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THE DYNAMICS * “Misery” * BILLBOARD (No. 60) November 16, 1963
From the MCRFB music calendar:
Events on this date: NOVEMBER 15
1926: The first network radio broadcast, four-and-a-half hours of of various performances from New York’s Waldorf-Astoria and other remotes around the country, airs on the new National Broadcasting Company (soon to be known as NBC).
1956: Elvis Presley’s first movie, Love Me Tender, premier’s at New York’s Paramount Theater. The King’s popularity has grown so phenomenally large during the filming on the movie that his part — originally almost a cameo — is expanded to fit his stardom. Indeed, when his role character is killed in the end of the movie, test audiences are so distraught that Elvis reappears at the end of the movie to reprise the title song. A 50 ft. cutout poster of the singer is center over the theater marquee to enhance his first starring role in the motion picture.
1959: Three ex-members of the Quarrymen — later to become known as the Beatles‘ John, Paul and George — audition for a British talent program called TV Star Search at the Hippodrome Theater in Lancashire, appearing as “Johnny and the Moondogs” while performing two Buddy Holly songs: “Think It Over” and “It’s So Easy.” Unfortunately, the trio is forced to return to Liverpool the same night, having no money to rent a hotel room, and therefore missing the next round of auditions.
1964: While on tour, Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones is admitted to Chicago’s Passavant Hospital for pneumonia, having reached a dangerous level of 105 degrees. He will miss the last four dates of the U. S. tour.
1965: The Rolling Stones make their first appearance on NBC-TV’s rock variety show Hullabaloo, performing their hit, “Get Off My Cloud.”
1968: During tonight’s Janis Joplin and the Big Brother and Holding Company concert in Tampa, Florida, a policeman tries to use a bullhorn to control a crowd that has left its seats and begun to move around, prompting Joplin to object: “Don’t **** with those people! Hey, mister, what’re you so uptight about? Did you buy a $5 dollar ticket?” The cop responds in turn by ordering the singer to inform the crowd that they need to be seated, she replies, “I’m not telling ’em s***.” Joplin left the stage after the concert, calling the cop a “son of a b**** and threatening to kick his face in, leading her to be arrested afterwards in her dressing room on a charge of publicly using ” vulgar and indecent language.” After posting a $500 dollar bail, the charges are later dropped.
1969: Hamburg, Germany’s famous rock and roll venue, the Star Club, announces it will permanently close its doors at the end of the month.
1969: The Beatles’ last photographic session graces today’s cover of the Rolling Stone. On the same day, obsessive fans looking for the “Paul Is Dead” clues on album covers and in songs push two previous Beatles albums, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and Magical Mystery Tour, back onto the Billboard LP charts.
1972: Harry Chapin becomes the proud father of his first child, Joshua Burke, in New York City, and event that would eventually inspire him to to put his wife’s poem,”Cat’s In The Cradle,” to music and song.
1979: NBC-TV airs The Bee Gees Special, their first, starring Willie Nelson, Glen Campbell, and little brother Andy Gibb.
1992: The Doors’ Robbie Krieger, Mark Lindsay of Paul Revere and the Raiders, Peter Noone of Herman’s Hermits, John Sabastian of the Lovin’ Spoonful, Spencer Davis, Ritchie Havens, all guest stars on tonight’s “Rock Of Ages” episode of FOX’s Married With Children.
2000: Michael Abram, the Liverpool native who broke into George Harrison’s home and stabbed him in an incident earlier in the year, is found not guilty by reason of insanity at Oxford Crown Court. Abram is ordered confined to a mental hospital for an indefinite period of time.
Birthdays: Petula Clark; 1932. Clyde McPhatter; 1932. Little Willie John; 1937. Janet Lennon (Lennon Sisters); 1946. Steve Fossen (Heart); 1949. Tony Thompson (Chic); 1954.
Releases: ‘Openings,’ (LP), Carpenters; 1969. ‘E Pluribus Funk,’ (LP), Grand Funk Railroad; 1971.
Recording: 1956: “Rock Around With Ollie Vee,” “Modern Don Juan,” “You Are My One Desire,” Buddy Holly. 1966: “Somebody To Love,” Jefferson Airplane.
Charts: NONE — for this date.
Certifications: 1978: “Le Freak,” Chic; certified gold by the RIAA.
