PLAYLIST FOR THE LAUNDROMAT – 10th MARCH

Take Your Pick – Greg Olsen – Take Your Pick
Isn’t She Lovely - Ross Nobel - Surviving
Up In The World - Art Garfunkel - Scissors Cut

The odd sock –
Lucy In The Sky (With Diamonds) - William Shatner

Lead Me On - Larry Norman - Collected Works
Trusting You - Australian Crawl - Sirocco
For Yasgur’s Farm - Mountain - Super Hits

Stuff you left in your pockets –
Train Whistle Blues – Blind Boy Fuller & Sonny Terry
Mexico City – John Mayall
L.A.Blues – Lightnin’ Hopkins
Papagio – Don Burrows & The Brazilian Connection
Music Makers – Harry James & his orchestra
Oleo - James Morrison & Adam Makowicz

Plastic & Concrete - Iggy Pop - American Caesar
52 Girls - B-52s - B-52s
Criminals - The Pretenders - The Isle Of View

Ready For Love - Bad Company - Bad Co.
Rage – Schitt Acht – Metal 11
Eve Of Destruction / Don’t Blame God / 2 Chronicles 7:14 - Barry McGuire - Lighten Up

Don’t Panic - Powderfinger - Vulture Street
I Was A Lover, A Leader Of Men - The Bee Gees - Hits
Big Yellow Pine - Willie Porter - Willie Porter

3-piece suit –
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (episode 8) – Douglas Adams

Quote – “These people are about as deep as a birdbath”
David Crosby (on teen pop)

Intros & Outtros (10th March) –

1903 - Bix Beiderbecke, jazz cornet player
1940 - Dean Torrence, singer with Jan & Dean (also Jan & Arnie). Dean played with The Legendary Masked Surfers, and ran a design studio
1945 - Pete Nelson, vocals for The Flower Pot Men
1947 - Tom Scholz, guitarist & keyboard player for Boston
1948 - Jethro Burns (Kenneth C Burns), of Homer & Jethro
1950 - Ted McKenna, drummer for The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
1955 - Bunny DeBarge, of DeBarge
1962 - Gary Clark (Danny Wilson)
1963 - Jeff Ament, bassist for Pearl Jam
1964 - Neneh Cherry, singer
1964 - Patrick Kane of Hue & Cry
1965 - Tina Charles (Tina Hoskins)
1965 - Eddie Brickell, singer with The New Bohemians
1967 - Susie Q (Susan Banfield) of Cookie Crew
1969 - Ricky Seagall of The Partridge Family
1988 - Andy Gibb, singer and brother to The Bee Gees died on this day following a cocaine addiction which weakened his heart. He was 30
1989 - Doc Green of The Drifters, died on this day
1997 – Laverne Baker, singer, died on this day aged 67

On this day (10th March) –

1956 - RCA Records placed a half-page ad in Billboard magazine claiming that Elvis Presley was the new singing rage. In Australia, Johnny Ray was mobbed by fans as he arrived for his first tour ‘down under’.
1959 - Elvis Presley released I Need Your Love Tonight / A Fool Such As I. The next day, RCA Records shipped a gold disc to Elvis, stationed in Germany, for advanced sales of over 1 million
1960 - UK trade paper Record Retailer published the UK’s first ever EP & LP chart. No.1 EP was Expresso Bongo by Cliff Richard & The Shadows and no. 1 LP was The Explosive Freddy Cannon
1961 - Jeff Barry, (Tell Laura I Love Her), signed an exclusive writing & recording deal with Trinity Music
1962 - Bruce Chanel started a 3-week run at no. 1 on the US singles charts with Hey Baby
1967 - The Monkees held no. 1 on the US album charts with More of The Monkees. Meanwhile, a London court appointed an independent receiver to handle The Beatles’ assets, and barred their manager Allen Klein from any more involvement in their affairs
1970 - Barbra Streisand recorded The Singer and I Can Do It
1972 - America were awarded gold for their debut LP
1973 - Pink Floyd released Dark Side of the Moon in the US, Steely Dan released Reelin’ in the Years and The Edgar Winter Group released Frankenstein
1974 - David Bowie recorded an in-concert album, David Live, at Philadelphia’s Tower Theatre
1975 - Carnegie Hall overflowed with fans who turned out to hear ex-Moody Blues artists Justin Haywood and John Lodge, now The Blue Jays
1977 - The Sex Pistols signed to A&M Records. The contract lasted 6 days. Pink Floyd’s album, Animal is declared platinum
1978 - The Bee Gees’s Stayin’ Alive was replaced at no. 1 by their Night Fever
1979 - Gloria Gaynor’s I Will Survive started 3 weeks at no. 1 on the US charts. Also, James Brown played the Grand Ole Opry
1984 - Van Halen’s Jump was no. 1 on the US singles charts
1988 - Onstage in Perth, Australia, George Michael thanked Tipper Gore, head of the Parents Musical Resource Committee, for helping to boost sales of his Faith LP
1990 - The published results of a survey amongst Russian teenagers revealed that the western rock acts they would most like to see live were Michael Jackson, Pink Floyd and The Beatles
1992 - Prince won a ‘Lifetime Achievement’ Award at the Soul Train awards ceremony. Also receiving awards were Natalie Cole and Color Me Badd
1995 - Former Stone Roses manager Gareth Evans’s £10 million lawsuit was settled out of court for an undisclosed sum
1996 - Alanis Morissette won Best Album for Jagged Little Pill, Best Female Singer, Best Rock Album, Best Songwriter and Best Single at the 25th Juno Awards held in Hamilton, Canada
2000 - The Pretenders’ Chrissie Hynde was arrested for leading an animal rights protest against clothing firm GAP, who were accused of using leather from cows slaughtered “illegally & cruelly”. The protest took place in a clothing store in Manhattan. The Daily Mail published pictures of Paul McCartney dancing with a cowgirl in the bar of a New York club. McCartney sang along to Whole Lotta Shakin’ through a megaphone and mimicked a striptease in front of onlookers
2001 - It was reported that the US manufacturer Art Asylum planned to send in excess of 100,000 Eminem dolls to shops in the UK. The life-like dolls had the rapper’s tattoos recreated in detail, including the words “Cut Here” on his neck
2002 - UK TV’s Pop Idol winner Will Young revealed in an interview that he was gay saying, “It’s no big deal, it’s just part of who I am”
2004 - Corey Taylor from Slipknot married Scarlett