PLAYLIST FOR THE LAUNDROMAT – 17th MARCH

Take Your Pick – Greg Olsen – Take Your Pick
You Better Believe It - Mountain - Super Hits
Dance This Mess Around - B-52s - B-52s

The odd sock –
Car Tips - Mr. Obvious

Highway Song - Iggy Pop - American Caesar
Don’t Let Me Down - Bad Company - Bad Co.
Lovers of Today - The Pretenders - The Isle Of View

Stuff you left in your pockets –
New York City – Leadbelly
Amazing Grace – Blind Boys of Alabama
Brother James – Big Joe Williams
Don Joao – Don Burrows & The Brazilian Connection
Estrillita – Harry James & his orchestra
Ain’t Misbehavin’ - Dinah Washington

Don’t Panic - Powderfinger - Vulture Street
Eve Of Destruction / Don’t Blame God / 2 Chronicles 7:14 - Barry McGuire - Lighten Up
Big Yellow Pine - Willie Porter - Willie Porter

I Was A Lover, A Leader Of Men - The Bee Gees - Hits
Repent Walpurgis - Procol harum - Collection
Shiela C. - Benny Mardones - Too Much To Lose

3-piece suit –
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (episode 9) – Douglas Adams

Quote – “When you can spell ‘subpoena’, that’s when you know you’ve made it”
David Lee Roth

Intros & Outtros (17th March) –

1919 - Nat ‘King’ Cole (Nathaniel Adams Coles), singer. (Some references quote 1917. Ed)
1934 – QT Macon, blues singer & guitarist
1935 – Adam Wade, singer from Tony Orlando & Dawn
1939 - Dean Mathis of Dean & Mark, then The Newbeats
1939 - Clarence Collins, singer with Little Anthony & The Imperials (Some references quote 1941. Ed)
1940 - Vito Picone, lead for The Elegants
1941 - Paul Lorin Kantner, founding member, guitarist and vocals for Jefferson Airplane / Jefferson Starship
1944 - Patti Boyd, wife of George Harrison and later, Eric Clapton
1944 - John Sebastian, singer / songwriter, guitarist, harmonica player, member of The Lovin’ Spoonful (Some references quote 1941. Ed)
1946 - Harold Brown, drummer for War
1948 - Pat Lloyd, guitarist with The Equals
1951 - Scott Gorham, guitarist for Thin Lizzy
1954 - Wally Stocker of The Babys
1959 - Mike Lindup, vocalist & keyboard player for Level 42
1959 - Terry Hall of The Specials and Fun Boy 3
1962 - Roxy Dora Petrucci of Vixen
1962 - Claire Grogan of Altered Images
1967 - Billy Corgan, guitarist & vocalist for The Smashing Pumpkins
1967 - Van Connor of Screaming Trees
1973 - Caroline Corr, drummer, pianist, vocalist for The Corrs
1975 - Justin Hawkins, vocalist for The Darkness
1976 - Stephen Gately, vocalist for Boyzone
1982 - Samuel George Jr., lead singer for The Capitols, died on this day from a stabbing wound during a family argument
1990 - Ric Grech, bassist to The Farinas (later Family), Blind Faith, Air Force, Traffic, temporary member of The Crickets, KGB and Grechmas, and session musician for Jim Capaldi and Ronnie Bond, died on this day of debilities not unrelated to drug addiction. He was 44
1997 - Sunnyland Smart jazz & blues singer & pianist died on this day aged 87
1997 - Jermaine Stewart, singer who worked with Shalamar, The Temptations and Boy George, died of cancer on this day

On this day (17th March) –

1958 - The Champs started a 5-week run at no. 1 on the US singles charts with Tequila. The Crickets play at The Gaumont, in Doncaster
1962 - The Ealing Club opened as a result of scorn for traditional jazz. Two sacked Chris Barber sidemen, harmonica player Cyril Davies and guitarist Alexis Korner formed Blues Incorporated in 1961, and in March 1962 found suitable premises for the band to play in West London’s Ealing Broadway. Playing in the band were Mick Jagger, Charlie Watts and Jack Bruce From this line-up emerged the nucleus of The Rolling Stones. The Shirelles released Soldier Boy. Billboard reported that Ray Charles started his own record label, Tangerine Records
1965 - The Beatles announced their upcoming movie was to be titled 8 Arms To Hold On To You. (It was named Help!)
1966 - The Walker Brothers had a UK no. 1 hits with The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore, originally a recording by Frankie Valli
1967 - The first night of a 17-date tour, Otis Redding, Eddie Floyd, Carla Thomas, Sam & Dave Booker T. & The MGs played London’s Finsbury Park Astoria
1968 - The Bee Gees made their TV debut on The Ed Sullivan Show)
1971 - Creedence Clearwater Revival’s Have You Ever Seen The rain was awarded gold
1972 - Ringo Starr released Back Off Boogaloo in the UK
1973 - Eric Weissberg started a 3-week run at no. 1 on the US album charts with Duelling Banjos, featuring the theme from the movie Deliverance
1976 - Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers played New York’s CBGB. Rubin ‘Hurricane’ Carter was awarded a re-trial in part because of the influence from Bob Dylan’s song Hurricane
1978 - The movie about US disc-jockey Alan Freed, American Hot Wax, premiered in the US
1979 - Gloria Gaynor started a 4-week run at no. 1 on the UK charts with I Will Survive. Bad Company released Rock & Roll Fantasy and Styx released Renegade
1990 - Prince began filming Graffiti Bridge, the follow-up to his Purple Rain movie
1995 - Madonna holds the record for “The World’s Biggest Pyjama Party” as 1500 guests gathered with pjs & teddy bears. This was all for a premiere of Madonna’s new movie Bedtime Stories
1997 - Elvis Presley Enterprises of Memphis, Tennessee, lost its court battle to stop London trader, Sid Shaw, using the name of “The King” on his souvenirs. The legal tussle had been going on for over 17 years and speaking after the ruling, Mr Shaw said, ”I’m delighted. I’ve proved that Elvis belongs to all of us – Elvis is part of our history, part of our culture”
1998 - Van Halen released Van Halen 3 and later held a record signing for fans at the Virgin Megastore in Times Square
2004 - Ray Davies, front man for The Kinks, received a CBE for services to the music industry
2005 - Justin Hawkins from The Darkness became the centre of the latest hands-on activity at Madame Tussauds in London. His wax double would judge the ‘air-guitar’ skills of visitors, who are invited to play an imaginary guitar with smoke & liquid pumping out. Hawkins said, I find the process of air-guitar rather silly. What makes a good air-guitarist? Alcohol”