1955: Little Richard recorded "Tutti Frutti" at J&M Studios in New Orleans, Louisiana.
1959: Sandy Nelson made a huge leap, jumping from 84 to 28, with "Teen Beat".
1959: "The Three Bells" from the Browns was #1 for the fourth week in a row. The instrumental "Sleep Walk" by Santo & Johnny came in #2 followed by Lloyd Price and "I'm Gonna' Get Married". Phil Phillips had the original "Sea Of Love" (he also co-wrote the song) and the Everly Brothers were fifth with "('Til) I Kissed You". The rest of the Top 10: "Red River Rock", another instrumental, was #6 from Johnny & the Hurricanes, "Broken-Hearted Melody" from Sarah Vaughan, Fats Domino with "I Want To Walk You Home", Bobby Darin's "Mack The Knife" moved from 24-9 while Jan & Dean entered the list with "Baby Talk".
1963: Although most of us wouldn't know them until their hit "Back Stabbers" nine years later, the O'Jays first charted on this date with the single "Lonely Drifter".
1963: "She Loves You" by the Beatles became the #1 song in the U.K. It would remain as the biggest-selling single in the history of the U.K. until 1977.
1963: "Heat Wave" by Martha & the Vandellas took over at #1 on the R&B chart.
1963: The Ronettes moved from 55 to 20 with "Be My Baby".
1966: For 10 schillings (about $1.40) you could see Otis Redding in concert at the Orchid Ballroom in Purley, London, England. (Note: some websites falsely say the show was in Purley, Surrey, England. In 1963, Purley became part of Greater London, three years before Redding came to town.)
1967: The Jimi Hendrix Experience were on the British television show Top of the Pops.
1968: The Archies cartoon series debuted on CBS-TV.
1968: Pete Townshend of the Who told Rolling Stone magazine he was working on a rock opera about a deaf, dumb and blind boy.
1968: Roy Orbison's house in Hendersonville, Tennessee burned to the ground. Orbison was touring the U.K. at the time but his two oldest sons both died in the fire. (Note: some websites falsely say Orbison's house was in Nashville, Tennessee. He lived on Old Hickory Lake in Hendersonville, a suburb of Nashville.)
1968: The Doors held on to #1 on the Album chart with Waiting for the Sun. Time Peace/The Rascals' Greatest Hits, Wheels of Fire from Cream and Feliciano! by Jose Feliciano were stuck in their respective positions. The rest of the Top 10: Realization by Johnny Rivers, the self-titled Steppenwolf, the former #1 album Disraeli Gears by Cream, now in its 41st week, Are You Experienced? by Jimi Hendrix Experience was #8, Aretha Now from Aretha Franklin was #9 and "The Graduate" Soundtrack moved back into the Top 10.
The great group Deep Purple entered the Top 10...
1968: The Rascals remained at the top spot with "People Got To Be Free", the fifth week at #1 for the song. Jeannie C. Riley was determined with "Harper Valley P.T.A.", Jose Feliciano's version of "Light My Fire" peaked at #3 and Steppenwolf was down with "Born to Be Wild". The rest of the Top 10: "1,2,3, Red Light" by the sugary 1910 Fruitgum Company, Aretha Franklin and "The House That Jack Built", Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell edged up with "You're All I Need To Get By", Deep Purple was up strong (13-8) with "Hush", the Doors' former #1 "Hello, I Love You" and the Beatles made history with the highest debut ever at that time (#10) for "Hey Jude".
1969: Genesis performed in concert for the first time in Surrey, England at the home of Peter Gabriel's Sunday school teacher.
1970: Stevie Wonder married Syreeta Wright, a former secretary at Motown Records.
1974: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Joni Mitchell, the Band, and Jesse Colin Young gave 80,000 people plenty of reasons to fill London's Wembley Stadium to capacity.
1974: Olivia Newton John rose to #1 on the Easy Listening chart with "I Honestly Love You".
1974: Stevie Wonder's great album Fulfillingness' First Finale reached #1 after just six weeks. The debut from Bad Company was #2 followed by the previous #1--461 Ocean Boulevard from Eric Clapton. Endless Summer from the Beach Boys jumped from 9-4. The rest of the Top 10: Rags to Rufus from Rufus, Olivia Newton-John was up from 21 to 6 with If You Love Me, Let Me Know, Bachman-Turner Overdrive II was #7, Marvin Gaye Live! came in eighth, Chicago VII was up and Caribou by Elton John closed out the list.
