ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
101. "I Found A New Baby" and "The General Jumped At Dawn" by Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra
102. "Here You Are" by Freddie Slack and His Orchestra with David Street on vocals and "Cow-Cow Boogie" also by Freddie Slack and His Orchestra with Ella Mae Morse on vocals
103. "Strip Polka" by Johnny Mercer with Gordon Jenkins and His Orchestra and "The Air-Minded Executive" by Johnny Mercer with Freddie Slack and His Orchestra
104. "Johnny Doughboy Found A Rose In Ireland" and "Phil The Fluter's Ball" by Dennis Day
105. "The Angels Cried" and "I'll Remember April" by Martha Tilton with Gordon Jenkins and His Orchestra
106. "He Wears A Pair Of Silver Wings" by Connie Haines with Gordon Jenkins and His Orchestra and "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows" by Gordon Jenkins and His Orchestra
The records were manufactured by three companies: Scranton Record Company in Pennsylvania and Allied Records in California, who both pressed the records out of shellac and reclaimed shellac, and Clark Phono Company in Newark, New Jersey, which due to war restrictions, used a proprietary non-shellac material.
70 Years Ago Today In 1948 - Vocalists Pinto Colvig and Mel Blanc record "Bozo And Bugs Bunny Talk Big Business" in two parts in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue both parts together as the label's first promotional record (possibly Capitol 3353 according to an ebay auction of the record held in 2016) on a 10" shellac disc. If anyone has images of the labels and/or a copy of the audio, please leave a comment.
70 Years Ago Today In 1948 - The U.C.L.A. Glee Club (lineup unlisted) records the titles "Hail To California", "By The Old Pacific", "Team Hear Our Song" and "Hail Blue And Gold" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue "Hail To California" and "Team Hear Our Song" together as a single (Capitol 57-764 and 54-764) and has yet to issue either By The Old Pacific" or "Hail Blue And Gold".
1950 - Mel Blanc records the tracks "Yosemite Sam" and "I Taut I Taw A Puddy Tat" for the double-disc Capitol Records children's record "Bugs Bunny Sings". The two tracks will also be released as a single with a picture sleeve in 1951 and "I Taut I Taw A Puddy Tat" would peak at #9 on Billboard's singles chart and be one of the top 20 songs of the year. The song was produced by Alan Livingston. Livingston, with Billy May and Warren Foster, would also write the lyrics and May would write, arrange and conduct the music.
1951 - The Four Freshmen (Bob Flanigan on vocal, trombone, and bass; Don Barbour on vocal and guitar; Ross Barbour on vocal and drums; and Hal Kratzsch on vocal, trumpet, mellophone, and bass) record the tracks "It's A Blue World" and "Tuxedo Junction" (which will be released by Capitol Records as Capitol single #2152) as well as "Intermission Riff" (which will finally be released when it appears on 2000 Mosaic Records box set "The Complete Capitol Four Freshmen Sessions April 1950-July, 1960") with producer Voyle Gilmour at Capitol's Melrose Avenue studios in Hollywood, California
1959 - Franck Pourcel and His French Fiddlers' Capitol Records single "Only You (Loin De Vous)" is #23 down from #12 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart and The Kingston Trio's Capitol Records single "M.T.A." enters the top 40 at #28 up from #49
1960 - Arranger and tenor saxophonist Bill Holman (with Al Porcino, Conte Candoli, Lee Katzman, and Ray Triscari on trumpet; Bill Perkins and Richie Kamuca on tenor saxophone; Charlie Kennedy, Joe Maini, and Richie Kamuca on alto saxophone; Frank Rosolino, Lew McGreery, and Vern Friley on trombone; Jack Nimitz on baritone saxophone; Jimmy Rowles on piano; Joe Mondragon on bass; Kenny Shroyer on bass trombone; and Mel Lewis on drums) record the tracks "Quickstep", "The Moon Is Blue", and "June Is Busting Out All Over" for his Capitol Records album "Bill Holman's Great Big Band" at The Capitol Tower Studios in Hollywood, California
55 Years Ago Today In 1963 - Kyu Sakamoto's Capitol Records single "Sukiyaki" (with "Anoko No Namaewa Nantenkana" on the flipside) is still #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart, Nat "King" Cole's single "Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days Of Summer" is #6 up from #7, Bobby Darin's Capitol Records single "Yellow Roses" is #16 down from #11, The Beach Boys' Capitol Records single "Surfin' U.S.A." is #17 down from #16, Al Martino's Capitol Records single "I Love You Because" is #19 down from #9, and The Beach Boys' single "Shut Down" (the flipside of "Surfin' U.S.A." is #29 down from #23. Also, Nat "King" Cole's Capitol Records single "Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days Of Summer" is #3 on The Billboard magazine's Middle-Road Singles chart, #9 on KDWB's Top 40 chart in Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota, #10 on KFWB's Fabulous Forty Survey in Los Angeles, California, and #38 on C-FUN's C-Funtastic Fifty chart in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Nat "King" Cole's Capitol Records album "Ramblin' Rose" is #36, his album "Dear Lonely Hearts" #70, and his album "Where Did Everyone Go?" is #143 on The Billboard magazine's Top LPs 150 Best Sellers - Monaural chart.
