1 SEPTEMBER
1939: Katie Webster (d. September 5, 1999)
1953: Buddy (Holly) & Bob audition for Lubbock country radio station KDAV.
2001: Ted Mulry dies in Sydney at 49.
2004: Panamanian singer Ruben Blades starts as Panama’s Minister of Tourism.
2005: RL Burnside dies in a Memphis Hospital, aged 78.
2 SEPTEMBER
1928: Horace Silver, pianist, composer
2003: The Clash receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from GQ Magazine.
3 SEPTEMBER
1915: Peter ‘Memphis Slim’ Charman
1934: Freddie King
1966: Donovan’s ‘Sunshine Superman’ tops US charts.
4 SEPTEMBER
1905: Meade Lux Lewis, pianist
1962: The Beatles’ first recording session at Abbey Road. They record ‘Love Me Do’ and ‘How Do You Do It.’
1970: George Harrison releases ‘My Sweet Lord.’
1970: Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out released.
1971: Go Set reports:
The top Australian Single is ‘Eagle Rock’ by Daddy Cool
5 SEPTEMBER
1939: John Stewart (he wrote ‘Daydream Believer’ for The Monkees).
1945: Al Stewart
1946: Buddy Miles
1946 92: Freddie Mercury
1946: Loudon Wainwright III
1964: ‘Mercy, Mercy’ by Don Covay and the Goodtimers enters the charts, reaching No 35. Also covered by the Stones on Out of our Heads.
1957: Cookin’ With The Miles Davis Quintet released.
1969: Bluesman Josh White dies in Manhasset, N.Y., at age 61.
1970d: Albert ‘Sunnyland Slim’ Luandrew
1991d: Katie Webster
2003: Neil Young’s film Greendale premieres at Toronto Film Festival.
6 SEPTEMBER
1877: Charles ‘Buddy’ Bolden, New Orleans
1925 76: Jimmy Reed
1926d: Fred Below
1939: David Allan Coe
1944: Roger Waters
1958: Gibson patents its ‘Flying V’ electric guitar.
1970: Jimi Hendrix, Billy Cox and Mitch Mitchell play the Love & Peace Festival in Germany.
1975: Born To Run by Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band is released.
1978: Producer Tom Wilson (Highway 61 Revisited, Velvet Underground & Nico, Freak Out!) dies.
1990: Tom Fogerty, rhythm guitarist with CCR, dies in Arizona.
1994: Pianist Nicky Hopkins dies at age 50 in London.
7 SEPTEMBER
1930: Sonny Rollins, tenor sax
1936 59: Buddy Holly
1936: ‘Little Milton’ Campbell. Died August 4th, 2005.
1951: Chrissie Hynde
1953 2000: Marc Hunter
1954: Benmont Tench
1963: The Beatles’ single ‘She Loves You’ goes to No.1 in the UK.
1965: Bob Dylan releases ‘Positively 4th Street.’
1972: Curtis Mayfield’s Superfly goes gold, and No 1 on the charts.
1978: Who drummer Keith Moon dies in London.
1997: Beatles’ press manager Derek Taylor dies, aged 65.
2003: Warren Zevon dies, aged 56, from lung cancer.
2005: New York’s fampus club CBGBs is served with eviction notice.
2006: For the first time in 30 years Bob Dylan tops the charts with Modern Times. Desire was his previous No.1.
8 SEPTEMBER
1897: Jimmie Rodgers
1945: Jose Feliciano
1945: Ron ‘Pigpen’ McKernan (Grateful Dead).
1932 63: Patsy Cline
1933: Jimmy Rodgers
1925: Peter Sellers
1957: Brunswick Records releases Jackie Wilson’s first solo record, ‘Reet Petite’, to no critical or public acclaim.
1971: Elvis Presley wins Bing Crosby Award.
1972: Howlin’ Wolf headlines the Ann Arbor Jazz & Blues Festival along with Muddy Waters and Dr John.
9 SEPTEMBER
1927: Elvin Jones, drummer
1941 67: Otis Redding
1942: Inez Foxx
1946: Billy Preston
1952: Dave Stewart
1956: Elvis Presley’s first TV performance on the Ed Sullivan show.
