18 NOVEMBER
In Music History
1960 Kim Wilde is born Kim Smith to Vernon Girls vocalist Joyce Baker and '50s rock 'n roller Marty Wilde (real name Reginald Smith) in Chiswick, Middlesex, England.
1958 Michael Ramos (keyboardist, accordionist for the BoDeans) is born.
1958 Johnny Cash suffers an attack of acute appendicitis while preparing for a show in Ottumwa, Iowa, and is hospitalized.
1957 Ricky Nelson records "Stood Up" and "Waitin' In School."
1956 Fats Domino sings "Blueberry Hill" on The Ed Sullivan Show.
1954 ABC Radio stations ban Rosemary Clooney's "Mambo Italiano" due to what it considers "offensive lyrics," more than likely the exaggerated Italian patois and words "goombah" and "gidrool."
1952 Four days after he divorces his first wife, Bill Haley marries his pregnant girlfriend.
1952 John Parr is born in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England.
1950 Rudy Sarzo (bass guitarist for Quiet Riot, Whitesnake) is born Rodolfo Maximiliano Sarzo Lavieille Grande Ruiz Payret y Chaumont in Havana, Cuba, but will be raised in Florida.
1950 Graham Parker (lead singer of Graham Parker & the Rumour) is born in London, England.
1950 Sammy Kaye's "Harbor Lights" hits #1.
1949 Herman Rarebell (drummer for the Scorpions) is born in Schmelz, Germany.
1946 "Wonderful Summer" singer Robin Ward is born Jacqueline McDonnell in Hawaii but will be raised in Nebraska. Using the name Jackie Ward, she works as a session singer for commercials, TV shows, movies, and recording studios. She sings on the theme to The Partridge Family, dubs over Natalie Wood's vocals in The Great Race, and provides backup to Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra, and Barbra Streisand.
1941 Pop singer Con Cluskey (of The Bachelors) is born in Dublin, Ireland.
1936 Jazz trumpeter Don Cherry is born in Oklahoma. He'll soon move to Los Angeles, California, where he is influenced by a vibrant jazz scene.
Nirvana Unplugs
1993Nirvana records an MTV Unplugged concert in New York. The show is shot in one take - imperfections and all - and is aired one month later.
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2006 With the aid of a private jet, Jay-Z plays seven 30-minute sets across the US in one day to promote his comeback album, Kingdom Come.
2005 The movie Walk The Line, based on the life of Johnny Cash and starring Joaquin Phoenix as the singer, opens in US theaters.More
2003 John Lennon's original, handwritten lyrics to "Nowhere Man" are auctioned at Christie's for $455,000.
2003 Acting on the sexual abuse allegations of a 12-year-old boy who had visited the home, approximately 70 members of California's Santa Barbara County sheriff's and district attorney's offices raid Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch. The singer is in Vegas filming a video at the time.
1995 The last Queen album, Made In Heaven, debuts at #1 in the UK. Most of the album was recorded shortly before lead singer Freddie Mercury's 1991 death.
1994 The Rolling Stones become the first major act to stream a live concert on the Internet, webcasting 20 minutes of their show at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, Texas. It's really for publicity to promote their upcoming pay-per-view concert, as very few computers can receive the webcast.
1987 Sony reaches an agreement to buy CBS Records, which includes Columbia, Portrait and Epic, for $2 billion. Artists on these labels include Michael Jackson, Barbra Streisand, Bob Dylan, Billy Joel, and Bruce Springsteen (putting Born In The U.S.A. in the hands of a Japanese company).
1985 LL Cool J releases his debut album, Radio, the first album ever issued on Def Jam Records. It goes Platinum and makes LL the first solo act on par with reigning rap kings Run-D.M.C.
1968 A group called Pogo, which includes Randy Meisner, Jim Messina and Richie Furay, debuts at the Troubadour in Los Angeles. They change their name to Poco to avoid legal action over the comic strip Pogo.
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