What happened on November 14
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196066 yrs ago
Ray Charles's "Georgia on My Mind" hits No. 1
His version of the standard was the top song on the Billboard Hot 100 in the chart dated November 14, 1960.
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198343 yrs ago
Michael Jackson's Thriller video is first screened
The 14-minute John Landis short was shown privately at the Crest Theater in Los Angeles. It later became the first music video picked for the National Film Registry.
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199036 yrs ago
Milli Vanilli's lip-sync secret comes out
Producer Frank Farian told a Munich press conference that the duo never sang on their records and fired them. Their Grammy was taken back five days later.
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199531 yrs ago
The Waiting to Exhale soundtrack is released
Babyface gathered Whitney Houston, Aretha Franklin, Toni Braxton, Mary J. Blige and more. Houston's "Exhale (Shoop Shoop)" debuted at No. 1 on the Hot 100.
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200323 yrs ago
Jay-Z releases The Black Album
Billed as his farewell, it opened at No. 1 with 463,000 copies sold and gave us "99 Problems" and "Dirt off Your Shoulder". He was back by 2005.
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1900126 yrs ago
Aaron Copland is born in Brooklyn
The composer of Appalachian Spring, Rodeo and Fanfare for the Common Man wrote open, slowly shifting harmonies that many hear as the sound of America. Peers and critics dubbed him the "Dean of American Music".
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193987 yrs ago
Electronic composer Wendy Carlos is born
Her 1968 album Switched-On Bach played Bach on the Moog, won three Grammys and sold a million, drawing new attention to the synthesizer. She later scored A Clockwork Orange and Tron.
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194779 yrs ago
Zydeco star Buckwheat Zydeco is born in Louisiana
Stanley Dural Jr. led the first zydeco act signed to a major label and won a Grammy in 2010 for Lay Your Burden Down.
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198442 yrs ago
Reggae producer Keith Hudson dies at 38
His 1974 album Pick a Dub is often called the first deliberately themed dub album, and he was among the first to record the deejay U-Roy.
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201610 yrs ago
Country singer Holly Dunn dies at 59
She wrote her breakthrough hit "Daddy's Hands" as a tribute to her father, and later scored No. 1s with "Are You Ever Gonna Love Me" and "You Really Had Me Going".
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