20 July 2025
Valley Sunrise Edition 843
0600 ~ 0900 AEST
Each hour in this edition, two chart-busters from the Top 40 charts of this week in 1975, recent tracks from indie artists and easy-listening music which you won’t hear on mainstream radio.
Today’s photo – Taken in the Derwent Valley earlier this year by Yours Truly.
| TRACK | RELEASE YEAR | TIME | PREVIOUS PLAYS | LAST PLAYED | ISRC |
| Connie Kis Andersen – Whatcha Doin’ | 2025 | 06:06 | 0 | AUKM3 2500004 | |
| Charting this day 1975 Pilot – January | 1975 | 06:13 | 8 | 11/5/2025 | |
| Charting this day 1975 Freddy Fender – Before The Next Teardrop Falls | 1975 | 06:17 | 12 | 11/5/2025 | |
| Phil Upchurch – You Can’t Sit Down | 1961 | 06:20 | 0 | ||
| Patsy Cline – True Love | 1961 | 06:23 | 2 | 31/10/2014 | |
| Mike Sarne & Wendy Richard – Come Outside | 1962 | 06:26 | 8 | 26/2/2023 | |
| By Request: Anne Murray – You Needed Me | 06:29 | 5 | 8/6/2025 | ||
| Lawrence Welk & His Orchestra – My Heart Cries for You | 06:36 | 0 | |||
| Engelbert Humperdinck & Beverley Knight – After The Lovin’ | 06:39 | 0 | |||
| Lyndel Lucas – Red Dress | 2025 | 06:43 | 0 | ||
| Vintage Vinyl Frankie Laine – Sixteen Tons | 1956 | 06:49 | 2 | 26/5/2023 | |
| Foster & Allen – Wand’rin’ Star | 06:54 | 1 | 30/6/2024 | ||
| Dustin Lowe – Shake Your Copenhagen | 2025 | 06:57 | 0 | TCAJP 2529951 | |
| Kumpu Brothers with Justine Pelmelay – Kumpu Feeling | 2025 | 07:05 | 0 | ||
| Charting this day 1975 John Denver – Thank God I’m A Country Boy | 1975 | 07:11 | 9 | 24/9/2021 | |
| Charting this day 1975 Neil Sedaka – The Queen Of 1964 | 1975 | 07:14 | 3 | 18/6/2021 | |
| By Request: Supremes – Baby Love | 1967 | 07:20 | 15 | 8/11/2024 | |
| Odin Brennhaug – Yesterday’s Shore | 2025 | 07:23 | 0 | ||
| Roy Hamilton – Don’t Let Go | 1958 | 07:28 | 3 | 16/4/2023 | |
| By Request: Connie Francis – Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool | 1960 | 07:31 | 18 | 26/11/2023 | |
| Martin Bottcher & His Orchestra – Canzone D’Amore | 07:35 | 1 | 4/2/2022 | ||
| Andy Williams – Touch Me In The Morning | 07:38 | 0 | |||
| Allan Caswell – What Happened To Love | 07:42 | 2 | 11/7/2025 | ||
| Vintage Vinyl Anthony Perkins – The Prettiest Girl In School | 1958 | 07:47 | 6 | 1/3/2024 | |
| By Request: Elvis Presley – Way Down | 07:52 | 4 | 16/2/2025 | ||
| Warwick & Young – I Dream Of You And I | 2025 | 07:55 | 0 | ||
| Dean Perrett – Famous At Home | 2025 | 08:05 | 2 | 18/7/2025 | AUZY4 2500017 |
| Charting this day 1975 Roger Whittaker – The Last Farewell | 1975 | 08:11 | 11 | 20/8/2021 | |
| Charting this day 1975 Cal Smith – Country Bumpkin | 1975 | 08:14 | 4 | 9/7/2021 | |
| Anne Murray – Both Sides Now | 08:19 | 0 | |||
| Randy C Moore – Cats In the Cradle | 2025 | 08:22 | 1 | 6/7/2025 | |
| Al Hirt – Cotton Candy | 1964 | 08:31 | 5 | 20/3/2015 | |
| Bert Kaempfert & His Orchestra – Strangers In The Night | 08:36 | 4 | 30/6/2023 | ||
| Gene Bradley Fisk – Underneath My Setting Sun | 2025 | 08:41 | 4 | QMBZ9 2511883 | |
| John Williamson – Prettiest Girl In The Kimberley | 08:46 | 3 | 9/9/2022 | ||
| Vintage Vinyl Dicky Doo & Don’ts – Leave Me Alone | 1958 | 08:50 | 1 | 18/6/2017 | |
| Lucinda Wilson – I’ll Be There | 2025 | 08:54 | 0 |
BORN THIS DAY –
1918 Mart, Texas, USA, Cindy Walker, songwriter and singer, died 2006;
1919 Auckland, New Zealand, Edmund Hillary, one of the first men recorded to have reached the summit of Mt Everest;
1933 Happy, Texas, USA, Buddy Knox, op singer of the 1950s and 60s, died 1999;
1938 Doncaster, Yorkshire, England , Diana Rigg, actress whose last role was as Mrs Pumphrey in All Creatures Great And small, died 2020
1943 Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, England, Wendy Emerton, actress known as Miss Brahms in the sitcom Are You Being Served. She died in 2009.
1953 Massachusetts USA, Marcia Hines, pop singer, turns 72
DIED THIS DAY –
1969 Da Nang, Vietnam, Cathy Wayne, 20 year old Australian pop singer, who was shot by a U S Marine while performing for Allied troops.
1969 New York USA – Roy Hamilton, 1950s pop singer, aged 40
2005 Redmond, Washington USA – James Doohan actor best known as Scotty in the television series Star Trek. Aged 85.
EVENTS THIS DAY –
1969 The lunar module Eagle landed on the Moon’s surface and became the first manned craft to land on another celestial body.
1976 The Viking 1 space probe successfully landed on the planet Mars and returned the first close-up photographs of the planet’s surface.
1994 Scientists on Earth watched intently as Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, which had previously broken into more than 20 fragments, collided with the planet Jupiter.
