Born On This Day In Music, September 1st

1997
Jungkook (Jeon Jung-kook), South Korean singer, songwriter, with the boy band BTS. They became the first Korean act to top the US Billboard chart with their studio album Love Yourself: Tear (2018). BTS also became the fastest group since The Beatles to earn four US No.1 albums, doing so in less than two years. They became the first Asian act to chart a No.1 song in the US since Kyu Sakamoto with ‘Sukiyaki’ (1963).

1993
British rapper and DJ Dennis Junior Odunwo known as Tion Wayne. He appeared on three top-10 singles on UK Singles Chart as a guest and had his his first UK No.1 in 2021 with ‘Body’ alongside Russ Millions.

1984
Joseph Mark Trohman, guitarist, with American rock band Fall Out Boy, who had the 2007 US No.1 album Infinity on High. The group’s sixth studio album, American Beauty/American Psycho (2015) peaked at No.1, making it the band’s third No.1 album and the group’s fifth consecutive top 10 album.

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1976
Peter Brown, drummer, from American rock band Wheatus who had the 2001 UK No 2 single ‘Teenage Dirtbag’ which appeared in the movie Loser.

1976
Babydaddy, (Scot Hofman), bass, Scissor Sisters, (2004 UK No.1 self-titled album, 2004 UK No. 12 single ‘Laura’).

1975
Natalie Bassingthwaighte, Australian singer, actress, and television personality with Rogue Traders. Their most successful single, ‘Voodoo Child’, peaked at No.3 on the UK Singles Chart.

1973
J.D. Fortune, (Jason Bennison) Canadian singer, INXS, winner of the 2005 CBS reality television series Rock Star: INXS.

1965
Craig McLachlan, singer, actor, (1990 UK No.2 single ‘Mona’).

1960
Cass Lewis, bassist with British rock band Skunk Anansie who had the 1996 UK No.20 single ‘Weak’. The band have spent a total of 141 weeks on both the singles and album charts.

1957
Gloria Estefan, singer, (1984 UK No.6 single ‘Dr Beat’, plus over 20 other UK top 40 hits, 1988 US No.1 single ‘Anything For You’).

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1955
Bruce Foxton, bass, vocals, The Jam (1980 UK No.1 single ‘Going Underground’ plus 14 other UK Top 40 singles).

1950
Peter Hewson, Chicory Tip, 1972 UK No.1 single ‘Son Of My Father’. Claimed to be the first UK No.1 single to feature a synthesiser.

1949
Russ Field, from English revival group Showaddywaddy who had the 1976 UK No.1 single with their version of ‘Under The Moon Of Love’. Showaddywaddy spent 209 weeks on the UK Singles Chart, and had 10 Top Ten singles.

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1946
Barry Gibb, singer, songwriter, producer, The Bee Gees, (1967 UK No.1 single ‘Massachusetts’, 1978 UK & US No.1 single ‘Night Fever’, plus over 30 other UK Top 40 singles & 9 US No.1’s over 4 decades). In 1994, he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame with his brothers. In 1997, as a member of the Bee Gees, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and received the Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music.

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1946
American musician and record producer Greg Errico. He was the drummer in Sly and The Family Stone who had the 1971 US No.1 & 1972 UK No.15 single ‘Family Affair’. He has also worked with the Jerry Garcia Band, Bill Wyman, David Soul and others.

1944
Archie Bell, The Drells, (1968 US No.1 single with the Drells, ‘Tighten Up’, 1972 UK No.11 single, ‘Here I Go Again’).

1941
Diane Ray, known for her 1963 hit “Please Don’t Talk to the Lifeguard,” is born in Gastonia, North Carolina.

1933
American rock and roll bassist Marshall Lytle, best known for his work with the groups Bill Haley & His Comets and The Jodimars in the 1950s. He played upright slap bass on the iconic 1950s rock and roll records ‘Crazy Man, Crazy’, ‘Shake, Rattle and Roll’, and ‘Rock Around the Clock’. Lytle died on 25th May 2013.

1933
Conway Twitty (born Harold Lloyd Jenkins). Twitty held the record for the most No.1 singles of any act with 55 No.1 Billboard country hits until George Strait broke the record in 2006. Twitty who scored his first No.1 in 1958 with ‘It’s Only Make Believe’ died on June 5, 1993.

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1931
Country singer Boxcar Willie is born Lecil Travis Martin in Sterrett, Texas. Died: April 12, 1999.

1927
Tommy Evans from American doo-wop and R&B vocal group The Drifters who had the 1960 US No.1 & UK No.2 single ‘Save The Last Dance For Me’ and over 12 other chart hits.

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