1976: Bob Dylan starred in the television special Hard Rain on NBC.
1976: Jeff Beck was awarded a Gold record for his album Wired.
1978: The Grateful Dead played the first of three nights at the Gizah Sound and Light Theater at the foot of the Great Pyramid in Egypt.
1979: Kenny Rogers earned a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1979: The movie Quadrophenia, based on the Who's 1973 rock opera, opened in theaters.
1981: Pink Floyd began work on the movie The Wall.
1983: Metallica debuted their new song "Disposable Heroes" at the Metal Hammer Festival in St. Goarshausen, Germany.
1984: Bette Midler and Dan Aykroyd co-hosted the first MTV Awards at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. You might wonder what MTV has to do with music? Back then, it stood for "Music Television" instead of "Mundane Television". The Cars won Video the Year for "You Might Think". (Note: many sources incorrectly list the date as September 18, but according to the book 'Madonna' by Andrew Morton and other reputable sources, the correct date was September 14.)
1985: Kool & the Gang reached #1 on the R&B chart with "Cherish".
1985: "Cherish" by Kool & the Gang spent a fourth week at #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart.
1984: Bette Midler and Dan Aykroyd co-hosted the first MTV Awards at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. You might wonder what MTV has to do with music? Back then, it stood for "Music Television" instead of "Mundane Television". The Cars won Video the Year for "You Might Think". (Note: many sources incorrectly list the date as September 18, but according to the book Madonna by Andrew Morton and other reputable sources, the correct date was September 14.)
1991: Paula Abdul had released nine songs and "The Promise Of A New Day" gave her the sixth #1 of her career on this date. Color Me Badd was up strong with "I Adore Mi Amor". Bryan Adams finally fell from the top after seven weeks there with "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You". Boyz II Men dropped with "Motownphilly" and C+C Music Factory were at 5 with "Things That Make You Go Hmmmm...".
1991: Adults made "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" by Bryan Adams #1 for a seventh week on the AC chart.
1993: Meat Loaf released the single "I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That"). (Note: one website naively says the single was released September 18. "I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That") debuted on the Singles chart on September 19. Never mind the fact that it is physically impossible for a record company to release a single, mail the single to radio stations, be listened to and added to station playlist, reported to the trade papers, and printed and published by the trade papers in two days. The deadline for reporting new additions to radio station playlists is Wednesday of any given week. Wednesday in 1993 was on September 16.)
1994: The Temptations received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7060 Hollywood Boulevard.
1995: Nine Inch Nails and David Bowie performed at Meadows Music Theater in Hartford, Connecticut.
1995: Earth, Wind & Fire received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7080 Hollywood Boulevard.
1995: The handwritten lyrics to the song "Getting Better" by the Beatles fetched today's equivalent of $214,231 (£161,000) at a Sotheby's auction in London.
Celine scored another hit...
1996: Los Del Rio spent a seventh week at #1 with "Macarena" and it was nowhere near done. The only new Top 10 song was "It's All Coming Back to Me Now" from Celine Dion, which moved from 12 to 7.
1997: Pete Townshend unveiled an English Heritage Blue Plaque at 23 Brook Street in London, the location where Jimi Hendrix lived in 1968 and 1969. Hendrix was the first rock star to be awarded with the Plaque.
1998: Metallica began work on the album Garage Inc.
1999: The Strokes debuted at the Spiral in Manhattan, New York.
2000: Sheryl Crow, Paul Simon, Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Crosby, Stills & Nash and Bette Midler performed at a fundraiser for Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore at Radio City Music Hall in Manhattan, New York.
2002: Gwen Stefani of No Doubt married Gavin Rossdale of Bush at St. Paul's Cathedral in London.
2003: Britney Spears made a surprise appearance at Palms Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada.
2003: Gerry Marsden from Gerry & the Pacemakers had triple heart bypass surgery in Liverpool, England.
2006: Marianne Faithfull announced through her publicist that she was being treated for breast cancer.
2007: The movie Across the Universe, inspired by the Beatles' song, opened in theaters.
2008: Metallica had the #1 album in the U.K. with Death Magnetic.
2010: Patti Labelle officially joined the cast of the musical Fela! after two "sneak peek" performances on September 8-9.
