Red Robinson, at age 17, began his radio career at CJOR-Vancouver, British Columbia and became the first Canadian disc jockey to regularly play rock ‘n’ roll music on the air.
The Presleys lived at 2414 Lamar Avenue, rented til the end of 1954 to mid-1955
Billboard began its Top 100 chart, with “Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing” by the Four Aces as the first #1 record listed. It was not until 1959 that the magazine resolved all its pop charts into one.
Fats Domino had the top R&B song for a third week with “All By Myself”.
Elvis Presley was voted Most Promising Country And Western Artist in the annual U.S. DJ Poll.
At 2.00 p.m. Elvis and other Hayride artists appeared at the opening of a new mill at Carthage Milling Company, Texas.
Later that day Elvis performed at the Louisiana Hayride, Municipal Auditorium, Shreveport.
Johnnie Ray was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘Just Walking In The Rain.’ It stayed at No.1 for seven weeks making it this years Christmas No.1. Written in 1952 by Johnny Bragg and Robert Riley, two prisoners at Tennessee State Prison in Nashville, after a comment made by Bragg as the pair crossed the courtyard while it was raining.
Johnny Cash enters Sun Studios in Memphis to record “Ballad Of A Teenage Queen”. The song will peak at #1 on the Billboard Country chart in February, 1958 and #16 on the Billboard Top 100 chart in March.
In Pittsburgh, Alan Freed’s “The Biggest Show of Stars for 1957” concert tour played the Syria Mosque. Performers included Fats Domino, Buddy Holly and the Crickets, the Everly Brothers, Chuck Berry, Paul Anka, Frankie Lymon, Clyde McPhatter, LaVern Baker, the Drifters, Eddie Cochran, Buddy Knox, Jimmy Bowen, the Bobettes, Johnnie & Joe, and the Spaniels.
The Presleys lived at Graceland,
The Military Service Disruption
November 12, 1958
Military Service; October 1958 to February 2, 1959: Hotel Grunwald in Bad Nauheim, Germany
November 12, 1959
At a time when Rock and Roll seemed to be fading, Johnny Mathis had the number one album in the US. Elvis was in the army and Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard couldn’t make a hit record when Mathis’ L.P. “Heavenly” became his second to reach the top.
Military Service in Germany; Feb 3 – March 1960: Goethestr.14 in Bad Nauheim, Germany
The Hollywood Decade/The Elvis Establishment
November 12, 1960
Bill Black, former bass player for Elvis Presley, hit #11 in the U.S. with his version of “Don’t Be Cruel.”
Shirley Ellis records a song that she co-wrote with Lincoln Chase, “The Name Game”, as a follow-up to her #8 hit, “The Nitty Gritty”. Her latest effort would reach #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #4 on the R&B chart. As most of us figured out as kids, playing the game with names such as Alice, Dallas, Tucker, Chuck, Bart, Art, Marty, Mitch, Rich, Richie, Maggie, Ruby, Danny or Annie, results in profanity or rude language.
Velvet Underground made their live debut when they played at Summit High School in New Jersey. The newly formed band, who took their name from a paperback about a secret sexual subculture of the early 1960s, were paid $75 for the gig.
November 12, 1966
The Monkees‘ debut album started a 13 week run at the top of the Billboard album chart, selling over 3 million copies in three months.
Johnny Rivers went to #1 on the Billboard singles chart with “Poor Side Of Town”. In the UK however, the record failed to become a hit.
Pink Floyd appeared at the Corn Exchange, Bedford, England. The set list for these early Floyd shows included: ‘Let’s Roll Another One’, ‘Gimme A Break’, ‘Interstellar Overdrive’, ‘Astronomy Domine’ and ‘Stoned Alone’. ‘Stoned Alone’ was also known as ‘I Get Stoned’, and was possibly the first song Syd Barrett wrote for Pink Floyd.
Donovan‘s “Mellow Yellow” is released and begins its climb to #8 in the UK and #2 in the US. It was long rumored that the song is about smoking dried banana skins, which was believed to be a hallucinogenic drug in the 1960s, but this rumor has since been debunked. The song’s title actually refers to the fact that Donovan had suffered from liver disease in early 1966 and had become severely jaundiced.
