... and more November 18 birthdays –
Johnny Mercer (1909) – singer/songwriter ("Come Rain Or Come Shine").
Dorothy Collins (aka Marjorie Chandler, 1926) – singer, Your Hit
Parade ("My Boy Flat Top").
Don Cherry (1936) – Jazz brass instrumentalist.
Conleth “Con” Cluskey (1941) – The Bachelors.
Jacky Ward (1946) – Country music artist (“A Lover’s Question”).
Herman “Ze German” Rarebell (aka Hermann Erbel, 1949) – drummer for
Scorpions.
Graham Parker (1950)
Rudy Sarzo (1950) – bassist for Quiet Riot and Dio.
Charles Williams (1954) – keyboardist for KC and The Sunshine Band.
John Parr (1954) – singer/songwriter (“St. Elmo’s Fire”).
Jake Drake-Brockman (1955) – keyboardist for Echo & The Bunnymen.
Laura Lynch (1956) – The Dixie Chicks.
Kirk Hammett (1962) – guitarist for Metallica.
Duncan Sheik (1969) – singer/songwriter (“Barely Breathing”).
____________________Birthday correction -- Hank Ballard was born in 1927. ____________________ November 18 R.I.P. – Ted Heath (1969) – Age 67. British big bandleader. Teddi King (1977) – lupus. Age 48. Jazz singer (“Mr. Wonderful”). Cab Calloway (1994) – stroke. Age 86. Jazz singer, bandleader. Doug Sahm (1999) – heart attack. Age 58. The Sir Douglas Quintet. Michael Kamen (2003) – multiple sclerosis. Age 55. Film composer. Cy Coleman (2004) – cardiac arrest. Age 75. Jazz pianist/songwriter (“Witchcraft”). November 18 album releases – Three Dog Night – Naturally (1970) Genesis – The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway (1974) Al Green – Have A Good Time (1976) Bob Welch – French Kiss (1977) The Damned – Music For Pleasure (1977) The Jam – This Is The Modern World (1977) Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Love Beach (1978) Joan Jett and The Blackhearts – I Love Rock ‘N’ Roll (1981) Stevie Nicks – Rock A Little (1985) Duran Duran – Notorious (1986) Madonna – You Can Dance (1987) AC/DC – Bonfire (1997) U.S. (box set) Metallica – Reload (1997) Paul Simon – Songs From The Capeman (1997) The Ramones – We’re Outta Here! (1997) George Harrison – Brainwashed (2002) November 18 events – 1952 – Four days after his divorce from his first wife is final, Bill Haley marries his pregnant girlfriend, Barbara Cupchak. 1954 – ABC Radio stations ban Rosemary Clooney's "Mambo Italiano" due to what it considers "offensive lyrics," in the exaggerated Italian patois and words "goombah" and "gidrool." 1954 – Ray Charles records “I’ve Got A Woman” at radio station WGST in Atlanta, Georgia. 1956 – Fats Domino appears on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing “Blueberry Hill.” Also on the show are Guy Mitchell and Don Rondo. 1957 – Ricky Nelson records “Stood Up” and “Waitin’ In School” at Master Records in Hollywood with James Burton, playing on his first session with Nelson. 1958 – Johnny Cash is hospitalized in Ottumwa, Iowa, with acute appendicitis, forcing the cancellation of his concert there. 1963 – At a ceremony at EMI House, The Beatles are presented with silver discs for their Please Please Me album and their yet-to-be- released album, With The Beatles. Meanwhile, in a press release, Beatles manager Brian Epstein asks fans to stop throwing jellybabies at the group during their concerts. Also in the UK press, a priest from the Church of England requests that The Beatles write a Christmas song. In the U.S., the NBC news program The Huntley-Brinkley Report airs a four-minute piece on a phenomenon called “Beatlemania” happening in England. 1964 – The Supremes, The Righteous Brothers, Paul Peterson, Donna Loren and Leon Russell all appear on Shindig! 1964 – Beatles press officer Brian Sommerville informs Hal Wallis associate Paul Nathan that the group are huge fans of Elvis and would love to appear at the end of Elvis' next Paramount picture (which would be 1966's Paradise, Hawaiian Style). The deal is never finalized. 1965 – The Yardbirds and Manfred Mann play the first night of their UK tour at the ABC Cinema in Stockton, Cleveland, in northern England. 1968 – Barry and Robin Gibb are stricken with tonsillitis, forcing The Bee Gees to cancel a scheduled concert in Germany. 1968 – Randy Meisner, Jim Messina, Richie Furay, George Grantham, and Rusty Young debut at the Troubadour as Pogo, in honor of Walt Kelly's famous comic strip character. Kelly will later file suit, forcing the group to change their name to the similar-sounding Poco. 1968 – The Spiral Starecase records “More Today Than Yesterday.” 