Re: Musical History in October

[t bedford]

Oct. 21
 
Born
John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (1917)
Norman Wright (the Del-Vikings) (1937)
 Manfred Mann (1940)
Steve Cropper (1941)
Elvin Bishop (1942)
Lee Loughnane (Chicago) (1946)
Charlotte Caffey (the Go-Go's) (1953)
Eric Faulkner (the Bay City Rollers) (1953)
 
R.I.P.
Jack Kerouac (author: *On the Road*, a classic that pioneered the Beat 
Generation in the 1950s) (1969)
 
Events
1958 Buddy Holly records* True Love Ways* with an 18 piece orchestra, at 
Decca's Pythian Temple.