Monthly Archives: October 2015

Nat ‘King’ Cole performs on ‘The Ed Sullivan Show’ 60 years ago this hour (Oct 23 1955)


Video: 'NAT KING COLE "Walking My Baby Back Home" on The Ed Sullivan Show'

(Sunday, October 23, 1955, 8:00-9:00 p.m. EDT) — Nat “King” Cole performed “Walking My Baby Back Home” on tonight’s live edition of the CBS-TV variety show The Ed Sullivan Show from CBS Studio No. 50 in New York City.

‘Baby’s In Black/Misery’ episode airs on ‘The Beatles’ cartoon series 50 years ago this hour (Oct 23 1965)


Video: 'The Beatles Cartoon TV Series - Episode 5 - Baby's in Black, Misery'

(Saturday, October 23, 1965, 10:30 a.m. EDT) — The Beatles are supposed to go to Pennsylvania on a trip, however Ringo booked them for Transylvania instead on this morning’s episode of The Beatles, a weekly cartoon television series on ABC.

Cincinnati Reds win World Series in seven games 50 years ago tonight (Oct 22 1975)


Video: 'MLB 1975 World Series Game 7 CIN at BOS'

(Wednesday, October 22, 1975, evening EDT) — The Cincinnati Reds won the 1975 World Series tonight, beating the Boston Red Sox 4-3 at Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts, in the seventh and deciding game.

It was the third of five World Series titles for the Reds (1919-1990).

Klansman freed in Viola Liuzzo killing 50 years ago today (Oct 22 1965)


Video: 'Viola Liuzzo Murdered After Driving Voting Rights Activists to Selma'

(Friday, October 22, 1965; during the African-American Civil Rights Movement (1954–68)) — An all-white jury today found Collie Leroy Wilkins Jr., a 22-year-old Ku Klux Klansman, not guilty of the murder of Viola Liuzzo, a 39-year-old white civil rights activist, housewife and mother of five from Michigan who was shot dead March 25, 1965, by members of the Ku Klux Klan after participating in the successful Selma to Montgomery marches for voting rights.

The Beatles complete ‘Nowhere Man’ 50 years ago this hour (Oct 22 1965)


Video: 'The Beatles- Nowhere Man (2012 remastered)'

(Friday, October 22, 1965, 2:30-11:30 p.m. BST) — The Beatles resumed recording their sixth studio album Rubber Soul this afternoon at EMI Studio 2 in London, completing John Lennon and Paul McCartney’s “Nowhere Man,” which they had begun the night before. Continue reading The Beatles complete ‘Nowhere Man’ 50 years ago this hour (Oct 22 1965)

The Beatles complete ‘In My Life’ 50 years ago this hour (Oct 22 1965)


Video: 'The Beatles - "In My Life" Stereo Remaster'

(Friday, October 22, 1965, 10:30-11:30 a.m. BST) — The Beatles resumed recording their sixth studio album Rubber Soul this morning at EMI Studio 2 in London, completing John Lennon and Paul McCartney’s “In My Life,” with producer George Martin’s baroque-style piano overdub. Continue reading The Beatles complete ‘In My Life’ 50 years ago this hour (Oct 22 1965)