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
Thursday, November 26, 2009
Monday, November 23, 2009
PLAYLIST FOR THE LAUNDROMAT – 25TH NOV
Take Your Pick – Greg Olsen – Take Your Pick
Death of a Clown - The Kinks - The Ultimate Collection
You Make Me Crazy - Utopia - Adventures In Utopia
Marching Along Singing A Song – Ed Kuepper – The Blue House
The odd sock –
I can’t find a name for the track or the artist, but you are warned – DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME!! Ed.
Lifted By Love - k d Lang - Even Cowgirls Get The Blues
Little Change - The Venetians - Amazing World
Immigrant Song - Led Zeppelin - Early Days
Tequila - The Ventures - The Ventures Play Telstar
Stuff you left in your pockets –
Information Blues – Roy Milton
Somebody’s Callin’ My Name – Ry Cooder
Wise Woman Blues – Dinah Washington
Allen’s Alley – Charlie Bird
Flying Home – Lionel Hampton & his orchestra
Lonely Atmosphere - The Lemon Pipers - The Best Of …
Ball Of Fire – Tommy James & The Shondells - Tommy James & The Shondells
Mother - John Lennon - Lennon
The Sea Beasts – Tyrannosaurus Rex - Unicorn
3-piece suit –
Khe Sanh
My Turn To Cry
Four Walls
One Long Day – Cold Chisel - Swingshift
Punishment – Biohazard – Metal 10
Big City - Wall Of Voodoo - Welcome To Sammystown
I Can’t Get Next To You - Annie Lennox - Medusa
Mr Gone - Weather Report - Mr Gone
Quote – “If you don't have sex and you don't do drugs, your rock 'n' roll better be awfully good.“
Abbie Hoffman
Intros & Outros (25th November) –
1924 - Paul Desmond (Paul Breitenfield) of the Dave Brubeck Quartet
1940 – Percy Sledge, soul singer
1943 – Roy Lynes, organist for The Spectres and Status Quo.
1944 – Bob Lind, singer
1944 – Bev Bevan, drummer for Move and ELO
1947 – Val Fuentes, drummer with It’s a Beautiful Day
1950 – Jocelyn Brown, singer
1951 – Del Bromham of Stray
1959 - Steve Rothery of Marillion
1960 – Amy Grant, singer
1960 – Kasey Smith of Danger Danger
1966 - Stacey Lattislaw, disco singer
1967 – Rodney Sheppard, guitarist with Sugar Ray
1968 - Tundle, singer with Lighthouse Family
1970 - Albert Ayler, avant garde saxophonist, died on this day in the Hudson River. Rumours of him being tied to a jukebox were unconfirmed. He was 34
1974 – Nick Drake, singer / songwriter died in his sleep of an overdose of the anti-depressant, Tryptasol
1991 – Bill Graham, rock promoter, died on this day
On this day (25th November) –
1945 - Miles Davis made his first recording as a member of Charlie Parker’s band
1955 - Bill Haley & The Comets’s Rock Around the Clock hit no. 1 on the UK charts, while The Singing Dogs, a single by the band of the same name, entered the UK charts
1957 - Billboard reports that ”rock & roll acts are turning away from the increasingly disappointing grosses of big package shows in favour of smaller scale teen record hops where performers appear for a smaller guarantees but a bigger percentage of the gate”
1957 - Gene Vincent & The Blue Caps perform on the Ed Sullivan Show for their first national TV appearance
1958 - Lord Rockinhgam’s XI hit no. 1 on the UK singles charts with Hoots Mon
1961 - The Everly Brothers commenced active service for the 8th Battalion, Marine Corps Reserves
1965 - London’s Harrods department store closed their doors to the public so The Beatles could do their Christmas shopping
1965 – The Seekers’s single, The Carnival is Over hit no. 1 in the UK
1966 – The Jimi Hendrix Experience made its London performing debut at The Bag o’ Nails Club
1967 - Strawberry Alarm Clock’s Incense & Peppermints topped the charts
1968 - The Beatles’s White Album, individually numbered with colour photos of each of the Beatles as well as a fold-out poster, was released in US
1969 - John Lennon returned his MBE to the Queen with a note that read, ”Your Majesty, I am returning this MBE in protest against Britain’s involvement in the Nigeria-Biafra thing, against our support of America in Vietnam, and against “Cold Turkey” slipping down the charts. With love, John Lennon of Bag”
1971 – The 3 remaining members of The Doors tell Rolling Stone that they are determined to carry despite the death of their singer
1972 - Chuck Berry’s My Ding-a-Ling was no. 1 on the UK charts
1972 - A disappointing 32,000 turned out for the Woodstock of the West concert, sponsored by a Los Angeles radio station. Performers included Sly & The Family Stone, Stevie Wonder, Mott the Hoople, The Eagles, The Bee Gees and others
1972 - Pink Floyd Live In Pompeii, a film set for its premier at London’s Rainbow Theatre was cancelled at the last minute by the theatre’s owner. No explanation was given
1972 – According to Rolling Stone, The Hollies’ lead singer, Allan Clarke had announced plans to leave the band
1976 - The Band played their last performance, called The Last Waltz. The show also featured Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Dr John, Neil Young, Stephen Stills, Ringo Star, Emmylou Harris, Van Morrison, Neil Diamond, Eric Clapton, Muddy Waters, Ronnie Hawkins, Bobbie Charles and others
1976 – Rick Wakeman rejoined Yes after leaving 3 years earlier to pursue a solo career
1978 - The Police performed at London’s Electric Ballroom. Tickets were £1.50
1982 – The Jam started their final UK tour at Glasgow’s Apollo Theatre
1984 - The cream of the British pop world gathered to record the historic Do They Know It’s Christmas? single, written by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure. It featured Paul Young, Bono, Boy George, Sting and George Michael. It went on to sell in excess of 3 million copies becoming the best-selling record ever, and raised over £8 million worldwide
1985 –Bobby brown announced he was leaving New Edition
1988 – James appeared at the Irish Centre, Birmingham, supported by The Happy Mondays, while The Las performed at Manchester University
1988 - Chuck Berry paid a $250 fine to settle a New York City assault charge
1989 - New Kids On The Block scored their first UK no. 1 single with You Got It (The Right Stuff)
1989 - Milli Vanilli’s Blame It On The Rain topped the charts
1995 - Radiohead’s Thom Yorke blacked out halfway through a show in Munich, Germany, suffering from exhaustion
1995 - Whitney Houston’s Exhale (Shoop Shoop) went to no. 1 on the US charts
2000 - A burglar broke into Alice Cooper’s house and made off with over $6000 worth of clothes, shoes and cameras belonging to Cooper’s daughter, as well as 4 of Alice’s gold discs
2001 - Garth Brooks hit no. 1 on the US album charts with Scarecrow, while Robbie Williams started an 8-week run at no. 1 on the UK album charts with Swing When You’re Winning
2003 - Michael Jackson launched a website to defend himself following allegations of sexual abuse of a 12 year-old boy. The singer posted a message saying the charges were based on “a big lie and that he wanted to end “this horrible time” by proving they were false in court
2003 - Meatloaf underwent heart surgery in a London hospital after being diagnosed with a condition that causes an irregular heartbeat. He had collapsed on November 17 as he performed at London’s Wembley Arena
Take Your Pick – Greg Olsen – Take Your Pick
Death of a Clown - The Kinks - The Ultimate Collection
You Make Me Crazy - Utopia - Adventures In Utopia
Marching Along Singing A Song – Ed Kuepper – The Blue House
The odd sock –
I can’t find a name for the track or the artist, but you are warned – DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME!! Ed.
Lifted By Love - k d Lang - Even Cowgirls Get The Blues
Little Change - The Venetians - Amazing World
Immigrant Song - Led Zeppelin - Early Days
Tequila - The Ventures - The Ventures Play Telstar
Stuff you left in your pockets –
Information Blues – Roy Milton
Somebody’s Callin’ My Name – Ry Cooder
Wise Woman Blues – Dinah Washington
Allen’s Alley – Charlie Bird
Flying Home – Lionel Hampton & his orchestra
Lonely Atmosphere - The Lemon Pipers - The Best Of …
Ball Of Fire – Tommy James & The Shondells - Tommy James & The Shondells
Mother - John Lennon - Lennon
The Sea Beasts – Tyrannosaurus Rex - Unicorn
3-piece suit –
Khe Sanh
My Turn To Cry
Four Walls
One Long Day – Cold Chisel - Swingshift
Punishment – Biohazard – Metal 10
Big City - Wall Of Voodoo - Welcome To Sammystown
I Can’t Get Next To You - Annie Lennox - Medusa
Mr Gone - Weather Report - Mr Gone
Quote – “If you don't have sex and you don't do drugs, your rock 'n' roll better be awfully good.“
Abbie Hoffman
Intros & Outros (25th November) –
1924 - Paul Desmond (Paul Breitenfield) of the Dave Brubeck Quartet
1940 – Percy Sledge, soul singer
1943 – Roy Lynes, organist for The Spectres and Status Quo.
