The
Laundromat on 31st 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
31st
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 2nd
place with 5.8 million, Westlife
was 3rd
with 5.1 million, Madonna
4th
with 5 million and The
Beatles
5th
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
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