NOVEMBER 7, 2007

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
1906 - Red Ingle, saxophonist, comedian, bandleader, and Capitol Records artist (1946-1952) with his band Red Ingle and His Natural Seven (whose biggest hit, "Tim-Tay-Shun", a parody of the hit song "Temptation", featured vocals by Jo Stafford using the name Cinderella G Stump) , is born Ernest Jansen Ingle in Toldeo, Ohio. Bear Family Records in Germany released Ingle's complete Capitol recordings on a complilation CD with excellent liner notes

ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1947 - The Benny Goodman Trio (Goodman on clarinet, Teddy Wilson on piano, and Jimmy Crawford on drums) begin recording sessions for Capitol Records which will be released when Capitol Jazz issues "Benny Goodman The Complete Trios" in 1999
1949 - Woody Herman and The King Cole Trio, along with Irving Ashby, Joe Comfort and Gene Orloff, record the tracks "Mule Train" and "My Baby Just Cares For Me" in New York City for Capitol Records. The tracks will be released by Capitol on single # 787 with Herman getting label credit for "Mule Train" and The King Cole Trio getting credit for "My Baby Just Cares For Me".
1953 - Les Paul and Mary Ford's Capitol Records single "Vaya Con Dios", with "Johnny" on the flip side, returns to the #1 spot on Billboard's singles chart, where it will stay for two weeks after being knocked out by Stan Freberg's Capitol Records single "St. George And The Dragonet" for four weeks after their single had been #1 for the nine previous weeks. Both singles kept Dean Martin's Capitol Records single "That's Amore", with "You're The Right One" on the flip side, stuck in the #2 position, where it also peaked, on this date.
1954 - Cornetist Bobby Hackett, with arranger and conductor Glenn Osser, records the tracks "Deep Night", "Mood Indigo", "All Through The Night", and "Flamingo" in New York City for Hackett's Capitol Records album "In A Mellow Mood"
1956 - Ferlin Husky records the track "Gone", the first "Nashville Sound" hit, with producer Ken Nelson at Bradley Studios in Nashville, Tennessee. Capitol Records will release the song as a single, with "Missing Persons" on the flip side, on February 2, 1957 and go on to hit #1 on Billboard's Country Singles chart and #5 on Billboard's Pop Singles chart
1957 - Dave Bartholomew records "Hard Times (The Slop)" and Faye Adams records "Everything" for Imperial Records. Imperial's catalog is currently owned by EMI Music, Capitol Record's parent company.
1960 - Capitol Records releases Wanda Jackson's single "Mean, Mean Man" with "Happy, Happy Birthday" on the flip side
1981 - Juice Newton's Capitol Records single "The Sweetest Thing (I've Ever Known)", with "Ride 'Em Cowboy" on the flip side, debuts on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart at #36
1994 - Shorty Rogers (born Milton M. Rajonsky), trumpet player, film score composer, and arranger for Capitol Records artists Stan Kenton and His Orchestra, Woody Herman, Maynard Ferguson, and many others, dies during radio station KLON's West Coast Jazz Festival in Van Nuys, California at age 70
1995 - Capitol Jazz, a division of Blue Note Records, reissues the soundtrack to motion picture "The Benny Goodman Story" on CD. Capitol Records released the album originally in 1956.
2000 - Capitol Records releases Pru's debut self-titled album "Pru"
2000 - Nettwerk Records, with Capitol Records handling the distribution, release Coldplay's debut album "Parachutes" in the United States after Parlophone Records had released the album in the UK on July 10, 2000.
2005 - EMI Music's Parlophone and Capitol Records release John Lennon's greatest hits double album 'Working Class Hero' online for the first time to all via legitimate digital music download sites except ITunes, which is being sued by Apple Records
2006 - Capitol Records releases OK Go's first-ever DVD in a special package with a CD of the band's 2005 album "Oh No"
2006 - Capitol Records Nashville releases Keith Urban's album "Love, Pain & the whole crazy thing"
2006 - Mike Dugan, President of Capitol Records Nashville, is now also Chairman of the Board of the Country Music Association

ON THIS DAY NOT IN QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1941 - Johnny Rivers, singer, record producer, and Imperial Records artist, is born John Ramistella in New York City, New York. Imperial Records catalog is currently owned by EMI Music, Capitol Record's parent company.
1951 - Future Capitol Records artist Frank Sinatra marries his second wife, actress Ava Gardner
1964 - The Zombie's first single "She's Not There", with "You Make Me Feel So Good" on the flip side (released by Parrot Records, a subsidiary of Decca Records in the United States), enters Billboard's Top 100 Singles chart for a two week stay. Paul Atkinson, the group's guitarist, would later become VP of A&R for Capitol Records' catalog until being let go in a mass firing of Capitol Records employees by EMI in mid-October 2001 while he was out on sick leave.
1969 - Pianist Andrew Hill (with Joe Farrell on soprano & tenor saxophone, alto flute, bass clarinet, and english horn; Woody Shaw and Dizzy Reece on trumpet; Bob Northern on french horn; Julian Priester on ttrombone; Howard Johnson on tuba and bass clarinet; Ron Carter on bass; and Lenny White on drums) records the tracks "Sideways", "Passing Ships", "Plantation Bag", "Noon Tide", "The Brown Queen", "Cascade", and "Yesterday's Tomorrow" for his Blue Note Records album "Passing Ships" with producer Franciss Wolff and recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder at the Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
1981 - The original Kingston Trio (Dave Guard, Nick Reynolds and Bob Shane) perform "Hard, Ain't It Hard," Tom Dooley," and "Zombie Jamboree" for a PBS TV Special which would turn out to be their only reunion performance after Dave left the group in 1961 before his death from cancer in March 1991.
2000 - Warner Books releases "Angel On My Shoulder", the autobiography of Natalie Cole, former Capitol Records artist and daughter of Capitol Records artist Nat "King" Cole, which she co-wrote with Digby Diehl

ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1943 - Joni Mitchell, artist, singer, guitarist, pianist, and songwriter, is born Roberta Joan Anderson in Fort Macleod, Alberta, Canada
1963 - The motion picture "It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" premieres at the opening of the Cinerama Dome on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, California
2004 - Howard Keel, singer, Broadway and motion picture actor, dies of colon cancer at his home in Palm Desert, California at age 85
2006 - Rhino Records releases "Sinatra Vegas", a 4 CD/1 DVD box set that features all previously unreleased live performances from 1961 to 1087 including, on the DVD, a complete concert held May 5, 1978 at Caesar's Palace filmed for CBS-TV's program "Cinderella At The Palace" that includes backstage footage shot before and after the performance. The release is dedicated by the Sinatra family to Sinatra's accompanist, Bill Miller, who died earlier this year.