Events in Music
Musical Finale
Sep 12 George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin's 1st collaborative musical "Lady, Be Good!", featuring siblings Fred Astaire and Adelle Astaire as a brother and sister dance team, closes at the Liberty Theatre, NYC, after 330 performances
Birthdays in Music
- Sep 1 Art Pepper, American alto saxophonist and clarinetist, born in Gardena, California (d. 1982)
- Sep 1 Ruth S. White, American electronic music composer (Flowers Of Evil), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 2013)
- Sep 2 Hugo Montenegro, American composer, arranger, and orchestra leader, born in New York City (d. 1981)
- Sep 3 Hank Thompson, American country music singer (The Brazos Valley Boys), born in Waco, Texas (d. 2007)
- Sep 3 Shoista Mullodzhanova, Shashmakom singer, born in Dushanbe, Tajik ASSR (d. 2010)
- Sep 6 Eddie Duran, American jazz guitarist (Vince Guaraldi; Cal Tjader; Benny Goodman), born in San Francisco, California (d. 2019)
- Sep 6 Jimmy Reed, American blues singer (Soulin', Big Boss Man), born in Dunleith, Mississippi (d. 1976)
- Sep 8 Alexander Kholminov, Russian composer, born in Moscow, Russia (d. 2015)
- Sep 8 Heinz Lau, German composer, born in Stettin, German Empire (d. 1975)
- Sep 8 Magnús Blöndal Jóhannsson, Icelandic pianist and avant-garde composer, born in Skálar, Iceland (d. 2005)
- Sep 10 Roy James Brown, American soul singer ("Good Rockin' Tonight"), born in New Orleans, Louisiana (d. 1981)
- Sep 11 Alan Bergman American Emmy, Grammy, and Academy Award-winning lyricist, with wife Marilyn ("The Way We Were"; "How Do You Keep the Music Playing?"; "You Don't Bring Me Flowers"), born in Brooklyn, New York
- Sep 11 Ashley Heenan, New Zealand composer, born in Wellington, New Zealand (d. 2004)
- Sep 11 Harry Somers, Canadian composer, born in Toronto, Ontario (d. 1999)
- Sep 13 Gabriel Charpentier, Canadian composer, born in Richmond, Canada
- Sep 13 Mel Tormé, American jazz singer, known as 'The Velvet Fog' and composer (The Christmas Song), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1999)
- Sep 15 Gösta Jonsson, Swedish saxophonist, accordion player and bandleader, born in Kungsholmen, Stockholm, Sweden (d. 1984)
- Sep 16 Charlie Byrd, American jazz and bossa nova guitarist (Desfinado), born in Suffolk, Virginia (d. 1999)
B.B. King (1925-2015)
Sep 16 American blues guitarist and singer ("The Thrill is Gone"), born in Itta Bena, Mississippi
- Sep 17 Dorothy Loudon, American actress and singer (Garry Moore Show, Annie), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 2003)
- Sep 20 (Ulysses) Bobby Nunn, American singer (The Robins; The Coasters), born in Birmingham, Alabama (d. 1986)
- Sep 25 Pete Murray [James], British pop music BBC radio dj and television presenter, born in London, England
- Sep 26 Marty Robbins, American country singer ("El Paso"; "Devil Woman"; "I Walk Alone"), born in Glendale, Arizona (d. 1982)
- Sep 30 Félix Luna, Argentine historian and lyricist, born in La Rioja Province, Argentina (d. 2009)
