Thursday, May 6, 2010

PLAYLIST FOR THE LAUNDROMAT – 12th MAY

Take Your Pick – Greg OlsenTake Your Pick
Might as Well Get Juiced - The Rolling Stones - Bridges To Babylon
Truck Stop Girl - The Byrds - Untitled

The odd sock
99 Dead Baboons - Mr. Obvious

Run Down - The Saints - Eternally Yours
Hard Rider - Canned Heat - The Heat Brothers
Chi mi n tir - Runrig - The Gaelic Collection 1973 – 1998

Stuff you left in your pockets
I Can’t Be Satisfied – Muddy Waters
Pleading The Blues – Junior Wells
Little Woman, You’re So Sweet – Blind Boy Fuller & Sonny Terry
Ko Ko – Charlie Parker’s Reboppers
Night In Tunisia – Dizzie Gillespie & his orchestra
Moonlight Serenade - Glenn Miller & his orchestra

Song Of The Wind – SantanaDance Of The Rainbow Serpent
Sophisticated Mama - Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band - Making Whoopee
Take It Or Leave It - The Searchers - The Searchers

Since You’re Gone - The Cars - Shake It Up
I Need You - Peter Shurley - Rescue Me
Rock & Roll Game - Carson - Blown

3-piece suit
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (episode 17) – Douglas Adams

Quote – “
Only sick music makes money today” -
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Intros & Outtros (12th MAY) – (Trying a new format – I’d appreciate comments. Ed)

1901
· Whitey Ford (Benjamin Francis Ford), The Duke of Paducah

1923
· Edwart G Abner, record company executive

1928
· Burt Bacharach, songwriter

1941
· Jay Otis Washington, of The Persuasions
· Ruud de Wolff, singer / guitarist with The Blue Diamonds

1942
· Ian Dury, singer / songwriter, poet, actor, front-man for The Blockheads

1943
· David Walker, keyboard player for Gary Lewis & The Playboys

1944
· Billy Swan, singer
· James Purify

1945
· Bob Rigg, of Frost
· Willie Parnell, singer for Archie Bell & The Drells

1946
· Ian McLagan, keyboard player for The Small Faces, The Faces and also toured with The Rolling Stones
· Robert MacVitte of Sugarloaf

1948
· Steve Winwood, producer, vocalist & multi-instrumentalist with the Spencer Davis Group, Traffic, Blind Faith and solo artist. Teamed up with Stomu Yamashta for an album, Go, and concerts in Paris and London

1950
· Billy Squier, singer / guitarist
· Jocko Marcellino from Sha Na Na

1957
· Shannon (Brenda Shannon Greene)

1960
· Terry McKee, of Rosetta Stone

1961
· Billy Duffy, of Cult
· Ray Gillen from Badlands

1996
· 17-year-old Bernadette O’Brien died the day after being injured while “body surfing” at a Smashing Pumpkins gig at The Point, Dublin

2003
· Jimi Hendrix Experience bassist, Noel Redding died at his home in Ireland on this day, aged 57

On this day (12th MAY)

1934
· Duke Ellington’s Cocktails For Two goes to no. 1

1958
· The Everly Brothers started a 4-week run at no. 1 in the US with All I Have To Do Is Dream (It was written in 15 minutes!)
· Sun Records ran a trade paper ad announcing a disc by ”one of the truly great talent finds - Johnny Cash. The record was I Walk The Line which he wrote.

1959
· Crooner Eddie Fisher, who had 18 hit singles during the 50s, married Elizabeth Taylor. He had previously been married to Debbie Reynolds, who had topped the charts in ’57 with Tammy from the movie Tammy and the Bachelor

1960
· Elvis Presley made a TV comeback after his 2-year stint in the armed forces on a Welcome Back Special hosted by Frank Sinatra

1962
· Billboard reported the previous year’s most-played jukebox hit was Jimmy Dean’s Big Bad John; one vote behind was Chubby Checker’s The Twist

1963
· Bob Dylan walked out of rehearsals for the Ed Sullivan Show after he was told he couldn’t perform Talking John Birch Society Blues, due to it mocking the military

1964
· The Beach Boys started a 4-week run at no.1 on the US album charts with Beach Boys Concert, their first no. 1 in the US
· Winners at the 6th annual Grammy Awards were Henry Mancini’s Days of Wine and Roses for Record and Song of the Year, and Album of the Year went to The Barbra Streisand Album

1965
· The Rolling Stones began recording (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction. Guitarist Keith Richards came up with the guitar riff in the middle of the night a week earlier. It gave them their first US no. 1

1967
· Pink Floyd presented their Games For May at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London. The name was later changed to See Emily Play

1968
· Jimi Hendrix was arrested on his way to Toronto for possession of hashish and heroin
· The Rolling Stones played at The New Musical Express Poll Winners Concert at Wembley

1971
· Mick Jagger married Bianca Perez Morena De Macias in a Roman Catholic ceremony at St. Tropez Town Hall. The guest list included such luminaries as other members of The Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton and Stephen Stills

1972
· Paul McCartney & Wings released Mary Had A Little Lamb

1973
· Led Zeppelin’s Houses Of The Holy went to no. 1 in the US

1975
· The Jefferson Starship gave a free concert in New York’s central Park for 60,000 fans. The band flew in specially for the gig, and they, as well as a sponsor, paid a further $14,000 to have the park cleaned up afterwards
· Steely Dan earned its 3rd gold record for Katy Lied

1976
· The Brothers Johnson received gold for Look Out For #1

1977
· Led Zeppelin received the “Outstanding Contribution To British Music” at the 2nd Ivor Novello awards
· Pink Floyd played the first quadraphonic concert in London. The sound system was arranged to surround the audience on 4 sides

1979
· Jefferson Starship held a free concert in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park to showcase their new lineup, featuring lead singer, Mickey Thomas
· Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush and Steve Harley played a benefit gig in London’s Hammersmith Odeon for the family of their lighting director, who was killed in an accident at a Bush concert earlier in the year

1980
· Linda Ronstadt received gold for her ‘New Wave’ experiment album Mad Love

1981
· The Who’s first album without Keith Moon, Face Dances went gold, but was regarded as a disappointment, even to the band itself

1983
· Meatloaf (Marvin Lee Aday), filed for bankruptcy with debts of over $1 million

1984
· Lionel Richie topped the charts with Hello

1986
· Joe Strummer of The Clash was banned from driving after being convicted of drink driving

1990
· Saturday Night Live used time-delay due to hosting by Andrew Dice Clay. Both Nora Dunn and Sinead O’Connor boycotted the show in protest of Clay

1996
· Hootie & The Blowfish went to no. 1 in the US with Fairweather Johnson

2000
· Thieves stole the gates to Strawberry Fields, the landmark immortalised in The Beatles’ song. The 3m. gates were found at a nearby scrap metal dealers

2001
· Travis played a gig at singer Fran Healy’s primary school fete at Weston Park, crouch End, London. Entry fee was £1

2 comments:

  1. Ian McLagan was born in 1945, not 1946.

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  2. Thanks - it's nice to get the facts from the man himself!

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