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Chasplaya wrote:
Not exactly Lady Gaga
Regards to Phil Spector in the tiny room he must now be in!
Hey Chas, the perfect pop song may have inadvertently produced the perfect video, what with "campy" esthetics and all, and go-go dancers forgetting to put on their pants ...Week In Review
August 26, 2010
1963, "Be My Baby" by The Ronettes hits the charts … the song will later be cited as the perfect pop song by Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys … one can maybe hear a touch of it in Brian's own "Good Vibrations" …
singer Joseph Hutchinson
Not exactly Lady Gaga
Regards to Phil Spector in the tiny room he must now be in!
Week In Review
September 2, 2010
Jail Birds Sing … Dotty In Opry Cash … CD Sales Plunge …
1956, in the wake of Johnny Ray’s success with "Just Walking in the Rain," Sun Records releases a cover by The Prisonaires, a smooth-singing doo-wop group composed of Tennessee State Penitentiary inmates …
1962, The Beatles hit Abbey Road recording studio for the first time, recording "Love Me Do" in about 16 takes with drummer Andy White …
1965, an ad in Variety announces auditions for the new TV show The Monkees … would-be Monkees who fail to make the cut include Stephen Stills; Danny Hutton, later of Three Dog Night; songwriter Paul Williams; and Charles Manson …
1968, because of fears of street violence during the National Democratic Convention, The Rolling Stones’ "Street Fighting Man" is banned from airplay in Chicago …
1978, Who drummer Keith Moon succumbs to an overdose of the drug Heminevrin prescribed to combat his alcoholism … an autopsy reveals that he'd washed down 32 of the pills with champagne … his death occurs in the same apartment in which Mama Cass of The Mamas & The Papas met her demise in 1974 … at a Teddy Pendergrass show in New York called "For Women Only," female concertgoers receive white chocolate lollipops in the shape of a teddy bear…
1990, Tom Fogerty, an original member of Creedence Clearwater Revival and brother of John, dies of tuberculosis this week at age 48 … he had parted from the band at the height of its success in 1971, a casualty of sibling rivalry … and although he recorded a number of albums on his own, he never scored a hit after his CCR days … across the pond, The Cure launches a pirate radio station beamed at London to publicize the release of the remix album Mixed Up… but the station will soon go off the air beset by technical difficulties and use of the powerful BBC signal to cover up its broadcasts …
1991, country music star Dottie West dies from internal injuries suffered in a car accident in the parking lot of The Grand Ole Opry… the crash occurred a few days earlier when an elderly neighbor, who was giving West a ride to work, lost control of the car …
1997, Pat Smear announces he will no longer be a Foo Fighter and that Franz Stahl will take his place …
1999, record mogul Sean "Puffy" Combs is ordered to attend an anger management class after being convicted of attacking the president of Interscope Records, Steve Stoute … lucky for Stoute the Puff man doesn't shop at Wal-Mart …
2000, Rage Against the Machine bassist Timothy Commerford pleads guilty to charges of assault and disorderly conduct at the MTV Video Music Awards … while raging against Limp Bizkit's acceptance of the award for Best Rock Video–which was coincidentally up against Rage's video for "Sleep Now In The Fire"–Commerford climbed a 15-foot arch that was part of the stage set … stagehands and security swarmed the stage to extricate Tim, who would "sleep now in the slammer" …
2004, the 6th Circuit Court in Cincinnati rules that artists should pay for every sample they use … previously courts had held that as long as short samples could not be identified, licensing was unnecessary … in this new decision, the court, acknowledging other cases involving digital piracy says, "If you cannot pirate the whole sound recording, can you 'lift' or 'sample' something less than the whole? Our answer to that question is in the negative." … ironically, a two-second sample of a Funkadelic record in NWA's 100 Miles and Runnin is at the heart of the ruling … Funkadelic and Parliament leader and founder George Clinton has historically been supportive of sampling, having produced two albums titled Sample Some of Dis and Sample Some of Dat that permit remixers to use his music without legal considerations …
2006, in a Rolling Stone interview, Elton John reveals that he's thinking about putting out a hip-hop album … "I want to work with Eminem, Pharrell, Kanye, and Snoop. We'll see what happens. It could be a disaster." … Rapper Master P debuts his new musical Uncle Willy's Family, in Meridian, Mississippi … the show is semiautobiographical, focusing on a family that has to abandon its home in the face of Hurricane Katrina … to no one’s particular surprise, it’s revealed that Whitney Houston has separated from her husband of 14 years, Bobby Brown … the marriage was punctuated by drugs and domestic disturbances … on a more positive note, Lou Reed joins Jack White and his Raconteurs at the VMA Awards show in New York, pitching in on the vocals of "White Light/White Heat" …
2007, with just 7.4 million in album sales this week, Nielsen SoundScan reports the lowest numbers in the chart service's history … only the High School Musical 2 soundtrack manages to move more than 50,000 units … just eight years earlier 27 albums moved that many … Lucinda Williams kicks off a novel tour in which she will play five nights each in New York and L.A. … each show will be devoted to one of her five studio albums in its entirety: her 1988 self-titled disc, Sweet Old World, Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, Essence, and World Without Tears …
2008, Oasis is mid-way through its headline set at the V Festival when a man runs from backstage and knocks Noel Gallagher to the ground … Security guards wrestle the attacker to the floor and drag him away with brother Liam in pursuit … after a 15-minute break, the band resumes its set to cheers from a 25,000-strong audience …
…and that was the week that was.
