What happened on October 1
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196264 yrs ago
The Beach Boys issue their first album, Surfin' Safari
Capitol put out the debut LP while the band was still a teenage family act, and it stayed on the Billboard album chart for 37 weeks. It was the start of the California surf sound going national.
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196957 yrs ago
Abbey Road arrives in American record stores
The last album the Beatles recorded together came out in the US five days after its UK release. It holds 'Something', 'Here Comes the Sun' and the long medley on side two.
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197452 yrs ago
Harry Chapin releases "Cat's in the Cradle"
The lyrics started as a poem by Chapin's wife Sandy about a father who never has time for his son. The single reached No. 1 in the US that December, the only chart-topper Chapin ever had.
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198244 yrs ago
The compact disc goes on sale in Japan
The first 50 CD titles came out in Japan that day, and the first one listed was a reissue of Billy Joel's 52nd Street. Europe and North America got CDs about five months later.
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199630 yrs ago
Nirvana's live album debuts at No. 1
From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah came out two and a half years after Kurt Cobain's death. It went straight to the top of the Billboard 200, selling close to 159,000 copies in its first week.
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1865161 yrs ago
Paul Dukas, composer of The Sorcerer's Apprentice, is born
Dukas was such a perfectionist that he destroyed much of his own music. The piece that survives best owes a lot of its fame to Mickey Mouse in Disney's Fantasia.
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1903123 yrs ago
Piano titan Vladimir Horowitz is born in Kiev
He returned to perform in Moscow in 1986 after 61 years away. The concert was broadcast around the world and was seen as a sign of warming relations between the US and the Soviet Union.
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194581 yrs ago
Soul visionary Donny Hathaway is born in Chicago
He wrote the Christmas standard "This Christmas" and recorded hit duets with Roberta Flack. His 1972 live album is still praised as one of the best live records ever made.
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197551 yrs ago
Stax drummer Al Jackson Jr. dies after a shooting
Known as 'The Human Timekeeper', he was the founding drummer of Booker T. & the M.G.'s and played on records by Otis Redding and Sam & Dave.
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20188 yrs ago
French chanson giant Charles Aznavour dies at 94
Aznavour recorded more than 1,200 songs in a 70-year career, and his label put his sales above 180 million. His English-language song "She" was a UK No. 1 in 1974.
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