tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-182857702024-03-13T22:28:51.641-04:00popculturefanboyThis blog contains information, that I gather daily, about the history of Capitol Records, related labels, The Capitol Records Tower, and other pop culture events and anniversaries.
Please contact me if you have any corrections, comments and/or facts you'd like to share.
To see some great photos of the opening of The Capitol Tower and to get a quick overview of Capitol's early history check out the archive for April 2006.markhnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07093257264296534672noreply@blogger.comBlogger4445125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18285770.post-60795091851842211192022-05-08T00:00:00.017-04:002022-05-08T16:17:32.705-04:00<p> MAY 8, 2022</p><br />HAPPY BIRTHDAYS!<div><br />1905 - "Red" Nichols, cornet player, bandleader (Red Nichols and His Five Pennies), and Capitol Records recording artist in the '50s and '60s, is born Ernest Loring Nichols in Ogden, Utah. The film "The Five Pennies" is based loosely on Nichols' life with actor and Capitol Records artist Danny Kaye playing Nichols.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioZfyHzadRLk4iFAC4Zvd3CstygJjepuyD0UKFf_SzDl0MY57E9t1cZI7RCuOXLq5-aXJArFRQd-SFJI80gDUkuzsojSA_1OMelcrdRco6Tu8Gb264gmZFQRw6hAto5vcRIcQaT6W0UnOFNtLuMyDfbSXiqFf0DulJ6Mgyoc0IO_ZNUeAdX8I/s600/RedNicholsHotPennies.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="594" data-original-width="600" height="317" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioZfyHzadRLk4iFAC4Zvd3CstygJjepuyD0UKFf_SzDl0MY57E9t1cZI7RCuOXLq5-aXJArFRQd-SFJI80gDUkuzsojSA_1OMelcrdRco6Tu8Gb264gmZFQRw6hAto5vcRIcQaT6W0UnOFNtLuMyDfbSXiqFf0DulJ6Mgyoc0IO_ZNUeAdX8I/s320/RedNicholsHotPennies.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div><br />1940 - Rick Nelson, a singer, guitarist, a radio, television, and motion-picture actor, and an Imperial and Capitol Records artist, is born Eric Hilliard Nelson in Teaneck, New Jersey.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnh_XhUDODiuJugiBDuUMh8ZaF0f6gM2mAq2Lx2fpP1QDp7jzF1A2e-0X8JCkRLooZ7Fepyd8CW6wB0NlBfWsmKYbt_L1lYQw6BgaOkV96-6nFhiSdMNgpGnRm4L2ITg9FR8OHjDQ7lEfsN5NBX1CSGhkuewDRfT4lQkDyWQGXV8G9zY5p7oQ/s500/RickNelsonPlayingToWin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnh_XhUDODiuJugiBDuUMh8ZaF0f6gM2mAq2Lx2fpP1QDp7jzF1A2e-0X8JCkRLooZ7Fepyd8CW6wB0NlBfWsmKYbt_L1lYQw6BgaOkV96-6nFhiSdMNgpGnRm4L2ITg9FR8OHjDQ7lEfsN5NBX1CSGhkuewDRfT4lQkDyWQGXV8G9zY5p7oQ/s320/RickNelsonPlayingToWin.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div><br /><br />ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL HISTORY</div><div><br />75 Years Ago Today In 1947 - Jean Stewart signs a contract with Capitol Records.</div><div><br />75 Years Ago Today In 1947 - At a split session held at Radio Recorders' studios at 932 N. Western Avenue in Hollywood, California, first vocalists Johnny Mercer and The Pied Pipers (lineup unlisted), with Paul Weston and His Orchestra (Ray Linn, Zeke Zarchy, and Don Anderson on trumpets, Allan Thompson, Bill Schaefer, and Carl Loeffler on trombones, Fred Stulce, Matty Matlock, Herbie Haymer, Hap Lawson, and Len Hartman on saxophones, Milt Raskin on piano, George Van Eps on guitar, Jack Ryan on bass, Nick Fatool on drums, and unlisted musicians on 6 violins, 2 violas, 1 cello, and 1 harp), record the titles "Tallahassee" and "Cecilia" and then vocalist and trumpet player Wingy Manone and vocalist Johnny Mercer, with the addition of unlisted reed players and without the string section, record the title "Box Car Blues". Capitol Records will issue the first two titles together as a single (Capitol 422) and Mosaic Records will issue the last title on the compilation box set "Classic Capitol Jazz Sessions" (LP - MQ19-170, CD - MD12-170). Wingy Manone and His Orchestra will record another version of "Box Car Blues" on May 23, 1947, with the same lineup, and that version will be the one released as a single by Capitol Records (Capitol 442).</div><div><br />75 Years Ago Today In 1947 - Vocalist Freddie Stewart, with The Buddy Cole Orchestra (Buddy Cole listed as possibly on piano, Ernie Felice on accordion, Dave Barbour on guitar, & other unlisted musicians), records the titles "There's That Lonely Feeling Again" and "Sincerely Yours" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue both titles together as a single (Capitol 426).</div><div><br />1948 - Nat "King" Cole's Capitol Records single "Nature Boy" (with orchestra conducted by Frank DeVol) hits #1 on Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records chart for the first of an 8-week stay, and Peggy Lee with then-husband Dave Barbour and His Orchestra's Capitol Records single "Mañana" ends its nine weeks stay at #1 and is now #3.</div><div><br />70 Years Ago Today In 1952 - Pianist Joe "Fingers" Carr (aka Lou Busch [Bush]), with an uncredited orchestra, records the titles "Twelfth Street Rag", "The Daughter Of Rosie O'Grady", and "Dardanella" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Carr's album "Rough House Piano" (EBF-345).</div><div><br />1954 - Frank Sinatra (with Nelson Riddle and His Orchestra)'s Capitol Records single "Young At Heart" is #2 on Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records chart, Nat"King" Cole (with Nelson Riddle and His Orchestra)'s Capitol Records single "Answer Me, My Love" is #8, Kay Starr's double-sided hit Capitol Records single has "If You Love Me (Really Love Me) at #9 and its flipside, "The Man Upstairs" at #10, and Les Paul and Mary Ford's Capitol Records single "I Really Don't Want To Know" at #19.</div><div><br />65 Years Ago Today In 1957 - Vocalist Ann Leonardo, with Dick Reynolds and His Orchestra and Chorus (lineup unlisted), record an unissued take of the title "Three Time Loser", the titles "Lottery" and "One And Only", and an unissued take of the title "I Must Have Your Lovin'" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue the second and third titles together as a single (Capitol F3733).</div><div><br />65 Years Ago Today In 1957 - Vocalist Jane Froman, with Marion Evans conducting the orchestra (lineup unlisted but includes French horns, reeds, piano, guitar, bass, and drum players), records the titles "Under A Blanket Of Blue", "Red Sails In The Sunset", "You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To", and "At Sundown" in New York City, New York. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Froman's album "Songs At Sunset" (T 889).</div><div><br />1958 - Vocalist Nat "King" Cole, with Gordon Jenkins and his Orchestra (Rene Favre on piano, John Collins on guitar, Charles Harris on bass, Lee Young on drums, Victor Arno, Harry Bluestone, Sam Cytron, Harold Dicterow, Kurt Dieterle, Walt Edelstein, Dave Frisina, Jacques Gasselin, Nate Kaproff, Murray Kellner, Sol Kindler, Joseph Livoti, Dan Lube, Rickey Marino, Erno Neufeld, Nick Pisani, Joe Quadri, Lou Raderman, Nathan Ross, Mischa Russell, and Marshall Sosson on violins, Bill Baffa, Lou Kievman, Ray Menhennick, and David Sterkin on violas, Armand Kaproff and Ray Kramer on cellos, and Kathryn Thompson on harp), records the titles "Magnificent Obsession", "Cherie, I Love You", "Impossible", "But Beautiful", and "For All We Know" at The Capitol Tower Studios at 1750 North Vine Street in Hollywood, California between 2:30 PM and 5:30 PM. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Cole's album "The Very Thought Of You" (W/SW 1084).</div><div><br />1958 - Cornet player Bobby Hackett, with Pepe Moreale on piano, John Giuff (aka John Giuffrida) on bass, and Buzzy Drootin on drums, records the titles "Paradise", "I'll See You In My Dreams" with Moreale on celeste for the opening and closing melodies, "If You Were There", and "My Mondy Date" in an unlisted studio in New York City, New York although issued as recorded live at the Embers. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Hacket's album "Bobby Hackett At The Embers" (T/ST 1077).</div><div><br />1959 - Frank Sinatra records the titles "High Hopes" and "Love Looks So Well On You" with Nelson Riddle, who arranged both titles, conducting the studio orchestra at The Capitol Tower Studios in Hollywood, California. "High Hopes" would later be adapted to become John F. Kennedy's campaign song with Sinatra supplying the vocals to new lyrics.</div><div><br />1961 - Faron Young's Capitol Records single "Hello Walls" is #29 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart.</div><div><br />1961 - Jean Shepard records the title "Two Voices Two Shadows Two Faces" at the Bradley Film & Recording Studio in Nashville, Tennessee which will be released by Capitol Records.</div><div><br />60 Years Ago Today In 1962 - During two sessions held this day in The Capitol Tower Studios at 1750 Vine Street in Hollywood, California, vocalist Vic Damone, with Billy May conducting his own arrangements to the orchestra (Joe Graves, Bobby Bryant, and Mannie Klein on trumpets, Francis "Joe" Howard on trombone, Jules Jacob, Plas Johnson, Jules Kinsler, and Chuck Gentry on saxophones, Joe Parnello on piano, Al Hendrickson on guitar, Meyer Rubin on bass, Sidney Bulkin on drums, Bob Barene, Jacques Gasselin, James Getzoff, Anatol Kaminsky, Lou Klass, Erno Neufeld, Stanley Plummer, Lou Raderman, Nathan Ross, Paul Shure, Felix Slatkin, and Marshall Sosson on violins, and Edgar Lustgarten and Eleanor Slatkin on cellos), records the titles "Cathy", "Ruby", "Laura", "Nina Never Knew", and "What Kind Of Fool Am I?" at the first session between 4:00 PM and 7:00 PM and then, with Conrad Gozzo and Uan Rasey replacing Joe Graves on trumpet, the addition of Milt Bernhart, Lew McCreary, and George Roberts on trombone and Billy Strange on guitar, records the titles "I Want A Little Girl", "The Most Beautiful Girl In The World", "Marie", "Little Girl" and "Diane" at the second session between 8:30 PM and 12:00 AM on May 9, 1952. Capitol Records will issue all the titles, except "Cathy" on Damone's album "The Lively Ones" (T 1748) and will issue "Cathy" as a single (Capitol 4799) with "Vieni, Vieni" (recorded June 6, 1962) on the flipside.</div><div><br />55 Years Ago Today In 1967 - LaVern Andrews, a singer, motion picture actress, and Capitol Records artist as part of The Andrews Sisters from 1956 to 1959, dies at age 55 of cancer in Brentwood, California, and is later buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California.</div><div><br />55 Years Ago Today In 1967 - Tony Sandler and Ralph Young (on vocals), with Billy May conducting Sid Feller's arrangements to the orchestra (John Audino, Pete Candoli, Ray Triscari, and Uan Rasey on trumpets, Milt Bernhart, Phillip Teele, Lloyd Ulyate on trombones, and Harry Klee on bass clarinet and flute, Justin Gordon on clarinet, flute, and tenor saxophone, Abe Most on clarinet, alto saxophone, and flute, Jack Nimitz on clarinet, bass clarinet, and baritone saxophone, Arnold Ross on piano and organ, Al Hendrickson and Bob Bain on guitars, Chuck Berghofer on bass, and electric bass, Stan Levey on drums, and Gene Estes on percussion), record the titles "Sentimental Journey", "Marie", "Cabaret", an unissued take of the title "The Exodus", and the title "The Late, Late Show" at The Capitol Tower Studios in Hollywood California between 8:00 PM and 11:00 PM. Capitol Records will issue the second, third, and fifth titles on Sandler and Young's album "More & More Of Tony Sandler & Ralph Young" (T 2802) and the first title on the compilation CD "Spotlight On..., Volume 11 - Sandler & Young" (8-32944-2).</div><div><br />55 Years Ago Today In 1967 - Joanie Summers records the titles "Trains And Boats And Planes", "Yesterday Morning (Woke Up This Morning)", and "Window Wishing" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue the first two titles together as a single (Capitol 5936). There is no issuing information listed for the last title.</div><div><br />55 Years Ago Today In 1967 - People (lineup unlisted) record the title "She's A Dancer" and an unissued take of the title "Floor Talk" in (listed as possibly) Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue the first title on the group's album "Both Sides Of People" (ST-151).</div><div><br />1968 - During two sessions held this day in Studio A of The Capitol Tower Studios at 1750 North Vine Street in Hollywood, California, pianist and bandleader Stan Kenton and His Orchestra (Mike Price, Jim Kartchner, Jay Daversa, Carl Leach, and John Madrid on trumpets, Dick Shearer, Tom Whittaker and Shelley Denny on trombone, Joe Randazzo on bass trombone, Bob Goodwin on tuba, Ray Reed on flute and alto saxophone, Mike Altschul on tenor saxophone and bass clarinet, Bob Crosby on tenor saxophone and clarinet, Earle Dumler on baritone saxophone and English horn, Bill Fritz on baritone and bass saxphone and alto flute, Howard Roberts on guitar, John Worster on bass, Dee Barton on drums, Efraim Logreira on Latin perucssion, Steve Dweck also on Latin percusion and typmani, and Milt Holland on tympany and percussion) using compositions and arrangements by Dee Barton, record the titles "Personal Sounds, Part 6" and "Personal Sounds, Part 7" at the first session between 11:00 AM and 2:00 PM and the titles "Personal Sounds, Part 8" with the addition of James McGee, Richard Mackey, Willie Ruff, and David Duke on French horns, and "Personal Sounds, Part 9" at the second session between 3:00 PM and 6:00 PM for Capitol Records. All the titles recorded at both sessions were rejected.</div><div><br />1968 - Jackie & Roy (vocalist Jackie Cain and electric piano player and vocalist Roy Krail) with Andy Muson on electric bass and Jim Molinary on drums, record the titles "Fixin' A Hole" and "Lady Madonna" with the addition of Ray De Sio on trombone, Artie Shroeck and George Young on saxophones, and Stuart Sharf on guitar using arrangements by Artie Shroeck, and "Open" in New York City, New York. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on the duo's album "Grass" (ST 2936).</div><div><br />50 Years Ago Today In 1968 - Overdubs are recorded for guitarist Merle Travis' title "Ma, He's Making Eyes At Me" in Nashville, Tennessee. Capitol Records will issue the final mix of the title on Travis' album "Strictly Guitar" (ST 2938).</div><div><br /><div>1970 - Capitol Records releases The Beatles' "Let It Be" soundtrack album in the United States.</div><div><br /></div>50 Years Ago Today In 1972 - Billy May and The Time-Life Orchestra (lineup unlisted) recorded the titles "Gigi", "Land Of Dreams", "Theme From 'Limelight'", and "Theme From 'A Summer Place'" at The Capitol Tower Studios in Hollywood, California. Time-Life Records will issue the first, third, and last titles as part of the "As You Remember Them" Series of 3 LP sets on the album "Volume 1 - Billy May" (STL 241) and the second title on the album "Volume 6 - Billy May" (STL 246).</div><div><br />50 Years Ago Today In 1972 - Capitol Records registered the masters it licensed from Apple Records for John Lennon and Plastic Ono Band's titles "Woman Is The Nigger Of The World" and "Sisters, O Sisters", Chris Hodge's titles "We're On Our Way" and "Supersoul", and Dave Meadow's titles "I Didn't Mean To Love You So Good, Juanita" and "Lucky Me". Capitol will distribute both of Lennon's titles as a single (Apple 6244) and both of Chris Hodge's titles together as a single (Apple 1850) on the Apple label in the United States but will not distribute either of Dave Meadow's titles in the United States.</div><div><br />1973 - During two sessions held this day in Los Angeles, California, vocalist Helen Reddy, with unlisted others records the title "(Sittin' There) Lovin' You" at the first session and the titles "If We Could Still Be Friends", "The Westwind Circus", and "Old Fashioned Way" at the second session. After overdubs are recorded for all the titles on the same day, Capitol Records will issue all the final mixes of all the titles on Reddy's album "Long Hard Climb" (SMAS-11213) and "If We Could Still Be Friends" also as a single (Capitol 3645) with "Delta Dawn" (recorded May 10, 1973) on the flipside and "Old Fashioned Way" also as a single (Capitol 3768) with "Leave Me Alone (Ruby Red Dress)" (recorded May 28, 1973) on the flipside.</div><div><br />1973 - Vocalist Red Steagall, with unlisted others, records the titles "Bring Back The Waltzes", "Little Old Heartbreaker You", and "She's A Lady At Home" in Nashville, Tennessee. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Steagall's album "If You've Got The Time, I've Got The Song" (ST-11228).</div><div><br />1978 - Vocalist Juice Newton, with unlisted others, records the titles "A Love Like Yours" and "Close Enough" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue both titles on Newton's album "Well Kept Secret" (SW-11811).</div><div><br />1978 - Vocalist Karen Wheeler, with unlisted others, records the titles "How Will I Get Over You", "Ain't No Mountain High Enough", "For The First Time In My Life", and "How Is The Sun In California" at Woodland Sound Studio in Nashville, Tennesse. Capitol Records will issue "How Will I Get Over You" and "How Is The Sun In California" together as a single (Capitol 4595), "How Will I Get Over You" and "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" together as a single (Capitol 4697), and has yet to issue "For The First Time In My Life".</div><div><br />40 Years Ago Today In 1982 - Bob Seger recorded an unissued take of the title "Sunset" in Los Angeles, California for Capitol Records.</div><div><br />1983 - Dear Enemy (lineup unlisted) record the titles "Computer One", "The Good Life", "Talking To You", "All Through The Night", "Kids On The Street", "On The Line", "Restless", "A Bit Of Your Heart", and "Day To Day" at an unlisted studio. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on the group's album "Ransom Note" (ST-12295) and "Computer One" and "Day To Day" also together as a single (Capitol 5314).</div><div><br />1988 - Nappy Lamare, a guitarist, banjo player, bandleader, and Capitol Records artist dies in Newhall, California at age 81.</div><div><br />2001 - Capitol Records releases <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8AZoeLzLMo&list=PL1BDF7A3F16AC7BD5">Paul McCartney's album "Wingspan"</a>. I did the design and Photoshop work for the DVD packaging of the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIpzZO31m-E&list=PL7039A7D49D55CF0A">"Wingspan" documentary</a>.</div><div><br /><br />ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY</div><div><br />110 Years Ago Today In 1912 - The Paramount company was founded by W. W. Hodkinson as a merger of 11 film rental bureaus. In 1917, Adolph Zukor bought Paramount and merged it with Famous Players to form the new firm called Paramount Pictures Corporation. Zukor also fired W. W. Hodkinson, who went on to found First National to challenge Paramount's distribution power. In 1919, First National and Paramount planned to merge, to gain full control of the market, and to cut production costs, but the plan was uncovered by a private eye hired by Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., and D.W. Griffith. In reaction to the plan, they decided to found their own distribution company, United Artists Pictures (which would later found United Artists Records), which effectively ended Paramount and First National's efforts to found a monopoly. Future Capitol Records co-founder Buddy DeSylva would become production chief of Paramount and during his reign music from its films (with "Mona Lisa" from "Captain Carey, U.S.A." being the best-known song from the least known movie) would be released by Capitol Records as would recordings by many of its stars including Betty Hutton and Bob Hope.</div><div><br />80 Years Ago Today In 1942 - Jack Blanchard, a singer, songwriter, saxophone and keyboard player, and member of the United Artists duo Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan, is born in Buffalo, New York.</div><div><br />1943 - Toni Tennille, a singer and the wife of former keyboardist for The Beach Boys "Captain" Daryl Dragon (who also was a Capitol artist with his band The Dragons), was born Cathryn Antoinette Tennille in Montgomery, Alabama.</div><div><br />75 Years Ago Today In 1947 - Phil Sawyer, the bass guitarist and guitarist for the United Artists band The Spencer Davis Group, is born in Birmingham, England.</div><div><br />1953 - Billy Burnette, singer, songwriter, guitarist, son of Liberty Records artist Dorsey Burnette and Alberta Burnette, member of Fleetwood Mac (1987-1995), and a solo artist is born William Beau Burnette III in Memphis, Tennessee.</div><div><br />65 Years Ago Today In 1957 - The Horace Silver Quintet (Art Farmer on trumpet, Hank Mobley on tenor saxophone, Horace Silver on piano, Teddy Kotick on bass, and Louis Hayes on drums) records the titles "Metamorphosis", "No Smoking", "The Back Beat", "Soulville", "My One And Only Love", and "Home Cookin'" in Hackensack, New Jersey. Blue Note Records will issue all the titles on the group's album "The Stylings Of Silver" (BLP1562).</div><div><br />1961 - Ernie K-Doe's Minit Records single "Mother-In-Law" is #2 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart, Gene McDaniels' Liberty Records single "A Hundred Pounds Of Clay" is #3, Steve Lawrence's United Artists Records single "Portrait Of My Love" is #9, Rick Nelson's Imperial Records single "Travelin' Man" is #18, Al Caiola and His Orchestra's United Artists Records single "Bonanza" is #23, Rick Nelson's Imperial Records single "Hello Mary Lou" is #27, and The Fleetwoods' Dolton Records (distributed by Liberty Records) single "Tragedy" is #31.</div><div><br />60 Years Ago Today In 1962 - The Broadway production of "A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum" opens at The Alvin Theatre in New York City, New York, starring Zero Mostel. The show will run for a total of 964 performances and Capitol Records will record the show on May 13, 1962, and release the show's original Broadway cast album. The motion picture version, which also stars Mostel, will be directed by Richard Lester, who directed The Beatles' first two films.</div><div><br />60 Years Ago Today In 1962 - At two straight days of sessions starting today Dinah Washington, with Don Costa conducting his own arrangements to the orchestra (lineup unlisted), records the titles "Lover Man", "The Man That Got Away", and "Baby, Won't You Please Come Home?" for Roulette Records. Blue Note Records will reissue the first two titles on the compilation CD "Jazz Profile 5 - Dinah Washington" (8-54907-2) and the last title in England on the compilation CD "Blue Divas" (8-53232-2).</div><div><br />1963 - United Artists Pictures releases "Dr. No", the first James Bond film, and United Artists Records will release the soundtrack album. Capitol Music Group's parent company, EMI Music Group, currently owns the United Artists catalog.</div><div><br />1963 - Pianist Horace Silver, with Blue Mitchell on trumpet, Junior Cook on tenor saxophone, Gene Taylor on bass, and Roy Brooks on drums, records the titles "Let's Go To The Nitty Gritty", "The Dragon Lady", and "Sweet Sweetie Dee" at recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder's studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. Blue Note Records will issue all the titles on Silver's album "Silver's Serenade" (BLP4131 on mono 12" vinyl, BST84131 on stereo 12" vinyl, and 8-21288-2 on CD).</div><div><br />55 Years Ago Today In 1977 - Leo Sayer's Chrysalis Records single "When I Need You" is #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart. Capitol Music Group's parent company, Universal Music Group, currently owns the Chrysalis catalog in the United States.</div><div><br /><br />ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL HISTORY</div><div><br />1911 - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAqzeInakec">Robert Johnson</a>, singer, guitarist, and songwriter, is born in Hazlehurst, Mississippi. His 29 Blues recordings are among the most influential especially with English musicians including Eric Clapton and The Rolling Stones, who have both covered Johnson's tunes. This date has not been verified and if anyone knows for sure when Johnson's birthdate is, please leave a comment.</div><div><br />1945 - Victory in Europe (aka V.E. Day) during World War II is announced and there is a massive celebration in Times Square in New York City, New York and, around the world, in the allied nations.</div>PopCultureFanBoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01768787919999520127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18285770.post-40405384364656568512022-05-07T00:00:00.004-04:002022-05-07T00:00:00.178-04:00<p> MAY 7, 2022</p><br />HAPPY BIRTHDAY!<div><br />1950 - <a href="https://prairieprince.com/">Prairie Prince</a>, a graphic designer, former drummer in the Capitol Records band The Tubes, and now with the band The New Cars, is born Charles L'Emprere Prince in Charlotte, North Carolina.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBlhWAjcPQHuNCpq_9x8x7ukKgKnDHCAiUBrCkcoV4NewGESqJcwsLZktCQzZM-kBAD3OYbQRroQ7sGr7gm_UBOHDR3u_RB3I303sz1e-QndBcmTXrf_6VtW4lNJMKUfXK3GQpdtcmnK29n55ozEVd8jrbM-_eO-H-2jK186IfwMwxPzV0RrM/s823/PrairiePrince.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="823" data-original-width="823" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBlhWAjcPQHuNCpq_9x8x7ukKgKnDHCAiUBrCkcoV4NewGESqJcwsLZktCQzZM-kBAD3OYbQRroQ7sGr7gm_UBOHDR3u_RB3I303sz1e-QndBcmTXrf_6VtW4lNJMKUfXK3GQpdtcmnK29n55ozEVd8jrbM-_eO-H-2jK186IfwMwxPzV0RrM/s320/PrairiePrince.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br />ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY</div><div><br />1946 - Peggy Lee, with the Four Of A Kind (Dave Barbour on guitar, Philip Stephens on bass, Buddy Cole on piano, celeste, and organ, and Tom Romersa on drums) records the tracks "I Can't Believe That You're In Love With Me", "I've Had My Moments", "Them There Eyes", "Lonesome Road", and "You Brought A New Kind Of Love To Me" with arrangement by Heinrich "Heine" Beau at Radio Recorders, 7000 Santa Monica Boulevard, Hollywood, California for a transcription disc that will be released by Capitol Records for radio.</div><div><br />75 Years Ago Today In 1947 - Vocalist Ella Mae Morse, with Buddy Cole's Boogie Woogie Seven (Vernon "Geechie" Smith on trumpet, Mahlon Clark on clarinet, Dave Cavanaugh on tenor saxophone, Edwin LeMar "Buddy" Cole on piano, Al Hendrickson on guitar, Harry Babasin on bass, and Lee Young on drums), records the titles "Get It Off And Go", "Old Shank's Mare", and "A Little Further Down The Road A-Piece" in Studio B of Radio Recorders' studios at 932 North Western Avenue in Hollywood, California. Capitol Records will issue the first two titles together as a single (Capitol 424), and the last title on the compilation album "Campus Capers" (BD-58).<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/uFMluYKEgCc" width="320" youtube-src-id="uFMluYKEgCc"></iframe></div></div><div><br />1948 - Nat "King" Cole's Capitol Records single "Nature Boy" is #1 on The Billboard magazine's Best-Selling Popular Retail Records and Records Most Played by Disk Jockeys charts, debuts at #7 on the magazine's Most-Played Juke Box Race Records chart and #11 on the magazine's Most-Played Juke Box Records chart. The King Cole Trio's "Put 'Em In A Box" is #10 on The Billboard magazine's Future Possibilities - The Retailers Pick chart. Also, The King Cole Trio, together with Stan Kenton and His Orchestra, start seven straight days of performances at the Broadway Capitol theater in Detroit, Michigan. The Trio performs after Kenton, doing the songs "My Baby Likes To Be-Bop", "I've Only Myself To Blame", "That's What" and "Nature Boy" with Kenton's band accompanying them for "a sock closer".