PLAYLIST FOR THE LAUNDROMAT – 6^th January

Take Your Pick – Greg Olsen – Take Your Pick

This Is Love - The Loved Ones - Magic Box

My Weapon - XTC - Go 2

Night Ride Across The Caucasus - Loreena McKennett - The Book Of Secrets

The odd sock –

Chaccaron Maccaron

Finale (Toys) - Eden Mackenzie - Living In A Clock

Heads Will Turn - The Yachts - The Yachts

Who’s Dreamin’ This Dream? - Christine McVie - Christine McVie

Onward - Yes - Tormato

Stuff you left in your pockets –

Stomp Boogie – John Lee Hooker

Pretty Girls Everywhere – Eric Clapton & John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers

Country Blues – Muddy Waters

Gene’s Boogie – Gene Krupa & his orchestra

Board Meeting – Benny Goodman & his orchestra

Hawk Talk - Coleman Hawkins

Country Jam – Magna Carta - Songs From Wastie’s Orchard

Many Happy Returns - ABC - The Lexicon Of Love

Justice Wears A Skirt - Man Bites God - Man Bites God

Imagine The Swan - The Zombies - The Time Of The Zombies

3-piece suit –

Time To Live

Jump Back – Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs - Live At Sunbury

Clean Like Tomorrow – X – Metal 11

The Rock ‘n’ Roll Singer – AC/DC - TNT

Morning After The Party - Manfred Mann - The Ascent Of Mann – The Fontana Years

Young Lust - Aerosmith - Pump

Quote – “You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?” Bryan Ferry

Intros & Outros (6^th January) –

1924 – Earl Scruggs, bluegrass musician

1929 – Wilbert Harrison, R&B singer

1935 – Nino Tempo, rock vocalist

1935 - Paul Wilson, R&B singer

1937 - Doris Troy

1944 - Van McCoy, singer & producer for Gladys Knight and Aretha Franklin

1946 - Syd Barrett (Roger Keith Barrett),original singer & guitarist with Pink Floyd

1947 - Sandy Denny (Alexandra Elene Maclean Denny), singer for Fairport Convention, solo artist & featured on Led Zeppelin’s Battle of Evermore

1951 - Kim Wilson of The Fabulous Thunderbirds

1953 – Malcolm Young, guitarist with AC/DC

1959 - Kathy Sledge, member of Sister Sledge

1963 - Paul Brindley, bassist for The Sundays

1964 - Mark O’Toole, bassist/drummer with Frankie Goes To Hollywood

1967 - Peter Loran, vocalist for Trixter

1980 - Georgeanna Tillman Gordon of The Velvelettes died on this day

1993 – John B “Dizzy” Gillespie, blues / jazz trumpeter died of cancer on this day. He was 75

1995 - James Clay, saxophonist, died on this day. He was 59

1996 - James Brown’s wife Adrienne died on this day when she suffered a heart attack during a major plastic surgery operation. She was 47

On this day (6^th January) –

1956 - Elvis Presley’s first performance in a small auditorium, in the gym at Randolph High School, Mississippi

1957 - Elvis Presley made his 7^th and last appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing Hound Dog, Love Me Tender, Heartbreak Hotel, Don’t Be Cruel, Peace in the Valley, a first performance of his new single Too Much, and When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold Again

1958 –Gibson guitars launched their famous Flying V electric guitars

1964 - The first night of a 14-date tour, Group Scene 1964, headlining The Rolling Stones, as well as The Ronettes, Marty Wilde, The Swinging Blue Jeans and Dave Berry & The Cruisers at the Granada Theatre,Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex

1966 - The Beatles’ We Can Work It Out was awarded gold

1968 - Val Doonican had no. 1 position on the UK album charts with Val Doonican Rocks, But Gently, while The Beatles had no. 1 on the US charts with Magical Mystery Tour for the next 8 weeks. Also, Paul Mauriat released Love is Blue and Lalo Schifrin released the theme to Mission: Impossible

1969 - The Supremes released I’m Livin’ In Shame

1970 - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young made their UK live debut in The Royal Albert Hall, London

1971 - Neil Young returned to Canada for his first concert there since pre-stardom days

1973 - Carly Simon’s You’re So Vain (with Mick Jagger on backing vocals) started 3 weeks at no. 1 on the US singles charts

1975 - The Wiz opened on Broadway to enthusiastic reviews. In Boston Gardens, 1000 Led Zeppelin fans waiting overnight in the foyer for ticket sales, caused an estimated $30,000 damage when they rioted. The Boston Mayor cancelled the show

1977 - Faced with growing discontent from staff who had come face to face with The Sex Pistols, and a strike threat from employees at the company’s pressing plant who were unhappy about manufacturing Anarchy in the UK, EMI Records dropped the band and payed them £40,000 to release them from their contract. Also, Kiss’s LP, Rock & Roll Over, went platinum

1979 - The Village People scored no. 1 on the UK charts with Y.M.C.A.

1982 - Fun Boy Three’s Lynval Golding required 20 stitches to his head & neck after a stabbing by white youths in a Coventry disco

1987 - Eric Clapton started what became an annual event by playing 6 shows at The Royal Albert Hall, London

1990 - Phil Collins’ … But Seriously started 3 weeks at no. 1 on the US charts, while figures released by US accountants showed that the recent US tour by The Rolling Stonesgrossed over $1 million – a then new record for any rock act

1993 - It was reported that David Bowie had lost over £2.5 million in unpaid royalties to an Italian Mafia-linked bootleg fraud

1997 – Two bronze busts worth £50,000 were stolen from George Harrison’s garden when thieves scaled a 3 metre wall, and cut the statues from their plinths

2001 - Pink Floyd guitaist David Gilmour won the right to his dot.com name. David took legal action in his battle to reclaim davidgilmour.com from Andrew Herman who had registered the URL and was selling Pink Floyd merchandise through the site

2004 - US CD sales rose for the first time in 4 years, despite the growing popularity of legal digital musical downloads