1944 – Bob Lind, singer
1944 – Bev Bevan, drummer for Move and ELO
1947 – Val Fuentes, drummer with It’s a Beautiful Day
1950 – Jocelyn Brown, singer
1951 – Del Bromham of Stray
1959 - Steve Rothery of Marillion
1960 – Amy Grant, singer
1960 – Kasey Smith of Danger Danger
1966 - Stacey Lattislaw, disco singer
1967 – Rodney Sheppard, guitarist with Sugar Ray
1968 - Tundle, singer with Lighthouse Family
1970 - Albert Ayler, avant garde saxophonist, died on this day in the Hudson River. Rumours of him being tied to a jukebox were unconfirmed. He was 34
1974 – Nick Drake, singer / songwriter died in his sleep of an overdose of the anti-depressant, Tryptasol
1991 – Bill Graham, rock promoter, died on this day
On this day (25th November) –
1945 - Miles Davis made his first recording as a member of Charlie Parker’s band
1955 - Bill Haley & The Comets’s Rock Around the Clock hit no. 1 on the UK charts, while The Singing Dogs, a single by the band of the same name, entered the UK charts
1957 - Billboard reports that ”rock & roll acts are turning away from the increasingly disappointing grosses of big package shows in favour of smaller scale teen record hops where performers appear for a smaller guarantees but a bigger percentage of the gate”
1957 - Gene Vincent & The Blue Caps perform on the Ed Sullivan Show for their first national TV appearance
1958 - Lord Rockinhgam’s XI hit no. 1 on the UK singles charts with Hoots Mon
1961 - The Everly Brothers commenced active service for the 8th Battalion, Marine Corps Reserves
1965 - London’s Harrods department store closed their doors to the public so The Beatles could do their Christmas shopping
1965 – The Seekers’s single, The Carnival is Over hit no. 1 in the UK
1966 – The Jimi Hendrix Experience made its London performing debut at The Bag o’ Nails Club
1967 - Strawberry Alarm Clock’s Incense & Peppermints topped the charts
1968 - The Beatles’s White Album, individually numbered with colour photos of each of the Beatles as well as a fold-out poster, was released in US
1969 - John Lennon returned his MBE to the Queen with a note that read, ”Your Majesty, I am returning this MBE in protest against Britain’s involvement in the Nigeria-Biafra thing, against our support of America in Vietnam, and against “Cold Turkey” slipping down the charts. With love, John Lennon of Bag”
1971 – The 3 remaining members of The Doors tell Rolling Stone that they are determined to carry despite the death of their singer
1972 - Chuck Berry’s My Ding-a-Ling was no. 1 on the UK charts
1972 - A disappointing 32,000 turned out for the Woodstock of the West concert, sponsored by a Los Angeles radio station. Performers included Sly & The Family Stone, Stevie Wonder, Mott the Hoople, The Eagles, The Bee Gees and others
1972 - Pink Floyd Live In Pompeii, a film set for its premier at London’s Rainbow Theatre was cancelled at the last minute by the theatre’s owner. No explanation was given
1972 – According to Rolling Stone, The Hollies’ lead singer, Allan Clarke had announced plans to leave the band
1976 - The Band played their last performance, called The Last Waltz. The show also featured Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Dr John, Neil Young, Stephen Stills, Ringo Star, Emmylou Harris, Van Morrison, Neil Diamond, Eric Clapton, Muddy Waters, Ronnie Hawkins, Bobbie Charles and others
1976 – Rick Wakeman rejoined Yes after leaving 3 years earlier to pursue a solo career
1978 - The Police performed at London’s Electric Ballroom. Tickets were £1.50
1982 – The Jam started their final UK tour at Glasgow’s Apollo Theatre
1984 - The cream of the British pop world gathered to record the historic Do They Know It’s Christmas? single, written by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure. It featured Paul Young, Bono, Boy George, Sting and George Michael. It went on to sell in excess of 3 million copies becoming the best-selling record ever, and raised over £8 million worldwide
1985 –Bobby brown announced he was leaving New Edition
1988 – James appeared at the Irish Centre, Birmingham, supported by The Happy Mondays, while The Las performed at Manchester University
1988 - Chuck Berry paid a $250 fine to settle a New York City assault charge
1989 - New Kids On The Block scored their first UK no. 1 single with You Got It (The Right Stuff)
1989 - Milli Vanilli’s Blame It On The Rain topped the charts
1995 - Radiohead’s Thom Yorke blacked out halfway through a show in Munich, Germany, suffering from exhaustion
1995 - Whitney Houston’s Exhale (Shoop Shoop) went to no. 1 on the US charts
2000 - A burglar broke into Alice Cooper’s house and made off with over $6000 worth of clothes, shoes and cameras belonging to Cooper’s daughter, as well as 4 of Alice’s gold discs
2001 - Garth Brooks hit no. 1 on the US album charts with Scarecrow, while Robbie Williams started an 8-week run at no. 1 on the UK album charts with Swing When You’re Winning
2003 - Michael Jackson launched a website to defend himself following allegations of sexual abuse of a 12 year-old boy. The singer posted a message saying the charges were based on “a big lie and that he wanted to end “this horrible time” by proving they were false in court
2003 - Meatloaf underwent heart surgery in a London hospital after being diagnosed with a condition that causes an irregular heartbeat. He had collapsed on November 17 as he performed at London’s Wembley Arena
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Here’s the playlist for The Laundromat this week (18th November)
Take Your Pick – Greg Olsen – Take Your Pick
Waterloo Sunset - The Kinks - The Ultimate Collection
Fair Warning – Todd Rundgren – Initiation
I Remember Larry - ’Weird Al’ Yankovic - Bad Hair Day
The odd sock –
Stairway To Gilligan - Little Roger & The Goosebumps
Eggtooth – Leo Kottke – Live In Europe
Hymn – Ultravox – Monument The Soundtrack
The Comedians – Ed Kuepper – The Blue House
Last Of The New Wave Riders - Utopia - Adventures In Utopia
Stuff you left in your pockets –
Goin’ Back To L.A. – Joe Liggins
Feelin’ Bad Blues – Ry Cooder
Bad Bad Whiskey – Amos Milbourne
Salt Peanuts (2) – Charlie Bird
Artistry Jumps – Stan Kenton & his orchestra
Blues Waltz – Ray Charles
Virtual Vortex - k d Lang - Even Cowgirls Get The Blues
Crystal Blue Persuasion – Tommy James & The Shondells - Tommy James & The Shondells
What Is & What Should Never Be - Led Zeppelin - Early Days
Evenings of Damask – Tyrannosaurus Rex - Unicorn
3-piece suit –
Dizzy Dizzy
Com Sta La Luna
Splash – Can - Soon Over Babaluma
Angel Of Disease – Morbid Angel – Metal 10
Age Of Reason - The Venetians - Amazing World
Lonely Atmosphere - The Lemon Pipers - The Best Of …
Quote – “The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.' “
Aaron Copland
Intros & Outros (18th November) –
1909 – Johnny Mercer, songwriter
1936 – Don Cherry
1936 – Hank Ballard US singer / songwriter
1941 – Con Clusky, singer for The Bachelors
1945 – Dave Irving of Supercharge
1949 - Herman Rarebell, drummer for The Scorpions
1950 – Rudy Sarzo, bassist with Whitesnake
1950 - Graham Parker
1953 – John McFee, guitarist with The Doobie Brothers
1954 – John Parr, singer / guitarist
1957 – Jenny Burton of C-Bank
1960 – Kim Wilde, singer
1961 - Janice Lynn Kuehnemund of Vixen
1962 - Kirk Hammett, guitarist with Metallica
1970 - Hal Dickinson of The Modernaires died on this day
1971 – Herman ‘Junior’ Parker, blues harmonica player on Ben E King’s Stand By Me, died on this day after a series of brain operations
1972 – Danny Whitten, singer / songwriter & member of Crazy Horse, died of a drug overdose. He was 29
1983 – Tom Evans of Badfinger died on this day
2003 – Composer & arranger Michael Kamen died of a heart attack on this day. He had worked with Pink Floyd (The Wall), Metallica, and on soundtracks Robin Hood, X-Men and Brazil
On this day (18th November) –
1950 - Sammy Kaye’s Harbour Lights topped the charts & stayed there for 4 weeks
1958 - Fats Domino performed Blueberry Hill on The ed Sullivan Show
1964 - Shindig!’s performers were The Supremes singing Baby Love and Come See About Me and The Righteous Brothers singing Little Latin Lupe Lu
1965 – Performing live at the ABC Cinema, Stockton, Cleveland were Manfred Mann, The Yardbirds and Paul & Barry Ryan
1965 - Marc Bolan (previously known as Toby Tyler although his real name was Mark Field) released his first single The Wizard
1967 - Long John Baldry’ Let The Heartaches Begin entered the UK charts, Pink Floyd released Apples & Oranges as their 2nd single, The Monkees released Daydream Believer, Johnny Rivers released Summer Rain and Gary Puckett & The Union Gap released Woman Woman
1968 - Glen Campbell formerly a session musician for Frank Sinatra, Nat ‘King’ Cole and The Beach Boys, received gold for By The Time I Get To Phoenix and Gentle On My Mind
1968 - Electric Ladyland earns gold for the Jimi Hendrix Experience
1970 – Traffic recorded their Live LP
1970 - Myra Brown and Jerry Lee Lewis divorce
1971 – Procol Harum recorded their Live in Concert album with The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra in Ontario, Canada. The single Conquistador emerged as the hit
1972 – Cat Stevens’ album Catch Bull At Four began 3 weeks at no. 1 on the US charts, Steely Dan released Do It Again and Stevie Wonder released Superstition
1975 - Chicago receive gold for their Greatest Hits LP
1975 - Bruce Springsteen & The ‘E’ Street Band made their UK live debut London’s Hammersmith Odeon. Bruce was unimpressed with CBS’s poster campaign and boycotted the after-show party
1978 - Billy Joel’s 52nd Street went to no. 1 on the US charts, The Bee Gees released Too Much Heaven and this week’s UK top 5 singles were – 5 The Cars (My Best Friend’s Girl), 4 Rod Stewart (Do You Think I’m Sexy?), 3 Dan Hartman (Instant Replay), 2 Olivia Newton-John (Hopelessly Devoted To You) & 1 The Boomtown Rats (Rat Trap)
1979 - The B-52s earned gold for their first album, The B-52s
1983 - R.E.M. made their first appearance outside the US, on Channel 4’s The Tube
1985 - Paul McCartney released Spies Like Us
1986 - Boston’s Amanda topped the charts & stayed there 2 weeks
1987 - Country-rock band The Dalton Brothers opened for U2 at a Los Angeles concert. They were in fact U2 themselves
1988 - Phil Collins made his “screen debut in a starring role” in the opening of the movie Buster. His official screen debut was as an extra in The Beatles’ Hard Days Night