And that’s just a few of the events which took place in pop music history NOVEMBER 15
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From the MCRFB NEWS archive: 1964
Beatles Off Billboard Chart; 1st Time Since January 18
NEW YORK — This is the first time since January 18 that the Beatles have not been represented on Billboard’s Hot 100 Chart. They broke unto the chart with their smash hit, “I Want To Hold Your Hand.”
Last week spelled the end of their chart streak when “Matchbox” dropped off the single chart.
The group’s peak was reached during Billboard’s April issue when 14 Beatles sides on five different labels were represented on the Hot 100.
Beatle records for Capitol of Canada during April 11 included, “Love Me Do,” “You Can’t Do That,” “Roll Over Beethoven,” “Can’t Buy Me Love,” “I Want To Hold Your Hand,” “I Saw Her Standing There,” ” All My Loving.”
Vee-Jay hits at the time were, “Thank You Girl,” “Do You Want To Know A Secret,” “From Me To You” and “Please, Please Me.”
Swan Records registered with “She Loves You,” and Tollie Records came up with two Beatle releases, “Twist And Shout” and “There’s A Place.” END
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(Information and news source: Billboard; November 7, 1964)
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“QUICKSAND” (INSTRUMENTAL) * Martha & The Vandellas * 1963
From the MCRFB music calendar:
Events on this date: NOVEMBER 2
1956: A riot breaks out at a Fats Domino show event at Fayetteville, NC, with police resorting to tear gas to break up the unruly crowd. Fats jumps out of a window from the building in which the show was being held to avoid the melee; during his escape, he and two other band members were injured in the process.
1963: Dion (formerly of the Belmonts) angrily walks off the ITV television program Ready Steady Go! in the middle of performing his hit, “Donna, The Prima Donna,” claiming the go-go dancers surrounding him during his song were distracting.
1963: Reviewing the Beatles’ concert the night before in Cheltenham, England, the British paper Daily Mirror uses the headline Beatlemania! effectively inserting the phrase into the popular consciousness for the first time.
1964: Brenda Lee gives a Royal Command Performance for Queen Elizabeth II in London, along with Cliff Richard and Cilla Black.
1966: Paul Revere and the Raiders appear on tonight’s “Dizzoner The Penguin” episode of ABC-TV’s Batman.
1968: Cream is presented with a platinum album for Wheels Of Fire at the Madison Square Garden stop of their farewell tour.
1969: The Rolling Stones quasi-documentary Sympathy For The Devil, directed by Jean-Duc Godard, premiers in San Francisco.
1974: George Harrison begins the first-ever solo tour by a Beatle when he performs the first night of his Dark Horse Tour in Vancouver, BC. The tour, which is plagued by Harrison’s laryngitis, is a disaster.
1979: The British rock band Who debuts their film Quadrophenia in theaters across the U. S., featuring relatively a small part in the movie by Sting.
1984: Marvin Gay, Sr., father of Motown great Marvin Gaye (who added the e when he signed with Motown) is found guilty of manslaughter in the shooting death of his son, but courts rule the shooting was in self-defense, and the elder Gay is given five years’ probation.
1985: With his new single, “Part-Time Lover” topping the charts, Stevie Wonder becomes the artist with the longest period between Number Ones: 22 years. “Part-Time Lover” also sets a record by going to Number One on five different Billboard charts.
1994: Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young’s David Crosby is hospitalized after suffering liver failure; he’s fortunate to find a donor for a transplant.
1995: The syndicated R&B dance show Soul Train celebrates its 25th year on the air with guests appearances by Al Green, Diana Ross, Bill Withers and Patti Labelle.
Releases: 1963: “Be True To Your School,” Beach Boys. 1968: “For Once In My Life,” Stevie Wonder. 1971: ‘Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits Volume 2,’ Bob Dylan.
Recording: 1967: “Hello Goodbye,” Beatles. 1973: “Never say Goodbye,” Bob Dylan.
Charts: 1955: “Sixteen Tons,” Tennessee Ernie Ford, enters the charts. 1955: “Cry Me A River,” Julie London, enters the charts. 1963: ‘In The Wind,’ (LP) Peter Paul and Mary, hits No. 1 on the LP charts. 1974: “You Haven’t Done Nothin’,” Stevie Wonder, hits No. 1 on the charts. 1974: “Play Something Sweet (Brickyard Blues),” Three Dog Night, enters the charts on this date. 1974: ‘So Far,’ (LP) Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, hit No. 1 on the LP charts.
And that’s just a few of the events which took place in pop music history NOVEMBER 2
