PLAYLIST FOR THE LAUNDROMAT – 31st MARCH

Take Your Pick – Greg Olsen – Take Your Pick
How Did You Know - Willie Porter - Willie Porter
Pay the Piper - Barry McGuire - Lighten Up

The odd sock –
An Average Song - Allan Sherman

Quite Rightly So - Procol Harum - Collection
Claustrophobia - The Bee Gees - Hits
I Wanna Live - The Ramones - Ramones Mania

Stuff you left in your pockets –
St. Louis Blues – Billy Holiday
Nobody’s Fault But Mine – Blind Boys of Alabama
Back Fence Picket Blues – Kokomo Arnold
Star Eyes – Dick Fregulia
Little White Lies – Tommy Dorsey & his orchestra
Jitterbug Waltz - Dinah Washington

Ace of Hearts - Chris Rea - Wired To The Moon
This Time - Benny Mardones - Too Much To Lose
Magnetic Highway / Remorse - Prop - Small Craft, Rough Sea

Love Gets Dangerous - Billy Brag - Brewing Up With Billy Bragg
There Is No Time - Lou Reed - New York
Don’t Start (Too Late) / Symptom Of The Universe - Black Sabbath - Sabotage

3-piece suit –
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (episode 11) – Douglas Adams

Quote – “When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had and never will have.”
Edgar Watson Howe

Intros & Outtros (31st March) –

1928 - William Orville “Lefty” Frizzell
1934 - Shirley Jones, singer & actress with The Partridge Family, and other movies & musicals
1934 - John D Loudermilk, country singer, rock drummer
1935 - Richard Hughes, drummer with The Johnny Winter Band
1937 – Herb Alpert, sax player & singer in The Tijuana Brass, and co-founder of the A&M record label
1937 - Mouth (William Duyn), of Mouth & MacNeal
1944 - Rod Allen (Rodney Bainbridge), bassist & vocals for The Fortunes
1946 – Al Nichol, guitarist in The Turtles
1947 - Al Goodman, singer for The Moments
1947 - Jon Jon Poulos, drummer for The Buckinghams
1948 - Mick Ralphs, guitarist for Mott The Hoople and Bad Company
1948 - Thijs Van Leer, organist, flautist & vocals with Focus
1953 - Sean Hooper, keyboard player and vocals for Huey Lewis & The News
1958 - Pat McGlynn, guitarist for The Bay City Rollers
1959 - Angus Young, guitarist for AC/DC
1964 - Erik Turner, guitarist for Warrant
1985 - Jeanine Deckers (The Singing Nun), died from an overdose of sleeping pills on this day, in a suicide pact with a friend
1986 - O’Kelly Isley of The Isley Brothers died of a heart attack on this day at 48. (Other sources attribute his death to cerebral haemorrhage. Ed)
1995 - Latino Selena was shot & killed by her former personal assistant and former president of her fan club, who had been fired for embezzlement

On this day (31st March) –

1957 - Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Obie Wheeler and Glen Douglas opened a tour of the south in Little Rock, Arkansas
1958 - Chuck Berry released Johnny B. Goode
1960 - Lonnie Donegan sat at no. 1 on the UK singles charts with My Old Man’s A Dustman
1961 - Chris Kenners released I Like It Like That
1962 - The Beatles played their first gig in the south of England, at The Subscription Rooms in Stroud, on the same bill as The Rebel Rousers. Connie Francis was no. 1 on the US singles charts with Don’t Break The Heart That Loves You
1964 - The Beatles held the top 5 spots on Billboard’s Top 100: Can’t Buy Me Love, Twist & Shout, She Loves You, I Wanna Hold Your Hand and Please Please Me. They also had 7 other spots on the chart on the same day
1967 - Jimi Hendrix set fire to his guitar onstage for the first time playing at The Astoria in London. It was the first night of a 24-date gig, appearing with The Walker Brothers, Cat Stevens and Englebert Humperdink. Robert Plant released Our Song
1969 - John Lennon’s Rape (Film No. 6) world premiered on Australian National Television. george Harrison and Patti Boyd were fined £250 for use of illegal drugs
1972 - The Beatles Official Fan Club closed. The Beatles’ monthly magazine had ceased some 3 years previously. America’s debut LP America was no. 1 on Billboard
1973 - Donny Osmond’s cover of Johnny Mathis’s The Twelfth of Never was no. 1 on the UK singles chart. Lou Reed made his singles charts debut with Walk On The Wild Side
1974 - Television performed at CBGB in New York
1975 - Chicago received gold for Chicago VIII
1976 - Brotherhood of Man were no. 1 on the UK singles chart with Save Your Kisses For Me
1979 - Barbra Streisand’s Greatest Hits No 2 started a 4-week run at no. 1 on the UK chart
1982 - The Doobie Brothers announced their break-up
1984 - Kenny Loggins’s Footloose, theme from the movie of the same name, started 3 weeks at no. 1 in the US
1987 - Prince released Sign O’ The Times
1990 - Two members of Orbital were prohibited from performing on Top Of The Pops wearing T-shirts protesting about a local poll tax
1991 - Gloria Estefan was seriously injured when her tour bus collided with a juggernaut
1992 - 2 Bruce Springsteen albums go on sale at midnight: Human Touch and Lucky Town
1995 - Jimmy Page escaped being knifed onstage by a fan at a Page & Plant gig in Michigan. Guards apprehended the man who had intended to kill Jimmy because of the satanic music he was playing
1998 - An all-star tribute to Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours was released
2002 - Barry Gibb, of The Bee Gees, purchased his childhood home in Keppel Road, Chorlton, Manchester. He said he was going to clean it up, rent it out, and put a plaque on the wall. Celine Dion’s album, A New Day Has Come, started 4 weeks at no. 1 in the UK
2005 - RAP record company boss Marion “Suge” Knight was ordered to pay $107 million to a woman who claimed she helped him found Death Row Records in 1989. Lydia Harris said she invested in Death Row Records but was pushed out by Mr. Knight