Take Your Pick – Greg Olsen – Take Your Pick
Much Afraid – Jars of Clay – Much Afraid
Rough Trade – Stiff Little Fingers – Inflammable Material
Cross Eyed Mary – Jethro Tull – Best of….
The odd sock –
Proud Mary – Nashville Country Singers
Common Market Madrigal – Jefferson Airplane – Jefferson Airplane
Charmer – Strawbs – Deep Cuts
Phantasmagoria in Two – K’crasher – Towards the Light
Take the Long Way Home – Supertramp – Breakfast in America
Stuff you left in your pockets –
My Home in the Desert – Otis Spann
Flood Down in Texas – Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
Milkman Strut – John Mayall
Perfect – Eddie Lang & Joe Venuti
Skyliner – Charlie Barnet & his orchestra
Sure Got Me – Paul Kelly – Ways & Means
The Book I Read – Talking Heads – ‘77
Not Foolish, Not Wise – Keef Hartley Band – Battle of the Northwest Six
Me & My Baby – Ten Years After – Cricklewood Green
3-piece suit –
Baby’s on Fire
Diamond Head
Miss Shapiro
You Really Got Me
Third Uncle – 801 – 801 Live
Swamp Devil – Circus of Power – Metal 10
Party of One – Tim Weisberg – Party of One
Children’s Eyes – Steve Henderson – Darkest Corner
Real Man – Todd Rundgren – Initiation
Eve of 1000 Daughters – Matthew Knights – One to One
Intros & Outros (30th September) –
1933 – Cissy Houston – soul singer and mother of Whitney. Cissy was a member of Sweet Inspirations, The Drinkard Singers (with Dionne Warwick) and back-up singer for Elvis Presley, Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan & Luther Vandross
1934 – Freddie King – blues guitarist & session musician for Muddy Waters and others before Leon Russell signed him to Shelter Records
1935 – Johnny Mathis – singer
1935 – Jill Corey (Norma Jean Speranza) - singer
1935 – ZZ Hill (Arzel Hill)
1942 – Frankie Lymon – front man for Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers
1942 – Gus Dudgeon – producer for Elton John, David Bowie, The Beach Boys, The Zombies, Kiki Dee, The Strawbs, XTC and Joan Armatrading
1942 – Dewie Martin – folksinger, member of The Dillards, foundation member and drummer for Buffalo Springfield
1943 – Marilyn McCoo – singer and member of The 5th Dimension
1945 – Mike Harrison – keyboard player and foundation member of Spooky Tooth
1946 – Sylvia Peterson – singer with The Chiffons
1947 – Marc Bolan (Marc Feld) – guitarist & songwriter with T Rex
1953 – Deborah Allen
1954 – Patrice Rushen
1955 – James Dean died when his Porsche hit another vehicle near Los Angeles, California. (Technically not a musician, but exerted an immeasurable influence on the Rock & Roll era) He was 26
1956 – Basia (Basia Trzetrzelewska)
1957 – Dave Betts (Honeymoon Suite)
1969 – Davis Crosby’s girlfriend, Christine Hinton, was killed when her VW Kombi ran head-on into a school bus in San Fransisco while taking her pet cat to the vet
1977 – Mary Ford (Colleen Summer) died of cancer after being in a diabetic coma for 54 days. She had a single with her husband, Les Paul in 1954. She was 53
On this day (320th September) –
1965 – EMI launched its budget label ‘Music For Pleasure’ selling in grocery stores for 12s 6d
1967 – BBC Radio 1 launched in the UK. Ex-Radio Caroline DJ Tony Blackburn was the 1st DJ on air & the 1st disc played was The Move’s Flowers in the Rain
1967 – The Bee Gees’ single Massachusetts enters the UK charts
1967 – Strawberry Alarm Clock releases Incense & Peppermint
1972 – David Cassidy’s single How Can I Be Sure? went to no 1 in the UK
1972 – Columbia Records closed their four Hollywood recording studios firing 28 recording engineers. It seems that bands preferred small independent studios
1974 – Police were called to a Lynyrd Skynyrd & Blue Oyster Cult concert when a fight broke out between the two bands’ sound engineers. Skynyrd’s engineer claimed the sound had been turned off during their set
1977 – Ian Dury’s debut album released on Stiff records
1978 – John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John had their 2nd no 1 hit from Grease, Summer Nights
1978 – Al Stewart releases Time Passages
1984 – The music division of Thorn EMI, reputedly the greatest recording organisation in the world, reported a loss of $8.5 million during the previous 6 months
1985 – Kate Bush’s album Hounds of Love went to no 1 in the UK
1989 – Tina Turner’s solo album Foreign Affair went to no 1 in the UK
1992 – US singer Steve Earl was arrested in Nashville after failing to report for jury duty
1993 – Kate Pierson from B52s was charged with criminal mischief & trespassing during an anti-fur protest at Vogue’s New York City offices
1995 – Mariah Carey made chart history when her single Fantasy started an 8 week run at no 1 on the US. It made her the 1st female act to enter the charts at no 1
1999 – Chris de Burgh’s website was closed down after countless obscene message were posted on the visitor guest book. One message consisted of 2 four-letter words repeated 3,500 times
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