On This Date In Music History

[Rick]

On November 9th in music history:

Births

1905: Tommy Dorsey
1936: Mary Travers (Peter, Paul and Mary)
1937: Roger McGough (The Scaffold)
1941: Tom Fogerty (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
1943: Lee Graziano (The American Breed)
1944: Phil May (The Pretty Things)
1948: Alan Gratzer (REO Speedwagon)
1948: Benny Mardones
1948: Joe Bouchard (Blue Oyster Cult)

Deaths

1966: Paul McCartney (not really)
1991: Yves Montand

Events

1955: The Everly Brothers, recently signed to Columbia as a country act, cut their first tracks in a studio lodged in Nashville's Old Tulane Hotel. The four recordings, which take only 22 minutes to lay down, yield no hits, and the duo is soon dropped from the label.

1956: Buddy Holly begins his first solo tour, opening for country singers George Jones and Hank Locklin.

1958: Elvis Presley's massive hit "Hound Dog" b/w "Don't Be Cruel" becomes only the third record in history to sell more than three million copies, following two seasonal favorites: Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" and Gene Autry's "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer."

1959: Sam Cooke is guaranteed $100,000 by RCA if he chooses to leave his current home, Keen Records.

1960: Elvis Presley begins filming his seventh movie, Wild In The Country.

1961: Liverpool record store owner Brian Epstein visits the local Cavern Club to check out the lunchtime show by a band he's heard a lot about... the Beatles. After weeks of soul-searching, he would become their manager.

1963: The Beatles' new single, "I Want To Hold Your Hand," becomes the first-ever UK single to receive advance orders of one million copies.

1966: John Lennon visits London's Indica Gallery to see the exhibit Unfinished Paintings and Objects and meets the artist behind the showing, Yoko Ono. She presents him with a card that simply says, "Breathe," and he responds by panting. He attempts to hammer a nail into one of her interactive artworks, which invites viewers to do just that; since the exhibit does not open to the public till the next day, however, Ono refuses, leading the gallery's owner to beg her to reconsider due to John's fame. Ono still refuses, claiming to have never heard of the Beatles, but says he can hammer one in for five shillings. John responds that he'll let her have an imaginary five shillings if he can hammer in an imaginary nail. Two years later, the two would meet again and quickly fall in love.

After storming out of a band argument, Paul McCartney is killed in a car crash caused by a slick road (and an unhinged fan or meter maid named Rita who Paul picks up hitchhiking). Not noticing that the lights had changed, Paul is hit by another car, but burns to death inside his own car while a crowd of onlookers, helpless, watches him die. His face is obliterated and his teeth knocked out in the crash and fire, making identification impossible. (Not really.)

1967: In a battle of egos, the Byrds' Roger McGuinn boots David Crosby from the group, leaving Crosby to form CSNY instead.

The first issue of the rock periodical Rolling Stone hits the shelves in San Francisco, CA, with a cover featuring John Lennon, in a still from his upcoming movie How I Won The War, and a free roach clip with every issue ([]).

1968: Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant marries his first wife. Maureen, in London, then holds the wedding reception at the local club the Roundhouse, where the group plays its first London gig.

1971: Carly Simon attends James Taylor's concert at Carnegie Hall and the two fall madly in love.

1990: The IRS seizes Willie Nelson's bank accounts and real estate holdings to pay off $16 million in back taxes.

1996: For the first time, Bob Dylan licenses one of his songs for commercial use, in this case, "The Times They Are A-Changin'" to the Bank of Montreal.

1998: Michael Jackson successfully settles his lawsuit with London's Daily Mirror newspaper, which had claimed his face was disfigured by endless cosmetic surgery. Jackson claimed the photos had been doctored.

Rick James bangs his head back and forth during a performance in Denver, CO, causing a blood vessel in his neck to rupture and bringing on a minor stroke.

1999: The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) announces the century's big winners, sales-wise: The Beatles have sold the most albums (106 million), with Garth Brooks and Barbra Streisand the most successful male and female solo artists. Elvis Presley leads the pack on gold and platinum certifications with 77 (singles) and 80 (albums), while Elton John's "Candle In The Wind '97" (rewritten as a tribute to the recently-deceased Princess Diana) is the best-selling single of the century. The best-selling album, suprisingly, is the Eagles' Greatest Hits 1971-1975, which has just overtaken Michael Jackson's Thriller.

2006: The Rolling Stones' "Bigger Bang" tour is reported to have taken in $230 million in just ten months, with the group playing to nearly two million people total.

2007: Ex-Mindbender Wayne Fontana is found guilty of arson after setting a police car on fire, then showing up to court dressed as Lady Justice. He is given 11 months sentence, but released after having already spent that time in a mental hospital since the incident.

Releases

1962: The Miracles, "You've Really Got A Hold On Me"
1963: The Kingsmen, "Louie Louie"
1964: Elvis Presley, "Blue Christmas" b/w "Wooden Heart"
1971: Elvis Presley, "Merry Christmas, Baby"
1973: Billy Joel, Piano Man

Recording

1955: Harry Belafonte: "Jamaica Farewell," "Come Back Liza"
1960: Dee Clark, "Your Friends"
1969: Simon and Garfunkel, "Bridge Over Troubled Water"
1973: Bob Dylan, "Wedding Song"

Charts

1959: Johnny Mathis' LP Heavenly hits #1
1974: Bachman-Turner Overdrive's "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet" hits #1
1974: Carole King's LP Wrap Around Joy hits #1

Certifications

1976: Frank Zappa's LP Overnite Sensation is certified gold
1976: Fleetwood Mac's LP Mystery To Me is certified gold
1977: Donna Summer's "I Feel Love" is certified gold

[Rick]

On November 10th in music history:

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Births

1907: Jane Froman
1916: Billy May
1932: Paul Bley
1939: Tommy Facenda
1940: Screaming Lord Sutch
1941: Kyu Sakamoto
1944: Tim Rice
1945: Donna Fargo
1947: Dave Loggins
1947: Glen Buxton (Alice Cooper)
1948: Greg Lake (Emerson, Lake and Palmer)
1950: Ronnie Hammond (Atlanta Rhythm Section)

Deaths

1990: Ronnie Dyson
1994: Carmen McRae
1997: Tommy Tedesco
2002: Johnny Griffith (Funk Brothers)

Events

1955: In his Nashville hotel room, songwriter Mae Axton plays Elvis Presley a demo of a song she's co-written called "Heartbreak Hotel."

1956: Billboard magazine's DJ survey reveals that Elvis Presley is the country's number one male artist on both the pop and country charts.

1958: Billboard magazine reports that Dick Clark's American Bandstand show on ABC is the hottest merchandising opportunity on television, noting that sales of Beechnut gum have doubled since the company begin buying ad space on the program.

Sam Cooke and Lou Rawls, then a member of Cooke's backup band, are badly injured in a car crash in Marion, AR, while touring with the gospel group the Pilgrim Travellers. Rawls is hurt so badly he is actually pronounced dead at the scene; chauffeur Edward Cunningham, however, is the only actual casualty.

1965: Marianne Faithfull gives birth to her first child, Nicholas, from artist John Dunbar.

1966: British newspapers break the news that the Beatles will indeed refuse all future offers to tour.

1967: The Beatles film three separate videos for their new single, "Hello Goodbye," at London's Saville Theatre. The three are eventually edited together to form one video, but the BBC, which has just given in to a Musician's Union ban on lip-syncing, refuses to air the clip.

1968: After performing their latest single, "Crown Of Creation," on CBS-TV's Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, Jefferson Airplane singer Grace Slick -- already in partial blackface -- gives the "black power salute" (made infamous when a black athlete at that year's Olympics had raised his fist instead of putting his hand over his heart during the US National Anthem).

1970: Martha Reeves of the Vandellas gives birth to her first and only son, Eric.

1973: John Lennon meets with legendary producer Phil Spector in New York to begin work on an album of oldies covers entitled Rock 'n' Roll.

1975: The SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks suddenly in Lake Superior during a storm, killing all 29 men aboard and inspiring Canadian folkie Gordon Lightfoot to write a song about the tragedy, "The Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald."

1994: Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page and Robert Plant perform an all-acoustic version of "Stairway To Heaven" while visiting a Japanese talk show.

2002: On tonight's "How I Spent My Strummer Vacation" episode of FOX-TV's The Simpsons, guest stars Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Tom Petty, Elvis Costello, Lenny Kravitz, and Brian Setzer operate a rock and roll fantasy camp.

2003: David Bowie is forced to cancel the remainder of his concert in Nice, France, when laryngitis causes his voice to go out completely in the middle of "Ziggy Stardust."

An emotional tribute to the recently-deceased Johnny Cash is held at Nashville's famous Ryman Auditorium, featuring classic Cash songs performed by Sheryl Crow, Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, Kid Rock, and Steve Earle, among others.

Releases

1967: The Moody Blues, "Nights In White Satin"

Recording

1939: Muggsy Spanier, "Dipper Mouth Blues"
1965: The Beatles: "The Word," "I'm Looking Through You"

Charts

1958: Conway Twitty's "It's Only Make Believe" hits #1
1973: Elton John's LP Goodbye Yellow Brick Road hits #1
1973: Eddie Kendricks' "Keep On Truckin'" hits #1
1979: The Eagles' "Heartache Tonight" hits #1

Certifications

1969: Gene Autry's "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" is certified gold

[Rick]

On November 11th in music history:

Births

1927: Mose Allison
1929: LaVern Baker
1938: Roger Lavern (The Tornados)
1943: Mac Kissoon (Mac and Katie Kissoon)
1944: Jesse Colin Young (The Youngbloods)
1945: Chris Dreja (The Yardbirds)
1945: Vince Martell (Vanilla Fudge)
1947: Pat Daugherty (Black Oak Arkansas)
1950: Jim Peterik (The Ides Of March, Survivor)
1952: Paul Cowsill (The Cowsills)

Deaths

1972: Berry Oakley (Allman Brothers)
1979: Dimitri Tiomkin

Events

1938: Kate Smith sings a twenty-year-old, unknown Irving Berlin tune called "God Bless America" for the first time on her radio program.

