Oct 31st 🎃 in Pop History

On this day, October 31st 🎃, in: 

• 2008 - In Notttingham, England, 1,227 people in zombie garb perform the dance from Michael Jackson's Thriller video, setting a new Guinness World Record for largest gathering of “zombies.” The stunt pushes the song back onto the charts, where it lands at # 35 

• 1958 - The Flamingos record I Only Have Eyes For You

• 1963 - The Beatles returned to London from Sweden and were greeted by hundreds of screaming fans and a mob of photographers and journalists. American television host Ed Sullivan was at Heathrow Airport at the time the The Beatles arrived, and was struck by the sight of Beatlemania in full swing; he decided to look into getting this group to appear on his US television program

• 1964 - The Supremes started a four week run at # 1 on the US singles chart with Baby Love, the group's 2nd of 5 consecutive # 1s 

• 1970 - James Taylor's album Sweet Baby James is certified Gold just as the single Fire and Rain reaches # 3 in the US. The lyrics of the song are highly personal to James, as he sang Suzanne the plans they made put an end to you about Suzanne Schnerr, a childhood friend who committed suicide, and Sweet dreams and Flying Machines in pieces on the ground, referring to his earlier band, Flying Machine, which had split before significant success