1989 - All-girl group The Three Degrees lost their court case over the rights to their group name. The rights to the name belonged to their former manager Richard Barrett while the all-girl group Shangri’Las wont their court case over the rights to their group name. They could license it to whoever they wanted
1990 - Paul McCartney’s birth certificate was auctioned for $18,000
1992 - Black Sabbath were honoured with their own star on the Rock Walk in Hollywood
1993 – Nirvana recorded their MTV unplugged special
1993 - Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam was arrested in New Orleans for disturbing the peace after a fight broke out in a bar
1995 - The Rolling Stones became the first act to broadcast a concert on the Internet
1995 - Tina Turner sings the theme to the latest James Bond movie, Goldeneye
1999 – Madonna saved over £100,000 when she bought a Kensington home privately and cut out any estate agent
2000 – Craig David started a 16-date UK tour at The Pavilions in Plymouth, England
2002 - Manic Street Preachers played the Carling Homecoming gig at St Davids Hall in Cardiff
2003 – More than 500 Britney Spears fans camped out overnight outside Virgin Records Megastore in New York’s Times Square to have her sign copies of her new album In The Zone
2003 – Police raided Michael Jackson’s Neverland ranch following allegations of sexual abuse with a 12-year-old boy. Jackson denied the accusations
2003 - Michael Jackson released his greatest hits album Number Ones
Take Your Pick – Greg Olsen – Take Your Pick
Waterloo Sunset - The Kinks - The Ultimate Collection
Fair Warning – Todd Rundgren – Initiation
I Remember Larry - ’Weird Al’ Yankovic - Bad Hair Day
The odd sock –
Stairway To Gilligan - Little Roger & The Goosebumps
Eggtooth – Leo Kottke – Live In Europe
Hymn – Ultravox – Monument The Soundtrack
The Comedians – Ed Kuepper – The Blue House
Last Of The New Wave Riders - Utopia - Adventures In Utopia
Stuff you left in your pockets –
Goin’ Back To L.A. – Joe Liggins
Feelin’ Bad Blues – Ry Cooder
Bad Bad Whiskey – Amos Milbourne
Salt Peanuts (2) – Charlie Bird
Artistry Jumps – Stan Kenton & his orchestra
Blues Waltz – Ray Charles
Virtual Vortex - k d Lang - Even Cowgirls Get The Blues
Crystal Blue Persuasion – Tommy James & The Shondells - Tommy James & The Shondells
What Is & What Should Never Be - Led Zeppelin - Early Days
Evenings of Damask – Tyrannosaurus Rex - Unicorn
3-piece suit –
Dizzy Dizzy
Com Sta La Luna
Splash – Can - Soon Over Babaluma
Angel Of Disease – Morbid Angel – Metal 10
Age Of Reason - The Venetians - Amazing World
Lonely Atmosphere - The Lemon Pipers - The Best Of …
Quote – “The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.' “
Aaron Copland
Intros & Outros (18th November) –
1909 – Johnny Mercer, songwriter
1936 – Don Cherry
1936 – Hank Ballard US singer / songwriter
1941 – Con Clusky, singer for The Bachelors
1945 – Dave Irving of Supercharge
1949 - Herman Rarebell, drummer for The Scorpions
1950 – Rudy Sarzo, bassist with Whitesnake
1950 - Graham Parker
1953 – John McFee, guitarist with The Doobie Brothers
1954 – John Parr, singer / guitarist
1957 – Jenny Burton of C-Bank
1960 – Kim Wilde, singer
1961 - Janice Lynn Kuehnemund of Vixen
1962 - Kirk Hammett, guitarist with Metallica
1970 - Hal Dickinson of The Modernaires died on this day
1971 – Herman ‘Junior’ Parker, blues harmonica player on Ben E King’s Stand By Me, died on this day after a series of brain operations
1972 – Danny Whitten, singer / songwriter & member of Crazy Horse, died of a drug overdose. He was 29
1983 – Tom Evans of Badfinger died on this day
2003 – Composer & arranger Michael Kamen died of a heart attack on this day. He had worked with Pink Floyd (The Wall), Metallica, and on soundtracks Robin Hood, X-Men and Brazil
On this day (18th November) –
1950 - Sammy Kaye’s Harbour Lights topped the charts & stayed there for 4 weeks
1958 - Fats Domino performed Blueberry Hill on The ed Sullivan Show
1964 - Shindig!’s performers were The Supremes singing Baby Love and Come See About Me and The Righteous Brothers singing Little Latin Lupe Lu
1965 – Performing live at the ABC Cinema, Stockton, Cleveland were Manfred Mann, The Yardbirds and Paul & Barry Ryan
1965 - Marc Bolan (previously known as Toby Tyler although his real name was Mark Field) released his first single The Wizard
1967 - Long John Baldry’ Let The Heartaches Begin entered the UK charts, Pink Floyd released Apples & Oranges as their 2nd single, The Monkees released Daydream Believer, Johnny Rivers released Summer Rain and Gary Puckett & The Union Gap released Woman Woman
1968 - Glen Campbell formerly a session musician for Frank Sinatra, Nat ‘King’ Cole and The Beach Boys, received gold for By The Time I Get To Phoenix and Gentle On My Mind
1968 - Electric Ladyland earns gold for the Jimi Hendrix Experience
1970 – Traffic recorded their Live LP
1970 - Myra Brown and Jerry Lee Lewis divorce
1971 – Procol Harum recorded their Live in Concert album with The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra in Ontario, Canada. The single Conquistador emerged as the hit
1972 – Cat Stevens’ album Catch Bull At Four began 3 weeks at no. 1 on the US charts, Steely Dan released Do It Again and Stevie Wonder released Superstition
1975 - Chicago receive gold for their Greatest Hits LP
1975 - Bruce Springsteen & The ‘E’ Street Band made their UK live debut London’s Hammersmith Odeon. Bruce was unimpressed with CBS’s poster campaign and boycotted the after-show party
1978 - Billy Joel’s 52nd Street went to no. 1 on the US charts, The Bee Gees released Too Much Heaven and this week’s UK top 5 singles were – 5 The Cars (My Best Friend’s Girl), 4 Rod Stewart (Do You Think I’m Sexy?), 3 Dan Hartman (Instant Replay), 2 Olivia Newton-John (Hopelessly Devoted To You) & 1 The Boomtown Rats (Rat Trap)
1979 - The B-52s earned gold for their first album, The B-52s
1983 - R.E.M. made their first appearance outside the US, on Channel 4’s The Tube
1985 - Paul McCartney released Spies Like Us
1986 - Boston’s Amanda topped the charts & stayed there 2 weeks
1987 - Country-rock band The Dalton Brothers opened for U2 at a Los Angeles concert. They were in fact U2 themselves
1988 - Phil Collins made his “screen debut in a starring role” in the opening of the movie Buster. His official screen debut was as an extra in The Beatles’ Hard Days Night
1989 - All-girl group The Three Degrees lost their court case over the rights to their group name. The rights to the name belonged to their former manager Richard Barrett while the all-girl group Shangri’Las wont their court case over the rights to their group name. They could license it to whoever they wanted
1990 - Paul McCartney’s birth certificate was auctioned for $18,000
1992 - Black Sabbath were honoured with their own star on the Rock Walk in Hollywood
1993 – Nirvana recorded their MTV unplugged special
1993 - Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam was arrested in New Orleans for disturbing the peace after a fight broke out in a bar
1995 - The Rolling Stones became the first act to broadcast a concert on the Internet
1995 - Tina Turner sings the theme to the latest James Bond movie, Goldeneye
1999 – Madonna saved over £100,000 when she bought a Kensington home privately and cut out any estate agent
2000 – Craig David started a 16-date UK tour at The Pavilions in Plymouth, England
2002 - Manic Street Preachers played the Carling Homecoming gig at St Davids Hall in Cardiff
2003 – More than 500 Britney Spears fans camped out overnight outside Virgin Records Megastore in New York’s Times Square to have her sign copies of her new album In The Zone
2003 – Police raided Michael Jackson’s Neverland ranch following allegations of sexual abuse with a 12-year-old boy. Jackson denied the accusations
2003 - Michael Jackson released his greatest hits album Number Ones
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Here’s the playlist for The Laundromat this week (11th November)
Take Your Pick – Greg Olsen – Take Your Pick
Exodus – Matthew Knights – One to One
Rainmaker – Traffic – Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys
I’m Sick Of You - ’Weird Al’ Yankovic - Bad Hair Day
The odd sock –
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds - William Shatner
Dead End Street - The Kinks - The Ultimate Collection
Initiation – Todd Rundgren – Initiation
Palm Blvd / Shadowland – Leo Kottke – Live In Europe
Mine For Life – Ultravox – Monument The Soundtrack
Stuff you left in your pockets –
What’d I Say – Ray Charles
He Made A Woman Out Of Me – Ry Cooder
Caldonia – Louis Jordan
Salt Peanuts – Charlie Bird
One O’Clock Jump – Count Basie & his orchestra
How Long Blues – Ray Charles
Barefoot In The Grass – Ed Kuepper – The Blue House
Sweet Cherry Wine – Tommy James & The Shondells - Tommy James & The Shondells
Virtual Vortex - k d Lang - Even Cowgirls Get The Blues
Evenings of Damask – Tyrannosaurus Rex - Unicorn
3-piece suit –
Paradise By The ‘C’
Fire
Growin’ Up
It’s Hard To Be A Saint In The City – Bruce Springsteen & The ‘E’ Street Band - Live 1975 - 1985
Future Madhouse – Gamma Ray – Metal 10
Last Of The New Wave Riders - Utopia - Adventures In Utopia
What Is & What Should Never Be - Led Zeppelin - Early Days
Age Of Reason - The Venetians - Amazing World
Lonely Atmosphere - The Lemon Pipers - The Best Of …
Intros & Outros (11th November) –
1880 – Ned Kelly was hanged by the neck until dead on this day. He gave us the 2 immortal quotes, ”That it should come to this” & ”Such is Life”. He was 25. (It wasn’t rock & roll, but it’s good history. Ed)
1927 – Mose Allison, singer/songwriter, pianist, blues artist and sometime trumpeter. His songs were covered by the likes of The Who, John Mayall, Georgie Fame and Elvis Costello
1938 – Roger Laverne Jackson of The Tornados
1943 – Mac Kisson
1944 – Jessie Colin Young (Perry Miller), of The Youngbloods
1945 – Vince Martell, guitarist with The Pigeons who later changed their name to Vanilla Fudge, & Cactus
1945 - Jerome Kern, songwriter, died on this day
1946 – Len ‘Chip’ Hawkes, singer with The Tremeloes
1946 – Chris Dreja, guitarist with The Yardbirds
1947 – Pat Daugherty, bassist with Black Oak Arkansas
1950 – Jim Peterik, guitarist, keyboard player & vocalist for The Ides of March and Survivor
1950 – Paul Cowsill of The Cowsills
1953 – Andy Partridge, vocalist & guitarist with XTC & Dukes of Stratosfear
1956 – Ian Craig Marsh of Human League & Heaven 17
1962 - Mic Michaeli of Europe
1968 - Jo of Fuzzbox
1972 – Berry Oakley, bassist for The Allman Brothers, was killed in a motorcycle accident, 3 blocks from the Macon, Georgia, intersection that saw the death of former band member Duane Allman, 1 year earlier. Berry was 24
