APRIL 12, 2018

HAPPY BIRTHDAYS!
100 Years Ago Today In 1918 - Helen Forrest, singer with the bands of Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, Harry James, Lionel Hampton, and a Capitol Records solo artist (1955, with the album "Voice Of The Name Bands"), is born Helen Fogel in Atlantic City, New Jersey
1967 - Mellow Man Ace, rapper, songwriter, brother of Sen Dog of the group Cypress Hill, and a Capitol Records artist, is born Ulpiano Sergio Reyes in Pinar del Rio, Cuba

ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
80 Years Ago Today In 1938 - During two sessions held this day in Berlin, Germany, Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt conducts The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (lineup unlisted) at the first session with an unlisted pianist as they record Beethoven's "Adagio from 'Moonlight Sonata'" and "Adagio from 'Pathetique Sonata'" and with soprano vocalist Aulikki Rautawaara at the second session the folk song "The Garden Of Happiness", Kilpinen's "When The Cuckoo Calls (From The 'Lauluja' Songs)" and Sibelius' "The Diamond On The March Show" and "Sigh, Sedges, Sigh" for Telefunken Records. After Capitol Records licenses Telefunken's catalog for release in the United States, it will issue "Adagio from 'Moonlight Sonata'" and "Adagio from 'Pathetique Sonata'" as a single (Capitol 8-86004) and "The Garden Of Happiness", "When The Cuckoo Calls (From The 'Lauluja' Songs)", "The Diamond On The March Show", and "Sigh, Sedges, Sigh" on the album "SIBELIUS Songs/Three Finnish Songs" (L-8041).
1946 - Voice artist Pinto Colvig, with Billy May conducting his own arrangements to his orchestra (Emmanuel "Mannie" Klein, Uan Rasey, and Leonard Mach on trumpet, Elmer Smithers and James Skiles on trombones, J.A. Krechter, Harry Schuchman, Victor Garber, and Vincent Spolidoro on saxophones, Edwin "Buddy" Cole on piano, Phil Stephens on bass, John Cyr on drums, and a string section with Mischa Russell, Harry Bluestone, and Samuel Freed on violins, Paul Robyn on viola, Cy Bernard on cello) and using a script by Bozo's creator Alan Livingston, records the titles "Bozo At The Circus: Part 3" and "Bozo At The Circus: Part 4" at Radio Recorders' studios at 932 North Western Avenue in Hollywood, California. Capitol Records will issue both titles as part of the label's first Record Reader album (also created by Alan Livingston) "Bozo At The Circus" (BBX-34).
1956 - Pianist Lou Busch as Joe "Fingers" Carr and His Ragtime Band (lineup unlisted) records the titles "Entertainer's Rag", "Black And White Rag", and "Maple Leaf Rag" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Carr's album "Mister Ragtime" (T 760).
60 Years Ago Today In 1958 - Nat "King" Cole's Capitol Records single "Looking Back" debuts at #15 on The Billboard magazine's R&B Best Sellers In Stores chart, #29 on the magazine's Best Selling Singles In Stores chart, #33 on Cash Box magazine's Best Selling Singles chart, and #46 on The Billboard magazine's Top 100 Singles chart. Also, Cole's single "Do I Like It?" is #67 and his single "Angel Smile" is #90 on the magazine's Top 100 Singles chart.
60 Years Ago Today In 1968 - Bandleader and clarinetist Red Nichols and His Pennies (Jackie Coon on mellophone, Moe Schneider on trombone, Wayne Songer on clarinet, alto and baritone saxophones, Bill Wood also on clarinet, Heinie Beau on clarinet and tenor saxophone, Joe Rushton on bass saxophone, Bobby Van Eps on piano, Allan Reuss on guitar, Morty Corb on bass, and Rollie Culver on drums) record the titles "Avalon", "Japanese Sandman". "Parade Of The Pennies", "Mississippi Mud", "Bass Face Joe", "Tea For Two", and "Dixie" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Red Nichols and His Pennies' album "Parade Of The Pennies" (T/ST 1051).
60 Years Ago Today In 1958 - During two sessions held this day in Houston, Texas, Leopold Stokowski conducts The Houston Symphony Orchestra (lineup unlisted) as they record parts of Shostakovich's "Symphony N° 11" at the first session and, with the addition of The Houston Chorale and The Houston Youth Symphony Boy's Choir (lineups unlisted) parts of Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana" at the second session. Capitol Records will issue all the parts of "Symphony N° 11" on the album "SHOSTAKOVICH - Symphony N°11,Op.103" (PBR/SPBR-8448) and all the parts of "Carmine Burana" on the album "ORFF - Carmina Burana" (PAR/SPAR-8470).
1960 - Nat "King" Cole finishes eleven straight days of performances at The Sands Hotel in Las Vegas, California.
55 Years Ago Today In 1963 - Dick Dale signs with Capitol Records
55 Years Ago Today In 1963 - Vocalist Clairette Clementino, with an orchestra (lineup unlisted), records the titles "Ev'rywhere" and "Adonis" with Jimmie Haskell conducting his own arrangments to the orchestra, "BreakMy Heart, Break", and "See Me" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue "Ev'rywhere" and "See Me" together as a single (Capitol 5003), "Adonis" as a single (Capitol 5081) with "Bless My Soul" (recorded September 20, 1963) on the flipside, and has yet to issue "Break My Heart, Break".
55 Years Ago Today In 1963 - During two sessions held this day in Los Angeles, California, The Journeymen (John Phillips and Scott McKenzie on vocals and guitars and Dick Weissman on guitar and banjo) record the titles "Ja-Da" and "Stackolee" at the first session and the title "Two Hoboes" at the second session. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on the group's album "New Directions In Folk Music" (T/ST 1951) and on the CD "" (7-98536-2), "Ja-Da" also as a single (Capitol 5031) with "Kumbaya" (recorded October 23, 1961) on the flipside.

