OCTOBER 6, 2007

ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1964 - The Beatles begin recording the track "Eight Days A Week" at EMI Studios, Abbey Road, London, England for their "Beatles For Sale" album. The same day, John Lennon writes the song "I Feel Fine". Sessions for both songs will be finished on October 18, 1964.
1964 - Tommy Collins, at his final recording session for Capitol Records, records the track "All The Monkeys Ain't In The Zoo" with help from Joe Maphis (rhythm guitar) Glen Campbell (lead guitar), Wynn Stewart (guitar), Buck Owens (lead guitar), Merrill Moore (piano), Billy Strange (lead guitar), Jelly Sanders (fiddle), Pee Wee Adams (drums), Roy Nichols (lead guitar), Wanda Collins (duet vocals and backing vocals), and his best friend Merle Haggard (rhythm guitar and harmony vocals)
1967 - Singer, songwriter and guitaritst Fred Neil begins four days of sessions (October 6, 10, 11 and 15) with producer Nik Venet and James E. Bond, Jr. on stand-up bass and Cyrus Faryar, Peter O. Childs and Eric Glen Hord on acoustic guitars in Studio B at The Capitol Tower Studios in Hollywood, California for his album Capitol Records album "Sessions"
1969 - Apple Records releases The Beatles' single "Something" with "Come Together" on the flip side. Capitol Records handles the single's distribution in the United States.
1969 - Capitol Records Canada, as part of its 6000 series, releases Pink Floyd's soundtrack album to the movie "More". Tower Records, a division of Capitol Records, released the album in August 1969.
1985 - Nelson Riddle, composer, arranger, conductor and Capitol Records artist, dies of of liver ailments at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California at age 64. By his side were his children Nelson Riddle III, Rosemary Riddle Acerra, Christopher Riddle, Bettina Bellini, Cecily Finnegan, and Maureen Riddle. He is interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Hollywood, California.
1990 - Garth Brooks is inducted as the 65th member of The Grand Ole Opry
1998 - Capitol Records releases Less Than Jake's second album, "Hello Rockview"
2005 - Capitol Records Nashville artist Trace Adkins video "Honky Tonk Badonkadonk" premieres on CMT

ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1963 - Capitol Records artist Judy Garland sings the medley "Get Happy/Happy Days Are Here Again" as a duet with Columbia Records artist Barbara Streisand on Garland's CBS-TV show. A recording of the live performance will be released on Streisand's 1991 Columbia album "Just For The Record...".
2002 - The 5th Annual Carl Wilson Walk Against Cancer is held along with an historic bus tour that included a tour of The Capitol Tower and Studios and other locations of interest and ended at Brian Wilson's house where he was selling lemonade. Actually the lemonade was free, but the signed paper cups were a $50 donation to The Carl Wilson Foundation.