Arrivals:
September 2: Hugo Montenegro (1925), Sam Gooden (1939), Bobby Purify (1939), Rosalind Ashworth of Martha and The Vandellas (1943), Joe Simon (1943), Mik Kaminski of E.L.O. (1951), Simply Red's Fritz McIntyre (1956), Steve Porcaro of Toto (1957) Jerry Augustyniak of 10,000 Maniacs (1958), Jonathan Segal of Camper Van Beethoven (1963), K-Ci Hailey of Jodeci (1969)
September 3: bluesman Memphis Slim born Peter Chatman (1915), Hank Thompson (1925), Freddie King (1934), Kenny Pickett (1942), Al Jardine of The Beach Boys (1943), Walter Scott (1943), Greg Leads (1944), George Biondi of Steppenwolf (1945), Thin Lizzy's Eric Bell (1947), Don Brewer of Grand Funk Railroad (1948), Steve Jones of The Sex Pistols (1955), Jennifer Paige (1973)
September 4: "Lightning Bug" Rhodes, guitarist for Otis Redding and B.B. King (1939), lead singer George Lanuis of The Crescendos (1939), Merald Knight of Gladys Knight & The Pips (1942), fret wizard Danny Gatton (1945), Greg Elmore of Quicksilver Messenger Service (1946), Quicksilver Messenger Service's Gary Duncan (1946), Ronald LaPread of The Commodores (1950), Muscle Shoals session guitarist Wayne Perkins (1951), Martin Chambers of the Pretenders (1952), Kim Thayil of Soundgarden (1960), Dan Miller of O-Town (1980), Beyoncé Knowles (1981)
September 5: Chicago blues pianist Sunnyland Slim (1907), doo-wopper Jimmy Springs of The Red Caps (1911), guitarist Willie Woods of Junior Walker & The Allstars (1936), singer-songwriter and Kingston Trio member John Stewart (1939), Al "Year of the Cat" Stewart (1945), Freddie Mercury of Queen (1946), Buddy Miles (1946), guitarist Clarence White born Cecil Ingram Connor (1946), singer-songwriter Loudon Wainright III (1947), David "Clem" Clempson of Humble Pie/Colosseum (1949), Terry Ellis of En Vogue (1966), Brad Wilk of Rage Against The Machine (1968), Dweezil Zappa (1969)
September 6: bluesman Jimmy Reed (1925), blues drummer Fred Below (1926), Pink Floyd's Roger Waters (1943), Dave Bargeron of Blood, Sweat & Tears (1942), androgynous disco star Silvester aka Silvester James (1947), Perry Bamonte of The Cure (1960), Pal Waaktar of A-Ha (1961), CeCe Peniston (1969), Dolores O'Riordon of The Cranberries (1971), Nina Persson of The Cardigans (1974), Foxy Brown (1979)
September 7: Hank Williams (1923), tenor sax giant Sonny Rollins (1930), bluesman Little Milton (Campbell) (1934), Buddy Holly born Charles Hardin Holley (1936), Joe Negroni of Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers (1940), Continental Drift bassist Jim Gault (1943), Alfa Anderson of Chic (1946), disco diva Gloria Gaynor (1949), Chrissie Hynde (1951), session guitarist Chuck Beattie (1954), Brad Houser of Edie Brickell & New Bohemians (1960), Chris Acland of Lush (1966), Chad Sexton of 311 (1970), Eazy-E of N.W.A. (1973)
September 8: composer Antonin Dvorak (1841), "The Singing Brakeman" Jimmie Rodgers (1897), Western swing pioneer Milton Brown (1903), Modern Records co-founder Jules Bihari (1913), Patsy Cline born Virginia Patterson Hensley (1932), soul sermonizer Joe Tex (1933), Dante Drowty of Dante & The Evergreens (1941), Brian Cole of The Association (1944), Cathy Jean (1945), Kelly Groucutt of E.L.O. (1945), Ron "Pigpen" McKernan of The Grateful Dead (1945), Atlanta Rhythm Section's Dean Daughtry (1946), David Steele of Fine Young Cannibals (1960)
Departures:
September 2: New York Metropolitan Opera impressario Sir Rudolf Bing (1997), composer Otto Luening (1996), violinist Cyril Reuben (1996), Ljuba Welitsch (1996)
September 3: Major Lance (1994), Alan "Blind Owl" Wilson (1970)
September 4: jazz saxophonist Charlie Barnet (1991), country singer Dottie West (1991)
September 5: swamp-boogie queen Katie Webster (1999), R&B pianist Sonny Knight (1998), conductor Georg Solti (1997), Charlie Charles, drummer for Ian Dury and the Blockheads (1990), Joe Negroni of Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers (1978), blues guitarist Joe Hill Louis (1957)
September 6: co-founder of Atari Teenage Riot, Carl Crack (2001), stand-up country bassist Roy Husky Jr. (1997), Tom Fogerty of CCR (1990), Josh White (1964)
September 7: Erma Franklin, sister of Aretha (2002), composer Niccolo Castiglioni (1996), Keith Moon (1978)
September 8: songwriter Dick Heard (1998), Beatle publicist Derek Taylor (1997), Jack Vigliatura and Bill White of For Squirrels (1996), rapper Cowboy AKA Keith Wiggins of The Furious Five (1989)
September 2, 2010
Jail Birds Sing … Dotty In Opry Cash … CD Sales Plunge …
1956, in the wake of Johnny Ray’s success with "Just Walking in the Rain," Sun Records releases a cover by The Prisonaires, a smooth-singing doo-wop group composed of Tennessee State Penitentiary inmates …
1962, The Beatles hit Abbey Road recording studio for the first time, recording "Love Me Do" in about 16 takes with drummer Andy White …
1965, an ad in Variety announces auditions for the new TV show The Monkees … would-be Monkees who fail to make the cut include Stephen Stills; Danny Hutton, later of Three Dog Night; songwriter Paul Williams; and Charles Manson …
1968, because of fears of street violence during the National Democratic Convention, The Rolling Stones’ "Street Fighting Man" is banned from airplay in Chicago …
1978, Who drummer Keith Moon succumbs to an overdose of the drug Heminevrin prescribed to combat his alcoholism … an autopsy reveals that he'd washed down 32 of the pills with champagne … his death occurs in the same apartment in which Mama Cass of The Mamas & The Papas met her demise in 1974 … at a Teddy Pendergrass show in New York called "For Women Only," female concertgoers receive white chocolate lollipops in the shape of a teddy bear…
1990, Tom Fogerty, an original member of Creedence Clearwater Revival and brother of John, dies of tuberculosis this week at age 48 … he had parted from the band at the height of its success in 1971, a casualty of sibling rivalry … and although he recorded a number of albums on his own, he never scored a hit after his CCR days … across the pond, The Cure launches a pirate radio station beamed at London to publicize the release of the remix album Mixed Up… but the station will soon go off the air beset by technical difficulties and use of the powerful BBC signal to cover up its broadcasts …
1991, country music star Dottie West dies from internal injuries suffered in a car accident in the parking lot of The Grand Ole Opry… the crash occurred a few days earlier when an elderly neighbor, who was giving West a ride to work, lost control of the car …
1997, Pat Smear announces he will no longer be a Foo Fighter and that Franz Stahl will take his place …
1999, record mogul Sean "Puffy" Combs is ordered to attend an anger management class after being convicted of attacking the president of Interscope Records, Steve Stoute … lucky for Stoute the Puff man doesn't shop at Wal-Mart …
2000, Rage Against the Machine bassist Timothy Commerford pleads guilty to charges of assault and disorderly conduct at the MTV Video Music Awards … while raging against Limp Bizkit's acceptance of the award for Best Rock Video–which was coincidentally up against Rage's video for "Sleep Now In The Fire"–Commerford climbed a 15-foot arch that was part of the stage set … stagehands and security swarmed the stage to extricate Tim, who would "sleep now in the slammer" …
2004, the 6th Circuit Court in Cincinnati rules that artists should pay for every sample they use … previously courts had held that as long as short samples could not be identified, licensing was unnecessary … in this new decision, the court, acknowledging other cases involving digital piracy says, "If you cannot pirate the whole sound recording, can you 'lift' or 'sample' something less than the whole? Our answer to that question is in the negative." … ironically, a two-second sample of a Funkadelic record in NWA's 100 Miles and Runnin is at the heart of the ruling … Funkadelic and Parliament leader and founder George Clinton has historically been supportive of sampling, having produced two albums titled Sample Some of Dis and Sample Some of Dat that permit remixers to use his music without legal considerations …
2006, in a Rolling Stone interview, Elton John reveals that he's thinking about putting out a hip-hop album … "I want to work with Eminem, Pharrell, Kanye, and Snoop. We'll see what happens. It could be a disaster." … Rapper Master P debuts his new musical Uncle Willy's Family, in Meridian, Mississippi … the show is semiautobiographical, focusing on a family that has to abandon its home in the face of Hurricane Katrina … to no one’s particular surprise, it’s revealed that Whitney Houston has separated from her husband of 14 years, Bobby Brown … the marriage was punctuated by drugs and domestic disturbances … on a more positive note, Lou Reed joins Jack White and his Raconteurs at the VMA Awards show in New York, pitching in on the vocals of "White Light/White Heat" …
2007, with just 7.4 million in album sales this week, Nielsen SoundScan reports the lowest numbers in the chart service's history … only the High School Musical 2 soundtrack manages to move more than 50,000 units … just eight years earlier 27 albums moved that many … Lucinda Williams kicks off a novel tour in which she will play five nights each in New York and L.A. … each show will be devoted to one of her five studio albums in its entirety: her 1988 self-titled disc, Sweet Old World, Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, Essence, and World Without Tears …
2008, Oasis is mid-way through its headline set at the V Festival when a man runs from backstage and knocks Noel Gallagher to the ground … Security guards wrestle the attacker to the floor and drag him away with brother Liam in pursuit … after a 15-minute break, the band resumes its set to cheers from a 25,000-strong audience …
…and that was the week that was.
