October 23 Born –
Manos Hatzidakis (1925) – Greek composer (“Never On Sunday”).
William “Sonny” Criss (1927) – Jazz saxophonist.
Charlie Foxx (1939) – Inez and Charlie Foxx ("Mockingbird").
Ellie Greenwich (1940) – songwriter, The Raindrops (“Be My Baby”).
Freddie Marsden (1940) – drummer for Gerry and The Pacemakers.
Barbara Hawkins (1943) – The Dixie Cups.
Greg Ridley (1947) – bassist for Spooky Tooth and Humble Pie.
Michael "Würzel" Burston (1949) – guitarist for Motörhead.
Pierre Moerlen (1952) – percussionist for Mike Oldfield.
Pauline Black (aka Belinda Magnus, 1953) – vocalist for The Selecter.
Dwight Yoakam (1956) – Country artist.
Alfred “Weird Al” Yankovic (1959) – singer/accordionist, parody songwriter.
Roberto Trujillo (1964) – bassist for Suicidal Tendencies, Ozzy Osbourne
and Metallica.
Richard McNamara (1972) – guitarist for Embrace.
October 23 R.I.P. –
Ralph Rainger (1942) – plane crash. Age 41. Songwriter (“Thanks For The
Memory”).
Al Jolson (1950) – heart attack. Age 64. Singer/actor, “The World’s
Greatest Entertainer.”
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.
Esquerita (1986) – AIDS. Age 50. Singer/songwriter/pianist (“Hey Miss
Lucy”).
Adolph Green (2002) – Age 87. Broadway lyricist (“New York, New York”).
Robert Merrill (2004) – Age 87. Opera singer.
October 23 album releases –
Frank Zappa – Chunga’s Revenge (1970)
Genesis – Trespass (1970)
Al Green – I’m Still In Love With You (1972)
Harry Chapin – On The Road To Kingdom Come (1976)
Sammy Hagar – Standing Hampton (1981)
Elvis Costello and The Attractions – Almost Blue (1981)
Wham! – Make It Big (1984)
Iggy Pop – Blah Blah Blah (1986)
George Harrison – Best Of Dark Horse (1976-1989) (1989)
Betty Boo – Boomania (1990) U.S.
Atomic Kitten – Right Now (2000)
Bush – Golden State (2001)
Incubus – Morning View (2001)
Toni Braxton – Snowflakes (2001)
Gov’t Mule – The Deep End, Volume 1 (2001)
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss – Raising Sand (2007)
Neil Young – Chrome Dreams II (2007)
Mötley Crüe – Carnival Of Sins: Live 1 & 2 (2007)
Heart – Dreamboat Annie Live (2007) U.S.
October 23 events –
1941 – Benny Goodman and His Orchestra records “Clarinet A La King” for
Okeh Records.
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.
1957 – Alan Freed’s Biggest Show Of Stars ’57 package tour heads to Canada
and the Georgia Auditorium in Vancouver, featuring Jimmy Bowen and The
Rhythm Orchids, Fats Domino, The Crickets, The Drifters, Chuck Berry, The
Everly Brothers, Frankie Lymon, LaVerne Baker, Paul Anka, Buddy Knox, Clyde
McPhatter, and Eddie Cochran.
1957 – Georgia Gibbs performs “Walking The Floor Over You” on American
Bandstand.
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, Bob Bain, The Flintstones and Julie Grant 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 post-Holly hit “Peggy Sue Got Married.”
1965 – Glen Campbell, The Byrds, The Shangri-Las, Doby Gray, The Shindogs,
The Blossoms, Delaney Bramlett and Bobby Sherman all appear on Shindig!
79-year old Ed Wynn is the host.
1966 – The Yardbirds, with Jimmy Page on guitar, begin a 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 in New York City.
1968 – Elvis Presley’s 28th movie, Live A Little, Love A Little, premieres
in theaters 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.
1976 – The Jam performs an afternoon show at Soho Market in London.
1976 – The Clash plays their first headlining gig at the ICA in London.
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 northeast 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 across the Atlantic
for a concert at the Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver, British Columbia.
1998 – A St. Louis, Missouri, federal judge upholds and rules 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 Los Angeles while the band is out on tour. Her
half-brother, Gabriel Gomez, is an early suspect.
2002 – A St. Louis, Missouri, 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.
2004 – Saturday Night Live musical guest Ashlee Simpson dances a feeble jig
and walks off stage when the song track she’s lip-synching to glitches and
re-starts. She apologizes at the end of the show and blames her band.
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.
2010 – Blake Shelton joins the Grand Ole Opry.
2010 – Singer Céline Dion (42) and husband/manager René Angélil (68)
welcome the birth of twin boys, Eddy and Nelson.
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