1998 – Paddy Clancy of The Clancy Brothers died on this day aged 76
1973 - Dave ‘Stringbean’ Akerman, country singer, and his wife were beaten up, robbed and then murdered on this day
1979 - Dimitri Tiomkin died on this day
1990 - Ronnie Dyson died on this day
On this day (11th November) –
1925 - Louis Armstrong recorded the first of the Hot 5 and Hot 7 recordings
1955 – Elvis Presley was voted the most promising new country & western artist by Billboard magazine
1957 – Jerry Lee Lewis secretly took his cousin Myra Gale Brown in holy matrimony, to be his third wife
1957 - Buddy Holly released Peggy Sue
1958 - Hank Ballard & The Midnighters record the original version of The Twist in King Studios, Cincinnati
1963 - Brian Epstein and Ed Sullivan signed a contract for 3 shows for The Beatles
1967 - Diana Ross & The Supremes released In & Out of Love
1967 - Small faces released Itchycoo Park
1968 - John & Yoko released their Two Virgins album, a collection of pants, grunts, and other assorted “just-barely-musical” love sounds, plus the infamous and controversial nude cover
1969 – Jim Morrison was arrested by the FBI for “interfering with the flight of an intercontinental aircraft and public drunkenness” aboard a plane on the way to a Rolling Stones concert
1969 - The Beatles and Billy Preston released Get Back in the UK
1969 – The Stone Poneys’s Different Drum entered the US charts
1970 – Bob Dylan published his novel Tarantula
1970 - 2 very different albums entitled Plastic Ono Band, one by John Lennon and the other by Yoko Ono, were released on the Apple label at the same time, one in UK and the other in US
1971 – BBC TV’s Top of the Pops celebrated its 400th show. Guests included Tom Jones, Dana, John Kongos, Cher, Slade, Cilla Black, The Piglets, Clodah Rodgers and The Newbeats
1972 – Gilbert O’Sullivan’s single, Clair was no. 1 on the UK charts
1972 - Loggins & Messina released Thinking of You
1972 - Joni Mitchell released You Turn Me On I’m a Radio
1973 - 30 US radio stations broadcast a “live” Mott The Hoople concert. In reality, it was the band recorded in the studio with applause dubbed in
1976 - Kiss earned gold for Rock & Roll Over
1977 - Wings released Mull of Kintyre and Girl’s School
1978 – Donna Summer’s cover version of MacArthur Park went to no. 1 on the US charts. Her album Live & More also hit no.1
1978 - Chaka Khan’s single I’m Every Woman hit no. 1 on the soul charts. Also the LP that it came from, Chaka entered the soul LP charts
1978 – The Cars released the first-ever commercially available picture disc single My Best Friend’s Girl
1981 - Rod Stewart kicked off the first tour in 3 years at Greensboro North Carolina. It was billed ”Le Grand Tour of America and Canada – Worth Leaving Home For”
1986 –Big Audio Dynamite performed at Birmingham’s Powerhouse. Tickets cost £5
1989 - Chris Rea’s albumThe Road To Hell started a 3-week run at no. 1 on the UK charts
1989 –Lisa Stansfield’s single All Around the World went to no. 1 in the UK
1989 - Melissa Etheridge and Joe Cocker play a concert in Germany celebrating the falling of the Berlin Wall
1989 –Diane Warren become the first female to write the top 2 songs on the US singles charts - Bad English’s When I See You Smile and Milli Vanilli’s Blame It On The Rain
1990 – A 21-year-old fan was attacked & died outside an AC/DC concert at Brendan Byrne Arena in New Jersey
1995 – The Smashing Pumpkins double album Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness went to no. 1 on the US charts
1999 – Britney Spears won 4 MTV awards: Best Female Singer; Best Pop Act; Best Song for Baby One More Time and Best Breakthrough Artist.
Offspring won Best Rock Act, Will Smith took Best Male Act, and Bono won the Free Your Mind Award
2003 –The Darkness played the Carling Homecoming gig at The Astoria, London
2004 –Robbie Williams, The Rolling Stones, Queen, Michael Jackson, and Cliff Richard were inducted into UK’s first Music Hall of Fame at a ceremony in London. Each act had been chosen by Channel 4 TV viewers to represent a decade since the 50s.
Take Your Pick – Greg Olsen – Take Your Pick
Exodus – Matthew Knights – One to One
Rainmaker – Traffic – Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys
I’m Sick Of You - ’Weird Al’ Yankovic - Bad Hair Day
The odd sock –
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds - William Shatner
Dead End Street - The Kinks - The Ultimate Collection
Initiation – Todd Rundgren – Initiation
Palm Blvd / Shadowland – Leo Kottke – Live In Europe
Mine For Life – Ultravox – Monument The Soundtrack
Stuff you left in your pockets –
What’d I Say – Ray Charles
He Made A Woman Out Of Me – Ry Cooder
Caldonia – Louis Jordan
Salt Peanuts – Charlie Bird
One O’Clock Jump – Count Basie & his orchestra
How Long Blues – Ray Charles
Barefoot In The Grass – Ed Kuepper – The Blue House
Sweet Cherry Wine – Tommy James & The Shondells - Tommy James & The Shondells
Virtual Vortex - k d Lang - Even Cowgirls Get The Blues
Evenings of Damask – Tyrannosaurus Rex - Unicorn
3-piece suit –
Paradise By The ‘C’
Fire
Growin’ Up
It’s Hard To Be A Saint In The City – Bruce Springsteen & The ‘E’ Street Band - Live 1975 - 1985
Future Madhouse – Gamma Ray – Metal 10
Last Of The New Wave Riders - Utopia - Adventures In Utopia
What Is & What Should Never Be - Led Zeppelin - Early Days
Age Of Reason - The Venetians - Amazing World
Lonely Atmosphere - The Lemon Pipers - The Best Of …
Intros & Outros (11th November) –
1880 – Ned Kelly was hanged by the neck until dead on this day. He gave us the 2 immortal quotes, ”That it should come to this” & ”Such is Life”. He was 25. (It wasn’t rock & roll, but it’s good history. Ed)
1927 – Mose Allison, singer/songwriter, pianist, blues artist and sometime trumpeter. His songs were covered by the likes of The Who, John Mayall, Georgie Fame and Elvis Costello
1938 – Roger Laverne Jackson of The Tornados
1943 – Mac Kisson
1944 – Jessie Colin Young (Perry Miller), of The Youngbloods
1945 – Vince Martell, guitarist with The Pigeons who later changed their name to Vanilla Fudge, & Cactus
1945 - Jerome Kern, songwriter, died on this day
1946 – Len ‘Chip’ Hawkes, singer with The Tremeloes
1946 – Chris Dreja, guitarist with The Yardbirds
1947 – Pat Daugherty, bassist with Black Oak Arkansas
1950 – Jim Peterik, guitarist, keyboard player & vocalist for The Ides of March and Survivor
1950 – Paul Cowsill of The Cowsills
1953 – Andy Partridge, vocalist & guitarist with XTC & Dukes of Stratosfear
1956 – Ian Craig Marsh of Human League & Heaven 17
1962 - Mic Michaeli of Europe
1968 - Jo of Fuzzbox
1972 – Berry Oakley, bassist for The Allman Brothers, was killed in a motorcycle accident, 3 blocks from the Macon, Georgia, intersection that saw the death of former band member Duane Allman, 1 year earlier. Berry was 24
1998 – Paddy Clancy of The Clancy Brothers died on this day aged 76
1973 - Dave ‘Stringbean’ Akerman, country singer, and his wife were beaten up, robbed and then murdered on this day
1979 - Dimitri Tiomkin died on this day
1990 - Ronnie Dyson died on this day
On this day (11th November) –
1925 - Louis Armstrong recorded the first of the Hot 5 and Hot 7 recordings
1955 – Elvis Presley was voted the most promising new country & western artist by Billboard magazine
1957 – Jerry Lee Lewis secretly took his cousin Myra Gale Brown in holy matrimony, to be his third wife
1957 - Buddy Holly released Peggy Sue
1958 - Hank Ballard & The Midnighters record the original version of The Twist in King Studios, Cincinnati
1963 - Brian Epstein and Ed Sullivan signed a contract for 3 shows for The Beatles
1967 - Diana Ross & The Supremes released In & Out of Love
1967 - Small faces released Itchycoo Park
1968 - John & Yoko released their Two Virgins album, a collection of pants, grunts, and other assorted “just-barely-musical” love sounds, plus the infamous and controversial nude cover
1969 – Jim Morrison was arrested by the FBI for “interfering with the flight of an intercontinental aircraft and public drunkenness” aboard a plane on the way to a Rolling Stones concert
1969 - The Beatles and Billy Preston released Get Back in the UK
1969 – The Stone Poneys’s Different Drum entered the US charts
1970 – Bob Dylan published his novel Tarantula
1970 - 2 very different albums entitled Plastic Ono Band, one by John Lennon and the other by Yoko Ono, were released on the Apple label at the same time, one in UK and the other in US
1971 – BBC TV’s Top of the Pops celebrated its 400th show. Guests included Tom Jones, Dana, John Kongos, Cher, Slade, Cilla Black, The Piglets, Clodah Rodgers and The Newbeats
1972 – Gilbert O’Sullivan’s single, Clair was no. 1 on the UK charts
1972 - Loggins & Messina released Thinking of You
1972 - Joni Mitchell released You Turn Me On I’m a Radio
1973 - 30 US radio stations broadcast a “live” Mott The Hoople concert. In reality, it was the band recorded in the studio with applause dubbed in
1976 - Kiss earned gold for Rock & Roll Over
1977 - Wings released Mull of Kintyre and Girl’s School
1978 – Donna Summer’s cover version of MacArthur Park went to no. 1 on the US charts. Her album Live & More also hit no.1
1978 - Chaka Khan’s single I’m Every Woman hit no. 1 on the soul charts. Also the LP that it came from, Chaka entered the soul LP charts
1978 – The Cars released the first-ever commercially available picture disc single My Best Friend’s Girl
1981 - Rod Stewart kicked off the first tour in 3 years at Greensboro North Carolina. It was billed ”Le Grand Tour of America and Canada – Worth Leaving Home For”
1986 –Big Audio Dynamite performed at Birmingham’s Powerhouse. Tickets cost £5
1989 - Chris Rea’s albumThe Road To Hell started a 3-week run at no. 1 on the UK charts
1989 –Lisa Stansfield’s single All Around the World went to no. 1 in the UK
1989 - Melissa Etheridge and Joe Cocker play a concert in Germany celebrating the falling of the Berlin Wall
1989 –Diane Warren become the first female to write the top 2 songs on the US singles charts - Bad English’s When I See You Smile and Milli Vanilli’s Blame It On The Rain
1990 – A 21-year-old fan was attacked & died outside an AC/DC concert at Brendan Byrne Arena in New Jersey
1995 – The Smashing Pumpkins double album Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness went to no. 1 on the US charts
1999 – Britney Spears won 4 MTV awards: Best Female Singer; Best Pop Act; Best Song for Baby One More Time and Best Breakthrough Artist.
