PLAYLIST FOR THE LAUNDROMAT – 24th MARCH

Take Your Pick – Greg Olsen – Take Your Pick
Beside You - Iggy Pop - American Caesar
Callin’ Me Home - Barry McGuire - Lighten Up

The odd sock –
First, The News - The Two Ronnies

The Phone Call - The Pretenders - The Isle Of View
Follow The Wind - The Bee Gees - Hits
All Fall Down - Willie Porter - Willie Porter

Stuff you left in your pockets –
Stepfather Blues – Big Joe Williams
Soldier – Blind Boys of Alabama
My Baby Quit Me – Leadbelly
Blue Koala Waltz – Dick Fregulia
Eager Beaver – Stan Kenton & his orchestra
Keepin’ Out Of Mischief - Dinah Washington

Magdalene (My Regal Zonophone) - Procol Harum - Collection
Sheila C. - Benny Mardones - Too Much To Lose
Low - Prop - Small Craft, Rough Sea

It Says Here - Billy Brag - Brewing Up With Billy Bragg
Sheena Is A Punk Rocker - The Ramones - Ramones Mania
Hole In The Sky - Black Sabbath - Sabotage

3-piece suit –
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (episode 10) – Douglas Adams

Quote – “I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds.”Dizzy Gillespie

Intros & Outtros (24th March) –

1922 - Dave Appell, singer / songwriter with The Applejacks
1937 – Billy Stewart, R&B singer and pianist in Bo Diddley’s band
1937 – George Fenton Hollis
1938 - Holger Czukay, bassist for Can
1944 - Patti LaBelle, vocalist for LaBelle
1946 - Colin Peterson, drummer for The Bee Gees
1947 - Mike Kellie, drummer for Spooky Tooth after V.I.P.
1948 - Lee Oskar, harmonica player for Night Shift (with friend Eric Burdon) and War
1949 - Nick Lowe, singer
1949 - Steve Lang, bassist for April Wine
1951 - Dougie Thompson, bassist for Supertramp
1960 - Nena (Gabriele Suzanne Kerner), singer
1970 - Pasemaster Mace, rapper with De La Soul
1970 - Sharon Corr, singer & violinist with The Corrs
1994 - Tommy Benford, jazz drummer died on this day at 88
1995 - Joey Long, blues / cajun guitarist died on this day at 62

On this day (24th March) –

1941 - Glenn Miller began work on his first movie
1945 - Billboard published its first US album chart. Nat ‘King’ Cole sat at no. 1 withA Collection of Favourites
1958 - Elvis Presley presented himself to the Memphis Draft Board to enlist for compulsory National Service. His service no. was 53310761. His new job cost the US Government over $500,000 per year in lost taxes from his record earnings. Buddy Holly & The Crickets played the Cardiff Capitol
1962 - Mersey Beat poll winners The Beatles played The Barnston Women’s Institute. Admission price was 7 shillings & 6 pence. The Shirelles released Soldier Boy. Mick Jagger and Keith Richards perform as Little Boy Blue & The Blue Boys
1966 - Simon & Garfunkle had a UK singles chart debut with Homeward Bound
1972 - America was awarded gold for A Horse With No Name
1973 - Lou Reed had his bum bitten by a fan who climbed onstage and screamed “Leather!” at a concert in Buffalo, New York. The man was evicted & Lou completed the show. Alice Cooper went to UK album no. 1 with Billion Dollar Babies. The O’Jays’ Love Train topped the charts
1976 - Transvestite singer Wayne County appeared in court charged with assault after an incident at CBGB’s in New York. He attacked Dictators’s singer Handsome Dick Manitobe with a mike stand, fracturing his collarbone
1978 - Wings release With a Little Luck
1979 - The Bee Gees started a 2-week run at no. 1 on the US singles charts with Tragedy, their 8th No. 1 hit in the US. Supertramp released The Logical Song
1980 - The Beatles’s rarities was released, including rare versions of previously released songs including a stereo version of Penny Lane, She Loves You in German and an inner groove sound effect from Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band not found on the album released in the US
1984 - Former Commodores’s singer, Lionel Richie, was at no.1 on the UK singles charts with Hello
1985 - Easy Lover, by former Earth, Wind & Fire singer Philip Bailey and Phil Collins reached no. 1 on the UK singles charts
1986 - The soundtrack album to the movie Absolute Beginners was released. It featured Ray Davies, David Bowie and others
1990 - Alannah Myles started a 2-week run at no. 1 on the US singles charts with Black Velvet. Sinead O’Connor became the first Irish female solo artist to go to no. 1 on the UK album charts, with her I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got album. Gloria Estefan was awarded a Golden Globe for sales of 5 million outside the US
1991 - The Black Crowes were dumped as the support act for ZZ Top’s tour for repeatedly criticizing the tour sponsor, Miller Beer
1992 - A Chicago court settled the Milli Vanilli class action suit by approving cash rebates of up to $3.00 to anyone proving that they bought the group’s music before November 27th, 1990, the date of their lip-synching scandal
1997 - U2 were at no. 1 on the US album charts with Pop
1998 - Mark Morrison was gaoled for a year after attempting to con his way out of doing community service. He sent his minder, Gabriel Mafereka in his place, who wore sunglasses and tucked his hair up under his hat to look like the celebrity
2000 - A film company paid £635,000 for over 9 hours of film shot by Yoko Ono. The footage contained shots of John Lennon smoking hash and talking about his political beliefs. Sir Elton John’s Aida opened on Broadway. It took 21 days to write & over 5 years to put together
2002 - Gareth Gates became the youngest male solo artist to score a UK singles hit with his debut release Unchained Melody. Gates was 17 years and 255 days