MAY 17, 2018

HAPPY BIRTHDAYS!
1957 - Audie Desbrow, drummer with the Capitol Records group Great White, is born in Los Angeles, California
1959 - Paul Di'Anno, a vocalist with the Capitol Records and EMI America Records band Iron Maiden, is born in London, England

ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1947 - The Pied Pipers (with Paul Weston and His Orchestra)' Capitol Records single "Mam'selle" is #10 on Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records chart
1952 - Kay Starr (with orchestra conducted by Harold Mooney)'s Capitol Records single "Wheel Of Fortune" is #2 on Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records chart, Ella Mae Morse (with Nelson Riddle and His Orchestra)'s Capitol Records single "Blacksmith Blues" is #7, Jane Froman (with orchestra conducted by Sid Feller)'s Capitol Records single "I'll Walk Alone" is #16, and Les Paul's Capitol Records single "New Carioca" is #19
65 Years Ago Today In 1953 - Capitol Records releases the original Broadway cast album of Cole Porter's "Can-Can"
60 Years Ago Today In 1958 - Nat "King" Cole's Capitol Records single "Looking Back" is #4 on The Billboard magazine's R&B Best Sellers In Stores and Most Played R&B By Jockeys charts, "Looking Back" and its flipside, "Do I Like It?" are #5 on the magazine's Best Selling Pop Singles In Stores chart, and "Looking Back" is #6 on the magazine's Top 100 Sides chart and #14 on the magazine's Most Played By Jockeys chart. Nat "King" Cole's Capitol Records album "St. Louis Blues" is #22 on The Billboard magazine's Best Selling Pop LPs chart.
60 Years Ago Today In 1958 - Pianist Leonard Pennario records the first, part one of the second, and the third movements of Chopin's "Sonata N° 3 In B Flat" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Pennario's album "CHOPIN - Sonata In B Flat/LISZT - Sonata In B Minor" (P-8457).

60 Years Ago Today In 1958 - During two sessions held this day in New York City, New York, Fred Waring conducts The Pennsylvanians (lineup unlisted) as they record the titles "Alice Blue Gown", "My Romance", and "Stars In My Eyes", all with vocals by Jane Wilson and using arrangements by Roy Ringwald, at the first session and, using arrangements by Charles Naylor the titles "Body And Soul" and, with vocals by Chuck Nelson, "Dance Only With Me" then, using arrangements by Roy Ringwald, the titles "Ah! Sweet Mystery Of Life" with vocals by Gordon Goodman and "All The Things You Are" at the second session. Capitol Records will issue "Alice Blue Gown", "My Romance", "Body And Soul", and "Dance Only With Me" on Waring and The Pennsylvanians' album "Broadway Cavalcade, Volume 1" (T/ST 1389), "Stars In My Eyes" and "Ah! Sweet Mystery Of Life" on their album "Broadway Cavalcade, Volume 2" (T/ST 1390), all the previous titles together on the two-album set "Broadway Cavalcade" (WBO/SWBO 1079), and have yet to issue the take of "All The Things You Are" recorded at the second session but will release a new take of the title, recorded on May 18, 1958, also on the album "Broadway Cavalcade, Volume 2" and in the two-LP set "Broadway Cavalcade".

60 Years Ago Today In 1958 - Vocalist Jean Shepard, with Floyd Cramer on piano, Thomas Grady Martin or Jackie Phelps on lead guitar, Ray Edenton on rhythm guitar, (listed as probably) Walter Haynes on steel guitar, Roy M "Junior" Huskey, Jr. on bass, and Murray M. "Buddy" Harman, Jr. on drums, records the titles "Your Telling Me Sweet Lies Again", "He's My Baby", and "Just Another Girl" at Bradley Film And Recording Studio in Nashville, Tennessee between 1:00 PM and 3:00 PM. Capitol Records will issue "You're Telling Me Sweet Lies Again" on Shepard's album "Lonesome Love" (EAP-2-1126 on 7" EP and T 1126 on 12" LP), "He's My Baby" as a single (Capitol F4013) with "Secret Of Life" (recorded May 15, 1958) on the flipside, and "Just Another Girl" as a single (Capitol F4068) with "I Want To Go Where No One Knows Me" (recorded Movember 6, 1956) on the flipside.