</div><div><br />1949 - Mel Torme (with orchestra conducted by Sonny Burke)'s Capitol Records single "Careless Hands" is #7 on Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records chart, Jo Stafford and Gordon MacRae (with Paul Weston and His Orchestra)'s Capitol Records single "'A' You're Adorable" is #8, Mel Torme (this time with orchestra conducted by Pete Rugolo)'s Capitol Records single "Again" is #9, and Weston and MacRae (again with Weston and His Orchestra)'s Capitol Records single "Need You" is tied at #13 with Vaughn Monroe and His Orchestra's single "Red Roses For A Blue Lady", Margaret Whiting (with Frank DeVol & His Orchestra)'s Capitol Records single "Forever And Ever" is #24, Jack Smith and The Clark Sisters (with Frank DeVol and His Orchestra)'s Capitol Records single "Cruising Down The River) is #28, and Margaret Whiting and Johnny Mercer (with Paul Weston and His Orchestra)'s Capitol Records single "Baby, It's Cold Outside" debuts at #30 in a tie with Bing Crosby (with Victor Young and His Orchestra)'s single "Galway Bay".</div><div><br />1950 - Nat "King" Cole performs "Mona Lisa" during the first of his eventual thirteen guest appearances on Ed Sullivan's CBS Television show.</div><div><br />70 Years Ago Today In 1952 - Vocalists Bob Hope and Jane Russell, with Joseph (Joe) Lilley directing the orchestra (lineup unlisted), record the titles "Wing Ding Tonight" and "Am I In Love?" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue both titles together as a single (Capitol 2109).<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/aPFFC8CMvzo" width="320" youtube-src-id="aPFFC8CMvzo"></iframe></div></div><div><br />1953 - Capitol Records files the masters it purchased for Les Paul and Mary Ford's titles "Vaya Con Dios (May God Be With You)" and "Johnny (Is The Boy For Me)" in Los Angeles, California and will issue both titles together as a single (Capitol 2486).</div><div><br /><div>1953 - During a three-way split session held this day in Los Angeles, California, first Cliffie Stone and His Hometown Hepcats (lineup unlisted) record the titles "The Bunny Hop" and "In A Shanty In Old Shanty Town", then vocalist Molly Bee, with Cliffie Stone's Orchestra (lineup also unlisted) records the title "The Doggie On The Highway", then vocalist Helen O'Connell, also with Cliffie Stone's Orchestra, records the title "Rub-A-Dub-Dub". Capitol Records will issue "The Bunny Hop" and "In A Shanty In Old Shanty Town" together as a single (Capitol 2497 on 10" shellac and F2497 on 7" vinyl), "The Doggie On The Highway" as a single (Capitol 2494 on 10" shellac and F2494 on 7" vinyl) with "I'll Tell My Mommy" (recorded February 2, 1953) on the flipside, and "Rub-A-Dub-Dub" as a single (Capitol 2506 on 10" shellac and F2506 on 7" vinyl) with "You Two-Timed Me One Time Too Often" (recorded November 15, 1951) on the flipside.</div><div><br /></div>1955 - Les Baxter and His Orchestra's Capitol Records single "Unchained Melody" is #2 on Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records chart, Tennessee Ernie Ford (with Cliffie Stone's Band)'s Capitol Records single "The Ballad Of Davy Crocket" is #7, Nat "King" Cole (with Nelson Riddle and His Orchestra)'s Capitol Records single "Darling, Je Vous Amie Beaucoup" is #10, Cole and Riddle are also at #20 with a double-sided Capitol Records hit single "A Blossom Fell" and its flip side "If I May" (with backing vocals by The Four Knights), and Frank Sinatra (with Nelson Riddle and His Orchestra)'s Capitol Records single "Learnin' The Blues" debuts at #25.</div><div><br />65 Years Ago Today In 1957 - Zither player Ruth Welcome, with other unlisted musicians, records the titles "Song From 'Moulin Rouge'", "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes", "La Cumparsita", and "Charmaine" in New York City, New York. Capitol Records will issue "Song From 'Moulin Rouge'" and "Charmaine" on Welcome's album "Hi-Fi Zither" (T 942) and have yet to issue either "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes" or "La Cumparsita".</div><div><br />65 Years Ago Today In 1957 - Jackie Gleason conducts the orchestra (featuring Bernie Leighton on piano and Tony Mottola on guitar but otherwise unidentified), with The Voices of Artie Malvin (lineup also unlisted), as they record the titles "High On A Windy Hill", "Can This Be Love?", "Thine Alone", and "Dearest You're The Nearest To My Heart" in New York City, New York. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Gleason's album "Oooo!" (W 905).</div><div><br />65 Years Ago Today In 1957 - The Louvin Brothers (Charlie Louvin on vocals and guitar and Ira Louvin on vocals and mandolin), with Paul Yandell and "Smiley" Wilson on guitar, Floyd T. "Lightnin'" Chance on bass, and Murray M. "Buddy" Harman Jr. on drums, record the titles "Call Me", "I Wish You Knew", "Dogsled" and "When I Loved You" in Nashville, Tennessee. Capitol Records will issue the first two titles together as a single (Capitol F3804) and the last two titles together as a single (Capitol F3871).</div><div><br />1958 - Overdubs are recorded in Los Angeles, California for Alvino Rey and His Orchestra's titles "Little White Lies", "Isn't It Romantic?", "I Didn't Know About You", and "A Swingin' Fling (Nails)" which were all recorded on March 2, 1958. Capitol Records will issue the final mixes of all the titles on Rey and his orchestra's album "Swingin' Fling!" (T 1085).</div><div><br />1958 - Vocalist Ann Richards, with Brian Farnon conducting The Stan Kenton Orchestra (lineup unlisted) records the titles "I'm In The Market For You", "Nightingale", "Poor Little Rich Girl", and "Should I?" in The Capitol Tower Studios at 1750 North Vine Street in Hollywood, California. Capitol Records will issue all the titles, except the take "Nightingale" recorded at this session, on Richards' album "I'm Shooting High" (T/ST 1087) which also includes a take of "Nightingale" recorded on June 12, 1958.</div><div><br />1958 - Cornet player Bobby Hackett, with Pepe Moreale on piano, John Giuff aka John Giuffrida on bass, and Buzzy Drootin on drums, records the titles "Cheek To Cheek", "It's Been So Long", "If I Had My Way", and "That Naughty Waltz" in an unlisted studio in New York City, New York. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Hackett's album "Bobby Hackett At The Embers" (T/ST 1077). Although issued as recorded live at the Embers, all the titles on the album were recorded in a studio.</div><div><br /></div><div>60 Years Ago Today In 1962 - Vocalist Vic Damone, with Billy May conducting his own arrangements to the orchestra (Joe Graves, Bobby Bryant, Ray Triscari, and Mannie Klein on trumpets, Francis "Joe" Howard, Milt Bernhart, Lew McCreary, and George Roberts on trombones, Jules Jacob, Plas Johnson, Justin Gordon, Chuck Gentry on saxophones, Joe Parnello on piano, Billy Strange and Al Hendrickson on guitars, Myer Rubin on bass, Sidney Bulkin on drums, Bob Barene, Jacques Gasselin, James Getzoff, Anatol Kaminsky, Lou Klass, Erno Neufeld, Stanley Plummer, Lou Raderman, Nathan Ross, Paul Shure, Felix Slatkin, and Marshall Sosson on violins, and Edgar Lustgarten and Eleanor Slatkin on cellos), records the titles "Charmaine", "Cherokee", and "Dearly Beloved" at The Capitol Tower Studios in Hollywood, California. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Damone's album "The Lively Ones" (T 1748).</div><div><br /></div><div>60 Years Ago Today In 1962 - Vocalist Carol Ventura, with unlisted musicians, records the titles "Yes Sir, That's My Baby" and unissued takes of an unknown title and "The Music Goes 'Round And Around" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue"Yes Sir, That's My Baby" as a single (Capitol 4782) with "(Hey) Mr. Muscles" (recorded April 27, 1962) on the flipside.</div><div><br />1963 - Earl Sinks, with unlisted others, records the titles "Looking For Love", "Raining ON My Side Of Town", "This Weird Sensation", and "Love Is All I'm Asking For" in (listed as possibly) Nashville, Tennessee. Capitol Records will issue "Looking For Love" and "Raining On My Side Of Town" together as a single (Capitol 4985). Hickory Records will issue "This Weird Sensation" and "Love Is All I'm Asking For" together as a single (Hickory 45-1248).</div><div><br />1966 - The Beach Boys' Capitol Records single "Sloop John B.", with "You're So Good To Me" on the flipside and the original A-side, peaks at #3 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart.</div><div><br />55 Years Ago Today In 1967 - Buck Owens' Capitol Records single "Sam's Place" is #1 on the U.S. Country singles charts.</div><div><br />50 Years Ago Today In 1972 - Merle Haggard's Capitol Records single "Grandma Harp" is #1 on the U.S. Country singles chart.</div><div><br />40 Years Ago Today In 1982 - Space People (lineup unlisted) record the track "Love's Got You This Time" in (listed as possibly) Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue the title as a single (Capitol DLP-15003) with "You Really Got A Hold On Me" (recorded April 28, 1982) on the flipside.</div><div><br />35 Years Ago Today In 1987 - The Boogie Boys (lineup unlisted) record the title "Kick It" at an unlisted location. Capitol Records will issue the title on the group's album "Romeo-Knight" (C1-46917).</div><div><br />1998 - Eddie Rabbitt, singer, songwriter, guitarist and Capitol Records artist (1990 to 1992, during which time he recorded the top 10 hit "Runnin' With The Wind"), dies of lung cancer in Nashville, Tennessee at age 56.</div><div><br /><br />ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY</div><div><br />75 Years Ago Today In 1947 - Babs' Three Bips And A Bop (Tadd Dameron on piano and vocals, Pee Wee Tinney on guitar and vocals, Art Phipps on bass, and Babs Gonzales on vocals), using arrangements by Tadd Dameron, record the titles "Runnin' Around" (without Tinney on guitar and vocals only by Gonzales), "Babs' Dream", "Dob, Bla Bli", and "Weird Lullaby" (again with vocals only by Gonzales) at WOR Studios in New York City, New York. Blue Note Records will issue the first two titles together as a single (Blue Note 537) and the last two titles together as a single (Blue Note 536) and all the tracks on the CD "Weird Lullaby" (7-84464-2).</div><div><br />1966 - Del Shannon's Liberty Records single "The Big Hurt", with "I Got It Bad" on the flipside, enters Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart. The next time Shannon enters the chart will be in 1981.</div><div><br />55 Years Ago Today In 1967 - Capitol Records artist Judy Garland's appearance on Jack Paar's NBC special, "A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To Hollywood", is the last time she's on a primetime network television show.</div><div><br />30 Years Ago Today In 1992 - At sessions held at Estudio Quarzo in Madrid that started today and went to May 12, 1992, Spain Gonzalo Rubalcaba (on piano, with Reynaldo Melian on trumpet, Felipe Cabrera on electric bass, and Julio Barreto on drums) records the tracks "Preludio Proyecto Latino", "Here, There, And Everywhere", "Tress Palabras", "Comienzo", "Nuestro Balance", "4 Y 20", "Siempra Maria" and "Quizas, Quizas, Quizas" and then (without Cabrera but adding Charlie Haden on bass) records the tracks "Transparence", "Our Spanish Love Song", "Love Letters", "Perfidia", "Nadie Me Ama" for the Somethin' Else label. Blue Note Records will issue all the tracks on Rubalcaba's CD "Suite 4 Y 20" (7-80054-2).</div><div><br />25 Years Ago Today In 1997 - Pieces Of A Dream (James Lloyd on keyboards and background vocals, George Duke on synthesizer programming, Kevin Chokan on guitar, Curtis Harmon on drum programming and background vocals, and Mike Davis on vocals and background vocals, over sessions lasting until the next day, record the track Anyway You Want It" at Le Gonks West in Los Angeles, California. Blue Note Records will issue the track on the group's album Pieces (8-54052-2).</div><div><br /><br />ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY</div><div><br />1941 - Glenn Miller and His Orchestra record the track "Chattanooga Choo-Choo" for Bluebird Records (a subsidiary of RCA Victor Records) at the Victor Recording Studios in Hollywood, California. The single would later become the first record to be awarded a Gold record, for sales of 1 million copies. The idea for a Gold record was thought up as a publicity event by RCA Victor and later adopted by other labels and finally by the R.I.A.A. in 1958.</div><div><br />1945 - Representatives of the German army sign unconditional surrender documents ending World War II in Europe.</div><div><br />1946 - Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering (later renamed Sony) is founded.</div><div><br />1949 - "A - You're Adorable" by Perry Como becomes the first song available on RCA'S new 45rpm format to hit #1 on the Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records charts.</div><div><br />1953 - Gerry Mulligan, Chet Baker, Carson Smith and Larry Bunker record "Love Me or Leave Me" and "Varsity Drag" for Gene Norman's GNP label.</div><div><br />1955 - Bill Haley and The Comets' Decca single "Rock Around The Clock", with "Thirteen Women" on the flipside, debuts at #22 on Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records chart.</div><div><br />1956 - <a href="http://www.rockabilly.net/articles/burnette.shtml">The Rock 'n' Roll Trio, consisting of Johnny Burnette, Dorsey Burnette, and Paul Burlison, has its first recording session for Coral Records at Pythian Temple Studio, in New York City, producing the single "Tear It Up" which will be covered by John Lennon on his Capitol Records "Rock 'n' Roll" solo album.</a> Capitol wanted to sign the trio. but after the Burnettes and their manager, bandleader Henry Jerome, heard that Capitol might be also signing Gene Vincent, they decided to go with Coral. Capitol then signed Vincent who recorded "Be-Bop-A-Lula" three days before the Trio's session.</div><div><br />60 Years Ago Today In 1962 - Wand Records releases The Isley Brothers' cover of The Top Notes' title "Twist And Shout" as a single. This version would later be covered by "The Beatles", with John Lennon doing lead vocals, on February 11, 1963.</div><div><br />1966 - Rolling Stones' single "Paint It Black", with "Stupid Girl" on the flipside, is released on London Records.</div>PopCultureFanBoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01768787919999520127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18285770.post-51704252688938433452022-05-06T00:00:00.013-04:002022-05-06T22:16:16.631-04:00<p> MAY 6, 2022</p><br />HAPPY BIRTHDAY!<div><br />1945 - Bob Seger, a singer, songwriter, guitarist, and a Grammy award-winning (and multi-platinum selling) Capitol Records artist is born Robert Clark Seger in Ann Arbor, Michigan.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLBtQAVLMeft4fu6GPL8V_mv0-RsfkcyKwvPABZg3AS8iIi4uDGwoqyiAy3CzWemdafeuWlE5qPNRFr2lHgWUZhiRROPyMuV98kkAoVSabGxXiwOpcwis8Gv46Z5blo3bJpYcEUWiT28awHx4FkfcXjvuv89S-yMTXQ5oDhKTsuKEPgRbEh5Q/s500/BobSeger.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="497" data-original-width="500" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLBtQAVLMeft4fu6GPL8V_mv0-RsfkcyKwvPABZg3AS8iIi4uDGwoqyiAy3CzWemdafeuWlE5qPNRFr2lHgWUZhiRROPyMuV98kkAoVSabGxXiwOpcwis8Gv46Z5blo3bJpYcEUWiT28awHx4FkfcXjvuv89S-yMTXQ5oDhKTsuKEPgRbEh5Q/s320/BobSeger.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div><br /><br />ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY<br />1944 - Jo Stafford with Paul Weston and His Orchestra's Capitol Records single "Long Ago (And Far Away)" debuts at #7 on Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records chart and Ella Mae Morse's Capitol Records single "Milkman Keep Those Bottles Quiet", with orchestra conducted by Dick Walters, debuts at #10.</div><div><br />1948 - The King Cole Trio finish seven straight days of shows at The Lake Club in Springfield, Illinois.</div><div><br />1950 - Jo Stafford and Gordon MacRae with Paul Weston and His Orchestra's Capitol Records single "Dearie" is #16 on Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records chart.</div><div><br />1950 - Ray Anthony records the title "The Man With The Horn" which will be released as a single by Capitol Records.</div><div><br />1953 - Vocalist and mandolin player Chester Smith, with unlisted fiddle, piano, guitar, rhythm guitar, and bass players, records the titles "Holiday For Tears", "Cold Grey Dawn", "Wishing My Lofe Away", and "If I Had My Life To Live Over Again" at an unlisted studio. Capitol Records will issue "Holiday For Tears" as a single (Capitol 2858 on 10" shellac and F2858 on 7" vinyl) with "Another's Wedding Ring" (recorded September 3, 1953) on the flipside, "Cold Grey Dawn" as a single (Capitol 2747) with "No Wonder" (also recorded on September 3, 1953) on the flipside, and "Wishing My Life Away" and "If I Had My Life To Live Over" together as a single (Capitol 2572).</div><div><br />65 Years Ago Today In 1957 - Capitol Records releases Judy Garland's album "Alone". The sessions were produced by Voyle Gilmore with arrangements by Gordon Jenkins, who also conducted the orchestra and chorus.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/EXGzoMz0JAc" width="320" youtube-src-id="EXGzoMz0JAc"></iframe></div></div><div><br />1958 - Vocal overdubs are recorded in Los Angeles, for Hank Thompson's titles "What Will I Do On Monday", "You're Going Back To Your Old Ways Again", "Squaws Along The Yukon", and "Two Hearts Deep In The Blues", Capitol Records will issue the final mixes of "What Will I Do On Monday on Thompson's album "Favorite Waltzes By Hank Thompson With The Brazos Valley Boys" (T 1111), "You're Going Back To Your Old Ways Again" as a single (Capitol F4085) with "I've Run Out Of Tomorrows (recorded April 15, 1958) on the flipside, "Squaws Along The Yukon" as a single (Capitol F4017) with "Gathering Flowers" (recorded April 17, 1958) on the flipside, and "Two Hearts Deep In The Blues" as a single (Capitol F4502) with "Just One Step Away" (recorded December 18, 1958) on the flipside.</div><div><br />1958 - Vocalist Nat "King" Cole, with Gordon Jenkins and his Orchestra (Rene Favre on piano, John Collins on guitar, Charles Harris on bass, Lee Young on drums, and a string section with Sam Cytron, Harold Dicterow, Walt Edelstein, Dave Frisina, Ben Gill, Nate Kaproff, Murray Kellner, Sol Kindler, Joseph Livoti, Dan Lube, Erno Neufeld, Nick Pisani, Lou Raderman, Nathan Ross, Mischa Russell, Paul Shure, Felix Slatkin, and Marshall Sosson on violin, Bill Baffa, Lou Kievman, Ray Menhennick, and David Sterkin on viola, Armand Kaproff and Ray Kramer on cello, and Kathryn Thompson on harp), records the titles "Don't Blame Me", "Cherchez La Femme", "The Very Thought Of You", "Paradise", and "There Is No Greater Love" in The Capitol Tower Studios at 1750 North Vine Street in Hollywood, California between 2:30 PM and 6:30 PM. Capitol Records will issue Cherchez La Femme", "The Very Thought Of You", "Paradise", and "There Is No Greater Love" on Cole's album "The Very Thought Of You" (W 1084) and add "Don't Blame Me" as an extra on the CD version of the album (7-48331-2).</div><div><br />1958 - Gordon Jenkins and His Orchestra (lineup unlisted0 record the titles "Pleasure Island" with Bob Stevens and Sally Sweetland on vocals, "From This Moment Only" with Bill Lee on vocals, and "In The Summertime" and "I Live Alone" with Carol Jarvis on vocals in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on the album "Gordon Jenkins conducts Monte Proser's Tropicana Holiday" (T/ST 1048).<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-97BRJsY8gAo/Wu89dyQE1_I/AAAAAAAAA7s/R46_b0I1bnUdY23vLxGINuHl9r9dU4s5gCLcBGAs/s1600/R-3784082-1454974324-8584.jpeg.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" height="200" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-97BRJsY8gAo/Wu89dyQE1_I/AAAAAAAAA7s/R46_b0I1bnUdY23vLxGINuHl9r9dU4s5gCLcBGAs/s200/R-3784082-1454974324-8584.jpeg.jpg" width="200" /></a></div></div><div><br />1958 - Using recordings from his CBS radio show, Capitol Records creates masters of Stan Freberg's titles "Opening", "Abominable Snowman Interview", "Herman Horne In Hi-Fi", "Literary Giants Of Our Time", "Cocktails For Two", "Son Of Herman Horne On Hi-Fi", "Gray Flannel Hatful Of Teen-Age Werewolves" and "Conclusion" which feature the voices of Stan Freberg, Daws Butler, June Foray, Peter Leeds, Herb Vigran, Mac McLean, Peggy Taylor, Virginia Gregg, Bud Sewell, Marvin Miller, and Z. L. Arbib, with Billy May and His Orchestra and the vocal group The Jud Conlon Rhythmaires (lineups unlisted) and will issue all the titles on Freberg's two=album set "The Best Of 'The Stan Freberg Show'" (WBO 1035).</div><div><br />1958 - During two sessions held this day in Los Angeles, California, Les Baxter conducts his own arrangements to His Orchestra and Chorus (lineups unlisted) as they record the titles "Love Theme From 'Houseboat' (Almost In Your Arms)", "Rosa, Rosa, Nina", and "Lily Of Laguna" at the first session and, during the second split session, the titles "My Little Lulu", "Wow!", "Dreamy Mood", and "Untitled N° 1", "Untitled N° 5", "Untitled N° 2", and "Untitled N° 3" then the vocal group The Beavers (lineup unlisted), with Jack Marshall conducting the orchestra (listed as probably Les Baxter's orchestra, record the titles "Road To Happiness", "Low As I Can Be", and "I'll March Into Your Heart". Capitol Records will issue "Love Song From 'Houseboat' (Almost In Your Arms)" and "Lily Of Laguna" together as a single (Capitol F4011) as by Les Baxter His Chorus and Orchestra, "Road To Happiness" and "Low As I Can Be" together as a single (Capitol F4105) as by The Beavers, and has yet to issue any of the other titles.</div><div><br /><div>1958 - Cornet player Bobby Hackett, with Pepe Moreale on piano, John Giuffrida (aka John Giuff) on bass, and Buzzy Drootin on drums, record the titles "C'est Magnifique", "Spring, Beautiful Spring", "All Of You", and "Rosalie" in New York City, New York. Album credits read that these titles were recorded live at The Embers in New York City but all were recorded in a studio. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Hackett's album "At The Embers" (T/ST 1077).</div><div><br /></div><div>1958 - Vocalist and guitarist Jerry Reed, with unlisted others, records the titles "You Make It, They Take It", "Your Money Makes You Purty", "Heart Appeal", and "How Can I Go On This Way" in Nashville, Tennessee. Capitol Records will issue "Your Money Makes You Purty" and "How Can I Go On This Way" together as a single (Capitol F3992). Bear Family Records will issue all the titles in Germany on the CD "Here I Am" (BCD 16306).</div><div><br /></div><div style="clear: both;">1963 - Vocalist Sue Raney, with Ralph Carmichael conducting his own arrangements to the orchestra (lineup unlisted), records the titles "No Place To Go", "Just A-Sittin' And A-Rockin'", "Trouble Is A Man", and "What Is This Thing Called Love" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Raney's album "All By Myself" (T/ST 2032).</div><div style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div><div>1963 - Vocalist Wayne Newton, with the vocal group The Newton Brothers (Jerry Newton and unlisted others) and Jimmie Haskell conducting his own arrangements to the orchestra, records the titles "Danke Schoen" and "Better Now Than Later" in United Western Studios at 6000/6050 Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, California. Capitol Records will purchase the masters and issue both titles together as a single (Capitol 4989) and "Danke Schoen" on Newton's album of the same name (T/ST 1973).<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-e-VN5YcGxfY/Wu9N_GJZ_jI/AAAAAAAAA8I/ZTs9ZHPMeJgdYxBygY6-Fz96dYGf7-tsgCLcBGAs/s1600/wayne-newton-and-the-newton-brothers-danke-schoen-1963-11.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="776" data-original-width="775" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-e-VN5YcGxfY/Wu9N_GJZ_jI/AAAAAAAAA8I/ZTs9ZHPMeJgdYxBygY6-Fz96dYGf7-tsgCLcBGAs/s200/wayne-newton-and-the-newton-brothers-danke-schoen-1963-11.jpg" width="199" /></a></div></div></div><div><br /></div><div>1963 - The New York cast of "The Boys From Syracuse" (featuring Danny Carroll, Cathryn Damon, Stuart Damon, Clifford David, Ellen Hanley, Fred Kimbrough, Julienne Marie, Karen Morrow, Richard Nieves, Gary Oakes, Matthew Tobin, and Rudy Tronto), using music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorenz Hart and with Rene Wiegert directing the orchestra (lineup unlisted), record the titles "I Had Twins" with vocals by Fred Kimbrough, Richard Nieves, Gary Oakes, Matthew Tobin, and the company (lineup unlisted), "Ladies Of The Evening" with vocals by Gary Oakes and the company, "Finale" with vocals by the company, "Oh, Diogenes! with vocals by Cathryn Damon and the company, "Come With Me" with vocals by Clifford David, Richard Nieves, Gary Oakes, and the company, and "Opening" with vocals by Danny Carroll and Rudy Tronto in New York City, New York. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on the New York Cast album "The Boys From Syracuse" (TAO/STAO 1933).</div><div><br /></div>1964 - On the Associated Rediffusion UK TV special "Around The Beatles", the band lip-synchs, in front of a live audience the titles "Can't Buy Me Love"; "I Wanna Be Your Man"; "Long Tall Sally"; a medley that used "Love Me Do", "Please Please Me", "From Me To You", "She Loves You", and "I Want to Hold Your Hand"; "Roll Over Beethoven"; "Shout"; and "Twist and Shout" to tracks recorded on April 19, 1964. They also perform a comedy sketch based on "A Midsummer Night's Dream".</div><div><br />1966 - Bob Bain leads an overdub session with drummer Hal Blaine at The Capitol Tower Studios in Hollywood, California between 7:00PM and 12:30 AM on May 7, 1966 recording new tracks for the titles "Silver Bird" and "Let Me Tell You, Babe" which Nat "King" Cole originally recorded on January 14, 1964, and "No Other Heart" which was originally recorded on December 3, 1964. Capitol Records will issue the new versions of these songs on Cole's album "Sincerely" (T 2680).</div><div><br />1968 - Vocalists Tony Sandler and Ralph Young, with Bob Bain conducting his own arrangements to the orchestra, record new takes of the title "Jingle Bells" and "Susa-Ninna/Silent Night" and the titles "Do You Hear What I Hear?" and "White Christmas" in Los Angeles, California. After overdubs are recorded for "Susa-Ninna/Silent Night" on May 24, 1968 and for "Do You Hear What I Hear?" on May 27, 1968, Capitol Records will issue the final mixes of all the titles on the Sandler and Young's album "Christmas World" (ST 2967).</div><div><br /><div>1968 - During two sessions held this day in Los Angeles, California, vocalists John Stewart and Buffy Ford, with unlisted others, record the titles "Signals to Ludi", and "Lincoln's Train" at the first session and the title "Nebraska Widow" at the second session. After overdubs are recorded on May 20 and 27, 1968 for "Lincoln's Train" and on June 5, 1968 for "Nebraska Widow", Capitol Records will issue the final mixes of both titles Stewart and Ford's album "Signals Through The Glass" (ST 2975) and has yet to issue the take of "Signals To Ludi" recorded at this session but will issue one that was edited together from recordings on May 17, 1968 and July 10, 1968 and overdubbed on June 5, 1968 and will issue the final mix also on the "Signals Through The Glass" album.