November 13, 1956 — The duo Buchanan and Goodman go to court in a suit for copyright infringement over their record "The Flying Saucer," which incorporates bits of hit records of the time  The lawsuit was later settled out of court when the judge ruled that the record was burlesque and a parody and an original creation in and of itself. The first use of sampling in the rock era, the song reaches #3 on Billboard's Hot 100.

                         1973 — Jerry Lee Lewis's 19-year-old son, Jerry Lee Jr., is killed in a highway accident near Hernando, Mississippi. The elder Lewis had already lost his only other son, Steven Allen, in a 1962 drowning.

November 14, 1960 — Ray Charles' version of "Georgia On My Mind," written in 1930 by Hoagy Carmichael and Stuart Gorrell, hits #1 in the U.S. He decides to record it after hearing his chauffeur sing the standard repeatedly.
                         1961 — Charles is arrested before a show in Indianapolis when marijuana and heroin are found in his hotel room. Charges are dropped on a technicality, but his drug problems are far from over.

November 15, 1956 — Elvis Presley's first movie, Love Me Tender, premieres at the Paramount Theater in New York City. The film is a Civil War drama originally titled The Reno Brothers, but when Elvis becomes a major star during the shoot, it is re-titled after his hit song and he is given top billing.



November 17, 1963 — Headmaster John Weightman of Surrey Grammar School in Guildford, England, bans the popular Beatle "moptop" haircuts, explaining that "this ridiculous style brings out the worst in boys physically. It makes them look like morons."
                         1979 — The Guinness Book of World Records verifies ABBA as the biggest-selling recording group in history.

November 18, 1963 — Beatles manager Brian Epstein asks the group's fans to please refrain from pelting the group with Jelly Babies (soft, jelly-like sweets) at their concerts. The Fab Four had made the mistake of remarking how much they liked them.
                        1970 — After 13 years of marriage, Jerry Lee Lewis divorces 26-year-old Myra Gale Brown, the daughter of his bass-player cousin. Myra was just 13 when they wed and the marriage scandalized his fans worldwide, causing his career to sink. Myra later claims they spent just three nights together during their marriage. Lewis takes up abstinence and sobriety, but abandons that lifestyle after a few months.
                         1979 — Chuck Berry is released from Lompoc Prison in California after serving a four-month sentence for tax evasion. It is the last of his three jail terms. His first came as a teenager in 1944 when he was arrested in St. Louis for armed robbery after hijacking a car at gunpoint and robbing a gas station. The second occurred in 1956 when he was convicted of violating the federal Mann Act for driving a 14-year-old girl across the Missouri state border under questionable circumstances.

November 19, 1968 — Diana Ross interrupts a Supremes show at the Royal Command Variety Performance in London to plea for greater interracial understanding. She receives a two-minute ovation from the audience, which includes members of the royal family. The Queen Mother stands after Ross' moving performance of "Somewhere" from West Side Story.

Sources:

Sources:
Eight Days a Week (Ron Smith)
Eight Days a Week (Kenneth Best)
On This Day in Black Music History (Jay Warner)
Chronology of American Popular Music, 1900-2000 (Frank Hoffman)
calendar.songfacts.com
onthisday.com/music