1944: Frank Sinatra, late of the Harry James big band, signs with Columbia as a solo recording artist.

1961: Joan Baez plays her first major headlining concert, opening at New York's Town Hall in a sold-out, critically acclaimed show.

1963: After a gig in Birmingham, England, the Beatles find themselves attempting to escape a throng of fanatically devoted fans for the first time, escaping through the crowd by dressing up as policemen.

1965: Journalist Al Aronowitz gets the garage band The Velvet Underground their first gig -- at the Summit High School dance in Summit, NJ.

1967: Van Morrison makes his only appearance on ABC-TV's American Bandstand, lip-synching his big hit, "Brown Eyed Girl."

1968: American record buyers are scandalized when John Lennon and Yoko Ono release their new album Unfinished Music No.1: Two Virgins with a cover depicting the two of them standing unashamedly in full-frontal nudity. Record stores eventually carry the experimental album in a brown paper wrapper. Actress Sissy Spacek eventually records a novelty song about the cover called "John, You Went Too Far This Time," under the pseudonym Rainbo.

1969: Jim Morrison of the Doors is arrested by the FBI for drunk and disorderly behavior and interfering with the flight of an aircraft in Phoenix, AZ, after a flight attendant on his trip from Los Angeles accuses him of attacking and sexually harassing her. Morrison and his flight companion, American actor Tom Baker, spend the night in local jail but are released the next day on $2,500 bail. The charges are later dropped.

1970: Ringo Starr and his first wife, Maureen, become the proud parents of their first child, daughter Lee Parkin, at Queen Charlotte's Maternity Hospital in Hammersmith, London.

Bob Dylan publishes his first novel, a poorly-received stream-of-consciousness work called Tarantula.

1973: A "live" Mott The Hoople show is simulcast over several US radio networks, but is later revealed to be the group's actual studio songs with applause overdubbed.

1976: Linda Ronstadt makes her UK live debut, performing at the Odeon in Hammersmith, London.

1986: Pink Floyd announce their intention to record a new album and tour under their band name, a name which recently departed leader Roger Waters considers his alone.

1994: Christie's auction house in New York City holds their first-ever auction of rock memorabilia, including the Beach Boys' guitars, a stage outfit worn by Jimi Hendrix, and John Lennon's famous Army fatigues.

The Monkees' Micky Dolenz guest stars, along with Rick Neilsen of Cheap Trick and Billy Vera, on tonight's "" episode of ABC-TV's Boy Meets World.

2000: The original Meters reunite for one and only one gig in San Francisco, their first since 1977.

2003: A London High Court orders Van Morrison to pay $67,000 in lost revenue to Gary Marlow, owner of the Crown Hotel in Wiltshire, England, after canceling a planned gig there.

At the emotional funeral for Righteous Brother Bobby Hatfield, Bill Medley, the remaining half of the famous blue-eyed-soul duo, sings the gospel standard "Precious Lord."

2004: M'hammed Soumayah, bodyguard for Liza Minelli, sues ths singer for $100 million for allegedly forcing him to have sex with her or be fired.

2005: Billy Joel breaks his planned retirement to launch his first solo tour in eight years, though he still refuses to record new material.

Releases

1957: Buddy Holly, "Peggy Sue" b/w "Everyday"
1969: Elvis Presley, "Don't Cry Daddy" b/w "Rubberneckin'"
1977: Wings, "Mull Of Kintyre"

Recording

1929: Andy Kirk and his Twelve Clouds of Joy, "Froggy Bottom"
1958: Hank Ballard and the Midnighters, "The Twist"
1964: Tom Jones, "It's Not Unusual"
1965: The Beatles: "You Won't See Me," "Girl," "Wait," "I'm Looking Through You"

Charts

1978: Donna Summer's "MacArthur Park" hits #1

[Rick]

On November 12th in music history:

Births

1917: Jo Stafford
1931: Bob Crewe
1936: Charlotte Davis (The Tune Weavers)
1936: Mort Shuman
1939: Ruby Nash Curtis (Ruby and the Romantics)
1943: Brian Hyland
1943: John Maus (The Walker Brothers)
1944: Booker T. Jones (Booker T. and the MGs)
1945: Neil Young
1947: Buck Dharma (Blue Oyster Cult)
1948: Errol Brown (Hot Chocolate)
1949: Arthur Tavares (Tavares)
1950: Barbara Fairchild
1955: Leslie McKeown (The Bay City Rollers)

Deaths

1960: Lord Buckley

Events

1931: Abbey Road recording studios open in London's pricey St. John's Wood.

1955: Billboard begins its "Top 100" chart, with the first Number One listed as "Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing" by the Four Aces. The magazine wouldn't resolve all its pop charts into one until 1959.

Hill Valley, CA native Marty McFly travels back to this date from 1985 to make sure his parents get together; while in 1955, he plays "Johnny B. Goode" at a local sock hop, inspiring Chuck Berry's "new sound." (Not really.)

1957: The rock and roll movie Jamboree premieres in Hollywood, featuring performances from Jerry Lee Lewis, Fats Domino, Carl Perkins, Frankie Avalon, Connie Francis, Buddy Knox, and Slim Whitman. Perkins rejects a song called "Great Balls Of Fire" that Jerry Lee has already recorded, and Lewis' version, released along with the film, becomes a hit. Perkins instead opts to sing a song called "Glad All Over" in the film, which goes nowhere.

1965: Marc Bolan, later of T. Rex fame, performs his first single, "The Wizard," on ITV's British television show Ready Steady Go!

1966: Teens on Los Angeles' Sunset Strip protesting a recent curfew are beaten by police, inspiring Stephen Stills to write the Buffalo Springfield hit "For What It's Worth."

The Grateful Dead are the house band at a dance put on by the Hell's Angels biker gang at San Francisco's Sokol Hall.

1968: Jimi Hendrix' third album, Electric Ladyland, causes a controversy in England over the cover, which features the singer/guitarist surrounded by a bevy of naked women. A major British chain refuses to stock it; the American version is released with an alternate cover.

1969: The Supremes and the Temptations' second joint TV special, G.I.T. On Broadway, airs on NBC. (The title stands for "Gettin' It Together"; the show consisted of both groups performing show tunes.)

1979: Kenny Rogers begins filming the CBS-TV movie The Gambler, based on his 1978 smash tune of the same name. It will spawn four sequels.

Jefferson Airplane / Starship singer Marty Balin premieres his new rock opera, Rock Justice, at the Old Waldorf in San Francisco.

1987: Sly Stone arrives one hour late for a major comeback concert in Santa Monica, CA, only to be arrested at the gig for failure to pay child support.

1990: Ron Wood, formerly of the Faces and currently of the Rolling Stones, is badly injured when hit by a car in London, breaking both legs.

1997: Billy Preston is sentenced to four years in prison in California's Avenal State Prison for cocaine use and fraud when he arranged a fake burglary of his home in 1994. He will serve a year and a half.

1997: Carly Simon is hospitalized with breast cancer, undergoing both chemo and a mastectomy.

1999: Glam legend Gary Glitter is acquitted in England's Bristol Crown Court of sexual assault on a minor stemming from an incident with a fan in the Eighties; however, that same day, Glitter (real name Paul Gadd) is sentenced to four months in jail for four counts of possessing child pornography found in 1997.

2004: The funeral of longtime (and highly influential) British DJ John Peel is held in Suffolk, England, with attendees including Robert Plant, The White Stripes, and members of Underworld, Pulp, and the Undertones.

2005: Vietnamese authorities visit Gary Glitter's home in Ba Ring Vung Tau and find his live-in companion, a fifteen-year-old girl. The singer, however, has vanished.

Releases

1966: Donovan, "Mellow Yellow"
1971: Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin IV

Recording

1925: Louis Armstrong, "My Heart"
1941: Artie Shaw, "St. James Infirmary"
1964: Shirley Ellis, "The Name Game"
1967: Jerry Lee Lewis, "To Make Love Sweeter For You"

Charts

1966: The Monkees' LP The Monkees hits #1
1966: Johnny Rivers' "Poor Side Of Town" hits #1

Happy 67th birthday to Neil Young!! [^]

[Rick]

On November 13th in music history:

Births

1933: Clyde McPhatter (Drifters)
1934: Timmy Thomas
1940: Justine "Baby" Washington
1943: John Hammond Jr.
1946: Ray Wylie Hubbard
1949: Terry Reid
1949: Roger Steen (The Tubes)

Deaths

1984: Don Addrisi (The Addrisi Brothers)
1992: Ronnie Bond (The Troggs)
1996: Bill Doggett
1999: Donald Mills (The Mills Brothers)
1999: R.J. Vealey (Atlanta Rhythm Section)
2002: Michael Stewart (We Five)

Events

1956: Dickie Goodman and Bill Buchanan (known as novelty records duo Buchanan and Goodman) appear in a New York City court to begin untangling the thicket of lawsuits brought on by their hit "Flying Saucer," which utilizes any number of "drop-ins" of other artists' hit records for comedic effect.

1960: Sammy Davis Jr. marries Swedish actress May Britt, one of the first public celebrity interracial marriages.

1961: Hank Ballard of the Midnighters is the guest contestant on today's episode of CBS-TV's To Tell The Truth, there (along with two lookalikes) as the inventor of the "twist" craze.