</div><div><br /></div><div>1968 - Jackie & Roy (Jackie Cain on vocals with Roy Kral on electric piano and vocals, Andy Muson on electric bass, and Jim Molinary on drums) record the titles "Holiday", "Someone Singing", Without Rhyme Or Reason", and "Winds Of Heaven" in New York City, New York. "Holiday" and "Winds Of Heaven" also include Ray De Sio on trombone, Artie Shroeck and George Young on saxophones, and Stuart Sharf on guitar and use arrangements by Artie Shroeck. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Jackie & Roy's album "Grass" (ST 2936).</div><div><br /></div>1970 - Paul McCartney's Apple Records album "McCartney", distributed by Capitol Records in the United States, peaks at #1 on Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart.</div><div><br />1974 - Merle Haggard's Capitol Records single "Things Aren't Funny Anymore" is #1 on the U.S. Country Singles chart.</div><div><br />1988 - At the first of two concerts given this day at Sullivan Stadium in Foxboro, Massachusetts, Pink Floyd's fans rip apart one of the band's flying pigs that descends on them.</div><div><br />1990 - Dan Seals' Liberty Records (later renamed Capitol Records Nashville) single "Love On Arrival" is #1 on the U.S. Country singles charts.</div><div><br />30 Years Ago Today In 1992 - Marlene Dietrich, motion picture actress, singer, and Capitol Records artist, dies in Paris, France at age 90 of old age.</div><div><br />1994 - Lisa Marie Presley divorces her first husband, Danny Keough.</div><div><br />2003 - Capitol Records reissues Warren Zevon's 1969 Imperial Records album "Wanted Dead Or Alive".</div><div><br />2004 - Barney Kessel, guitarist, arranger, writer, record producer, session artist on many Billy May and Mel Torme Capitol Records titles, and member of The Oscar Peterson Trio, dies of brain cancer in San Diego, California at age 80.</div><div><br />2006 - Pink Floyd's Capitol Records album "Dark Side Of The Moon" reaches 1,500 weeks on the Billboard charts.</div><div><br /><br />ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY</div><div><br />1919 - L. Frank Baum, the writer of "The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz" and a series of sequel books, dies at age 63. He is buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. Capitol Records would record a 3 disc 78 rpm album of "Dorothy And The Wizard Of Oz", featuring Rosemary Rice, in 1948.</div><div><br />1970 - Al Jarvis, DJ (show: 'Jivin' With Jarvis), who would broadcast from Wallichs' Music City in Hollywood and was great friends with Capitol Records co-founder Glenn Wallichs, dies in Newport Beach, California at 60.</div><div><br /><br />ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY</div><div><br />1915 - Orson Welles, a Broadway, radio, motion picture, and television actor, director, and writer, is born George Orson Welles.</div><div><br />1930 - The first "Looney Tunes" cartoon short, "Sinkin' In The Bathtub" featuring Bosko and his girlfriend Honey, is shown at The Warner Theatre in New York City.</div><div><br />85 Years Ago Today In 1937 - The Hindenburg explodes over Lakeland Naval Air Station in New Jersey and is captured on film by amateur George Willens, a Detroit printing company owner, and an audio description is given by NBC Radio’s Herbert Morrison, whose live on-site transcription of the tragedy and its immediate aftermath, was broadcast coast to coast on both the NBC Red and NBC Blue networks.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tm36oLQzbQ0" width="320" youtube-src-id="tm36oLQzbQ0"></iframe></div></div><div><br />1963 - The Beatle's single "From Me To You", backed with "Thank You Girl" on the flipside, was released on Vee-Jay Records.</div><div><br /></div><div>1965 - Keith Richards, along with Mick Jagger, begin work on the title "Satisfaction" in their Clearwater, Florida hotel room after Richards, who had gotten a new Gibson fuzzbox, had a dream in which he heard the opening riff.</div><div><br />1998 - Trumpet player Tim Hagans, with Bob Belden on soprano saxophone, Scott Kinsey on synthesizer, Kevin Hays on electric piano, Ira Coleman on bass, and Billy Kilson on drums, records the titles "What They Don't Tell You About Jazz", "Are You Threatening Me?" with programming by DJ Kingsize added, "Far West" with sampled narration by Alfred Lion, "The Original Bass And Drums" with only Hagan, Colemen, and Kilson, "Killer Instinct", "Love's Lullaby" with only Hagans, Hays, and Kinsey at Avavtar Studios in New York City, New York. Blue Note Records will issue all the titles, except "Killer Instinct" which has yet to be issued, on Hagans' album "Animation/Imagination" (4-95198-2 on CD).</div>PopCultureFanBoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01768787919999520127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18285770.post-51638729457877154512022-05-05T00:00:00.020-04:002022-05-05T19:04:41.227-04:00<p> MAY 5, 2022</p><br />HAPPY BIRTHDAYS!<div><br />1911 - <a href="http://petedaily.tripod.com/">Pete Daily</a>, a cornet player, bandleader, and Capitol Records artist, is born in Portland, Indiana.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBR-TfzoDfmHPCO6pGqPiWSs79YgU1ji8yS92u2wAsKqmnA3A9iH5H2luWCjQSIAXU4sZCiuvhmtO2aSXGQ7zyYLgoaItA4kvJ4BKsDOEmA9bogvQT9_oSsKYcft-p_s1_SCF5S5bitxzIXkdnYZodo10X3oinSvVdo1BEjCPcxTHmOAl8BcQ/s512/pete-dailys-chicagoans_dixie-by-daily_5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBR-TfzoDfmHPCO6pGqPiWSs79YgU1ji8yS92u2wAsKqmnA3A9iH5H2luWCjQSIAXU4sZCiuvhmtO2aSXGQ7zyYLgoaItA4kvJ4BKsDOEmA9bogvQT9_oSsKYcft-p_s1_SCF5S5bitxzIXkdnYZodo10X3oinSvVdo1BEjCPcxTHmOAl8BcQ/s320/pete-dailys-chicagoans_dixie-by-daily_5.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div><br />1933 - Bobby Austin, Capitol Records solo artist, songwriter, and bassist for Wynn Stewart, Buck Owens, and Tommy Collins, is born in Wenatchee, Washington. The first song that Austin wrote, co-written with Johnny Paycheck, was Tammy Wynette's first recording, "Apartment #9". The title would be named Song Of The Year by the Academy of Country Music. <a href="http://www.talentondisplay.com/BobbyAustin.html">Jason Odd wrote a great biographical article for the Traditional Country Hall of Fame website.</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_r9lULTEt6aScHaPK9AljFjEZKdct9vWnoYEfdQUC4xyuRi9wtn2m3kFY7Fabl1pdUeqmN53GYhf97SvWm5ve0rGhelBk1cmRbkLkPlz19UPesg7t8A8DsDsbvskq9H-rg81F2pE-EDnvB67EXsYwOOx5sdeP2xaQjghp7Nv-2K9m2oIK_gw/s600/BobbyAustinAnOldLoveNeverDies.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_r9lULTEt6aScHaPK9AljFjEZKdct9vWnoYEfdQUC4xyuRi9wtn2m3kFY7Fabl1pdUeqmN53GYhf97SvWm5ve0rGhelBk1cmRbkLkPlz19UPesg7t8A8DsDsbvskq9H-rg81F2pE-EDnvB67EXsYwOOx5sdeP2xaQjghp7Nv-2K9m2oIK_gw/s320/BobbyAustinAnOldLoveNeverDies.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br />1968? - Dominic Pandiscia, CEO of Pledge Music, formerly President of Caroline Records, Executive Vice President Music Services at EMI, and Senior Vice President and General Manager of EMI Label Services, Global/Caroline Distribution, an unlisted position with Capitol Music Group in New York City, and Senior Vice President of Sales for Virgin Records in New York City, is born in Stanhope, New Jersey.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpZZxtD_d05O8cBWzP1RbceCbaN97ygADlNv2PGPAdCy77kZB4pqL0fkn5pTwPxsFF3zJP-hULv2vMDmOUlTkUucf9XtAKWYQvYn5OvfeyfD_31HA6ukohgc4gmMptTZ1ZNpHpmQAb5zsYyxfgkyuiJDS_vnlpqoWRwRGHkCDi-v8lwLqQTeA/s2448/DominicPandiscia.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="2448" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpZZxtD_d05O8cBWzP1RbceCbaN97ygADlNv2PGPAdCy77kZB4pqL0fkn5pTwPxsFF3zJP-hULv2vMDmOUlTkUucf9XtAKWYQvYn5OvfeyfD_31HA6ukohgc4gmMptTZ1ZNpHpmQAb5zsYyxfgkyuiJDS_vnlpqoWRwRGHkCDi-v8lwLqQTeA/s320/DominicPandiscia.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div><br /><br />ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY</div><div><br />80 Years Ago Today In 1942 - Trumpet player Bobby Sherwood and His Orchestra (Bob Goodrich, Clyde Hurley, and Gene Morgan also on trumpets, Al "King" Jackson and Joe Yukl on trombones, Bill Covey on alto saxophone, Bill Martinez on clarinet and alto saxophone, Bud Carlton and John Hamilton on tenor saxophones, Champ Webb on baritone saxophone, Gene Plummer on piano, Basil Hutchinson on guitar, Jud De Naut on bass, and Johnny Cyr on drums) record the titles "I Don't Know Why" with vocals by Bobby Sherwood, the instrumental title "The Elks' Parade", "Moonlight Becomes You" with vocals by Kitty Kallen (her only appearance on Capitol Records), and "Harlem Butterfly" with vocals again by Bobby Sherwood in Radio Recorders' studios at 932 North Western Avenue in Hollywood, California for Ammor Records. Capitol Records will purchase the masters from Ammor and issue "I Don't Know Why" and "Elks' Parade" (which will become one of Capitol's biggest sellers in its first 10 years) together as a single (Capitol 107 which will be part of Capitol's first release of singles to retail) and "Moonlight Becomes You" and "Harlem Butterfly" together as a single (Capitol 123).<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/6ml_QEYp0U0" width="320" youtube-src-id="6ml_QEYp0U0"></iframe></div></div><div><br />1945 - Johnny Mercer, Jo Stafford, The Pied Pipers with Paul Weston and His Orchestra's Capitol Records single "Candy" is #2 on Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records chart and The Pied Pipers with Paul Weston and His Orchestra's Capitol Records single "Dream" debuts at #6.</div><div><br />1951 - Les Paul and Mary Ford's Capitol Records single "How High The Moon" is still #1 on Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records chart, Nat "King" Cole with Les Baxter and His Orchestra's Capitol Records Single "Too Young" is #4, and Paul and Ford's Capitol Records single "Mockin'bird Hill" is #5.</div><div><br />1953 - Pinto Colvig overdubs vocals in Los Angeles, California onto music tracks recorded by Billy May conducting an orchestra for the titles "Bozo And His Friends: Part 1" and "Bozo And His Friends: Part 2". Capitol Records will issue the final mixes together as the children's record "Bozo And His Friends" (J-12).</div><div><br />1953 - During two sessions held this day in Los Angeles, California, Felix Slatkin conducts trumpet player Mannie Klein, pianist Victor Aller, and The Concert Arts Orchestra (lineup unlisted) as they record Shostakovich's "Concerto In C Minor For Piano, Solo Trumpet And String Orchestra, Movements 1 And 2" at the first session and "Concerto In C Minor For Piano, Solo Trumpet And String Orchestra, Movements 3 And 4" at the second session. Capitol Records will issue both titles on the album "SHOSTAKOVICH - Concerto in C Minor For Piano, Solo Trumpet and Orchestra" (L-8229).</div><div><br />1956 - Les Baxter and His Orchestra's Capitol Records single "Poor People Of Paris" is #3 on Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records chart, Nelson Riddle and His Orchestra's Capitol Records single "Lisbon Antigua" is tied for #5 with The Platters featuring Tony Williams' single "The Magic Touch", and Nat "King" Cole's Capitol Records single "Too Young To Go Steady" is tied for #35 with The Dick Hyman Trio's single "Theme From 'Three Penny Opera'"</div><div><br />65 Years Ago Today In 1957 - Ferlin Husky's Capitol Records single "Gone" is still #1 on the U.S. Country singles charts.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7C-Bt2dBI_4" width="320" youtube-src-id="7C-Bt2dBI_4"></iframe></div></div><div><br />1958 - Laurie London's Capitol Records single "He's Got The Whole World In His Hands" is #4 on Billboard's Best Selling Records chart, Dean Martin with Gus Levene and His Orchestra & Chorus' Capitol Records single "Return To Me" is #9, Nat "King" Cole's Capitol Records single "Looking Back" is #12, and The Four Prep's Capitol Records single "Twenty-Six Miles" is #33.</div><div><br />1958 - Nat "King" Cole's Capitol Records single "Looking Back" is also #16 on WMGM's Top 40 Survey in New York City, New York.</div><div><br /><div>1958 - To build on the publicity of their recent appearance on CBS-TV's "Playhouse 90", Capitol Records releases The Kingston Trio's single "Scarlet Ribbons", with "Three Jolly Coachmen" on the flipside, the two songs the group performed on the show.</div><div><br />1958 - During two sessions held this day in Los Angeles, California, Gordon Jenkins and His Orchestra (lineup unlisted) record the titles "In The Heat Of The Day" and "Herman's Tune" with vocals by the Don Williams Singers (lineup unlisted), "I Can't Make Up My Mind" with vocals by the Don Williams Singers, Elaine Dunn, and George Chakiris, and "You Gotta Be In Love" with vocals by Elaine Dunn and Dante D'Paulo at the first session and the titles "I Feel Like A New Man" with vocals by Elaine Dunn, "I Know What Let's Do" with vocals by Elaine Dunn and Dante D'Paulo, "I Can't Sleep" with vocals by Dante D'Paulo and Neile Adams, and "Sex" with vocals by Neile Adams at the second session. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on the album "Gordon Jenkins Conducts Monte Proser's Tropicana Holiday" (T/ST 1048).</div><div><br />1958 - Pianist and bandleader Stan Kenton and His Orchestra (Lennie Niehaus on alto saxophone, Bill Perkins and Richie Kamuca on tenor saxophone, Bill Robinson and Steve Perlow on baritone saxophone, Red Kelly on bass, and Jerry McKenzie on drums) record the titles "Theme For Sunday", "Theme To The West", "Serenade In Blue" and "Sentimental Serenade" in The Capitol Tower Studios at 1750 North Vine Street in Hollywood, California between 2:00 PM and 5:00 PM for Capitol Records which has yet to issue any of the takes of the titles recorded at this session.</div><div><br /></div><div>1958 - The Stylemasters (a male vocal quartet - lineup unlisted) record the titles "Hawaiian Sea Breeze" and "Those Nights At The Roundtable" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue both titles together as a single (Capitol F3987).</div><div><br /></div><div>1958 - Vocalist Frank Sinatra, with Nelson Riddle conducting his own arrangements to the orchestra (Tommy Pederson and Milt Bernhart on trombones, Ken Shroyer on bass trombone, Richard Perissi, James Decker, and John Cave on French horns, Arthur Gleghorn and Harry Klee on flutes, Blake Reynolds and Sal Franzella on clarinets, Champ Webb and Arnold Koblentz on oboe, Charles Butler and Bill Ulyate on bass clarinet, Bill Miller on piano, Al Viola and George Van Eps on guitar, Joe Comfort and Mike Rubin on bass, Bill Richmond and Larry Bunker on drums, Kathryn Julye on harp, and a string section with Victor Arno, Victor Bay, Alex Beller, Arnold Belnick, Harold Dicterow, David Frisina, James Getzoff, Henry Hill, Daniel Karpilowsky, Mischa Russell, Paul Shure, and Felix Slatkin on violins, Alvin Dinkin, Stankey Harris, Paul Robyn, and David Sterkin on viola, and James Arkatov, Elizabeth Greenschpoon, Armand Kaproff, and Eleanor Slatkin on cello), records the titles "Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry", "Ebb Tide", and "Angel Eyes" in The Capitol Tower Studios at 1750 North Vine Street in Hollywood, California between 8:00 PM and 11:00 PM for Capitol Records which has yet to issue any of the takes of the titles recorded at this session.</div><div><br /></div><div>1963 - Capitol Records files in Los Angeles, California the masters it purchased for Jack Marshall's interviews on the beach: "The Hodad Of The Year", "The World's Richest Surfer", "The Tijuana Surfer", "The Old Oceanographer", "The Teen-Age Surfing Vampire", and "Mr. Surfboard" and will issue all the interviews on the album "'My Son The Surf Nut' (Interviews On The Beach - Jack Marshall)" (T/ST 1939).</div><div><br /></div>1965 - Buck Owens & His Buckaroos finish recording sessions at The Capitol Towers Studios for their album "Instrumental Hits". The sessions were produced by Ken Nelson. Besides Owens on guitar and electric guitar, the sessions featured Don Rich on acoustic & electric guitars and fiddle, Tom Brumley on steel guitar, Doyle Holly on bass, Willie Cantu on drums, Jelly Sanders on guitar and fiddle, Ralph Mooney, Jimmy Seals, and Red Simpson on guitars, Jay McDonald on pedal steel guitar, George French, Jr. on piano, Bobby Austin, Kenny Pierce, and Bob Morris on electric basses, and Wayne "Moose" Stone, Mel King, and Ken Presley drums.</div><div><br />1968 - Ellen Janov, with unlisted others, records the titles "Dreams Of Love" and "Soon They Grow" in Los Angeles, California for Capitol Records. No issuing information is listed.</div><div><br />1969 - Capitol Records releases The Beatles' Apple Records single "Get Back", with "Don't Let Me Down" on the flipside, in the United States and Buck Owens' single "Johnny B. Goode".</div><div><br />1973 - Harvest Records, a subsidiary of Capitol Records, releases Pink Floyd's single <a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/0vFOzaXqZHahrZp6enQwQb?si=ts20nLmlTe-yLypw8WErTw">"Money"</a>, (Harvest 3609) with <a href="https://open.spotify.com/user/markhn/playlist/2Ix0eEfRet4zEcaVP7msZI?si=Oj2_oxayT1WCDpLcL6CIoA">"Any Colour You Like"</a> on the flipside, in the United States.</div><div><br />1975 - Capitol Records releases Tennessee Ernie Ford and Glen Campbell's album "Ernie Sings and Glen Picks".</div><div><br />1978 - Capitol Records releases Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band's album <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/1vhib5WLHRVdOpRjiTHk15?si=gQ7J8lZDRWOi8dM4AHMYQg">"Stranger In Town"</a>.</div><div><br />1983 - The Motels (featuring vocals by Martha Davis with unlisted others) record the title "Remember The Nights" in (listed as possibly) Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue the title as a single (Capitol B-5246) with "Killing Time" (recorded February 14, 1983) on the flipside.</div><div><br />1988 - Capitol Records registers the masters it purchased for Johnny Clegg & Savuka's titles "Human Rainbow", "Siyayilanda", "Joey Don't Do It", "Dance Across The Centuries", "Talk To The People", "African Shadow Man", "The Waiting", "Take My Heart Away", "I Call Your Name", and "Too Early For The Sky" and will issue all the titles on the group's album "Shadow Man" (7-90411-2 on CD) and will also issue "Joey Don't Do It" and "Take My Heart Away" as a single (Capitol 44228).</div><div><br />30 Years Ago Today In 1992 - Capitol Records releases Radiohead's first commercial EP, "Drill", which contains the tracks "Prove Yourself", "Stupid Car", "You", and "Thinking About You".</div><div><br />1998 - Capitol releases Garth Brooks' first boxed set "Limited Series" (only 2 million sets released worldwide). The collection will include Brooks' first six multi-platinum studio releases as well as a new bonus track on each CD, for a total of 66 cuts and over three hours of music. The package also includes a new photo booklet commemorating Brooks' career to date. Also released is Brooks’ single "To Make You Feel My Love" featured on the soundtrack for the feature film "Hope Floats".</div><div><br />1998 - Capitol Records releases The Jesus Lizard's album <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/4qkwlbxgLAWujDt5yjslLe?si=HuUVRQu3QyKYXXToUYiqmg">"Blue"</a>.</div><div><br />1999 - Radiohead's "Meeting People Is Easy" becomes Capitol Records' first simultaneous DVD and Home Video release.</div><div><br />1999 - Capitol Records Nashville artist Garth Brooks is named the artist of the decade at the 34th annual Academy of Country Music Awards.</div><div><br /><br />ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY</div><div><br />1943 - Michael Palin, a comedian, television and motion picture actor, and member of the Virgin Records America group <a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/5IxfhXIHjAOAqibxl90NZO?si=tM36rUaQTnO7rCWS6-34-A">Monty Python's Flying </a><a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/5IxfhXIHjAOAqibxl90NZO?si=tM36rUaQTnO7rCWS6-34-A">Circus</a> is born Michael Edward Palin in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England.</div><div><br />1958 - David Seville's Liberty Records single "Witch Doctor" is still #1 on Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records chart, Rick Nelson's Imperial Records single "My Bucket's Got A Hole In It" is #22 and its flipside, "Believe What You Say" is #24.</div><div><br />1958 - Imperial Records releases The Burnette Brothers' single "Warm Love" with "My Honey" on the flipside which will be their only single release for the label.</div><div><br />1960 - The Quarry Men become The Silver Beetles.</div><div><br />60 Years Ago Today In 1962 - Rick Nelson's Imperial Records single "Young World" is #11 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart, Jay And The American's United Artists single "She Cried" is #13, Walter Brennan's Liberty Records single "Old Rivers" is #15.</div><div><br />1973 - Luis Gonzaga, Jr., with unlisted others, records the title "Moleque" in an unlisted studio in Brazil. Blue Note Records will issue the title on the multi-artist compilation album "Blue Brazil Vol. 2 (Blue Note In A Latin Groove)" (B1-57741 on 12" LP and 8-57741-2 on CD).</div><div><br />1991 - Roxette's EMI America single "Joyride" is #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart.</div><div><br />1998 - Trumpet player Tim Hagans, with Scott Kinsey on synthesizer and programming, David Dyson on electric bass, and Billy Kilson on drums, records the titles "Hud Doyle" with the addition of Even Hays on electric piano and DJ Kingsize on programming, French Girl" with the addition of Bob Beldon on soprano saxophone, and Animation/Imagination" with the addition of Kurt Rosenwinkel on guitar at Sony Studios in New York City, New York. Blue Note Records will issue all the titles on Hangan's album "Animation/Imagination" (4-95198-2 on CD).</div><div><br />2006 - EMI entered preliminary talks to buy Warner Music Group which would later reject EMI's offer.</div><div><br /></div><div><br />ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY</div><div><br />1891 -<a href="https://www.carnegiehall.org/Slideshow.aspx?id=4294976730"> Carnegie Hall officially opens</a> with a concert by The Symphony Society of New York (also known as the New York Symphony), one of the two ensembles that merged in 1928 to form today’s New York Philharmonic, conducted by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky.</div><div><br />1900 - The Billboard, a magazine for the music and entertainment industries, begins weekly publication after six years as a monthly.</div><div><br />1961 - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jc0ccOmcPno">Alan B. Shepard, Jr. becomes the first American to go into space</a>.</div><div><br />1968 - Ed Sullivan presents a tribute on CBS-TV to Irving Berlin on his 80th birthday.</div>PopCultureFanBoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01768787919999520127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18285770.post-64217241325543538962022-05-04T00:00:00.018-04:002022-05-05T20:17:31.014-04:00<p> MAY 4, 2022</p><br />HAPPY BIRTHDAYS!<div><br />1928 - Maynard Ferguson, a musician (trumpet, trombone, other horns), bandleader, winner of DownBeat Magazine reader's poll for best trumpet in 1950, '51, and '52, member of the Capitol Records group Stan Kenton and His Orchestra, and a Capitol and Roulette Records solo artist, is born Walter Maynard Ferguson in Verdun, Quebec, Canada.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxs28Dm01OoHbBytS92lhBSVioc1pxdcJ6owyB1QLt3v-_XD5o1J94Wsv2trzQU4bQER86ARJnUPp2ZCCWEw_-T-ZeScAAFNP0xRosBK7SYLNNeQXxSb93yrT6e6k1oowDBL1v0EgSAj7V8YkrK9bvwFOGXvKkaMyQaBn4dG9ei_QOL1fWLhs/s600/MaynardFerguson.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="552" data-original-width="600" height="294" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxs28Dm01OoHbBytS92lhBSVioc1pxdcJ6owyB1QLt3v-_XD5o1J94Wsv2trzQU4bQER86ARJnUPp2ZCCWEw_-T-ZeScAAFNP0xRosBK7SYLNNeQXxSb93yrT6e6k1oowDBL1v0EgSAj7V8YkrK9bvwFOGXvKkaMyQaBn4dG9ei_QOL1fWLhs/s320/MaynardFerguson.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div><br />85 Years Ago Today In 1937 - <a href="http://www.dickdale.xn--com-9o0a/">Dick Dale, "King of the Surf Guitar" and Capitol Records artist (his first full-length album, "Surfer’s Choice", was picked up by Capitol Records in 1962 and distributed nationally), is born Richard Monsour in Boston, Massachusetts.</a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.dickdale.xn--com-9o0a/"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWMAnQ1tjNB-tnScaTMmP7xemTTKx5iDmeBTKo0Gx7xa1c6IAAnkrl3UUh37sZbf5y0f82EdBAgfOxdaGett68gr6LyhnoysKJ83nRCW9mbdynNPLP5zs4MHvDRInO56bWlS7oY3zztoDaZbtAY7ZEfgPndJ2J0hRx63gHcFXmCPXPh1ytxR4/s603/DickDaleCheckeredFlag.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="603" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWMAnQ1tjNB-tnScaTMmP7xemTTKx5iDmeBTKo0Gx7xa1c6IAAnkrl3UUh37sZbf5y0f82EdBAgfOxdaGett68gr6LyhnoysKJ83nRCW9mbdynNPLP5zs4MHvDRInO56bWlS7oY3zztoDaZbtAY7ZEfgPndJ2J0hRx63gHcFXmCPXPh1ytxR4/s320/DickDaleCheckeredFlag.jpg" width="318" /></a></div></div><div><br />80 Years Ago Today In 1942 - Nickolas Ashford, a producer, songwriter, and singer in the Capitol Records duo Ashford & Simpson, is born in Fairfield, South Carolina.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy-lF8L2c87QAH1tub0jWJuMopT6iM6zmyxYKkpd-ao_oQ5HOkgsWtFKOsFovvSBIR55SXjna3OUhdm1p2MG7TZyMw1qly4rivSQ5oSqBo1DgkXi3oFoI_t17xLw36W_6U15XQGeV_APqbR2EpnK-RpJ0mlmRNPk24baHvEEZHrrHxVhQMoGM/s536/NickolasAshford.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="536" data-original-width="536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy-lF8L2c87QAH1tub0jWJuMopT6iM6zmyxYKkpd-ao_oQ5HOkgsWtFKOsFovvSBIR55SXjna3OUhdm1p2MG7TZyMw1qly4rivSQ5oSqBo1DgkXi3oFoI_t17xLw36W_6U15XQGeV_APqbR2EpnK-RpJ0mlmRNPk24baHvEEZHrrHxVhQMoGM/s320/NickolasAshford.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div><br />70 Years Ago Today In 1952 - <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%E2%80%9Dhttp://wilma.aso.edu.stockholm.se/~ah5gp43/Jacob_Miller.htm%E2%80%9D">Jacob Miller</a>, a motion picture actor, a singer with the Capitol Records group Inner Circle, and a solo artist is born in Madeville, Jamaica.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2je2z_4sl5g_4RpLskB-NvfHUTgZY6OGMNXWb84xOy9QjA-xBO17HIso1eW9pJCoeiiUh5w54q1M-mCO-JyRO9o2A28ZJeyJfMv1d5SJY9ws9jdT_qPbW-OoYqnQgRObxAFVJdhmbqBrpaSkvcsdHcE7ub-Y9D3pI2uq4aVGSWBZfBbUx3YM/s800/JacobMillerandInnerCircle.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="790" data-original-width="800" height="316" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2je2z_4sl5g_4RpLskB-NvfHUTgZY6OGMNXWb84xOy9QjA-xBO17HIso1eW9pJCoeiiUh5w54q1M-mCO-JyRO9o2A28ZJeyJfMv1d5SJY9ws9jdT_qPbW-OoYqnQgRObxAFVJdhmbqBrpaSkvcsdHcE7ub-Y9D3pI2uq4aVGSWBZfBbUx3YM/s320/JacobMillerandInnerCircle.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div><br /><br />ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY</div><div><br />1945 - Stan Kenton and His Orchestra, with June Christy on vocals, record the title "Tampico" which will be released as a single by Capitol Records and become the group's first million-selling record.</div><div><br />1946 - Andy Russell with Paul Weston and His Orchestra's Capitol Records single "Laughing On The Outside" enters Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records chart at #8.</div><div><br />70 Years Ago Today In 1952 - Hank Thompson's Capitol Records single "The Wild Side Of Life" is #1 on the U.S. Country singles charts.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CiyaAb9-x28" width="320" youtube-src-id="CiyaAb9-x28"></iframe></div></div><div><br />1953 - Nat "King" Cole's Capitol Records single "Pretend" is #4 on The Billboard magazine's Best Selling Singles and Most Played By Jockeys charts and #5 on the magazine's Most Played In Juke Boxes chart.