October 10 Born –
Conrad Leonard (1898) – British pianist/composer/arranger ("My Love Is Only
For You").
Johnny Green (1908) – songwriter/composer ("Body And Soul").
Ivory Joe Hunter (1914) – singer/songwriter/pianist (“Since I Met You
Baby”).
Harry "Sweets" Edison (1915) – trumpeter with the Count Basie Orchestra.
Thelonius Monk (1917) – Jazz pianist/composer.
Louis Gottlieb (1923) – The Limeliters.
Oscar Brown (1926) – singer/songwriter.
Larry Finnegan (aka John Finneran, 1938) – singer ("Dear One").
Anita Humes (1940) – The Essex ("Easier Said Than Done").
Dennis D’Ell (aka Dennis Dalziel, 1943) – vocalist for The Honeycombs.
Jerry LaCroix (1943) – vocalist/saxophonist for Edgar Winter’s White Trash.
Alan Cartwright (1945) – bassist for Procol Harum.
John Prine (1946) – singer/songwriter.
Ben Vereen (1946) – actor/dancer/singer.
Cyril Neville (1948) – percussionist for The Neville Brothers.
James “Midge” Ure (1953) – Scottish singer/songwriter/guitarist.
David Lee Roth (1954) – Van Halen.
Tanya Tucker (1958) – Country music singer/songwriter.
Kirsty MacColl (1959) – British singer/songwriter.
Eric Martin (1960) – vocalist for Mr. Big.
Martin Kemp (1961) – bassist for Spandau Ballet.
Jim Glennie (1963) – bassist for James.
Jonny Male (1963) – guitarist for Republica.
Graham Crabb (1964) – drummer for Pop Will Eat Itself.
Mike Malinin (1967) – drummer for The Goo Goo Dolls.
Vinnie Tattanelli (1972) – drummer for Nine Days.
Scott Morriss (1973) – bassist for The Bluetones.
October 10 R.I.P. –
Eddie Cantor (1964) – heart attack. Age 72. Singer/songwriter/actor
(“Makin’ Whoopee”).
Ralph Marterie (1978) – Age 63. Trumpeter, big band leader (“Skokiaan”).
Nick Hawkins (2005) – heart attack. Age 40. Guitarist for Big Audio
Dynamite II.
Art Todd (2007) – congestive heart failure. Age 93. Art and Dotty Todd
("Chanson D'Amour").
Stephen Gately (2009) – pulmonary edema. Age 33. Boyzone.
Joan Sutherland (2010) – heart failure. Age 83. Australian opera singer.
Solomon Burke (2010) – natural causes. Age 70.
October 10 album releases –
Brenda Lee – This Is…Brenda (1960)
Simon and Garfunkel – Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme (1966)
The Monkees – The Monkees (1966)
Elvis Presley – Clambake (1967)
Frank Zappa – Hot Rats (1969)
The Kinks – Arthur (Or The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire) (1969)
King Crimson – In The Court Of The Crimson King (1969)
Pink Floyd – Atom Heart Mother (1970)
Deep Purple – Come Taste The Band (1975)
Thin Lizzy – Chinatown (1980)
Manfred Mann’s Earth Band – Chance (1980)
UB40 – Present Arms In Dub (1981)
U2 – Rattle And Hum (1988)
John Lennon – Imagine: John Lennon (1988) (soundtrack)
George Harrison – Best Of Dark Horse 1976-1989 (1989)
Atlanta Rhythm Section – Truth In A Structured Form (1989)
The Jesus Lizard – Liar (1992)
Suede – Dog Man Star (1994)
Green Day – Insomniac (1995)
Fleetwood Mac – Time (1995)
Peter Frampton – Frampton Comes Alive! II (1995)
Cowboy Junkies – 200 More Miles: Live Performances 1985-1994 (1995)
Blackmail – Blackmail (1997)
Catch 22 – Alone In A Crowd (2000)
The Tubes – Tubes World Tour 2001 (2000)
James Taylor – James Taylor At Christmas (2006)
Sting – Songs From The Labyrinth (2006)
Jimmy Buffett – Take The Weather With You (2006)
Radiohead – In Rainbows (2007)
October 10 events –
1902 – Orville Gibson forms the Gibson Mandolin Guitar Company.
1939 – Liverpool, England, resident Eleanor Rigby passes away at age 44.
1940 – Lanny Ross records “Moonlight And Roses” for the Victor label.
1957 – Jerry Lee Lewis and Thurston Harris appear on American Bandstand.
1958 – Eddie Cochran records “C’mon Everybody” for Liberty Records.
1959 – Ken Brown quits The Quarrymen after an argument with Paul McCartney
when Brown is paid for their gig at the Casbah by Mona Best but is too sick
to perform on stage. The Quarrymen now consists of Lennon, McCartney and
Harrison.
1959 – Brenda Lee is hospitalized in Nashville with thyroid deficiency: the
first of many neck problems for the singer.
