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2016 - Bobby Vee

American singer Bobby Vee died age 73. Vee had 38 chart hits, ten of which reached the Top 20. Vee's recording of 'Take Good Care of My Baby' in the summer of 1961 went to No.1 in the US and No.3 in the UK. Vee's career began in the midst of tragedy. On February 3, 1959, "The Day the Music Died," when Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper, were killed in an airplane. Vee then 15 years old, and a hastily assembled band of Fargo schoolboys calling themselves the Shadows volunteered for and were given the unenviable job of filling in for Holly and his band at their next gig. Their performance was a success, setting in motion a chain of events that led to Vee's career as a popular singer.

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1933 - Floyd CramerAmerican pianist Floyd Cramer. His signature playing style was a cornerstone of the pop-oriented "Nashville sound" of the 1950s and 1960s. He scored the 1961 UK No.1 single 'On The Rebound'. He became one of a cadre of elite players dubbed the Nashville A-Team and

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2016 - John Lennon

A letter John Lennon wrote to the Queen explaining why he was returning his MBE was found tucked in a record sleeve from a £10 car boot haul. The anonymous owner took the document to a valuation day at The Beatles Story in Liverpool and discovered it was worth about £60,000. Lennon had returned the MBE in protest at Britain's involvement in a civil war.

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October 24, 1942 — Louis Jordan ushers in a new era in music when he enters the charts with his innovative and irreverent debut disc "I'm Gonna Leave You On The Outskirts of Town," reaching #3 R&B. As the father of rhythm and blues, he would go on to have 56 more hits in only nine years, influencing many rock and roll stars, including Chuck Berry, whose "Johnny B Goode" opening guitar riff is borrowed from the 1946 Jordan recording "Ain't That Just Like A Woman."
1979 — The Guinness Book of World Records names Paul McCartney the best-selling songwriter in the history of recorded music, having composed 43 platinum songs and sold over 100 million records.

October 25, 1961 — Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, who haven't seen each other since primary school, run into each other at the Dartford train station in England. Keith is on his way to Sidcup Art College; Mick is headed to the London School of Economics. Noticing the Muddy Waters and Chuck Berry albums Mick is carrying, Keith strikes up a conversation.
1995 — Cliff Richard (nee Harry Webb), is invested as Sir Cliff Richard, becoming the first pop star to receive a knighthood. In the ceremony, Queen Elizabeth thanks him for his contributions to charity and music.

October 26, 1958 — Germany's first rock concert is held in Berlin and ends in a riot as teens from the eastern and western sectors of the city skirmish during a performance by Bill Haley and His Comets. By the time police clear the concert, five policemen and six audience members are seriously injured. East Germany's official Communist newspaper denounces Haley in a front-page editorial for "turning the youth of the land of Bach and Beethoven into raging beasts."

October 28, 1958 — Buddy Holly (center) makes his last major television appearance, lip-syncing on ABC's American Bandstand to "It's So Easy" and "Heartbeat" just months before the plane crash that ends his life. It is also his final performance with Crickets Jerry Allison (top) and Joe Mauldin (bottom) before he splits with their producer, Norman Petty, and moves to New York while they stay in Texas. Holly assembles a new group for his ill-fated tour, but Allison and Mauldin have hopes to get back with Buddy after the tour ends.

October 30-31, 1976 — Elvis Presley's final recording session is held overnight in the Jungle Room at his Graceland mansion amidst carved fur-covered furniture, a lime green shag carpet on the floor and ceiling, and a waterfall wall bathed in red light. Having recorded the evening before his final chart hit to appear while still alive, "Way Down" b/w "Pledging My Love," Presley tapes only one song this night — a cover of the Jim Reeves hit "He'll Have To Go," which winds up on the album Moody Blue, released only four weeks before his August 16, 1977 death.

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Sources:
Eight Days a Week (Ron Smith)
On This Day in Black Music History (Jay Warner)
Chronology of American Popular Music, 1900-2000 (Frank Hoffman)
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Twin Pipe Papa Transfusion

Ah, Transfusion—now that’s a wild ride through the novelty song landscape of the 1950s. Nervous Norvus, aka Jimmy Drake, penned this darkly comic track in 1956 as a satirical jab at reckless driving and the growing car culture of postwar America.

🚗 The Premise The song follows a hapless driver who repeatedly crashes his car due to his own carelessness. Each verse ends with a crash sound effect and a plea for more blood—“Slip the blood to me, Bud!”—as he receives yet another transfusion. It’s a grim joke wrapped in jittery delivery and surreal slang, with lines like “Pour the crimson in me, Jimson” and “Pass the claret to me, Barrett”.

📻 Controversy & Impact Despite—or maybe because of—its morbid humor, Transfusion was banned by many radio stations for trivializing a serious issue. But it still became a hit, reaching No. 8 on the Billboard chart. The song’s notoriety helped launch the career of Barry Hansen, who kept playing it on his show and later became known as Dr. Demento, the legendary curator of novelty and comedy music.

🧠 Behind the ScenesDrake wasn’t a typical pop star—he was a truck driver and demo tape producer who operated on the fringes of the music industry. Transfusion was his moment of mad genius, a parody of the “teen tragedy” genre that would later give us songs like Dead Man’s Curve and Leader of the Pack