FEBRUARY 29, 2012

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
1916 - Dinah Shore, singer, radio and motion picture actress, television variety and talk shows host, professional women's golf tournament sponsor, and Capitol Records artist, is born Frances Rose Shore in Winchester, Tennessee

ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1968 - The Beatles' Capitol Records album "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" wins Grammy awards for "Album Of The Year" and "Best Contemporary Album"
1968 - Geoff E. Emerick wins the Grammy for Best Engineered Recording for The Beatles' Capitol Records album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band)
1968 - Peter Blake and Jann Haworth with the Grammy for Best Album Cover, Graphic Arts for The Beatles' album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"
1968 - Bobbie Gentry wins the Grammys for Best New Artist, Best Vocal Performance, Female, and Best Contemporary Solo Performance, Female for her Capitol Records single "Ode To Billie Joe"
1968 - Jimmie Haskell wins the Grammy for Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s) or Instrumentalist(s) for Bobbie Gentry's Capitol Records track "Ode To Billie Joe"
1968 - Glen Campbell wins the Grammys for Best Vocal Performance, Male and Best Contemporary Solo Performance, Male for his Capitol Records single "By The Time I Get To Phoenix", and Best Country & Western Recording and Best Country & Western Solo Performance, Male for his Capitol Records track "Gentle On My Mind"
1968 - The Cannonball Adderley Quintet wint the Grammy for Best Instrumental Jazz Performance by a Small Group or Soloist or Soloist with a Small Group (7 or fewer) for his Capitol Records single "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy"
1968 - Senator Everett M. Dirksen wins the Grammy for Best Spoken Word, Documentary or Drama Recording for his Capitol Records album "Gallant Men"
20 Years Ago Today In 1992 - Garth Brook's Capitol Records Nashville single "What's She Doing Now" is #1 on the U.S. Country singles chart
2000 - Capitol Records releases Glen Campbell's compilation CD "20 Greatest Hits"
2004 - Capitol Records re-releases Pink Floyd's album "Animals" on CD

ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1936 - Baby Snooks, played by 44 year old Fanny Brice, debuts on the radio program "The Ziegfeld Follies Of The Air" on CBS Radio. Brice will later record the children's album "Baby Snooks Learns" for Capitol Records as the Snooks character.
1940 - Future Capitol Records artist Judy Garland is awarded the Academy Award for Best Juvenile for her work in the M-G-M motion picture musical "The Wizard of Oz"
1968 - Ravi Shankar and Yehudi Menuhin win the Grammy for Best Chamber Music Performance for their Angel Records track "West Meets East". Angel Records is a division of Capitol Records.