NOVEMBER 3, 2007

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
1954 - Adam Ant, singer, actor, and Capitol Records artist (1995) is born Stuart Leslie Goddard in London, England

ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1958 - Capitol Records releases Judy Garland's album "Judy In Love"
1965 - The Beatles spend nine hours recording and completing Paul McCartney's ballad "Michelle" in Studio Two at EMI Studios on Abbey Road in London, England
1975 - Capitol Records releases Wings' single "Venus And Mars Rock Show" with "Magneto And Titanium Man" on the flip side
1998 - Capitol Records releases the four CD box set "The John Lennon Anthology"
2006 - The world premiere of Paul McCartney's "Ecce Cor Meum" is held at London's Royal Albert Hall, with the North American premiere November 14, 2006 at New York City's Carnegie Hall

ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1915 - John Maddox (aka "Cal" Maddox), vocalist, guitarist and harmonica player with the group The Maddox Brothers & Rose and brother of Capitol Records artist Rose Maddox, is born in Boaz, Alabama
1955 - Samuel Goldwyn releases the motion picture "Guys And Dolls" starring Capitol Records artist Frank Sinatra
1960 - Future Capitol Records artist Merle Haggard is paroled from San Quentin Prison, after serving two years and nine months of a five year sentence, The remaining two years and three months of the sentence are served on parole.
1967 - The Beatles complete filming for their BBC TV movie "Magical Mystery Tour" which will air December 26, 1967 and whose soundtrack will be distributed by Capitol Records in the United States.
1973 - Walt Disney Studios releases the live action/animated feature film "Pete's Dragon" starring Capitol Records artist Helen Reddy and Capitol Record will release the original soundtrack album for the film

ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1954 - Japan’s Toho Company releases the movie "Godzilla, King of the Monsters", the first in a series of at least 22 films
1954 - Henri-Émile-Benoît Matisse, French painter, sculptor, draughtsman, printmaker, and paper collagist, dies at age 84 in Cimiez, now a suburb of Nice, France on the French Riviera and is later buried in the cemetery at Cimiez
1990 - Mary Martin (born Mary Virginia Martin), Broadway musical performer, motion picture and television actress, and mother of actor Larry Hagman, dies of colon cancer at age 76 at her home in Rancho Mirage, California. Her cremated remains are later buried in Weatherford, Texas.