The Laundromat on 14^th February2018 2mce-fm 92.3/94.7khz

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

Mad Dog – Lee Michaels – Everybody's Stoned & So Am I

The Needle & The Damage Done – Neil Young – Collector's Heartland

Iron Butterfly – Fillmore East, NYC, NY 26^th April 1968

Fields Of Sun

You Can't Win

Unconscious Power

Are You Happy

So-Lo

Iron Butterfly Theme

Stamped Ideas

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

So-Lo

Iron Butterfly Theme

Bus Driver's School – Bob Newhart – The Button -Down Mind Strikes Back

Angry, Angry Man – The Roches – Another World

The Wrong Band – Tori Amos – Under The Pink

Man Of Action – Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac – Vaudeville Years (1968 - 1970)

The Goons – The Sale Of Manahattan (The Lost Colony)

The Rebel – Earth (pre) Black Sabbath

I Can't Quit You – Led Zeppelin – Lost BBC Sessions 1969

Why – Uriah Heep – Look At Yourself

Flip-Top Box - Chuck Higgins

Caught - Mamie Ree & Young Wolf

Hot Mama - Brother Woodman

Curfew - Joe Houston

All Together, Oh That – Focus – Mother Focus

Should Anybody Ask – The Archies – This Is Love

Would You Believe – Screaming Lord Sutch – Screaming Lord Sutch & Heavy Friends

Death Of The Flowers – Leon Russell's Asylum Choir – Look Inside The Asylum Choir

Tin's Song – Analogy – Analogy

Cold Of My Kingdom – Arthur Brown

Heaven Knows – Message – Krautrock

360 – Faust – Faust

14^th February On This Day In Music

Born On This Day

1931 – Phyllis McGuire of The McGuire Sisters

1934 – Merl Saunders – keyboard player

1937 - Magic Sam (Samuel Maghett) – blues singer and guitarist

1943 – Eric Andersen – singer and folk guitarist

1945 – Vic Briggs – guitarist with Steampacket and The Animals

1946 – Doug Simril – guitarist and keyboard player for Steve Miller Band

1947 – Tim Buckley – singer / songwriter

1950 – Roger Fisher of Heart

1951 – Kenny Hislop – drummer for Slik, Skids and Simple Minds

1972 – Rob Thomas – vocalist for Matchbox 20

Happened On This Day

1931 – Ted Lewis' "Just a Gigolo" hit no. 1 on the US charts. It was recorded over 50 years later by David Lee Roth

1958 – The Iranian government banned rock & roll on the grounds that it's against the concerpts of Islam and Iranian doctors advised that the "extreme gyrations" of dancing to R&R do damage to the hips

1960 – Mark Denning's "Teen Angel" was no. 1 on US singles charts

1961 – The Beatles played a Valentine's concert at the Cassanova Club in Liverpool

1961 – The Platters sued their record company Mercury Records, over a row regarding who the lead singer was after Tony Williams left. The company refused to accept recordings where Williams was not lead singer, but the group contended that the contact did not stipulate who had to sing lead vocals

1966 – Simon & Garfunkel received a gold record for "Sounds of Silence"

1967 – Aretha Franklin recorded her signature tune "Respect"

1968 – Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention announced work on two films; "Uncle Meat", a documentary of the band, and a monster movie to be made in Japan

1968 – Manfred Mann's cover of Bob Dylan's "Mighty Quinn" went to no. 1 on the UK charts

1970 – The compilation album "Motown Chartbusters vol 3" was no. 1 in the UK

1970 – The Who performed at Leeds University, England. The concert was recorded and released as "Live At Leeds"

1970 – A Billboard headline read "The Recording Industry Association of America is Mounting Total War Against Tape Pirating of Prerecorded Music"

1972 – "Grease" opened off-Broadway

1972 – John Lennon & Yoko One began a week-long stint as co-hosts of the Mike Douglas TV show

1972 – Mayor Sam Yorty declared "Steppenwolf Day" in Los Angeles

1973 – David Bowie opened his midnight Valentine's Day concert at New York's Radio City Music Hall by dropping to the stage ina glass-domed "space capsule". His exit was marred when a fan charged the stage and knocked him to the floor

1974 – David Bowie turned down a Gay Liberation group who approached him to write "the world's first Gay National Anthem"

1974 – Bob Dylan / The Band's 39 shows / 21 cities tour played it's last concert at The Forum, Los Angeles

1974 – Janis Joplin's manager sued a San Francisco life insurance company for refusing to pay a $200,000 policy claim. The company said Janis's death was suicide

1974 – Daryl Dragon and Toni Tennille married in Virginia City whilst on a US tour

1977 – In the song "At Seventeen" Janis Ian claimed she never received a Valentine's card as a teenager, Fans sent 461 cards this Valentine's Day

1977 – B-52s made their performing debut at a party in Athens, Georgia

1977 – The Royal Albert Hall played host to Abba's final concert of their British tour

1978 – Dire Straits began recording their first album at Basing Street Studios, London. The entire project cost £12,500

1979 – George Harrison's self-titled album was released

1980 – Lou Reed married Sylvia Morales at a ceremony in his apartment

1981 – Billy Idol (William Broad) left Generation X for a solo career

1984 – Elton John married his studio engineer, Renate Blauer, in Sydney, Australia

1986 – Frank Zappa appeared in an episode of "Miami Vice" as a crime boss "Mr Frankie"

1987 – Bon Jovi started a four week run at no. 1 on the US singles charts with "Livin' On A Prayer"

1989 – Vincent Crane, keyboard player for The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown and Atomic Rooster died from an overdose of Anadin tablets

1990 – The Rolling Stones played the first of ten nights at Korkuen Dome in Tokyo. The shows were seen by 500,000 fans and made the band $20 million

1992 – Jon Farriss (INXS) married Leslie Brega

1992 – The movie Wayne's World premiered in US

1994 – Jerry Garcia married Deborah Koons

1996 – The Artist Formerly Known As Prince married backup singer Mayle Garcia in a Minneapolis church and had his new song, written for her, "Friend, Lover, Sister Mother, Wife", played for the first time in their wedding dance

1998 – Usher began a two-week run at no. 1 on US singles charts with "Nice and Slow"

1998 – Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On" set a new record for most radio plays in the US with 116 million plays in one week

1999 – Lenny Kravitz "Fly Away" was no. 1 in the UK

1999 – Elton John played himself in an animated form on a Valentine's Day episode of The Simpsons

1999 – Buddy Knox, singer / songwriter died of lung cancer

2002 – Mick Tucker, drummer and vocals for Sweet died of leukemia

2003 – Stolen reel-to-reel recordings of "The White Album" and "Abbey Road" were recovered in Australia.They had been advertised in a Sydney newspaper, and police in Australia were tipped off by British detectives

2004 – Dave Holland, former drummer of Judas Priest, was eight years for indecent assault and attempted rape of a 17-year old boy, who had been taking drum lessons from him

2008 – Liam Gallagher married ex-All Saints singer Nicole Appleton

2010 – Doug Fieger singer / songwriter / musician for The Knack died of cancer

2010 – "Everybody Hurts", a fundraiser for Haiti's earthquake victims, went to no. 1 in UK

2016 – Adele's "25" was no.1 in the US