September 14 Born –
Mae Boren Axton (1914) – songwriter ("Heartbreak Hotel").
Israel "Cachao" López (1918) – Cuban jazz double bassist.
Harve Presnell (1933) – stage and opera singer, actor (“They Call The Wind
Maria”).
Ivory Tilmon (1941) – The Detroit Emeralds.
Alex St. Clair (1941) – guitarist for Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band.
Davenie "Joey" Heatherton (1944) – singer/dancer/actress (“Gone”).
Pete Agnew (1946) – bassist for Nazareth.
Jon "Bowzer" Bauman (1947) – Sha Na Na.
Fred “Sonic” Smith (1949) – guitarist for MC5.
Steve Gaines (1949) – guitarist for Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Paul Kossoff (1950) – guitarist for Free.
Barry Cowsill (1954) – The Cowsills.
Steve Berlin (1955) – keyboardist/saxophonist for Los Lobos.
Morten Harket (1959) – vocalist for A-ha.
John Power (1967) – bassist for The La's.
Craig Montoya (1970) – bassist for Everclear.
Mark Webber (1970) – guitarist for Pulp.
Amy Winehouse (1983) – singer/songwriter.
September 14 R.I.P. –
Vernon Dalhart (1948) – Age 65. Country singer/songwriter (“The Prisoner’s
Song”).
Walter "Furry" Lewis (1981) – heart failure. Age 88. Blues
guitarist/songwriter.
Perez Prado (1989) – stroke. Age 72. Cuban band leader, “King of the Mambo.”
Thomas Kaye (1993) – Keyboardist for Jay and The Americans.
Johnny Adams (1998) – prostate cancer. Age 66. Blues/jazz singer, The Tan
Canary.
Patrick Swayze (2009) – pancreatic cancer. Age 57. Actor/dancer/singer
("She's Like The Wind").
September 14 album releases –
Doris Day – The Doris Day Christmas Album (1964)
The Byrds – (Untitled) (1970)
Jethro Tull – Storm Watch (1979)
Genesis – Abacab (1981)
Mick Jagger – Private Cool (1987)
Blind Melon – Blind Melon (1992)
Jethro Tull – A Little Light Music (1992) UK
Prince – The Hits/The B-Side (1993)
Counting Crows – August And Everything After (1993)
Earth, Wind & Fire – Millennium (1993)
dEUS – In A Bar, Under The Sea (1996)
The Buzzcocks – I Don’t Mind (1999)
Iggy Pop – Avenue B (1999)
Bobby Darin – If I Were A Carpenter: The Very Best Of Bobby Darin 1966-1969
(1999)
Gov’t Mule – Dèjá Voodoo (2004)
Cryptopsy – Cryptopsy (2012)
September 14 events –
1927 – Gene Austin and The Victor Orchestra record “My Blue Heaven.” The
song will go on to be the best selling record of 1928, selling 5 million
copies.
1946 – Hank Williams travels to Nashville to audition for the Grand Ole
Opry and is rejected. He then tracks down Fred Rose at the WSM radio studio
and auditions for him in hopes of being signed to Rose’s new music
publishing company, Acuff-Rose Music. Williams passes the audition and
signs with the company.
1955 – Little Richard records “Tutti Frutti” at J&M Studio in New Orleans,
with Fats Domino’s backing band and Robert “Bumps” Blackwell producing.
1957 – Alan Freed’s Biggest Show Of Stars package tour plays the Maple Leaf
Gardens in Toronto, Canada, featuring Fats Domino, The Crickets, The
Drifters, Chuck Berry, The Everly Brothers, Frankie Lymon, LaVerne Baker,
Paul Anka, Buddy Knox, Clyde McPhatter, The Spaniels and others.
1958 – Tommy Edwards sings “It’s All In The Game” on The Ed Sullivan Show.
Also on the program is the Broadway cast of West Side Story.
1963 – The Beatles’ “She Loves You” hits #1 in the UK and becomes the best
selling single of all time in England… until Paul McCartney breaks that
record in 1977 with “Mull Of Kintyre.”
1963 – Labeled as a communist sympathizer and blackballed by the media,
folk singer Pete Seeger agrees to appear on the ABC-TV show Hootenanny
until he is asked to sign an oath of loyalty to the United States.
1963 – Major Lance records “Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um” in Chicago for the Okeh
label.
1964 – The Bing Crosby Show debuts on CBS-TV. It lasts seven months.
1968 – The Saturday morning cartoon series The Archies, based on the Archie
Comics, and depicting the characters as a singing group, debuts on CBS.
Cuff Links singer Ron Dante supplies the singing voice for The Archies.
1968 – In an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, The Who’s Pete
Townshend reports that he’s working on a “rock opera” about a deaf, dumb
and blind boy.
1968 – The U.S. Information Agency sends 40 foreign diplomats to a Blood,
Sweat & Tears show in Washington DC, considering it a crash course in
America's new cultural scene.
1968 – While on tour in Europe, Roy Orbison’s family home in
Hendersonville, Tennessee, burns to the ground, killing two of his three
sons: Roy Jr. (age 10) and Tony (age 6).
1969 – Genesis plays their first professional gig at a cottage in Surrey
owned by Peter Gabriel’s former Sunday school teacher.
