JUNE 24

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
1944 - Bruce Johnston, keyboardist, drummer, bass player, singer, and member of The Beach Boys, is born in Chicago, Illinois

ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1958 - Frank Sinatra records the tracks "Blues In The Night", "Gone With The Wind", "One For My Baby", "What's New" with producer Voyle Gilmore and arrangements and orchestra conducted by Nelson Riddle for the album "Only The Lonely"
1963 - Capitol Records releases Buck Owens and Rose Maddox's single "We're The Talk Of The Town" with "Sweethearts in Heaven" on the flip side
1964 - Instrumental tracks using a 41 piece orchestra conducted by orchestra master Benjamin Barrett and arranged by Dick Reynolds, are recorded in The Capitol Tower Studios for The Beach Boys' songs "Frosty The Snowman" and "I'll Be Home For Christmas" with vocal tracks recorded on June 30 at Western Studios in Hollywood, California
1968 - Capitol Records releases The Beach Boys' album "Friends"
1972 - Capitol Records releases Helen Reddy's single "I Am Woman" with "More Than You Could Take" on the flip side. The track would go hit #1 on Billboard's singles chart on December 9, 1972 (Capitol's first non-Beatles #1 since "Bobbie Gentry's "Ode To Billie Joe" peaked on August 29, 1967) and would win Reddy a Grammy for Female Pop Vocal Performance for which, at the televised ceremony, she would thank God because "...She makes everything possible".
1974 - Capitol Records releases The Beach Boys' album "Endless Summer" that contains the band's early hits
1974 - Capitol Records releases Tennessee Ernie Ford's single "Come On Down" with "Bits And Pieces Of Life" on the flip side
1978 - A Taste of Honey's debut Capitol Records single, "Boogie Oogie Oogie" with "World Spin" on the flip side, enters Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart at #82 and will hit #1 in 11 weeks and stay #1 for 3 weeks. The track got it's initial release as the a side of a promotional 12" single for clubs that had Gloria Jones' "Bring on The Love (Why Can't We Be Friends Again)" on the flip side.
1987 - Composer, conductor, comedian, actor, and Capitol Records recording artist Jackie Gleason dies of colon and liver cancer at Inverrary, Florida home at age 71 and is interred in the Our Lady Of Mercy Cemetery, Miami Beach, Florida
2003 - Capitol Records releases the album "Songs For Life", whose proceeds will go to a U.S. non-profit group, The Royal Initiative to Combat AIDS, which is helping fight the epidemic in Southern Africa. The album, supervised by producer Phil Ramone, features tracks from John Lennon, Paul Simon, Aretha Franklin, Pattie LaBelle, Carole King, Judy Collins and Lennon with Yoko Ono.
2003 - Liz Phair's self-titled album is released by Capitol Records
2004 - Stanley M. Gortikov, former president of Capitol Records (1968-1969), president and CEO of Capitol Industries (1969-1971), and president of the Recording Industry Association of America (1972-1987) dies of natural causes at his home in Los Angeles at age 85.
2005 - Capitol Records releases OK Go's 3 song EP "Do What You Want"

ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1904 - Phil Harris, bandleader, singer, radio, television and motion picture actor, husband of actress Alice Faye, with whom he had a popular sitcom radio show, and voice actor (Baloo in Walt Disney's "The Jungle Book") is born Wonga Philip Harris in Linton, Indiana