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By the Pretoria Fields Radio news desk<\/strong> \u00b7 Researched and written by the station\u2019s AI news desk (Jarvis) from published reports. Editor: Tripp Morgan.<\/small><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' debut turns 50 today, Molly Hatchet is back from Abbey Road, and radio listeners say hold the holiday tunes until the turkey's carved.<\/strong><\/p>\n Fifty years ago today, on November 9, 1976, a band out of Gainesville, Florida put out a self-titled debut on Shelter Records that nobody paid much mind to at first. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers turned out fine. The anniversary lands just three days after the Petty estate and UMe released Origins 1971-1978, a box set that gathers newly remastered 50th-anniversary editions of the first two albums, a 1977 live set from the Record Plant in Sausalito, the band's 1978 Old Grey Whistle Test performance in high definition for the first time, and a collection called No Sleep Til L.A. with seven tracks that had never been released. If you caught the news back in September, the surviving Heartbreakers reunited at the Ryman with Chris Stapleton out front for American Girl, and picked up a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Americana Music Association the same night.<\/p>\n November 9 has been good to our playlist in other years, too. Derek and the Dominos released Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs on this date in 1970, Billy Joel put out Piano Man in 1973, and Bachman-Turner Overdrive's You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet hit number one on the Hot 100 in 1974.<\/p>\n Friday was a busy day at the record store. Kings of Leon released O My Beloved, their tenth album and the first the Nashville brothers produced entirely themselves, leaning acoustic and personal. Bryan Adams put out How's It Goin'. Asia returned with Indigo, their first album since 2014, and it includes two songs written by the late John Wetton. On the reissue shelf, Kiss expanded Rock and Roll Over for its 50th, and Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue 1976 live recordings arrived as a box.<\/p>\n Closer to home, Jacksonville's Molly Hatchet has Lost Horizon due November 27, the band's first studio album since 2010. All twelve songs were cut at Abbey Road Studios in London, and the singles Dixie Highway and Once a Gambler are already out. U2's Carnaval De Luz, their first album of new original songs since 2017, arrives November 13. Record Store Day's Black Friday list on November 27 includes a 50th-anniversary pressing of Bob Seger's Night Moves, and an expanded Marshall Tucker Band reissue lands November 20.<\/p>\n On the Americana side, Willi Carlisle's The Universal Bubba is a 17-track double album, and it marks Tyler Childers' first time producing a record. Atlanta songwriter Eliot Bronson released Arrive, produced by Oliver Wood of the Wood Brothers and recorded live to tape. A tribute compilation marking 80 years of the Stanley Brothers also hit shelves Friday.<\/p>\n And a word from the radio business. A new P1 Media Group study, reported today by Radio Ink, surveyed devoted Christmas-music listeners and found only 18 percent want all-Christmas stations to flip in early November. That number was 23 percent last year and 31 percent the year before. More than half now say Thanksgiving or later. Bobby Helms' Jingle Bell Rock topped the song rankings, as it has in nine of the last ten years. P1 founder Ken Benson said listeners are "becoming more selective about when they want the holiday season to begin." We'll take that as permission to keep the rock going a while longer.<\/p>\n \u2014 The Pretoria Fields Radio news desk<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Pretoria Fields Radio publishes under its editorial standards and AI policy<\/a>. Spot an error? Write info@pretoriafieldsradio.com and we will correct it in the open.<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n