JUNE 25

REST IN PEACE
2006 - Arif Mardin, record producer and arranger for artists from The Young Rascals to Nora Jones, and labels from Atlantic Records to most recently Blue Note Records, has died at his home in New York City of pancreatic cancer. The Los Angeles Times ran a very good overview of Mardin's eventful life and career with comments by Bruce Lundvall, president of EMI Jazz & Classics.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
1952 - Tim Finn, Capitol Records solo artist (1989) and member the bands Split Enz (1972-1984) and Capitol Records band Crowded House (1992), is born Brian Timothy Finn in Te Awamutu, New Zealand

ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1953 - Tommy Collins, at his first Capitol Records recording session, waxes the tracks "You Gotta Have A Licence", "Let Me Love You", "There Will Be No Other", and "I Love You More And More Each Day". All songs were written by Collins.
1966 - The Beatles' single “Paperback Writer” hits #1 on Billboard's singles chart and stays for two weeks
1967 - The Beatles' "All You Need is Love" is recorded during "Our World", a two hour worldwide live television broadcast from EMI Studios, London, England.
1976 – "...and the angels sing" - John Herndon "Johnny" Mercer, lyricist, singer and co-founder of Capitol Records and The Songwriters Hall of Fame, dies in Los Angeles, California of complications after surgery for brain cancer, which had left him paralyzed and unable to speak. His body was cremated and his ashes buried in the family plot in Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah, Georgia.
1988 - Hillel Slovak, guitarist for EMI America Records band The Red Hot Chili Peppers, dies of a heroin overdose at age 26 and is interred in Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery in Hollywood Hills, California
1990 - Enigma Records releases Poison's single "Unskinny Bop" which shares the a side with "Swamp Juice (Soul-O)", with "Valley Of The Lost Souls" on the flip side, and is distributed by Capitol Records
2006 - Capitol Records Nashville artist Keith Urban marries fellow Australian and actress, Nicole Kidman, in Sydney, Australia

ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1950 - The Korean War begins
1960 - Tenor Saxophonist Tina Brooks records his only solo album, "True Blue", at the Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey for for Blue Note Records