SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
65 Years Ago Today In 1946 - At a split session held in New York City, New York first Andy Russell (on vocals), with Paul Weston and his Orchestra, records the tracks "You're Everything To Me" and "The More I Go Out With Somebody Else" then Jo Stafford, again with Paul Weston and His Orchestra, records the track "Promise". Capitol Records will release both of Russell's tracks together as a single (Capitol 310) and Stafford's track as a single (Capitol 317) with "This Time" on the flipside.
1963 - Capitol Records releases The Beach Boys' album "Surfer Girl"
1963 - Capitol Records Canada releases The Beatles' single "She Loves You", with "I'll Get You", on the flip side. In the United States, the single is released by Swan Records.
1964 - Capitol Records artist Donna Loren becomes a featured singer on the ABC Television show "Shindig!" which also premieres on this date. Loren will remain the featured female vocalist for the entire run of the show which ends January 8, 1966
1968 - The Beatles record the track "I Will" for their self-titled album (aka "The White Album") at EMI Studios on Abbey Road, in London, England. The also record a version of "Step Inside Love" (which the wrote for Celia Black who also recorded it) which will appear on their album "Anthology 3"
40 Years Ago Today In 1971 - Helen Reddy records an as yet unreleased version of ""New Year's Resolution" and the track "How?" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will release "How?" on Reddy's album "No Sad Song" (Capitol ST-857).
30 Years Ago Today In 1981 - T-Connection (Theophilus Cockley on keyboards and vocals, Kirkwood Cockley on bass and vocals, Tony Flowers on percussion & unlisted others) records the tracks "Might As Well Dance" and "Goombay Time" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will release both tracks on the band's album "Pure & Natural" (Capitol ST-12191).

ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1963 - Richard Marx, singer, songwriter, record producer and EMI America Records artist, is born Richard Noel Marx in Winnetka, Illinois. Capitol Records currently owns the EMI America library.
2003 - Virgin Records, a subsidiary of Capitol Records, releases A Perfect Circle's album "Thirteenth Step"

ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1965 - "The Dean Martin Show" premieres in a Thursday 10:00 pm time slot on the NBC television network
1977 - Marc Bolan, lead singer of the band T-Rex, is killed at age 29 early in the morning in auto accident on a tight curve in Barnes Common in London, England when his common law wife, mother of his son Rolan Seymour Bolan, and former Tower Records artist ("Tainted Love"), Gloria Jones, looses control of the car she's driving and hits a tree. Jones survives and arrives home the next day to find her home vandalized by Bolan's fans looking for souvenirs. Capitol Records will send a flower arrangement shaped like a large white swan to Bolan's funeral.