55 Years Ago Today In 1963 - During two session held this day in Los Angeles, California, pipe organist Eddie Dunstedter, with unlisted others, records the title "The Christmas Song" at the first session and the titles "I'll Be Home For Christmas" and "White Christmas" at the second session. Capitol Records will issue "The Christmas Song" and "I'll Be Home For Christmas" on Dunstedter's album "The Bells Of Christmas Chime Again" (T/ST 1968) and has yet to issue the take of "White Christmas" recorded at the second session but will release a new take of the title, recorded on May 21, 1963, also on the album "The Bells Of Christmas Chime Again".

55 Years Ago Today In 1963 - Wendy Turner, with unlisted others, records the titles "Dreamer That I Am", "Pretend", "Joanie", and "The Boy I Used To Know" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue "Dreamer That I Am" and "Joanie" together as a single (Capitol 4988) and has yet to issue the other two titles.

55 Years Ago Today In 1963 - Capitol Records purchases in Los Angeles, California the masters for Brian Lord And The Midnighters' (The Midnighters (Paul Buff, David Aerni, and Frank Zappa)) titles "Not Another One" and "The Big Surfer" and will issue both titles together as a single (Capitol 4981), their only one for the label.
50 Years Ago Today In 1968 - During two sessions held this day in Los Angeles, California, vocalist Fred Neil, with unlisted others, records the title 'Pineapple Wine" at the first session and the title "Fred Neil Medley" at the second session for Capitol Records which has yet to issue either title.

50 Years Ago Today In 1968 - During a live show held in Los Angeles, California recorded by Capitol Records, vocalist John Stewart, with unlisted others, performs the titles "Goodbye Julianna" and a new take "Signals To Ludi". Even after overdubs are recorded for "Signals To Ludi" on June 14, 1968, Capitol Records has yet to issue either title recorded at this show.

50 Years Ago Today In 1968 - During two sessions held this day in Los Angeles, California, vocalists John Stewart and Buffy Ford, with unlisted others, record the title "Santa Barbara" at the first session and the title "Mother Country" and a new take of the title "Mucky Truckee River" at the second session. After string overdubs are recorded for "Santa Barbara" on June 7, 1968 and overdubs for "Mucky Truckee River" are recorded on June 6, 1968, Capitol Records will issue "Santa Barbara" and "Mucky Truckee River" on Stewart and Ford's album "Signals Through The Glass" (ST 2975). No issuing information is listed for "Mother Country".

50 Years Ago Today In 1968 - Vocalist Nancy Wilson, with Jimmy Jones conducting his own arrangements to the orchestra (Benny Carter on alto saxophone, Clyde Raesinger on trumpet, John Audino, Bobby Bryant, and Harry Edison on trumpets and flugelhorns, Chuck Cooper, Ed Kusby, Tommy Pederson, Dick Nash, Lew McCreary, and Ken Shroyer on trombones, Arthur "Skeets" Herfurt on alto saxophone, William Green and Plas Johnson on saxophones and clarinets, Justin Gordon on saxophone and flute, Chuck Gentry on baritone saxophone, and bass clarinet, Don Trenner on piano, Bob Bain and Mundell Lowe on guitars, Buster Williams on bass, Shelly Manne on drums, Larry Bunker, Gene Estes, and Victor Feldman on vibraphone and percusssion) records the titles "On The Other Side Of The Tracks", "When The Sun Comes Out", "Below, Above", and "Alone With My Thoughts Of You" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Miss Wilson's album "The Sound Of Nancy Wilson" (ST 2970).

50 Years Ago Today In 1968 - Overdubs are recorded for pianist Eddie Heywood's titles "Bluer Than Blues", "Long Time No See", "Something Happens Inside Of Me" and "How Are Things In Glocca Mora". 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).

50 Years Ago Today In 1968 - Artie Shaw directs a big band that includes Bernie Privin and Mel Davis on trumpets, Buddy Morrow on trombone, Walt Levinsky on clarinet, Toots Mondello on alto saxophone, Al Klink and Billy Slapin on tenor saxophones, Bernie Leighton on piano, and Don Lamond on drums, as they record the titles "Octoroon", "Softly As In A Morning Sunrise", "Begin The Beguine", and "What Is This Thing Called Love?" in New York City, New York. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on the album "Artie Shaw Recreates His Great '38 Band" (ST 2992).

