Here’s the playlist for The Laundromat this week (18th November)

Take Your Pick – Greg Olsen – Take Your Pick
Waterloo Sunset - The Kinks - The Ultimate Collection
Fair Warning – Todd Rundgren – Initiation
I Remember Larry - ’Weird Al’ Yankovic - Bad Hair Day

The odd sock –
Stairway To Gilligan - Little Roger & The Goosebumps

Eggtooth – Leo Kottke – Live In Europe
Hymn – Ultravox – Monument The Soundtrack
The Comedians – Ed Kuepper – The Blue House
Last Of The New Wave Riders - Utopia - Adventures In Utopia

Stuff you left in your pockets –
Goin’ Back To L.A. – Joe Liggins
Feelin’ Bad Blues – Ry Cooder
Bad Bad Whiskey – Amos Milbourne
Salt Peanuts (2) – Charlie Bird
Artistry Jumps – Stan Kenton & his orchestra
Blues Waltz – Ray Charles

Virtual Vortex - k d Lang - Even Cowgirls Get The Blues
Crystal Blue Persuasion – Tommy James & The Shondells - Tommy James & The Shondells
What Is & What Should Never Be - Led Zeppelin - Early Days
Evenings of Damask – Tyrannosaurus Rex - Unicorn

3-piece suit –
Dizzy Dizzy
Com Sta La Luna
Splash – Can - Soon Over Babaluma

Angel Of Disease – Morbid Angel – Metal 10
Age Of Reason - The Venetians - Amazing World
Lonely Atmosphere - The Lemon Pipers - The Best Of …

Quote – “The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.' “
Aaron Copland

Intros & Outros (18th November) –

1909 – Johnny Mercer, songwriter
1936 – Don Cherry
1936 – Hank Ballard US singer / songwriter
1941 – Con Clusky, singer for The Bachelors
1945 – Dave Irving of Supercharge
1949 - Herman Rarebell, drummer for The Scorpions
1950 – Rudy Sarzo, bassist with Whitesnake
1950 - Graham Parker
1953 – John McFee, guitarist with The Doobie Brothers
1954 – John Parr, singer / guitarist
1957 – Jenny Burton of C-Bank
1960 – Kim Wilde, singer
1961 - Janice Lynn Kuehnemund of Vixen
1962 - Kirk Hammett, guitarist with Metallica
1970 - Hal Dickinson of The Modernaires died on this day
1971 – Herman ‘Junior’ Parker, blues harmonica player on Ben E King’s Stand By Me, died on this day after a series of brain operations
1972 – Danny Whitten, singer / songwriter & member of Crazy Horse, died of a drug overdose. He was 29
1983 – Tom Evans of Badfinger died on this day
2003 – Composer & arranger Michael Kamen died of a heart attack on this day. He had worked with Pink Floyd (The Wall), Metallica, and on soundtracks Robin Hood, X-Men and Brazil

On this day (18th November) –
1950 - Sammy Kaye’s Harbour Lights topped the charts & stayed there for 4 weeks
1958 - Fats Domino performed Blueberry Hill on The ed Sullivan Show
1964 - Shindig!’s performers were The Supremes singing Baby Love and Come See About Me and The Righteous Brothers singing Little Latin Lupe Lu
1965 – Performing live at the ABC Cinema, Stockton, Cleveland were Manfred Mann, The Yardbirds and Paul & Barry Ryan
1965 - Marc Bolan (previously known as Toby Tyler although his real name was Mark Field) released his first single The Wizard
1967 - Long John Baldry’ Let The Heartaches Begin entered the UK charts, Pink Floyd released Apples & Oranges as their 2nd single, The Monkees released Daydream Believer, Johnny Rivers released Summer Rain and Gary Puckett & The Union Gap released Woman Woman
1968 - Glen Campbell formerly a session musician for Frank Sinatra, Nat ‘King’ Cole and The Beach Boys, received gold for By The Time I Get To Phoenix and Gentle On My Mind
1968 - Electric Ladyland earns gold for the Jimi Hendrix Experience
1970 – Traffic recorded their Live LP
1970 - Myra Brown and Jerry Lee Lewis divorce
1971 – Procol Harum recorded their Live in Concert album with The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra in Ontario, Canada. The single Conquistador emerged as the hit
1972 – Cat Stevens’ album Catch Bull At Four began 3 weeks at no. 1 on the US charts, Steely Dan released Do It Again and Stevie Wonder released Superstition
1975 - Chicago receive gold for their Greatest Hits LP
1975 - Bruce Springsteen & The ‘E’ Street Band made their UK live debut London’s Hammersmith Odeon. Bruce was unimpressed with CBS’s poster campaign and boycotted the after-show party
1978 - Billy Joel’s 52nd Street went to no. 1 on the US charts, The Bee Gees released Too Much Heaven and this week’s UK top 5 singles were – 5 The Cars (My Best Friend’s Girl), 4 Rod Stewart (Do You Think I’m Sexy?), 3 Dan Hartman (Instant Replay), 2 Olivia Newton-John (Hopelessly Devoted To You) & 1 The Boomtown Rats (Rat Trap)
1979 - The B-52s earned gold for their first album, The B-52s
1983 - R.E.M. made their first appearance outside the US, on Channel 4’s The Tube
1985 - Paul McCartney released Spies Like Us
1986 - Boston’s Amanda topped the charts & stayed there 2 weeks
1987 - Country-rock band The Dalton Brothers opened for U2 at a Los Angeles concert. They were in fact U2 themselves
1988 - Phil Collins made his “screen debut in a starring role” in the opening of the movie Buster. His official screen debut was as an extra in The Beatles’ Hard Days Night
1989 - All-girl group The Three Degrees lost their court case over the rights to their group name. The rights to the name belonged to their former manager Richard Barrett while the all-girl group Shangri’Las wont their court case over the rights to their group name. They could license it to whoever they wanted
1990 - Paul McCartney’s birth certificate was auctioned for $18,000
1992 - Black Sabbath were honoured with their own star on the Rock Walk in Hollywood
1993 – Nirvana recorded their MTV unplugged special
1993 - Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam was arrested in New Orleans for disturbing the peace after a fight broke out in a bar
1995 - The Rolling Stones became the first act to broadcast a concert on the Internet
1995 - Tina Turner sings the theme to the latest James Bond movie, Goldeneye
1999 – Madonna saved over £100,000 when she bought a Kensington home privately and cut out any estate agent
2000 – Craig David started a 16-date UK tour at The Pavilions in Plymouth, England
2002 - Manic Street Preachers played the Carling Homecoming gig at St Davids Hall in Cardiff
2003 – More than 500 Britney Spears fans camped out overnight outside Virgin Records Megastore in New York’s Times Square to have her sign copies of her new album In The Zone
2003 – Police raided Michael Jackson’s Neverland ranch following allegations of sexual abuse with a 12-year-old boy. Jackson denied the accusations
2003 - Michael Jackson released his greatest hits album Number Ones