NOVEMBER 29

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
1917 - Merle Travis, singer, songwriter, 1977 Country Music Hall Of Fame Inductee, and Capitol Records artist, is born Merle Robert Travis in Rosewood, Kentucky.
1941 - Jody Miller, singer and Capitol Records artist is born Myrna Joy Brooks in Phoenix, Arizona

ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1944 - The Pied Pipers' Capitol Records single "The Trolley Song", with "Cuddle Up A Little Closer" on the flip side, is #1 on the Pop singles charts
1945 - Stan Kenton and His Orchestra records the track "On The Sunny Side Of The Street", with June Christy on vocals, for Capitol Records
1946 - Paul Weston and His Orchestra's single Capitol Records single "Ol' Buttermilk Sky" with "Just Squeeze Me" on the flip side, enters the Pop singles charts
1947 - Capitol Records releases Hank Thompson single "Shot Gun Boogie" with "Humpty Dumpty Heart" on the flip side
1959 - At the second annual Grammy Awards, held at the Beverly Hills Hotel, 9641 Sunset Blvd., Beverly Hills, California and is nationally televised for the first time, Frank Sinatra's Capitol Records album "Come Dance With Me" wins the Album Of The Year Grammy, The Kingston Trio's Capitol Records album "...at Large" wins the Best Folk Performance Of The Year Grammy, and the Best Performance By A Top 40 Artist Grammy is awarded to Nat King Cole’s Capitol Records single "Midnight Flyer" which has "The Sweet Bird Of Youth" on the flip side. Future Capitol Records artist Bobby Darin receives both the Best New Artist and Record Of The Year (for "Mack The Knife") Grammys.
1960 - Ferlin Husky's Capitol Records single "Wings Of A Dove", with "Next To Jimmy" on the flip side, is #4 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart
1968 - The Beatles' Apple Records single "Hey Jude", with "Revolution" on the flip side and distributed by Capitol Records in the United States, is still #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart
1971 - Capitol Records releases Pink Floyd's single "One Of These Days" with "Fearless" on the flip side
2001 - George Harrison, songwriter, musician, motion picture actor, score composer, and producer, lead guitarist of the Parlophone, Apple and Capitol Records band The Beatles, solo artist on all three labels, and founder of Dark Horse Records, dies of cancer at age 58

ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1895 - Busby Berkeley, Broadway and motion picture choreographer and director, is born William Berkeley Enos in Los Angeles, California
1932 - Cole Porter's musical "The Gay Divorcee", which contains the hit song "Night And Day" and stars Fred Astaire, opens at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, 243 W. 47th Street (between 8th Avenue and Broadway), in New York City
1939 - Joel Whitburn, author and leading authority on the history of Billboard magazine's charts is born in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin
1969 - Billboard Magazine stops giving separate chart listings for each side of a single