Legend:  BTD – Born Today     OTD – On This Day

DateArtist/GroupDescriptionImage
BTD Sep29,1907 Gene Autry#BTD Sep29,1907 #GeneAutry (Orvon Grover) RIP singer, radio, movies, TV. Only one with 5 stars on Hollywood Walk of Fame; film-TV-music-radio-live performance. 1945 US Country #1 At Mail Call Today, 1949 US & Country #1 Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, +7 US & 23 US Country Top40s
BTD Sep29,1920 Lou Dinning#BTD Sep29,1920 #LouDinning (Ella Lucille "Lou" Dinning) RIP singer, songwriter The #DinningSisters 1947 US #9 "My Adobe Hacienda", 1948 US #5 "Buttons and Bows", +2 Top40 singles. her brother #MarkDinning sung the song "Teen Angel" a US #1 for 2wks on Feb14,1960
BTD Sep29,1921 Franny Beecher#BTD Sep29,1921 #FrannyBeecher (Francis Beecher) RIP lead guitarist in the #BennyGoodman Orchestra 1948-49 on 2 LPs and with #BillHaley & His #Comets 1954 to 1962; 1955 UK & US #1 with "(We're Gonna) Rock Around the Clock", 1955 US #7 & UK #4 "Shake, Rattle and Roll", +15 Top40s
BTD Sep29,1931 Anita Ekberg#BTD Sep29,1931 #AnitaEkberg actress RIP primarily in Italy; in over 50 films, best known as Sylvia in the 1960 film "La Dolce Vita"
BTD Sep29,1935 Jerry Lee Lewis#BTD Sep29,1935 #JerryLeeLewis "The Killer" singer, songwriter, keyboards 1957 US #3, R&B #1 & UK #8 "Whole Lot of Shakin' Going On", 1957 US #2, R&B & UK #1 "Great Balls of Fire", +10 US Top40 and 49 US Country Top40s with 7 #1s. Rocks 1st great wild man #HBday @jerryleelewis
BTD Sep29,1936 James Frawley#BTD Sep29,1936 #JamesFrawley RIP director, actor; 1979 directed The Muppet Movie, plus many TV series such as The #Monkees, Cagney & Lacey, Smallville; 1967 won an #Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series for the episode "Royal Flush" of The Monkees TV series
BTD Sep29,1937 Joe Hughes#BTD Sep29,1937 #JoeHughes (Maurice Hughes) know as "Guitar" RIP blues guitarist. Worked with T-Bone Walker, B.B. King, Big Joe Turner
BTD Sep29,1939 Tommy Boyce#BTD Sep29,1939 #TommyBoyce RIP singer, songwriter, part of the songwriting team of Boyce and Hart wrote hits such as Last Train To Clarksville, I'm Not Your Stepping Stone & Scooby-Doo Where Are You and solo artist 1967 US #8 "I Wonder What She's Doing Tonight", +2 Top40s
BTD Sep29,1943 Manuel Fernandez#BTD Sep29,1943 #ManuelFernandez (Manuel Fernández Aparicio) RIP organ, founder #LosBravos 1966 UK #2 & US #4 single "Black Is Black" The 1st Spanish rock band with a UK & US hit single
BTD Sep29,1948 Mark Farner#BTD Sep29,1948 #MarkFarner songwriter, lead singer, lead guitarist #GrandFunkRailroad 1974 US #1 "The Locomotion", +7 US Top40 singles. Most successful US Heavy Metal band in the 1970s selling over 20M albums
BTD Sep29,1954 Mari Wilson#BTD Sep29,1954 #MariWilson singer 1982 UK #8 "Just What I Always Wanted" and 1982 UK #27 "Cry Me a River" She is well known for her 1960s image complete with beehive hairstyle. #HBday @MissBeehive
OTD Sep29,1960 My Three Sons#OTD Sep29,1960 #MyThreeSons debuts; series ran from 1960 to 1965 on #ABC & then moved to #CBS Apr13,1972. Starring #FredMacMurray Steve Douglas; #WilliamFrawley Bud O'Casey; #TimConsidine Mike; #DonGrady Robbie; #StanleyLivingston Chip; later #BarryLivingston enters as Ernie
OTD Sep29,1960 Ricky Valance#OTD Sep29,1960 #RickyValance starts a 3wk run at #1 on the UK singles charts with "Tell Laura I Love Her" 1st Welsh singer to top the chart. The song is written by #JeffBarry and #BenRaleigh; also recorded by #RayPeterson in 1960 peaking at #7 on Aug7
OTD Sep29,1961 Robert Shelton#OTD Sep29,1961 #RobertShelton of @nytimes writes a review of #BobDylan at Gerde's Folk City, One of the most distinctive stylists
OTD Sep29,1962 Four Seasons#OTD Sep29,1962 #FourSeasons are still at #1 on the @billboard Hot100 Singles Chart with "Sherry" for the 3rd week of a 5wk run at #1
OTD Sep29,1962Beatles#OTD Sep29,1962 The #Beatles play at the Oasis Club plus The Pete Bocking Six (earlier The #Fourtones) and DJ Mac Magonnegall Lacey
OTD Sep29,1966Who#OTD Sep29,1966 The #Who peaks at #2 on the UK single chart with "I’m A Boy" written by #PeteTownshend originally intended to be a part of a rock opera called "Quads" where future parents can choose the sex of their children. The idea was scrapped, but this song survived @TheWho
OTD Sep29,1967 Abbey Road#OTD Sep29,1967 Working at #AbbeyRoad in London the #Beatles mixing the new #JohnLennon song "I Am the Walrus"
OTD Sep29,1969Doors#OTD Sep29,1969 The #Doors appears at Lincoln Center's 7th New York Film Festival, New York City.