55 Years Ago Today In 1963 - Vocalist and guitarist Mac Wiseman, with Ray Edenton also on guitar, Lew "Chilree" Houston on Dobro guitar, Benny Williams on mandolin, Joe Drumwright on banjo, Thomas Grady Martin on bass guitar, Roy M. "Junior" Huskey, Jr. on bass, and Murrey M. "Buddy" Harman, Jr. on drums, records the titles "The Scene Of The Crime", "Your Best Friend And Me", "What A Waste Of Good Cornlikker", and When The Moon Comes Over The Mountain" at Columbia Recording Studio in Nashville, Tennessee. Capitol Records will issue "The Scene Of The Crime" as a single (Capitol 5116) with "'Tis Sweet To Be Remembered" (recorded September 24, 1962) on the flipside and "Your Best Friend And Me" and "When The Moon Comes Over The Mountain" together as a single (Capitol 5011). Bear Family Records will issue all the titles in Germany on the six-CD box set "Mac Wiseman - 'Tis Sweet To Be Remembered" (BCD 15976).

50 Years Ago Today In 1968 - Vocalist Bobbie Gentry and Glen Campbell, with unlisted others, records the title "Sunday Mornin'", "Last Thing On My Mind", and "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" in Los Angeles, California. After overdubs are recorded for "Sunday Mornin' on August 6, 1968, and for "Last Thing On My Mind" on January 9, 1969, Capitol Records will issue "Sunday Morning" on the album "Bobbie Gentry And Glen Campbell" (SU/ST 2928), "Last Thing On My Mind" on Campbell's compilation CD "The Essential Glen Campbell, Volume 2" (8-33829-2), and has yet to issue "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right".

50 Years Ago Today In 1968 - The Beach Boys (lineup unlisted) record the title "Diamond Head" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue the title on the group's album "Friends" (ST 2895).

50 Years Ago Today In 1968 - Pianist Eddie Heywood, with unlisted others, records new takes of the titles "If A Tear Could Talk" and "Arabian Daze" and the titles "Don't Take Your Love From Me" and "Soft Summer Breeze" in New York City, New York. After overdubs are recorded for "Don't Take Your Love From Me" and "Soft Summer Breeze" on May 23, 1968, Capitol Records will issue the final mixes of all the titles on Heywood's album "The Piano Artistry Of Eddie Heywood - Soft Summer Breeze" (ST-163)

1971 - Capitol Records releases Buck Owens single "Ruby (Are You Mad)", which will peak at #3 on December 4, 1971, with "Heartbreak Mountain" on the flipside

45 Years Ago Today In 1973 - Billy May and The Time-Life Orchestra (lineup unlisted) record the titles "Beyond The Sea (La Mer)", "Bonanza", "Dear Heart", and "Fanny" in The Capitol Tower Studios at 1750 North Vine Street in Hollywood, California. After overdubs are recorded for "Beyond The Sea (La Mer)" and "Dear Heart" on April 23, 1973, Time-Life Records, as part of its "As You Remember Them" series will issue final mix of "Beyond The Sea (La Mer)" in the three-LP set "Volume 8 - Billy May" (STL 248) and the rest of the titles in the three-LP set "Volume 7 - Billy May" (STL 247).

