APRIL 13, 2018

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
1951 - Peabo Bryson, singer, songwriter, music producer, and Capitol Records artist (1977-1983 and 1989), is born Robert Peapo Bryson in Greenville, South Carolina

ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1944 - Andy Russell's Capitol Records single "Besame Mucho", with "You're The Dream, I'm The Dreamer" on the flipside, enters the top 40 of the U.S. Country singles charts
65 Years Ago Today In 1953 - Billy May directs his own arrangements to His Orchestra (listed as possibly Jack Laubach, Tony Facciuto, Bob McKenzie, and Andy Peele on trumpets, Bob Raesinger, Dick Nash, George Kenny, and Karl DeKarske on trombones, Willie Smith and Dick Clay on alto saxophones, Len Mitchell and Charlie Deremoe on tenor saxophones, John Agee on baritone saxophone, Cliff Fishbach on piano, John Collins on guitar, Carson Smith on bass, and Larry Bunker on drums) as they record the titles "Turk's Tune", "Street Of Dreams" and "Moonlight And Roses" at Capitol Records' studios at 5515 Melrose Avenue in Hollywood, California. Capitol Records will issue "Street Of Dreams" as a single (Capitol 3297) with "Suzette" (recorded October 4, 1954) on the flipside and has yet to issue either "Turk's Tune" or "Moonlight And Roses".

65 Years Ago Today In 1953 - During two sessions held this day in Capitol Records' studios at 5515 Melrose Avenue in Hollywood, California, The Duke Ellington Trio (Duke Ellington on piano, Wendell Marshall on bass, and Butch Ballard on drums) records the titles "Who Knows?", "Retrospection" with only Ellington on piano, "B Sharp Blues", and "Passion Flower" at the first session and the title "Dancers In Love", then with only Ellington on piano the titles "Reflections In D" and "Melancholia", and, with the entire trio, "Prelude To A Kiss". Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Ellington's album "The Duke Plays Ellington" (EAP-1/2-477 on 7" EP, H-477 on 10" LP, and T 477 on 12" vinyl).

65 Years Ago Today In 1953 - Mitchell Lurie directs, and plays clarinet as part of, The Fine Arts Wind Ensemble (Sinclair Lott on horn, Haakon Bergh on flute, Alexandre Duvoir on oboe, and Jack Marsh on bassoon) as they record Hindemith's "Kleine Kammermusik, Opus 24, N° 2 (Quintet For Woodwind Instruments)" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue the title on the album "POULENC - Sextet For Piano & Winds/HINDEMITH-Kleinekammermusic" (P-8258).

