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Today in Music History
1961 - Jimmy Dean started a five week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Big Bad John', a No.2 on the UK chart. Jimmy went on to present a prime time variety show on US TV.
1967 - Working at Abbey Road studio in London, The Beatles mixed four songs, ‘Hello Goodbye’, ‘Your Mother Should Know’, ‘Magical Mystery Tour’ and ‘I Am the Walrus’. Due to the radio feed used in ‘I Am the Walrus’ being recorded in mono, the song changes from stereo to mono at the line "Sitting in an English garden".
1968 - The Monkees' three quarter of a million dollar feature film, Head opened in New York City. Instead of being aimed at their target audience of teeny boppers, the film contained a dark theme about the manipulation of the group with walk-on appearances by inappropriate guests and scenes of Vietnam War atrocities. Reviews were harsh and the picture was a box office disaster.
1973 - Michael Martin and Phil Kaufman were charged and fined $300 each for the theft of a coffin containing Gram Parsons body. The court heard that the two men were merely carrying out Parson's wishes to be cremated in the desert.
1975 - The Sex Pistols made their live debut at St Martins School Of Art in London, (the performance lasted 10 minutes).
2007 - Meat Loaf cancelled his European tour after being diagnosed with a cyst on his vocal cords. The 60-year-old had already scrapped two gigs on doctor's orders. Speculation had surrounded the tour after he cut short a gig in Newcastle, telling the audience it is "the last show I may ever do in my life".
Births in Music
1854 - John Philip Sousa, "The March King", American composer (d. 1932)
1861 - James Naismith, Canadian inventor of basketball (d. 1939) not a musician but...
1944 - Bill Henderson, Vancouver BC, rock vocalist/guitarist (Chilliwack)
1566 - Julien Perrichon, composer
1607 - Sigmund Theophil Staden, composer
1613 - Luis de Garay, composer
1659 - Theodor Schwartzkopff, composer
1753 - Jean-Baptiste Sebastien Breval, French composer (d. 1823)
1757 - Louis-Abet Deffroy de Reigny, composer
1779 - Michal Bogdanowicz, composer
1800 - Eduard Grell, composer
1814 - Adolphe Sax, Belgium, musician/inventor (saxophone)
1855 - Eduard Yosif Kotek, composer
1860 - Ignace Jan Paderewski, Kuryl¢wka Poland, pianist, composer, President of Poland (d. 1941)
1878 - Ernest Irving, composer
1883 - Hubert Bath, composer
1884 - Ludomir Rozycki, Polish composer/conductor (Meduza, Eros i Psyche)
1896 - Jim Jordan, Peoria IL, radio comedian (Fibber McGee)
1909 - Heinz Rottger, composer
1909 - Henk Bijvanck, composer
1910 - Arthur Cohn, composer
1916 - Ray Conniff, American composer and conductor (d. 2002)
1922 - Lars Edlund, composer
1923 - Renato Capecchi, Italian violinist/baritone
1928 - Peter Matz, Pitts Pa, orch leader (Hullabaloo, Carol Burnette Show)
1930 - Raymond Baervoets, Belgian composer (Metamorphoses)
1931 - Tsvetan Tsvetanov, composer
1932 - Stonewall Jackson, American country singer
1933 - Joseph Pope, US singer (Hey Girl Don't Bother Me)
1936 - David Ward-Steinman, composer
1937 - Edwin Roxburgh, composer
1938 - P J Proby, [James Marcus Smith], Houston Tx, singer and actor
1938 - Jim Pike, American singer (The Lettermen)
1941 - James Bowman, English contratenor
1941 - Guy Clark, Rockport Tx, country singer (Heartbroke)
1941 - Doug Sahm, San Antonio Texas, country singer (Texas Tornadoes-Dinero)
1947 - Doug Young, rocker (Flash In The Pan)
1947 - George Young, Glasgow Scotland, Australian guitarist (The Easybeats), produced AC/DC
1947 - John Wilson, rock drummer (Them)
1948 - Glenn Frey, Detroit Mich, rock vocalist (Eagles)
1949 - Arturo Sandoval, Cuban-born trumpeter
1950 - Chris Glen, Scottish bassist, The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
1957 - Siobhán McCarthy, Irish singer and actress
1961 - Florent Pagny, French songwriter and singer
1961 - Craig Goldy, guitarist for the band (Dio)
1962 - Aznil Nawawi, Malaysian host, actor and singer
1963 - Rozz Williams, American musician (Christian Death) (d. 1998)
1964 - Corey Glover, American musician (Living Color)
1964 - Greg Graffin, American singer (Bad Religion)
1966 - Paul Gilbert, American guitarist and singer
1969 - Bryan Abrams, Okla City, singer (Color Me Badd)
1976 - Mike Herrera, American singer and bassist (MxPx)
1976 - Jodi Martin, Australian singer-songwriter
1978 - Jolina Magdangal, Filipina singer, actress and television host
1982 - Sowelu, Japanese pop singer
1983 - Jon Hume, Australian singer (Evermore)
Deaths in Music
1492 - Antoine Busnois, French composer
1669 - Laurentius Erhard, composer, dies at 71
