MARCH 21, 2018

HAPPY BIRTHDAYS!
1944 - David Lindley, player of acoustic and electric guitar, upright and electric bass, banjo, lap steel guitar, mandolin, hardingfele, bouzouki, cittern, bağlama, gumbus, charango, cümbüş, oud, and zither, member of the band Kaleidoscope, founder of the band El Rayo-X, session player for many artists including Linda Ronstadt on her 1974 Capitol Records album "Heart Like A Wheel" and Graham Nash's 1980 Capitol Records album "Earth & Sky", is born in San Marino, California.
1949 - Ron McMaster, drummer and mastering engineer for Capitol Studios, is born in Sacramento, California.
45 Years Ago Today In 1973 - Damon Elliott (aka Normal), record producer, singer, and founder/CEO of The Damon Elliott Music Group (DEMG, LLC) distributed by Caroline/Capitol Records and co-founder/CEO of AMBLVD Records (AMBLVD Records, LLC) distributed by Empire Distribution, is born in Beverly Hills, California by his mother, singer Dionne Warwick.

ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
65 Years Ago Today In 1953 - Nat "King" Cole's Capitol Records single "Pretend" is #5 on The Billboard magazine's Most Played By Jockeys chart, #6 on the magazine's Most Played In Juke Boxes chart, #7 on Cash Box magazine's Best Selling Singles chart, and #8 on The Billboard magazine's Best Selling Singles chart.

60 Years Ago Today In 1958 - Sonny James signs with Capitol Records

60 Years Ago Today In 1958 - Nat "King" Cole's Capitol Records single "Do I Like It?" is #1 on WMCA's Wax To Watch chart in New York City, New York.
60 Years Ago Today In 1958 - The George Shearing Quintet (Emil Richards on vibraphone, George Shearing on piano, Jean "Toots" Thielemans on guitar, Al McKibbon on bass, and Percy Brice on drums), with Billy May conducting his own arrangements to His Orchestra (total lineup unlisted but has a brass choir that includes Conrad Gozzo, Pete Candoli, and Mannie Klein on trumpets, Tommy Pederson, Joe Howard, and Walter Benson on trombones, Vincent De Rosa, John Cave, James Decker, Richard Perissi, and Arthur Frantz on French horns, and George "Red" Callender on tuba), records the titles "Memories Of You", "Blame It On My Youth", "These Things You Left Me", and "Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child" in The Capitol Tower Studios at 1750 North Vine Street in Hollywood, California between 1:30 PM and 5:00 PM. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Shearing's album "Burnished Brass" (T/ST 1038).

60 Years Ago Today In 1958 - During two sessions held this day at Capitol Records' studio in New York City, New York, violinist William Primrose and pianist Rudolf Firkusny records Brahms' "Sonata In E Flat, Opus 120 N° 2 For Viola and Piano" at the first session and Brahms' "Sonata In F Minor, Opus 120 N° 1 For Violin And Piano" at the second session. Capitol Records will issue both titles on the album "BRAHMS - Two Sonatas, Opus 120" (P-8478) and Seraphim Records, a subsidiary of Angel Records, will re-issue the album (S-60011).

60 Years Ago Today In 1958 - Vocalist Dean Martin, with an orchestra (lineup unlisted), records the title "It's 1200 Miles From Palm Springs To Texas" in Los Angeles, California for a promotional record (HB-2160) to be released as part of Texas Desert Week which is to be held in Palm Springs, California from April 16 to April 20, 1958. Capitol Record will later issue the title in the two-CD set "Dean Martin - The Capitol Years" (7-98409-2).

55 Years Ago Today In 1963 - During two sessions held this day in Los Angeles, California, guitarist Dick Dale and His Del-Tones (unlisted tenor saxophone, piano, guitar, and bass players and Jack Lake on drums) record the titles "Have Nagila", "King Of The Surf Guitar" with a female vocal group (lineup unlisted), "Riders In The Sky", and "The Lonesome Road" at the first session and the titles "On the Sunny Side Of The Street", "Dick Dale Stomp" with an unlisted pianist, "Green Back Dollar", "What'd I Say" with Dale on vocals, and "Just A Closer Walk With Thee" at the second session. Capitol Records will issue all the titles, except "On The Sunny Side Of The Street" and "Just A Closer Walk With Thee" which remain unissued, on Dick Dale And His Del-Tones' album "King Of The Surf Guitar" (T/ST 1930) and "Hava Nagila" and "King Of The Surf Guitars" together as a single (Capitol 4963).

55 Years Ago Today In 1963 - Trumpet player Jonah Jones, with Belford Hendricks and His Orchestra (lineup unlisted), records the titles "Pink Shutters", "Doodles", and "Ask Any Fool" in New York City, New York. Capitol Records will issue "Pink Shutters" and "Doodles" together as a single (Capitol 4993) and has yet to issue "Ask Any Fool".

1966 - Capitol Records releases The Beach Boys' single "Sloop John B" with "You're So Good To Me" on the flipside
50 Years Ago Today In 1968 - Overdubs are recorded in Los Angeles, California for Tony Bruno's title ""I'm Feeling It Now". After further overdubs are recorded for "I'm Feeling It Now" on March 24, 1968, Capitol Records will issue the final mix of "I'm Feeling It Now" on Bruno's album "I'm Feeling It Now" (ST 2930).

50 Years Ago Today In 1968 - Miniature Concert (lineup unlisted) records the title "Blues For Naked Jane" in Los Angeles, California for Capitol Records. No issuing information is listed.

