Thursday, September 16, 2010

PLAYLIST FOR THE LAUNDROMAT – 22nd September

Take Your Pick – Greg OlsenTake Your Pick
All Cried Out - The Fortunes - Here It Comes Again
Soap Opera - Harvey Andrews - Writer Of Songs

The Odd Sock
Clean The Catbox

Crest Of A Wave - Rory Gallagher - Deuce
The Ballad Of Tricky Fred - Arlo Guthrie - Arlo
Beware of Darkness - George Harrison - All Things Must Pass

Stuff You Left In Your Pockets
Booze & Blues – Ma Rainey
Big Leg Blues – Mississippi John Hurt
I’ll Never Be The Same - Gene Krupa
Take The ‘A’ Train – Duke Ellington & his orchestra
Bad, Bad Whiskey - Buddy Guy & Junior Wells
Cindy, Cindy - Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry

Stigmata - Peter Gabriel - The Passion
Third Stone From The Sun - The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?
3 Into 2 - Flash & The Pan - Burning Up The Night

3-Piece Suit
Morning, Good Morning - The La De Das
Roundabout - The La De Das
Gonna See My Baby Tonight - The La De Das
Soul Sacrifice - Pirana
Some Good Advice - Spectrum
I’ll Be Gone - Spectrum - Sunbury 1972 (part 1)

Quote – “The iPod completely changed the way people approach music” - Karl Lagerfeld


ON THIS DAY – 22nd September

Intros & Outtros (Births & Deaths)

1290
· Bilbo Baggins by Shire reckoning. (Yeah, I know it’s not rock, but I thought you’d like to know. Ed)

1913
· Leroy Holmes (Alvin Holmes), US songwriter

1930
· Joni James (Joan Carmella Babbo), singer

1931
· George E. Chambers, the eldest of The Chambers Brothers

1942
· Mike Patto (Mike McCarthy) from Timebox and Patto

1949
· David Coverdale, vocals with Deep Purple and Whitesnake

1953
· Richard Fairbrass, singer with Right Said Fred

1956
· Debbie Boone (Deborah Ann Boone), singer and daughter of Pat Boone

1957
· Nick Cave, singer / songwriter with Birthday Party and Nick Cave & The bad Seeds. Sang with Kylie Minogue and also PJ Harvey

1960
· Joan Jett (Joan Larkin), singer, songwriter and guitarist with The Runaways and Joan Jett & The Blackhearts

1975
· Mystikal (a.k.a. Michael Tyler), US rapper

1982
· Billie, UK singer and actress

1989
· Irving Berlin, composer, died on this day at the age of 101

1990
· Tom Fogarty from Creedence Clearwater Revival, died on this day

EVENTS IN THE WORLD OF ROCK

1956
· Billboard magazine ran an article which stated ”with new experiences to their credit, such as calling riot squads and with scars such as damaged seats, some arena and stadium officials have turned their thumbs down to rock and roll”

1962
· The SpringfieldsSilver Threads & Golden Needles became the first single by a British vocal group to reach the US Top 20
· Bob Dylanperformed at a Carnegie Hall Hootenanny playing 5 original songs

1964
· Herman’s Hermits was at no. 1 in the UK for 5 weeks with I’m Into Something Good

1965
· San Francisco band, The Great Society, featuring Grace Slick, made their live debut at The Coffee Gallery, North Beach, California
· The Who began a short tour of Scandinavia in Copenhagen; Roger Daltrey punched Keith Moon and was all but kicked out of the band

1966
· Jim Reeves was no. 1 on the UK singles charts with Distant Drums
· The Rolling Stones released Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby? as well as embarked on a British tour. Also performing were The Ike & Tina Turner Revue and The Yardbirds

1967
· The Beatles were on the cover of Time magazine

1969
· A new weekly TV show, The Music Scene, aired in the US for the first time. Stevie Wonder, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Tom Jones, Cass Elliot, James Brown, Janis Joplin and Sly & The Family Stone were all booked to appear on the show

1972
· David Bowie began his first US tour with The Spiders From Mars, at Cleveland’s Music Hall

1974
· The Sonny Bono Comedy Revue was aired for the first time on US ABC TV

1976
· Bob Dylan’s album, Hard Rain, which was a live document of the 1976 tour with the Rolling Thunder Revue, went gold

1979
· Jackson Browne, Chaka Khan, Bruce Springsteen, Bonnie Raitt and Tom Petty performed at Madison Square Garden, for 2 anti-nuclear benefit concerts

1980
· John Lennon signed with Geffen Records. He and Elton John were the new label’s first artists

1984
· Former singer for The Babies, John Waite, went to no. 1 with Missing You

1985
· The First Farm Aid concert was held in Champaign, Illinois. The concert, organised by Willie Nelson, Neil Young and John Mellencamp, raised $10 million for the nation’s farmers

