MARCH 1, 2012

HAPPY BIRTHDAYS!
95 Years Ago Today In 1917 - Cliffie Stone, singer, songwriter, radio variety show host, personal manager, television producer, bass player, A&R and record producer for Capitol Records, and a Capitol Records artist, is born Clifford Gilpin Snyder in Stockton, California
1926 - Robert Clary, singer, Broadway, motion picture, and television actor (best known as LeBeau on "Hogan's Heroes"), and Capitol Records artist (1949), is born in Paris, France
85 Years Ago Today In 1927 - Harry Belafonte, singer, motion picture actor, and Capitol Records artist, is born Harold George Belafonte in Harlem, New York City, New York

ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
60 Years Ago Today In 1952 - At his first recording session for Capitol Records twenty year old Faron Young (on vocals, with Tommy Jackson on fiddle, Floyd Cramer on piano, Billy Byrd or Thomas "Grady" Martin on electric guitar, Chet Atkins on guitar, Jimmy Day on steel guitar, Floyd "Lightnin'" Chance on bass, and Farris Coursey on drums) waxes the tracks "Have I Waited Too Long?", "Telltale Tears", "What Can I Do With My Sorrow?", and "The Good Lord Must Have Sent You" at Castle Studios in The Tulane Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee. Capitol Records will issue the first two tracks together as a single (Capitol 2039), the third track as a single (Capitol 2039) with "Saving My Tears (For Tomorrow)" on the flip side, and the last track on Young's album "Faron Young's Memory Lane" (T 2037).
1956 - Nelson Riddle's Capitol Records single "Lisbon Antigua", with "The Theme From Robin Hood" on the flip side is still #1 on the U.S. Pop singles charts and Les Baxter's Capitol Records single "The Poor People of Paris", with "Helen Of Troy" on the flip side is #2
55 Years Ago Today In 1957 - Buck Owens signs with Capitol Records
1964 - The Beatles Capitol Records single "I Want to Hold Your Hand", with "I Saw Her Standing There" on the flip side is #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart and their Swan Records single "She Loves You" with "I'll Get You" on the flip side is #2
40 Years Ago Today In 1972 - Capitol Records artist Merle Haggard is granted a full pardon by the Governor of California, Ronald Reagan
1980 - Bob Seger's Capitol Records single "Fire Lake", with "Long Twin Silver Line" on the flip side, enters the top 40 of Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart
1983 - Duran Duran's Capitol Records album "Rio" is certified Gold by the R.I.A.A.

ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS ARTIST
1963 - Future Apple Records, Capitol Records, and Geffen Records artist Yoko Ono's marriage to filmmaker Tony Cox is annulled
1985 - A Beatles song was used for the first time in a U.S. TV commercial. The cost for Lincoln-Mercury to use the song, "HELP!" in the ad was $100,000.

ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1904 - Glenn Miller, trombonist, songwriter, arranger, bandleader, motion picture actor, and radio show host is born Alton Glenn Miller in Clarinda, Iowa
90 Years Ago Today In 1922 - William Gaines, publisher of EC Comics and founder of MAD Magazine, is born William Maxwell Gaines in Brooklyn, New York.