MAY 24, 2018

HAPPY BIRTHDAYS!
1941 - Tony Valentino, a guitarist with the Tower Records (a subsidiary of Capitol Records) group The Standells and owner of Bellisimo's (an Italian restaurant on Ventura Boulevard in Woodland Hills, California), is born Emilio Bellissimo in Los Angeles, California
1942 - Derek Quinn, a guitarist with the first group released on Tower Records (a subsidiary of Capitol Records) Freddie and The Dreamers, is born in Manchester, England
1944 - Patti LaBelle, a singer, founding member of the group LaBelle, solo artist and Capitol Records artist (on the track "Bewitched" as a duet with Frank Sinatra), is born Patricia Louise Holt in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1955 - Roseanne Cash, a singer, guitarist, songwriter, daughter of Johnny Cash and Vivian Dorraine Libreto Cash, and Capitol Records artist, is born in Memphis, Tennessee
55 Years Ago Today In 1963 - Vivian Trimble (aka Dusty Trails), the keyboardist and a backing vocals singer with the Capitol Records group Luscious Jackson, is born in New York City, New York
1982 - Steve Silvas, a graphic designer who worked at Capitol Records until 2009, is born in Vallejo, California

ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL HISTORY
70 Years Ago Today In 1948 - Barclay Allen, with unlisted others records four unlisted titles in Los Angeles, California for The Capitol Records Transcription Service. No issuing information is listed.

1952 - Al Martino (with orchestra conducted by Monty Kelly)'s Capitol Records single "Here In My Heart" is #3 on Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records chart, Kay Starr (with orchestra conducted by Harold Mooney)'s Capitol Records single "Wheel Of Fortune" is #4, Ella Mae Morse (with Nelson Riddle and His Orchestra)'s Capitol Records single "Blacksmith Blues" is #10, Jane Froman (with orchestra conducted by Sid Feller)'s Capitol Records single "I'll Walk Alone" is #16, Les Paul's Capitol Records single "Carioca" is #19, and Les Paul and Mary Ford's Capitol Records single "I'm Confessin' (That I Love You)" is #20

1957 - The Four Freshmen (Bob Flanigan on vocals, trombone and bass; Don Barbour on vocal and guitar; Ross Barbour on vocal and drums; and Ken Albers on vocal, trumpet, mellophone, and bass), with arranger Dick Reynolds conducting the accompanists (Skeets Herfurt and Wilbur Schwartz on alto saxophone; Ted Nash and Georgie Auld on tenor saxophone; Chuck Gentry on baritone saxophone; Al Hendrickson on guitar; Geoff Clarkson on piano; Don Simpson on bass; and Frank Carlson on drums) record the tracks "This Love Of Mine" "Sometimes I'm Happy", "For All We Know", "I Get Along Without You Very Well", and "Lullaby In Rhythm" at The Capitol Tower Studios in Hollywood, California for their Capitol Records album "The Four Freshmen And Five Saxes".
60 Years Ago Today In 1958 - Nat "King" Cole's Capitol Records single "Looking Back" is #3 on The Billboard magazine's R&B Best Sellers In Stores chart, #5 (along with its flipside, "Do I Like It") on the magazine's Best Selling Pop Singles In Stores chart, #6 on the magazine's Top 100 Sides chart, #8 on the magazine's Most Played R&B By Jockeys chart, #10 on Cash Box magazine's Best Selling Singles chart, #13 on The Billboard magazine's Most Played By Jockeys chart, and #34 on KFWB's Fabulous Forty Survey in Los Angeles, California. "Looking Back"'s flipside, "Do I Like It", is also #94 on The Billboard magazine's Top 100 sides chart. Nat "King" Cole's Capitol Records album "St. Louis Blues" is #21 on The Billboard magazine's Best Selling Pop LPs chart.
60 Years Ago Today In 1958 - Erich Leinsdorf conducts The Philharmonia Orchestra (lineup unlisted) as they record parts of Brahms' "Symphony N° 3 In F Major" and Beethoven's "Leonore N° 3 Overture" in EMI's Abbey Road Studio N° 1 in London, England. Capitol Records will issue the complete "Symphony N° 3 In F Major" on the orchestra's album "BRAHMS - Symphony N°3 In F Major/Variations On A Theme By HAYDN" (G/SG-8483) and "Leonore N° 3 Overture" on the orchestra's album "Opera Overtures" (G/SG-8465).
1961 - Buck Owens records the titles "Under The Influence Of Love" and "Nobody's Fool But Yours" which Capitol Records will release together as a single
55 Years Ago Today In 1963 - Nat 'King" Cole's Capitol Records single "Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days Of Summer" is #32 on WLS' Silver Dollar Survey in Chicago, Illinois.
55 Years Ago Today In 1963 - Pipe organist Eddie Dunstedter, with unlisted others, records the titles "Happy Holiday" and "In The Clock Store" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue both titles on Dunstedter's album "The Bells Of Christmas Chime Again" (T/ST 1968)