1964 - Capitol Records releases Nat "King" Cole's single "Marnie" based on music from the soundtrack of the Alfred Hitchcock movie, with "More And More Of Your Amour" on the flipside.
1967 - Wanda Jackson records the track "No Place To Go But Home" with producers Ken Nelson and Kelso Herston for her Capitol Records album "Cream Of The Crop" and "You Created Me" with Nelson, Herston and George Richy producing for her Capitol Records album "Wanda Jackson Country!" at Columbia Studios in Nashville, Tennessee
50 Years Ago Today In 1968 - Capitol Records subsidiary Tower Records releases Pink Floyd's second album "A Saucerful Of Secrets"
1989 - Capitol Records releases Paul McCartney's "Flowers In The Dirt" album
1999 - Capitol Records releases Grand Funk Railroad's anthology album "Thirty Years Of Funk"
2002 - Rosemary Clooney, singer, motion picture and television actress, wife of Capitol Records artist (original Broadway cast album for "Cyrano de Bergerac") Jose Ferrer, lover of arranger and Capitol Records artist Nelson Riddle, and a Capitol Records artist (on a duet album with Bing Crosby), dies at age 74 of lung cancer at her home in Beverly Hills, California. Her home, formerly the home of lyricist Ira Gershwin, has been demolished by a new owner.
ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1916 - Porky Freeman, guitarist and Western Swing bandleader who gave future Capitol Records artist Merle Travis his first job after Travis moved to California, is born Quilla Hugh Freeman, in Vera Cruz, Missouri
75 Years Ago Today In 1943 - Little Eva, singer (best known for "The Loco-Motion", which was later covered by Capitol Records group Grand Funk Railroad and future Capitol Records artist Kyle Minogue), is born Eva Narcissus Boyd in Belhaven, North Carolina
1959 - Martin Denny's Liberty Records single "Quiet Village" is #8 down from #6 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart, Dion and The Belmonts' Dolton Records single "A Teenager In Love" is #10 down from #8, Fats Domino's Imperial Records single "I'm Ready" is #29 down from #18. Universal Music Group, Capitol Records' parent company, currently owns the Liberty, Dolton, and Imperial Records catalogs.
55 Years Ago Today In 1963 - The Essex's Roulette Records single "Easier Said Than Done" is #5 up from #15 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart, The Chiffon's Laurie Records single "One Fine Day" is #7 up from #10, Jan And Dean's Liberty Records single "Surf City is #10 up from #20, and Lou Christie's Roulette Records single "Two Faces Have I" is #26 down from #14. Roulette, Laurie, and Liberty Records' catalogs are currently owned by Capitol Music Group's parent company, EMI Music Group.
55 Years Ago Today In 1963 - Del Shannon's cover of The Beatles' tune "From Me To You" enters Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart, becoming the first Lennon/McCartney song to appear on the U.S. charts
1986 - Dan Seal's EMI America Records single "Everything That Glitters (Is Not Gold)", with "So Easy To Need" on the flipside, is #1 on the U.S. Country singles charts. EMI America's Country catalog is currently being distributed by Capitol Records Nashville.
ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1919 - Slim Pickens, motion picture actor ("Blazing Saddles", "Dr. Strangelove...", "1941", etc.), is born Louis Bert Lindley Jr., in Kingsburg, California. Let the whoopin' and a hollerin' commence! :)
1940 - Victor Records releases Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra's single "I'll Never Smile Again", It will be the band's first big hit with future Capitol Records artists Frank Sinatra and The Pied Pipers as vocalists. The track had been recorded on May 23, 1940, in New York City and will become the first #1 on Billboard's first top 10 selling chart on July 20, 1940, and would be both Sinatra and The Pied Piper's first #1 on any charts. The instrumental "Marcheta" is on the flip side.
55 Years Ago Today In 1963 - Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine, at ceremony #123, leave their footprints in cement at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood, California
1967 - Jayne Mansfield, a singer and actress on Broadway and in motion pictures, is killed at age 34 in an auto accident on U.S. Highway 90 on her way from an engagement at a supper club in Biloxi, Mississippi to a TV interview in New Orleans, Louisiana. Also killed is Mansfield's driver and her divorce lawyer, and suffering minor injuries are three of Manfield's children including future "Law & Order S.V.U." actress Mariska Hargitay.
35 Years Ago Today In 1983 - Sylvester Stallone, at ceremony #148, leaves his footprints in cement at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood, California
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