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10/08/2026

Music notes for Oct. 8:

2012 - Record label bosses at EMI recalled a vinyl, anniversary edition of The Beatles' hit single 'Love Me Do' after discovering they had accidentally pressed a version that included session musician Andy White playing drums instead of Ringo Starr. Copies of the disc featuring the wrong version were reportedly selling on eBay.

1992 - The US Postal Service issued a set of commemorative stamps to celebrate pop music legends. The stamps included Elvis Presley, Bill Haley, Buddy Holly, Otis Redding Ritchie Valens, Clyde McPhatter and Dinah Washington.

1989 - After Rolling Stones' Ron Wood suggests that The Who were re-forming for the money alone, Who guitarist Pete Townshend publicly answers: "Mick needs a lot more than I do. His last album was a flop," referring to The Rolling Stones' ill-received Dirty Work.

1983 - “Total Eclipse Of The Heart" by Bonnie Tyler stays at #1 in with "Making Love Out Of Nothing At All" by Air Supply. Both songs were written and produced by Jim Steinman, making him the first solo writer and producer to hold the top two spots.

1965 - The Florescents supported by The Castiles, which featured a young singer called Bruce Springsteen appeared at the I.B. Club in Howell, New Jersey. This was The Castiles first publicly advertised nightclub appearance. Admission was $1.00.

10/07/2026

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10/07/2026

Music notes for Oct. 7:

Happy birthday Indiana native John Mellancamp. His carrer includes 20 Top 40 hits, 10 Top hits, and one No. 1, “Jack & Diane” in 1982. He has been nominated for 13 Grammy Awards and was inducted into the Rock Hall of Fame in 2008. Along with Willie Nelson and Neil Young, he co-founded Farm Aid in 1985.

2014 - The TV series The Wonder Years, which went off the air in 1993, is finally released on DVD. What took so long? The distributor spent years clearing most of the 285 songs that were used on the show, including the theme, Joe Cocker's version of "With A Little Help From My Friends."

2009 - Barbra Streisand surprised many music industry watchers when she topped the Billboard Hot 200 for the ninth time with her latest release, 'Love Is the Answer'. The CD extended Streisand's lead as the female act with the most chart toppers in the history of the Billboard Hot 200.

1976 -John Lennon was awarded his ‘Green Card’ - permanent residency status, at a hearing in New York which overturned previous efforts by the US Government to deport him. The three judge panel of the US Court of Appeals ruled that his 1968 arrest in Britain for possession of ma*****na was "contrary to US ideas of due process and was invalid”.

1967 - The Beatles rejected an offer of $1 million (that’s $10 million today) from promoter Sid Bernstein to make a second appearance at New York's Shea Stadium. Bernstein had originally brought the group to Shea in August 1965. Sid Bernstein had actually successfully contracted the Beatles to play at Shea Stadium in both 1965 and 1966.

1963 - The Rolling Stones recorded the Lennon and McCartney penned song ‘I Wanna Be Your Man’ at De Lane Lea Studios in London. The song which was primarily written by Paul McCartney, was finished by Lennon and McCartney in the corner of a room while Mick Jagger and Keith Richards were talking.

10/06/2026

Music notes for Oct. 6:

2020 - singer-songwriter Johnny Nash passed away. He is best known for his 1968 hit “Hole Me Tight”, 1972 hit 'I Can See Clearly Now' and 1973 hit “Stirn it Up”. Primarily a reggae and pop singer, he was one of the first non-Jamaican artists to record reggae music in Kingston.

2020 - Eddie Van Halen, the revered guitarist and co-founder of Van Halen passed way. Halen, whose full name was Edward Lodewijk Van Halen, and his brother Alex Van Halen began performing together as teens, but formed the core of what would later become Van Halen after meeting David Lee Roth in the early seventies. Van Halen have sold more than 80 million worldwide, making them one of the best-selling groups of all time.

2002 - Mick Jagger of donates $130,000 to the school he once attended in Dartford, England, for musical instruments and a band director. The resultant musical center is named after him.

1979 - Led Zeppelin's eighth studio album In Through the Out Door was at No.1 on the US album chart. Six versions of the cover were released, each depicting the same bar scene photographed from one of six different angles. The album was recorded in three weeks in November and December 1978 at ABBA's Polar Studios in Stockholm.

1973 - Cher started a two-week run at No.1 on the singles chart with 'Half-Breed', her second No.1 after “Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves”.

1969 - George Harrison's song ’Something’ was released as the "A" side of a Beatles' 45, a first for Harrison. Along with Lennon and McCartney's 'Come Together', the single went on reach No.1 the following month. Both tracks were lifted from the Abbey Road album. Owing to the difficulty he faced in getting more than two of his compositions onto each Beatles album, Harrison first offered the song to Joe Cocker. 'Something’. By the late 1970s, it had been covered by over 150 artists, making it the second-most covered Beatles composition after 'Yesterday'.

