1959: The Isley Brothers released the single "Shout". It would not become immensely popular until years later--at the time it only reached #47! (Note: some sources report the release date as September 21. This is physically impossible, as people in the business know. "Shout" first charted on September 21, and there is no way a song can chart the same day it is released.)
1960: Johnny Burnette recorded "You're Sixteen".
1963: "She Loves You" by the Beatles was released by Swan Records in the United States and, despite being #1 in the U.K., was ignored until 1964 when the Beatles' invasion was well underway.
1964: The Everly Brothers, the Righteous Brothers, Sam Cooke, Bobby Sherman, the Wellingtons and comedian Alan Sues helped premiere the series Shindig! on ABC-TV.
1965: The Dean Martin Show premiered on ABC-TV. It would last 10 years.
1965: The Rolling Stones, the Everly Brothers, the Byrds and the McCoys opened the second season of Shindig!
1966: Bassist Pete Quaife left the Kinks.
1967: The Beatles recorded "Your Mother Should Know" at Abbey Road Studios. The version was not used at the time, but was later included on the compilation Anthology 2.
Eddie Brigati gave one of the great vocal performances of the Rock Era
1967: The Young Rascals moved up big (80 to 43) with "How Can I Be Sure".
1968: The Turtles released the single "Elenore".
1970: Jimi Hendrix performed for the final time, appearing with Eric Burdon and War at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club (47 Frith Street) in London.
1971: Led Zeppelin played at the Honolulu Civic Auditorium in Hawai'i.
1972: The Eagles were in concert at the Curtis Hixon Convention Hall in Tampa, Florida.
1972: Rod Stewart topped the U.K. album chart with Never A Dull Moment.
1972: Mac Davis reached #1 on the Easy Listening chart with "Baby Don't Get Hooked On Me".
Chicago had a hot song...
1972: Three Dog Night jumped from 9 to 1 with their 10th Top 10 and 14th hit--"Black and White". Mac Davis was up with "Baby Don't Get Hooked On Me" and Gilbert O'Sullivan finally relinquished the #1 spot after six weeks with "Alone Again (Naturally)". Chicago jumped from 10 to 4 with "Saturday in the Park". The rest of the Top 10: "Back Stabbers" from the O'Jays, the Hollies were on their way down with "Long Cool Woman (In a Black Dress), Gary Glitter and "Rock and Roll Part 2", Looking Glass was at 8 with "Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)", Elton John scored another Top 10 hit with "Honky Cat" and Al Green had "I'm Still in Love With You".
1974: Monday's are of course the date that singles are released and if you look at a 1974 calendar, you'll see that Monday fell on September 16. On that date, Bachman-Turner Overdrive released the 45 of "You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet".
1977: Marc Bolan, the wild frontman of T. Rex, died in a car accident in southwest London at the age of 29.
1978: Blondie performed in two shows at the Hammersmith Odeon in London.
1979: Don't Look Back reached #1 on the album chart for Boston. They jumped over the Rolling Stones album Some Girls like it was standing still (which it was). Foreigner stayed at 3 with Double Vision while the "Grease" Soundtrack was #4.
1985: Mr. Mister released their first single "Broken Wings".
They were not twins, nor were they named Thompson...
1985: The Thompson Twins released the single "Lay Your Hands On Me".
1989: U2 jammed with B.B. King on a boat that had been rented for King on his 64th birthday in Sydney Harbour in Australia.
Madonna with one of her biggest career hits...
1989: Gloria Estefan had the #1 song with "Don't Wanna' Lose You", Milli Vanilli had #2--"Girl I'm Gonna' Miss You" and Warrant was at 3 with "Heaven". The rest of the Top 10: New Kids on the Block and "Hangin' Tough", Surface with "Shower Me with Your Love", Paula Abdul's former #1 "Cold Hearted" was at #6, Cher's comeback song "If I Could Turn Back Time", Skid Row with "18 And Life", the Jeff Healey Band had song #9 with "Angel Eyes" and Madonna hit the Top 10 with "Cherish".
1989: 11 years after Saturday Night Fever and 31 years after they began their career, the Bee Gees reached #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart with "One".
1991: Willie Nelson married makeup artist Ann-Marie D'Angelo.
1991: Boyz II Men released the single "It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday".
1992: Barbra Streisand performed for the first time in six years at a fundraiser in Hollywood, California for the Democratic Party in the United States.
