November 12 Born –
Booker T. Washington “Bukka” White (1909) – Delta blues musician. Buck Clayton (1911) – Jazz trumpeter for Count Basie. Jo Stafford (1917) – American singer, The Pied Pipers. Bob Crewe (1931) – songwriter/producer (“Big Girls Don’t Cry”). 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. Brian Hyland (1943) – singer (“Sealed With A Kiss”). Jimmy Hayes (1943) – The Persuasions. Arthur “Pooch” Tavares (1943) – Tavares. Booker T. Jones (1944) – Booker T. and The MGs. Neil Young (1945) – singer/songwriter, Buffalo Springfield, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Crazy Horse. 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. Calum Macdonald (aka Calum MacDhomhnaill, 1953) – percussionist for Runrig. Les McKeown (1955) – singer for The Bay City Rollers. Dave Ellefson (1964) – bassist for Megadeth. Vic Chesnutt (1964) – singer/songwriter. Jo Dunne (1968) – bassist for Fuzzbox. 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) Daryl Hall and John Oates – Whole Oates (1972) Buffalo Springfield – Buffalo Springfield (1973) Hall & Oates – War Babies (1974) The J. Geils Band – Showtime! (1982) Duran Duran – Arena (1984) Madonna – Like A Virgin (1984) The Smiths – Hatful Of Hollow (1984) Kylie Minogue – Rhythm Of Love (1990) Bad Religion – 80-85 (1991) Sade – The Best Of Sade (1994) UK Blind Melon – Nico (1996) John Waite – The Complete John Waite: Falling Backwards (1996) Rod Stewart – If We Fall In Love Tonight (1996) Blind Melon – Nico (1996) Madonna – Evita (1996) (soundtrack) The Corrs – The Corrs Unplugged (1999) Paul McCartney – Driving Rain (2001) Phil Collins – Testify (2002) The Pretenders – Loose Screw (2002) 3 Doors Down – Away From The Sun (2002) Pearl Jam – Riot Act (2003) Led Zeppelin – Mothership (2007) November 12 events – 1925 – Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five record “My Heart,” “Yes! I’m In The Barrel” and “Gut Bucket Blues” in Chicago. 1931 – EMI Studios, at 3 Abbey Road in St. John’s Wood, Westminster, London, officially opens its doors with Sir Edward Elgar conducting the London Symphony Orchestra. 1941 – Artie Shaw and His Orchestra record “St. James Infirmary.” 1951 – The Alan J. Lerner and Frederick Loewe stage musical, Paint Your Wagon, opens on Broadway at the Schubert Theatre, where it will run for 289 performances. 1954 – Sarah Vaughn records “How Important Can It Be” at Fine Sound Studios in New York City. 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. 1957 – Alan Freed’s Biggest Show Of Stars ’57 tour plays the Syria Mosque in Pittsburgh. The Everly Brothers, Frankie Lymon, LaVerne Baker, Paul Anka, Buddy Knox, Clyde McPhatter, Eddie Cochran, Jimmy Bowen and The Rhythm Orchids, Fats Domino, The Crickets, The Drifters, and Chuck Berry all perform. 1960 – Dinah Washington records “September In The Rain,” “I’ll Come Back For More” and “Tell Love Hello” in New York City. 1961 – Brenda Lee performs “Fool #1” on The Ed Sullivan Show. Also on the show are The Ames Brothers and Pearl Bailey. 1962 – The Beatles and Little Richard double as headliners at the Star Club in Hamburg, Germany. 1964 – Shirley Ellis records “The Name Game” for Congress Records. 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 nightclub on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood to protest a 10:00pm 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. 1966 – Pink Floyd appears at the Corn Exchange in Bedford, England. 1967 – The Turtles perform “Happy Together” and “She’s My Girl” on The Ed Sullivan Show. Also on the show is Johnny Mathis. 1968 – British record store chain, W.H. Smiths, refuses to sell The Jimi Hendrix Experience's new album Electric Ladyland 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. 1970 – Elvis Presley appears at the Seattle Center Coliseum in Washington. 1971 – Elvis Presley performs at the Hofheinz Pavilion in Houston, Texas. 1971 – Led Zeppelin appears at the Locarno Ballroom in Stevenage, England. 1972 – Elvis Presley performs two shows at the Swing Auditorium in San Bernardino. 1973 – Hott The Hoople kicks off a 20-date UK tour at Leeds Town Hall, with opening act Queen. 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 with 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 Stones guitarist 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. 1993 – John Otway and The Big Band appear at the London Astoria, with opening act Wild Willy Barrett. 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. 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. 1999 – Oasis announces that former guitarist for Ride, Andy Bell, is their new bass player. 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. 2001 – Pulp singer Jarvis Cocker makes an appearance as DJ at Pentonville Prison in North London to entertain the inmates as part of his club show, Desperate. 2002 – Atlanta, Georgia, declares the day “TLC Day” to honor hometown girl Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes, who was killed in a car crash on April 26, 2002, at age 30. 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 carry the death penalty, but prosecutors do not find enough evidence for those charges, so Glitter is tried on lesser child sexual abuse <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Diamond Headz" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
