PLAYLIST FOR THE LAUNDROMAT – 26th MAY

Take Your Pick – Greg Olsen – Take Your Pick
Who’s Gonna Hold Them Now? - Peter Shurley - Rescue Me
You Lied - Canned Heat - The Heat Brothers

The odd sock –
Money Saving Ideas - Norman Gunston - Popular Ballad Animal

That Was Your Mother - Paul Simon - The Graceland
Victim Of Love - The Cars - Shake It Up
Home - Joe Satriani - Joe Satriani

Stuff you left in your pockets –
Katie May – Lightnin’ Hopkins
Cadillac Assemble Line – Albert King
Henry’s Swing Club – John Lee Hooker
Black & Tan Fantasy – Duke Ellington & his orchestra
The Sheik of Araby – Coleman Hawkins & his orchestra
Summertime - Billie Holiday

My Life - Simple Minds - Good News From The Next World
Better Times Will Come About - Carson - Blown
Home Of The Heroes - Ladysmith Black Mambazo - Shaka Zulu

Danielle - Cascade - Taken By Surprise
Gathering - Sirocco - Earth Dance
Where Do The Children Play? - Cat Stevens - Tea For The Tillerman

3-piece suit –
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (episode 19) – Douglas Adams

Quote – “Some people exist who like to see their names in print. John Lennon and Yoko Ono are print junkies” - Germaine Greer
ON THIS DAY - 26th MAY

Intros & Outtros (Births & Deaths)

1886
· Al Jolson (Asa Yoelson), jazz singer & silent-film actor

1904
· George Formby, singer, comedian & ukulele player. During his life he was awarded the Order of Lenin by Russia

1920
· Peggy Lee (Norma Egstrom), singer

1926
· Miles Davis, jazz trumpeter, pioneered ‘cool jazz’

1933
· Jimmy Rodgers died on this day

1938
· Jackie Liebesit, drummer for German experimental group, Can

1942
· Ray Ennis, guitarist and singer with The Swinging Blue Jeans

1943
· Levon Helm, drummer for Ronnie Hawkins & The Hawks, then The Band, and a solo career. He portrayed Loretta Lynn’s father in the movie, The Coalminer’s Daughter

1944
· Verden “Phally” Allen, keyboard player for Silence, which became Mott the Hoople

1945
· Garry Peterson, from Guess Who

1948
· Stevie Nicks (Stephanie Lynn Nicks), singer and songwriter with Fleetwood Mac and solo artist

1949
· Mick Ronson, guitarist for Mott The Hoople. Also worked with David Bowie
· Hank Williams Jr.

1958
· Marian Gold, from Alphaville

1959
· Wayne Hussey from Sisters of Mercy and Mission

1960
· Chris Duffy from Waterfront

1964
· Lenny Kravitz, singer and guitarist

1968
· William E “Little Willie” John, R&B singer died of pneumonia on this day while serving time for manslaughter. He was 30

1972
· Alan White, drummer with Oasis

1977
· Billy Powell of The O’Jays died on this day

1998
· Waldo Semon, the inventor of the vinyl used to make 33 1/3rpm & 45 rpm records, died on this day

EVENTS IN THE WORLD OF ROCK –

1932
· Frankie Laine (Frank LoVecchio) and his partner Ruth Smith set the all-time marathon dance record lasting 3,501 hours (145 consecutive days). They made $500 each, but Frankie went on to make 13 million-selling records

1958
· Elvis Presley was placed 2nd in a talent contest at a Jimmie Rodgers Memorial Show
· Jerry Lee Lewis played the 3rd and last of what should have been a 37-date tour of Britain. The London Morning Star ran an editorial calling Lewis “an undesirable alien” and called for his deportation. Lewis was booed from the stage and the next day went back to US

1962
· The Isley Brothers’s Twist & Shout was released

1963
· The Beatles played at The Empire, Liverpool

1964
· Acker Bilk’s Stranger On The Shore hit no. 1 in the US

1965
· Bob Dylan was admitted to St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington, England with a viral infection
· The Rolling Stones performed on TV popular music program Shindig! along with Jackie De Shannon, Sonny & Cher and Jimmie Rodgers

1966
· Bob Dylan and The Hawks rock & roll at the Royal Albert Hall in London. In Attendance were The Rolling Stones members of The Beatles as well as other rock personalities. The concert was recorded & bootlegged, which substantiated the claims that it was one of live rock & roll’s high-water-marks

1969
· John & Yoko began their 2nd 8-day ‘bed-in’, in the Hotel La Reine Elizabeth, Montreal, Canada. They recorded Give Peace a Chance in the bedroom. On the same day, John’s Life With Lions LP was released

1972
· At the point of splitting up, Mott The Hoople were offered Suffragette City and All The Young Dudes by David Bowie. They rejected the former but recorded the latter
· The first day of the 4-day Great Western Express festival, near Lincoln, featured The Faces, Joe Cocker, Humble Pie, Slade, The Groundhogs, Ry Cooder, Don McLean, Brewer’s Droop plus a special appearance by Monty Python

1973
· The Edgar Winter Group went to no. 1 in the US with Frankenstein
· Deep Purple released Smoke On The Water
· The Beatles’ Beatles 1967 – 70 album went to no. 1 in the US

1974
· Over 1000 fans had to be treated at a David Cassidy concert due to the frenzied excitement. One fan, Bernadette Whelan died from heart failure 4 days later. The head of the British Safety Council called it a “suicide concert” and Cassidy said “I do feel responsible”

1976
· A drunken Jimmy Page and Robert Plant verbally assaulted 1st-class passengers on a transatlantic British Airways flight. Amongst the abused were actors Telly Savalas and Dudley Moore

1978
· An Irish TV programme, Youngline, a series which regularly highlighted young people’s interests, featured a new Irish band called U2, alias Hype

1979
· Day 1 of the 2-day Loch Lomond Festival featured The Stranglers, Dr. Feelgood, Skids, Third World and The Dickies

1981
· Motown Records announced plans for a year-long silver anniversary salute to mark the 25th year of association between Motown chief Berry Gordy and William ‘Smokey’ Robinson, currently Vice-President of the label

1984
· Denice Williams topped the charts with Let’s Hear It For The Boy

1989
· The estate of the late Roy Orbison, who died in December 1988, was sued by the music publishing company to which he had been signed due to failure to fulfil commitments under a contract signed in 1985
· To illustrate the power of radio, over 8000 radio stations across US went silent for 30 seconds at 7:42 am

1990
· For the first time in rock history, the US singles top 5 chart positions were held by female artists. Madonna at no. 1 with Vogue, Heart’s All I Wanna Do Is Make Love To You at 2, Sinead O’Connor’s Nothing Compares 2 U at 3, Wilson Phillips at 4 with Hold On, and Janet Jackson’s Alright at 5
· David Bowie was sued by his ex-wife Angela for $56 million

1992
· ’Weird Al’ Yankovic begins his Off The Deep End tour

1994
· Michael Jackson married Lisa Marie Presley

1995
· Flavor Flav(William Drayton) of the Rap group Public Enemy was sentenced to 3 months in gaol for firing a gun at a neighbour in his New York apartment

1996
· A fire at Eric Clapton’s house caused over £1.5 million worth of damage. Firemen arrived to find Eric braving the blaze to save his collection of guitars

2002
· The first episode of At Home with the Osbournes was shown on MTV in the UK