Wednesday, December 9, 2009

PLAYLIST FOR THE LAUNDROMAT – 16th DECEMBER

Take Your Pick – Greg OlsenTake Your Pick
In Perfect Dreams - k d lang - Even Cowgirls Get The Blues
Red River Rock - The Ventures - The Ventures Play Telstar
Rock & Roll - Led Zeppelin - Early Days

The odd sock
Things I Wonder - The Shaggs

Rainbow Tree - The Lemon Pipers - The Best Of …
Come To Me – Tommy James & The Shondells - Tommy James & The Shondells
Fortunately - John Lennon - Lennon
The Pilgrim’s Tale – Tyrannosaurus Rex - Unicorn

Stuff you left in your pockets
Bye Bye Baby Blues – Big Joe Williams
Hideaway – Eric Clapton & John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers
Sittin’ On Top – Ray Charles
Ladybird – Charlie Bird
Swingin’ On The Teagarden Gate – Jack Teagarden & his orchestra

Waiting In Vain - Annie Lennox - Medusa
Tragic Vaudeville - Wall Of Voodoo - 7 Days In Sammystown
Here For You – Nils LofgrenDamaged Goods
Pinocchio - Weather Report - Mr Gone

3-piece suit
Let It Rain
Presence Of The Lord – Derek & The Dominos - In Concert

Do You Need Some – Mind BombMetal 11
Beatown - XTC - Go 2
Orange Skies - Love - Best Of …
Then & Now - The Yachts - The Yachts

Quote
I always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music
Aretha Franklin

Intros & Outros (16th December)

1919Earl Bolick of Sky Boys
1934Karl Denver, singer with Happy Mondays, and solo artist
1937 - Jim Glaser, member of The Glaser Brothers
1944Glenn Miller, jazz player / band-leader, died on this day. He was 40
1945 - Tony Hicks, guitarist with The Hollies
1946 - Benny Anderson, keyboard player & vocalist with Abba
1950 - Bill Gibbons, guitarist & vocalist for Moving Sidewalks & ZZ Top
1951Robben Ford, guitarist
1959Steve Irvine, drummer forLloyd Cole & The Emotions
1972 - Michael McCary, vocalist with Boyz II Men
1988 - Sylvester James, US disco singer, died on this day of an aids-related condition. He was 41
1997Nicolette Larson, singer/ songwriter who worked with Neil Young, Linda Ronstadt and David Crosby died on this day. She was 45
2001Stuart Adamson, vocalist for Big Country, was found dead in Hawaii motel room more than a month after disappearing from his US home. He had been fighting a battle against alcoholism. He was 43

On this day (16th December)
1950Patti Page’s Tennessee Waltz topped the charts
1957 - Pat Boone’s April Love topped the charts
1965The Beatles’ double A-side Day Tripper / We Can Work It Out, became their 9th no. 1 in the UK, and their 3rd Christmas chart-topper in a row. The Music of Lennon & McCartney was screened by Granada TV in the London area, and Magical Mystery Tour double LP & book entered the UK charts
1966 - The Beatles released Everywhere It’s Christmas in the UK
1966 - Jimi Hendrix Experience released Hey Joe on the Polydor label after it was rejected by Decca Records
1967 - The Rolling Stones announced that Marianne Faithful was the first artist signed to their Mother Earth label, The Lemon Pipers released Green Tambourine and Pink Floyd perform at the Middle Earth Club, one of London’s major rock venues
1968 - Creedence Clearwater Revival’s debut LP went gold
1970 - In one day, 5 singles & 5 albums by Creedence Clearwater Revival are certified gold. Down on the Corner, Lookin’ Out My Back Door, Travellin’ Band, bad Moon Risin’, Up Around The Bend and Cosmo’s Factory, Willy & The Poor Boys, Green River, Bayou Country and Creedence Clearwater Revival
1971 - Frank Zappa’s movie, 200 Motels opened at London’s Piccadilly Classic Cinema
1971 - Don McLean released his 8-minutes-plus single American Pie
1972 - Billy Paul’s Me & Mrs Jones started a 3-week run at no. 1 on the US charts, and Paul McCartney released Hi, Hi, Hi
1973 - Stephen Stills becomes the father of a 2 year-old boy when he loses a paternity suit filed against him by Harriet Tunis
1974Mott The Hoople called it quits. Front man Ian Hunter left the band after failing to recover from having collapsed from exhaustion 2 months before
1975 - The Bay City Rollers received US gold for Saturday Night
1977 - The Bee Gees’ received gold for How Deep Is Your Love
1977 - Saturday Night Fever premieres
1978 - Alex Harvey played Glasgow’s Apollo. Tickets ranged from £1.50 to &pound:3
1982 - Japan played their last concert before splitting up in Nagoya, Japan
1983 - Judas Priest played the first of 2 sold-out nights at London’s Hammersmith Odeon
1983 - The Who disbanded. Although substitute drummer Kenny Jones was probably the best possible substitute, the group never really recovered from Keith Moon’s death 5 years earlier
1988 - Sigue Sigue Sputnik played at England’s Stourbridge Town Hall. Tickets cost £5
1989 - Billy Joel’s Storm Front LP went to no. 1 in the US, while Jive Bunny & The Mastermixes had a no. 1 single in the UK with Let’s Party
1991 - Chubby Checker filed a $14,000 million lawsuit against McDonalds in Canada, for its alleged use of an imitation of his voice on The Twist in a fries commercial
1993 - The Verve played The Krazy House, Liverpool, supported by Oasis while MTV aired Nirvana’s Unplugged session for the first time
1994 - The MonkeesDavey Jones was charged with DWI
1999 – A 28 year-old man died when he fell more than 24metres while dismantling the set of a Spice Girls set in Earl’s Court, London
2000 – The estranged father & former manager of LeAnn Rimes made embarrassing allegations during a legal battle over millions of dollars. Mr Rimes told the court that LeAnn paid her mother $11,390 every times she styled her hair before a show
2001Robbie Williams & Nicole Kidman started a 3-week run at no.1 on the UK singles charts with their cover of Frank & Nancy Sinatra’s 1967 no. 1 hit Somethin’ Stupid. The song was the Christmas no. 1 for 2001

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