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September 19

1921 Billy Ward of the Dominoes born.
1926 Nini Russo (aka Celeste Russo) born.
1931 Singer-songwriter Brook Benton (Benjamin Franklin Peay) born in Camden, South Carolina. The smooth balladeer moved to New York and had his first hits on OKeh in the '50s.
1933 The singing fake-Soviet sidekick of The Man From Uncle, David McCallum, born.
1934 Record store owner, Beatles manager, Brian Epstein born in Liverpool.
1935 Four Season Mick Massi born.
1936 Blues artist Charles Dinwiddie born in Louisville, KY.
1940 Righteous Brother Bill Medley born in Santa Ana, California. Medley resurfaced in the 80s with the hit theme song from the film "Dirty Dancing".
1940 VERY short singer and songwriter Paul Williams is born. Greatest moment: the atrocious Phanthom of the Paradise.
1943 Singer Mama Cass Elliott, (Naomi Cohen) a former Mugwump, 1/4 in number and 3/4 in size of all the Mamas and the Papas, and eventual solo artist, born in Alexandria, Virginia or Baltimore, Maryland, 1941 or 1943.
1945 Folk performer and multi-instrumentalist David Bromberg born in upscale Tarrytown, New York.
1945 Freda Payne born in Detroit, Michigan. In New York by the '60s, Payne started her recording career singing Jazz on Impulse and became best known as a Soul singer in the '70s.
1946 John Coghlan, drummer for Status Quo ("Pictures of Matchstick Men"), born.
1947 Lol Creme (aka Larence Creme) of 10cc born.
1949 Bug eyed waif of her day, 60s fashion model, broadway and film "Boyfriend" star, and vetran of at least three singin' and swingin' Mod LPs, Leslie "Twiggy" Hornby born.
1951 Producer and performer Daniel Lanois born.
1952 Nile Rodgers, guitarist of Chic and producer extraordinaire, born in Greenwich Village, NY.
1955 Actor and singer Rex Smith born this year or next.
1957 Rusty Eagan of the Rich Kids and Visage born in London.
1958 Elvis leaves for West Germany aboard the troopship USS Randall. Russians quiver!
1958 Lita Ford, guitarist of the Runaways and solo careerist, is born.
1964 New generation country singer Trisha Yearwood born.
1966 Urban folkies The Lovin' Spoonful achieve their first gold disc and their first #1 on the Billboard pop singles chart with their fifth hit, "Summer in the City."
1968 Jimmy Page's New Yardbirds play their last show under that name. After listening a bit, Who drummer Keith Moon predicts they would go down like "the proverbial lead zeppelin." hmmm?
1968 Opry regular Red Foley dies in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
1968 "Born to be Wild." earns Steppenwolf their first gold single.
1970 "I've Cried (The Blue Right Out of My Eyes)" is the first charting hit for Crystal Gayle, and the song was written by her older sister, Loretta Lynn.
1973 Guitarist Gram Parsons, who played with the Byrds and the Flying Burrito Brothers, dies of undetermined causes (heart attack? D-R-U-G-S?) at 26 at the Joshua Tree Inn, CA. While his body was being taken to New Orleans for burial, it was hijacked by his manager, Phil Kaufman, and a former roadie Michael Martin, and brought back to Joshua Tree Park, and creamated according to the guitarist's wishes. Many versions of this story abound.
1976 Rock promoter Sid Bernstein (he booked the Beatles in the US in 65 & 66) takes out a full page ad in the New York Times asking the Beatles to reunite for a concert that could be worth (if you believe Sid) $200 million.
1979 The 5 day No Nukes concerts (MUSE = Musicians Unite for Safe Energy) take place at Madison Square Garden in NYC. Performers included Bruce Springsteen, James Taylor, Jackson Brown, Crosby, Still and Nash and Carly Simon. No Nukes film results, over $750,000 raised.
1981 Simon & Garfunkel reuinte for a free concert in Central Park in NYC. Over 400,000 attended, millions to watch on cable.
1984 The Discovery Music Network claims in a law suit that MTV has violated federal anti-trust laws by maintaining exclusive arrangements with several record labels. Discovery who?
1985 Pushy, evil, Bible Belted, amature kit-drummer Tipper Gore (Parents Music Resource Center) & the Christian Coalition (NOT a band) get the power and force the gutless record industry to adopt Parental Advisory stickers on recordings containing undefined 'offensive' material. Anyway, Senate hearings begin today and Advisory stickers the outcome. The real results : sales of labeled products soar, the ARChive has to get a copy of each version and Tipper leaves DC in disgrace when hubby folds like a cheap suit after winning 2000 presidential election.
1997 After 27 years of marriage, Wilbur and Belinda Rimes, call it quits. They were the parent-managenment team of LeAnn, at 15 one of Country music's biggest stars.
1887 Lovie Austin (née Cora Calhoun), blues and jazz pianist, orchestra leader and composer, born in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Lovie wrote ³Graveyard Blues² for Bessie Smith and was best known for accompanying Classic Blues singers in the 20¹s Chicago.