1956 - Vocalist Dick Haymes, with Ian Bernard and his orchestra (lineup unlisted), records the titles "I Like The Likes Of You", "Isn't It A Lovely Day (To Be Caught In The Rain)", and "Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Haymes' album "Moondreams" (T 787).
1956 - Vocalist Meg Myles, with unlisted others, records the yet to be issued titles "13 Men" and "Abracadabra" and the titles "Past The Age Of Innocence" and "My Melancholy Baby" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue the last two titles together as a single (Capitol 3437).
1956 - Ray Heindorf conducted The Warner Bros. Orchestra (lineup unlisted) and Chorus (vocalists Betty Allan, Burton Dole, William Lee, Elizabeth Mulliner, Ernest Newton, Betty Noyes, Thurl Ravenscroft, Virginia Rees, William Reeve, Max Smith, Robert Stevens, Betty Wand, and Gloria Wood) as they record the title "Fight Scene (The Yellow Rose Of Texas)" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue the title on the original motion picture soundtrack album for the film "GIANT" (W 773).
1956 - Vocalist John Raitt, with unlisted others, records the titles "Amapola", "Lamento Gitano (Gypsy Lament)", "Granada", and "Malaguena" in New York City, New York. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Raitt's album "Mediterranean Magic" (T 714).
60 Years Ago Today In 1958 - It's a Sunday night and at 8:00 PM EST baseball fanatic Nat "King" Cole must be happy as a clam as he appears on CBS-TV's "The Ed Sullivan Show" with fellow guests baseball players Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra, and Whitey Ford who get tips on how to sing "Take Me Out To The Ball Game" from the song's composer Jack Norworth. In the audience is the widow of W.C. Handy whose bio-pic, "St. Louis Blues", Cole is plugging as well as performing "Just One Of Those Things" and his new single "Looking Back" Also on the show are fellow Capitol Records artist Laurie London making his U.S. television debut performing "He's Got The Whole World In His Hand", Columbia Records singer Eileen Rodgers who performs "Handle Me With Care" and "I'd Climb The Highest Mountain", and a monologue by British comedienne Joyce Grenfell.
60 Years Ago Today In 1958 - During two sessions held this day at City Auditorium in Houston, Texas, Leopold Stokowski conducts The Houston Symphony Orchestra, The Houston Chorale, and The The Houston Youth Symphony Boy's Choir (lineups unlisted) as they record parts of Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana". Capitol Records will issue the entire piece on the album "ORFF - Carmina Burana" (PAR/SPAR-8470).
1961 - Vocalist and pianist Ivory Joe Hunter, with Stan Applebaum directing the studio orchestra (lineup unlisted but includes trumpet, saxophone, guitar, bass, and drum players) and a chorus, (lineup unlisted), records the titles "Because I Love You", and "I'm Hooked" in New York City, New York. Capitol Records will issue both titles together as a single (Capitol 4587).
55 Years Ago Today In 1963 - Buck Owens' Capitol Records single "Act Naturally", with "Over And Over Again" on the flipside, enters the U.S. Country singles charts where it will eventually become Owens' first #1
55 Years Ago Today In 1963 - The Beach Boys' Capitol Records single "Surfin' U.S.A.", with "Shut Down" on the flipside, enters the top 40 of Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart
55 Years Ago Today In 1963 - Nat "King" Cole's Capitol Records single "All Over The World" is #20 on Billboard magazine's Middle-Road Singles chart.
55 Years Ago Today In 1963 - Vocalist Bobby Darin, with unlisted others, records the titles "Alice Blue Gown", "Whispering", "Somebody Stole My Gal", "I Cried For You", and "Sixteen" in Los Angeles, California. Collectors' Choice Music will issue "Whispering" and "Somebody Stole My Gal" on Darin's CD compilation "Bobby Darin - The Unreleased Capitol Sides" (CCM 079-2). The rest of the titles are still unissued.
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 "One Quick Martini" and "Greenland Whale Fisheries" at the first session and the titles "Mary Wore Three Links Of Chain" and "I May Be Right" at the second session. Capitol Records will issue "One Quick Martini" on the group's album "New Directions In Folk Music" (T/ST 1951) and the rest of the titles on the group's compilation CD "Capitol Collectors Series - The Journeymen" (7-98536-2).
1965 - The Beatles win the Grammy award for Best New Artist of the Year
1966 - The Beatles record the title "Paperback Writer" in Abbey Road Studios in London, England. Capitol Records will issue the title as a single (Capitol 6296) in the United States with "Rain" (recorded April 14, 1966) on the flipside.
1966 - Vocalist and guitarist Roy Clark, with unlisted others, records a yet to be issued take of the titles "Steppin' Out", the title "(I'd Be) A Legend In My Time", and yet to be issued takes of the titles "A Good Woman's Love", and "Oh How I Miss You" in Nashville, Tennessee. Tower Records, a subsidiary of Capitol Records, will issue "(I'd Be) A Legend In My Time" as a single (DT 5118) with "Rose Colored Glasses" (recorded October 14, 1965) on the flipside.
1966 - Vocalists Jean Shepard and Ray Pillow, with unlisted others, records the titles "Nobody's Business", "We Could", and "Willingly" in Nashville, Tennessee. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Shepard and Pillow's album "I'll Take The Dog" (T 2537).
50 Years Ago Today In 1968 - Buck Owens, with unlisted others, gives a concert in Nevada that's recorded by Capitol Records but has yet to be issued. None of the titles performed are listed.

50 Years Ago Today In 1968 - The Lettermen (vocalists Jim Pike, Tony Butala, and Bob Engemann), Perry Botkin, Jr. conducting his own arrangments to the orchestra (lineup unlisted), record the title "All The Grey Haired Men" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue the title as a single (Capitol 2196) with "Anyone Who Had A Heart" (recorded April 25, 1968) on the flipside.

50 Years Ago Today In 1968 - The Beach Boys (lineup unlisted) record the title "Be Still" 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 Billy Taylor And His Trio (only Ben Tucker on bass and Grady Tate on drums), before a live audience in Capitol Records' studios in New York City, New York, record the titles "I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free", "T.N.T.", "Lonesome Lover", "Sunny", "Pensativa", "Hard To Find", "I'll Remember April", "Morning", "Antenett", and "Cag" with Taylor also producing the session. Tower Records, a subsidiary of Capitol Records will issue "I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free" and "Sunny" together as a single (Tower 421) and "I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free", "T.N.T.", "Lonesome Lover", "Sunny", "Pensativa", "Hard To Find", "Morning", and "Cag" on Taylor and the trio's album "I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free" (ST 5111). Blue Note Records will issue "I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free" as "I Wish I Knew How It Felt To Be Free" on the multi-artist compilation CD "Blue Movies - Scoring For The Studios" (8-57748-2). "I'll Remember April" and "Antenett" are still unissued.

1969 - Glen Campbell's Capitol Records single "Galveston", with "How Come Every Time I Itch I Wind Up Scratchin' You" on the flipside, is #1 on the U.S. Country singles charts.

