JANUARY 8, 2008

HAPPY BIRTHDAYS!
1912 - Jose Ferrer, Broadway and Motion Picture actor, one time husband of Rosemary Clooney, and Capitol Records artist (original motion picture soundtrack for "Cyrano de Bergerac") is born
1926 - Soupy Sales, television children's show host, motion picture actor, Capitol Records artist (1966 - single 5766: "Use Your Noggin" with "The Backwards Alphabet" on the flip side, arranged by Mort Garson), and father of musicians Hunt (bass player) and Tony (drummer) Sales (best know for their work with Todd Rundgren, Iggy Pop, and as members of the bands Tony & The Tigers and Tin Machine), is born Milton Supman in Franklinton, North Carolina

ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1966 - The Beatles' Capitol Records album "Rubber Soul" hits #1 on US album chart and their Capitol Records single "We Can Work it Out", with "Day Tripper" on the flip side, hits #1 on US single chart
1968 - Capitol Records releases Buck Owens' single "How Long Will My Baby Be Gone" with "Everybody Needs Somebody" on the flip side
1969 - Buck Owens records the track "Tall Dark Stranger" for Capitol Records
1973 - Capitol Records releases Buck Owens' album "In The Palm Of Your Hand"
1977 - The Steve Miller Band's Capitol Records single "Fly Like An Eagle" enters the top 40 of Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart
1998 - Will Champion, drummer, percussionist, pianist and vocalist, joins the Parlophone (UK)/Capitol Records (US) band Coldplay
2002 - Capitol Records releases a 24-bit remastered version of Frank Sinatra's album "No One Cares" on CD
2002 - Capitol Records releases Starsailor's debut album "Love Is Here"

ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1935 - Elvis Aron Presley, truck driver, singer, guitarist, motion picture actor, and father of Capitol Records artist Lisa Marie Presley, is born in Tupelo, Mississippi. His twin brother, Jesse, was stillborn.
1937 - Dame Shirley Bassey, singer and EMI Columbia Records (UK) and United Artists Records (US) artist, is born Shirley Veronica Bassey in Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom. Capitol Records currently distributes the United Artists catalog including Bassey's recording of the title tracks for the soundtracks of the motion pictures "Goldfinger", "Diamonds Are Forever", and "Moonraker"
1938 - Bob Eubanks, radio disc jockey and television game show host, is born. Eubanks, at the time one of the top Los Angeles radio disc jockeys, put up his own money to finance The Beatles' first Hollywood Bowl concert.
1947 - David Bowie, singer, motion picture actor, and EMI America artist is born David Jones in Brixton, England
1960 - Eddie Cochran, with Sonny Curtis and Jerry Allison, records the track "Three Steps To Heaven" at Goldstar Studios (currently a parking lot of a mini mall at Sunset and LaBrea) in Los Angeles, California
1966 - The last episode of ABC-TV's variety show "Shingig", which has had Capitol Records artist Donna Loren as the featured female vocalist for the entire run of the show since it started on September 16, 1964, airs
1969 - Scaffold's single "Lily The Pink" is #1 on the U.K. Pop singles chart. Mike McCool (aka Michael McCartney, brother of Paul McCartney) is a member of Scaffold.

ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1893 - Max Freedman, songwriter (best known for "Rock Around The Clock", originally recorded by Louis Jourdan and then Bill Haley And His Comets) is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania