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Music History Events: albums released November 15
Albums released November 15:
• 1956 – FRANK SINATRA – ‘This is Sinatra!’
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• 1960 – ETTA JAMES – ‘At Last!’
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• 1960 – MUDDY WATERS – ‘Muddy Waters at Newport’
• 1965 – THE YARDBIRDS – ‘Having a Rave Up with The Yardbirds’ (USA)
• 1970 – VAN MORRISON – ‘His Band and the Street Choir’
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• 1970 – THE VELVET UNDERGROUND – ‘Loaded’
• 1971 – GRAND FUNK RAILROAD – ‘E Pluribus Funk’ (USA)
• 1972 – AMERICA – ‘Homecoming’
• 1974 – ROXY MUSIC – ‘Country Life’
• 1974 – RINGO STARR – ‘Goodnight Vienna’ (UK)
• 1974 – BADFINGER – ‘Wish You Were Here’
• 1977 – BEE GEES / VARIOS / BSO – ‘Saturday Night Fever’
• 1978 – GRATEFUL DEAD – ‘Shakedown Street’
• 1978 – BARBRA STREISAND – ‘Barbra Streisand’s Greatest Hits Volume 2’
• 1981 – THIN LIZZY – ‘Renegade’
• 1983 – OZZY OSBOURNE – ‘Bark at the Moon’
• 1984 – KOOL & THE GANG – ‘Emergency’
• 1985 – STEVIE NICKS – ‘Rock a Little’
• 1985 – COCTEAU TWINS – ‘Tiny Dynamine’ (EP)
• 1986 – THE BEASTIE BOYS – ‘Licensed to Ill’
• 1986 – FRANK ZAPPA – ‘Jazz from Hell’
• 1986 – DEBBIE HARRY – ‘Rockbird’
• 1988 – FLEETWOOD MAC – ‘Greatest Hits’
• 1988 – AL JARREAU – ‘Heart’s Horizon’
• 1988 – RAY CHARLES – ‘Just Between Us’
• 1988 – JOURNEY – ‘Greatest Hits’
• 1988 – KISS – ‘Smashes, Thrashes & Hits’
• 1988 – COWBOY JUNKIES – ‘The Trinity Session’
• 1989 – DURAN DURAN – ‘Decade: Greatest Hits’
• 1990 – GINO VANNELLI – ‘Inconsolable Man’
• 1993 – PAUL MCCARTNEY ‘Paul Is Live’ (UK)
• 1993 – SOUL II SOUL – ‘Volume IV The Classic Singles 88–93’
• 1994 – TLC – ‘CrazySexyCool’
• 1994 – SPARKS – ‘Gratuitous Sax & Senseless Violins‘
• 2004 – WITHIN TEMPTATION – ‘The Silent Force’
• 2005 – CARRIE UNDERWOOD – ‘Some Hearts’
• 2005 – WILCO – ‘Kicking Television: Live in Chicago’
• 2005 – BRIGHT EYES – ‘Motion Sickness’ (USA)
• 2005 – GREEN DAY – ‘Bullet in a Bible’
• 2005 – UFOMAMMUT – ‘Lucifer Songs’
• 2006 – DEVIN TOWNSEND – ‘The Hummer’
• 2010 – TWIN SHADOW – ‘Forget’
• 2010 – MC FLY – ‘Above the Noise’
• 2010 – TAKE THAT – ‘Progress’
• 2010 – A DAY TO REMEMBER – ‘What Separates Me from You’
• 2011 – DRAKE – ‘Take Care’
• 2011 – H20 – ‘Don’t Forget Your Roots’
• 2013 – LEAVES’ EYES – ‘Symphonies of the Night’
• 2013 – ELDER – ‘Live at Roadburn’
• 2019 – LADY ANTEBELLUM –‘Ocean’
• 2019 – DJ SHADOW – ‘Our Pathetic Age’
• 2019 – RANDY NEWMAN / BSO – ‘Marriage Story’
• 2019 – FALL OUT BOY – ‘Greatest Hits: Believers Never Die – Volume Two’
• 2019 – CELINE DION – ‘Courage’
• 2019 – ABIGAIL WILLIAMS – ‘Walk Beyond the Dark’ (FIN)
• 2019 – TINDERSTICKS – ‘No Treasure but Hope’
• 2019 – SILBERMOND – ‘Schritte’
• 2022 – THE SMASHING PUMPKINS – ‘Atum: Act One‘
• 2024 – FLO – ‘Access All Areas’
• 2024 – LINKIN PARK – ‘From Zero’
• 2024 – SISTER HAZEL – ‘Sand, Sea & Crash Debris’
• 2024 – GWEN STEFANI – ‘Bouquet’
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LP, 1977: ‘SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER’ (OST)
On November 15, 1977, the original soundtrack of the film starring John Travolta was released. This, with songs by the Bee Gees, Tavares, K.C. & the Sunshine Band, and Kool & the Gang among others, caused a furor around the world and sold more than fifteen million copies. It spent 24 weeks at No. 1 in the United States and 18 in the United Kingdom and perfectly embodied the disco phenomenon that was sweeping the planet. Seven of the singles that were released were also No. 1: ‘Jive talkin”, ‘A fifth of Beethoven’, ‘You should be dancing’, ‘How deep is your love’, ‘Night fever’, ‘If I can’t have you’ and ‘Stayin’ alive’.
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Happy birthday, Petula Clark!
93 years old today is the British actress and singer Petula Clark, born in Epsom (England). Her global sales have exceeded 70 million copies, she is still active and in 2010 she was appointed president of the prestigious Hastings Music Festival.
