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10/31/2024

October 31, 2024, is Halloween

Today is Halloween! Halloween, or All Hallow’s Eve, can be traced back to an ancient Celtic pagan festival called “Samhain,” which was celebrated over 2,000 years ago.

The Celtic calendar began on November 1, and the Celts believed that as the old year faded and the new year emerged, the boundaries between the living and the dead became unstable. On the night of October 31, the spirits of the deceased could walk the earth and provoke sickness or damage crops. To combat these evil spirits and ward off wandering ghosts, the Celts built huge bonfires, left bowls of food outside their homes, and wore costumes and masks.

Although there are still plenty of ghosts and ghouls, Halloween has evolved into a secular, family-friendly event. One quarter of all the candy sold in the United States is purchased for Halloween, and typically over 40 million children trick-or-treat in their neighborhood each year.

10/31/2024

Music History for October 31

1969 - Led Zeppelin's album Led Zeppelin II was released in the United Kingdom.

1970 - Michelle Phillips, formerly of the Mamas and Papas, and actor Dennis Hopper were married. The two divorced 8 days later.

1985 - Producer Joseph Papp died of cancer at the age of 70. He was the co-creator of A Chorus Line.

1988 - Debbie Gibson held a séance at her Halloween party to contact the spirits of Liberace and Sid Vicious.

1992 - Prince and the New Power Generation released the album Prince symbol.

1993 - Tupac Shakur was arrested for allegedly shooting two off-duty Atlanta policemen.

1997 - Over 200 counterfeit tickets were confiscated at a Jane's Addiction reunion concert in New York.

1998 - KISS kicked off its Psycho-Circus tour with a Halloween extravaganza in Los Angeles, CA. The Smashing Pumpkins were the opening act.

1999 - Bryan White sang the National Anthem at the Adelphia Coliseum in Nashville prior to the game between the Tennessee Titans and the St. Louis Rams. Following the game, White gave his second annual Howl-O-Ween concert at the north end of the coliseum.

2005 - The iTunes Music Store reached 1 million videos sold.

10/30/2024

Music History for October 30

1970 - Jim Morrison was sentenced to 6 months in jail and fined $500 for exposing himself in Miami, FL. He was also sentenced to 60 days of hard labor for profanity. He was released on $50,000 bond until the appeal could be heard.

1974 - Kathy Silva files for a divorce from Sylvester Stewart and was awarded custody of their 14-month-old son. Stewart disappeared with his son and was believed to be in hiding.

1982 - Paul Weller announced the breakup of The Jam.

1984 - Linda Ronstadt made her operatic debut in "La Boheme" in New York City, NY.

1984 - Barry Manilow opened at Radio City Music Hall in New York. The shows sold out for $1.9 million. Manilow beat the previous record by $100,000 that was held by Diana Ross.

1988 - Kurt Cobain smashed his very first guitar.

1988 - The Metallica single "Eye of the Beholder" was released.

1997 - Sally Nyolo (formerly of Zap Mama) began her first U.S. tour.

1997 - The U.S. Senate passed the "La Cienega" bill. The bill closed a loophole in the 1909 copyright act that put most pre-1978 music copyrights in jeopardy.

2001 - Michael Jackson's album entitled "Invincible" was released.
Today in Michael Jackson History

2002 - U.S. President George W. Bush signed an act that renamed the Oakwood Postal Station in Los Angeles the Nat King Cole Post Office.

2015 - "If I Can Dream: Elvis Presley with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra" was released.

10/29/2024

October 29, 2024, is National Oatmeal Day

It’s National Oatmeal Day! Oatmeal is an extremely healthy, versatile food that can be eaten any time of day. It is both filling and low in calories, which makes it the perfect breakfast or snack. Oatmeal is also delicious baked in cookies.

Did you know that the Quaker Man is one of the oldest advertising mascots in America? The Quaker Oats company registered him as the first trademark for a breakfast cereal in 1877. The character purposely embodies the values of the Quaker faith—honesty, integrity, and purity. Enjoy National Oatmeal Day and celebrate its history and tastiness!

10/29/2024

Music History for October 29

1936 - Hank Snow made his first recordings, "Lonesome Blue Yodel" and "Prisoned Cowboy."

1956 - Maria Callas made her Metropolitan Opera debut in "Norma."

1957 - Bobby Helms recorded "Jingle Bell Rock."

1970 - Neil Diamond received a gold record for "Cracklin' Rosie."

1971 - Duane Allman was killed in a motorcycle accident in Macon, GA.

1975 - Joan Baez became a member of Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder R***e.

1990 - The Byrds, LaVern Baker, John Lee Ho**er, The Impressions, Wilson Pickett, Jimmy Reed and Ike & Tina Turner were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

1991 - Three members of Pink Floyd were injured in a auto race in Mexico.

