FEBRUARY 14, 2008

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!

ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1949 - Margaret Whiting's Capitol Records single "Far Away Places" (with "My Own True Love" on the flip side) is #4 on the U.S. Pop Singles chart and 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
1957 - Sonny James' Capitol Records single "Young Love", with "You're the Reason I'm in Love" on the flip side, is #1 on the U.S. Country singles charts
1961 - Wanda Jackson records the track "I Talk A Pretty Story" for Capitol Records
1970 - Merle Haggard records the track "The Fightin' Side Of Me" for Capitol Records
1972 - Buck Owens' Capitol Records single "I've Got A Tiger By The Tail", with "Cryin' Time" on the flip side, is #1 on Billboard's Country singles chart seven years after it was released
1972 - Apple and Capitol Records artists John Lennon and Yoko Ono begin their week-long stint as guest hosts on "The Mike Douglas Show", a syndicated U.S. variety television series
1991 - Poison's Capitol Records album "Flesh & Blood" is certified Triple Platinum by the R.I.A.A.

ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1950 - Roger Fisher, founding guitarist (1976-1979) of the future Capitol Records group Heart, is born in Seattle, Washington
1965 - Gary Lewis And The Playboys' Liberty Records single "This Diamond Ring", with "Tijuana Wedding" on the flip side, is #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart

ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1894 - Jack Benny, comedian, vaudeville performer, and radio, motion picture, and television actor and host, is born Benjamin Kubelsky in Waukegan, Illinois
1945 - Bill Nowlin, one of the founders of Rounder Records, is born in Boston, Massachusettes
1999 - Doug Weston, owner of The Troubadour, Los Angeles' prime talent showcase During the '60s and '70s, dies in a local hospital after a bout of pneumonia at age 72