HAPPY BIRTHDAYS!
1929 - Chuck Barris, television producer, game show creator and host, songwriter, novelist, admitted assassin for the C.I.A., basis of the movie "Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind", and a Capitol Records artist (1969), is born born Charles Hirsch Barris in Oakland, New Jersey
1932 - Dakota Staton (aka Aliyah Rabia), singer, dancer, sister of saxophonist Fred Staton, and a Capitol Records and United Artists Records artist, is born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She was "discovered" by Capitol Records A&R man and producer Dave Cavanaugh while she was performing at The Baby Grand Club in Harlem, New York.
50 Years Ago Today In 1968 - Jamie O'Neal, singer, songwriter, and Capitol Records Nashville artist, is born Jamie Murphy in Sydney, Australia
ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
80 Years Ago Today In I938 - Eugen Jochum conducts The Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra (lineup unlisted) as they record the first movement Bruckner's "Symphony N° 5 In B Flat" in five parts, the second movement in six parts, and the third movement in Hamburg, Germany for Telefunken Records. After Capitol Records licenses Telefunken's catalog for release in the United States, it will issue all the parts for the first and second movements on the album "BRUCKNER - Symphony #5 In B Flat (Disc 1)" (P-8049) and the third movement on the album "BRUCKNER - Symphony #5 In B Flat (Disc 2)" (P-8050).
1947 - Benny Goodman and His Orchestra record a new take of the title "Eight, Nine And Ten" for Capitol Records with producer Lee Gillette, with Goodman handling the vocals instead of Peggy Lee, who recorded the first version of this song with the band on March 28, 1947.
1949 - Peggy Lee records the tracks "The Christmas Spell", "Goodbye, John", "Neon Signs", "Song At Midnight" and "Through A Long And Sleepless Night" for Capitol Records.
1950 - Nat "King" Cole (with Les Baxter and His Orchestra)'s Capitol Records single "Mona Lisa", the flipside of "The Greatest Inventor Of Them All", enters the top 20 of Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records chart at #15
1951 - Capitol Records country artist Hank Thompson and His Brazos Valley Boys (Billy Gray on guitar; Curly Chalker, Lefty Nason on steel guitar; Cliffie Stone, Billy Stewart on bass; Bill Foster on drums; Red Hayes on fiddle; Gil Baca on piano; Buddy Woody on accordion) record the track "Love Thief" at Sellers Company in Dallas, Texas. The track will be released by Capitol Records as a single with "How Do You Feel?" on the flip side.
1957 - Ferlin Husky's Capitol Records single "Gone" is #8 on Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records chart and Tommy Sands' Capitol Records single "Goin' Steady" is tied for #21 with Jim Lowe (with Billy Vaughn and His Orchestra)'s single "Four Walls".
60 Years Ago Today In 1958 - Trumpet player and bandleader Ray Anthony and His Orchestra (Pete Candoli, Conrad Gozzo, Jack Laubach, and Jack Holman also on trumpets, Milt Bernhart, Lew McCreary, Jimmy Priddy, and Abe Lincoln on trombones, Med Flory and Gus Bivona on clarinets and alto saxophones, Georgie Auld and Plas Johnson on tenor saxophones, Leo Anthony on baritone saxophone, Buddy Cole on piano, Bob Bain and Al Hendrickson on guitars, Don Simpson on bass, and Ray Martinez on drums) and vocal group The Skyliners(lineup unlisted), using arrangements by Don Simpson, record the titles "Swanee River" and "Dark Eyes" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue both titles on Anthony and his orchestra's album "Like Wild!" (T/ST 1304).
60 Years Today In 1958 - Vocalist Molly Bee, with an orchestra (lineup unlisted), records the titles "It's Been A Long, Long Time", "Blue Again", "I Get Along Without You Very Well", and "Why Don't We Do This More Often" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Bee's album "Young Romance" (T 1097).
55 Years Ago Today In 1963 - Capitol Records Canada releases Cliff Richards and The Shadows' album "On Your Mark...Get Set...Let's Go!" and their soundtrack album "Summer Holiday" is #1 on the CHUM LP chart. The label also releases Mrs. Mills' album "Summer Party.
55 Years Ago Today In 1963 - Capitol Records purchases the masters for The Legends' titles "My Love For You", "Temptation", and "Marionette" in Los Angeles, California but has yet to issue any of the titles.
55 Years Ago Today In 1963 - The Howard Roberts Quartet (Burkley Kendrix on organ, Howard Roberts on guitar, Chuck Berghofer on bass, and Earl Palmer on drums) records the titles "Satin Doll" and "Deep Fry" in Studio A of The Capitol Tower Studios at 1750 North Vine Street in Hollywood, California. Capitol Records will issue both titles on the quartet's album "H.R. Is A Dirty Guitar Player" (T/ST 1961).