Offspring won Best Rock Act, Will Smith took Best Male Act, and Bono won the Free Your Mind Award
2003 –The Darkness played the Carling Homecoming gig at The Astoria, London
2004 –Robbie Williams, The Rolling Stones, Queen, Michael Jackson, and Cliff Richard were inducted into UK’s first Music Hall of Fame at a ceremony in London. Each act had been chosen by Channel 4 TV viewers to represent a decade since the 50s.
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Here’s the playlist for The Laundromat this week (4th November)
Take Your Pick – Greg Olsen – Take Your Pick
Cannibal Street – Matthew Knights – One to OneChild Of Vision – Power Flower – Tim Weisberg – Party of One
Mystery - The James Gang - Bang
The odd sock –
(This one is so odd, I don’t know what it’s called, or who it’s performed by. Ed)
Since You’ve Been Gone - ’Weird Al’ Yankovic - Bad Hair Day
The Death Of Rock & Roll – Todd Rundgren – Initiation
Sunny Afternoon - The Kinks - The Ultimate Collection
Somebody Cares – Tommy James & The Shondells - Tommy James & The Shondells
Stuff you left in your pockets –
Broken Hearted Blues – Buddy Guy
Nitty Gritty Mississippi – Ry Cooder
Baby Please Don’t Go – Big Joe Williams
Beatin’ The Dog – Eddie Lang & Joe Venuti
Tain’t What You Do (It’s The Way That You Do It) – Jimmy Lunceford & his orchestra
Shuggy’s Shuffle - Al Kooper - Kooper Session
Many A Mile To Freedom – Traffic – Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys
Up Tempo – Leo Kottke – Live In Europe
Warlord Of The Royal Crocodiles – Tyrannosaurus Rex - Unicorn
3-piece suit –
A Journey In The Dark
Lothlorien
Shadowfax
The Horns Of Rohan
The Battle Of Pelennor Fields
Dreams In The Houses Of Healing
Homeward Bound
The Scouring Of The Shire
The Grey Havens – Bo Hansson - Music Inspired By Lord Of The Rings
Half Way Down / Charged – Mind Over Four – Metal 10
Vienna – Ultravox – Monument The Soundtrack
September 4th Is Too Late – Ed Kuepper – The Blue House
Intros & Outros (28th October) –
1868 – Scott Joplin, pianist
1899 – Kirk McGee of The McGee Brothers and The Dixieliners
1907 – Bennie Benjamin Tamla Motown session drummer with The Funk Brothers
1929 – Dickie Valentine
1938 – Harry Elston from The Friends of Distinction
1940 – Delbert McClinton, singer / songwriter
1942 - George M Cohen died on this day
1947 – Mike Smith, sax player for Amen Corner
1951 – Dan Hartman, multi-instrumentalist and producer. Worked with Edgar Winter
1954 – Chris Difford, guitarist and vocalist with Squeeze
1957 – James Honeyman Scott, guitarist with The Pretenders
1960 – Mark Jefferis of T.X.T.
1966 – Damon “Kool Rock-Ski” Wimbley, rapper with The Fat Boys
1970 – Sean Coombs (aka Puff Daddy & P Diddy), rapper
1982 - Talking Heads band-members Tina Weymouth & Chris Frantz had a baby boy, Robert, while the band was recording in the Bahamas
On this day (28th October) –
1957 – Jackie Wilson’s Reet Petite was his US chart debut
1957 – the top 6 songs on pop & R&B charts were identical:Elvis Presley’s Jailhouse Rock; :The Everly Brothers’s Wake Up Little Suzie; :Sam Cooke’s You Send Me; :The Rays’ Silhouettes; :Ricky Nelson’s Be-Bop Baby & :Jimmie Rodgers’ Honeycomb
1961 – Bob Dylan performed at The Carnegie Chapter Hall in New York, his first concert outside of Greenwich Village. 50 people paid $2 to attend, and Bob made $20 for the night
1961 – Cliff Richard’s album 21 Today hit no. 1 in the UK
1963 – Kathy Kirby’s Secret Love entered the UK charts
1963 – The Beatles were top of the bill at The Royal variety Show at The Prince of Wales Theatre. With the Queen Mother and Princess Margaret in the audience, this was the night John Lennon made his famous remark, ”those of you in the cheaper seats can clap your hands. The rest of you, rattle your jewellery”
1966 - London’s Evening Standard published John Lennon’s controversial remark that The Beatles were ”more popular than Jesus”
1967 – A New York Times article described the new electric 6-string sitar introduced by Danelectro Guitar Company
1967 – The Doors’s Strange Days entered the US album charts
1967 – Smokey Robinson & The Miracles released I Second That Emotion
1970 –Jethro Tull performed a sold-out benefit concert to aid Phoenix House, the country’s largest drug rehabilitation facility. Most of the 80-minute set was music from the Benefit album
1970 - The Beach Boys played the first of four nights at the Whiskey A Go Go in LA
1971 – The Rainbow Theatre opened and was London’s first permanent Rock & roll theatre
1971 –Bob Dylan recorded George Jackson in protest of the Soledad Brother’s death
1972 – Johnny Nash’s I Can See Clearly Now started 3 weeks at no. 1 on the US charts
1972 – Jethro Tull released Living In The Past
1973 – A Pink Floyd benefit concert raised £10,000 to aid Robert Wyatt, the former Soft Machine drummer suffering from a broken back
1974 –Paul McCartney & Wings released Junior’s Farm
1974 –Elton John released a Greatest Hits LP
1976 –Bruce Springsteen & The ‘E’ Street Band, finishing up a 2-month tour, had their final concert interrupted by a phone-in bomb threat. After a check that all was clear, Bruce quipped that it may have been from Mike Appel, his former manager and then current litigant in an extensive lawsuit
1976 – Daryl Hall & John Oates’s 5th album Bigger Than Both Of Us went gold
1977 – The Band’s movie The Last Waltz premiered in New York. It was acclaimed as one of the finest concert films ever made
1978 – Canadian Anne Murray’s single You Needed Me went to no. 1 on the US charts
1978 – Billy Joel released My Life
1978 – Talking Heads released Take Me To The River
1978 – Crosby, Stills Nash & Young were sued by former bassist Greg Reeves for $1 million for what he claimed was his share of royalties on sales of the LP Déjà Vu
1978 – Boston played their hometown for the first time since they made it big. They played a sold-out 2-night stand at The Boston Garden
1978 – John Travolta’s singles Summer Nights (a duet with Olivia Newton-John) and Sandy, both from the movie musical Grease, occupied nos. 1 & 2 on the UK charts.
1978 – Roger Corman began filming Rock & Roll High School starring The Ramones
1980 –Bob Marley was baptised at the Ethiopian Orthodox Church in Kingston, converting to Christian Rastafarianism and taking on the new name Berhane Selassie
1981 – Daryl Hall & John Oates’s album Private Eyes went gold & platinum
1987 – U2 appeared on the cover of UK’s Smash Hits magazine
1989 – Elton John scored his 50th UK chart hit when Sacrifice entered the charts. Previously, only Cliff Richard and Elvis Presley had achieved this
1989 – Roxette’s single Listen To Your Heart became their 2nd no. 1 on the US charts
1991 - Elected into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame were Bobby “Blue” Bland, Booker T & The MGs, Johnny Cash, Jimi Hendrix, The Isley Brothers, Sam & Dave and The Yardbirds
1992 - Elton John and his song writing partner Bernie Taupin signed a $39 million contract with Warner-Chappell Music
1993 –Martin Gore of Depeche Mode was arrested at the Denver Westin Hotel after refusing to turn down the volume of his music in his room
1996 - Melissa Etheridge and her partner Julie Cypher appeared on the cover of Newsweek promoting gay parents
1998 - A number of artists, including Don Henley, John Mellencamp, James Taylor, Elvis Costello, Deana Carter and Shawn Colvin performed at a benefit concert at the Santa Monica Airport for City of Hope. Each artist played their favourite one-hit-wonder song
1998 – Fall’s singer Mark E Smith appeared at Manhattan Criminal Court on assault charges, accused of kicking, punching and choking his girlfriend and band keyboard player, Julia Nagle, at a New York Hotel
2001 –DMX’s The Great Depression went to no. 1 on the US album chart
Take Your Pick – Greg Olsen – Take Your Pick
Cannibal Street – Matthew Knights – One to OneChild Of Vision – Power Flower – Tim Weisberg – Party of One
Mystery - The James Gang - Bang
The odd sock –
(This one is so odd, I don’t know what it’s called, or who it’s performed by. Ed)
Since You’ve Been Gone - ’Weird Al’ Yankovic - Bad Hair Day
The Death Of Rock & Roll – Todd Rundgren – Initiation
Sunny Afternoon - The Kinks - The Ultimate Collection
Somebody Cares – Tommy James & The Shondells - Tommy James & The Shondells
Stuff you left in your pockets –
Broken Hearted Blues – Buddy Guy
Nitty Gritty Mississippi – Ry Cooder
Baby Please Don’t Go – Big Joe Williams
Beatin’ The Dog – Eddie Lang & Joe Venuti
Tain’t What You Do (It’s The Way That You Do It) – Jimmy Lunceford & his orchestra
Shuggy’s Shuffle - Al Kooper - Kooper Session
Many A Mile To Freedom – Traffic – Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys
Up Tempo – Leo Kottke – Live In Europe
Warlord Of The Royal Crocodiles – Tyrannosaurus Rex - Unicorn
3-piece suit –
A Journey In The Dark
Lothlorien
Shadowfax
The Horns Of Rohan
The Battle Of Pelennor Fields
Dreams In The Houses Of Healing
Homeward Bound
The Scouring Of The Shire
The Grey Havens – Bo Hansson - Music Inspired By Lord Of The Rings
Half Way Down / Charged – Mind Over Four – Metal 10
Vienna – Ultravox – Monument The Soundtrack
September 4th Is Too Late – Ed Kuepper – The Blue House
Intros & Outros (28th October) –
1868 – Scott Joplin, pianist
1899 – Kirk McGee of The McGee Brothers and The Dixieliners
1907 – Bennie Benjamin Tamla Motown session drummer with The Funk Brothers
1929 – Dickie Valentine
1938 – Harry Elston from The Friends of Distinction
1940 – Delbert McClinton, singer / songwriter
1942 - George M Cohen died on this day
1947 – Mike Smith, sax player for Amen Corner
1951 – Dan Hartman, multi-instrumentalist and producer. Worked with Edgar Winter
1954 – Chris Difford, guitarist and vocalist with Squeeze
1957 – James Honeyman Scott, guitarist with The Pretenders
1960 – Mark Jefferis of T.X.T.
