5 October 2025
Valley Sunrise Edition 854
0600 ~ 0900 AEST
During this edition, two chart-busters each hour, from the Top 40 charts of this week in 1975 and a mix of recent tracks from indie artists and other easy-listening music which you won’t hear on mainstream radio.
► On 28 September, 1869, In the Bay of Fundy, Eastern Canada, a hurricane, with an associated two-metre storm surge, devastated this region, which normally has one of the highest tidal ranges in the world.
A British naval officer, Stephen Martin Saxby, had predicted , ten months previously, that a hurricane would co-incide with an extremely high spring tide, through his astronomical observations.
In 1930, Near Beauvais, France – The British Airship R 101 crashed, whilst on its maiden voyage to India. The loss of 48 lives surpassed the Hindenburg disaster 7 years later. The demise of 101 ended British employment of rigid airships..
1962, in London, England – The Beatles released their first single for EMI, Love Me Do.
► BORN on this day in 1923, in Pretoria, South Africa, of Welsh parents, Glynis Johns, British actress, dancer, singer and pianist, who starred in numerous movies between 1938 and 1999. She died in 2024, aged 100.
► BORN on this day in 1930 in Quorn, South Australia, Anne Haddy, actress and one of the first presenters of the television series Play School.
Haddy appeared in many Australian productions, and became one of the longest-running actresses in the TV soap opera Neighbours. She died in 1999, aged 69
► BORN on this day in 1951 in County Dublin, Ireland – Bob Geldof, Irish singer, songwriter, author, actor and political activist. Turns 74 today.
Today’s photo: High Street, New Norfolk, at an hour when only refuse disposal engineers and early morning radio announcers are stirring.
Today’s Playlist (V S):
| TRACK | RELEASE YEAR | TIME | PREVIOUS PLAYS | LAST PLAYED |
| Denise Blum – Super Hero | 2025 | 06:06 | 0 | |
| Charting this day 1975 Bay City Rollers – Bye Bye Baby | 1975 | 06:13 | 2 | 19/5/2024 |
| Charting this day 1975 Marty Rhone – Denim or Lace | 1975 | 06:16 | 4 | 11/2/2022 |
| Glenn Jones – Best Be On Your Way | 2025 | 06:20 | 1 | 26/9/2025 |
| Cec Peterson – This Old Guitar | 2025 | 06:22 | 1 | 10/8/2025 |
| Richard Mulligan – Bere Island | 2025 | 06:28 | 1 | 22/8/2025 |
| Melachrino Strings – Alone | 06:34 | 0 | ||
| Doris Day – At Last | 06:38 | 0 | ||
| John Gary – Ashamed | 06:43 | 0 | ||
| By Request: You’re My World – Cilla Black | 1964 | 06:45 | 13 | 20/4/2025 |
| Vintage Vinyl Chordettes – Pink Shoe Laces | 1959 | 06:50 | 2 | 3/2/2017 |
| Christine Clifford – The Overland Corner Hotel | 2025 | 06:54 | 1 | 4/7/2025 |
| Philip Wildman – Aint Misbehavin’ | 2025 | 06:58 | 0 | |
| Todd Barrow – Ain’t Lookin’ Back Now | 2025 | 07:06 | 1 | 19/9/2025 |
| Charting this day 1975 Al Martino – To The Door Of The Sun | 1975 | 07:13 | 9 | 30/9/2022 |
| Charting this day 1975 Diana Trask – Oh Boy | 1975 | 07:16 | 3 | 31/5/2024 |
| For A Listener: John Glenn – Ghost Story | 2017 | 0 | 0 | |
| Steve Cheers – Somebody To Love | 2025 | 07:25 | 0 | |
| Tommy Emmanuel – Guitar Concerto De Aranjuez | 07:31 | 2 | 31/5/2020 | |
| Vintage Vinyl Gordon McRae – Singing In The Rain | 1957 | 07:37 | 2 | 12/3/2021 |
| Sandie Shaw – Please Mr Postman | 07:39 | 1 | 6/4/2025 | |
| Joy Adams & Gary R. Farmer – That’s Why I Love You Like I Do | 2025 | 07:44 | 5 | 12/1/2024 |
| Dave Cox – Better With You | 2024 | 07:47 | 2 | 23/2/2025 |
| Tony Corrales – Bar Rooms and Breakups | 2025 | 07:53 | 0 | |
| Bobby Limb – Harrigan | 07:58 | 7 | 16/6/2024 | |
| Helene Neijmeijer – Unwise | 2025 | 08:06 | 0 | |
| Charting this day 1975 Glen Campbell – Rhinestone Cowboy | 1975 | 08:13 | 20 | 3/1/2025 |
| Charting this day 1975 Band of the Black Watch – Scotch On The Rocks | 1975 | 08:16 | 3 | 22/11/2019 |
| By Request: Roy Orbison – California Blue | 08:20 | 13 | 23/2/2025 | |
| Beatles – Love Me Do | 1964 | 08:25 | 22 | 19/1/2024 |
| Charlie Landsborough – How Do You Do Those Things | 08:31 | 0 | ||
| Arthur Greenslade & His Orchestra – Lemon Tree | 08:38 | 1 | 7/6/2024 | |
| Tony Clarke – Hand Upon My Heart | 2023 | 08:41 | 3 | 14/7/2023 |
| Ed Ames – In The Arms Of Love | 08:45 | 0 | ||
| Vintage Vinyl Danny Kaye – I’ve Got A Lovely Bunch of Coconuts | 1951 | 08:49 | 0 | |
| Johnny Chester and Grant Luhrs – Loud, Confident And Wrong | 2025 | 08:52 | 4 | 4/5/2025 |
| Nancy Su – Ein Freund Wie Du | 2025 | 08:56 | 0 |
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