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November, 14

  • 1999 EMI Music Distribution begins offering retailers a $3 rebate on each unit sold of the latest Garth Brooks album “In… The Life Of Chris Gaines,” in order to boost sales. In exchange for the rebate, retailers are asked to lower the price of the Capitol album – which lists for $17.98 on CD – as low as possible.
  • 1997 Though it’s not a sell-out, the Bee Gees’ show at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas still manages to gross a stunning $1,681,100. Tickets ranging in price from $50-$300 give the Arena its highest gross of the year.
  • 1995 Controversial rappers Tha Dogg Pound enter The Billboard 200 chart at No. 1 with “Dogg Food.” Rappers rule the week’s Top 10 with Cypress Hill’s “Cypress Hill III” debuting in third, and Eight Ball and MG debuting at No. 8 with “On Top of the World.”
  • 1995 The Rolling Stones release their acoustic “Stripped” album.
  • 1982 No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: “Up Where We Belong,” Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes. The single wins an Oscar as the theme of “An Officer and a Gentleman.”
  • 1972 No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: “I Can See Clearly Now,” Johnny Nash.
  • 1961 The Elvis Presley film “Blue Hawaii” premieres.
  • 1940 Freddie Garrity of Freddie & the Dreamers is born in Manchester, England.