Arrivals:
September 2: Hugo Montenegro (1925), Sam Gooden (1939), Bobby Purify (1939), Rosalind Ashworth of Martha and The Vandellas (1943), Joe Simon (1943), Mik Kaminski of E.L.O. (1951), Simply Red's Fritz McIntyre (1956), Steve Porcaro of Toto (1957) Jerry Augustyniak of 10,000 Maniacs (1958), Jonathan Segal of Camper Van Beethoven (1963), K-Ci Hailey of Jodeci (1969)
September 3: bluesman Memphis Slim born Peter Chatman (1915), Hank Thompson (1925), Freddie King (1934), Kenny Pickett (1942), Al Jardine of The Beach Boys (1943), Walter Scott (1943), Greg Leads (1944), George Biondi of Steppenwolf (1945), Thin Lizzy's Eric Bell (1947), Don Brewer of Grand Funk Railroad (1948), Steve Jones of The Sex Pistols (1955), Jennifer Paige (1973)
September 4: "Lightning Bug" Rhodes, guitarist for Otis Redding and B.B. King (1939), lead singer George Lanuis of The Crescendos (1939), Merald Knight of Gladys Knight & The Pips (1942), fret wizard Danny Gatton (1945), Greg Elmore of Quicksilver Messenger Service (1946), Quicksilver Messenger Service's Gary Duncan (1946), Ronald LaPread of The Commodores (1950), Muscle Shoals session guitarist Wayne Perkins (1951), Martin Chambers of the Pretenders (1952), Kim Thayil of Soundgarden (1960), Dan Miller of O-Town (1980), Beyoncé Knowles (1981)
September 5: Chicago blues pianist Sunnyland Slim (1907), doo-wopper Jimmy Springs of The Red Caps (1911), guitarist Willie Woods of Junior Walker & The Allstars (1936), singer-songwriter and Kingston Trio member John Stewart (1939), Al "Year of the Cat" Stewart (1945), Freddie Mercury of Queen (1946), Buddy Miles (1946), guitarist Clarence White born Cecil Ingram Connor (1946), singer-songwriter Loudon Wainright III (1947), David "Clem" Clempson of Humble Pie/Colosseum (1949), Terry Ellis of En Vogue (1966), Brad Wilk of Rage Against The Machine (1968), Dweezil Zappa (1969)
September 6: bluesman Jimmy Reed (1925), blues drummer Fred Below (1926), Pink Floyd's Roger Waters (1943), Dave Bargeron of Blood, Sweat & Tears (1942), androgynous disco star Silvester aka Silvester James (1947), Perry Bamonte of The Cure (1960), Pal Waaktar of A-Ha (1961), CeCe Peniston (1969), Dolores O'Riordon of The Cranberries (1971), Nina Persson of The Cardigans (1974), Foxy Brown (1979)
September 7: Hank Williams (1923), tenor sax giant Sonny Rollins (1930), bluesman Little Milton (Campbell) (1934), Buddy Holly born Charles Hardin Holley (1936), Joe Negroni of Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers (1940), Continental Drift bassist Jim Gault (1943), Alfa Anderson of Chic (1946), disco diva Gloria Gaynor (1949), Chrissie Hynde (1951), session guitarist Chuck Beattie (1954), Brad Houser of Edie Brickell & New Bohemians (1960), Chris Acland of Lush (1966), Chad Sexton of 311 (1970), Eazy-E of N.W.A. (1973)
September 8: composer Antonin Dvorak (1841), "The Singing Brakeman" Jimmie Rodgers (1897), Western swing pioneer Milton Brown (1903), Modern Records co-founder Jules Bihari (1913), Patsy Cline born Virginia Patterson Hensley (1932), soul sermonizer Joe Tex (1933), Dante Drowty of Dante & The Evergreens (1941), Brian Cole of The Association (1944), Cathy Jean (1945), Kelly Groucutt of E.L.O. (1945), Ron "Pigpen" McKernan of The Grateful Dead (1945), Atlanta Rhythm Section's Dean Daughtry (1946), David Steele of Fine Young Cannibals (1960)
Departures:
September 2: New York Metropolitan Opera impressario Sir Rudolf Bing (1997), composer Otto Luening (1996), violinist Cyril Reuben (1996), Ljuba Welitsch (1996)
September 3: Major Lance (1994), Alan "Blind Owl" Wilson (1970)
September 4: jazz saxophonist Charlie Barnet (1991), country singer Dottie West (1991)
September 5: swamp-boogie queen Katie Webster (1999), R&B pianist Sonny Knight (1998), conductor Georg Solti (1997), Charlie Charles, drummer for Ian Dury and the Blockheads (1990), Joe Negroni of Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers (1978), blues guitarist Joe Hill Louis (1957)
September 6: co-founder of Atari Teenage Riot, Carl Crack (2001), stand-up country bassist Roy Husky Jr. (1997), Tom Fogerty of CCR (1990), Josh White (1964)
September 7: Erma Franklin, sister of Aretha (2002), composer Niccolo Castiglioni (1996), Keith Moon (1978)
September 8: songwriter Dick Heard (1998), Beatle publicist Derek Taylor (1997), Jack Vigliatura and Bill White of For Squirrels (1996), rapper Cowboy AKA Keith Wiggins of The Furious Five (1989)
Chasplaya wrote:
Chas, I don't think so. At the time of the 1965 auditions for the Monkees, Charlie had a previous engagement. From June 1960 until March 1967, Manson was serving time at the McNeil Island Penitentiary in Washington State before being transferred to Terminal Island Prison in California.
