PLAYLIST FOR THE LAUNDROMAT – 2nd DECEMBER

Take Your Pick – Greg Olsen – Take Your Pick
Lifted By Love - k d lang - Even Cowgirls Get The Blues
Love Alone - Utopia - Adventures In Utopia
Since I’ve Been Loving You - Led Zeppelin - Early Days

The odd sock –
The Ballad of Jim & Tammy Bakker

Shoeshine Boy - The Lemon Pipers - The Best Of …
Looks Like Love - The Venetians - Amazing World
Remember - John Lennon - Lennon
Green Onions - The Ventures - The Ventures Play Telstar

Stuff you left in your pockets –
Between The Hard Places & The Ground – Mike Bloomfield
Willie Brown Blues – Ry Cooder
Stone Crazy – Buddy Guy
52nd Street Theme – Charlie Bird
The Japanese Sandman – Artie Shaw & his orchestra

Downtown Lights - Annie Lennox - Medusa
She – Tommy James & The Shondells - Tommy James & The Shondells
Damaged Goods – Nils Lofgren – Damaged Goods
Iscariot – Tyrannosaurus Rex - Unicorn

3-piece suit –
Simple Man
Foolish Man
Mama Lion
Deja Vu – David Crosby & Graham Nash - Live

Into The Pit – Fight – Metal 11
Dark As The Dungeon - Wall Of Voodoo - Welcome To Sammystown
Seven & Seven Is - Love - Best Of …
Punk Jazz - Weather Report - Mr Gone

Quote – “Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music“
Allan Bloom

Intros & Outros (2nd December) –

1906 - Dr Peter Carl Goldmark, inventor of the long-playing microgroove record (LP) which revolutionised the way people played recorded music
1915 - Roebuck ‘Pops’ Staples
1915 – Adolph Green
1923 – Maria Callas, singer
1941 – Tom McGuinness, bassist and guitarist for Manfred Mann up to1969, then McGuiness Flint and Blues Band.
1942 - Ted Bluechel, vocalist & drummer for The Association
1943 - Dave Munden of The Tremeloes
1950 - John Wesley Ryles
1952 – Peter Kingsbery of Cock Robin
1952 - Michael McDonald, keyboard player & vocalist for The Doobie Brothers
1960 – Rick Savage, bassist for Def Leppard
1960 – Sydney Youngblood
1968 – Nate Mendel, bassist for Foo Fighters
1978 – Nellie Furtado, Canadian singer
1982 - David Blue, US folkie and member of Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue, died of a heart attack while jogging in New York’s Washington Square Park. He was 41
1986 - Lee Dorsey, R&B singer, died on this day. He was 59
1987 – Britney Spears, singer and mime artist
2001 – Valerie Jones, singer with The Jones Girls, and worked with Lou Reed, Diana Ross, Aretha Franklin and Betty Everett, died on this day. She was 45

On this day (2nd December) –
1950 – Phil Harris’s The Thing, topped the charts
1957 - Sam Cooke’s You Send Me topped the charts
1959 - Marty WildeBritish rock singer, married Joyce Baker, a member of the vocal group The Vernons Girls
1964 - Ringo Starr had his tonsils removed while The Beatles were on tour in Australia
1966 - Love, Moby Grape and Lee Michaels performed at the Fillmore East
1967 - The Monkees started 5 weeks at no. 1 on the US charts with Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd. This was the 4th LP of theirs to occupy no. 1 in the same year. Their single Daydream Believer topped the charts as well, while The American Breed released Bend Me, Shape Me
1967 – Jimmy Rodgers was found in mysterious circumstances in a car with his skull fractured. He later recovered, but his career was over
19 - Eric Burdon launched a ”Curb the Clap” bumper sticker campaign to combat what he called ”the number one sickness in the record business today”. For every donation to the LA Free Clinic, Burdon sent out a Curb the Clap bumper sticker
1971 - Led Zepellin performed at The Royal Ballroom, Bornemouth, England
1971 – Taj Mahal gave a concert for the men on death row in Washington State Penitentiary
1972 – Niel Sedaka’s Oh Carol re-entered the British Top 20 charts, 13 years after its previous success. Dr Hook released On The Cover Of The Rolling Stone, Hurricane Smith released Oh Babe, What Would You Say? and Carly Simon released You’re So Vain. The Temptations’ Papa Was A Rolling Stone topped the charts
1973 - After a show at the Montreal Forum, members of The Who and companions were jailed overnight for $6000 worth of hotel damage. The incident was later chronicled in the John Entwhistle song Cell Block Number Seven
1973 - 658,000 tickets for Bob Dylan’s up-coming tour in San Francisco sold out. Traffic was backed up 5 blocks from the Post Office, and many applications were marked ”Return to Sender” as there were too many to be handled
1974 - Ravi Shankar was hospitalised in Chicago whilst on tour with George Harrison. He was released 2 weeks later and rejoined the tour in Boston
1975 - Silver Convention earn gold for their disco hit Fly, Robin, Fly.as it went to no. 1 on the US charts
1978 - Rod Stewart’s Do Ya Think I’m Sexy? hit no. 1 on the UK singles chart, while Barbra Streisand & Neil Diamond had a no. 1 hit with You Don’t Bring Me Flowers in the US
1979 - Kris Kristofferson divorced Rita Coolidge after 6 years of marriage
20 - Stevie Wonder performed at New York’s Metropolitan Opera House playing material from his recent Journey Through The Secret Life Of Plants LP, accompanied by the National Afro-American Philharmonic Orchestra. The last part of the 3-hour concert had Wonder doing more conventional hits.
1980 –Joni Mitchell made her cable TV debut on Shadows & Light, an 80-minute concert taped at the Santa Barbara County Bowl in California
1986 - Jerry Lee Lewis checked into the Betty Ford Clinic to overcome his addiction to painkillers
1986 - Eurythmics lead singer Annie Lennox ripped off her bra during a performance of Missionary Man in front of a 10,000-strong Birmingham crowd
1987 - INXS performed at Newcastle City Hall (England), supported by Sinead O’Connor
1988 - The Stone Roses performed at the London School of Economics, supported by The Charlatans
1988 - Kiss members Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons joined Willie Nelson on Geraldo to discuss the topic ”Sex on the Road”
1995 - Mariah Carey went to no. 1 on the US singles charts with her duet with Boyz II Men, One Sweet Day. It made Mariah the first artist in history to have 2 consecutive singles debut at No. 1
1997 - A man died after falling from a balcony during a Rolling Stones concert at Pontiac Silverdome in Michigan
1997 - Whitney Houston pulled out of a Moonies sponsored concert, 2 hours before it was due to begin. The religious group said they had no intention of suing the singer, as long as she returned the $1 million fee she had received
1998 - Jimmy Buffett played his home town of Mobile, Alabama for the first time in 8 years. Proceeds of the concert went to help victims of Hurricane George
1999 – It was reported that Stevie Wonder was to undergo an operation to regain his sight. The breakthrough surgery involved insertion of a microchip in his retina
2000 - Thieves broke into Madonna’s London home by forcing their way through a basement door. They stole Guy Richie’s, (her fiance), carkeys, loaded up his car with possessions and drove off
2001 - Daniel Bedingfield’s single Gotta Get Thru This hit no. 1 in the UK
2002 –Oasis singer Liam Gallagher was arrested and charged with assault after he hung-fu-kicked a police officer in the Bayerischer Hotel in Munich. The singer lost his 2 front teeth in the brawl, and an Oasis minder was knocked out cold. A concert in Munich was postponed and a show in Hamburg rescheduled as the singer underwent emergency dental work