Today in Music History for Nov. 19: In 1954, entertainer Sammy Davis Jr. was seriously injured in a car crash while en route to a Los Angeles recording session from Las Vegas. His left eye was removed ...

In 1989, composer Sammy Fain, who wrote some of the most enduring hits of the century, died in Los Angeles at age 87. Fain wrote "Love is a Many-Splendored Thing," "I’ll Be Seeing You," "That Old ...