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2000Backstreet Boys release their fourth album, Black & Blue. Catering to the screaming teenage girl demographic, they promote it with an appearance on MTV's Total Request Live. The album is one of biggest debuts in history, with initial shipments of about 6 million.More
1991An animated Aerosmith perform "Walk This Way" on the "Flaming Moe's" episode of The Simpsons. The band is one of the first musical guests on the show.
1987"Mony Mony" by Billy Idol replaces "I Think We're Alone Now" by Tiffany at #1 in the US. Both songs were originally recorded in the '60s by Tommy James & the Shondells.More
1981The Queen/David Bowie collaboration "Under Pressure" goes to #1 in the UK, Queen's first chart-topper there since "Bohemian Rhapsody."
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In Music History
2017David Cassidy dies at age 67 after suffering liver and kidney failure. The Partridge Family star made headlines earlier in the year when he was diagnosed with dementia.
2006Black Eyed Peas take home three awards at the 2006 American Music Awards, held at Los Angeles' Shrine Auditorium and broadcast live on ABC. The Peas, which accept the awards via satellite from Costa Rica, are named favorite group in the soul/R&B and rap/hip-hop categories, and pick up honors for favorite album (Monkey Business) in the rap/hip-hop genre.
2003The acoustic guitar on which George Harrison learned how to play is sold at a London auction for 276,000 pounds. The original price of the guitar: three and one-half pounds.
2003Pop singer-songwriter Teddy Randazzo, who penned hits for Little Anthony & the Imperials, dies at age 68.
2002Hadda Brooks, known for the '40s R&B hit "Out of the Blue," dies following open-heart surgery at age 86.
2001Jonathan King is sentenced to seven years in prison for a series of sexual assaults on teenage boys between 1982 and 1987.
1999Singer/actor Alvin Cash (of The Crawlers) dies of ulcer complications at age 60.
1997Coolio and seven members of his band 40 Thevz are arrested and charged with theft and assault in a boutique in the town of Boblingen, Germany. The eight are charged with assaulting a female clerk in a clothing store and stealing clothing worth $2,000.
1995Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day is arrested for mooning the audience during a show in Milwaukee. He pays a $141.50 fine for indecent exposure.
1995The Beatles release Anthology I (including the previously unreleased track "Free As A Bird," and sell 450,000 copies the first day).
1995Rappers Tupac Shakur and Tha Dogg Pound get into the holiday spirit by giving out 2,000 turkeys in Los Angeles.
1995Peter Grant (manager for The Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin, and Bad Company) dies of a heart attack at age 60.
Adam Sandler Debuts "The Thanksgiving Song"
1992
Adam Sandler sings "The Thanksgiving Song" on Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update.
Weekend Update anchor Kevin Nealon introduces the segment as the start of a new tradition, where each year an SNL performer will compose and perform an original Thanksgiving song. The tradition doesn't stick, but Sandler's off-the-wall contribution becomes a holiday favorite.
Sandler, still two years away from introducing his irreverent holiday hit "The Chanukah Song," celebrates turkey day with a comical ode to the traditional gobbler. He invites listeners to his Thanksgiving table and regales them with goofy references to various celebrities, including silver screen star Betty Grable, Elvis Presley, Good Times actor Jimmie Walker (who said "Dy-no-mite!"), former Mets player Darryl Strawberry, and Sammy Davis, Jr., who "only had one eye." The comedian also satirizes news headlines with a jab at former heavyweight champ Mike Tyson, singing "Turkey for you and Turkey for me, can't believe Tyson gave that girl V.D." The boxer was recently convicted of raping a teenage beauty queen, who also accused him of giving her a venereal disease.
Sandler works the turkey tune into his live repertoire and records a performance at The Strand in Redondo Beach, California, for his debut album, They're All Gonna Laugh At You!. The song becomes a minor hit (#40 on the Adult Pop chart) after the success of "The Chanukah Song," and gets regular airplay every year around the holidays.
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