JULY 28, 2012
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
1945 - Rick Wright, with the Capitol Records group Pink Floyd, is born
ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1945
- Johnny Mercer and The Pied Pipers (with Paul Weston and His
Orchestra)'s Capitol Records single "On The Atchison, Topeka And The
Sante Fe", with "Conversations While Dancing" (with Jo Stafford sharing
vocals) on the flip side, is #1 on Billboard's Best Sellers in Stores
chart
1956 - Capitol Records group Gene Vincent and The Blue Caps appears on "The Perry Como Show"
1971 - Capitol Records releases George Harrison's
Apple Records single "Bangla Desh" with "Deep Blue" on the flip side in
the United States
2003 - Capitol Records releases The Dandy
Warhols' two disc CD single. On the first disc are the tracks "You Were
The Last High" with a remix of "We Used To Be Friends" by Brian Coates
and Clark Stiles, and Tony Lash's remix of "Every Day Should Be A
Holiday". The second disc contains another version of "We Used To Be
Friends", along with the tracks "Jim" and a live version of "Good
Morning" recorded at the KCRW studios in Santa Monica, California.
Capitol also releases a 7" vinyl single of "You Were The Last High" with
a version of "We Used To Be Friends", remixed by Kenn Richards, on the
flip side.
ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1936 - Future Capitol Records artist Nat "King" Cole
makes his recording debut at age 17 as part of his older brother's
band, Eddie Cole's Solid Swingers, recording four tracks for Decca
Records in Chicago, Illinois - "Honey Hush" with vocals by bass player
Eddie Cole, "Stomping At The Panama (Skoller's Shuffle)", "Bedtime
(Sleep Baby Sleep)" and "Thunder"
1938 - George Cummings,
composer, lead guitarist and steel guitarist as a solo artist and for
the bands Chocolate Papers and future Capitol Records artists Dr. Hook
& The Medicine Show (whom he named and co-founded in Union City,
New Jersey in 1968 but left in 1975 right before the band signed with
Capitol with the shortened name Dr. Hook), is born in Meridian,
Mississippi. If anyone knows his middle name, please leave a comment or
contact me.
1941 - At age 19, future Capitol
Records artist Judy Garland marries her first husband, composer and
orchestra leader David Rose, whom she would divorce three years later in
1944
45 Years Ago Today In 1967 - The motion picture "The Family Way", with music by
Paul McCartney (at the time part of the Capitol Records band The
Beatles) and arranged by George Martin, premieres in New York City, New
York
1999 - Simon "Mahlathini" Nkabinde, singer and Earthworks
Records recording artist dies. Earthworks was distributed by Virgin
Records America in the United States. Virgin is currently owned by EMI
Music Group, Capitol Music Group's parent company. My wife and I went to
one of his concerts when he and his band appeared at UCLA's Royce Hall
and had the nicest, and most fun, time. Everyone in the audience got
along and by the end were all up and dancing to the mighty roar of the
Lion of Sowetto.
ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
55 Years Ago Today In 1957 - Jerry Lee Lewis appears on national television for the first time when he appears on "The Steve Allen Show" on NBC-TV.
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