... and more September 13 birthdays –
Dick Haymes (1918) – big band singer, actor.
Charles Brown (1922) – Blues singer/pianist (“Driftin’ Blues”).
Eddie "Bongo" Brown (1932) – percussionist with the Funk Brothers.
Gene Page (1939) – composer/conductor/arranger.
Dave Quincy (1939) – saxophonist for Manfred Mann.
Ray Elliott (1943) – keyboardist for Them.
Les Harvey (1944) – Stone The Crows.
Don Was (aka Donald Fagenson, 1952) – bassist/producer.
Randy Jones (1952) – "Cowboy" with The Village People.
Steve Kilbey (1954) – bassist/vocalist for The Church.
Dan Hegarty (1954) – The Darts.
Joni Sledge (1955) – Sister Sledge.
Dave Mustaine (1961) – guitarist/vocalist for Megadeth.
Stephen Perkins (1967) – drummer for Jane's Addiction and Porno For
Pyros.
Tim "Ripper" Owens (1967) – vocalist for Beyond Fear and Iced Earth.
Stella McCartney (1971)
Joe Don Rooney (1975) – guitarist for Rascal Flatts.
Fiona Apple (1977) – singer/songwriter.
September 13 R.I.P. –
Leopold Stokowski (1977) – heart attack. Age 95. British orchestra
conductor (Fantasia).
Titus Turner (1984) – Age 51. R&B/blues singer/songwriter ("Leave My
Kitten Alone").
Tupac Shakur (1996) – internal bleeding from gunshot wounds. Age 25.
Rapper.
Wilma Lee Cooper (2011) – Age 90. Country/bluegrass entertainer (“Big
Midnight Special”).
September 13 album releases –
The Rolling Stones – Through The Past Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2) (1969)
Yes – Close To The Edge (1972)
Fleetwood Mac – Heroes Are Hard To Find (1974)
Ron Wood – I’ve Got My Own Album To Do (1974)
Lynyrd Skynyrd – One More From The Road (1976) U.S.
Bob Dylan – Hard Rain (1976)
The Jeff Healy Band – See The Light (1988)
Nirvana – In Utero (1993)
Blues Traveler – Four (1994)
The Beatles – Yellow Submarine Soundtrack (1999)
Robert Plant – Band Of Joy (2010)
September 13 events –
1957 – The Everly Brothers perform “Wake Up Little Susie” on American
Bandstand.
1958 – The first all-music/teenage show, Oh Boy! debuts in the UK.
Making his debut television appearance is Cliff Richard, who performs
his new hit single, “Move It.”
1959 – Army Specialist Fourth Class Elvis Presley meets 14-year old
Priscilla Beaulieu at a party at Elvis' home while stationed in Bad
Nauheim, Germany.
1960 – A campaign to ban Ray Peterson's new single "Tell Laura I Love
Her" begins in the UK when it is feared that the song's powerful story
of a stock-car driver who dies young while racing for his girl's love
will inspire a "death cult" amongst teens.
1960 – The FCC officially outlaws the controversial practice of
payola.
1963 – Leaning on an unlocked door, The Hollies' Graham Nash falls out
of the band’s touring van at 40 mph after a Scottish gig.
1963 – Barbara Streisand marries actor Elliott Gould.
1963 – Shirley Ellis records “The Nitty Gritty.”
1964 – Liverpool's Empire Club hires two dozen rugby players to act as
a human shield to prevent stage-rushing at a show by The Rolling
Stones. The crowd of 5,000 washes right over them.
1965 – Ringo Starr becomes the first Beatle to become a father, when
Maureen gives birth to Zak.
1965 – The Steve Lawrence Show debuts on CBS-TV. It lasts 13 weeks.
1965 – The Beatles win their first Grammys - for Best New Artist (of
1964), and Best Album (for A Hard Day's Night).
1965 – Capitol Records releases The Beatles single, “Yesterday” b/w
“Act Naturally” in the U.S.
1967 – Joe Tex records “Skinny Legs And All” at American Sound Studio
in Memphis.
1967 – The Beatles form an electronics company called Fiftyshapes,
Ltd., appointing Alexis “Magic Alex” Mardas to be the company's
director. The company never produces anything useful or of value.
1968 – The Jimi Hendrix Experience appears at the Oakland Coliseum,
with opening acts Vanilla Fudge and Soft Machine.
1969 – John Lennon debuts the Plastic Ono Band at the Rock And Roll
Revival festival at Varsity Stadium at Toronto University. Band
members include John and Yoko, Eric Clapton, Klaus Voorman on bass,
and Alan White on drums. Other acts at the festival include Chuck
Berry, Gene Vincent, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Chicago Transit
Authority, Tony Joe White, Alice Cooper and others.
1969 – The first of the three day Rugby Bag Blues Festival in
Warwickshire takes place. Festival acts include Pink Floyd, The Nice,
Taste, Free, Roy Harper, King Crimson, The Strawbs, Edgar Broughton,
John Martyn and others.
1979 – Abba begins their first and only tour of North America at the
Northlands Coliseum in Edmonton, Canada.
1980 – Bette Midler's concert film, Divine Madness, premieres at the
Toronto International Film Festival.
1982 – David Bowie reports to the Cook Islands in the South Seas to
begin filming his role in the movie, Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence.
1991 – Nirvana gets thrown out of their own record release party at Re-
bar in Seattle for starting a food fight.
1991 – Alice Cooper gives a concert in Times Square in New York City,
and sells his new single, “Hey Stoopid,” for 99¢. Later in the
evening, Cooper records a show at Electric Ladyland Studios for a
radio broadcast in late October.
1993 – E Street drummer Max Weinberg begins his job as leader of The
Max Weinberg 7 on NBC’s Late Night With Conan O’Brien.
1999 – Graham Nash breaks both of his legs in a freak boating accident
while in Hawaii. Nash hit a large wave and was thrown into the air,
and landed hard back in the boat.
2000 – Elton John throws a tantrum and storms out of the Estoril
Casino in Portugal just before his planned gig there, fuming that the
sell-out crowd was slow in arriving from a VIP dinner given before the
show.
2003 – In a ceremony at the Grand Ole Opry, the U.S. Postal Service
unveils a stamp honoring Roy Acuff as "The King of Country Music."
2003 – Michael Jackson holds a star-studded charity fund-raiser party
at his Neverland Ranch.
2005 – Jimi Hendrix' boyhood home in Seattle is saved from destruction
after his estate and the city agree to move the house to near by
Renton, renovate the building and turn it into a museum/community
center.
2005 – The Johnny Cash bio-pic Walk The Line gets its first showing at
the Toronto International Film Festival, two months before its
official North American release.
2006 – A California judge dismisses a portion of Beach Boy Mike Love’s
$2 million lawsuit against former band mate Al Jardine.
2008 – Come Dancing, a stage musical by Ray Davies devoted to the
music of The Kinks, premieres at the Theatre Royal Stratford East in
London.
