September 13 Born –
Bill Munroe (1911) – Country/bluegrass musician ("Blue Moon Of Kentucky").
Dick Haymes (1918) – big band singer, actor.
Charles Brown (1922) – Blues singer/pianist (“Driftin’ Blues”).
Yma Sumac (aka Zoila Chávarri del Castillo, 1922) – Peruvian exotic singer.
Mel Tormé (1925) – singer/songwriter.
Eddie "Bongo" Brown (1932) – percussionist with the Funk Brothers.
Lewie Steinberg (1933) – original bassist for Booker T. and The MGs.
Gene Page (1939) – composer/conductor/arranger.
Dave Quincy (1939) – saxophonist for Manfred Mann.
David Clayton-Thomas (1941) – singer for Blood, Sweat and Tears.
Ray Elliott (1943) – keyboardist for Them.
Les Harvey (1944) – Stone The Crows.
Peter Cetera (1944) – bassist/vocalist for Chicago.
Don Was (aka Donald Fagenson, 1952) – bassist/producer.
Randy Jones (1952) – "Cowboy" with The Village People.
Steve Kilbey (1954) – bassist/vocalist for The Church.
Denis Hegarty (1954) – The Darts.
Joni Sledge (1955) – Sister Sledge.
Dave Mustaine (1961) – guitarist/vocalist for Megadeth.
Zak Starkey (1965) – drummer for The Who.
Stephen Perkins (1967) – drummer for Jane's Addiction and Porno For Pyros.
Tim "Ripper" Owens (1967) – vocalist for Beyond Fear and Iced Earth.
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 –
Manfred Mann – My Little Red Book Of Winners! (1965) U.S.
Yes – Close To The Edge (1972)
Fleetwood Mac – Heroes Are Hard To Find (1974)
Ronnie Wood – I’ve Got My Own Album To Do (1974)
Labelle – Nightbirds (1974)
Lynyrd Skynyrd – One More From The Road (1976) U.S.
Bob Dylan – Hard Rain (1976)
Kate Bush – The Dreaming (1982)
Simple Minds – New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) (1982)
KISS – Animalize (1984)
Dokken – Tooth And Nail (1984)
Stevie Wonder – In Square Circle (1985)
The Jeff Healy Band – See The Light (1988)
Tanita Tikaram – Ancient Heart (1988)
Fishbone – Truth And Soul (1988)
Tina Turner – Foreign Affair (1989)
Nirvana – In Utero (1993)
The Cure – Show (1993)
Blues Traveler – Four (1994)
Eric Clapton – From The Cradle (1994)
Notorious B.I.G. – Ready To Die (1994)
Stina Nordenstam – Dynamite (1996)
The Beatles – Yellow Submarine Soundtrack (1999)
Bonnie Raitt – Souls Alike (2005)
Robert Plant – Band Of Joy (2010)
Phil Collins – Going Back (2010)
Bush – The Sea Of Memories (2011)
September 13 events –
1955 – Frank Sinatra records “(Love Is) The Tender Trap” at Capitol Studios
in Hollywood.
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 – Barbra Streisand marries actor Elliott Gould. They stay married
until 1971.
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 day of the three-day Rugby Bag Blues Festival takes place
in Warwickshire. Festival acts include Pink Floyd, The Nice, Taste, Free,
Roy Harper, Third Ear Band, Ralph McTell, King Crimson, The Strawbs, Edgar
Broughton, Spirit Of John Morgan, and John Martyn.
1970 – Elvis Presley performs two shows at the Curtis Hixon Hall in Tampa,
Florida.
1974 – Stevie Wonder begins his first tour since his near fatal car
accident in late 1973.
1979 – ABBA begins their first and only tour of North America at the
Northlands Coliseum in Edmonton, Canada.
1980 – CBS Television debuts their new music show, Solid Gold.
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.
1984 – U2 plays the first of five nights at the Sports and Entertainment
Centre in Melbourne, Australia, on their Unforgettable Fire Tour.
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.
1992 – Skywalker Machine Gun Feedback, Jealous and Oasis all appear at The
Venue in Manchester, England, as part of unsigned-band night for the UK
music convention In The City.
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.
1998 – Spice Girl Melanie Brown (aka Scary Spice) marries her first
husband, dancer Jimmy Gulzar, in Little Marlow, Buckinghamshire, England.
They stay married for three years.
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 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 – Wal-Mart stores in the U.S. refuse to stock the #1 album Permission
To Land by UK rock group The Darkness because the sleeve features a woman's
bottom.
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 for
500 guests 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 nearby Renton,
renovate the building and turn it into a 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.
2005 – The Sex Pistols are among the new names added to the celebrity Walk
of Fame in Covent Garden, London.
2006 – A California judge dismisses a portion of Beach Boy Mike Love’s $2
million lawsuit against former band mate Al Jardine for using the name
“Beach Boys” illegally.
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.
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