... and more November 5 birthdays –
Myron Floren (1919) – accordionist on The Lawrence Welk Show.
Harold McNair (1931) – Jamaican session saxophonist.
Billy Sherrill (aka Phil Campbell, 1936) – Country music producer/
arranger.
Pablo Gomez (1943) – drummer for Los Bravos.
Donnie McDougall (1948) – guitarist for The Guess Who.
Peter Hammill (1948) – Van der Graaf Generator.
Dennis Provisor (1950) – keyboardist for The Grass Roots.
Rob Fisher (1956) – Naked Eyes, and Climie Fisher.
Mike Score (1957) – keyboardist/vocalist for A Flock Of Seagulls.
David Moyse (1957) – guitarist for Air Supply.
Bryan Adams (1959) – Canadian singer/songwriter.
Ken Coomer (1960) – drummer for Uncle Tupelo and Wilco.
David Bryson (1961) – guitarist for Counting Crows.
Jonny Greenwood (1971) – guitarist/keyboardist for Radiohead.
Ryan Adams (1974) – Country/rock singer/songwriter, Whiskeytown.
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Birthday correction --
Roy Rogers was born in 1911.
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November 5 R.I.P. –
George M. Cohan (1942) – abdominal cancer. Age 64. Composer ("The
Yankee Doodle Boy").
Art Tatum (1956) – kidney failure. Age 47. Jazz pianist.
Johnny Horton (1960) – car crash. Age 35. Country/rockabilly singer.
Guy Lombardo (1977) – heart attack. Age 75. Violinist/bandleader.
Ulysses B. "Bobby" Nunn (1986) – heart failure. Age 61. The Robins and
The Coasters.
S Sgt. Barry Sadler (1989) – shot in the head. Age 49. Singer/
songwriter (“The Ballad Of The Green Berets”).
Vladimir Horowitz (1989) – heart attack. Age 86. Classical pianist/
composer.
Eddie Harris (1996) – bone cancer. Age 62. Jazz saxophonist/multi-
instrumentalist with Les McCann.
Jimmie Davis (2000) – stroke. Age 101. Country/gospel singer (“You Are
My Sunshine”).
Billy Guy (2002) – Age 66. The Coasters.
Bobby Hatfield (2003) – heart attack from cocaine. Age 63. The
Righteous Brothers.
Link Wray (2005) – heart failure. Age 76.
November 5 album releases –
Elton John – Madman Across The Water (1971)
The Grateful Dead – Europe ’72 (1972)
George Harrison – Gone Troppo (1982)
Stevie Ray Vaughan – The Sky Is Crying (1991)
Johnny Cash – Unchained (1996)
The Wallflowers – Red Letter Days (2002)
November 5 events –
1950 – Country musician Don Gibson signs with RCA.
1956 – The Nat King Cole Show debuts on NBC-TV: the first of its kind
hosted by an African-American.
1957 – Joe Bennett & The Sparkletones perform "Black Slacks" on
American Bandstand.
1961 – Jimmy Dean appears on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing “Big Bad
John.” Also on the show are Al Hirt and Julius LaRosa.
1963 – The Rolling Stones appear at the Cavern Club in Liverpool.
1965 – The Doors appear at the Pioneer Club Boat Ride in Los Angeles:
one of the band’s earliest paying engagements outside of frat parties
and playing for friends.
1967 – The First Edition, featuring lead singer Kenny Rogers, makes
their national television debut on CBS’s The Smothers Brothers Comedy
Hour, performing “Just Dropped In.”
1967 – A passenger train derails at Hither Green near London, killing
49 people and injuring 78. Among the passengers who escape with no
injuries is Bee Gee Robin Gibb, who helps injured passengers from the
car for three hours until finally being taken to a nearby hospital in
a state of shock.
1968 – Herman’s Hermits Peter Noone marries Mireille Strasser on his
21st birthday. They’re still married.
1969 – Jerry Reed records “Amos Moses.”
1970 – Brian Wilson makes a rare appearance with The Beach Boys on
stage at the Whiskey A Go-Go. He doesn't last long, and is soon helped
from the stage.
1970 – Led Zeppelin releases their single, “Immigrant Song” b/w “Hey,
Hey What Can I Do.”
1971 – Elvis Presley begins a fifteen-date tour at the Metropolitan
Sports Center in Bloomington, Minnesota, ending the show with his cape
outstretched in a bizarrely Christ-like pose. With the audience still
calling for encores, announcer Al Dvorin tells them that “Elvis has
left the building.” Both the cape and Dvorin’s quip become staples of
Elvis' live act.
1972 – The Jackson 5 Show, the group's second television special, airs
on CBS.
1973 – The Who’s Pete Townshend storms off the stage at the Newcastle
Odeon when the backing track the band plays along to is running slow.
1973 – Ronnie Lane's new group Slim Chance plays their first gig in a
circus tent on Clapham Common in London.
1973 – Bob Dylan begins recording his Planet Waves album at Village
Recorders in L.A.
1974 – The Eagles release their single, “Best Of My Love” b/w “Ol’
‘55.”
1977 – The manager of the Virgin record store in Nottingham is
arrested for displaying a large poster advertising the new Sex Pistols
album, Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols, after High
street stores banned the album when police warned they could be fined
under the 1898 Indecent Advertising Act, which gives police the power
to arrest the shop owner for the album’s disgusting language.
1982 – Brian Wilson is fired by The Beach Boys at a meeting held in
their lawyers' office.
1982 – The UK pop/rock music television program The Tube debuts on
Channel 4, and runs for five years.
1983 – The Clash's Topper Headon is arrested for walking his dog while
drunk in London.
1988 – The Beach Boys’ “Kokomo” hits #1 on the Billboard Hot 100:
their first #1 since 1966’s “Good Vibrations.”
1992 – Tom Jones “appears” as himself in the "Marge Gets A Job"
episode of The Simpsons.
1995 – A charity performance of The Wizard Of Oz is held at New York's
Lincoln Center, featuring Jewel as Dorothy, Jackson Browne as The
Scarecrow, Roger Daltrey as The Tin Man, and Nathan Lane as The
Cowardly Lion.
1995 – Producer Butch Vig's new band Garbage makes their live stage
debut at the 7th Street Entry in Minneapolis.
1998 – Former Smiths singer Morrissey, facing a £1million backdated
payout to former Smiths member Mike Joyce, loses an appeal ruling that
all band profits were split equally.
2000 – The Who “appear” in the "A Tale Of Two Springfields" episode of
The Simpsons.
2002 – The funeral for Run-DMC’s Jam Master Jay takes place in Queens,
New York. The killer, who shot the rapper execution style in his
studio, has never been caught.
2005 – Beach Boy Mike Love sues Brian Wilson over SMiLE, claiming that
Wilson's re-recording of songs originally recorded by The Beach Boys
caused millions of dollars in damages to their partnership. Love's
lawsuit will be thrown out of court in 2007 by a federal judge who
determines that no such partnership existed between Love and Wilson at
the time of the re-recordings, and that none had existed for decades.
