November 5 Born –
Roy Rogers (aka Leonard Slye, 1911) – actor/singer, Sons Of The Pioneers
("Happy Trails").
Myron Floren (1919) – accordionist on The Lawrence Welk Show.
Harold McNair (1931) – Jamaican session saxophonist.
Ike Turner (1931) – singer/songwriter/bandleader.
Billy Sherrill (aka Phil Campbell, 1936) – Country music producer/arranger.
Art Garfunkel (1941) – singer, Tom and Jerry, Simon and Garfunkel.
Mike Clifford (1943) – singer/songwriter (“Close To Cathy”).
Pablo Gomez (1943) – drummer for Los Bravos.
Gram Parsons (1946) – The Byrds, The Flying Burrito Brothers.
Peter Noone (1947) – Herman’s Hermits.
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.
Helen O’Hara (aka Helen Bevington, 1956) – violinist for Dexy’s Midnight
Runners.
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.
Mark Hunter (1968) – keyboardist for James.
Jonny Greenwood (1971) – guitarist/keyboardist for Radiohead.
Ryan Adams (1974) – Country music singer/songwriter, Whiskeytown.
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.
Buddy Cole (1964) – heart disease. Age 48. Jazz session pianist for
Columbia Records.
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) – gun shot to 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.
Billy Mitchell (2002) – colon cancer. Age 71. The Clovers.
Bobby Hatfield (2003) – heart attack from cocaine. Age 63. The Righteous
Brothers.
Link Wray (2005) – heart failure. Age 76. Guitarist/singer/songwriter.
Elliott Carter (2012) – natural causes. Age 103. Classical composer.
November 5 album releases –
Manfred Mann – Mann Made (1965) U.S.
Barclay James Harvest – Barclay James Harvest And Other Short Stories (1971)
Status Quo – Dog Of Two Head (1971)
Elton John – Madman Across The Water (1971)
The Grateful Dead – Europe ’72 (1972)
Various Artists – All This And World War II (1976) (soundtrack)
George Harrison – Gone Troppo (1982) UK
Siouxsie and The Banshees – A Kiss In The Dreamhouse (1982)
Bryan Adams – Reckless (1984)
Alison Moyet – Alf (1984)
Barbra Streisand – The Broadway Album (1985)
Stevie Ray Vaughan – The Sky Is Crying (1991)
Paul Simon – Paul Simon’s Concert In The Park (1991)
Queen – Made In Heaven (1995)
Johnny Cash – Unchained (1996)
The Clean – Unknown Country (1996)
The Wallflowers – Red Letter Days (2002)
New Order – Back To Mine (2002)
Little Feat – Live At The Rams Head (2002)
David Gray – A New Day At Midnight (2002) U.S.
Eric Clapton – “One More Car, One More Rider” (2002)
November 5 events –
1929 – Saxophonist Coleman Hawkins, along with McKinney's Cotton Pickers,
records "Plain Dirt" in New York City.
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 and 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 perform 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” at RCA Studios in Nashville.
1970 – Brian Wilson makes a rare appearance with The Beach Boys on stage at
the Whiskey A Go-Go.
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 will 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 to “5:15” 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, along with The Band, begins recording his Planet Waves
album at Village Recorders in Los Angeles.
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 £1 million 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.
2000 – Madonna performs a short 20 minute set at New York's Roseland
Ballroom.
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 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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.
2011 – A molar tooth removed from John Lennon in the mid-sixties is
auctioned off by Omega Auctions in England, and is sold to Canadian dentist
Michael Zuk for $31,200. Lennon gave the tooth to his former housekeeper
Dorothy Jarlett, who kept it for more than 40 years.
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