Music News For The Week 

November 8, 1953 — Buddy Holly (left) and his partner Jack Neal (right) debut on The Buddy and Jack Show, a Sunday afternoon program of country music broadcast on KDAV-AM in Lubbock, Texas. Friends since their teens, the duo breaks up when Neal marries in 1954 and sets upon a career as an electrician, leading Holly to pair with Bob Montgomery as Buddy and Bob before getting his first recording contract with Decca Records in Nashville.


November 9, 1962 — White supremacists in Birmingham, Alabama, fire gunshots into the side of a tour bus transporting Motown's first Motortown Revue, panicking the performers on board. The show that night at the National Guard Armory — one of more than 50 one-nighters along the U.S. east coast — marks the first time that the city permits an integrated audience.


November 11, 1939 — The Ink Spots reach #1 on the pop chart with "Address Unknown." Their success occurs just a few months after they peaked at #2 with "If I Didn't Care," their best-known record. They would be Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989 in the category of Early Influence, their citation reading, "With a high-flying tenor floating above their tight harmonies, the Ink Spots were the predecessors of doo-wop." In fact, group member Charlie Fuqua was the uncle of the Moonglows' co-founder Harvey Fuqua.
                                                                                  1958 — Hank Ballard and The Midnighters record the original version of "The Twist," which would become one of the most important records in rock 'n' roll history when covered virtually note for note by Ballard soundalike Chubby Checker in 1960. Ballard bases the song on the 1953 Drifters record "Whatcha Gonna Do."

November 12, 1925 — Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five make their first recordings. The Chicago sessions are issued on the Okeh label. It is Satchmo's first eponymous group after playing as a sideman with King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band and Fletcher Henderson's orchestra.
                                                                                                     1931 — EMI (Electric & Musical Industries) opens the world's largest recording studio at its Abbey Road complex, a 19th century London townhouse and the future recording home of the Beatles. It uses the first stereo recording system, developed and patented by English audio engineer Alan Blumlein.


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. The first use of sampling in the rock era, the song reaches #3 on Billboard's Hot 100.

 

Sources:

Eight Days a Week (Ron Smith)
On This Day in Black Music History (Jay Warner)
Chronology of American Popular Music, 1900-2000 (Frank Hoffman)

   
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Sources:
Eight Days a Week (Ron Smith)
On This Day in Black Music History (Jay Warner)
Chronology of American Popular Music, 1900-2000 (Frank Hoffman)
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