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10 August 2025


Valley Sunrise Edition 846
0600 ~ 0900 AEST

During this edition, two chart-busters each hour, from the Top 40 charts of this week in 1979, and a mix of recent tracks from indie artists and other easy-listening music which you won’t hear on mainstream radio.

LOOKING at some notable events on 10 August, in 1951  Tasmanians shivered in the coldest temperatures recorded for 50 years.  Much of the State, including the east coast, was blanketed in snow.  Hobart’s maximum was 7.1 C.

Also weather-related, in 1964  a bus which left Queenstown at 7.30 a.m, arrived in Hobart at 10.07 p.m. six hours late, due to heavy snow on the Lyell Highway between Mt Arrowsmith and Derwent Bridge. 

And overseas in 2003, Kent, England, had the highest temperature ever recorded in the UK , 38.5 C.  It was the first time the UK  recorded a temperature (in the Fahrenheit scale) over 100 degrees.

BORN on this day in 1928  in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.A., Augustino Eugenio Mercurio alias Gus Mercurio, actor who has appeared in numerous Australian television productions, typically portraying shady or criminal characters.  He died in 2010

Also BORN on this day in 1928, but in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Edwin Jack Fisher, alias Eddie Fisher, singer and entertainer, one of the world’s most famous and successful singers in the 1950s.  Coincidentally, he also died in 2010.

At the opposite end of the life span, DIED this day in 2011 in Benton, Illinois U.S.A, Billy Grammer, country singer and guitar player best known for the million-selling Gotta Travel On, in 1959.  He was aged 85.

And in 2013 in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.A., Edith Gormezano alias Eydie Gorme, popular music singer of the 1950s and 60s who had many hits, both solo, and with her husband, Steve Lawrence.  She was aged 84.

TODAY’S PHOTO: The New Norfolk bridge spanning the Derwent, from a 120 year old postcard,

Photo: Yours Truly.

Today’s Playlist (V S):

TRACKRELEASE YEARTIMEPREVIOUS PLAYSLAST PLAYEDISRC
Sarah Riches – Devil In Blue 202506:0613/8/2025 
Charting this day 1970
Charley Pride – Is Anybody Going To San Antone 
197006:13113/3/2024 
Charting this day 1970
Beatles – The Long And Winding Road 
197006:16146/7/2025 
The Lonesome Six – The Winds of Change 202506:200  
Danny Ferdinandus – My Soul Starts Dancing 202506:250  
Eddie Fisher – Heart 195506:29210/8/2014 
Joe Reisman & His Orchestra – Angel Of The Morning  06:330  
Glen Flynn – Until You Have Walked in My Shoes  06:37325/7/2025 
Gene Bradley Fisk – My Setting Sun 202506:41125/7/2025 
Vintage Vinyl    Bonnie Guitar – Dark Moon 195706:48225/3/2016 
Heintje – Two Little Stars  06:50315/10/2023 
Jimmy Little – Namatjiri  06:5432/4/2023 
Herb Alpert & Tijuana Brass – A Banda 06:57730/6/2023 
Peter Salata – El Toro 202507:05127/7/2025 
Charting this day 1970 Liv Maessen – Knock Knock Who’s There 197007:1081/6/2025 
Charting this day 1970 Hans Poulsen – Boom Sha La La Lo 197007:1381/6/2025 
By Request: Ray Malcolm & Toni West – Islands In The Stream 07:1742/6/2024 
By Request: Mary Rose – Me and Bobby McGee  07:21221/2/2025 
Michael Farrell – Ghost Riders In The Sky 202407:27214/3/2025 
Vintage Vinyl    Billy Grammer – Gotta Travel On 195907:29528/8/2020 
Henry Mancini His Piano & Orchestra – The Entertainer  07:35330/7/2023 
Clayton Saunders – You Can’t Hide From a Shadow  07:390  
Shaza Leigh – All My Loving 202507:430  
Eydie Gorme – Blame It On The Bossa Nova 202507:481210/3/2023 
Human Nature – Dancing In The Street  07:50112/1/2024 
Jordan McPolin – The Auctioneer  07:540  
Brendan Radford – They Don’t Flick The Finger In The Outback Anymore 202508:0511/8/2025AUK31 2500008
Charting this day 1970 John Williamson – Old Man Emu 197008:131021/2/2025 
Charting this day 1970 Simon & Garfunkel – Cecilia 197008:16321/6/2019 
Cast – It Ain’t Half Hot Mum  08:21728/8/2020 
Jade Hurley – Do Wah Diddy Diddy 08:23312/11/2023 
Julie Andrews – If Love Were All  08:270  
Pete Moore & His Orchestra – Islands In The Stream  08:310  
Richard Mulligan – Always Daddy’s Little Girl 202508:37        0  
Owen Smith – Desert Blooming 202508:46125/7/2025 
Vintage Vinyl    Chordettes – Just Between You And Me 195708:50230/4/2017 
Cec Peterson – This Old Guitar 202508:530  

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2 responses to “

  1. Thank you Ray for including our duet
    Ray Malcolm & Toni West “Islands in the streams “ on your show much appreciated

  2. Thanks so much Ray for playing “Islands in the Stream” duet with Ray Malcolm 🎵🤩🎧🤩🎶 Toni xxx

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