</div><div><br />1953 - Vocalist Margaret Whiting, with Nelson Riddle conducting his own arrangements to the orchestra (lineup unlisted), records the titles "Something Wonderful Happens", <a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/4AbU1baEHCzDqx9sUO8Kur?si=se1d1wGER76YoLleMWIPvw">"Where Did He Go"</a>, "Mmm, It's Love", and "I Wish I Could Telephone Heaven" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue "Something Wonderful" and "Where Did He Go" together as a single (Capitol 2489 on 10" shellac and F2489 on 7" vinyl) and has yet to issue the other two titles.</div><div><br /><div>1953 - Vocalists Dean Martin and The Herman McCoy Singers (lineup unlisted), with Dick Stabile conducting His Orchestra (Bernie Mattinson on xylophone, Louis Brown on piano, Vince Terri on guitar, Phil Stephens on bass, Ray Toland on drums, and a string section with Leonard Atkins, Victor Bay, John Peter DeVoogt, Carl LaMagna, Nick Pisani, and Gerald Vinci on violins, Alan Harshman and Louis Kievman on viola, and Armand Kaproff on cello) using arrangements by Gus Levene, records the titles <a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/68Ni3gfkZ931OjpUArNenU?si=AE941fb3QFqsY1S-IJgxtg">"'Til I Find You"</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/5kD7pleAKxsaD8ZbN2De1d?si=LQnA_Zy6Tjq5cYV8k4Y0nA">"Don't You Remember?"</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/3K21EHPmBcYqrOU6bf3azn?si=OtBC_OHBSkeA5zZWugr1AA">"If I Could Sing Like Bing"</a>, and <a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/3rFzaMJHcj9ad0VHM2QYJq?si=sKCqxNLcQ4qmbxCRU_x_Qw">"Love Me, Love Me"</a> at an extended session in Capitol Records' studios at 5515 Melrose Avenue in Hollywood, California between 8:00 PM and 12:00 AM. Capitol Records will issue "'Til I Find You" and "Love Me, Love Me" together as a single (Capitol 2485 on 10" shellac and F2485 on 7" vinyl) and "Don't You Remember" and "If I Could Sing Like Bing" together as a single (Capitol 2555 on 10" shellac and F2555 on 7" vinyl).</div><div><br /></div>1956 - Vocalist <a href="http://www.rockabillyhall.com/gvbebop.html">Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps (Cliff Gallup on guitar, Ervin "Willie Williams on rhythm guitar, Jack Neal on bass, and Dickie Harrell on drums)</a> record the titles <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1ZCdYeOXRU">"Race With The Devil"</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGI4PgAHxtg">"Be-Bop-A-Lula"</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veenLzIiHgg">"Woman Love"</a>, and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjaGMS_Kirc">"I Sure Miss You"</a> with producer Ken Nelson at Owen Bradley's Bradley Film & Recording Studio in Nashville, Tennessee. Capitol Records will issue "Race With The Devil" as a single (Capitol F3530) with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Z3VWDJ6tEM">"Gonna Back Up Baby"</a> (recorded June 25, 1956) on the flipside, "Be Bop A Lula" and "Woman Love" together as a single (Capitol F3450, the label's first Rock 'N' Roll single), and "I Sure Miss You" on the group's eponymous album "Gene Vincent And His Blue Caps" (T 811). Capitol Records will rush-release "Be Bop A Lula" so that it will be in stores within two weeks and the group will perform the song before cameras for the film <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FN3VLv3ZSF0">"The Girl Can't Help It"</a>. "Be-Bop-A-Lula" will influence generations of rockers around the world including John Lennon’s first band The Quarrymen and would be <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKeM8WUZ72s">the first record bought by Paul McCartney</a>.</div><div><br />65 Years Ago Today In 1957 - Ferlin Husky's Capitol Records single "Gone" is #5 on Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records chart, Tommy Sands' Capitol Records single "Teenage Crush" is #13 in a three way tie with Harry Belafonte (with Bob Corwin and His Orchestra)'s single "Mama Look-A Boo Boo", and Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra (with The Arthur Malvin Singers)'s single "So Rare".</div><div><br />1959 - <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%E2%80%9Dhttp://www.thejudyroom.com/discography/capitol/theletter.html%E2%80%9D">Capitol Records releases Judy Garland's album "The Letter"</a> which has recently been re-released by GRP Records.</div><div><br />1959 - The first Grammy Awards are presented by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Capitol Records artists Louis Prima and Keely Smith win Best Group or Chorus Vocal Performance with the single "That Old Black Magic", The Kingston Trio win Best Country and Western Performance with the single "Tom Dooley", Billy May wins Best Orchestra Performance with the album "Billy May's Big Fat Brass", Meredith Wilson wins Best Original Cast Album - Broadway or Television with "The Music Man", Felix Slatkin conducting The Hollywood Bowl Symphony wins Best Classical Performance - Orchestra with "Gaite Parisienne", The Hollywood String Quartet wins Best Classical Performance - Chamber Music with "Beethoven: Quartet No. 13", Roger Wagner Chorale win Best Classical Performance - Operatic or Choral with "Virtuoso", Stan Freberg wins" Best Documentary or Spoken Word Recording with "The Best Of The Stan Freberg Show", and Frank Sinatra wins "Best Album Cover" with his art direction of his album "Only The Lonely".</div><div><br />1959 - The Kingston Trio's Capitol Records single "Tijuana Jail" is #21 on Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records chart.</div><div><br />1963 - The Beach Boys' Capitol Records album "Surfin' USA" debuts on the US album charts.</div><div><br />1963 - The Beach Boy's Capitol Records single "Surfin' USA" is #8 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart, The Kingston Trio's Capitol Records single "Reverend Mr. Black" is #14, and Al Martino's Capitol Records single "I Love You Because" is #29.</div><div><br />1963 - Nat "King" Cole's Capitol Records album "Ramblin' Rose" is #54 and his album "Dear Lonely Hearts" is #74 on Billboard magazine's Top LPs - 150 Best Sellers - Monaural chart. Also, Nat "King" Cole's Capitol Records single "All Over The World" is #73 on Cash Box magazine's Top 100 Singles chart, and his single "Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days Of Summer" is #1 on the magazine's Singles-Looking Ahead chart.</div><div><br />1964 – Capitol Records releases The Beatles' single "Can’t Buy Me Love" and The Kingston Trio's last album for the label, "Back In Town", recorded during a stint at hungry i in San Francisco that started on March 23, 1964.</div><div><br />1968 - Jackie Gleason and His Orchestra (featuring Mike Deasy on sitar with the rest of the lineup unlisted) record the titles "Moon River" and "Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue both titles on Gleason's album "The Now Sound For Today's Lovers" (SW 2935).</div><div><br /><div>1969 - Merle Haggard's Capitol Records single "Hungry Eyes" is #1 on the U.S. Country singles charts.</div><div><br /></div>1971 - Buck Owens records the titles "Corn Likker (Corn Liquor)", "Rollin' In My Sweet Baby's Arms", and "I Know You're Married But I Love You Still" at Buck Owens Studios in Bakersfield, California. Capitol Records will issue the first two titles together as a single (Capitol 3164) and all three titles on Buck Owens and The Buckaroos' album "Ruby" (ST-795).</div><div><br />1974 - Grand Funk Railroad's cover single of "Loco-motion" is still #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart for the second of a two-week stay.</div><div><br />45 Years Ago Today In 1977 - Capitol Records releases The Beatles live album "The Beatles At The Hollywood Bowl".</div><div><br />1979 – A congratulatory ad for “Phantasm” star Angus Scrim (The Tall Man) from Capitol Records appears in the Hollywood Reporter. Angus Scrim is the screen name for Rory Guy, Grammy-winning writer of liner notes for Angel and Capitol Records, whose office was on the 5th floor of The Capitol Tower. <a href="http://www.horror-wood.com/phan.htm">Ron Waite has a great article online about a visit to Rory/Angus in the Tower with a young fan of the movie.</a></div><div><br />40 Years Ago Today In 1982 – Duran Duran's second album, “Rio”, produced by Colin Thurston, was released worldwide with Capitol Records' subsidiary Harvest Records initially handling distribution in the United States.</div><div><br />1988 - Dave Edmunds, with unlisted others, records the title "Sincerely" at an unlisted studio. Capitol Records will issue the title on Edmunds' album "Closer To Fame" (C1-90372 on 12" vinyl and C2-90372 on CD).</div><div><br /><div>30 Years Ago Today In 1992 - Dudu Zulu, a principal member of the Capitol Records group Johnny Clegg & Savuka, was shot and killed on May 4, 1992 in his native Zululand as he was en route to his home.</div><div><br /></div>1998 - Capitol Records releases Robbie Williams' first U.S. album "The Ego Has Landed", culled from his first 2 UK albums.</div><div><br />2011 - <a href="http://www.tulsaworld.com/ourlives/article.aspx?subjectid=58&articleid=20110507_11_A18_CUTLIN719584&allcom=1">Gary West</a> (aka Speedy West, Jr.), guitarist and son of Capitol Records artist Speedy West, dies in Oklahoma City of complications from lung cancer at age 58. A memorial service is set for 3 p.m. May 11 at St. Luke's United Methodist Church in Oklahoma City under the direction of Buchanan Funeral Service of Oklahoma City.</div><div><br /><br />ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY</div><div><br />75 Years Ago Today In 1947 – Capitol Records co-founder and artist Johnny Mercer sings "Huggin' and Chalkin'" on the Armed Forces radio show "Command Performance".</div><div><br />65 Years Ago Today In 1957 - Fats Domino's Imperial Records single "I'm Walkin'" is #8 on Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records chart and Eddie Cochran's Liberty Records single "Sittin' In The Balcony" is #21.</div><div><br />1959 - Liberty Records artist David Seville wins Best Comedy Recording and Best Recording for Children with "The Chipmunk Song" and Ted Keep wins Best Engineered Recording - Novelty with "The Chipmunk Song" at the first Grammy Awards presentation.</div><div><br />1959 - The Fleetwoods' Dolton (originally Dolphin) Records single "Come Softly" is #3 on Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records chart, Martin Denny's Liberty Records single "Quiet Village" is #19, Rick Nelson's Imperial Records single "Never Be Anyone Else But You is #26 and its flipside, "It's Late", is #29.</div><div><br />1963 - Bobby Vee's Liberty Records single "Charms" is #15 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart, Lou Christie's Roulette Records single "Two Faces Have I" is #23, and Jan and Dean's Liberty Records single "Linda" is #28.</div><div><br />1983 - EMI America purchases the masters to Kate Bush's title "Un Baiser D'Enfant (The Infant Kiss) (French Lyric)" with Bush singing in French and will issue the title on Bush's self-titled 7" mini-album "Kate Bush" (4LP-19004).</div><div><br />1986 - The Pet Shop Boys' EMI America single "West End Girls" is #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart.</div><div><br /><br />ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL HISTORY</div><div><br />1886 - Chichester Bell and Charles S. Tainter are granted a patent on the gramophone.</div><div><br />1929 - Audrey Hepburn, Academy Award-winning actress, who introduced the Johnny Mercer/Henry Mancini song “Moon River” in the film “Breakfast At Tiffany’s”, is born Edda Kathleen van Heemstra in Brussels, Belgium.</div><div><br />1945 - Miles Davis records for the first time in a session with a band led by Herbie Fields.</div><div><br />1958 - Keith Haring, an artist, is born in Reading, Pennsylvania.</div><div><br />1970 – Students Allison Krause, Sandra Lee Scheuer, Jeffrey Glenn Miller, and William K. Schroeder were shot down by National Guard members during an anti-Vietnam War demonstration on the Kent State University Campus in Ohio.</div><div><br />1975 - Moe Howard, a vaudeville, Broadway, motion picture and television actor, comedian, and member of The Three Stooges, dies at age 77.</div><div><br />45 Years Ago Today In 1977 - "Star Wars" debuts in movie theatres.</div><div><br />2006 - I saw actor Kent McCord working on <a href="http://www.kentmccord.com/">his website</a> on a 12" iBook outside a coffee shop next to the Virgin MegaStore on Sunset and Crescent Heights. He appeared on "Ozzie and Harriett" as one of Rick Nelson's friends before going on to co-star on "Adam 12" and making appearances on "Farscape"..</div>PopCultureFanBoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01768787919999520127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18285770.post-64751821173292722702022-05-03T00:00:00.074-04:002022-05-05T19:44:25.881-04:00<p> MAY 3, 2022</p><br />HAPPY BIRTHDAYS!<div><br />1903 - Bing Crosby, a singer, radio, motion picture, radio, and television actor, and a Decca and a Capitol Records artist, is born Harry Lillis Crosby at 1112 North "J" Street in Tacoma, Washington.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0gbTiyxmgv6AId4ixDaH19NsOe0e5TKDCR1G4tYHrp1uzu2ZB9CKV4vXnsyAjBNWJ5lLscEmX1i5UlRQODM0zzcb24eVMOZYw_eTkaurBH64IoWRod6GR29r3cxYWv0LpULuzerVr5YSQScw9PgRNzZFzKFJy2w8pKwKshdURUIWtPoyXJGA/s640/BingCrosbySingsTheGreatCountryHits.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="640" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0gbTiyxmgv6AId4ixDaH19NsOe0e5TKDCR1G4tYHrp1uzu2ZB9CKV4vXnsyAjBNWJ5lLscEmX1i5UlRQODM0zzcb24eVMOZYw_eTkaurBH64IoWRod6GR29r3cxYWv0LpULuzerVr5YSQScw9PgRNzZFzKFJy2w8pKwKshdURUIWtPoyXJGA/s320/BingCrosbySingsTheGreatCountryHits.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br />110 Years Ago Today In 1912 - <a href="http://www.virgilfoxlegacy.com/welcome.html">Virgil Fox</a>, organist and Capitol Records artist, is born in Princeton, Illinois.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrljGxDDXTl-tHw6rNEhPM29ekyYRTuiDcGlrtSwZ7vUlSUnqw20-Ms4Azec__ZjDnEXQ1hpAbJtqhbMyb8Jm73ViYzvHdBG3yN3knsBBEdWzkvIVdkD_9W9b_Odigy5nvyi2sHk1kJqJ7ZSM3ydtlhJKtbUMmpZK6TWezwV4iyZo0ZiSEU0k/s700/VirgilFox.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="700" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrljGxDDXTl-tHw6rNEhPM29ekyYRTuiDcGlrtSwZ7vUlSUnqw20-Ms4Azec__ZjDnEXQ1hpAbJtqhbMyb8Jm73ViYzvHdBG3yN3knsBBEdWzkvIVdkD_9W9b_Odigy5nvyi2sHk1kJqJ7ZSM3ydtlhJKtbUMmpZK6TWezwV4iyZo0ZiSEU0k/s320/VirgilFox.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div><br />1950 - Mary Hopkin, singer (best known for "Those Were The Days") and Apple Records artist distributed by Capitol Records in the United States, is born in Pontardawe, Wales.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkoq07Zf7RexDrEX59WEYIVJDDgZSXAUmo3rqU5xa6t94-Nz0U9HNSMWIZHfPmQwJdlR86bfN125GlfBEWRsoSQ5BtlgI0m43oDe1rCtN1AEfM2_5AzGKzhSfghj90VMP064CfXULXBCUgaIzL7HpcBa9TNSB0qGADYxEJ3nXiUleYGs9TWoA/s1600/MaryHopkinThinkAboutYourChildren.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1594" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkoq07Zf7RexDrEX59WEYIVJDDgZSXAUmo3rqU5xa6t94-Nz0U9HNSMWIZHfPmQwJdlR86bfN125GlfBEWRsoSQ5BtlgI0m43oDe1rCtN1AEfM2_5AzGKzhSfghj90VMP064CfXULXBCUgaIzL7HpcBa9TNSB0qGADYxEJ3nXiUleYGs9TWoA/s320/MaryHopkinThinkAboutYourChildren.jpg" width="319" /></a></div></div><div><br />1955 - Steve Jones, singer, disc jockey, and guitarist with the EMI and Virgin Records band The Sex Pistols, is born.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjozHPfowF5Bl7QvxxUOXE5f2SYx2GKfiPQo62-R2QBw732g6LdZOxDXGugHgkygXPGifMes-XvzPH-iUAGc7SPwaWIyYqV9EZQBYc7Xb_etqRbSAS-tGlrJRUFwB1pq5_iUf3kciZXr2_q4SXV3avU5ywZXOs-rziqbKPtK4G-ArOctf36Bp0/s610/SteveJones.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="610" data-original-width="610" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjozHPfowF5Bl7QvxxUOXE5f2SYx2GKfiPQo62-R2QBw732g6LdZOxDXGugHgkygXPGifMes-XvzPH-iUAGc7SPwaWIyYqV9EZQBYc7Xb_etqRbSAS-tGlrJRUFwB1pq5_iUf3kciZXr2_q4SXV3avU5ywZXOs-rziqbKPtK4G-ArOctf36Bp0/s320/SteveJones.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div><br /><br />ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL HISTORY</div><div><br />75 Years Ago Today In 1947 - The Pied Pipers with Paul Weston and His Orchestra's Capitol Records single "Mam'selle" debuts at #10 on Billboards Best Selling Retail Records chart.</div><div><br />75 Years Ago Today In 1947 - Merle Travis' Capitol Records single "So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed" is #1 on the U.S. Country singles charts.</div><div><br />70 Years Ago Today In 1952 - Kay Starr's Capitol Records single "Wheel Of Fortune" is still #1 on Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records chart, Ella Mae Morse's Capitol Records single is still #3, and Jane Froman's Capitol Records single "I'll Walk Alone", with orchestra conducted by Sid Feller, debuts at #19.</div><div><br />1958 - Nat "King" Cole's Capitol Records single "Looking Back" is #4 on The Billboard magazine's R&B Best Sellers In Stores and Most Played R&B By Jockeys charts, #10 on the magazine's Best Selling Pop Singles In Stores and Top 100 Sides charts, #14 on the magazine's Most Played By Jockeys chart, #15 on Cash Box magazine's Best Selling Singles chart, and #38 on KFWB's Fabulous Forty Survey in Los Angeles, California. "Looking Back"'s flipside, "Do I Like It" is also #10 on The Billboard magazine's Best Selling Pop Singles In Stores chart, #26 also on KFWB's Fabulous Forty Survey in Los Angeles, California and #93 also on The Billboard magazine's Top 100 Sides chart. Nat "King" Cole's Capitol Records album "Love Is The Thing" is #9 on The Billboard magazine's Most Played By Jockeys chart and #22 on the magazine's Best Selling Pop LPs chart.</div><div><br />1958 - Vocalist Earl Holliman, with The Dave Cavanaugh Orchestra (lineup unlisted), records the titles "Don't Get Around Much Anymore", "Real Love And Affection", "A Teenager Sings Blues", and "White Flame" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" and "A Teenager Sings Blues" together as a single (Capitol 3983) and has yet to issue the other two titles.</div><div><br />1968 - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beach_Boys%27_1968_US_tour_with_Maharishi_Mahesh_Yogi">Capitol Records band The Beach Boys begins its US tour, with special guest Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, w</a>ith two concerts, one at the Washington Coliseum in Washington, District of Columbia and the other at the Baltimore Civic Center in Baltimore, Maryland.</div><div><br />1968 - Overdubs are recorded in Los Angeles, California for Tony Bruno's titles "We'll Be Together Again", "Didn't We", "You Don't Know What Love Is", "Reason To Believe", "Little Green Apples", and "Rhonda Mendelbaum". After more overdubs are recorded for all the titles on May 4, 6, and 18, 1968, Capitol Records will issue the final mixes of all the titles on Bruno's album "I'm Feeling It Now" (ST 2930) and the final mix of "Didn't We" also as a single (Capitol 2235) with "Little Men & Little Women" (recorded March 4, 1968 with overdubs on March 18 and April 26, 1968) on the flipside.</div><div><br />1968 - Truck (lineup unlisted) records the titles "I've Been Waiting" and "If" in Los Angeles, California for Capitol Records which has yet to issue either title.</div><div><br />1968 - Vocalists Tony Sandler and Ralph Yount, with Bob Bain conducting his own arrangements to the orchestra (lineup unlisted) record the titles "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas", "I Sing Noel", "Mister Santa", and "Adeste Fideles (O Come All Ye Faithful)" in Los Angeles, California. After overdubs are recorded in Los Angeles, California on May 24, 1968 for "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" and "I Sing Noel" and on May 27, 1968, for "Mister Santa" and "Adeste Fideles (O Come All Ye Faithful)", Capitol Records will issue the final mixes of "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas", "I Sing Noel", and "Mister Santa" on the duo's album "Christmas World" (ST 2967), "I Sing Noel" also as a single (Capitol 2333) with "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town" (recorded April 29, 1968, with overdubs recorded on May 27, 1968) on the flipside, and "Adeste Fideles (O Come All Ye Faithful)" on the two-LP multi-artist compiliation album "The Best Of Christmas" (STBB 2979).</div><div><br />1968 - Overdubs are recorded in Nashville, Tennessee for Ken "Thumbs" Carllile's titles "Gentle On My Mind", "Boss-A-Minuet", "By The Time I Get To Phoenix", and "Greenfields" which were all recorded on March 5, 1968. Capitol Records has yet to issue any of the titles or their final mixes.</div><div><br />1969 - Margaret Young, a popular comedienne and singer in the 1920s, Capitol recording artist in 1949, and aunt of Capitol artist Margaret Whiting, dies in Inglewood, California at age 78. She was born Margaret Youngblood.</div><div><br />1971 - Capitol Records band Grand Funk Railroad hold their first press conference with six journalists attending.</div><div><br />1973 - Connie Cato, with unlisted others, records the titles "Four ON The Floor", "Big Stick Of Dynamite", and "Don't Let The Good Times Roll Away" in Nashville, Tennessee. Capitol Records will issue "Four On The Floor" and "Don't Let The Good Times Roll Away" together as a single (Capitol 3679), "Big Stick Of Dynamite" as a single (Capitol 3788) with "Superskirt" (recorded January 31, 1973) on the flipside, and "Four On The Floor" and "Big Stick Of Dynamite" also on Cato's album "Super Connie Cato" (ST-11312).</div><div><br />1973 - Overdubs are recorded in Los Angeles, California for Billy May And The Time-Life Orchestra's titles "The Fool On The Hill" (recorded in The Capitol Tower Studios on March 19, 1973) and "Manha De Carnaval" (recorded and overdubbed in The Capitol Tower Studios on April 30, 1973). Time-Life Records will issue the final mixes of both titles as part of its "As You Remember Them" series in the three-LP set "Volume 7 - Billy May" (STL-247).</div><div><br />1976 - Capitol Records band Wings end their "Wings Over America" tour after a three-night stand at The Forum, in Los Angeles, California, or start their tour in Fort Worth, Texas marking Paul McCartney's first time back on a U.S. stage in a decade.</div><div><br />45 Years Ago Today In 1977 - Helmut Köllen, the bassist, acoustic guitarist, vocalist, and writer for the Capitol band Triumvirat, after a long day in the studio recording, is accidentally killed at age 27 by carbon monoxide poisoning while sitting in his car listening to a cassette tape of the day's session in his garage. A solo album named by his friends after one of his favorite Beatles' songs, "You Won't See Me", is released posthumously later that year by Harvest/EMI Records in Germany. <a href="http://www.triumvirat.net/welcome.htm">Russ Schenewerk has written a great biographical article about Triumvirat and Köllen.</a></div><div><br />1980 - Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band's Capitol Records album "Against The Wind" is #1 on Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart.</div><div><br />1988 - Poison's album "Open Up And Say...Ahh!" is released on Enigma Records, and distributed by Capitol Records. The album was produced by Tom Werman after Kiss' Paul Stanley had to bow out after scheduling conflicts. The album was recorded and mixed at Conway Recording Studios in Los Angeles and contains the #1 hit "Every Rose Has It's Thorn".</div><div><br />1988 - Willie Dixon, with unlisted others, records the titles "I Don't Trust Myself" and "Don't Mess With The Messer" in an unlisted studio for Capitol Records. No issuing information is listed.</div><div><br />1998 - Garth Brooks' Capitol Records Nashville single "Two Pina Coladas" is #1 on the U.S. Country singles charts.</div><div><br /><br />ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY</div><div><br />1936 - Future Capitol Records artist Joe DiMaggio plays his first major league baseball game in Yankee Stadium against the St. Louis Browns.</div><div><br />1965 - The Beatles spend the day filming scenes for their United Artists movie "HELP!" on Salisbury Plain with the assistance of the British Army's Third Tank Division.</div><div><br />1968 - Trumpet player Lee Morgan, with Bennie Maupin on tenor saxophone, Cedar Walton on piano, Reggie Workman on bass, and Billy Higgins on drums, records the titles "Helen's Ritual", "Suicide City", "Cunning Lee", "Caramba (aka Dig Dis)", "Soulita", and, without Bennie Maupin on tenor saxophone, "A Baby's Smile" at recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder's studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey with producer Francis Wolff. Blue Note Records will issue all the titles, except "A Baby's Smile" on Morgan's album "Caramba!" (BST84289) and all the titles on the CD release of the album (8-53358-2).</div><div><br />1976 - Carmen McRae (on vocals, with concertmasters Gerry Vinci and David Frisina; Buddy Childers, Bobby Shew, Al Aarons, Snooky Young, Oscar Brashear, and Blue Mitchell on trumpet; Lew McCreary, George Bohannon, Kenny Shroyer, Maurice Spears, Grover Mitchell, and Ernie Tack on trombone; Bill Perkins, Lanny Morgan, Harry Klee, Abe Most, Bill Green, Jerome Richardson, Ernie Watts, Don Menza, Pete Christlieb, and Jack Nimitz on reeds; Artie Kane and Marshall Otwell on piano; Joe Sample, Dave Grusin, and Ian Underwood on keyboards; Larry Carlton and Dennis Budimir on guitar; Joe Mondragon, Chuck Berghofer, and Wilton Felder on bass;, Harvey Mason on drums; and Victor Feldman and Larry Bunker on percussion) begins recording titles for her United Artists Records album "Can't Hide Love" with producer by Dale Oehler, executive producer George Butler, and mixing engineer Hank Cicalo assisted by Milt Caliceis, at A&M Recording Studios, Los Angeles, California.</div><div><br />1988 - The masters are registered for John Fogerty's title "Centerfield", The Blasters' title "So Long Baby Goodbye", Los Lobos' title "I Got Loaded", and The Fabulous Thunderbirds' title "Can't Tear It Up" to be used on the soundtrack album for the film "Bull Durham" which will be issued on the Silva Screen label by EMI (C1-90586 on 12" vinyl and C2-90586 on CD).</div><div><br />1994 - August Anna Brooks, daughter of Liberty Records (later renamed Capitol Records Nashville) artist Garth Brooks, is born.</div><div><br />20 Years Ago Today In 1997 - Former Capitol Records band Katrina & the Waves win the forty-second Eurovision Song Contest, held in Dublin, Ireland, for the United Kingdom singing "Love Shine a Light".</div><div><br /><br />ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL HISTORY</div><div><br />1919 - Betty Comden, lyricist (best known as the partner of composer Adolph Green), is born in Brooklyn, New York.</div><div><br />1933 - James Brown, "The Godfather of Soul", is born in Barnwell, South Carolina.</div><div><br />1956 - "Most Happy Fella", a musical by Frank Loesser, opens at The Imperial Theatre in New York City, New York.</div><div><br />1960 - "The Fantasticks", by composer Harvey Schmidt and writer-lyricist Tom Jones, opens off-off-Broadway at the Sullivan Street Playhouse and would run continuously for the next 40 years, becoming the world's longest-running musical. Its hit song, "Try To Remember", is introduced by Jerry Orbach, later better remembered for his stint on TV's "Law & Order" and as the voice of Lumiere in the Walt Disney animated feature "Beauty And The Beast".