... and more September 27 birthdays –
Vincent Youmans (1898) – composer, Broadway producer (“No No
Nanette”).
Raymond Edwards (1922) – The Silhouettes (“Get A Job”).
Red Rodney (aka Robert Chudnick, 1927) – be-bop trumpeter with Charlie
Parker.
Don Cornelius (1936) – creator of Soul Train.
Greg Ham (1953) – saxophonist for Men At Work.
Shaun Cassidy (1958) – teen idol.
Stephan Jenkins (1964) – vocalist/guitarist for Third Eye Blind.
Lil Wayne (aka Dewayne Carter, Jr., 1982) – rapper.
Avril Levigne (1984) – Canadian singer/songwriter.
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Birthday correction --
Meat Loaf was born in 1947.
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September 27 R.I.P. –
Jimmy McCulloch (1979) – heroin overdose. Age 26. Thunderclap Newman
and Wings.
Cliff Burton (1986) – crushed to death. Age 24. Bassist for Metallica.
Donald O’Connor (2003) – congestive heart failure. Age 78. Actor/
dancer/singer (Singing In The Rain).
Paul Burlison (2003) – colon cancer. Age 74. The Rock And Roll Trio.
Jamie Lyons (2006) – heart attack. Age 57. Singer for Music Explosion
(“Little Bit O’ Soul”).
Dale Houston (2007) – heart failure. Age 67. Dale & Grace ("I'm
Leaving It Up To You").
George “Wydell” Jones (2008) – cancer. Age 71. The Edsels (“Rama Lama
Ding Dong”).
Buddy Morrow (2010) – Age 91. Trombonist, band leader (“Night Train”).
Johnnie Wright (2011) – Age 97. Country music singer/songwriter
("Hello Vietnam").
Johnny “Country” Mathis (2011) – Age 77. Country singer/songwriter
(“Please Talk To My Heart”).
September 27 album releases –
Staus Quo – Picturesque Matchstickable Messages From The Status Quo
(1968)
Cat Stevens – Catch Bull At Four (1972)
Cyndi Lauper – True Colors (1986)
Neil Young – Prairie Wind (2005)
September 27 events –
1938 – Artie Shaw and His Orchestra record what will become his theme
song, “Nightmare.”
1948 – Country artist Marty Robbins marries Marizona Baldwin. They
will stay married until his death in 1982.
1952 – Sue Thompson makes her Grand Ole Opry debut.
1957 – Buddy Holly and The Crickets begin two days of recording
sessions at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma City.
1957 – Elvis Presley returns to Tupelo to perform at the Mississippi-
Alabama Fair and Dairy Show, this time as a benefit for the proposed
Elvis Presley Youth Recreation Center. Hank Garland on guitar, and Bob
Moore on bass, back up Presley, replacing the recently departed Scotty
Moore and Bill Black.
1959 – Rockabilly singer Carl Dobkins, Jr., of "My Heart Is An Open
Book" fame, enlists in the Kentucky National Guard.
1963 – The National Life and Accident Insurance Company buys the Ryman
Auditorium from the city of Nashville and renames it the Grand Ole
Opry House.
1963 – The Rolling Stones appear at the Floral Hall Ballroom in
Morecambe, Lancashire, with The Merseybeats, Dave Beery & The Cruisers
and The Doogle-bugs as opening acts.
1964 – The Beach Boys make their national television debut on The Ed
Sullivan Show, performing “I Get Around” and “Wendy.” Robert Goulet is
also on the show.
1966 – Elvis Presley reports to Paramount to begin shooting his 23rd
movie, Easy Come, Easy Go.
1968 – At a concert in Gary, Indiana, local act The Jackson 5 opens
for Stevie Wonder and Gladys Knight. Knight is so impressed by the
Jacksons that she recommends the group to Berry Gordy and Motown.
1968 – Pink Floyd appears at the Queen's Hall in Dunoon, Scotland, in
front of 400 fans. Due to bad weather, all the ferries to Dunoon were
cancelled, so Pink Floyd hired their own boat from Gourock and risked
the rough seas to make the crossing.
1970 – The Original Amateur Hour, hosted by Ted Mack, airs its final
episode on CBS.
1973 – Rolling Stone magazine announces that Carlos Santana has
legally added the middle name Devadip, meaning "the Lamp of the Light
Supreme," as a reflection of Santana's recent studies with Sri
Chinmoy.
1976 – Dolly Parton's variety show, Dolly!, premieres on ABC. The show
lasts one season.
1979 – Elton John, sick with the flu, collapses on stage at the
Universal Amphitheater in L.A.
1990 – Dee Dee Ramone is arrested for possession of marijuana in
Greenwich Village.
1990 – Marvin Gaye is posthumously awarded a star on the Hollywood
Walk of Fame.
1997 – Bob Dylan performs for Pope John Paul II at the World
Eucharistic Congress in Bologna, Italy.
2000 – A thief breaks into Jerry Hall's Richmond home and steals
jewelry worth £7,000 and a laptop computer. Two of Jerry's children
are asleep at the time while the ex Mrs. Jagger is on stage appearing
in the West End Show, The Graduate. The thief is later found out to be
antiques dealer David Michael Bryce.
2000 – U2 tapes two songs on the roof of the Clarence Hotel in Dublin
for BBC's Top Of The Pops.
2001 – Singer Jonathan King, best known for his 1965 hit "Everyone's
Gone To The Moon," is found guilty of molesting several young boys and
is sentenced to seven years in prison.
2003 – Carly Simon sues the owners of New York's famous Dakota
apartment complex, claiming they kept her $59,000 down payment after
rejecting her rental application.
2004 – Phil Spector is indicted by an L.A. grand jury on charges that
he murdered actress Lana Clarkson on February 3, 2003.
2008 – Pink Floyd’s manager Bryan Morrison passes away after spending
two years in a coma from a brain injury received in a polo accident.