1963 – Elvis Presley records "Once Is Enough," "Catchin' On Fast,"
"Anyone," "Smokey Mountain Boy," "There's Gold In The Mountains," "One Boy,
Two Little Girls," "Kissin' Cousins," "Barefoot Ballad" and "Tender
Feeling" at MGM Sound Stage in Hollywood for the Kissin’ Cousins movie
soundtrack.
1964 – The Shangri-Las release their single, “Leader Of The Pack” b/w “What
Is Love” on Red Bird Records.
1964 – The Beatles play two shows on the second date of their only British
tour at De Montfort Hall in Leicester, with opening acts The Rustiks,
Sounds Incorporated, Michael Haslam, The Remo Four, Tommy Quickly and Mary
Wells.
1965 – The Supremes make their debut appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show,
performing “You’re Nobody Till Somebody Loves You.”. Also on the show is
Petula Clark, who sings “Around Every Corner” and “A Foggy Day In London
Town.” Other musical guests include Wayne Newton and Kate Smith.
1966 – The Beach Boys release their single, “Good Vibrations” b/w “Let’s Go
Away For Awhile.”
1966 – The Browns give their final performance at the Grand Ole Opry. Jim
Ed Brown will continue as an Opry performer.
1968 – Perry Como records “Sunshine Wine” and “Seattle” at RCA Studios in
Nashville.
1968 – George Harrison sets up his second music publishing company,
Singsong Ltd.
1970 – The UK music magazine, Sounds, publishes its first issue.
1970 – FCC head Nicholas Johnson responds to recent comments made by Vice
President Spiro Agnew that attacked radio stations for playing songs that
contained "drug culture propaganda,” saying, "If we really want to do
something about drugs, let's do something about life... The song writers
are trying to help us understand our plight and deal with it. It's about
the only leadership we're getting. They're not really urging you to adopt a
heroin distribution program, Mr. Vice President."
1973 – Rod Stewart and The Faces perform at the San Diego Sports Arena,
with Rory Gallagher as opening act.
1975 – Queen releases their single, “Bohemian Rhapsody” b/w “I’m In Love
With My Car.”
1978 – At Aerosmith’s show at The Spectrum in Philadelphia, an audience
member tosses a cherry bomb firecracker on stage, injuring Steven Tyler and
Joe Perry.
1978 – Steve Perry joins Journey as their vocalist.
1978 – The second Stiff Records UK package tour - Be Stiff - kicks off,
featuring Wreckless Eric, Jona Lewie, Rachel Sweet, Lene Lovich and Micky
Jupp, with the artists traveling the country together by train.
1979 – Los Angeles mayor Tom Bradley declares the day "Fleetwood Mac Day,"
and unveils a star for the band on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1979 – The Bette Midler movie, The Rose, based loosely on the life of Janis
Joplin, premieres in Hollywood.
1980 – A private funeral and burial is held for Led Zeppelin drummer John
Bonham at the parish church in Cutnall Green, near Kidderminster.
1981 – The Kinks are the musical guests on Saturday Night Live.
1987 – David Bowie is charged with rape when Wanda Nicholls files a
complaint saying the singer raped her and bit her on the legs and back.Bowie
passes her off as a “publicity seeker.”
1992 – Slash marries model/actress Renée Suran in Marina del Rey,
California. They stay married five years.
1992 – HBO airs Michael Jackson’s entire September 19 concert in Romania,
titled From Bucharest - The Dangerous Tour.
1997 – Jimmy Osmond and wife Michelle welcome their second child, Zachary
James, who becomes the 50th member of the Osmond clan.
1999 – Las Vegas’ Grand Hotel holds the final day of their three-day Elvis
Presley memorabilia auction.
2000 – Britney Spears makes her UK live debut when she plays the first of
three sold-out nights at London's Wembley Arena.
2001 – Dennis De Young sues his former band Styx for touring and singing
his songs without him. De Young left the band in 1999 due to chronic
fatigue syndrome.
2002 – Twelve protesters dressed as monkeys picket outside the north Wales
holiday home of former Stone Roses singer Ian Brown, who is selling his
five-bedroom house in the small village of Llithfaen on the Llyn Peninsula
for an inflated price which local people can not afford.
2007 – In a poll, U.S. music magazine Blender votes Sting the worst
lyricists ever. The survey places Rush drummer Neil Peart at #2, Creed
frontman Scott Stapp at #3, and Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher at #4,
saying Gallagher "seemed incapable of following a metaphor through a single
line, let alone a whole verse."
2009 – Roger Daltrey begins his first solo tour in 24 years at the
Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver.
2012 – A Moscow appeals court *releases* Yekaterina Samutsevich, one of the
jailed *members* of Pussy Riot, after learning that she was not fully
involved in the “punk prayer” incident in a Moscow cathedral. However, the
court orders that the other two members are to serve the remainder of their
two-year sentence at a Russian prison colony.
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