PLAYLIST FOR THE LAUNDROMAT – 22nd September

Take Your Pick – Greg Olsen – Take 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 Springfields’ Silver 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