The first regular column devoted to music appeared in Billboard magazine. Up until then, the publication's main topics were the outdoor advertising industry and live entertainment at circuses and fairs.

The Spaniels record "Goodnight Sweetheart, Goodnight", which later reached No. 5 on Billboard's Rhythm and Blues Records chart next year despite competition from a Pop-style, Gold record version by the McGuire Sisters. The song became well known again in the late 1970s as the closing song performed by Sha Na Na on their weekly variety show as well as its appearance in American Graffiti, and again in the late 1980s after its use in the hit film Three Men and a Baby.

Buddy Holly And The Crickets scored their only US number one hit with their first Billboard chart maker, "That'll Be the Day". The record later went on to sell a million copies in America and earned a Gold certification from the RIAA. Holly would later reach the Top Ten with "Peggy Sue" and "Oh, Boy!" and crack the Top 20 with "Maybe Baby" and "It Doesn't Matter Anymore".

The Rolling Stones kick off a twenty-three date tour of the UK at London's Royal Albert Hall. The opening acts were Ike And Tina Turner, The Kings Rhythm Orchestra, The Yardbirds and Peter Jay And The New Jaywalkers.

16-year-old Alex Chilton led The Box Tops to the top of Billboard's Hot 100 with "The Letter". In the UK, it reached No. 5. The song later went on to sell over four million copies and receive two Grammy nominations for Best Contemporary Group Performance and Best Performance By A Vocal Group, although they lost both to The Fifth Dimension. As for the song, "The Letter", it's come back twice since The Box Tops' version. It was a Top Twenty hit for a group called The Arbours in 1969, and a Top Ten song for Joe Cocker in 1970.

The Strawberry Alarm Clock perform "Incense and Peppermints" on American Bandstand. The appearance will help push the song into the Billboard Hot 100 the following week and to No. 1 on November 25.

Lulu's "To Sir with Love", from the film of the same name starring Sidney Poitier, entered the Billboard Top 40 where it later reached No. 1 four weeks later. In the UK the song appeared as the B-side to "Let's Pretend", which peaked at No. 11.

Philadelphia's eight-man band The Soul Survivors enter the Billboard Top 40 with "Expressway To Your Heart", which later reached No. 4. Unfortunately for the group, the follow-up to this million selling single, "Explosion (In Your Soul"), would only manage No. 33 during a three week stay. None of their other eight singles could crack the chart.

Danny O'Keefe entered the Billboard Top 40 with "Good Time Charlie's Got The Blues". The self-penned tune will rise to No. 9 during its ten week stay, earning a Gold Record for selling a million copies. Over the years, the song has been covered by Elvis Presley, Dwight Yoakam, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Charlie Rich and Jerry Lee Lewis.

After a string of TV and Las Vegas stage shows had made him famous, Mac Davis achieves his only US chart topper with "Baby Don't Get Hooked On Me". It made No. 29 in the UK. Mac later had three more Top 40 hits over the next two years and starred in his own weekly TV show on NBC from '74 to '76 before enjoying further success in Country music.

Robbie McIntosh, the 24-year-old drummer for The Average White Band, died from an accidental overdose during an early-morning afterparty at a private home in the Hollywood Hills. The fatal accident occurred when McIntosh inhaled a highly potent white powder that he mistakenly believed to be cocaine, but was actually pure heroin.

Elvis Presley goes on a $100,000 shopping spree in Memphis and buys six Lincoln Continentals and five Cadillacs and distributes them as gifts to his family, close aides, and members of his inner circle.

Apple Records released John Lennon's "Whatever Gets You Thru The Night". It eventually peaked at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 on November 16th, becoming his only No. 1 single in the United States during his lifetime. In the UK, the song could only manage to climb to No. 36.

Steely Dan release their sixth studio album, "Aja" (pronounced "Asia"). The LP eventually peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard Top LPs & Tape chart and No. 5 in the UK, becoming the band's most commercially successful album. It spawned three hit singles, "Peg" (No. 11), "Deacon Blues" (No. 19), and "Josie" (No. 26).

The Rolling Stones issue the live, double album, "Love You Live", which later reached No. 3 in the UK and No. 5 in America. Originally conceived as a single disc LP, it was expanded to two platters because Mick Jagger and Keith Richards could not agree on which tracks, recorded on tour in 1975, to include.

Randy Newman released his fifth studio album, "Little Criminals". Peaking at No. 9 on the Billboard Top LPs & Tape chart, it contains his satirical No. 2 hit, "Short People", his only single to reach the Top 40.

Billy Joel released his eighth studio album, "The Nylon Curtain". One of the first albums to be digitally recorded, mixed, and mastered, it will rise to No. 7 in America and No. 27 in Britain. Containing the singles "Allentown" (US No. 17, UK No. 46), "Pressure" (US No. 20) and "Goodnight Saigon" (US No. 29), the LP later went on to be certified 2X Platinum in the US.

The Rolling Stones start their Bridges To Babylon tour at Chicago's Soldier Field. They begin the show with "Satisfaction", marking the first time the song served as their nightly set opener in many years. The show would close 2½ hours later with "Brown Sugar".

Elvis Presley was posthumously inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville. The King of Rock and Roll placed 41 singles on Billboard's Country Music charts between 1956 and 1977. Ten of those singles climbed all the way to the number one spot, beginning with "Heartbreak Hotel" in 1956 and ending with "Way Down" in August, 1977.

Fourteen re-mastered Beatles albums and boxed sets sold more than 2.25 million copies during the first five days they were on sale in North America, Japan and the UK, prompting EMI Music CEO Elio Leoni-Sceti to declare that "Beatlemania has returned."

Former child star Mackenzie Phillips appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show where she revealed that she maintained a consensual sexual relationship with her father, John Phillips of The Mamas And Papas, for more than a decade. Phillips also said that her father, who died in 2001, introduced her to drugs at age 11, teaching her how to roll joints and injecting her with cocaine.

Paul McCartney shut down Hollywood Boulevard following an appearance on ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live!. After performing a couple of tracks on a rooftop stage for the television broadcast, McCartney moved to a massive outdoor stage constructed directly on the blocked-off street. There, he treated an estimated crowd of 10,000 fans packed into the boulevard to an hour long, 15-song performance.

Columbia Records announced the release of "Alone In The Universe", the first new album by ELO (Electric Light Orchestra) in fifteen years. The LP later reached No. 23 on the Billboard 200 and No. 4 on the UK Official Chart.

Neil Young was inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame during an event that took place in Toronto at Massey Hall. "I'm terribly proud to be Canadian," Young told the crowd after being introduced by Randy Bachman. "I know I've traveled a lot… but I've always been a Canadian citizen. I've never been a citizen of anywhere else, even though I love the USA."

Robert Hunter, the man who wrote the lyrics for many of The Grateful Dead's most well-known songs, died at age 78. His profound impact on the counterculture narrative was so immense that he entered the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a full member of the band in 1994, making him the only non-performing lyricist ever to receive the honor.

Terry Kirkman,, a founding member of The Association, died of congestive heart failure at age 83 after a long illness. During the band's career he wrote their biggest hit, "Cherish" along "Everything That Touches You", and contributed vocals to their other hits, including "Never My Love".