This Date In Music History- October 22

Birthdays:

Mountain's Leslie West was born in New York in 1945.

Birthday wishes to Country singer Shelby Lynne (1968).

Eddie Brigati of The Young Rascals was born in 1946.

Beach lover Annette Funicello ("Tall Paul") turns 66.

History:

The Beach Boys' "Good Vibrations" made its debut on the US singles chart in 1966. It was a song that Brian Wilson and Mike Love wrote and Brian spent six months working on. The tracks were recorded in seventeen different sessions in four Los Angeles studios, at a cost of over sixteen thousand dollars. The recording engineer would later say that the last take sounded exactly like the first, six months earlier. The record would reach number one on December 10th 1966, and be nominated for Song Of The Year at The Grammy Awards, but lost to "Winchester Cathedral" by The New Vaudeville Band.

The late Bobby Fuller ("I Fought The Law") was born in 1943. Fuller died on July 18, 1966 mysteriously from gasoline asphyxiation, while parked in a car outside his apartment.

Chubby Checker performed a medley of "The Twist" and "Let's Twist Again" on CBS-TV's "Ed Sullivan Show" in 1961, sparking chart revivals for both tunes ("The Twist" even returned to #1).

In 1964, EMI Records in Britain rejected the Who (who are calling themselves the High Numbers at that time) after the group's audition.

Tommy Edwards, who originally recorded the smash "It's All in the Game," died in 1969.

The soundtrack to Led Zeppelin's The Song Remains the Same was released in 1976 and the concert film opened nationwide.

Producer Jimmy Miller died in Boulder, Colorado in 1994. He gave the rock back to the Rolling Stones when he produced "Jumpin' Jack Flash," and worked on their finest records, as well as albums by Traffic and Motorhead.
"Get Off My Cloud" was released in the U.K. by the Rolling Stones in 1965. Two weeks later, it will be number one.

The Supremes became the first female group to have a number one album on the US chart when the L.P. "Supremes A-Go-Go" reached the top in 1966. It knocked The Beatles' "Revolver" from the head of the list.

Elton John sold out Madison Square Garden for a record 26th time in 1988.

Phil Collins's cover version of "Groovy Kind Of Love" topped the Billboard singles chart in 1988. The song had also been a US number one hit for The Mindbenders in 1966.

Sales figures released in 1996 showed that The Beatles sold 6,000,000 albums from their back catalog and a combined total of 13,000,000 copies of "The Beatles Anthology 1" and "The Beatles Anthology 2". A poll showed that 41% of sales were to teenagers who were not even born when The Beatles split up in 1970.

Pearl Jam played their first concert when they appeared at the Off Ramp in Seattle in 1990.

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

Building on their debut earlier in the year, “Led Zeppelin II” was released in 1969.