55 Years Ago Today In 1963 - Glen Gray conducts The Casa Loma Orchestra (listed as similar to Shorty Sherock, Conrad Gozzo, Mannie Klein, and Joe Graves on trumpets, Milt Bernhart, Joe Howard, and Ed Kusby on trombones, George Roberts on bass trombone, Abe Most on clarinet and alto saxophone, Skeets Herfurt also on alto saxophone, Plas Johnson and Justin Gordon on tenor saxophones, Chuck Gentry on baritone saxophone, Ray Sherman on piano, Jack Marshall on guitar, Mike Rubin on bass, and Nick Fatool on drums) as they records the titels "Fly Me To The Moon (in the style of theme of the Casa Loma orchestra), "Stranger On The Shore (in the style of theme of Take The A Train by the Duke Ellington orchestra), and "I Will Follow You (in the style of theme of the Glenn Miller orchestra)" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Gray and the orchestra's album "The Sounds of The Great Bands, Volume 7: Today's Best" (T/ST 1938).

55 Years Ago Today In 1963 - Tenor saxophonist King Curtis, with Julius Held conducting Fred Zito on trombone, Tate Houston on baritone saxophone, George Stubbs on piano, Eric Gale and Cornell Dupree on guitars, Jimmy Lewis on bass, Ray Lucas on drums, and unlisted background vocalists, records the titles "Do The Monkey" and "Feel All Right" in (listed as possibly) Capitol Records' studio in New York City. Capitol Records will issue both titles together as a single (Capitol 4998).

1964 - The Beatles' single "Love Me Do" is #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles charts
50 Years Ago Today In 1968 - Overdubs are recorded in Los Angeles, California for Tony Sandler's and Ralph Young's titles "The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas To You)", "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing", "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas", "I Sing Noel", and "Susa-Ninna/Silent Night". Capitol Records will issue the final mixes of all the titles on Sandler and Young's album "Christmas World" (ST 2967) and the final mix of "I Sing Noel" with "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town" (recorded April 29, 1968) on the flipside.

50 Years Ago Today In 1968 - Norma Tanega, with unlisted others, records the titles "Everything Between Changes" and "A Snowflake Dies" in Los Angeles, California for Capitol Records which has yet to issue "Everything Between Changes". No issuing information is listed for "A Snowflake Dies".

1969 - The Beatles' Apple Records single "Get Back", with "Don't Let Me Down" on the flipside and distributed in the United States by Capitol Records, hits #1 on Billboard's singles chart where it will stay for 5 weeks
45 Years Ago Today In 1973 - Guitarist Howard Roberts, with unlisted other, records the titles "Where Is The Love", "Love Them From A Sensitive Movie (Indulge Me)", "H. R.'s Blues", and "You Are The Sunshine of My Life" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue "Where Is The Love" and "Love Them From A Sensitive Movie (Indulge Me)" on Roberts' album "Sounds" (ST-11247) and has yet to issue "H. R.'s Blues" and the take fo "You Are The Sunshine Of My Life" recorded at this session but will issue a new take recorded on August 13, 1973, also on the album "Sounds".

45 Years Ago Today In 1973 - Alex Harvey, with unlisted others, records the titles "Making Music For Money", "The Liberation (Of Lady Jane)", "Too Late, My Love", "Right On", "You Don't Need A Reason", "The Song Just Kept On Playing (Summer Days)", "I Like To Hear The Rain", "Goodbye Miss Carolina", and "The Sweeter It Grows" in Los Angeles, California. After an overdub is recorded at the same session for "The Song Just Keeps on Playing (Summer Days)", Capitol Records will issue the final mixes of all the titles on Harvey's album "True Love" (ST-11188).

1974 - Duke Ellington (born Edward Kennedy Ellington), Capitol Records artist (1953-1955), composer, pianist and bandleader, dies of cancer at age 75 in New York City and is later interred in Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York
1975 - Jessi Colter's Capitol Records single "I'm Not Lisa", with "For The First Time" on the flip side, is #1 on the U.S. Country singles chart
40 Years Ago Today In 1978 - Vocalist Glen Campbell, with unlisted others, records the titles "Ain't Nobody Laughin'", and "Suffer Little Children" at the Studio City studios in Sherman Oaks, California for Capitol Records which has yet to issue either title.
35 Years Ago Today In 1983 - Vocalist Anne Murray, with unlisted others, records the title "Come On Love" at Audio Media Recorders' studio in Nashville, Tennessee. Capitol Records will issue the title on Murray's album "A Little Good News" (ST-12301).
1991 - Gene Clark (born Howard Eugene Clark), songwriter, guitarist and vocalist as a solo artist and with the Capitol Records band McGuinn, Clark & Hillman, as well as the bands Dillard and Clark, The Byrds, and The New Christy Minstrels, is found unconscious at his home in Sherman Oaks, California and dies at age 46 from a heart attack brought on by complications of a bleeding ulcer. Clark is later buried in his hometown of Tipton, Missouri
1992 - Capitol Records releases Wildside's debut album "Under The Influence"
1994 - Capitol Records and Grand Royal Record releases Beastie Boys' album "Ill Communication".