1966: Beatles manager Brian Epstein hosts a party at his home in Chapel Street, Belgravia, London. Guests include The Four Tops, John Lennon, George Harrison, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Donovan, Eric Burdon, Georgie Fame, and the Animals' Hilton Valentine.

1967: The Rolling Stones' Brian Jones buys Cotchford Farm, Sussex, England, the former home of Winnie the Pooh writer A.A. Milne. Statues of Pooh characters dot the ground.

1968: The Beatles' Yellow Submarine film premieres in New York.

1969: John Lennon purchases the island Dorinch off the Ireland coast and invites any hippie who wishes to live there.

1973: Jerry Lee Lewis' son Jerry Lee Jr. is killed in a highway accident near Hernando, MS. The elder Lewis had already lost his only other son, Steven Allen, in a 1962 drowning.

1974: An imposter posing as Deep Purple guitar player Ritchie Blackmore crashes a borrowed Porsche in Iowa City, IA, having already conned food and shelter from several Deep Purple fans.

1985: New York's Whitney Museum presents an exhibition celebrating Bob Dylan's 25 years in the music industry.

1992: 90,000 people attend Elton John's Mexico City concert, his first in the country.

1997: Ray Charles conducts his first-ever online chat at rhino.com.

2005: Astronauts on at the US space station in orbit around the Earth are woken up today by Paul McCartney, singing "Good Day Sunshine" live from his concert in Anaheim, CA.

Releases

1961: The Tokens, "The Lion Sleeps Tonight"
1965: The McCoys, "Fever"
1971: Three Dog Night, "Old Fashioned Love Song"
1971: Cat Stevens, Tea for the Tillerman
1971: Pink Floyd, Meddle

Charts

1954: Eddie Fisher's "I Need You Now" hits #1
1961: Patsy Cline's "Crazy" enters the charts
1961: Solomon Burke's "Just Out of My Reach" enters the charts
1965: James Brown's "I Got You (I Feel Good)" enters the charts
1965: The Sound of Music soundtrack album hits #1
1971: Santana's Santana 3 album hits #1
1976: Rod Stewart's "Tonight's the Night" hits #1

Certifications

1973: Peter, Paul and Mary's In The Wind album is certified gold
1975: Morris Albert's "Feelings" is certified gold

[Rick]

On November 14th in music history:

Births

1900: Aaron Copland
1915: Martha Tilton
1920: Johnny Desmond
1938: Cornelius Gunter (The Coasters)
1940: Freddie Garrity (Freddie and the Dreamers)
1944: Scherrie Payne (The Supremes)
1947: Buckwheat Zydeco
1948: James "JY" Young (Styx)
1951: Stephen Bishop

Deaths

1984: Don Addrisi (The Addrisi Brothers)

Events

1952: The British music paper New Musical Express publishes its first record chart. The first Number One: Al Martino's "Here In My Heart."

1960: Elvis Presley's latest single, "It's Now Or Never," sells 780,000 copies in the UK during its first week of release, making it the fastest-selling song in the country's history.

1957: The Boston stop on Alan Freed's "Biggest Show Of Stars" concert is the scene of yet another rock and roll "riot" when five audience members are arrested for fighting during a performance by Fats Domino. One audience member, a sailor, is stabbed during the fight.

1960: Drummer Cozy Cole of "Topsy" fame is sent by the US State Department on a 20-week goodwill tour of Africa.

1964: At the start of her first UK tour, Dusty Springfield causes a furor when she tells a local magazine: "I wish I'd been born colored. When it comes to singing and feeling, I want to be one of them and not me. Then I see how some of them are treated and I thank God I'm white."

Them, the Van Morrison-led band who would later score a hit with the garage-rock classic "Gloria," backs up legendary bluesman Jimmy Reed during a British tour.

1967: Pink Floyd begin their first UK tour at the Royal Albert Hall in London, playing on a package bill with The Move, Nice, Amen Corner, and the headliner, the Jimi Hendrix Experience.

1987: In a initially awkward but eventually moving live event, David Letterman convinces guest Cher to sing "I Got You Babe" just one more time with embittered ex Sonny Bono on his NBC-TV Late Night program. Both Sonny and Cher are left in tears, though no reunion is forthcoming.

A major oldies revival crests today, when the soundtrack to the hit Patrick Swayze film Dirty Dancing -- set in 1963 and featuring many hits of the day -- rises to Number One on the Billboardcharts.

1990: This week's issue of Newsweek hits the stands, featuring what seems like a stark admission from the Who's Pete Townshend -- he's bisexual. "I know how it feels to be a woman because I am a woman," he says. "And I won't be classified as just a man." About his song "Rough Boys," which some saw as a gay anthem, he says, "...In a way it was a coming-out. That it was a real acknowledgment of the fact that I'd been surrounded by people that I really adored -- and was actually sexually attracted to -- who were men. And that the side of me that responded to those people was a passive side, a subordinate side."

1997: Tonight's Bee Gees show at Vegas' MGM Grand Garden Arena rakes in a record $1,681,100 -- and yet doesn't sell out entirely.

Releases

1970: Santana, "Black Magic Woman"

Recording

1944: Tommy Dorsey, "Opus No. 1"
1956: Jerry Lee Lewis, "End Of The Road" b/w "Crazy Arms"
1958: Cliff Richard, "Livin' Lovin' Doll"
1961: The Everly Brothers: "Crying In The Rain," "That's Old Fashioned (That's The Way Love Should Be)"
1962: Bob Dylan, "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right"
1969: Led Zeppelin, "Since I've Been Loving You"
1973: Bob Dylan, "Forever Young," "Dirge"

Charts

1960: Ray Charles' "Georgia On My Mind" hits #1

Certifications

1967: The Monkees' "Daydream Believer" is certified gold
1975: The Spinners' "They Just Can’t Stop It (The Games People Play)" is certified gold

[Rick]

On November 15th in music history:

Births

1905: Mantovani
1928: C.W. McCall
1929: Joe Hinton
1932: Petula Clark
1932: Clyde McPhatter
1937: Little Willie John
1941: Rick Kemp (Steeleye Span)
1945: Anni-Frid Lyngstad (ABBA)
1946: Janet Lennon (The Lennon Sisters)
1949: Steve Fossen (Heart)
1954: Tony Thompson (Chic)

Deaths

1991: Jacques Morali

Events

1926: The first network radio broadcast, four-and-a-half hours of varied performances from New York's Waldorf-Astoria hotel and other remotes around the country, airs on the new National Broadcasting Company (soon to be known as NBC).

1954: CBS-TV's Studio One variety show presents Joan Weber singing "Let Me Go, Lover" a performance that would soon send the song rocketing up the charts.

1956: Elvis Presley's first movie, Love Me Tender, premieres at New York's Paramount Theater. The King's popularity has grown so exponentially large during the filming on the movie that his part -- originally almost a cameo -- is expanded to fit his stardom. Indeed, when his character is killed at the end of the movie, test audiences are so distraught that Elvis re-appears at the end of the movie to reprise the title song. A fifty-foot cardboard cutout of the singer is posted outside the theater to emphasize his new importance to the project, and the movie -- which recieves lukewarm reviews from critics who nonetheless appreciate the singer's performance -- rakes in a very respectable four million dollars in just two months.

1959: Three ex-members of the Quarrymen -- later to become known as the Beatles' John, Paul, and George -- audition for a British talent program called TV Star Search at the Hippodrome Theatre in Lancashire, appearing as "Johnny and the Moondogs" and performing two Buddy Holly songs: "Think It Over" and "It's So Easy." Unfortunately, the trio is forced to return to Liverpool the same night, having no money to rent a hotel room, and therefore missing out on the next round of auditions.

1964: While on tour, Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones is admitted to Chicago's Passavant Hospital for pneumonia, having reached a temperature of 105. He will miss the last four dates of the Stones' US tour.

1965: The Rolling Stones make their first appearance on NBC-TV's rock variety show Hullabaloo, performing their hit "Get Off Of My Cloud."

1968: Janis Joplin performs her last gig with Big Brother and the Holding Company at New York's Hunter College.

1969: During tonight's Janis Joplin concert in Tampa, FL, a policemen tries to use a bullhorn to control a crowd that had left its seats and begun to move around, prompting Joplin to object: "Don't ---- with those people! Hey, mister, what're you so uptight about? Did you buy a $5 ticket?" The cop responds by telling the singer to inform her crowd that they need to be seated, she replies, "I'm not telling them s---." Janis left the stage after the concert, calling the cop a "son of a b----" and threatening to kick his face in, leading her to be arrested in her dressing room on a charge of publicly using "vulgar and indecent language." After posting a $504 bail, the charges are later dropped.

Hamburg, Germany's famous rock and roll venue, the Star Club, announces it will permanently close its doors at the end of the month.

The Beatles' last photographic session produces today's cover of Rolling Stone. On the same day, obsessive fans looking for "Paul Is Dead" clues on album covers and in songs push two previous Beatles albums, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Magical Mystery Tour, back onto the Billboard album charts.

1971: The "spaghetti Western" Blindman, featuring Ringo Starr as the brother of a notorious bandit, debuts in Rome, to predictably terrible reviews.

1972: Harry Chapin becomes the proud father of his first child, Joshua Burke, in New York City, an event that would eventually inspire him to put his wife's poem, "Cat's In The Cradle," to music.

1979: NBC airs The Bee Gees Special, their first, starring Willie Nelson, Glen Campbell, and little brother Andy Gibb.

1992: The Doors' Robbie Krieger, Mark Lindsay of Paul Revere and the Raiders, Peter Noone of Herman's Hermits, Spencer Davis, Richie Havens, and the Lovin' Spoonful's John Sebastian all guest star on tonight's "Rock Of Ages" episode of FOX's Married With Children.

