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09/03/2026

Music notes for Sept. 3:

Happy birthday Al Gardine of The Beach Boys. He did the lead vocal on “Help Me Rhonda”.

2017 - Walter Becker, co-founder and guitarist for Steely Dan passed away. Steely Dan released its first album Can't Buy a Thrill in 1972. All told the band had ten Top 30 hits and albums sales in the millions. Walter met fellow co-founder Donald Fagen in when both were students at Bard College north of New York City.

1970 - After a successful 10-year career, The Dave Clark 5 called it quits. Inducted into the Rock Hall of Fame 2008, the band was a major part of the 60’s British Invasion. They hit the Billboard Top 15 times .

1970 - Arthur Brown, he of the 1968 #2 “Fire”, was arrested at The Palermo Pop Festival in Italy. After he set fire to his helmet (?), he stripped naked during his performance. He spent four days in jail.

1968 - Fed up with all the bickering Ringo rejoined The Beatles after a two-week absence rejoined The Beatles. John and Paul had sent him a telegram begging him to come back. Upon his return to the studio, he found his drum kit covered with flowers to welcome him back courtesy of George.

1966 - Donovan went to No.1 on the singles chart with 'Sunshine Superman'. The track featured then Yardbird and future Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page. The song was written for Donovan's future wife Linda Lawrence.

09/02/2026

Music notes for Sept. 2:

The late Billy Preston born this date. He famously played the organ on several Beatles songs. Among his solo hits are “Nothing from Nothing”, “Will it Go Round in Circles and “Outta-Space”.
He also wrote the song “You are So Beautiful” which was a big hit for Joe Cocker.

2016 - The Eagles Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975 returned to the album chart thanks to a 99-cent sale price in the Google Play store. The album, released in 1976, was already the largest selling compilation album in history with worldwide sales of over 42 million copies.

2013 - Sir Elton John won the first ever Brits Icon award, in a gala concert which marked his stage return after surgery for appendicitis.Elton was presented with the prize by his long-time friend Rod Stewart, who jokingly described him as "the second-best rock singer ever”.

1995 - The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame opens in Cleveland, with opening ceremony performances by Bob Dylan, Chuck Berry, James Brown, Aretha Franklin, Little Richard, Al Green, The Allman Brothers Band, Booker T. & the MG's, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, The Pretenders, John Fogerty, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, George Clinton, The Kinks, John Mellencamp, Bruce Springsteen, The Animals' Eric Burdon, and Boz Scaggs.

1978 - George Harrison marries Olivia Arias. They remain together until George’s passing in 2001.

1968 - Jimi Hendrix Experience released a cover of the Bob Dylan song 'All Along the Watchtower', nine months after the original version hit the airwaves. The song became Hendrix’s biggest hit landing in the Billboard Hot 100’s Top 20. In a 1995 interview with South Florida’s Sun Sentinel, Dylan described hearing Hendrix’s version: “It overwhelmed me, really. He had such talent, he could find things inside a song and vigorously develop them. He found things that other people wouldn't think of finding in there”.

09/01/2026

WDGY’’s Doctor Don presents the Top 5 songs this week in 1988:

1MONKEY –•– George Michael
2 SWEET CHILD O’ MINE –•– Guns N’ Roses
3 SIMPLY IRRESISTIBLE –•– Robert Palmer
4 I DON’T WANNA GO ON WITH YOU LIKE THAT –•– Elton John
5 - DON’T WANNA LIVE WITHOUT YOUR LOVE –•– Chicago

HIGH DEBUT OF THE WEEK: 52 — GROOVY KIND OF LOVE –•– Phil Collins

IT WENT ALL THE WAY TO #1

09/01/2026

Music notes for Sept. 1:

Happy birthday Barry Gibb. The Bee Gees placed 30 singles on the Billboard chart plus 9 # 1’s. He and his late brothers Robin and Maurice we inducted into the Rock Hall of Fame in 1994.

Archie Bell, the man who gave is the 1968 #1 song “Tighten Up”
born this day.

2023 - Singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffet passed away. He was quite the entrapeneur and built a $1 billion fortune.

2023 - Lyricist Hal David passed away. Along his partner Burt Bacharach who the music, they wrote over 70 charting hits together on the music charts, including 52 Top 40 hits and seven number-one hits on the Billboard Hot 100.

1984 - After a 25-year career, Tina Turner had her first solo No.1 single in the with 'What's Love Got To Do With It'. This song was originally written for Cliff Richard, however the song was rejected. It was then offered to Donna Summer, who has stated she sat with it for a couple of years but never recorded it.

1971 - After their successful summer-replacement series, Sonny And Cher begin their fall TV variety series on CBS.

1966- The Byrds played the first of an 11-night run at the Whisky-a-go-go, Hollywood. The Whisky a Go-Go opened in 1964 with a live band led by Johnny Rivers and a short-skirted female DJ spinning records between sets from a suspended cage. When the girl began to dance during River's sets the audience thought it was part of the act – and the concept of Go-Go dancers in cages was born.

1965 - James Brown breaks out some sweet dance moves on the TV show Shindig!, where he performs his hit "Papa's Got A Brand New Bag."

08/31/2026

Music notes for Aug. 31:

At age 17, Debbie Gibson became the youngest female artist to write, produce, a perform a #1 single, that being “Foolish Beat:”

The late Bob Welch born this date. He was a founding member of Fleetwood Mac. As a solo artist in the late 70’s he had hits with “Sentimental Lady”, “Ebony Eyes”. and “Precious Love”.

Happy birthday Sir Van Morrison. He has received six Grammy awards and been inducted into both the Rock Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame”. So many great hits including “Here Comes the Night”, “Domino”, “Wild Night”, “Moondance” and “Crazty Love”.

1987 - The largest pre-order of albums in the history of CBS Records occurred as 2.25 million copies of Michael Jackson's ‘Bad’ album were shipped to record stores. The LP followed the Jackson album, Thriller the biggest Jackson-seller of all time (over 35 million copies sold). ‘Bad’ went on to sell over 13 million copies.

1987 - Fleetwood Mac released 'Little Lies' from their fourteenth studio album Tango in the Night. Written by band member Christine McVie and her then-husband, Eddy Quintela, the single reached No.4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, It became the band's last top-ten hit.

1974 - It was re-run of a show from March. The final episode of “The Partridge Family” was broadcast by ABC. In the epsisode David Cassidy performed the song, “My Shadow Tree”.

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