MARCH 11, 2012

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
1981 - LeToya, two-time Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, original member of the group Destiny's Child, and a solo Capitol Records artist, is born LeToya Nicole Luckettin Houston, Texas

ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1943 - Freddie Slack and His Orchestra's Capitol Records single "That Old Black Magic", with "Hit The Road To Dreamland" on the flip side, enters the top 40 of the U.S. Pop singles charts
1949 - Mel Torme's Capitol Records single "Careless Hands", with "She's A Home Girl" on the flip side, enters the top 40 of the U.S. Pop singles charts
1950 - Nat "King" Cole records the track "Mona Lisa" at Capitol Records Melrose studios in Hollywood, California
1951 - Tennessee Ernie Ford's Capitol Records single "Shotgun Boogie", with "I Ain't Gonna Let It Happen No More" on the flip side, returns to the #1 spot on the U.S. Country singles charts
45 Years Ago Today In 1967 - The Beatles "Strawberry Fields Forever", with "Paperback Writer" on the flip side, enters the top 40 of Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart
1970 - The Beatles' Apple Records single "Let It Be", with "You Know My Name (Now Look Up My Number)" (a typo as it should have read [Now Look Up The Number] which will not be corrected in the U.S. until the "Past Masters" compilation album is released in 1988) is released by Capitol Records in the United States
1971 - Merle Haggard's Capitol Records single "The Fightin' Side Of Me", with "Every Fool Has a Rainbow" on the flip side, is certified Gold by the R.I.A.A.
1995 - Capitol Records artist Liz Phair marrys film editor Jim Staskauskas
2004 - Edmund Sylvers, lead singer of Capitol Records group The Sylvers, dies of lung cancer at age 47

ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1950 - Bobby McFerrin, singer, songwriter and EMI Manhattan Records artist, is born Robert McFerrin Jr. in New York City, New York