... and more November 2 birthdays –
“Charmin” Kay Armen (aka Armenuhi Manoogian, 1915) – singer on Stop
The Music.
Charlie Walker (1926) – Country musician (“Pick Me Up On Your Way
Down”).
Earl Carroll (1937) – The Cadillacs (“Speedo”).
Brian Poole (1941) – Brian Poole and The Tremeloes.
Bruce Welch (aka Bruce Cripps, 1941) – guitarist for The Shadows.
Jay Black (aka David Blatt, 1941) – Jay and The Americans.
John David "J.D." Souther (1945)
Leonard “Chip” Hawkes (1945) – bassist for Brian Poole and The
Tremeloes.
Maxine Nightingale (1952) – British singer ("Right Back Where We
Started From").
Carter Beauford (1957) – drummer for The Dave Matthews Band.
k.d. lang (aka Kathryn Lang, 1961) – Canadian singer.
Bobby Dall (1963) – bassist for Poison.
Reginald “Fieldy” Arvizu (1969) – bassist for Korn.
Nelly (aka Cornell Haynes, Jr., 1974) – rapper.
Chris Walla (1975) – guitarist for Death Cab For Cutie.November 2 R.I.P. – Mississippi John Hurt (1966) – heart attack. Age 73. Blues singer/ guitarist. Mort Shuman (1991) – complications from liver surgery. Age 54. Songwriter (“Viva Las Vegas”). Florence Greenberg (1995) – heart failure. Age 82. Record executive, Tiara Records, Wand Records. Eva Cassidy (1996) – melanoma. Age 33. Jazz/blues/R&B singer/ guitarist. Oby “Buddy” Starcher (2001) – Country singer (“History Repeats Itself”). November 2 album releases – Cream – Disraeli Gears (1967) John Lennon – Mind Games (1973) U.S. Ringo Starr – Ringo (1973) U.S. The Police – Outlandos d’Amour (1978) Rory Gallagher – Stage Struck (1980) Neil Young and Crazy Horse – re-ac-tor (1981) Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers – Long After Dark (1982) George Harrison – Cloud Nine (1987) k.d. lang – Even Cowgirls Get The Blues (1993) Foo Fighters – There Is Nothing Left To Lose (1999) November 2 events – 1920 – The first commercial radio station in the U.S., KDKA begins broadcasting the election results of the Warren G Harding/James Cox presidential race from a shack on the roof of the K Building of the Westinghouse Electric Company East Pittsburgh Works in Turtle Creek. 1936 – The commercial-driven Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) is created, replacing the state-owned Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission (CRBC). The CBC, like the BBC, will become commercial-free in 1974. 1956 – A riot breaks out at Fats Domino's show in Fayetteville, North Carolina, with police resorting to tear gas to break up the unruly crowd. Fats jumps out of a window to avoid the melee, and he and two other band members are slightly injured. 1956 – Stonewall Jackson joins the Grand Ole Opry: the first artist to do so without a recording contract. 1962 – The Elvis Presley film Girls! Girls! Girls! premieres in Honolulu, Hawaii. 1963 – Dion angrily walks off the set of Ready, Steady, Go! in the middle of performing his hit "Donna The Prima Donna," claiming the go- go dancers surrounding him during the song are distracting. 1963 – The British paper Daily Mirror uses the term "Beatlemania" for the first time in its review of the group’s concert the night before in Cheltenham, effectively inserting the phrase into the popular consciousness. 1963 – The Konrads, featuring 16-year old David Bowie on vocals and saxophone, appear at Shirley Parish Hall in Shirley, Croydon. 1964 – Brenda Lee, Cliff Richard and Cilla Black appear at the Royal Command Performance for Queen Elizabeth II in London. 1966 – Paul Revere and The Raiders appear on the "Dizzoner The Penguin" episode of Batman. 1966 – The Temptations release their single, “(I Know) I’m Losing You” b/w “I Couldn’t Cry If I Wanted To” on the Gordy label. 1967 – Pink Floyd begins their first U.S. tour at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco. Because of Syd Barrett’s declining mental health, the tour is a near disaster. 