October 2007 in Music History

Events in Music

Oct 9 “Low” single released by Flo Rida (Billboard Song of the Year 2008)

Album Release

Oct 23 Rounder Records releases "Raising Sand", a collaborative album by American bluegrass singer Alison Krauss and British rock vocalist Robert Plant; tops the chart in Norway, peaks at #2 in US, UK, and Sweden

Oct 30 "Long Road Out of Eden" 7th studio album by the Eagles is released (Billboard Album of the Year 2008)

Birthdays in Music

Oct 30 Christian Li, Chinese-Australian prodigy violinist, youngest artist (at 12) to sign contract with Decca Classics, born in Melbourne, Australia

Deaths in Music

Oct 1 Ronnie Hazlehurst, English conductor and TV theme song composer (Are You Being Served?), dies at 79
Oct 6 Eric McCredie, Scottish pop bassist (Middle Of The Road - "Chirpy, Chirpy, Cheep Cheep"), dies at 62
Oct 6 Laza [Lazar] Ristovski, Serbian keyboardist (Smak and Bijelo Dugme), dies from multiple sclerosis at 51
Oct 11 Werner von Trapp, Austrian singer (Trapp Family Singers), dies at 91
Oct 13 Tom Dawes, American rock musician and composer who wrote music for commercial jingles ("Plop, Plop, Fizz, Fizz” for Alka-Seltzer and “7Up, the Uncola”), dies at 64
Oct 14 Big Moe [Kenneth Doniell Moore], American rapper (Screwed Up Click), dies of a heart attack at 33
Oct 16 Toše Proeski, Macedonian pop music singer-songwriter and musician, dies in a car crash in Croatia at 26
Oct 17 Teresa Brewer, American pop and jazz singer (Put Another Nickel In), dies at 76
Oct 18 Kumiko Ida, Japanese classical pianist, dies of meningitis at 38
Oct 18 Lucky Dube, South African reggae musician, killed by carjackers at 43
Oct 19 Yolanda "LaLa" Brown, American R&B singer, shot and killed by an unknown gunman at a Milwaukee recording studio at 21
Oct 20 Paul Raven, British bass-player (Killing Joke, Ministry), dies of a heart attack at 46
Oct 21 Paul Fox, English musician and singer (The Ruts), dies at 56
Oct 24 Petr Eben, Czech organ composer (b. 1929)
Oct 28 Porter Wagoner, American country singer, discovered Dolly Parton ("Y'All Come"; "A Satisfied Mind"), dies of lung cancer at 80
Oct 30 Linda Stein, Ramones manager and real estate broker, murdered by her personal assistant at 62

Robert Goulet (1933-2007)

Oct 30 American Tony and Grammy Award-winning singer, stage and screen actor (Camelot - ""If Ever I Would Leave You"), dies of pulmonary fibrosis at 73