1996 - In Pasadena, California, a judge drops drug possession charges against Scott Weiland, the singer for the Stone Temple Pilots. The judge concluded that Weiland had made significant progress in a Pasadena rehab.

1998 - Steven Adler surrendered to authorities to begin serving a sentence of 150 days for two counts of battery and violation of probation.

1998 - East Bay Ray, Klaus Flouride and D.H. Peligro, all former members of the Dead Kennedys, filed suit against Jello Biafra. The claim was that the former lead singer had diverted money owed to the other band members for his own use.

2012 - The single "Radioactive" was released for a second time by Imagine Dragons. It was originally released to radio on April 2, 2012.

10/28/2024

Mark your calendars for October 28, 2024, the official date set to indulge in the sweet celebration that is National Chocolate Day. It serves as a prime opportunity for chocolate enthusiasts and confectioners alike to revel in the variety and richness of chocolate.

This day lands annually on this autumn date, providing a delightful prelude to the holiday season, where chocolate plays a starring role in festivities and gift-giving. Whether you prefer dark, milk, or white chocolate, this is the moment to embrace your favorite treats guilt-free.

Keep an eye out for local events and promotions as businesses often commemorate this day with special deals and new product launches, encouraging everyone to partake in the joy of chocolate.

History of National Chocolate Day
Derived from a blend of Aztec and Mayan traditions, chocolate’s history is rich with cultural significance, innovatively combining ancient practices with European influences post-Columbus’s return. It began as a bitter beverage among pre-Olmec cultures around 1900 BC, eventually transitioning into the sweet, universally revered treat we know today.

Marking National Chocolate Day reflects this enduring legacy, which has evolved through centuries. While the specific origins of this day are not well documented, its observance aligns with the broader cultural embrace of chocolate, which surged in popularity in the United States during the 20th century, powered by the industrial revolution and the advent of iconic chocolate companies.

National Chocolate Day, celebrated annually on October 28th, serves to commemorate not only the timeless enjoyment of chocolate but also its journey through history—from an exclusive luxury to a daily delight accessible to everyone. The day functions as a tribute to the dedication of chocolatiers and the continued innovation within the world of confectionery.

10/28/2024

Music History for October 28

1893 - Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky conducted his first public performance of his Symphony Number Six in B minor Pathetique.

1956 - Elvis Presley's song "Love Me Tender" became the No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit. He became the first artist to follow himself into the No. 1 position. The song "Don't Be Cruel/Hound Dog" had been the No. 1 song for 11 weeks.

1956 - Elvis Presley appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show for the second time.

1965 - The studio recording of "My World Is Empty Without You" was made by the Supremes.

1963 - The Beach Boys' "Be True to Your School" was released in the U.S.

1972 - The United States Council for World Affairs announced that it was adopting The Who song, "Join Together," as its official theme.

1978 - The movie KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park aired on NBC-TV as the NBC Movie of the Week.

1991 - The Metallica single "The Unforgiven" was released.

1997 - KISS released the album Carnival of Souls: The Final Sessions.

1999 - Terrell Davis (Denver Broncos) made his debut as a hip-hop artist when he performed with rapper Legit.

2007 - The game Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock was released in North America.

2010 - Michael Jackson's THIS IS IT opened in theaters.
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2014 - Box sets of Led Zeppelin's IV and Houses of The Holy were released.

10/25/2024

Music History for October 25

1838 - Composer Georges Alexandre-Cesar-Leopold Bizet was born. He is best remembered for his opera "Carmen."

1960 - Mick Jagger and Keith Richards accidentally met on a train. They had known each other previously from school.

1964 - The Rolling Stones made their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show.

1967 - The Diana Ross & The Supremes single "In and Out of Love" was released.

1968 - In London, Led Zeppelin was billed as Led Zeppelin for the first time. Previously they had used the name New Yardbirds.

1969 - Ummagumma was released by Pink Floyd in the U.K.

1988 - Chico and Bobby DeBarge were convicted of trafficking co***ne in Michigan.

1991 - Concert promoter Bill Graham was killed in a helicopter crash near Vallejo, CA.

1994 - The Madonna album Bedtime Stories was released.

1995 - The musical Victor/Victoria opened on Broadway at the Marquis Theatre.

1995 - Cliff Richard received a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II.

2002 - In Bloomfield, MI, an $800,000 house owned by Aretha Franklin burned down. Franklin had not lived in the house in two years.

2005 - The iTunes Music Store opened in Australia.

2006 - On the Oprah Winfrey show, an interview with Madonna aired. Madonna discussed her adoption of an 18-month-old boy from Malawi in the 30-minute interview.

