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September 28

1901 Mr. showbusiness, tacky gossip columist, radio host and TV's biggest stiff, Ed Sullivan was born to bring you some of TV's greatest rock moments and hours and hours of drivel.
1910 Bluesman Houston Stackhouse Wesson born in Mississippi.
1926 Country comedian who put out way too many records, Jerry Clower born in Liberty, Mississippi.
1928 Rumoured to be the day of the first recording session, ever, in Nashville. The Victor Recording Company rented the hall at the Y to record the Brinkley Brothers, Jack Jackson and Warmack's Gully Jumpers. Sessions were horrid and had to be repeated, engineers stay til Oct 6, and after they leave no one bothers to comes back for years.
1934 Brigitte Bardot born. BB recorded with a pre-punk attitude of detached, nude dizziness with co-worker Serge Gainsbourg.
1935 Blues belter Koko Taylor (nee, Cora Walton) born in Memphis, Tennessee.
1938 R&B singer Ben E. King (Benjamin Earl Nelson), a former Five Crowns (1956), Drifter ("Save the Last Dance for Me") and a popular solo artist in the 60s ("Standy By Me"), is born in Henderson, North Carolina.
1943 Original bassist Nick St. Nicholas of Steppenwolf born in Germany.
1947 Peter-Hop-Evans, born. (Medicine Head)
1953 Country star Johnny Horton takes Billy Jean Williams for his bride.
1962 Peter Hooton of The Farm is born
1967 Moon Unit Zappa touches down on Earth.
1968 R& B singer Sean Levert of Levert born.
1974 King Crimson, with only original member Robert Fripp still remaining, disbands.
1974 Ariel Bender leaves and Mick Ronson joins Mott the Hoople.
1976 When George Harrison's hepatitis keeps him from delivering his 33 1/3 LP on time, his record company, A&M, sues him.
1979 Former Wings guitarist Jimmy McCulloch dies at the age of 26.
1991 For the first time a country album debutes at #1 in the segregated Billboard charts top pop 200. An the winner is the pyro-technic Garth Brooks' Roping The Wind.
1999 Presidential hopeful Bob Dole goes ballistic when he spies a Capitol Records advert for the "Trainspotting" soundtrack with his likeness sporting an, "Iggy Pop For President," badge.
1999 Larry Wynn (Lester Litwin), who penned the words for the 1941 novelty hit, "Five Guys Named Moe," made famous by the Decca recording by Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five, dies in New Jersey.