JUNE 28

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
1923 - Pete Candoli, Capitol Records session trumpet player (with arrangers Billy May, Nelson Riddle, Don Costa, Gordon Jenkins, and Axel Stordahl on albums by Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Stan Kenton, and more) and husband of Capitol Records artist Betty Hutton (1960-1971) is born Walter Joseph Candoli in Mishawaka, Indiana. There's a great biographic article about Candoli on the Jazz Professional website.
1936 - Tom Drake, guitarist, singer, songwriter and founder of the Capitol Records group The Good Time Singers, is born Thomas Y. Drake in Vancouver, B. C. Canada

ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1950 - Jess Stacy and his Trio (Jess Stacy on piano, George Van Eps on guitar, Morty Corb on bass, and Nick Fatool on drums) record the tracks "Careless", "I'll Be Seeing You", "Can't We Be Friends", and "Imagination" for release as singles on Capitol Records
1957 - The Andrews Sisters finish recording tracks for their Capitol Records album "Fresh And Fancy Free" with arrangements and orchestra conducted by Billy May
1965 - Cornet player, band leader and Capitol Records artist (1956-1960) Red Nichols dies after a sudden heart attack in his suite at the Mint Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada where he and his band were performing. His ashes are interred in the Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills cemetery. There's a nice biographic article by "Dr. Progresso" on the Hole In The Web site.
1965 - Capitol Records releases The Beach Boys' album "Summer Days (And Summer Nights), produced by Brian Wilson
1965 - Merle Haggard records the tracks "Longer You Wait", "I Can't Stand Me", and "Bottle Let Me Down" at the Capitol Tower Studios in Hollywood, California with producers Ken Nelson and Fuzzy Owen and The Strangers (Roy Nichols, Glen Campbell, Lewis Talley, and Jack Collier on guitar, James Burton on guitar/dobro, Ralph Mooney on steel guitar, Bob Morris, Bert Dodson, Jerry Ward on bass, Helen Price and James Gordon on drums, George French, Glenn D. Hardin on piano, Bonnie Owens and Billy Mize on additional vocals) for Haggard's Capitol Records album "Swinging Doors And The Bottle Let Me Down"
1965 - After the recording session, Capitol Records recording artists Bonnie Owens and Merle Haggard marry in Tijuana, Mexico
1966 - Jackie Gleason conducts the orchestra as they record the track "A Taste Of Honey" for Gleason's Capitol Records album "A Taste Of Brass - For Lovers Only"
1967 - Wanda Jackson records the track "Girl Don't Have To Drink To Have Fun" at Columbia Studios in Nashville, Tennessee with producers Ken Nelson & Kelso Herston for Jackson's Capitol Records album "Cream Of The Crop"
1988 - Capitol Records band Poison's album "Open Up And Say Ahh!" is certified Gold and Platinum by the R.I.A.A.
1992 - Howard Roberts, guitarist and Capitol Records artist (1963-1969), dies in Seattle, Washington at age 62
1993 - The first recording session for Frank Sinatra's "Duets" album is held at The Capitol Tower Studios, but slight case of laryngitis and anxiety about being isolated in a sound booth causes Sinatra not to be able to perform. But four days later, after a special platform is built amongst the musicians and a hand mike is used for his vocals, Sinatra feels at ease and records nine tracks in five hours.
1997 - Elva Ruby Connes, aka Capitol Records artist Mrs. Miller, dies at age 89 in Vista, California
2005 - Capitol Records releases Megadeth's greatest hits album "Back To The Start"
2006 - Corinne Bailey Rae will appear on "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno."



ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS
1902 - Composer Richard Rodgers is born Richard Charles Rodgers in New York City