12 SEPTEMBER
In Music History
1966 The Roger Miller Show, starring the country singer, debuts on NBC.
1960 Nina Simone's "Nobody Knows When You're Down and Out" peaks at #93, where it will stay for one week.
1957 Film composer Hans Zimmer is born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Known for award-winning scores for The Lion King (1994), Gladiator (2000) and The Dark Knight (2008), to name a few.
1957 Larry Williams records "Bony Maronie."
1956 Barry Andrews (keyboardist for XTC) is born in West Norwood, London, England.
1952 Folk rocker Gerry Beckley (of America) is born in Fort Worth, Texas.
1952 Neil Peart is born near Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. In 1974, he joins Rush, becoming both their drummer and lyricist.
1948 Giving up her job at the Tupelo Garment Company in Mississippi, Gladys Presley and her husband Vernon move to Memphis with their son, Elvis.
1946 Blue Cheer singer/bassist Dickie Peterson is born in Grand Forks, North Dakota.
1944 R&B singer Barry White is born Barry Eugene Carter in Galveston, Texas. He is raised in South Central Los Angeles.More
1943 Frank Sinatra starts his film career when he signs a 7-year contract with RKO Pictures.
1938 Soul/gospel singer Judy Clay is born Judith Grace Guions in St. Pauls, North Carolina.
1933 Folk-blues singer Maria Muldaur is born Maria Grazia Rosa Domenica D'Amato in Greenwich Village, New York City.
1931 Country singer George Jones is born in Saratoga, Texas.
The Monkees TV Show Debuts
1966The Monkees TV show makes its debut, with four actors chosen to portray a pop band based on The Beatles. While The Monkees are a fictional band, they become very real and eventually play on their own recordings instead of studio musicians.
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Featured Events
2007 Led Zeppelin announce a reunion concert, with 18,000 tickets priced at $255 each doled out in an online lottery. At least a million registrations come in for the show, which is scheduled for November 26 but postponed to December 10 when Jimmy Page breaks his finger.
2006 Britney Spears gives birth to her second child, Jayden James Federline, born just 363 days after her first son, Sean. In ensuing years, the kids enjoy many lavish joint birthday parties.
2006 Justin Timberlake releases his second solo album, FutureSex: LoveSounds. Impelled by the lead single "SexyBack," it goes to #1 in the US and sells over 9 million copies.
2003 Johnny Cash dies of complications from diabetes in Nashville, Tennessee, at age 71.
1998 Lauryn Hill's solo album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill debuts at #1 in the US.
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