PLAYLIST FOR THE LAUNDROMAT – 9th June

Take Your Pick – Greg Olsen – Take Your Pick
Turn The Tide - Sirocco - Earth Dance
Born A Man - Cascade - Taken By Surprise

The odd sock –
Making A Commercial - Benny Hill

Oralie - Sodacake - Everything’s Always
Wild World - Cat Stevens - Tea For The Tillerman
Stereo - Sparks - Terminal Jive

Stuff you left in your pockets –
Am I Blue – Billy Holiday
A Man Of Many Words – Buddy Guy & Junior Wells
Sail On Boogie – T-Bone Walker
Blue Skies – Benny Goodman & his orchestra
By the Fireside – Ray Noble & his orchestra
Shake a Tailfeather - Bird Yard Big Band - On The Edge

Together ‘Til The End Of Time - Spencer Davis Group - Best Of …
Hold Me - Charlie Sexton - Pictures For Pleasure
Slow - Something For Kate - The Answer to Both Your Questions

Sing A Mean Tune Kid - Chicago - Chicago
Trust Me - Spectrum - Ghosts: Terminal Reflections
I Can Hear Your Heartbeat - Chris Rea - New Light Through Old Windows

3-piece suit –
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (episode 21) – Douglas Adams

Quote – “Jazz: music invented for the torture of imbeciles” -
Henry Van Dyke
ON THIS DAY – 9th June

Intros & Outtros (Births & Deaths)

1891
· Cole Porter, singer & composer

1902
· Skip James

1915
· Les Paul (Lester William Polfus), guitarist, inventor of the Gibson guitar, pioneer of the ‘close-miking’ technique and echo-delay. He also pioneered work on overdubbing techniques and the prototype Amplex recorder. He broke his right arm in a car accident & had the plaster set at an angle where he could still play guitar

1929
· Johnny Ace (John Marshall Alexander Jr.), singer, Billboard’s most-played artist of 1955

1934
· Jackie Wilson, replaced a career in boxing to replace Clyde McPhatter, singing for The Dominoes. He went solo later on
· Donald Duck, cartoon character (It’s not rock & roll, but I thought you’d like to know. Ed.)

1941
· Jon Lord, organist / keyboard player for Deep Purple, then Whitesnake
· Billy Hatton, bassist with The Four Jays, later called The Four Mosts and finally The Fourmost

1946
· Stuart Edwards, from Edison Lighthouse

1947
· John ‘Mitch’ Mitchell, drummer with The Jimi Hendrix Experience, member of the Ready, Steady, Go! house band. Also worked with The Jack bruce Band and Ramatan

1949
· George Bunnell, bassist for The Strawberry Alarm Clock
· Francis Monkman from Curved Air

1950
· Trevor Bolder, from Spiders From Mars and Uriah Heep

1951
· Terry Uttley, from Smokie
· Bonnie Tyler (Gaynor Hopkins), singer

1953
· Errol Kennedy, from Imagination

1954
· Peter Byrne from Climie Fisher

1962
· Eddy Lundon, from China Crisis


EVENTS IN THE WORLD OF ROCK –

1958
· Johnny Mathis’ album, Johnny’s Greatest Hits, hit the top of the US charts
· Sheb Woolley’s The Purple People Eater topped the charts
· Jerry Lee Lewis, with the help of his producer Sam Phillips, took out a full-page ad in Billboard magazine, to explain about his 2nd divorce and 3rd marriage to his 14-year-old cousin , Myra

1962
· The Beatles have a “Welcome Home” night at the Cavern Club after returning from the Star Club in Hamburg

1963
· The Beatles play the last gig of their second British tour at King George Hall in Blackburn, Lancashire

1967
· The Monkees played the Hollywood Bowl

1969
· Guitarist Mick Taylor joined The Rolling Stones as a replacement for Brian Jones

1970
· Bob Dylan was given an honorary Doctorate of Music degree from Princeton University for “brilliantly distinguishing himself in good works”. For the ceremony, Dylan consented to wear the traditional graduation gown, but refused to wear the mortarboard cap. He was reported to be “very nervous and hesitant, and seemed appropriately out of place.”

1971
· Paul McCartney was awarded gold for his Ram LP

1972
· Columbia Records’ boss John Hammond signed up Bruce Springsteen
· Elvis Presley performed his first New York City show. Interviews were offered at $120,000, but there were no takers
· David Bowie released The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders from Mars

1974
· Blind Faith’s first concert

1977
· George and Patti Harrison divorce

1978
· Polydor Records signed Siouxsie & The Banshees

1979
· The Bee Gees’ made the top of the charts with Love You Inside Out

1982
· James Taylor, Linda Ronstadt and Jackson Brownr played a Peace Week gig at Nassau Coliseum, On Long Island, New York

1984
· Cyndi Lauper held the no. 1 position in the US for 2 weeks with Time After Time

1989
· The reformed Doobie Brothers played their first US concert

1990
· MC Hammer’s Please Hammer, Don’t Hurt ‘Em started a record-breaking 21 weeks at the top of the US album charts, making it the longest uninterrupted stay at the top since the album charts started
· Wilson Phillips went to no. 1 on the US charts with Hold On
· The Sunningdale mansion owned by the group Five Star was repossessed after non-payment of the mortgage.
· Englandneworder started 2 weeks at no. 1 on the UK singles charts with World In Motion
· Michael Jackson was admitted to hospital with a mystery illness. It was later diagnosed as costochondritis, an inflamed cartilage in his ribcage

1994
· After an argument TLC singer Left Eye set fire to her boyfriend Andre Rison’s mansion, worth $2 million, burning it to the ground. She was charged with arson and fined $10,000 with 5 years probation

2000
· Sinead O’Connor announced that she was a lesbian. The mother of 2 told the US magazine Curve, ”I am a lesbian. I haven’t been very open about that, I’ve been out with blokes, because I haven’t necessarily been terribly comfortable about being a lesbian.”

2003
· Former Boyzone frontman Ronan Keating raised more than £100,000 for cancer during a 23 day walk from the Giant’s Causeway in County Antrim to Kinsale in County Cork. He visited 610 towns along the way, walking an average of 32kms each day