November 20 Born –
Fran Allison (1907) – singer, radio personality, Kukla, Fran & Ollie.
Merle Travis (1917) – Country singer/songwriter (“Sixteen Tons”).
June Christy (aka Shirley Luster, 1925) – Jazz singer with The Stan Kenton
Orchestra.
Kay Ballard (aka Catherine Balotta, 1925) – actress/comedienne, Broadway
singer.
Raymond Lefèvre (1929) – French composer, orchestra conductor ("The Day The
Rains Came").
Esquerita (aka Eskew Reeder, aka Steven Quincy Reeder, Jr., 1935) –
singer/songwriter/pianist (“Rockin’ The Joint”).
Tony Butala (1938) – The Lettermen.
Dick Smothers (1939) – The Smothers Brothers.
Jim Horn (1940) – session saxophonist, The Rolling Stones.
Norman Greenbaum (1942) – singer/songwriter (“Spirit In The Sky”).
Suze Rotolo (1943) – Bob Dylan's girlfriend and muse from 1961 to 1964.
Mike Vernon (1944) – producer, record executive.
“Dirty” Dan McBride (1945) – singer/songwriter, Sha Na Na.
Howard Duane Allman (1946) – The Allman Brothers.
Ray Stiles (1946) – bassist for Mud and The Hollies.
Joe Walsh (1947) – The James Gang and The Eagles.
George Grantham (1947) – drummer for Poco.
Gary Green (1950) – guitarist for Gentle Giant.
Frank Marino (1954) – guitarist/vocalist for Mahogany Rush.
Robert Poss (1956) – guitarist for Band Of Susans.
Jim Brown (1957) – drummer for UB40.
Paul King (1960) – MTV/VH1 VJ, singer for King.
Jim Brickman (1961) – singer/songwriter.
Gail Ann Dorsey (1962) – session bassist David Bowie and Tears For Fears.
Mike D (aka Michael Diamond, 1965) – The Beastie Boys.
Sen Dog (aka Senen Reyes, 1965) – rapper with Cypress Hill.
Kevin Gilbert (1966) – songwriter/musician for Sheryl Crow ("All I Wanna
Do").
Phife Dawg (aka Malik Isaac Taylor, 1970) – A Tribe Called Quest.
Davey Havok (aka David Marchand, 1975) – vocalist for AFI.
Michael Followill (1986) – bassist for Kings Of Leon.
November 20 R.I.P. –
Allan Sherman (1973) – emphysema. Age 48. Song parodist (“Hello Muddah,
Hello Faddah”).
Roland Alphonso (1998) – cerebral hemorrhage. Age 67. The Skatalites.
Chris Whitley (2005) – lung cancer. Age 45. Singer/songwriter/guitarist.
Bobby Relf (2007) – Age 70. R&B singer, Bob & Earl (“Harlem Shuffle”).
Linda Laurie (2009) – cancer. Age 68. Singer/songwriter (“Leave Me Alone,
Ruby Red Dress”).
Pete La Roca (2012) – lung cancer. Age 74. Jazz drummer for Sonny Rollins
and Freddie Hubbard.
November 20 album releases –
The Yardbirds – Having A Rave Up With The Yardbirds (1965) U.S.
Stevie Wonder – Eivets Rednow…featuring “Alfie” (1968)
Sly and The Family Stone – There’s A Riot Goin’ On (1971)
Alice Cooper – Muscle Of Love (1973)
George Harrison – The Best Of George Harrison (1976) UK
Ringo Starr – Stop And Smell The Roses (1981) UK
Pat Benatar – Get Nervous (1982)
Cinderella – Heartbreak Station (1990)
Peter Gabriel – Shaking The Tree: Sixteen Golden Greats (1990)
Debbie Gibson – Anything Is Possible (1990) U.S.
Blue Rodeo – Casino (1990)
Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers – Playback (1995)
The Beatles – Anthology 1 (1995)
HiM – Greatest Love Songs Vol. 666 (1997) Finland
The Slackers – The Question (1998)
Sting – …All This Time (2001)
Prince – The Rainbow Children (2001)
Aerosmith – Young Lust: The Aerosmith Anthology (2001)
Oasis – Stop The Clocks (2006)
Melissa Etheridge – The Awakening Live (2007)
Phish – Vegas 96 (2007) (box set) U.S.
Billy Idol – In Super Overdrive Live (2009)
November 20 events –
1929 – Only three weeks after the stock market crash, Leo Reisman and His
Orchestra, along with Lou Levin on vocals, records “Happy Days Are Here
Again” in New York City.
1944 – Les Brown and His Orchestra, with singer Doris Day, records
“Sentimental Journey” for Columbia Records.
1954 – Gene Autry makes his Grand Ole Opry debut.
1955 – Sun Records owner and producer Sam Phillips meets RCA executives at
New York City's Warwick Hotel and sells Elvis Presley's contract to them
for an unheard of $35,000: the largest sum ever paid to sign a recording
artist at that time. Elvis receives $13,500 of the total, and Phillips
invests his share in a local hotel chain called Holiday Inn.
1955 – Bo Diddley makes his national television debut on The Ed Sullivan
Show. Prior to the show, Diddley agrees to perform Tennessee Ernie Ford's
hit "Sixteen Tons," but instead plays his own hit "Bo Diddley." A furious
Sullivan blackballs Bo from appearing on the show again. Diddley will claim
he was never paid for the performance.