</div><div><br />50 Years Ago Today In 1972- Bruce Springsteen records 12 songs at an acoustic solo demo session for CBS talent scout John Hammond in New York City which eventually leads to his signing to the label.</div><div><br />1998 - Gene Raymond, actor (lead in RKO's 1933 film "Flying Down to Rio", the first film to team Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers), singer (introduced the song "All I Do Is Think Of You" in the 1934 MGM film "Sadie McKee"), and one-time husband of singer and actress Jeanette MacDonald, dies at age 89.<br /><br />BTW - It's also my brother Paul Nielsen's 60th birthday :)</div></div>PopCultureFanBoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01768787919999520127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18285770.post-91761769432225652192022-05-02T00:00:00.008-04:002022-05-05T19:20:45.744-04:00<p> MAY 2, 2022</p><br />HAPPY BIRTHDAYS!<div><br />1950 - Lou Gramm, a singer and drummer in the Capitol Records band Black Sheep and the band Foreigner is born Louis Grammatico, in Rochester, New York.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw5W9k3FJTDBP5gffFPIUrOTUq_GRT3XTVhQNP1BBDGtRJQlCH35HxBRVEW1gbfxb5ouD-90wGPlWrTNUoTJgWD3Q-JvEj-bvReHEEUb0t8wWgkiJ3opJRecDY14oaD5MbDjC853N8dQMLtUa7dzoLdmPJdt_ANFYODNYpuaaVLGHCxfWMrFE/s443/LouGramm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="443" data-original-width="443" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw5W9k3FJTDBP5gffFPIUrOTUq_GRT3XTVhQNP1BBDGtRJQlCH35HxBRVEW1gbfxb5ouD-90wGPlWrTNUoTJgWD3Q-JvEj-bvReHEEUb0t8wWgkiJ3opJRecDY14oaD5MbDjC853N8dQMLtUa7dzoLdmPJdt_ANFYODNYpuaaVLGHCxfWMrFE/s320/LouGramm.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div><br />1954 - Prescott Niles, a bass player in the Capitol Records band The Knack, as well as the bands The Game and The Front, is born in New York City, New York.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcSBx-T7Vb13Kd2cX1uUht0ZUxij5zLwIl6Faa7b-ov-jffyz-WIloHq0ce5CSE-1CqgbiD5V5kmhNKK_1iGXGkf9YNPSWwwLlsI_iSE0uljxTczkwp5vfSLOhLoanBNjMabfAtGhRHlZrTkXeGihH8UTBNfEftG8_zvyDv8jeJdVEeXLgpa0/s715/PrescottNiles.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="715" data-original-width="715" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcSBx-T7Vb13Kd2cX1uUht0ZUxij5zLwIl6Faa7b-ov-jffyz-WIloHq0ce5CSE-1CqgbiD5V5kmhNKK_1iGXGkf9YNPSWwwLlsI_iSE0uljxTczkwp5vfSLOhLoanBNjMabfAtGhRHlZrTkXeGihH8UTBNfEftG8_zvyDv8jeJdVEeXLgpa0/s320/PrescottNiles.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div><br /><br />ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY</div><div><br />1946 - Andy Russell's Capitol Records single "Laughing On The Outside (Crying On The Inside)" is released.</div><div><br />75 Years Ago Today In 1947 - The Pied Pipers' Capitol Records single "Mam'selle" is released.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2xYSilOhUCc" width="320" youtube-src-id="2xYSilOhUCc"></iframe></div></div><div><br />1948 - The Notre Dame Glee Club (lineup unlisted) records the titles "Notre Dame Victory March" and "Notre Dame We Hail Thee" in New York City, New York. Capitol Records will issue both titles as a single (57-764) with The U.C.L.A. Glee Club's titles "Hail To California" and "Team Hear Our Song" (both recorded on June 29, 1948) on the flipside.</div><div><br />1953 - Nat "King" Cole's Capitol Records single "Pretend" is #4 on Billboard's Best Selling Records chart, Les Baxter and His Orchestra's Capitol Records single "April In Portugal" is #5, and Jane Froman's Capitol Records single "I Believe", with Sid Feller conducting the orchestra, is #17.</div><div><br />1953 - Vocalist Frank Sinatra, with Nelson Riddle conducting his own arrangements to the orchestra (Arthur “Skeets” Herfurt, Ted Nash, and James Williamson on reeds, Clyde Hurley and Emanuel Klein on trumpets, Milton Bernhart and James Priddy on trombones, John Cace and Vincent De Rosa on French horns, Bill Miller on piano, Phil Stephens on bass, Alton Hendrickson on guitar, Alvin Stoller on drums, Kathryn Julve on harp, and a string section with Victor Bay, Walter Edelstien, Henry Hill, Alex Murray, Mischa Russell, and Gerald Vinci on violins, Alfred Barr and Paul Robyn on violas, Eleanor Slatkin on cello), records the titles <a href="https://open.spotify.com/user/markhn/playlist/5mjgne8HS64ZIC2bsRSJcZ?si=iKzHbufvRFCQaF1gx8RzGg">"Anytime, Anywhere", "My One And Only Love", "From Here To Eternity", and "I Can Read Between The Lines"</a> at radio station KHJ's (now the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science's Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study and The Academy Film Archive) studios at 1313 North Vine Street in Hollywood, California between 3:00 PM and 6:00 PM with producer Voyle Gilmore. Capitol Records will issue "Anytime, Anywhere" and "From Here To Eternity" together as a single (Capitol 2560), "My One And Only Love" as a single (Capitol 2505) with "I've Got The World On A String" (recorded on April 30, 1953) on the flipside, and "I Can Read Between The Lines" on the album "Songs For Young Lovers" (W 1432).</div><div><br />1955 - Jackie Gleason records the track "That Certain Party" for Capitol Records.</div><div><br />1956 - The Louvin Brothers record the track "Cash On The Barrelhead" for Capitol Records.</div><div><br />1958 - Vocal overdubs are recorded in Los Angeles on Hank Thompson's titles "Shenandoah Waltz", "Signed, Sealed And Delivered", "In The Valley Of The Moon", and "Warm Red Wine" which were all recorded on April 15, 1958. Capitol Records will issue the final mixes of all the titles on the album "Favorite Waltzes By Hank Thompson With The Brazos Valley Boys" (T 1111).</div><div><br />1958 - Vocalist Nat "King" Cole, with Gordon Jenkins and his Orchestra (Rene Favre on piano, John Collins on guitar, Charles Harris on bass, Lee Young on drums, and a string section with Victor Arno, Harry Bluestone, Sam Cytron, Kurt Dieterle, Walt Edelstein, Dave Frisina, Jacques Gasselin, Murray Kellner, Joseph Livoti, Alex Murray, Erno Neufeld, Nick Pisani, Joe Quadri, Nathan Ross, Mischa Russell, and Marshall Sosson on violin, Bill Baffa, Lou Kievman, Ray Menhennick, and David Sterkin on viola, Armand Kaproff and Ray Kramer on cello, and Kathryn Thompson on harp), records the titles <a href="https://open.spotify.com/user/markhn/playlist/2klcca4isLeZASDO7nmLUW?si=r-vxll3XQLyw_QyDIqAV2Q">"I Wish I Knew The Way To Your Heart", "This Is All I Ask", "The More I See You", "I Found A Million Dollar Baby (In A Five And Ten Cent Store)", "Making Believe You're Here", and "My Heart Tells Me (Should I Believe My Heart?)"</a> in The Capitol Tower Studios at 1750 North Vine Street in Hollywood, California between 2:00 PM and 6:00 PM. Capitol Records will issue all the songs on Cole's album "The Very Thought Of You" (W 1084). An edited version of "I Found A Million Dollar Baby (In A Five And Ten Cent Store)" is included on a promotional record (Capitol PRO 2991/2).</div><div><br />1963 - At their first session, The Super Stocks (Gary Usher and Chuck Girard on vocals, Richie Podolor aka Richie Allen, Paul Johnson, and Glen Campbell on guitars, Wayne Edwards on percussion, Bill Cooper and Carol Kaye on bass guitars, Richard Burns on rhythm guitar, Steve Douglas on saxophone, Leon Russell on keyboards, and Hal Blaine on drums), record the titles <a href="https://open.spotify.com/user/markhn/playlist/52dLJprM58O4kCQXzOxKuE?si=9DD6QX0ISiiuFSoC8AxPtQ">"Four On The Floor", "Wide Track", "Street Machine", and "Cheater Slicks"</a> in Los Angeles, California with Gary Usher also producing the session. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on the multi-artist compilation album "Shutdown" (T/DT 1918).</div><div><br /><div>1964 - The Beatles' Capitol Records album "Second Album" hits the #1 spot on Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart two weeks after its release, making it the first album ever to reach #1 that quickly.</div><div><br /></div>1966 - Capitol Records releases Buck Owens' album "Dust On Mother's Bible".</div><div><br />55 Years Ago Today In 1967 - Capitol Records pulls the plug on Brian Wilson's "Smile" album for The Beach Boys. Thirty-eight years later in 2005, after a series of concert performances by Brian Wilson, the album, and a documentary film, will finally be released.</div><div><br />1968 - Vocalist Lou Rawls, with H. B. Barnum conducting his own arrangement to his orchestra (Plas Johnson and Jim Horn on tenor saxophone, Gary Coleman on vibraphone, Don Randi on piano, Les Buie, Al Casey, and Arthur Wright on guitars, Carole Kaye on bass, Earl Palmer on drums, and Stan Levey on percussion), records the titles "Ol' Man River", "Life Time", "One For My Baby (And One More For The Road)", and "Life Time (Monologue)" in Los Angeles, California with producer David Axelrod. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Rawls' album "You're Good For Me" (ST 2927).</div><div><br />1968 - Vocalist Tony Bruno, with unlisted others, records the titles "Reason To Believe", "Little Green Apples", and "Rhoda Mendelbaum" in Los Angeles, California. After overdubs are recorded for all the titles on May 3, 4, 6, and 18, 1968, Capitol Records will issue the final mixes of all the titles on Bruno's album "I'm Feeling It Now" (ST 2930).</div><div><br />1968 - Pianist Rubin Mitchell, with King Curtis on tenor saxophone and unlisted trumpets, alto saxophone, baritone saxophone, organ, guitar, bass, and drums players, records the titles "Do You Know The Way To San Jose", "Loosen Up (Yakety Sax)" with the addition of an unlisted tambourine player, and "Summer Dreams" in New York City, New York. Capitol Records has yet to issue "Do You Know The Way To San Jose" and will issue "Loosen Up (Yakety Sax)" and "Summer Dreams" together as a single (Capitol 2220).</div><div><br />1968 - Capitol Records registers in Los Angeles, California the masters it purchased of Orville Couch's titles "Double Trouble", "Just Another Stranger", "Won't It Feel Good", and "Don't Laugh At The Honky Tonks". Tower Records, a subsidiary of Capitol Records, will issue "Double Trouble" and "Just Another Stranger" together as a single (Tower 413) and "Won't It Feel Good" and "Don't Laugh At The Honky Tonks" together as a single (Tower 469).</div><div><br /></div><div>1973 - June Hutton, who replaced Jo Stafford in the Capitol Records group The Pied Pipers in June 1944 and was the wife of arranger Axel Stordahl, dies at age 53. She is later interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California next to her husband.<img alt="" border="0" src="https://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2705/1785/200/piedpipersjunehutton.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></div><div>1973 - Boomer (aka Boomer Castleman), with unlisted others, records the titles "The Mississippi Mud", "Texas Dawn", "Cottonmouth", and "Let's Get The Feeling" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue "The Mississippi Mud" and "Texas Dawn" together as a single (Capitol 3668). No issuing information is listed for the last two titles.</div><div><br /><div>1978 - Connie Cato, with unlisted others, records the titles "Hasta Manana", "Cry Like A Baby", "Red Rubber Ball", and "I Won't Take It Lyin' Down" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue "I Won't Take It Lyin' Down" as a single (Capitol 4603) with "I'll Love Her Right Out Of Your Mind" (recorded October 5, 1976) on the flipside and has yet to issue the other three titles.</div><div><br /></div><div>1986 - Anne Murray's Capitol Records single "Now And Forever" is #1 on the U.S. Country singles charts.</div><div><br /></div><div>1988 - Willie Dixon, with unlisted others, records the titles "Good Advice", "Blues You Can't Lose", and "I Love The Life I Live (I Live The Life I Love" at an unlisted studio for Capitol Records. No issuing information is listed.</div><div><br /></div>30 Years Ago Today In 1992 - Capitol Records artist Bonnie Raitt receives an honorary Doctor of Music Degree from Berklee College of Music during commencement ceremonies in Boston. The principal speaker at the commencement is Capitol Records boss Joe Smith.</div><div><br />2004 - Keith Urban's Capitol Records Nashville single "You'll Think Of Me" is #1 on the U.S. Country singles charts.</div><div><br /><br />ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY</div><div><br />1885 - Hedda Hopper, American actress, gossip columnist, radio show host, mother of motion picture and television actor William Hopper (best known as Paul Drake on "Perry Mason"), and whose estate was an early tenant of The Capitol Tower, is born Elda Furry in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania.</div><div><br />1958 - Pianist Gil Evans conducts his own arrangements to Johnny Coles, Louis Mucci, and Ernie Royal on trumpets, Frank Rehak and Joe Bennett on trombones, Tom Mitchell on bass trombone, Julius Watkins on French horn, Bill Barber on tuba, Julian "Cannonball" Adderley on alto saxphone, Phil Bodner on piccolo, flute, bass clarinet, and English horn, Chuck Wayne on guitar, Paul Chambers on bass, and Philly Joe Jones on drums, records the title "Willow Tree" at Judson Hall in New York City, New York with producer George Avaklan for World Pacific Records which will issue the title on the album "New Bottle Old Wine" (WP-1246 in Mono and STEREO-1011 in Stereo) as by Gil Evans Orchestra Featuring Cannonball Adderley in 1958. Blue Note Records will issue the title on the two-disc compilation album "Pacific Standard Time" (BN-LA461-H2) in 1975 and on the CD "Gil Evans – The Complete Pacific Jazz Sessions" (3-58300-2) in 2006.</div><div><br />1964 - The Beatles' Tollie Records single "Love Me Do" enters the Top 40 of Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart.</div><div><br />1964 - Imperial Records releases Billy J. Kramer's single "Little Children" in the United States.</div><div><br />1968 - Tenor saxophonist Stanley Turrentine, with Snooky Young and Jimmy Nottingham on flugelhorns, Jim Buffington on French horn, Benny Powell on bass trombone, Hank Jones on piano, Kenny Burrell on guitar, George Duvivier on bass, and Grady Tate on drums, records the titles "A Beautiful Friendship" without Burrell on guitar, "This Guy's In Love With You", I'm Always Drunk In San Francisco", "Emily", and "Cabin In The Sky" in recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder's studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. After a fourteen piece string section records overdubs arranged by Duke Pearson for all the titles on May 27, 1968, Blue Note Records will reject the take of "Cabin In The Sky" and will issue the final mixes of "A Beautiful Friendship", "This Guy's In Love With You", I'm Always Drunk In San Francisco", and "Emily" on Turrentine's album "The Look Of Love" (BST84286) and will also issue "This Guy's In Love With You" as a single (Blue Note 45-1940) with "The Look Of Love" (recorded April 15, 1968 and had the string section overdubbed on May 27, 1968) on the flipside.</div><div><br />1981 - Sheena Easton's EMI America single "Morning Train" is still #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart.</div><div><br />1988 - Jim Fifield is appointed President and Chief Operating Officer of EMI Music Worldwide, based in New York City, New York. He will become President and Chief Executive Officer the following year.</div><div><br /><br />ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL HISTORY</div><div><br />1895 - Larry Hart, a lyricist, writer, composer, producer, and partner of Richard Rodgers, is born Lorenz Milton Hart in New York City, New York.</div><div><br />90 Years Ago Today In 1932 - NBC introduces a new entertainer to their network's radio audience - Jack Benny.</div><div><br />1938 - Drummer Chick Webb and His Orchestra (Mario Bauza, Bobby Stark, and Taft Jordan on trumpets, George Matthews, Nat Story, and Sandy Williams on trombones, Garvin Bushell on clarinet and alto saxophone, Louis Jordan on alto saxophone, Teddy McRae and Wayman Carver on tenor saxophone, Tommy Fulford on piano, Bobby Johnson on guitar, and Beverly Peer on bass), using arrangements by Van Alexander and with vocalist Ella Fitzgerald who would later record for Capitol Records, record the titles <a href="https://open.spotify.com/user/markhn/playlist/0wOZjzgSSZ6YVo6vATGaNx?si=bv82eLg4Rj6uQs1mGC2-1Q">"A-Tisket A-Tasket", "Heart Of Mine", "I'm Just A Jitterbug", and the instrumental "Azure"</a> in New York City, New York. Decca Records will issue "A-Tisket A-Tasket" as a single (Decca 1840) with "Liza (All The Clouds’ll Roll Away)" (recorded May 3, 1938) on the flipside, "Heart Of Mine" as a single by Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb and his Orchestra (Decca 2721) with "My Last Goodbye" (recorded August 18, 1939 by Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra) on the flipside, and "I'm Just A Jitterbug" and "Azure" together as a single (Decca 1899).</div><div><br />1984 - Bob Clampett, cartoonist, director, television host, puppeteer, and creator of Tweety Bird and Beany and Cecil, dies at age 70, six days before his 71st birthday, of a heart attack in Detroit, Michigan.</div>PopCultureFanBoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01768787919999520127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18285770.post-62713937245030512922022-05-01T00:00:00.001-04:002022-05-01T00:00:00.167-04:00<p> MAY 1, 2022</p><br />HAPPY BIRTHDAYS!<div><br />1909 - Kate Smith, a singer, radio, television and motion picture performer, and a Capitol Records artist (1954) is born Kathryn Elizabeth Smith in Greenville, Virginia.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDsOLUnnDN7HoJkmX60J8ljP0ki23egAE29-pf2K7C8YziwGOlAZJCa1BjsJvQlpmHQbYEdDqSm4w83u7LeRD67tGv1BNCM-J4db23Xa8Si0VqIham7vSN5z1oIgSIDhytGJFiVg6T-5YvVijrqsqYJv_h_BHWUwUAgGSB1qXhRtIQ2jHtHkU/s599/KateSmithSongsBy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="593" data-original-width="599" height="317" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDsOLUnnDN7HoJkmX60J8ljP0ki23egAE29-pf2K7C8YziwGOlAZJCa1BjsJvQlpmHQbYEdDqSm4w83u7LeRD67tGv1BNCM-J4db23Xa8Si0VqIham7vSN5z1oIgSIDhytGJFiVg6T-5YvVijrqsqYJv_h_BHWUwUAgGSB1qXhRtIQ2jHtHkU/s320/KateSmithSongsBy.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div><br /><div>1929 - Sonny James (aka "The Southern Gentleman"), a singer, guitarist, and Capitol Records artist, is born James Loden in Hackleburg, Alabama.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrutJhMFOorDOIUoVFfd4TeqF2E1VSS9WJMe7k6wNQp0HiYxMVtdlAdKyIEG5Rmb9OmHAeWN8T0FRCvmlWKYPl4ZVEu7XaO3zQsTKLn8FHOH8XMPRRa5Cbq9jgyeASfanZWpllHz-SX52WDhr_YFWqhSw23PWjoV_LAnDmL4yrmIgX1rcvf_Q/s497/SonnyJamesYoungLoveEP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="494" data-original-width="497" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrutJhMFOorDOIUoVFfd4TeqF2E1VSS9WJMe7k6wNQp0HiYxMVtdlAdKyIEG5Rmb9OmHAeWN8T0FRCvmlWKYPl4ZVEu7XaO3zQsTKLn8FHOH8XMPRRa5Cbq9jgyeASfanZWpllHz-SX52WDhr_YFWqhSw23PWjoV_LAnDmL4yrmIgX1rcvf_Q/s320/SonnyJamesYoungLoveEP.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div><br /></div><br />ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY</div><div><br />1948 - Capitol Records holds the #1 and #2 spots on Billboard's Best Selling Singles Chart with Peggy Lee's "Mañana" at # 1 for the 9th straight week and Nat "King" Cole's first solo recording, "Nature Boy", at # 2 (it would hit #1 the following week and stay for 7 weeks).</div><div><br />1954 - Capitol Records releases its first ever 12" LP, Nat "King" Cole's "10th Anniversary Album", at a consumer list price of $4.75 (with inflation that's $41.72 in 2014) plus excise tax. It is Cole's 11th album for the label and a collection of previously unreleased masters and features sides by the original King Cole Trio and the orchestras of Pete Rugulo, Les Baxter, Dave Cavanaugh, and Nelson Riddle. All promotional materials for the album have been given deluxe treatment, with streamers, browser -box cards, etc., printed in gold metallic inks.</div><div><br />1954 - Frank Sinatra with Nelson Riddle and His Orchestra's Capitol Records single "Young At Heart" is #5 on Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records chart, Nat "King" Cole's Capitol Records single "Answer Me, My Love" is #6, Kay Starr's Capitol Records single "If You Love Me (Really Love Me) is #11, and it's flipside, "The Man Upstairs", is at #12. Cole's "Answer Me, My Love" is also #10 on Cash Box magazine's Best Selling Singles chart. Cole's single "It Happens To Be Me" is #20 and its flipside, "Alone Too Long", is #24 also on Cash Box magazine's Best Selling Singles chart.</div><div><br />1954 - Capitol Records artist Andy Griffith debuts at The Grand Ole Opry.</div><div><br />65 Years Ago Today In 1957 - Frank Sinatra records the titles "Maybe You'll Be There" and "Where Are You?" at The Capitol Tower Studios in Hollywood, California.</div><div><br />1958 - The Kingston Trio make their TV debut when appearing on the Playhouse 90 episode "Rumors Of Evening" when they play WW2 pilots as well as perform <a href="https://www.discogs.com/The-Kingston-Trio-Three-Jolly-Coachmen-Scarlet-Ribbons/release/8084919">"Three Jolly Coachmen" and "Scarlet Ribbons"</a>.</div><div><br />1958 - Ray Budzilek directs His Boys (lineup unlisted) as they record the titles "Speedline Polka", "Suppertime Polka", "Whoo-Pie Shoo-Pie", and "Melnyk Polka" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on the album "Polka Night! with Ray Budzilek And The Boys In The Band" (T 1104).</div><div><br />1961 - Faron Young's Capitol Records single "Hello Walls" is at #39 on Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records chart.</div><div><br />1963 - Pianist Earl Hines, with Ralph Carmichael conducting his own arrangements to His Orchestra (Al Porcino, Cappy Lewis, John Audino, Ray Triscari, and Bud Brisbois on trumpets, Gil Falco, Tommy Shepard, Dick Nash, and Lloyd Ulyate on trombones, George Roberts on bass trombone, Ted Nash and Ronnie Lang on flutes, clarinets, and alto saxophones, Justin Gordon and Buddy Collette on tenor saxohones, clarinets, and flutes, Jack Nimitz on baritone saxophone and bass clarinet, Al Hendrickson on guitar, Joe Comfort on bass, and Leon Petties on drums) records the titles "Ann", "As Long As I Live", "Deep Forest", and "Cavernism" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on the album "Earl "Fatha" Hines" (T/ST 1971).</div><div><br />1963 - Capitol Records purchases the masters for Jack Marshall's titles "Dingston Trio: I Left My Love At Rincon", "Frank N. Stein And The Abominable Surf Men: The Monster Surfer", "Daddie Ho And the Hoodies: Surfing Is My Life", "Sudsy Shots And The Pier-Shooters: Laura, Teen Age Laura", "Knotknees McGurdy And The Drop Outs: Some Gremmie Stole My Hair Bleach", and "Hangten Horowitz: Sax Now, Surf Later" in Los Angeles, California and will issue all the titles on the album ""My Son The Surf Nut (Interviews On The Beach - Jack Marshall)" (T/ST 1939).</div><div><br />1966 - The Beatles' last scheduled concert in the UK is held at the New Musical Express Poll Winner's Show at Empire Pool, Wembley. The Beatles played a fifteen-minute set performing the songs, "I Feel Fine," "Nowhere Man," "Day Tripper," "If I Needed Someone," and "I'm Down".</div><div><br />1968 - Vocalist Tony Bruno, with unlisted others, records the titles "We'll Be Together Again", "Didn't We", and "You Don't Know What Love Is" in Los Angeles, California. After overdubs are recorded on May 3, 4, 6, and 18, 1968, Capitol Records will issue the final mixes of all the titles on Bruno's album "I'm Feeling It Now" (ST 2930) and "Didn't We" also as a single (Capitol 2342) with "Little Men & Women" (recorded March 4, 1968 with overdubs recorded on March 18 and April 26, 1968) on the flipside.</div><div><br /><div>1968 - Vocalist John Anderson, with Shorty Rogers conducting his own arrangements to the orchestra (lineup unlisted), records the titles "Just Look In My Face" and "Someday Good" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue "Just Look In My Face" on Anderson's album "Kasandra" (ST 2957) and also as a single (Capitol 2342) with "Don't Pack Me On The Back And Call Me Brother" (recorded April 30, 1968) on the flipside. No issuing information is listed for "Someday Good".</div><div><br /></div><div>1968 - Norma Tanega, with unlisted others, records the title "Love Is Wonderful" in (listed as possibly) Los Angeles, California for Capitol Records. No issuing information is listed.</div><div><br /></div><div>1968 - Capitol Records registers in Los Angeles, California the masters it purchased for Buddy Di Vito's titles "Sempre Tu" and "Porque No" for its Tower Records subsidiary but neither label has yet to issue either title.</div><div><br /></div><div>1969 - Peggy Lee's Capitol Records album "Natural Woman" is released.</div><div><br /></div>1973 - Vocalist Anne Murray, with unlisted others, records the title "Send A Little Love My Way" in (listed as possibly) Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue the title on Murray's album "Love Song" (ST-11266).</div><div><br /><div>1973 - Capitol Records registers in Los Angeles, California the masters for Freddie Hart and The Heartbeats' titles "Easy Loving", "Indian Joe", "Music Box", and "Heart Beat" recorded in (according to the artist file) Nashville, Tennessee (though it's listed that they might have been actually recorded in Bakersfield, California) which were produced by Buck Owens Enterprises. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on the group's album "Freddie Hart Presents The Heartbeats" (ST-11431).</div><div><br /></div><div>1973 - Vocalist Kathi McDonald, with unlisted others, records the titles "Heartbreak Hotel", "If You Need Me", "Somethin' Else", "All I Want To Be", "Bogart To Bowie", "To Love Somebody", "(Love Is Like A) Heat Wave", "Threw My Love Away", "Madly In Love With" (aka "Freak Lover"), "Down To The Wire", and "Insane Asylum", all of which are produced by David Briggs Productions, in (listed as possibly) Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on McDonald's album "Insane Asylum" (ST-11224) and also "Bogart To Bowie" and "Madly In Love With" as "Freak Lover" together as a single (Capitol 3835).</div><div><br /></div>1984 - <a href="http://144.142.232.68/hollywood/star-walk/gordon-jenkins/">Gordon Jenkins</a>, an arranger, composer, pianist, and Capitol Records' first music director, who was an influential figure in popular music in the 1940s and 1950s, renowned for his lush string arrangements for the Andrews Sisters, Johnny Cash, The Weavers, Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, Judy Garland, Nat King Cole, Billie Holiday, and Ella Fitzgerald among others, dies at age 73 of Lou Gehrig's Disease in Malibu, California.</div><div><br />1988 - Pink Floyd's Capitol Records album "Dark Side Of The Moon" finally leaves Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart after 725 weeks.</div><div><br />1999 - Matador Records ends its distribution relationship with Capitol Records and goes independent.</div><div><br />2001 - After a transition period, Andy Slater starts full time as president of Capitol Records.</div><div><br /><br />ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL HISTORY</div><div><br />1868 - Tom Dula, the basis for the Kingston Trio's first million-selling single <a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/2qLxtO0iaFGI9x19vU3bDI?si=FCYOLdWuSfqLCMcy3uq_MA">"Tom Dooley"</a>, is hung in Statesville, North Carolina.