This Day in Music History: November 22

November 22, 2016

We cover all sorts of news, facts and historical and interesting facts that happened on this day in music history.

 

Today: November 22.

 

1957: Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel appeared as Tom and Jerry on ABC's American Bandstand. Close friends through childhood, the first time the two appeared on stage together was in a school play, Alice in Wonderland (Simon as the White Rabbit, Garfunkel as the Cheshire Cat). They later started performing together in their junior year as Tom and Jerry, with Simon as Jerry Landis and Garfunkel as Tom Graph.

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1963: The Beatles released 'With The Beatles', their second album which went on to be 51 weeks on the UK charts. The album had advance orders of a half million and sold another half million by September 1965. It made it the second album that sold a million copies in the UK, (after the soundtrack to the 1958 film South Pacific).

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1965: Bob Dylan married Sara Lowndes in a secret ceremony during a break in his tour. This marriage took place under an oak tree on a judge's lawn on Mineola, Long Island, New York. Sara, the mother of singer Jakob Dylan eventually filed for divorce on March 1st 1977.

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1968: The Beatles double White Album was released in the UK. It Featured the songs: 'Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da', 'Dear Prudence', 'Helter Skelter', 'Blackbird' 'Back In The USSR' and George Harrison's 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps'. Priced at £3.13 shillings, ($8.76), it went on to spend 8 weeks on the top of the UK albums chart.

 

1980: ABBA scored their sixth UK No.1 album when 'Super Trouper', that started a 9 week run at the top of the charts. The album which features the No.1 singles 'The Winner Takes It All' and 'Super Trouper', became the biggest-selling of 1980 in the UK.

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1986: The Human League reached the No.1 spot on the US singles chart with 'Human'. It made them the 8th UK act to score a US No.1 single in 1986.

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1991: Alice Cooper came to the rescue of two of his fans, Patrick and Dee Ann Kelly, as their home in California was about to be re-possessed. Patrick had painted Cooper's face on the house to help sell the property, and Alice Cooper signed autographs to help raise money to help the couple.

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1994: Pearl Jam released 'Vitalogy', their third studio album. It was first released on vinyl and became the first vinyl album to appear on the US chart, since the domination of the compact disc format. They followed the release in other formats two weeks later, whereupon it became the second-fastest-selling CD in history, behind only the band's previous release Vs.

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1997: Michael Hutchence, singer of INXS, was found dead in his hotel suite in Sydney. He was 37 years old. Hutchence's body was found at 11.50am naked behind the door to his room. He had apparently hanged himself with his own belt and the buckle broke away and his body was found kneeling on the floor and facing the door. It had been suggested that his death resulted from an act of auto eroticism, no forensic or other evidence to substantiate that suggestion was found.

 

1998: Alanis Morissette was at the No.1 spot on the US album chart with her fourth album ‘Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie.’ The first single from the album 'Thank You' received a Grammy Award nomination for "Best Female Pop Vocal Performance".

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