PLAYLIST FOR THE LAUNDROMAT – 21st April

Take Your Pick – Greg Olsen – Take Your Pick
Mannequin Dreams - Rez - Reach Of Love
Everybody Needs Somebody To Love - The Blues Brothers - The Blues Brothers

The odd sock –
Our Favourite Recordings - The Beach Boys - All Summer Long

Struggle - The Residents - Our Tired, Our Poor, Our Huddled Masses - Roosevelt
The Journey / It’s Easy - Boston - Don’t Look Back
Turn On Your Love Lights - The Righteous Brothers - Unchained Melody

Stuff you left in your pockets –
Night Time Blues – Ma Rainey
Trying So Hard To Forget – Fleetwood Mac
Outside Of That – Bessie Smith
Guitar Blues – Eddie Lang & Joe Venuti
Lady Be Good – Artie Shaw & his orchestra
Sitio Azul - Don Burrows & The Brazilian Connection

Where Have All The Flowers Gone? - Johnny Rivers - The Best Of …
With God On Our Side - Bob Dylan - The Times, They Are A’Changin’
Quitting Time - The Roches - The Roches

Guitar Man - Bread - Guitar Man
I Saw The Light - Todd Rundgren - Anthology 1968 – 1985
No Surrender - Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA

3-piece suit –
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (episode 14) – Douglas Adams

Quote – “Jazz is not dead. It just smells funny”Frank Zappa

Intros & Outtros (21st April) – (Trying a new format – I’d appreciate comments. Ed)

1924
· Ira Louvin (Lonnie Ira Loudermilk)

1939
· Ernie Maresca

1947
· Alan Warner, guitarist with The Foundations
· Iggy Pop (James Jewel Osterberg), singer with The Stooges and solo artist
· John Weider, guitarist with The Animals and Family

1948
· Paul Davis, country singer

1951
· Nicole Barclay of Fanny
· Paul Carrack of Squeeze, Ace and Mike & The Mechanics

1958
· Mike Barson of Madness

1959
· Robert Smith, guitarist and vocalist for The Cure

1963
· Johnny McElhorne, bassist with Altered Image then Texas

1970
· Earl Hooker, blues guitarist, died of tuberculosis on this day

1971
· Don Drummond, sax player, died on this day

1978
· Sandy Denny, folk-singer and member of The Fairport Convention, died of a brain haemorrhage on this day after falling down a flight of stairs

2000
· Neal Matthews of The Jordanians, (Elvis Presley’s backing vocalists), died on this day of a heart attack. He had also worked with Ricky Nelson, Marie Osmond, Tom Jones and Merle Haggard

On this day (21st April) –

1956
· Elvis Presley topped the charts with Heartbreak Hotel

1958
· The Platters had a no. 1 in the US with Twilight Time

1960
· Dick Clark, described as “the single most influential person” in the pop music business, testified before the congressional committee looking into payola. He admitted that he had a financial interest in 27% of the records he played on his show over a 28 month period

1962
· Elvis Presley started a 2-week run at no. 1 in the US with Good Luck Charm

1963
· The Rolling Stones were paid £50 for their performance at The Crawdaddy Club, Station Hotel, London. The Beatles met them for the first time on this day. Says Bill Wyman, ”We were playing there one Sunday and suddenly looked up and there were four sort of silhouetted guys with black leather overcoats … all dressed exactly the same. And we said to ourselves, “Shit! That’s the Beatles!” and got all nervous. But then we had a chat with them afterwards and stayed up all night rappin’ and we became really good mates.”

1962
· The Beach Boys performed on the pop music TV show, Shindig!

1969
· Janis Joplin, supported by Yes, played her concert debut at the Royal Albert Hall in London

1971
· Rolling Stones records first release was Sticky Fingers

1972
· Neil Young was awarded gold for Heart Of Gold

1973
· Alice Cooper went to no. 1 on the US album charts with Billion Dollar Babies
· Tony Orlando & Dawn started 4 weeks at No. 1 on the US singles charts with Tie A Yellow Ribbon (Round The Old Oak Tree). It was also no. 1 in the UK on this day
· Jim Croce released Bad, Bad, Leroy Brown
· The Doobie Brothers released Long Train Runnin’

1974
· Dolly Parton left The Porter Wagoner Show to embark on a solo career

1977
· Ex-Raspberries lead singer, Eric Carman, entered the charts with All By Myself

1977
· Jessie Winchester performed his first concert in the US since leaving there for Canada 10 years earlier to avoid the draft

1979
· Knock On Wood went to no. 1 on the US charts for Amii Stewart

1982
· Joe Strummer from The Clash went missing for 3 weeks, causing a tour to be cancelled. He was found living rough in Paris

1984
· Phil Collins started a 3-week run at no. 1 on the US singles charts with the theme from Against All Odds
· After 37 weeks, Thriller is replaced as no. 1 album by Footloose

1988
· Barbra Streisand recorded You’ll Never Know

1990
· Fleetwood Mac scored their 4th no. 1 UK album with Behind The Mask
· Paul McCartney played before 184,000 fans in Rio, creating a new world record for the number of fans attending a rock concert
· Sinead O’Connor started 4 weeks at no. 1 on the US singles charts with her cover of Prince’s Nothing Compares To You
· Amy Grant sued Marvel Comics for including her likeness in a Dr Strange comic

1993
· Ex-Rolling Stone Bill Wyman married Suzanne Accosta

2001
· R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck was charged with being drunk on an aircraft and assaulting British Airways crew, by police at Heathrow airport after a flight from Seattle. He was taken into custody and questioned for 12 hours