Monday, September 18, 2017

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

HAPPY BIRTHDAYS!
1894 - Willard Robison, singer, bandleader (Willard Robison's Levee Loungers and Willard Robison & The Deep River Boys, The Deep River Orchestra), radio show host, and composer (best known for "A Cottage For Sale" with lyrics by Larry Conley) whose songs were covered by various Capitol Records artists on the album "Willard Robinson's Deep River Music", is born in Shellbina, Missouri
100 Years Ago Today In 1917 - June Foray, voice actor (Rocket J. Squirrel, Natasha, Witch Hazel, and many others), actress and Capitol Records recording artist on many children's records and comedy records with Frank Morgan, Pinto Colvig, Stan Freberg and Daws Butler, is born in Springfield, Massachusetts.
1941 - Gary Lane, bass player with the Tower Records (a subsidiary of Capitol Records) group The Standells, is born
1953 - Carl Jackson, vocalist, bluegrass instrumentalist, songwriter, and Capitol Records session player and recording artist, is born in Louisville, Mississippi

ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1949 - Frank Morgan (born Francis Phillip Wupperman), Broadway, motion picture (best remembered for his five roles in the M-G-M motion picture "The Wizard Of Oz"), and radio actor, and Capitol Records artist (narrator on the Dr. Seuss children's record "Gossamer Wump"), dies in Beverly Hills, California of a heart attack during a break in shooting the M-G-M motion picture "Annie Get Your Gun" and is later buried in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York
65 Years Ago Today In 1952 - Pianist Joe "Fingers" Carr (aka Lou Busch), with Phil Stephens on bass and John Cyr on drums, records the titles "Headin' For Home" with vocals by The Carr-Hops (lineup unlisted) and "Kitten On The Keys" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue "Headin' For Home" as a single (Capitol 2257) with "Rattlesnake Rag" (recorded July 14, 1952) on the flipside and "Kitten On The Keys" on Carr's album "Rough House Piano" (T 345).
60 Years Ago Today In 1957 - Ukulele player Lyle Ritz, with Red Mitchell on bass, Gene Estes on drums, and Don Shelton on flute, begins recording sessions for his Verve Records album "How About Uke?" (MGV 2087) in The Capitol Tower Studios at 1750 North Vine Street in Hollywood, California with engineer Alan Emig.
1965 - The Beatles' Capitol Records single "Help!", with "I'm Down" on the flipside, is still #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart
55 Years Ago Today In 1962 - Nat "King" Cole's Capitol Records single "Ramblin' Rose" is #4 on WABC's Silver Dollar Sound Survey in New York City, New York
55 Years Ago Today In 1962 - Vocalist Harlan Howard, with unlisted others, records the titles "Just Call Me Lonesome", "Little Darlin' #2", "Baby Rocked Her Dolly", and "Heartaches By The Number" in Nashville, Tennessee for Capitol Records which has yet to issue any of the titles.
50 Years Ago Today In 1967 - Capitol Records releases The Beach Boys' album "Smiley Smile"
50 Years Ago Today In 1967 - Marian Love, with unlisted others, records the titles "Love Put Tears In My Eyes", "Without Your Love", "No Advice", "The Right To Cry", and "Sweet Taste Of Lovin'" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue "Without Your Love" and "The Right To Cry" together as a single (Capitol 2032) and have yet to issue any of the other titles.
50 Years Ago Today In 1967 - At two sessions held this day in The Capitol Tower Studios at 1750 North Vine Street in Hollywood, California, The Stranglers (listed as probably George French Jr. on piano, Glen Campbell and Lewis A. Talley on guitar, Roy Nichols on electric guitar, Billy Mize on open string guitar and harmony vocals, Norman D. Hamlett on steel guitar, Jerry Ward aka Howard Lowe on bass, and Roy "Eddie" Burris on drums) at the first session with vocalist Bonnie Owens, record the titles "I Wish I Felt This Way At Home", "Hangin' On", and "The Back Of My Hand" and at the second session, between 2:00 PM and 5:00 PM, with vocalist and guitarist Merle Haggard and Bonnie Owens on harmony vocals record the titles "I'll Leave The Bottle On The Bar", "Sing Me Back Home", and "The Son Of Hickory Holler's Tramp". Capitol Records will issue "I Wish I Felt This Way At Home" and "Hangin' On" on Bonnie Owens ' album "Somewhere Between" (T/ST 2861), "The Back Of My Hand" on Bonnie Owens and The Strangers' album "Lead Me On" (ST-195), "I'll Leave The Bottle On the Bar" and "The Son Of Hickory Holler's Tramp" on Merle Haggard's album "Sing Me Back Home" (T/ST 2848) and has yet to issue the take of "Sing Me Back Home" recorded at this session but did issue the take recorded on September 20, 1967 as a single (Capitol 2017) with "Good Times" (also recorded September 20, 1967) on the flipside.
1970 - Jimi Hendrix, guitarist and Capitol Records artist (on the 1970 live album "Band Of Gypsys"), dies in the basement flat of the Samarkand Hotel at 22 Lansdowne Crescent in London, England at age 27 after drinking wine, taking sleeping pills prescribed for his girlfriend Monika Dannemann (who was with him and called for an ambulance), then choking on his own vomit
45 Years Ago Today In 1972 - Billy May conducts The Time-Life Orchestra (lineup unlisted) as they record the titles "Days Of Wine And Roses", "Dream A Little Dream Of Me", "Watch What Happens", and "In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning" in The Capitol Tower Studios at 1750 North Vine Street in Hollywood, California. After overdubs are recorded for "Days Of Wine And Roses" and "In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning" on September 26, 1972 and for "Watch What Happens" on January 8, 1973, Time-Life Records, as part of its "As You Remember Them" series, will issue "Days Of Wine and Roses" and "In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning" in the three LP box set "Billy May - Volume 3" (STL 243), "Dream Of Me" in the three LP box set "Billy May - Volume 4" (STL 244), and "Watch What Happens" in the three LP box set "Billy May - Volume 5" (STL 245).
1981 - Billy Squier's second Capitol Records album, "Don't Say No", is certified Platinum by the R.I.A.A.
1988 - Dan Seals' Capitol Records single "Addicted", with "Maybe I'm Missing You Now" is #1 on the U.S. Country singles charts
1994 - Garth Brooks' Liberty Records (later to be renamed Capitol Records Nashville) album "In Pieces" debuts at #1 on Billboard's Top 200 albums and Country albums charts
20 Years Ago Today In 1997 - Jimmy Witherspoon, blues, R&B big band and jazz baritone singer and Capitol Records and Blue Note Records artist, dies in his sleep in Los Angeles, California at age 74

ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1793 - George Washington lays the cornerstone for the Capitol building in Washington, D.C. which was designed by Dr. William Thornton, a Scottish-trained physician living in the British West Indies. The Capitol building would later become part of Capitol Records' first logo, which will be later simplified to use just the dome and cuppola.
1905 - Eddie Anderson, radio, motion picture, and television actor (best remembered for the role of Rochester Van Jones on the Jack Benny radio and television shows and related movies), who introduced Capitol Records artist Nat "King" Cole to his future wife Maria Ellington, is born Edmund Lincoln Anderson in Oakland, California
1940 - Frankie Avalon, singer, motion picture actor, and United Artists Records artist (soundtrack of "Muscle Beach Party"), is born Francis Thomas Avallone in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
75 Years Ago Today In 1942 - Future Capitol Records artist Tennessee Ernie Ford married Betty Jean Heminger
1961 - Bobby Vee's Liberty Records single "Take Good Care Of My Baby", with "Bashful Bob" on the flipside, is still #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart. The song would later be covered and recorded by The Beatles. Liberty Records catalog is currently owned by Capitol Records' parent company, Universal Music Group.
1964 - "The Addams Family" debuts on ABC-TV. The character Lurch, played by Ted Cassidy, will release a single with a picture sleeve on Capitol Records called "The Lurch"
50 Year Ago Today In 1967 - Organist Larry Young, with Hank White on fluglehorn, Tyrone Washington and Herbert Morgan on tenor saxophones, Eddie Wright on guitar, Eddie Gladden on drums, and Stacey Edwards on congas, records the titles "Evening" without Eddie Wright on guitar, "Majestic Soul", "Means Happiness" again without Wright on guitar, "Major Affair" and "Tender Feelings" again without Wright on guitar and also Stacey Edwards on congas, and "Wild Is The Wind" with vocalist Althea Young" without Hank White on flugle horn, and Edwards on congas, in Rudy Van Gelder's studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. Blue Note Records will issue all the titles on Young's album "Contrasts" (BST84266).
1973 - Ringo Starr buys John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Tittenhurst Park manor and immediately makes the in-house studio, re-christened Startling Studios, available for use by other recording artists
1988 - Bobby McFerrin's EMI Manhattan single "Don't Worry Be Happy" (Edit), with "Simple Pleasures" on the flipside, is #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart

ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
90 Years Ago Today In 1927 - After The Colombia Phonographic Company invests heavily in United Independent Broadcasters, the network is renamed The Columbia Phonographic Broadcasting System and debuts the new name when it broadcasts the opera "The King’s Henchman" performed by the Howard Barlow Orchestra from flagship station WOR in Newark, New Jersey, and fifteen affiliates. 26-year old William S. Paley will be appointed president in 1928 and will shorten the name to the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS).
1943 - Decca Records agrees to pay royalties into an American Federation Of Musicians fund for all records the label will release, thus ending the union-led ban on instrumental recordings for the label. Capitol Records will settle less than a month later on October 8, 1943, but Columbia and RCA/Victor Records will hold out until November 1944, giving Capitol an exclusive on many new recordings that will help make it into one of the top four labels in the United States.

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