Lou Rawls reached the pinnacle of the R&B chart with “Love Is A Hurtin’ Thing”.
Simon & Garfunkel made a healthy move (81 to 47) with “A Hazy Shade Of Winter”.
Johnny Rivers scored the biggest hit of his great career as “Poor Side Of Town” went to #1. The Monkees slid down with “Last Train To Clarksville”, ? & the Mysterians were at #3 with “96 Tears” and the Beach Boys moved from 17-4 with “Good Vibrations”. The rest of the Top 10: “Dandy” from Herman’s Hermits, the New Vaudeville Band jumped from 24-6 with “Winchester Cathedral”, the Supremes shot up from 27-7 with “You Keep Me Hangin’ On”, setting up a big battle for next week, Bobby Darin’s “If I Were A Carpenter” remained in the #8 position, Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels jumped from 18 to 9 with “Devil With A Blue Dress On/Good Golly Miss Molly” and James & Bobby Purify moved into the Top 10 with “I’m Your Puppet”.
Jerry Lee Lewis records “To Make Love Sweeter For You”, a song that will top the Country charts in the US.
Stay Away Joe Movie Production
November 12, 1968
UK book and record chain W.H. Smiths refused to display The Jimi Hendrix Experience album ‘Electric Ladyland’ due to the naked girls featured on the sleeve. The album was then made available as two albums with changed artwork after the complaints.
Elvis performed at the Coliseum, Seattle, Washington.
Date:
12 Nov 1970
Time:
8.30pm
Venue:
Seattle, WA.
Coliseum
Tickets:
15,000
Costume:
White Fringe suit
Track list:
Also Sprach Zarathustra
That’s All Right
I Got A Woman/Amen
I Walk The Line
That’s All Right
You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me
Sweet Caroline
You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’
Polk Salad Annie
[band introductions]
Johnny B. Goode
How Great Thou Art
The Wonder Of You
Heartbreak Hotel
Blue Suede Shoes
Hound Dog
Funny How Time Slips Away
Can’t Help Falling In Love
Led Zeppelin appeared at The Locarno, Sunderland, England, with tickets at 75p. The set included: ‘Immigrant Song’, ‘Heartbreaker’, ‘Black Dog’, ‘Since I’ve Been Loving You’, ‘Rock And Roll’, ‘Stairway To Heaven’, ‘That’s The Way’, ‘Going To California’, ‘Tangerine’, ‘Dazed And Confused’, ‘What Is And What Should Never Be’, ‘Celebration Day’, ‘Whole Lotta Love’ and ‘Communication Breakdown’.
Elvis performed at the Hofheinz Pavilion, Houston, Texas.
Date:
12 Nov 1971
Time:
8.30pm
Venue:
Houston, TX.
Hofheinz Pavillon
Tickets:
12,000
Costume:
White ‘Red Lionhead’ suit
Track list:
Also Sprach Zarathustra
That’s All Right
I Got A Woman/Amen
Proud Mary
You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me
You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’
Polk Salad Annie
Love Me
Heartbreak Hotel
Blue Suede Shoes
One Night
It’s Now Or Never
Are You Lonesome Tonight?
Hound Dog
How Great Thou Art
I Can’t Stop Loving You
Love Me Tender
Bridge Over Troubled Water
Release Me
The Impossible Dream
Suspicious Minds
Funny How Time Slips Away
Mystery Train/Tiger Man
Can’t Help Falling In Love
Recordings:
Engagement – Tour Ref: On Tour number 4 – November 5th – November 16th 1971
Elvis performed at the Swing Auditorium, San Bernardino, California at 5.00 p.m.
Date:
12 Nov 1972
Time:
5.00pm (matinee)
Venue:
San Bernardino, CA.
Swing Auditorium
Tickets:
7,200
Costume:
Black Way Down suit
Track list:
Also Sprach Zarathustra
See See Rider
I Got A Woman/Amen
Until It’s Time For You To Go
You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me
Polk Salad Annie
Love Me
All Shook Up
Heartbreak Hotel
Blue Suede Shoes
One Night
Teddy Bear/Don’t Be Cruel
Hound Dog
I’ll Remember You
How Great Thou Art
Suspicious Minds
What Now My Love
Burning Love
Fever
You Gave A Mountain
A Big Hunk O’ Love
Love Me Tender
Can’t Help Falling In Love
ABC Records released the posthumous single “Time In A Bottle”.
