... and more November 12 birthdays – Jo Stafford (1917) – American singer, The Pied Pipers. Charlotte Davis (1936) – The Tune Weavers (“Happy, Happy Birthday Baby”). Mort Shuman (1936) – singer/pianist/songwriter (“Sweets For My Sweet”). Ruby Curtis (1939) – Ruby and The Romantics (“Our Day Will Come”). Jerry Scholl (1941) – The Mello-Kings (“Tonite, Tonite”). John Maus "Walker" (1943) – The Walker Brothers. Arthur “Pooch” Tavares (1943) – Tavares. Buck Dharma (aka Donald Roeser, 1947) – guitarist for Blue Öyster Cult. Errol Brown (1948) – Hot Chocolate (“You Sexy Thing”). Barbara Fairchild (1950) – Country/gospel singer (“The Teddy Bear Song”). Laurence Juber (1952) – guitarist for Wings. Les McKeown (1955) – singer for The Bay City Rollers. Dave Ellefson (1964) – bassist for Megadeth. Tevin Campbell (1976) – R&B singer/songwriter.
November 12 R.I.P. – Lord Buckley (1960) – stroke. Age 54. Stage performer, poet, recording artist. Tony Thompson (2003) – kidney cancer. Age 48. Drummer for Chic, and Power Station. Mitch Mitchell (2008) – died in his sleep. Age 61. The Jimi Hendrix Experience. November 12 album releases – Marvin Gaye – Hello Broadway (1964) Neil Young – Neil Young (1968) Genesis – Nursery Cryme (1971) Hall & Oates – War Babies (1974) The J. Geils Band – Showtime! (1982) Duran Duran – Arena (1984) Madonna – Like A Virgin (1984) Blind Melon – Nico (1996) Paul McCartney – Driving Rain (2001) Phil Collins – Testify (2002) The Pretenders – Loose Screw (2002) Pearl Jam – Riot Act (2003) November 12 events – 1931 – Abbey Road Studios in London officially opens its doors with Sir Edward Elgar conducting the London Symphony Orchestra. 1941 – Artie Shaw and His Orchestra record “St. James Infirmary.” 1955 – Billboard publishes its first Top 100 chart, with "Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing" by the Four Aces sitting at #1. 1957 – The rock and roll movie Jamboree premieres in Hollywood, featuring performances by Jerry Lee Lewis, Fats Domino, Carl Perkins, Frankie Avalon, Connie Francis, Charlie Gracie, Jodie Sands, The Four Coins, Buddy Knox, and Slim Whitman. 1957 – Johnny Cash records “Big River” and “Ballad Of A Teenage Queen” for Sun Records. 1961 – Brenda Lee performs “Fool #1” on The Ed Sullivan Show. Also on the show are The Ames Brothers and Pearl Bailey. 1964 – Shirley Ellis records “The Name Game.” 1965 – Wilson Pickett, The Nashville Teens, Tom Jones, The Small Faces and Marc Bolan all appear on Ready, Steady, Go! 1966 – Approximately 1,000 demonstrators gather in front of Pandora’s Box night club on the Sunset Strip in L.A. to protest a 10:00 pm curfew being imposed on teens 18-years of age and under. A riot erupts when police arrive on the scene, marking the first of several days of rioting in the area. 1966 – Big Brother and The Holding Company and The Grateful Dead play at a dance put on by the Hell's Angels at San Francisco's Sokol Hall. 1967 – The Turtles perform “Happy Together” and “She’s My Girl” on The Ed Sullivan Show. Also on the show is Johnny Mathis. 1968 – A major British record store chain refuses to sell The Jimi Hendrix Experience's "Electric Ladyland" album because of the naked women on the cover. 1969 – The Supremes and The Temptations' second joint TV special, G.I.T. On Broadway (Gettin' It Together), airs on NBC, with 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. 1979 – Marty Balin's rock opera, Rock Justice, opens a four-day run at San Francisco's Old Waldorf nightclub. 1987 – Sly Stone arrives an hour late for his "comeback" concert in Los Angeles, and is arrested for nonpayment of child support. 1990 – Rolling Stone Ron Wood breaks both of his legs in a car crash on the M4 motorway near Marlborough in Wiltshire. 1993 – Michael Jackson cancels the remainder of his Dangerous World Tour, citing his addiction to painkillers. 1997 – Billy Preston is sentenced to four years in California's Avenal State Prison for cocaine use and fraud for arranging a fake burglary at his home in 1994. He will serve a year and a half behind bars. 1997 – Carly Simon is hospitalized with breast cancer, and will undergo chemo therapy and a mastectomy. 1999 – 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 ‘80s, but is found guilty of possessing child pornography in 1997, and is sentenced to four months in jail. 2000 – 18-year old LeAnn Rimes sues her label, Asylum-Curb Records, in order to void a contract signed by her parents on her behalf in 1995. 2004 – The funeral for highly influential British DJ John Peel is held in Bury St. Edmonds in Suffolk, with attendees including Robert Plant, The White Stripes, and members of Underworld, Pulp, and The Undertones. 2005 – Vietnamese authorities arrive at the home of Gary Glitter to arrest and charge him with molesting two underage girls, aged 10 and 11, at his home in Vũng Tàu. Glitter is not home, but is found three days later in Ho Chi Minh City. The rape charges carrying the death penalty, but prosecutors do not find enough evidence for those charges, so Glitter is tried on lesser child sexual abuse charges. 2010 – The 30th annual John Lennon Tribute Concert is held at the Beacon Theatre in New York City, featuring Jackson Browne, Patti Smith, Cyndi Lauper, Aimee Mann, Joan Osborne, Taj Mahal and others.
