SEPTEMBER 15, 1957 – 25 year-old Country music legend Patsy Cline (Virginia Patterson Hensley) married 23 year-old linotype operator Charles Dick
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SEPTEMBER 15, 1997 – Elton John’s “Candle In The Wind” (rewritten and rerecorded with new lyrics paying tribute to the
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SEPTEMBER 16, 2011 – Singer/drummer/harmonica player WILLIE “BIG EYES” SMITH (b. January 19, 1936 in Helena, Arkansas) died following a stroke at age
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SEPTEMBER 16, 2008 – Motown songwriter/lyricist/producer NORMAN WHITFIELD (b. May 12, 1940 in Harlem, New York City) died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in
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SEPTEMBER 16, 2004 – Weather Girls singer IZORA ARMSTEAD (b. July 6, 1942 in Galveston, Texas as Izora Rhodes) died at age 62
Read MoreSEPTEMBER 16, 1946 – Singer/dancer/pianist/actor MAMIE SMITH (b. May 26, 1891 in Cincinnati, Ohio as Mamie Robinson), died at 63 in New York
Read MoreSEPTEMBER 16, 2003 – Singer/songwriter/actor SHEB WOOLEY (b. April 10, 1921 in Erick, Oklahoma as Shelby Fredrick Wooley) dies of leukemia at age
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SEPTEMBER 16, 2009 – Grammy Award winning singer/songwriter MARY TRAVERS (b. November 9, 1936 in Louisville, Kentucky) from folk trio Peter, Paul &
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SEPTEMBER 16, 1965 – “The Dean Martin Show” made its debut on NBC with Martin using his hit “Everybody Loves Somebody”
Read MoreSEPTEMBER 16, 1963 – “She Loves You” by The Beatles was released by the tiny American label Swan Records in
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