NOVEMBER 2, 2007

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
1958 or 1961 or 1963 - Bobby Dall, bass player for the Capitol Records band Poison, is born Robert Harry Kuykendall in Miami, Florida. If anyone knows for sure which year he was born in, please leave a comment.

ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1963 - Peggy Lee records the tracks "(I'm) In Love Again", "Since You Have Gone", "How Insensitive" and "Once (Ils S'Aimaient)" for her Capitol Records album "In Love Again!" although "Since You Have Gone" was later not included on the album and remains unreleased. Max Bennett conducts the orchestra and Dave Cavanaugh produces the session which is held in Studio A at The Capitol Tower Studios in Hollywood, California
1967 - Tower Records, a subsidiary of Capitol Records, releases Pink Floyd's single "Flaming" with "The Gnome" on the flip side
1968 - Glen Campbell's Capitol Records single "Gentle On My Mind", with "Just Another Man" on the flip side, enters Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart
1970 - Capitol Records releases Buck Owens' album "I Wouldn't Live In New York City"
1973 - Apple Records releases John Lennon's album "Mind Games" which Capitol Records distributes in the United States
1993 - Capitol Records releases Frank Sinatra's album "Duets"

ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1966 - According to the conspiracy theory, Paul McCartney is killed when his car catches fire after he crashes it. He is supposedly quickly replaced by look-a-like contest winner William Campbell. The recmusicbeatles.com website has a great article about this subject and the clues the "remaining" Beatles left in their music and album cover art to let their fans know about Paul's "death" and its "cover-up".