1968: The Beatles record ‘Helter Skelter.’
1970: Derek & the Dominos record ‘Layla’ and Hendrix’s ‘Little Wing’for the Layla & OtherAssorted Love Songs album.
1971: John Lennon releases his second solo album, Imagine.
1996d: Bill Monroe, the ‘father of bluegrass.’
10 SEPTEMBER
1925 – 1981: Roy Brown
1940: Roy Ayers
1945: Jose Feliciano
1950: Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry
1973: ‘The Beeb’ bans the Rolling Stones’ ‘Star Star’ due to its lyrical content.
1974: The New York Dolls split up after two years.
1976: Bob Dylan releases Hard Rain.
2005d: Clarence ‘Gatemouth’ Brown dies in Texas, aged 81.
11 SEPTEMBER
1945: Leo Kottke
1947: Phil May
1967: Harry Connick Jr.
1952: Ray Charles begins his first sessions for Atlantic.
1960: Aretha Franklin makes her NYC pop stage debut at the Village Vanguard.
1962: Ringo Starr joins the Beatles, replacing Pete Best as they record their first hit single, ‘Love Me Do’ b/w ‘PS I Love You’.
1969: Appearance of first bootleg in Los Angeles Dylan’s Great White Wonder
1979: The Who play their first American concerts since the death of Keith Moon with former Faces drummer Kenny Jones.
1987: Peter Tosh murdered in Kingston, Jamaica.
1990: Bob Dylan releases Under The Red Sky.
2000: Tenor sax legend Stanley Turrentine dies, aged 66.
12 SEPTEMBER
1931: George Jones
1943: Maria Muldaur
1944 2003: Barry White
1953: John Zorn
1966: The TV series The Monkees premieres on NBC.
1990: The oldest person to chart on the UK LP chart is blues legend John Lee Hooker, whose LP The Healer charts when he is 72 years young.
2003d: Johnny Cash, The Man In Black, dies aged 71, in Nashville.
13 SEPTEMBER
1911; Bill Monroe.
1922: Charles Brown
1941: David Clayton Thomas
1944: Peter Cetera (Chicago)
1969: The Plastic Ono Band debut at a Toronto music festival.
1980: Jackson Browne’s first album to go No 1 on the US charts is the platinum rated Hold Out.
14 SEPTEMBER
1942: Oliver Lake, reedman
1950 76: Paul Kossoff (Free)
1976: Jeff Beck’s second jazz fusion album, Wired, goes gold.
1978; The Grateful Dead play a concert at the foot of the Great Pyramid in Egypt.
1981: Walter “Furry” Lewis dies aged 88.
1991: Nirvana releases Nevermind.
I5 SEPTEMBER
1910: ‘Rosa Lee Hill’ Hemphill
1921: James ‘Snooky’ Pryor
1928 75: Julian ‘Cannonball’ Adderley
1903: Roy Acuff
1957: John Coltrane’s Blue Train released.
1971: The Faces record BBC radio program Top Gear, hosted by John Peel and broadcast four days later, and perform ‘Maggie May’, amongst others. 1975: Pink Floyd releases Wish You Were Here.
1980d: Bill Evans dies in New York, aged 61.
2004d: Johnny Ramone dies, aged 55.
I6 SEPTEMBER
1925: Riley ‘BB’ King
1935: Billy Boy Arnold
1948: Kenney Jones (Faces, Who)
1967: The Beatles record ‘Your Mother Should Know.’
1972: John Lennon releases Some Time In New York City.
1972: Yes releases Close to the Edge.
1991: Jazz giant Miles Davis passes into history after a short illness.
17 SEPTEMBER
1923 53: Hank Williams
1970: US No 1 LP: CCR Cosmo’s Factory
1971: Pink Floyd perform Atom Heart Mother at Montreux.
1980: UK No 1 LP: UB40 Signing Off
1996d: Jesse Hill dies in New Orleans.
18 SEPTEMBER
1952: Dee Dee Ramone
1970: (James Marshall) Jimi Hendrix dies, aged 28.
