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October 31: Music Events

  • October 31, 1912 – Western singer-songwriter Dale Evans is born Lucille Wood Smith (changed to Frances Octavia Smith soon after) in Uvalde, Texas. She meets screen partner Roy Rogers in 1944 and the pair marry in 1947.
  • October 31, 1927 – Hoagy Carmichael records his most famous composition, “Star Dust.”
  • October 31, 1930 – Count Basie records “Somebody Stole My Gal.”
  • October 31, 1934 – Rockabilly musician Ray Smith, known for the 1960 hit “Rockin’ Little Angel,” is born in Melber, Kentucky.
  • October 31, 1937 – Doo-wopper Norman Wright (of The Del-Vikings) is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  • October 31, 1937 – Folk singer-songwriter Tom Paxton is born in Chicago, Illinois.
  • October 31, 1940 – Eric Griffiths (original guitarist for The Quarrymen, a pre-Beatles rock ‘n roll group founded by John Lennon) is born in Denbigh, North Wales.
  • October 31, 1945 – Rik Kenton (Roxy Music bassist) is born in Nottingham, England.
  • October 31, 1945 – Russ Ballard (Unit 4+2 guitarist and Argent frontman) is born in Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire, England.
  • October 31, 1952 – Bernard Edwards (bassist, songwriter for Chic) is born in Greenville, North Carolina.
  • October 31, 1952 – When his original guitarist has a stroke just before a New Year’s Eve gig, popular St. Louis boogie-woogie pianist Johnnie Johnson hires a 26-year-old hairdresser named Chuck Berry for his group The Sir John’s Trio.
  • October 31, 1958 – The Flamingos record “I Only Have Eyes For You.”
  • October 31, 1960 – Elvis Presley records “In My Father’s House,” “Joshua Fit the Battle,” “Swing Down, Sweet Chariot,” “I’m Gonna Walk Dem Golden Stairs,” “If We Never Meet Again,” “Known Only to Him,” “Crying In The Chapel,” and “Working On The Building.”
  • October 31, 1960 – The Everly Brothers record “Ebony Eyes.”
  • October 31, 1961 – U2 drummer Larry Mullen is born in Artane, Dublin, Ireland.
  • October 31, 1963 – Johnny Marr (guitarist, songwriter for The Smiths) is born in Ardwick, Manchester, England.
  • October 31, 1964 – “Baby Love” by The Supremes goes to #1 in America, giving them their second chart-topper (following “Where Did Our Love Go”) and making them the first Motown act with two #1 hits.
  • October 31, 1964 – Landing in Boston, Ray Charles is arrested when heroin and marijuana are found when he is searched at customs. He enters rehab to avoid jail.
  • October 31, 1964 – Unseating The Beatles’ 14-week run at the top of the US albums chart with A Hard Day’s Night, Barbra Streisand hits #1 with People, which stays at the top for five weeks.
  • October 31, 1965 – Lead singer Wayne Fontana leaves his group The Mindbenders.
  • October 31, 1966 – Adam Horovitz (aka Ad-Rock of Beastie Boys) is born in Manhattan, New York. He shouts out his own birthday in the song “The New Style.”
  • October 31, 1967 – Adam Schlesinger (bassist for Fountains of Wayne) is born in New York City.
  • October 31, 1967 – The Stooges make their live debut at a Detroit, Michigan, Halloween party.
  • October 31, 1967 – Vanilla Ice is born Robert Matthew Van Winkle in Dallas, Texas.
  • October 31, 1970 – James Taylor’s LP Fire and Rain is certified gold.
  • October 31, 1970 – Linn Berggren (of Ace of Base) is born in Gothenburg, Sweden.
  • October 31, 1970 – Michelle Phillips, of The Mamas & The Papas, marries actor Dennis Hopper; the marriage is annulled seven days later.
  • October 31, 1975 – Southern rockers The Marshall Tucker Band headline a fundraising concert for presidential nominee Jimmy Carter.
  • October 31, 1976 – Elvis Presley makes his last recording, singing Jim Reeves’ “He’ll Have To Go” over a pre-recorded backing track in the Jungle Room of his Graceland home.
  • October 31, 1986 – Roger Waters sues David Gilmour and Nick Mason to keep them from touring and recording as Pink Floyd. They do so anyway, and later come to an agreement with Waters that allows them to use the name.
  • October 31, 1988 – Bon Jovi launch their New Jersey Syndicate tour with a show in Dublin. The tour lasts 16 months and over 200 concerts. On the North American legs, they’re joined by a New-er Jersey band: Skid Row.
  • October 31, 1988 – Soundgarden issue their full-length debut album, Ultramega OK, on SST Records.
  • October 31, 1991 – After meeting up at their ex-manager’s funeral, Spinal Tap announce a reunion. “It was destiny and also because none of us were really making a great amount of money,” bass player Derek Smalls says.
  • October 31, 1991 – Joseph Papp, producer of the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical A Chorus Line, dies of cancer at age 70.
  • October 31, 1992 – “End Of The Road” by Boyz II Men is the #1 song on the Hot 100 for the 12th consecutive week, breaking the record held by Elvis Presley’s two-sided “Don’t be Cruel/Hound Dog,” which was #1 for 11 weeks in 1956. The group is displaced three months later by Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You”; in 1995, Boyz II Men ties Houston’s 14-week record with “I’ll Make Love To You.”
  • October 31, 1992 – Joan Jett stars in an episode of the TV series Highlander, playing one of the immortals. Her version of “Cherry Bomb” is featured.
  • October 31, 1993 – Atlantic Records signs Hootie & the Blowfish, which have already released two independent EPs and grown a following in South Carolina. It’s a good signing: the band’s debut, Cracked Rear View, becomes the best-selling album in the label’s history.
  • October 31, 1993 – Tupac Shakur shoots two white off-duty police officers in Atlanta, who are treated and released from the hospital. Accounts of the incident are sketchy, but it appears that at least one of the cops instigated the incident and was possibly inebriated. Charges against Tupac are later dropped.
  • October 31, 1995 – James Brown is charged with assault at his home in Aiken, South Carolina, after allegedly striking his wife Adrienne with a mirror.
  • October 31, 1997 – Jane’s Addiction reunites for a Halloween show at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York.
  • October 31, 1997 – The Cure embrace the burgeoning internet by cybercasting their Halloween concert at Irving Plaza in New York City. The show, which is promoting their greatest hits set Galore, is also broadcast by more traditional means on over 60 radio stations.
  • October 31, 1998 – D’Angelo releases “Devil’s Pie,” the lead single from his second album, Voodoo.
  • October 31, 1998 – Kiss launch their Psycho Circus tour with a Halloween show in Los Angeles. The aptly named Smashing Pumpkins are the opening act.
  • October 31, 1999 – Bryan White sings the US national anthem at the Adelphia Coliseum in Nashville prior to the match-up between the Tennessee Titans and the St. Louis Rams. Following the game, White gives his second annual Howl-O-Ween concert at the north end of the coliseum.
  • October 31, 1999 – Bryan White sings the US national anthem at the Adelphia Coliseum in Nashville prior to the match-up between the Tennessee Titans and the St. Louis Rams. Following the game, White gives his second annual Howl-O-Ween concert at the north end of the coliseum.
  • October 31, 2000 – Lifehouse release their debut album, No Name Face. The first single, “Hanging By a Moment,” takes off, becoming the most-played song on American radio in 2001.
  • October 31, 2000 – Napster announces a deal with entertainment giant BMG to make its illegal file-sharing software into a paid subscription service.
  • October 31, 2000 – OutKast release their fourth album, Stankonia, featuring the #1 hit “Ms. Jackson.”
  • October 31, 2000 – Travis is named the best act in the world at the Q Awards 2000, presented in London. Badly Drawn Boy wins for best new act; Coldplay’s Parachutes is named best album. The awards are voted on by readers of Q Magazine and via a telephone system operated by the event’s sponsor.
  • October 31, 2001 – Having fully recovered from the flu that forced her to restructure the North American tour in support of her third Jive album, Britney, Britney Spears’ tour kicks off in Washington, D.C.
  • October 31, 2002 – Claude “Juan” Johnson (of the R&B duo Don and Juan) dies at age 67.
  • October 31, 2005 – En route to the next stop on their Never Sleep Again tour, the van carrying Bayside skids on a patch of ice and flips over on a highway in Cheyenne, Wyoming, killing 31-year-old drummer John “Beatz” Holohan. Most of the other band members sustain minor injuries, except for bassist Nick Ghanbarian who breaks his back when he’s thrown from the vehicle.
  • October 31, 2005 – Ronald Isley of The Isley Brothers is convicted of tax evasion. The IRS claims that he demanded cash payment for performances from 1997-2002 and hid assets under the name of his ex-wife. He is eventually ordered to pay $3.1 million in back taxes and serve 3 years in jail. He is released in April, 2010.
  • October 31, 2005 – The white suit John Lennon wore on the cover of The Beatles’ Abbey Road sells at a Las Vegas Amnesty International charity auction for $118,000.
  • October 31, 2007 – Elvis Presley tops the annual Forbes magazine list of most profitable dead celebrities, his estate having taken in $49 million over the past year. John Lennon makes the #2 spot; George Harrison, James Brown, and Bob Marley also make the list.
  • October 31, 2008 – In Notttingham, England, 1,227 people in zombie garb perform the dance from Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” video, setting a new Guinness World Record for largest gathering of zombies. The stunt pushes the song back into the UK chart, where it lands at #35.
