PLAYLIST FOR THE LAUNDROMAT – 9TH DECEMBER

Take Your Pick – Greg Olsen – Take Your Pick
Kundalini Yoga Waltz - k d lang - Even Cowgirls Get The Blues
Rock Love - Utopia - Adventures In Utopia
Black Dog - Led Zeppelin - Early Days

The odd sock –
Mr Tambourine Man - William Shatner

I Was Not Born To Follow - The Lemon Pipers - The Best Of …
Inside Out - The Venetians - Amazing World
Imagine (take 1) - John Lennon - Lennon
Percolator - The Ventures - The Ventures Play Telstar

Stuff you left in your pockets –
I Ain’t Mad At You Pretty Baby – Gatemouth Brown
Walkin’ Away Blues – Ry Cooder
Nothin’ For Nothin’ Blues – Big Joe Turner
Untitled Blues – Charlie Bird
Begin The Beguine – Artie Shaw & his orchestra

Thin Line Between Love & Hate - Annie Lennox - Medusa
Gotta Get Back To You – Tommy James & The Shondells - Tommy James & The Shondells
Alone – Nils Lofgren – Damaged Goods
Nijinsky Hand – Tyrannosaurus Rex - Unicorn

3-piece suit –
Child In Time
Black Night
Cry Free – Deep Purple - Powerhouse

Shame On Me – The Wildhearts – Metal 11
Museums - Wall Of Voodoo - Welcome To Sammystown
Stephanie Knows - Love - Best Of …
Punk Jazz - Weather Report - Mr Gone

Quote – “Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music“
Angela Monèt

Intros & Outros (9th December) –

1932 – Jessie “Ooh Poo Pah Doo” Hill, jazz musician
1932 - Junior Wells (Amos Blackmore), harmonica player with The Muddy Waters Band, teamed with Buddy Guy, and solo artist
1938 - David Houston
1940 - Sam Strain R&B singer of Little Anthony & The Imperials & The O’Jays
1941 – Dan Hicks of Hot Licks
1943 - Rick Danko, guitarist & vocalist for The Hawks, which evolved into The Band
1943 - Kenny Vance of Jay & The Americans
1944 – Neil Innes, vocals & guitarist for Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band (later Bonzo Dog Band), composed music for Monty Python’s Flying Circus, wrote for and performed in The Rutles
1944 – Shirley Brickley of The Orlons
1948 – Dennis Dunaway, played in Alice Cooper’s band
1950 – Joan Armatrading, singer
1953 – Jill Seaward of Shakatak
1956 – Sylvia (Sylvia Kirby Allen), country singer
1956 – Lou Handman, songwriter, died on this day
1957 - Donny Osmond, member of The Osmonds
1968 - Michael Foster, drummer for Firehouse
1969 - Jakob Dylan (son of Bob Dylan), guitarist & vocals for The Wallflowers
1970 - Zac Foley, bassist with EMF
1972 – Tre Cool (Frank Wright), drummer for Green Day
1978 – Chris Wolstenholme bassist for The Muse
1981 – Sonny Til (Earlington Carl Tilghman) of The Orioles, died of as heart attack on this day. He was 51
1994 - Garnet Silk, reggae singer, died on this day. He was 28
1994 - Maureen Cox Starkey ex-wife of Ringo, died of leukemia on this day. She was 48
1996 - Faron Young, country singer, committed suicide on this day
2340 - Worf, Star Trek Klingon

On this day (9th December) –
1964 – Paul McCartney paid a visit on Ringo Starr, recovering from a tonsillectomy
1967 - Jim Morrison was maced back-stage at a Doors concert by an over-enthusiastic security guard who mistook him for a fan. Morrison retaliated with verbal abuse of the officer onstage, was dragged off and gaoled.
1967 - Cream’s Disreali Gears entered the charts
1968 - The Jimi Hendrix Experiencetook no. 1 on the US charts with Electric Ladyland
1971 - The Who played The Los Angeles Forum, California
1971 - Carole King was awarded gold for her LP, Music
1972 - The Moody Blues started a 5-week run at no. 1 on the US charts with Seventh Sojourn, Elton John released Crocodile Rock, while Helen Reddy became the 1st Aussie female to top the US chart. I Am Woman, from the movie Stand Up & Be Counted, became an anthem for the feminist movement. It was Capitol Records’ first no. 1 hit in over 4 years.
1972 - A stage version of Peter Townsend’s Tommy, with an all-star cast including The London Symphony Orchestra, The Who, Rod Stewart, Steve Winwood, Maggie Bell, Sandy Denny, Richie Havens, Ringo Starr, Peter Sellers and Richard Harris, was staged at London’s Rainbow Theatre. 2 shows were staged as charity performances aiding Stars’ Organisation Form Spastics and raised £10,000, and a live album was later released
1974 - The Who receive gold for Odds & Sods, a collection of oddities from the group’s tape archive
1974 - George Harrison released his first album on the Dark Horse label, titled Dark Horse
1978 - Boney M’s Mary’s Boy Child, (a cover of the 1957 Harry Belafonte hit), went to no. 1 in the UK. Chic started a 7-week run at no. 1 in the US with Le Freak. The Blues Brothers released a cover of Sam & Dave’s hit, Soul Man
1984 - Lloyd Cole & The Commotions played The Powerhouse, Birmingham while Spandau Ballet performed at Wembley Arena in London
1988 - According to a poll released in the US, music by Neil Diamond was favoured as the best background music for sex. Second choice was Beethoven followed by Luther Vandross
1989 – Rodney Crowell, husband of Johnny Cash’s daughter, Roseanne, became the first artist to release an album that contained 5 US country no. 1 singles
1989 –Billy Joel’s We Didn’t Start The Fire started a 2-week run at no. 1 in the US
1990 – Paula Abdul was taken to North Hollywood Medical Centre after being involved in a car crash in Los Angeles
1991 –2nd Billboard music awards
1991 - After a long legal battle, Bob Marley’s $11.5 million estate was awarded to his wife & children. Ziggy Marley’s daughter was born and named Justice in honour of the verdict
1992 - Bill Wyman leaves The Rolling Stones after playing with the band for over 30 years
1992 –3rd Billboard music awards
1995 - Michael Jackson scored his 6th solo UK no. 1 single when Earth Song hit the top for 6 weeks. It also gave him the UK Christmas no. 1 of 1995
1995 - The Beatles’ Anthology No. 1 topped the charts
1997 - Oasis played the 1st of 3 sold-out concerts at Wembley Arena in London, supported by Supergrass
1998 - All Saints’ Nicole Appleton walked out during the recording of BBC2’s Later, saying she had quit the band
2000 - Sharon Corr of The Corrs called for the legalization of cannabis, claiming it has medicinal properties. Sharon said, ”certainly people with certain conditions can get a brief reprieve from their symptoms through cannabis”
2001 - Channel 4 issued an apology to viewers for Madonna’s use of the word “motherfucker” during live TV coverage at The Tate gallery. A TV spokesman said they did have a bleeper system, but missed it. (The editor of The Laundromat blog apologises to viewers for the use of….. oh, forget it)
2003 - Ozzy Osbourne was hospitalised at Wexham Park, Slough, Berkshire after a quad-bike accident at his UK home. He broke his collarbone, 8 ribs and a vertebrae in his neck. News of the accident reached the House of Commons, where the government sent a goodwill message
2003 - A Celebrity Thumbprints auction took place on ebayliveauctions.com. Beyoce, Kelly osbourne, Coldplay, Blue and Westlife were among celebrities whose thumbprints were auctioned