* 1986 – The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts its first members: Little Richard, Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Fats Domino, the Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley.

Other artists with early rock and roll hits included Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Fats Domino, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Gene Vincent.

By 1959, the death of Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens in a plane crash, the departure of Elvis for the army, the retirement of Little Richard to become a preacher, prosecutions of Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry, and the breaking of the payola scandal ( which implicated major figures, including Alan Freed, in bribery and corruption in promoting individual acts or songs ), gave a sense that the initial rock and roll era had come to an end.

Bruce also instructed several World Karate Champions including Chuck Norris, Joe Lewis, and Mike Stone.

Other performers on the bill include Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis and up-and-comers Chicago.

The first artists to be honoured are Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Fats Domino, Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Elvis Presley.

Rock ' n ' roll era hitmakers like Fats Domino, Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry, Gene Vincent and Elvis Presley also found time to include many swing-era standards into their repertoire.

In 1972, the three original Moonglows who had remained active, Graves, Lester, and Fuqua, joined with new members Doc Williams and Chuck Lewis, and recorded Return of the Moonglows for RCA Records.

* Chuck Lewis ( 1972 )

Additionally in the 1930s through the 1950s several jazz and blues singer-songwriters emerged like Billie Holiday, Ray Charles, and Nina Simone, as well as in the rock n ' roll genre from which emerged influential singer-songwriters Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, Roy Orbison, Sam Cooke, Richie Valens, and Paul Anka.

Jones has guested as drummer on many recording sessions, which included appearances on albums by the Rolling Stones, Andy Fairweather-Low, Joan Armatrading, Marsha Hunt, Mike Batt, Pete Townshend, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, David Essex, John Lodge, and Wings, He was also on a Top of the Pops performance with Status Quo, performing their 1986 hit single, " Red Sky ".

WABC personalities included, along with Harrison, Charlie Greer, Scott Muni, Bob Lewis, Lundy, Johnny Donovan, Dan Ingram, " Cousin Brucie " Bruce Morrow, Chuck Leonard, Bob Cruz, Frank Kingston Smith, and Roby Yonge, and others.

Her early affiliation with the legendary Chicago-based Chess Records afforded her the opportunity to sing backup for various established artists such as Etta James, Fontella Bass, Ramsey Lewis, Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry, and Muddy Waters.

He also co-wrote the 1945 classic " The House of Blue Lights " first recorded with singer Ella Mae Morse and later recorded by Chuck Miller, The Andrews Sisters, Chuck Berry, and Jerry Lee Lewis.

** Shadowfax for Folksongs for a Nuclear Village ( Band members: Charles Bisharat, Chuck Greenberg, David Lewis, Phil Maggini, Stuart Nevitt, G. E. Stinson ).

Buster Keaton, The Three Stooges, Laurel and Hardy, Lucille Ball, Martin Short, Don Knotts, Jerry Lewis, Ken Berry, Chevy Chase, Dick van Dyke's character " Rob Petrie " on The Dick Van Dyke Show, Ensign Charles " Chuck " Parker ( Tim Conway ) on McHale's Navy, John Ritter's character " Jack Tripper " on Three's Company, Jim Carrey's character " The Mask ", Michael Richards's character " Cosmo Kramer " on Seinfeld, Dustin Diamond's character " Samuel ' Screech ' Powers " on Saved by the Bell, Bernadette Withers ' character Ginger Farrell / Loomis / Mitchell

Artists such as Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Fats Domino, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Big Joe Turner, and Gene Vincent released the initial rhythm and blues-influenced early rock and roll hits.

In 1963, when Chuck McDew stepped down as SNCC chairman, Lewis, one of the founding members of SNCC, was quickly elected to take over.

The studio attracted many talents, including Aaron Blaise, the director of Brother Bear, and Brad Lewis, the co-director of Cars 2, and had in development an animated feature film The Legend of Tembo for a 2014 release with Aaron Blaise and Chuck Williams directing it.

In 1961, this collaboration produced " I Like It Like That ", his first and biggest hit, peaking at # 2 in the Billboard Hot 100 chart ( covered in 1965 by The Dave Clark Five ) and " Something You Got " ( covered by Alvin Robinson, the Ramsey Lewis Trio, Chuck Jackson, Earl Grant, Maxine Brown, Bobby Womack, Fairport Convention and Bruce Springsteen ).

The Groovie Ghoulies ' music is best classified as pop-punk and is heavily influenced by early punk groups such as the Ramones and The Dickies, 1960s garage rock and bubblegum artists such as The Troggs and The Monkees, and 1950s rock and roll artists such as Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis.

