September 4 Born –
Jordan "Jerry" Ragovoy (1930) – producer/songwriter ("Time Is On My Side").
Merald "Bubba" Knight (1942) – Gladys Knight and The Pips.
Gene Parsons (1944) – drummer for The Byrds.
Danny Gatton (1945) – guitarist for Funhouse.
Gary Duncan (aka Gary Grubb, 1946) – guitarist for Quicksilver Messenger
Service.
Greg Elmore (1946) – drummer for Quicksilver Messenger Service.
Ronald La Pread (1946) – bassist for The Commodores.
Dave Liebman (1946) – Jazz saxophonist with Miles Davis.
Martin Chambers (1951) – drummer for The Pretenders.
Kim Thayil (1960) – guitarist for Soundgarden.
Sam Yaffa – (1963) – bassist for Hanoi Rocks and The New York Dolls.
Igor Cavalera (1970) – drummer for Sepultura.
Ty Longley (1971) – guitarist for Great White.
Guto Pryce (1972) – bassist for Super Furry Animals.
Carmit Bachar (1974) – The Pussy Cat Dolls.
Mark Ronson (1975) – guitarist/producer, co-founder of Allido Records.
Ian Grushka (1977) – bassist for New Found Glory.
*Beyoncé* Knowles (1981) – singer/songwriter.
September 4 R.I.P. –
Walter Wanderley (1986) – cancer. Age 54. Organist (“Summer Samba”).
Irene Dunne (1990) – Age 91. Actress, Broadway singer (Show Boat).
Dottie West (1991) – internal injuries from a car crash. Age 58. Country
music singer/songwriter.
Charlie Barnet (1991) – Alzheimer’s disease, pneumonia. Age 77. Jazz
saxophonist (“Cherokee”).
Carl Butler (1992) – heart attack. Age 65. Carl Butler and Pearl (“Don’t
Let Me Cross Over”).
David Brown (2000) – liver and kidney failure. Age 50. Bassist for Santana.
September 4 album releases –
The Rolling Stone – ‘Get Yer Ya-Yas Out!’ The Rolling Stones In Concert
(1970)
Trooper – Flying Colors (1979)
Meatloaf – Dead Ringer (1981)
George Strait – Strait Country (1981)
The Who – It’s Hard (1982)
Donna Summer – Cats Without Claws (1984)
Rush – Chronicles (1990)
Sugar – Copper Blue (1992)
Jethro Tull – Roots To Branches (1995) UK
Powderfinger – Odyssey Number Five (2000)
System Of A Down – Toxicity (2001)
September 4 events –
1951 – Nat “King” Cole records “Walkin’ My Baby Back Home” at Capitol
Studios in Hollywood.
1952 – At her brother Bubba’s 10th birthday party, 8-year old Gladys Knight
gathers her brothers and cousins together to sing, forming The Pips.
1954 – Elvis Presley releases his second Sun single, “Good Rockin’ Tonight”
b/w “I Don’t Care If The Sun Don’t Shine.”
1957 – Baltimore's local dance program, The Buddy Deane Show, premieres on
WJZ-TV, becoming a regional institution and a major inspiration behind
Baltimore native John Waters' film, Hairspray.
1958 – Jerry Butler and The Impressions make their national television
debut on American Bandstand, lip-synching to their hit, “For Your Precious
Love.”
1959 – Dick Clark’s Caravan Of Stars package tour plays the first of four
days at the Michigan State Fair in Detroit, featuring The Coasters, LaVerne
Baker, Duane Eddy, Jan and Dean, Frankie Avalon, Santo and Johnny, Bobby
Rydell, Anita Bryant, Freddie Cannon, Annette Funicello, Ray Sharpe, Jack
Scott, Skip and Flip, Rusty York and Dick Caruso.
1959 – New York radio station WCBS bans the Bobby Darin hit "Mack The
Knife" after 17-year old gang member Salvador Agron fatally stabs two teens.
1962 – The Beatles take part in their first official recording session as
EMI recording artists, recording “Love Me Do” and “How Do You Do It.”
1962 – Henry Mancini’s Orchestra and Chorus record “Days Of Wine And Roses.”
1964 – The Animals make their U.S. stage debut at Brooklyn's Paramount
Theatre in New York.