  • October 31, 2010 – Demi Lovato deletes her Twitter account and enters rehab after suffering a nervous breakdown on the Jonas Brothers tour. Stress from the tour and other commitments, including promoting her movie Camp Rock 2, led to an eating disorder and a dependency on drugs and alcohol – she had also broken up with her tourmate Joe Jonas, who had taken up a new girlfriend, Ashley Greene. Lovato leaves the facility in January 2011.
  • October 31, 2011 – 17-year-old Justin Bieber is hit with a paternity suit from 20-year-old Mariah Yeater, who claims the singer knocked her up in a Staples Center bathroom. The suit is later dropped, but Bieber takes a paternity test anyway to prove he is not the father.
  • October 31, 2011 – The album Lulu, a baffling collaboration between Metallica and Lou Reed, is released. The first single, “The View,” reaches peak lunacy when James Hetfield screams, “I am the table!”
  • October 31, 2013 – Blues guitarist Bobby Parker dies of a heart attack at age 76.
  • October 31, 2013 – Fifth Harmony post a video of the group performing “Wannabe” dressed as the Spice Girls. The video was recorded two days earlier at a show in Patchogue, New York.
  • October 31, 2017 – At his show in London, the crowd pelts Harry Styles with kiwi fruit when he performs his song “Kiwi.” To protect the singer when he plays Manchester three days later, the grocery store Asda refuses to sell the fruit to anyone under age 25.
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October 31: Music: Albums released.

  • Oct 31, 1964 – Bob Dylan, “Carnegie Hall” –> [Bootleg]
  • Oct 31, 1966 – Elvis Presley, “Spinout” –> RCA
  • Oct 31, 1967 – Phil Ochs, “Pleasures Of The Harbor” –> A&M
  • Oct 31, 1972 – Jethro Tull, “Living In The Past” –> Chrysalis
  • Oct 31, 1977 – Donna Summer, “Once Upon A Time…” –> Casablanca
  • Oct 31, 1978 – Smokey Robinson, “Smokin'” –> Motown
  • Oct 31, 1980 – Klaus Schulze, “Dig It” –> Brain
  • Oct 31, 1983 – Cocteau Twins, “Head Over Heals” –> 4AD
  • Oct 31, 1983 – Paul McCartney, “Pipes Of Peace” –> Capitol
  • Oct 31, 1986 – Possessed, “Beyond The Gates” –> Relativity
  • Oct 31, 1986 – Roxette, “Pearls Of Passion” –> EMI
  • Oct 31, 1988 – Dinosaur Jr., “Bug” –> SST
  • Oct 31, 1988 – Soundgarden, “Ultramega OK” –> SST
  • Oct 31, 1988 – Paul McCartney, “Choba b CCCP [Russia]” –> Melodiya
  • Oct 31, 1988 – Dinosaur Jr., “Bug” –> SST
  • Oct 31, 1989 – Carpenters, “Loveliness” –> A&M
  • Oct 31, 1989 – Grateful Dead, “Built To Last” –> Arista
  • Oct 31, 1990 – Naked Raygun, “Raygun…Naked Raygun” –> Caroline
  • Oct 31, 1991 – Ice Cube, “Death Certificate” –> Priority
  • Oct 31, 1991 – Ice Cube, “Death Certificate” –> Priority
  • Oct 31, 1994 – ABBA, “Thank You For The Music” –> PolyGram
  • Oct 31, 1994 – Frank Zappa, “Civilization Phaze III” –> Barking Pumpkin
  • Oct 31, 1995 – Paul Siebel, “Paul Siebel” –> Philo
  • Oct 31, 1995 – Julian Cope, “20 Mothers” –> Sony
  • Oct 31, 1995 – Foreigner, “Mr. Moonlight” –> Arista
  • Oct 31, 1995 – Curtis Mayfield, “Live At The Bitter End” –> Curtom
  • Oct 31, 1996 – Slipknot, “Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat.” –> Ismist
  • Oct 31, 2000 – U2, “All That You Can’t Leave Behind” –> Interscope
  • Oct 31, 2000 – Bob Dylan, “The Essential Bob Dylan” –> Columbia
  • Oct 31, 2000 – Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, “Anthology: Through the Years” –> MCA
  • Oct 31, 2000 – U2, “All That You Can’t Leave Behind” –> Interscope
  • Oct 31, 2006 – The Fags, “Light ‘Em Up” –> Idol
  • Oct 31, 2006 – Phil Lesh & Friends, “Live At The Warfield” –> Image Entertainment
  • Oct 31, 2006 – Phish, “Colorado ’88” –> JEMP
  • Oct 31, 2006 – Triumph, “Extended Versions: Triumph” –> TML
  • Oct 31, 2006 – The Who, “Endless Wire” –> Universal
  • Oct 31, 2008 – Richard Marx, “Emotional Remains” –> Zanzibar
  • Oct 31, 2008 – Richard Marx, “Sundown” –> Zanzibar

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