1986
· The Smiths signed to EMI Records in the UK for £1 million

1989
· Bruce Springsteen performed onstage with Jimmy Cliff at The Stone Pony in Asbury Park

1990
· Garth Brooks’s album, No Fences, entered the US charts. It went on to become the biggest selling country album of all time, with sales of 13 million in 5 years

1991
· Bryan Adams made chart history when his single, Everything I Do (I Do It For You) had 12th consecutive weeks at no. 1 on the UK charts

1992
· During a US tour, Def Leppard were forced to cancel 2 shows when their sound equipment truck was found abandoned after the driver had attempted to rob a store. The driver was later charged with possessing drugs and criminal damage
· Bruce Springsteen broke the rules of MTV’s Unplugged series when he played electric guitar for his set. The episode was renamed MTV Plugged

1999
· Diana Ross was arrested on Concorde after an incident at Heathrow Airport. The singer claimed that a security guard touched her breasts while being frisked, so Ross retaliated by rubbing her hands down the security guard

Sunday, September 12, 2010

PLAYLIST FOR THE LAUNDROMAT – 15th September

Take Your Pick – Greg OlsenTake Your Pick
Borstal Boys - The Faces - They’re Good Boys (When They’re Asleep)
After The Thrill Is Gone - The Eagles - On The Border

The Odd Sock
Samson - Mike Warnke

Remember Sam - The Easybeats - The Definitive Collection
What’s A Girl Supposed To Do? - Lesley Gore - Start The Party Again
Over & Over - Fleetwood Mac - Outside Work

Stuff You Left In Your Pockets
Downhearted Blues – Bessie Smith
Easy Rider – Leadbelly
Victory Ball - Charlie Parker
Double Talk – Lionel Hampton & his orchestra
I Don’t Know - Buddy Guy & Junior Wells
CC Rider - Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry

You Can Have Her - The Fortunes - Here It Comes Again
The Weaver’s Answer - Family - Old Songs, New Songs
3 Into 2 - Flash & The Pan - Burning Up The Night

3-Piece Suit
Only In Your Heart
Woman Tonight
Story Of A Teenager
Half A Man
Company
Hollywood
Sister Goldenhair
Sandman
Horse With No Name - America - Music Hall, Boston 1975 (part 2)

Soap Opera - Harvey Andrews - Writer Of Songs
Crest Of A Wave - Rory Gallagher - Deuce
The Ballad Of Tricky Fred - Arlo Guthrie - Arlo

Quote – “Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it” - John Lennon


ON THIS DAY – 15th September

Intros & Outtros (Births & Deaths)

1926
· Julian “Cannonball” Adderley, jazz alto-sax player

1940
· Jimmy Gilmer, singer

1941
· Les Braid, bassist for The Swinging Blue Jeans

1942
· Lee Dorman, bassist and guitarist from Iron Butterfly and Captain Beyond

1956
· Jaki Graham, soul singer

1960
· Michel Dorge, drummer with Crash Test Dummies

1967
· Jerry Dixon, bassist for Warrant

1976
· Ivette Sosa vocalist for Eden’s Crush
· KG, singer with MN8

2004
· The Ramones’s guitarist, Johnny Ramone (a.k.a. John Cummings), died of prostate cancer on this day


EVENTS IN THE WORLD OF ROCK

1956
· Elvis Presley was at no. 1 in the US for 5 weeks with Don’t Be Cruel

1962
· The Four Seasons had no. 1 in the US for 5 weeks with Sherry
· Brian Epstein brought The Beatles to the offices of the London Daily Mirror for an interview with Peter Jones, who concluded they were ”a nothing group”

1964
· At Cleveland’s Public Auditorium, The Beatles were ordered off stage for 15 minutes by authorities so that the screaming crowd could be calmed down

1966
· The Small Faces had a UK no. 1 with All Or Nothing

1969
· Ed Sullivan released a rock & roll record, The Sulli-Gulli by the Ed Sullivan Singers & Orchestra
· Deep Purple, with new vocalist, Ian Gillan, and bassist, Roger Glover performed Concerto for Rock Band and Orchestra with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at London;’s Royal Albert Hall

1970
· Black Sabbath and The Dog That Bit People played The Marquee in London
· Vice-President Spiro Agnew says that the youth of America ”are being brain-washed into a drug culture” by rock music, movies, books and underground newspapers

1974
· Gary Thain, bassist for Uriah Heep received an almost fatal electric-shock at a concert in Dallas, Texas. He retired

1975
· Pink Floyd released Wish You Were Here

1976
· Steely Dan’s 5th album, The Royal Scam, went gold

1977
· President Carter met with 15 top record industry executives, the first time the music business had been recognised by a president
· The Rolling Stones released Love You Live

