November 18 Born –
Eugene Ormandy (aka Jenő Ormándy-Blau, 1899) – orchestra conductor.
Johnny Mercer (1909) – singer/songwriter ("Come Rain Or Come Shine").
Dorothy Collins (aka Marjorie Chandler, 1926) – singer, Your Hit Parade
("My Boy Flat Top").
Hank Ballard (aka John Kendricks, 1927) – R&B singer/songwriter (“The
Twist”).
Don Cherry (1936) – Jazz brass instrumentalist.
Conleth “Con” Cluskey (1941) – The Bachelors.
Mark Weitz (1945) – keyboardist for Strawberry Alarm Clock.
Jacky Ward (1946) – Country music artist (“A Lover’s Question”).
Michael Carabello (1947) – percussionist for Santana.
Herman “Ze German” Rarebell (aka Hermann Erbel, 1949) – drummer for
Scorpions.
Graham Parker (1950) – singer/songwriter, Graham Parker and The Rumour.
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.
Michael Ramos (1958) – keyboardist for The Bo Deans.
Kim Wilde (1960) – singer.
Janice Kuehnemund (1961) – guitarist for Vixen.
Kirk Hammett (1962) – guitarist for Metallica.
Duncan Sheik (1969) – singer/songwriter (“Barely Breathing”).
Matt Knight (1972) – bassist for Toploader.
November 18 R.I.P. –
Ted Heath (1969) – Age 67. British big band leader.
Junior Parker (1971) – died during brain tumor surgery. Age 39.
Danny Whitten (1972) – overdose. Age 29. Crazy Horse.
Teddi King (1977) – lupus. Age 48. Jazz singer (“Mr. Wonderful”).
Dorothy Kirsten (1992) – complications from a stroke. Age 82. Opera singer.
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. Orchestral
arranger/songwriter (“(Everything I Do) I Do It For You”).
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)
Brand X – Livestock (1977)
Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Love Beach (1978)
Joan Jett and The Blackhearts – I Love Rock ‘N’ Roll (1981)
Ian Anderson – Walk Into Light (1983) UK
Stevie Nicks – Rock A Little (1985)
Slade – Crackers: The Christmas Party Album (1985)
LL Cool J – Radio (1985)
Duran Duran – Notorious (1986)
Madonna – You Can Dance (1987)
Whitesnake – Slip Of The Tongue (1989)
AC/DC – Bonfire (1997) (box set) U.S.
Metallica – Reload (1997)
Paul Simon – Songs From The Capeman (1997)
The Ramones – We’re Outta Here! (1997)
Céline Dion – Let’s Talk About Love (1997)
Savatage – Believe (1998)
George Harrison – Brainwashed (2002)
John Cale – Hobosapiens (2003) U.S.
David Cook – David Cook (2008) U.S.
November 18 events –
1952 – Four days after the divorce from his first wife is final, Bill Haley
marries his pregnant girlfriend, Barbara Cupchak. They stay married eight
years.
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 guitarist 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. 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. Meanwhile, across the ocean in the U.S.,
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,
Jackie and Gayle, Leon Russell, and Bobby Doqui and Arnold Rollin all
appear on Shindig!
1964 – Beatles press officer Brian Sommerville informs movie producer Hal
Wallis associate Paul Nathan that the group is 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, with opening
act Barry and Paul Ryan.
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.”
1969 – In Los Angeles, The Rolling Stones videotape three songs - “Gimme
Shelter,” “Love In Vain” and “Honky Tonk Women” - for The Ed Sullivan Show.
1969 – Tony Bennett records George Harrison’s “Something” at CBS Studios in
Hollywood.
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'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.
1985 – Paul McCartney releases his single, “Spies Like Us” b/w “My
Carnival” by Wings.
1987 – U2 appears at the Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles. 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.
1987 – CBS Inc. announces that it has agreed to sell its record division to
the Sony Corporation for approximately $2 billion.
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 found 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 after Brazilian model Luciana Morad names
Jagger as the father of her unborn child.
2001 – Britney Spears performs at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas
on her Dream Within A Dream Tour. The show is broadcast live on HBO, and is
later released on DVD.
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,
Spears comments on former boyfriend Justin Timberlake and their sex life,
saying, “Forget trouser snake, 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 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U2>, Paul
Simon<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Simon>
, The Who <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Who>, Neil
Diamond<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Diamond>
, James Taylor <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Taylor>, Tom
Petty<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Petty>
, Linda Ronstadt <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Rondstadt>, The
Rolling Stones <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rolling_Stones> and Bob
Dylan <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dylan>. In 2000, Wasserman was
jailed for six months on one felony count of grand theft, using the names
of his clients to help him sell bogus stock options.
2007 – 22-year old X Factor winner Leona Lewis sets a British record for
the fastest-selling debut album with Spirit, selling more than 375,000
copies in seven days - 12,000 more than the Arctic Monkeys' 2006 release,
Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not.
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.
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