Music Almanac: October 22

Birthdays

• 1925 or 1929 - Dory Previn (87 or 83)
• 1939 - Ray Jones (Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas) (d. 2000)
• 1942 - Annette Funicello (70)
• 1942 - Bobby Fuller (d. 1966)
• 1945 - Leslie West (Mountain) (67)
• 1945 - Eddie Brigati (Rascals) (67)
• 1949 - Stiv Bators (Dead Boys) (d. 1990)
• 1952 - Greg Hawkes (Cars) (60)
• 1958 - Bobby Blotzer (Ratt) (54)
• 1960 - Darryl Jenifer (Bad Brains) (52)
• 1964 - TobyMac (born Kevin McKeehan) (48)
• 1965 - John Wesley Harding (born Wesley Stace) (47)
• 1968 - Shaggy (born Orville Richard Burrell) (44)
• 1968 - Shelby Lynne (44)
• 1976 - Jon Foreman (Switchfoot) (36)
• 1980 - Garrett Tierney (Brand New) (32)
• 1985 - Zac Hanson (Hanson) (27)

Deaths

• 1969 - Tommy Edwards - Brain aneurysm (47)
• 1983 - Keith Barrow - AIDS (29)
• 1986 - Jane Dornacker (Tubes) - Helicopter crash while working as a traffic reporter (39)
• 1989 - Ewan MacColl (74)
• 1994 - Jimmy Miller (producer) - Liver failure (52)

On This Day

• 1946 - Bill Monroe recorded for the first time with Mac Wiseman.
• 1955 - Carl Perkins wrote Blue Suede Shoes.
• 1964 - The High Number receive a letter from EMI asking them to submit original material after their original audition. They later became the Who.
• 1965 - Ernest Tubb was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.
• 1966 - Eddie Arnold, Jim Denny, Uncle Dave Macon and George D. Hay were inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.
• 1975 - The marriage of Hank Williams and Billie Jean was ruled valid by a federal judge, awarding her 50% of the singer's future royalties.
• 1978 - Earth, Wind & Fire started a 75-date U.S. tour in Louisville, KY.
• 1982 - It's Van Halen Day in Worcester, MA.
• 1990 - Pearl Jam played their live debut in Seattle.
• 1993 - Oasis signed with Criterion for six albums.
• 2005 - Madonna DJ'ed at the Misshapes Club in New York to debut her new album Confessions on a Dance Floor.

Marriages

• 1963 - Kenny Rogers and Margo Gladys Anderson

Divorces

• 2003 - Liza Minnelli and David Gant (filed)

Recorded

• 1963 - Act Naturally - Buck Owens

Released

• 1965 - Get Off My Cloud - Rolling Stones (U.K. single release)
• 1966 - Good Vibrations - Beach Boys (single)
• 1974 - Hotter Than Hell - KISS
• 1976 - The Song Remains the Same - Led Zeppelin (soundtrack)

Broadcasts

• 1961 - Ed Sullivan Show - Chubby Checker