ABBA released the single “Dancing Queen”.
November 12, 1974
November 12, 1975
The Lisa Marie, the newest craft in Elvis Presley’s small air fleet, is at Memphis International Airport on November 12, 1975, getting final touches before being put to use for touring. The converted Convair 880, formerly used by Delta Air Lines, is named for the entertainer’s daughter. It was bought for $1 million and it took another $750,000 to fix it to his taste in Forth Worth, Texas. While not as elaborate as some reports have had it, the plane should be quite comfortable for the Memphian and his personal crew. It has a galley with stove, refrigerator and coffee maker, a private bedroom with queen-size bed, a dining room with eight chairs, two sitting rooms, two bathrooms with gold-plated fixtures and a shower in one, plus 29 seats for passengers. It requires a pilot, copilot, flight engineer and stewardess. Elvis also will keep the Lockheed Jetstar (smaller plane at left), a 9-seater, for touring purposes. On tours, he will need to lease a third plane for back-up groups, equipment and wardrobes. The small propeller plane is not part of his ‘air force.’
November 12 ,1976
Queen’s single “Somebody To Love” was released in the U.K.
The Wake and Aftermath
November 12, 1977
The Sex Pistols went to No.1 on the UK album chart with their debut LP Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols’. the punk group’s only No.1 album. The album was met by a hail of controversy upon its release. The first problems involved the allegedly ‘obscene’ name of the album, resulting in the prosecution of the manager of the Nottingham Virgin record shop for having displayed it in a window. More outrage was sparked by the lyrics of the songs ‘God Save the Queen’ and ‘Anarchy in the UK.’
Blondie and XTC played at Friars in Aylesbury, England.
Debby Boone made it five weeks at #1 with her classic “You Light Up My Life”. Heatwave was the new #2, as “Boogie Nights” swapped places with Carly Simon’s “Nobody Does It Better”. Barry White turned up the heat with “It’s Ecstasy When You Lay Down Next To Me” and Crystal Gayle had a big hit on her hands–“Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue”. The rest of the Top 10: Donna Summer and “I Feel Love”, Chicago edged up to #7 with “Baby, What A Big Surprise”, Paul Nicholas sang of “Heaven On The 7th Floor”, the Bee Gees rang up hit #29 with the lead single from the great movie Saturday Night Fever–“How Deep Is Your Love” and Rita Coolidge hit the Top 10 with “We’re All Alone”.
The Fleetwood Mac album Rumours spent week #27 at #1. Linda Ronstadt was a solid #2 with Simple Dreams, Steely Dan’s great album Aja was third with the self-titled Foreigner in the #4 position. Love You Live by the Rolling Stones was #5. The rest of the Top 10: Chicago XI, Elvis in Concert by Elvis Presley, Barry White Sings for Someone You Love at #8, Rita Coolidge with Anytime…Anywhere and Kansas jumped from 22 to 10 with Point of Know Return.
The Elvis album “Les 40 Grands Plus Succes” (the French pressing of “40 Greatest”) hit #56 in the U.K.
1979
Kenny Rogers released the single “Coward Of The County”.
Marty Balin, lead singer of Jefferson Starship, saw his rock opera Rock Justice open for a four-day run at the Old Waldorf nightclub in San Francisco, California.
1982 Elvis Presley Enterprises/Graceland Tourism
1982
The Pretenders released the single “Back On The Chain Gang”.
1983
Bob Dylan’s Infidels album reached its highest position when it peaked at No.9 in the UK chart. Dylan’s 22nd studio album was co-produced with Dire Straits guitarist Mark Knopfler. Dylan had also approached Elvis Costello, David Bowie and Frank Zappa as possible producers.
Lionel Richie started a four-week run at No. 1 in the U.S. with “All Night Long (All Night).” Richie has said he wanted to include some lyrics in an African language but ended up simply making up gibberish: “Tom bo li de say de moi ya” and “Jambo jumbo.”
Duran Duran moved from 59 to 42 with “Union Of The Snake”.
