PLAYLIST FOR THE LAUNDROMAT – 3rd February

Take Your Pick – Greg Olsen – Take Your Pick
Sittin’ On Top Of The World - Harry Manx - Road Ragas
Live Wire – AC/DC - TNT

The odd sock –
House Of The Rising Sun - Andy Griffith

Sweet Little Mystery - John Martyn - No Little Boy
Valentines Day - ABC - The Lexicon Of Love
Different Girls - Mental As Anything - Beetroot Stains

Stuff you left in your pockets –
Candy Man Blues – Mississippi John Hurt
Look To The Rainbow – Dinah Washington
I Bes Troubled – Muddy Waters
Samaba – Gene Krupa & his orchestra
Sunny Side Of The Street – Tommy Dorsey & his orchestra
Mean To Me - Dick Fregulia

MEO 245 - Screen Memory
Young Lust - Aerosmith - Pump
Sunnyboys - Sunnyboys

Overture / I Stand Alone - Al Kooper - I Stand Alone
Slipping Away - Max Merritt & The Meteors - A Little Easier
That’s Why I Love You - Andrew Gold - Andrew Gold

Sing – Innerstate – Metal 11
The Hour Before Dawn - Andy Mackay - In Search Of Eddie Riff
Stars Of Warburton - Midnight Oil - Scream In Blue

3-piece suit –
Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy (episode 3) – Douglas Adams

Quote – “Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn”
Charlie Parker

Intros & Outros (3rd February) –

1911 - Jesse Thomas, blues singer
1928 - Frankie Vaughan, singer
1935 - Johnny “Guitar” Watson, originally a pianist in Los Angeles, but noted for a piercing blues guitar dynamic that influenced the likes of Steve Miller
1940 – Angelo D’Aleo, singer for Dion & The Belmonts
1941 - Chuck Tharpe, vocalist for The Fireballs
1943 - Dennis Edwards, singer for The Temptations
1943 - Eric Haydock, bassist for The Hollies
1944 - Trisha Noble, Australian singer
1945 - Johnny Cymbal, singer
1946 - Stan Webb of Chicken Shack
1947 - Dave Davies, guitarist withThe Kinks
1947 - Melanie Safka (Melanie Schekeryk), singer / songwriter
1948 - John “Ozzy” Osbourne, front-man for Black Sabbath
1949 - Arthur “Killer” Kane, bassist for The New York Dolls
1949 - Jim Lockhart, member of Horslips
1950 - Peter Gabriel, singer for Genesis and solo artist
1957 - Tony Butler of Big Country
1958 - Lee Crystal of Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
1959 - Loi Tollhurst, keyboard player for The Cure
1959 - Buddy Holly (Charles Hardin Holly), 22, The Big Bopper (Jiles Perry Richardson), 28, and Ritchie Valens, 17, died on this day. The plane they had hired to take them from Mason City, Iowa, to the next stage of their US tour in Fargo, North Dakota, crashed in Iowa countryside, 10 minutes after take-off.
1967 - British record producer Joe Meek shot his landlady Violet Shenton then himself at his flat in London. (Meek produced The Tornados’ Telstar, the first no. 1 in the US by a British band.) He claimed to have contacted Buddy Holly during séances, and his penchant for making “Holly-influenced” records suggests that the shooting, occurring on the 8th anniversary of Holly’s death, was more than a coincidence
1995 - Turner Fodrell, blues singer / guitarist, died on this day. He was 66
1996 - Wild Jimmy Spruill, blues guitarist, died on this day. He was 61

On this day (3rd February) –

1956 - Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash held a recording session at Sun Studios in Memphis. The sessions were later named the Million Dollar Quartet and released
1958 - The Royal Teens’s Short Shorts entered the Top 40
1961 - Bob Dylan’s first recording session at the home of friends Sid and Bob Gleason in East Orange, New Jersey. Dylan sang San Francisco Bay Blues, Jesus met the Woman at the Well and others
1964 - The Beatles’s album, Meet the Beatles, went gold

1967 - Otis Redding, The Marvellettes, Aaron Neville, James & Bobby Purify and The Drifters performed at Knoxville, Tennessee’s Civic Coliseum for ticket prices of $2.50 - $3.50. Also, Jimi Hendrix recorded Purple Haze
1968 - The Lemon Pipers’ Green Tambourine went to no. 1 on the US singles charts. The Beatles recorded Lady Madonna at EMI’s Abbey Road studios in just 3 takes
1969 - John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr appoint Rolling Stones manager, Allen Klein as their new “Mr. Fix-It” for Apple Records. Paul McCartney refused to sign with Klein, preferring his father-in-law, Lee Eastman
1973 - Elton John began a 3-week run at no. 1 on the US singles charts with Crocodile Rock. Dr. Hook’s On the Cover of the Rolling Stone entered the Top 40
1976 - David Bowie began his first US tour in over a year in Washington. Mick Ronson was replaced by Earl Slick and Bowie shelved the white soul persona for a character he called The Thin White Duke
1978 - Dead Man’s Curve, a made-for-TV movie about singers Jan & Dean aired on US TV with Jan in a token role. Elsewhere, in Lubbock, Texas, it was the 19th anniversary of Buddy Holly’s death, and the day that the place of his birth had been scheduled to be torn down by the Lubbock Building Department. The department had no idea they were about to tear down the house associated with the town’s most famous son. However, few days earlier, someone had bought the place, moved it intact outside the city limits as a home for his family, also unaware of its significance. He became the man who accidentally saved Buddy Holly’s birthplace
1979 - Blondie had the first of 5 US no. 1s with Heart of Glass, while The Blues Brothers’ album Briefcase Full of Blues hit no. 1 in the US. Also, in remembrance of Buddy Holly’s death 20 years earlier, fans crowd the Surf Ballroom in Clearlake, Iowa to honour him. Wolfman Jack hosted performances by Del Shannon, Jimmy Clanton and The Drifters
1982 - England’s John Sharples stopped disco dancing after 371 hours
1990 - Bob Dylan started a 6-night stint at London’s Hammersmith Odeon. On the UK singles charts, the top 3 spots were all non-British and non-American – Irish Sinead O’Connor’s Nothing Compares To U(her first no. 1 single), Australian Kylie Minogue’s Tears On My Pillow and Belgian Technotronic’s Get Up
1993 - Radiohead performed at The Wheatsheaf, Stoke-On-Trent, England
2003 - An exclusive documentary, Living with Michael Jackson was shown on British TV. Reporter Martin Bashir spent 8 months in the company of the star, and the show’s editor promised, ”viewers will not believe what they’re seeing”
2004 - Sean “P. Diddy” Combes settled a $3 million court case filed by his former driver after an incident in 1999. Wardell Fenderson had driven Combs and his then girlfriend Jennifer Lopez away from a New York nightclub where 3 people had been wounded in a shooting. Mr Fenderson said he was traumatized by having guns in the car, and being ordered to ignore police orders to stop, for which he was arrested