50 Years Ago Today In 1968 - The Outsiders (lead by vocalist Tom King, with Emmett "Sonny" Geraci, Richard Biagiola, William "Bill" Bruno, and Richard D'Amato also on vocals and unlisted instruments), with unlisted others, record a new take of the title "We Ain't Gonna Make It", and the titles "Listen To Me" and "Think I'm Falling" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records has yet to issue the take of "We Ain't Gonna Make It" recorded at this session but will release the take of the title that it purchased on March 20, 1968, as a single (Capitol 2216) with "Oh! How It Hurts" (recorded June 2, 1966) on the flipside, has yet to issue "Listen To The Music", and will issue "Think I'm Falling" on the CD "Capitol Collectors Series - The Outsiders" (7-94076-2).

50 Years Ago Today In 1968 - Vocalist Peggy Lee, with unlisted others, records the titles "Daydream", "It'll Never Happen Again", and "Misty Roses" in The Capitol Tower Studios at 1750 North Vine Street in Hollywood, California for Capitol Records which has yet to issue any of the titles.

50 Years Ago Today In 1968 - During two sessions held this day in New York City, New York, pianist Eddie Heywood, with unlisted others, records the titles "Ode To Dan" and "How Are Things In Glocca Morra" at the first session and "Rasputin Song" and "Arabian Daze" at the second session. After overdubs are recorded for "How Are Things In Glocca Morra" on May 17, 1968, Capitol Records will issue "Ode To Dan" and the final mix of "How Are Things In Glocca Morra" on Heywood's album "The Piano Artistry Of Eddie Heywood - Soft Summer Breeze" (ST-163) and has yet to issue either title from the second session but will also issue a take of "Arabian Daze" recorded on April 12, 1968 on the album "The Piano Artistry Of Eddie Heywood - Soft Summer Breeze".

50 Years Ago Today In 1968 - The Crackers (aka The Band, with Garth Hudson on piano, organ, and vocals, Richard Manuel on piano, organ, guitar, bass, and vocals, Jaime Robbie Robertson on guitar and vocals, Rick Danko on bass and vocals, and Levon Helm on drums and vocals) records the title "To Kingdom Come" in New York City, New York. Capitol Records will issue the title on The Band's album "Music From Big Pink" (SKAO 2955).

1970 - The Beatles' Apple Records album "Let It Be", distributed in the United States by Capitol Records, debuts at # 6 on Billboard Hot 100, the highest ranking ever for a new entry to that date

1979 - Buck Owens records the track "Play Together Again Again" for Capitol Records
1987 - Robert Preston, Broadway and motion picture actor, and Capitol Records artist (original Broadway cast album for "The Music Man"), dies of lung cancer at age 68 at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital in Santa Barbara, California.
1987 - The Beatles hold down the Top 4 on US CD chart, with "A Hard Day's Night" at #1, "Please Please Me" at #2, "Beatles For Sale" at #3, and "With The Beatles" at #4
30 Years Ago Today In 1988 - Capitol Records registers the masters it received from EMI for Hazell Dean's titles "You're My Rainbow", "Walk In My Shoes", "Danger", "Nothing In My Life", "Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing", and "Who's Leaving Who" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue "Who's Leaving Who" as a single (Capitol 44167), with "They Say It's Gonna Rain" (registered July 22, 1987) on the flipside, and all the titles on Dean's album "Always" (C1-90304).

25 Years Ago Today In 1993 - Capitol Records artist Anne Murray is inducted into the Canadian Music Hall Of Fame

1994 - Spearhead signs with Capitol Records

ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1961 - The Beatles play the Cavern Club in Liverpool, England for the first time thanks to a call from the mother of their drummer, Pete Best, to DJ Bob Wooler
1964 - The Beatles' Tollie Records single "Twist And Shout", with "There's A Place" on the flipside, enters the top 40 of Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart
50 Years Ago Today In 1968 - Tenor saxophonist Frank Foster, with Marvin Stamm on trumpet, Garnett Brown on trombone, Richard Wyands on piano, Bob Cranshaw on bass and electric bass, and Mickey Roker on drums, records the titles "You Gotta Be Kiddin'", "Stampede", "Manhattan Fever", "Little Miss No Nose", "Seventh Avenue Bill", and "Loneliness" in recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder's studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. Blue Note Records will issue all the titles on Foster's album "Manhattan Fever" (BLP4278/BST84278 on 12" vinyl and 3-85191-2 on CD).

50 Years Ago Today In 1968 - Benny Gordon, with unlisted others, records the title "Tighten Up", listed as possibly in Los Angeles, California, for the Hot Biscuit label. Blue Note Records will license the title and will issue it on a compilation album by various artists LP "Blue Juice" (B1-54357 on 12" vinyl and 8-54357-2 on CD).

1969 - John Lennon and Yoko Ono begin their "Bed-In" at the Amsterdam Hilton
1987 - Cutting Crew's Virgin Records America single "I Just Died In Your Arms" enters the top 40 of Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart, the first of the label's releases to do so

ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1869 - Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr., Broadway theatrical producer, is born in Chicago, Illinois
1952 - Alan Freed presents The Moondog Coronation Ball at the Cleveland Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. It's the first Rock `N' Roll stage show and features R&B artists including The Dominoes, Tiny Grimes, Paul Williams, Charles Brown, The Moonglows, and Clyde McPhatter
1991 - Leo Fender (born Clarence Fender), the designer of the solid body electric guitar and guitar manufacturer of the Telecaster and Stratocaster guitars, dies from complications from Parkinson's Disease in Fullerton, California at age 81