1968 – Cream is presented with a platinum album for Wheels Of Fire at their show at Madison Square Garden during their farewell tour. 1968 – The Doors play two shows at the Veterans Memorial Hall in Columbus, Ohio. 1969 – The Rolling Stones quasi-documentary, Sympathy For The Devil, directed by Jean-Luc Godard, premieres in San Francisco. 1969 – Simon and Garfunkel record "Cecilia" and "El Condor Pasa (If I Could)." 1969 – The Band appears on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing “Up On Cripple Creek.” Also on the show are Buck Owens, Pearl Bailey and Petula Clark. 1970 – Grand Funk Railroad and Black Sabbath play the San Diego Sports Arena. 1971 – Willie Nelson and his second wife Shirley Collie are divorced after eight years of marriage. Collie initiated the divorce proceedings after finding a bill from the maternity ward of a Houston hospital charged to Nelson and Connie Koepke for the birth of Paula Carlene Nelson. 1973 – CBS airs the Barbra Streisand television special Barbra Streisand And Other Musical Instruments, featuring special guest Ray Charles. 1974 – George Harrison begins the first-ever solo tour by a Beatle when he performs the first night of his Dark Horse Tour in Vancouver. The tour, which is plagued by Harrison's laryngitis, is a disaster. 1978 – David Cassidy's infamous flop cop TV drama, David Cassidy: Man Undercover, debuts on NBC, with the first of only ten episodes. 1979 – The movie, Quadrophenia, based on The Who’s rock opera album, debuts in theaters in the U.S. 1979 – AC/DC plays the second of three sold-out nights at the Hammersmith Odeon in London with Def Leppard as the opening act. The show is recorded by the BBC for broadcast. 1984 – Marvin Gay Sr. is found guilty of manslaughter in the shooting death of his son, but the court rules the action was taken in self- defense. Gay is given a six-year suspended jail sentence and placed on five years' probation. 1985 – With his new single "Part-Time Lover" topping the charts, Stevie Wonder becomes the first artist with the longest period between #1 records: 22 years. The Beach Boys will match that in 1988 with their hit “Kokomo.” 1987 – Eric Clapton plays the first of two nights at the Budokan Hall in Tokyo. 1987 – Singer Lola Falana suffers a severe relapse of her multiple sclerosis symptoms, causing her left side to be paralyzed, causing partially blindness, and impairing her voice and hearing. Her career is put on hold for more than a year as she recuperates. 1990 – Prince’s fourth movie and sequel to Purple Rain, Graffiti Bridge opens in theaters in the U.S. and Canada. 1994 – Ruth Tyrangiel files a $5 million palimony suit in Los Angeles against Bob Dylan, her companion for 20 years, for reneging on his promise to marry her after she helped with his business affairs and also with his songwriting. 1994 – David Crosby is hospitalized, suffering from liver failure. He is put on a transplant waiting list. 1995 – Al Green, Diana Ross, Bill Withers, Patti LaBelle and others appear on the 25th Anniversary edition of Soul Train. 2002 – British police arrest five men of an international gang who are planning to kidnap former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham and her children, and ransom them for £5 million. 2007 – Led Zeppelin's eagerly-awaited reunion concert in London, slated for November 26, is postponed for two weeks when guitarist Jimmy Page breaks his pinky finger. The tribute concert in honor of late Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun will now take place on December 10. 2007 – Ozzy Osbourne claims his reputation was tarnished, and says that using his name was “insulting” after U.S. police officers send invitations to over 500 people in North Dakota with outstanding arrest warrants to an “Ozzy party.” More than 30 suspects turned up to what police argue was a "creative" way to fight crime. Ozzy had been selected because he was due to play a gig in Fargo.
