September 12, on this day …
In 1954 the first ‘teen idol’, Frank Sinatra was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘Three Coins In The Fountain’. It was the singer’s first UK No.1. and was The Academy Award-winning Best Original Song of the same year.
Smokey Robinson and The Miracles were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘The Tears Of A Clown’, in 1970, their first UK No.1. Stevie Wonder wrote the music for the song.
Aerosmith released ‘Pump’ in 1989, their tenth studio album which featured the hit singles: ‘Love In An Elevator’, ‘The Other Side’ and ‘Janie’s Got a Gun’. Aerosmith found themselves in law school textbooks after a small rock band named Pump sued Aerosmith‘s management company for service mark infringement. Aerosmith won the case.
Neil Peart, born this day in 1952, would be 68 years old today. Peart was a drummer in the band Rush. They made Peart an Officer of the Order of Canada on May 9, 1996. The trio was the first rock band honored as a group. Peart died on 7 January 2020 age 67 after battling brain cancer for three years.
US country singer George Jones was born today in 1931. He had a string of number one songs between the 1950s and 1990s.
Nicknamed Possum, his signature song was He Stopped Loving Her Today, a track about love and death. Married to Tammy Wynette between 1969 and 1975, the pair recorded several songs together in the 1970s. Jones died on 26th April 2013, aged 81.
Barry White, a soul singer & producer, would have been 76 today. White had the 1974 UK No.1 single ‘You’re The First The Last My Everything’, and the 1974 US No.1 single ‘Can’t Get Enough Of Your Love Babe’. White died from Kidney failure on July 4, 2003, aged 58.
