NOVEMBER 5, 2007

HAPPY BIRTHDAYS!
1911 - Roy Rogers, actor, singer, guitarist, and Capitol Records artist, both as a duo with his wife Dale Evans and as a solo artist, is born Leonard Franklin Slye in Cincinnati, Ohio
1959 - Joni Harms, singer and Capitol Records artist (1990-1997), is born in Canby, Oregon
1971 - Jonny Greenwood, lead guitarist, organist, synthesizer player, pianist, xylophone player, and harmonica player with the Capitol Records band Radiohead, is born Jonathan Richard Guy Greenwood in Oxford, England

ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1951 - Dean Martin records the tracks "Blue Smoke (Kohu Auwahi)" and "As You Are" which are eventually released in 2005 as bonus tracks for Collector's Choice Music CD re-release of Martin's first Capitol Records album "Dean Martin Sings"
1953 - Frank Sinatra records the tracks "Violets For Your Furs", "A Foggy Day", "They Can't Take That Away From Me", "My Funny Valentine" and "The Girl Next Door" for his Capitol Records album "Songs For Young Lovers" with arranger and conductor Nelson Riddle and producer Voyle Gilmore
1956 - Art Tatum, pianist and Capitol Records artist (1949-1952), dies of uremia at age 47 in Los Angeles, California
1957 - Nelson Riddle records the tracks "Drifting and Dreaming", "Autumn Leaves", "Polka Dots and Moonbeams", and "Dream" with a string orchestra at The Capitol Tower Studios in Hollywood, California for his Capitol Records album "Sea Of Dreams"
1973 - Capitol Records releases Buck Owens' single "Big Game Hunter" with "That Lovin' Feeling" on the flip side
1973 - Apple Records releases Wings' single "Helen Wheels" with "Country Dreamer" on the flip side. The single is distributed by Capitol Records in the United States
1977 - Guy Lombardo (born Gaetano Alberto Lombardo), bandleader, violinist, and Capitol Records artist, dies at age 75 in Houston, Texas
1997 - In the new Capitol Records building on Music Row in Nashville, Tennessee, Jim Fifield (President and CEO, EMI Music), Ken Berry (President, EMI Recorded Music), Pat Quigley (President and CEO, Capitol Nashville), and Capitol recording artist Garth Brooks jointly announced a release date for Brooks' long awaited seventh studio album "Sevens". The album, produced by Allen Reynolds and engineered by Mark Miller, will be in stores on Tuesday, November 25th, 1997.
2002 - Capitol Records reissues John Lennon's 1973 album "Mind Games", remixed, remastered and with three bonus tracks
2002 - Capitol Records releases the compilation CD "Christmas With The Rat Pack" with tracks by Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, and Sammy Davis, Jr.
2002 - Capitol Records releases Frank Sinatra's compilation CD "Classic Duets"

ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1931 - Ike Turner, pianist, guitarist, singer, first husband of Capitol Records artist Tina Turner (though the marriage was later found to be invalid as Ike hadn't officially divorced his first wife), and Sue Records artist as part of the Ike and Tina Turner Review, is born in Clarksdale, Mississippi. The Sue Records masters were sold to United Artists and are currently owned by EMI Music.
1956 - "The Nat 'King' Cole Show" debuts on NBC-TV as the first network variety show hosted by an African-American star of Cole's magnitude (Hazel Scott has the honor of being the first African-American to host a television show in 1950). Initally Cole's is a 15 minute show on Monday nights, but it is expanded to 30 minutes in July 1957. It's final episode airs December 17, 1957 due to lack of a national sponsor to cover its costs.
1964 - Buddy Cole (born Edwin LeMar Cole), husband of Capitol Records artist Yvonne King (The King Sisters), pianist, organist, and orchestra leader, session pianist for Nat "King" Cole, Tex Ritter, Louis Armstrong, Rosemary Clooney, Bing Crosby, and Judy Garland (in the film "A Song Is Born"), dies of a heart attack at age 47 in Hollywood, California
2003 - Dorothy Southworth Ritter (aka Dorothy Fay), actress, mother of actor John Ritter, and widow of Capitol Records artist Tex Ritter, dies at age 88 in the Motion Picture and Television Home in Woodland Hills, CA

ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1942 - George M. Cohan (born George Michael Cohan), composer, Vaudeville and Broadway musical dancer, actor, and director, Broadway producer with partner Sam Harris, and motion picture actor, dies at age 64 in New York City, New York
1960 - Mack Sennett (born Michael Sinnott), pioneer film comedy director, who introduced the world to The Keystone Kops, Charlie Chaplin and later, in sound shorts, Bing Crosby, dies in Woodland Hills, California at the age of 80 and is later interred in the Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California