Thursday, November 01, 2007

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1956 - Frank Sinatra, with accompaniment by The Hollywood String Quartet, re-records the tracks "Close To You" and "I Couldn't Sleep A Wink Last Night" (both of which he had previously recorded twice for Columbia records in 1943) as well as recording "It's Easy to Remember" in Studio A at The Capitol Tower Studios in Hollywood, California with producer Voyle Gilmore and arranger and conductor Nelson Riddle. It's the last session for Sinatra's Capitol Records album "Close To You And More".
1962 - Judy Garland records the track "Hello Bluebird" and "I Could Go On Singing" with Mort Lindsey conducting the orchestra for Garland's Capitol Records soundtrack album for her M-G-M motion picture "I Could Go On Singing"
1968 - Dennis Wilson records the track "A Time to Live in Dreams", which he co-wrote with Steve Kalinich. The track remains unreleased until 2001 when it is included on The Beach Boys' Capitol Records rarities album "Hawthorne California".
1969 - Glen Campbell's Capitol Records single "Try A Little Kindness", with "Lonely My Lonely Friend" on the flip side, enters Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart
1990 - Capitol Records releases Paul McCartney's album "Tripping The Live Fantastic"
1994 - Capitol Records releases Everclear's album "World Of Noise"

ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1940 - Future Capitol Records artist Dino Crocetti legally changes his name to Dean Martin
1968 - Apple Records releases its first album, George Harrison's soundtrack recording for the film "Wonderwall"

ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1963- Decca UK releases The Rolling Stones' single "I Wanna Be Your Man". The song was written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney. John and Paul had visited with the Rolling Stones and had offered the partially-written song to them. After the Rolling Stones expressed interest in the fragment of the song that John and Paul played for them, Lennon and McCartney went into another room for about ten minutes and completed the song. "I Wanna Be Your Man" went on to become the Rolling Stones' first Top Twenty hit. The single will be released by Decca in the United States on February 17, 1964.
1963 - Parlophone Records releases Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas' single "I'll Keep You Satisfied" in the U.K. The song, credited to Lennon-McCartney, was written by Paul McCartney. The single will be released in the US on November 11 by Liberty Records.

2 comments:

dino martin peters said...

hey pallie, thanks for sharin' this most important of important Dinodates with all his pallies...the day that our Dino changed his tag to Dean Martin..and made it official....a true milestone in Dinohistory!

Rogue Spy 007 said...

As a Dean Martin fan it's cool to see that this was the date that he changed his name to his famous moniker. What a cool and hip name it is.