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70 Years Ago Today In 1948 - Buddy Alan, singer, songwriter, guitarist, son of Capitol Records artists Buck and Bonnie Owens, step-son of Capitol Records artist Merle Haggard, and Capitol Records artist in his own right (1968-1976), is born Alvis Alan Owens in Mesa, Arizona
ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
75 Years Ago Today In 1943 - Tor Mann conducts The Radio Symphony Orchestra of Stockholm as they record Sibelius' "Symphony #1 In E Minor, Opus 39" in Stockholm, Sweden for Telefunken Records. After Capitol Records leases Telefunken's catalog for release in the United States, it will issue the piece on the album "SIBELIUS-Symphony #1 In E Minor, Opus 39/GRIEG-Norwegian Dance #1" (P-8020).
1944 - Capitol Records issues its first album, a four-disc 78 rpm collection entitled "Capitol Presents... Songs By Johnny Mercer" (listed initially as A-1 in The Billboard magazine but released as CD-1) which includes the titles "Blues In The Night", "On The Nodaway Road", "You And Your Love", You Grow Sweeter", "Jamboree Jones", "Dixieland Band", "I Remember You", and "Too Marvelous For Words".
70 Years Ago Today In 1948 - The King Cole Trio (with orchestra conducted by Frank DeVol)'s Capitol Records single "Nature Boy" is still #1 on Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records chart and Peggy Lee (with Dave Barbour and His Orchestra)'s Capitol Records single "Manana" is #12
1954 - Frank Sinatra (with Nelson Riddle and His Orchestra)'s Capitol Records single "Young At Heart" is #3 on Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records chart, Kay Starr (with orchestra conducted by Harold Mooney)'s Capitol Records single "If You Love Me (Really Love Me)" is #6 and its flipside "The Man Upstairs" is #7, and Nat "King" Cole (with Nelson Riddle and His Orchestra)'s Capitol Records single "Answer Me, My Love" is #11
60 Years Ago Today In 1958 - Vocalist Ed Townsend, with unlisted others, records the titles "What Shall I Do?", "Richer Than I", and "Please Never Change" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue "What Shall I Do?" and "Please Never Change" together as a single (Capitol F3994), also on Townsend's self-titled EP "Ed Towsend" (EAP-1-1091), and "Richer Than I" as a single (Capitol F4104) with "Getting By Without You" (recorded August 6, 1958) on the flipside.
60 Years Ago Today In 1958 - Alvino Rey conducts His Orchestra (lineup unlisted) as they record the titles "Speak Low", "Night Train", "I'll Be Seeing You", and "Chukkar" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue "Speak Low", "Night Train", and "Chukkar" on Rey and his orchestra's album "Swingin' Fling!" (T/ST 1085) and have yet to issue "I'll Be Seeing You".
60 Years Ago Today In 1958 - During two sessions held this day in EMI's Abbey Road Studio N° 1 in London, England, Erich Leinsdorf conducts The Philharmonia Orchestra (lineup unlisted) as they record portions of Brahms' "Variations On A Theme By Joseph Haydn" at the first session and the first, third, and fifth movements of Prokofiev's "Lieutenant Kije Suite" at the second session. Capitol Records will issue the complete "Variations On A Theme By Joseph Haydn" on the orchestra's album "BRAHMS - Symphony N° 3 In F Major/Variations On A Theme By HAYDN" (G/SG-8483) and the complete "Lieutenant Kije Suite" on the orchestra's album "PROKOFIEV - Lieutenant Kije Suite/KODALY-Hary Janos Suite" (P/SP-8508).
1961 - Faron Young's Capitol Records single "Hello Walls" is #18 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart55 Years Ago Today In 1963 - Nat "King" Cole's Capitol Records single "Those Hazy-Lazy-Crazy Days Of Summer is #25 on WMCA's Top 25 chart in New York City, New York.
