MAY 30

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
1908 - Mel Blanc cartoon voice artist, radio and television performer, and Capitol Records artist, is born Melvin Jerome Blank in San Francisco, California
1909 - Benny Goodman, clarinetist, singer, composer, bandleader, and Capitol Records artist from January 1947 to 1964, is born Benjamin David Goodman in the Maxwell Street ghetto of Chicago, Illinois
1969 - Dancehall DJ, and Capitol Records artist (1995), Spragga Benz is born Carlton Grant in Kingston, Jamaica

ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL HISTORY
1941 - Stan Kenton and his Orchestra make their debut at the Rendezvous Ballroom on Balboa Island, California1966 - The Beatles' single "Paperback Writer", with "Rain on the flip side, is released in the U.S.
1969 - The Beatles' single "The Ballad of John and Yoko", with "Old Brown Shoe" on the flip side, is released in the U.K.
1995 - Capitol Records, as part of its "Spotlight On Great Ladies Of Song" series releases separate compilations of greatest hit featuring Nancy Wilson and June Christy

ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL HISTORY
1954 - Bing Crosby's last original show for CBS Radio is broadcast with Bing's sons Gary and Lindsay as guests
1989 - The 33 foot high "Goddess of Democracy" statue is unveiled in Tiananmen Square, China by student demonstrators