Rock 'n' Roll History for
November 10


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1958 - ClassicBands.com

November 10
Sam Cooke and members of his back-up band, which included Lou Rawls, were slightly injured when the car they were riding in left the road near Marion, Arkansas, killing the driver, Edward Cunningham.

November 10
A Billboard magazine article notes that Beechnut gum's sales have gone up 100 percent since becoming an American Bandstand sponsor.

November 10
Conway Twitty had the top tune on the Billboard Hot 100 with "It's Only Make Believe". Background vocals on the track were provided by The Jordanaires. The record also topped the Cashbox Best Sellers chart, as well as the UK Official Chart, and Canada's CHUM chart, selling over eight million copies in the process. The singer, whose real name is Harold Lloyd Jenkins, took his stage name by combining two Southern US towns, Conway, Arkansas and Twitty, Texas.

1962 - ClassicBands.com

November 10
With worldwide sales of close to one million copies, Frank Ifield earns the second of his three UK number one hits when "Lovesick Blues" reaches the top. The song had been around since 1922 and was a Country & Western chart topper for Hank Williams in 1949. Ifield's version reached #44 on Billboard's Hot 100.


1967 - ClassicBands.com

November 10
The Moody Blues release "Knights In White Satin". Lifted from the album "Days of Future Passed", the single would rise to #19 on the UK singles chart, but could only achieve #103 in the US in early 1968. It wasn't until the song was re-issued in 1972 that it would become a #2 hit in America, and earn Gold certification.

1968 - ClassicBands.com

November 10
Jefferson Airplane stir up some controversy on The Smothers Brothers Show when Grace Slick, appearing in black face, gives the black power fist salute at the end of "Crown Of Creation".

1973 - ClassicBands.com

November 10
Two years after he left The Temptations, Eddie Kendricks scores his only solo, number one Pop hit with "Keep On Truckin". It got as high as #18 in the UK.

November 10
Elton John's seventh studio LP, "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" tops the Billboard 200 chart, where it stays for eight weeks. The album contains the title track (#2), "Bennie and the Jets" (#1), "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting" (#12) and "Candle In The Wind".

1975 - ClassicBands.com

November 10
The SS Edmund Fitzgerald, an American Great Lakes freighter, sank during a violent storm on Lake Superior with the loss of the entire crew of 29 men. Gordon Lightfoot would make it the subject of his 1976 hit song after reading an article about the disaster in the November 24th, 1975, issue of Newsweek.

1979 - ClassicBands.com

November 10
The Eagles had the number one song in America with a tune that was written by Don Henley, Glenn Frey, Bob Seger and J. D. Souther, "Heartache Tonight". Although it only reached #40 in the UK, the recording would receive an award for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal at the 22nd Annual Grammy Awards held on February 27th, 1980.

1986 - ClassicBands.com

November 10
Columbia Records releases the album, "Live 1975–85" by Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band. The LP contains forty tracks recorded at various concerts during that ten year period. It would debut at number one on the Billboard 200 chart, a feat that had not been accomplished since Stevie Wonder did it with "Songs in the Key of Life" in 1976. The Springsteen album has since been certified 13X Platinum, making it the second best selling live LP in history, trailing only Garth Brooks' 1998 effort, "Double Live".


1990 - ClassicBands.com

November 10
Ronnie Dyson, who had a Top Ten hit in 1970 with "Why Can't I Touch You", died of heart failure and lung disease. Dyson rose to fame after playing a leading role in the Broadway production of Hair in the late 1960s. Although he continued to record for many years, Dyson could never match the success of "Why Can't I Touch You".

2002 - ClassicBands.com

November 10
Viewers of the UK music channel VH1 voted Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You" as the most romantic song ever. In 2nd place was Willie Nelson's "You Were Always On My Mind" and 3rd was "My Heart Will Go On" by Celine Dion.

2008 - ClassicBands.com

November 10
After the anti-child-abuse group Kidscape filed a complaint, the British exam board recalled a high school music test that included convicted child molester Gary Glitter's 1973 hit "I'm the Leader of the Gang" in its suggested listening section. Group head Michele Elliott said "The role model is morally decrepit. It's just inappropriate."

2009 - ClassicBands.com

November 10
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mitchell Beckloff ruled that because Joe Jackson does not stand to inherit any of his son's assets, he has no standing to challenge the executors.

2013 - ClassicBands.com

November 10
Boy George announced that he was reforming Culture Club to record a new album called "Tribes" in early 2015 on the band's own label. Unfortunately for the group, the LP was never recorded and the project was eventually shelved, although they continued to tour.

2015 - ClassicBands.com

November 10
77-year-old Allen Toussaint died after suffering a heart attack following a concert he performed in Spain. The legendary New Orleans pianist, songwriter, producer and performer penned or produced such classics as "Working in a Coal Mine", "Mother-In-Law", "Lady Marmalade", "Play Something Sweet" and "Southern Nights".

November 10
Martin Beard, drummer for the San Francisco band Sopwith Camel, passed away at the age of 68. The band reached #26 on the Hot 100 with "Hello Hello" in 1967.


2018 - ClassicBands.com

November 10
A spokesman from The White House announced that President Donald Trump had selected Elvis Presley as one of this year's recipients for the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The Medal is recognized as the nation's highest civilian honor, awarded to those whom the President believes made a meritorious contribution to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors.

2023 - ClassicBands.com

November 10
What was billed as 'The Beatles' last record', a single called "Now And Then" topped the UK Official chart. Taken from a cassette tape recorded by John Lennon in 1978 and completed by the surviving band members, the song was also named this century's fastest-selling vinyl single. Paul McCartney was quoted as saying, "It's mind boggling. It's blown my socks off. It's also a very emotional moment for me. I love it!"

November 10
The black and white leather jacket worn by Michael Jackson while filming a series of Pepsi commercials in 1984, sold at an auction in London, England for £250,000 ($306,000). Although those ads are most often remembered for an incident in which The King Of Pop's hair caught fire, he was wearing a different jacket when that happened.

November 10
"Last Christmas" by Wham! re-entered the UK Official Singles Chart at #37 and Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas For You" re-appeared at #40, marking the earliest-ever entry for Christmas hits in the chart's history.



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