OCTOBER 12

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
1955 - Pat DiNizio, guitarist and vocalist with the Capitol Records group The Smithereens, is born Patrick Michael DiNizio in Plainfield, New Jersey

ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1953 - Ray Anthony and His Orchestra record the track "Chattanooga Choo Choo" for Anthony's Capitol Records album "I Remember Glenn Miller" which will be released in 1954
1955- Capitol Records releases Stan Freberg's version of "(I'm Gettin') Nuttin' For Christmas" (there are at least 4 other covers of this song by other artists) as a single, with "The Night Before Christmas" on the flip side
1965 - The Beatles start recording tracks for their next album "Rubber Soul" whic is due for release in December(!), beginning with the track "Run For Your Life" in five takes, and begin work on the track "This Bird Has Flown", later retitled "Norwegian Wood", in Studio Two at EMI's Abbey Road Studios in London, England
1969 - Merle Haggard's Capitol Records single "Okie From Muskogee" enters Billboard's Country Singles chart
1971 - Gene Vincent, songwriter, guitarist, singer, and Capitol Records artist, dies at age 36 at Inter-Valley Hospital in New Hall, California where he had been admitted with a bleeding stomach ulcer
1988 - Enigma Records releases Poison's single "Every Rose Has Its Thorn", with "Livin' For The Minute" on the flip side, which is manufactured and distributed by Capitol Records.
1995 - Capitol Records releases Charlie Daniels' album "Same Ol' Me" twenty four years after releasing his first album, "Charlie Daniels", in 1971. In between, Daniels had recorded for Kamasutra, Capricorn, Epic and Liberty Records.
1998 - Capitol Records distributes a seven-cut sampler of tracks featured on both the 4 CD box set "The John Lennon Anthology" and "Wonsaponatime", the single disc digest culled from the 4 CD set, to triple-A and AC radio

ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1964 - Vee-Jay Records releases the album "Songs, Pictures And Stories Of The Fabulous Beatles"
1969 - The "Paul Is Dead" theory gets its first wide radio exposure when Eastern Michigan University Student Tom Zarski calls during WKNR-FM's Russ Gibb's usual Sunday afternoon "rap" with listeners in Detroit, Michigan with questions about the supposed death of Paul McCartney. The rumor had been getting some air play starting on October 9 on Ann Arbor, Michigan's WOIA midnight show hosted by Larry Monroe, who held a panel discussion on the next night's show to discuss it.
2001 - Natalie Cole, singer and daughter of Capitol Records artist Nat "King" Cole, marries Bishop Kenneth Dupree. Bishop Dupree is the Senior Pastor of the Victory Baptist Church in Tennessee.