1970 – Jerry Lee Lewis’ divorce from his wife and cousin Myra becomes finalized. 1970 – Elvis Presley meets actor Paul Frees in Los Angeles and notices Frees' Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs (BNDD) badge. Elvis becomes determined to acquire one for himself. 1972 – Bill Withers appears on Soul Train, performing his recent hits, "Lean On Me" and "Use Me." 1975 – Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen appear as themselves on the "Glitter With A Bullet" episode of NBC-TV's Police Woman. 1975 – Bruce Springsteen makes his live UK debut at the Hammersmith Odeon in London. 1976 – Richard Hell and The Voidoids make their live stage debut at CBGB’s in New York City. 1979 – Chuck Berry is released from jail after serving four months for tax evasion. 1983 – R.E.M. makes their UK television debut on The Tube. 1987 – U2 appears at the Memorial Coliseum in L.A. For the second time during the tour, the opening act is The Dalton Brothers, who is actually U2 dressed up in wigs and cowboy gear. 1990 – Paul McCartney's birth certificate is auctioned off by his stepmother for $18,000 to a collector in Houston, Texas. 1992 – Black Sabbath receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 1993 – Nirvana tapes their performance for MTV Unplugged at Sony Studios in New York City. 1993 – Pearl Jam singer Eddie Vedder is arrested in New Orleans for drunkenness and disturbing the peace after a fight in a bar. 1994 – The Rolling Stones become the first rock act to stream a live concert on the Internet, broadcasting twenty minutes of their show from Dallas, Texas. 1997 – Gary Glitter is detained and questioned by police in Bristol after a computer store repairing the glam star's computer finds it loaded with child pornography. Glitter will be arrested. 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 – Former Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman sends a cease and desist letter to a writer for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution who bears the same name (which the writer was born under in 1961) on grounds that it violated the copyright of “Bill Wyman,” who legally took the name at age 28 in 1964. Needless to say, no lawsuit is ever filed. 2003 – More than five hundred Britney Spears fans camp overnight outside the Virgin Records Megastore in Times Square waiting to get the star to sign copies of her new album In The Zone. Later in the day, Spears appears on the MTV show TRL, promoting the album, and during her on-air interview, she comments on former boyfriend Justin Timberlake and their sex life, saying, “Forget trousersnake, its more like trouser worm.” 2003 – John Lennon’s original handwritten lyrics to The Beatles' "Nowhere Man" are auctioned at Christie's of New York for $300,000. 2003 – Acting on sexual abuse allegations by a 12-year-old boy who had visited the home, 70 members of the 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 Johnny Cash biopic Walk The Line opens in theaters. 2005 – Belgian songwriter Salvatore Acquaviva wins his plagiarism case against Madonna over her 1998 hit single “Frozen,” claiming the song copies one of his recordings. The judge agrees that Madonna's single used four bars of his song “Ma Vie Fout L'camp.” 2007 – Entertainment publicist Paul Wasserman passes away at age 73. Wasserman represented U2, Paul Simon, The Who, Neil Diamond, James Taylor, Tom Petty, Linda Ronstadt, The Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan. In 2000, Wasserman was jailed for six months on a felony count of grand theft for using the names of his clients to help him sell bogus stock options. 2010 – The Ray Charles Foundation - the owner of his copyrights and intellectual property rights - files a lawsuit against the late singer’s eldest son, Ray Robinson Jr., charging him with copyright infringement stemming from the use of a photograph and several of Charles’ song lyrics in his recent book, You Don’t Know Me: Reflections Of My Father, Ray Charles. 2011 – Bonnie Pointer is arrested for possessing crack cocaine in South Los Angeles after the car she’s riding in is pulled over for a mechanical malfunction.
