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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):

TRACKRELEASE YEARTIMEPREVIOUS PLAYSLAST PLAYED
Deon Powter Band – Afraid of the Dark 202306:05225/6/2023
Charting this day 1976 Harpo – Movie Star  197606:15231/8/2018
Charting this day 1976 Judy Stone – Hasta Manana 197606:18531/3/2023
Van Morrison – Days Like This 199506:23131/8/2018
Christine Clifford – Crazy 202506:260 
Daniel O’Donnell – Young Love  06:290 
Ferrante & Teicher – Lay Lady Lay  06:34313/10/2017
Adam Wayne – With Another Smile  06:380 
HAZEL & The Thief – Willing To Try 202506:4212/5/2025
Vintage Vinyl    Clarence Frogman Henry – Ain’t Got No Home 195806:46319/3/2023
By Request: Frank Ifield – I Remember You 196206:49827/10/2024
Cliff  Richard – Magic Is The Moonlight  196506:53129/12/2019
Richard Mulligan – Doonlaughin 202506:550 
Jeff Batson – Somebody’s Somebody 202507:050 
By Request: Slim Dusty – We’ve Done Us Proud 07:112123/6/2024
Charting this day 1976 Elton John & Kiki Dee – Don’t Go Breaking My Heart 197407:1586/3/2022
Charting this day 1976 ABBA – Fernando 197407:202213/4/2025
By Request: Bachelors – The Sound Of Silence  07:26329/1/2021
Rene de Roo – My Father Once Said 202507:28111/7/2025
Max Bygraves – What A Wonderful World  07:3432/8/2019
Peter Loland Orchestra – More  07:380 
Vintage Vinyl    Chordettes – Photographs 195707:4212/4/2017
Colin Gordon Farleigh – Second Chances 202507:450 
CoCo Bal & Hubert Heeringa – Summer Cava 202507:49122/8/2025
Travelling Wilburys – End Of The Line 198807:53520/10/2023
Tornados – Earthy  07:5815/6/2015
Ron Callaghan – Confusion 202508:050 
By Request: Pussycat – My Broken Souvenirs 08:1276/7/2025
Charting this day 1976 Rod Stewart – Tonight’s The Night 197608:16930/12/2022
Charting this day 1976 J J Barrie – No Charge 197608:20231/8/2018
Bob Marshall – Wildorado 202508:25130/3/2025
Chamaco Dominguez His Orchestra & Chorus – Meditation  08:33317/11/2023
Paul Bateman & His Orchestra – Heartbreaker  08:38129/12/2023
Frank Ifield – I’m a Dreamer 196808:420 
Cilla Black – If You Leave Me Now 198008:45318/5/2014
Vintage Vinyl    Champs – Tequila 195808:5045/6/2016
Joy Adams & Gary Farmer – Be Mine 202108:52418/3/2022
Eric Read – The Generation 202108:5529/7/2021

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