Last Month | Yesterday | Tomorrow | Next Month | Every Month   September 9 1926   Bob Luman born. 1941   R&B soul singer Otis Redding born in Dawson or Macon, Georgia. Otis perfected a near Eastern sence of accelendro in his music, starting slow and finishing at an extactic fast pace. Inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989. 1942   One half of the singing siblings, Inez Foxx (nee: Inez Fox Fletcher, aka Inez Johnston), born in Greensboro, North Carolina. The Foxx's biggest hit was the R&B classic, "Mockingbird" (rel under Inez's name 6/93, Symbol records, estimated sales to date 100 million, its last major appearance in Dumb & Dumber), a song Charlie originally intended for Gloria Lynne. Fox went solo in 1969. 1942   Main Ingredient ("Everybody Plays the Fool") member Luther Simmons, Jr. born. 1926   Roger Waters of Pink Floyd was born today. 1945   Iron Butterfly leader and organist, Doug Ingle, born in Omaha, NE. (may be 1946) 1945   Dee Dee Sharp (aka Dione LaRue) born. 1946   Keyboard player, actor and vocalist Billy Preston born in Houston, Texas. Preston began playing when very young with Mahalia Jackson, and acting as the teen W.C. Handy in the film "St. Louis Blues." Later her would regularly on TV, on "Shindig" and "Good News." He was best known as the big sound organist for rock acts like Little Richard, Ray Charles, The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. 1946   Trevor Leslie Oaks of Showaddywaddy born. 1947   Freddy Weller born in Atlanta, Georgia. Freddy was one of Paul Revere's favorite Raiders, co-wrote the hit "Dizzy" with Tommy Roe, and later did well in the world of Country music. 1947   Country artist Larry Sparks born. 1926   Lol Creme of 10cc and Godrey & Creme was born today. 1949   Larry Stabbins of Working Week born. 1952   Dave Stewart, bearded guitarist/songwriter of the Tourists and the Eurythmics and husband of Siobhan Fahey of Bananarama, born. 1954   DJ Alan Freed moves his radio show from Cleveland to New York City, because he knows, and everyone knows, that now and forever, CLE is a city worth leaving. 1954   The grand opening of Karl's Drug Store in Memphis features a live performance by Elvis Presley. 1956   Elvis makes his first appearance on Ed Sullivan, singing "Don't Be Cruel", "Ready Teddy", "Hound Dog", and the title song from the soon-to-be-released film, "Love Me Tender". 82.6 % of everyone watching TV is watching Elvis. 1957   "Reet Petite", Jackie Wilson's first solo single, is released. 1959   Tony Cudlip of Test Department is born. 1963   Peter Noone of Cross born. Guess who he's named after? 1965   MC Shan (Shawn Moltke) born in Elmhurst, New York. As a rapper Shan was responsible for the classic "Dis" wars with Boogie Down Productions, recorded "The Bridge" and "Kill That Noise", and produced Snow's platinum album. 1966   Greg Kane of Hue and Cry born. 1977   David Bowie makes a guest appearance on Marc Bolan's (T-Rex) British TV show. The two make plans to colaborate and record a demo tape. One week later, Bolan dies. 1979   Yusef Islam, the former Cat Stevens, marries Fouzia Ali at the Kensington Mosque in London. 1979   Promoter Sid Bernstein, in yet another New York Times ad, asks the Beatles to reform for three concerts, in Cairo, Jerusalem, and New York to benefit the people of Kampuchea (Boat People) 1979   Norrie Paramor dies.