The Police album Synchronicity, which had fought off Thriller by Michael Jackson for the past nine weeks, spent a 16th week at #1. Metal Health by Quiet Riot moved to challenge with Thriller third. Billy Joel’s great album An Innocent Man moved to #4. The rest of the Top 10: Faster Than the Speed of Night by Bonnie Tyler, Eyes That See in the Dark from Kenny Rogers, Pyromania by Def Leppard was #7, the Greatest Hits album by Air Supply, ZZ Top moved into the Top 10 with Eliminator and Linda Ronstadt was content at #10 with What’s New.
Lionel Richie’s fifth consecutive Top 10 song to open his solo career went all the way to #1–“All Night Long (All Night)”. Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton paddled downhill with “Islands In The Stream” and Billy Joel was up to #3 with his 22nd hit “Uptown Girl”. Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson teamed up with “Say Say Say”. The rest of the Top 10: Bonnie Tyler’s former #1 smash “Total Eclipse Of The Heart”, the Fixx and “One Thing Leads To Another”, “Cum On Feel The Noize (sic)” from Quiet Riot, Prince remained at #8 with “Delirious”, Air Supply’s #2 song “Making Love Out Of Nothing At All” and the Motels checked in with song #10–“Suddenly Last Summer”.
1984 Actor ExWife: Priscilla Presley
1984
Madonna released her second studio album “Like A Virgin,” which became her first #1 album on Billboard and also topped the charts in Germany, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain and the UK.
1987
Just like he did in his prime, Sly Stone shows up over an hour late for his “comeback” concert in Los Angeles. When he finally arrives, he is arrested for non-payment of child support.
1988
U2 started a six-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with their sixth studio album ‘Rattle And Hum’ which went on to sell over 14 million copies.
UK group The Escape Club earned the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100 with “Wild, Wild West.” The track was accused of borrowing from Elvis Costello’s 1978 song “Pump It Up.”
Anita Baker achieved her 12th R&B hit and this one became a #1 song–“Giving You The Best That I Got”.
The Escape Club had the new #1 song–“Wild, Wild West”, taking over from the Beach Boys with “Kokomo”. Kylie Minogue’s version of the song written by Stanley, Idaho’s Carole King–“The Loco-Motion” took the opportunity to move up to #3 and Bon Jovi’s “Bad Medicine” was right behind her. The rest of the Top 10: Whitney Houston and “One Moment iI Time”, U2 and the live “Desire” was at #6, Phil Collins was on the way down with “Groovy Kind Of Love”, Will to Power cracked the list with “Baby, I Love Your Way/Freebird Medley”, the fifth consecutive Top 10 song from George Michael’s Faith album–“Kissing A Fool” moved from 15 to 9 and Inxs wrapped up the list with “Never Tear Us Apart”.
U2 reached #1 on the Album chart with the Soundtrack to “Rattle and Hum” while Guns N’ Roses had the #2 album after 64 weeks of release with Appetite for Destruction. The previous #1–New Jersey by Bon Jovi was down to #3 and the “Cocktail” Soundtrack and Def Leppard’s Hysteria were also bumped down a notch. The rest of the Top 10: Don’t Be Cruel from Bobby Brown, Anita Baker moved from 22 to 7 in just her second week with the album Giving You the Best That I Got, George Michael was still at #8 with Faith after 52 weeks, Bobby McFerrin had Simple Pleasures and Cinderella jumped into the Top 10 with Long Cold Winter.
1990
C + C Music Factory released the single “Gonna’ Make You Sweat
1993
Michael Jackson announced he was pulling the plug on his Dangerous World Tour because allegations that he molested a boy caused him to become addicted to painkillers and left him “physically and emotionally exhausted.”
1994
“I Wanna’ Be Down” by Brandy set the pace on the R&B chart.
The incredible Boyz II Men, who dominated the chart for 13 weeks just two years earlier with “End Of The Road”, now held on for a 12th week at #1 with “I’ll Make Love To You”. Sheryl Crow spent six of those weeks at #2 with her great song “All I Wanna’ Do” and Real McCoy were up to #3 with “Another Night”. Ini Kamoze had song #4–“Here Comes The Hotstepper” and Madonna made it 26 Top 10 songs out of 32 releases with “Secret”.
1996
Eminem released his debut studio album, Infinite. It was a commercial flop, reportedly selling fewer than 1,000 copies.