Bill
Lavallee wrote:Yep its true, failed audition, maybe that's what triggered him ...Charles Manson, a Monkey wannabe?
Chas, I don't think so. At the time of the 1965 auditions for the Monkees, Charlie had a previous engagement. From June 1960 until March 1967, Manson was serving time at the McNeil Island Penitentiary in Washington State before being transferred to Terminal Island Prison in California.
Bill
haoli25 wrote:
Yup Bill you are correct its one of those Myths that abound, although apparently there is some truth to an actual application or at least an expression of interest for auditio; furthermore the list of 437 that auditioned includes some impressive names, Stephen Stills, Harry Nilsson. The only one of the band selected thru the audition process was Robert Nesmith (his real name)Charles Manson was a close friend of one of the Beach Boys and was involved in the music industry, I'd need to research further to refresh my memory to tell you more its been a while since I read that story.Chasplaya wrote:Lavallee wrote:Yep its true, failed audition, maybe that's what triggered him ...Charles Manson, a Monkey wannabe?
Chas, I don't think so. At the time of the 1965 auditions for the Monkees, Charlie had a previous engagement. From June 1960 until March 1967, Manson was serving time at the McNeil Island Penitentiary in Washington State before being transferred to Terminal Island Prison in California.
Bill
Chasplaya wrote:
Chas, as I remember the story, Dennis Wilson had introduced Manson to Terry Melcher (Doris Day's son). Melcher gave Manson an audition for a recording contract, but turned him down. Manson had even gone to Melcher's house (that he shared with girlfriend Candice Bergen) to try and get him to change his mind. Later, Melcher and Bergen decided to sell the home to Roman Polanski and his wife Sharon Tate. According to Susan Atkins, Manson told her and the others to go into that house and "Kill Everyone" to send a message to Terry Melcher for turning him down.haoli25 wrote:Yup Bill you are correct its one of those Myths that abound, although apparently there is some truth to an actual application or at least an expression of interest for auditio; furthermore the list of 437 that auditioned includes some impressive names, Stephen Stills, Harry Nilsson. The only one of the band selected thru the audition process was Robert Nesmith (his real name)Charles Manson was a close friend of one of the Beach Boys and was involved in the music industry, I'd need to research further to refresh my memory to tell you more its been a while since I read that story.Chasplaya wrote:Lavallee wrote:
Yep its true, failed audition, maybe that's what triggered him ...
Chas, I don't think so. At the time of the 1965 auditions for the Monkees, Charlie had a previous engagement. From June 1960 until March 1967, Manson was serving time at the McNeil Island Penitentiary in Washington State before being transferred to Terminal Island Prison in California.
Bill
Week In Review
September 10, 2010
Muddy Goes Folky … Monkees Go Zany … Kanye Goes Off …
1814, after watching the British attack Fort McHenry Francis, Scott Key writes the words that will become the lyrics to "The Star Spangled Banner" … the melody comes from a popular British drinking song … the tune will be adopted as the U.S. national anthem over 100 years later on March 3, 1931, and because of its rather extreme range from lowest note to highest note and idiosyncratic lyrics, the song continues to be badly butchered by amateur and (allegedly) professional singers … repeated efforts to replace "Banner" with the more peaceful, vocal-friendly "America, The Beautiful" are rebuffed …
1955, Little Richard records "Tutti Frutti" in New Orleans at Cosmo Matassa's J&M Studios … backing musicians include Huey Smith ("Rockin' Pneumonia and Boogie Woogie Flu") on piano, Lee Allen on tenor sax, and Earl Palmer on drums, all part of Fats Domino's band … original lyric: "tutti frutti, good booty" …
1960, the FCC bans payola, outlawing the pervasive practice of record companies making payments to radio DJs to spin their releases … the practice resurges four decades later and New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer collects hefty fines from all the major labels for engaging in the pay-to-play game …
1963, after trying to cash in on the Twist craze, record companies move on to the surf music boom … which brings us to the rise in popularity of folk music among the masses … though it's not his idea, Muddy Waters records Muddy Waters: Folk Singer for Chess Records at Tel Mar Studios in Chicago … helping Muddy connect with his folkier side are Buddy Guy on second acoustic guitar, Clifton James on drums, and Chess stalwart Willie Dixon on bass … a folk album in name only, the tunes are mostly written by Muddy and/or Willie and includes blues classics like "Good Morning Little School Girl" … in 1968, Chess will subject Muddy to recording a psychedelic-blues album with funk session men complete with wah-wah pedal … Electric Mud features Muddy gamely working his way through The Rolling Stones' "Let's Spend The Night Together"…how about that for acknowledging your roots? … next thing you know Otis Redding will be recording "Satisfaction" …
1964, a pair of enterprising Beatles fans pack themselves into a carton marked "Beatles Fan Mail" and arrange to have it delivered to the Baltimore Civic Center where the Fab Four are appearing … their plot is foiled when the girls are discovered by guards checking deliveries … Rod Stewart rasps his first single—the blues chestnut "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl" … a different kind of rasping characterizes Dave Davies guitar as he power chords The Kinks "You Really Got Me" to #1 in the U.K. this same week …
1965, 8-track players are introduced … notable for their low fidelity and propensity for eating their closed-loop tapes, they will give way to superior cassette-based players in the 1970s … The Toys, a New York-based girl group, score a #2 pop hit with "Lover's Concerto" … the song is based on a Bach minuet …
1966, zany situation comedy interspersed with A Hard Day's Night-style music videos, hey hey it's The Monkees, the half-hour show debuts on NBC-TV starring four young men—Mickey Dolenz, Mike Nesmith, Peter Tork, and Davy Jones—who answered an audition ad in Variety … the group is formed, and a surefire hit single released to promote the show … the success of the Pre-Fab Four will force a David Jones in England to change his name to David Bowie … after scoring hits in the guise of a crooner and rock 'n' roller, Bobby Darin reinvents himself as a folk singer with the release of "If I Were a Carpenter" … the Tim Hardin tune reinvigorates his flagging career …
1967, The Beatles begin filming Magical Mystery Tour, which they will soon experience as their first "flop" …
1968, Roy Orbison's home in Hendersonville, Tennessee, burns down while he's touring England … his two eldest sons die in the fire …
