Crazy Don
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Monday November 21
Dr. John ("Right Place, Wrong Time") is 64
Livingston Taylor ("I Will Be in Love with You") is 55
Allan Sherman ("Hello Mudduh, Hello Faddah") dies in 1973
Teddy Randazzo ("The Way of a Clown" and Three Chuckles member) dies in 2003
Alvin Cash ("Twine Time") dies in 1999
Mick Jagger marries Jerri Hall (it lasts eight years), 1990
Joni Mitchell marries her bass player, 1982
John Lennon is by her side as Yoko Ono suffers a miscarriage, 1968
Police arrest Don Henley after discovering drugs and a nude, overdosed, 16 year-old girl at his home, 1980
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Mixed Emotions--Exile
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Haha...Taylor Hanson, lets not even go there!i remember that being debatable even after we saw the video, back when they first came out!
He's a dead ringer for my niece!
I believed Neil Sedaka was a woman…So did I…and I also think that Rita Coolidge sounds like him on her song "We're All Alone"!
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Nick Gilder sounds like a girl.
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Not yet. The station that traditionally plays Christmas music around here hasn't started playing it yet. I just checked and they were playing Aaron Neville's version of "Everybody Plays the Fool"…
Actually, there were two stations that played Christmas music last year, and the second station, playing music from the '80's, '90's and today switched to playing mainly '70's and '80's, probably because everyone tuned out while they were playing Christmas music…
Here's a list of stations playing Christmas music right now. (BTW, the Charleston on this list must be Charleston, SC, as I don't know the two stations listed for Charleston…)
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Thursday November 17
Gordon Lightfoot ("Sundown") is 67
The late Gene Clark of the Byrds ("Mr. Tambourine Man") is born in 1941
Bob Gaudio of the Royal Teens ("Short Shorts") and the Four Seasons ("Big Girls Don't Cry") is 63
The late Dean Martin, Jr. of Dino, Desi & Billy ("I'm a Fool") is born in 1952
Arthur Conley ("Sweet Soul Music") dies of cancer in 2003
David Crosby of the Byrds and Crosby, Stills & Nash breaks his ankle, leg and shoulder in a motorcycle crash, 1990
Aretha Franklin gives a royal command performance for England's Queen Elizabeth in London, 1980
Meat Loaf collapses onstage in London and undergoes heart surgery to cure an irregular heartbeat, 2003
The Animals record "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood", 1964
"A Very Special Olivia Newton-John" airs on ABC, 1976
Elton John records a live performance at a New York City radio station, later released as his "17-11-70" album, 1970
"The Beatles Revolution" documentary airs on ABC-TV, 2000
Cher guests on NBC-TV's "Will &d Grace", 2000
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Friday November 18
The late Hank Ballard ("Let's Go, Let's Go, Let's Go") is born in 1927
Doug Sahm of the Sir Douglas Quintet ("She's About a Mover") dies of a heart attack in 1999
Bill Haley marries his pregnant girlfriend, four days after he divorces his first wife, 1952
Mick Jagger and then-wife Jerri Hall separate, 1998
A German Bee Gees concert is cancelled when Barry and Robin Gibb come down with tonsillitis, 1968
The Beatles release "Let It Be…Naked" (minus the Phil Spector embelishments on the original album), 2003
The first live rock concert is streamed on the Internet (twenty minutes of a Rolling Stones concert), 1994
Ricky Nelson records "Stood Up", 1957
The Spiral Starecase begin recording "More Today than Yesterday", 1968
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Wednesday November 16
Chi Coltrane ("Thunder & Lightning") is 57
Garnet Mimms ("Cry Baby") is 71
Mike Love's brother, Stan, is sentenced to five years probation for embezzeling $300,000 from the Beach Boys, 1988
A life-sized statue of Sonny Bono is unveiled in downtown Palm Springs, California, where he once was mayor, 2001
"Sinatra: An American Original" with Walter Cronkite, airs on CBS-TV, 1965
Jay & the Americans record "Let's Lock the Door", 1964
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Mar 12 - Charleston, WV - Civic Center Coliseum
I had a sister-in-law who was into Mötley Crüe, but she doesn't live around here anymore. But if she did, would she want to go see them if they came to town? Probably…
