JUNE 5

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
1895 - William Boyd, (aka Hopalong Cassidy) Capitol Childrens Records artist, television and movie actor, is born William Lawrence Boyd in Hendrysburg, Ohio. Dinobil has created a great fan site with images and letters sent him by Boyd and his fans as well as links to many other Hopalong Cassidy fan sites.
1953 - Iron Maiden drummer Nico McBrain is born Michael Henry McBain in Hackeny, London, England. McBrain keeps a tour diary on Iron Maiden's Official Website.

ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1942 - With Johnny Mercer producing, Paul Whitman and His Orchestra (Monty Kelly, Larry Neil, Billy Butterfield, and Don Waddilove on trumpet; Skip Layton and Murray McEachern on trombone; Alvy West, Danny d'Andrea, Lenny Hartman, King Guion, and Tommy Mace on saxophone;, Buddy Weed on piano; Mike Pingitore on guitar; Art Shapiro on bass; Lou Paino on drums) back Martha Tilton on the track "Serenade in Blue" at Radio Recorders' studios in Los Angeles. Then, using arrangements by Jimmy Mundy, the band record the tracks "I Found A New Baby", "The General Jumped At Dawn" (the A and B sides respectively of Capitol 101 - the label's first single release) and, with vocals by The Mellowaires, "I've Got A Gal In Kalamazoo". The Red Hot Jazz site has an informative page on Whiteman as well as links to audio files of the Whiteman tracks recorded this day.
1963 - With producer Ken Nelson Wanda Jackson records the tracks "Slippin'" and "Violet And A Rose" at Columbia Studios in Nashville, Tennessee, for her upcoming Capitol Records album "Wanda Jackson Sings Country Songs"
1964 - A limited pressing to promote the Beatles for Hollywood radio station KFWB and Wallichs' Music City is released. It has an interview on side 1 and "You Can't Do That" on the flip side. Copies of this disc have been valued for as much as $2250 with the original mailer.
1964 - The Applejacks single "Like Dreamers Do" (written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney) with "Everybody Fall Down" on the flip side, is released
1968 - The Beatles record the track "Don't Pass Me By" for their album "The Beatles"
1971 - John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and Frank Zappa and the Mothers Of Invention are recorded live at a performance at the Fillmore East tonight and the next night, some of which will appear on the Plastic Ono Band's album "Sometime In New York City" and on Zappa's "Fillmore East, June 1971"
1976 - Capitol Records releases "Have A Dream On Me", with "Gotta Lotta Love" on the flip side, as the first single by Mel McDaniel
1983 - Duran Duran's album "Rio" peaks at #5 on Billboard's album charts
1989 - Paul McCartney's album "Flowers In The Dirt" is released
1999 - Capitol Records artist, singer, drummer and actor Mel Tormé is pronounced dead at 1:45AM at UCLA Medical Center, Westwood, California where he had been rushed after having breathing problems at his home in Beverly Hills, California
2001 - Capitol Records releases "Amnesiac", the fifth album by Radiohead