OCTOBER 9, 2007

HAPPY BIRTHDAYS!
1940 - John Lennon, singer, songwriter, poet, musician, and Capitol Records artist with the group The Beatles and as a solo artist, is born John Winston Lennon during a Nazi air raid in Oxford Street Maternity Hospital, Liverpool, England. Fans usually gather every year in front of The Capitol Tower by Lennon's star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame to celebrate.
1944 - Peter Tosh, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and Capitol Records artist, is born Hubert Winston McIntosh in Grange Hill (Church Lincoln District), Jamaica
1975 - Sean Lennon, singer, songwriter, and Capitol Records artist, is born by c-section, weighing 8 pounds and ten ounces, in New York City on his father's 35th birthday.

ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1943 - Capitol Records agrees to pay royalties into an American Federation Of Musicians fund for all records released, thus ending the union-led ban on instrumental recordings for the label. Decca Records had settled with the union on September 18, 1943, but the other two major labels, Columbia and RCA/Victor will hold out for more than a year until November 1944, giving Capitol an exclusive on many new recordings that will help make it into one of the top four labels in the United States.
1946 - Margaret Whiting records the track "Guilty" which was written by her father, Richard A. Whiting and Harry Akst. The track will be released as a single by Capitol Records with "Oh! But I Do" on the flip side. The single will peak at #4 on Billboard's Pop singles charts.
1956 - Speedy West and Jimmy Bryant record, as a team, for Capitol Records for the last time at The Capitol Tower Studios in Hollywood, California
1958 - Buck Owens on guitar and vocals (with Rollie Weber on guitar and background vocals, Ralph Mooney on pedal steel guitar, Jelly Sanders and Don Rich on fiddle, George French, Jr. on piano, Allen Williams on bass, and Pee Wee Adams on drums) records 4 songs, including the track "Second Fiddle" which peaked at #24 on the charts, in a session for Capitol held at The Capitol Tower Studios in Hollywood, California with producer Ken Nelson. Some of the tracks would appear on Owens' self-titled first Capitol Records album in 1961.
1989 - Capitol Records artists Hank Thompson and Cliffie Stone (also a Capitol Records A&R executive and producer) are inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame
2001 - Capitol Records Nashville releases Garth Brooks' single "Wrapped Up In You" delivered digitally to country radio stations at 8:30 AM. Originally set to be released on September 17, but postponed due to the events of September 11, 2001. Brooks also gives a press conference and Q&A session at 8:30 AM at the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville, Tennessee
2001 - Capitol Records Nashville releases Trace Adkin's album "Chrome"
2004 - Keith Urban's Capitol Records Nashville single "Days Go By", with "These Are The Days" on the flip side, tops Billboard's Country Singles chart where it will stay for four weeks

ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1973 - Elvis Presley, father of Capitol Records artist Lisa Marie Presley, divorces her mother, Priscilla Beaulieu Presley
2001 - BGO (Beat Goes On) Records releases a remastered version of The Tubes' last Capitol Records album "Love Bomb" on CD.