2005 - Capitol Records releases Swedish band Shout Out Louds' debut full-length album, "Howl Howl Gaff Gaff".

2005 - Mike Krinik joins Capitol Records Nashville as regional director promotion, West Coast. Based in San Diego, Krinik works as a liaison between the label and country radio stations.
2006 - It's announced that Mae, Virginia-based emo-rock band, signed with Capitol Records

ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
60 Years Ago Today In 1958 - Pianist Bud Powell, with Sam Jones on bass and Philly Joe Jones on drums, records the two takes of the titles "John's Abbey" and "Sub City" and the titles "Buster Rides Again", "Dry Soul", "Marmalade", "Monopoly", and "Time Waits" at Rudy Van Gelder's studio in his parents' home in Hackensack, New Jersey. Blue Note Records will issue all the titles, except the first take of "John's Abbey" on Powell's album "Time Waits" (BLP1598 in mono and BST81598 in stereo) and all the titles and all the takes in the four-CD set "Bud Powell ‎– The Complete Blue Note And Roost Recordings" (8-30083-2).
60 Years Ago Today in 1958 - Baritone saxophonist Gerry Mulligan, with Art Farmer on trumpet, Frank Rosolino on trombone, Bud Shank on alto saxophone, Pete Jolly on piano, Red Mitchell on bass, and Shelly Manne on drums, records the title "Black Nightgown" in Los Angeles, California for the United Artists label. After EMI acquires United Artists' catalog, Blue Note Records will issue the title on the multi=artist compilation CD "California Cool: Presenting The Hip Jazz Sounds Of The West Coast" (7-80707-2).
55 Years Ago Today In 1963 - Vocalist Dinah Washington, with Fred Norman conducting his own arrangement to the orchestra (lineup unlisted) records the title "I Wanna Be Around" in Chicago, Illinois for the Roulette label. After EMI acquires Roulette's catalog, Blue Note Records will issue the title on the multi-artist compilation CD "Blue Vocals Vol. 2" (7-96583-2).
50 Years Ago Today In 1968 - Tenor saxophonist Booker Ervin, with Woody Shaw on trumpet, Kenny Barron on piano, Jan Arnett on bass, and Billy Higgins on drums, records the titles "In A Capricornian Way", "Den Tex", "Lynn's Tune", "204", and "Gichi" in recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder's studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. Blue Note Records will issue all the titles on Ervin's album "Tex Book Tenor" (BN-LA488-H2 on 12" vinyl and 3-11439-2 on CD).
1982 - "The Cooler", an eleven-minute film featuring Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, is shown at Cannes Film Festival. Ringo plays a prisoner in a jail policed entirely by women, two of whom are played by Linda McCartney and Barbara Bach (Ringo's wife)
35 Years Ago Today In 1983 - Vocalist Sheena Easton, with unlisted others, records the titles "Best Kept Man" and "Devil In A Fast Car" at an unlisted studio. EMI Americal will issue both titles on Easton's album "Best Kept Secret" (ST-17101) and an edited version of "Devil In A Fast Car" as a single (EMI America 8201) with "Sweet Talk" (recorded April 12, 1983) on the flipside.

1986 - Future Capitol Records artist Garth Brooks marries Sandy Mahl

ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL HISTORY
1941 - Bob Dylan, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and motion picture actor, is born Robert Allen Zimmerman in Duluth, Minnesota
1946 - Priscilla Beaulieu Presley, actress, mother of Capitol Records artist Lisa Marie Presley, grandmother of Danielle Riley Keough and Benjamin Storm Keough, and first wife of Elvis Presley, is born Priscilla Ann Wagner in Brooklyn, New York
50 Years Ago Today In 1968 - Future Virgin Records band The Rolling Stones' single "Jumping Jack Flash", with "Child Of The Moon" on the flipside, is released on London Records
1974 - "The Dean Martin Show" ends its nine-year run on NBC-TV
2002 - "Brian Wilson Presents Smile" is released as a 2 disc DVD
2005 - Vivian Dorraine Libreto Cash Distin, mother of Roseanne, Kathleen, Cindy and Tara Cash, and first wife of Johnny Cash dies in Ventura, California of complications after lung cancer surgery at age 71 on her daughter Roseanne's 50th birthday.