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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):

TRACKRELEASE YEARTIMEPREVIOUS PLAYSLAST PLAYED
Denise Blum – Super Hero 202506:060 
Charting this day 1975 Bay City Rollers – Bye Bye Baby 197506:13219/5/2024
Charting this day 1975 Marty Rhone – Denim or Lace  197506:16411/2/2022
Glenn Jones – Best Be On Your Way 202506:20126/9/2025
Cec Peterson – This Old Guitar 202506:22110/8/2025
Richard Mulligan – Bere Island 202506:28122/8/2025
Melachrino Strings – Alone  06:340 
Doris Day – At Last  06:380 
John Gary – Ashamed  06:430 
By Request: You’re My World – Cilla Black 196406:451320/4/2025
Vintage Vinyl    Chordettes – Pink Shoe Laces 195906:5023/2/2017
Christine Clifford – The Overland Corner Hotel 202506:5414/7/2025
Philip Wildman – Aint Misbehavin’ 202506:580 
Todd Barrow – Ain’t Lookin’ Back Now 202507:06119/9/2025
Charting this day 1975 Al Martino – To The Door Of The Sun  197507:13930/9/2022
Charting this day 1975 Diana Trask – Oh Boy  197507:16331/5/2024
For A Listener: John Glenn – Ghost Story  201700 
Steve Cheers – Somebody To Love 202507:250 
Tommy Emmanuel – Guitar Concerto De Aranjuez  07:31231/5/2020
Vintage Vinyl    Gordon McRae – Singing In The Rain 195707:37212/3/2021
Sandie Shaw – Please Mr Postman  07:3916/4/2025
Joy Adams & Gary R. Farmer – That’s Why I Love You Like I Do 202507:44512/1/2024
Dave Cox – Better With You 202407:47223/2/2025
Tony Corrales – Bar Rooms and Breakups 202507:530 
Bobby Limb – Harrigan  07:58716/6/2024
Helene Neijmeijer – Unwise 202508:060 
Charting this day 1975 Glen Campbell – Rhinestone Cowboy 197508:13203/1/2025
Charting this day 1975 Band of the Black Watch – Scotch On The Rocks 197508:16322/11/2019
By Request: Roy Orbison – California Blue  08:201323/2/2025
Beatles – Love Me Do 196408:252219/1/2024
Charlie Landsborough – How Do You Do Those Things  08:310 
Arthur Greenslade & His Orchestra – Lemon Tree  08:3817/6/2024
Tony Clarke – Hand Upon My Heart 202308:41314/7/2023
Ed Ames – In The Arms Of Love  08:450 
Vintage Vinyl    Danny Kaye – I’ve Got A Lovely Bunch of Coconuts 195108:49        0 
Johnny Chester and Grant Luhrs – Loud, Confident And Wrong 202508:5244/5/2025
Nancy Su – Ein Freund Wie Du 202508:560 

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