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Born On This Day In Music: October 22nd
22 Oct 1998
Roddy Ricch American rapper, singer, and songwriter. His debut studio album Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial (2019) debuted atop the Billboard 200. It spawned the No.1 single ‘The Box’.
22 Oct 1988
Joe Seaward drummer with Glass Animals. Their song ‘Heat Waves’ reached No.1 in Australia in February 2021 and eventually reached No.1 in the US Billboard Hot 100 and No.5 on the UK Singles Chart. At the 2022 Brit Awards, Glass Animals were nominated for two Brit Awards (Best British Rock Act and ‘Heat Waves’ for Best British Single).
22 Oct 1985
Zachary Walker Hanson, guitar, keyboards and vocals with Hanson, who had the 1997 UK & US No.1 single ‘MMMbop’. Hanson has sold over 16 million records worldwide and have had 8 top 40 albums and 6 top 40 singles in the US.
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22 Oct 1983
English rapper, singer-songwriter, actor and film director, Plan B, (born Benjamin Paul Ballance-Drew). Plan B first emerged as a hip hop artist releasing his critically acclaimed debut album ‘Who Needs Actions When You Got Words’ in 2006.
22 Oct 1976
Jon Foreman, lead singer, guitarist, songwriter and co-founder of Switchfoot. Their 2014 album Fading West reached No.6 on the US album chart.
22 Oct 1968
Shaggy, (Orville Richard Burrell), 1993 UK No.1 single ‘Oh Carolina’, 2001 UK & US No.1 single ‘It Wasn’t Me’, 2001 UK & US No.1 album ‘Hotshot’).
22 Oct 1968
US singer, songwriter, Shelby Lynne, (1999 album ‘I Am Shelby Lynne’), 2001 Grammy Award winner for Best Newcomer.
22 Oct 1964
TobyMac is born Kevin Michael McKeehan in Fairfax, Virginia. Before launching his solo career, he forms DC Talk, the first popular contemporary Christian music group to blend rap and rock.
22 Oct 1958
Bobby Blotzer, American rock drummer (Ratt, “Round & Round”), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
22 Oct 1956
Stiv Bators, vocals, Dead Boys, Wanderers, Lords Of The New Church.
22 Oct 1952
Greg Hawkes, American rock keyboardist (The Cars – “Shake it Up”; “Drive”), born in Fulton, Maryland
Oct 22, 1952
R&B singer Carl Carlton is born in Detroit, Michigan. He earns a 1974 hit with the Nashville-originated “Everlasting Love,” which becomes a country hit five years later for Narvel Felts.
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22 Oct 1945
Eddie Brigati, with American rock band, The Rascals (initially known as The Young Rascals) who had the US No.1 hits ‘Good Lovin” (1966), ‘Groovin” (1967), and ‘People Got to Be Free’ (1968).
22 Oct 1945
American guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter Leslie West with Mountain, 1970 US No.21 single ‘Mississippi Queen’, and a member of West Bruce & Laing. In 2011, due to complications from diabetes, West’s right leg had to be amputated. He died on December 22, 2020 age 75 after suffering a heart attack in his home near Daytona, Florida.
22 Oct 1942
Pop singer and Mouseketeer Annette Funicello is born in Utica, New York.
22 Oct 1942
Bobby Fuller singer, The Bobby Fuller Four. (1966 US No.9 single ‘I Fought The Law’ written by Sonny Curtis of Buddy Holly’s Crickets). Fuller died on 18th July 1966 mysteriously from gasoline asphyxiation, while parked in a car outside his apartment.
Oct 22, 1935
Banjo player and guitarist Marvin Montgomery joins The Light Crust Doughboys. During his tenure with the western swing band, he writes “Pussy, Pussy, Pussy,” ranked among country’s all-time greatest singles in a Country Music Foundation book. Died June 6, 2001, of leukaemia aged 88.
Oct 22, 1931
Curly Chalker is born in Enterprise, Alabama. He plays steel guitar on such hits as Lefty Frizzell’s “Always Late (With Your Kisses),” Hank Thompson’s “The Wild Side Of Life,” Ray Price’s “For The Good Times” and Marie Osmond’s “Paper Roses”. Died on April 30, 1998, from a cancer-related brain tumor.
22 Oct 1854
James Bland is born in Flushing, New York. While minstrel shows in the US were dominated by men in blackface, the African American artist would surpass them as “The World’s Greatest Minstrel Man.” James A. Bland died alone in Philadelphia on May 5, 1911 from tuberculosis.
Oct 22 1811
Franz List, Hungarian romantic composer and virtuoso pianist (Faust Symphony), born in Raiding, Hungary. Died July 31, 1886 (aged 74).
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