Born This Day:
1914: Mae Boren Axton, who wrote Elvis Presley's classic "Heartbreak Hotel", was born in Bardwell, Texas; drowned in her hot tub in Hendersonville, Tennessee after an apparent heart attack on April 9, 1997.
1946: Pete Agnew, bassist of Nazareth, was born in Dunfermline, Scotland.
1947: Jon "Bowzer" Bauman of Sha Na Na was born in Brooklyn, New York.
1949: Steve Gaines, guitarist for Lynyrd Skynyrd, was born in Seneca, Missouri; died October 20, 1977 in Gillsburg, Mississippi in a plane crash that also killed Ronnie Van Zant and Steve's sister, Cassie Gaines. (Note: one website claims Steve was born in Miami, Oklahoma. Our best information is that Gaines was born in Seneca and raised in Miami, Oklahoma.)
1950: Paul Kossoff, guitarist of the group Free, was born in Hampstead, London, England; died March 19, 1976 of drug-related heart problems while on a flight from Los Angeles to New York City. (Note: some websites report Kossoff was born in London. Although today Hampstead is part of the borough of Camden in the county of London, that change was not made until 1965, 15 years after Kossoff was born. In 1950, Hampstead was a borough of London.)
1954: Barry Cowsill, drummer and later bassist of the Cowsills, was born in Newport, Rhode Island; died circa September 2, 2005 in New Orleans, Louisiana as a result of Hurricane Katrina (Note: some websites report he died circa August 29. Cowsill had been reported missing before his body was recovered December 28 from the Chartres Street Wharf. According to Barry's sister Susan, he left four messages for her on her phone on September 2, so we know August 29 is inaccurate.)
1955: Steve Berlin, saxophonist and keyboardist of Los Lobos, who has worked with Sheryl Crow, R.E.M., Rickie Lee Jones, the Crash Test Dummies, John Lee Hooker, Faith No More, the Smithereens and others as either a session musician or producer, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1959: Morten Harket, lead singer of A-Ha, was born in Kongsberg, Norway.
1970: Craig Montoya, bass guitarist of Everclear, was born in Spokane, Washington
1973: Nas was born in Brooklyn, New York.
1981: Ashley Roberts of the Pussycat Dolls was born in Phoenix, Arizona.
1983: Amy Winehouse was born in Enfield, London; died of alcohol poisoning in London on July 23, 2011. (Note: several websites report Amy was born in Southgate, London. According to the book 'Amy Amy Amy - The Amy Winehouse Story' by Nick Johnstone, Winehouse was born in a hospital in Enfield.)
1959: Sandy Nelson made a huge leap, jumping from 84 to 28, with "Teen Beat".
1959: "The Three Bells" from the Browns was #1 for the fourth week in a row. The instrumental "Sleep Walk" by Santo & Johnny came in #2 followed by Lloyd Price and "I'm Gonna' Get Married". Phil Phillips had the original "Sea Of Love" (he also co-wrote the song) and the Everly Brothers were fifth with "('Til) I Kissed You". The rest of the Top 10: "Red River Rock", another instrumental, was #6 from Johnny & the Hurricanes, "Broken-Hearted Melody" from Sarah Vaughan, Fats Domino with "I Want To Walk You Home", Bobby Darin's "Mack The Knife" moved from 24-9 while Jan & Dean entered the list with "Baby Talk".
1963: Although most of us wouldn't know them until their hit "Back Stabbers" nine years later, the O'Jays first charted on this date with the single "Lonely Drifter".
1963: "She Loves You" by the Beatles became the #1 song in the U.K. It would remain as the biggest-selling single in the history of the U.K. until 1977.
1963: "Heat Wave" by Martha & the Vandellas took over at #1 on the R&B chart.
1963: The Ronettes moved from 55 to 20 with "Be My Baby".
1966: For 10 schillings (about $1.40) you could see Otis Redding in concert at the Orchid Ballroom in Purley, London, England. (Note: some websites falsely say the show was in Purley, Surrey, England. In 1963, Purley became part of Greater London, three years before Redding came to town.)
1967: The Jimi Hendrix Experience were on the British television show Top of the Pops.
1968: The Archies cartoon series debuted on CBS-TV.
1968: Pete Townshend of the Who told Rolling Stone magazine he was working on a rock opera about a deaf, dumb and blind boy.
