JUNE 10

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
1922 - Judy Garland is born Francis Ethel Gumm in Grand Rapids, Minnesota. Scott Brogan's website, The Judy Room, is where you need to go to find out more about the life and works of Miss Garland.
1973 - Capitol Records artist since 2003, Faith Evans is born Faith Rene Evans in Lakeland, Florida

ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL HISTORY
1946 - Transcriptions for radio of the tracks "Wherever There's Me There's You", "All The Cats Join In", "A Nightingale Can Sing The Blues" and "Come Rain Or Come Shine" are recorded with vocals by Peggy Lee with the Four Of A Kind (Dave Barbour on guitar; Buddy Cole on piano; Phil Stephens on bass; and Tom Romerosa on drums) and Frank DeVol, who's done the arrangements and conducts his Orchestra (Uan Rasey, Abe Benike, and Irv Shulkin on trumpet; Si Zentner and George Faye on trombone; Dick Perissi on french horn; Skeets Herfurt, Julius Kinsler, Ron Perry, Ted Romersa, and Jerry Kasper on reeds; Henry Sugar, Joe Livoti, Victor Arno, Joe Quadri on violin; Jacob Kaz and Paul Lowenkron on viola; Julius Tannenbaum, Joe Saxton, and Fred Goerner on cello; June Weiland on harp), at Radio Recorders in Los Angeles, California
1950 - Nat King Cole's single "Mona Lisa", initially the flip side of "The Greatest Inventor Of Them All" (which is unavailable on any current Capitol Records CD release, but can be found on the French company Classic Jazz's CD "Nat "King" Cole 1949-1950"), enters Billboard's singles chart and will peak at #1 July 8, 1950
1955 - Lee Gillette produces a session at Capitol's Melrose Studios that lays down an instrumental track of "But Not For Me" for Nat "King" Cole to use on his television show, but Cole does not record vocals for a commercial release. Nat can be seen perfoming the song on video recordings of the show.
1966 - According to Bruce Spitzer's book "The Beatles’ Story on Capitol Records, Part Two: The Albums", this is the day that the recall notice went out to Capitol's distributors for The Beatles' "Yesterday And Today" "Butcher Cover"
1968 - Capitol Records releases The Band's self-titled first album
1976 - 67,100 fans gather for an indoor concert at the Kingdome in Seattle, Washington by Paul McCartney and Wings setting a new world's record for attendance.
1977 - The Steve Miller Band's album "Book Of Dreams" is certified Platinum by the R.I.A.A.
2003 - Radiohead's album "Hail To The Thief" is released on Capitol Records
2003 - Capitol Records releases the album "Sounds of Summer: The Very Best of The Beach Boys"
2003 - EMI/Capitol Records releases albums in their "Classic Masters" series by Crowded House, J Geils Band, Gordon Lightfoot, Najee, and The O'Jays

ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL HISTORY
1952 - Saxophonist Gerry Mulligan records the tracks "Get Happy", "'S Wonderful" and "Godchild" with Red Mitchell on bass on and Chico Hamilton on drums at his first session for the Pacific Jazz label, held at Phil Turetsky's home studio, in Los Angeles, California. Jimmy Bowles was supposed to be on piano but he didn't show up for the session, so Mulligan playing the piano during the bass solos.