October 7

2007: Rascal Flatts are #1 on the album charts with Still Feels Good.  The single Take Me There goes #1.

1986: Janet Jackson is #1 with When I Think of You.

1978: Boston’s Don’t Look Back peaks at #4 on the singles charts.  It is from the album of the same name, which went to #1 and sold over four million copies in the first month of its release.

1978: The Rolling Stones perform Beast Of Burden on Saturday Night Live.

1977: David Bowie releases his album Heroes, which peaks at # 35. 

1976: A Fifth Of Beethoven by Walter Murphy is #1.  It’s a disco version of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony.

1969: The Youngbloods‘ Get Together is certified gold.  The guy who wrote it, Dino Valenti (Chet Powers), has a birthday today too.  He was born in 1937.

1968: Singer Toni Braxton is born.  Un-break My Heart is her biggest hit.  She has won six Grammys and has sold over 68 million records worldwide.

1968: Thom Yorke of Radiohead is born.  Paranoid Android, Karma Police and Fake Plastic Trees are three of their best-known songs.  Fake Plastic Trees is  #376 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the “500 Greatest Songs of All Time.”

1952: The TV dance show Bandstand (without Dick Clark) debuts in Philadelphia.

1951: Singer-songwriter John Mellencamp is born. Jack And Diane, Hurts So Good and Small Town are three of his best-known songs.

1940: Trumpeter Artie Shaw records Stardust.

Songs of The Day:

A Fifth Of Beethoven (Walter Murphy); Jack And Diane (John Mellencamp); Hurts So Good (John Mellencamp); Small Town (John Mellencamp); Paranoid Android (Radiohead); Fake Plastic Trees (Radiohead); Karma Police (Radiohead); Get Together (Youngbloods); Heroes (David Bowie); Beast Of Burden (Rolling Stones); When I Think Of You (Janet Jackson); Don’t Look Back (Boston); Take Me There (Rascal Flatts); Stardust (Artie Shaw); Unbreak My Heart (Toni Braxton)