1970 – Stevie Wonder marries Motown artist Syreeta Wright. The marriage
lasts two years.
1971 – Led Zeppelin plays at the Berkeley Community Theatre in California.
1974 – Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Joni Mitchell with Tom Scott and The
L.A. Express, The Band, and Jesse Colin Young all appear at Wembley Stadium
in front of 50,000.
1976 – NBC-TV airs Bob Dylan’s Hard Rain concert - filmed May 23 at Hughes
Stadium on the Colorado State University at Fort Collins campus.
1978 – The Grateful Dead perform at the Son Et Lumiere Theater, at the foot
of the Great Pyramid in Egypt.
1979 – Los Angeles mayor Tom Bradley declares the day “Kenny Rogers Day,”
and Rogers receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1979 – The Who’s movie Quadrophenia premieres at the Toronto International
Film Festival, and opens in theaters.
1981 – The Rolling Stones play a secret pre-tour warm-up show at Sir
Morgan's Cove in Worcester, Massachusetts, billed as Little Boy Blue & The
Cockroaches. When a local radio station announces that the Stones are in
town, the club is besieged by over 4,000 fans attempting to get into the
350-person venue. Police are called in to control the crowds, which results
in eleven fans being arrested.
1984 – The first MTV Video Music Awards are held at Radio City Music Hall
in New York City. Herbie Hancock is the night’s big winner with five
awards, followed by Michael Jackson with three.
1987 – American Bandstand becomes the longest running entertainment variety
show in U.S. history.
1988 – Prince begins the North American leg of his Lovesexy Tour, playing
the first of two nights at the Metropolitan Sports Center in Bloomington,
Minnesota.
1994 – The Temptations receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1994 – Singer/songwriter Steve Earle is sentenced to a year in jail for
possession of crack cocaine.
1995 – Paul McCartney's handwritten lyrics for The Beatles' "Getting
Better" fetches $249,000 at a Sotheby's auction in London.
1995 – Earth, Wind & Fire receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1995 – David Bowie begins his Outside Tour with co-headliners Nine Inch
Nails at the Meadows Music Theatre in Hartford, Connecticut.
1997 – Pete Townshend unveils the first English Heritage blue plaque in
honor of Jimi Hendrix at 23 Brook Street, Mayfair, London, where Hendrix
lived from 1968 to 1969.
1999 – Marcelo Rodriguez - the policeman who arrested singer George Michael
in a Los Angeles public park lavatory - sues the singer for $10 million for
mocking him in the video, “Outside.”
1999 – A free concert is held in New York’s Central Park, featuring Sheryl
Crow, Eric Clapton, Sarah McLachlan, Chrissie Hynde, Keith Richards, Stevie
Nicks, and Dixie Chicks.
2000 – Paul Simon, Sheryl Crow, Crosby, Stills & Nash, and Eagles Don Henley
and Glenn Frey perform at the joint VH1/Rolling Stone fundraiser for
Presidential candidate Al Gore.
2001 – In the wake of the September 11 attacks, mass media company Clear
Channel Communications of San Antonio, Texas, releases a list of songs
banned from radio stations until further notice for possibly being
upsetting to American listeners. Included are Louis Armstrong's "What A
Wonderful World;" The Beatles' "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds," "Ob-La-Di,
Ob-La-Da," and "Ticket To Ride;" Petula Clark's "Sign Of The Times;" Sam
Cooke's "Wonderful World;" Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Travelin' Band;"
Bobby Darin's "Mack The Knife;" The Drifters' "On Broadway;" The Jimi
Hendrix Experience's "Hey Joe;" The Hollies' "He Ain't Heavy, He's My
Brother;" Elton John's "Bennie And The Jets," "Daniel," and "Rocket Man;"
John Lennon's "Imagine;" Martha and the Vandellas' "Nowhere To Run" and
"Dancing In The Street;" Mitch Ryder and The Detroit Wheels' "Devil With A
Blue Dress On;" Ricky Nelson's "Travelin' Man;" Elvis Presley's "(You're
The) Devil In Disguise;" The Rolling Stones' "Ruby Tuesday;" Simon and
Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Water;" Cat Stevens' "Morning Has Broken"
and "Peace Train;" The Surfaris' "Wipeout;" The Youngbloods' "Get
Together;" Zager and Evans' "In The Year 2525," and The Zombies' "She's Not
There."
2002 – No Doubt’s Gwen Stefani marries the frontman for Bush, Gavin
Rossdale. They are still married.
2003 – Gerry Marsden, of Gerry and The Pacemakers, undergoes triple bypass
heart surgery in Liverpool.
2004 – Sotheby’s auction house begins a three-day estate auction of Johnny
and June Cash’s belongings, including hand-written song lyrics, stage
clothing, gold and platinum albums, furniture, jewelry and art, among other
things.
2005 – The Grateful Dead's original tour bus, now newly refurbished, goeson
display at the Volo Auto Museum in Volo, Illinois.
2005 – HMV Canada, the country's largest music retailer, removes all Bob
Dylan products from its shelves after learning that Dylan signed an
exclusive deal with Starbucks to sell his new album.
2006 – Marianne Faithfull is diagnosed with breast cancer.
2010 – George Michael is sent to jail for eight weeks for driving under the
influence of alcohol and drugs. He barely serves a month before being
released.
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