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October 28 – Today in Music History

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1950 Patti Page’s “All My Love” hits #1 in America.

1956 Elvis Presley makes his second appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show.

october 28 1956 Elvis Presley
october 28 1956 Elvis Presley

1958 Buddy Holly appeared on Dick Clark’s American Bandstand, where he lip-synched “It’s So Easy” and “Heartbeat.” It was Holly’s last major TV appearance.

october 28 1958  Buddy Holly

1962 The Beatles played at the Empire in Liverpool, England

1963 The Beach Boys release “Be True To Your School” 

1964 The ‘Tami Show’ was held at the Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica with; Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, The Beach Boys, Chuck Berry, Marvin Gaye, The Supremes and The Rolling Stones

1965 The Supremes record “My World Is Empty Without You.”

1967 Diana Ross and the Supremes’ Greatest Hits album hits #1 in America.

1974 David Bowie played at the Radio City Music Hall in New York City.

1977 Neil Young releases Decade, a compilation triple album that goes Platinum in 1986.

1978 Queen played at the Dallas Convention Center, Dallas, Texas.

1978 Kiss star in the TV movie Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park.

1978 “Hot Child In The City” by Nick Gilder goes to #1 in America.

1991 Blues singer Billy Wright dies of a pulmonary embolism at age 59.

1995 Alanis Morissette makes her first appearance on Saturday Night Live, singing “Hand In My Pocket” and “All I Really Want.”

2001 The Beastie Boys play their first show in more than two-and-a-half years at New York’s Hammerstein Ballroom

2003 Tonight’s The Night, a musical play written around the hits of Rod Stewart, opens in London’s West End.

2003 Paul McCartney and his second wife, model/activist Heather Mills, welcome daughter Beatrice Milly McCartney.

2004 Gil Melle, jazz musician and film composer, dies of a heart attack in Malibu, California, at age 72.

2013 Jonas Brothers announce their split. They get back together in 2019.

2016 Elvis Presley broke the record for the most No. 1 albums by a solo artist.

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