PLAYLIST FOR THE LAUNDROMAT – 23rd June

Take Your Pick – Greg Olsen – Take Your Pick
When I Come Home - Spencer Davis Group - Best Of …
What Else Can I Say? - Chicago - Chicago

The odd sock –
Right Said Fred - Bernard Cribbins

What The World Needs Now Is A New Pair Of Sox - Spectrum - Ghosts: Terminal Reflections
Windy Town - Chris Rea - New Light Through Old Windows
Worlds Apart - Bruce Springsteen - The Rising

Stuff you left in your pockets –
Death Letter Blues – Leadbelly
Come On In This House / Have Mercy Baby – Buddy Guy & Junior Wells
Cryin’ Blues – Kokomo Arnold
Cocktails For Two – Benny Carter & his orchestra
Bewitched – Benny Goodman
Think - Bird Yard Big Band - On The Edge

Snookeroo - Ringo Starr - Goodnight Vienna
You Ask Me Why - Chuck Girard - Chuck Girard
Take It Out On Me - Steely Dan - The Early Years

Soldier of Loneliness - Cobra - Soldier of Loneliness
At The Edge - Stiff Little Fingers - Nobody’s Heroes
World Of Pain - Cream - Disraeli Gears

3-piece suit –
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (episode 23) – Douglas Adams

Quote – “Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!” - J. K. Rowling


ON THIS DAY – 23rd June

Intros & Outtros (Births & Deaths)

1915
· Zeb Turner (William Edward Grisham)

1923
· Dotty Todd

1929
· June Carter Cash, country singer & wife of Johnny Cash

1940
· Adam Faith (Terence Nelhams), singer & actor
· Stu Sutcliffe, bassist for The Beatles during 1960 – 61
· Diana Trask, Australian singer

1944
· Rosetta Hightower from The Orlons

1945
· Paul Goddard from The Atlanta Rhythm Section

1950
· Cyndi Lauper, singer

1952
· Betty Dragstra, from Pussycat

1957
· Lee John, from Imagination

1962
· Richard Coles, from Communards

1964
· Joey Allen, guitarist for Warrant

1965
· Paul ‘Bonehead’ Arthurs, guitarist for Oasis

1972
· Elton Britt, country singer, died on this day. He was 54

1981
· Anthony Costa, singer for Blue

EVENTS IN THE WORLD OF ROCK –

1848
· Antoine Joseph Sax was awarded a patent for his invention, the saxophone (This one’s a strange listing, folks. Other databases refer to this as “the birthdate of Antoine Sax, the inventor of the saxophone”, while others again refer to “1846, the birthdate of George Sax, inventor of the saxophone”. Ed)

1957
· Lonnie Donegan had no. 1 on the UK charts with Gamblin’ Man / Putting On The Style

1960
· Eddie Cochran topped the UK charts with Three Steps To Heaven

1962
· Ray Charles started a 14-week run at no.1 on the US album charts with Modern Sounds In Country & Western Music. His I Can’t Stop Loving You entered the UK charts on this day.
· The film sound track to West Side Story hit no. 1 on the UK charts for the first time. It spent a total of 13 weeks at no. 1 on seven different occasions

1965
· Motown Records released Tracks Of My Tears by Smokey Robinson & The Miracles

1966
· The Beatles had their 10th consecutive UK no. 1 single with Paperback Writer
· The Rolling Stones departed London for their 3rd US tour. 2 weeks previously, Mick Jagger was hospitalised after collapsing from exhaustion at the end of tours of Australia and Europe

1967
· John Entwhistle, bassist for The Who, married Alison Wise. He told the London Daily Express, ”I always suspected we would marry one day. I was already playing in an amateur group and on our first date she carried my amplifier.”
· Arthur Conley received gold for Sweet Soul Music

1970
· Chubby Checker and 3 others were arrested at Niagara Falls after police found marijuana and other drugs in his car
· Ringo Starr arrived in Nashville to start recording sessions with Pete Drake, Jerry Reed, Charlie Daniels and Charley McCoyamongst others, top Nashville session men, and some who had worked on Bob Dylan’s John Wesley Harding and Nashville Skyline. The work was later released as Beaucoups of Blues

1973
· 10CC were at no.1 on the UK charts with Rubber Bullets
· George Harrison started 5 weeks at no. 1 on the US album charts with Living In The Material World

1975
· During his Welcome To My Nightmare tour in Vancouver, Alice Cooper fell from the stage & broke 6 ribs
· Jefferson Starship released the Red Octopus album

1976
· Paul McCartney & Wings completed the Wings Over America Tour in Los Angeles

1979
· The Knack released My Sharona and The Charlie Daniel’s Band released The Devil Went Down To Georgia
· Supertramp’s Breakfast In America was top of the US album charts

1981
· 7 years after founder and leader Robert Fripp found himself the only member of King Crimson, the group he launched in 1969, he announced he was renaming his current band, Disciple, as King Crimson

1984
· Duran Duran started 2 weeks at no. 1 on the US singles charts with The Reflex, their first no. 1
· An auction of items associated with John Lennon was held at Sotheby’s in London
· Van Halen released their Panama single

1989
· George Michael received the Silver Clef award for Outstanding achievements to British music
· New Kids On The Block were almost thrown out of their hotel in Anaheim, California, after being caught throwing balloons full of Kool-Aid at guests

1990
· 13-year-old Keith Sorrentine filed a $500,000 lawsuit against Madonna claiming he suffered nightmares and bed-wetting problems after an incident outside Madonna’s house when she allegedly flung him to the ground
· Actor Gary Busey, who played the role of Buddy Holly in the film The Buddy Holly Story, paid £139,658 for Holly’s Gibson acoustic guitar in a Sotheby’s auction. The guitar was in a tooled leather case made by Holly himself
· Elton John had his first UK no. 1 single with Sacrifice / Healing Hands after achieving over 40 previous Top 75 singles

1995
· Drummer Alan White made his live debut with Oasis at Glastonbury Festival. Ex-Take That member Robbie Williams played onstage with the band
· CBS News anchor, Dan Rather joined R.E.M. onstage at Madison Square Gardens during a sound check to perform What’s The Frequency, Kenneth?. It refers to a bizarre incident years before when Rather was beaten up by thugs demanding an answer to the question. The performance was shown on David Letterman’s Late Show

2000
· The Experience Music Project was unveiled in Seattle by Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft. The Museum contained over 80,000 items of Jimi Hendrix memorabilia, including the smashed guitar from the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival

2002
· Rolling Stone magazine listed the top earners from US sales during 2001. Madonna came in at no. 5 with $49.5 million, Dave Matthews Band at 4 with $52.7 million, The Beatles at 3 with $58 million, Dr. Dre at 2 with $63 million and U2 with $75 million

2002
· Nelly started 7 weeks at no. 1 on the US singles charts with Hot In Here