1971 - During two sessions held today in Los Angeles, California with producer Earl Ball, vocalist Merle Haggard and The Strangers (Roy Nichols on electric guitar, Norman Hamlet on steel guitar, Bobby Wayne on guitar, Dennis Hromek on bass, and Clair "Biff" Adam on drums) record the titles "The Conversion Of Ronnie Jones" and "Caroline" at the first session then just The Strangers record the titles "Honky Tonk", "Raunchy", and "Song From 'Sleep Walk'" at the second session. Capitol Records will issue "The Conversion Of Ronnie Jones" on Haggard's album "It's Not Love (But It's Not Bad)" (ST-11127), after an overdub session is held on April 30, 1971 for "Carolyn" it will release that title as a single (Capitol 3222) with "When The Feelin' Goes Away" (recorded November 9, 1970) on the flipside and on Haggard and The Strangers' album "Someday We'll Look Back" (ST-835) and all three titles from the second sessions on Merle Haggard's Strangers' album "Honky Tonkin'" (ST-796) and "Song From 'Sleep Walk'" as a single (Capitol 3144) with "Slow 'N' Easy" (recorded April 14, 1971) on the flipside.

45 Years Ago Today In 1973 - Final overdubs are recorded in (listed as possibly) Los Angeles, California for Buck Owens' title "Arms Full Of Empty". Capitol Records will issue the final mix of the title as a single (Capitol 3688) with "Songwriter's Lament" (registered July 5, 1968) on the flipside and also on Owen's album "In The Palm Of Your Hand" (ST-11136).

45 Years Ago Today In 1973 - Capitol Records registers the masters it purchased for vocalist Tony Booth's titles "That Loving Feeling" and "Old Faithful", both recorded at Buck Owens Studios in Bakersfield, California from Buck Owens Enterprises. After overdubs are recirded for "That Loving Feeling", Capitol Records will issue the final mix of that title as a single (Capitol 3943) with "Workin' At The Car Wash Blues" (registered July 25, 1974) on the flipside and also on Booth's album "Happy Hour" (ST-11270) and "Old Faithful" as a single (Capitol 3639) with "Don't Let True Love Slip Away" (registered May 15, 1973) on the flipside and also on Booth's album "This Is Tony Booth" (ST-11210).

45 Years Ago Today In 1973 - Shirl Milete, with unlisted others, records the titles "I'll Raise Your Babies", "Family Man", and "She's Still My Baby" in Nashville, Tennessee. Capitol Records has yet to issue "I'll Raise Your Babies" and will issue "Family Man" and "She's Still My Baby" together as a single (Capitol 3642).

1974 - Wings' Apple Records album "Band on the Run", distributed by Capitol Records in the United States, is #1 on Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart
1975 - Merle Haggard's Capitol Records single "Always Wanting You", with "I've Got A Yearning" on the flipside, is #1 on the U.S. Country singles charts
1976 - Asleep At The Wheel (lineup unlisted) records the title "Miles And Miles Of Texas" in Nashville, Tennessee. Capitol Records will issue the title as a single (Capitol 4357) with "Blues For Dixie" (recorded April 1, 1966) on the flipside and on the group's album "Wheelin' And Dealin'" (ST-11546).
1977 - Natalie Cole's Capitol Records single "I've Got Love On My Mind", with "Unpredictable You" on the flipside, is certified Gold by the R.I.A.A.
40 Years Ago Today In 1978 - Vocalist Cheryl Ladd, with unlisted others, records the titles "You've Never Done It Like That" and "Walking In The Rain" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records has yet to Issue "You've Never Done It Like That" and will issue "Walking In The Rain" on Ladd's self-titled album "Cheryl Ladd" (SW-11808).
35 Years Ago Today In 1983 - Vocalist Ellen Shipley, with unlisted others, records the title "He's Not There" in (listed as possibly) Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue the title on Shipley's album "Call Of The Wild" (ST-12289).

35 Years Ago Today In 1983 - Sherry Kean, with unlisted others, records the title "Sever The Ties" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue the title as a single (Capitol 5302) with "Mixed Emotions" (recorded April 11, 1983) on the flipside.

1992 - Liberty Records (later renamed Capitol Records Nashville) releases Linda Davis' album "Linda Davis"

ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
95 Years Ago Today In 1923 - Don Adams, a comedian, television and motion picture actor, animated cartoon voice artist, and Roulette and United Artists Records artist, is born Donald James Yarmy in New York City, New York
1980 - Blondie's Chrysalis Records single "Call Me", with an instrumental version of the song by Georgio Moroder on the flipside, is #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart. Chrysalis' catalog was owned by EMI Music Group, Capitol Music Group's one-time parent company but was sold by Universal Music Group to Warner Music Group when UMG bought EMI Music Group.
35 Years Ago Today In 1983 - Sheena Easton and Kenny Rogers' duet Liberty Records single "We've Got Tonight", with Rogers' "You Are So Beautiful" on the flipside, is #1 on the U.S. Country singles charts. Liberty Records catalog is currently owned by EMI Music Group, Capitol Music Group's parent company.
1991 - Queensryche's EMI America Records single "Silent Lucidity", with "The Mission (Live)" on the flipside, enters the top 40 of Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart. EMI America's catalog is currently owned by EMI Music Group, Capitol Music Group's parent company.