Tommy’s Coffee Break Calendar for Rocktober 15th

Today you got a "right place, right time" situation -- A truly classic piece of Motown that makes it! -- and some big Eighties hair on an even bigger LP...

10/15/1955 (60 years ago today) - It starts here, at Lubbock's Cotton Club in Texas, and the event is the 'Big D Jamboree' with Elvis Presley headlining. Opening the show is Buddy & Bob (with Buddy Holly) -- turns out Nashville talent scout Eddie Crandall is in the audience -- and he arranges an audition for Holly to record some demo's for the Decca record label. Magic is on the way...

10/15/1966 (49 years ago today) - The Four Tops start a two-week run at Number One on the U.S. chart with their super-classic single "Reach Out (I'll Be There"). It's The Tops second No. 1 in the U.S., replacing "Cherish" by The Association for the top spot (thank goodness). Billboard ranked it at Number Four for the 1966 year-end chart listings. It was a massive hit that pretty much became their signature song, and also the group's first No. 1 in the U.K.!

10/15/1988 (27 years ago today) - On its second week of release, Bon Jovi begins a four-week stint on the U.S. LP chart at Number One with their fourth studio album "New Jersey". The LP spawns five Billboard Hot 100 Top 10 singles, at the time the most Top Ten hits to date for a single-(sort of)-hard-rock album: "Bad Medicine", "I'll Be There For You", "Born To Be My Baby", "Lay Your Hands On Me" and "Living In Sin". Seven million copies were sold in the U.S. alone; the LP also hit No. 1 in Canada, the U.K., Switzerland, Sweden, New Zealand and Australia. Big stuff.

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"Right now the rules we made/Are meant for breaking...", xoxo!