Last Month | Yesterday | Tomorrow | Next Month | Every Month   September 2 1896   Blues songstress Edith Goodall Wilson born in Louisville, Kentucky. Edith performed with Ellington and Bill Robinson, and on stage in many Black music reviews of the 20s & 30s, best known as Kingfish's mother-in-law on the Amos and Andy radio show. 1901   Jazzman Phil Napoleon born in Boston, Massachusetts. 1917   Brazilian jazz guitar virtuoso and composer Laurindo Almeida born in Sao Paulo. Laurindo probably best known as a member of the LA Four. 1917   Cleveland Amory born. 1928   Jazzman Horace Silver born. 1934   Early jazzman Yellow Nuñez dies. 1939   Sam Gordon of The Impressions was born today. 1940   Jimmy Clanton born. 1943   One of Martha Reeve's Vandellas, Rosalind Ashford, born in Detroit. 1943   Soul singer Joe Simon , who began in the Golden Tones in1960, born in Simmerport, LA. 1951   Cellist Mik Kaminski of Electric Light Orchestra (repl. Michael Edwards, '73) born in the UK. 1957   Steve Porcaro of Toto born. 1958   Fritz McIntyre of Scottish pseudo-soul group Simply Red born. 1963   The Angels', "My Boyfriend's Back" is number one on the Billboard pop singles charts, the first all-singing, all-female, all-white group to do so. 1964   Dogstar bandmember Keanu Reeves, who sometimes moonlights in film, born in Beirut, Lebanon. 1965   Manager Andrew Loog Oldham and the Rolling Stone's Mick Jagger parody Sonny & Cher's "I Got You Babe" on the British TV show, "Ready Steady Go!" 1970   Al Wilson, blues enthusiast and guitarist/singer with Canned Heat, is discovered dead in the backyard of bandmate Bob Hite. 1971   Lenny Hart , former manager of the Grateful Dead, is arrested for embezzling $70,000. from the band. And not a moment too soon as the band was broke. 1971   The Rolling Stones and Brian Jones' family file suit in the UK against former managers Eric Easton and Andrew Loog Oldham for stealing royalties derived from their Decca releases. 1976   The very first Musician Magazine hits the news stands. 1978   Performing a concert "For Women Only" at NYC's Avery Fisher Hall is smoothy Teddy Pendergrass. Same sex attendees are all given teddy bear-shaped, white chocolate lollipops. 1978   George Harrison weds Olivia Arias. 1983   Sharon, with assist from hubby Ozzy, gives birth to Amy Rachel Osbourne. 1986   Atlantic records signs 16 year old "Electric Youth" Debbie Gibson to a worldwide contract. And the value of that contract today? 1987   Bigtime rockers Bruce Springsteen, Sting, Peter Gabriel and Tracy Chapman unite for the tour launch concert in London to raise funds for Amnesty International. 1989   Super model Paulina (Porizkova) marries super producer and Cars frontman Ric Ocasek. 1993   Pearl Jam performs at the 10th annual MTV awards. The live clip of "Animal" will have to suffice as the band has refused to record a music video. 1995   Jerry Lee Lewis, Aretha Franklin and Bob Dylan join dozens of other rock stars at a concert celebrating the opening of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio. Cleveland's only claim to rock history was that this is the hub of the largest sales market in the country, and they outbid other cities. 1997   In Florida Circuit Court, Scott Putesky, founding member who played guitar with Marilyn Manson as Daisy Berkowitz, sues the band and the bandleader (né Brian Warner) for damages claiming that throughout his five years with MM he recieved only $250 per week and no royalties. In '95 ex bassist Brad Stewart (Gidget Gein) also sued.