Archive for November 30, 2009

1634 – Composer Andres de Sola was born.

1813 – Composer Charles-Henri Valentin Alkan was born.

1859 – Composer Sergei Mikhailovich Liapunov was born.

1958 – Coed Records released “16 Candles” by the Crests.

1965 – The Colorado State government declared this day to be Rolling Stones Day.

1968 – Sly & The Family Stone’s “Everyday People” was released.

1969 – Simon & Garfunkel’s first TV special, “Songs of America,” aired.

1969 – The Save Rave ’69 benefit concert, to aid the youth culture magazine Rave, took place in London.

1982 – Metallica played their final concert with Ron McGovney.

1988 – LL Cool J performed the first rap concert held in Africa.

1992 – The video “NFL Country,” by various artists, was certified Gold by the RIAA.

1994 – Tupac Shakur was shot five times during a robbery outside a New York City recording studio. He survived the shooting, but was killed two years later in Las Vegas. Two days later a jury found him guilty of sexually abusing a woman, but acquitted him of the more serious sex and weopons charges.

1996 – Mark Wills and Kelly Mangus were married.

1996 – Tiny Tim died after collapsing after ending a show early because he felt ill.

1998 – Inga Vainshtein, Jewel’s former manager, filed suit claiming she was fired after Jewel’s mother intentionally caused a rift between them.

1998 – The album “Across the Bridge of Hope” was released in Britain. The money was raised for victims of the bombing in Northern Ireland on August 15, 1998.

1999 – Jomato Records released an early collection of Shania Twain’s work and called it “Beginnings (1989-90).” The material predates Twain’s earliest Nashville demos.

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