1966 – Damon “Kool Rock-Ski” Wimbley, rapper with The Fat Boys
1970 – Sean Coombs (aka Puff Daddy & P Diddy), rapper
1982 - Talking Heads band-members Tina Weymouth & Chris Frantz had a baby boy, Robert, while the band was recording in the Bahamas
On this day (28th October) –
1957 – Jackie Wilson’s Reet Petite was his US chart debut
1957 – the top 6 songs on pop & R&B charts were identical:Elvis Presley’s Jailhouse Rock; :The Everly Brothers’s Wake Up Little Suzie; :Sam Cooke’s You Send Me; :The Rays’ Silhouettes; :Ricky Nelson’s Be-Bop Baby & :Jimmie Rodgers’ Honeycomb
1961 – Bob Dylan performed at The Carnegie Chapter Hall in New York, his first concert outside of Greenwich Village. 50 people paid $2 to attend, and Bob made $20 for the night
1961 – Cliff Richard’s album 21 Today hit no. 1 in the UK
1963 – Kathy Kirby’s Secret Love entered the UK charts
1963 – The Beatles were top of the bill at The Royal variety Show at The Prince of Wales Theatre. With the Queen Mother and Princess Margaret in the audience, this was the night John Lennon made his famous remark, ”those of you in the cheaper seats can clap your hands. The rest of you, rattle your jewellery”
1966 - London’s Evening Standard published John Lennon’s controversial remark that The Beatles were ”more popular than Jesus”
1967 – A New York Times article described the new electric 6-string sitar introduced by Danelectro Guitar Company
1967 – The Doors’s Strange Days entered the US album charts
1967 – Smokey Robinson & The Miracles released I Second That Emotion
1970 –Jethro Tull performed a sold-out benefit concert to aid Phoenix House, the country’s largest drug rehabilitation facility. Most of the 80-minute set was music from the Benefit album
1970 - The Beach Boys played the first of four nights at the Whiskey A Go Go in LA
1971 – The Rainbow Theatre opened and was London’s first permanent Rock & roll theatre
1971 –Bob Dylan recorded George Jackson in protest of the Soledad Brother’s death
1972 – Johnny Nash’s I Can See Clearly Now started 3 weeks at no. 1 on the US charts
1972 – Jethro Tull released Living In The Past
1973 – A Pink Floyd benefit concert raised £10,000 to aid Robert Wyatt, the former Soft Machine drummer suffering from a broken back
1974 –Paul McCartney & Wings released Junior’s Farm
1974 –Elton John released a Greatest Hits LP
1976 –Bruce Springsteen & The ‘E’ Street Band, finishing up a 2-month tour, had their final concert interrupted by a phone-in bomb threat. After a check that all was clear, Bruce quipped that it may have been from Mike Appel, his former manager and then current litigant in an extensive lawsuit
1976 – Daryl Hall & John Oates’s 5th album Bigger Than Both Of Us went gold
1977 – The Band’s movie The Last Waltz premiered in New York. It was acclaimed as one of the finest concert films ever made
1978 – Canadian Anne Murray’s single You Needed Me went to no. 1 on the US charts
1978 – Billy Joel released My Life
1978 – Talking Heads released Take Me To The River
1978 – Crosby, Stills Nash & Young were sued by former bassist Greg Reeves for $1 million for what he claimed was his share of royalties on sales of the LP Déjà Vu
1978 – Boston played their hometown for the first time since they made it big. They played a sold-out 2-night stand at The Boston Garden
1978 – John Travolta’s singles Summer Nights (a duet with Olivia Newton-John) and Sandy, both from the movie musical Grease, occupied nos. 1 & 2 on the UK charts.
1978 – Roger Corman began filming Rock & Roll High School starring The Ramones
1980 –Bob Marley was baptised at the Ethiopian Orthodox Church in Kingston, converting to Christian Rastafarianism and taking on the new name Berhane Selassie
1981 – Daryl Hall & John Oates’s album Private Eyes went gold & platinum
1987 – U2 appeared on the cover of UK’s Smash Hits magazine
1989 – Elton John scored his 50th UK chart hit when Sacrifice entered the charts. Previously, only Cliff Richard and Elvis Presley had achieved this
1989 – Roxette’s single Listen To Your Heart became their 2nd no. 1 on the US charts
1991 - Elected into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame were Bobby “Blue” Bland, Booker T & The MGs, Johnny Cash, Jimi Hendrix, The Isley Brothers, Sam & Dave and The Yardbirds
1992 - Elton John and his song writing partner Bernie Taupin signed a $39 million contract with Warner-Chappell Music
1993 –Martin Gore of Depeche Mode was arrested at the Denver Westin Hotel after refusing to turn down the volume of his music in his room
1996 - Melissa Etheridge and her partner Julie Cypher appeared on the cover of Newsweek promoting gay parents
1998 - A number of artists, including Don Henley, John Mellencamp, James Taylor, Elvis Costello, Deana Carter and Shawn Colvin performed at a benefit concert at the Santa Monica Airport for City of Hope. Each artist played their favourite one-hit-wonder song
1998 – Fall’s singer Mark E Smith appeared at Manhattan Criminal Court on assault charges, accused of kicking, punching and choking his girlfriend and band keyboard player, Julia Nagle, at a New York Hotel
2001 –DMX’s The Great Depression went to no. 1 on the US album chart
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Here’s the projected playlist for The Laundromat this week (28th October)
Take Your Pick – Greg Olsen – Take Your Pick
Believe In You – Keef Hartley Band – Battle of the Northwest Six
Child Of Vision – Supertramp – Breakfast in America
An Extraordinary Man (Simpson) – Matthew Knights – One to One
The odd sock –
Rocket Man – William Shatner
I’d Rather Be Alone With You (Song For Dale) - The James Gang - Bang
Pulled Up – Talking Heads – ‘77
Callin’ In Sick - ’Weird Al’ Yankovic - Bad Hair Day
Amber – Tim Weisberg – Party of One
Stuff you left in your pockets –
Cherry Red – Mike Bloomfield
Bad Books – Borich ‘n’ Tilders
Rich Man’s Blues – Dinah Washington
2-Tone Stomp – Eddie Lang & Joe Venuti
Golden Wedding – Woody Herman & his orchestra
(He’s a) Dedicated Follower of Fashion - The Kinks - The Ultimate Collection
Born To Synthesize – Todd Rundgren – Initiation
Shuggy’s Old Time Dee Di Lee Di - Al Kooper - Kooper Session
Mony Mony – Tommy James & The Shondells - Tommy James & The Shondells
3-piece suit –
Long-Legged Lovely
The Rat (suite)
* Main Title (The Rat)
* The Trap
* Spanish Blues
* Blazwaorden (Land of Dreams)
* Finale (The Rat) – Blackfeather - At The Mountains Of Madness
Huge Wonder – Redd Kross – Metal 10
Rock ‘n’ Roll Stew – Traffic – Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys
Up Tempo – Leo Kottke – Live In Europe
Warlord Of The Royal Crocodiles – Tyrannosaurus Rex - Unicorn
September 4th Is Too Late – Ed Kuepper – The Blue House
Vienna – Ultravox – Monument The Soundtrack
Intros & Outros (28th October) –
1927 – Cleo Laine (Clementine Dinah Campbell), singer
1929 – Mitchell Torok
1936 – Charlie Daniels, singer, songwriter, guitarist & fiddler
1937 – Graham Bond, UK R&B keyboard & sax player. Worked with Alexis Korner, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker, also fronted The Graham Bond Organisation
1941 – Hank Marvin (Brian Rankin), guitarist with The Shadows
1941 – Curtis Lee, singer
1945 – Wayne Fontana (Glynn Ellis), fronted The Mindbenders Editor’s Note: Some sources date 1940. I don’t make this stuff up, folks. His audition for Fontana Records prompted his name change
1948 – Thelma Hopkins, singer with Dawn
19 – Ricky Lee Reynolds, guitarist for Black Oak Arkansas
1957 – Stephen Morris, drummer for Joy Division, New Order and The Other Two
1959 – Neville Henry, of Blow Monkeys
1987 – Woody Herman orchestra leader, died on this day
1991 – Bill Graham, manager of concert venues The Fillmore East & The Fillmore West died on this day
On this day (28th October) –
1950 –Patti Page’s All My Love tops the charts
1956 – Elvis Presley makes his 2nd appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show performing Don’t Be Cruel, Love Me Tender, Hound Dog and Love Me
1958 –Buddy Holly made his last TV appearance on American Bandstand
1961 – Raymond Jones entered a Liverpool record store to buy My Bonny, a record released in Germany by a band called The Beatles. The shop manager, Brian Epstein (some sources say he was only a clerk in the store), promised to investigate further
1962 –”Bob Dylan is not the author of ‘Blowin’ in the Wind’ “ was the claim of a high school teacher in Milburn, New Jersey. He said he wrote the piece and sold it to Bob Dylan for $1000. the truth was revealed 12 years later in a New York Times magazine article when the teacher admitted that, unable to write a protest song himself, he presented Dylan’s song as his own and started the rumour to save face
1964 – The first of 2 nights billed as The Tami Show at the Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica featured Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, The Beach Boys, Chuck Berry, Marvin Gaye, The Supremes and The Rolling Stones
1968 –Cynthia Lennon sued John for divorce on the grounds of adultery. John didn’t defend because Yoko was pregnant with John’s child at the time
1969 – Elvis Presley is awarded gold for Suspicious Minds
1971 – John & Yoko record Happy Christmas, War Is Over
1972 –The United States Council For World Affairs announced it would be adopting The Who’s Join Together as its official theme song
1972 – Billy Paul’s Me & Mrs. Jones enters the soul charts
1973 –David Cassidy’s Daydreamer / The Puppy Song was no. 1 on the UK charts
1974 –Ken Boothe’s Everything I Own reached no. 1 on the UK charts
1977 – 2 weeks before the official release of The Sex Pistols’ Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols, a bootleg appeared in record shops titled Spunk. It contained the group’s first 3 hit singles Anarchy in the UK (renamed Nookie), God Save The Queen renamed No Future & Pretty Vacant renamed Lots of Fun. It also included 6 other titles from the forthcoming album, but not their 4th hit Holidays in the Sun
1978 – Nick Gilder’s Hot Child in the City reached no. 1 on the US charts
1982 – The Jam announced they would be splitting up at the end of their current tour
1989 – French group Kaoma notched up 1.7 million sales of their single Lambada
1989 –Janet Jackson’s album Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation 1814 started a 4-week run at no. 1 on the US charts.
