This Day In Music - September 2

 

This Day In Music – 2 September

1925 - Pianist Russ Conway is born Trevor Herbert Stanford in Bristol, England. Known for hit instrumental singles like "Side Saddle" and "Roulette," both released in 1959.

1925 - Hugo Montenegro, orchestra leader and film composer, is born in New York City.

1931 - The radio show "15 Minutes with Bing Crosby" debuted on CBS.

1935 - George Gershwin completed the orchestral score for the opera Porgy and Bess.

1939 - Soul singer Sam Gooden (of The Impressions) is born in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

1939 - R&B singer Bobby Dickey (of James & Bobby Purify) is born in Tallahassee, Florida.

1940 - Teen idol Jimmy Clanton is born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Known for the swamp pop/R&B hits "Just a Dream" (1958) and "Venus in Blue Jeans" (1962).

1943 - R&B singer Rosalind Ashford (of Martha and the Vandellas) is born in Detroit, Michigan.

1943 - Soul/R&B singer Joe Simon is born in Simmesport, Louisiana. Known for the Grammy Award-winning song "The Chokin' Kind" (1969).

1946 - Billy Preston is born in Houston, Texas. He is raised in Los Angeles, California. Aside from being a sought-after session musician for acts like The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, the affable performer with the gap-toothed grin becomes a star in his own right with a number of funky hits throughout the '70s.

1946 - Rocker Marty Grebb (of The Buckinghams) is born in Chicago, Illinois.

1947 – AU - Ted Mulry was born Martin Albert Mulry,  in Oldham, England and died on the 1st of September 2001 in Sydney aged 53.

1951 - Mik Kaminski (violinist for Electric Light Orchestra) is born in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England.

1953 -American composer John Zorn is born in New York City. As a child, he shows an eccentric fascination with sound and avant-garde music that prompts his parents to get him psychologically evaluated.

1956 - Fritz McIntyre (keyboardist for Simply Red) is born in Birmingham, England.

1956 - Elvis Presley records "When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold Again," "Long Tall Sally," "Old Shep," "Paralyzed," "Too Much," and "Anyplace Is Paradise."

1957 - Steve Porcaro (keyboardist for Toto) is born in Hartford, Connecticut.

1958 - Jerry Augustyniak (drummer for 10,000 Maniacs) is born in Sloan, New York.

1965 - The Beatles received a gold record for the song "Help!"

1965 - The Rolling Stones appeared on the British TV show "Ready Steady Go!" Mick Jagger and Andrew Loog Oldham performed a parody of Sonny & Cher's "I Got You Babe."

1966 - Fear Factory guitarist and co-founder Dino Cazares is born in El Centro, California.

1969 - R&B singer K-Ci Hailey (of Jodeci) is born in Monroe, North Carolina.

1970 - An ad was run in "Melody Maker" by Genesis looking for musicians who were "determined to strive beyond existing stagnant music forms." Phil Collins answered the ad and eventually joined the group.

1975 - Soul/R&B singer Tony Thompson (lead singer for Hi-Five) is born Waco, Texas. He would be raised in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

1976 - The first issue of Musician magazine was published.

1976 - Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five become the first rap act to play a theatre when they do their first major gig, performing at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem. They introduce various DJ techniques along with rap interplay and choreography.

1978 - George Harrison married Olivia Trinidad Arias. She was a secretary at his Dark Horse record company.

1978 - Teddy Pendergrass plays a midnight "For Women Only" concert at Avery Fisher Hall in New York to promote his album Life Is A Song Worth Singing. It's ladies only in the crowd, and they are treated to white chocolate and lollipops. It proves very popular, and more women-only shows are held to capitalize on Pendergrass' appeal to the opposite sex.

1982 – AU - Fleetwood Mac kick off their Mirage tour in Atlanta. Their opening act is Men at Work, whose debut album Business as Usual is racing up the charts in America. Two weeks after the tour ends in October, Men At Work get their own tour as headliners.

1983 - The film "Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence" opened around in the United States. The movie starred David Bowie.

1986 - Debbie Gibson began recording the album "Out of the Blue." She was 16 years old and still in school at the time.

1987 - Sonny Bono announces his run for mayor of Palm Springs, California, after running into zoning problems with his restaurant there. He wins and later becomes a congressman.

1988 - The Human Rights Now! tour to benefit Amnesty International kicks off with a show at Wembley Stadium in London. Performers on the 20-date trek are Youssou N'Dour, Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, Tracy Chapman and Sting. It is Springsteen's last tour with the E Street band until 1999.

1993 - Stone Temple Pilots win Best New Artist at the MTV Video Music Awards for "Plush."

1995 - Michael Jackson's "You Are Not Alone" becomes the first song to debut at #1 on the Hot 100. In the video, Jackson and his wife, Lisa Marie Presley, appear topless.

1995 - The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame opens in Cleveland, with opening ceremony performances by Bob Dylan, Chuck Berry, James Brown, Aretha Franklin, Little Richard, Al Green, The Allman Brothers Band, Booker T. & the MG's, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, The Pretenders, John Fogerty, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, George Clinton, The Kinks, John Mellencamp, Bruce Springsteen, The Animals' Eric Burdon, and Boz Scaggs.

1997 - WAR released the album "Coleccion Latina." It was their 20th release.

2010 - At Nashville's Bridgestone Arena, Brooks & Dunn played their final show together at a fundraiser for the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.

2018 – AU - Conway Savage, of Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, was born on the 27th of July 1960 and died on the 2nd of September 2018 aged 58.