Here’s the projected playlist for The Laundromat this week (28th October)

Take Your Pick – Greg Olsen – Take Your Pick
Believe In You – Keef Hartley Band – Battle of the Northwest Six
Child Of Vision – Supertramp – Breakfast in America
An Extraordinary Man (Simpson) – Matthew Knights – One to One

The odd sock –
Rocket Man – William Shatner

I’d Rather Be Alone With You (Song For Dale) - The James Gang - Bang
Pulled Up – Talking Heads – ‘77
Callin’ In Sick - ’Weird Al’ Yankovic - Bad Hair Day
Amber – Tim Weisberg – Party of One

Stuff you left in your pockets –
Cherry Red – Mike Bloomfield
Bad Books – Borich ‘n’ Tilders
Rich Man’s Blues – Dinah Washington
2-Tone Stomp – Eddie Lang & Joe Venuti
Golden Wedding – Woody Herman & his orchestra

(He’s a) Dedicated Follower of Fashion - The Kinks - The Ultimate Collection
Born To Synthesize – Todd Rundgren – Initiation
Shuggy’s Old Time Dee Di Lee Di - Al Kooper - Kooper Session
Mony Mony – Tommy James & The Shondells - Tommy James & The Shondells

3-piece suit –
Long-Legged Lovely
The Rat (suite)
* Main Title (The Rat)
* The Trap
* Spanish Blues
* Blazwaorden (Land of Dreams)
* Finale (The Rat) – Blackfeather - At The Mountains Of Madness

Huge Wonder – Redd Kross – Metal 10
Rock ‘n’ Roll Stew – Traffic – Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys
Up Tempo – Leo Kottke – Live In Europe
Warlord Of The Royal Crocodiles – Tyrannosaurus Rex - Unicorn
September 4th Is Too Late – Ed Kuepper – The Blue House
Vienna – Ultravox – Monument The Soundtrack

Intros & Outros (28th October) –
1927 – Cleo Laine (Clementine Dinah Campbell), singer
1929 – Mitchell Torok
1936 – Charlie Daniels, singer, songwriter, guitarist & fiddler
1937 – Graham Bond, UK R&B keyboard & sax player. Worked with Alexis Korner, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker, also fronted The Graham Bond Organisation
1941 – Hank Marvin (Brian Rankin), guitarist with The Shadows
1941 – Curtis Lee, singer
1945 – Wayne Fontana (Glynn Ellis), fronted The Mindbenders Editor’s Note: Some sources date 1940. I don’t make this stuff up, folks. His audition for Fontana Records prompted his name change
1948 – Thelma Hopkins, singer with Dawn
19 – Ricky Lee Reynolds, guitarist for Black Oak Arkansas
1957 – Stephen Morris, drummer for Joy Division, New Order and The Other Two
1959 – Neville Henry, of Blow Monkeys
1987 – Woody Herman orchestra leader, died on this day
1991 – Bill Graham, manager of concert venues The Fillmore East & The Fillmore West died on this day

On this day (28th October) –
1950 –Patti Page’s All My Love tops the charts
1956 – Elvis Presley makes his 2nd appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show performing Don’t Be Cruel, Love Me Tender, Hound Dog and Love Me
1958 –Buddy Holly made his last TV appearance on American Bandstand
1961 – Raymond Jones entered a Liverpool record store to buy My Bonny, a record released in Germany by a band called The Beatles. The shop manager, Brian Epstein (some sources say he was only a clerk in the store), promised to investigate further
1962 –”Bob Dylan is not the author of ‘Blowin’ in the Wind’ “ was the claim of a high school teacher in Milburn, New Jersey. He said he wrote the piece and sold it to Bob Dylan for $1000. the truth was revealed 12 years later in a New York Times magazine article when the teacher admitted that, unable to write a protest song himself, he presented Dylan’s song as his own and started the rumour to save face
1964 – The first of 2 nights billed as The Tami Show at the Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica featured Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, The Beach Boys, Chuck Berry, Marvin Gaye, The Supremes and The Rolling Stones
1968 –Cynthia Lennon sued John for divorce on the grounds of adultery. John didn’t defend because Yoko was pregnant with John’s child at the time
1969 – Elvis Presley is awarded gold for Suspicious Minds
1971 – John & Yoko record Happy Christmas, War Is Over
1972 –The United States Council For World Affairs announced it would be adopting The Who’s Join Together as its official theme song
1972 – Billy Paul’s Me & Mrs. Jones enters the soul charts
1973 –David Cassidy’s Daydreamer / The Puppy Song was no. 1 on the UK charts
1974 –Ken Boothe’s Everything I Own reached no. 1 on the UK charts
1977 – 2 weeks before the official release of The Sex Pistols’ Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols, a bootleg appeared in record shops titled Spunk. It contained the group’s first 3 hit singles Anarchy in the UK (renamed Nookie), God Save The Queen renamed No Future & Pretty Vacant renamed Lots of Fun. It also included 6 other titles from the forthcoming album, but not their 4th hit Holidays in the Sun
1978 – Nick Gilder’s Hot Child in the City reached no. 1 on the US charts
1982 – The Jam announced they would be splitting up at the end of their current tour
1989 – French group Kaoma notched up 1.7 million sales of their single Lambada
1989 –Janet Jackson’s album Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation 1814 started a 4-week run at no. 1 on the US charts.
1995 – Coolio’s version of the Stevie Wonder song Gangsta’s Paradise hit no. 1 in the US & stayed for 2 weeks
1997 –Bill Berry, drummer for R.E.M.,announced he was leaving after playing with them for 17 years
2001 –Mary J. Blige’s Family Affair started 6 weeks at no. 1 on the US singles charts
2001 – The various artist album God Bless America went to no. 1 on the US charts
2004 – Courtney Love was ordered to stand trial on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon after Kristin King alleged Ms. Love threw a bottle and lit a candle at her after turning up at the home of a former boyfriend. She also alleges Ms. Love sat on her, pulled her hair and pinched her left breast - ”the worst pinch I ever had” - before she managed to flee