1993: The home of Grace Slick of Jefferson Starship was destroyed by a fire.
1996: Sheryl Crow released the single "If It Makes You Happy".
1997: Usher released his second album My Way.
1998: Mott the Hoople reunited for the first time in 24 years for a performance at the Virgin Megastore on Oxford Street in London.
2003: Sheb Wooley ("The Purple People-Eater") died of leukemia in Nashville, Tennessee at the age of 82.
2004: Green Day performed their rock opera American Idiot during their show at the Pantages Theater in Hollywood, California.
2004: Izora Rhodes Armstead of the Weather Girls died of heart failure at the age of 62 in San Leandro, California. She also sang backup for C+C Music Factory and Sylvester.
2004: The coroner's report revealed that Rick James ("Superfreak") had nine drugs in his system when he died in August, including cocaine, methamphetamine, Valium and Vicodin.
2006: Bill Berry, the original drummer of R.E.M., joined the band onstage in Atlanta for a performance honoring their induction into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame.
2006: Bob Dylan went to #1 on the album chart with Modern Times.
2008: Norman Whitfield, songwriter and producer on such hits as "I Heard It Through the Grapevine", "Cloud Nine", "War", "Papa Was A Rolling Stone" and many others, died of diabetes and other illnesses in Los Angeles.
2009: Mary Travers of Peter, Paul and Mary died of leukemia at the age of 72 in Danbury, Connecticut.
Born This Day:
1925: B.B. King was born in Itta Bena, Mississippi.
1941: Joe Butler, drummer and a founding member of Lovin' Spoonful, was born in Foxboro, Massachusetts.
1942: Bernie Calvert, bass guitarist for the Hollies, was born in Brierfield, Lancashire, England.
1944: Betty Kelley of Martha and the Vandellas was born in Attalla, Alabama.
1948: Ron Blair, bass guitarist with Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, was born in San Diego, California.
1948: Kenney Jones, drummer for the Faces and later the Who, was born in London.
1950: David Bellamy of the Bellamy Brothers ("Let Your Love Flow" from 1976) was born in Darby, Florida.
1963: Richard Marx was born in Chicago, Illinois.
1968: Marc Anthony (real name Marco Antonio Muñiz) was born in New York City.
1976: Tina Barrett of S Club 7 was born in Hammersmith, London, England.
1977: Musiq Soulchild (Talib Johnson) was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1992: Nick Jonas of the Jonas Brothers was born in Dallas, Texas.
1960: Johnny Burnette recorded "You're Sixteen".
1963: "She Loves You" by the Beatles was released by Swan Records in the United States and, despite being #1 in the U.K., was ignored until 1964 when the Beatles' invasion was well underway.
1964: The Everly Brothers, the Righteous Brothers, Sam Cooke, Bobby Sherman, the Wellingtons and comedian Alan Sues helped premiere the series Shindig! on ABC-TV.
1965: The Dean Martin Show premiered on ABC-TV. It would last 10 years.
1965: The Rolling Stones, the Everly Brothers, the Byrds and the McCoys opened the second season of Shindig!
1966: Bassist Pete Quaife left the Kinks.
1967: The Beatles recorded "Your Mother Should Know" at Abbey Road Studios. The version was not used at the time, but was later included on the compilation Anthology 2.
Eddie Brigati gave one of the great vocal performances of the Rock Era
1967: The Young Rascals moved up big (80 to 43) with "How Can I Be Sure".
1968: The Turtles released the single "Elenore".
1970: Jimi Hendrix performed for the final time, appearing with Eric Burdon and War at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club (47 Frith Street) in London.
1971: Led Zeppelin played at the Honolulu Civic Auditorium in Hawai'i.
1972: The Eagles were in concert at the Curtis Hixon Convention Hall in Tampa, Florida.
1972: Rod Stewart topped the U.K. album chart with Never A Dull Moment.
1972: Mac Davis reached #1 on the Easy Listening chart with "Baby Don't Get Hooked On Me".
Chicago had a hot song...