1995 – Coolio’s version of the Stevie Wonder song Gangsta’s Paradise hit no. 1 in the US & stayed for 2 weeks
1997 –Bill Berry, drummer for R.E.M.,announced he was leaving after playing with them for 17 years
2001 –Mary J. Blige’s Family Affair started 6 weeks at no. 1 on the US singles charts
2001 – The various artist album God Bless America went to no. 1 on the US charts
2004 – Courtney Love was ordered to stand trial on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon after Kristin King alleged Ms. Love threw a bottle and lit a candle at her after turning up at the home of a former boyfriend. She also alleges Ms. Love sat on her, pulled her hair and pinched her left breast - ”the worst pinch I ever had” - before she managed to flee
Take Your Pick – Greg Olsen – Take Your Pick
Believe In You – Keef Hartley Band – Battle of the Northwest Six
Child Of Vision – Supertramp – Breakfast in America
An Extraordinary Man (Simpson) – Matthew Knights – One to One
The odd sock –
Rocket Man – William Shatner
I’d Rather Be Alone With You (Song For Dale) - The James Gang - Bang
Pulled Up – Talking Heads – ‘77
Callin’ In Sick - ’Weird Al’ Yankovic - Bad Hair Day
Amber – Tim Weisberg – Party of One
Stuff you left in your pockets –
Cherry Red – Mike Bloomfield
Bad Books – Borich ‘n’ Tilders
Rich Man’s Blues – Dinah Washington
2-Tone Stomp – Eddie Lang & Joe Venuti
Golden Wedding – Woody Herman & his orchestra
(He’s a) Dedicated Follower of Fashion - The Kinks - The Ultimate Collection
Born To Synthesize – Todd Rundgren – Initiation
Shuggy’s Old Time Dee Di Lee Di - Al Kooper - Kooper Session
Mony Mony – Tommy James & The Shondells - Tommy James & The Shondells
3-piece suit –
Long-Legged Lovely
The Rat (suite)
* Main Title (The Rat)
* The Trap
* Spanish Blues
* Blazwaorden (Land of Dreams)
* Finale (The Rat) – Blackfeather - At The Mountains Of Madness
Huge Wonder – Redd Kross – Metal 10
Rock ‘n’ Roll Stew – Traffic – Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys
Up Tempo – Leo Kottke – Live In Europe
Warlord Of The Royal Crocodiles – Tyrannosaurus Rex - Unicorn
September 4th Is Too Late – Ed Kuepper – The Blue House
Vienna – Ultravox – Monument The Soundtrack
Intros & Outros (28th October) –
1927 – Cleo Laine (Clementine Dinah Campbell), singer
1929 – Mitchell Torok
1936 – Charlie Daniels, singer, songwriter, guitarist & fiddler
1937 – Graham Bond, UK R&B keyboard & sax player. Worked with Alexis Korner, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker, also fronted The Graham Bond Organisation
1941 – Hank Marvin (Brian Rankin), guitarist with The Shadows
1941 – Curtis Lee, singer
1945 – Wayne Fontana (Glynn Ellis), fronted The Mindbenders Editor’s Note: Some sources date 1940. I don’t make this stuff up, folks. His audition for Fontana Records prompted his name change
1948 – Thelma Hopkins, singer with Dawn
19 – Ricky Lee Reynolds, guitarist for Black Oak Arkansas
1957 – Stephen Morris, drummer for Joy Division, New Order and The Other Two
1959 – Neville Henry, of Blow Monkeys
1987 – Woody Herman orchestra leader, died on this day
1991 – Bill Graham, manager of concert venues The Fillmore East & The Fillmore West died on this day
On this day (28th October) –
1950 –Patti Page’s All My Love tops the charts
1956 – Elvis Presley makes his 2nd appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show performing Don’t Be Cruel, Love Me Tender, Hound Dog and Love Me
1958 –Buddy Holly made his last TV appearance on American Bandstand
1961 – Raymond Jones entered a Liverpool record store to buy My Bonny, a record released in Germany by a band called The Beatles. The shop manager, Brian Epstein (some sources say he was only a clerk in the store), promised to investigate further
1962 –”Bob Dylan is not the author of ‘Blowin’ in the Wind’ “ was the claim of a high school teacher in Milburn, New Jersey. He said he wrote the piece and sold it to Bob Dylan for $1000. the truth was revealed 12 years later in a New York Times magazine article when the teacher admitted that, unable to write a protest song himself, he presented Dylan’s song as his own and started the rumour to save face
1964 – The first of 2 nights billed as The Tami Show at the Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica featured Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, The Beach Boys, Chuck Berry, Marvin Gaye, The Supremes and The Rolling Stones
1968 –Cynthia Lennon sued John for divorce on the grounds of adultery. John didn’t defend because Yoko was pregnant with John’s child at the time
1969 – Elvis Presley is awarded gold for Suspicious Minds
1971 – John & Yoko record Happy Christmas, War Is Over
1972 –The United States Council For World Affairs announced it would be adopting The Who’s Join Together as its official theme song
1972 – Billy Paul’s Me & Mrs. Jones enters the soul charts
1973 –David Cassidy’s Daydreamer / The Puppy Song was no. 1 on the UK charts
1974 –Ken Boothe’s Everything I Own reached no. 1 on the UK charts
1977 – 2 weeks before the official release of The Sex Pistols’ Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols, a bootleg appeared in record shops titled Spunk. It contained the group’s first 3 hit singles Anarchy in the UK (renamed Nookie), God Save The Queen renamed No Future & Pretty Vacant renamed Lots of Fun. It also included 6 other titles from the forthcoming album, but not their 4th hit Holidays in the Sun
1978 – Nick Gilder’s Hot Child in the City reached no. 1 on the US charts
1982 – The Jam announced they would be splitting up at the end of their current tour
1989 – French group Kaoma notched up 1.7 million sales of their single Lambada
1989 –Janet Jackson’s album Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation 1814 started a 4-week run at no. 1 on the US charts.
1995 – Coolio’s version of the Stevie Wonder song Gangsta’s Paradise hit no. 1 in the US & stayed for 2 weeks
1997 –Bill Berry, drummer for R.E.M.,announced he was leaving after playing with them for 17 years
2001 –Mary J. Blige’s Family Affair started 6 weeks at no. 1 on the US singles charts
2001 – The various artist album God Bless America went to no. 1 on the US charts
2004 – Courtney Love was ordered to stand trial on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon after Kristin King alleged Ms. Love threw a bottle and lit a candle at her after turning up at the home of a former boyfriend. She also alleges Ms. Love sat on her, pulled her hair and pinched her left breast - ”the worst pinch I ever had” - before she managed to flee
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Here’s the projected playlist for The Laundromat this week (21st October)
Take Your Pick – Greg Olsen – Take Your Pick
Prodigal Daughter – K’crasher – Towards the Light
Closed Groove – Stiff Little Fingers – Inflammable Material
Nothing But A Dream – Paul Kelly – Ways & Means
The odd sock –
These Boots Are made For Walkin’ – Petty Booka
Poor Mabel (You’re Just Like Me) – Keef Hartley Band – Battle of the Northwest Six
So Close & Yet So Far Away – Strawbs – Deep Cuts
Driftwood – Matthew Knights – One to One
Casual Conversations – Supertramp – Breakfast in America
Stuff you left in your pockets –
Boomerang – Lonnie Brooks
Beat Of My Heart – Borich ‘n’ Tilders
Tough On Me, Tough On You– Lonnie Mack
I’m Somebody’s Somebody Now – Eddie Lang & Joe Venuti
Don’t Be That Way – Teddy Wilson & his orchestra
Ain’t Got No Time For Trouible - The James Gang - Bang
Psycho Killer – Talking Heads – ‘77
Stop All That Jazz - Leon Russell - Stop All That Jazz
As The Sun Still Burns Away – Ten Years After – Cricklewood Green
3-piece suit –
Rock Me Baby
Most People I Know (Think That I’m Crazy) – Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs - Live at Sunbury (1972)
Dropping Like Flies – Armoured Saint – Metal 10
Don’t Keep Me Waiting, Girl – Tim Weisberg – Party of One
Everything You Know Is Wrong - ’Weird Al’ Yankovic - Bad Hair Day
Real Man – Todd Rundgren – Initiation
(He’s a) Dedicated Follower of Fashion - The Kinks - The Ultimate Collection
Intros & Outros (21st October) –
19?? – Steve Malone, bassist for Every Mother’s Nightmare
1917 – Dizzie Gillespie, jazz trumpeter
1925 – Dr. Ross (Isaiah Ross), boogie & blues performer with Dr Ross & his Jump & Jive Boys and Dr Ross & his Orbits
1936 – Sheila Jones, one of The Kaye Sisters
1937 – Norman Wright lead for The Del-Vikings
1940 – Jimmy Beaumont of The Skyliners
1940 – Manfred Mann (Michael Lubowitz), keyboard player for Mann-Hugg Blues Brothers, later renamed Manfred Mann
1941 – Steve Cropper, guitarist with Booker T. & The MGs and The Blues Brothers
1942 – Elvin Bishop, singer/songwriter, guitarist and member of The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
1943 – Ron Elliot of The Beau Brummels
1946 – Lee Loughnanetrumpet & flugelhorn player for Chicago
1947 – Tetsu Yamauchi of Free and The Faces
1948 – John ‘Rabbit’ Bundrick of Free and Backstreet Crawler
1953 – Charlotte Caffey, guitarist with The Go-Go’s
1954 – Eric Faulkner, guitarist with The Bay City Rollers
1954 – Phillip Chen of Keef Hartley Band and Butts Band
1957 – Julian Cope, guitarist & vocalist for Teardrop Explodes
1957 – Steve Lukather, guitarist with Toto
1959 – Rose McDowell of Strawberry Switchblade
1965 – Bill Black, bassist from 1954 - 57 for Elvis Presley as well as his own band The Bill Black Combo, died on this day, 4 months after receiving surgery to remove a brain tumour. He was 39
1971 – Tony Mortimer, singer with East 17
1971 – Jade Jagger, daughter to Mick & Bianca
1971 – Astrella Celeste Leitch, daughter to Donovan (Leitch) and Linda Lawrence
1992 – Benjamin Storm Keough was born to Lisa Marie Presley and her then husband Danny Keough
1995 – Shannon Hoon, lead singer for Blind Melon died of a cocaine overdose on this day. He was 28
