JUNE 26, 2009

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
40 Years Ago Today In 1969 - Colin Greenwood, bass player and keyboardist for the Capitol Records band Radiohead, is born Colin Charles Greenwood in Oxford, England

ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1948 - Nat "King" Cole's Capitol Records single "Nature Boy" is #3 down from #1 on Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records chart, The Pied Piper's Capitol Records single "My Happiness" is still #8, and The Sportsmen's a capella Capitol Records single "You Can't Be True, Dear" is still #11, Pee Wee Hunt and His Orchestra's Capitol Records single "Twelfth Street Rag" enters the top 20 at #14, and The Sportsmen's Capitol Records single "Toolie Oolie Doolie (The Yodel Polka)" (the flip side of "You Can't Be True, Dear") re-enters the top 20 at #20
55 Years Ago Today In 1954 - Kay Starr (with orchestra conducted by Harold Mooney)'s Capitol Records single "If You Love Me (Really Love Me)" is still at #6 on Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records chart, Frank Sinatra (with Nelson Riddle and His Orchestra)'s Capitol Records single "Three Coins In The Fontain" is still #7, Nat "King" Cole (with Nelson Riddle and His Orchestra)'s Capitol Records single "Answer Me, My Love" is still #11, Frank Sinatra (with Nelson Riddle and His Orchestra)'s Capitol Records single "Young At Heart" is #11 up from #13 down from #7, Kay Starr (with orchestra conducted by Harold Mooney)'s Capitol Records single "The Man Upstairs" is #14 down from #8, and Stan Freberg's Capitol Records single "Point Of Order" is #15 up from #20
1958 - Frank Sinatra, with arranger Nelson Riddle conducting the studio orchestra (which includes Bill Miller on piano), records the tracks "Goodbye" "It's A Lonesome Old Town", and "One For My Baby" for his Capitol Records album "Only The Lonely" at The Capitol Tower Studios in Hollywood, California
1961 - Faron Young's Capitol Records single "Hello Walls" is #21 down from #19 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart
45 Years Ago Today In 1964 - Peggy Lee records the tracks "After You've Gone", "C'est Magnifique", "My Sin', and "In The Name Of Love" at The Capitol Tower Studios in Hollywood, California for her Capitol Records album "In The Name Of Love" with producer Dave Cavanaugh and Robert Bain, John Pisano, and Howard Roberts on guitars; Chuck Berghofer on bass; Lou Levy on piano; Stan Levey on drums; and Francisco Aguabella on bongos and conga drum
1966- Buck Owens' Capitol Records single "Think Of Me", with "Heart Of Glass" on the flip side, is #1 on the U.S. Country singles charts
1968 - Ziggy Elman (born Harry Finkelman), trumpet player, bandleader, songwriter (co-wrote "And The Angels Sing" with future Capitol Records co-founder Johnny Mercer), and a Capitol Records session musician (with Paul Weston and His Orchestra, Nelson Riddle and His Orchestra and others) and solo artist, dies in Van Nuys, California at age 54
1967 - Capitol Records releases Buck Owens' single "Your Tender Loving Care" with "What A Liar I Am" on the flip side
1988 - Tanya Tucker's Capitol Records single "If It Don't Come Easy", with "I'll Tennessee You In My Dreams" on the flip side, is #1 on the U.S. Country singles charts
1996 - Capitol Records Nashville artist Garth Brooks set an all time record at Fan Fair, in Nashville, Tennessee, when he signs autographs for twenty-three consecutive hours
2000 - Edmund E. Nielsen, manager for Capitol Records and record distributor in Hawai‘i, dies in San Antonio, Texas, at age 80
2006 - Gloria Jean Bernard, (born Gloria Jean Swanson) Capitol Records employee in Los Angeles, California before moving to Deluth, Minnesota where she worked for St. Luke Hospital, University of Minnesota, and the Bureau of Mines, dies at age 72 in Edinburg, Virginia

ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1933 - The Kraft Music Hall debuts on radio with future Capitol Records artist Paul Whiteman as its first host. Whiteman's radio orchestra would give first national exposure to many future Capitol Records artists including co-founder Johnny Mercer, who replaced future Capitol Records artist Bing Crosby (who was part of The Delta Rhythm Boys), and trombonist and singer Jack Teagarden who would sing with Mercer on the show. The show would go on to have many hosts including Al Jolson and Bing Crosby, and transtition to televison in 1949 with hosts including Milton Berle, David King, and Perry Como.
1953 - Future Capitol Records artist Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe, who at one time was signed to Capitol Records but never recorded for the label, leave their footprints in cement at Graumann's Chineses Theatre in Hollywood, California at ceremony #104
1961 - Ricky Nelson's Imperial Records single "Travelin' Man" is #5 down from #2 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart and it's flip side "Hello Mary Lou" is #16 up from #17, Fats Domino's Imperial Records single "It Keeps Rainin'" is #28 up from #40, and The Fleetwood's Dolton Records single "Tragedy" is #31 down from #20
45 Years Ago Today In 1964 - The Beatles' soundtrack of "A Hard Day's Night", as well as the single "And I Love Her", with "Ringo's Theme" on the flip side, are released by United Artists Records. Capitol Records eventually buys the UA catalog and re-releases the album on Capitol.
2007 - Infinity Entertainment releases a DVD set containing 30 episodes of Larry Harmon's Bozo The Clown

ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1956 - Clifford Brown, trumpet player and Blue Note Records solo artist, dies in an auto accident at age 25. Also killed in the accident is pianist Richard Powell (brother of Bud Powell), and Richard's wife.
2003 - The R.I.A.A. starts to identify individual computer users who are, "illegally offering to 'share' substantial amounts of copyrighted music over peer-to-peer networks" to bring suit against them