Here’s the playlist for The Laundromat this week (4th November)

Take Your Pick – Greg Olsen – Take Your Pick
Cannibal Street – Matthew Knights – One to OneChild Of Vision – Power Flower – Tim Weisberg – Party of One
Mystery - The James Gang - Bang

The odd sock –
(This one is so odd, I don’t know what it’s called, or who it’s performed by. Ed)

Since You’ve Been Gone - ’Weird Al’ Yankovic - Bad Hair Day
The Death Of Rock & Roll – Todd Rundgren – Initiation
Sunny Afternoon - The Kinks - The Ultimate Collection
Somebody Cares – Tommy James & The Shondells - Tommy James & The Shondells

Stuff you left in your pockets –
Broken Hearted Blues – Buddy Guy
Nitty Gritty Mississippi – Ry Cooder
Baby Please Don’t Go – Big Joe Williams
Beatin’ The Dog – Eddie Lang & Joe Venuti
Tain’t What You Do (It’s The Way That You Do It) – Jimmy Lunceford & his orchestra

Shuggy’s Shuffle - Al Kooper - Kooper Session
Many A Mile To Freedom – Traffic – Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys
Up Tempo – Leo Kottke – Live In Europe
Warlord Of The Royal Crocodiles – Tyrannosaurus Rex - Unicorn

3-piece suit –
A Journey In The Dark
Lothlorien
Shadowfax
The Horns Of Rohan
The Battle Of Pelennor Fields
Dreams In The Houses Of Healing
Homeward Bound
The Scouring Of The Shire
The Grey Havens – Bo Hansson - Music Inspired By Lord Of The Rings

Half Way Down / Charged – Mind Over Four – Metal 10
Vienna – Ultravox – Monument The Soundtrack
September 4th Is Too Late – Ed Kuepper – The Blue House

Intros & Outros (28th October) –
1868 – Scott Joplin, pianist
1899 – Kirk McGee of The McGee Brothers and The Dixieliners
1907 – Bennie Benjamin Tamla Motown session drummer with The Funk Brothers
1929 – Dickie Valentine
1938 – Harry Elston from The Friends of Distinction
1940 – Delbert McClinton, singer / songwriter
1942 - George M Cohen died on this day
1947 – Mike Smith, sax player for Amen Corner
1951 – Dan Hartman, multi-instrumentalist and producer. Worked with Edgar Winter
1954 – Chris Difford, guitarist and vocalist with Squeeze
1957 – James Honeyman Scott, guitarist with The Pretenders
1960 – Mark Jefferis of T.X.T.
1966 – Damon “Kool Rock-Ski” Wimbley, rapper with The Fat Boys
1970 – Sean Coombs (aka Puff Daddy & P Diddy), rapper
1982 - Talking Heads band-members Tina Weymouth & Chris Frantz had a baby boy, Robert, while the band was recording in the Bahamas

