From the MCRFB music calendar:
Events on this date: NOVEMBER 2
1956: A riot breaks out at a Fats Domino show event at Fayetteville, NC, with police resorting to tear gas to break up the unruly crowd. Fats jumps out of a window from the building in which the show was being held to avoid the melee; during his escape, he and two other band members were injured in the process.
1963: Dion (formerly of the Belmonts) angrily walks off the ITV television program Ready Steady Go! in the middle of performing his hit, “Donna, The Prima Donna,” claiming the go-go dancers surrounding him during his song were distracting.
1963: Reviewing the Beatles’ concert the night before in Cheltenham, England, the British paper Daily Mirror uses the headline Beatlemania! effectively inserting the phrase into the popular consciousness for the first time.
1964: Brenda Lee gives a Royal Command Performance for Queen Elizabeth II in London, along with Cliff Richard and Cilla Black.
1966: Paul Revere and the Raiders appear on tonight’s “Dizzoner The Penguin” episode of ABC-TV’s Batman.
1968: Cream is presented with a platinum album for Wheels Of Fire at the Madison Square Garden stop of their farewell tour.
1969: The Rolling Stones quasi-documentary Sympathy For The Devil, directed by Jean-Duc Godard, premiers in San Francisco.
1974: George Harrison begins the first-ever solo tour by a Beatle when he performs the first night of his Dark Horse Tour in Vancouver, BC. The tour, which is plagued by Harrison’s laryngitis, is a disaster.
1979: The British rock band Who debuts their film Quadrophenia in theaters across the U. S., featuring relatively a small part in the movie by Sting.
1984: Marvin Gay, Sr., father of Motown great Marvin Gaye (who added the e when he signed with Motown) is found guilty of manslaughter in the shooting death of his son, but courts rule the shooting was in self-defense, and the elder Gay is given five years’ probation.
1985: With his new single, “Part-Time Lover” topping the charts, Stevie Wonder becomes the artist with the longest period between Number Ones: 22 years. “Part-Time Lover” also sets a record by going to Number One on five different Billboard charts.
1994: Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young’s David Crosby is hospitalized after suffering liver failure; he’s fortunate to find a donor for a transplant.
1995: The syndicated R&B dance show Soul Train celebrates its 25th year on the air with guests appearances by Al Green, Diana Ross, Bill Withers and Patti Labelle.
Releases: 1963: “Be True To Your School,” Beach Boys. 1968: “For Once In My Life,” Stevie Wonder. 1971: ‘Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits Volume 2,’ Bob Dylan.
Recording: 1967: “Hello Goodbye,” Beatles. 1973: “Never say Goodbye,” Bob Dylan.
Charts: 1955: “Sixteen Tons,” Tennessee Ernie Ford, enters the charts. 1955: “Cry Me A River,” Julie London, enters the charts. 1963: ‘In The Wind,’ (LP) Peter Paul and Mary, hits No. 1 on the LP charts. 1974: “You Haven’t Done Nothin’,” Stevie Wonder, hits No. 1 on the charts. 1974: “Play Something Sweet (Brickyard Blues),” Three Dog Night, enters the charts on this date. 1974: ‘So Far,’ (LP) Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, hit No. 1 on the LP charts.
And that’s just a few of the events which took place in pop music history NOVEMBER 2