1973: Gram Parsons dies at the Joshua Tree National Park, California.
1991d: Rob Tyner of MC5 dies, aged 47.
19 SEPTEMBER
1934: Brian Epstein (Beatles’ manager).
1943 74: ‘Mama’ Cass Elliot
1945: David Bromberg
1945: Freda Payne
1951: Daniel Lanois
1952: Nile Rodgers
1970: Get Yer Ya-Yas Out goes to No.1 in the UK.
1973: Gram Parsons dies in Joshua Tree, California.
1981: Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel reunite and go for a walk in Central Park, NYC. About 400 000 people stroll along behind.
1989: Bob Dylan releases Oh Mercy.
2003: Slim Dusty dies, aged 76.
20 SEPTEMBER
1885: Jelly Roll Morton born in New Orleans.
1930: Eddie Bo (died March 18, 2009)
1970: Jim Morrison found guilty of indecent exposure and profanity.
1973: Neil Young & Crazy Horseplay the opening show at the Roxy, LA’s newest nightclub.
21 SEPTEMBER
1934: Leonard Cohen
1944: Jesse Ed Davis
1947: Don Felder (Eagles)
1961: Bob Dylan records his first album for Columbia, produced by John Hammond Sr, in one day and at a cost Of $400.
1966: Jimi Hendrix arrives in London and his career takes off.
1987: Bassist Jaco Pastorius dies, aged 35.
22 SEPTEMBER
1960: Joan Jett
1962: Bob Dylan plays a Carnegie Hall ‘hootenanny.’
1985: The first Farm Aid in Champaign, Illinois with Neil Young, Bob Dylan and Tom Petty.
23 SEPTEMBER
1907: Albert Ammons
1926; John Coltrane
1930: Ray Charles
1938: Ben E. King
1939: Roy Buchanan
1949: Bruce’ The Boss’ Springsteen
1970: Ani DiFranco
1972: Mott The Hoople release their first single, ‘All The Young Dudes.’
24 SEPTEMBER
1935: Arzell “ZZ” Hill
1942: Gerry Marsden
1942: Linda McCartney
1946: Jerry Donahue
1963: The Beatles embark on their first tour outside the UK to Sweden.
1971: Shaft premieres in the USA.
1973: No 1 US LP: Brothers and Sisters¬ – The Altman Brothers
1975: Juke reports: Rolling Stones manager, Peter Rudge signs Australian group The Dingoes.
25 SEPTEMBER
1933: Ian Tyson
1959: ‘The Twist’ by Chubby Checker goes No 1 in the US charts.
1974: Robert Fripp disbands King Crimson after five years and seven recordings.
2001: Ryan Adams releases his second solo album, Gold.
26 SEPTEMBER
1928: Marty Robbins
1931: George Chambers (The Chambers Brothers)
1934: Dick Heckstall Smith
1945: Bryan Ferry
1948: Olivia Newton John (appearing at the MCG for the AFL Grand Final tomorrow!)
1937d: Bessie Smith dies in a car accident near Mississippi and is buried in a paupers grave.
1969: The Beatles release Abbey Road chronologically their final group recording.
1969: Bill Graham opens the Fillmore West in San Francisco.
1974: John Lennon releases Walls and Bridges.
1988: Keith Richards releases his first solo album, Talk Is Cheap.
2003d: Robert Palmer
27 SEPTEMBER
1941: Don Nix
1943: Randy Bachman
1947: Meatloaf (Martin Adlay)
1953: Robbie Shakespeare
1953: Greg Ham (Men At Work)
28 SEPTEMBER
1955: Kenny Kirkland, pianist
1991d: Miles Davis
29 SEPTEMBER
1935: Cora ‘Koko Taylor’ Walton
1935: Jerry Lee Lewis
1963: Rolling Stones start first British tour with the Everly Brothers and Bo Diddley.
30 SEPTEMBER
1922: Oscar Pettiford, bassist, composer
1961: Bob Dylan plays harmonica on three songs for a Carolyn Hester album at Columbia records’ Studio 29 in New York.
1997: Bob Dylan releases Time Out Of Mind.
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