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This Day in Music…September 2
Sep 2nd
1661 – Composer George Bohm was born.
1814 – The composer Mihaly Mosonyi was born.
1862 – Composer Alphons Diepenbrock was born.
1917 – Composer Laurindo Almeida was born.
1924 – The operetta “Rose Marie”, by Rudolf Friml, opened on Broadway.
1927 – Sophie Tucker recorded her song “Some of These Days.”
1931 – The radio show, “15 Minutes with Bing Crosby”, debuted on CBS.
1935 – George Gershwin completed the orchestral score for the opera Porgy and Bess.
1963 – The Angels become the first white all-female group to have a No.1 record. The song was “My Boyfriend’s Back.”
1965 – The Beatles received a gold record for the song “Help!”
1965 – The Rolling Stones appeared on the British TV show “Ready Steady Go!” Mick Jagger and Andrew Loog Oldham performed a parody of Sonny & Cher’s “I Got You Babe.”
1965 – The Beatles released “Yesterday.”
1970 – An ad was run in “Melody Maker” by Genesis. Phil Collins answered the ad and eventually joined the group.
1971 – The Grateful Dead’s ex-manager was arrested for embezzling $70,000 from the band.
1976 – The first issue of Musician magazine was published.
1978 – George Harrison married Olivia Trinidad Arias. She was a secretary at his Dark Horse record company.
1978 – The “Animal House” soundtrack was released.
1981 – The single “Controversy” was released by Prince.
1986 – Debbie Gibson, while still in school and only 16 years old, began recording the album “Out of the Blue.”
1987 – The Amnesty International Tour started in London, starring Bruce Springsteen, Sting, Peter Gabriel and Tracy Chapman.
1988 – The Amnesty International Tour started in London at Wembley Stadium.
1989 – Ric Ocasek, of the Cars, married Paulina Porizkova.
1997 – WAR released its 20th album, “Coleccion Latina.”
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