1955 – Kay Starr records "The Rock And Roll Waltz" at Webster Hall in New
York City.
1957 – Rusty Draper performs on American Bandstand.
1959 – DJ Alan Freed is fired from WABC radio in New York City for refusing
to sign a statement that he never accepted money or gifts in exchange for
record airplay. The move will be Freed’s eventual downfall in the coming
Payola scandal.
1960 – Duane Eddy records "Pepe" at Audio Recorders of Arizona in Phoenix.
1961 – Bob Dylan begins recording his debut album at Columbia Studios in
New York City. The entire album will be recorded in two sessions - this
day’s, and one on November 22 - for a total cost of $400.
1961 – Billboard magazine reports that the "Twist" craze has spawned three
separate films, as well as a television station airing hourly twist lessons
featuring Chubby Checker.
1964 – John Lennon reads and acts out his "Deaf Ted, Danoota, (and me)"
from his recent book In His Own Write on the BBC comedy show Not Only...
But Also, featuring Dudley Moore and Norm Rossington.
1965 – The Who release their single, “My Generation” b/w “Out In The
Street” in the U.S.
1966 – Beatles manager Brian Epstein holds a party at his home in London
for The Four Tops, who are touring the UK.
1966 – The Broadway musical Cabaret debuts at the Imperial Theatre.
1966 – The Dave Clark 5 performs “Sitting Here Baby” and shows their “19
Days” promo video on The Ed Sullivan Show. Also on the show is Bobby
Vinton, Barbara McNair, and opera singer Franco Corelli.
1968 – Janis Joplin’s manager Albert Grossman approaches Mike Bloomfield
and Nick Gravenites about creating her new backup group, which will
eventually be known as The Kozmic Blues Band.
1968 – The Monkees’ movie, Head, premieres in theaters in six cities.
1970 – The Kinks release their single, “Apeman” b/w “Rats.”
1972 – Elton John releases his single, “Crocodile Rock” b/w “Elderberry
Wine” in the U.S.
1973 – 19-year old Who fan Scot Halpin has his dream come true when the
group invites him onstage to play drums on the last three songs of their
set at San Francisco's Cow Palace when Keith Moon falls into a near-coma
after ingesting seven horse tranquilizers and passing out on his kit.
Halpin performs "Smokestack Lightning," "Spoonful," and "Naked Eye" with
the group, then takes a bow with them. Later, Rolling Stone magazine awards
Halpin their "Pick-Up Player Of The Year Award."
1975 – Bay City Roller Les McKeown is found not guilty of vehicular
homicide for hitting and killing 76-year old Euphemia Clunie with his car
the previous May, after it’s ruled that Clunie was walking very erratically
while crossing the street. The singer is, however, charged with reckless
driving, fined £150 and has his license suspended for a year.
1975 – George Harrison and Paul Simon both appear on Saturday Night Live,
and duet on "Here Comes the Sun" and "Homeward Bound."
1975 – The Who kicks off a month-long North American tour at The Summit in
Houston. At a party afterwards, Keith Moon is arrested for disorderly
conduct and spends the night in jail.
1981 – Prince plays the first night of his 56-date Controversy Tour at the
Stanley Theater in Pittsburgh.
1984 – Michael Jackson receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1987 – Prince’s third movie, Sign ‘O’ The Times, opens in theaters in the
U.S. and Canada.
1991 – Randy Jackson is sentenced in Los Angeles to a month in jail for
violating probation related to charges of beating his wife in the previous
January.
1991 – The Rolling Stones sign a $45 million contract with Virgin Records
to record three albums over six years, making them rock's highest paid
group up to that time.
1993 – Augusta, Georgia, Mayor Charles DeVaney dedicates Ninth Street as "James
Brown Boulevard."
1997 – Paul McCartney appears on The Oprah Winfrey Show.
1997 – Kenny G receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1998 – Singer Alanis Morissette does an in-store performance for the
opening of a Tower Records store in Buenos Aires. The proceeds from the
sale of her album for the day are donated to a local children's hospital.
2001 – Charlie Daniels undergoes surgery in Nashville for prostate cancer.
2001 – Madonna's childhood home in Oakland County, Michigan, sells at an
auction for $331,000 in just 12 minutes.
2002 – Stevie Wonder threatens to sue his mother, Lula Hardaway, over a
passage in her new autobiography that claims Stevie lost his virginity to a
prostitute. The blurb is deleted from future copies.
2002 – Former Ultravox member Midge Ure is fined £500 and ordered to pay
£35 costs by magistrates in King's Lynn, Norfolk, after he admits to
reckless driving which caused an accident.
2003 – Phil Spector is formally charged with first-degree murder in the
shooting death of B-movie actress Lana Clarkson at his Los Angeles home.
Spector enters a plea of "not guilty."
2003 – Michael Jackson returns to his Neverland Ranch home in Santa Barbara
in response to an arrest warrant, and is charged with child molestation.
The singer is immediately released after posting $3 million bail.
2004 – Oasis singer Liam Gallagher is fined £40,000 for a fight in a German
hotel in December 2002.
2007 – Velvet Revolver is forced to cancel a four-city Japanese tour after
their requests for visas are rejected due to previous drug convictions.
2010 – Billy Joel undergoes double hip replacement surgery at a Long Island
hospital.
2011 – Bee Gee Robin Gibb is diagnosed with colorectal cancer.
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