19 NOVEMBER
In Music History
1943 Stan Kenton and His Orchestra record "Artistry in Rhythm."
1943 Fred Lipsius (original saxophonist for Blood, Sweat & Tears) is born in The Bronx, New York.
1939 Soul singer Warren "Pete" Moore (of Smokey Robinson & The Miracles) is born in Detroit, Michigan.
1938 Hank Medress (of The Tokens) is born in Brooklyn, New York.
1937 Geoff Goddard (keyboardist on The Tornados' "Telstar") is born in Reading, Berkshire, England. Wrote John Leyton's hit UK single "Johnny Remember Me" (1961).
1936 Ray Collins (vocalist, percussionist for Mothers of Invention) is born in Pomona, California.
1927 Folk singer and, yes, actual postman The Singing Postman is born Allan Smethurst is born in Walshaw, Lancashire, England.
1905 Bandleader Tommy Dorsey is born in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania.
1828 Austrian composer Franz Schubert dies in Vienna, Austria, at age 31. The cause is listed as typhoid fever, though some scholars believe it was syphilis.
Milli Vanilli Have To Give Back Their Grammy
1990The National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences strips the 1989 Best New Artist Grammy from Milli Vanilli because Rob Pilatus and Fabrice Morvan didn't actually sing on their debut album, "Girl You Know It's True." It is the first time a Grammy has ever been revoked.
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1983 Tom Evans of Badfinger commits suicide. Eight years earlier, his bandmate Pete Ham died in similar fashion. The acclaimed band had extraordinary bad business dealings with their record labels, Apple and Warner Bros., which were a contributing factor in their deaths.
1982 Led Zeppelin release their final studio album, Coda, a collection of unused songs recorded before drummer John Bonham died in 1980.
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