MAY 18

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
1953 - Feliciano "Butch" Tavares, who with his brothers made up the Capitol Records group Tavares, is born in Massachusetts

ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL HISTORY
1968 - Glen Campbell's Capitol single "I Wanna Live", with "That's All That Matters" on the flip side, becomes his first #1 on the country charts
1970 - The U.S. version of The Beatles' soundtrack album "Let It Be" is released
1988 - Capitol Records artist and voice for many Warner Brothesr and Hanna-Barbera cartoon characters, Charles Dawson "Daws" Butler, dies of a heart attack at age 71 in Los Angeles, California

ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL HISTORY
1912 - Perry Como, singer and star on radio and television, is born Pierino Ronald Como in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania
1975 - Leroy Anderson, conductor and composer of light instrumental music ("Sleigh Ride", "The Typewriter", "The Penny Whistle Song", etc.) dies in Woodbury, Connecticut
1981 - President Ronald Reagan announces his intention to nominate former VP of Capitol Records (1942-1951) and former president of Columbia Records (1951-1956), James B. Conkling, to be Associate Director of the International Communication Agency (Broadcasting).