2000: Michael Abram, the Liverpool native who broke into George Harrison's home and stabbed him in an incident earlier in the year, is found not guilty by reason of insanity at Oxford Crown Court. Abram is ordered confined to a mental hospital for an indefinite period of time.

2007: Glasgow, Scotland native Kenneth Donnell pays 83,000 pounds (approximately $122,000 US dollars) for two tickets for Led Zeppelin's one-off reunion at London's O2 Arena. The purchase, which includes attending the band rehearsal, was the result of an auction for a children's charity.

Releases

1969: The Carpenters, Offering
1971: Grand Funk Railroad, E Pluribus Funk
1974: Faces, "You Can Make Me Dance, Sing Or Anything (Even Take The Dog For A Walk, Mend A Fuse, Fold Away The Ironing Board, Or Any Other Domestic Shortcomings)"

Recording

1956: Buddy Holly: "Rock Around With Ollie Vee," "Modern Don Juan," "You Are My One Desire"
1966: Jefferson Airplane, "Somebody To Love"

Certifications

1978: Chic's "Le Freak" is certified gold

[Rick]

[]On November 16th in music history:

Births

1905: Albert "Eddie" Condon
1916: Herb Abramson
1931: Bob Gibson
1933: Garnet Mimms
1938: Troy Seals (James Brown)
1940: John Ryanes (The Monotones)
1941: Dan Penn
1943: Winifred Lovett (The Manhattans)
1948: Chi Coltrane
1949: Pattie Santos (It's A Beautiful Day)

1964: Diana Krall

Deaths

1980: O.V. Wright
1994: Dino Valente (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
1998: J.D. Sumner (J.D. Sumner and the Stamps)
1999: Grady Owen (Gene Vincent and his Blue Caps)
2000: Russ Conway

Events

1965: CBS-TV airs the Frank Sinatra documentary Sinatra: An American Original, hosted by Walter Cronkite.

George Martin puts together the final running order of the songs on the Beatles' Rubber Soul album.

1976: Resident genius of the Beach Boys, Brian Wilson, comes out of an eight-year seclusion to give an interview to BBC 2's music show Old Grey Whistle Test.

1978: A musical tribute to the songs of the Beatles starring the Bee Gees, Peter Frampton and dozens of others, the infamous fantasy film Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band opens in Us theaters. A notorious flop that was widely panned by critics, the musical does quite a bit of damage to the careers of all who appear in it, including co-stars Alice Cooper, Aerosmith, and Stargard. Comedian Steve Martin, George Burns, and Earth Wind and Fire, however, emerge from the disaster relatively unscathed.

Replicating their infamous promo stunt for the single, Queen are joined onstage at Madison Square Garden by several dozen nude, semi-overweight women during their performance of "Bicycle Race." (Overweight because the single mentions "fat bottomed girls," the title of the other half of the A-side.)

1988: Stan Love, brother and manager of Beach Boy Mike Love, is sentenced to five years' suspended sentence after being found guilty of embezzling over $300,000 from the group.

1996: The Beatles become the first artists to score three Number One albums in the same year when their Anthology 3 hits the top of the American charts.

1998: Having suffered a seizure while performing in Hollywood a few weeks earlier, Roland Alphonso of the Skatalites slips into a coma.

2001: The city of Palm Springs, CA unveils a statue in its downtown area honoring the late Sonny Bono, half of Sonny and Cher and mayor of the city for a time in the Eighties.

2006: Queen's Greatest Hits is declared the most popular album of all time in Britain, with more than five-and-a-half million units sold. At Number Two: the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper.

After performing in Jackson, TN, Frankie Ford of "Sea Cruise" fame is accidentally struck by a car, but suffers no major injuries.

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) sends 417 more letters to sixteen college administrators threatening mass lawsuits if file-sharing is found happening on university servers.

Releases

1968: B.J. Thomas, "Hooked On A Feeling"
1973: Bob Dylan, Dylan

Recording

1937: Bob Crosby, "South Rampart Street"
1955: The Four Lads, "No, Not Much"
1960: Patsy Cline, "I Fall To Pieces"
1964: Jay and the Americans, "Let's Lock The Door"
1964: The Animals, "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood"

Charts

1959: The Fleetwoods' "Mr. Blue" hits #1
1963: Nino Tempo and April Stevens' "Deep Purple" hits #1
1968: The Jimi Hendrix Experience's LP Electric Ladyland hits #1
1974: John Lennon (and Elton John)'s "Whatever Gets You Thru The Night" hits #1

Certifications

1970: Anne Murray's "Snowbird" is certified gold
1977: Rush's LPs 2112, All The World's A Stage, and A Farewell To Kings are certified gold

Happy 48th birthday to Diana Krall!! [^]

[Rick]

On November 17th in music history:

Births

1933: The Singing Nun
1937: Geoff Goddard (The Tornadoes)
1938: Gordon Lightfoot
1942: Bob Gaudio (The Four Seasons)
1944: Gene Clark (The Byrds)
1946: Martin Barre (Jethro Tull)
1947: Rod Clements (Lindisfarne)
1947: Robert "Stewkey" Antoni (The Nazz)
1948: Iain Sutherland (Sutherland Brothers And Quiver)
1952: Dean Martin, Jr. (Dino, Desi and Billy)

Deaths

1979: John Glascock (Jethro Tull)
2003: Don Gibson
2003: Arthur Conley
2006: Ruth Brown

Events

1938: Orchestra leader Kay Kyser gives a lecture at CCNY college in New York City on "the inner workings and artistic features of swing music." Its popularity leads to Kyser being given his own popular NBC radio show, Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge.

1958: Alan Freed's trial for allegedly inciting a riot at one of his Boston package tour shows is postponed for a year while prosecutors sort out the state's archaic anti-anarchy laws.

1963: Headmaster John Weightman of Surrey Grammar School in Guildford, England, bans the popular Beatle "moptop" haircuts, explaining that "this ridiculous style brings out the worst in boys physically. It makes them look like morons."

Singer Tommy Sands joins his wife, Nancy Sinatra, to perform "Old Straw Hat" and "Hey Good Lookin'" on CBS-TV's Ed Sullivan Show.

Backstage at the British ITV music program Thank Your Lucky Stars, the Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger and Keith Richards present Gene Pitney with one of their first songs, "My Only Girl." Retitled "That Girl Belongs To Yesterday," it would be a hit for Pitney on both sides of the ocean, the first Jagger/Richards composition to make the US charts, and the first UK hit for the pair. Later, the Stones themselves record the song, but their version is never released.

1967: Davy Jones of the Monkees opens a boutique called Zilch I, named after a Monkees song, in New York's Greenwich Village.

1974: ABBA play their first gig outside Sweden, opening at the Kalkonerteater in Copenhagen on their first European tour.

1976: Olivia-Newton John's first TV special, A Very Special Olivia Newton-John, is broadcast on ABC.

1978: During Bob Dylan's show at the San Diego Sports Arena, an audience member throws a silver Christian cross onstage, which the singer picks up and pockets. Perhaps coincidentally, Dylan enters his "Christian period" the next year.

1979: The Guinness Book of World Records verifies ABBA as the biggest-selling recording group in history.

1980: The annual "Royal Command Performance" in London features Aretha Franklin and Sammy Davis Jr. singing for England's Queen Elizabeth II.

1990: While speeding without a helmet, David Crosby crashes his Harley-Davidson motorcycle in Los Angeles, breaking his shoulder, left leg, and ankle.

1992: Former members of Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers Jimmy Merchant and Herman Santiago, are awarded four million dollars in back royalties from a music publisher for their 1956 hit "Why Do Fools Fall In Love?"

1994: Bob Dylan begins taping his episode of MTV's Unplugged at New York's Sony Studios.

2000: Cher makes her first appearance on NBC-TV's sitcom Will and Grace, in the episode "Gypsies, Tramps and Weed."

ABC-TV airs the documentary The Beatles: Revolution.

2003: After collapsing on stage during a concert in London, Meat Loaf is rushed to a nearby hospital with what a publicist terms "exhaustion due to a prolonged viral infection" but what is actually an irregular heartbeat requiring emergency surgery.

Releases

1971: The Faces, A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse

Recording

1970: Elton John, 11-17-70
1978: Led Zeppelin, "All My Love"

Charts

1951: Eddy Howard's "Sin (It's No Sin)" hits #1
1958: The Kingston Trio's "Tom Dooley" hits #1
1962: The Four Seasons' "Big Girls Don't Cry" hits #1
1979: The Commodores' "Still" hits #1

[Rick]

On November 18th in music history:

Births

1909: Johnny Mercer
1926: Dorothy Collins
1927: Hank Ballard
1936: Don Cherry
1941: Con Clusky (The Bachelors)
1946: Jackie Ward
1953: John McFee (The Doobie Brothers)
1954: Charles Williams (KC and the Sunshine Band)

Deaths

1971: Junior Parker
1972: Danny Whitten (Crazy Horse)
1994: Cab Calloway
1999: Doug Sahm (Sir Douglas Quintet)
2003: Michael Kamen
2004: Cy Coleman

Events

1952: Four days after he divorces his first wife, Bill Haley marries his pregnant girlfriend.

1954: ABC Radio stations ban Rosemary Clooney's "Mambo Italiano" due to what it considers "offensive lyrics," more than likely the exaggerated Italian patois and words "goombah" and "gidrool."

1956: Fats Domino sings his hit "Blueberry Hill" on CBS-TV's Ed Sullivan Show.

1958: Johnny Cash suffers an attack of acute appendicitis while preparing for a show in Ottumwa, IA, and is hospitalized.

