November 23 Born –
Adolph “Harpo” Marx (1888) – actor, harp player. Ruth Etting (1897) – singer, “America’s Sweetheart of Song” (“Shine On, Harvest Moon”). Jerry Bock (1928) – Broadway composer (Fiddler On The Roof). Gloria Lynne (1931) – Jazz singer (“I Wish You Love”). Krzysztof Penderecki (1933) – Polish composer (“Threnody To The Victims Of Hiroshima<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threnody_to_the_Victims_of_Hiroshima> ”). Betty Everett (1939) – Soul singer/pianist (“The Shoop Shoop Song (It’s In His Kiss)”). “Rockin’ Robin” Roberts (aka Lawrence Roberts, 1940) – singer, The Wailers (“Louie, Louie”). Alan Paul (1949) – The Manhattan Transfer. Sandra Stevens (1949) – Brotherhood Of Man. Cecil Hooker (1950) – Snuff. Bruce Hornsby (1954) – pianist. Calvin Hayes (1962) – keyboardist and drummer for Johnny Hates Jazz. Chris Bostock (1962) – bassist for Jo Boxers. Conny Bloom (1964) – guitarist for Hanoi Rocks and Electric Boys. Ken Block (1966) – guitarist/vocalist for Sister Hazel. Charlie Grover (1966) – drummer for Sponge. Destiny Hope “Miley” Cyrus (1992) – actress/singer. November 23 R.I.P. – Spade Cooley (1969) – heart attack backstage. Age 58. Western swing musician, bandleader. Roy Acuff (1992) – congestive heart failure. Age 89. The King of Country Music. Tommy Boyce (1994) – suicide. Age 55. Songwriter (“I Wonder What She’s Doing Tonight”). Junior Walker (1995) – cancer. Age 64. Junior Walker and The All Stars. Bobby Sheen (2000) – pneumonia. Age 57. The Robins, Bob B. Soxx and The Blue Jeans. O.C. Smith (2001) – Age 69. Singer ("Little Green Apples"). Anita O’Day (2006) – cardiac arrest. Age 87. Jazz singer with Gene Krupa and Woody Herman. Betty Comden (2006) – heart failure. Age 89. Lyricist (“Do Re Mi”). November 23 album releases – The Beatles – The Beatles Story (1964) U.S. Cat Stevens – Tea For The Tillerman (1970) Yoko Ono – Feeling The Space (1973) Ringo Starr – Ringo (1973) UK The Moody Blues – This Is The Moody Blues (1974) Earth, Wind & Fire – The Best Of Earth, Wind & Fire, Vol. 1 (1978) Teddy Pendergrass – Live! Coast To Coast (1979) Public Image Ltd. – Metal Box (1979) Mike Oldfield – Platinum (1979) AC/DC – For Those About To Rock We Salute You (1981) Pink Floyd – A Collection Of Great Dance Songs (1981) Chicago – Greatest Hits, Volume II (1981) Bad Religion – Against The Grain (1990) Guns ‘N Roses – The Spaghetti Incident? (1993) Metallica – Live Shit: Binge & Purge (1993) Ace Of Base – The Sign (1993) Archers Of Loaf – Icky Mettle (1993) Cowboy Junkies – Pale Sun Crescent Moon (1993) Linda Ronstadt – Winter Light (1993) *Mötley Crüe – Live: Entertainment Or Death (1999)* Guns ‘N Roses – Live Era ’87-’93 (1999) Metallica – S&M (1999) Beastie Boys – Beastie Boys Anthology: The Sounds Of Science (1999) Phish – Hampton Comes Alive (1999) U.S. Blondie – Live (1999) Freedom Call – Stairway To Fairyland (1999) Jessica Simpson – Sweet Kisses (1999) Sarah McLachlan – Afterglow Live (2004) Evanescence – Anywhere But Home (2004) Simon and Garfunkel – In Concert (2004) Guns ‘N Roses – Chinese Democracy (2008) November 23 events – 1899 – The Palais Royal Hotel in San Francisco installs a crude coin-operated slot-machine apparatus connected to an Edison phonograph that plays songs for the princely price of a nickel. The machine, which will become known as a jukebox in the 1940s, takes in more than $1,000 in its first six months of operation at a nickel a song. 1903 – Opera singer Enrico Caruso makes his U.S. stage debut in Rigoletto at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. 1936 – Blues singer/guitarist Robert Johnson holds his first recording session in San Antonio, Texas, recording eight songs: "Kind Hearted Woman Blues," "I Believe I'll Dust My Broom," "Sweet Home Chicago," "Ramblin' On My Mind," "When You Got A Good Friend," "Come On In My Kitchen," "Terraplane Blues" and "Phonograph Blues." 1938 – Bob Hope and Shirley Ross record “Thanks For The Memories” for the film The Big Broadcast Of 1938. The song will become Hope’s theme song. 1956 – Sheet metal worker Louis Balint is arrested in the morning after punching Elvis Presley at a hotel in Toledo, Ohio, claiming that his wife's love for Elvis has caused his marriage to break up. He is fined $19.60, but ends up being jailed because he is unable to pay the fine. Unhurt, Elvis travels to Cleveland for his show at the Cleveland Arena where, due to a labor strike by the three major newspapers in town, the only photographer to record the event is 17-year old Lew Allen, who is working for his high school newspaper. Allen has complete access to Presley before, during and after the show. 1960 – Elvis Presley’s movie, G.I. Blues, opens in theaters in the U.S. and Canada. 1962 – The Beatles travel to St. James' Church Hall in London for a ten-minute audition with BBC Television, which came about when Beatles fan David Smith of Preston, Lancashire, wrote to the BBC asking for the group to be featured on TV. Assuming that Smith was their manager, the BBC wrote back to him, offering an audition. Smith brought his letter to NEMS Enterprises, and Clive Epstein contacted brother Brian, who arranged for the audition to take place. Four days later, Brian Epstein will receive a polite "thumbs-down" letter from the BBC. 1964 – The Rolling Stones are banned from the BBC for “unprofessionalism,” for arriving late twice to perform on the radio shows Saturday Club and Top Gear. 1964 – The Beatles release their single, “I Feel Fine” b/w “She’s A Woman” in the U.S. on Capitol Records. 