31 August 2025
Valley Sunrise Edition 849
0600 ~ 0900 AEST
During this edition, two chart-busters each hour, from the Top 40 charts of this week in 1976, and a mix of recent tracks from indie artists and other easy-listening music which you won’t hear on mainstream radio.
► BORN on 31 August in 1940 in Manly, New South Wales – Jack Thompson, Australian actor and one of the major figures of Australian cinema. He is best known as lead actor in acclaimed films including Wake In Fright (1971), Sunday Too Far Away (1975), The Man From Snowy River (1982) and Breaker Morant (1980).
► BORN on this day in 1945 in Belfast, Northern Ireland – George Ivan Morrison, alias Van Morrison, singer-songwriter and musician.
► At the opposite end of the life span, DIED this day in 1997, Paris, France – Diana Frances Spencer alias Diana, Princess of Wales. She was aged 36.
► DIED this day in 2012 on Hope Island, Gold Coast, Queensland – Max Bygraves, comedian, singer, actor and variety performer. He was aged 89.
► DIED this day in 2013 aboard MS Queen Elizabeth, in the Mediterranean Sea, David Frost, journalist, comedian, writer and media personality, best known as a pioneer of political satire on television and for his interviews with various political figures. He was aged 74.
TODAY’S PHOTO: A well reproduced scene from the mid-1930s, as a then-new steam railcar leaves the midlands township of Parattah, on it’s northward journey from Hobart to Launceston.
Photo: Yours Truly – At last Sunday’s model railway exhibition, Kingston.
Today’s Playlist (V S):
| TRACK | RELEASE YEAR | TIME | PREVIOUS PLAYS | LAST PLAYED |
| Deon Powter Band – Afraid of the Dark | 2023 | 06:05 | 2 | 25/6/2023 |
| Charting this day 1976 Harpo – Movie Star | 1976 | 06:15 | 2 | 31/8/2018 |
| Charting this day 1976 Judy Stone – Hasta Manana | 1976 | 06:18 | 5 | 31/3/2023 |
| Van Morrison – Days Like This | 1995 | 06:23 | 1 | 31/8/2018 |
| Christine Clifford – Crazy | 2025 | 06:26 | 0 | |
| Daniel O’Donnell – Young Love | 06:29 | 0 | ||
| Ferrante & Teicher – Lay Lady Lay | 06:34 | 3 | 13/10/2017 | |
| Adam Wayne – With Another Smile | 06:38 | 0 | ||
| HAZEL & The Thief – Willing To Try | 2025 | 06:42 | 1 | 2/5/2025 |
| Vintage Vinyl Clarence Frogman Henry – Ain’t Got No Home | 1958 | 06:46 | 3 | 19/3/2023 |
| By Request: Frank Ifield – I Remember You | 1962 | 06:49 | 8 | 27/10/2024 |
| Cliff Richard – Magic Is The Moonlight | 1965 | 06:53 | 1 | 29/12/2019 |
| Richard Mulligan – Doonlaughin | 2025 | 06:55 | 0 | |
| Jeff Batson – Somebody’s Somebody | 2025 | 07:05 | 0 | |
| By Request: Slim Dusty – We’ve Done Us Proud | 07:11 | 21 | 23/6/2024 | |
| Charting this day 1976 Elton John & Kiki Dee – Don’t Go Breaking My Heart | 1974 | 07:15 | 8 | 6/3/2022 |
| Charting this day 1976 ABBA – Fernando | 1974 | 07:20 | 22 | 13/4/2025 |
| By Request: Bachelors – The Sound Of Silence | 07:26 | 3 | 29/1/2021 | |
| Rene de Roo – My Father Once Said | 2025 | 07:28 | 1 | 11/7/2025 |
| Max Bygraves – What A Wonderful World | 07:34 | 3 | 2/8/2019 | |
| Peter Loland Orchestra – More | 07:38 | 0 | ||
| Vintage Vinyl Chordettes – Photographs | 1957 | 07:42 | 1 | 2/4/2017 |
| Colin Gordon Farleigh – Second Chances | 2025 | 07:45 | 0 | |
| CoCo Bal & Hubert Heeringa – Summer Cava | 2025 | 07:49 | 1 | 22/8/2025 |
| Travelling Wilburys – End Of The Line | 1988 | 07:53 | 5 | 20/10/2023 |
| Tornados – Earthy | 07:58 | 1 | 5/6/2015 | |
| Ron Callaghan – Confusion | 2025 | 08:05 | 0 | |
| By Request: Pussycat – My Broken Souvenirs | 08:12 | 7 | 6/7/2025 | |
| Charting this day 1976 Rod Stewart – Tonight’s The Night | 1976 | 08:16 | 9 | 30/12/2022 |
| Charting this day 1976 J J Barrie – No Charge | 1976 | 08:20 | 2 | 31/8/2018 |
| Bob Marshall – Wildorado | 2025 | 08:25 | 1 | 30/3/2025 |
| Chamaco Dominguez His Orchestra & Chorus – Meditation | 08:33 | 3 | 17/11/2023 | |
| Paul Bateman & His Orchestra – Heartbreaker | 08:38 | 1 | 29/12/2023 | |
| Frank Ifield – I’m a Dreamer | 1968 | 08:42 | 0 | |
| Cilla Black – If You Leave Me Now | 1980 | 08:45 | 3 | 18/5/2014 |
| Vintage Vinyl Champs – Tequila | 1958 | 08:50 | 4 | 5/6/2016 |
| Joy Adams & Gary Farmer – Be Mine | 2021 | 08:52 | 4 | 18/3/2022 |
| Eric Read – The Generation | 2021 | 08:55 | 2 | 9/7/2021 |
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