FEBRUARY 8, 2012

HAPPY BIRTHDAYS!
70 Years Ago Today In 1942 - Terry Melcher, singer, songwriter (co-wrote "Kokomo"), son of motion picture and television actress and singer Doris Day and her first husband trombonist Al Jorden, and record, television, and festival producer, is born Terry Jorden in New York City, New York. 10 years later, he was adopted by Doris Day's third husband, agent and producer Martin Melcher, and took his surname. Part of the duos Bruce & Terry and The Rip Chords with future member of The Beach Boys Bruce Johnston. Performed on The Beach Boys' Capitol Records album "Pet Sounds". Produced The Byrd's tracks "Mr. Tambourine Man" and "Turn, Turn, Turn". Did not sign Charles Manson to a recording contract which may have caused the Manson Family murders as they attacked his former home that had recently been leased to Sharon Tate and Manson didn't know Melcher had moved.
1948 - Dan Seals, singer, part of the duo England Dan & John Ford Coley, and Capitol Records solo artist, is born in McCamey, Texas

ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
60 Years Ago Today In 1952 - Ella Mae Morse's Capitol Records single "Blacksmith Blues" and Kay Starr's Capitol Records single "Wheel Of Fortune" both enter the top 40 of the U.S. Pop singles charts
1964 - Capitol Records releases The Beach Boys' single "Fun, Fun, Fun"
1964 - The Beatles' Capitol Records single "I Saw Her Standing There" enters Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart
45 Years Ago Today In 1967 - The Capitol Records duo Peter and Gordon announce that they're disbanding. Peter Asher would go on to become a record producer, most notably for future Capitol Records artist Linda Ronstadt.
45 Years Ago Today In 1967 - The Beatles record tracks for their song "Good Morning Good Morning"
45 Years Ago Today In 1967 - The Seekers' Capitol Records single "Georgy Girl" is #2 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart
1968 - The Beatles record tracks for their song "The Inner Light"
1968 - John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Apple Records album "Unfinished Music No. 1 - Two Virgins", distributed by Capitol in the United States, enters the U.S. album charts
1970 - Sonny James' Capitol Records single "It's Just A Matter Of Time" is #1 on the U.S. Country singles chart

ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1929 - Floyd Dixon, pianist and Aladdin Records artist (1951), is born in Marshall, Texas
1931 - James Dean, television and motion picture actor, is born James Byron Dean at the Seven Gables apartment house located at the corner of 4th Street and McClure Street in Marion, Indiana. Capitol Records would later release the soundtrack to the documentary "The James Dean Story"
1944 - Jim Capaldi with the United Artists Recods group Traffic, is born
1946 - Adolpho de la Parra (aka Alfredo Fito and Fito de la Parra), drummer and leader of the United Artists Records group Canned Heat after the deaths of the band's founders Alan Wilson and Bob Hite, is born in Mexico City, Mexico
1958 - Paul McCartney introduces George Harrison to John Lennon after Lennon and McCartney's band, The Quarrymen, performs at the Wilson Hall in the Garston section of Liverpool, England
1961 - Vince Neil, singer with the band Mötley Crüe, is born Vince Neil Wharton in Hollywood, California
1968 - Jukka Perko, alto and soprano saxophone player, is born in Finland. His album "Music of Olavi Virta" will become the first ever release of Blue Note Finland in November 2000
40 Years Ago Today In 1972 - The Beatles' official fan club disbands
10 Years Ago Today In 2002 - The Liverpool City Council votes to dismantle and store the wooden church stage where John Lennon and Paul McCartney first met instead of demolishing it to make room for renovations to the church

ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1990 - Del Shannon (born Charles Westover), singer (best known for "Runaway"), commits suicide at age 50 by shooting himself in the head with a 22 calibre rifle at his home in Santa Clarita, California
1994 - Raymond Scott, composer (whose works were adapted for the musical soundtracks for many Warner Bros. cartoons by Carl Stalling), electronic musical instruments inventor, and bandleader on stage and radio, dies at age 85 in North Hills, California