1969, during Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young's set at the Big Sur Festival, a yahoo in the crowd starts heckling the band for being rich rock stars … Stills, wearing a flamboyant fur coat, leaps off the stage, chases the heckler down, and administers a pounding while from the stage Crosby pleads for "Peace and love, peace and love" … Stills gets back onstage and reflects, "Y'know, we think about what that guy was saying, and we look at these coats and these pretty guitars and fancy cars and say, 'Wow man, what am I doin'?" … building on their successful performance at the Woodstock festival, Santana release their first album … Jimi Hendrix, also fresh from Woodstock, appears on The Dick Cavett Show and performs a medley of "Machine Gun/Izabella" … here's a classic quote from the interview, Cavett: Do you consider yourself a disciplined guy, do you get up every day and work? Hendrix: Oh, I try to get up every day …
1970, an English group called Mungo Jerry join the ranks of the U.S. one-hit-wonders with their good-timey single "In The Summertime" … the jugband-inflected ditty peaks at number 3 on the U.S. charts … followup singles stiffed in the States … quite a comedown for a group promoted as "The New Beatles" with 10 Top 40 hits in England … Jimi Hendrix is interviewed by Keith Altham for BBC Radio and Record Mirror … it will be his final interview …
1978, The Grateful Dead do a three-night stand at the Son Et Lumiere Theater in Giza, Egypt, with the Great Pyramids as a backdrop …
1979, the first rap single "Rapper's Delight" by The Sugarhill Gang is released … Patti Smith plays a concert before 85,000 fans at a stadium in Florence, Italy … after the show she retires from showbiz in Detroit with former MC5 guitarist Fred Smith …
1980, XTC's new album is Black Sea containing "Majors and Generals" and "Respectable Street" …
1981, Devo's contribution to the Heavy Metal soundtrack, an update of Lee Dorsey's "Working In A Coal Mine" is turned into a single … San Francisco's The Residents' release Mark of the Mole, the first album in "The Mole Trilogy" …from the Land Down Under, Men At Work release their debut single "Who Can It Be Now?" …
1984, the burgeoning MTV network holds its first Video Music Awards ceremony at New York's Radio City Music Hall … the show is co-hosted by Bette Midler and Dan Aykroyd and honors the top music videos of the year … the event is conceived as a hip alternative to the Grammys … winners including Michael Jackson, Cyndi Lauper, The Police, and Herbie Hancock are awarded Moon Man trophies that depict an astronaut with an American flag, one of the network's earliest icons …
1987, former Wailer Peter Tosh is shot to death in his Jamaican home during a robbery … an article in Rolling Stone suggests the killing was actually the result of a feud … Tosh's previous home had been burned down by an arsonist a year earlier … brilliant but mentally troubled bassist Jaco Pastorius tries to get back into the Midnight Club in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and is severely beaten by a bouncer … Jaco dies two weeks later from his injuries … the soundtrack to La Bamba, featuring Los Lobos, begins a two-week stay at #1 on the U.S. album charts …
1988, British glam-rock star Gary Glitter makes a court appearance on charges of producing child porn and sexual assault … he is later convicted and imprisoned … Guns N' Roses "Sweet Child O' Mine" tops the charts in the U.S. … the signature opening riff was improvised by guitarist Slash while warming up …
1991, in a publicity stunt, Alice Cooper sells copies of his new album Hey Stoopid in New York's Times Square for 99 cents a pop … Nirvana's anthemic "Smells Like Teen Spirit" is released … it's part grunge, punk, and heavy metal … future American Idol judge Paula Adbul racks up her sixth #1 single on the U.S. charts with "The Promise Of A New Day" …
1995, Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise" tops the U.S. charts … it will later go on to win a Grammy …
1996, Wal-Mart refuses to carry Sheryl Crow's second album because the song "Love is a Good Thing" includes the lyrics, "Watch out sister/Watch out brother/Watch our children as they kill each other/With a gun they bought at the Wal-Mart discount stores." Can't understand why???… rapper/film actor Tupac Shakur dies in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas …
2000, the soundtrack for Almost Famous is released … it's notable for including four vintage Led Zeppelin tracks—a first for any soundtrack … Robert Plant and Jimmy Page agree to the tunes' inclusion after falling in love with Cameron Crowe's filmed semi-autobiographical remembrance of a rock journalist-groupie in the '70s … Page/Plant withhold permission for use of "Stairway to Heaven" so the scene that is built around it is cut from the final print … years later, the cut scene is included as a special-edition DVD extra … viewers can cue up their copy of "Stairway" and watch the actors reacting to the song—for example, air drumming—as it plays in the main character's living room …
2004, Johnny Ramone dies in his Los Angeles home after five years battling prostate cancer … Johnny exits surrounded by his wife Linda Cummings and friends Eddie Vedder, singer Rob Zombie and his wife Sherrie Zombie, Lisa Marie Presley, Pete Yorn, Vincent Gallo, and Talia Shire …
2007, Mötley Crüe files a $20 million lawsuit against drummer Tommy Lee after his announcement that he's leaving the band … also in a litigious mood this week, Prince is reported to be preparing lawsuits against websites such as BitTorrent, YouTube, and eBay charging wholesale piracy of his songs and videos … in his campaign to stamp out Prince-targeted piracy he has retained London-based Web Sheriff, a company that scours the web for illegal usage of copyrighted material …
2008, R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck's Rickenbacker guitar is ripped off following a Helsinki gig … a generous reward is offered for the axe that has been a mainstay of the band's studio and live dates since the early 1980s …
2009, fans around the world queue up at record outlets to get their hands on the newly remastered Beatles back catalog … aside from the 14 individual album reissues, shoppers spring for two different $200 box sets … EMI ships 5,000,000 discs and sees 235,000 of them sold in the first two days giving the faltering CD business a much-needed boost… Phil Collins today revealed he will never drum again because he is suffering from a painful spine injury … Collins, 58, whose hits include "In The Air Tonight", said: "After playing drums for 50 years, I've had to stop" … Kanye West apologizes for interrupting Taylor Swift at the VMAs … Swift was making her acceptance speech for best female video at the MTV VMA awards in New York … the rapper rushed the stage and grabbed the mic from Swift telling the audience that Beyonce should have won for her video "Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)"… "Taylor, I'm really happy for you, and I'm gonna let you finish, but Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time," said West, as an embarrassed Beyonce looked on from the audience …
…and that was the week that was.
