MARCH 6, 2009

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
1916 - "Red" Callendar, band leader (trio and sextette), string bass and tuba player, motion picture actor (1958's "St. Louis Blues" which starred Capitol Records artist Nat "King" Cole) and Capitol Records session musician who worked with Judy Garland, Nat "King" Cole and Art Tatum, is born George Sylvester Callender in Haynesville, Virginia
1946 - Dave Gilmour, CBE, guitarist with the groups Joker's Wild, Flowers, Bullitt, and lead guitarist and vocalist with the Harvest, Columbia, and Capitol Records group Pink Floyd, is born David Jon Gilmour in Cambridge, England

ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
60 Years Ago Today In 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, returns to the #1 spot on the U.S. Country singles charts
1961 - Buck Owens records "I Don't Believe I'll Fall In Love Today" which will be released by Capitol Records
1962 - Frank Sinatra, with arranger Skip Martin conducting his Orchestra, records his last track for Capitol Records, "I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues", at the Capitol Tower Studios in Hollywood, California. The track will later be included as a bonus track on the CD version of Sinatra's 1961 album "Come Swing With Me".
1971 - George Harrison's Apple Records single, distributed in the U.S. by Capitol Records, "What Is Life", with "Apple Scruffs" on the flip side, enters the top 40 of Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart
2007 - Capitol Records releases Reliant K's album "Five Score and Seven Years Ago"

ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1982 - The J. Geils Band's EMI America Records single "Freeze-Frame", with "Flamethrower" on the flip side, enters the top 40 of Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart. EMI America's catalog is currently owned by Capitol Music Group's parent company EMI Music Group