Happy Birthday Ian Sutherland, writer of the really cool Scottish Dirge
Sailing, later bastardised by Rod the Mod!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poDjuRlaNAg
BTW my maternal and Scottish side of the family are Sutherlands and I
proudly (at least on occasion, probably next week at my daughter's
graduation) wear the Ancient Sutherland tartan kilt!
McJurgen!
On Saturday, November 17, 2012 4:32:15 PM UTC, Eidem wrote:
> ... and more November 17 birthdays –
> Jack Owens (1904) – Delta blues guitarist/singer.
> Marion Montgomery (aka Maud Runnells, 1934) – singer ("That's Life").
> Gerry McGee (1937) – guitarist for The Ventures.
> Bob Gaudio (1942) – singer/songwriter/producer, The Four Seasons.
> Martin Barre (1946) – guitarist for Jethro Tull.
> Robert “Stewkey” Antoni (1947) – singer for The Nazz.
> Rod Clements (1947) – guitarist for Lindisfarne.
> Iain Sutherland (1948) – The Sutherland Brothers.
> Dean Paul "Dino" Martin (1951) – bassist for Dino, Desi & Billy.
> Jim Babjak (1957) – guitarist for The Smithereens.
> Jeff Buckley (1966)
> Ben Wilson (1967) – keyboardist for Blues Traveler.
> Isaac Hanson (1980) – guitarist for Hanson (“MMMBop”).
>
> November 17 R.I.P. –
> John Glascock (1979) – congenital heart defect. Age 28. Jethro Tull.
> Bob Eberly (1981) – heart attack. Age 65. Big band singer with Jimmy
> Dorsey and Helen O'Connell.
> Alan Hull (1995) – heart thrombosis. Age 50. Lindisfarne.
> Arthur Conley (2003) – intestinal cancer. Age 57. Singer (“Sweet Soul
> Music”).
> Don Gibson (2003) – natural causes. Age 75. Country music singer/
> songwriter ("Sweet Dreams").
> Ruth Brown (2006) – complications from a heart attack and stroke. Age
> 78.
> Gary Garcia (2011) – Age 63. Novelty singer/songwriter (“Pac-Man
> Fever”).
>
> November 17 album releases –
> The Byrds – Farther Along (1971)
> Faces – A Nod Is As Good As A Wink…To A Horse (1971)
> Tommy Bolin – Teaser (1975)
> The Doors – An American Prayer (1978)
> Paul McCartney – Good Evening New York City (2009)
>
> November 17 events –
> 1938 – Orchestra leader Kay Kyser gives a lecture at the College of
> the City of New York 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.
> 1957 – Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps perform “Dance To The Bop” on
> The Ed Sullivan Show.
> 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 – In Guildford, England, Surrey Grammar School headmaster John
> Weightman bans the popular Beatle "moptop" haircuts, explaining that,
> "this ridiculous style brings out the worst in boys physically. It
> makes them look like morons."
> 1963 – Singer Tommy Sands joins his wife Nancy Sinatra on The Ed
> Sullivan Show to perform "Old Straw Hat" and "Hey Good Lookin’.”
> 1963 – The Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger and Keith Richards present Gene
> Pitney with one of their first songs, "My Only Girl," backstage of the
> British ITV music program Thank Your Lucky Stars. Pitney re-titles it
> "That Girl Belongs To Yesterday," and has a hit on both sides of the
> ocean: the first Jagger/Richards composition to make the U.S. charts,
> and the first UK hit for the pair. The Stones will record the song
> themselves, but it is never released.
> 1966 – The Beach Boys’ “Good Vibrations” hits #1 on the UK singles
> chart.
> 1967 – Pink Floyd releases their single, “Apples And Oranges” b/w
> “Paint Box.”
> 1967 – Monkee Davy Jones opens his first boutique in New York's
> Greenwich Village, called Zilch I, after the Monkees song.
> 1967 – The Who begin their second U.S. tour opening for The
> Buckinghams at the Shawnee Mission South High School auditorium in
> Kansas City, Kansas.
> 1969 – Conway Twitty records "Hello Darlin’” at Bradley's Barn in
> Mount Juliet, Tennessee.
> 1970 – Elton John gives a live radio concert from A&R Studios in New
> York City. Elton will release the show on album as 11-17-70.
> 1974 – ABBA plays their first gig outside of Sweden, opening at the
> Kalkonerteater in Copenhagen on their first European tour.
> 1976 – Olivia-Newton John's first television special, A Very Special
> Olivia Newton-John, airs on ABC-TV.
> 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. Coincidentally, Dylan enters his
> "Christian period" the following year.
> 1978 – Led Zeppelin records "All My Love" at Polar Studios in
> Stockholm, Sweden.
> 1979 – The Guinness Book of World Records confirms that ABBA is the
> biggest-selling recording group in history.
> 1980 – Aretha Franklin and Sammy Davis, Jr. appear at this year’s
> Royal Command Performance in London for Queen Elizabeth II.
> 1990 – David Crosby breaks his left leg, ankle and shoulder in a
> motorcycle accident while speeding near his home in Los Angeles
> without a helmet.
> 1991 – Stone Roses drummer Reni appears in court on a charge of
> obstruction and claims that police beat him up after his arrest. He is
> fined £50.
> 1992 – Former members of Frankie Lymon and The Teenagers, Jimmy
> Merchant and Herman Santiago, are awarded $4 million in back royalties
> for their 1956 hit "Why Do Fools Fall In Love?"
> 1994 – Bob Dylan begins taping his MTV Unplugged performance.
> 1999 – Mariah Carey is forced to abandon a performance on Rome's
> historic Spanish Steps after crowds of tourists surround her. She
> takes shelter in a local shop before been given a police escort to
> safety.
> 2000 – ABC-TV airs the documentary, The Beatles: Revolution.
> 2000 – With the release of The Beatles’ 1 greatest hits CD, it is
> reported that Andy White, who played drums the included version of
> “Love Me Do” will not earn enough from it to buy his own copy, since
> he still receives his original 1962 session fee of £7.
> 2003 – Meatloaf collapses on stage at the Wembley Arena in London and
> is rushed to a nearby hospital with an irregular heartbeat that
> requires emergency surgery.
> 2003 – At 21-years old, Britney Spears becomes the youngest singer to
> ever get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In the evening, ABC-TV
> airs the special, Britney Spears: In The Zone.
> 2003 – George Michael re-signs with Sony Music after a long legal
> battle with the company which led to his contract being sold to rival
> record companies Virgin Records and DreamWorks Records.
> 2010 – Singer Patti Smith wins the National Book Award for her memoir
> “Just Kids.”
> 2010 – Joan Baez sustains minor injuries when she falls 20 feet out of
> a treehouse in her backyard.
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