Events in Music
- Nov 2 "Tambourines to Glory" opens at Little Theater NYC for 24 performances
Music Concert
Nov 4 John Lennon utters his famous quip at a Royal Variety Performance "For our last number, I'd like to ask your help. The people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And for the rest of you, if you’ll just rattle your jewelry…" at the Prince of Wales Theatre in London
- Nov 9 "Tovarich" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 264 performances
The Beatles on Ed Sullivan
Nov 11 Brian Epstein and Ed Sullivan sign a 3 show contract for appearances by The Beatles
Music History
Nov 13 Dale Wasserman's stage play "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", adapted from the novel by Ken Kesey, starring Kirk Douglas, Ed Ames; Joan Tetzel, and Gene Wilder, opens at Cort Theatre, NYC; runs for 82 performances
- Nov 22 The Beatles release their second album "With the Beatles" in UK
- Nov 23 "Tambourines to Glory" closes at Little Theater NYC after 24 performances
- Nov 28 The Beatles "She Loves You" unusually, returns to #1 in UK record chart and reaches 1 million copies sold
- Nov 29 "I Want to Hold Your Hand" single released by the Beatles in the United Kingdom
Birthdays in Music
- Nov 1 "Big" Kenny [Alphin], American country singer (Big & Rich - Between Raising Hell And Amazing Grace), born in Culpeper, Virginia
- Nov 1 Rick Allen, British one-armed rock drummer (Def Leppard - "Hysteria"; "Pour Some Sugar On Me"), born in Dronfield, Derbyshire, England
- Nov 2 Bobby Dall, American rocker (Poison - "Every Rose Has a Thorn"), born in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania
- Nov 4 Marc Déry, Canadian singer and guitarist (Zébulon), born in Mascouche, Quebec
- Nov 4 Rosario Flores, Spanish singer (Muchas Flores) and actress, born in Madrid
- Nov 6 Paul Brindley, British rock bassist (The Sundays), born in Bristol, England
- Nov 6 Rozz Williams, American musician (Christian Death), born in Pomona, California (d. 1998)
- Nov 7 Elizabeth "Liz" Mikel, American actress and jazz singer (Friday Night Lights), born in Dallas, Texas
- Nov 8 Russell Malone, American jazz guitarist (Harry Connick, Jr.; Dianna Krall), born in Albany, Georgia
- Nov 9 Biagio Antonacci, Italian pop singer-songwriter, born in Milan, Italy
- Nov 11 Jevetta Steele, American R&B, session, and gospel music singer ("Calling You"), born in Gary, Indiana
- Nov 15 Jay Bennett, American multi-instrumentalist, producer, and singer-songwriter (Wilco, 1994-2001), born in Rolling Meadows, Illinois (d. 2009)
- Nov 16 Mani [Gary Mournfield], English rock bassist (Stone Roses; Primal Scream), born in Crumpsall, Manchester, England
- Nov 25 Holly Cole, Canadian jazz singer (Temptation), born in Halifax, Nova Scotia
- Nov 25 Kevin Chamberlin, American stage and screen actor, and singer (Seussical; Jessie; Wicked), born in Baltimore, Maryland
- Nov 26 Adam Gaynor, American guitarist (Matchbox Twenty, 1995-2005 - "If You're Gone"), born in New York City
Weddings in Music
Robert Goulet
Nov 12 American singer and actor Robert Goulet (30) weds American actress Carol Lawrence (31); divorce in 1981
- Nov 23 "12 Angry Men" director Sidney Lumet (39) weds Lena Horne's daughter Gail Jones
Deaths in Music
- Nov 8 Simon Jurovsky, Slovak composer and conductor, dies at 51
- Nov 15 (Frederick) "Fritz" Reiner, Hungarian-American conductor (Cincinnati Symphony, 1922-31; Pittsburgh Symphony, 1938-48; Chicago Symphony Orchestra, 1953-63), and educator (Curtis Institute), dies of pneumonia at 74 [1]
- Nov 19 Carmen Amaya, Spanish flamenco dancer, dies at about 50
- Nov 21 Artur Lemba, Estonian concert pianist, composer (Sabina), and piano teacher (St. Petersburg Conservatory, 1908-20), dies at 67
- Nov 26 Amelita Galli-Curci, Italian-American operatic soprano (Cave of the Winds), dies at 81
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