4 NOVEMBER
In Music History
1944 Scherrie Payne (of The Supremes) is born in Detroit, Michigan.
1940 Blues rocker Delbert McClinton, known for the 1992 country duet (with Tanya Tucker) "Tell Me About It," is born in Lubbock, Texas.
1938 R&B singer Harry Elston (of Friends Of Distinction) is born in Dallas, Texas.
1925 Blues guitar innovator Lonnie Johnson makes his first recording, putting down "Mr. Johnson's Blues" in a session for OKeh Records. Johnson's music fuels a blues craze throughout the rest of the decade and influences the next generation of blues and folk musicians.
1847 German composer Felix Mendelssohn dies after a series of strokes at age 38.
Newsweek Wonders If Bob Dylan Really Wrote "Blowin' In The Wind"
1963Newsweek runs a story on Bob Dylan insinuating he stole the song "Blowin' In The Wind" from a high school student. Dylan never comments on it, and the rumor slowly grows into an urban legend.
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1998 Michael Jackson announces that wife Debbie Rowe is pregnant with his first child, denying tabloid reports that Rowe was paid to be artificially impregnated and carry the child to term.
1997 Shania Twain's third album, Come On Over, is released.More
1994 Dick Dale, riding a wave of surf-rock revival, appears on The Late Show with David Letterman.
1991 The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announces its seventh class of inductees, including Jimi Hendrix, Booker T. & the MG's, Sam & Dave, The Yardbirds, The Isley Brothers, Johnny Cash, and Bobby "Blue" Bland.
1991 Irish alt rockers My Bloody Valentine release Loveless, an album that defines the shoegazing genre and simultaneously drives guitarist Kevin Shields to the brink of insanity.More
1983 Paul Simon releases Hearts and Bones, his sixth solo album. The title track is about his new bride, the actress Carrie Fisher.More
1972 With reggae catching fire in America, "I Can See Clearly Now" by Johnny Nash (an American singer) hits #1 on the Hot 100, becoming the first reggae tune to top the chart.
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