On this day (28th October) –
1957 – Jackie Wilson’s Reet Petite was his US chart debut
1957 – the top 6 songs on pop & R&B charts were identical:Elvis Presley’s Jailhouse Rock; :The Everly Brothers’s Wake Up Little Suzie; :Sam Cooke’s You Send Me; :The Rays’ Silhouettes; :Ricky Nelson’s Be-Bop Baby & :Jimmie Rodgers’ Honeycomb
1961 – Bob Dylan performed at The Carnegie Chapter Hall in New York, his first concert outside of Greenwich Village. 50 people paid $2 to attend, and Bob made $20 for the night
1961 – Cliff Richard’s album 21 Today hit no. 1 in the UK
1963 – Kathy Kirby’s Secret Love entered the UK charts
1963 – The Beatles were top of the bill at The Royal variety Show at The Prince of Wales Theatre. With the Queen Mother and Princess Margaret in the audience, this was the night John Lennon made his famous remark, ”those of you in the cheaper seats can clap your hands. The rest of you, rattle your jewellery”
1966 - London’s Evening Standard published John Lennon’s controversial remark that The Beatles were ”more popular than Jesus”
1967 – A New York Times article described the new electric 6-string sitar introduced by Danelectro Guitar Company
1967 – The Doors’s Strange Days entered the US album charts
1967 – Smokey Robinson & The Miracles released I Second That Emotion
1970 –Jethro Tull performed a sold-out benefit concert to aid Phoenix House, the country’s largest drug rehabilitation facility. Most of the 80-minute set was music from the Benefit album
1970 - The Beach Boys played the first of four nights at the Whiskey A Go Go in LA
1971 – The Rainbow Theatre opened and was London’s first permanent Rock & roll theatre
1971 –Bob Dylan recorded George Jackson in protest of the Soledad Brother’s death
1972 – Johnny Nash’s I Can See Clearly Now started 3 weeks at no. 1 on the US charts
1972 – Jethro Tull released Living In The Past
1973 – A Pink Floyd benefit concert raised £10,000 to aid Robert Wyatt, the former Soft Machine drummer suffering from a broken back
1974 –Paul McCartney & Wings released Junior’s Farm
1974 –Elton John released a Greatest Hits LP
1976 –Bruce Springsteen & The ‘E’ Street Band, finishing up a 2-month tour, had their final concert interrupted by a phone-in bomb threat. After a check that all was clear, Bruce quipped that it may have been from Mike Appel, his former manager and then current litigant in an extensive lawsuit
1976 – Daryl Hall & John Oates’s 5th album Bigger Than Both Of Us went gold
1977 – The Band’s movie The Last Waltz premiered in New York. It was acclaimed as one of the finest concert films ever made
1978 – Canadian Anne Murray’s single You Needed Me went to no. 1 on the US charts
1978 – Billy Joel released My Life
1978 – Talking Heads released Take Me To The River
1978 – Crosby, Stills Nash & Young were sued by former bassist Greg Reeves for $1 million for what he claimed was his share of royalties on sales of the LP Déjà Vu
1978 – Boston played their hometown for the first time since they made it big. They played a sold-out 2-night stand at The Boston Garden
1978 – John Travolta’s singles Summer Nights (a duet with Olivia Newton-John) and Sandy, both from the movie musical Grease, occupied nos. 1 & 2 on the UK charts.
1978 – Roger Corman began filming Rock & Roll High School starring The Ramones
1980 –Bob Marley was baptised at the Ethiopian Orthodox Church in Kingston, converting to Christian Rastafarianism and taking on the new name Berhane Selassie
1981 – Daryl Hall & John Oates’s album Private Eyes went gold & platinum
1987 – U2 appeared on the cover of UK’s Smash Hits magazine
1989 – Elton John scored his 50th UK chart hit when Sacrifice entered the charts. Previously, only Cliff Richard and Elvis Presley had achieved this
1989 – Roxette’s single Listen To Your Heart became their 2nd no. 1 on the US charts
1991 - Elected into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame were Bobby “Blue” Bland, Booker T & The MGs, Johnny Cash, Jimi Hendrix, The Isley Brothers, Sam & Dave and The Yardbirds
1992 - Elton John and his song writing partner Bernie Taupin signed a $39 million contract with Warner-Chappell Music
1993 –Martin Gore of Depeche Mode was arrested at the Denver Westin Hotel after refusing to turn down the volume of his music in his room
1996 - Melissa Etheridge and her partner Julie Cypher appeared on the cover of Newsweek promoting gay parents
1998 - A number of artists, including Don Henley, John Mellencamp, James Taylor, Elvis Costello, Deana Carter and Shawn Colvin performed at a benefit concert at the Santa Monica Airport for City of Hope. Each artist played their favourite one-hit-wonder song
1998 – Fall’s singer Mark E Smith appeared at Manhattan Criminal Court on assault charges, accused of kicking, punching and choking his girlfriend and band keyboard player, Julia Nagle, at a New York Hotel
2001 –DMX’s The Great Depression went to no. 1 on the US album chart