Today in Music History (November 15):

1956 - Elvis Presley's first movie, 'Love Me Tender', premieres at the Paramount Theater in New York City. The film is a Civil War drama that was going to be called 'The Reno Brothers' but when Elvis becomes a major star during the shoot, it's re-titled after his hit song, and Presley gets top billing.

1966 - Jefferson Airplane records "Somebody To Love".

1967 - The Rolling Stones release 'Their Satanic Majesties Request'.

1968 - Janis Joplin performs her last gig with Big Brother & the Holding Company at New York City's Hunter College.

1969 - The Carpenters release their debut album, 'Offering', later re-named as 'Ticket To Ride'.
Hamburg, Germany's famous rock and roll venue, the Star Club, announces it will permanently close its doors at the end of the month.

1975 - Country singer/songwriter Ed Bruce releases "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys".

1977 - Suzi Quatro, in character as the rocker Leather Tuscadero, performs "Devil Gate Drive" on the TV series 'Happy Days'. The song was a #1 hit in the UK three years earlier but never caught on in the US, despite Quatro being a native of Detroit.

1978 - Echo & the Bunnymen give their performance debut at Eric's Club in Liverpool, England; Chic's "Le Freak" is certified Gold in the US.

1980 - "Lady", written by Lionel Richie, becomes a #1 Hot 100 hit for Kenny Rogers. It stays at the top for 6 weeks.

1986 - Lou Reed and Sam Moore perform their updated version of "Soul Man" on 'Saturday Night Live'. The song was featured in the movie of the same name.
The Beastie Boys release their debut album, 'License to Ill'. On this same date, two years later they would leave the Def Jam label & sign with Capitol Records.

1990 - German producer Frank Farian admits that Milli Vanilli (Robert Pilatus and Fabrice Morvan) didn't actually sing on the album 'Girl You Know It's True'. A scandal ensues and the duo are stripped of the Best New Artist Grammy.

1991 - Producer Jacques Morali, who created The Village People, dies of AIDS at age 44.

1992 - At the Pacific Amphitheatre in Costa Mesa, California, Ozzy Osbourne plays the final date of his 'No More Tours' tour, which he says will be his last. His former band, Black Sabbath, opens the show in tribute with Rob Halford on lead vocals, since Ronnie James Dio wants no part of it.

1993 - A mysterious act called The Fireman releases an album called 'Strawberries Oceans Ships Forest' in the UK. The cover is a red square with just a touch of text, and the music is mellow electronica. It is later revealed that The Fireman is a Paul McCartney side project alongside producer and Killing Joke bassist Youth.

1994 - TLC release their second album, 'CrazySexyCool'.

1997 - Ralph "Pee Wee" Middlebrooks, trumpeter/trombonist for The Ohio Players, dies at age 58. Circumstances were undisclosed.

1999 - KoRn play their album 'Issues', released the following day, from start-to-finish at a venue not known for hosting nu-metal: the Apollo Theater in Harlem.

2000 - Due to singer Chino Moreno ailing with throat issues, Deftones cancel a concert where they were to play to several thousand fans at the Aberdeen Pavilion in Ottawa, Canada.

2004 - Shania Twain's album 'Come On Over' is certified double Diamond by the RIAA, with over 20 million copies sold in the US. It becomes the seventh album to do so, and the only one by a female artist. It also happens to be the best-selling album of all-time by a Canadian artist; the all-time best-selling country album; and is the ninth best-selling album worldwide.

2007 - The first episode of Daryl Hall's show 'Live From Daryl's House' airs on the web, with Hall performing from his home in Millerton, New York. The series gains traction & gets picked up by the Palladia network. Over the years, Smokey Robinson, Joe Walsh, Cee Lo Green, Todd Rundgren and many other musical luminaries appear, performing a mix of their own songs, covers and Hall & Oates tracks.

2011 - Mark "Moogy" Klingman, keyboardist for Utopia, dies of bladder cancer in New York City, at age 61.

2016 - Less than a year after being diagnosed with ovarian cancer, country singer Holly Dunn, age 59, dies at a hospice facility in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

2018 - Thanks to the hashtag #JusticeForGlitter, Mariah Carey's long-maligned 2001 album 'Glitter' climbs to #1 on the iTunes US Albums chart.

Today's Birthday's include Petula Clark (90); Rick Kemp, bassist for Steeleye Span (81); Abba's Anni-Frid Lyngstad (77); Heart bassist/founding member, Steve Fossen (73); R&B singer Alexander O'Neal (69); Thompson Twins backing vocalist/percussionist, Joe Leeway (67); a couple of guitarists: Funkadelic's Michael Hampton (66) plus jazz artist & former late night TV bandleader Kevin Eubanks (65); producer & songwriter Dann Huff (62); Christian "Flake" Lorenz, keyboardist for Rammstein (56); rapper E-40 (55); country singer/songwriter Jack Ingram (52); & Nickelback frontman Chad Kroeger (48).