MAY 6

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
1945 - Grammy award winning, and multi-platinum selling, Capitol artist Bob Seger is born Robert Clark Seger in Ann Arbor, Michigan

ALSO ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL HISTORY
1919 - L. Frank Baum, writer of "The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz" and a series of sequel books, dies at age 63. He is buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. Capitol Records would record a 3 disc album at 78 rpm of "Dorothy And The Wizard Of Oz", featuring Rosemary Rice, in 1948.
1957 - Judy Garland's "Alone" album is released on Capitol. The sessions were produced by Voyle Gilmore with arrangements by Gordon Jenkins who also conducted the orchestra and chorus.
1958 - Bobby Hackett and his coronet, start sessions for the Capitol Records album "At The Embers" in New York City. Also featured are Pepe Moreale (piano), John Giuffrida (as John Giuff) (bass), Buzzy Drootin (drums). The tracks recorded were "C'est Magnifique", "Spring, Beautiful Spring", "All Of You", and "Rosalie".
1963 - The Beatle's single "From Me To You", backed with "Thank You Girl" on the flip side, was released on Vee-Jay Records
1964 - On Associated Rediffusion UK TV special "Around The Beatles", the band lip synched, in front of a live audience, to tracks pre-recorded on April 19, 1964. The performance included the tracks "Can't Buy Me Love"; "I Wanna Be Your Man"; "Long Tall Sally"; a medley that used "Love Me Do", "Please Please Me", "From Me To You", "She Loves You", and "I Want to Hold Your Hand"; "Roll Over Beethoven"; "Shout"; and "Twist and Shout". They also performed a comedy sketch based on "A Midsummer Night's Dream".
1988 - Pink Floyd's fans rip apart one of the band's flying pigs that descended on them at the first of two concerts at Sullivan Stadium in Foxboro, Massachusetts
1992 - Capitol artist and film legend Marlene Dietrich dies in Paris, France
1994 - Lisa Marie Presley divorces her first husband, Danny Keough

ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL HISTORY
1930 - The first "Looney Tunes" cartoon short "Sinkin' In The Bathtub", starring Bosko and his girlfriend Honey, is shown at The Warner Theatre in New York City
1937 - The Hindenburg explodes over Lakeland Naval Air Station in New Jersey and is captured on film by amateur George Willens, a Detroit printing company owner
1965 - Keith Richards, along with Mick Jagger, begin work on the track "Satisfaction" in their Clearwater, Florida hotel room after Richards, who had gotten a new Gibson fuzzbox, dreams the opening riff