16 NOVEMBER
In Music History
1968 The Jimi Hendrix Experience's LP Electric Ladyland hits #1.
1965 CBS airs the Frank Sinatra documentary Sinatra: An American Original, hosted by Walter Cronkite.
1964 Jazz singer Diana Krall is born in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada.
1964 The Animals record "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood."
1962 Mani (bassist for The Stone Roses) is born Gary Manny Mounfield in Crumpsall, Manchester, England.
1960 Patsy Cline records "I Fall To Pieces."
1959 The Fleetwoods' "Mr. Blue" hits #1.
1958 Harry Rushakoff (original drummer for Concrete Blonde) is born in Chicago, Illinois.
1954 Perry Como records "(There's No Place Like) Home For The Holidays."
1949 Pattie Santos (It's a Beautiful Day vocalist) is born in San Francisco, California.
1948 "Thunder and Lightning" (1972) singer Chi Coltrane is born in Racine, Wisconsin.
1945 Guitarist/keyboard player Paul Raymond is born in Hertfordshire, England. He joins UFO in 1976.
1941 '60s soul singer-songwriter Dan Penn is born Wallace Daniel Pennington in Vernon, Alabama. Wrote Aretha Franklin's "Do Right Woman, Do Right Man."
1940 John Ryanes (of The Monotones) is born in Newark, New Jersey.
1938 Troy Seals (guitarist for James Brown) is born in Bighill, Kentucky. Also a country songwriter, his compositions will be recorded by Elvis Presley, Conway Twitty, and Randy Travis. He is the older brother of Jim Seals of the soft-rock duo Seals & Crofts.
"We Built This City" Rises To #1
1985"We Built This City" by Starship hits #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. It is later named Worst Song of All Time by Blender magazine.
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2010 For the first time, The Beatles' music is made available for digital download, as iTunes adds most of the group's catalog. Apple Computer spent decades battling the Beatles' Apple Corps record label over the rights to sell music using the Apple name, but a 2007 agreement allowed the companies to work together, setting the stage for the deal.
2008 MTV's Total Request Live ends after 10 seasons with a special three-hour finale. Guests include several of the countdown's mainstays, including Justin Timberlake, Beyonce, Taylor Swift, Eminem, and Britney Spears. Britney's "...Baby One More Time" takes the top spot on the final tally, which presents the Top 10 most iconic music videos.More
1996 The Beatles become the first act with three #1 albums the same year in America when their Anthology 3 compilation goes to the top.
1978 Replicating their infamous promo stunt for the single, Queen are joined onstage at Madison Square Garden by several dozen nude, rotund women during their performance of "Bicycle Race." (Rotund because the single mentions "Fat Bottomed Girls," the title of the other half of the A-side.)
1975 The variety show Donny & Marie, starring Donny and Marie Osmond, debuts on ABC. Their theme song is "May Tomorrow Be A Perfect Day," but the show becomes synonymous with a different tune: "A Little Bit Country, A Little Bit Rock N' Roll." More
1974 John Lennon's "Whatever Gets You Thru The Night" hits #1 in America. Elton John, who sang and played piano on the track, had bet Lennon that it would hit the top spot. As the bet's loser, Lennon has to join Elton on stage at a Madison Square Garden concert, which he does on November 28 to a manic ovation.
1963 Nino Tempo and April Stevens' "Deep Purple" hits #1 in the US. The famous band later name themselves after the song.
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