10 December

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10 DECEMBER

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2023 TikTok stages their first live music event with a five-hour concert in Mesa, Arizona, featuring Charlie Puth, Cardi B, Peso Pluma and a slate of emerging artists. 17,000 phone-wielding fans attend the sold-out show, with over 9 million more watching online.

2015 Janis Joplin's psychedelic-painted Porsche sells for $1.76 million at auction.More

2011 At the last of four 30th anniversary concerts at The Filmore in San Francisco, Metallica are joined on stage by two original members: bass player Ron McGovney and guitarist Dave Mustaine.More

2010 Michael Jackson's first posthumous album, Michael, is released.

2006 A demo called KO At Home by Yeah Yeah Yeahs frontwoman Karen O is accidentally leaked on the internet. The recording was meant to be a gift to friend Dave Sitek from TV on the Radio but it was stolen from Sitek's suitcase. Karen O shrugged off the leak, saying "s--t happens."

2005 Just six monts after topping the chart with Mezmerize, System Of A Down's album Hypnotize goes to #1 on America, giving them two #1 albums in the same calendar year.

2003 Bill Deal (frontman for The Rhondels) dies at age 59. Known for the 1969 hit singles "I've Been Hurt," "What Kind Of Fool Do You Think I Am," and "May I."

1999 Rick Danko (bassist for The Band) dies of heart failure in his sleep in Marbletown, New York, at age 56.

1997 Olivia Newton-John causes trouble for Murphy Brown on the episode "I Hear A Symphony."

1996 Country singer Faron Young dies a day after shooting himself, possibly due to his failing health, at age 64.

1995 During a recording session, Fat Boys member Darren Robinson, known as "The Human Beatbox," dies of a heart attack at age 28.

1991 Alan Freed, the disc jockey who coined the phrase "rock and roll," is posthumously awarded a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.

1986 Prince goes to a Bonnie Raitt concert at the Beverly Theater in Los Angeles. Impressed, he invites her to his home studio in Minnesota where they work on some songs together, but nothing comes of it.

1985 Three Dog Night's Danny Hutton and Cory Wells fire third vocalist Chuck Negron.

1983 Tina Turner's first solo hit, a cover of Al Green's "Let's Stay Together," charts at #6 in the UK as her comeback gets going.

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The Year Without A Santa Claus Introduces The Miser Brothers

1974

The Rankin/Bass animated holiday special The Year Without A Santa Claus airs on ABC.

Maybe Santa Claus isn't coming to town after all. Kris Kringle catches cold after Thanksgiving and his doctor prescribes lots of rest. He decides traveling the world and jumping down chimneys probably isn't a good idea, especially since no one believes in Santa anyway. Mrs. Claus hatches a plan to lift Santa's spirits: She sends elves Jingle and Jangle on a mission to prove the world still needs Santa. When their ride, the young reindeer Vixen, crashes in Southtown, the mayor refuses to believe their preposterous story of a sick Santa and will only agree to release them if they can make it snow in the perpetually hot town, where the cantankerous Heat Miser controls the weather. He'll only agree to the favor if his brother, The Snow Miser, will allow him to take over the North Pole. The Year Without A Santa Claus is the latest installment in the Rankin/Bass series of holiday specials, where Christmas characters are brought to life with the stop-motion technique called "Animagic." Mickey Rooney, who voiced Santa in Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town, reprises his role but it's the Miser Brothers who steal the show with their respective song-and-dance numbers. The Snow Miser (Dick Shawn), wearing an ice cap, proclaims he's "Mr. White Christmas" and "Mr. Icicle" and can create a winter wonderland with the touch of a finger. His rival, the flame-haired Heat Miser (George S. Irving), calls himself "Mr. Green Christmas" and melts everything in his red-hot grasp. The Misers become cult favorites and cement the movie's status on annual Christmas movie lists. In 2017, Maury Laws, who wrote the songs with producer Jules Bass, says fans still ring his doorbell to ask him about Mother Nature's feuding sons.

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