Around The Ropes

This Week In Music History October 16th - 22nd October 16 1951 - Eighteen-year-old Richard Penniman, who was already using the stage name Little Richard, made his first recordings for RCA Camden at the studios of Atlanta radio station WGST. 2006 - CBGB, the legendary New York punk club credited with discovering Patti Smith and Ramones, closed after a final gig by Smith herself. Birthdays: Wendy Wilson of Wilson Phillips is 51 October 17 1977 - Lynyrd Skynyrd released Street Survivors, the last album with frontman Ronnie Van Zant and guitarist Steve Gaines, as both were killed three days later after the band's plane went down en route to Baton Rouge, Louisiana. 2005 - Fats Domino returned to his Ninth Ward home for the first time since Hurricane Katrina to find it utterly destroyed, with his piano and several of his gold records among the ruined items. Birthdays: Alan Jackson is 64. Eminem is 50. October 18 1968 - Led Zeppelin (briefly known as The New Yardbirds) played their first British eng