JUNE 24, 2018

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
1942 - Bruce Johnston, songwriter (best know for "I Write The knowns"), keyboardist, drummer, bass player, singer, and member of The Beach Boys, is born Benjamin Baldwin in Peoria, Illinois and will be adopted three days later on June 27, 1942 and have his name changed to Bruce Arthur Johnston

ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1944 - Jo Stafford (with Paul Weston and His Orchestra)'s Capitol Records single "Long Ago (And Far Away)" (with "I Love You" on the flip side) is #6 up from #7 on Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records chart, Andy Russell (with orchestra conducted by Al Saks)'s Capitol Records single "Amor" (with "The Day After Forever" on the flipside) is #7 down from #5, and The King Cole Trio's Capitol Records single "Straighten Up And Fly Right" (with "I Can't See For Lookin'" on the flip side) enters the top 10 at #9.
70 Years Ago Today In 1948 - The King Cole Trio end a week of shows at The Apollo theater in Harlem, New York.
1950 - Nat "King" Cole (with Les Baxter and His Orchestra using a Nelson Riddle arrangement)'s Capitol Records single "Mona Lisa" (the flip side of "The Greatest Inventor Of Them All") is #5 up from #9 on Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records chart
1957 - Tommy Sands' Capitol Records single "Goin' Steady" is #19 up from #30 on Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records chart and Ferlin Husky's Capitol Records single "Gone" is #24 down from #15
1957 - It's a Monday, and at her last session for Capitol Records, vocalist Ella Mae Morse, with Billy May conducting his own arrangements to His Orchestra (John Best, Conrad Gozzo, and Mannie Klein on trumpet, Murray McEachern, George Roberts, and Si Zentner on trombone, Harry Klee on alto saxophone and flute, Les Robinson on alto saxophone, Ted Nash on tenor saxophone and flute, Gene Cipriano on tenor saxophone, Fred Falensby on baritone saxophone, Bill Miller [normally Frank Sinatra's accompanist] on piano, Al Hendrickson on guitar, Joe Mondragon on bass, and Alvin Stoller and Lou Singer on drums) records the titles "Music, Maestro, Please!", "Day In-Day Out", "You Go To My Head", and "Dream A Little Dream Of Me" in The Capitol Tower Studios at 1750 North Vine Street in Hollywood, California between 9:00 PM and 12:00 AM on June 25, 1957. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Morse's album "The Morse Code" (T 898).
60 Years Ago Today In 1958 - Vocalist Frank Sinatra, with Nelson Riddle conducting his own arrangements to the orchestra (Cappy Lewis on trumpet, Tommy Pederson, Russell Brown, and Ray Sims on trombones, Juan Tizol on valve trombone, George Price, James Decker, and Sinclair Lott on French horns, Arthur Gleghorn and Harry Klee on flutes, Sal Franzella, Morris Bercov and Chuck Gentry on clarinets, Champ Webb and Arnold Koblentz on oboes, Norman Herzberg, Don Christlieb on bassoon, Bill Miller and John Williams, Jr. on piano, Al Viola on guitar, Eddie Gilbert and Joe Comfort on bass, Frank Flynn and Bill Richmond on drums and percussion, Kathryn Julye on harp, Victor Arno, Israel Baker, Victor Bay, Alex Beller, Arnold Belnick, Ben Gill, Daniel Karpilowsky, Erno Neufeld, Paul Shure, Felix Slatkin, Marshall Sosson, and Gerald Vinci on violins, Alvin Dinkin, Stanley Harris, Paul Robyn, and David Sterkin on violas, and James Arkatov, Armand Kaproff, Joseph Saxon, and Eleanor Slatkin on cello), records the titles "Blues In The Night", "What's New", and "Gone With The Wind" then, with just Bill Miller on piano accompanying Sinatra, a rehearsal for the title "One For My Baby" in The Capitol Tower Studios at 1750 North Vine Street in Hollywood, California between 8:30 PM and 11:30 PM. Capitol Records will issue "Blues In The Night", "What's New", and "Gone With The Wind" in the album "Frank Sinatra Sings For Only The Lonely" (W/SW/ST 1053 on 12" vinyl and 7-48471-2 on CD) and the rehearsal for "One For My Baby" in 1990 in the box set "The Sinatra Collection" (C1-94777 on five 12" vinyl discs and 7-94317-2 on three CDs). Another take of "One For My Baby" with Miller on piano, a string section, and a saxophone will be recorded on June 25, 1958, and will also be issued on the album "Sings For Only The Lonely" and as a single (Capitol F6193) with "I've Got You Under My Skin" (recorded January 12, 1956) on the flipside.