1968: Roy Orbison's house in Hendersonville, Tennessee burned to the ground. Orbison was touring the U.K. at the time but his two oldest sons both died in the fire. (Note: some websites falsely say Orbison's house was in Nashville, Tennessee. He lived on Old Hickory Lake in Hendersonville, a suburb of Nashville.)
The great group Deep Purple entered the Top 10...
1968: The Rascals remained at the top spot with "People Got To Be Free", the fifth week at #1 for the song. Jeannie C. Riley was determined with "Harper Valley P.T.A.", Jose Feliciano's version of "Light My Fire" peaked at #3 and Steppenwolf was down with "Born to Be Wild". The rest of the Top 10: "1,2,3, Red Light" by the sugary 1910 Fruitgum Company, Aretha Franklin and "The House That Jack Built", Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell edged up with "You're All I Need To Get By", Deep Purple was up strong (13-8) with "Hush", the Doors' former #1 "Hello, I Love You" and the Beatles made history with the highest debut ever at that time (#10) for "Hey Jude".
1969: Genesis performed in concert for the first time in Surrey, England at the home of Peter Gabriel's Sunday school teacher.
1970: Stevie Wonder married Syreeta Wright, a former secretary at Motown Records.
1974: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Joni Mitchell, the Band, and Jesse Colin Young gave 80,000 people plenty of reasons to fill London's Wembley Stadium to capacity.
1974: Olivia Newton John rose to #1 on the Easy Listening chart with "I Honestly Love You".
1974: Stevie Wonder's great album Fulfillingness' First Finale reached #1 after just six weeks. The debut from Bad Company was #2 followed by the previous #1--461 Ocean Boulevard from Eric Clapton. Endless Summer from the Beach Boys jumped from 9-4. The rest of the Top 10: Rags to Rufus from Rufus, Olivia Newton-John was up from 21 to 6 with If You Love Me, Let Me Know, Bachman-Turner Overdrive II was #7, Marvin Gaye Live! came in eighth, Chicago VII was up and Caribou by Elton John closed out the list.
1976: Bob Dylan starred in the television special Hard Rain on NBC.
1976: Jeff Beck was awarded a Gold record for his album Wired.
1979: Kenny Rogers earned a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1979: The movie Quadrophenia, based on the Who's 1973 rock opera, opened in theaters.
1981: Pink Floyd began work on the movie The Wall.
1983: Metallica debuted their new song "Disposable Heroes" at the Metal Hammer Festival in St. Goarshausen, Germany.
1984: Bette Midler and Dan Aykroyd co-hosted the first MTV Awards at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. You might wonder what MTV has to do with music? Back then, it stood for "Music Television" instead of "Mundane Television". The Cars won Video the Year for "You Might Think". (Note: many sources incorrectly list the date as September 18, but according to the book 'Madonna' by Andrew Morton and other reputable sources, the correct date was September 14.)
1985: Kool & the Gang reached #1 on the R&B chart with "Cherish".
1985: "Cherish" by Kool & the Gang spent a fourth week at #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart.
1984: Bette Midler and Dan Aykroyd co-hosted the first MTV Awards at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. You might wonder what MTV has to do with music? Back then, it stood for "Music Television" instead of "Mundane Television". The Cars won Video the Year for "You Might Think". (Note: many sources incorrectly list the date as September 18, but according to the book Madonna by Andrew Morton and other reputable sources, the correct date was September 14.)
1989: Sting debuted in the theater when he performed in The Threepenny Opera at the National Theater in Washington, D.C. (Note: some websites say Sting's debut was Thursday, September 13, but it was the 14th, according to the newspapers 'The Washington Post' and 'The Los Angeles Times'.)
1991: Metallica remained at #1 on the Album chart with their self-titled album (commonly called The Black Album). Natalie Cole was still at #2 with Unforgettable with Love while another great album from Bonnie Raitt--Luck of the Draw came in third. C.M.B. from Color Me Badd was #4 and Boyz II Men were harmonizing their way up with Cooleyhighharmony. The rest of the Top 10: For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge by Van Halen, Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band debuted at #7 with The Fire Inside, Time, Love & Tenderness from Michael Bolton was #8, C+C Music Factory's Gonna' Make You Sweat and Paula Abdul was on her way down with Spellbound.
1989: Band leader Perez Prado ("Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom White" from 1955) died of a stroke in Mexico City, Mexico at the age of 72.
1991: Adults made "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" by Bryan Adams #1 for a seventh week on the AC chart.