40 Years Ago Today In 1978 - Vocalist Cheryl Ladd, with unlisted others, records the titles "I'll Come Running", "I Know I'll Never Love This Way Again", and "Lady Gray" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Ladd's self-titled album "Cheryl Ladd" (SW-11808).

35 Years Ago Today In 1983 - Ronnie Laws, with unlisted others, records the title "Can't Save Tomorrow" in (listed as possibly) Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue the title on Laws' album "Mr. Nice Guy" (ST-12261).
30 Years Ago Today In 1988 - Capitol Records registers the masters it received from EMI for Afrika Bambattaa and Family's album "The Light" and will issue all the titles on the album "The Light" (C1 90157).

1989 - Liberty Records (later renamed Capitol Records Nashville) releases Garth Brooks' album "Garth Brooks"

20 Years Ago Today In 1998 - James B. Conkling, one time VP at Capitol Records, who went on to be president of Columbia Records, co-founder of the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, helped launch and was first president of Warner Bros. Records, married Donna King (member of the Capitol Records group The King Sisters), father of actress Xandra Conkling (aka Donna Alexandra Conkling) and actor and screenwriter Chris Conkling, dies at Sutter Oaks Alzheimer's Hospital in Sacramento, California at age 83

ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1966 - Jan Berry, songwriter, record producer, singer and Liberty Records artist as part of the duo Jan & Dean, crashes his white Corvette into a parked truck on Whittier Drive in Los Angeles, California, very close to a legendary “Dead Man’s Curve” that Jan & Dean had immortalized in their hit single. The young genius, with a 180 I.Q., suffered extensive brain and physical damage, and never quite fully recovered but, to the astonishment of his doctors, learned to speak, sing, walk, and perform again.
55 Years Ago Today In 1963 - Pianist Horace Silver, with Blue Mitchell and Kenny Dorham on trumpets, Grachan Moncur III on trombone, Julius Watkins on French horn, Junior Cook and Jimmy Heath on tenor saxophone, Charles Davis on baritone saxophone, Gene Taylor on bass, and Roy Brooks on drums, records the titles "The Dragon Lady", "Let's Go To The Nitty Gritty", and "Nineteen Bars" at recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder's studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey for Blue Note Records which will reject every take of every title.
50 Years Ago Today In 1968 - The 3 Sounds (Gene Harris on piano, Andrew Simpkins on bass, and Donald Bailey on drums), with Melvin Moore, Buddy Childers, Conte Candoli, and Freddy Hill on trumpets, Lou Blackburn, Milt Bernhart, and Billy Byers on trombones, Ernie Tack on bass trombone, Anthony Ortega and Frank Strozier on alto saxophones, Plas Johnson and Tom Scott on tenor saxophones, Bill Green on baritone saxophone, Ken Watson on percussion, Lou Singer on tympani, and Roger Hutchinson on an unlisted instrument, using arrangements by Oliver Nelson, record the title "Star Trek" at Liberty Studios in Los Angeles, California. Blue Note Records will issue the title on the group's album "Coldwater Flat" (BST84285 on vinyl LP and 8-57748-2 on CD).
35 Years Ago Today In 1983 - Vocalist Sheena Easton, with unlisted others, records the titles "Sweet Talk" and "Telefone (Long Distance Affair)" at an unlisted studio. EMI America will issue both titles in Easton's album "Best Kept Secret" (ST-17101), "Sweet Talk" also as a single (EMI America 8201) with an edited version of "Devil In A Fast Car" (recorded May 24, 1983) on the flipside, "Telefone (Long Distance Affair)" also as a single (EMI America 8172) with "Wish You Were Here Tonight" (recorded April 28, 1983) on the flipside and a club mix and a dub mix of "Telefone (Long Distance Affair)" together as a single (EMI America 7814).

ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1954 - Bill Haley And His Comets' have their first session for Decca Records at the Pythian Temple in New York City, New York, where they record the track "(We're Gonna) Rock Around the Clock"