EVENTS THAT HAPPENED ON THIS DAY SEPTEMBER 1 IN MUSIC HISTORY
On this day September 1 in 1958 – After a one week break from the top, Domenico Modugno returned for a four-week run at No.1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart with ‘Volare (Nel blue dipinto di blu)’.
1962 – With ‘Sheila’, Tommy Roe started a two-week run at number one on the US singles chart. The song also became a chart-topper in Australia and Canada, while in the UK it peaked at No.3.
1973 – Rod Stewart‘s first compilation album ‘Sing It Again Rod’ went to number one in the United Kingdom on this day September 1 in music history.
1977 – Canadian progressive rock band Rush released their fifth studio album ‘A Farewell to Kings’. It was a commercial success and it made the Top 40 on the album charts in Canada, the US, and the UK.
1981 – Pop rock duo Hall & Oates released their tenth studio album ‘Private Eyes’ through RCA Records. The album peaked at No.5 in the US and it features two chart-topping singles ‘Private Eyes’ and ‘I Can’t Go for that (No Can Do)’.
1983 – Singer and songwriter Tom Waits released his eighth studio album ‘Swordfishtrombones’ through Island Records. Waits produced the whole album himself.
1984 – Tina Turner started a three-week run at No.1 in the US with ‘What’s Love Got to Do with It’ on this day September 1 in music history. Her first solo chart-topper in the country.
1990 – With his twelfth studio album ‘Graffiti Bridge’ and the soundtrack to the film of the same name, Prince reached No.1 in the UK.
1990 – The number one single in the United States on this day September 1 was ‘If Wishes Came True’ by Sweet Sensation.
2001 – American rock band Staind topped the UK albums chart with ‘Break the Cycle’ on this day September 1. The album also reached No.1 in the US, Ireland, New Zealand, and Canada that year.
2007 – The soundtrack album ‘High School Musical 2’ to the film of the same name started a four-week run at No.1 on the US Billboard 200 chart. It also reached number one in Canada and on the compilation album charts in Italy and the UK.
2007 – With his debut studio album ‘Hand Built by Robots’, singer-songwriter Newton Faulkner went to number one in the UK on this day September 1.
2008 – American singer-songwriter, guitarist, composer, and actor Jerry Reed died on this day at the age of 71. Best remembered for songs such as ‘Guitar Man’, ‘A Thing Called Love’, ‘Where You’re Hot, You’re Hot’, ‘Alabama Wild Man’, and many other hits.
2012 – Rapper 2 Chainz went to number one in the US with his debut studio album ‘Based on a T.R.U. Story’ on this day September 1.
2012 – The debut single ‘Bom Bom’ by the three-piece pop group Sam and the Womp went to number one in the UK.
2012 – American lyricist Harold “Hal” David died on this day September 1 in music history at the age of 91. Best remembered for his collaboration with Burt Bacharach with whom he co-wrote dozens of hit songs, such as ‘The Story of My Life’, ‘Raindrops Keep Fallin” on my Head’, ‘Alfie’, ‘The Look of Love’, ‘Walk On By’, etc.
Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head
2012 – Taylor Swift started a two-week run at No.1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 with ‘We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together’.
2014 – American singer Jimi Jamison died on this day at the age of 63. Best remembered for fronting the rock bands Survivor, Target, and Cobra.
2016 – The number one album in the United Kingdom on this day September 1 was ‘Blond’ by Frank Ocean. It also topped the charts in Australia, Belgium, Denmark, New Zealand, Norway, and the US.
2018 – Ariana Grande scored her third number one album in the United States with ‘Sweetener’. The album was an international hit topping the charts in over twenty countries, and it also won her a Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album.
BORN ON THIS DAY SEPTEMBER 1 IN MUSIC HISTORY
1933 – Country music singer-songwriter and guitar player Harold Lloyd Jenkins also known professionally as Conway Twitty was born in Helena, Arkansas.
1933 – American bassist Marshall Lytle was born in Old Fort, North Carolina on this day September 1 in music history. Best known as a member of the bands Bill Haley & His Comets and The Jodimars.
1944 – Founder and frontman of the R&B vocal group Archie Bell & the Drells, Archie Bell was born in Henderson, Texas.
1945 – Pop and rock and roll singer Diane Waldrop Ray was born in Gastonia, North Carolina. Best known for her 1963 hit single ‘Please Don’t Talk to the Lifeguard’.
1946 – British singer and songwriter Barry Gibb was born on this day September 1 in Douglas, Isle of Man. He rose to fame as a member of the world-famous music group the Bee Gees which he founded with his brothers Robin and Maurice Gibb.
1948 – American musician and record producer Greg Errico was born on this day in San Francisco, California. He came to prominence as the drummer for the influential band Sly and the Family Stone.
1955 – English singer-songwriter and guitarist Bruce Foxton was born in Woking on this day September 1 in music history.
1957 – Seven-time Grammy Award-winning Cuban-American singer and actress Gloria Estefan was born on this day in Havana, Cuba.
1973 – Canadian singer and songwriter Jason Bennison also known professionally as J.D. Fortune was born in Mississauga, Ontario. He came to prominence in the mid 2000s as the frontman of the rock band INXS.
1976 – Multi-instrumentalist Scott Hoffman also known by his stage name Babydaddy was born on this day September 1 in Houston, Texas. Best known as the co-founder of the pop rock band Scissor Sisters.
1984 – Co-founder, lead guitarist, and backing vocalist of the rock band Fall Out Boy, Joseph “Joe” Trohman was born in Hollywood, Florida.
1993 – English rapper and DJ Dennis Junior Odunwo also known professionally as Tion Wayne was born on this day in Edmonton, London.
1997 – South Korean singer and songwriter Jeon Jung-kook better known as Jungkook was born in Busan on this day September 1 in music history. Best known as the youngest member of the boy band BTS.