MAY 15

ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY

1956 - Paul Peek and Gene Vincent "discovery", Esquerita (Eskew Reeder, Jr.), starts a two day recording session in Nashville, Tennessee, his first as a Capitol Records artist. Backing him up at the session were Tony White on bass, Vincent Mosley on guitar, Ricardo Young on drums, and a backing-vocal group from Atlanta called The Gardenias. Seven tracks, including "Oh Baby" and "Rockin' The Joint", were recorded.
1966 - Capitol Records is a sponsor for "A Tribute To Judy Holliday", a banquet to benefit The American Medical Center in Denver
1976 - The single "Boogie Fever", with "Free Style" on the flip side, makes The Sylvers the first Capitol Records R&B group to hit #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles Chart
1986 - EMI opens its first CD manufacturing plant, located in Swindon, England

ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1856 - 150 years ago today, Wizard of Oz creator L. Frank Baum, was born Lyman Frank Baum in Chittenago, New York
1963 - Astronaut Leroy Gordon Cooper orbits the Earth 22 times aboard Mercury 9 spacecraft "Faith 7"
1983 - David Bowie's EMI America Single "Let's Dance", with "Cat People (Putting Out The Fire)" on the flip side, hits #1
2003 - June Carter Cash dies from complications from heart valve surgery at Nashville Baptist Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee at age 73. She was buried in a light blue coffin at Hendersonville Memory Gardens in Hendersonville, Tennessee.