PLAYLIST FOR THE LAUNDROMAT – 24th February

Take Your Pick – Greg Olsen – Take Your Pick
Sunnyboys - Sunnyboys
Walking The Whippett - Andy Mackay - In Search Of Eddie Riff

The odd sock –
It Was A Very Good Year - William Shatner

Progress - Midnight Oil - Scream In Blue
After The Rain - The Angels - Face To Face
Prayer - Ross Nobel - Surviving

Stuff you left in your pockets –
Frisco Town – Memphis Minnie
Rollin’ Man – Fleetwood Mac
Guess Who – Billy Holiday
In The Bottle Blues – Eddie Lang & Joe Venuti
Leap Frog – Les Brown & his orchestra
My Delight - James Morrison & Adam Makowicz

U.F.O. - Larry Norman - Vol 3
A Heart In New York - Art Garfunkel - Scissors Cut
Blood Of The Sun - Mountain - Super Hits

Need To Know - Arthur Brown - Chisolm In My Bosom
Surrounded – Dream Theatre – Metal 11
Unpublished Critics - Australian Crawl - Sirocco

Give Peace A Chance - Plastic Ono Band - Live Peace in Toronto 1969
Planet Clare - B-52s - B-52s
Plastic & Concrete - Iggy Pop - American Caesar

3-piece suit –
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (episode 6) – Douglas Adams

Quote – “Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance”.
Dave Barry

Intros & Outtros (24th February) –

1932 - Michel Legrand, composer
1933 - David ‘Fathead’ Newman
1942 - Paul Jones (Paul Pond), singer & harmonica player for Manfred Mann, The Blues Band and radio presenter, actor and solo artist
1943 - George Harrison, guitarist & vocalist for The Beatles, and solo artist
1944 - Nicky Hopkins, started out with Screaming Lord Sutch’s Savages, then Cyril Davies’ All Stars. Session pianist for the likes of The Beatles, John Lennon, The Rolling Stones, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Jeff Beck, Jefferson Airplane, The Who and The Small Faces
1947 - Rupert Holmes, writer, producer & singer
1947 - Lonnie Turner, bassist & vocalist for the Steve Miller Band
1955 - Bob Abrams of The Buckinghams
1959 - Colin Farley, bassist for Cutting Crew
1962 - Michelle Shocked, singer / songwriter
1988 - Memphis Slim (Peter Chataman), blues musician, died on this day
1990 - Johnny Ray, singer, died of liver failure on this day. He was 63
1991 – Webb Pierce, country singer, died on this day aged 77
1993 - Toy Caldwell, guitarist with The Marshall Tucker Band died on this day, aged 45
1994 - Dinah Shore, singer, died of cancer on this day. She was 76
2004 - Estelle Axton, founder of Stax Records died on this day, aged 85

On this day (24th February) –

1956 - Bill Haley was guaranteed $250,000 for 21 US gigs. PJ Proby was banned by the BBC following his “trouser-splitting” incidents. Police in Cleveland, Ohio, invoke a 1931 ordinance barring people under the age of 18 from dancing in public unless accompanied by an adult
1957 - Buddy Holly recorded That’ll Be The Day, the title taken from a phrase spoken by John Wayne in the film The Searchers
1963 - The Rolling Stones started a Sunday-night residency at The Station Hotel in Richmond, Surrey. They were paid £24, and performed to 66 people
1964 - The Beatles appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show via tape recording
1965 - The Beatles began filming their 2nd movie, Help!
1967 - Robert Stigwood signed The Bee Gees to a 5 year contacts. He told reporters, ”it’s impossible to overstate their international potential both as performers and composers”
1968 - Jimi Hendrix’s Axis: Bold as Love LP entered the US charts
1969 - The Jimi Hendrix Experience played their last-ever British performance at The Royal Albert Hall
1971 - Janis Joplin’s Pearl went gold
1973 - Roberta Flack started a 5-week run at US no. 1 with Killing Me Softly With His Song, a song written about Don McLean. The Byrds made their final live appearance, when they played The Capitol Theatre, Passaic, New Jersey. Dobie Gray released Drift Away
1976 - The Eagles’ Greatest Hits became the first album to be awarded platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America under new certifications that represent sales of 1 million albums or 2 million singles
1979 - The Police released Roxanne. Jefferson Starship released their greatest hits LP, Gold
1981 - Rockpile disbanded due to personality riffs between co-leaders Dave Edmunds and Nick Lowe
1982 - The Police won “Best Group” and Adam & The Ants won “Best Album” for Kings of the Wild Frontier at the first annual Brit Awards. Winners at the Grammy Awards included John & Yoko for their album Double Fantasy, Kim Carnes for Bette Davis Eyes. Quincy Jones got “Producer of the Year” and Sheena Easton got “Best New Act”
1987 - Paul Simon received a Grammy for Graceland (Best Album), Steve Winwood for Higher Love (Best Record), Bruce Hornsby & The Range for Best New Artist
1988 - Alice Cooper campaigned as a member of the Wild Party and announced he would be running for Governor of Arizona
1990 - Happy Mondays dominated the UK Independent singles charts with 6 entries in the Top 30
1992 - Kurt Cobain married Courtney Love in Hawaii. The US Postal service unveiled 2 versions of a postage stamp bearing the likeness of Elvis Presley for public vote. The younger Elvis won
1993 - This years Grammys celebrate Eric Clapton as 6-time winner, including Best Record & Song for Tears in Heaven and Best Album for Unplugged
1997 - Spice Girls won “Best Single” for Wannabe at the Brit Awards. Other winners included Manic Street Preachers for “Best Group”, The Prodigy (“Best Dance Act”), George Michael (Best Male”), Gabrielle (“Best Female”), Kula Shaker (“Best Newcomer”)
1998 - Elton John was knighted by Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham. Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee was arrested and charged with hitting his wife Pamela Anderson Lee. Also, John Fogerty was awarded the 1998 Orville H Gibson Lifetime Award to recognise the best rock, blues & jazz guitarists as voted by critics and magazine editors. Lindsay Buckingham and Sheryl Crow also received awards
2000 - Carlos Santana won 8 awards at this year’s Grammys including an award for Supernatural. Sting won awards for “Best Pop Album” and “Best Male Pop Vocal”, Sir Elton John won the “Legend Award” and Phil Collins won “Best Soundtrack for Tarzan
2002 - Sting started 2 weeks at no. 1 on the UK album charts for The Very Best Of …
2003 - Sir Paul McCartney played a private 50th birthday show for Wendy Whitworth, executive producer of CNN’s Larry King Show. He donated his $1 million fee to the Adopt-a-Minefield charity