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Tuesday November 15
Petula Clark ("Downtown") is 73
The late Clyde McPhatter ("Lover Please") is born in 1932
Anni-Frid Lyngstadt of ABBA ("SOS") is 60
The late Little Willie John ("Sleep") is born in 1937
C. W. McCall ("Convoy") is 77
Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones is hospitalized in Chicago with a 104-degree fever and misses three days of the Stones tour, 1964
"The Bee Gees Special" airs on NBC-TV, 1979
ABC airs a British TV special, "Around The Beatles", 1964
Elvis Presley's "Love Me Tender" film premieres in New York City, 1956
Its use on a "Studio One" drama on CBS-TV makes "Let Me Go, Lover" by Joan Weber a #1 song, 1954
Ringo Starr's spaghetti western movie, "Blindman" debuts in Rome, 1971
The Jefferson Airplane record "Somebody to Love" in 1966
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Monday November 14
Freddie Garrity of Freddie & the Dreamers ("I'm Telling You Now") is 65
Stephen Bishop ("On & On") is 54
Michael Jackson marries his former nurse and the mother of his child (it lasts three years), 1996
Sonny & Cher reunite on "Late Nite with David Lettermen" on NBC-TV, 1987
Cozy Cole begins a 20-week goodwill tour of Africa, sponsored by the U. S. State Department, 1960
The Everly Brothers record "Crying in the Rain", 1961
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Just You & Me & Bobby McGee
(Just You & Me--Chicago)+(Me & Bobby McGee--Janis Joplin)
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Friday November 11
The late LaVern Baker ("Jim Dandy") is born in 1929
Jesse Colin Young of the Youngbloods ("Get Together") is 61
Jim Peterik of the Ides of March ("Vehicle") and Survivor ("Eye of rhe Tiger") is 55
Mac Kissoon of Mac & Katie Kissoon ("Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep") is 62
Jim Morrison of the Doors is arrested for drunkeness while on an airplane, 1969
Bob Dylan's book, "Tarantula", is published in 1970
John Lennon and Yoko Ono release their "Two Virgins" album with a nude cover picture of them, 1968
The concert film, "Elvis: That's The Way It Is" opens in 1970
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I have a Tracfone as I don't use my cellphone a lot and I can buy minutes for it every other month, about $20 for 40 minutes, and the units accumulate if you don't use them. It looks like this…
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I was watching "Monday Night Football" when Howard Cosell broke the news.
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Tuesday November 8
The late Minnie Riperton ("Lovin' You") is born in 1948
Bonnie Bramlett of Delaney & Bonnie ("Only You Know & I Know") is 61
Michael Johnson ("Bluer than Blue") is 61
Leif Garrett ("I Was Made for Dancin'") is 44
Rickie Lee Jones ("Chuck E's in Love") is 51
Patti Page ("Tennessee Waltz") is 78
Beach Boy Carl Wilson marries Dean Martin's daughter, Gina, 1987
Cynthia Lennon is granted a divorce from John, 1968
Connie Francis is raped in a Long Island, New York motel, 1974
Jerry Lee Lewis declares bankruptcy, 1988
The Dave Clark Five perform for Queen Elizabeth at the Royal Variety Show in London, 1965
A bullet hits a Motown tour bus in Savannah, Georgia (no one is hurt), 1962
Sonny Bono is elected to the U. S. House of Representatives, 1994
Jean Terrell is named to replace Diana Ross in the Supremes, 1968
Suzi Quatro begins her role as Leather Tuscadero on ABC-TV's "Happy Days", 1977
Buddy Holly's radio show debuts on KDAV in Lubbock, Texas, 1953
Harry Nilsson begins recording "Everybody's Talkin'", 1967
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Monday November 7
Johnny Rivers ("Memphis") is 63
The late Dee Clark ("Raindrops") is born in 1938
Mary Travers of Peter, Paul & Mary ("Blowin' in the Wind") is 68
Joni Mitchell ("Help Me") is 62
The late Al Hirt ("Java") is born in 1922
Nick Gilder ("Hot Child in the City") is 54
Carter Cornelius of Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose ("Treat Her Like a Lady") dies of a heart attack in 1991
Frank Sinatra marries Ava Gardner (they divorce six years later), 1951
Frank Zappa announces he has prostate cancer (he dies two years later), 1991
The Kingston Trio reunite at Magic Mountain in California (the reunion airs as a PBS special three months later), 1981
