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September, 20

  • 2000 Traditional country music singer and yodeler Don Walser receives the National Endowment for the Arts’ National Heritage Award during ceremonies at the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C.
  • 1997 Music Festival of India, a touring gala celebrating the 50th anniversary of India’s independence gets under way at Cleveland’s Masonic Temple.
  • 1995 Ex-10,000 Maniacs frontwoman Natalie Merchant kicks off her first solo tour in New Orleans with her first solo album “Tigerlily” at No. 15 on The Billboard 200.
  • 1991 Nirvana kicks off a six-week U.S. tour.
  • 1976 The Captain & Tennille’s primetime music variety show premieres on ABC-TV.
  • 1975 The Bay City Rollers give their U.S. debut performance on Howard Cosell’s “Saturday Night Variety Show” on ABC-TV.
  • 1973 Jim Croce dies in a plane crash in Natchitoches, La. He’d just completed recording his third album, “I Got a Name,” a week before.
  • 1970 Jim Morrison is found guilty in Miami of indecent exposure and profanity stemming from a local performance by the Doors.
  • 1968 Ben Shepherd, bassist for Seattle grunge outfit Soundgarden is born in Okinawa, Japan.
  • 1967 Matthew and Gunnar Nelson, the identical twin sons of singer Ricky Nelson, are born. They form the rock group Nelson and hit No. 1 in 1990 with “(Can’t Live Without Your) Love and Affection.”
  • 1947 Styx drummer John Panozzo is born.