55 Years Ago Today In 1963 - Violinist Nathan Milstein, with Anatole Fistoulari conducting The Philharmonia Orchestra (lineup unlisted), records part of the first movement and the entire second movement of Saint-Saens' "Concerto N° 3 In B Minor" at E.M.I.'s studios on Abbey Road in London, England. After acquiring the masters for the entire piece, Angel Records, at the time a subsidiary of Capitol Records, will issue it on the album "SAINT-SAENS - Concerto N° 3 In B Minor/CHAUSSON - Poeme For Violin & Orchestra" (S-36005).
1964 - Ringo Starr, drummer for The Beatles, collapses from tonsillitis and pharyngitis. Jimmy Nicol becomes substitute drummer when Ringo enters a London hospital for his throat problem and the band would rehearse with him in Abbey Road Studios the same day. Nicol would stay with the band for concerts in Holland, Amsterdam, Hong Kong and Australia until Ringo rejoins the band in Melbourne, Australia on June 14, 196450 Years Ago Today In 1968 - Capitol Records releases The Beach Boys' album "Friends".
50 Years Ago Today In 1968 - Sidewalk Records, a subsidiary of Capitol Records, releases The Smoke's self-titled album (ST 5912).
50 Years Ago Today In 1968 - Capitol Records Canada releases Frank Ifield's album "The Singer And The Song" (ST 6254)
50 Years Ago Today In 1968 - During two sessions held this day in The Capitol Tower Studios at 1750 North Vine Street in Hollywood, California between 8:00 PM and 11:00 PM with producer Dave Dexter, Jr., vocalist Ella Fitzgerald, with Benny Carter's Magnificent Seven (Harry Edison on trumpet, Benny Carter on alto saxophone, Georgie Auld on tenor saxophone, Hank Jones on piano, John Collins on guitar, Bob West on electric bass, and Louis Bellson on drums), records the titles "Medley: Candy/All I Do Is Dream Of You/Spring Is Here (Instrumental)/720 In The Books/It Happened In Monterey/What Can I Say After I Say I'm Sorry" and "Hawaiian War Chant" at the first session and the title "Medley: Four Or Five Times/Maybe/Takin' A Chance On Love (Instrumental)/Elmer's Tune/At Sundown/It's A Wonderful World" at the second session. Capitol Records will issue both medleys on Miss Fitzgerald's album "30 By Ella" (ST 2960) and "Hawaiian War Chant" as a single (Capitol 2267) with "It's Only Love" (recorded December 21, 1967) on the flipside. These will be Miss Fitzgerald's last sessions for Capitol Records.
50 Years Ago Today In 1968 - The Five Man Electrical Band (lineup unlisted) record the titles "Black Sheep Of The Family", "Fancy Dancing Man", and "We Go Together Well" in New York City, New York. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on the group's self-titled album "Five Man Electrical Band" (ST-165) and "We Go Well Together" also as a single (Capitol 2260) with "Didn't Know The Time" (recorded June 4, 1968) on the flipside as by The Staccatos.
35 Years Ago Today In 1983 - Industry (lineup unlisted) records five takes of the title "Still Of The Night" in an unlisted studio. Capitol Records will issue the first take on the group's self-titled mini-LP "Industry" (MLP-15011) and the second take on the group's album "Stranger To Stranger" (ST-12316). No issuing information is listed for the other three takes.
1990 - MC Hammer's Capitol Records album "Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em" is #1 on Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart1990 - Wilson Phillips' SBK Records (distributed by Capitol Records) single "Hold On" is #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart
1991 - Morrissey records the tracks "There's A Place In Hell For Me And My Friends", "My Love Life", and "Sing Your Life" live to two track DAT tape with no overdubs especially for KROQ-FM radio, with Boz Boorer and Alain White on guitars, Gary Day on bass, Spencer Cobrin on drums, and Morrissey on vocals, at Capitol Studios in Hollywood, California at an overnight session which Warner Bros. Records will release as a CD single entitled "Morrissey at KROQ"
1991 - Capitol Records announces that Los Angeles based hard rock band XYZ (guitarist Marc Diglio, bassist Patt Fontaine, vocalist Terry Ilous and drummer Paul Monroe), formerly with Enigma Records, has signed with the label and that they are finishing up work on their debut album "Hungry" with producer George Tutko
1994 - Wally Fowler (born John Wallace Fowler), Capitol Records artist (1945 as Wally Fowler and The Georgia Clodhoppers and later as Wally Fowler and The Oakridge Quartet), dies at age 77 after drowining in Dale Hollow Lake, northeast of Nashville, where he had been fishing
1997 - Capitol Records releases Peabo Bryson's album "I'm So Into You:The Passion of Peabo Bryson" and "Bossa Novaville", the 14th release in their UltraLounge series
2001 - Diana Krall begins recording her album "The Look Of Love" in The Capitol Tower Studios
15 Years Ago Today In 2002 - Janet H. Shifflett (born Janet Henry), a machinist for Capitol Records for 15 years and for Audiopak for seven years, dies at her home in Winchester, Virginia at age 62
15 Years Ago Today In 2003 - Capitol Records Nashville releases Trace Adkins' compilation album "Greatest Hits Collection, Vol.1"
2005 - Capitol Records Nashville announces that Garth Brooks has ended his relationship with the label and that EMI Music will no longer distribute his catalog
ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1957 - Rick Nelson's Imperial Records single "Teenager's Romance" is tied for #13 on Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records chart with The Coasters' single "Searchin'", and Nelson's Imperial Records single "I'm Walkin'" is #19, Fats Domino's Imperial Records single "Valley Of Tears" is #24 and Domino's Imperial Records single "I'm Walkin'" is #33. EMI Music Group, parent company of Capitol Music Group, currently owns the Imperial Records catalog.