1963: Beatles manager Brian Epstein asks the group's fans to please refrain from pelting the group with "jellybabies" (jellybeans) at their concerts. (The Beatles had made the mistake of remarking how much they liked them.) On the same day, the newspapers reveal that the head of the Church of England has requested that the group write a Christmas song.

1964: The NBC-TV variety show Shindig! features the Supremes (who sing "Baby Love" and "Come See About Me") and the Righteous Brothers (who perform "Little Latin Lupe Lu").

Beatles press officer Brian Sommerville informs Paul Nathan, an associate of Elvis Presley film producer Hal Wallis, that the group are huge fans of the King and would love to appear at the end of Elvis' next Paramount picture (which would turn out to be 1966's Paradise, Hawaiian Style). The deal is never finalized.

1968: The Bee Gees cancel a concert in Germany after Barry and Robin contract tonsillitis.

Randy Meisner, Jim Messina, Richie Furay, George Grantham, and Rusty Young, folk-rock vets of the Los Angeles scene, debut at the Troubadour under the name Pogo, in honor of Walt Kelly's famous comic strip character. When Kelly files suit later, however, the group is forced to change to the similar-sounding Poco. The members would later go on to even greater success as members of The Eagles, Loggins and Messina, and the Souther-Hillman-Furay Band.

1970: Jerry Lee Lewis divorces his wife (and cousin) Myra Brown in Memphis after 14 years of marriage.

Elvis Presley meets actor Paul Frees in Los Angeles and notices Frees' BNDD (Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs) badge. Elvis becomes determined to acquire one for himself.

1972: Bill Withers sings his recent hits "Lean On Me" and "Use Me" on the syndicated dance show Soul Train.

1975: Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen are guest stars on tonight's "Glitter With A Bullet" episode of NBC-TV's Police Woman.

Bruce Springsteen performs his first UK concert, at London's Hammersmith Odeon. Unfortunately, it was a subpar show, due to his disgust at the hype surrounding his new celebrity: upon seeing official show posters in the lobby declaring "Finally the world is ready for Bruce Springsteen," he rips them down.

1979: Chuck Berry is released from California's Lompoc Prison farm after serving a four-month sentence for tax evasion.

1990: Paul McCartney's birth certificate is auctioned off for $18,000.

1994: The Rolling Stones become the first rock act to stream a live concert on the Internet, broadcasting twenty minutes of a show from Dallas, TX.

1997: John Denver's last recordings are released as The Unplugged Collection, a selection of stripped-down acoustic performances of his hits.

In Bristol, England, Gary Glitter is detained and questioned by police after a computer store repairing the glam star's computer found it loaded with child pornography.

1998: Mick Jagger and model/actress Jerry Hall separate eight years to the day after their marriage in Bali when Brazilian model Luciana Morad names Jagger as the father of her unborn child.

2002: Bill Wyman, former Rolling Stones bassist, sends a cease and desist letter to a writer for theAtlanta Journal-Constitution bearing the same name, which the writer was born under in 1961, on grounds that it violated the copyright of the bassist Wyman, who legally took the name at age 28 in 1964. Needless to say, no lawsuit is ever filed.

2003: Apple releases The Beatles' "de-Spectorized" version of their classic Let It Be album, entitled Let It Be... Naked.

The original handwritten John Lennon lyrics to the Beatles' "Nowhere Man" are auctioned at Christie's of New York for $300,000.

Acting on the sexual abuse allegations of a 12-year-old boy who had visited the home, approximately 70 members of California's Santa Barbara County sheriff's and district attorney's offices raid Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch. The singer is in Vegas filming a video at the time.

2005: The acclaimed Johnny Cash biopic Walk The Line opens in US theaters.

Recording

1957: Ricky Nelson: "Stood Up," "Waitin' In School"
1968: The Spiral Starecase, "More Today Than Yesterday"

Charts

1950: Sammy Kaye's "Harbor Lights" hits #1
1972: Steely Dan's "Do It Again" enters the pop charts
1972: Stevie Wonder's "Superstition" enters the pop charts
1972: Cat Stevens' Catch Bull at Four album hits #1
1978: Billy Joel's 52nd Street album hits #1

Certifications

1968: The Jimi Hendrix Experience's Electric Ladyland album is certified gold
1968: Glen Campbell's "By The Time I Get To Phoenix" and "Gentle On My Mind" are certified gold
1975: John Denver's "I'm Sorry" is certified gold

[Rick]

On November 19th in music history:

Births

1905: Tommy Dorsey
1934: Dave Guard (The Kingston Trio)
1937: Ray Collins (The Mothers of Invention)
1938: Hank Medress (The Tokens)
1939: Pete Moore (Smokey Robinson and the Miracles)
1943: Fred Lipsius (Blood, Sweat and Tears)
1946: Joe Correro Jr. (Paul Revere and The Raiders)
1954: Annette Guest (First Choice)

Deaths

1983: Tom Evens (Badfinger)
1995: Alan Hull (Lindisfarne)
2003: Greg Ridley (Humble Pie)
2004: Terry Melcher

Events

1954: While driving from Vegas to Los Angeles, Sammy Davis, Jr. crashes into another car on Route 66 San Bernadino, CA, and three days later, permanently loses use of his left eye. While in the hospital, friend Eddie Cantor tells Davis about the twin struggles of the Jewish and African-Americans, leading Davis to convert to Judaism. (The accident, paradoxically, increased his popularity.)

1957: Chicago radio station WCFL is picketed by the local chapter of the Elvis Presley fan club when it bans Presley's records. Nevertheless, the station doesn't flinch.

1959: An unnamed RCA executive tells reporters that, when he returns from the Army, Elvis Presley's music will be very different than the rock and roll he performed previously. Manager Colonel Tom Parker rushes to issue an official denial to fans.

1960: While in Los Angeles during the filming of his seventh movie, Wild In The Country, Elvis Presley suffers a bit of road rage, pulling a gun on a group of passengers in another car who had supposedly insulted him. 1965: At the Glad Rags Ball in London, the Who's lead singer Roger Daltrey, storms off stage in the middle of a set plagued with PA problems. Rumors of a Who breakup spread quickly through London with most of them naming Boz Burrell (King Crimson and Bad Company) as Daltrey's possible replacement.

1968: Onstage with the Supremes at the Royal Command Variety Performance in London, Diana Ross interrupts the show with a plea for greater interracial understanding. She receives a two-minute ovation from the audience, which includes members of the royal family. Queen Elizabeth II herself stands after Ross' moving performance of West Side Story's "Somewhere."

1971: B.B. King marks his 25th anniversary in show business with a European tour, beginning today in London.

1973: Led Zeppelin begin recording the demos for their new album, Physical Graffiti, including a new song entitled "Driving To Kashmir."

1977: The Frank Sinatra TV-movie Contract On Cherry Street airs on NBC.

1983: Tina Turner begins her fabled Eighties comeback when her version of Al Green's "Let's Stay Together," produced by of Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh of Heaven 17, hits the British charts. Its subsequent success would lead to her stateside deal with records.

1991: Paul McCartney's first classical piece, Liverpool Oratorio, is performed in America for the first time, at New York's Carnegie Hall.

1992: Linda Ronstadt is the guest star on tonight's "Mr. Plow" episode of Fox-TV's The Simpsons.

1995: The first installment of The Beatles Anthology documentary airs on ABC.

Frank Sinatra's all-star 80th birthday tribute is held in the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, featuring Bob Dylan performing "Restless Farewell" (at the request of Sinatra; Dylan had wanted to perform Frank's own "That's Life") and Paula Abdul singing "Luck Be A Lady." Afterwards, Dylan and fellow performer Bruce Springsteen, along with Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme, are invited back to the crooner's home.

1997: A "serious but stable" Johnny Cash is admitted to Nashville's Baptist Hospital after coming down with double pneumonia.

2002: While greeting fans from a fifth-floor hotel balcony in Berlin, Michael Jackson shocks the world by dangling his newborn son Prince Michael II over the side of the railing.

2003: An arrest warrant is issued on Los Angeles for Michael Jackson, due to recent charges of child molestation. The singer, phoning from Vegas where he is filming a video, convinces authorities to wait for his return to stand trial.

2006: The ill-fated Dylan musical tribute The Times They Are A-Changin' closes on Broadway after a scant 28 showings.

2007: Queen guitarist Brian May is named Chancellor of Liverpool's John Moores University.

2007: At Caroline Kennedy's 50th birthday party, guest performer Neil Diamond reveals that his 1970 hit "Sweet Caroline" was actually written about her.

Releases

1995: The Beatles, Anthology I

Recording

1943: Stan Kenton and His Orchestra, "Artistry in Rhythm"
1955: Carl Perkins, "Blue Suede Shoes"
1964: Gary Lewis and the Playboys, "This Diamond Ring"
1964: Bobby Goldsboro, "Little Things"
1975: The J. Geils Band, Blow Your Face Out

Charts

1960: Ray Charles' "Georgia on My Mind" hits #1
1966: The Supremes' "You Keep Me Hanging On" hits #1

Certifications

1976: Van Morrison's Moondance album is certified gold

[Rick]

On November 20th in music history:

Births

1925: June Christy
1940: Tony Butalo (The Lettermen)
1942: Norman Greenbaum
1944: Mike Vernon
1946: Duane Allman (The Allman Brothers, Derek and the Dominoes)
1946: Roy Stiles (Mud)
1947: Joe Walsh (The Eagles)
1947: George Grantham (Poco)
1950: Gary Green (Gentle Giant)

Deaths

1973: Allan Sherman
1998: Roland Alphonso (The Skatalites)

Events

1955: At New York City's Warwick Hotel, Sun Records owner and producer Sam Phillips sells Elvis Presley's contract to RCA for an unheard-of $35,000, at that time the largest amount ever paid to sign a recording artist. Elvis receives $13,500 of the total; Phillips invests his share in a local hotel chain called the Holiday Inn.

