OCTOBER 25

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
1927 - Barbara Cook, Broadway musical performer and cabaret singer, who made her recording debut on the Capitol Records soundtrack to the Broadway musical "Flahooley", is born Barbara Nell in Atlanta, Georgia. If anyone knows her middle name, please leave a comment.
1941 or 1942 - Helen Reddy, singer, television and motion picture actress, and Capitol Records artist (1970-1980), is born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. If anyone knows the exact year of her birth and her middle name, please leave a comment

ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1943 - Benny Carter and His Orchestra (Claude Dunson, Jake Porter, Teddy Buckner, Freddie Webster on trumpet; Shorty Haughton, J.J. Johnson, Alton Moore on trombone; Benny Carter and Porter Kilbert on alto saxophone; Gene Porter, Bumps Myers on tenor saxophone; Willard Brown on baritone and alto saxophone; Teddy Brannon on piano; Ulysses Livingston on guitar; Curley Russell on bass; and Oscar Bradley on drums) record the tracks "Poinciana", "Just A Baby's Prayer At Twilight", and two takes of "Hurry, Hurry", all with vocalist Savannah Churchill and arrangements by Frank Comstock and the instrumental track "Love For Sale" with an arrangement by Benny Carter, for Capitol Records at a session in San Francisco, California
1944 - Jack Guthrie, at his second Capitol Records session, records four more songs, including his version of Jimmie Rodgers' "When the Cactus Is in Bloom", a number that highlights Guthrie's yodeling ability
1974 - John Lennon ends sessions at the Record Plant East in New York City for tracks for his Apple Records album "Rock And Roll" that will be distributed by Capitol Records in the United States
1980 - Virgil Keel Fox, classical organist and Capitol Records artist (contracted to record six albums in 1960) dies of cancer at age 68 in Palm Beach, Florida, where there will later be a funeral at his home, Casa Lagomar. Another funeral will be held on November 9, 1980 at the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, California. Fox will be buried at Pioneer Cemetery in Dover, Bureau County, Illinois
1994 - Capitol Records releases Bob Seger's compilation album "Greatest Hits"
2000 - Garth Brooks announces that he'll retire after releasing his next album
2005 - Capitol Records Nashville releases Merle Haggard's album "Chicago Wind"