1978
· Bob Dylan’s longest concert tour began, a series of 62 one-night-stands across USA and Canada

1979
· Led Zepellin scored their 6th US No. 1 LP with In Through The Out Door which stayed on top for 7 weeks
· Bob Dylan released Slow Train Coming
· Abba played their first North American concert, in Vancouver, British Columbia

1980
· David Bowie opened on Broadway in the title role of the play The Elephant Man
· Paul McCartney released Temporary Secretary

1990
· George Michael scored his 2nd UK no. 1 with Listen Without Prejudice vol 1
· New Kids On The Block’s business manager had his briefcase containing $100,000 stolen from a hotel in Hollywood
· Steve Miller Band had a UK no. 1 with The Joker, 16 years after its first release
· Bruce Hornsby began filling in on keyboards for The Grateful Dead after the death of Brent Mydland

1996
· Pearl Jam went to no. 1 in the US with No Code

1997
· A 34-year-old man was awarded more than £20,000 by a French court for losing his hearing after standing too close to the speakers at a U2 concert in 1993

2002
· Dixie Chicks were no. 1 for 2 weeks on the US charts with Home

2003
· Abba tribute acts overtook Elvis impersonators in the battle of British covers of singers, according to a survey by The Performing Right Society

Monday, September 6, 2010

PLAYLIST FOR THE LAUNDROMAT – 8th September

Take Your Pick – Greg OlsenTake Your Pick
Only A Pawn In Their Game - Bob Dylan - The Times, They Are A-Changin’
Do It - The Doors - Soft Parade

The Odd Sock
The Bird Of Paradise (Fly Up Your Nose) - Little Jimmy Dickens

By Bye Love - Simon & Garfunkel - The Definitive Set
You’re The Song - Doug Ashdown - Leave Love Enough Alone
Glad & Sorry - The Faces - They’re Good Boys (When They’re Asleep)

Stuff You Left In Your Pockets
Break ‘Em Down – Big Joe Williams
Moonshine – Memphis Minnie
These Foolish Things - Bennie carter & His Orchestra
The Thin Man – Art Blakey’s Messengers
This Old Fool - Buddy Guy & Junior Wells
The Very Thought Of You - Albert King

Pretty Girl - The Easybeats - The Definitive Collection
Because They’re Young - Duane Eddy - Greatest Hits
Episcopal Hymn - John Fahey - Death Chants, Breakdowns and Military Waltzes

Visions - The Eagles - On The Border
My Town, My Guy & Me - Lesley Gore - Start The Party Again
Love from Here, Love From There - Fleetwood Mac - Outside Work

The Weaver’s Answer - Family - Old Songs, New Songs
You Can Have Her - The Fortunes - Here It Comes Again
Find The Cost Of Freedom - Crosby, Stills & Nash - CSN Boxed Set

3-Piece Suit
Intro / Tin Man
Muskrat Love
Baby, It’s Up To You
Moon Song
Old Man Took
To Each His Own
Lonely People
I Need You
Don’t Cross The River
Ventura Highway - America - Music Hall, Boston 1975 (part 1)


Quote – “Music is the art of thinking with sounds” -
Jules Combarieu

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

PLAYLIST FOR THE LAUNDROMAT – 1st September

Take Your Pick – Greg OlsenTake Your Pick
Soldiers of Peace - Crosby, Stills & Nash - CSN Boxed Set
Pursuit on 53rd Street - The Doobie Brothers - What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits

The Odd Sock
Nursery School - Joyce Grenfell

Black Magic - The Divinyls - Underworld
Shaman’s Blues - The Doors - Soft Parade
North Country Blues - Bob Dylan - The Times, They Are A-Changin’

Stuff You Left In Your Pockets
Blues at Midnight – Peter Chatman
Let Me Play With Your Poodle – Lightnin’ Hopkins
Stardust - Artie Shaw
Jeru – Miles Davis
Messin’ With The Kid - Buddy Guy & Junior Wells
Angel Of Mercy - Albert King

Bleecker Street - Simon & Garfunkel - The Definitive Set
Willie’s Shades - Doug Ashdown - Leave Love Enough Alone
Cindy Incidentally - The Faces - They’re Good Boys (When They’re Asleep)

Peter Gunn Theme - Duane Eddy - Greatest Hits
Saturday Night - The Easybeats - The Definitive Collection
Take It To The Limit - The Eagles - On The Border

America - John Fahey - Death Chants, Breakdowns and Military Waltzes
It Was I - Fleetwood Mac - Outside Work
The look of Love - Lesley Gore - Start The Party Again

3-Piece Suit
Chicken Soup
The Fortune
White Lightning - Angel - King Biscuit Flower Hour


Quote – “Radio has no future” - Lord Kelvin, Scottish mathematician and physicist 1897