55 Years Ago Today In 1963 - Tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson, with Kenny Dorham on trumpet, McCoy Tyner on piano, Butch Warren on bass, and Pete La Roca on drums, records the titles "Recorda Me", "Jinrikisha", "Blue Bossa", "La Mesha", "Out Of The Night", and "Home Stretch" in recoding engineer Rudy Van Gelder's studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. Blue Note Records will issue all the titles on Henderson's album "Page One" (BLP4140 on mono 12" vinyl, BST84140 in stereo 12" vinyl, and 7-84140-2 on CD) and also "Recorda Me" and "Blue Bossa" together as a single (Blue Note 45-1901).
1964 - Former Capitol Records artist Dean Martin hosts ABC-TV's variety show "The Hollywood Palace" which this night features future Virgin Records artists The Rolling Stones making their first U.S. television appearance during their first U.S. concert tour
1964 - The Stanley Turrentine Sextet (Blue Mitchell on trumpet, Curtis Fuller on trombone, Stanley Turrentine on tenor saxophone), Herbie Hancock piano, Bob Cranshaw on bass, and Otis Candy Finch on drums) records the tracks "Fried Pies" and "In Memory Of" with Mickey Roker on congo and "Sunday In New York", "Make Someone Happy", "Jodie's Cha Cha", and "Niger Mambo" at The Van Gelder Studio in Englewood, New Jersey with producer Alfred Lion and recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder and will be released in 1980 by Blue Note Records on the album "In Memory Of"
1969 - Arranger Gerald Wilson (with Larry McGuire, Jay Daversa, and Paul Hubinon on trumpet; Lester Robinson, Frank Strong, and Thurman Green on trombone; Alexander Thomas on bass trombone; Arthur Maebe on french horn; Henry DeVega and Anthony Ortega on alto saxophone; William Green on flute and piccolo; Ernie Watts on tenor saxophone, flute and piccolo; Hadley Caliman and Harold Land on tenor saxophone; Richard Aplanalp on baritone saxophone; Bobby Hutcherson on vibraphone; Richard Holmes on organ; George Duke on piano; Bob West on electric bass; and Carl Lott on drums) records the track "Pisces" (which will be released on the World Pacific Records album "Eternal Equinox"), as well as the tracks "You, Me and Now", "Bluesnee", and (with vocal by William Marshall) "Baby, Baby Don't You Cry" with producer Richard Bock and engineer Lanky Linstrot at Liberty Studios on Third Street, near Robertson Boulevard, in Los Angeles, California
1975 - Ozzie Nelson (born Oswald George Nelson), band leader, producer, director, radio and television actor, husband to Harriet Hilliard Nelson and father of David Nelson and Imperial and Capitol Records artist Eric "Ricky" Nelson, dies of cancer at age 69 and is later in Hollywood's Forest Lawn Cemetery
1979 - Kenny Rogers' Liberty Records single "She Believes In Me", with "Morgana Jones" on the flipside, is #1 on the U.S. Country singles charts
ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1932 - My grandparents, Martin and Marie Nielsen, arrive at Ellis Island from Hamburg, Germany on the S.S. New York on their way to Chicago, Illinois. My grandfather had emigrated from Germany in 1926, became a United States citizen, and then went back to bring my grandmother here. They'll live at 4741 Greenwood Avenue in Chicago, Illinois which would be my father's home until he graduated high school. They would then move to LaGrange, Illinois.
1964 - Peter Sellers leaves his hand and foot prints in cement during ceremony #127 at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California
1969 - The last original episode of "Star Trek" airs at 10:00 PM on a Friday on NBC-TV
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