1965 – Marc Bolan appears on the UK television show Five O'Clock Funfair, performing “The Wizard.” 1967 – In an interview in Rolling Stone magazine, San Francisco’s KMPX-FM disc jockey Tom Donahue - inventor of "classic rock" and "deep cut" radio - slams AM radio claiming, "Top Forty radio, as we know it today and have known it for the last ten years, is dead, and its rotting corpse is stinking up the airwaves." 1968 – The Cowsills’ television special, The Cowsills: A Family Thing, airs on NBC. 1968 – Led Zeppelin signs with Atlantic Records on the advice of Dusty Springfield. 1969 – The Rolling Stones appear via videotape on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing “Gimme Shelter,” “Love In Vain” and “Honky Tonk Women.” Also on the show are Ella Fitzgerald and Ed Ames. 1970 – George Harrison releases his first single as a solo artist, “My Sweet Lord” b/w “Isn’t It A Pity,” in the U.S. 1972 – Bob Dylan arrives in Durango, Mexico, to begin shooting his acting debut in the western Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid. 1974 – Spooky Tooth calls it quits and disbands. 1974 – Frankie Valli’s first solo single, “My Eyes Adored You,” enters the Billboard Hot 100 at # 94. 1976 – In the early morning hours, a drunk Jerry Lee Lewis visits Elvis Presley's Memphis home, Graceland, and is told that Elvis is asleep. Lewis drives off in a huff but returns a short time later. When Jerry Lee is refused permission to enter again, he brandishes a gun and claims he's come to kill Presley. Night guard Harold Lloyd calls the police and Lewis is arrested for carrying a pistol and being drink in public. 1979 – At the Oslo Airport in Norway, Marianne Faithfull is arrested for possession of marijuana, but is released after signing a confession. 1979 – Keith Richards’ girlfriend Anita Pallenberg is cleared in court of shooting 17-year old Scott Cantrell, who was found dead in her home, after being ruled that Cantrell shot himself in the head on July 20th with a gun owned by Richards while in Pallenberg's bed at the South Salem, New York, house shared by Richards and Pallenberg. Cantrell had been employed as a part-time groundskeeper at the estate and was involved in a sexual relationship with Pallenberg. 1979 – NBC-TV airs The Rod Stewart Special. 1988 – The Phil Collins movie, Buster, opens in theaters. 1989 – Singer Jimmy Somerville is given a conditional discharge from Bow St. Magistrates after being found guilty of obstructing the highway during an AIDS demonstration outside the Australian commission in London. 1989 – Paul McCartney begins his first tour of the U.S. in 13 years, playing the first of five nights at the Great Western Forum in Los Angeles. 1990 – MTV bans Madonna's “Justify My Love” music video for being too sexually explicit. 1994 – Michael Jackson is cleared in a paternity suit after DNA results prove that he is not the father. 1996 – Trace Adkins makes his debut appearance at the Grand Ole Opry, and proposes to his future wife, Rhonda Forlaw, from the stage. 1998 – The world's first portable mp3 player goes on sale, despite strenuous objections from the RIAA. The Diamond Rio PMP300, which cost $200, plays about 12 songs. 2000 – Dolly Parton and Vince Gill host the CBS television special, Grand Ole Opry, A Celebration, celebrating its 75th anniversary. 2002 – Otis Redding's widow and his former manager sue writer Scott Freeman, author of a 2001 biography of the late soul singer, for comments in the book stating that Redding's manager caused his plane to crash in 1967 - with a little help from the mob - in order to collect on his life insurance. 2005 – Toronto member of Parliament Dan McTeague attempts to have rapper 50 Cent barred from entering Canada to perform a series of concerts by sending a letter to Immigration Minister Joe Volpe claiming that the controversial rapper shouldn't be permitted to cross the border because he promotes gun violence. 2007 – Bono <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bono> and The Edge<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Edge>are unannounced surprise guests at the Little Noise Sessions acoustic<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_music>charity concert held at the Union Chapel<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Chapel,_Islington>inLondon, where they perform "Stay," "Desire," "Angel Of Harlem," and a new song, "Wave Of Sorrow." 2008 – The parents of missing Manic Street Preachers guitarist and lyricist Richey Edwards are granted a court order for him to be declared legally dead after disappearing nearly 14 years ago. 2009 – Little Richard undergoes hip replacement surgery at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee. 2009 – In an interview, singer/songwriter Gordon Lightfoot says it's "not likely" he will ever release another album of new material, stating that his 2004 album, Harmony, fulfilled his recording contract. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Diamond Headz" group. 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