... and more October 23 birthdays –
William “Sonny” Criss (1927) – Jazz saxophonist.
Charlie Foxx (1939) – Inez and Charlie Foxx ("Mockingbird").
Freddie Marsden (1940) – drummer for Gerry and The Pacemakers.
Barbara Hawkins (1943) – The Dixie Cups.
Michael "Würzel" Burston (1949) – guitarist for Motörhead.
Pierre Moerlen (1952) – percussionist for Mike Oldfield.
Dwight Yoakam (1956) – Country artist.
Alfred “Weird Al” Yankovic (1959)
Roberto Trujillo (1964) – bassist for Suicidal Tendencies and
Metallica.October 23 R.I.P. – Harold Box (1964) – plane crash. Age 21. The Crickets (“Peggy Sue Got Married”). Leonard Lee (1976) – heart attack. Age 40. Shirley & Lee. "Mother" Maybelle Carter (1978) – Age 69. The Carter Family. Hoyt Hawkins (1982) – Age 55. The Jordanaires. Adolph Green (2002) – Age 87. Broadway lyricist (“New York, New York”). October 23 album releases – Frank Zappa – Chunga’s Revenge (1970) Genesis – Trespass (1970) Elvis Costello and The Attractions – Almost Blue (1981) George Harrison – Best Of Dark Horse (1976-1989) (1989) Gov’t Mule – The Deep End, Volume 1 (2001) Robert Plant and Alison Krauss – Raising Sand (2007) Neil Young – Chrome Dreams II (2007) October 23 events – 1954 – Elvis Presley’s “Blue Moon Of Kentucky” reaches #3 in New Orleans and #6 in Nashville, becoming Presley’s first song to hit the Billboard singles chart outside of Memphis. 1961 – Dion’s “Runaround Sue” hits #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and will stay there for two weeks. 1962 – Little Stevie Wonder has his first recording session and records “Thank You For Loving Me All The Way” at Motown’s Hitsville U.S.A. Studio A in Detroit. 1963 – Bob Dylan records "The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll" and “The Times They Are A-Changin’” at Columbia Studios in New York City. 1963 – The Beatles record some overdubs onto “I Wanna Be Your Man,” thus completing their second album, With The Beatles. The group then flies to Stockholm, Sweden to begin their first Scandinavian tour. They are met by a dozen girls at the airport. 1963 – The Everly Brothers, Little Richard, Bo Diddley, Mickie Most, The Rolling Stones and others all appear at the Odeon Theatre in Nottingham. 1964 – J. Frank Wilson of The Cavaliers, who scored a huge teen- tragedy hit with "Last Kiss," is seriously injured in a car crash near Lima, Ohio. The crash kills the song's producer, Sonley Roush. 1964 – Harold Box (guitar/vocals), Buddy Groves (guitar/vocals), Carl Banks (bass), and Bill Daniels (drums) - the entire Buddy & The Kings band - die when their Cessna Skyhawk 172, piloted by drummer Daniels, nose dives into the ground in Texas. Box replaced Buddy Holly in The Crickets after Holly died in a plane crash, and sang the hit “Peggy Sue Got Married.” 1965 – Glen Campbell, The Byrds, The Shangri-Las, Doby Gray and Bobby Sherman all appear on Shindig! 79-year old Ed Wynn is the host. 1966 – The Yardbirds begin their U.S. tour at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco with opening acts Country Joe and The Fish and Daily Flash. 1966 – The Jimi Hendrix Experience records “Hey Joe” at De Lane Lea Studios in London. 1968 – Johnny Cash appears at Carnegie Hall. 1968 – Elvis Presley’s 28th movie, Live A Little, Love A Little, premieres in the U.S. and Canada. 1969 – Columbia Records announces its intention to prosecute the purveyors of Great White Way, the unauthorized collection of unreleased Bob Dylan demos that is often considered the first bootleg record. 1972 – Filming begins in England on the Fifties revival drama That'll Be The Day, starring Ringo Starr, David Essex, Keith Moon, Billy Fury and The Nashville Teens' John Hawken. 1976 – Led Zeppelin appears on Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert via footage from their concert film The Song Remains The Same. 1978 – CBS Records becomes the first record label to raise the price of albums to an unheard of $8.98. 1980 – Mark David Chapman quits his job as a security guard in Hawaii and signs his time sheet “John Lennon.” 1988 – Michael Jackson donates one of his stage outfits, including a rhinestone covered glove and a hat, to Detroit's Motown Museum. 1989 – Nirvana plays their first ever gig outside the U.S. when they appear at Newcastle's Riverside Club in North East England. It is the first night of a 36-date European tour for the group, who are sharing the bill with Tad. 1995 – Yolanda Saldivar is found guilty and sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Tejano singer Selena at a Days Inn motel in Corpus Christi, Texas. 1995 – Def Leppard plays three gigs on three different continents in 24 hours and makes their way into the Guinness Book Of Records. Their first show is at Hercules Cave in Tangier, Morocco, after which they fly to England for a show at the Bottom Line in London, then it's across the Atlantic for a concert at the Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver, British Columbia. 1998 – A St. Louis federal judge rules and upholds that the Fort Zumwalt High School Marching Band is not allowed to include Jefferson Airplane's druggy hit "White Rabbit" in its repertoire as part of a Sixties medley, per the ruling of the superintendent of schools. 1999 – The wife of Los Lobos bassist Cesar Rosas, Sandra, is kidnapped from her Rowland Heights home in L.A. while the band is out on tour. Her half-brother, Gabriel Gomez, is an early suspect. 2002 – A St. Louis federal judge dismisses a lawsuit brought against Chuck Berry by his longtime pianist, Johnnie Johnson, claiming co- songwriting credits and a share of the royalties for over 30 songs made famous by Berry from 1955 to 1966. 2002 – Rapper Kanye West is hospitalized with his jaw fractured in three places after being involved in a car crash when he falls asleep at the wheel while driving home from a recording studio in West Hollywood. 2005 – A very ill Lou Rawls, in the final stages of his battle with cancer, makes his last public appearance, and gives an electrifying performance of “The National Anthem” at Game 2 of the World Series. 2007 – Rapper Foxy Brown (aka Inga Marchand), serving a year in prison for a fight in a New York nail salon, gets 11 days in solitary confinement for fighting with another inmate. 2007 – In simultaneously coordinated raids in Teesside and Amsterdam, British and Dutch police shut down OiNK - a widely-used, members-only source for illegally-downloading music - as part of an Interpol investigation. 2008 – A homeless man claims a £2,000 reward for returning a waxwork head of Paul McCartney he found under a seat on a train in London. 2009 – Belleville, New Jersey begins “Connie Francis Weekend,” honoring the hometown singer by dedicating Connie Francis Court, at the corner of Greylock Parkway and Forest Street. 2010 – Singer Katy Perry marries British actor Russell Brand. The marriage lasts barely 18 months.