OTD Sep29,1971 Led Zeppelin#OTD Sep29,1971 On the last night of their first Japanese tour #LedZeppelin appears at Osaka Festival Hall
OTD Sep29,1973 Grand Funk Railroad#OTD Sep29,1973 #GrandFunkRailroad went to #1 on the @billboard Hot100 Singles Chart with "We're An American Band" Written by #DonBrewer and produced by #ToddRundgren. Grand Funk's 1st of 2 US chart #1 singles
OTD Sep29,1974 Mike Oldfield#OTD Sep29,1974 #MikeOldfield's LP "Tubular Bells" went to #1 on UK album chart 15 months after being released.
OTD Sep29,1975 Casey Stengel#OTD Sep29,1975 #CaseyStengel (Charles Dillon Stengel) @MLB player, manager dies at the age of 85. 1950s manager of the championship New York @Yankees & later of the hapless expansion New York @Mets
OTD Sep29,1975 Jackie Wilson#OTD Sep29,1975 #JackieWilson one of the featured acts in #DickClark's Good Ol' Rock and Roll Revue, at the Latin Casino in Cherry Hill, NJ. In the middle of singing "Lonely Teardrops" he suffers a massive heart attack. He collapses into a coma & suffers brain damage
OTD Sep29,1979 Robert Palmer#OTD Sep29,1979 #RobertPalmer peaks at #14 for 2wks with "Bad Case Of Loving You (Doctor, Doctor)" written and originally recorded by #MoonMartin in 1978
OTD Sep29,1979Knack#OTD Sep29,1979 The #Knack are still at #1 on the @billboard Hot100 Singles Chart with "My Sharona" the group's only US #1 @Knackrophilia for the last week of a 6wk run at #1
OTD Sep29,1979Police#OTD Sep29,1979 The #Police start a 3wk run at #1 on the UK singles chart with "Message In A Bottle" the group's third Top20 hit and 1st UK #1 single
OTD Sep29,1984 Prince#OTD Sep29,1984 #Prince & the Revolution starts a 2wk run at #1 on the @billboard Hot100 Singles Chart with "Let's Go Crazy" his 2nd US #1
OTD Sep29,1990 Nelson#OTD Sep29,1990 #Nelson is at #1 on the @billboard Hot100 singles chart with "(Can’t Live Without Your) Love and Affection" written by #MatthewNelson, #GunnarNelson and #MarcTanner. The song is on #Geffen Records and backed by the song "Will You Love Me"
OTD Sep29,2020Helen Reddy#OTD Sep29,2020 #HelenReddy #Australian singer, songwriter dies at the age of 78 RIP. Reddy had the 1972 US #1 "I Am Woman", 1973 US #1 "Delta Dawn", 1974 US #1 "Angie Baby", +11 US Top40 singles
OTD Sep29,2020Mac Davis#OTD Sep29,2020 MacDavis (Morris Mac Davis) dies at the age of 78. RIP singer, songwriter in 1972 US #1 "Baby Don't Get Hooked On Me", +16 US Country Top40 singles. Wrote songs for #ElvisPresley such as In The Ghetto & Don't Cry Daddy and A Little Less Conversation