1994: The Temptations received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7060 Hollywood Boulevard.
1995: Nine Inch Nails and David Bowie performed at Meadows Music Theater in Hartford, Connecticut.
1995: Earth, Wind & Fire received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7080 Hollywood Boulevard.
1995: The handwritten lyrics to the song "Getting Better" by the Beatles fetched today's equivalent of $214,231 (£161,000) at a Sotheby's auction in London.
Celine scored another hit...
1996: Los Del Rio spent a seventh week at #1 with "Macarena" and it was nowhere near done. The only new Top 10 song was "It's All Coming Back to Me Now" from Celine Dion, which moved from 12 to 7.
1997: Pete Townshend unveiled an English Heritage Blue Plaque at 23 Brook Street in London, the location where Jimi Hendrix lived in 1968 and 1969. Hendrix was the first rock star to be awarded with the Plaque.
1998: Metallica began work on the album Garage Inc.
1999: The Strokes debuted at the Spiral in Manhattan, New York.
2000: Sheryl Crow, Paul Simon, Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Crosby, Stills & Nash and Bette Midler performed at a fundraiser for Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore at Radio City Music Hall in Manhattan, New York.
2002: Gwen Stefani of No Doubt married Gavin Rossdale of Bush at St. Paul's Cathedral in London.
2003: Britney Spears made a surprise appearance at Palms Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada.
2003: Gerry Marsden from Gerry & the Pacemakers had triple heart bypass surgery in Liverpool, England.
2006: Marianne Faithfull announced through her publicist that she was being treated for breast cancer.
2007: The movie Across the Universe, inspired by the Beatles' song, opened in theaters.
2008: Metallica had the #1 album in the U.K. with Death Magnetic.
2010: Patti Labelle officially joined the cast of the musical Fela! after two "sneak peek" performances on September 8-9.
Born This Day:
1914: Mae Boren Axton, who wrote Elvis Presley's classic "Heartbreak Hotel", was born in Bardwell, Texas; drowned in her hot tub in Hendersonville, Tennessee after an apparent heart attack on April 9, 1997.
1946: Pete Agnew, bassist of Nazareth, was born in Dunfermline, Scotland.
1947: Jon "Bowzer" Bauman of Sha Na Na was born in Brooklyn, New York.
1949: Steve Gaines, guitarist for Lynyrd Skynyrd, was born in Seneca, Missouri; died October 20, 1977 in Gillsburg, Mississippi in a plane crash that also killed Ronnie Van Zant and Steve's sister, Cassie Gaines. (Note: one website claims Steve was born in Miami, Oklahoma. Our best information is that Gaines was born in Seneca and raised in Miami, Oklahoma.)
1950: Paul Kossoff, guitarist of the group Free, was born in Hampstead, London, England; died March 19, 1976 of drug-related heart problems while on a flight from Los Angeles to New York City. (Note: some websites report Kossoff was born in London. Although today Hampstead is part of the borough of Camden in the county of London, that change was not made until 1965, 15 years after Kossoff was born. In 1950, Hampstead was a borough of London.)
1954: Barry Cowsill, drummer and later bassist of the Cowsills, was born in Newport, Rhode Island; died circa September 2, 2005 in New Orleans, Louisiana as a result of Hurricane Katrina (Note: some websites report he died circa August 29. Cowsill had been reported missing before his body was recovered December 28 from the Chartres Street Wharf. According to Barry's sister Susan, he left four messages for her on her phone on September 2, so we know August 29 is inaccurate.)
1955: Steve Berlin, saxophonist and keyboardist of Los Lobos, who has worked with Sheryl Crow, R.E.M., Rickie Lee Jones, the Crash Test Dummies, John Lee Hooker, Faith No More, the Smithereens and others as either a session musician or producer, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1959: Morten Harket, lead singer of A-Ha, was born in Kongsberg, Norway.
1970: Craig Montoya, bass guitarist of Everclear, was born in Spokane, Washington
1973: Nas was born in Brooklyn, New York.
1981: Ashley Roberts of the Pussycat Dolls was born in Phoenix, Arizona.
1983: Amy Winehouse was born in Enfield, London; died of alcohol poisoning in London on July 23, 2011. (Note: several websites report Amy was born in Southgate, London. According to the book 'Amy Amy Amy - The Amy Winehouse Story' by Nick Johnstone, Winehouse was born in a hospital in Enfield.)
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