PLAYLIST FOR THE LAUNDROMAT – 20th January

Take Your Pick – Greg Olsen – Take Your Pick
Magic Box - The Loved Ones - Magic Box
Super Tuff - XTC - Go 2

The odd sock –
Dracula’s Lament - Jason Segel

Dante’s Prayer - Loreena McKennett - The Book Of Secrets
I’ll Be Leaving You - The Yachts - The Yachts
A Child Of Her Own - Eden Mackenzie - Living In A Clock

Stuff you left in your pockets –
Good Morning Blues – Leadbelly
Calcutta Blues – Eric Clapton & John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers
Lady Luck Blues – Bessie Smith
Sometimes I’m Happy – Gene Krupa & his orchestra
Peg o’ My Heart – Bunny Berigan & his orchestra
Misty Morning - Coleman Hawkins

Time For The Leaving – Magna Carta - Songs From Wastie’s Orchard
On The Silent Wings Of Freedom - Yes - Tormato
Trailer Park - Man Bites God - Man Bites God

Tears Are Not Enough - ABC - The Lexicon Of Love
Box Office Draw - Manfred Mann - The Ascent Of Mann – The Fontana Years
Smokey Day - The Zombies - The Time Of The Zombies

3-piece suit –
Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy (episode 1) – Douglas Adams

Motorhead – Motorhead – Metal 11
The Jack – AC/DC - TNT
Young Lust - Aerosmith - Pump

Quote – “Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life”
Berthold Auerbach

Intros & Outros (20th January) –

1889 – Leadbelly (Huddie Ledbetter), blues artist
1922 - Ray Anthony
1924 – Slim Whitman (Otis Dewey Whitman), country singer
1933 – Ronny Townson, singer for The 5th Dimension
1942 – Billy Powell, member of The O’Jays
1943 - Rick Evans, half of Zager & Evans
1945 - Eric Stewart, singer, guitarist and keyboard player with The Mindbenders, Hotlegs and 10CC
1946 - Jimmy Chambers, singer for Londonbeat
1946 - Duane Allman, guitarist & member of The Allman Brothers Band
1947 - George Grantham, drummer for Poco
1947 - Malcolm McLaren, singer, and sometime manager of The Sex Pistols
1948 - Melvyn Pritchard, drummer for Barclay James Harvest
1950 - Paul Stanley, guitarist & vocals with Kiss (also listed as 1952 – Ed.)
1952 - Ian Hill, bassist for Judas Priest
1953 - Robin McAuley of Michael Schenker Group
1955 - Michael Anthony, bassist & singer for Van Halen
1960 - Paul King of King
1965 - Alan Freed, member of The Sultans of Swing, radio disc jockey, concert promoter, songwriter, movie star, convicted of accepting payment for record promotion, died on this day. He was 43
1966 - Tracii Guns, founding guitarist for Guns ‘n’ Roses
1967 - Joe Pasquale
1969 – Nicholas Jones (a.k.a. Nicky Wire), bassist for Manic Street Preachers
1971 - Gary Barlow, vocalist, pianist & songwriter for Take That, and solo artist
1979 - Rob Bourdon, drummer for Linkin Park
1979 - Will Young, singer & winner of UK’s Pop Idol
1984 - Jackie Wilson died from a heart attack on this day. He was 49
1996 - Buster Benton, singer/guitarist, died on this day. He was 63
1999 - Bill Albaugh of The Lemon Pipers died on this day

On this day (20th January) –

1956 - Buddy Holly recorded Blue Days Black Nights in Nashville
1958 – The Silhouettes released Get A Job. Also, a St Louis radio station KWK finished its “Record Breaking Week”. Management had all rock & roll music banned from the airwaves, so the disc jockeys gave each record from the library a “farewell spin” before it was smashed to pieces. The station manager called the action “a simple weeding out of undesirable music”
1964 - The Beatles released Meet The Beatles, their debut album for the US market
1965 - The Rolling Stones and The Kinks made their first appearance on TV’s Shindig, along with The Dave Clark Five, Petula Clark, Bobby Vee, Bobby Sherman and Gerry & The Pacemakers. Also, The Byrds recorded Mr. Tambourine Man
1966 - Spencer Davis Group’s Keep On Runnin’ went to no.1. Also, Bill Graham, concert promoter, put on his 3-day Trips Festival at Longshoremen’s Hall in San Francisco. Large quantities of LSD were ingested
1967 –The Monkees TV show went to air in the UK
1968 - John Fred & The Playboy Band’s Judy In Disguise (With Glasses) started 2 weeks at no. 1 in the US. The Bee Gees released Words. Also, Bob Dylan, The Band, Joan Baez, Odetta, Arlo Guthrie, Judy Collins, Richie Havens, Pete Seeger, Ramblin’ Jack Elliot and Peter, Paul & Mary were amongst friends performing for the Tribute to Woody Guthrie Concert. It was Dylan’s first performance since his motorcycle accident 2 years earlier
1971 - Yoko Ono introduced John Lennon to her parents in Japan
1972 - The Rolling Stones were awarded gold for their greatest hits LP Hot Rocks
1973 - Jerry Lee Lewis was warned before his debut at the legendary Grand Ol’ Opry that there be “no rock & roll & no cussin’”. By the end of his set he had played Great Balls of Fire, Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On and Good Golly Miss Molly. Jerry announced to the audience, “I’m a rock ‘n’ rollin’, country & western, rhythm & blues singin’ mother ****er!”. No one disagreed
1974 - Stevie Wonder made a successful comeback at the Rainbow Theatre in London, 5 months after a near-fatal car accident
1975 - The US Top 5 singles were 5: Boogie On, Reggae Woman (Stevie Wonder), 4: Fire (Ohio Players), 3: Mandy (Barry Manilow), 2: Laughter In The Rain (Neil Sedaka) and at 1: Please Mr. Postman (The Carpenters)
1979 - Chic performed at London’s Hammersmith Odeon. The Doobie Brothers released What a Fool Believes
1982 - Thinking it was a rubber prop, Ozzy Osbourne bit off the head of an unconscious bat after fans had thrown it on stage. He was taken to hospital for a rabies injection. Meanwhile, headlining a UNICEF benefit concert at The Savoy in New York were Charlie Daniels, Rick Derringer, Phil Lynott and Carmine Appice
1986 - Stevie Wonder and Bob Dylan performed at a concert for the first Martin Luther King day
1988 - The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Drifters, Bob Dylan, Berry Gordy Jr., Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly, Les Paul and The Supremes<>Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. in his acceptance speech, The Beach Boys’ Mike Love managed to insult just about everyone in the industry, including Paul McCartney, Diana Ross, Bruce Springsteen and Mick Jagger
1990 - Michael Bolton started a 3-week run at no. 1 with How Am I Supposed To Live Without You. It was his first no. 1 as well as the 90’s first no. 1 in the US. Meanwhile, the original members of The Byrds reunited for a Roy Orbison tribute concert
1996 - Bobby Brown was fined $1000, sentenced to 2 years probation and ordered to attend anger management classes after assaulting a security guard
1998 - Chumbawumba’s Alice Nutter appeared on ABC’s ,i>Politically Incorrect advocating fans stealing copies of their album. Virgin Megastore responded by pulling their album off the shelves. Meanwhile, The Mamas & Papas and The Eagles were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
2002 - George Harrison had a posthumous no. 1 hit with the re-release of My Sweet Lord, replacingAllayah’s More Than A Woman at the top spot. It was the first time in chart history that a deceased artist had taken over from another at no. 1