4 May 2025
Valley Sunrise Edition 832
0600 ~ 0900 AEDT
In this edition, selections from the Top 40 charts of this week in 1973; easy listening from indie artists; and as usual, the programme is open for easy-listening requests.
Today’s photo – Richmond, Tasmania, taken 15 April 2025.
Photo: Yours Truly
Today’s Playlist:
| TRACK | RELEASE YEAR | TIME | PREVIOUS PLAYS | LAST PLAYED | ISRC |
| David Maguire – Galway to Nashville | 2025 | 06:06 | 0 | IETZB 2500002 | |
| Charting this day 1973 Tony Orlando & Dawn – Tie A Yellow Ribbon | 1973 | 06:11 | 14 | 18/8/2023 | |
| Charting this day 1973 Roberta Flack – Killing Me Softly With His Song | 1973 | 06:15 | 6 | 10/2/2023 | |
| August Lane – Constantly Raining | 2025 | 06:21 | 1 | 23/3/2025 | QZWFN 2449588 |
| Richard Chamberlain – Love Me Tender | 1962 | 06:23 | 1 | 12/7/2015 | |
| Patsy Cline – I Fall To Pieces | 1961 | 06:28 | 4 | 18/2/2024 | |
| Billy Vaughn & His Orchestra – Say You Say Me | 06:33 | 0 | |||
| Michael Farrell – Streets of Laredo | 2025 | 06:36 | 1 | 21/3/2025 | IEJHJ 2500002 |
| Backtrack: Ailish McBride – Our Wild Atlantic Shore | 2021 | 06:41 | 3 | 11/7/2021 | |
| Gail Barnard – Storms | 2025 | 06:45 | 2 | 13/4/2025 | USCGJ 2534605 |
| Jade Hurley – Georgie | 06:50 | 4 | 25/2/2024 | ||
| Norma O’Hara Murphy – Rose’s Cafe | 06:53 | 6 | 20/1/2023 | ||
| By Request Today: David Campbell – You’ll Never Walk Alone | 06:57 | 1 | 31/7/2016 | ||
| Johnny Chester and Grant Luhrs – Loud, Confident And Wrong | 2025 | 07:06 | 3 | 2/5/2025 | QM4TX 2523251 |
| Charting this day 1973 Donna Fargo – Funny Face | 1973 | 07:11 | 4 | 10/11/2017 | |
| Charting this day 1973 Carpenters – On Top Of The World | 1973 | 07:15 | 11 | 18/12/2022 | |
| By Request Today: Freddy Fender – Before The Next Teardrop Falls | 1975 | 07:19 | 10 | 31/1/2025 | |
| Joy Adams & Gary R Farmer – Be A Little Bit Bolder | 2025 | 07:23 | 3 | 25/4/2025 | NZRI1 2500760 |
| Ron Christopher – Angelyne | 2025 | 07:27 | 2 | 18/4/2025 | |
| Henry Mancini His Piano Orchestra & Chorus – Almost Persuaded | 07:33 | 4 | 30/4/2023 | ||
| By Request Today: Gerry & Pacemakers – Ferry Cross The Mersey | 1965 | 07:38 | 20 | 7/2/2025 | |
| Chris Boots Lee – Where Corn Don’t Grow | 2025 | 07:42 | 2 | 4/4/2025 | QZES9 2504340 |
| Helena Mace – If I’d Known You Back Then | 2025 | 07:46 | 0 | ||
| Backtrack: Andrew McMurdie – Teenager in Love | 2020 | 07:53 | 5 | 20/4/2025 | |
| Anne Murray – It Should Have Been Easy | 07:56 | 1 | 12/6/2020 | ||
| J R Williams – Australia | 2025 | 08:05 | 1 | 25/4/2025 | QM6MZ 2524694 |
| Charting this day 1973 Jim Ed Brown – How I Love Them Old Songs | 1973 | 08:10 | 1 | 22/9/2023 | |
| Charting this day 1973 Buck Owens & His Buckaroos – Made In Japan | 1973 | 08:13 | 7 | 21/5/2021 | |
| Vernon Huskey – White Silver Sands | 2025 | 08:17 | 2 | 13/4/2025 | QZYSP 2500012 |
| Randy Travis – It’s Just A Matter of Time | 08:24 | 2 | 20/3/2015 | ||
| Jan Holland – Melody In F | 08:29 | 1 | 16/8/2024 | ||
| Gordon Langford & His Orchestra – Love Is All Around | 08:34 | 0 | |||
| Ashley Cook – The Aussie Way | 2025 | 08:38 | 1 | 27/4/2025 | |
| Backtrack: Rod Williams – An Old Australian Stockman | 2020 | 08:42 | 3 | 11/7/2021 | |
| Peter Blakeley – Crying In The Chapel | 1989 | 08:47 | 0 | ||
| Unit 4 Plus 2 – Concrete And Clay | 1965 | 08:50 | 4 | 25/4/2025 | |
| Seekers – We Shall Not Be Moved | 1965 | 08:52 | 5 | 18/8/2023 | |
| Caoimhe Murney – Wrong Road Again | 2024 | 08:55 | 4 | 15/9/2024 | IEXWD 2400001 |
27 APRIL IN HISTORY:
EVENTS
1900 Victorians Herbert Thompson and Edward Holmes created history when they arrived in Melbourne exhausted and sore after driving their steam-powered car 500 miles (800 km) from Bathurst, N.S.W., completing the first interstate car trip in Australia. Their vehicle was fired by kerosene, and took 10 days to do the journey at an average speed of 9 miles an hour (15 km/h).
1932 Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A. – Mobster Al Capone began serving an eleven-year prison sentence for tax evasion..
1959 Hobart , Tasmania – Thousands watched a major blaze which destroyed the rear of a building in Liverpool Street next to Brunswick Hotel
1960 Hobart, Tasmania – The Mt Wellington road was closed after a 60 metre section subsided following torrential rains.
1969 Sydney, New South Wales – The Australian production of the rock musical Hair produced by Harry M Miller, opened. It featured the debut of a young American singer Marcia Hines.
BORN
1959 Marshville, North Carolina, U.S.A. – Randy Bruce Traywick, BKA Randy Travis, country singer, songwriter and actor who has had more than 50 singles on the Billboard charts