1972: Three Dog Night jumped from 9 to 1 with their 10th Top 10 and 14th hit--"Black and White". Mac Davis was up with "Baby Don't Get Hooked On Me" and Gilbert O'Sullivan finally relinquished the #1 spot after six weeks with "Alone Again (Naturally)". Chicago jumped from 10 to 4 with "Saturday in the Park". The rest of the Top 10: "Back Stabbers" from the O'Jays, the Hollies were on their way down with "Long Cool Woman (In a Black Dress), Gary Glitter and "Rock and Roll Part 2", Looking Glass was at 8 with "Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)", Elton John scored another Top 10 hit with "Honky Cat" and Al Green had "I'm Still in Love With You".
1974: Monday's are of course the date that singles are released and if you look at a 1974 calendar, you'll see that Monday fell on September 16. On that date, Bachman-Turner Overdrive released the 45 of "You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet".
1977: Marc Bolan, the wild frontman of T. Rex, died in a car accident in southwest London at the age of 29.
1978: Blondie performed in two shows at the Hammersmith Odeon in London.
1985: Mr. Mister released their first single "Broken Wings".
They were not twins, nor were they named Thompson...
1985: The Thompson Twins released the single "Lay Your Hands On Me".
1989: U2 jammed with B.B. King on a boat that had been rented for King on his 64th birthday in Sydney Harbour in Australia.
Madonna with one of her biggest career hits...
1989: Gloria Estefan had the #1 song with "Don't Wanna' Lose You", Milli Vanilli had #2--"Girl I'm Gonna' Miss You" and Warrant was at 3 with "Heaven". The rest of the Top 10: New Kids on the Block and "Hangin' Tough", Surface with "Shower Me with Your Love", Paula Abdul's former #1 "Cold Hearted" was at #6, Cher's comeback song "If I Could Turn Back Time", Skid Row with "18 And Life", the Jeff Healey Band had song #9 with "Angel Eyes" and Madonna hit the Top 10 with "Cherish".
1991: Willie Nelson married makeup artist Ann-Marie D'Angelo.
1991: Boyz II Men released the single "It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday".
1992: Barbra Streisand performed for the first time in six years at a fundraiser in Hollywood, California for the Democratic Party in the United States.
1993: The home of Grace Slick of Jefferson Starship was destroyed by a fire.
1996: Sheryl Crow released the single "If It Makes You Happy".
1997: Usher released his second album My Way.
1998: Mott the Hoople reunited for the first time in 24 years for a performance at the Virgin Megastore on Oxford Street in London.
2003: Sheb Wooley ("The Purple People-Eater") died of leukemia in Nashville, Tennessee at the age of 82.
2004: Green Day performed their rock opera American Idiot during their show at the Pantages Theater in Hollywood, California.
2004: Izora Rhodes Armstead of the Weather Girls died of heart failure at the age of 62 in San Leandro, California. She also sang backup for C+C Music Factory and Sylvester.
2004: The coroner's report revealed that Rick James ("Superfreak") had nine drugs in his system when he died in August, including cocaine, methamphetamine, Valium and Vicodin.
2006: Bill Berry, the original drummer of R.E.M., joined the band onstage in Atlanta for a performance honoring their induction into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame.
2006: Bob Dylan went to #1 on the album chart with Modern Times.
2008: Norman Whitfield, songwriter and producer on such hits as "I Heard It Through the Grapevine", "Cloud Nine", "War", "Papa Was A Rolling Stone" and many others, died of diabetes and other illnesses in Los Angeles.
2009: Mary Travers of Peter, Paul and Mary died of leukemia at the age of 72 in Danbury, Connecticut.
Born This Day:
1925: B.B. King was born in Itta Bena, Mississippi.
1941: Joe Butler, drummer and a founding member of Lovin' Spoonful, was born in Foxboro, Massachusetts.
1942: Bernie Calvert, bass guitarist for the Hollies, was born in Brierfield, Lancashire, England.
1944: Betty Kelley of Martha and the Vandellas was born in Attalla, Alabama.
1948: Ron Blair, bass guitarist with Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, was born in San Diego, California.
1948: Kenney Jones, drummer for the Faces and later the Who, was born in London.
1950: David Bellamy of the Bellamy Brothers ("Let Your Love Flow" from 1976) was born in Darby, Florida.
1963: Richard Marx was born in Chicago, Illinois.
1976: Tina Barrett of S Club 7 was born in Hammersmith, London, England.
1977: Musiq Soulchild (Talib Johnson) was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1992: Nick Jonas of the Jonas Brothers was born in Dallas, Texas.
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