Arrivals:
September 9: Jacob Carey of The Flamingos (1926), jazz drummer Elvin Jones (1927), Otis Redding (1941), Inez Foxx (1942), Billy Preston (1946), Iron Butterfly's Doug Ingle (1945), Dave Stewart of The Eurythmics (1952)
September 10: Waldo Semon, inventor of vinyl, later used to make LPs (1898), R&B shouter Roy Brown (1925), vibist Roy Ayers (1940), Danny Hutton of Three Dog Night (1942), Jose Feliciano (1945), Barrymore Barlow of Jethro Tull (1949), Aerosmith's Joe Perry (1950), Don Powell of Slade (1950), Johnny "Fingers" Moyett of Boomtown Rats (1956), Siobhan Fahey of Bananarama (1957), T'Pau vocalist Carol Decker (1957), Cracker's Dave Lowrey (1960), Bush drummer Robin Goodridge (1966), Big Daddy Kane (1968)
September 11: blues musician Barbecue Bob (1902), tenor saxman Bobby Fields (1928), Bernard Dwyer of Freddie And The Dreamers (1940), fingerstyle guitar virtuoso Leo Kottke (1945), British guitarist-singer-songwriter John Martyn, born Iain David McGeachy (1948), Mickey Hart (1950), Tommy Shaw of STYX (1953), session guitarist Hiram Bullock (1955), Jon Moss of Culture Club (1957), Style Council keyboardist Mick Talbot (1958), bassist Victor Wooten (1964), Moby born Richard Melville Hall (1965), Harry Connick, Jr. (1967), guitarist-vocalist Richard Ashcroft of The Verve (1971), Ludacris (1977), Coldplay guitarist Jonny Buckland (1977)
September 12: bluesman Gus Cannon (1883), Maurice Chevalier (1888), blues singer Alger "Texas" Alexander (1900), Mel "The Velvet Fog" Torme (1925), country vocalist George Jones (1931), Redbone guitarist Tony Bellamy (1940), Warren Corbin of The Cleftones (1943), Maria Muldaur (1943), suave soulman Barry White (1944), Foundations vocalist Colin Young (1944), Iron Butterfly singer Darryl DeLoach (1947), Gerry Beckley of America (1952), Rush drummer Neil Peart (1952), Barry Andrews of XTC (1956), Larry LaLonde of Primus (1968)
September 13: swing sax player Leon "Chu" Berry (1908), bluegrass pioneer Bill Monroe (1911), suave bluesman Charles Brown (1922), Peruvian soprano Yma Sumac (1922), Joseph "Mr. Google Eyes" August (1931), producer Gene Page (1938 or 1939 or 1940), Dave Quincy of Manfred Mann's Earth Band (1939), David Clayton-Thomas of Blood, Sweat & Tears (1941), Peter Cetera of Chicago (1944), Fred "Sonic" Smith (1949), Randy Jones of The Village People (1952), producer Don Was (1952), Dave Mustaine of Megadeth and Metallica (1961), Steve Perkins of Jane's Addiction (1967), Fiona Apple (1977)
September 14: composer Johann Michael Haydn (1737), New Orleans pianist Archibald born Leon T. Gross (1912), "Heartbreak Hotel" co-writer and mother of Hoyt Axton, Mae Boren Axton (1914), Pete Agnew, bass player for Nazareth (1946), Steve Gaines of Lynyrd Skynyrd (1949), Free's Paul Kossoff (1950), Barry Cowsill, drummer-bassist for The Cowsills (1954), Steve Berlin of Los Lobos (1955), A-Ha vocalist Morten Harket (1959), Kay Gee of Naughty by Nature (1970), Everclear's Craig Montoya (1970)
September 15: country legend Roy Acuff (1903), alto sax wizard Julian "Cannonball" Adderley (1928), New York DJ Jack Spector AKA Vic Venus (1929), Les Braid of The Swinging Blue Jeans (1937), Lee Dorman of Iron Butterfly (1942), English soul singer Jaki Graham (1956), George Howard of Harold Melvin and the Bluenotes (1957), Mitch Dorge of Crash Test Dummies (1960)
Departures:
September 9: singer-songwriter Lucio Battisti (1998), bluegrass pioneer Bill Monroe (1996), Sandra Tilley of Martha Reeves & The Vandellas (1981), singer Helen Humes (1981)
September 10: Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown (2005), zydeco accordionist Beau Jocque (1999)
September 11: poet-punk rocker Jim Carroll (2009), Brazilian percussionist Ramiro Musotto (2009), New Orleans funk and soul keyboardist, songwriter, and singer Wilson "Willie Tee" Turbinton (2007), jazz pianist-composer Joe Zawinul (2007), Raybeez AKA Raymond Barbieri of Warzone (1997), Peter Tosh (1987)
September 12: Grand Ole Opry star Charlie Walker (2008), R&B singer and James Brown bandleader Bobby Byrd (2007), Nashville session drummer Kenny Buttrey (2004), Johnny Cash (2003), Stanley Turrentine (2000), ABBA producer Stig "Stikkan" Anderson (1997), Jaco Pastorius (1987), country blues guitarist Frank Stokes (1955)
September 13: rapper Tupac Shakur (1996), conductor-arranger Leopold Stokowski (1977)
September 14: R&B vocalist Johnny Adams (1998), Cuban bandleader and "King of the Mambo" Perez Prado (1989), bluesman Walter "Furry" Lewis (1981)
September 15: Richard "Rick" Wright (2008), jazz pianist Bill Evans (1980) Bad day for piano players I guess
September 10, 2010
Muddy Goes Folky … Monkees Go Zany … Kanye Goes Off …
1814, after watching the British attack Fort McHenry Francis, Scott Key writes the words that will become the lyrics to "The Star Spangled Banner" … the melody comes from a popular British drinking song … the tune will be adopted as the U.S. national anthem over 100 years later on March 3, 1931, and because of its rather extreme range from lowest note to highest note and idiosyncratic lyrics, the song continues to be badly butchered by amateur and (allegedly) professional singers … repeated efforts to replace "Banner" with the more peaceful, vocal-friendly "America, The Beautiful" are rebuffed …
1955, Little Richard records "Tutti Frutti" in New Orleans at Cosmo Matassa's J&M Studios … backing musicians include Huey Smith ("Rockin' Pneumonia and Boogie Woogie Flu") on piano, Lee Allen on tenor sax, and Earl Palmer on drums, all part of Fats Domino's band … original lyric: "tutti frutti, good booty" …
1960, the FCC bans payola, outlawing the pervasive practice of record companies making payments to radio DJs to spin their releases … the practice resurges four decades later and New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer collects hefty fines from all the major labels for engaging in the pay-to-play game …
1963, after trying to cash in on the Twist craze, record companies move on to the surf music boom … which brings us to the rise in popularity of folk music among the masses … though it's not his idea, Muddy Waters records Muddy Waters: Folk Singer for Chess Records at Tel Mar Studios in Chicago … helping Muddy connect with his folkier side are Buddy Guy on second acoustic guitar, Clifton James on drums, and Chess stalwart Willie Dixon on bass … a folk album in name only, the tunes are mostly written by Muddy and/or Willie and includes blues classics like "Good Morning Little School Girl" … in 1968, Chess will subject Muddy to recording a psychedelic-blues album with funk session men complete with wah-wah pedal … Electric Mud features Muddy gamely working his way through The Rolling Stones' "Let's Spend The Night Together"…how about that for acknowledging your roots? … next thing you know Otis Redding will be recording "Satisfaction" …
1964, a pair of enterprising Beatles fans pack themselves into a carton marked "Beatles Fan Mail" and arrange to have it delivered to the Baltimore Civic Center where the Fab Four are appearing … their plot is foiled when the girls are discovered by guards checking deliveries … Rod Stewart rasps his first single—the blues chestnut "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl" … a different kind of rasping characterizes Dave Davies guitar as he power chords The Kinks "You Really Got Me" to #1 in the U.K. this same week …
1965, 8-track players are introduced … notable for their low fidelity and propensity for eating their closed-loop tapes, they will give way to superior cassette-based players in the 1970s … The Toys, a New York-based girl group, score a #2 pop hit with "Lover's Concerto" … the song is based on a Bach minuet …
