | 06:06 | 0 | |||
| Charting this day 1971 Lynn Anderson – Rose Garden | 1971 | 06:11 | 13 | 30/7/2023 | |
| Charting this day 1971 John Paul Joans – Man From Nazareth | 1971 | 06:14 | 1 | 15/4/2022 | |
| Rosalind Clare & Glen Flynn – Heaven Only Knows | 2025 | 06:19 | 0 | ||
| Peter Stefanson – In Our Childhood Days | 2025 | 06:23 | 0 | ||
| By Request Today: Beatles – Blackbird | 06:28 | 2 | 11/8/2024 | ||
| George Melachrino Strings – Uma Casa Portuguesa | 06:32 | 0 | |||
| Larissa Tormey – Coming Back To Life | 2025 | 06:36 | 0 | IEJHJ 2500002 | |
| Backtrack: Upstairs – Seven Spanish Angels | 2021 | 06:39 | 3 | 30/4/2021 | |
| Richard Mulligan – Just Me and My Old Beat-Up Guitar | 2025 | 06:44 | 0 | ||
| Brian Letton – The Digger And His Dog | 06:51 | 3 | 6/4/2025 | ||
| Patsy Cline – Back In Baby’s Arms | 06:55 | 2 | 20/6/2014 | ||
| Shadows – Geronimo | 1963 | 06:57 | 21 | 12/12/2023 | |
| Lonneke & Michl – Schmetterlinge | 2025 | 07:05 | 1 | 21/3/2025 | |
| Charting this day 1971 Middle Of The Road – Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep | 1971 | 07:11 | 4 | 8/7/2022 | |
| Charting this day 1971 Kamahl – All I Have To Offer You | 1971 | 07:14 | 5 | 18/8/2019 | |
| By Request Today: Kathy Carver – Crazy | 07:19 | 0 | |||
| By Request Today: Tom Jones – The Green Green Grass of Home | 1967 | 07:22 | 11 | 2/7/2023 | |
| Christa Fartek – Deep In My Heart | 2025 | 07:27 | 1 | 18/4/2025 | |
| Royal Philharmonic Orchestra – Hooked On Mozart | 07:33 | 4 | 27/12/2024 | ||
| Howie Bros – Home I’ll Be | 2025 | 07:39 | 0 | ||
| Julie Anthony – The Only Way Out | 07:43 | 6 | 21/1/2024 | ||
| Backtrack: Graeme Clarke – Baby With No Name (Remix) | 2025 | 07:50 | 0 | ||
| By Request Today: Neil Young – Harvest Moon | 07:56 | 10 | 24/1/2025 | ||
| Jeff Orson – Missing You Soon | 2025 | 08:06 | 4 | 11/4/2025 | QT3TB 2425080 |
| Charting this day 1971 Dermot Henry & Virginians – If Those Lips Could Only Speak | 1971 | 08:13 | 4 | 18/5/2021 | |
| Charting this day 1971 Judy Collins – Amazing Grace | 1971 | 08:16 | 6 | 10/1/2021 | |
| Highway 95 – She Believes | 2025 | 08:24 | 2 | 16/2/2025 | AUL0G 2400013 |
| Jimmy Little – Just Walking In The Rain | 08:26 | 0 | |||
| 101 Strings Orchestra – La Paloma | 08:32 | 0 | |||
| Judy Stone – I’ll Get By As Long As I Have You | 08:37 | 0 | |||
| Bill Quinn – If I Only Had You | 08:40 | 2 | 28/7/2023 | ||
| Paul Ricketts – Barefoot On The Dirt | 08:43 | 0 | AUZY4 2400032 | ||
| Backtrack: Richard Mulligan – Good Luck Charm | 08:47 | 7 | 1/12/2024 | ||
| Ashley Cole – That’s The Aussie Way | 08:52 | 0 |
27 APRIL IN HISTORY:
EVENTS
1869 A submarine telegraph line between Melbourne and Tasmania opened.
1929 Tanami Desert, West Australia – The aircraft Kookaburra and its crew, Keith Anderson and H Hitchcock, who had been reported missing while searching for another aircraft, was found. Kookaburra had made a forced landing due to engine trouble. When it was unable to take off again after repairs were carried out, Anderson and Hitchcock had perished.
1937 San Francisco, California, U.S.A. – The Golden Gate bridge, which at 1,280 metres was then the world’s longest suspension bridge, was opened.
1981 Wellington, New Zealand – A Royal Commission found that an error in Air New Zealand’s flight operations computer programming put a DC 10 aircraft on a direct collision course with Mt Erebus in Antarctica.
2002 The last successful telemetry was received from the NASA space probe Pioneer 10, which is heading in the direction of the star Aldebaran, ETA in about 2 million years. Aldebaran is a giant orange star 65 light years distant, some 44 times the diameter of our Sun and over 420 times brighter.
BORN
1959 Bellshill, North Lanarkshire, Scotland – Sheena Shirley Orr alias Sheena Easton, Scottish singer and actress. In 1980, her first two singles, Modern Girl and 9 to 5 both entered the UK Top Ten, making her the first English female artist to have singles concurrently in the same charts. She has sold over 20 million records worldwide.
DIED
2007 New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A. – Al Hirt, trumpeter and bandleader known for his 1964 hits, including Java, Sugar Lips and Fancy Pants (Aged 76)