25 May 2025
Valley Sunrise Edition 835
0600 ~ 0900 AEDT
In this edition, six chart-busters from the Top 40 charts of this week in 1979, recent tracks from indie artists, and other easy-listening music which you won’t hear on mainstream radio.
Today’s photo – Walls of Jerusalem National Park, northern Tasmania.
Photo: Daniel Johansson, National Parks and Wildlife Service.
Today’s Playlist:
| TRACK | RELEASE YEAR | TIME | PREVIOUS PLAYS | LAST PLAYED | ISRC |
| Highway 95 – She Believes | 2025 | 06:06 | 3 | 27/4/2025 | AUL0G 2400013 |
| Charting this day 1979 Blondie – Heart of Glass | 1979 | 06:12 | 2 | 16/3/2025 | |
| Charting this day 1979 Village People – In The Navy | 1979 | 06:15 | 3 | 20/4/2018 | |
| Two of a Kind – I Love You To The Moon And Back | 2025 | 06:20 | 3 | 2/5/2025 | |
| Steve Markwardt – The Great Divide | 2025 | 06:22 | 1 | 20/4/2025 | QZW6A 2300136 |
| Anthony Baxter – The Jumping Jackaroo | 2025 | 06:27 | 3 | 11/5/2025 | |
| Manuel & The Music Of The Mountains – Tangerine | 06:32 | 0 | |||
| Roger Whittaker – Sailing | 2025 | 06:37 | 1 | 2/9/2022 | |
| Sandpipers – Cast Your Fate to the Wind | 2021 | 06:41 | 3 | 28/5/2021 | |
| By Request Today: Michael Crawford – Love Changes Everything | 06:44 | 4 | 18/5/2025 | ||
| Big Dee Irwin & Little Eva – Swinging On A Star | 1962 | 06:49 | 0 | ||
| Backtrack: Colin Paul – Dancing With A Stranger | 2022 | 06:51 | 1 | 16/5/2025 | |
| Garry Carson Jones – Walk On By | 2025 | 06:55 | 3 | 2/5/2025 | AUGGJ 1600055 |
| Johnny Douglas & His Orchestra with Jane Benson – Mountain Greenery | 07:04 | 1 | 29/10/2021 | ||
| By Request Today: Vic Dana – Red Roses For A Blue Lady | 1965 | 07:10 | 8 | 28/2/2025 | |
| Charting this day 1979 ABBA – Voulez Vous | 1997 | 07:12 | 0 | ||
| Charting this day 1979 Beeb Birtles & Graham Goble – I’m Coming Home | 1979 | 07:17 | 2 | 2/6/2017 | |
| Ramona Bruins – Today Is Your Day | 2025 | 07:23 | 0 | ||
| BORN 1922 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania U.S.A. – Katie Kallen, alias Kitty Kallen, popular singer with a number of big bands during the 1940s, who made a comeback in 1954 when she scored her biggest hit, Little Things Mean A Lot. Died 2016. | |||||
| Kitty Kallen – In The Chapel In The Moonlight | 1954 | 07:28 | 3 | 7/1/2024 | |
| Ian Hughes & His Orchestra – Lambada | 07:33 | 3 | 11/5/2025 | ||
| Christa Fartek – Deep in my Heart | 2025 | 07:37 | 2 | 27/4/2025 | |
| Backtrack: Reg McTaggart – Pop | 2019 | 07:41 | 1 | 13/12/2024 | |
| DIED 2023 Joy McKean, pioneering country music singer-songwriter, co-founder of the Tamworth Country Music Festival and the Country Music Association of Australia. She was also the recipient of the first Golden Guitar Award and wife of legendary country singer, Slim Dusty. Aged 93. | |||||
| Slim Dusty – The Angel Of Goulburn Hill | 1976 | 07:49 | 3 | 28/5/2023 | |
| DIED 2006 Thornton Heath, England – Desmond Dekker, reggae singer-songwriter and musician who, with his backing group, The Aces (consisting of Wilson James and Easton Barrington Howard) had one of the first international Jamaican hits with Israelites. Other hits included 007 (Shanty Town) (1967) and It Miek. Aged 64. | |||||
| Desmond Dekker – It Miek | 1968 | 07:54 | 2 | 23/5/2025 | |
| Chet Atkins – One Mint Julep | 07:56 | 1 | 19/1/2020 | ||
| Graeme Clarke – Baby With No Name (Remix) | 2025 | 08:05 | 6 | 23/5/2025 | QM6MZ 2524694 |
| Charting this day 1979 Racey – Lay Your Love On Me | 1979 | 08:10 | 14 | 4/11/2022 | |
| Charting this day 1979 Lynne Hamilton – On The Inside | 1979 | 08:13 | 3 | 3/9/2023 | |
| J R Williams – Australia | 2025 | 08:17 | 2 | 4/5/2025 | |
| Helena Mace – If I’d Known You Back Then | 2025 | 08:21 | 1 | 4/5/2025 | |
| City Slickers – Red River Valley | 08:28 | 0 | |||
| Richard Clayderman – Feelings | 08:33 | 0 | |||
| Studeo – Pounding Pavements | 2025 | 08:37 | 1 | 23/5/2025 | |
| Howie Bros – Home I’ll Be | 2025 | 08:42 | 2 | 11/5/2025 | |
| Dianne Coombes – Getting On With Getting Over You | 2025 | 08:46 | 2 | 16/5/2025 | AUCJD 2300025 |
| Glen Flynn – Heaven Only Knows | 2025 | 08:50 | 3 | 23/5/2025 | IENYT2 500010 |
| Leroy Van Dyke – Walk On By | 1961 | 08:54 | 16 | 4/10/2024 | |
BORN
1921 New York, U.S.A. – Harold Lane David alias Hal David, American lyricist and songwriter best known for his collaboration with composer Burt Bacharach. Died 2012.
1922 Renmark, South Australia – Harold Charles Sydney Heylen, alias Sid Heylen, veteran actor, comedian and variety performer best known for his role as Vernon “Cookie”‘ Locke, chef and barman in the television series A Country Practice, a role which he played from 1982 until 1992. Died 1996.
DIED
1995 Bowral, New South Wales – Graham Kennedy, long-time radio, television and film performer, often called “Gra Gra” and “The King” of Australian television. Aged 71