JANUARY 13, 2008

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
1962 - Trace Adkins, singer, songwriter, and Capitol Records Nashville artist, is born Tracy Darrell Adkins in Sarepta, near Springhill, Louisiana

ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1949 - Jimmy Wakely's Capitol Records single "I Love You So Much It Hurts", with "I Don't Want Your Sympathy" on the flip side, is #1 on the U.S. Country singles charts
1964 - Capitol Records releases The Beatles' single "I Want To Hold Your Hand" with "I Saw Her Standing There" on the flip side
1965 - The Gerald Wilson Orchestra records their album "On Stage" at The Capitol Tower Studios in Hollywood, California
1969 - Capitol Records releases the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to United Artists' animated feature film "The Yellow Submarine"
1975 - Helen Reddy's Capitol Records single "Angie Baby", with "I Think I'll Write A Song" on the flip side, is certified Gold by the R.I.A.A.
1988 - Capitol Records releases Megadeth's third album for the label, "So Far, So Good… So What?" which features new member Jeff Young on guitar and Chris Behler on drums
1993 - Clark Yocum (born Clark Albert Yocum), singer, brother of music copyist Verne Yokum, member of the local and national boards of directors of AFTRA, AFofM contract and recording session supervisior, and member of the Capitol Records group "The Pied Pipers", dies of compications of diabetes at age 80 in Las Vegas, Nevada. His daughter, Judy Yocum Check, helped write an online biography page for her dad.

ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1948 - Future Capitol Records artist Buck Owens marries fifteen-year-old Bonnie Campbell, who will later divorce Owens and marry Capitol Records artist Merle Haggard
1957 - Hank Mobley And His All-Stars (Mobley on tenor saxophone, Milt Jackson on vibraphones, Horace Silver on piano, Doug Watkins on bass, and Art Blakey on drums) record the tracks "Reunion", "Lower Stratosphere", "Don't Walk", "Ultramarine", and "Mobley's Musings" with producer Alfred Lion and recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder at the Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey for Blue Note Records. Blue Note's catalog is currently owned by Capitol Records parent company, EMI Music and Blue Note Records is currently a division of Capitol Records, Incorporated.
1958 - The Horace Silver Quintet (Horace Silver, piano and composer; Art Farmer, trumpet; Clifford Jordan; tenor saxophone; Teddy Kotick, bass; Louis Hayes, drums) records the track "Moon Rays" for Blue Note Records at the Van Gelder Studio in Hackensack, New Jersey
1981 - Past and future Capitol Records artist Merle Haggard's MCA Records single "I Think I’ll Just Stay Here and Drink", with "Back To The Barrooms Again" on the flip side, is #1 on Billboard's Country Singles chart