PLAYLIST FOR THE LAUNDROMAT – 6th January
Take Your Pick – Greg Olsen – Take Your Pick
This Is Love - The Loved Ones - Magic Box
My Weapon - XTC - Go 2
Night Ride Across The
The odd sock –
Chaccaron Maccaron
Finale (Toys) -
Heads Will Turn - The Yachts - The Yachts
Who’s Dreamin’ This Dream? - Christine McVie - Christine McVie
Onward - Yes - Tormato
Stuff you left in your pockets –
Stomp Boogie – John Lee Hooker
Pretty Girls Everywhere – Eric Clapton & John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers
Country Blues – Muddy Waters
Gene’s Boogie – Gene Krupa & his orchestra
Board Meeting – Benny Goodman & his orchestra
Hawk Talk - Coleman Hawkins
Country Jam – Magna Carta - Songs From Wastie’s Orchard
Many Happy Returns - ABC - The Lexicon Of Love
Justice Wears A Skirt - Man Bites God - Man Bites God
Imagine The Swan - The Zombies - The Time Of The Zombies
3-piece suit –
Time To Live
Jump Back – Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs - Live At Sunbury
Clean Like Tomorrow – X – Metal 11
The Rock ‘n’ Roll Singer – AC/DC - TNT
Morning After The Party - Manfred Mann - The Ascent Of Mann – The
Young Lust - Aerosmith - Pump
Quote – “You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?” Bryan Ferry
Intros & Outros (6th January) –
1924 – Earl Scruggs, bluegrass musician
1929 – Wilbert
1935 – Nino Tempo, rock vocalist
1935 - Paul Wilson, R&B singer
1937 -
1944 - Van McCoy, singer & producer for Gladys Knight and Aretha
1946 - Syd Barrett (Roger Keith Barrett),original singer & guitarist with Pink Floyd
1947 - Sandy Denny (Alexandra Elene Maclean Denny), singer for Fairport Convention, solo artist & featured on Led Zeppelin’s
1951 - Kim Wilson of The Fabulous Thunderbirds
1953 – Malcolm Young, guitarist with AC/DC
1959 - Kathy Sledge, member of Sister Sledge
1963 - Paul Brindley, bassist for The Sundays
1964 - Mark O’Toole, bassist/drummer with Frankie Goes To Hollywood
1967 - Peter Loran, vocalist for Trixter
1980 - Georgeanna Tillman Gordon of The Velvelettes died on this day
1993 – John B “Dizzy” Gillespie, blues / jazz trumpeter died of cancer on this day. He was 75
1995 - James Clay, saxophonist, died on this day. He was 59
1996 - James Brown’s wife Adrienne died on this day when she suffered a heart attack during a major plastic surgery operation. She was 47
On this day (6th January) –
1956 - Elvis Presley’s first performance in a small auditorium, in the gym at
1957 - Elvis Presley made his 7th and last appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing Hound Dog, Love Me Tender, Heartbreak Hotel, Don’t Be Cruel, Peace in the Valley, a first performance of his new single Too Much, and When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold Again
1958 –Gibson guitars launched their famous Flying V electric guitars
1964 - The first night of a 14-date tour, Group Scene 1964, headlining The Rolling Stones, as well as The Ronettes, Marty Wilde, The Swinging Blue Jeans and Dave Berry & The Cruisers at the Granada Theatre,Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex
1966 - The Beatles’ We Can Work It Out was awarded gold
1968 - Val Doonican had no. 1 position on the UK album charts with Val Doonican Rocks, But Gently, while The Beatles had no. 1 on the US charts with Magical Mystery Tour for the next 8 weeks. Also, Paul Mauriat released Love is Blue and Lalo Schifrin released the theme to
1969 - The Supremes released I’m Livin’ In Shame
1970 -
1971 - Neil Young returned to
1973 - Carly Simon’s You’re So Vain (with Mick Jagger on backing vocals) started 3 weeks at no. 1 on the
1975 - The Wiz opened on Broadway to enthusiastic reviews. In
1977 - Faced with growing discontent from staff who had come face to face with The Sex Pistols, and a strike threat from employees at the company’s pressing plant who were unhappy about manufacturing Anarchy in the UK, EMI Records dropped the band and payed them £40,000 to release them from their contract. Also, Kiss’s LP, Rock & Roll Over, went platinum
1979 - The Village People scored no. 1 on the
1982 - Fun Boy Three’s Lynval Golding required 20 stitches to his head & neck after a stabbing by white youths in a
1987 - Eric Clapton started what became an annual event by playing 6 shows at The Royal Albert Hall,
1990 - Phil Collins’ … But Seriously started 3 weeks at no. 1 on the US charts, while figures released by US accountants showed that the recent US tour by The Rolling Stonesgrossed over $1 million – a then new record for any rock act
1993 - It was reported that David Bowie had lost over £2.5 million in unpaid royalties to an Italian Mafia-linked bootleg fraud
1997 – Two bronze busts worth £50,000 were stolen from George Harrison’s garden when thieves scaled a 3 metre wall, and cut the statues from their plinths
2001 - Pink Floyd guitaist David Gilmour won the right to his dot.com name. David took legal action in his battle to reclaim davidgilmour.com from Andrew Herman who had registered the URL and was selling Pink Floyd merchandise through the site
2004 - US CD sales rose for the first time in 4 years, despite the growing popularity of legal digital musical downloads