... and more October 21 birthdays –
Celia Cruz (aka Úrsula Alfonso, 1925) – "The Queen of Salsa."
Doctor Ross (aka Charles Ross, 1925) – Blues singer/musician, “The
Harmonica Boss.”
Derek Bell (1935) – multi-instrumentalist for The Chieftains.
Sheila Jones (1936) – The Kaye Sisters.
Jimmy Beaumont (1940) – The Skyliners.
Ron Elliott (1943) – guitarist/songwriter for The Beau Brummels.
Kathy Young (1945) – Kathy Young and The Innocents (“A Thousand
Stars”).
Mel Street (aka King Malachi Street, 1935) – Country singer (“Lovin’
On Back Streets”).
Lux Interior (aka Erick Lee Purkhiser, 1946) – The Cramps.
Tetsu Yamauchi (1946) – bassist for Free, and Faces.
Brent Mydland (1952) – keyboardist for The Grateful Dead.
Julian Cope (1957) – singer/songwriter, The Teardrop Explodes.
Steve Lukather (1957) – session guitarist, Toto.
Peter Olsson (1961) – original bassist for Europe.
Jade Jagger (1971)
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Birthday correction --
Norman Wright was born October 31, 1937.
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October 21 R.I.P. –
Bill Black (1965) – brain tumor. Age 39. Bassist for Elvis Presley and
The Blue Moon Boys.
Marie McDonald (1965) – overdose. Age 42. Actress/model/big band
singer with Tommy Dorsey.
Mel Street (1978) – suicide. Age 43. Country singer (“Borrowed
Angel”).
Maxene Andrews (1995) – heart attack. Age 77. The Andrews Sisters.
Shannon Hoon (1995) – cocaine overdose. Age 28. Singer for Blind
Melon.
Elliott Smith (2003) – stabbed to death, possible suicide. Age 34.
Singer/songwriter ("Miss Misery").
Sandy West (2006) – lung cancer. Age 47. Drummer for The Runaways.
Fred Ferrara (2011) – cardiac arrest. Age 67. The Del Satins, The
Brooklyn Bridge.
Edmundo Ros (2011) – Age 100. Arranger, bandleader (“The Wedding
Samba”).
October 21 album releases –
Manfred Mann – As Is (1966) UK
Beck, Bogert & Appice – Beck, Bogert & Appice Live (1973) Japan
Meatloaf – Bat Out Of Hell (1977)
The Beatles – Love Songs (1977) U.S.
Genesis – Seconds Out (1977)
Aerosmith – Done With Mirrors (1985)
The Allman Brothers Band – Live At The Atlanta International Pop
Festival: July 3 & 5, 1970 (2003)
October 21 events –
1908 – The first two-sided vinyl record is offered for sale by the
Columbia label in an ad running in this week's Saturday Evening Post.
1936 – Roy Acuff and His Crazy Tennesseeans begin their second day of
sessions in Chicago, recording “Wabash Cannonball,” "Freight Train
Blues,” “Coney Island Baby,” and “Yes Sir, That’s My Baby,” among
others.
1955 – Elvis Presley performs two shows at the Missouri Theater in St.
Louis.
1956 – Elvis Presley goes to the local movie theater, The Memphian,
with his girlfriend and is beset by an adoring crowd who, in the
ensuing melee, scratch his new Cadillac. From here on, Elvis will just
rent the entire theater whenever he wants to watch a movie.
1957 – Bobby Day and The Hollywood Flames record “Buzz, Buzz, Buzz”
for Ebb Records.
1958 – Buddy Holly hold his final formal recording session, recording
"True Love Ways," "It Doesn't Matter Anymore," "Moondreams" and
"Raining In My Heart" at Pythian Temple Recording Studios in New York
City.
1958 – Elvis Presley releases his single, “One Night” b/w “I Got
Stung.”
1962 – Cliff Richard appears on The Ed Sullivan Show. Also on the show
is Kate Smith.
1963 – Country artist Lefty Frizzell records “Saginaw, Michigan.”
