Friday, June 25, 2010

PLAYLIST FOR THE LAUNDROMAT – 30th June

Take Your Pick – Greg OlsenTake Your Pick
Love’s My Bag - Spectrum - Ghosts: Terminal Reflections
Evermore - Chuck Girard - Chuck Girard

The odd sock
The War - Bill Hicks

Let’s Be Friends (Skin On Skin) - Bruce Springsteen - The Rising
Last Laugh - Cobra - Soldier of Loneliness
All By Myself - Ringo Starr - Goodnight Vienna

Stuff you left in your pockets
Please Don’t Go – John Lee Hooker
You Hear Me Talkin’ – Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry
I’m A Low-Down Groove – Billie Holiday
Tippin’ In – Erskine Hawkins & his orchestra
Farewell Blues – Woody Herman
The Lady Is A Tramp - Bird Yard Big Band - On The Edge

Yellow Peril - Steely Dan - The Early Years
World Of Pain - Cream - Disraeli Gears
Nobody’s Hero - Stiff Little Fingers - Nobody’s Heroes

Southbound Train - David Crosby & Graham Nash - Graham Nash & David Crosby
Changes IV - Cat Stevens - Teaser & The Firecat
Got To Keep Open - Crosby, Stills & Nash - Live It Up

3-piece suit
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (episode 24) – Douglas Adams

Quote – “
I think everyone should have a Beatles phase in their life. I think it's part of growing up in the Western world.” - Jadel and Cristina Cordova



ON THIS DAY – 30th June

Intros & Outtros (Births & Deaths)

1917
· Buddy Rich, drummer & orchestra leader
· Lena Horne, singer

1939
· Tony Hatch, songwriter

1941
· Larry Henley, of The Newbeats
· Larry Hall, singer

1943
· Florence Ballard, singer with The Supremes

1944
· Glenn Shorrock, front man for Little River Band

1946
· Billy Brown, of The Moments

1951
· Andy Scott, guitarist & vocalist for Sweet
· Stanley Clarke, jazz bassist for the likes of Chick Corea, Santana, Keith Richards, Quincy Jones and Paul McCartney

1956
· Adrian Wright, from Human League

1962
· Julianne Reagan, from All About Eve

1983
· Cheryl Tweedy, singer for Girls Aloud

2001
· American guitarist and producer Chet Atkins died in Nashville on this day, aged 77. He was an influence on George Harrison and Mark Knopfler

EVENTS IN THE WORLD OF ROCK

1948
· Bell Laboratories announced transistors as a substitute for radio tubes

1962
· Neil Sedaka’s Breaking Up Is Hard To Do was no. 1 in the US
· Ray Stevens released Ahab the Arab

1963
· Brian Epstein signed The Fourmost

1966
· The Beatles played the first of 3 concerts at the Nippon Budokan Hall, Japan. Amateur recordings became the bootleg album referred to as Three Nights In Tokyo

1967
· Keith Richards and Mick Jagger were granted £7,000 bail in the High Court after spending a night in the cells

1971
· Paul Revere & The Raiders received gold for Indian Reservation

1973
· George Harrison’s Give Me Love, Give Me Peace On Earth took the place of PaulMcCartney’s My Love at no. 1 on the US singles charts
· Slade had the no. 1 spot in the UK with Skweeze Me, Pleeze Me (their 5th UK no. 1)
· David Bowie played the Earl’s Court Stadium in London

1975
· Cher married Gregg Allman, 4 days after divorcing Sonny Bono. They split after10 days
· The Eagles received gold for One Of These Nights

1976
· Police raided the home of Neil Diamond looking for drugs. They found less than 1 ounce of marijuana
· Stuart Goddard (aka Adam Ant) placed the following ad in the classifieds of Melody Maker magazine: ”Beat on a bass with the B-Sides.’ Andy Warren answered the ad and they went on to form Adam & The Ants

1977
· Marvel Comics launched a comic book based on the group Kiss. Each of th band members contributed a drop of blood into the red ink for printing. The book sold over 500,000 copies

1978
· United Artists released The Buzzcocks single Love You More, clocking in at 1 minute 29 seconds, the 2nd shortest single ever released. 1 minute 28 seconds was the time for Maurice Williams & The Zodiacs’ single, Stay, in 1960
· The Sex Pistols released their version of My Way

1979
· Tubeway Army started a 5-week run at no. 1 on the UK singles charts with Are Friends Electric?
· Anita Ward started 2 weeks at no. 1 in US with Ring My Bell
· Johnny Rotten and Joan Collins made their judgements as guests on BBC’s Juke Box Jury

1981
· Jerry Lee Lewis was rushed to hospital with holes in his stomach multiple abscesses in his chest. He and was not expected to survive. He did

1983
· 10 years after splitting up during a show in Hollywood, The Everly Brothers announced that they had settled their differences, and would reunite for a concert at London’s Royal Albert Hall, later in the yaer

1984
· Huey Lewis & The News had the No. 1 US album with Sports

1987
· Beastie Boy Ad-Rock became engaged to Mollie Ringwald, star of the Pretty in Pink movie

1989
· Police were called in to the HMV Record Store in London’s Oxford Street to control over 4,000 fans trying to see the in-store appearance of Bobby Brown . 6 fans were hospitalised and 1 had to be given the kiss of life
· The Stone Roses almost didn’t play their gig at Leeds Polytechnic when a security guard refused entry to the lead singer, Ian Brown

1990
· Police raided the home of Chuck Berry and found homemade porn videos, drugs and guns
· Miles Davis played the first of 2 gigs at London’s Hammersmith Odeon
· Eric Clapton and others played a concert at Knebworth for the Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy charity
· Rappers 2 Live Crew were arrested and charged with profanity during their US tour
· New Kids On The Block topped the charts with Step

1994
· Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament of Pearl Jam testified before a congressional hearing concerning rising concert ticket prices

1995
· Garth Brooks was given a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame. Garth buried master tapes of his Hits album under the star

1999
· The Eric Clapton & Friends concert was held in Madison Square Gardens. Clapton performed with Sheryl Crow, Mary J Blige and Bob Dylan. The concert raised $1 million for Clapton’s drug rehab clinic in Antiqua

2000
· 9 people died & 24 were injured at a Pearl Jam portioomn of the Roskilde festival Denmark after people at the back, who couldn’t hear due to faulty speakers, stampeded forward

2001
· Al Jardine went to court to sue his former band-mates, claiming he had been ‘frozen out’ of The Beach Boys. The $4 million suit was filed against Mike Love, Brian Wilson, the Carl Wilson Trust and Brother Records Incorporated in a New York Supreme Court. In 1998, a judge temporarily barred Jardine from performing under the name Beach Boys Family & Friends after representations from Mike Love & Brother Records. Jardine lost the case in 2003

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