September 1969 in Music History

Events in Music

Sep 6 John Kander and Fred Ebb's "Cabaret" closes at Broadhurst Theater, NYC, after 1166 performances and 8 Tony Awards

Sep 13 Plastic Ono Band's 1st live performance, featuring John Lennon, Yoko Ono and Eric Clapton, at the Toronto Rock and Roll Revival festival

Sep 18 American singer Tiny Tim (37) & Victoria "Miss Vicki" Budinger(17) get engaged
Sep 20 John Lennon privately announces to Paul and Ringo (George was not there) that he is leaving "The Beatles" at a London business meeting
Sep 20 Virtual 'cartoon' band Archies' single "Sugar Sugar" hits #1
Sep 22 "Music Scene" debuts on ABC-TV

Sep 23 Northern Star and Illinois Univ newspaper start rumors that Paul McCartney is dead

Sep 26 Apple Records releases The Beatles 11th studio album "Abbey Road", their final recordings as a quartet; tops the charts in 11 countries

Sep 2 H-Ci [Cedric Hailey], American singer (Jodeci), born in Monroe, North Carolina
Sep 4 Alexander Coe, Welsh DJ and record producer, born in Bangor, Wales
Sep 5 Dweezil Zappa, American rock guitarist and son of Frank Zappa, born in Hollywood, California
Sep 6 CeCe Peniston, American singer (Finally) and beauty queen (Miss Black Arizona 1989), born in Phoenix, Arizona
Sep 7 Jimmy Urine [Euringer], American electro-punk singer (Mindless Self Indulgence), born in NYC, New York
Sep 11 Gidget Gein [Bradley Stewart], American rock uitarist and bass player (Marilyn Manson band), born in Hollywood, Florida (d. 2008)
Sep 13 Tyler Perry, American filmmaker (Tyler Perry's House of Payne), author and songwriter, born in New Orleans, Louisiana
Sep 15 DJ Kay Gee [Kier Gist], American musician (Naughty by Nature), born in East Orange, New Jersey
Sep 16 Justine Frischmann, English musician (Elastica), born in Kensington, London
Sep 16 Kathi Wolfgram, American rocker (Jets - "You Got It All"), born in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Sep 17 English singer, musician and dancer (Prodigy), born in London, England

Sep 18 Johanna Doderer, Austrian contemporary classical composer, born in Bregenz, Austria
Sep 19 Alkinoos Ioannidis, Greek-Cypriot singer and composer, born in Nicosia, Cyprus
Sep 19 Candy Dulfer, Dutch saxophonist ("Lily Was Here"), born in Amsterdam, Holland
Sep 19 Jóhann Jóhannsson, Icelandic theatre, dance, and film score composer (The Theory of Everything), born in Reykjavík, Iceland (d. 2018)
Sep 19 Tapio Wilska, Finnish singer (Sethian), born in Savonlinna, Finland
Sep 21 Billy Porter, American actor and singer (Kinky Boots), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Sep 21 Mic Christopher, Irish rock singer and songwriter (The Mary Janes; solo - "Heyday";"Skylarkin'"), born in The Bronx, New York City (d. 2001)
Sep 22 Matt Sharp, American musician (Weezer, The Rentals), born in Bangkok, Thailand
Sep 23 Patrick Fiori [Patrick Jean-François Chouchayan] French pop-rock singer-songwriter of Armenian descent, born in Marseille
Sep 24 Donald DeGrate, Jr. [DeVante Swing], American music producer, born in Hampton, Virginia
Sep 24 Gene Hunt, American R&B musician ("Acid Man"), born in Chicago, Illinois
Sep 24 Shawn "Clown" Crahan, American musician (Slipknot), born in Des Moines, Iowa
Sep 26 Anthony Kavanagh, French Canadian comedian, actor and singer, born in Longueuil, Canada
Sep 29 Aleks Syntek, Mexican singer-songwriter, born in Merida, Mexico

Sep 1 William Flanagan, American composer, and music critic, takes his own life at 46
Sep 5 Henk Bijvanck, Dutch composer, dies at 59
Sep 5 Josh White, American blues, folk and gospel musician, dies at 55
Sep 5 Mitchell Ayres, American orchestra leader (Hollywood Palace), dies at 58
Sep 18 Rudolph Wagner-Regeny, Hungarian German composer, dies at 66