1961 - Peggy Lee, with producer Dave Cavanaugh and a studio orchestra (Justin Gordon and Theodore Nash on flute; an unknown french horn section, an unknown string section using arrangements by Quincy Jones; Dennis Budimir and Al Hendrickson on guitar; Max Bennett on bass; Victor Feldman on piano and vibraphones; Stan Levey and Shelly Manne on drums; Francisco "Chino" Pozo on bongos and congas; Mike Gutierrez and Mel Zelnick on percussion), records the tracks "Say It Isn't So" and "Maybe It's Because (I Love You)" at The Capitol Tower Studios in Hollywood, California for her Capitol Records album "If You Go"
55 Years Ago Today In 1963 - Capitol Records releases Buck Owens and Rose Maddox's single "We're The Talk Of The Town" with "Sweethearts In Heaven" on the flip side
1964 - Instrumental tracks for The Beach Boys' songs "Frosty The Snowman" and "I'll Be Home For Christmas", using a 41 piece orchestra conducted by orchestra master Benjamin Barrett and arranged by Dick Reynolds, are recorded in The Capitol Tower Studios. Vocal tracks for the songs will be recorded on June 30 at Western Studios in Hollywood, California
1968 - Capitol Records releases The Beach Boys' album "Friends"
1972 - Capitol Records releases Helen Reddy's single "I Am Woman" with "More Than You Could Take" on the flipside. The track would go on to hit #1 on Billboard's singles chart on December 9, 1972 (Capitol's first non-Beatles #1 since "Bobbie Gentry's "Ode To Billie Joe" peaked on August 29, 1967) and would win Reddy a Grammy for Female Pop Vocal Performance for which, at the televised ceremony, she would thank God because "...She makes everything possible".
1972 - Sonny James' Capitol Records single "That's Why I Love You Like I Do", with "Still Waters Run Deep" on the flipside, is #1 on the U.S. Country singles chart
1974 - Capitol Records releases The Beach Boys' compilation album "Endless Summer", Tennessee Ernie Ford's single "Come On Down" with "Bits And Pieces Of Life" on the flipside, and Buck Owens' single "(It's A) Monster's Holiday" with "Great Expectations" on the flipside
40 Years Ago Today In 1978 - A Taste of Honey's debut Capitol Records single, "Boogie Oogie Oogie" with "World Spin" on the flipside, enters Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart at #82 and will hit #1 in 11 weeks and stay #1 for 3 weeks. The track got it's initial release as the a side of a promotional 12" single for clubs that had Gloria Jones' "Bring on The Love (Why Can't We Be Friends Again)" on the flipside.
1987 - Jackie Gleason, composer, conductor, comedian, motion picture and television actor, and Capitol Records recording artist, dies of colon and liver cancer at Inverrary, Florida home at age 71 and is later interred in the Our Lady Of Mercy Cemetery, Miami Beach, Florida
1989 - Liberty Records (later to become Capitol Records Nashville) artist Garth Brooks debuts on The Grand Ole Opry
1991 - Capitol Records releases Tennessee Ernie Ford's album "Red, White & Blue"
15 Years Ago Today In 2003 - Capitol Records releases the album "Songs For Life", whose proceeds will go to a U.S. non-profit group, The Royal Initiative to Combat AIDS, which is helping fight the epidemic in Southern Africa. The album, supervised by producer Phil Ramone, features tracks from John Lennon, Paul Simon, Aretha Franklin, Pattie LaBelle, Carole King, Judy Collins and Lennon with Yoko Ono.
15 Years Ago Today In 2003 - Capitol Records releases Liz Phair's self-titled album
2004 - Stanley M. Gortikov, former president of Capitol Records (1968-1969), president and CEO of Capitol Industries (1969-1971), and president of the Recording Industry Association of America (1972-1987) dies of natural causes at his home in Los Angeles at age 85.
2005 - Capitol Records releases OK Go's 3 song EP "Do What You Want"

ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1949 - The movie features of Hopalong Cassidy premiere on TV. The films are edited to thirty and sixty-minute versions and star future Capitol Records childrens' records artist William Boyd as Hopalong and Edgar Buchanan as his sidekick, Red Connors
1957 - Rick Nelson's Imperial Records single "Teenager's Romance is #8 up from #10 on Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records chart, Fats Domino's Imperial Records single "Valley Of Tears" is #16 up from #22, and Rick Nelson's Imperial Records single "I'm Walkin'" is tied for #37 (down from #27) with Pat Boone (with Billy Vaughn and His Orchestra)'s single "Bernadine". Imperial Records' catalog is currently owned by Universal Music Group, Capitol Music Group's parent company.

ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1904 - Phil Harris, bandleader, singer, radio, television and motion picture actor, husband of actress Alice Faye, with whom he had a popular sitcom radio show, and voice actor (Baloo in Walt Disney's "The Jungle Book") is born Wonga Philip Harris in Linton, Indiana