November 17 Born –
Jack Owens (1904) – Delta blues guitarist/singer.
Marion Montgomery (aka Maud Runnells, 1934) – singer ("That's Life").
Gerry McGee (1937) – guitarist for The Ventures.
Gordon Lightfoot (1938) – Canadian singer/songwriter.
Bob Gaudio (1942) – singer/songwriter/producer, The Four Seasons.
Gene Clark (aka Harold Eugene Clark, 1944) – The Byrds, Dillard & Clark.
Martin Barre (1946) – guitarist for Jethro Tull.
Bob McBride (1946) – vocalist for Lighthouse.
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.
Peter Cox (1955) – Go West.
Jim Babjak (1957) – guitarist for The Smithereens.
RuPaul Andre Charles (1960) – drag queen/actor/singer, Wee Wee Pole.
Jeff Buckley (1966) – singer/songwriter.
Ben Wilson (1967) – keyboardist for Blues Traveler.
Ronnie DeVoe (1967) – New Edition.
Kimya Dawson (1972) – singer/songwriter, The Moldy Peaches.
Isaac Hanson (1980) – guitarist for Hanson (“MMMBop”).
Sarah Harding (aka Sarah Hardman, 1981) – Girls Aloud.
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.
Michael Karoli (2001) – cancer. Age 53. Guitarist for Can.
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”).
Billy Scott (2012) – pancreatic cancer. Age 70. Billy Scott and The Georgia
Prophets (“I Got The Fever”).
November 17 album releases –
The Kinks – Sunny Afternoon (1967) UK
The Byrds – Farther Along (1971)
Bob Dylan – Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits Vol. II (1971)
Laura Nyro – Gonna Take A Miracle (1971)
Miles Davis – Live-Evil (1971)
Faces – A Nod Is As Good As A Wink…To A Blind Horse (1971)
ABBA – Greatest Hits (1975) Scandanavia
Tommy Bolin – Teaser (1975)
The Kinks – The Kinks Present Schoolboys In Disgrace (1975)
Bette Midler – Broken Blossom (1977)
The Doors – An American Prayer (1978)
The Jam – Setting Sons (1979)
The Easybeats – Absolute Anthology (1980)
The Fall – Grotesque (1980)
John Lennon and Yoko Ono – Double Fantasy (1980)
Chaka Khan – Chaka Khan (1982)
The Kinks – Think Visual (1986)
Debbie Harry – Rockbird (1986)
The Pretenders – The Singles (1987)
Whitney Houston/Various Artists – The Bodyguard (1992) (soundtrack)
Ice Cube – The Predator (1992)
Anti-Nowhere League – Scum (1997)
Mariah Carey – #1’s (1998)
Whitney Houston – My Love Is Your Love (1998)
Jewel – Spirit (1998)
Garth Brooks – Double Live (1998)
Kylie Minogue – Body Language (2003) UK
U2 – U2 Go Home: Live From Slane Castle, Ireland (2003)
The Beatles – Let It Be…Naked (2003)
The Damned – So, Who’s Paranoid? (2008)
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 to 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. Other musical guests include Georgia Gibbs, Jose Melis, Kate
Smith and Julius LaRosa.
1958 – Alan Freed's trial for allegedly inciting a riot at the BostonGardenson
November 15, 1957, during his Biggest
Show of Stars tour - where five people were arrested for fighting - is
postponed for a year while prosecutors sort out the state's archaic
anti-anarchy laws.
1961 – The Beatles appear at the Cavern Club for a lunchtime session, them
perform an evening show at the Village Hall in Knotty Ash, Liverpool.
1963 – In Guildford, England, Surrey Grammar School headmaster John
Weightman bans the popular Beatle "moptop" haircut, explaining that "this
ridiculous style brings out the worst in boys physically. It makes them
look like morons."
1963 – Singer/actor Tommy Sands performs “Real Live Girl” and “San
Francisco,” then joins his wife Nancy Sinatra to perform "Old Straw Hat"
and "Hey Good Lookin’” on The Ed Sullivan Show. Other musical guests
include Robert Horton, Earl Grant, and The Kim Sisters with the Kim
Brothers.
1963 – Rolling Stones Mick Jagger and Keith Richards present Gene Pitney
with one of their first songs, "My Only Girl," backstage at the British ITV
music program Thank Your Lucky Stars. Pitney will re-title it "That Girl
Belongs To Yesterday," and have a hit with the song 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.” In the evening the group opens for The Jimi Hendrix Experience at
City Hall in Sheffield, along with Amen Corner, The Move, and The Nice.
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.
1969 – Janis Joplin is arrested in her dressing room after her concert at
Curtis Hixon Hall in Tampa, Florida, on charges of publicly using vulgar
and indecent language during her show, after a policeman tried to use a
bullhorn to control a crowd that had left its seats and had begun to move
towards the stage. Joplin posts $504 bail, and the charges are later
dropped.
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.
1972 – Elvis Presley performs the first of three shows over the next two
days at the Honolulu International Center in Hawaii.
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 small silver crucifix onstage, which the singer picks up
and pockets. Perhaps 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 the first of two days taping his MTV Unplugged
performance at Sony Studios in New York City.
1995 – Former Monkees Davy Jones, Mickey Dolenz and Peter Tork appear in
the “Rave On” episode of the ABC-TV teen sitcom Boy Meets World. Band
member Michael Nesmith is also present at the taping of the show, but
declines an on-air role.
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 on the included version of “Love Me Do,”
will not earn enough from it to buy his own copy of the disc, since he
still receives his original 1962 session fee of £7.
2003 – Meatloaf collapses on stage at Wembley Arena in London and is rushed
to a nearby hospital with an irregular heartbeat that requires emergency
surgery.
2003 – At 21-years of age, Britney Spears becomes the youngest singer to
ever get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. During her interview with
MTV, Spears slams former boyfriend Justin Timberlake, claiming he was a
huge disappointment in the pants department, saying, “Forget trouser snake;
it’s more like trouser worm.” In the evening, ABC-TV airs the special,
Britney Spears: In The Zone.
2003 – Country music artist Blake Shelton marries his longtime girlfriend,
Kaynette Gern. The marriage lasts three years.
2003 – George Michael re-signs with Sony
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years after his long legal battle with the company which led to his
contract being sold to rival record companies Virgin
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and DreamWorks Records <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DreamWorks_Records>.
2007 – Queen guitarist Brian May is appointed Chancellor of Liverpool’s
John Moores University, taking over from Cherie Blair.
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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