1966, zany situation comedy interspersed with A Hard Day's Night-style music videos, hey hey it's The Monkees, the half-hour show debuts on NBC-TV starring four young men—Mickey Dolenz, Mike Nesmith, Peter Tork, and Davy Jones—who answered an audition ad in Variety … the group is formed, and a surefire hit single released to promote the show … the success of the Pre-Fab Four will force a David Jones in England to change his name to David Bowie … after scoring hits in the guise of a crooner and rock 'n' roller, Bobby Darin reinvents himself as a folk singer with the release of "If I Were a Carpenter" … the Tim Hardin tune reinvigorates his flagging career …
1967, The Beatles begin filming Magical Mystery Tour, which they will soon experience as their first "flop" …
1968, Roy Orbison's home in Hendersonville, Tennessee, burns down while he's touring England … his two eldest sons die in the fire …
1969, during Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young's set at the Big Sur Festival, a yahoo in the crowd starts heckling the band for being rich rock stars … Stills, wearing a flamboyant fur coat, leaps off the stage, chases the heckler down, and administers a pounding while from the stage Crosby pleads for "Peace and love, peace and love" … Stills gets back onstage and reflects, "Y'know, we think about what that guy was saying, and we look at these coats and these pretty guitars and fancy cars and say, 'Wow man, what am I doin'?" … building on their successful performance at the Woodstock festival, Santana release their first album … Jimi Hendrix, also fresh from Woodstock, appears on The Dick Cavett Show and performs a medley of "Machine Gun/Izabella" … here's a classic quote from the interview, Cavett: Do you consider yourself a disciplined guy, do you get up every day and work? Hendrix: Oh, I try to get up every day …
1970, an English group called Mungo Jerry join the ranks of the U.S. one-hit-wonders with their good-timey single "In The Summertime" … the jugband-inflected ditty peaks at number 3 on the U.S. charts … followup singles stiffed in the States … quite a comedown for a group promoted as "The New Beatles" with 10 Top 40 hits in England … Jimi Hendrix is interviewed by Keith Altham for BBC Radio and Record Mirror … it will be his final interview …
1978, The Grateful Dead do a three-night stand at the Son Et Lumiere Theater in Giza, Egypt, with the Great Pyramids as a backdrop …
1979, the first rap single "Rapper's Delight" by The Sugarhill Gang is released … Patti Smith plays a concert before 85,000 fans at a stadium in Florence, Italy … after the show she retires from showbiz in Detroit with former MC5 guitarist Fred Smith …
1980, XTC's new album is Black Sea containing "Majors and Generals" and "Respectable Street" …
1981, Devo's contribution to the Heavy Metal soundtrack, an update of Lee Dorsey's "Working In A Coal Mine" is turned into a single … San Francisco's The Residents' release Mark of the Mole, the first album in "The Mole Trilogy" …from the Land Down Under, Men At Work release their debut single "Who Can It Be Now?" …
1984, the burgeoning MTV network holds its first Video Music Awards ceremony at New York's Radio City Music Hall … the show is co-hosted by Bette Midler and Dan Aykroyd and honors the top music videos of the year … the event is conceived as a hip alternative to the Grammys … winners including Michael Jackson, Cyndi Lauper, The Police, and Herbie Hancock are awarded Moon Man trophies that depict an astronaut with an American flag, one of the network's earliest icons …
1987, former Wailer Peter Tosh is shot to death in his Jamaican home during a robbery … an article in Rolling Stone suggests the killing was actually the result of a feud … Tosh's previous home had been burned down by an arsonist a year earlier … brilliant but mentally troubled bassist Jaco Pastorius tries to get back into the Midnight Club in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and is severely beaten by a bouncer … Jaco dies two weeks later from his injuries … the soundtrack to La Bamba, featuring Los Lobos, begins a two-week stay at #1 on the U.S. album charts …
1988, British glam-rock star Gary Glitter makes a court appearance on charges of producing child porn and sexual assault … he is later convicted and imprisoned … Guns N' Roses "Sweet Child O' Mine" tops the charts in the U.S. … the signature opening riff was improvised by guitarist Slash while warming up …
1991, in a publicity stunt, Alice Cooper sells copies of his new album Hey Stoopid in New York's Times Square for 99 cents a pop … Nirvana's anthemic "Smells Like Teen Spirit" is released … it's part grunge, punk, and heavy metal … future American Idol judge Paula Adbul racks up her sixth #1 single on the U.S. charts with "The Promise Of A New Day" …
1995, Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise" tops the U.S. charts … it will later go on to win a Grammy …
1996, Wal-Mart refuses to carry Sheryl Crow's second album because the song "Love is a Good Thing" includes the lyrics, "Watch out sister/Watch out brother/Watch our children as they kill each other/With a gun they bought at the Wal-Mart discount stores." Can't understand why???… rapper/film actor Tupac Shakur dies in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas …
2000, the soundtrack for Almost Famous is released … it's notable for including four vintage Led Zeppelin tracks—a first for any soundtrack … Robert Plant and Jimmy Page agree to the tunes' inclusion after falling in love with Cameron Crowe's filmed semi-autobiographical remembrance of a rock journalist-groupie in the '70s … Page/Plant withhold permission for use of "Stairway to Heaven" so the scene that is built around it is cut from the final print … years later, the cut scene is included as a special-edition DVD extra … viewers can cue up their copy of "Stairway" and watch the actors reacting to the song—for example, air drumming—as it plays in the main character's living room …
2004, Johnny Ramone dies in his Los Angeles home after five years battling prostate cancer … Johnny exits surrounded by his wife Linda Cummings and friends Eddie Vedder, singer Rob Zombie and his wife Sherrie Zombie, Lisa Marie Presley, Pete Yorn, Vincent Gallo, and Talia Shire …
2007, Mötley Crüe files a $20 million lawsuit against drummer Tommy Lee after his announcement that he's leaving the band … also in a litigious mood this week, Prince is reported to be preparing lawsuits against websites such as BitTorrent, YouTube, and eBay charging wholesale piracy of his songs and videos … in his campaign to stamp out Prince-targeted piracy he has retained London-based Web Sheriff, a company that scours the web for illegal usage of copyrighted material …
2008, R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck's Rickenbacker guitar is ripped off following a Helsinki gig … a generous reward is offered for the axe that has been a mainstay of the band's studio and live dates since the early 1980s …
2009, fans around the world queue up at record outlets to get their hands on the newly remastered Beatles back catalog … aside from the 14 individual album reissues, shoppers spring for two different $200 box sets … EMI ships 5,000,000 discs and sees 235,000 of them sold in the first two days giving the faltering CD business a much-needed boost… Phil Collins today revealed he will never drum again because he is suffering from a painful spine injury … Collins, 58, whose hits include "In The Air Tonight", said: "After playing drums for 50 years, I've had to stop" … Kanye West apologizes for interrupting Taylor Swift at the VMAs … Swift was making her acceptance speech for best female video at the MTV VMA awards in New York … the rapper rushed the stage and grabbed the mic from Swift telling the audience that Beyonce should have won for her video "Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)"… "Taylor, I'm really happy for you, and I'm gonna let you finish, but Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time," said West, as an embarrassed Beyonce looked on from the audience …
…and that was the week that was.
