BORN ON SEPTEMBER 9
1901 – James Blades, English drummer (d. 1999)
1926 - Jake Carey, bassist (The Flamingos)
1927 – Elvin Jones, American drummer (d. 2004)
1940 – Joe Negroni, American singer (d. 1978)
1941 - Duffy Power, English blues and rock and roll singer,
1941 – Otis Redding, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 1967)
1942 – Inez Foxx, American singer (Inez and Charlie Foxx)
1942 – Danny Kalb, American guitarist (Blues Project)
1942 - Luther Simmons (The Main Ingredient)
1945 – Dee Dee Sharp, American singer
1946 - Billy Preston, American R&B, rock, soul, funk musician (d. 2006)
1946 - Trevor Leslie Oaks (Showaddywaddy)
1946 – Doug Ingle, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player (Iron Butterfly)
1946 – Bruce Palmer, Canadian bass player (Buffalo Springfield and The Mynah Birds) (d. 2004)
1947 – Freddy Weller, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Paul Revere & the Raiders)
1950 – John McFee, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (The Doobie Brothers and Southern Pacific)
1952 – Manuel Göttsching, German gutarist and songwriter (Ash Ra Tempel and Ashra)
1952 – David A. Stewart, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Eurythmics, The Tourists, Vegas, Platinum Weird, and SuperHeavy)
1967 – Chris Caffery, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Savatage, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, and Metalium)
1971 – Henry Thomas, American actor, singer-songwriter, and guitarist
1974 – Ana Carolina, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1974 – Marcos Curiel, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (P.O.D. and Daylight Division)
1974 – Mathias Färm, Swedish singer and guitarist (Millencolin and Franky Lee)
1976 – Kristoffer Rygg, Norwegian singer-songwriter and producer (Ulver, Borknagar, and Head Control System)
1983 – Katy Steele, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Little Birdy)
1985 – Martin Johnson, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Boys Like Girls)
DIED ON SEPTEMBER 9
1993 – Helen O’Connell, American singer (b. 1920)
1996 – Bill Monroe, American singer-songwriter (b. 1911)
2004 – Ernie Ball, American guitarist and businessman (b. 1930)
2007 – Hughie Thomasson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd and Outlaws) (b. 1952)
EVENTS ON SEPTEMBER 9
1926 - The Radio Corporation of America, later known as RCA, launches its new radio network, the National Broadcasting Company (later known as NBC).
1941 - Otis Redding was born. His hit “(Sitting on) The Dock of the Bay” was recorded three days before he was killed in a plane crash in 1967.
1954 - Rising young star Elvis Presley performs at the opening of Memphis’ Lamar-Airways shopping mall, and, afterward, meets audience member Johnny Cash for the first time.
1955 - Seeburg introduces their latest jukebox, which not only holds a record 100 singles but is also capable of playing the same number of EPs.
1956: Elvis Presley makes the first of three contracted appearances on Ed Sullivan’s CBS show. (Sullivan had previously announced he would never have such an act on, but ratings prevailed and Sullivan offered Elvis a record $50,000 for the three shows.) Charles Laughton hosts, filling in for an ailing Sullivan. Elvis performs “Don’t Be Cruel,” “Love Me Tender,” “Ready Teddy,” and “Hound Dog,” but is shot from the waist up only, due to a scandalous swivel-hipped performance on NBC-TV’s Milton Berle Show a few months earlier. A record 54 million viewers — nearly 83 percent of the nation’s sets! — are tuned in to the event; the next day, pre-orders for “Love Me Tender” begin rolling in, forcing the release of the single to be bumped up by weeks. In a particularly bad break, the Rock and Roll Trio (a/k/a The Johnny Burnette Trio) appear on Ted Mack’s Original Amateur Hour over on ABC, and though they win the contest for the next three weeks, no one is watching.
1969 - Jimi Hendrix mad his U.S. television debut on “The Dick Cavett Show.”
1971 - John Lennon’s LP “Imagine” was released.
1972 - The Eagles’ “Witchy Woman” was released.
1973 - Todd Rundgren records the audience singing one of his new songs (“Sons Of 1984″) during his concert at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, only to see police disrupt the crowd during the performance in order to arrest a pot dealer. A riot breaks out, and eleven more concertgoers are arrested.
1975 - Paul McCartney and Wings begin their historic 13-month world tour, US dates of which will be captured on record as the double LP Wings Over America. The group plays to over two million fans total during the course of the tour.
1978 - “Beast of Burden” was released by the Rolling Stones.
1981 - Sting and Phil Collins both played their first solo sets at Amnesty’s International’s “The Secret Policeman’s Other Ball.”
1999 - Nine Inch Nails performed at the 1999 MTV Video Music Awards. It was their first-ever appearance on a televised award show.
2003 - Simon and Garfunkel announce plans for a reunion tour, the first in 20 years and the first onstage reunion of any kind in a decade.
2005 - Despite numerous fan protests, the City of Liverpool, England declares its intention to go ahead and demolish Ringo Starr’s birthplace on Madryn Street, which the famous drummer lived in until the age of five.
2005- Former Ray Charles employee and engineer Terry Howard is exonerated in a Los Angeles court for allegedly stealing dozens of recordings of the singer.
2008 - Former Raspberries lead and solo star Eric Carmen is arrested in his hometown of Cleveland on DUI charges. He will be sentenced to six months in jail, but only serve 30 days.
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