After agreeing to perform Tennessee Ernie Ford's hit "Sixteen Tons" on CBS-TV's Ed Sullivan Show, Bo Diddley instead plays the song he was actually there to promote, his own hit "Bo Diddley." A furious Sullivan blackballs Bo from ever appearing on the show again. The singer has claimed he was never paid for the performance.

1959: In a movie that will trigger his eventual downfall, highly influential DJ Alan Freed is fired from New York's WABC-TV after refusing to sign a statement saying he had never accepted "payola," or gifts in exchange for airplay. (He had, and so had most jockeys.)

1961: Billboard reports on the stunning popularity of the "Twist" craze: three separate films, starring Chubby Checker, Joey Dee and the Starlighters, and Dion, are scheduled for production, and New York television station WOR is airing hourly twist lessons of between one and five minutes, also featuring Checker.

1964: John Lennon acts out his own "Deaf Ted, Danoota, (and me)," taken from his recent book of whimsy In His Own Write, for later broadcast on BBC's comedy show Not Only... But Also, assisted by Dudley Moore and Norman Rossington.

1966: The Kander-Ebb musical Cabaret, featuring Joel Grey and Bert Convy, opens on Broadway.

1968: Janis Joplin manager Albert Grossman approaches Mike Bloomfield and Nick Gravenites about creating her new backup group, which will eventually be known as the Kozmic Blues Band.

1970: The Kinks' Ray Davies flies to London to re-record a section of the lead vocals for the group's latest single, "Apeman." Radio stations are objecting to the line "The air pollution is foggin' up my eyes," claiming "foggin'" sounds too much like another f-word.

1973: 19-year-old Who fan Scot Halpin has his dream come true when the group invites him onstage to play the last three songs of their set at San Francisco's Cow Palace. Drummer Keith Moon, who was said to be suffering from "jet lag," was in a near-coma after ingesting seven horse tranquilizers and passing out on his kit. Halpin performs "Smokestack Lightning," "Spoonful," and "Naked Eye" with the group, then takes a bow with them. Later. Rolling Stone awards Halpin their "Pick-Up Player Of The Year Award."

1975: Bay City Rollers lead singer Les McKeown is found not guilty of vehicular homicide after striking and killing 76-year-old Euphemia Clunie with his car the previous May, after it was ruled that Clunie was walking very erratically while crossing the street. The singer is, however, charged with reckless driving, fined 150 pounds, and has his license suspended for a year.

George Harrison and Paul Simon duet on "Homeward Bound" and "Here Comes The Sun" in pre-recorded versions aired on tonight's episode of NBC-TV's Saturday Night Live. Harrison also does an opening sketch where he asks for his quarter of the famous $3000 offered by show producer Lorne Michaels, earlier in the year, for the Beatles to reunite.

1984: Michael Jackson is awarded a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame directly in from of Mann's famous Chinese Theatre, creating the largest-ever crowd for such an unveiling.

1991: Randy Jackson of the Jacksons is sentenced to a month in a Los Angeles jail for violating his probation for spousal abuse.

1993: August, GA mayor Charles DeVaney re-dedicates the city's Ninth Street as "James Brown Boulevard" in honor of its native son.

1994: Former Byrds and CSNY member David Crosby receives a liver transplant.

1997: Paul McCartney tapes an interview and live performance of "Flaming Pie" and "Young Boy" for the syndicated Oprah Winfrey Show.

2001: Charlie Daniels undergoes surgery in Nashville for prostate cancer.

2002: Stevie Wonder threatens to sue his mother, Lula Hardaway, for a passage in her new autobiography where she claims Stevie lost his virginity to a prostitute. The story was deleted from future copies.

2003: Famed "Wall of Sound" producer Phil Spector is formally charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of b-movie actress Lana Clarkson at his Los Angeles home. Spector enters a plea of "not guilty."

After returning to his Neverland home after a raid on it a few days before, and in response to an arrest warrant, Michael Jackson is charged with child molestation in Santa Barbara, CA. The singer is immediately released after posting three million dollars' bail.

The Dells, George Harrison, Bob Seger, Traffic, ZZ Top, Jackson Browne, and Prince are revealed as the inductees for the 19th annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Releases

1967: Arlo Guthrie, Alice's Restaurant
1967: The Beach Boys, Smiley Smile

Recording

1929: Leo Reisman, "Happy Days Are Here Again"
1961: Bob Dylan: "You're No Good," "Fixin' To Die," "House Of The Risin' Sun," "Talking New York," "Song To Woody," "Baby, Let Me Follow You Down," "In My Time of Dyin'"

Charts

1965: The Supremes' "I Hear A Symphony" hits #1
1971: Isaac Hayes' "Theme From Shaft" hits #1

Happy 65th Birthday to Joe Walsh!! [^]

[Rick]

On November 21st in music history:

Births

1904: Coleman Hawkins
1907: Buck Ram
1933: Jean Shepard
1940: Dr. John
1941: David Porter
1942: Andrew Love (The Memphis Horns)
1948: Lonnie Jordan (War)
1949: Randy Zehringer
1950: Livingston Taylor
1952: Lorna Luft

Deaths

1965: Bill Black
1973: Allan Sherman
1999: Alvin Cash
2002: Hadda Brooks
2003: Teddy Randazzo
2007: Bob Relf (Bob and Earl)

Events

1877: Thomas A. Edison unveils his new "talking machine," later dubbed the phonograph, to a gathering of friends and colleagues.

1934: The Cole Porter musical Anything Goes opens on Broadway at the Alvin Theatre.

1944: The Mutual radio network broadcasts the first episode of The Roy Rogers Show, also featuring the Whippoorwills and The Sons Of The Pioneers.

1960: The Beatles' George Harrison, then just seventeen, is deported from Hamburg, Germany, where the group had been performing at the Kaiserkeller club, back to his native England. Historians typically blame the club's owner, Bruno Koschmider, who may have tipped the authorities to George's age; the Beatles had broken his exclusive contract by playing in other venues, then returned to their rooms in one of his other venues and set it on fire in protest of being canned.

Ray Charles has four singles on the Billboard Hot 100 chart today: "Georgia on My Mind" at #5, "Ruby" at #51, "Hard Hearted Hannah" at #66, and "Come Rain Or Come Shine" at #95.

1962: Elvis Presley's 11th film, Girls! Girls! Girls!, opens in US theaters.

1968: With girlfriend Yoko Ono about to miscarry their first son, John Ono Lennon II, John Lennon asks for a tape recorder to be brought to the hospital so that he can record the baby's dying heartbeat. Later that day, Yoko miscarries; the baby is buried in a secret location and the recording appears on the duo's album Unfinished Music No. 2: Life With The Lions as a track called "Baby's Heartbeat," followed by "Two Minutes Silence" for his death.

1974: Wilson Pickett is arrested in New York for illegal possession of a firearm after pulling a gun on someone during an argument.

After years of estrangement, Marty Balin is convinced to reunite with the Jefferson Airplane -- now named Jefferson Starship -- onstage at the Winterland ballroom in San Francisco, paving the way for his official reinvolvement with the band on Red Octopus.

1975: Elton John is awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in conjunction with an "Elton John Week" being declared in Los Angeles.

1980: The Eagles' Don Henley is arrested in Los Angeles and charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor when paramedics are called to his home to save a sixteen-year-old girl overdosing on cocaine and Quaaludes. He is fined $2,000 and given two years' probation.

1982: Joni Mitchell marries her bass player, Larry Klein, at manager Elliot Roberts' home in Malibu, CA.

1990: After a decade-long relationship, Mick Jagger marries model/actress Jerry Hall in a six-hour ceremony on the island of Bali. Eight years later, almost to the day, their marriage would be annulled after a judge rules the couple were never registered with authorities (and after Hall learns that Jagger is the father of someone else's child).

1991: Aerosmith guest stars on tonight's "Flaming Moe" episode of Fox-TV's The Simpsons.

2001: Jonathan King (of "Everyone's Gone To The Moon" fame) is sentenced to seven years in prison for a series of sexual assaults on teenage boys between 1982 and 1987.

2003: The acoustic guitar on which George Harrison learned how to play is sold at a London auction for 276,000 pounds. The original price of the guitar: three and one-half pounds.

The Los Angeles Times reports that Phil Spector's chauffeur heard him say, "I think I killed somebody," after the shooting death of b-movie actress Lana Clarkson in his Alhambra, CA home.

Releases

1967: The Who, The Who Sell Out

Recording

1944: Harry James, "I’m Beginning To See The Light"

Charts

1953: Tony Bennett's "Rags To Riches" hits #1
1960: Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs' "Stay" hits #1
1964: Marvin Gaye's "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)" enters the charts
1970: The Partridge Family's "I Think I Love You" hits #1

[Rick]

On this Thanksgiving Day in music history:

Births

1899: Hoagy Carmichael
1940: Davey Graham
1941: Terry Stafford
1942: Steve Caldwell (The Orlons)
1943: Floyd Sneed (Three Dog Night)
1944: Jesse Colin Young (The Youngbloods)
1946: Aston "Family Man" Barrett (Bob Marley and the Wailers)
1947: Rod Price (Foghat)
1947: Sonny Geraci (The Outsiders, Climax)
1948: Dennis Larden (Every Mother's Son)
1950: "Miami" Steve "Little Steven" Van Zandt (Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band)
1954: Craig Hundley

Deaths

1988: Janet Ertel (The Chordettes)

Events

1899: The world's first radio company, the Marconi Wireless Company of America, is incorporated in New Jersey.

