Thursday, May 27, 2010

PLAYLIST FOR THE LAUNDROMAT – 2nd June

Take Your Pick – Greg OlsenTake Your Pick
All Around The World or The Myth Of Fingerprints - Paul Simon - The Graceland
Sunday In The City - Carson - Blown

The odd sock
The Elder’s Lament - Andrew Horabin - Georgie Boy

Moroccan Sunset - Joe Satriani - Joe Satriani
Emmanuel - Cascade - Taken By Surprise
Criminal World - Simple Minds - Good News From The Next World

Stuff you left in your pockets
You’re Gonna Miss Me – Muddy Waters
Chump Change – Albert King
Stack o’ Dollars – Big Joe Williams
Your Red Wagon – Count Basie & his orchestra
Autumn Leaves – Miles Davis
Got To Get You Into My Life - Bird Yard Big Band - On The Edge

These Are The Guys - Ladysmith Black Mambazo - Shaka Zulu
Hard-Headed Woman - Cat Stevens - Tea For The Tillerman
Devil Train - Sirocco - Earth Dance

Restless - Charlie Sexton - Pictures For Pleasure
Breton’s Quartet - Sodacake - Everything’s Always
Sing A Mean Tune Kid - Chicago - Chicago

3-piece suit
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (episode 20) – Douglas Adams

Quote – “
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music” -
Groucho Marx
ON THIS DAY – 2nd June

Intros & Outtros (Births & Deaths)

1924
· Maurice Kinn, who launched the New Musical Express in 1953. The music weekly listed the first charts based on record sales

1927
· Carl Butler

1932
· Sammy Turner (Samuel Black), from Lavender Blue Moods

1936
· Otis Williams

1937
· Jimmy Jones, singer

1939
· Charles Miller of War

1941
· Charlie Watts, drummer for The Rolling Stones. He also gigs with Charlie Watts & His Big Band. He started out as a jazz / R&B drummer for Alexis Korner’s Blues Unlimited
· William Guest, ‘Pip’ of Gladys Knight & The Pips

1944
· Marvin Hamlisch, pianist and composer

1948
· Jerry Mathers, from Beaver

1950
· Antone “Chubby” Tavaares, singer with Tavares (also listed as 1947. Ed)

1959
· Michael Steele, bassist & vocalist with The Bangles

1960
· Tony Hadley, vocalist with Spandau Ballet

1965
· David White from Brother Beyond

1976
· Tim Rice-Oxley, pianist with Keane

1980
· Fabrizio Moreti, drummer for The Strokes

1993
· A daughter, Renee, was born to Rod stewart and his wife Rachel Hunter

2008
· Bo Diddley, blues singer and guitarist, died of heart failure on this day

EVENTS IN THE WORLD OF ROCK

1896
· Guglieimo Marconi filed a patent for radio with the British Patent Office

1953
· Elvis Presley left L.C. Humes High School in Memphis, Tennessee

1957
· Johnny Ray held the no. 1 position in the US with Yes Tonight Josephine

1962
· Owen Gray’s Twist Baby was Island Records’ first single
· Ray Charles started a 5-week run at no. 1 with I Can’t Stop Loving You

1964
· The Rolling Stones made their US TV debut on The Les Crane Show. They also played their first show as part of a tour that included The Chiffons, Bobby Goldsboro and Bobby Vee in Lyn, Massachusetts
· The Associated Press wrote of The Rolling Stones, ”they are dirtier and streakier and more dishevelled that The Beatles and in some places, they are more popular than The Beatles’

1966
· Frank Sinatra took no. 1 position in the UK with Strangers In The Night

1967
· David Bowie released his self-titled debut album. It didn’t make the charts

1972
· Dion & The Belmonts reunited for a special concert at Madison Square gardens in New York. The band originally split up when Dion DiMucci opted for a solo career

1973
· The Electric Light Orchestra began their first US tour
· Diana Ross released Touch Me In The Morning
· Paul McCartney & Wings topped the charts for 3 weeks with My Love
· John Bonham, drummer for Led Zeppelin, dumped a bucket of water over legendary concert-promoter Bill Graham following an argument at a show in San Francisco

1975
· Paul McCartney & Wings were awarded gold for Venus & Mars

1976
· Wings set a new world-record of 67,100 fans attending an indoor event when they played in Seattle

1978
· Bruce Springsteen released Darkness On The Edge Of Town, two and a half years after Born To Run, and delayed a year due to litigation involving his former manager

1979
· Donna Summer topped the charts with Hot Stuff

1981
· Prince made his British debut at The Lyceum in London

1984
· Wham! had their first UK no. 1 with Wake me Up Before You Go Go

1988
· James Brown’s wife Adrienne claimed diplomatic immunity while fighting numerous traffic violations under the grounds that she was “the wife of the Official Ambassador of Soul”

1989
· The Rolling Stones’s Bill Wyman secretly married 19-year-old Mandy Smith. His 28-year-old son was Best Man, and all Stones’ members attended. As an extra twist, Wyman’s son dated Mandy’s mum!

1993
· Ronald Ray Howard’s murder trial began in Austin, Texas. Howard killed a state trooper after listening to Tupac Shakur’s 2Pacalypse Now album. He was convicted and sentenced to death

1995
· Stone RosesJohn Squire smashed his collarbone in a cycling accident; major gigs for the band had to be cancelled

2002
· It was reported that Paul McCartney threw his fiancée Heather Mills’ engagement ring out of a hotel window during a row. Guards searched the grounds with metal detectors and found the £15,000 ring

2003
· A painting of Kylie Minogue in gold hotpants caused traffic problems in Brighton, when the artist put an almost life-sized picture on display in his Art Asylum Gallery. Motorists were causing traffic hold-up problems as they slowed down for a second look

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