1672 - Heinrich Schultz, German composer (Weihnachtsoratorium), dies at 87
1712 - Johann Bernhard Staudt, composer, dies at 58
1795 - Jiri Antonin Benda, composer, dies at 73
1801 - Christian Friedrich Gregor, composer, dies at 78
1835 - Ignaz Schuster, composer, dies at 56
1865 - Atale Therese Annette Wartel, composer, dies at 51
1893 - Piotr Ilyich Tchaikofsky, Russian composer (Nutcracker), dies at 53
1897 - Edouard Deldevez, composer, dies at 80
1901 - Bohdan Borkowski, composer, dies at 48
1912 - Mykola Vytal'yevich Lysenko, composer, dies at 70
1922 - William Baines, composer, dies at 23
1946 - Zygmunt Denis Antoni Stojowski, composer, dies at 76
1953 - John Parsons Beach, composer, dies at 76
1958 - Francis George Scott, composer, dies at 78
1965 - Edgard Victor Achille Charles Varese, French composer, dies at 81
1965 - Clarence Williams, composer, dies at 67
1968 - Guillaume Landre, composer/musician, dies at 63
1968 - Charles Munch, French conductor and violinist (b. 1891)
1970 - Agustín Lara, Mexican composer and poet (b. 1900)
1983 - Robert Gross, composer, dies at 69
1986 - Elisabeth Grümmer, Alsatian soprano (b. 1911)
1987 - Zohar Argov, Israeli singer (b. 1955)
2005 - Minako Honda, Japanese singer and musical actress (b. 1967)
2005 - Miguel Aceves Mejía, Mexican actor, composer and singer (b. 1915)
2007 - Hank Thompson, American singer (b. 1925)
What's in the News Today?
An explosion kills at least 10 people aboard a minibus in the North Caucasus city of Vladikavkaz, Russian officials in the region say. (BBC)
Coronation of Bhutan's new king Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck takes place making him world's youngest monarch. (BBC)
2008 Atlantic hurricane season: Tropical Storm Paloma forms off the coast of Nicaragua with the potential to become a hurricane by Friday. (AP via Yahoo News)
California Proposition 8, a referendum that amended the State Constitution, passes and defines marriage as being between a man and a women, thus ending same-sex marriage in California. (Los Angeles Times)
India's Gagan Narang wins a gold medal in the men's 10 metre air rifle event at the 2008 ISSF World Cup Final, breaking the world record. (IBNLive.com)
President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev announces that his country will place short-range conventional warhead missiles in Kaliningrad in order to counter United States missile defense facilities in Poland and the Czech Republic, however, he expressed hope that Russia–United States relations would be mended with the presidency of Barack Obama. (CBC)
News from this Day in History
1528 - Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca becomes the first known European to set foot in Texas.
1789 - Pope Pius VI appoints Father John Carroll as the first Catholic bishop in the United States.
1869 - In New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers University defeats Princeton University, 6-4, in the first official intercollegiate American football game.
1913 - Mohandas Gandhi is arrested while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa. 1935 - Edwin Armstrong presents his paper "A Method of Reducing Disturbances in Radio Signaling by a System of Frequency Modulation" to the New York section of the Institute of Radio Engineers.
1944 - Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility and subsequently used in the Fat Man Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
1947 - Meet The Press makes its television debut (the show went to a weekly schedule on September 12, 1948).
1965 - Cuba and the United States formally agree to begin an airlift for Cubans who want to go to the United States. By 1971, 250,000 Cubans made use of this program.
1971 - The United States Atomic Energy Commission tests the largest U.S. underground hydrogen bomb, code-named Cannikin, on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians.
1985 - The Iran-Contra Affair: The American press reveals that U.S. President Ronald Reagan had authorized the shipment of arms to Iran.
1999 - Australians vote to keep the British monarch as their head of state in the Australian republic referendum.
World Holidays and Observances
Catholic Saints - November 6 is the feast day of the following Catholic Saints:
- St. Leonard of Noblac
- St. Winnoc
Dominican Republic - Constitution Day (1844)
Finland - The Finnish Swedish Heritage Day, an official flag day and name day of Kustaa Aadolf
Sweden - Death of King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden and official flag day
Tajikistan - Constitution Day (1994)
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