1964 – Jackie Wilson, The Righteous Brothers, The Honeycombs, Donna
Loren, Jay and The Americans, Willie Nelson and Bobby Sherman all
appear on Shindig!
1965 –The Beatles re-record “This Bird Has Flown,” now called
“Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown),” and begin recording a new John
Lennon song, “Nowhere Man.”
1965 – The Spencer Davis Group records “Keep On Running” at Pye
Studios in London.
1975 – Elton John receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame,
starting “Elton John Week” in Los Angeles.
1976 – Drummer Keith Moon plays his final concert tour show with The
Who on the last day of their North American tour at Maple Leaf Gardens
in Toronto.
1978 – The Clash fire their manager Bernie Rhodes, claiming the band
and their record company, CBS, find him hard to deal with, and replace
him with Melody Maker journalist Caroline Coon.
1985 – In London, the Blue Suede Shoes: A Rockabilly Session concert
is held, featuring Carl Perkins, Eric Clapton, George Harrison, Ringo
Starr and Dave Edmunds. The concert is filmed for the Cinemax cable
channel.
1992 – Elvis Presley’s first grandson, Benjamin Storm, is born to Lisa
Marie and husband Danny Keough.
1992 – Elton John sues the syndicated U.S. television show Hard Copy
for alleging that the singer moved to the Atlanta suburbs to be near
an AIDS clinic.
1992 – George Michael sues Sony to end his contract. The case will
drag on for two years and Michael will lose.
1992 – Madonna’s book, Sex, is published.
1994 – Neil Diamond announces that he is getting divorced from his
second wife, Marcia, who filed for divorce from Neil on October 13
claiming irreconcilable differences. The couple has been together for
25 years.
1995 – Green Day singer Billie Joe Armstrong is arrested and fined
$141 for mooning his audience during their show in Milwaukee.
1997 – The Guinness Book Of Records declares Elton John's “Candle In
The Wind ‘97” the biggest selling single record of all time, with 31.8
million sales in less than 40 days, and raising more than £20 million
for charity.
1998 – Alice Cooper sues KISS's Paul Stanley and Bruce Kulick,
claiming their song "Dreamin'" sounds too much like his song
"Eighteen."
1998 – President Bill Clinton signs the Sonny Bono Copyright Term
Extension Act of 1998 and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act,
providing a framework for sound recording copyright owners and
recording artists to seek public performance royalties under statute:
a landmark achievement for the recording industry.
2001 – The Michael Jackson organized United We Stand: What More Can I
Give concert takes place at RFK Stadium in Washington, DC to benefit
the families and victims of the 9/11 attacks. Performers at the
concert include Aerosmith, Al Green, Carole King, James Brown, Huey
Lewis and The News, Goo Goo Dolls and many others. Michael Jackson
closes the show in his final concert appearance.
2003 – Elton John signs on the dotted line for the first of his famous
"Red Piano" concerts at Las Vegas' Caesar's Palace, where he will
perform 75 concerts a year over the next three years at The Coliseum
during Celine Dion’s off season.
2003 – David Gest, recent ex-husband of Liza Minnelli, sues the singer
for $10 million, alleging physical and emotional cruelty.
2004 – Bo Diddley has a toe amputated due to complications from
diabetes, and is forced to cancel a concert in California to
recuperate.
2004 – Bobby “Boris” Pickett re-records his hit “Monster Mash” as
“Monster Slash” as an indictment of President George W. Bush’s
environmental policies.
2004 – Jessica Simpson is sued by Cosmojet, a California-based
cosmetics company, for nearly $200,000 for products they say they
manufactured and sold to Simpson’s Dessert cosmetics line for which
they were not paid.
2005 – Bob Seger sings “America The Beautiful” before the World Series
game between the Detroit Tigers and the visiting St. Louis Cardinals.
2006 – British broadcaster John Peel leaves over £1.8 million and more
than 25,000 vinyl records in his will.
2007 – Kid Rock's tour bus is pulled over by police and Rock and five
members of his entourage are arrested after an argument with a man
escalates into a fight at a waffle house in Atlanta, Georgia. Rock is
released after posting $1,000 bail.