55 Years Ago Today In 1963 - The Four Freshmen (Bob Flanigan on vocals, trombone, and bass, Bill Comstock on vocals and guitar, Ross Barbour on vocals, trumpet, and drums, and Ken Albers on vocals, trumpet, flugelhorn, and bass), with Shorty Rogers conducting his own arrangements to the orchestra (lineup unlisted), records the titles "Walk Right In", "Summertime", and "We've Got A World That Swings" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue "Walk Right In" and "Summertime" on the group's album "Got That Feelin'" (T/ST 1950), "Summertime" also as a single (Capitol 5007) with "Baby Won't You Please Come Home" (recorded May 20, 1963) on the flipside, and "We've Got A World That Swings" on the album "Funny How Time Slips Away" (T/ST 2067).
1965 - The Beatles' Capitol Records single "Ticket to Ride", with "Yes, It Is" on the flipside, hits #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart
1967 - The Knack (Mike Chain, Larry Gould, Dink Kaplan and Pug Baker), with producer Nick Venet and engineer John Krauss, record the tracks "Pretty Daisy" and "Banana Man" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will release the tracks together as a single (Capitol 5940).
60 Years Ago Today In 1968 - Overdubs are recorded in Los Angeles, California for Tennessee Ernie Ford's titles "As Lately We Watched", "Bring A Torch, Jeanette Isabella", "The Friendly Beasts", and "White Christmas". Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Ford's album "O Come All Ye Faithful" (ST 2968).
50 Years Ago Today In 1968 - Vocalists John Stewart and Buffy Ford, with unlisted others, records the title "Draft Age" and a new take of the title "Cody" in Los Angeles, California. After overdubs are recorded for both titles on June 5, 1968, Capitol Records will issue the final mixes of both titles on Stewart and Ford's album "Signals Through The Glass" (ST 2975).
50 Years Ago Today In 1968 - Robert Irving conducts The Concert Arts Orchestra (lineup unlisted) as they record the conclusion of Aaron Copeland's "Four Dance Episodes From 'Rodeo'" and the beginning of Leonard Bernstein's "Fac Simile (A Choreographic Essay)" in New York City, New York. Capitol Records will issue the entire "Four Dance Episodes From 'Rodeo'" on the orchestra's album "COPLAND - Four Dance Episodes From 'Rodeo'/Appalachian Spring" (SP-8702) and the entire "Fac Simile (A Choreographic Essay)" on the orchestra's album "BERNSTEIN - Fancy Free/Fac Simile" (SP-8701).
1970 - Buck Owens and Susan Raye (on vocals, with unlisted musicians) record the tracks "Your Tender Loving Care", "Think Of Me", "I Thank You For Sending Me You", and "I Don't Care (Just As Long As You Love Me)" and overdubs for all the tracks but "Think Of Me" at Buck Owens Studios in Bakersfield, California. Capitol Records will issue "You're Tender Loving Care" as a single (Capitol 2871) with "The Great White Horse" on the flip side and all the tracks on the duo's album "Great White Horse" (ST-558).1970 - Capitol Records group The Bob Seger System perform at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago, Illinois. Despite having to stop twice to fix the sound system the band gives a great show. Opening for them is the Swedish five-man group the Mecki Mark Men who are distributed by Limelight Records.
1972 - The Raspberries' second Capitol Records single from their self-titled debut album, "Go All The Way" with "With You In My Life" on the flipside, is released and will eventually peak at #5 on Billboard's singles chart
1976 - Paul McCartney & Wings' Apple Records single "Silly Love Songs", with "Cook Of The House" on the flipside, hits #1 on Billboard's singles chart
40 Years Ago Today In 1977 - Hampton Hawes, pianist and member of many jazz bands including Stan Kenton's All Stars, Shorty Rogers and his Giants, Teddy Edwards' Septet, The Bud Shank - Bill Perkins Quintet, as well as leader of his own trio, quartet, quintet, septet, and nonet, Hampton Hawes dies of a stroke at age 48 in Los Angeles, California. The Jazz Discography Project has a great discography of Hawes' work.
