The Laundromat on 31^st January 2018 2mce-fm 92.3/94.7khz

8:00 – 10:00 (-ish) (NSW Daylight Saving)

Pity The Mother – Slade – Beginnings

Visionary Mountains – Manfred Mann – Nightingales & Bombers

It's A Beautiful Day – Carnegie Hall 1972

Give Your Woman What She Wants

A Hot Summer Day

Angels & Animals

Bombay Calling

Going To Another Party

Good Lovin'

The Grand Camel Suite

White Bird

The Garden Of Love – Benny Hill – Ultimate Collection

Fresh Air For My Mama – 10cc – 10cc

If You're Not Famous At Fourteen You're Finished – TISM – Honk If You Love Fred Durst

All Night Petrol – Budgie – Budgie

The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy (LP Version) – Episode 5

Easily Led (Shaken & Stirred 1985 Robert Plant) – XYZ – After The Crash

Sea Lions In The Departure Lounge – Alan Parsons Project – Tales Of Mystery & Imagination (1987 Remixes)

Past The Mission – Tori Amos – Under The Pink

The Chase - Paul Preston

The Blacksmith Blues - Chuck Higgins

Wino - Jack McVea

No Need Acting Like That - Mamie Ree & Young Wolf

Missing – The Roches – Another World

Hold Onto Freedom – Lee Michaels – Everybody's Stoned & So Am I

Hippy Dream – Neil Young – Collector's Heartland

Death Bells – Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac – Vaudeville Years (1968 - 1970)

Dirty Women – Black Sabbath – Technical Ecstasy

I'm Gonna Crawl – Led Zeppelin – In Through The Out Door

Braintrain – Wallenstein – Krautrock

Love Machine – Uriah Heep – Look At Yourself

31^st January On This Day In Music

Born On This Day

1906 – Roosevelt "The Honeydripper" Sykes – blues musician

1915 – Allan Lomax - an American ethnomusicologist, best known for his numerous field recordings of folk music of the 20th century. He was also a musician himself, as well as a folklorist, archivist, writer, scholar, political activist, oral historian, and film-maker. Lomax produced recordings, concerts, and radio shows in the US and in England, which played an important role in preserving folk music traditions in both countries, and helped start both the American and British folk revivals of the 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s

1915 – Bobby Hackett (Robert Leo Hackett) – jazz trumpeter, cornet player, and guitar with Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller and featured on Jackie Gleason's music

1921 – Mario Lanza (Alfred Arnold Cocozza) – tenor and actor

1946 – Terry Kath – guitarist and founding member of Chicago Transit Authority and then Chicago

1951 – Phil Collins – drummer, pianist and vocalist for Genesis, replaced John Mayhew, then lead vocals replacing Peter Gabriel. Acting credits include "Oliver", "Buster" and "Miami Vice"

1951 – Harry Wayne Casey – lead vocalist for KC & The Sunshine Band

1951 – Phil Manzanera - guitarist for Quiet Sun and Roxy Music

1956 – Johnny "Rotten" Lydon – front man for The Sex Pistols and later Public Image Ltd

1961 – Lloyd Cole – singer, songwriter and guitarist for Lloyd Cole & The Commotions

1981 – Justin Timberlake – singer, member of NSYNC

Happened On This Day

1957 – Decca Records announced UK sales in excess of one million for Bill Haley & His Comets' "Rock Around The Clock"

1958 – Little Richard quit music to attend a 4-year term at evangelism college

1960 – Jimmy Jones' "Handy Man" entered the R&B charts

1965 – PJ Proby split his trousers onstage during his performance at The Ritz, Luton

1967 – Taking time out from filming the promo for "Strawberry Fields Forever" John Lennon bought a 1843 poster from an antique shop. It provided him with most of the lyrics for "Being For The Benefit of Mr. Kite"

1967 – A NY Supreme Court dismissed a lawsuit brought by Yorktown Heights High School to cancel a concert by folk singer / left-wing political activist Pete Seeger to an audience of school students. The concert went ahead 5 days later and no-one got brainwashed

1968 – Gold for John Fred & His Playboy Band "Judy In Disguise" and American Breed's "Bend Me, Shape Me"

1969 – Meher Baba died without speaking, or leaving a message for his followers, among whom were Pete Townsend of The Who and Ronnie Laine

1970 – Slim Harpo (James Isaac Moore) blues musician, died of a heart attack on this day

1970 – Bob Weir and Phil Lesh of The Grateful Dead were busted along with 17 others after a Dead concert in New Orleans. Group members claimed it was a set-up

1970 – The Jackson 5 hit no. 1 on the US singles charts with "I Want You Back", originally written for Gladys Knight & The Pips

1970 – Creedence Clearwater Revival filmed their first TV special

1972 – Aretha Franklin attended Mahalia Jackson's funeral and sang a memorial to her

1972 – Joan Baez received gold for her "Any Day Now" LP, a collection of Dylan hits

1974 – Bob Dylan played 2 concerts at Madison Square Garden, NY

1976 – Abba's "Mamma Mia" ejected Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" from no. 1 on the UK charts

1976 – A Sounds readers' poll winners were Queen, Best Album for "A Night At The Opera", Best Single for "Bohemian Rhapsody" and Best Band. Mike Oldfield for Best Musician, Steeleye Span's Maddy Prior was Best Female Singer, Best New Band was Rainbow, and Bore of The Year was Bay City Rollers

1976 – Hall & Oates released "Sara Smile" and David Bowie released "Station To Station"

1978 – Blood, Sweat & Tears's saxophonist Greg Herbert died of an accidental drug overdose in an Amsterdam hotel room during the band's European tour

1978 – Talking Heads made their UK TV debut on The Old Grey Whistle Test

1979 – The Clash began thier first US tour with Bo Diddley as the opening act

1981 – Female disco duo A Taste of Honey entered the soul charts with "Sukiyaki"

1982 – The Doobie Brothers split up with a promise they'd be back for a farewell tour

1985 – Barbara Cowsill of The Cowsills died on this day

1986 – "Down And Out In Beverly Hills" co-starring Little Richard, opens

1988 – The Red Hot Chili Peppers played The Mean Fiddler, London

1997 – Seth Lover – designer of amplifiers and musical instrument electronics and effects. Most famous for The Gibson "Humbucker" or hum-cancelling electric guitar pickup died on this day

1998 – The "Come Together" benefit concert played at a New Jersey theatre. A three and a half hour jam starring Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band, Jon Bon Jovi, Southside Johnny, Little Steven, and others.

2003 – Robbie Williams topped a chart, based on UK album sales from the previous 5 years (9.7 million sales, an average of 5,000 daily), The Corrs were in 2^nd place with 5.8 million, Westlife was 3^rd with 5.1 million, Madonna 4^th with 5 million and The Beatles 5^th with 4.7 million

2006 – Jason Kemper Sears – vocalist for Rich Kids on LSD, died in a detoxification unit in Mexico of pulmonary thrombosis

2009 – Dewey Martin (Walter Milton Dwayne Midkiff) drummer for Buffalo Springfield and other bands, died of natural causes

2011 – Mark Ryan, guitarist for Adam & The Ants, died from liver damage

2017 – Roger "Deke" Leonard guitarist for Man died on this day

2017 - John Wetton bassist for Asia, Roxy Music, Uriah Heep, Wishbone Ash and King Crimson died of cancer on this day