</div><div><br />1918 - Jack Paar, a television host who, via a short clip, introduced The Beatles to the U.S. television audience on "The Jack Paar Show" on NBC-TV, is born in Canton, Ohio.</div><div><br />1951 - Bud Powell (on piano, with Curly Russell on bass and Max Roach on drums) records three versions of his "Un Poco Loco", a pair of takes on "A Night in Tunisia", and unaccompanied piano work on "Over the Rainbow" and "It Could Happen to You" at a session for Blue Note Records.</div><div><br />1961 - Ernie K-Doe's Minit Records single "Mother-In-Law" is #2 on Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records Chart, Gene McDaniel's Liberty Records single "A Hundred Pounds Of Clay" is #4, Steve Lawrence's United Artists Records single "Portrait Of My Love" is #11, Al Caiola and His Orchestra's United Artists Records single "Bonanza" is #33, and Ricky Nelson's Imperial Records single "Travelin' Man" is #34.</div><div><br />1963 - Future Virgin Records band The Rollin' Stones sign Andrew Loog Oldham as manager.</div><div><br />55 Years Ago Today In 1967 - Elvis Presley and Priscilla Beaulieu are married at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas by District Court Judge David Zenoff. They will become the parents of future Capitol Records artist Lisa Marie Presley.</div><div><br />1968 - D'Arcy Wretsky-Brown, with the Virgin Records America group Smashing Pumpkins, is born.</div><div><br />1988 - During two sessions held this day at Skyline Studios in New York City, New York, alto saxophonist Bobby Watson and Horizon (Roy Hargrove on trumpet, John Hicks on piano, Curtis Lundy on bass, and Victor Lewis on drums) record the titles "Country Corn Flakes", "And Then Again", "Forty Acres And A Mule", and "No Question About It" at the afternoon session and the titles "Blood Count", and without Hargrove on trumpet "What Can I Do", "As Quiet As It's Kept", and "Moonrise" at the night session. Blue Note Records will issue "Country Corn Flakes", "And Then Again", "Forty Acres And A Mule", "No Question About It", "Blood Count", "What Can I Do", and "Moonrise" on the album "No Question About It" (B1-90262 on 12" vinyl and 7-90262-2 on CD) and has yet to issue "As Quiet As It's Kept".</div><div><br /><br />ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY</div><div><br />1901 - The Pan-American Exposition opens in Buffalo, New York.</div><div><br />1931 - The Empire State Building is dedicated in New York City.</div><div><br />1941 - Orson Welles's Citizen Kane premieres in New York City.</div><div><br />1965 - Spike Jones (born Lindley Armstrong Jones), a comedian, motion picture and television performer, musician, and bandleader, dies at age 53 and is later interred in the Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California.</div>PopCultureFanBoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01768787919999520127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18285770.post-45712375629701253912022-04-30T00:00:00.003-04:002022-04-30T00:00:00.171-04:00<p> APRIL 30, 2022</p><br />HAPPY BIRTHDAYS!<div><br />1940 - Darrell McCall, a singer, songwriter, and Capitol Records artist (1961-1962), is born in New Jasper Township, Greene County, Ohio.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimGxD8WbfhXK8HUTa0xEzwhIt99qgEN1QJwVNv0SJyn8EWdPfewQaITOnIjxucx0y77wT-bt-WiLHPtqEHKB71xpzC-CL19yQZfRYFKNXlu_QXThVYd5nTPOHePPGi2ugMEuTWo_xJjUpjH0n5CGnjx3LW3CS9dGZYpCyN-Bndd9Pnp-aw1n8/s259/DarrellMcCall.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="259" height="242" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimGxD8WbfhXK8HUTa0xEzwhIt99qgEN1QJwVNv0SJyn8EWdPfewQaITOnIjxucx0y77wT-bt-WiLHPtqEHKB71xpzC-CL19yQZfRYFKNXlu_QXThVYd5nTPOHePPGi2ugMEuTWo_xJjUpjH0n5CGnjx3LW3CS9dGZYpCyN-Bndd9Pnp-aw1n8/w322-h242/DarrellMcCall.jpg" width="322" /></a></div></div><div><br />1946 - James Lee Stanley, a folksinger, songwriter, guitarist, founder of Beachwood Records, whose 1985 album "James Lee Stanley/Live" was re-released by Beachwood and distributed nationally by Capitol Records in 1988, is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg45e22XfProvfF8DUR4wowIrNN07ZEmbwyd-Z5Le6YQ1KidsFuaBfRLqyGxMxHw9rx7zhcMyPVgITDz_wfcACNBsSfmxC3OI7j7oMO3e0PQ205NmR53VvGwjFtpisoiUF7fJr_4-Gyb5v4pE1xDnDUQ5L6BSs13DKWHV_bU4ggb2W3nQv64mA/s1119/JamesLeeStanleyLive.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1119" data-original-width="1119" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg45e22XfProvfF8DUR4wowIrNN07ZEmbwyd-Z5Le6YQ1KidsFuaBfRLqyGxMxHw9rx7zhcMyPVgITDz_wfcACNBsSfmxC3OI7j7oMO3e0PQ205NmR53VvGwjFtpisoiUF7fJr_4-Gyb5v4pE1xDnDUQ5L6BSs13DKWHV_bU4ggb2W3nQv64mA/s320/JamesLeeStanleyLive.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div><br />1979 - Sean Mackin, the violinist and backing vocalist in the Capitol Records (2002-2006) group Yellowcard, is born in Jacksonville, Florida.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb6n02bzAOqUDrNAX0itz9uA-XIwAYsdbcVkdW9TFQ1Ck1ABCGWT9qx7kgLfSRAWJtYBWr_9jhfkIp1eHp4GrjWQwhfyCKjJTAFFrVaVLwPjd_OSw4SjP-SpZ14yz0SyBak-PNQdSmMwFALrUyKO793Joe3McugNU3Nm96mTiBGwDGExoAePM/s720/SeanMackin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="682" data-original-width="720" height="303" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb6n02bzAOqUDrNAX0itz9uA-XIwAYsdbcVkdW9TFQ1Ck1ABCGWT9qx7kgLfSRAWJtYBWr_9jhfkIp1eHp4GrjWQwhfyCKjJTAFFrVaVLwPjd_OSw4SjP-SpZ14yz0SyBak-PNQdSmMwFALrUyKO793Joe3McugNU3Nm96mTiBGwDGExoAePM/s320/SeanMackin.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div><br /><br />ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY</div><div><br />1938 - Vocalists Peter Anders and Aulikki Rautawaara, with Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt conducting The Berlin Opera Hous Orchestra (lineup unlisted), record Lehar's "When Two Are In Love - Duet (From 'Das Rastelbunder')" in Berlin, Germany for Telefunken Records. After Capitol Records licenses Telefunken's catalog for release in the United States, it will issue the title on the album "Franz LEHAR - Songs From His Operettas/Oskar STRAUS - Operetta Excerpts" (P-8139).</div><div><br />75 Years Ago Today In 1947 - Mel Blanc is in the studio to record the title "Porky Pig In Africa" for the Capitol Records children's album "Bugs Bunny Stories For Children" which is produced by Alan Livingston with music by Billy May and story by Tedd Pierce and Warren Foster.</div><div><br />1948 - The King Cole Trio's Capitol Records single "Nature Boy" is #1 on The Billboard magazine's Records Most Played By Disk Jockeys chart, #2 on the magazine's Best-Selling Popular Retail Records chart. "Nature Boy"'s flipside, "Lost April" is #1 on The Billboard magazine's Record Possibilities - The Disk Jockeys Pick chart. Also, The King Cole Trio start seven straight days of performances at the Lake Club in Springfield, Illinois.</div><div><br />1948 - Capitol Records registers the masters it purchased on April 5, 1948 from Gold Seal Records of Cliffie Stone and His Orchestra's titles "When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold Again" and "So Long To The Red River Valley" and will issue "When My Blue Moon Turns Gold Again" as a single (Capitol 15108) with "Take It Any Way You Can Get It" (recorded December 3, 1947) on the flipside and "So Long To The Red River Valley" as a single (Capitol 15157) with "He's A Real Gone Oakie" (also recorded December 3, 1947) on the flipside.</div><div><br /><div>1949 - Mel Tormé (with orchestra conducted by Sonny Burke)'s Capitol Records single "Careless Hands" is #9 on Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records chart, Jo Stafford and Gordon MacRae (with Paul Weston and His Orchestra)'s Capitol Records single "'A' You're Adorable" is #11, Mel Tormé (with orchestra conducted by Pete Rugolo)'s Capitol Records single "Again" is #13, Jo Stafford and Gordon MacRae (with Paul Weston and His Orchestra)'s Capitol Records single "Need You" is #15, Mel Tormé's Capitol Records single "Blue Moon" is #23, Jack Smith and The Clark Sisters (formerly called The Sentimentalists when they recorded with Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra) with Frank DeVol and His Orchestra's Capitol Records single "Cruising Down The River" is tied with Gordon MacRae (with studio orchestra)'s Capitol Records single "So In Love" (from the Cole Porter musical "Kiss Me Kate") at #27, and Margaret Whiting (with Frank DeVol and His Orchestra) is tied with herself at #29 with her Capitol Records single "Forever And Ever" and its flipside "A Wonderful Guy" (from the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical "South Pacific").</div><div><br /></div>1953 - Vocalist Frank Sinatra, at his second session for Capitol Records and his first with arranger Nelson Riddle conducting his own arrangements to the orchestra (Conrad Gozzo, Mannie Klein, Vito "Mickey" Mangano, and Rubin "Zeke" Zarchy on trumpets, Si Zentner, Joe Howard, Jimmy Priddy, and Milt Bernhart on trombones, Skeets Herfurt, Jack Dumont, Ted Nash, Ted Romersa, and Joe Koch on saxophones and woodwinds, Bill Miller on piano, Al Hendrickson on guitar, Phil Stephens on bass, and Alvin Stoller on drums), records the titles <a href="https://open.spotify.com/user/markhn/playlist/5TraSOq6qm9PzaygIK9txo?si=hJvdl7TcRMGebkWwH8EZRg">"I've Got The World On A String", "Don't Worry 'Bout Me", "I Love You", and "South Of The Border (Down Mexico Way)"</a> at radio station KHJ's studios (now the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science's Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study and The Academy Film Archive) at 1313 North Vine Street in Hollywood, California with producer Voyle Gilmore between 8:00 PM and 11:30 PM. Not bad for Riddle's first day on the job. The arrangements and conducting of "I Love You" and "South Of The Border (Down Mexico Way)" have at times been credited to Billy May but, at the time of this session, May is on tour with his own band. It turns out Riddle was asked to arrange those titles in the style of Billy May. Capitol Records initially will issue "I've Got The World On A String" as a single (Capitol 2505) with "My One And Only Love" (recorded May 2, 1953) on the flipside and will later re-issue it also as a single (Capitol 1669) with "Young At Heart" (recorded December 9, 1953) on the flipside, and issued "Don't Worry 'Bout Me" as a single (Capitol 2787) with "I Could Have Told You" (also recorded on December 9, 1953) on the flipside, and "I Love You" and "South Of The Border (Down Mexico Way" together as a single (Capitol 2638).</div><div><br />1955 - Les Baxter and His Orchestra's Capitol Records single "Unchained Melody" is #4 on Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records chart, Tennessee Ernie Ford with Cliffie Stone's Band's Capitol Records single "The Ballad Of Davy Crocket" is #8, Nat "King" Cole with Nelson Riddle and His Orchestra's Capitol Records single "Darling, Je Vous Aime Beaucoup" is #10 and both sides of their single "A Blossom Fell" with "If I May" on the flipside debut at #27.</div><div><br />1968 - During two sessions held this day in Los Angeles, California, Ray Budzilek directs His Boys (lineup unlisted) as they record the titles "Vito's Silver Wedding", "Monopol Polka", "Beer And Bourbon Oberek", and "Christina's Polka" at the first session and the titles "Bell Tone Oberek", and with the addition of Lenny Daniels on vocals, "Cradle Song", "I'm In Love With Jenny", and "Fortunes Of War" at the second session. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on the album "Polka Night! with Ray Budzilek And The Boys In The Band" (T 1104).</div><div><br />1968 - Vocalist Janice Harper, with Gordon Jenkins and His Orchestra (lineup unlisted), records the titles "Devotion", "Par Avion", "Beyond The Reef", and "Hands Across The Sea" in New York City, New York. Capitol Records will issue "Devotion" and "Hands Across The Sea" together as a single (Capitol F3984) and, with "Beyond The Reef", on Harper's album "With Feeling" (T 1195). Capitol has yet to issue "Par Avion".</div><div><br />1961 - Faron Young's Capitol Records single "Hello Walls" is #1 on the U.S. Country singles charts.</div><div><br />1966 - After being introduced by Ernest Tubb, Capitol Records artist Ray Pillow, best known at the time for his duets with Jean Shepard, is made a member of The Grand Ol' Opry.</div><div><br />1966 - The Beach Boys' Capitol Records single "Caroline, No" peaks at #32 on the Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart. The title was recorded January 31, 1966 at Western Recorders, Hollywood, California, and released March 7, 1966, as Capitol single 5610 with Brian Wilson on lead vocals.</div><div><br />55 Years Ago Today In 1967 - Sonny James' Capitol Records single "Need You" is #1 on the U.S. Country singles charts.</div><div><br />1968 - Vocalist Lou Rawls, with H. B. Barnum conducting his own arrangments to the orchestra (lineup unlisted), records the titles "A Beautiful Friendship", "Down Here On the Ground", and "Baby I Could Be So Good At Loving You" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Rawls' album "You're Good For Me" (ST 2927) and "Down Here On The Ground" also as a single (Capitol 2252) with "I'm Satisfied (The Duffy Theme)" (recorded May 1, 1968) on the flipside.</div><div><br /><div>1968 - Brothers Make Two (lineup unlisted) record the titles "Just As Long As You're Mine", "Don't Be Ashamed", "I Won't Be Home For Dinner Tonight", "Something In The Rain", and "Golden Cinder" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue "Don't Be Ashamed" as a single (Capitol 2344) with "Autumn Lament" (recorded April 29, 1968) on the flipside and has yet to issue any of the other titles.</div><div><br /></div><div>1968 - Vocalist John Anderson, with Shorty Rogers conducting his own arrangements to the orchestra (lineup unlisted), records the titles "Wilderness", an unlisted title, "Don't Pat Me On The Back And Call Me Brother", and "If A Storm Wind Blows" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue "Wilderness", "Don't Pat Me On The Back And Call Me Brother", and "If A Storm Wind Blows" on Anderson's album "Kasandra" (ST 2957) and "Don't Pat Me On The Back And Call Me Brother" also as a single (Capitol 2342) with "Just Look In My Face" (recorded May 1, 1968) on the flipside.</div><div><br /></div>1973 - Billy May and The Time-Life Orchestra (lineup unlisted) record the titles "Manha De Carnaval", "Deserted City", "Night And Day", and "Scarborough Fair" in The Capitol Tower Studios at 1750 North Vine Street in Hollywood, California. After overdubs are recorded at the same session for "Manha De Carnaval" and on May 3, 1973 for "Scarborough Fair", Time-Life Records, as part of its "As You Remember Them" series, will issue the final mixes of "Manha De Carnaval" and "Scarborough Fair" as well as "Deserted City" in the three-LP set "Volume 7 - Billy May" (STL 247) and "Night And Day" in the three-LP set "Volume 8 - Billy May" (STL 248).</div><div><br /><div>1974 - Merle Haggard records the title "Old Man From The Mountain" for Capitol Records.</div><div><br /></div><div>1974 - Capitol Records purchased the masters for vocalist Mike Lookinland's titles ""Love Doesn't Care Who's In It, "Gum Drop", and "I Want To Be Alone With You" in Los Angeles, California. <div>Capitol Records issued the first two titles together as a single (Capitol 3914) and has yet to issue "I Want to Be Alone With You".<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Rrm6OqMMUfI" width="320" youtube-src-id="Rrm6OqMMUfI"></iframe></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>45 Years Ago Today In 1977 - Glen Campbell's Capitol Records single "Southern Nights" is still #1 on Billboard's singles chart.</div><div><br />45 Years Ago Today In 1977 - Klaatu's self-titled debut album on Capitol Records peaks at #32 on the Billboard album charts and will stay there for 3 weeks.</div><div><br />1978 - Dick Curless, bandleader and Capitol Records artist, is inducted into the <a href="http://www.crosslink.net/~bigmack9/members.htm">Maine Country Music Hall of Fame</a>.</div><div><br />1985 - Mickey Katz, comedian, klezmer style clarinet player, member and vocalist with Spike Jones and His City Slickers, father of Broadway, motion picture and television actor and Capitol Records artist Joel Grey, grandfather of motion picture and television actress Jennifer Grey, and a Capitol recording artist, dies at age 75 and is later interred in the Valley of Remembrance section of Hillside Memorial Park in Los Angeles, California.</div><div><br />35 Years Ago Today In 1987 - Apple Records releases The Beatles' albums "Help!", "Rubber Soul" and "Revolver" on CD for the first time with their original UK track order and with Capitol Records handling distribution in the United States.</div><div><br />1988 - Vocalist Willie Dixon, with unlisted others, records the titles "Study War No More", "Jungle Swing", and "I Do The Job" at an unlisted studio for Capitol Records. No issuing information is listed.</div><div><br />1995 - Capitol Records artist Roseanne Cash and record producer John Leventhal are married.</div><div><br />2000 - Jonah Jones, trumpet player and Capitol Records solo artist, dies at age 91.</div><div><br /><br />ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY</div><div><br />1870 - Franz Lehar, the composer of the operettas "The Merry Widow and "Naughty Marietta" (selections from both were later recorded by Gordon MacRae and released first as separate 10" albums and later together as a single 12" LP by Capitol Records), is born in what is now Komrno, Slovakia.</div><div><br />1928 - Ten-year-old Steubenville, Ohio native Dino Crocetti (aka future Capitol Records artist Dean Martin) has his first Holy Communion and takes the name Paul as his confirmation name.</div><div><br />1933 - Willie Nelson, a singer, songwriter, disc jockey, motion picture and television actor, the founder of Farm Aid, and a Liberty Records artist, is born William Hugh Nelson in Abbott, Texas.</div><div><br />1938 - The Warner Bros. cartoon short "Porky's Hare Hunt", debuts in movie theaters, introducing future Capitol Records "artist" Bugs Bunny.</div><div><br />1943 - Bobby Vee, singer and Liberty Records artist (1959-1970), is born Robert Thomas Velline in Fargo, North Dakota.</div><div><br />1963 - Alto saxophonist Jackie McLean, with Grachan Moncur III on trombone, Bobby Hutcherson on vibraphone, Eddie Khan on bass, and Anthony Williams on drums, records the titles "Frankenstein", two takes of "Saturday And Sunday", "Blue Rodeo", and "Ghost Town" in recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder's studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. Blue Note Records will issue "Frankenstein", the first take of "Saturday And Sunday", "Blue Rodeo", and "Ghost Town" on McLean's album "One Step Beyond" (BLP4137 in Mono and BST84137 in Stereo) and all the titles and takes on the CD release of the album (7-46821-2).</div><div><br /><br />ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL HISTORY</div><div><br />95 Years Ago Today In 1927 - Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford become the first to put their hand and footprints in cement outside Sid Grauman's Chinese Theatre at 6925 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.</div><div><br />1934 - Jerry Lordon, composer of "Apache", the first big hit for the UK group The Shadows, was born in London, England.</div><div><br />1983 - Muddy Waters (born McKinley Morganfield), Blues legend, dies in his sleep at age 68 at his home in Westmont, Illinois.</div></div>PopCultureFanBoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01768787919999520127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18285770.post-89967084860069879522022-04-29T00:00:00.010-04:002022-04-29T00:00:00.192-04:00<p> APRIL 29, 2022</p><br />HAPPY BIRTHDAYS!<div><br />1899 - Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington, a pianist, composer, bandleader, and a Capitol Records artist, is born in Washington, D.C.. Ellington would record his last popular hit "Satin Doll" for Capitol Records with producer Dave Dexter, Jr. On his 70th birthday in 1969, Ellington will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaV8se-fMWiHx15zHHLuOpVlXePmcGWFCJ_1yXEg9rNkDy72GqchzJ7ypyFrLPlLj7ttYxqX87t5o8BpJ8TB1RJUxFFFsZ0G4hziUPpW4FY5E3cOzP0WpNr9VqcGfTnld0FQ20ff-0GQYImXrvwdVUkbZ5ZUFPAhVcSWQtx8wTcsHOu27AC_k/s640/DukeEllingtonEllingtonShowcase.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="640" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaV8se-fMWiHx15zHHLuOpVlXePmcGWFCJ_1yXEg9rNkDy72GqchzJ7ypyFrLPlLj7ttYxqX87t5o8BpJ8TB1RJUxFFFsZ0G4hziUPpW4FY5E3cOzP0WpNr9VqcGfTnld0FQ20ff-0GQYImXrvwdVUkbZ5ZUFPAhVcSWQtx8wTcsHOu27AC_k/s320/DukeEllingtonEllingtonShowcase.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div><br />105 Years Ago Today in 1917 - Celeste Holm, a Broadway, motion picture and television actress and Capitol Records artist (original motion picture soundtrack for the movie "High Society") is born in New York City, New York.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjixE2bzxaZWVyn9lZTy7TdeyQ0icd3GLOdob2MA-wGsWuH4L82FlkG1GWrHADlelGwbmB3t4mIT18DZH9TIzzJR2qZCLCVIGodFbVF3fqJWvRpGtM6skdmXyerOQSHCwPS_LxFvDrmAdkAurq2uZHeSLy2Xn6WVxBQGg4yc2dKXLBFtDziKsw/s1299/CelesteHolm.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1299" data-original-width="1000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjixE2bzxaZWVyn9lZTy7TdeyQ0icd3GLOdob2MA-wGsWuH4L82FlkG1GWrHADlelGwbmB3t4mIT18DZH9TIzzJR2qZCLCVIGodFbVF3fqJWvRpGtM6skdmXyerOQSHCwPS_LxFvDrmAdkAurq2uZHeSLy2Xn6WVxBQGg4yc2dKXLBFtDziKsw/s320/CelesteHolm.jpg" width="246" /></a></div></div><div><br />1933 - Rod McKuen, a singer, poet, actor, writer, Capitol and Liberty Records artist, and composer of the song "Two-Ten, Six-Eighteen" recorded by Capitol recording artists The Kingston Trio, is born Rodney Marvin McKuen in Oakland, California.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpsJgpR1UNA1SYBS8kbx1vUIqjfldx56lsPUkaHm1nZ5PBZFuwnAWBODZ4rYH1nqTu1Pk3Hy8hqAy8VRIeLHcq_T0R57wO9ZW8EhHCA9aySQHAJQFi7v5gvZJEpwGycDxeO8W_1mkY7-Qd-CLl7w8mU8dZ8VHlSNEbhoT0Z5yloLwcrK5Gz18/s600/RodMcKuenSingsRodMcKuen.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="583" data-original-width="600" height="311" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpsJgpR1UNA1SYBS8kbx1vUIqjfldx56lsPUkaHm1nZ5PBZFuwnAWBODZ4rYH1nqTu1Pk3Hy8hqAy8VRIeLHcq_T0R57wO9ZW8EhHCA9aySQHAJQFi7v5gvZJEpwGycDxeO8W_1mkY7-Qd-CLl7w8mU8dZ8VHlSNEbhoT0Z5yloLwcrK5Gz18/s320/RodMcKuenSingsRodMcKuen.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div><br />1934 - Otis Rush, guitarist and Capitol Records artist (signed in 1970, had sessions in February 1971, which Capitol purchased the masters from but never released but were later released by Bullfrog Records), is born near Neshoba, Mississippi.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjIvFHWLIfgqxMGGU5bRAL5I54UsnR-8KEvNP7wu1lwZVIjXCCw-0fdmU52UbsAFr7dH5N49pqlrRi1vd5ojfucsP6iMoLw-mKBmTf4EdhVVQc9N2QoKu_w4dOxqxNGQCznZt-NXE8uPV-N1zTj8IJFGYFK_iIYwQVjf9VKjtkisASWYYZfEI/s502/OtisRushRightPlaceWrongTime.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="502" data-original-width="498" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjIvFHWLIfgqxMGGU5bRAL5I54UsnR-8KEvNP7wu1lwZVIjXCCw-0fdmU52UbsAFr7dH5N49pqlrRi1vd5ojfucsP6iMoLw-mKBmTf4EdhVVQc9N2QoKu_w4dOxqxNGQCznZt-NXE8uPV-N1zTj8IJFGYFK_iIYwQVjf9VKjtkisASWYYZfEI/s320/OtisRushRightPlaceWrongTime.jpg" width="317" /></a></div></div><div><br />80 Years Ago Today In 1942 - Klaus Voormann, graphic designer and illustrator (cover of The Beatles' Revolver and Anthology albums), bass player with Manfred Mann, Apple Records group Plastic Ono Band, and on various George Harrison projects including "The Concert For Bangladesh", is born in Berlin, Germany.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQMtTvAA-fD4rXoIBsKy1TofyxTLrzzJVRxFWq05UCgJCvsWa6qHbKuedpguqcAnFMWEfcHVT0GGqi7nObzJeoKGX-OlGrSznRhvtL6JxIVqFDEJDPAwz5ysy1zAL9RsWX1kY3_WGmDJkFflBrALF3IW-_KNWj0Eqde-RxxvqUh3s-5XrnKnQ/s580/KlausVoormann.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="580" data-original-width="451" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQMtTvAA-fD4rXoIBsKy1TofyxTLrzzJVRxFWq05UCgJCvsWa6qHbKuedpguqcAnFMWEfcHVT0GGqi7nObzJeoKGX-OlGrSznRhvtL6JxIVqFDEJDPAwz5ysy1zAL9RsWX1kY3_WGmDJkFflBrALF3IW-_KNWj0Eqde-RxxvqUh3s-5XrnKnQ/s320/KlausVoormann.jpg" width="249" /></a></div></div><div><br />1968 - Carnie Wilson, singer, television talk show host, daughter of Brian Wilson of the Capitol Records group The Beach Boys and Marilyn Rovell Wilson of the Capitol Records group The Honeys, and co-founder of the SBK Records group Wilson Phillips, is born in Bel Air, California.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="550" data-original-width="550" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKzvI0sn-opy1VQWinExGlkIRw9moJ0v5a7bNoHHtxBvJekCEnFgB22rl-rMxabDq5sYJblvtm8YAjEWgzZL5C-DOJpdtfi9yNsyWRKP-4TvpzjPikSqVdUxkXyVxRDr0lfW73K6cz_MmHklxmEeKW9wuRfaSSKhICyG84KZSLroHprI6Hl-s/s320/RickZaccaro.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div><br /><br />ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY</div><div><br />1944 - The King Cole Trio's Capitol Records single "Straighten Up and Fly Right", with "I Can't See For Lookin'" on the flipside, hits #1 on the "Black" charts for the first of ten weeks, and would later cross over to the country and pop charts. The title came from the Trio's first session for Capitol Records.</div><div><br />1944 - Jo Stafford (with Paul Weston and His Orchestra)'s Capitol Records single "I Love You", with "Long Ago And Far Away" on the flipside, is #10 on Billboard's Best Selling Singles chart.</div><div><br />1946 - Les Baxter signs a contract with Capitol Records.</div><div><br />1948 - The King Cole Trio finish seven straight days of performances at Radio City in Minneapolis, Minnesota.</div><div><br /><div>1950 - Jo Stafford and Gordon MacRae (with Paul Weston and His Orchestra)'s Capitol Records single "Dearie", with "Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday" on the flipside, is #11 on Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records chart and Margaret Whiting and Jimmy Wakely's Capitol Records single "Let's Go To Church (Next Sunday)", with their title "Why Do You Say Those Things?" on the flipside, debuts at #19 and was also #2 on Billboard's Country Best Selling Singles chart.</div><div><br /></div>1953 - Nelson Riddle signs a contract to conduct his first Sinatra session at Capitol which will be held the next day on April 30, 1953.</div><div><br />65 Years Ago Today In 1957 - Frank Sinatra records the titles "Lonely Town" and "Baby, Won't You Please Come Home" with arranger Gordon Jenkins.</div><div><br />1958 - During a split session held in Los Angeles, California, first vocalist Tommy Sands, with Bob Bain's Music (Merrill E. Moore on piano, Bob Bain on lead guitar, Buck Owens on rhythm guitar, and unlisted bass and drums players) record the titles "Chicken And The Hawk", "Such A Night", and "Oop Shoop" then The Jordanaires (vocalists Hugh Gordon Stoker, Hoyt H. Hawkins, and Neal Matthews, Jr.), also with (listed as probably) Bob Bain's Music, records the title "Girl In The Valley". Capitol Records will issue "Chicken And The Hawk", "Such A Night", and "Oop Shoop" on Sands' album "Sands Storm!" (EAP-1/2/3-1081 on 7" EPs and T 1081 on 12" LP) and "Girl In The Valley" as a single (Capitol 4431) with "Sit Down" (recorded April 1, 1959) on the flipside.