NOVEMBER 15

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
1923 - Juanita Marie Corbett Peters (aka "Sister" Peters), Capitol Records employee at its lacquer disc (used to make masters for vinyl albums) manufacturing facility in Winchester, Virginia (which was in operation from 1974-1986), is born in Hancock, Maryland. She was also a mother, grandmother and a great-grandmother of sixteen before her death at age 79 in Paw Paw, West Virginia on June 11, 2003 at in Sacred Heart Hospital, Cumberland, Maryland. Her funeral will be 2 p.m. Friday, June 13, 2003 at Lighthouse Assembly of God Church, with the Rev. Earl Travis officiating, and she is later buried at Woodrow Cemetery, in Paw Paw.

ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1945 - Peggy Lee's Capitol Records single "Waitin' For The Train To Come In", with "I'm Glad I Waited For You" on the flip side (both recorded at the same session on July 3, 1945 and released on October 30, 1945), debuts on the U.S. singles charts
1946 - Merle Travis' Capitol Records single "Divorce Me C.O.D.", with "Missouri" on the flip side, hits #4 on the U.S. singles chart
1949 - Marvin Ash's Mason-Dixon Music records "Pearl House Rag" and Sweethearts On Parade", Nappy Lamare's Levee Loungers record "How Come You Do Me Like You Do?" and "Washington And Lee Swing", and Zutty Singleton And His Creole Band record "Hot Time In The Old Town Tonight", all at the same session for Capitol Records in Los Angeles, California. The players on all five tracks were Andy Secrest on trumpet, Irvin Verrett on trombone, Eddie Miller on tenor saxophone, Marvin Ash on piano, Nappy Lamare on guitar, banjo and vocals, Country Washburne on bass and tuba, and Zutty Singleton on drums. The tracks will later be released on singles by Capitol Records.
1955 - Nat "King" Cole records the track "Take Me Back To Toyland" with Nelson Riddle arranging and conducting the orchestra and chorus. The track, with "I'm Gonna Laugh You Out Of My Life" on the flip side, will be released as a single by Capitol in 1955 and as the flip side of "Mrs. Santa Claus" in 1956.
1956 - Frank Sinatra records the tracks "I Won't Dance", "I Got Plenty O' Nuttin", and "Stars Fell On Alabama" at the first session for his Capitol Records album "A Swingin' Affair!", with arranger and conductor Nelson Riddle and producer Voyle Gilmore, at The Capitol Tower Studios in Hollywood, California
1986 - Duran Duran's Capitol Records single "Notorious" debuts on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart
1988 - The Beastie Boys sign with Capitol Records
1988 - Capitol Records releases "The Beatles Box Set" on CD and vinyl, containing all the band's UK albums along with the two "Past Masters" albums containing the single releases, in a black wooden box with a rollup door
1994 - Capitol Records releases Frank Sinatra's album "Duets II"
1994 - Capitol Records Nashville releases John Berry's album "Things Are Not The Same"
1997 - Onzy D. Matthews, arranger, composer, pianist and Capitol Records artist (1964) is found dead in his East Dallas apartment of hypertensive and arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease at age 67. His funeral is held Monday, November 24 1997 at Cedar Crest Place Funeral Home in Dallas, followed by his burial at Lincoln Memorial Park.
1998 - Jim Sands (born James Robert Sands), singer, tenor soloist with Capitol Records band Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians for many years, as well as a solo artist for Allegro Records, dies in New York City at age 76.
2000 - Capitol Records announces that it has purchased The Gogerty Buiding, which is next to The Capitol Tower on the South West corner of Vine Street and Yucca. Initally, it was announced that the building would be refurbished as a museum to house memorabilia from Capitol recording artists such as the Beatles, Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole, etc. The historical facade of the building is kept mostly intact but the complete interior is demolished by KPFF, including its famous white staircase from the lobby to the second floor, and rebuilt. The building is not currently a museum, it houses more of EMI's offices and was part of the $50 million sale of The Capitol Tower by the EMI Group to New York-based commercial property firm Argent Ventures. The exterior was changed to include large windows that house everchanging photos of the artists that have current releases on Capitol Records. There is now an courtyard/amphitheatre where there was once a side parking lot that the annual employees' family Christmas party was held for years.
2003 - "Speedy" West (born Wesley Webb West), steel guitarist, session musician (for Cliffie Stone, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Jean Shepard, Ferlin Husky, Sheb Wooley, Bing Crosby, The Andrew Sisters, Ella Mae Morse, Spike Jones, and many others), inductee into the Steel Guitarist Hall Of Fame, and Capitol Records artist (both as a solo artist from 1950-1962, and as a duo from 1951-1956 with fellow Capitol Records artist and guitarist Jimmy Bryant), dies at 12:23 P.M. in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma at age 79 after a long illness which came after a stroke in 2001 left him unable to play but, with his vast memory of Country Music still intact, still able to host and speak at various music conventions and events.
2004 - Capitol Records releases The Beatles box set "The Capitol Albums, Volume 1" containing the mono and stereo versions of the first four Beatles albums that Capitol released in the U.S.
2005 - Glen Campbell, singer, guitarist, television host, and Capitol Records artist, is formerly inducted into the Country Music Association's Country Music Hall Of Fame at "The 39th Annual CMA Awards" show held at Madison Square Garden in New York City, and televised by the CBS-TV network.

ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1975 - Columbia Records releases Pink Floyd's single "Have A Cigar" with "Welcome To The Machine" on the flip side in the U.S. Pink Floyd's entire catalog is currently distributed by Capitol Records in the United States.
1980 - Blondie's Chrysalis Records single "The Tide Is High" with "Suzy & Jeffery" on the flip side, enters Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart at #81. EMI Music, Capitol Records' parent company, currently owns the Chrysalis catalog.
1980 - John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Lenono/Geffen Records album "Double Fantasy" is released. Capitol Records currently distributes the entire Lennon/Ono catalog and has reissued the album on the Capitol label.

ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1926 - The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is founded