10/23/2024

Music History for October 23

1941 - "Clarinet a la King" was recorded by Benny Goodman and his orchestra.

1962 - Steveland Morris Judkins, later known as Little Stevie Wonder, at the age of 12 recorded his first single. The song was "Thank you for Loving Me All the Way."

1972 - The musical "Pippin" premiered at the Imperial Theater on Broadway.

1978 - S*x Pistols bassist Sid Vicious attempted to commit su***de while awaiting trial for killing his girlfriend Nancy Spungen.

1978 - CBS Records raised the price of vinyl records by one dollar to $8.98.

1995 - In Houston, TX, a jury convicted Yolanda Saldivar of the murder of Selena.

1995 - Tone-Loc was ordered to take an anger management class after fighting with a pizza delivery person.

1997 - The musical "Triumph of Love" opened at the Royale Theatre.

1998 - Eddie Nichols (Royal Crown R***e) was arrested in Toledo, OH, for allegedly hitting a sheriff in a diner. Nichols was charged with a felony and held without bail over the weekend.

2001 - Apple Computers publicly announced their portable music digital player called the iPod.

2005 - In Chicago, IL, Lou Rawls gave his last performance when he performed the national anthem of the United States to start Game Two of the 2005 World Series.

10/22/2024

Music History for October 22

1832 - Founder of the New York Philharmonic, Leopold Damrosch, was born in Russia.

1883 - The Metropolitan Opera House held its grand opening in New York.

1917 - Leopold Stokowski led the Philadelphia Orchestra in its first recording session.

1933 - Bing Crosby recorded "Temptation" with Lennie Hayton's orchestra. He recorded it again in 1945 with John Scott Trotter's Orchestra.

1961 - Chubby Checker appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show and performed "The Twist."

1964 - The Who failed an audition with EMI. They were known as High Numbers at the time.

1965 - "Get Off My Cloud" was released in the U.K. by the Rolling Stones in the U.K.

1969 - Led Zeppelin's album Led Zeppelin II was released in the United States.

1974 - Hotter Than Hell was released by KISS. It was the second album to be released by the band.

1978 - Earth, Wind & Fire began a sold-out tour in the U.S. that consisted of 75 dates.

1982 - Mayor Sara Robertson in Worcester, MA, declared Van Halen Day in response to local fans collecting 25,000 signatures requesting the band add a second show to their tour.

1983 - New York's Metropolitan Opera celebrated its 100th anniversary.

1997 - MTV Italy launched its first domestically planned and produced Italian-language show, Sonic.

1997 - Italy's antitrust agency, the Guarantor for Competition fined the Italian divisions of BMG, EMI, PolyGram, Sony Music and Warner Music a total of 7.7 billion lire ($4.5 million), with the claim that they had formed a cartel to drown out competition.

10/21/2024

Music History for October 21

1907 - The opera The Merry Widow opened in New York City, NY.

1908 - A Saturday Evening Post advertisement offered a chance to buy a two-sided record from Columbia.

1938 - Jan Savitt's orchestra recorded "Quaker City Jazz."

1958 - Buddy Holly recorded his last studio session. Holly and the Crickets recorded "True Love Ways," "Moondreams," "It Doesn't Matter Anymore," and "Raining in my Heart."

1962 - Cliff Richard appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show.

1964 - The movie musical My Fair Lady made its world premier in New York.

1965 - The Kingsmen and the Dave Clark Five appeared on Shindig!

1966 - The Who appeared on Britain's Ready Steady Go!

1971 - Mick and Bianca Jagger's daughter Jade was born in Paris.

1974 - Queen's single "Killer Queen" was released.

1975 - Elton John received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

1976 - Keith Moon publicly performed for the last time with The Who.

1977 - "Bat Out Of Hell" was released by Meat Loaf.

1976 - At the Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto, Canada, Keith Moon played his final tour date with The Who.

1992 - The erotic photograph book, S*x, was released by Madonna. The first run of 500,000 copies sold out.

1992 - Elton John files a $35 Million lawsuit accusing a reporter from the TV show "Hard Copy" of falsely stating that he had moved to Atlanta to be near an AIDS treatment center.

1992 - Benjamin Storm Keough was born to Lisa Marie Presley and her husband Danny Keough.

1992 - Katherine Diana was born. She was the first child of Hank Williams Jr. and his fourth wife Mary Jane.

1995 - Shannon Hoon (Blind Melon) died of a co***ne overdose at the age of 28.

1996 - Jay Bargieri, a former executive with EMI Records, announced the launch of the first Internet record label. The record label, Jay-Bird Records, was the first of its kind.

1998 - Coolio (Artis Ivey) pled not guilty to concealed weapon and ma*****na possession charges in Torrance, CA. He had been arrested the previous month.