</div><div><br />1958 - Pianist and bandleader Stan Kenton and His Orchestra (listed as possibly Sam Noto, Jules Chaikin, Billy Catalano, Lee Katzman, and Phil Gilbert on trumpets, Bob Fitzpatrick, Archie Le Coque, Kent Larsen, Jim Amlotte, and Ken Shroyer on trombones, Lennie Niehauson alto saxophone, Bill Robinson on alto and baritone saxophone, Bill Perkins and Richie Kamuca on tenor saxophone, Steve Perlow on baritone saxophone, Red Kelly on bass, and Jerry McKenzie on drums) record the titles "In The Blue Of Evening" and "I'll Close My Eyes" in The Capitol Tower Studios at 1750 North Vine Street in Hollywood, California between 8:00 PM and 11:00 PM for Capitol Records which has yet to issue either title.55 Years Ago Today In 1963 - Capitol Records releases Buck Owens' album "On The Bandstand". The album was produced by Ken Nelson during sessions that occurred between May and September 1961 in the Capitol Studios in Hollywood and featured Owen's on guitar and vocals, Don Rich on fiddle, guitar, and vocals, Jay McDonalds on steel guitar, Kenny Pierce on electric bass and vocals and Ken Presley on drums.</div><div><br />1958 - Jackie Gleason conducts His Orchestra (a large string orchestra featuring Romeo Penque on alto saxophone and flute, Bernie Leighton on piano, and unlisted others) as they record new takes of the titles "Without Love", "All This And Heaven Too", "Close Your Eyes", "You Stepped Out Of A Dream", "I Just Couldn't Take It", "More Than You Know", and "I Must Have That Man" in New York City, New York. Capitol Records will issue all the new takes on Gleason's album "Jackie Gleason Presents - Rebound" (EAP-1/2/3/4-1075 on 7" EPs and W/SW-1075 on 12" LP).</div><div><br />1958 - Johnny Richard conducts his own arrangements to His Orchestra (Ray Copeland, Burt Collins, Al Stewart, and John Bello on trumpets, Billy Byers, Jim Dahl, and Jimmy Cleveland on trombones, Julius Watkins on French horn, Jay McAllister on tuba, Gene Quill on alto saxophone, Frank Socolow on tenor saxophone, Bill Slapin also on tenor saxophone as well as on piccolo, Shelly Gold on bass saxophone, Bob Panecoast on piano, Chet Amsterdam on bass, Jimmy Campbell on drums, and Joe Venuto on xylophone and percusssion) as they record new takes of the titles "Theme From 'Concerto To End All Concertos' (Kentonia)", "Neolore", "This Time", and "No Moon At All" in New York City, New York. Capitol Records will issue all the new takes on Richards' album "Experiments In Sound" (T/ST 981).</div><div><br />1963 - Nat "King" Cole's Capitol Records single "Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days Of Summer" is #2 on WGLI 1290 AM's Good Lookers chart in Babylon, New York.</div><div><br />1963 - During two sessions held this day in Los Angeles, California, pianist Earl Hines, with Ralph Carmichael conducting his own arrangements to His Orchestra (Al Porcino, Cappy Lewis, John Audino, Ray Triscari, and Bud Brisbois on trumpets, Gil Falco, Tommy Shepard, Dick Nash, and Lloyd Ulyate on trombones, George Roberts on bass trombone, Ted Nash and Ronnie Lang on flutes, clarinets, and alto saxophones, Justin Gordon and Buddy Collette on tenor saxohones, clarinets, and flutes, Jack Nimitz on baritone saxophone and bass clarinet, Al Hendrickson on guitar, Joe Comfort on bass, and Leon Petties on drums) records the titles "I Want A Little Girl", "My Monday Date", "Memories Of You ", and "Thou Swell" at the first session and a new take of "Thou Swell" and the titles "I Ain't Got Nobody", "Little Girl", "After All I've Been To You", and "Rosetta" at the second session. Capitol Records will issue all the titles, except the first take of "Thou Swell" which remains unissued, on the album "Earl "Fatha" Hines" (T/ST 1971).</div><div><br />1963 - Jerry Cole and His Spacemen (lineup unlisted) record the titles "The Strut", "The Stinger", and "Pokey" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue "The Strut" and "Pokey" on the group's album "Outer Limits" (T/ST 2044), has yet to issue "The Stinger", and will also issue "Pokey" as a single (Capitol 5106) with "One Color Blues" (recorded November 16, 1963) on the flipside.</div><div><br />1963 - Peter De Angelis conducts his own arrangements to an orchestra (lineup unlisted) as they record the band tracks for the titles "Painted, Tainted Rose" and, with Also Provenzano, "That's The Way It's Got To Be" in Los Angeles, California. At an unlisted later date, Al Martino will overdub vocals for both titles and Capitol Records will issue the final mixes of both titles as a single (Capitol 5000) and on Martino's album "Painted, Tainted Rose" (T/ST 1975).</div><div><br />1963 - Vocalist Al Martino, with Belford Hendricks conducting his own arrangements to an orchestra (lineup unlisted), records the titles "I Really Don't Want To Know", "You Win Again", Bouquet Of Roses", and "If I Never Get To Heaven" in New York City, New York. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Martino's album "I Love You Because" (T/ST 1914).</div><div><br />1968 - Brothers Make Two (lineup unlisted) record the titles "Autumn Lament", "Waste A Dime", and "Don't Know Why I'm Asking" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue "Autumn Lament" as a single (Capitol 2344) with "Don't Be Ashamed" (recorded April 30, 1968) on the flipside and has yet to issue "Waste A Dime" and "Don't Know Why I'm Asking".</div><div><br />1968 - Vocalist Tony Sandler and Ralph Young, with Bob Bain conducting his own arrangements to an orchestra (lineup unlisted), record the titles "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town", "The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas To You)", "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing", and "O Holy Night" in Los Angeles, California. After overdubs are recorded for "The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas To You)" and "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" on May 24, 1968 and for "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town" and "O Holy Night" on May 27, 1968, Capitol Records will issue the final mixes of all the titles on Sandler and Young's album "Christmas World" (ST 2967) and will also issue "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town" as a single (Capitol 2333) with "Mister Santa" (recorded May 3, 1968, with overdubs also recorded on May 27, 1968) on the flipside.</div><div><br /><div>1974 - Wings' Apple Records album "Band On The Run", distributed by Capitol Records in the United States enters Billboard's Top 100 Albums chart.</div><div><br />1983 - Capitol Records registers the masters it acquired from EMI for John Miles' titles "Take Me To Heaven", "Song For You", "It Wasn't Love At all", "Ready To Spread Your Wings", "I'll Never Do It Again", "Heart Of Stone", "Home", "Close Eyes And Count Ten", "Carrie", "The Right To Sing" and "That's Rock 'N' Roll" which were all recorded in England and will issue all the titles in the United States on Miles' album "Play On" (ST-12292) and will also issue "Song For You" and "That's Rock 'N' Roll" together as a single (Capitol 5251).</div><div><br /></div><div>1988 - Willie Dixon, with unlisted others, records the title "I Cry For You" at an unlisted studio for Capitol Records. No issuing information is listed.</div><div><br /></div><div>1988 - Dave Edmunds, with unlisted others, records the title "I Got Your Number" at an unlisted studio. Capitol Records will issue the title on Edmunds' album "Closer To Fame" (C1-90372 on 12" vinyl and C2-90372 on CD).</div><div><br /></div>2011 - David Mason, classical trumpet player who played the piccolo trumpet solo on The Beatles' single "Penny Lane" as well as playing trumpet on sessions for "A Day in the Life", "Magical Mystery Tour" and "All You Need Is Love", dies at age 85 after a brief battle with leukemia.</div><div><br /><br />ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY</div><div><br />1931 - Lonnie Donegan, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and a Chrysalis Records artist, is born Anthony James Donegan in Bridgeton, Glasgow, Scotland. <a href="http://www.memorabletv.com/musicworld/halloffame/lonniedonegan.htm">Bruce Eder has written a great biography for the Memorable Music Hall of Fame on the man who invented Skiffle and influenced a generation of future British rock and blues musicians including The Beatles.</a></div><div><br />1948 - Tommy James, singer, member of the Roulette Records group Tommy James and The Shondells, is born Thomas Jackson in Dayton, Ohio.</div><div><br />1953 - At an extended session that will go until April 30, 1953, The Gerry Mulligan Quartet (Mulligan on saxophone, Chet Baker on trumpet, Larry Bunker on drums, and Carson Smith on bass) record the titles "Darn That Dream", "I May Be Wrong", "I'm Beginning To See The Light", "The Nearness Of You" and "Tea For Two" at Radio Recorders' studios in Los Angeles, California for Pacific Jazz which will issue all the titles on the group's album "Gerry Mulligan Quartet" (PJLP-5). Blue Note Records will issue "The Nearness Of You" and "Tea For Two" in Japan on the compilation album "The West Coast Sessions" (FCPA6212).</div><div><br />1968 - The Ornette Coleman Quartet (Ornette Coleman on alto saxophone, Dewey Redman on tenor saxophone, Jimmy Garrison on bass and Elvin Jones on drums) record the titles "We Now Interrupt For A Commercial" with the group on vocals, an alternate take of "Love Call" with Coleman also on trumpet, "The Garden Of Souls", "Open To The Public", "Toy Dance", an alternate take of "Check-Out Time", "Airborne", and an alternate take of "Broad Way Blues in A & R Studios in New York City, New York. Blue Note Records will issue "We Now Interrupt For A Commercial" (the version on the original album replaced the vocals with Mel Fuhrman doing the announcements but the group's vocals were restored for the CD release), "The Garden Of Souls", and "Toy Dance" on the quartet's album "New York Is Now!" (BST 84287) and with the alternate take of "Broad Way Blues" on the CD release of the album (7-84287-2), "Open To The Public" and "Airborne" on the group's album "Love Call" (BST 84356) and with the alternate takes of "Love Call" and "Check-Out Time" on the CD release of the album (7-84356-2).</div><div><br />30 Years Ago Today In 1992 - Virgin Records America artist Paula Abdul marries actor Emilio Estevez in Santa Monica, California. It is the first marriage for both and Paula will resume her concert tour in two days.</div><div><br />1998 - Vocalist Lena Horne, with Donald Harrison on tenor saxophone, Mark Sherman on vibraphone, Mike Renzi on piano, Bobby Forrester on organ, Rodney Jones on guitar, Benjamin Brown on bass, and Lewis Nash on drums, records the title "Singin' In The Rain" at Nola Recording Studio in New York City, New York. Blue Note Records will issue the title on the CD for the soundtrack to the movie "Lulu On The Bridge" (4-95317-2).</div><div><br />2006 - Former Capitol Records artist Keely Smith and Trio perform live at the Catalina Bar and Grill in Hollywood, California. Showtimes were at 8:30 and 10:30 PM. <a href="http://www.catalinajazzclub.com/main.htm">For more info, check out Catalina's website.</a> They also played the previous night. Any first-hand accounts would be much appreciated!</div>PopCultureFanBoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01768787919999520127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18285770.post-87390931377467633732022-04-29T00:00:00.001-04:002022-04-29T00:00:00.191-04:00<p> APRIL 28, 2022</p><br />HAPPY BIRTHDAYS!<div><br />1926 - Blossom Dearie, a singer, pianist, songwriter and Capitol Records artist (1964 for one album, "May I Come In?", currently available on Blue Note Records), also on the original soundtrack to the television show "Multiplication Rock!", is born in East Durham, New York.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWqf4jPnZRbVKRsZTYmoh2eRdvtkO0y_MG6O3y28Lmayi5UC_61Ev2bysrXcEEJvz8SdgD0ky6rhqaX6q7YCs8GzwYfvI83y0_0MMsZoIVUDJBTsTJg73ro67MZVdTEeQ47Re-ljYh_HrQR9KED-ig9Uocc1jioBA-IpR4ciK8YQZ6T35xL8I/s1200/BlossomDearieMayIComeIn.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWqf4jPnZRbVKRsZTYmoh2eRdvtkO0y_MG6O3y28Lmayi5UC_61Ev2bysrXcEEJvz8SdgD0ky6rhqaX6q7YCs8GzwYfvI83y0_0MMsZoIVUDJBTsTJg73ro67MZVdTEeQ47Re-ljYh_HrQR9KED-ig9Uocc1jioBA-IpR4ciK8YQZ6T35xL8I/s320/BlossomDearieMayIComeIn.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br />1945 - John Wolters, a record producer, singer, and drummer with the Capitol Records group Dr. Hook, is born John Christian Wolters in Pompton Lakes, New Jersey. Sadly, he'll die of liver cancer in San Francisco, California on June 16, 1997.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2eRtoKT3BZCTDASWH32u3BPMvi1-M4MPHGgcjEUtGuDdDb4LjZVrfTyKpZimA_7NtS4rKkY8cHCH9Y9a2-fKvx6oUiQhynqG11ZkHq98rVfOZkF-ZDjNWuQGI40URZ54GkySZ1d-4eY__8cpWX7Tzb94WmUX9NjyersM2sfqlf10kx7FaUHU/s573/JohnWolters.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="573" data-original-width="573" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2eRtoKT3BZCTDASWH32u3BPMvi1-M4MPHGgcjEUtGuDdDb4LjZVrfTyKpZimA_7NtS4rKkY8cHCH9Y9a2-fKvx6oUiQhynqG11ZkHq98rVfOZkF-ZDjNWuQGI40URZ54GkySZ1d-4eY__8cpWX7Tzb94WmUX9NjyersM2sfqlf10kx7FaUHU/s320/JohnWolters.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br />ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL HISTORY</div><div><br />1945 - Johnny Mercer, Jo Stafford and The Pied Pipers (with Paul Weston and His Orchestra)'s Capitol Records single "Candy" is at #3 on Billboard's Best Selling Singles chart.<br />1948 - Capitol Records registers the masters for Pee Wee Hunt and His Orchestra's titles "12th Street Rag", "Somebody Else, Not Me", "The Object Of My Affection", and "Wabash Blues" which were recorded at sessions held between August 8, 1946 and December 29, 1947 for The Capitol Records Transcription Service. Capitol Records will issue "12th Street Rag" and "Somebody Else, Not Me" together as a single (Capitol 15105), has yet to issue "The Object Of My Affection", and will issue "Wabash Blues" as a single (Capitol 15299) with "High Society" (recorded August 15, 1946, also for The Capitol Records Transcription Service) on the flipside. According to a story told by James B. Conkling, the non-commercial transcription of "12th Street Rag" was so popular amongst DJs that it was decided to release it commercially but the original wax master was either broken or lost, so they had to transfer the audio for an existing transcription disc. The title went on to sell over a million copies, becoming one of Capitol's biggest hits during the label's first ten years.</div><div><br /><div>1949 - Smiley Burnette signs a contract with Capitol.</div><div><br /></div>1951 - Les Paul and Mary Ford's Capitol Records single "How High The Moon" is still #1 on Billboard's Best Selling Popular Retail Records chart, they are also at #3 with their Capitol Records single "Mockin' Bird Hill", Nat "King" Cole's Capitol Records single "Too Young" with Les Baxter conducting the orchestra using Nelson Riddle's arrangement, is at #5, and Stan Kenton and His Orchestra's Capitol Records single "September Song" enters the chart at #20.</div><div><br />1953 - During a split session held this day in Los Angeles, California, first Les Baxter conducts his own arrangements to His Orchestra (lineup unlisted) as they record the titles "Gigi" and "La Valse Moderne" then vocalist Helen O'Connell, with Harold Mooney and His Orchestra (lineup also unlisted) records the titles "No Other Love" and "Night For Love". Capitol Records will issue "Gigi" as a single (Capitol 2479) with "I Love Paris" (recorded April 6, 1953) on the flipside, has yet to issue "La Valse Moderne", and will issue "No Other Love" and "Night For Love" together as a single (Capitol 2487).</div><div><br />1956 - Les Baxter and His Orchestra's Capitol Records single "Poor People Of Paris" is still #1 on Billboard's Best Selling Popular Retail Records chart, Nelson Riddle and His Orchestra's Capitol Records single "Lisbon Antigua" is #4, Nat "King" Cole's Capitol Records single "Too Young To Go Steady" is at #35 (in a three way tie with Bill Haley and The Comets' single "See You Later, Alligator" and George Cates and His Orchestra's single "Moonglow And Theme From 'Picnic'"), and Dean Martin (with Dick Stabile and His Orchestra)'s Capitol Records single "Innamorata (Sweetheart)", is at #39 (in a tie with The Four Lads (with Ray Ellis and His Orchestra)'s single "Standing On The Corner").</div><div><br />65 Years Ago Today In 1957 - Gene Vincent receives a gold record from Capitol Records during a show in Chicago for sales of over 2 million copies of the single <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8p1PkBhxZY8">"Be-Bop-A-Lula"</a>, which would go on to sell over 9 million copies.</div><div><br />1958 - Twelve-year-old Laurie London's Capitol Records single "He's Got The Whole World In His Hands" is #3 on Billboard's Top 100 Singles chart, Dean Martin (with Gus Levine, His Orchestra, and Chorus)'s Capitol Records single "Return To Me" is #16, The Four Prep's Capitol Records single "Twenty-Six Miles" is #25, Nat "King" Cole's Capitol Records single "Looking Back" is #28, and Ed Townsend's Capitol Records single "For Your Love" is #29 (in a tie with Betty Johnson's single "Little Blue Man").</div><div><br />1958 - Nat "King" Cole's Capitol Records single "Looking Back" is #15 on WMGM's Top 40 Survey in New York City, New York and #35 on KOBY 1550 AM's Original Top Forty Survey Of The Greater San Francisco-Oakland Bay Area in California.</div><div><br /><div>1958 - Gil Evans signs a contract with Capitol Records.</div><div><br /></div><div>1958 - The Jordanaires (vocalists Hugh Gordon Stoker, Hoyt H. Hawkins, and Neal Matthews, Jr.) with unlisted others, record the titles "Sock Hop", "Where Mary Go", and "Wella Wella Honey" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records has yet to issue "Sock Hop" and will issue "Where Mary Go" and "Wella Wella Honey" together as a single (Capitol F4025).</div><div><br /></div><div>1958 - Vocalist Tommy Sands, with Bob Bain's Music (Merrill E. Moore on piano, Bob Bain on lead guitar, Buck Owens on rhythm guitar, and unlisted bass and drums players) records the titles "Honey Love" and "Big Date" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue "Honey Love" on Sands' album "Sands Storm!" (EAP-2-1081 on 7" vinyl EP and T 1082 on 12" vinyl) and "Big Date" as a single (Capitol F3985) with "After The Senior Prom" (recorded April 15, 1958) on the flipside.</div><div><br /></div><div>1958 - Del Courtney and His Orchestra (lineup unlisted) record the titles "Rose Room", "Medley: My Baby Just Cares For Me/Everywhere You Go/Little White Lies/Mama's Gone, Goodbye", "Blue Room", "C'est Si Bon", and "Medley: Never Say Never Again/Way Down Yonder In New Orleans" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue "Rose Room" and "Medley: My Baby Just Cares For Me/Everywhere You Go/Little White Lies/Mama's Gone, Goodbye" on Courtney's album "Dancing 'Til Daybreak" (T 1070) and has yet to issue "Blue Room", "C'est Si Bon", and "Medley: Never Say Never Again/Way Down Yonder In New Orleans".</div><div><br /></div><div>1958 - Producer Webley Edwards, with Al Kealoha Perry, John Kamana, Joseph Halemano Nicholas, James Kaopuiki, Winona Beamer, Daniel Kaleihini, Kent Girhard, Lani, Kealiiwahamana, Miriam Purini, Iwalani Kahalewai, Iwalani Kamahele, Sam Kapu, and chanters and chorus (lineups unlisted), records the titels "Fire Goddess" with the addition of Haunani Kahalewai, "Canoe Song (Chinemutu)", "Flame Dance (Nohili)", "Forbidden Waters (Way Kapu)" with Haunani Kahalewai, "Temple Dance" with the addition of Jules Ah See, "Thoughts Of Love (Manao He Aloha)" with Haunani Kahalewai, "Sharskin Drums (Pahu)", "Beauty Hula (Hooheno Keia No Beaute)" with the addition of Benny Kalama, featuring John Kamana, Sol Kamahele, Purini, and Haunani "Chant Of The Island (Kaulana Na Pua)" with Haunani Kahalewai and Benny Kalama and featuring John Kamana, Sol Kamahele, Purini, and Haunani, "Knife Dance (Na Pahi Hola E Pae)", "Tapa Dance (Tomo Pono - Halii Ka Moena) with Haunani Kahalewai, Hawaiian Bamboos (Anapau Nani Wale)" with Haunani Kahalewai, "The Old Church (E Kolo Mea Nui)", and dubbed "Fire Goddess" to become "Pele, Fire Goddess" in an unlisted studio in Hawaii. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on the album "Hawaii Calls: Fire Goddess" (T/ST 1033) as by Webley Edwards with Kealoha Perry.</div><div><br /></div><div>1958 - During two sessions held this day in New York City, New York, Johnny Richards conducts his own arrangements to His Orchestra (Ray Copeland, Burt Collins, Al Stewart, and John Bello on trumpets, Billy Byers, Jim Dahl, and Jimmy Cleveland on trombones, Julius Watkins on French horn, Jay McAllister on tuba, Gene Quill on alto saxophone, Frank Socolow on tenor saxophone, Bill Slapin also on tenor saxophone as well as on piccolo, Shelly Gold on bass saxophone, Bob Panecoast on piano, Chet Amsterdam on bass, Jimmy Campbell on drums, and Joe Venuto on xylophone and percussion) as they record a new take of "How Are Things In Glocca Morra)" and the title "Estoy Cansado (I'm Tired)" at the first session and the titles "Terpsichore", "Omo Ado" with the band on vocals, "What Is There To Say", and "Je Vous Adore" at the second session. Capitol Records will issue all the titles recorded at both sessions on Richards' album "Experiments In Sound" (T/ST 981) and also "Estoy Cansado (I'm Tired)" and "What Is There To Say" together as a single (Capitol F4094).</div><div><br />1958 - Pianist and bandleader Count Basie and His Orchestra (Wendell Culley, Snooky Young, Thad Jones, and Joe Newman on trumpets, Henry Coker, Al Grey, and Benny Powell on trombones, Frank Wess on alto saxophone and flute, Marshall Royal also on alto saxophone, Frank Foster and Billy Mitchell on tenor saxophone, Charles Fowlkes on baritone saxophone, Freddie Green on guitar, Eddie Jones onbass, and Sonny Payne on drums), using an arrangement by Jimmy Mundy, record the title "Ol' Man River" in Capitol Records' studios in New York City, New York for Roulette Records. After Roulette's catalog is acquired by EMI, Blue Note Records will issue the title on the CD "Blue Broadway - Show Tunes Blue Note Style" (8-29095-2).</div><div><br /></div>1965 - The Beatles receive the Grammy for "Best Vocal Performance by a Group" for "A Hard Day's Night".</div><div><br />1973 - Pink Floyd's Capitol Records album <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/4LH4d3cOWNNsVw41Gqt2kv?si=0FhmjkxORsujM2dgGgp74w">"Dark Side Of The Moon"</a> hits #1 on Billboard's "Top 200" albums chart. It'll be #1 for only 1 week, but it will stay on Billboard's charts for 741 weeks.</div><div><br />1973 - Brush Arbor (lineup unlisted) records the titles "We Need Rain", "Now That It's All Over", and "Alone Again, Naturally" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on the group's album "Brush Arbor N° 2" (ST-11209) and will also issue "We Need Rain" as a single (Capitol 3968) with "Folk, Rock, Pop, Middle Of The Road Country singer" (recorded August 26, 1974) on the flipside, "Now That It's All Over" as a single (Capitol 3733) with "Song To Mary Anne" (recorded June 9, 1973) on the flipside, and "Alone Again, Naturally" as a single (Capitol 3672) with "Washington County" (recorded on an unlisted date in June 1973) on the flipside.</div><div><br /></div><div>1974 - Merle Haggard's Capitol Records single "Things Aren't Funny Anymore", with "Honky Tonk Night Time Man" on the flipside, is #1 on the U.S. Country singles charts.</div><div><br />1974 - Grand Funk Railroad's Capitol Records single "The Loco-motion" is still #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart.</div><div><br />1985 - Sleepy Willis, who worked with Dick Curless on the Capitol Records album "The Soul of Dick Curless" and later would become Curless' lead guitarist, agent, and manager, is inducted into the Maine Country Music Hall of Fame.</div><div><br />1991 - NBC-TV airs Liberty Records (later to become Capitol Records Nashville) artist Garth Brooks' network special "This Is Garth Brooks".</div><div><br />2006 - Wanda Jackson, former Capitol Records artist (1956-1973), <a href="http://www.isu.edu/progbrd/bigcomm.shtml">is on stage at 7:00 pm in the Jensen Concert Hall at the Stephens Performing Arts Center at the Idaho State University in Pocatello.</a> Any first-hand accounts would be appreciated!</div><div><br />2013 - <a href="http://www.stevemillerband.com/SMB_founder_Lonnie_Turner2.html">Lonnie Carter</a>, songwriter and the bass guitarist and a vocalist in the Capitol Records group Steve Miller Band, dies at age 66 from lung cancer and complications from early-onset Alzheimer’s disease at Avamere Care Center in Lebanon, Oregon.</div><div><br /><br />ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY</div><div><br />1896 - George Ewing Lee, a baritone saxophone player, singer, bandleader (George E. Lee and His Novelty Singing Orchestra, which featured his sister, future Capitol Records artist Julia Lee, on vocals and piano), is born in Boonville, Missouri.</div><div><br />1958 - David Seville's Liberty Records single "Witch Doctor" is #1 on Billboard's Top 100 Singles chart, and Ricky Nelson's Imperial Records single "Believe What You Say" is #13 with the flip side "My Bucket's Got A Hole In It" at #20. Liberty and Imperial Records' catalogs are currently owned by Universal Music Group, Capitol Music Group's parent company.</div><div><br />1958 - Trombonist Bennie Green, with Billy Root and Gene Ammons (as "Jug") on tenor saxophones, Sonny Clark on piano, Ike Isaacs on bass, and Elvin Jones on drums, records the titles "Lullaby Of The Doomed", "We Wanna Cook" with band on vocals, "That's All", multiple mono and stereo takes of "Soul Stirrin'" with vocals by Bennie Green and Babs Gonzales, "B. G. Mambo", and "Black Pearl" in recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder's studio at his parent's home in Hackensack, New Jersey. Blue Note Records will issue all the titles on Green's album "Soul Stirrin'" (BLP1599 in mono and BST81599 in stereo) and also "Lullaby Of The Doomed" and "We Wanna Cook" together as a single (Blue Note 45-1709), "That's All" and a mono version of "Soul Stirrin'" (spliced together from take 12 up to the piano solo and take 13 from the piano solo and ensemble) together as a single (Blue Note 45-1708).</div><div><br />1979 - Blondie's Chrysalis Records single "Heart Of Glass" is still #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart.</div><div><br />1983 - Vocalist Sheena Easton, with unlisted others records the title "Wish You Were Here Tonight" in an unlisted studio. EMI America will issue the title as a single (EMI America 8172) with "Telefone (Long Distance Affair" (Recorded April 12, 1983) on the flipside.</div><div><br />1988 - Vocalist Dianne Reeves, with Mulgrew Miller on piano, Charnett Moffett on bass, and Marvin "Smitty" Smith on drums, records the titles, "For All We Know" with the addition of Greg Osby on alto saxophone, "You Taught My Heart To Sing", "How High The Moon", and "Do Watcha Gotta Do" in recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder's studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. Blue Note Records will issue "For All We Know", and "You Taught My Heart To Sing" on Reeve's album "Remember" (B1-90264 on 12" vinyl LP and 7-90264-2 on CD) and rejected the takes of "How High The Moon" and "Do Watcha Gotta Do" recorded at this session.</div><div><br /><br />ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY</div><div><br />2005 - The U.S. Postal Service has a ceremony in New York City, New York to celebrate the release of a postage stamp featuring E.Y. "Yip" Harburg, writer of such well known songs as "Over the Rainbow" (with Capitol Records artist Harold Arlen) from "The Wizard of Oz" and (with Jay Gorney) "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?"