1964 – The Beatles play their only show ever in Wisconsin at the Milwaukee
Arena, on their first U.S. tour.
1965 – While buying a guard dog, The Who have their van stolen containing
£5000 worth of equipment after leaving it parked outside the Battersea
Dogs' Home.
1967 – The Grateful Dead appear at the Rio Nido Dance Hall in California.
1967 – Lulu releases her single, “To Sir With Love” b/w “It’s Getting
Harder All The Time” by The Mindbenders.
1968 – The Beatles gather at Twickenham Studios to film promo videos for
“Hey Jude” and “Revolution.” The videos are earmarked for The David Frost
Show, so to give the impression that the group is live on the show, David
Frost is present to introduce the band.
1968 – The Rolling Stones’ current single, "Street Fighting Man," is banned
in Chicago and other American cities because of the “fighting in the
streets” lyrics.
1969 – The Youngbloods are canceled from NBC's Tonight Show at the last
minute. The Youngbloods tell the press they left because the show went back
on their promise to let them play two songs. Host Johnny Carson states on
air that, "They complained about the set, the lighting, the sound, the show
-- everything. So we wiped their noses, told them they'd been in show
business a day and a half, and sent them home." It would be years before
the show would book another rock band.
1969 – The film Easy Rider, featuring soundtrack music by Steppenwolf, The
Electric Prunes, The Holy Modal Rounders, Smith, The Byrds, Fraternity Of
Man, The Jimi Hendrix Experience and Roger McGuinn, opens at The Classic in
London.
1971 – Led Zeppelin appears at the Maple Leafs Gardens in Toronto, Canada.
1972 – John Lennon and Yoko Ono appear on Jerry Lewis' nationally televised
Muscular Dystrophy Telethon, performing "Imagine" and "Give Peace A Chance."
1972 – The final day of the poorly organized Erie Canal Soda Pop Festival
ends in anarchy with three people drowning in the Wabash River, and the
stage being burned to the ground.
1972 – Concert concessionaire Francisco Caruso is killed during a Wishbone
Ash concert in Texas after refusing to give a fan a free sandwich.
1973 – Gil Scott-Heron and musician Brian Jackson begin recording their
album Winter In America at D&B Sound Studio in Silver Spring, Maryland.
1976 – The Sex Pistols make their television debut on the Granada TV
program, So It Goes.
1979 – The Grateful Dead play the first of three sold-out nights at Madison
Square Garden.
1980 – A new version of Yes - minus Jon Anderson and Rick Wakeman, plus new
members Geoff Downes and Trevor Horn - play the first of three sold-out
nights at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
1982 – Queen performs at the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver, Canada, on
their Hot Space Tour.
1982 – Mike Joyce, drummer for The Smiths, quits the group.
1984 – U2 plays the first of five nights at the Sydney Entertainment Centre
in Australia on their Unforgettable Fire Tour.
1986 – Gregg Allman is arrested in Florida for drunk driving.
1996 – In his first autograph session since 1977, Cat Stevens (aka Yusuf
Islam) emerges from seclusion in London to sign copies of his first album
in 18 years, The Life Of The Last Prophet.
1996 – Oasis’ Liam Gallagher outrages the producers of the MTV Awards show
when he spits on stage and throws a beer into the audience during their
performance.
2002 – Kelly Clarkson is the winner of the first season of American Idol.
2003 – Songwriter Winfield Scott finds the original acetate recording of
Elvis Presley’s “I’m A Roustabout” in his basement. The song was originally
intended for Presley’s 1964 movie Roustabout, but was replaced by a
different song.
2007 – The Police perform at the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham,
England, on their Reunion Tour.
2008 – The very first Fender Stratocaster that Jimi Hendrix set on fire
while performing is auctioned off at Sotheby's in London for approximately
$500,000. Also sold at the auction is the original 1962 management contract
signed by The Beatles and Brian Epstein, which fetched almost $400,000.
2012 – UK boy band One Direction wins their legal battle to keep the
group’s name after a punk band in the U.S. sued the British group for $1
million (£630,000) in damages and a share of their X Factor royalties,
claiming they had been using the name first. The punk band will unwillingly
change their name to Uncharted Shores.
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