1955: Elvis Presley sends a telegram to his new manager, Colonel Tom Parker, which reads: "Dear Colonel, Words can never tell you how my folks and I appreciate what you did for me. I've always known and now my folks are assured that you are the best, most wonderful person I could ever hope to work with. Believe me when I say I will stick with you through thick and thin and do everything I can to uphold your faith in me. Again, I say thanks and I love you like a father."

1957: Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel make their first appearance on ABC-TV's dance show American Bandstand -- in their earlier incarnation as Tom and Jerry, playing their minor hit "Hey Little Schoolgirl."

1963: President John F. Kennedy's motorcade passes through Dallas, TX, on its way to the Dallas Trade Mart, where he is to give an important speech. Three blocks before it reaches Dealey Plaza, it passes a rehearsal hall where the "Caravan of Stars" tour performers -- Dale and Grace, Brian Hyland, Bobby Vee, and Jimmy Clanton -- are preparing for that evening's show. All wave to the President.

1965: Bob Dylan marries his first wife, Sara Lowndes, in Nassau County, NY; as she is already pregnant with his first child, the marriage is kept a secret for the next two months. The couple would divorce in 1977.

The musical Man Of La Mancha, starring Richard Kiley, opens on Broadway.

1968: In Ireland, singer Marianne Faithfull, heavily addicted to cocaine, miscarries what was to be her second child, fathered by boyfriend Mick Jagger.

1976: Jerry Lee Lewis is arrested for drunk driving in Memphis after driving his Rolls Royce into a ditch.

1979: After a painful, self-imposed three-month exile from show business following the shocking suicide of his friend, comedian Freddie Prinze, Tony Orlando returns to the concert stage, appearing at a show in San Carlos, CA.

1981: During Muddy Waters' gig at the Checkerboard Lounge in Chicago, the legendary bluesman is joined onstage by the Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and Ron Wood, currently touring through the Midwest.

1990: The Rolling Stones' Bill Wyman announces the dissolution of his year-and-a-half-long marriage to model Mandy Smith. It was the third marriage for Wyman and the first for Smith, who was 34 years his junior. (The duo had begun dating when she was 13!) In an even more stunning development, Wyman's 30-year-old son soon married Mandy's mother, who was 16 years older than him, which, if Bill had remained married, would have made him his own grandfather.

2002: Ex-Doors members Ray Manzarek and Robby Krieger announce they will reform the band for the first time in 27 years, replacing original drummer John Densmore (suffering from hearing loss) with the Police's Stuart Copeland and replacing original frontman Jim Morrison with soundalike Ian Astbury of the Cult.

2003: ZZ Top plays the final show at Houston, TX's Compaq Center before it is closed down; the native band had played there when it was The Summit, back in November of 1975. The venue later reopens as Pastor Joel Osteen's mega-church.)

2005: Sixteen pages of poetry written by University of Minnesota student Robert Zimmerman -- using his new name, Bob Dylan, for the first time -- are auctioned off for $78,000 in New York.

2006: After decades of living in California, Fleetwood Mac drummer Mick Fleetwood is finally naturalized as a citizen of the United States.

Releases

1963: Phil Spector, A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector
1963: The Beatles, With The Beatles
1968: Elvis Presley, Elvis NBC-TV Special
1968: The Beatles, The Beatles
1982: Led Zeppelin, Coda

Recording

1938: Bunny Berigan, "Jelly Roll Blues"
1961: Bob Dylan: "Man Of Constant Sorrow," "Pretty Peggy-O," "See That My Grave Is Kept Clean," "Gospel Plow," "Highway 51," "Freight Train Blues"

Charts

1952: Johnny Standley's "It's In The Book" hits #1
1975: Barry Manilow's "I Write The Songs" enters the charts
1975: KC and the Sunshine Band's "That's The Way (I Like It)" hits #1

Certifications

1979: Debby Boone's "You Light Up My Life" is certified platinum

Happy Thanksgiving to all forum members (and guests)!! [<)]

Also, 49 years ago today:

[chariedove]

Wow! Learned so much from this one. Thanks.

[Rick]

On November 23rd in music history:

Births

1888: Harpo Marx
1928: Jerry Bock
1931: Gloria Lynne
1933: Krzysztof Penderecki
1939: Betty Everett

Deaths

1992: Roy Acuff
1994: Tommy Boyce
2001: O.C. Smith

Events

1899: The Palais Royal Hotel in San Francisco installs the first coin-operated machine destined to be known as a "jukebox," in this case a crude slot-machine apparatus connected to an actual Edison phonograph. At a then-princely nickel a song, it nevertheless took in one thousand dollars in six months' time.

1956: A sheet metal worker in Toledo, OH is arrested for punching Elvis Presley in a bar after the man discovers Elvis' picture in his wife's wallet.

1960: Elvis' fifth film, G.I. Blues, is released in US theaters, just six years to the day before his 22nd,Spinout!

1964: The Rolling Stones are banned from the BBC for, of all things, unprofessionalism, the band having arrived late twice to perform on the radio shows Saturday Club and Top Gear.

1967: AM radio receives a blow to its self-esteem when San Francisco KMPX-FM disc jockey Tom Donahue, inventor of "classic rock" and "deep cut" radio, tells Rolling Stone: "Top Forty radio, as we know it today and have known it for the last ten years, is dead, and its rotting corpse is stinking up the airwaves."

1968: NBC-TV airs the musical special The Cowsills: A Family Thing, also starring Buddy Ebsen.

Led Zeppelin signs to the Atlantic label after being guided there by... Dusty Springfield?

1972: Bob Dylan goes to Durango, CO, to begin work on his role in Sam Peckinpah's next movie,Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid.

1974: UK pop-rock band Spooky Tooth call it quits. Though only a cult hit in the US (and virtually unknown at home), their members will all go on to fame: Gary Wright with "Dream Weaver," Mick Jones as the guitarist for Foreigner, Henry McCullough as one of the guitarists for Wings (he does the solo on "My Love"), and Chris Stainton as an Eric Clapton sideman.

1976: Jerry Lee Lewis visits Elvis Presley's Memphis home, Graceland, very early in the morning and is told that Elvis is asleep. He drives off in a huff but returns after sunrise, invited there by The King himself. Unfortunately, one of Elvis' security guards hasn't been told, and when Jerry Lee is refused permission to enter, he allegedly brandishes a gun and claims he's come to kill Presley. Lewis, who later claimed he was making a sarcastic joke, is promptly arrested.

1979: Marianne Faithfull is arrested for possession of marijuana at the airport in Oslo, Norway, but released after signing a confession.

1994: Michael Jackson is cleared in a paternity suit after DNA results proved he was NOT the father.

1998: The world's first portable mp3 player goes on sale, despite strenuous objections from the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America). The Diamond Rio PMP300, which cost $200, could play about a dozen songs.

2000: Jonathan King is arrested for having had sex with five boys under the age of 16 from 1983-1989. He would eventually be sentenced to seven years in prison.

2002: Otis Redding's widow and former manager sue Scott Freeman, author of a 2001 biography of the late soul singer that mentioned rumors to the effect that Redding's then-manager caused his plane to crash in 1967, with a little help from the mob, in order to collect on his life insurance.

Releases

1964: The Beatles, "I Feel Fine" b/w "She's A Woman"

Recording

1936: Robert Johnson, "Kind Hearted Woman Blues," "I Believe I'll Dust My Broom," "Sweet Home Chicago," "Ramblin' On My Mind," "When You Got A Good Friend," "Come On In My Kitchen," "Terraplane Blues," "Phonograph Blues"

Charts

1963: Dale and Grace's "I'm Leaving It Up To You" hits #1
1974: Billy Swan's "I Can Help" hits #1

[Rick]

On November 24th in music history:

Births

1868: Scott Joplin
1912: Teddy Wilson
1925: Al Cohn
1929: Eileen Barton
1932: Tommy Allsup (The Crickets)
1939: Jim Yester (The Association)
1940: Johnny Carver
1941: Donald "Duck" Dunn (Booker T. and the MGs)
1941: Pete Best (The Beatles)
1942: Billy Connolly
1943: Richard Tee
1943: Robin Williamson (The Incredible String Band)
1944: Bob Lind
1944: Bev Bevan (The Move, Electric Light Orchestra)
1945: Lee Michaels

Deaths

1985: Big Joe Turner
1991: Freddie Mercury
1993: Albert Collins
1995: Junior Walker (Jr. Walker and the All Stars)

Events

1950: The musical comedy Guys and Dolls premieres on Broadway at the 46th Street Theatre.

1957: Harry Belafonte's "Mary's Boy Child" becomes the first single to sell a million copies in the UK. It stayed at Number One for an unheard-of seven weeks and has since become a perennial UK Christmas favorite.

1959: Teen heartthrob Johnnie Ray is arrested in London for soliciting an undercover officer in a gay bar. (He is later found not guilty.)

1961: In yet another important development for British blues-rock, Chicago blues legend Howlin' Wolf makes his first appearance in the UK, touring behind his latest single, "Little Baby."

1962: Ex-Beatles drummer Pete Best, sacked from the group three months previously, nevertheless receives a birthday telegram from the band and manager Brian Epstein wishing him "all the best."

1964: The Who, until recently the High Numbers, perform their first gig under the new name at London's Marquee Club, promising what the posters famously call "Maximum R&B."

The UK's first commercial radio station, Radio Manx, begins broadcasting from the Isle of Man.

1965: NBC-TV airs the musical special Frank Sinatra: A Man And His Music.

1966: Kansas City, MO police lock horns with rioting teenagers at a James Brown concert after officials stop the show due to Brown's "obscene dances."

