JANUARY 2, 2008

ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS
1947 - Stan Kenton and His Orchestra (Buddy Childers, Ray Wetzel, Chico Alvarez, John Anderson, and Ken Hanna on trumpet; Kai Winding, Skip Layton, Milt Bernhart, and Harry Forbes on trombone; Bart Varsalona on bass trombone; Eddie Meyers and Boots Mussulli on alto saxophone; Red Dorris and Bob Cooper on tenor saxophone; Bob Gioga on baritone saxophone; Kenton on piano; Bob Ahern on guitar; Eddie Safranski on bass; Shelly Manne on drums; June Christy on vocals and The Pastels [Margaret Dale, Dave Lambert, Wayne Howard, Jerry Packer, and Jerry Duane] on group vocals) record the tracks "His Feet Too Big For De Bed" (with the addition of José Mangual on bongos and Pedro Allendo on maracas, with vocals by Christy and The Pastels and solos by Childers and Winding) and "After You" (with vocals by The Pastels and solos by Kenton and Safranski) at RKO/Pathe Studios in New York City, New York. Both tracks will be released on the same single (361) by Capitol Records.
1954 - Andy Griffith's Capitol Records single "What It Was, Was Football" enters the top 40 of Billboards Pop singles chart
1957 - Capitol Records, at the request of its new parent company EMI Music, takes over control of Angel Records, which has over 500 classical releases
1961 - Capitol Records releases Buck Owens' single "Foolin' Around", with "High As The Mountains" on the flip side, which would become Owens' first # 1 record on Cashbox's Country chart
1962 - Capitol Records releases Buck Owens' single "Nobody's Fool But Yours" with
Mirror Mirror On The Wall" on the flip side
1963 - Peggy Lee (with Justin Gordon on flute, Manny Klein on trumpet, Al Hendrickson and John Pisano on guitar, Max Bennett on bass, Mike Melvoin piano, and Stan Levey on drums) records the tracks "Mama's Gone, Goodbye", "You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You", and "One Note Somba" with conductor Dick Hazzard and producer Dave Cavanaugh at The Capitol Tower Studios in Hollywood, California for her Capitol Records album "I'm A Woman"
1965 - Capitol Records' double album "The Beatles' Story" peaks at #7 on Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart where it will stay for 4 weeks
1966 - The Beatles' Capitol Records single "We Can Work It Out", with "Day Tripper" on the flip side, is #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart
1968 - Capitol Records released Buck Owens' album "It Takes People Like You To Make People Like Me" and Merle Haggard's album "Sing me Back Home"
1969 - The Beatles begin filming and recording "Let It Be" at Twickenham Film Studios and will end on January 31, 1969, the day after their rooftop concert was given
1971 - George Harrison's Apple Records album "All Things Must Pass", distributed in the United States by Capitol Records, hits #1 on Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart, the first album by one one of the former members of The Beatles to do so.
1974 - Tex Ritter (born Woodward Maurice Ritter), singer, motion picture actor, television variety show host, Member of the Grand Ole Opry and The Cowboy Hall of Fame, 1964 inductee into the Country Music Hall Of Fame, 1971 inductee into the Nashville Songwriters Hall Of Fame, 1998 inductee into the Texas Country Music Hall Of Fame, and Capitol Records artist, dies of a heart attack at age 68 while visiting a jail in Nashville, Tennessee where he was arranging bail for one of his band members
1995 - Writing begins for tracks for I Mother Earth's Capitol Records album "Scenery And Fish" which will start being recorded in July 1995
1998 - Nik Venet (born Nikolas Kostantinos Venetoulis), songwriter; worked with Lord Buckley at World Pacific Records; talent scout, VP of A&R and record producer at Capitol Records (for The Beach Boys, Glen Campbell, Bobby Darin, Lou Rawls, and others) and United Artists Records (for Don McLean, Frank Zappa, and others); and founder of Evening Star Records, dies of complications from the treatment for Burkitt's lymphoma in Los Angeles, California at age 61 and had been in the hospital since since September 9, 1997
2000 - Nat Adderley, trumpet player, bandleader, younger brother of saxophonist and Capitol Records artist Julian Adderley and gave him the nickname "Cannonball" and played in his brother's Blue Note and Capitol Records bands, and solo artist with Blue Note Records, dies at age 68

ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1971 - The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's Liberty Records single "Mr. Bojangles" (which is on both sides of the single) enters the top 40 of Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart. Liberty's catalog is currently owned by Capitol Records parent company EMI Music.
1983 - Dick Emery, British comedian, actor, and the voice of the Lord Mayor and Nowhere Man (Jeremy Hillary Boob Phd) in United Artists animated motion picture "The Yellow Submarine", dies at age 63

ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1963 - Dick Powell, singer; dancer; motion picture, radio, and television actor; and husband of actress June Allison, dies of cancer at age 58
1990 - Alan Hale, Jr. (born Alan Hale Mackahan), son of actor Alan Hale, motion picture and television actor (best known for the role of Jonas Grumby (aka "Skipper") on "Gilligan's Island"), and owner of Skipper's restaurant on La Cienega Boulevard in Los Angeles, California, dies at age 69 at St. Vincent's Medical Center in Los Angeles from respiratory failure due to cancer of the thymus