PLAYLIST FOR THE LAUNDROMAT – 14th April

Take Your Pick – Greg Olsen – Take Your Pick
The Beginning Of A Great Adventure - Lou Reed - New York
Shake Your Tailfeather - The Blues Brothers - The Blues Brothers

The odd sock –
Pearl Pureheart - Aunty Jack Cast

Land Of Stolen Breath - Rez - Reach Of Love
Don’t Look Back - Boston - Don’t Look Back
The Cry Of A Crow - The Residents - Our Tired, Our Poor, Our Huddled Masses - Roosevelt

Stuff you left in your pockets –
Avalon Blues – Mississippi John Hurt
Lazy Poker Blues – Fleetwood Mac
Roberta – Leadbelly
Wild Cat – Eddie Lang & Joe Venuti
Chicks Is Wonderful – Jack Teagarden & his orchestra
Blues For Judy - James Morrison & Adam Makowicz

(I’m Leaving It) Up To You - The Righteous Brothers - Unchained Melody
The Ballad Of Hollis Brown - Bob Dylan - The Times, They Are A’Changin’
The Poor Side Of Town - Johnny Rivers - The Best Of …

Welcome To The Music - Bread - Guitar Man
Runs In The Family - The Roches - The Roches
No Surrender - Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA

3-piece suit –
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (episode 13) – Douglas Adams

Quote – “A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians”Frank Zappa

Intros & Outtros (14th April) –

1933 - Buddy Knox, singer
1935 - Loretta Lynn, C&W singer
1942 - Tony Burrows, singer with Edison Lighthouse, Flowerpot Men, White Plains
1945 - Ritchie Blackmore, guitarist for Deep Purple, Elf and Rainbow
1946 - Patrick Fairley of Marmalade
1948 - Larry Ferguson, keyboard player for Hot Chocolate
1949 - June Millington of Fanny
1949 - Sonja Kristina of Curved Air
1952 - Jerry Knight of Raydio
1983 - Pete Farndon, bassist for The Pretenders, died of a drug overdose on this day. He was 27
1995 - Burl Ives, singer, died on this day. He was 85

On this day (14th April) –

1953 - Lita Roza had a no. 1 hit in the UK with How Much Is That Doggie In The Window?
1955 - Fats Domino released Ain’t That a Shame
1963 - George Harrison indicated he was impressed by the as-yet unsigned group The Rolling Stones
1964 - The King Bees (with a young David Jones, later to rename to David Bowie), played a wedding reception at the Jack of Clubs in London
1965 - The title of the upcoming Beatles’ movie was changed from 8 Arms To Hold You to Help!. Millie Small, Jerry Lee Lewis and Neil Sedaka appeared on Shindig!
1967 - A riot broke out in Warsaw’s Palace of Culture as The Rolling Stones made their first appearance in an Iron Curtain country. Police used tear gas to try and control over 2000 fans. Polydor Records released The Bee Gees’ New York Mining Disaster 1941 and billed the band as “the most significant talent since The Beatles”
1968 - Pink Floyd demonstrated an electronic device called an Azimuth Coordinator during a concert titled, More Furious Madness From The Massed Gadgets of Auzimenes at London’s Royal Festival Hall
1969 - The Ballad of John & Yoko was recorded by two of The Beatles. Paul McCartney played bass, drums & piano while John Lennon played guitars
1970 - Creedence Clearwater Revival made their live UK debut when they played the first of 2 nights at London’s Royal Albert Hall. Stephen Stills broke his wrist in a car accident when he smashed into a parked car, while watching a Police car in his rear-view mirror
1971 - The Illinois Crime Commission issued a list of “Drug-orietated records, including Jefferson Airplane’s White Rabbit, Procol Harum’s Whiter Shade Of Pale and The Beatles’s Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
1972 - David Bowie released Starman from the LP The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars
1973 - Led Zeppelin sat at no. 1 in the UK for 2 weeks with Houses Of The Holy. Paul McCartney released My Love
1974 - Pete Townshend performed without The Who at London’s Roundhouse
1975 - After rumours that Jimmy Page, Steve Marriott, Jeff Beck and Chris Spedding were to replace Mick Taylor as guitarist for The Rolling Stones, it was announced that Ron Wood would play in the bands forthcoming US tour. Art Garfunkel started a 6-week run at no. 1 in the UK with Bright Eyes, theme to the movie Watership Down. The Doobie Brothers picked up a gold single for Black Water
1976 - Eric Faulkner of The Bay City Rollers reportedly came close to death after a drug overdose at the band’s manager’s house. Stevie Wonder and Motown Recordsannounced a contract agreement of $13 million
1978 - Joy Division played at the Stiff Test / Chiswick Challenge and was noticed by their future manager Rob Gretton
1979 - The Doobie Brothers went to no. 1 on the US singles charts with What A Fool Believes. Dr. Hook released When You’re In Love With A Beautiful Woman
1980 - Gary Newman released The Touring Principle the first longform rock video to be made commercially available in the UK. Pete Townshend released his Empty Glass LP. A New Jersey State Assemblyman introduced a resolution to make Bruce Springsteen’s Born To Run the official state song. The Knack released their 2nd album … but the little girls understand
1987 - Fleetwood Mac released Tango In The Night
1989 - Tom Petty released Full Moon Fever
1990 - Tommy Page topped the charts with I’ll Be Your Everything
1994 - Kurt Cobain was cremated in Seattle. The death certificate listed his occupation as ‘poet/musician’ and his business as ‘punk rock’
2003 - A man was arrested and accused of making up a Bjork concert and then selling tickets. Alex Conate sold $14,000 worth of tickets after persuading a San Diego nightclub owner that the artist was going to perform there. He took the money & moved to Hawaii, where he was arrested