Here’s the projected playlist for The Laundromat this week (21st October)

Take Your Pick – Greg Olsen – Take Your Pick
Prodigal Daughter – K’crasher – Towards the Light
Closed Groove – Stiff Little Fingers – Inflammable Material
Nothing But A Dream – Paul Kelly – Ways & Means

The odd sock –
These Boots Are made For Walkin’ – Petty Booka

Poor Mabel (You’re Just Like Me) – Keef Hartley Band – Battle of the Northwest Six
So Close & Yet So Far Away – Strawbs – Deep Cuts
Driftwood – Matthew Knights – One to One
Casual Conversations – Supertramp – Breakfast in America

Stuff you left in your pockets –
Boomerang – Lonnie Brooks
Beat Of My Heart – Borich ‘n’ Tilders
Tough On Me, Tough On You– Lonnie Mack
I’m Somebody’s Somebody Now – Eddie Lang & Joe Venuti
Don’t Be That Way – Teddy Wilson & his orchestra

Ain’t Got No Time For Trouible - The James Gang - Bang
Psycho Killer – Talking Heads – ‘77
Stop All That Jazz - Leon Russell - Stop All That Jazz
As The Sun Still Burns Away – Ten Years After – Cricklewood Green

3-piece suit –
Rock Me Baby
Most People I Know (Think That I’m Crazy) – Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs - Live at Sunbury (1972)

Dropping Like Flies – Armoured Saint – Metal 10
Don’t Keep Me Waiting, Girl – Tim Weisberg – Party of One
Everything You Know Is Wrong - ’Weird Al’ Yankovic - Bad Hair Day
Real Man – Todd Rundgren – Initiation
(He’s a) Dedicated Follower of Fashion - The Kinks - The Ultimate Collection

Intros & Outros (21st October) –
19?? – Steve Malone, bassist for Every Mother’s Nightmare
1917 – Dizzie Gillespie, jazz trumpeter
1925 – Dr. Ross (Isaiah Ross), boogie & blues performer with Dr Ross & his Jump & Jive Boys and Dr Ross & his Orbits
1936 – Sheila Jones, one of The Kaye Sisters
1937 – Norman Wright lead for The Del-Vikings
1940 – Jimmy Beaumont of The Skyliners
1940 – Manfred Mann (Michael Lubowitz), keyboard player for Mann-Hugg Blues Brothers, later renamed Manfred Mann
1941 – Steve Cropper, guitarist with Booker T. & The MGs and The Blues Brothers
1942 – Elvin Bishop, singer/songwriter, guitarist and member of The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
1943 – Ron Elliot of The Beau Brummels
1946 – Lee Loughnanetrumpet & flugelhorn player for Chicago
1947 – Tetsu Yamauchi of Free and The Faces
1948 – John ‘Rabbit’ Bundrick of Free and Backstreet Crawler
1953 – Charlotte Caffey, guitarist with The Go-Go’s
1954 – Eric Faulkner, guitarist with The Bay City Rollers
1954 – Phillip Chen of Keef Hartley Band and Butts Band
1957 – Julian Cope, guitarist & vocalist for Teardrop Explodes
1957 – Steve Lukather, guitarist with Toto
1959 – Rose McDowell of Strawberry Switchblade
1965 – Bill Black, bassist from 1954 - 57 for Elvis Presley as well as his own band The Bill Black Combo, died on this day, 4 months after receiving surgery to remove a brain tumour. He was 39
1971 – Tony Mortimer, singer with East 17
1971 – Jade Jagger, daughter to Mick & Bianca
1971 – Astrella Celeste Leitch, daughter to Donovan (Leitch) and Linda Lawrence
1992 – Benjamin Storm Keough was born to Lisa Marie Presley and her then husband Danny Keough
1995 – Shannon Hoon, lead singer for Blind Melon died of a cocaine overdose on this day. He was 28
2003 – Elliot Smith, US singer/songwriter died of stab wounds on this day

On this day (21st October) –
1957 –Elvis Presley’s Jil House Rock topped the charts
1958 – Buddy Holly’s last recording session took place in New York
1961 – Bob Dylan recorded his first album, self-titled, forColumbia Records. The recording was done in a day, and production costs amounted to $400. On his income tax return, he gave his name as Blind Boy Grunt
1962 –Cliff Richard performed on The Ed Sullivan Show
1965 –The Kingsmen perform Louie Louie on Shindig!, along with The Dave Clark Five
1966 –The Who perform on Ready, Steady, GO!, dressed in pop-art costumes, smoke bombs, flash powder and other stage devices. Songs include Batman Theme, Barbara Ann, Bucket T and Disguises
1967 – Lulu’s single To Sir With Love started a 5-week run at no. 1 on the US charts
1968 – Nashville’s top Country Music Awards went to Jeannie C. Riley’s Harper Valley PTA for best song and to Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison for best album
1972 –Chuck Berry’s single My Ding-a-Ling started a 2-week run at no. 1 on the US charts. It was his only US & UK no. 1 hit, 17 years after his first chart hit
1972 – Curtis Mayfield’s album Superfly hit no. 1 in the US & stayed for 4 weeks
1972 –America released Ventura Highway
1972 –Jon Mark of Mark/Almond lost a finger when he fell out of a tree in Hawaii
1975 – Elton John was awarded gold for Rock of the Westies and his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
1976 – Led Zeppelin premiered their movie The Song Remains the Same
1976 –Keith Moon played his last North American show with The Who at Toronto’s Maple Leaf Garden
1978 –The Clash fired their manager Bernie Rhodes saying that the band & record company found him hard to deal with. He was replaced by Caroline Coon, a journalist for Melody Maker magazine
1985 –Carl Perkins was honoured in a concert in London taped for television to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Blue Suede Shoes. Among those appearing with him were George Harrison, Ringo Starr and Dave Edmunds
1989 – Polygram Inc. purchased A & M Records from founders Herp Alpert and Jerry Moss for a figure between $400 & $500 million
1992 – George Michael took Sony Records to court in a fight over a contract. He lost
1992 –Elton John filed a $35 million lawsuit in which he claimed a TV tabloid reported falsely stated he moved to Atlanta to be near an AIDS treatment centre. Elton’s lawyers said he moved there because he liked the place
1995 – Green Day’s singer Billie Joe was arrested and fined $141 for mooning the audience in a concert at Milwaukee
1997 – Elton John’s Candle in the Wind ‘97 was declared by Guinness’ Book of Records as the biggest selling single record of all time, with sales of 31.8 million in under 40 days, and raising more than $34 million for charity
2001 – concerts at Madison Square Garden & RFK Stadium in Washington were expected to raise more than $300 million for victims of the 911 attacks. Performers included Michael Jackson, Tom Petty, Aerosmith, *NSYNC, P Diddy and James Brown
2003 – Carling Live presents AC/DC at the Carling Apollo in Hammersmith, England
2004 –Jessica Simpson was sued over her cosmetic line Dessert by Cosmojet, a California-based cosmetics company. (It’s a long story, folks)