Today In Rock History Oct 23
 

Twelve-year old Steveland Morris Judkins, renamed Little Stevie Wonder, records his first single, "Thank you for Loving Me All the Way," for Motown Records. The record doesn't do anything but he is billed as the twelve year old genius. (1962)

The Temptations enter the Hot 100 for the seventh time with "My Baby," which will reach #13 in eight weeks on the chart. (1965)

The Byrds' "Turn! Turn! Turn!" is released. (1965)

Bob Dylan's "Great White Women" bootleg album sells like hotcakes in the U.S and Canada. Columbia Records, which has Dylan under contract, says it will pursue court action to stop the bootleg's sales. Dylan has no comment. (1969)

"Tommy", Pete Townshend's rock opera spends its last week on the LP chart, two and a half years after its release. However, "Tommy" returns in 1972 for a one-night-only London stage performance and again in 1975 with the release of the movie "Tommy." (1971)

CBS Records becomes the first U.S. label to announce a price hike to $8.98 list price for albums. (1978)

Maybelle Carter, matriarch of the musical Carter family dies. Maybelle was the mother of June Carter, who became Mrs. Johnny Cash. She was 69. (1978)

Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious attempts suicide while awaiting murder charges at New York's Rikers Island Detention Center. Vicious was charged with the killing of his girlfriend Nancy Spungen. (1978)

Rapper Tone-Loc is ordered to take an anger management class after fighting a pizza delivery person over a pizza he didn't like. (1995)

A federal district judge in St. Louis, MO denies a motion that would have permitted the Fort Zumwalt high school marching band the right to play a banned all-music segment of '60s songs that includes Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit." The school superintendent banned the song because he felt it promoted the drug culture. (1998)


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