Belonging to a family of artists, he was the British answer to Shirley Temple. Trained by her mother, she made her stage debut at age seven, becoming a contemporary child star of Anthony Newley and Julie Andrews, who used to act as entertainment for English troops during World War II. Petula performed more than 200 times for the Army before he was nine years old.
At the age of eleven, she starred in a BBC radio program in which she sang patriotic songs. In 1944, at the age of thirteen, she participated in a film – also patriotic – called “A medal for the general”, which would be the first of about twenty films in which she worked during her career.
After the war, Petula was one of the first stars of British TV. Despite being very popular and loved throughout the country. Thanks to her performances in film, radio and TV, she did not start recording until 1949, the year in which her first single, “Music, music, music”, a song that Theresa Brewer had taken to number 1 in the United States, was released. He continued to record albums in the fifties, but only managed to attract attention with children”s songs, some of which, however, were a great success, such as “The little shoemaker”.
He tried to shake off the image of a child star by recording songs with rock influences such as “Sailor” and “My friend the sea”. In 1957 she was invited to perform at the prestigious Olympia in Paris and expanded her image and songs throughout Europe. In 1961, his single “Romeo” sold over a million copies. That same year she married the French publicist Claude Wolff, who convinced her to move to France to continue her career there. In France she became a very popular singer, even rivaling Edith Piaf with hits such as “Ya ya twist”, “Chariot” and “Monsieur”, more sophisticated songs with a more careful production that allowed her soprano voice to stand out. She recorded numerous songs in French, as well as many others in German and Italian, becoming one of the favorites throughout Europe.
By 1964 the music scene had changed significantly. English musicians and groups, led by the Beatles, began to have great success in North America, initiating what was called the “British Invasion”. Groups like the Dave Clark Five, the Rolling Stones, Gerry, and the Pacemakers and the Animals were selling more records in the United States than in their own country. Petula prepared his particular British invasion of the United States with the song composed by Terry Hatch, ‘Downtown’. (1964). It was an immediate No. 1 on the U.S. charts and was a favorite of audiences of all ages.
Clark-Hatch partnership that many have compared to the one Bacharach and David had with singer Dionne Warwick, bore more fruit with songs like “I know a place” (1965) and “Don”t sleep in the subway” (1967).
During this period of enormous international popularity, he continued to star in television specials in his country and in the United States and recorded hits such as “My love” (1966), his second no. 1 in the US, and “This is my song” (1967). The theme of the film directed by Charles Chaplin “The Countess of Hong Kong” and also composed by him.
In 1968, he recorded a special for NBC in which he appeared singing a song with Harry Belafonte. At the end of the song, Petula naturally and innocently takes Belafonte”s arm. This “interracial contact” scared off the programme’s sponsors, who feared that southern broadcasters would not want to broadcast it and suggested that the shot be replaced by one in which the two were “sufficiently separated” from each other. Petula and her husband Claude Wolff, executive producer of the show, flatly refused and destroyed all the alternate takes, delivering the show as is.
In the late sixties, Petula was Fred Astaire”s last film partner in the musical “Finian”s Rainbow” directed by Francis Ford-Coppola and starred alongside Peter O”Toole in a re-make of “Goodbye Mr Chips”.
After his last British hits “The Song of My Life” (1971) and “I Don”t Know How to Love Him” (1972), his records abruptly disappeared from the charts in the seventies but Petula continued to perform on European TV shows, presenting several variety shows on the BBC and gave concerts in the United States, Canada and France in prestigious venues such as the Copacabana and the Waldorf Astoria in New York and the Ambassador Hotel”s Cocoanut Grove in Los Angeles.
During this time, he helped launch the career of Herb Alpert and his record label A&M Records. One of his first recommended for the label was siblings Richard and Karen Carpenter. Petula also introduced Alpert to one of his musical directors, Michel Colombier, who would compose the music for numerous American films and years later would co-write ‘Purple Rain’ with Prince. In the 1980s, Petula achieved a Top 10 hit on the country charts with ‘Natural love’.
He appeared in several West End musicals, including a remake of ‘The Sound of Music’ in 1981 and in 1993 he made his Broadway debut with Shaun and David Cassidy in ‘Blood Brothers’. In 2000, she starred as Norma Desmond in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical version of the film ‘Sunset Boulevard’.
More than fifty years after starting her career, Clark continues to be one of the best-selling British artists in the world with a figure of around 70 million. He has not stopped working over the years, touring Britain with his own show in 1998 and 2002.
In 2008 he visited Switzerland and the Philippines with concerts. That same year, a compilation of hits ‘Then & Now’ became his best-selling album and he appeared at the Montreaux Festival singing ‘Goin’ to Chicago Blues’ alongside Paulo Nutini commemorating Quincy Jones’ 75th birthday. In February 2012 he performed his first show in New York since 1975 and subsequently traveled to Australia for a tour. Currently living in Switzerland, she lived until 2013 with her husband Claude Wolff, with whom she had two daughters, Barbara Michelle and Katherine Natalie and a son, Patrick. Wolff died in March 2023 at the age of 93.
In January 2013 he released ‘Lost In You’ with new songs and some covers, as well as a revision of his hit ‘Downtown’. In 2017 ‘Living for Today’ appeared and in 2018 he released the French-Canadian album ‘Vu d’ici’. In March 2019 she returned – after 20 years of absence – to a stage in London’s West End playing the woman with the birds in the musical Mary Poppins. In May 2022 he participated in the concert ‘Sondheim’s Old Friends’ performing the song ‘I’m still here’ from the musical ‘Follies’. His autobiography ‘Is that you, Petula?’ was released in 2025.