On September 2, 1995, the opening of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame was celebrated with an all-star concert which featured Chuck Berry, Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin, Jerry Lee Lewis and others.

See List of Top 50 Songs From The Summer of 1969 ; www. forgottenhits. com .</ ref > " Good Old Rock ' n ' Roll " included cover versions of " Sweet Little Sixteen " by Chuck Berry, " Long Tall Sally " by Little Richard, " Chantilly Lace " by The Big Bopper, " Whole Lotta Shakin ' Goin ' On " by Jerry Lee Lewis, " Blue Suede Shoes " by Carl Perkins and " Party Doll " by Buddy Knox.

* Chuck Holton, CBN News Military Correspondent.

Frank " Chuck " Spinney, Retired Military Analyst

* October 18 – Chuck Swindoll, American evangelist

On October 11, in a notably non-prescient comment, interim Big 12 Conference Commissioner Chuck Neinas stated categorically Missouri would remain in the Big 12 Conference for the 2012 season.

Portishead's Geoff Barrow realised a " boyhood fantasy " when Chuck D of Public Enemy joined the band onstage at the ATP I'll Be Your Mirror festival curated by Portishead in Asbury Park, NJ on October 2011.

On October 4, 2007 acting Agriculture Secretary of the USDA Chuck Conner announced the selection of Wichita Online, Inc. as a recipient of a Community Connect grant in the amount of $ 371, 139.

* Chuck Wagon Cook-Off-Third Saturday in October

From October 16 to November 9, 1964 Burke again toured the South on Henry Wynn's Supersonic Attractions Tour with Sam Cooke, Jackie Wilson, BB King, Chuck Jackson, and Hank Ballard and the Midnighters, with Jimi Hendrix a temporary member of his band.

It was in the X-1 that Chuck Yeager was credited with being the first man to break the sound barrier in level flight on 14 October 1947, flying at an altitude of 45, 000 ft ( 13. 7 km ).

On 14 October 1947, just under a month after the United States Air Force had been created as a separate service, the tests culminated in the first manned supersonic flight, piloted by Air Force Captain Charles " Chuck " Yeager in aircraft # 46-062, which he had christened Glamorous Glennis.

Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier on October 14, 1947 in the Bell X-1, as shown in this newsreel.

* 24 October – death of Chuck Hughes, Detroit Lions wide receiver

In October 1947 Chuck Yeager took the rocket-powered Bell X-1 through the sound barrier.

The origin of the band goes back as far as October, 1989, when Chuck Garvey, Rob Derhak, and Ray Schwartz got together to play a Halloween show at a friend's behest.

* Chuck Garvey – guitar, vocals ( October 1989-Summer 1993 ; Summer 1993-present )

The date of Andy Green's record came exactly a half century and one day after Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in Earth's atmosphere, with the Bell X-1 research rocket plane on 14 October 1947.

The show, created by Chuck Ranberg and Anne Flett-Giordano, premiered on ABC on October 1, 2003 and aired to solid ratings until it was cancelled, with two episodes unaired, on April 6, 2004.

Brown was the subject of the cover article in The Washington Post Magazine on October 4, 2009, entitled Chuck Brown's Long Dance.

* " Chuck Brown's Long Dance ," Robin Rose Parker, The Washington Post Magazine, October 4, 2009

Also, the clock on the Fly ' N Buy Souvenir Shop is stopped at the exact time the sound barrier was broken on October 14, 1947 by Chuck Yeager.

Charles Timothy " Chuck " Hagel ( born October 4, 1946 ) is a former United States Senator from Nebraska.

Charles " Chuck " Wendell Colson ( October 16, 1931 – April 21, 2012 ) was a Special Counsel to President Richard Nixon from 1969 to 1973 and later a noted Evangelical Christian leader and cultural commentator.

* Chuck Yeager was an early USAF test pilot at then-Muroc Army Air Field, now known as Edwards Air Force Base, where he became the first to break the sound barrier on October 14, 1947.

* October 14 – U. S. Air Force Captain Chuck Yeager takes the rocket-powered Bell X-1 past the speed of sound in the first controlled, supersonic, level flight.

The tradition was started by Squirrel Hill resident Saul Finkelstein, who at 1: 05 pm on October 13, 1985, sat alone at the base of the flagpole and listened to the NBC radio broadcast of Chuck Thompson and Jack Quinlan.

Charles Herbert " Chuck " Klein ( October 7, 1904 – March 28, 1958 ) was a Major League Baseball outfielder who played for the Philadelphia Phillies ( 1928 – 33, 1936 – 39, 1940 – 44 ), Chicago Cubs ( 1934 – 36 ) and Pittsburgh Pirates ( 1939 ).