MAY 1

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
1929 - James Loden aka Sonny James, "The Southern Gentleman" and Capitol Recording artist, was born in Hackleburg, Alabama

ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL HISTORY
1948 - Capitol holds the #1 and #2 spots on Billboard's Singles Chart with Peggy Lee's "Mañana" at # 1 for the 9th straight week and Nat "King" Cole's first solo recording, "Nature Boy", at # 2 (it would hit #1 the following week and stay for 7 weeks)
1951 - Blue Note artist Bud Powell (piano) led a recording session joined by Curly Russell (bass) and Max Roach (drums). These sessions produced three versions of Powell's "Un Poco Loco", a pair of takes on "A Night in Tunisia", and unaccompanied piano work on "Over the Rainbow" and "It Could Happen to You"
1957 - Sinatra records the tracks "Maybe You'll Be There" and "Where Are You?"
1958 - The Kingston Trio make their TV debut on the Playhouse 90 episode "Rumors Of Evening" when they play WW2 pilots as well as sing.
1966 - The Beatles last scheduled UK concert is held at the New Musical Express Poll Winner's Show at Empire Pool, Wembley. The Beatles played a fifteen-minute set performing the songs, "I Feel Fine," "Nowhere Man," "Day Tripper," "If I Needed Someone," and "I'm Down."
1969 - Peggy Lee's "Natural Woman" album is released
1999 - Matador Records ends it distribution relationship with Capitol Records and goes independent
2001 - After a transition period, Andy Slater starts full time as president of Capitol Records

ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL HISTORY
1868 - Tom Dula, the basis for the Kingston Trio's first million selling single "Tom Dooley", is hung in Statesville, North Carolina
1963 - The Rollin' Stones sign Andrew Loog Oldham as manager
1965 - Lindley Armstrong "Spike" Jones dies at age 54
1967 - Elvis Presley marries Priscilla Beaulieu at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas by District Court Judge David Zenoff