nes, cover his songs

.October 21, 1908 — Columbia Records offers first two-sided 78 r.p.m records for sale in an ad in the Saturday Evening Post. The ad exclaims "Two records at a single price" of 65 cents and adds that it fits any machine that will spin a flat disc record. Executives at Victor  Records are furious and counter-advertise, complaining the Columbia is disrupting the business and consumers don't want two-sided records. History proves them wrong.                    

 1958 — Buddy Holly's last recording session takes place in New York City, yielding "True Love Ways," "It Doesn't Matter Any More," "Moondreams," and "Raining In My Heart."
   1962 — The influential American Folk Blues Festival concludes its first European tour at Manchester, England, featuring Willie Dixon, John Lee Hooker, T-Bone Walker, Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee, and others. In the audience, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones, and Jimmy Page get their first glimpse of the artists who will influence their music. It is a treat enjoyed by other up and coming British rock and R&B legends when more U.S. blues performers join the European tour in subsequent years.

October 22, 1966 — The Supremes become the first girl group with a #1 album in the U.S. when The Supremes A' Go-Go bumps the Beatles' Revolver from the top spot.

October 23, 2002 — Johnnie Johnson, Chuck Berry's longtime pianist and the "Johnny" in "Johnny B. Goode," loses his lawsuit against Berry in which he claims he co-wrote many of the rock pioneer's hits and is due half of the royalties. A federal district court judge in St. Louis rules that the statute of limitations has expired.

Sources:
Eight Days a Week (Ron Smith)
Eight Days a Week (Kenneth Best)
On This Day in Black Music History (Jay Warner)
Chronology of American Popular Music, 1900-2000 (Frank Hoffman)
calendar.songfacts.com
onthisday.com/music