10/05/2026

Music notes for Oct. 5:

Happy birthday Steve Miller who formed the Steve Miller Band in 1966. In 1973, The Joker marked the start of the second phase of Miller's career when the song reached No.1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The band's two most successful studio albums were in 1976 and 1977, Fly Like an Eagle and Book of Dreams. Among many hits were Fly Like an Eagle, Rock’n Me, Take the Money and Run, Jet Airliner and Abracadara.

2000 - Beatles fans across the world rushed out to buy copies of the Fab Four's autobiography. Publishers said the 350,000-word book had already attracted more than 1.5m orders worldwide.

1979 - ABBA visits the White House while on tour for the first and only time in America. They meet President Carter's daughter Amy, who is a big fan.

1974 - Olivia Newton-John's "I Honestly Love You" hits #1 for the first of two weeks, making it her first of five number 1’s.

1973 - Elton John released his seventh studio album Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. Pictures, Bernie Taupin wrote the lyrics to the album in two and a half weeks, with John composing most of the music in three days!

1970 - The album Led Zeppelin III was released. It went on to sell over 6 million copies and featured “The Immigrant Song” and “Ramble On”.

10/04/2026

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10/04/2026

Music notes for Oct. 4:

2022 - Country legend Loretta Lynn passed away. She was the first woman to be named Country Music Artist Entertainer Of The Year. Since her first No.1 'Fist City', in 1967 she has scored another 16 chart toppers. Lynn wrote more than 160 songs and released 60 albums and won three Grammy Awards. Her best-selling 1976 autobiography was made into an Academy Award-winning film, Coal Miner's Daughter, starring Sissy Spacek.

2014 - Paul Revere, organist and leader of Paul Revere And The Raiders passed away. Between 1961 and 1971, the band placed 15 songs on Billboard's Top 40, including the Top 10 hits 'Kicks', 'Hungry', 'Good Thing' and 'Him Or Me - What's It Gonna Be.

1980 - Queen started a three-week run at No.1 on the singles chart with 'Another One Bites The Dust.' Written by bassist John Deacon, the song spent 15 weeks in the Billboard top 10 (the longest-running top ten song of 1980) and is credited as Queen's best-selling single, with sales of over 7 million copies.

1969 - Creedence Clearwater Revival started a four-week run at No.1 with their third studio album, Green River, the group's first chart topper. CCR's album includes two of their biggest hits, 'Bad Moon Rising' and the title track, both of which peaked on the chart at No. 2.

1980 - Fleetwood Mac members Mick Fleetwood, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks join the USC Trojan Marching Band, which performed on their hit "Tusk," during halftime of the football game between USC and Arizona State. Nicks twirls a baton, Fleetwood plays a bass drum, and Buckingham mock conducts as the band plays the song.

1963 - 17 year-old Eric Clapton makes his first appearance with The Yardbirds at the Crawdaddy Club in Richmond, England. He replaces their original guitarist Anthony "Top" Topham.

10/03/2026

Music notes for Oct. 3:

The late guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan frontman of the blues rock trio Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble born this date. He was one of the most influential guitarists in the revival of blues in the 1980s. Vaughan played guitar on six of the tracks on David Bowie's album Let's Dance, including the title track and 'China Girl'
In the months that followed his death, Vaughan sold over 5.5 million albums.

Happy birthday Chubby Checker (Ernest Evans). He is known for popularising many dance styles, including most notably The Twist. It hit #1 in both 1960 and 1962, the only time in the history of the Billboard chart to accomplish hitting #1 in two different years.

2014 - A mint-condition copy of The Beatles' Please Please Me album, signed by George Harrison, Paul McCartney, John Lennon and Ringo Starr sold for $36,655 at auction.

2000 - Benjamin Orr, bass player and co-founder of The Cars, passed away at his home in Atlanta. He sang lead vocals on several of their hits, including 'Just What I Needed', 'Let's Go', 'Moving in Stereo', and 'Drive’.

1980 - Paul Simon's semi-autobiographical movie One-Trick Pony, in which he stars, is released in the US. It gets mixed reviews and does poorly at the box office, but does include a hit song: "Late in the Evening."

1977 - The TV event Elvis In Concert, filmed just weeks before The King's death, was shown on CBS with Ann-Margret hosting. The posthumous program was filmed in Omaha, Nebraska, and Rapid City, South Dakota, in June 1977, during Presley's last concert tour. Over 20 million tune in to watch.

1961 - The Beach Boys record their first single, "Surfin'," at World Pacific studios in Los Angeles.

10/02/2026

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10/02/2026

WDGY’s Doctor Don presents the Top 5 songs this week in 1975:

1 FAME –•– David Bowie
2 I’M SORRY / CALYPSO –•– John Denver
3 RHINESTONE COWBOY –•– Glen Campbell
4 RUN JOEY RUN –•– David Geddes
5 MR. JAWS –•– Dickie Goodman
6 BAD BLOOD –•– Neil Sedaka

HIGH DEBIT OF THE WEEK AT NO. 74 - WINGS

IT WOULD PEAK AT #39