30 Years Ago Today In 1988 - Mother's Finest (lineup unlisted) records the title "Still Over Each Other" at an unlisted studio. Capitol Records will issue the title on the group's album "Looks Could Kill" (C1-48988 on 12" LP and 7-48988-2 on CD).
2001 - Capitol Records releases The Beach Boys' two-CD, 58 track, album "Hawthorne, CA — Birthplace of a Musical Legacy"
2005 - Keith Urban's Capitol Records Nashville single "Making Memories Of Us" is #1 on the U.S. Country singles charts
2007 - Capitol Records releases The Beach Boys' greatest hits album "The Warmth Of The Sun"
10 Years Ago Today In 2008 - D Kilpatrick passes away at age 88. He was a music executive from the 1940s to the 1960s in Nashville. He was considered the first salaried producer based in Music City and produced sessions for Hank Thompson, Tex Ritter, and Jimmie Skinner. Kilpatrick, born William David "D" Kilpatrick on July 18, 1919 in Charlotte, North Carolina, got into the record business as a salesperson for Capitol Records in his hometown. By the late 1940s, he was producing acts for the label, including James and Martha Carson. In 1956, Kilpatrick became manager of the Grand Old Opry, bringing in acts such as Porter Wagoner, the Everly Brothers and Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper. In 1958, he helped found the Country Music Association. He left the Opry in 1959 to form Acuff-Rose Artists Corp., a booking agency for Opry acts and pop stars such as Roy Orbison. He later returned to sales and promotion for Warner, Philips and Mercury Records. He eventually left the music business to run a drapery and fabrics business.
2009 - Capitol Records group Sick Puppies perform at Harrah's Casino Voodoo Lounge in Las Vegas, Nevada
ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1959 - Morrissey, singer, songwriter, with the band The Smiths, and a solo artist who occasionally uses The Capitol Tower Studios in Hollywood, California to record in and to broadcast radio events from, is born Steven Patrick Morrissey in Manchester, England
1961 - Ernie K-Doe's Minit Records single "Mother-In-Law" is #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart, Gene McDaniels's Liberty Records single "A Hundred Pounds Of Clay" is #4, Rick Nelson's Imperial Records single "Travelin' Man" is #5 and his Imperial Records single "Hello Mary Lou" is #9, Steve Lawrence's United Artists Records single "Portrait Of My Love" is #13, and Al Caiola and His Orchestra's United Artists Records single "Bonanza" is #20.
45 Years Ago Today In 1973 - Vocalist Jimmy Witherspoon, with Blue Mitchell, Thad Jones, Ernie Royal, and Melvin Moore on trumpets, Garnett Brown and Benny Powell on trombones, Seldon
Powell, Delbert Hill, and Don Menza on tenor saxophones, Arthur Clark on baritone saxophone, Buddy Lucas on harmonica, Richard Tee on organ, Horace Ott on electric piano, Joe Sample on clavinet, Robben Ford, Cornell Dupree, and Freddy Robinson on electric guitars, Chuck Rainey on electric bass, Bernard Purdie on drums, Gene Estes, King Errison, and Omar Clay on percussion, and Hilda Harris, Ella Winston, and Barbara Massey on background vocals, using arrangements by Horace Ott, records the titles "Sign On The Building", "Spoonful", "Big Boss Man", "Inflation Blues", "Pearly Whites", "Nothing's Changed", "Gloomy Sunday", "Take Out Some Insurance", and "Reds And Whiskey" at Wally Heider Studios in Los Angeles, California. Blue Note Records will lease all the masters from Far Out Productions and issue them on Witherspoon's album "Spoonful" (BN-LA534-G).
1977 - Former Capitol Records artist Stan Kenton, on tour with his orchestra, is found unconscious at 8:00 PM, lying on the floor of the Abraham Lincoln Motor Inn in Reading, Pennsylvania. He underwent neurosurgery for a skull fracture with a blood clot on the brain.
ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1942 - Calvin "Thang" Simon, vocalist for the bands The Parliaments, Parliament and Funkadelic, and a member of the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame, is born in Beckley, West Virginia
1950 - Lyricist Bernie Taupin is born in Lincolnshire, England
60 Years Ago Today In 1958 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the new color television facilities of NBC's WRC-TV station in Washington, DC which is in part broadcast in color and captured on early 2" videotape which has been restored.
10 Years Ago Today In 2008 - D Kilpatrick passes away at age 88. He was a music executive from the 1940s to the 1960s in Nashville. He was considered the first salaried producer based in Music City and produced sessions for Hank Thompson, Tex Ritter, and Jimmie Skinner. Kilpatrick, born William David "D" Kilpatrick on July 18, 1919 in Charlotte, North Carolina, got into the record business as a salesperson for Capitol Records in his hometown. By the late 1940s, he was producing acts for the label, including James and Martha Carson. In 1956, Kilpatrick became manager of the Grand Old Opry, bringing in acts such as Porter Wagoner, the Everly Brothers and Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper. In 1958, he helped found the Country Music Association. He left the Opry in 1959 to form Acuff-Rose Artists Corp., a booking agency for Opry acts and pop stars such as Roy Orbison. He later returned to sales and promotion for Warner, Philips and Mercury Records. He eventually left the music business to run a drapery and fabrics business.
2009 - Capitol Records group Sick Puppies perform at Harrah's Casino Voodoo Lounge in Las Vegas, Nevada
1959 - Morrissey, singer, songwriter, with the band The Smiths, and a solo artist who occasionally uses The Capitol Tower Studios in Hollywood, California to record in and to broadcast radio events from, is born Steven Patrick Morrissey in Manchester, England
1961 - Ernie K-Doe's Minit Records single "Mother-In-Law" is #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart, Gene McDaniels's Liberty Records single "A Hundred Pounds Of Clay" is #4, Rick Nelson's Imperial Records single "Travelin' Man" is #5 and his Imperial Records single "Hello Mary Lou" is #9, Steve Lawrence's United Artists Records single "Portrait Of My Love" is #13, and Al Caiola and His Orchestra's United Artists Records single "Bonanza" is #20.
45 Years Ago Today In 1973 - Vocalist Jimmy Witherspoon, with Blue Mitchell, Thad Jones, Ernie Royal, and Melvin Moore on trumpets, Garnett Brown and Benny Powell on trombones, Seldon
Powell, Delbert Hill, and Don Menza on tenor saxophones, Arthur Clark on baritone saxophone, Buddy Lucas on harmonica, Richard Tee on organ, Horace Ott on electric piano, Joe Sample on clavinet, Robben Ford, Cornell Dupree, and Freddy Robinson on electric guitars, Chuck Rainey on electric bass, Bernard Purdie on drums, Gene Estes, King Errison, and Omar Clay on percussion, and Hilda Harris, Ella Winston, and Barbara Massey on background vocals, using arrangements by Horace Ott, records the titles "Sign On The Building", "Spoonful", "Big Boss Man", "Inflation Blues", "Pearly Whites", "Nothing's Changed", "Gloomy Sunday", "Take Out Some Insurance", and "Reds And Whiskey" at Wally Heider Studios in Los Angeles, California. Blue Note Records will lease all the masters from Far Out Productions and issue them on Witherspoon's album "Spoonful" (BN-LA534-G).
1977 - Former Capitol Records artist Stan Kenton, on tour with his orchestra, is found unconscious at 8:00 PM, lying on the floor of the Abraham Lincoln Motor Inn in Reading, Pennsylvania. He underwent neurosurgery for a skull fracture with a blood clot on the brain.
ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1942 - Calvin "Thang" Simon, vocalist for the bands The Parliaments, Parliament and Funkadelic, and a member of the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame, is born in Beckley, West Virginia
1950 - Lyricist Bernie Taupin is born in Lincolnshire, England
60 Years Ago Today In 1958 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the new color television facilities of NBC's WRC-TV station in Washington, DC which is in part broadcast in color and captured on early 2" videotape which has been restored.
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