Here’s the playlist for The Laundromat this week (11th November)

Take Your Pick – Greg Olsen – Take Your Pick
Exodus – Matthew Knights – One to One
Rainmaker – Traffic – Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys
I’m Sick Of You - ’Weird Al’ Yankovic - Bad Hair Day

The odd sock –
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds - William Shatner

Dead End Street - The Kinks - The Ultimate Collection
Initiation – Todd Rundgren – Initiation
Palm Blvd / Shadowland – Leo Kottke – Live In Europe
Mine For Life – Ultravox – Monument The Soundtrack

Stuff you left in your pockets –
What’d I Say – Ray Charles
He Made A Woman Out Of Me – Ry Cooder
Caldonia – Louis Jordan
Salt Peanuts – Charlie Bird
One O’Clock Jump – Count Basie & his orchestra
How Long Blues – Ray Charles

Barefoot In The Grass – Ed Kuepper – The Blue House
Sweet Cherry Wine – Tommy James & The Shondells - Tommy James & The Shondells
Virtual Vortex - k d Lang - Even Cowgirls Get The Blues
Evenings of Damask – Tyrannosaurus Rex - Unicorn

3-piece suit –
Paradise By The ‘C’
Fire
Growin’ Up
It’s Hard To Be A Saint In The City – Bruce Springsteen & The ‘E’ Street Band - Live 1975 - 1985

Future Madhouse – Gamma Ray – Metal 10
Last Of The New Wave Riders - Utopia - Adventures In Utopia
What Is & What Should Never Be - Led Zeppelin - Early Days
Age Of Reason - The Venetians - Amazing World
Lonely Atmosphere - The Lemon Pipers - The Best Of …

Intros & Outros (11th November) –
1880 – Ned Kelly was hanged by the neck until dead on this day. He gave us the 2 immortal quotes, ”That it should come to this” & ”Such is Life”. He was 25. (It wasn’t rock & roll, but it’s good history. Ed)
1927 – Mose Allison, singer/songwriter, pianist, blues artist and sometime trumpeter. His songs were covered by the likes of The Who, John Mayall, Georgie Fame and Elvis Costello
1938 – Roger Laverne Jackson of The Tornados
1943 – Mac Kisson
1944 – Jessie Colin Young (Perry Miller), of The Youngbloods
1945 – Vince Martell, guitarist with The Pigeons who later changed their name to Vanilla Fudge, & Cactus
1945 - Jerome Kern, songwriter, died on this day
1946 – Len ‘Chip’ Hawkes, singer with The Tremeloes
1946 – Chris Dreja, guitarist with The Yardbirds
1947 – Pat Daugherty, bassist with Black Oak Arkansas
1950 – Jim Peterik, guitarist, keyboard player & vocalist for The Ides of March and Survivor
1950 – Paul Cowsill of The Cowsills
1953 – Andy Partridge, vocalist & guitarist with XTC & Dukes of Stratosfear
1956 – Ian Craig Marsh of Human League & Heaven 17
1962 - Mic Michaeli of Europe
1968 - Jo of Fuzzbox
1972 – Berry Oakley, bassist for The Allman Brothers, was killed in a motorcycle accident, 3 blocks from the Macon, Georgia, intersection that saw the death of former band member Duane Allman, 1 year earlier. Berry was 24
1998 – Paddy Clancy of The Clancy Brothers died on this day aged 76
1973 - Dave ‘Stringbean’ Akerman, country singer, and his wife were beaten up, robbed and then murdered on this day
1979 - Dimitri Tiomkin died on this day
1990 - Ronnie Dyson died on this day

On this day (11th November) –
1925 - Louis Armstrong recorded the first of the Hot 5 and Hot 7 recordings
1955 – Elvis Presley was voted the most promising new country & western artist by Billboard magazine
1957 – Jerry Lee Lewis secretly took his cousin Myra Gale Brown in holy matrimony, to be his third wife
1957 - Buddy Holly released Peggy Sue
1958 - Hank Ballard & The Midnighters record the original version of The Twist in King Studios, Cincinnati
1963 - Brian Epstein and Ed Sullivan signed a contract for 3 shows for The Beatles
1967 - Diana Ross & The Supremes released In & Out of Love
1967 - Small faces released Itchycoo Park
1968 - John & Yoko released their Two Virgins album, a collection of pants, grunts, and other assorted “just-barely-musical” love sounds, plus the infamous and controversial nude cover
1969 – Jim Morrison was arrested by the FBI for “interfering with the flight of an intercontinental aircraft and public drunkenness” aboard a plane on the way to a Rolling Stones concert
1969 - The Beatles and Billy Preston released Get Back in the UK
1969 – The Stone Poneys’s Different Drum entered the US charts
1970 – Bob Dylan published his novel Tarantula
1970 - 2 very different albums entitled Plastic Ono Band, one by John Lennon and the other by Yoko Ono, were released on the Apple label at the same time, one in UK and the other in US
1971 – BBC TV’s Top of the Pops celebrated its 400th show. Guests included Tom Jones, Dana, John Kongos, Cher, Slade, Cilla Black, The Piglets, Clodah Rodgers and The Newbeats
1972 – Gilbert O’Sullivan’s single, Clair was no. 1 on the UK charts
1972 - Loggins & Messina released Thinking of You
1972 - Joni Mitchell released You Turn Me On I’m a Radio
1973 - 30 US radio stations broadcast a “live” Mott The Hoople concert. In reality, it was the band recorded in the studio with applause dubbed in
1976 - Kiss earned gold for Rock & Roll Over
1977 - Wings released Mull of Kintyre and Girl’s School
1978 – Donna Summer’s cover version of MacArthur Park went to no. 1 on the US charts. Her album Live & More also hit no.1
1978 - Chaka Khan’s single I’m Every Woman hit no. 1 on the soul charts. Also the LP that it came from, Chaka entered the soul LP charts
1978 – The Cars released the first-ever commercially available picture disc single My Best Friend’s Girl
1981 - Rod Stewart kicked off the first tour in 3 years at Greensboro North Carolina. It was billed ”Le Grand Tour of America and Canada – Worth Leaving Home For”
1986 –Big Audio Dynamite performed at Birmingham’s Powerhouse. Tickets cost £5
1989 - Chris Rea’s albumThe Road To Hell started a 3-week run at no. 1 on the UK charts
1989 –Lisa Stansfield’s single All Around the World went to no. 1 in the UK
1989 - Melissa Etheridge and Joe Cocker play a concert in Germany celebrating the falling of the Berlin Wall
1989 –Diane Warren become the first female to write the top 2 songs on the US singles charts - Bad English’s When I See You Smile and Milli Vanilli’s Blame It On The Rain
1990 – A 21-year-old fan was attacked & died outside an AC/DC concert at Brendan Byrne Arena in New Jersey
1995 – The Smashing Pumpkins double album Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness went to no. 1 on the US charts
1999 – Britney Spears won 4 MTV awards: Best Female Singer; Best Pop Act; Best Song for Baby One More Time and Best Breakthrough Artist.
Offspring won Best Rock Act, Will Smith took Best Male Act, and Bono won the Free Your Mind Award
2003 –The Darkness played the Carling Homecoming gig at The Astoria, London
2004 –Robbie Williams, The Rolling Stones, Queen, Michael Jackson, and Cliff Richard were inducted into UK’s first Music Hall of Fame at a ceremony in London. Each act had been chosen by Channel 4 TV viewers to represent a decade since the 50s.