This Date In Music History - September 22

Birthdays:

David Coverdale - Whitesnake, Deep Purple (1949)

Mark Panker - American Music Club (1952)

Richard Fairbrass - Right Said Fred (1953)

Debby Boone - daughter of 50's singer Pat Boone. In 1977, she spent ten weeks at #1 on the US singles chart with "You Light Up My Life." Ever get soooo tired of a song that you never want to hear it again? Well, this is mine (1956)

June Forester - Forester Sisters (1956)

Johnette Napolitano - Concrete Blond (1957)

Nick Cave (1957)

Peter Jones - Public Image Ltd (1957)

Joan Jett - Runaways (1960)



Mystikal (Michael Tyler) (1975)


They Are Missed:

In 1981, American composer Harry Warren died (age 88). Wrote over 800 songs including "I Only Have Eyes For You," (a hit for The Flamingos and Art Garfunkel), "You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby," "Jeepers Creepers," "That's Amore" and "Chattanooga Choo Choo." Warren's songs have been featured in over 300 films.

Irving Berlin died at the age of 101 in 1989.


History:

In 1943, Kate Smith finished her War Bond radio appeal. She had stayed on the air 13 continuous hours and collected $39 million in bond pledges.

In 1958, after receiving special permission from the US Army, Elvis Presley gave one last press conference at the Military Ocean Terminal in Brooklyn. He then joined the rest of the 3rd Armored Division on the USS General Randall for a voyage to Bremerhaven, Germany.

The Beatles played at the Indra Club, Grosse Freiheit, Hamburg, West Germany in 1960.

Johnny Cash played the first of two nights at The White Horse Academy, Trenton, New Jersey in 1962.

In 1962, the Springfields (Dusty Springfield, her brother Tom and their friend, Tim Field) had "Silver Threads and Golden Needles," enter the US Top 20 and became the first British vocal group to chart that high in America.

Bob Dylan made his first appearance at Carnegie Hall in 1962.

"Fiddler on the Roof" opened on Broadway in 1964. It was the beginning of a staggering run of 3,242 performances.

In 1965, San Francisco band The Great Society, featuring Grace Slick and her husband Darby, make their live debut at The Coffee Gallery, North Beach, California.

While on a short Scandinavian tour in 1965, vocalist Roger Daltrey punches out drummer Keith Moon. The incident nearly gets Daltrey tossed out of The Who.

The Supremes recorded "I Hear A Symphony" in 1965.

"Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby?" was released by the Rolling Stones in 1966.

The Beatles appeared (as an abstract drawing) on the cover of TIME magazine in 1967.

The Doors appeared on the Murray the K show on WPIX-TV in New York City in 1967 performing "People Are Strange" and "Light My Fire."



In 1969, a new weekly TV show 'The Music Scene' aired on ABC for the first time. Stevie Wonder Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Tom Jones, Cass Elliot, James Brown, Janis Joplin and Sly and the Family Stone were all booked to appear on the show.

David Bowie kicked of the North American leg of his Ziggy Stardust world tour at the Music Hall in Cleveland, Ohio in 1972.

The Rolling Stones scored their eighth UK #1 album in 1973 when 'Goats Head Soup' started a two-week run at the top of the charts. Also a US #1.

In 1979, Jackson Browne, Chaka Khan, Bruce Springsteen, Bonnie Raitt and Tom Petty, appeared at Madison Square Garden, New York for two anti-nuclear benefit shows.

Def Leppard had their first major live review when UK music weekly Melody Maker reviewed a gig the band had played in Wolverhampton in 1979. With a 15 year-old drummer, the band had just released their debut 3-track single.

In 1979, Joe Walsh announced his bid for the US presidency (sadly, he didn't win - we got Reagan instead)

Geffen Records was formed in 1980.

John Lennon signed with Geffen Records in 1980.

During a UK comeback tour in 1983, the Everly Brothers appeared at the Royal Albert Hall in London. In the audience: Paul, Linda, Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton and Mickey Dolenz.

Former lead singer of the Babies, John Waite went to #1 on the US singles chart in 1984 with "Missing You."

Missing You - John Waite with Ringo Starr's All Starr Band


In 1985, Joni Mitchell, Willie Nelson, Neil Young, Bob Dylan and Tom Petty all appeared at the first Farm Aid concert. The event to help small farmers in the US was held at the Memorial Stadium at the University of Illinois, Champaign.

In 1990, Garth Brooks album 'No Fences' entered the US album chart. It went on to become the biggest selling country album of all time and sold over 13m copies in the first five years of release.

Nirvana played their biggest gig to date in 1990 when they appeared at the Motor Sports International Garage in Seattle. Drummer Dave Grohl who would audition for the band in a few days time was in the audience of 15,000 people.

Def Leppard were forced to cancel two US shows in 1992 after their sound-equipment truck was found abandoned, after one of the bands driver's had attempted to rob a store. The driver was later charged of possessing drugs and criminal damage.

Also in 1992 - "MTV Unplugged" renamed one episode "MTV Plugged" when Bruce Springsteen played an electric set on the show.

The album "Psycho-Circus" by KISS was released in 1998.

In 1999, Diana Ross was arrested on Concorde after an incident at Heathrow Airport. The singer claimed that a female security guard had touched her breasts when being frisked; Ross retaliated by rubbing her hands down the security guard. Sounds kinky to me....

‘A Tribute to Heroes’ was aired commercial-free on most of the major US TV networks in 2001. The live program was organized to raise money following the terrorist attacks on the Pentagon and New York’s World Trade Center. Neil Young, Tom Petty, Paul Simon, Billy Joel, U2, Limp Bizkit, Bruce Springsteen and Pearl Jam all performed. Manning the telephones to take pledges were celebrities including Jack Nicholson, Jim Carrey, Whoopi Goldberg, Goldie Hawn, Robin Williams, Meg Ryan, Cuba Gooding Jr., Kurt Russell, Adam Sandler and many more.

In 2004, the man once known as Cat Stevens, Yusuf Islam was denied U.S. entry when a match is made between him and a name on the Homeland Security watch list. He was on a flight from London to Washington D.C. Stevens abandoned his career in the late ‘70s after becoming a Muslim convert.

Jimmy Page was made an honorary citizen of Brazilian city Rio de Janeiro in 2005 for his work helping its street children. The Led Zeppelin guitarist had opened Casa Jimmy (Jimmy's House) in 1998 which had so far supported more than 300 children.

In 2006, the Big Bopper was posthumously honored with a historical marker in his hometown of Beaumont, Texas.

In 2006, Neil Young was named Artist of the Year at the Americana Music Association's fifth annual Americana Honors & Awards ceremony at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. The event recognizes outstanding achievements in Blues, Bluegrass , Folk, Country and other forms of American roots music.

In 2007, The Game was given a conditional discharge at Manhattan's Criminal Court after being charged with impersonating a police officer. Police said the star told a cab driver he was an undercover officer, ordering him to run several red lights. The rapper (real name Jayceon Taylor), claimed the cab driver noticed they were being followed and asked who was in the car, He said he told the driver they were the hip-hop police, and the driver decided on his own to run the red lights.

Also in 2007, Britney Spears was charged with hit-and-run and driving without a valid licence after she was accused of hitting a parked car and driving away from a Los Angeles car park on 6 August. The owner of the car filed an accident report on 9 August at the North Hollywood Community Police Station. The city attorney's office did not know whether Ms Spears' car had been damaged, nor did he know the extent of damage to the other car.