The album “Evita: The Complete Motion Picture Music Soundtrack” was released.
1997
The Spice Girls were at No.1 on the UK album chart with their second album ‘Spiceworld’, it was also the name of their tie-in film. The album became a huge hit worldwide, lengthening the so-called “Spicemania” fever at that time. It produced 4 singles all of which saw commercial success and has now sold over 20 million worldwide.
Billy Preston was sentenced to three years in prison for violating probation when he tested positive for cocaine. Another year was added to his sentence when he was convicted of having arranged a fake burglary of his house in 1994. He would be released after 18 months in California’s Avenal State Prison.
Chang Yu-Sheng, best know for his hit Mandarin song “My Future Is Not A Dream,” died three weeks after being injured in an auto accident.
1998
Winners at the MTV Europe Awards included Madonna best female artist and album for ‘Ray Of Light’, The Spice Girls won best group, All Saints won breakthrough artist, Robbie Williams, best male artist and Natalie Imbruglia won best song with ‘Torn.’
1999
Gary Glitter, whose real name is Paul Francis Gadd, was sentenced in a UK court to four months in jail after pleading guilty to charges of possessing child pornography. In a separate trial hours earlier, the British Glam-rocker was acquitted of sexually assaulting an underage fan almost twenty years before.
Kevin Smith’s comedy Dogma opened in cinemas. The movie starred Ottawa-born singer Alanis Morissette as God and featured her song “Still” on the soundtrack.
2000
Destiny’s Child started an eleven week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Independent Women Part 1.’ Taken from the group’s third studio album, Survivor, the song first appeared on the soundtrack to the 2000 film Charlie’s Angels.
2001
The three living former Beatles met for the last time at George Harrison’s hotel in New York City for lunch. Harrison died two weeks later at a friend’s home in Los Angeles on 29 November 2001, aged 58.
November 12, 2002
Die-hard Beatles fans were enraged after Paul McCartney altered the song writing credits on his ‘Back In The US 2002’ album, changing them to McCartney and Lennon from Lennon and McCartney.
The documentary “Elvis, The King In Hollywood” was released.
2003 Recording Artist: Daughter Lisa Marie Presley
2003
Tony Thompson, drummer for Chic, passed away from renal cell cancer at the age of 48. Thompson played on all the Chic hits, including “Dance, Dance, Dance”, “Le Freak”, “I Want Your Love” and “Good Times”.
2005
Gary Glitter, who had been convicted of child pornography, vanished from his Ba Ring Vung Tau home after Vietnamese authorities discovered a 15 year-old girl living there.
2008
Jimi Hendrix Experience drummer Mitch Mitchell was found dead in a Portland, Oregon hotel room. He had just completed the Experience Hendrix Tour and was starting a brief vacation before returning to his native England. The Multnomah County Medical Examiner’s office later ruled that the 62-year-old Mitchell had died of natural causes.
2010 Actor: Granddaughter Riley Keough
November 12, 2012
One Direction’s second album “Take Me Home” was released in the U.K.
An Asian collector bought a platinum chronograph Patek Philippe wristwatch owned by Eric Clapton for $3.63 million.
After a high profile move by Taylor Swift to pull her entire back catalogue from the song-streaming service Spotify, their chief executive Daniel Ek’s defended its business model, saying it has paid out $2bn (£1.2bn) to the music industry to date.
2016
Robbie Williams broke the record for the most No.1 albums by a British solo artist. The singer’s latest album, The Heavy Entertainment Show, debuted at No.1 on this week’s chart. It is his 12th album to reach the summit and pushed him ahead of David Bowie who has 11 No.1 albums to his name.
Saturday Night Live opened with Kate McKinnon as Hillary Clinton singing Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah.” It was the first episode following Clinton’s loss in the U.S. presidential election and the death of Cohen.
2017
Heritage Auctions in Dallas sold a guitar played by Bob Dylan during his set at George Harrison’s Concert for Bangladesh in New York City in 1971 and his Rolling Thunder Revue tour from October 1975 to May 1976 for $396,500.
Heritage Auctions in Dallas sold a guitar played by Bob Dylan during his set at George Harrison’s Concert for Bangladesh in New York City in 1971 and his Rolling Thunder Revue tour from October 1975 to May 1976 for $396,500.
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