John Fogerty of Creedence Clearwater Revival is cleared in court of charges he plagiarized himself (his former label thought "Old Man Down the Road" sounded too much like "Run Through the Jungle"), 1988
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Friday November 4
The Beatles play a royal command performance for Queen Elizabeth in London (John Lennon asks those in the expensive seats "up front" to "rattle their jewelry" while the others applaud), 1963
Bob Dylan performs before 50 people at Carnegie Hall in New York, 1961
Jerry Butler is elected to the Cook County Board of Commissioners from Chicago, 1986
The Band documentary, "The Last Waltz", opens in 1977
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young are sued for one million dollars by a former bass player over royalties he claims he was due, 1978
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Thursday November 3
Lulu ("To Sir with Love") is 57
Brian Poole of the Tremeloes is 64
John Barry ("Goldfinger") is 72
Lonnie Donegan ("Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor") dies in 2002
James Taylor marries Carly Simon (it lasts eleven years), 1972
Elton John retires (for 15 months), 1977
Billy Preston is sentenced to three years in prison in Santa Monica, California for cocaine possession while on parole, 1997
Hootie & the Blowfish settle out-of-court with Bob Dylan after he sues them for using his lyrics in their song, "Only Want to Be with You", 1995
Little Richard guest-stars on CBS-TV's "Hearts Afire", 1993
The Beatles record "Michelle", 1965
Gale Garnett records "We'll Sing in the Sunshine", 1963
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Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show Me the Way
(Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show--Neil Diamond)+(Show Me the Way--Peter Frampton)
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Suddenly Last Summer in the City
(Suddenly Last Summer--The Motels)+(Summer in the City--The Lovin' Spoonful)
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Windows.
But if I had my druthers, I'd rather run Linux…but then I'd be confused because I'm so used to Windows…
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Actually, it got buried…
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Wednesday November 2
Jay Black of Jay & the Americans ("Cara Mia") is 67
Maxine Nightingale ("Right Back Where We Started From") is 52
J. D. Souther ("You're Only Lonely") is 60
Earl "Speedoo" Carroll of the Cadillacs ("Speedoo") and the Coasters ("Little Egypt") is 68
Buddy Starcher ("History Repeats Itself") dies in 2001 (BTW, he was the host of a local music show in Charleston, WV, when he recorded that song and left after the song became popular! And the funny thing is, the local papers in Charleston did not report that he died!)
David Crosby of the Byrds and Crosby, Stills & Nash is hospitalized in Los Angeles for liver failure (he eventually receives a transplant), 1994
Dion walks off the "Ready, Steady, Go" TV show in Britain, complaining that the go-go dancers are too distracting, 1963
George Harrison becomes the first Beatle to tour solo when he performs in Vancouver, British Columbia, 1974
Brenda Lee does a royal command performance for Britain's Queen Elizabeth in London, 1964
"David Cassidy: Man Undercover" debuts on NBC-TV (all told, ten episodes air), 1978
Paul Revere & the Raiders appear on ABC-TV's "Batman", 1966
The TV special, "Barbra Streisand And Other Musical Instruments" airs on CBS, 1973
The Rolling Stones' "Sympathy For The Devil" film debuts in San Francisco, 1969
The Who's "Quadrophenia" movie opens in 1979
The Beatles record "Hello Goodbye", 1967
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It was the "B" side of the "Band on the Run" single.
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Tuesday November 22
The late Terry Stafford ("Suspicion") is born in 1941
Marianne Faithfull suffers a miscarriage of Mick Jagger's baby, 1968
Elvis Presley signs with RCA Records (the contract costs RCA an unheard-of $40,000), 1955
Jerry Lee Lewis drives his Rolls Royce into a ditch and is arrested for driving while intoxicated, 1976
Simon & Garfunkel appear (as "Tom & Jerry") on ABC-TV's "American Bandstand", 1957
Elvis Presley's largest-grossing movie, "Blue Hawaii", premieres in 1961
The Beatles second album, "With the Beatles" is released in England, 1963