MAY 24

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
1955 - Capitol Records recording artist Roseanne Cash is born in Memphis, Tennessee

ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL HISTORY
1969 - The Beatles' single "Get Back", with "Don't Let Me Down" on the flip side, hits #1 on Billboard's singles chart where it will stay for 5 weeks
1974 - Capitol Records artist (1953-1955), composer, pianist and orchestra leader Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington dies of cancer at age 75 in New York City and is interred in Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York
1991 - Howard Eugene "Gene" Clark, songwriter, guitarist and vocalist as as solo artist and with the bands McGuinn, Clark & Hillman, Dillard and Clark, The Byrds, and The New Christy Minstrals, dies at age 46 from complications of a bleeding ulcer in Sherman Oaks, California and is buried in his home town of Tipton, Missouri
2005 - Swedish band Shout Out Louds' debut full length album "Howl Howl Gaff Gaff" is released
2005 - Mike Krinik joins Capitol Records Nashville as regional director promotion, West Coast. Based in San Diego, Krinik works as a liaison between the label and country radio stations.

ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL HISTORY
1941 - Bob Dylan is born Robert Allen Zimmerman in Duluth, Minnesota
1946 - Priscilla Beaulieu Presley, actress, mother of Capitol Records artist Lisa Marie Presley, grandmother of Danielle Riley Keough and Benjamin Storm Keough, and first wife of Elvis Presley, is born Priscilla Ann Wagner in Brooklyn, New York
1968 - The Rolling Stones' single "Jumping Jack Flash", with "Child Of The Moon" on the flip side, is released on London Records
2005 - Vivian Dorraine Libreto Cash Distin, mother of Roseanne, Kathleen, Cindy and Tara Cash, and first wife of Johnny Cash, dies in Ventura, California of complications after lung cancer surgery at age 71.
2005 - "Brian Wilson Presents Smile" is released as a 2 disc DVD