7 September 2025
Valley Sunrise Edition 850
0600 ~ 0900 AEST
During this edition, two chart-busters each hour, from the Top 40 charts of this week in 1978 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 7 September, in 1936 the last known surviving member of the thylacine species (or “Tasmanian Tiger” after which the radio station I broadcast on is named) died Hobart’s Beaumaris Zoo.
Although there have been claimed sightings since, there have been no reliable photographs taken and the species is believed extinct.
► In 1940, the Blitz of World War 2 started when Nazi Germany began to rain bombs on and around London. This was the first of 57 consecutive nights of bombing.
► And in 1978, Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov was assassinated in London while walking across Waterloo Bridge, by a Bulgarian secret police agent, who used a ricin pellet fired from a specially-designed umbrella gun.
► BORN on this day in 1920, in Jersey City, New Jersey U.S.A., Alexander Emil Caiola alias Al Caiola, the jazz, country, rock, western and pop music guitarist who has recorded over fifty albums and worked with some of the biggest stars of the 20th Century. These included Frank Sinatra, Percy Faith, Buddy Holly, Mitch Miller and Tony Bennett. Died 2016.
► BORN on this day in 1936 in Lubbock, Texas, U.S.A., Charles Hardin Holley alias Buddy Holly, singer-songwiter and pioneer of rock and roll, whose success lasted only a year and a half before his death in a 1959 plane crash.
Holly has been described as “the single most influential creative force in early rock and roll.”
TODAY’S PHOTO: Last Friday morning’s view of Mt Dromedary, with an unusual dusting of snow, courtesy of the overnight cold snap.
Photo: Yours Truly
Today’s Playlist
| TRACK | RELEASE YEAR | TIME | PREVIOUS PLAYS | LAST PLAYED |
| Ron Christopher – All About The Song | 2025 | 06:06 | 2 | 1/12/2024 |
| Charting this day 1978 Linda Ronstadt – Back In The U.S.A. | 1978 | 06:13 | 1 | 13/10/2017 |
| Charting this day 1978 Hawking Brothers – One Day At A Time | 1978 | 06:16 | 6 | 13/9/2020 |
| Al Caiola – I Walk The Line | 1962 | 06:21 | 9 | 29/3/2020 |
| Rae Leigh – Into The Dream | 2025 | 06:24 | 1 | 29/8/2025 |
| Brendan O’Dowda – Paddy McGinty’s Goat | 06:28 | 1 | 16/3/2018 | |
| Joe Reisman & His Orchestra – Love Walked In | 06:32 | 1 | 21/6/2020 | |
| Ben Walker – Boat Time | 2025 | 06:36 | 0 | |
| Carol Chaney – Everything’s A Waltz | 2025 | 06:40 | 4 | 15/6/2025 |
| By Request: Tammy Wynette – Stand By Your Man | 1968 | 06:44 | 12 | 5/5/2024 |
| Vintage Vinyl Col Joye & Joy Boys – Oh Yeah Uh Huh | 1959 | 06:48 | 2 | 20/1/2017 |
| Juniper Arré – Howling At The Moon | 2025 | 06:52 | 0 | |
| Dale Ralph – Sixteen Kisses | 2025 | 06:57 | 1 | 22/8/2025 |
| Heartland Roots Band – This Is Now | 2025 | 07:06 | 0 | |
| Charting this day 1978 Olivia Newton John & John Travolta – You’re The One That I Want | 1978 | 07:13 | 5 | 24/6/2018 |
| Charting this day 1978 Commodores – Three Times A Lady | 1978 | 07:16 | 7 | 1/10/2023 |
| By Request: Cowsills – Indian Lake | 1968 | 07:21 | 6 | 28/6/2024 |
| Engelbert Humperdinck – Woman | 07:24 | 0 | ||
| Buddy Holly – Heartbeat | 1958 | 07:29 | 5 | 3/7/2022 |
| Gheorghe Zamfir – Chariots Of Fire | 07:33 | 1 | 17/4/2016 | |
| Vintage Vinyl Carmen McRae – Give Me The Simple Life | 1955 | 07:39 | 1 | 3/5/2019 |
| Guy Surtees – Thirty Minute Star | 2025 | 07:43 | 1 | 30/3/2025 |
| Patrick Koers – Poor Man | 2025 | 07:46 | 0 | |
| Andy Williams – Ain’t It True | 07:51 | 0 | ||
| Ray Conniff Singers – Release Me | 07:55 | 0 | ||
| Town & Country Brothers – Sandy Sandy | 1963 | 07:58 | 9 | 19/1/2024 |
| John Glenn – Sunny Side Of The Mountain | 2025 | 08:05 | 1 | 22/8/2025 |
| Charting this day 1978 Boney M – The Rivers Of Babylon | 1978 | 08:11 | 20 | 22/12/2024 |
| Charting this day 1978 John Paul Young – Love Is In The Air | 1978 | 08:15 | 10 | 29/6/2025 |
| Change of Key – Beyond That Smile | 2025 | 08:19 | 2 | 9/5/2025 |
| By Request: Buddy Williams & Ivy Somerfeld – Let’s Grow Old Together | 08:22 | 7 | 8/12/2024 | |
| Great Grand-Pop Johnnie Ray – All Of Me | 1952 | 08:29 | 0 | |
| Johnny Harris & His Orchestra – Sweet Maria | 08:34 | 2 | 27/7/2018 | |
| Christine Clifford – Crazy | 2025 | 08:38 | 1 | 31/8/2025 |
| Pete King Orchestra & Chorale – Around The World | 08:41 | 1 | 28/4/2024 | |
| Vintage Vinyl Ricky Nelson – Poor Little Fool | 1959 | 08:44 | 4 | 23/7/2023 |
| Dianne Coombes – Through The Winter | 2025 | 08:46 | 0 | |
| John Williamson – The Boomerang Cafe | 08:51 | 4 | 26/1/2025 | |
| Uncle Trent and Friends – The Devil | 2025 | 08:55 | 0 |