Arrivals:
September 9: Jacob Carey of The Flamingos (1926), jazz drummer Elvin Jones (1927), Otis Redding (1941), Inez Foxx (1942), Billy Preston (1946), Iron Butterfly's Doug Ingle (1945), Dave Stewart of The Eurythmics (1952)
September 10: Waldo Semon, inventor of vinyl, later used to make LPs (1898), R&B shouter Roy Brown (1925), vibist Roy Ayers (1940), Danny Hutton of Three Dog Night (1942), Jose Feliciano (1945), Barrymore Barlow of Jethro Tull (1949), Aerosmith's Joe Perry (1950), Don Powell of Slade (1950), Johnny "Fingers" Moyett of Boomtown Rats (1956), Siobhan Fahey of Bananarama (1957), T'Pau vocalist Carol Decker (1957), Cracker's Dave Lowrey (1960), Bush drummer Robin Goodridge (1966), Big Daddy Kane (1968)
September 11: blues musician Barbecue Bob (1902), tenor saxman Bobby Fields (1928), Bernard Dwyer of Freddie And The Dreamers (1940), fingerstyle guitar virtuoso Leo Kottke (1945), British guitarist-singer-songwriter John Martyn, born Iain David McGeachy (1948), Mickey Hart (1950), Tommy Shaw of STYX (1953), session guitarist Hiram Bullock (1955), Jon Moss of Culture Club (1957), Style Council keyboardist Mick Talbot (1958), bassist Victor Wooten (1964), Moby born Richard Melville Hall (1965), Harry Connick, Jr. (1967), guitarist-vocalist Richard Ashcroft of The Verve (1971), Ludacris (1977), Coldplay guitarist Jonny Buckland (1977)
September 12: bluesman Gus Cannon (1883), Maurice Chevalier (1888), blues singer Alger "Texas" Alexander (1900), Mel "The Velvet Fog" Torme (1925), country vocalist George Jones (1931), Redbone guitarist Tony Bellamy (1940), Warren Corbin of The Cleftones (1943), Maria Muldaur (1943), suave soulman Barry White (1944), Foundations vocalist Colin Young (1944), Iron Butterfly singer Darryl DeLoach (1947), Gerry Beckley of America (1952), Rush drummer Neil Peart (1952), Barry Andrews of XTC (1956), Larry LaLonde of Primus (1968)
September 13: swing sax player Leon "Chu" Berry (1908), bluegrass pioneer Bill Monroe (1911), suave bluesman Charles Brown (1922), Peruvian soprano Yma Sumac (1922), Joseph "Mr. Google Eyes" August (1931), producer Gene Page (1938 or 1939 or 1940), Dave Quincy of Manfred Mann's Earth Band (1939), David Clayton-Thomas of Blood, Sweat & Tears (1941), Peter Cetera of Chicago (1944), Fred "Sonic" Smith (1949), Randy Jones of The Village People (1952), producer Don Was (1952), Dave Mustaine of Megadeth and Metallica (1961), Steve Perkins of Jane's Addiction (1967), Fiona Apple (1977)
September 14: composer Johann Michael Haydn (1737), New Orleans pianist Archibald born Leon T. Gross (1912), "Heartbreak Hotel" co-writer and mother of Hoyt Axton, Mae Boren Axton (1914), Pete Agnew, bass player for Nazareth (1946), Steve Gaines of Lynyrd Skynyrd (1949), Free's Paul Kossoff (1950), Barry Cowsill, drummer-bassist for The Cowsills (1954), Steve Berlin of Los Lobos (1955), A-Ha vocalist Morten Harket (1959), Kay Gee of Naughty by Nature (1970), Everclear's Craig Montoya (1970)
September 15: country legend Roy Acuff (1903), alto sax wizard Julian "Cannonball" Adderley (1928), New York DJ Jack Spector AKA Vic Venus (1929), Les Braid of The Swinging Blue Jeans (1937), Lee Dorman of Iron Butterfly (1942), English soul singer Jaki Graham (1956), George Howard of Harold Melvin and the Bluenotes (1957), Mitch Dorge of Crash Test Dummies (1960)
Departures:
September 9: singer-songwriter Lucio Battisti (1998), bluegrass pioneer Bill Monroe (1996), Sandra Tilley of Martha Reeves & The Vandellas (1981), singer Helen Humes (1981)
September 10: Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown (2005), zydeco accordionist Beau Jocque (1999)
September 11: poet-punk rocker Jim Carroll (2009), Brazilian percussionist Ramiro Musotto (2009), New Orleans funk and soul keyboardist, songwriter, and singer Wilson "Willie Tee" Turbinton (2007), jazz pianist-composer Joe Zawinul (2007), Raybeez AKA Raymond Barbieri of Warzone (1997), Peter Tosh (1987)
September 12: Grand Ole Opry star Charlie Walker (2008), R&B singer and James Brown bandleader Bobby Byrd (2007), Nashville session drummer Kenny Buttrey (2004), Johnny Cash (2003), Stanley Turrentine (2000), ABBA producer Stig "Stikkan" Anderson (1997), Jaco Pastorius (1987), country blues guitarist Frank Stokes (1955)
September 13: rapper Tupac Shakur (1996), conductor-arranger Leopold Stokowski (1977)
September 14: R&B vocalist Johnny Adams (1998), Cuban bandleader and "King of the Mambo" Perez Prado (1989), bluesman Walter "Furry" Lewis (1981)
September 15: Richard "Rick" Wright (2008), jazz pianist Bill Evans (1980) Bad day for piano players I guess