JANUARY 11, 2008

2008 - REST IN PEACE - Pete Candoli, trumpet player, arranger of sessions for Capitol Records artists Judy Garland, , member of the Capitol Records bands of Stan Kenton and Woody Herman as well as the bands of Tommy Dorsey, Tex Beneke and Les Brown, and one-time husband of Capitol Records artist Betty Hutton and actress and singer Edie Adams, has died of prostate cancer at his home in Studio City at age 84. His funeral will be held on Tuesday, January 15 at 3pm at Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills, 6300 Forest Lawn Drive, Los Angeles, California. There is a wonderful website that stands as a tribute to Pete and his brother, trumpet player Conte Candoli.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
1911 - Tommy Duncan, singer, front man for Bob Wills' Texas Playboys, and Capitol Records solo artist (signed by Lee Gillette in 1948), is born Thomas Elmer Duncan in Hillsboro, Texas

ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1952 - Les Paul and Mary Ford's Capitol Records single "Tiger Rag", with "It's A Lonesome Old Town" on the flip side, enters the top 40 of the U.S. Pop singles charts
1952 - Nat "King" Cole (on piano and vocals), with John Collins on guitar, Charlie Harris on bass, and Jack Costanzo on bongo, records the tracks "You Stepped Out Of A Dream" and "It's Crazy" with arranger Pete Rugolo conducting his orchestra for Capitol Records at the label's Melrose Avenue Studios in Hollywood, California
1955 - Skeets MacDonald records the track "Number One In Your Heart" for Capitol Records with producer Ken Nelson at the label's Melrose Avenue studios in Hollywood, California
1957 - Jack Teagarden records the tracks "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child" and "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" for his Capitol Records album "Swing Low Sweet Spiritual" at The Capitol Tower Studios in Hollywood, California
1965 - The Beach Boys record the track "Do You Wanna Dance" for Capitol Records
1971 - Capitol Records releases Buck Owens' single "Bridge Over Troubled Waters"
1974 - The Steve Miller Band's Capitol Records single "The Joker", with "Something To Believe In" on the flip side is still #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart
1974 - Paul McCartney & Wing's Apple Records single (distributed in the United States by Capitol Records) "Junior's Farm", with "Sally G." on the flip side, peak at #3 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart
1975 - John Lennon's Apple Records single "#9 Dream", with "What You Got" on the flip side and distributed by Capitol Records in the United States, enters the top 40 of Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart
1991 - Garth Brooks' Capitol Records Nashville single "Unanswered Prayers", with "Alabama Clay" on the flip side, becomes his fourth #1 on Billboard's Country singles chart
1992 - Hammer's Capitol Record single "2 Legit 2 Quit", with a long version on one side and a short version on the flip side, peak at #5 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart
2005 - Capitol Records releases the original motion picture soundtrack to the film "Coach Carter"

ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1972 - Capitol Records artists Merle Haggard and Buck Owens, along with Johnny Cash, are the featured guests on tonight's episode of Capitol Records artist Glen Campbell's CBS-TVs variety show "The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour"

ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1963 - The Whisky-A-Go-Go night club on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, California opens. Liberty Records artist Johnny Rivers would lead the house band and one of the clubs early features was Go-Go dancers in cages. I saw Virgin Records America artists Keith Richards and His Expensive Winos play their first West Coast concert at a remodeled version of the club (no cages) in September 1988.
1964 - Billboard magazine publishes its first country and western album chart. Johnny Cash's album "King of Fire - The Best of John Cash" is its first #1
1972 - The ABC-TV movie "Kolchak, The Night Stalker", starring Darren McGavin and produced by Dan Curtis, airs for the first time and will become the highest rated "Made For TV" movie of the time. A sequal, "The Night Strangler", will be created and then a television series based on the original movie, with McGavin returning as Kolchak will air in 1973 for one season. In 2005, a new version of the series, without Darren McGavin as Kolchak, will air on ABC-TV for eight episodes.