This is the week that was in matters musical…
1955, Elvis Presley is named Most Promising Country & Western Artist in Billboard’s annual poll of disc jockeys…
1957, Patsy Cline is named Most Promising Country & Western Artist in this year’s disc jockey poll by Billboard magazine…
1960, The Shirelles release “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow” with songwriter Carole King on drums…
1963, “Louie Louie” is released by the Kingsmen … one of the most-covered songs of all time (everyone from The Mothers of Invention to sultry Julie London), it is charged that the slurred lyrics are obscene … the song is banned on some radio stations especially in Indiana where Governor Matthew Welch determines that the ditty is definitely dirty … even the FBI gets caught up in the controversy though the Bureau ultimately wraps up its 31-month investigation inconclusively stating that they are “unable to interpret any of the wording in the record” … in 2003, 754 guitarists play a 10-minute rendition of the song at Tacoma, Washington’s, Cheney Stadium … the event is thought to be the world’s largest jam session…
1967, Rolling Stone magazine hits the newstands for the first time…
1970, Jim Morrison plays his last concert with The Doors in New Orleans…
1972, riding his motorcycle in Macon, Georgia, Allman Brothers bass man Berry Oakley crashes into the side of a city bus only three blocks from where Duane met his demise in a motorcycle accident the previous year … Oakley refuses treatment at the site and goes home only to die of a brain hemorrhage later that night in the hospital…
1988, Whitney Houston’s debut album goes multiplatinum with nine million copies sold … only Boston has ever matched this performance with a debut LP…
1998, Ahmet Ertegun and Bobby “Blue” Bland are honored with lifetime achievement awards from the Blues Foundation … also this week, Rick James suffers a stroke while headbanging during a Denver performance … the doctor blames it on a bloodclot in his neck caused by rock ‘n’ roll whiplash…
1999, Kid Rock and Lauren Hill take top honors at the Billboard Music Video Awards…
2000, Michael Abram, the man who a year earlier broke into George Harrison’s home and stabbed Harrison before being subdued by Harrison and his wife, is found guilty by reason of insanity and ordered confined to a mental hospital for an indefinite stay…
2003, Kid Rock announces plans for a continuing creative collaboration with Sheryl Crow … the collaboration has thus far resulted in the hit duet “Picture,” and they plan more writing and recording together in the future…
And that was the week that was.
Arrivals
November 9: Tommy Dorsey (1905), Dave Guard of The Kingston Trio (1934), bass singer Leroy Fann of Ruby & The Romantics (1936), Tom Fogerty of CCR (1941), Phil May of The Pretty Things (1944), Alan Gratzer of REO Speedwagon (1948), Joe Bauchard of Blue Oyster Cult (1948), Tommy Caldwell of The Marshall Tucker Band (1949), Pepa of Salt-N-Pepa born Sandra Denton (1961), Brad “Scarface” Jordan of the Geto Boys (1969), Diana King (1970), Nick Lachey of 98 Degrees (1973), Sisqo (1977)
November 10: Screaming Lord Sutch born David Sutch (1940), Dave Loggins (1947), Donna Fargo (1947), Greg Lake (1948), Ronnie Hammond of The Atlanta Rhythm Section (1950), Mario Cipollina of Huey Lewis and The News (1954), Frank Maudsley of A Flock of Seagulls (1959), Warren G (1970), Eve (1978)
November 11: Mose Allison (1927), LaVern Baker (1929), New Orleans session sax man David Lastie (1934), The Youngbloods’ Jesse Colin Young born Perry Young (1944), Chris Dreja of The Yardbirds (1945), Vince Martell of Vanilla Fudge (1945), Andy Partridge of XTC (1953), Marshall Crenshaw (1953), Ian Craig Marsh of Heaven 17 (1956), LeToya Luckett formerly of Destiny’s Child (1980)
November 12: Bukka White born Booker T. Washington White (1906), Jo Stafford (1920), Ruby Nash Curtis of Ruby & The Romantics (1939), Brian Hyland (1943), John Maus of The Walker Brothers (1943), Booker T. Jones of Booker T and The MGs (1944), Neil Young (1945), Arthur Tavares (1946), Donald Roeser of Blue Oyster Cult (1947), Errol Brown of Hot Chocolate (1948), Leslie McKeown of The Bay City Rollers (1955), David Ellefson of Megadeth (1964), Tevin Campbell (1976)
November 13: John Novarese owner of Hi Records (1923), R&B singer Justine “Baby” Washington (1940), Annette Kleinbard of The Teddy Bears (1941), Timmy Thomas (1944), Bill Gibson of Huey Lewis and the News (1951), Walter Kibby of Fishbone (1964)
November 14: Aaron Copland (1900), Sir Joseph Lockwood of EMI Records (1904), Johnny Desmond (1921), Cornell Gunter of The Coasters (1938), Freddie Garrity of Freddie and the Dreamers (1940), Buckwheat Zydeco (1947), James Young of Styx (1948), Stephen Bishop (1951), Frankie Banali of Quiet Riot (1953), Alec John Such of Bon Jovi (1956), Rapper Joe “Run” Simmons of Run-D.M.C. (1964), Brian Yale of matchbox twenty (1968), Travis Barker of blink-182 (1975), Adina Howard (1975)
November 15: elevator-music maestro Mantovani (1905), Ike Turner’s pianist Clayton Love (1927), Clyde McPhatter (1932), Petula Clark (1932), Little Willie John born William J. Woods (1937), Frida of ABBA (1945), Steve Fossen of Heart (1949), Michael Cooper of Con Funk Shun (1952), Alexander O’Neal (1953), Tony Thompson of Chic (1954), Kevin Eubanks (1957), Joe Leeway of Thompson Twins (1957), Ol’ Dirty Bastard AKA Russell Jones of Wu-Tang Clan (1968)
Departures
November 10: jazz pianist Kenny Kirkland (1998), session guitarist Tommy Tedesco (1997), Carmen McRae (1994)
November 11: Patrick “Paddy” Clancy of The Clancy Brothers (1998), Ronnie Dyson (1990), Berry Oakley (1972)
November 12: Chic drummer Tony Thompson (2003), blues fingerpicker and former Robert Plant cohort Rainer Ptacek (1997), Sean Rowley (1992)
November 13: rapper Ol’ Dirty Bastard (2004), Donald Mills of The Mills Brothers (1999), R.J. Vealey of the Atlanta Rhythm Section (1999), pianist Kenny Kirkland (1998), Bill Doggett (1996), Jerry Lee Lewis Jr. (1993), Ronnie Bond of The Troggs (1992)
November 20: album cover artist Gene Greif (2004), Roland Alphonso of the Skatalites (1998), rock critic and blues producer Robert Palmer (1997), Chess and Vee-Jay Records session drummer Earl Phillips (1990)
November 14: John Cascella, keyboardist with John Mellencamp (1992), singer Dallas Taylor (1986), dub pioneer Keith Hudson (1984)
November 15: composer-arranger Saul Chaplin (1997), disco producer Jacques Morali (1991)