1972: ABC-TV's Don Kirshner-produced In Concert, the network's weekly late-night answer to NBC's Midnight Special, debuts. The initial episode features musical performances by Chuck Berry, Alice Cooper, Blood, Sweat and Tears, The Allman Brothers, and Poco.

1974: In the midst of his infamous "Lost Weekend," John Lennon rehearses with Elton John for Elton's upcoming Madison Square Garden performance, at which Lennon will make a surprise cameo.

1978: In a clear prelude to his coming "Christian" direction, the Jewish-born Bob Dylan plays tonight's gig in Fort Worth, TX wearing a large gold cross around his neck.

1991: An ordained Little Richard marries singer Cyndi Lauper and actor David Thornton in New York, then sticks around to play at the reception.

2003: Glen Campbell is arrested for drunk driving and hit-and-run charges in Phoenix, AZ, after crashing his BMW into another car at another intersection and continuing on. The 67-year-old Campbell, who is sentenced to ten days in jail, allegedly knees an officer's groin during the arrest.

Releases

1958: Jackie Wilson, "Lonely Teardrops"
1958: Ritchie Valens, "Donna" b/w "La Bamba"

Recording

1937: The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schön"
1965: The Young Rascals, "Good Lovin'"
1966: The Beatles, "Strawberry Fields Forever"

Charts

1958: The Kingston Trio's LP The Kingston Trio hits #1
1973: Ringo Starr's "Photograph" hits #1
1978: Barbra Streisand and Donna Summer's "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)" hits #1

[Rick]

On November 25th in music history:

Births

1931: Nat Adderley
1941: Percy Sledge
1943: Roy Lines (Status Quo)
1944: Bev Bevan (Electric Light Orchestra)
1944: Bob Lind
1947: Val Fuentes (It's A Beautiful Day)

Deaths

1970: Albert Ayler
1974: Nick Drake
1997: Fenton Robinson

Events

1957: Gene Vincent and the Blue Caps make their US television debut, performing "Lotta Loving" and "Dance to the Bop" on CBS' Ed Sullivan Show.

An article in Billboard claims, perhaps presumptively, that the era of the "package tour" is dead, with rock and roll artists feeling they can take a bigger cut from individual "record hops."

1961: The Everly Brothers join the 8th Battalion of the US Marine Corps Reserve, arriving at California's Camp Pendleton.

1965: London's famed department store, Harrods, opens for the Beatles for two hours after closing time in order to allow the members of the group to do their Christmas shopping.

1966: The Jimi Hendrix Experience makes its stage debut in front of a celebrity-filled audience at London's Bag O'Nails club.

1968: CBS-TV airs the Frank Sinatra special Francis Albert Sinatra Does His Thing, featuring Diahann Carroll and The 5th Dimension.

Cream play their last concert at London's Royal Albert Hall to a fanatic crowd of over 10,000 who chant "God save the Cream" as the group leaves the stage.

1969: As a protest against Britain's military involvement in foreign conflicts, John Lennon returns his MBE (Member of the British Empire) medal, with an attached letter that reads, puckishly, "Your Majesty, I am returning this MBE in protest against Britain's involvement in the Nigeria-Biafra thing, against our support of America in Vietnam, and against 'Cold Turkey' slipping down the charts. With love, John Lennon of Bag."

1971: Rolling Stone quotes the surviving members of the Doors as saying they intend to continue on as a trio despite the loss of lead singer Jim Morrison.

1972: Hollies lead singer Allan Clarke announces that he's leaving the group. (It doesn't take.)

1975: Deep in debt, Elvis Presley takes out a $350,000 loan from the National Bank of Commerce in Memphis, TN. His Graceland estate is put up as collateral.

1976: The Band and what seems like several dozen of the music industry's biggest stars perform at San Francisco's Winterland Ballroom for what is announced as the group's last performance. The show is filmed and will go on to be released as Martin Scorsese's acclaimed biopic The Last Waltz.

1988: Having successfully completed their stint in an Arizona rehab clinic, Ringo Starr returns to England with his second wife, actress Barbara Bach.

1997: The original Zombies lineup -- Rod Argent on organ, Colin Blunstone on vocals, Paul Atkinson on guitar, Chris White on bass, and Hugh Grundy on drums -- reunites onstage for the first time in 30 years at London's Jazz Cafe, performing two songs only: "She's Not There" and "Time Of The Season" to promote their new box set Zombie Heaven.

2000: An unidentified thief burgles Alice Cooper's home in Paradise Valley, CA, stealing $6,000 of his daughter's clothes and electronics as well as four of Alice's gold records.

Recording

1959: Jack Scott, "What In The World's Come Over You"
1966: The Beatles' Fourth Christmas Album
1968: Elvis Presley: "Let's Forget About The Stars," "Charro"

Charts

1949: Gene Autry's "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer" enters the pop charts
1967: The Strawberry Alarm Clock's "Incense and Peppermints" hits #1

[Rick]

On November 26th in music history:

Births

1917: Nesuhi Ertegun
1925: Michael Holliday
1933: Robert Goulet
1935: Marian Mercer
1938: Ray Brown (The Four Freshmen)
1938: Tina Turner
1944: Alan Henderson (Them)
1944: Jean Terrell (The Supremes)
1945: John McVie (Fleetwood Mac)
1946: Burt Ruiter (Focus)
1948: John Rossall (The Glitter Band)
1949: Gayle McCormick (Smith)
1949: Martin Lee (Brotherhood Of Man)

Deaths

1956: Tommy Dorsey
1973: John Rostill (The Shadows)
2000: Frank Smith (The Monotones)
2003: James Carter
2006: Tony Sylvester (The Main Ingredient)

Events

1954: Elvis Presley, on tour, sends a telegram to his parents: "Hi babies, here's the money to pay the bills, don't tell no one how much I sent I will send more next week. There is a card in the mail. Love Elvis."

1955: Bill Haley's "Rock Around The Clock" becomes the first rock and roll record to hit #1 in the UK.

1959: Connie Francis plays the "Cinderella Queen" in today's Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

1967: The new promotional video clip for the Beatles', new single, "Hello Goodbye," is aired on tonight's episode of CBS-TV's Ed Sullivan Show.

1969: John Lennon spends the afternoon in the Abbey Road studios, mixing the Beatles songs "What's The New Mary Jane" and "You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)" for release as two sides of a Plastic Ono Band single. When this falls through, "Number" gets released as the b-side to the Beatles' "Let It Be" single, making this the last time John Lennon was in the studio working on a Beatles song.

1973: The New York Dolls make their live debut, fittingly enough, at Biba's Rainbow Room in London, a club situated on the top floor of a trendy fashion store.

1976: Lol Creme and Kevin Godley quit the group 10CC, leaving it a duo.

1979: In London, Bill Haley, on what would be his last tour of the UK, plays for Britain's Queen Elizabeth II at the Royal Command Performance.

1980: The movie Rockshow, a documentary of Paul McCartney's 1976 "Wings Over America" tour, premieres in New York.

1982: Miles Davis enters into his third marriage, this time with actress Cicely Tyson in New York City. Best man: Bill Cosby.

1991: ABC-TV airs the musical special The Gladys Knight Holiday Family Reunion, also starring Dionne Warwick, Melba Moore, and the Winans.

2001: Elton John is the guest star on tonight's "I Want Love" episode of Fox-TV's Ally McBeal.

At the Queen's Royal Command Performance in London, Elton John, Cher and Donny Osmond perform for Queen Elizabeth II.

2002: Actor and major Elvis fan Nicholas Cage divorces Lisa Marie Presley after less than four months, citing "irreconcilable differences."

After nearly forty years, the Statler Brothers play their last concert ever at the Civic Center in Salem, VA.

Recording

1940: Xavier Cugat, "Orchids In The Moonlight"
1962: The Beatles: "Please Please Me," "Ask Me Why"
1964: The Zombies, "Tell Her No"

Charts

1955: Johnny Cash's "Cry! Cry! Cry!" enters the country charts

1955: Tennessee Ernie Ford's "Sixteen Tons" hits #1
1966: Wilson Pickett's "Mustang Sally" enters the pop charts
1966: The Temptations "I'm Losing You" enters the R&B charts
1974: Elton John's LP Greatest Hits hits #1

Certifications

1969: The Band album is certified gold

[Rick]

On November 27th in music history:

Births

1917: "Buffalo" Bob Smith
1925: Derroll Adams
1934: Al Jackson (Booker T. and the MGs)
1941: Eddie Rabbitt
1942: Jimi Hendrix
1944: Dozy (Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich)

Deaths

1973: Johnny Widener

Events

1964: Mick Jagger is fined 16 pounds for driving offenses in Totenhall, England.

1965: Author Ken Kesey and his band of "Merry Pranksters" hold the first "Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" in San Francisco.

1981: The British Phonographic Industry, backed by musicians like Elton John, Cliff Richard, and 10cc, places advertisements in the British press claiming "Home taping is wiping out music."

1995: The Beatles' Anthology I sets a first-week sales record of 1.2 million copies.

Releases

1965: The Lovin' Spoonful, "You Didn't Have To Be So Nice"
1967: The Beatles, Magical Mystery Tour (US LP)
1967: The Beatles, "Hello Goodbye" b/w "I Am The Walrus"
1976: Queen, "Somebody To Love"

Recording

1926: Louis Armstrong, "You Made Me Love You"
1935: Ginger Rogers and Johnny Mercer, "Eeny Meeny Miney Mo"
1969: The Rolling Stones, Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!

Certifications

1967: The Association's "Never My Love" is certified gold
1968: The Steppenwolf album is certified gold
1974: Carl Douglas' "Kung Fu Fighting" is certified gold

Jimi Hendrix would have turned 70 today