PLAYLIST FOR THE LAUNDROMAT – 7th April

Take Your Pick – Greg Olsen – Take Your Pick
Pinhead - The Ramones - Ramones Mania
The Dreamer - Benny Mardones - Too Much To Lose

The odd sock –
Sax Man - The Lonely Island

Holding Out - Chris Rea - Wired To The Moon
The Myth Of Trust - Billy Bragg - Brewing Up With Billy Bragg
The Last Great American Whale - Lou Reed - New York

Stuff you left in your pockets –
Boogie Chillen – John Lee Hooker
If You Be My Baby – Fleetwood Mac
Walkin’ Blues – Muddy Waters
D’jango’s Castle – Dick Fregulia
The Madam Swings It – Gene Krupa & his orchestra
Indiana - James Morisson & Adam Makowicz

Reach Of Love - Rez - Reach Of Love
Megalomania - Black Sabbath - Sabotage
I Tried To Cry - The Residents - Our Tired, Our Poor, Our Huddled asses - Roosevelt

She Caught The Katy - The Blues Brothers - The Blues Brothers
He - The Righteous Brothers - Unchained Melody
The Ballad Of Hollis Brown - Bob Dylan - The Times, They Are A’Changin’

3-piece suit –
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (episode 12) – Douglas Adams

Quote – “I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to”
Elvis Presley

Intros & Outtros (7th April) –

1908 - Percy Faith
1915 - Billie Holiday (Elenora Harris), jazz singer
1920 - Ravi Shankar, sitar player and mentor to George Harrison
1935 - Bobby Bare, singer
1937 - Charley Thomas, tenor & lead singer with The Drifters
1938 - Spencer Dryden, drummer for Jefferson Airplane
1938 - Freddie Hubbard, jazz trumpeter
1943 - Mick Abrahams, guitarist for Jethro Tull
1946 - Bill Kreutzmann, drummer for The Grateful Dead
1947 - Florian Schneider-Esleben, multi-instrumentalist with Kraftwerk
1947 - Patricia Bennett, singer with The Chiffons
1948 - Carol Douglas, of The Chantels
1949 – John Oates, half of Hall & Oates
1949 - Bryan Gannett, of Flower Garden
1950 - Steve Ellis, of Love Affair
1951 - Janis Ian (Janis Eddy Fink), singer / songwriter
1952 - Bruce Gary of The Knack
1960 - Simon Climie (Climie Fisher), songwriter / producer
1981 - Kit Lambert, manager for The Who fell down a flight of steps and died on this day
1988 - Tammy Wynette, US country singer died on this day aged 55
1998 - Wendy O Williams, singer with The Plasmatics committed suicide on this day
2000 – Heinz, bassist & singer with The Tornadoes died on this day aged 57

On this day (7th April) –

1943 - Lysergic acid diethylamide was first synthesized by Albert Hoffman in a lab in Switzerland. LSD played its part in the evolution of music & its culture in the 1960s
1956 - Little Richard released Long Tall Sally
1958 - CBS Radio Network premiered the first regularly scheduled nationally broadcast rock & roll show Allan Freed’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Dance Party. The Platters released Twilight Time
1962 - While at Alexis Korner’s Ealing Jazz Club, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards met Brian Jones for the first time. Brian was calling himself Elmo Lewis and was playing guitar that night for Ian Stewart, Geoff Bradford and Paul Jones. Ian went on to be tour manager for The Rolling Stones while Paul ended up fronting Manfred Mann. Shelley Fabares had a hit with Johnny Angel
1973 - Diana Ross started a 2-week run at no. 1 on the US album charts with Lady Sings The Blues. Elton John released Daniel. Vicki Lawrence had a hit with The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia
1975 - Ritchie Blackmore quit Deep Purple to form his own band, Rainbow. Tommy Bolin replaced him in Deep Purple
1977 - The Clash released their debut album
1979 - Siouxsie & The Banshees played a charity gig for MENCAP but after crowd trouble, were hit with a £2000 bill for damage to seats. A 2-day California Music Festival opened at the L.A. Memorial Coliseum with 110,000 attending the event. Artist performing included Aerosmith, The Boomtown Rats, Cheap Trick, Ted Nugent and Van Halen
1979 - The Doobie Brothers went to no. 1 with their only US chart topper, Minute By Minute
1981 - Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band started their first world tour in Hamburg. It was Bruce’s first tour outside the US and took in 10 countries. Steve Marriott, guitarist for Humble Pie, crushed his hand in a closing door. Rumours that he would never play again were unfounded.
1984 - A record 40 UK acts appeared on the US singles charts
1985 - Wham! became the first western pop group to perform in China 1988 - Alice Cooper almost hanged himself onstage when a safety rope snapped & left him dangling. A roadie came to his aid after a few seconds
1990 - Taylor Dane had a hit with Love Will Lead You Back. Farm Aid IV was held at the Indiana Hoosierdome. Artists included Neil Young, Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, Guns ‘n’ Roses and Jackson Browne. Elton John dedicated Candle in the Wind to AIDS patient Ryan White who died later in the night
1997 - Liam Gallagher married Patsy Kensit
1998 - George Michael was arrested in a public toilet in Beverly Hills for lewd conduct
2000 - A tribute to Joni Mitchell was held in New York, and featured Elton John, Bryan Adams, Shawn Colvin, James Taylor, Cyndi Lauper, Richard Thompson, k d lang and Mary Chapin Carpenter.
2002 - UK Pop Idol runner up, Gareth Jones was at no. 1 for his version of Unchained Melody
2003 - Avril Lavigne won four prizes, including Best Single & Best New Artist at Canada’s Juno Awards