SEPTEMBER 8

ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1953 - Vocalist and rhythm guitarist Tommy Collins (with Buck Owens and Ferlin Husky on lead guitar, Lewis Tally on rhythm guitar, Fuzzy Owen on bass, and Bill Woods on fiddle), at his second Capitol Records recording session, waxes his self-penned tracks "Boob-I-Lak", "You Better Not Do That", "I Always Get A Souvenir" and "High On a Hill Top" with producer Ken Nelson at The Capitol Recording Studios on Melrose Avenue in Hollywood, California
1958 - Capitol Records, after many requests by disc jockeys, releases The Kingston Trio's single "Tom Dooley" with "Ruby Red" on the flip side
1967 - The Beatles record the track "Flying" (under the working title "Aerial Tour Instrumental")in Studio Three, at EMI Studios, in London, England for their television musical "Magical Mystery Tour". This is The Beatles' first instrumental track since "Cry For A Shadow", which they'd recorded in Hamburg for Polydor in 1961. It was also the first song credited to all four Beatles: Harrison-Lennon-McCartney-Starkey.
1970 - Capitol Records releases Buck Owens and Susan Raye's album "The Great White Horse"
1992 - Capitol Records releases the compilation album "The Best Of James Bond 30th Anniversary Limited Edition" on CD and cassette
1998 - Paul Westerburg's album "Self Defense" was scheduled to be released but was delayed until January 1999, possibly due to Gary Gersh's exit as president of Capitol Records
1998 - Capitol Records releases a remastered CD containing both of Frank Sinatra's first 10" Capitol albums, "Songs for Young Lovers" and "Swing Easy", both of which featured the arrangements of Nelson Riddle

ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1925 - Peter Sellers, comedian, radio and motion picture actor, and EMI recording artist, is born Richard Henry Sellers in Southsea, Hampshire, England
1967 - Alto saxophonist Jackie McLean, with Woody Shaw on trumpet, Grachan Moncur III on trombone, Lamont Johnson on piano Scotty Holt on bass, and Rashied Ali on drums, records the tracks "Conversion Point", "Erdu", and "Soul" for his Blue Note Records album "'Bout Soul" with producer Franciss Wolff and recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder at the Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. Capitol Records currently owns the Blue Note catalog
1987 - Columbia Records releases Pink Floyd's album "A Momentary Lapse of Reason" in the United States. Capitol Records currently re-issues the album along with the rest of Pink Floyd's Columbia releases which in the UK are released by EMI.
1988 - The Hard Rock Cafe purchases the original bus used in The Beatles television musical "Magical Mystery Tour", which they'll refurbish and tour around the United States at various Hard Rock Cafes and eventually give away for the restaurant's 30th anniversary in 2001

ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1932 - Patsy Cline, singer, is born Virginia Patterson Hensley in the Shenandoah Valley in Winchester, Virginia
1966 - The television series "Star Trek" premieres on NBC-TV with the episode "Man Trap" (aka "The Salt Vampire")