1998 - Alice Cooper filed suit against KISS members Paul Stanley and Bruce Kulick alleging their song "Dreamin'" sounds too much like the song "Eighteen" by Cooper.

2003 - The album Streetcore was released by Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros. Joe Strummer had died of a heartattack on December 22, 2002.

10/17/2024

Music History for October 17

1940 - Will Bradley and His Orchestra recorded "Five O'clock Whistle" for Columbia Records.

1953 - Conductor Leopold Stokowski performed the first concert of contemporary Canadian music to be presented in the U.S.

1957 - "Jailhouse Rock", the Elvis Presley film, premiered in Memphis.

1960 - Billboard reported that Dion and the Belmonts were breaking up.

1962 - The Beatles first appeared on Great Britain's Grenada TV Network.

1966 - The Elvis Presley film "Spinout" premiered in Memphis, TN.

1967 - The musical "Hair" premiered at New York's Public Theatre. The show ran for 1,758 performances.

1968 - Jose Feliciano released his controversial, bluesy rendition of "The Star Spangled Banner."

1977 - "Street Survivors" was released by Lynyrd Skynyrd. Three days later vocalist Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines, Cassie Gaines (Steve's sister) and road manager Dean Kilpatrick were killed when their plane crashed in Gillsburg, MS. The other four members of the band were seriously injured but survived the crash.

1979 - Fleetwood Mac's two record set "Tusk" was released by Warner Brothers Records.

1989 - KISS released the album "Hot in the Shade."

1995 - In London, Sting's former financial adviser was sentenced to six years in prison after being convicted of stealing $9.4 million from the musician.

1995 - Rhino Home Video released 58 episodes of "The Monkees" on 21 cassettes. It was the largest video boxed set to be released.

1997 - Warren G filed a lawsuit against Garth Brooks, his company Blue Rose Inc., and Home Box Office Inc. The suit alleged that Brooks had infringed on the trademarked circled "g" logo.

2001 - Jay-Z was sentenced to three years' probation after he pled guilty to misdemeanor assault charges for stabbing a record producer during a fight in a nightclub on December 1, 1999.

2001 - The heirs of Bing Crosby filed a $16 million lawsuit accusing Universal Music Group of underpaying royalties on recordings.

10/16/2024

Music History for October 16

1951 - Little Richard held his first recording session in Atlanta, GA.

1954 - Elvis Presley made his first radio appearance on the Louisiana Hayride.

1965 - The Beatles were decorated with the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth.

1966 - Joan Baez and 123 other anti-draft demonstrators were arrested for blocking the entrance to the Armed Forces Induction Center in Oakland, CA.

1968 - The Jimi Hendrix Experience released the album Electric Ladyland. It was the third and final album by the band.

1972 - A statement was released by Creedence Clearwater Revival that announced the group's break up.

1982 - RCA Records released the album H2O by Daryl Hall and John Oates.

1989 - The single "The Arms of Orion" was released by Prince (with Sheena Easton).

1992 - Sinead O'Connor was booed off stage at Madison Square Garden during a show to honor Bob Dylan.

10/15/2024

Music History for October 15

1886 - The musical fantasy Night on Bald Mountain premiered in St. Petersburg, Russia.

1955 - Grand Ole Opry premiered on ABC-TV.

1955 - Buddy Holly, Larry Welborn, and Bob Montgomery opened a show for Elvis Presley in Lubbock, TX.

1965 - Jimi Hendrix signed a three-year recording contract with Ed Chalpin.

1968 - Stevie Wonder's single "For Once In My Life" was released.

1971 - Rick Nelson was booed when he performed new material at an oldies show at Madison Square Garden.

1973 - The U.S. Supreme Court refused to review a 1971 Federal Communications directive that broadcasters censor from the airwave's songs with drug-oriented lyrics.

1976 - Ike and Tina Turner split their musical act.

1977 - "Slip Slidin' Away," by Paul Simon, was released.

1987 - Jerry Garcia (Grateful Dead) opened a series of solo shows on Broadway.

1996 - Tommy Lee (Motley Crue) was charged with attacking a cameraman that was trying to take pictures of him and his wife Pamela Anderson Lee.

1997 - Patricia Ann Richardson filed suit against Snoop Doggy Dogg, his former manager Sharita Knight, and Death Row Records for allegedly tricking her into transporting packages of ma*****na to a venue where Snoop Doggy Dogg was performing.

1998 - MCA Records Inc. filed a breach-of-contract lawsuit against New Edition members Ralph Tresvant, Johnny Gill, Ricardo Bell, Michael Bivins, and Ronald DeVoe for alleged failure to deliver albums.

1998 - Puff Daddy played his first U.K. show.