PLAYLIST FOR THE LAUNDROMAT – 28th July

Take Your Pick – Greg Olsen – Take Your Pick
She’s Got Medals - David Bowie - A Second Face
Comes And Goes - Dan Fogelberg - Captured Angel

The odd sock –
Masseuse - Guido Hatsis

I Shall Be Released - Tom Robinson Band - Power Of Darkness
All I Do - Daryl Braithwaite - Edge
Black Market Baby - Tom Waits - Mule Variations

Stuff you left in your pockets –
Peach Orchard Mama – Big Joe Williams
A Poor Man’s Plea – Buddy Guy & Junior Wells
Gonna Follow My Baby – Arthur ‘Big Boy’ Crudup
I Never Knew – Lester Young & his orchestra
What Love? – Charlie Mingus
Twin City Blues - Woody Herman & his orchestra


EBay - ’Weird Al’ Yankovic - Poodle Hat
You Can Go - David Meece - 7
Who’s To Blame? - Crank Handle - The Perthville Sessions

Let It Go - Def Leppard - High ‘n’ Dry
Overpowered By Funk - The Clash - Combat Rock
Full Of Emptiness - Donna Summer - Love To Love You

Bourgeois Town - The Conway Brothers Novelty Band - 2JJJ Recording
Barabajagal - Donovan - Barabajagal
Stairway To Heaven - Dread Zeppelin - 5,000,000

3-piece suit –
Things we Do For Love
Food For Thought
Good Morning Judge
Feel The Love
Dreadlock Holiday
I’m Not In Love – 10CC - ‘Ahoy Rotterdam!’ 1983

Quote – “Rock is so much fun. That’s what it’s all about - filling up the chest cavities and the empty kneecaps and elbows” - Jimi Hendrix




ON THIS DAY – 28th July

Intros & Outtros (Births & Deaths)

1938
· George Cummings, steel-guitar player for Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show

1944
· Mike Bloomfield, guitarist & member of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band and Electric Flag

1945
· Rick Wright, keyboard player for Pink Floyd

1949
· Peter Doyle, singer with The New Seekers
· Simon Kirke, drummer for Free and Bad Company
· Steve Peregrine Tooke, percussionist with T.Rex

1951
· Gregg Guiffria, of Angel

1962
· Rachel Sweet

1965
· Tex Axile, from Transvision Vamp

1996
· Marge Ganser, from the Shangri-Las, died of breast cancer on this day

EVENTS IN THE WORLD OF ROCK –

1954
· The first press interview with the 19-year-old Elvis Presley was published in the Memphis Press-Scimitar

1956
· Gene Vincent appeared on The Perry Como Show, Gene’s first national exposure on US TV

1957
· Jerry Lee Lewis made his TV debut on The Steve Allen Show

1958
· Billboard magazine reported the research from Esso Research Centre indicated that “tuning in to rock & roll music on a car radio can cost a motorist money” due to the rhythm causing the driver’s foot to jiggle on the accelerator, thus wasting fuel

1962
· Tommy Roe released Sheila

1965
· Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts purchased a 16th-century manor house in Sussex, England

1966
· Chris Farlowe & The Thunderbirds were no. 1 on the UK singles charts with the Jagger & Richards penned Out of Time
· James Brown played the Apollo Theatre, New York

1969
· Police in Moscow reported that thousands of public telephone booths had been vandalised after thieves were stealing parts of the phones to convert their acoustic guitars to electric. A feature in a Russian youth magazine had shown details on how to do this

1970
· Jimi Hendrix performed at his home town of Seattle for the last time
· The film Ned Kelly starring Mick Jagger premiered in Glenrowan, near Melbourne, the scene of the final showdown of the Kelly saga. Australians didn’t take kindly to their national hero being portrayed by a middle-class English rockstar

1972
· Cheech & Chong’s debut LP was awarded gold

1973
· Organisers called it the biggest rock audience ever – 600,000 people turned up to an open-air show at Watkins Glen racetrack in New York for Summer Jam featuring The Allman Brothers Band, The Band and Grateful Dead. Presumably, the crowd was there for the atmosphere as it was doubtful anyone could see any of the artists. The only casualty was a skydiver whose parachute caught fire
· Gary Glitters’s I’m The Leader Of The Gang went no. 1 in the UK
· Grand Funk Railroad released We’re An American Band and B.W. Stevenson released My Maria

1974
· A record 140 hours and 34 minutes of continuous rock & roll was set by The Animation in St. Andrews Church Hall, Liverpool, England

1976
· Steve Miller received gold for Fly Like An Eagle

1979
· I Don’t Like Mondays, a song inspired by a real-life shooting incident, was the 2nd UK no. 1 single for The Boomtown Rats
· Ted Nugent, Aerosmith, Journey and Thin Lizzyheadlined the World series of Rock at Cleveland Stadium in Ohio. 65,000 people attended, an 18-yaer-old man was shot to death in the car park, 30 people were robbed and 2 women were raped

1980
· The Police, Squeeze and a local band, U2 played the Dalymount Festival in Dublin. U2 had released their first single several weeks earlier, but it had failed to chart

1987
· The Beatles sued Nike and Capitol Records for the use of Revolution in shoe commercials

1990
· Elton John started a 5-week run at no. 1 on the UK album charts with Sleeping With The Past
· Partners In Kryme had UK’s first rap no. 1 with Turtle Power

1991
· 2000 young people rioted after a MC Hammer concert in Penton, Canada. Almost 100 arrests were made

1993
· 10,000 Maniacs performed their last show with lead singer Natalie Merchant

1995
· Jimi Hendrix’ father, Al Hendrix won back the rights to his son’s name, likeness, image and music after a number of companies had profited from them over previous years

1999
· Pete Townshend played the Supper Club in New York to showcase his upcoming album Pete Townshend Live: A Benefit For Maryville Academy. He was joined onstage by Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder performing Magic Bus, Heart To Hang Onto and Better Man

2002
· Dave Matthews Band went to no. 1 on the US album charts with Busted Stuff

2003
· The wine Sir Cliff Richard made from his Algarve estate started a UK supermarket battle. Fans asked all supermarket stores when would it go on sale; Tesco said they would be the first, but the Waitrose shops had been selling it for a week