2003 – Elliot Smith, US singer/songwriter died of stab wounds on this day
On this day (21st October) –
1957 –Elvis Presley’s Jil House Rock topped the charts
1958 – Buddy Holly’s last recording session took place in New York
1961 – Bob Dylan recorded his first album, self-titled, forColumbia Records. The recording was done in a day, and production costs amounted to $400. On his income tax return, he gave his name as Blind Boy Grunt
1962 –Cliff Richard performed on The Ed Sullivan Show
1965 –The Kingsmen perform Louie Louie on Shindig!, along with The Dave Clark Five
1966 –The Who perform on Ready, Steady, GO!, dressed in pop-art costumes, smoke bombs, flash powder and other stage devices. Songs include Batman Theme, Barbara Ann, Bucket T and Disguises
1967 – Lulu’s single To Sir With Love started a 5-week run at no. 1 on the US charts
1968 – Nashville’s top Country Music Awards went to Jeannie C. Riley’s Harper Valley PTA for best song and to Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison for best album
1972 –Chuck Berry’s single My Ding-a-Ling started a 2-week run at no. 1 on the US charts. It was his only US & UK no. 1 hit, 17 years after his first chart hit
1972 – Curtis Mayfield’s album Superfly hit no. 1 in the US & stayed for 4 weeks
1972 –America released Ventura Highway
1972 –Jon Mark of Mark/Almond lost a finger when he fell out of a tree in Hawaii
1975 – Elton John was awarded gold for Rock of the Westies and his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
1976 – Led Zeppelin premiered their movie The Song Remains the Same
1976 –Keith Moon played his last North American show with The Who at Toronto’s Maple Leaf Garden
1978 –The Clash fired their manager Bernie Rhodes saying that the band & record company found him hard to deal with. He was replaced by Caroline Coon, a journalist for Melody Maker magazine
1985 –Carl Perkins was honoured in a concert in London taped for television to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Blue Suede Shoes. Among those appearing with him were George Harrison, Ringo Starr and Dave Edmunds
1989 – Polygram Inc. purchased A & M Records from founders Herp Alpert and Jerry Moss for a figure between $400 & $500 million
1992 – George Michael took Sony Records to court in a fight over a contract. He lost
1992 –Elton John filed a $35 million lawsuit in which he claimed a TV tabloid reported falsely stated he moved to Atlanta to be near an AIDS treatment centre. Elton’s lawyers said he moved there because he liked the place
1995 – Green Day’s singer Billie Joe was arrested and fined $141 for mooning the audience in a concert at Milwaukee
1997 – Elton John’s Candle in the Wind ‘97 was declared by Guinness’ Book of Records as the biggest selling single record of all time, with sales of 31.8 million in under 40 days, and raising more than $34 million for charity
2001 – concerts at Madison Square Garden & RFK Stadium in Washington were expected to raise more than $300 million for victims of the 911 attacks. Performers included Michael Jackson, Tom Petty, Aerosmith, *NSYNC, P Diddy and James Brown
2003 – Carling Live presents AC/DC at the Carling Apollo in Hammersmith, England
2004 –Jessica Simpson was sued over her cosmetic line Dessert by Cosmojet, a California-based cosmetics company. (It’s a long story, folks)
Take Your Pick – Greg Olsen – Take Your Pick
Prodigal Daughter – K’crasher – Towards the Light
Closed Groove – Stiff Little Fingers – Inflammable Material
Nothing But A Dream – Paul Kelly – Ways & Means
The odd sock –
These Boots Are made For Walkin’ – Petty Booka
Poor Mabel (You’re Just Like Me) – Keef Hartley Band – Battle of the Northwest Six
So Close & Yet So Far Away – Strawbs – Deep Cuts
Driftwood – Matthew Knights – One to One
Casual Conversations – Supertramp – Breakfast in America
Stuff you left in your pockets –
Boomerang – Lonnie Brooks
Beat Of My Heart – Borich ‘n’ Tilders
Tough On Me, Tough On You– Lonnie Mack
I’m Somebody’s Somebody Now – Eddie Lang & Joe Venuti
Don’t Be That Way – Teddy Wilson & his orchestra
Ain’t Got No Time For Trouible - The James Gang - Bang
Psycho Killer – Talking Heads – ‘77
Stop All That Jazz - Leon Russell - Stop All That Jazz
As The Sun Still Burns Away – Ten Years After – Cricklewood Green
3-piece suit –
Rock Me Baby
Most People I Know (Think That I’m Crazy) – Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs - Live at Sunbury (1972)
Dropping Like Flies – Armoured Saint – Metal 10
Don’t Keep Me Waiting, Girl – Tim Weisberg – Party of One
Everything You Know Is Wrong - ’Weird Al’ Yankovic - Bad Hair Day
Real Man – Todd Rundgren – Initiation
(He’s a) Dedicated Follower of Fashion - The Kinks - The Ultimate Collection
Intros & Outros (21st October) –
19?? – Steve Malone, bassist for Every Mother’s Nightmare
1917 – Dizzie Gillespie, jazz trumpeter
1925 – Dr. Ross (Isaiah Ross), boogie & blues performer with Dr Ross & his Jump & Jive Boys and Dr Ross & his Orbits
1936 – Sheila Jones, one of The Kaye Sisters
1937 – Norman Wright lead for The Del-Vikings
1940 – Jimmy Beaumont of The Skyliners
1940 – Manfred Mann (Michael Lubowitz), keyboard player for Mann-Hugg Blues Brothers, later renamed Manfred Mann
1941 – Steve Cropper, guitarist with Booker T. & The MGs and The Blues Brothers
1942 – Elvin Bishop, singer/songwriter, guitarist and member of The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
1943 – Ron Elliot of The Beau Brummels
1946 – Lee Loughnanetrumpet & flugelhorn player for Chicago
1947 – Tetsu Yamauchi of Free and The Faces
1948 – John ‘Rabbit’ Bundrick of Free and Backstreet Crawler
1953 – Charlotte Caffey, guitarist with The Go-Go’s
1954 – Eric Faulkner, guitarist with The Bay City Rollers
1954 – Phillip Chen of Keef Hartley Band and Butts Band
1957 – Julian Cope, guitarist & vocalist for Teardrop Explodes
1957 – Steve Lukather, guitarist with Toto
1959 – Rose McDowell of Strawberry Switchblade
1965 – Bill Black, bassist from 1954 - 57 for Elvis Presley as well as his own band The Bill Black Combo, died on this day, 4 months after receiving surgery to remove a brain tumour. He was 39
1971 – Tony Mortimer, singer with East 17
1971 – Jade Jagger, daughter to Mick & Bianca
1971 – Astrella Celeste Leitch, daughter to Donovan (Leitch) and Linda Lawrence
1992 – Benjamin Storm Keough was born to Lisa Marie Presley and her then husband Danny Keough
1995 – Shannon Hoon, lead singer for Blind Melon died of a cocaine overdose on this day. He was 28
2003 – Elliot Smith, US singer/songwriter died of stab wounds on this day
On this day (21st October) –
1957 –Elvis Presley’s Jil House Rock topped the charts
1958 – Buddy Holly’s last recording session took place in New York
1961 – Bob Dylan recorded his first album, self-titled, forColumbia Records. The recording was done in a day, and production costs amounted to $400. On his income tax return, he gave his name as Blind Boy Grunt
1962 –Cliff Richard performed on The Ed Sullivan Show
1965 –The Kingsmen perform Louie Louie on Shindig!, along with The Dave Clark Five
1966 –The Who perform on Ready, Steady, GO!, dressed in pop-art costumes, smoke bombs, flash powder and other stage devices. Songs include Batman Theme, Barbara Ann, Bucket T and Disguises
1967 – Lulu’s single To Sir With Love started a 5-week run at no. 1 on the US charts
1968 – Nashville’s top Country Music Awards went to Jeannie C. Riley’s Harper Valley PTA for best song and to Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison for best album
1972 –Chuck Berry’s single My Ding-a-Ling started a 2-week run at no. 1 on the US charts. It was his only US & UK no. 1 hit, 17 years after his first chart hit
1972 – Curtis Mayfield’s album Superfly hit no. 1 in the US & stayed for 4 weeks
1972 –America released Ventura Highway
1972 –Jon Mark of Mark/Almond lost a finger when he fell out of a tree in Hawaii
1975 – Elton John was awarded gold for Rock of the Westies and his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
1976 – Led Zeppelin premiered their movie The Song Remains the Same
1976 –Keith Moon played his last North American show with The Who at Toronto’s Maple Leaf Garden
1978 –The Clash fired their manager Bernie Rhodes saying that the band & record company found him hard to deal with. He was replaced by Caroline Coon, a journalist for Melody Maker magazine
1985 –Carl Perkins was honoured in a concert in London taped for television to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Blue Suede Shoes. Among those appearing with him were George Harrison, Ringo Starr and Dave Edmunds
1989 – Polygram Inc. purchased A & M Records from founders Herp Alpert and Jerry Moss for a figure between $400 & $500 million
1992 – George Michael took Sony Records to court in a fight over a contract. He lost
1992 –Elton John filed a $35 million lawsuit in which he claimed a TV tabloid reported falsely stated he moved to Atlanta to be near an AIDS treatment centre. Elton’s lawyers said he moved there because he liked the place
1995 – Green Day’s singer Billie Joe was arrested and fined $141 for mooning the audience in a concert at Milwaukee
1997 – Elton John’s Candle in the Wind ‘97 was declared by Guinness’ Book of Records as the biggest selling single record of all time, with sales of 31.8 million in under 40 days, and raising more than $34 million for charity
2001 – concerts at Madison Square Garden & RFK Stadium in Washington were expected to raise more than $300 million for victims of the 911 attacks. Performers included Michael Jackson, Tom Petty, Aerosmith, *NSYNC, P Diddy and James Brown
2003 – Carling Live presents AC/DC at the Carling Apollo in Hammersmith, England
2004 –Jessica Simpson was sued over her cosmetic line Dessert by Cosmojet, a California-based cosmetics company. (It’s a long story, folks)
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