50 Years Ago Today In 1968 - Vocalist Billie Jo Spears, with unlisted others, records the titles "Before Your Time", "Get Behind Me, Satan And Push", "Home Loving Man", and "Mollie Brown" in Nashville, Tennessee. Capitol Recors will issue "Before Your Time" on Spears' album "Miss Sincerity" ST-397, the other three titles on Spears' album "The Voice Of Billie Jo Spears" (ST-114), and "Get Behind Me, Satan And Push" also as a single (Capitol 2279) with "Harper Valley P.T.A." (recorded August 7, 1968) on the flipside.

1969 - Glen Campbell's Capitol Records single "Where's The Playground Susie", with "Arkansas" on the flipside, enters the U.S. Country singles charts
1969 - Paul McCartney and John Lennon record overdubs and sound effects for their Apple Records title "You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)" at EMI's Abbey Road Studios in London, England.

1971 - Apple Records releases Paul McCartney's second solo album, "Ram", with Capitol Records handling distribution in the United States
45 Years Ago Today In 1973 - Vocalist Tennessee Ernie Ford, with Jack Fascinato conducting his own arrangements to the orchestra (lineup unlisted), records the titles "Jesus, Savior, Pilot Me", "Almost Persuaded", "What A Friend We Have In Jesus", "Jesus, Keep Me Near The Cross", 'Jesus Paid It All", "Must Jesus Bear The Cross Alone?", "Asleep In Jesus", "My Jesus, As Thou Wilt", "Take Up The Cross", and "The Name Of Jesus" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Ford's album "Ernie Ford Sings About Jesus" (ST-11232).
1976 - Dr. Hook's Capitol Records single "Only Sixteen", with "Let Me Be Your Lover" on the flipside, is certified Gold by the R.I.A.A.

40 Years Ago Today In 1978 - Vocalist and guitarist Sammy Hagar, with unlisted others, records the title "Flying Y" in San Francisco, California for Capitol Records which has yet to issue the title.

ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1932 - Blue Note artist (1959-1967) and alto saxophonist Jackie McLean is born John Lenwood McLean in New York City, New York
1962 - Tracy Bryn, a member of the band Voice Of The Beehive and daughter of Bruce Belland of the Capitol Records band The Four Preps, is born in Encino, California
50 Years Ago Today In 1968 - Pianist McCoy Tyner, with Bobby Hutcherson on vibraphone, Herbie Lewis on bass, and Freddie Waits on drums, records the titles "Little Madimba", "May Street", "I Didn't Know What Time It Was", "African Village", "The Surrey With The Fringe On Top" without Hutcherson on vibraphone, and with just Tyner on piano, "I've Grown Accustomed To her Face" at Rudy Van Gelder's studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. Blue Note Records will issue all the titles on Tyner's album "Time For Tyner", (BST84307 on 12" and 7-84307-2 on CD).

45 Years Ago Today In 1973 - Final mixing is done at Ardent Studios in Memphis, Tennessee for all the titles recorded at Leon Russell's concert held at Long Beach Arena in Long Beach, California on August 28, 1972. The final mixes of all the titles will be issued by Shelter Records, at the time manufactured and distributed by Capitol Records, Russell's three-LP set "Leon Live" (STCO-8917).

35 Years Ago Today In 1983- The Michael Stanley Band (lineup unlisted) records the titles "Hard Time", "The Damage Is Done", "Kiss It Off", and "Just How Good (A Bad Woman Feels)" at an unlisted studio. EMI America will issue "Hard Time", "The Damage Is Done", and "Just How Good (A Bad Woman Feels) on the band's album "You Can't Fight Fashion" (ST-17100) and "Just How Good (A Bad Woman Feels)" also as a single (EMI America 8178) with an edited version of "My Town" (recorded May 13, 1983) on the flipside.

2002 - Sharon Sheely, songwriter ("Poor Little Fool", "Something Else, "Hurry Up", etc.) and one-time fiancee of Liberty Records artist Eddie Cochran, dies of complications following a cerebral hemorrhage in Los Angeles, California at age 62. Sheely was also injured in the same cab crash in England that killed Cochran and injured Capitol Records artist Gene Vincent.

ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1846 - The saxophone is patented by Antoine Joseph Sax
55 Years Ago Today In 1963 - The first Monterey Folk Festival is held in California with Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, and others performing