OCTOBER 10, 2007

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
1958 - Tanya Tucker, singer, songwriter and Capitol Records Nashville artist, is born Tanya Denise Tucker in Seminole, Texas

ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1953 - Stan Freberg's Capitol Records single, “St. George and the Dragonet” with "Little Blue Riding Hood" on the flip side, knocks Les Paul and Mary Ford's Capitol Records single "Vaya Con Dios", with "Johnny" on the flip side, out of the #1 spot on Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records chart after an 11 week stay at #1. Freberg's single will stay #1 for 4 weeks, giving Capitol the #1 single in the U.S. for 15 straight weeks in a single year.
1956 - Capitol Records releases Judy Garland's album "Judy" with arrangements and orchestra conducted by Nelson Riddle
1957 - Roy Eldridge, with Russell Garcia and Strings, begin two straight days of sessions for his Verve Records album "That Warm Feeling" at The Capitol Tower Studios, in Hollywood, California. On the same day, Stan Getz and The Oscar Peterson Trio record their entire Verve records album "Stan Getz And The Oscar Peterson Trio". If anyone knows if this was a split session, of if they used separate studios, please leave a comment.
1959 - Capitol Records releases Tennessee Ernie Ford's album "Sixteen Tons" five years after the single was a hit
1959 - More than twelve thousand people brave a pouring rainstorm in Lafayette, Indiana, to hear Stan Kenton's Orchestra, June Christy, and the Four Freshmen perform two consecutive shows at the Music Hall at Purdue University which are recorded and released by Capitol Records on the album "Road Show"
1963 - Edith Piaf, singer and Capitol Records artist, dies of cancer near Cannes, France and is officially pronounced dead the next day. Her husband, actor and singer Theo Sarapo, was with her. She is later buried in Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, France.
1964 - Eddie Cantor (born Israel Iskowitz), comedian, singer, Broadway, motion picture, radio and television star, author, a founder of the March of Dimes, first president of the Screen Actors Guild, and Capitol Records artist, dies of a heart attack in Beverly Hills, California. He is later buried in Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery.
1966 - Capitol Records releases The Beach Boys' single "Good Vibrations" with the instrumental "Let's Go Away For Awhile" on the flip side. It is band's first single to feature Carl Wilson on lead vocals. The track will hit #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart on December 10, 1966.
1970 - Capitol Records releases Pink Floyd's album "Atom Heart Mother"
1988 - Roy Rodgers, singer and Capitol Records artist, is inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame
1989 - Capitol Records releases Dean Martin's compilation "Dean Martin" as part of their "Collectors Series"
1995 - Capitol Records releases Glen Campbell's compilation album "Essential, Vol. 3"

ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1939 - Eleanor Rigby dies in her sleep of unknown reasons at age 44, exactly 365 days before the birth of John Lennon (1940 was a leap year so there was an extra day). She is buried, and has a tombstone bearing her name, at St. Peter's, Woolton, Liverpool, England, the church where Paul McCartney first met John Lennon at a social event where The Quarry Men were performing.
1964 - Neheh Cherry, singer and Virgin Records America artist, is born Neneh Marianne Karlsson Cherry in Stockholm, Sweden. I adapted the UK packaging on her self-titled debut album for release in U.S. on Virgin Records America.
1966 - The Don Ellis Orchestra (Don Ellis, Glenn Stuart, Alan Weight, Ed Warren, Bob Harman on trumpet; Dave Wells and Ron Myers on trombone; Terry Woodson on bass trombone; Ruben Leon on alto and soprano saxophone and flute; Tom Scott on alto saxophone, saxello, and flute; Ira Schulman and Ron Starr on tenor saxophone, flute, and clarinet; John Magruder on baritone saxophone, flute, clarinet, and bass clarinet; Dave Mackay on piano; Ray Neapolitan, Frank De La Rosa, and Chuck Domanico on bass; Steve Bohannon on drums; Alan Estes on drums and timbales; and Chino Valdes on conga, bongos) perform live at the Pacific Jazz Festival, in Costa Mesa, CA where the tracks "Orientation", "Angel Eyes", and Freedom Jazz Dance" are recorded and will eventually be released on their Pacific Jazz album "Live in 3 2/3 / 4 Time". Capitol Records currently owns the Pacific Jazz catalog.
1995 - Blue Note Records releases the Christmas compilation "Jazz To The World" on CD

ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1939 - Judy Garland leaves her hand and foot prints in cement at a ceremony outside of Graumann's Chinese Theater in Hollywood, California
1954 - David Lee Roth, vocalist, songwriter, actor, author, and radio personality, is born in Bloomington, Indiana