MAY 3

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
1994 - Garth Brooks' daughter, August Anna, is born

ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL HISTORY
1936 - Future Capitol Records artist Joe DiMaggio plays his first major league baseball game in Yankee Stadium against the St. Louis Browns
1965 - The Beatles spent the day filming for the movie "HELP!" on Salisbury Plain with the assistance of the British Army's Third Tank Division.
1969 - Margaret Young, popular comedienne and singer in the 1920s, Capitol recording artist in 1949, and aunt of Capitol artist Margaret Whiting, dies in Inglewood, California at age 69. She was born Margaret Youngblood. There's some biographical info and a link to a sound file of Ms. Young singing on Mike Scaife's UK Website "The Great Song Stylists".
1976 - Carmen McRae begins recording tracks for her United Artists' album "Can't Hide Love". The album is produced by Dale Oehler, with executive producer George Butler, and is recorded live at A&M Recording Studios, LA, CA. Recording and mixing engineer was Hank Cicalo, assisted by Milt Calice. Carmen McRae suppled the vocals and the concertmasters were Gerry Vinci and David Frisina. Musicians included Buddy Childers, Bobby Shew, Al Aarons, Snooky Young, Oscar Brashear, Blue Mitchell (trumpets), Lew McCreary, George Bohannon, Kenny Shroyer, Maurice Spears, Grover Mitchell, Ernie Tack (trombones), Bill Perkins, Lanny Morgan, Harry Klee, Abe Most, Bill Green, Jerome Richardson, Ernie Watts, Don Menza, Pete Christlieb, Jack Nimitz (reeds), Artie Kane, Marshall Otwell (pianos), Joe Sample, Dave Grusin, Ian Underwood (keyboards), Larry Carlton, Dennis Budimir (guitars), Joe Mondragon, Chuck Berghofer, Wilton Felder (bass), Harvey Mason (drums), Victor Feldman, Larry Bunker (percussion).
1977 - After a long day in the studio recording, Helmut Köllen, bassist, acoustic guitarist, vocalist and writer for the Capitol band Triumvirat, is accidentally killed by carbon monoxide poising while sitting in his car listening to a cassette tape of the day's tracks in his garage. He was 27. A solo album named by his friends after one of his favorite Beatles' songs, "You Won't See Me", is released posthumously later that year by Harvest/EMI in Germany. Russ Schenewerk has written a great biographical article about Triumvirat and Köllen.
1988 - Poison's album "Open Up And Say...Ahh!" is released on Enigma Records, and distributed by Capitol Records. The album was produced by Tom Werman after Kiss' Paul Stanley had to bow out after scheduling conflicts. The album was recorded and mixed at Conway Recording Studios in Los Angeles and contains the #1 hit "Every Rose Has It's Thorn".

ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL HISTORY
1933 - James Brown, "The Godfather of Soul" is born in Barnwell, South Carolina
1960 - "The Fantasticks", by composer Harvey Schmidt and writer-lyricist Tom Jones, opened off-off-Broadway at the Sullivan Street Playhouse and would run continuously for the next 40 years, becoming the world's longest running musical. It's hit song, "Try To Remember", is introduced by Jerry Orbach, later better remembered for his stint on TV's "Law & Order" and for voice
1972- Bruce Springsteen records 12 songs at an acoustic solo demo session for CBS talent scout John Hammond in New York City which eventually led to his signing to the label
1998 - Gene Raymond, handsome blond actor and husband of Jeanette MacDonald, whose films of the '30s and '40s include "Flying Down to Rio," the first film to team Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, dies at age 89