JUNE 14

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
1963 - Chris DeGarmo, songwriter, lead and rhythm guitarist with the Capitol Records band Queensryche (1982-1997, 2003), is born Christopher Lee DeGarmo in Wenatchee, Washington
1969 - MC Ren, Capitol Records Rap artist and vocalist with NWA, is born Lorenzo Patterson in Compton, California

ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1941 - Future Capitol Records artist Tex Ritter marries actress Dorothy Fay in marriage that will last until his death on January 2, 1974
1946 - The King Cole Trio records the track "The Christmas Song", which Mel Torme and Robert Wells wrote specifically for Nat, at WMCA Studios in New York City. Cole was not happy with this version and persuades Capitol to let him re-record the track with a string section arranged by Charlie Grean with producers Carl Kress and Walter Rivers on August 19, 1946
1949 - Freddie Slack's Quartet (Neal Hefti on trumpet, John Haliburton on trombone, Hank Horn on baritone saxophone, Freddie Slack on piano, Bob Bain on guitar, Paul Moresy on bass, and Maynard Sloate on drums) record the tracks, "Whatever Happened To Ol' Jack?", with Phil Gordon and Bobby Troup on vocals, and an untitled Phil Moore instrumental that went unissued until Mosaic Records released it on their 3 CD set "Mosaic Select: Freddie Slack" in 2005
1957 - Sessions begin for Martin Denny's Liberty Records album "Exotica Volume II" in The Capitol Records Studio
1965 - The Beatles' "Beatles VI" is released
1965 - Capitol Records releases the Buck Owens' EP "Four By Buck Owens'
1966 - Ron Tepper, manager in Capitol Records' press and information services, sends out a letter to reviewers requesting they disregard and "if possible" send back their promotional copy of the "Butcher Cover" version of The Beatles' Yesterday and Today" album. Yeah, Right :)
1968 - Ken Errier, Capitol Records solo artist (1957), member of Capitol Records recording act The Four Freshmen (1953-1955), and second husband to actress Jane Withers, dies in a small plane crash in California
1969 - Vocalist Letta Mbulu is back in The Capitol Tower Studios with arranger and conductor H.B. Barnum, and musicians Tony Terran and Freddie Hill (trumpet and flugelhorn); Charles Loper (trombone); Dick Leith (trombone and bass trombone); Jackie Kelso (tenor saxophone and flute); Jim Horn (tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, flute, oboe, and recorder); Dick Houlgate (bass saxophone and flute); Don Randi (piano, electric piano and harpsichord); Mike Melvoin (organ); Al Casey, John Gray, and Les Buie (guitar); Bob West (bass and electric bassb); Earl Palmer (drumps, tympani and bells); Joe Clayton (congas); King Errison (bongos); Gary Coleman (boo bams and tamborine); John Guerin (bells, tympani, and mallets); Ken Watson (mallets, traps, and Latin percussion) recording the tracks "Gumba Gumba", "Kukuchi", "What More Could Be Right", and "Only When You're Mine Again" for her album "Free Soul"
1998 - Capitol Records releases The Beastie Boys album "Hello Nasty"
2000 - Merrill Moore, Capitol Records artist and contract session player (1955-1958), country swing and boogie woogie pianist, dies in San Diego, California of cancer
2003 - On the stage of the Grand Ole Opry, Capitol Records Nashville artist, Trace Adkins is invited by Little Jimmy Dickens to become a member with a formal induction held on August 23, 2003
2005 - A scheduled performance by Capitol Records recording artists Saosin is cancelled due to police reaction to a shooting that occured at the venue a few days earlier

ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1909 - Burl Ives, singer, author, actor, and voice of the second best known snowman, is born Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives in Jasper County, Illinois
1942 - Walt Disney releases the animated movie "Bambi"
1977 - Alan Reed, actor and voice of Fred Flintstone dies of a heart attack at age 69 in West Los Angeles, California
1986 - Lyricist Alan Jay Lerner dies of lung cancer in New York City at age 67
1994 - Composer and arranger Henry Mancini, borni Enric Nicoloa Mancini in Cleveland, Ohio, dies at age 70 of cancer of the liver in Beverly Hills, California