</div></div>PopCultureFanBoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01768787919999520127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18285770.post-43037505644934488712022-04-27T00:00:00.004-04:002022-04-27T00:00:00.167-04:00<p> APRIL 27, 2022</p><br />HAPPY BIRTHDAYS!<div><br />1900 - Walter Lantz, cartoonist, studio owner, creator of Woody Woodpecker (which Capitol Records would release a children's record featuring), Andy Panda, and Chilly Willy, is born Walter Benjamin Lantz in New Rochelle, New York. Animating for Walter Lantz Studios was one of future Capitol Records employee Fred Rice's first jobs in Hollywood. Rice would later do the artwork for Capitol's Woody Woodpecker's albums and promotion materials.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM_O6oAipFQyQXIvRYv8tXcKnr5dowHkJmVXTc31HN5cKRYGmEXM9xsVU2hHiGjN6OKpa_eB1YQvHh9s9sFZgx2T0SY8ZlzdMmSrevEb_RuKaeKdN9Xaw-Eo48s4yYlbBJqd6C89_jwG9QuihHUvaQsnLyei32P4DBkgtfJXo5fOQ6DRsELCI/s593/WalterLantz.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="593" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM_O6oAipFQyQXIvRYv8tXcKnr5dowHkJmVXTc31HN5cKRYGmEXM9xsVU2hHiGjN6OKpa_eB1YQvHh9s9sFZgx2T0SY8ZlzdMmSrevEb_RuKaeKdN9Xaw-Eo48s4yYlbBJqd6C89_jwG9QuihHUvaQsnLyei32P4DBkgtfJXo5fOQ6DRsELCI/s320/WalterLantz.jpg" width="270" /></a></div></div><div><br />1909 - Jimmie Skinner, a singer, songwriter, and Capitol Records artist (recorded 15 released singles for Capitol between 1950 and 1953, but no album was ever put together and the singles are a rare find), is born on a farm near Berea, Kentucky. There's also a reference to him being born in Blue Lick, Kentucky. If anyone knows for sure where Jimmie was born, please leave a comment. <a href="http://perso.wanadoo.fr/rockin.paul/Just%20Ramblin'%20On.htm">A great biography can be found on Paul Vidal's site</a> and at <a href="http://www.hillbilly-music.com/artists/story/index.php?id=11105">the Hillbilly Music site.</a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.hillbilly-music.com/artists/story/index.php?id=11105"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA5nlQHAumTfn3st80wnMkny32YjvYkRHxpaPbgt4MFQRjT9MhIo8bSvoWEANPzhu64DbSPkLX8WV3yJQoltCa2s-V8LPVtcU7v8YtesEnf-KoyWDcLNuHtP45HV1NCt5ssvYlvP5FzC_7rL0lxtRpF4yvWNgyBAMqJ8V6h4KLrRuX0waAK3Q/s712/JimmieSkinner.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="712" data-original-width="560" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA5nlQHAumTfn3st80wnMkny32YjvYkRHxpaPbgt4MFQRjT9MhIo8bSvoWEANPzhu64DbSPkLX8WV3yJQoltCa2s-V8LPVtcU7v8YtesEnf-KoyWDcLNuHtP45HV1NCt5ssvYlvP5FzC_7rL0lxtRpF4yvWNgyBAMqJ8V6h4KLrRuX0waAK3Q/s320/JimmieSkinner.jpg" width="252" /></a></div></div><div><br />1939 - Jerry Mercer, the drummer with the Capitol Records group April Wine, is born in Newfoundland, Canada.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJv2s-GMfldeT7Fk65Q__uNWKtaX_MyftzsxIjxvZ1Kn9pUpq_9c21r32YI5yH9vTCuNmHJrlEj5OmATEDY-SgHrOl8Zzhl9oWW1pFbdvPN5nRLztYFFJ8FcliVle6OjG8SkMSasXow9KrEp53m7Iplq74rVks91-8q7kDxt0-GUM_PldDcH4/s695/JerryMercer.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="695" data-original-width="695" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJv2s-GMfldeT7Fk65Q__uNWKtaX_MyftzsxIjxvZ1Kn9pUpq_9c21r32YI5yH9vTCuNmHJrlEj5OmATEDY-SgHrOl8Zzhl9oWW1pFbdvPN5nRLztYFFJ8FcliVle6OjG8SkMSasXow9KrEp53m7Iplq74rVks91-8q7kDxt0-GUM_PldDcH4/s320/JerryMercer.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div><br />75 Years Ago Today In 1947 - Pete Ham, singer, songwriter, guitarist and founder of Apple Records and Capitol Records group Badfinger, is born William Peter Ham in Swansea, Wales.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4vHY6oFXnuaomvDYeLNokfA-L4Qvxww47vmPjEO3zokLwVAqz8eOAZEmDYxzFwTwOyXIjokMd8vnixLuUKiYl2U1Rn1QpReLYH1GyHJu5dLeW55bYSTp_pga6xsk72911gd1xhBn1A9c4NBsg3VGlU77En8U6dU1Dr7vSSFjfrERrZkMYAho/s500/PeteHam.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4vHY6oFXnuaomvDYeLNokfA-L4Qvxww47vmPjEO3zokLwVAqz8eOAZEmDYxzFwTwOyXIjokMd8vnixLuUKiYl2U1Rn1QpReLYH1GyHJu5dLeW55bYSTp_pga6xsk72911gd1xhBn1A9c4NBsg3VGlU77En8U6dU1Dr7vSSFjfrERrZkMYAho/s320/PeteHam.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div><br /><br />ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL HISTORY</div><div><br />1948 - It's a Tuesday evening and at a banquet held after the closing of the 14th Annual Northwest Regional Convention And Exhibit in The Grand Ballroom at The Radisson Hotel in Minneapolis, Minnesota The King Cole Trio, June Christy, and Stan Kenton are awarded scrolls for their winning performances in The Billboard magazine's Annual College Poll from The Billboard magazine's Midwest division's general manager, Maynard Reuter. <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=jPUDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA120#v=onepage&q&f=false">A photo is on page 120 of the May 8, 1948 issue of The Billboard magazine.</a></div><div><br />1948 - Roy Hogsed signs a contract with Capitol Records and all his purchased masters are assigned Capitol mastering numbers.</div><div><br />1953 - Vocalist Gloria Wood, with the Pete Candoli Orchestra (Pete Candoli and Conrad Gozzo on trumpets, Ed Kusby and Si Zentner on trombones, Skeets Herfurt on alto saxophone, Ted Nash on tenor saxophone, Paul Smith on piano, Joe Mondragon on bass, and Alvin Stoller on drums and bell), records the titles "Hey Bellboy" and "Anybody Hurt?" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue both titles together as a single (Capitol 2471) and on Wood's EP "Gloria Wood With Pete Candoli" (EAP-1-538).</div><div><br />1955 - Dean Martin and Line Renaud record the title "Relax-Ay-Voo" for Capitol Records.</div><div><br />65 Years Ago Today In 1957 - Ferlin Husky's Capitol Records single "Gone", with "Missing Persons" on the flipside, is #5 on Billboard's Best Selling Singles chart, Tommy Sand's Capitol Records single "Teenage Crush", with "Hep Dee Hootie (Cutie Wootie)" on the flipside, is #12 (tied with Steve Lawrence's single "Party Doll"), and Sonny James' single "Young Love", with "You're The Reason I'm In Love" on the flipside, is #27.</div><div><br />1959 - Bobby Hackett (on coronet, with Stan Brauner on flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, and tenor sax; Dave McKenna on piano; Bill Kahakalau on steel guitar; Billy Bauer or Bucky Pizzarelli on guitar and ukulele; Bob Carter on bass; Dick Scott on drums; and Johnny Cresci on bongos) records the titles "Orchids From Hawaii", "Ku Nei", "Soft Sands" and "Aloha Oe" for his Capitol Records album "Hawaii Swings" in New York City. The sessions may have been produced by Andy Wiswell. The complete Bobby Hackett Capitol solo sessions are available on Mosaic Records.</div><div><br />1959 - The Kingston Trio's Capitol Records single "Tijuana Jail", with "Oh Cindy (from the Warner Bros. Picture “Rio Bravo”)" on the flipside, is #15 on Billboard's Best Selling Singles chart.</div><div><br />1963 - Nat "King" Cole's Capitol Records single "Skip To My Lou" is #3 in Denmark according to Quan Musikbureau in Copenhagen, his single "All Over The World" is #71 on Cash Box magazine's Top 100 Singles chart. Also, Nat "King" Cole's Capitol Records album "Ramblin' Rose" is #65 and his album "Dear Lonely Hearts" is #83 on Billboard magazine's Top LPs - 150 Best Sellers - Monaural chart.</div><div><br /><div>1966 - Recording begins on The Beatles' title "I'm Only Sleeping" which will appear on their Capitol Records album "Revolver".</div><div><br /></div><div>1968 - Overdubs are recorded in Los Angeles, for Glen Campbell's title "Christmas Is For Children". Capitol Records will issue the final mix of the title as a single (Capitol 2336) with "There's No Place Like Home" (recorded July 24, 1968) on the flipside and on Campbell's album "That Christmas Feeling" (ST 2978).</div><div><br /></div><div>1968 - During two sessions held this day in Los Angeles, California, Jackie Gleason and His Orchestra (lineup unlisted) record the titles "Goin' Out Of My Head", "Yesterday, "Lonely Is The Name", and "It Must Be Him" at the first session and the titles "Two Different Worlds", "I Won't Cry Anymore", "Live For Life", and "I Can't Believe I'm Losing You" at the second session. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Gleason's album "The Now Sound For Today's Lovers" (SW 2935).</div><div><br /></div>1973 - The last episode of former Capitol Records artist Bobby Darin's NBC-TV variety show "The Bobby Darin Show" airs and features Capitol Records artist Peggy Lee appears in a concert setting.</div><div><br />1978 - Billy "Crash" Craddock, with unlisted others, records the titles "If I Could Write A Song As Beautiful As You", "What Are Memories Made Of?", and "Never Ending" in Nashville, Tennessee. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Craddock's album "Turning Up And Turning On" (SW-11853) and also "If I Could Write A Song As Beautiful As You" and "Never Ending" together as a single (Capitol 4672).</div><div><br />1981 - Apple Records and Capitol Records artist Ringo Starr marries his second wife, motion picture actress Barbara Bach, at Marylebone Registry Office in London, England. Paul McCartney and wife Linda, George Harrison, and Harry Nilsson were in attendance.</div><div><br />1983 - The Motels (featuring Martha Davis on vocals with unlisted others), records the title "Into The Heartland" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue the title on the group's album "Little Robbers" (ST-12288 on 12" vinyl and 7-46020-2 on CD).</div><div><br />1988 - Great White’s Capitol Records album "Once Bitten" is certified Platinum by the R.I.A.A.</div><div><br />1988 - Vocalist Johnny Rodriguez, with unlisted others, records the titles "Sweet Courtinda, Sweet Home", "Back To Stay", and "No Chance To Dance" at Woodland Sound Studio in Nashville, Tennessee. Capitol Records will issue "Back To Stay" and "No Chance To Dance" together as a single (Capitol 44325). No issuing information is listed for "Sweet Courtinda, Sweet Home".</div><div><br />1990 - Liberty Records (later renamed Capitol Records Nashville) releases Garth Brooks' album "No Fences".</div><div><br />30 Years Ago Today In 1992 - Capitol Records releases it's limited edition promotional 50th Anniversary box set. It contains 8 CDs and a hardcover book covering the highlights of the previous 50 years of the label's history.</div><div><br /><br />ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY</div><div><br />1791 - Samuel F. B. Morse, inventor (most notably of Morse code), painter, and grandfather of Leila Morse (who threw the switch to light the beacon on top of The Capitol Tower that spells out H-O-L-L-Y-W-O-O-D in Morse code for the first time), is born Samuel Finley Breese Morse in Charlestown, Massachusetts.</div><div><br />1953 - The Gerry Mulligan Quartet (Gerry Mulligan on baritone saxophone, Chet Baker on trumpet, Larry Bunker on drums, and Carson Smith on bass), records the titles "My Old Flame", "All The Things You Are", two takes of "Love Me Or Leave Me" and "Swinghouse", "Jeru" and "Utter Chaos #2" at Radio Recorders, in Los Angeles, California with producer Richard Bock. Pacific Jazz Records will issue "My Old Flame" on the album "Lee Konitz And The Gerry Mulligan Quartet" (PJLP-10 on 10" vinyl), the second take of "Love Me Or Leave Me", "Jeru", and the first take of "Swinghouse" on the group's self-titled album "Gerry Mulligan Quartet" (PJLP 5 on 10" LP), and all the titles and all the takes on the 4-CD set "The Complete Pacific Jazz Recordings of the Gerry Mulligan Quartet with Chet Baker" (8-38263-2). Mosaic Records will also issue all the titles and all the takes in the five-LP box set "The Complete Pacific Jazz And Capitol Recordings Of The Original Gerry Mulligan Quartet And Tentette With Chet Baker" (MR5-102 on 12" vinyl).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Oxd3VKIzOng/WuOqkcEnfWI/AAAAAAAAA64/JIaTKdUi3XYxDZ0h8DzWT8FCZYIlElYYQCLcBGAs/s1600/R-5483206-1394530807-8556.jpeg.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="593" data-original-width="600" height="197" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Oxd3VKIzOng/WuOqkcEnfWI/AAAAAAAAA64/JIaTKdUi3XYxDZ0h8DzWT8FCZYIlElYYQCLcBGAs/s200/R-5483206-1394530807-8556.jpeg.jpg" width="200" /></a><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-N1EjYIPtsIg/WuOqkXraEPI/AAAAAAAAA68/Y5b7UO3HiMEc-Y1kCyKTQOwxMgKUL5oPgCLcBGAs/s1600/R-4901678-1419159787-3305.jpeg.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="595" data-original-width="600" height="198" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-N1EjYIPtsIg/WuOqkXraEPI/AAAAAAAAA68/Y5b7UO3HiMEc-Y1kCyKTQOwxMgKUL5oPgCLcBGAs/s200/R-4901678-1419159787-3305.jpeg.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div></div><div><br />1959 - Sheena Easton, singer, television actress, and EMI America Records artist, is born Sheena Shirley Orr in Bellshill, North Lanarkshire, Scotland.</div><div><br />1961 - Lou Donaldson (on alto saxophone with Herman Foster on piano, Ben Tucker on bass, Dave Bailey on drums, and Alec Dorsey on conga drums) records the titles "Glory of Love", "Gravy Train", "Polka Dots And Moonbeams", "Candy", "South Of The Border", "Twist Time", and "Avalon" for his Blue Note Records album "Gravy Train" with producer Alfred Lion. The album is released in mono in June 1961 and stereo in July 1962.</div><div><br />1964 - Tollie Records release The Beatles' single "Love Me Do", with "P.S. I Love You" on the flipside, in the United States.</div><div><br />1983 - On her 24th birthday, vocalist Sheena Easton, with unlisted others, records the title "Let Sleeping Dogs Lie" at an unlisted studio. EMI America will issue the title on Easton's album "Best Kept Secret" (ST-17101 on 12" vinyl and E2-90265 on CD).</div><div><br />1983 - The Michael Stanley Band (lineup unlisted) recorded the titles "Fire In The Hole", "Highlife", "How Can You Call This Love" and "Just Give Me Tonight" in an unlisted studio. EMI America will issue all the titles on the group's album "You Can't Fight Fashion" (ST-17100) and will also issue "Highlife" as a single (EMI America 8189) with an edited version of "Someone Like You" (album version recorded May 13, 1983) on the flipside.</div><div><br />1988 - During two session held this day at recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder's studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, vocalist Diane Reeves, with Bobby Hutcherson on vibraphone, Donald Brown on piano, Charnett Moffett on bass, Marvin "Smitty" Smith on drums, and Ron Powell on percussion, records the titles "Softly As In A Morning Sunrise" with the addition of Greg Osby on alto saxophone and "Ancient Source" at the first session and then Reeves, with just Kevin Eubanks on acoustic guitar and Ron Powell on wind chimes, records the title "Like A Lover" at the second session. Blue Note Records will issue "Softly As In A Morning Sunrise" and "Like A Lover" in the United States on Reeves' album "I Remember" (B1-90264 on 12" vinyl and 7-90264-2 on CD) and all the titles in Japan on the CD "The Nearness Of You" (TOCJ-5967).</div><div><br /><br />ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY</div><div><br />90 Years Ago Today In 1932 - Casey Kasem, a cartoon voice actor (best known as the voice of Shaggy in "Scooby-Doo" and Robin in the "Batman" and "Superfriends" cartoons), host of "American Top 40" weekly radio show and "America's Top 10" television show, is born Kemal Amin Kasem in Detroit, Michigan.</div>PopCultureFanBoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01768787919999520127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18285770.post-61225646931109046362022-04-26T00:00:00.010-04:002022-04-26T20:20:13.472-04:00<p> APRIL 26, 2022</p><br />HAPPY BIRTHDAYS!<div><br />1938 - <a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/1I5Cu7bqjkRg85idwYsD91?si=RyppS9hGR9qDt9PVAopaLw">Duane Eddy</a>, a guitarist, a Capitol Records artist (1987), and an M-G-M motion picture star, is born in Corning, New York.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgYvPqbAMSrBorKsZ9cWnVXv9NgvTfyBrwUyID3nLWUxB_d17VbYTUKsrwacVlSObsoc1qbP47wPDGPInMFO6VU3v6BOWnD0Zh1T_WPbmEH6j58OrAdO88vexGnk0s71WNqiESVmn4N-h__V_bYe-_HolxdZ0eJhj_HeFmMF_TCkGCpi1YiWc/s1500/DuaneEddy.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1492" data-original-width="1500" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgYvPqbAMSrBorKsZ9cWnVXv9NgvTfyBrwUyID3nLWUxB_d17VbYTUKsrwacVlSObsoc1qbP47wPDGPInMFO6VU3v6BOWnD0Zh1T_WPbmEH6j58OrAdO88vexGnk0s71WNqiESVmn4N-h__V_bYe-_HolxdZ0eJhj_HeFmMF_TCkGCpi1YiWc/s320/DuaneEddy.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div><br />80 Years Ago Today In 1942 - Bobby Rydell, a motion picture actor, singer, and a Capitol Records artist (after leaving Cameo Records, until 1969, when he signed with Reprise), is born Robert Ridarelli in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3lP1YcyYQMHa6Oj7ICOYXwK1lgUBgyBbQON6U5SwGv-oOMi4hJnLvwevwCQI7rUsOa55oRrVZ4uH0JnJPFQ2Vx3bk-2TSDnjY9DL-7DGRWgiUZzItZmeqOPlQgyRzFdc_Y3SNkL0pB1yH5k1Ma4ZMyGM6oLdAcAfs9ebZp6d23m9NnS3q4u8/s500/BobbyRydell.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3lP1YcyYQMHa6Oj7ICOYXwK1lgUBgyBbQON6U5SwGv-oOMi4hJnLvwevwCQI7rUsOa55oRrVZ4uH0JnJPFQ2Vx3bk-2TSDnjY9DL-7DGRWgiUZzItZmeqOPlQgyRzFdc_Y3SNkL0pB1yH5k1Ma4ZMyGM6oLdAcAfs9ebZp6d23m9NnS3q4u8/s320/BobbyRydell.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div><br />1960 - Roger Taylor, the drummer, and percussionist, in the Capitol Records bands Duran Duran and Arcadia, is born in Castle Bromwich, Birmingham, West Midlands, England.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrAP-YNEhvc-B5Tfahbrw8nuh6cWIPQOm4Z2OuPOnh45I9GOM8u2kQYmUS7FsmxnoaLhhWhK-c9XJZudqvbjt63wvD40nr20tAs8dH5qbSnQq-T68E-vw9PyZCq-3RF8odM0bieEAhwnqyoFN_pQE8vOLqfnNLl8i7IXs20IJ7kV5nNGXCoi4/s602/RogerTaylorStrangeFrontier.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="602" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrAP-YNEhvc-B5Tfahbrw8nuh6cWIPQOm4Z2OuPOnh45I9GOM8u2kQYmUS7FsmxnoaLhhWhK-c9XJZudqvbjt63wvD40nr20tAs8dH5qbSnQq-T68E-vw9PyZCq-3RF8odM0bieEAhwnqyoFN_pQE8vOLqfnNLl8i7IXs20IJ7kV5nNGXCoi4/s320/RogerTaylorStrangeFrontier.png" width="319" /></a></div></div><div><br /><br />ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL HISTORY</div><div><br />70 Years Ago Today In 1952 - Kay Starr's Capitol Records single "Wheel Of Fortune", with Harold Mooney conducting the orchestra and "Angry" on the flipside, is #1 on Billboard's Best Selling Singles chart, and Ella Mae Morse's Capitol Records single "Blacksmith Blues", with arranger Nelson Riddle conducting the orchestra and originally released as the flipside of a re-issue of Freddie Slack's "Cow Cow Boogie" and then with "Love Me Or Leave Me" on the flipside, is #3.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/b3iamUsIsic" width="320" youtube-src-id="b3iamUsIsic"></iframe></div></div><div><br />1948 - It's a Monday and The King Cole Trio, along with other Capitol Records artists Stan Kenton, June Christy, and Spike Haskell, as well as Capitol's Minneapolis promotion man Bob Jacobs, appear for two days in Booth 1 as part of Capitol Records' exhibit at the 14th Annual Northwest Regional Convention And Exhibit in the Gold Room at The Radisson Hotel in Minneapolis, Minnesota with 16 other record distributors, jobbers, jukebox manufacturers, and related merchandise firms. A General Electric Combo record player was demoed by constantly playing The King Cole Trio's Capitol Records single "Nature Boy". The convention is sponsored by jukebox operator associations from four states - the Minnesota Amusement Games Association (MAGA), the Wisconsin Phonograph Operators' Association (WPOA), the North Dakota Music Operators' Association (NDMOA), and the South Dakota Phonograph Association (SDPA).</div><div><br />1958 - Laurie London's Capitol Records single "He's Got The Whole World In His Hands" is #1 on The Billboard magazine's "Most Played By Jockeys" chart for the second week in a row.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6u5gpfpGcRM/WuE8E9jNzOI/AAAAAAAAA6k/juo92FHbGPkNpkPgRRiU8xKj-dHlvd6owCLcBGAs/s1600/LaurieLondonCapitolRecordsAdS.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1102" height="320" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6u5gpfpGcRM/WuE8E9jNzOI/AAAAAAAAA6k/juo92FHbGPkNpkPgRRiU8xKj-dHlvd6owCLcBGAs/s320/LaurieLondonCapitolRecordsAdS.jpg" width="220" /></a></div></div><div><br /><div>1958 - Nat "King" Cole's Capitol Records single "Looking Back" is #6 on The Billboard magazine's R&B Best Sellers In Stores and Most Played R&B By Jockeys charts, #12 on the magazine's Top 100 Sides chart, #14 on the magazine's Best Selling Pop Singles In Stores chart, and #27 on Cash Box magazine's Best Selling Singles chart. "Looking Back"'s flipside "Do I Like It" is also #94 on The Billboard magazine's Top 100 Sides chart. Also, Nat "King" Cole's Capitol Records album "St. Louis Blues" debuts at #18 and his album "Love Is The Thing" is #25 on The Billboard magazine's Best Selling Pop LPs chart.</div><div><br /></div><div>1958 - The Jonah Jones Quartet (Jonah Jones on trumpet and vocals, Hank Jones on piano, John Brown on bass, and Harold Austin on drums) records the titles "Just A Gigolo" and "Moten Swing" in New York City, New York. Capitol Records will issue "Just A Gigolo" on the quartet's album "Jumpin' With Jonah" (EAP-3-1039 on 7" vinyl and T/ST 1039 on 12" vinyl) and "Moten Swing" on the album "Hit Me Again!" (T/ST 1375).</div><div><br /></div><div>60 Years Ago Today In 1962 - Capitol Records records a concert by Judy Garland, with Mort Lindsey conducting his own arrangements to the orchestra, at Manhattan Center in New York City New York. Judy performs the songs "Sail Away", "Something's Coming", "Why Can't I?", "Just In Time", "Do What You Do", "Get Me To The Church On Time", "The Party's Over", "Joey, Joey, Joey", "Hey Look Me Over", "Some People", and "Never Will I Marry". Capitol Records will issue all the titles except "Why Can't I?" and "Do What You Do" on the compilation CD "Judy Live" (CDP 7-92343-2) and "Why Can't I?" on the compilation CD "Classic Judy Garland - The Capitol Years - 1955-1965" (CDP 7243-5-39282-2-3). As of yet, the incomplete recording of "Do What You Do" (Judy's hoarse voice that night only let her sing the vocals for the first verse) has not been released. <a href="http://users.deltacomm.com/rainbowz/con042662.html">There's a great first-hand account of the performance on Steve Jarret's site.</a></div><div><br /></div><div>1963 - Nat "King" Cole's Capitol Records album "Nat 'King' Cole" is #2 on KTKT 990 AM's Album Sound Of The Day chart in Tucson, Arizona.</div><div><br /></div><div><div>1963 - During three sessions held this day in Los Angeles, California, trumpet player Jack Sheldon, with unlisted others, records the titles "There Will Never Be Another You", "Days Of Wine And Roses", "That Old Feeling" and "Freaky Friday" at the first session, the titles "On Green Dolphin Street", "What Kind Of Fool Am I?", "The More I See You", and "Merry Old England" at the second session, and the titles "Stella By Starlight", "Forgive Me Waltz", "Soft Winds", and, with Sheldon also on vocals, "Born To Lose" at the third session. Capitol Records will issue "Born To Lose" on Sheldon's album "Oooo,But It's Good!" (T/ST 1963).</div><div><br /></div><div>1963 - During three sessions held this day in Los Angeles, California, vocalist Jean Hoffman, with unlisted others, records the titles "Oh Dear, What Can The Matter Be", "Crazy He Calls Me", "Surrey With The Fringe On Top", and "Contrary Motion" at the first session, "Great Day", "Christopher Robin", and "Lass From The Low Country", and the titles "Let My People Go", "I Fall In Love Too Easily", and "Scarlet Ribbons" for Capitol Records which has yet to issue any of the titles.</div><div><br /></div><div>1963 - Vocalist Vic Damone, with Jack Parnello conducting the orchestra (lineup unlisted) performs the titles "You And The Night And The Music", "When Your Lover Has Gone", "What Kind Of Fool Am I?", "At Long Last Love", "Fascinating Rhythm", "They Can't Take That Away From Me", "The Most Beautiful Girl In The World", "Adios", "I Left My Heart In San Francisco", "A Lot Of Livin' To Do", "You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You", and "On The Street Where You Live" during a live show recorded at Basin Steet East in New York City, New York. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Damone's album "Vic Damone At Basin Street East - The Liveliest" (T/ST 1944 on 12" vinyl).</div></div><div><br /></div><div>1965 - Capitol Records releases The Beach Boys single "Help Me Rhonda" with "Kiss Me Baby" on the flipside.</div><div><br /></div><div>1968 - Final overdubs are recorded for Tony Bruno's titles "Little Men And Women" and "Getting Better" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue the final mix of the title as a single (Capitol 2235) with "Didn't We" (recorded May 1, 1968) on the flipside and on Bruno'salbum "I'm Feeling It Now" (ST 2930) and has yet to issue "Getting Better".</div><div><br /></div>50 Years Ago Today In 1972 - Buck Owens records the title "Ain't It Amazing, Gracie" which Capitol Records will release as a single with "Good Old Days (Are Here Again)" on the flipside.</div><div><br /></div><div>50 Years Ago Today In 1972 - Peggy Lee, with Artie Butler conducting his own arrangements to a large orchestra that includs string and percussion sections, records the titles "It Changes" and "Superstar" in The Capitol Tower Studios at 1750 Vine Street in Hollywood, California. Capitol Records will issue "Superstar" on Lee's album "Norma Deloris Egstrom From Jamestown, North Dakota" (ST-11077) and both titles in England on the 2 on 1 series CD "I'm A Woman/Norma Deloris Egstrom From Jamestown, North Dakota" (8-74179-2).<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9xpwzo69Hew" width="320" youtube-src-id="9xpwzo69Hew"></iframe></div></div><div><br />1973 - Overdubs are recorded in Los Angeles, California for Kay Adams titles "Ain't It Funny (How The Heart Rules The Mind)", "Reason To Feel", "I Can, I Can", and "Hearts of Stone". Capitol Records will issue the final mixes of "Ain't It Funny (How The Heart Rules The Mind)" and "Reason To Feel" together as a single (Capitol 3692) and the final mixes of "I Can, I Can" and "Hearts Of Stone" together as a single (Capitol 3624).</div><div><br />1973 - Billy May and The Time-Life Orchestra (lineup unlisted) record the titles "Afrikaan Beat" featuring Uan Rasey on trumpet, 'I Love Paris", "The Dreamer" featuring Ray Sherman on piano, and "Walk On By" and overdubs for "I Love Paris" and "Walk On By" in The Capitol Tower Studios at 1750 North Vine Street in Hollywood, California. Time-Life Records will issue all the titles as part of their "As You Remember Them" series in the three-LP set "Volume 7 - Billy May" (STL 247).</div><div><br />45 Years Ago Today In 1977 - Glen Campbell's Capitol Records single "Southern Nights", with "William Tell Overture" on the flipside, is still #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart.</div><div><br />1978 - Apple and Capitol Records artist Ringo Starr stars in his first TV special in the United States - an updated version of Mark Twain's "The Prince and the Pauper".</div><div><br />1988 - During two sessions held this day in Nashville, Tennessee, vocalist Johnny Rodriguez, with unlisted others, records the titles "You Might Want To Use Me Again", "I Wanta Wake Up With You", "Someday I'm Gonna Finish Leaving You" at the first session and the titles "She Loves Austin", "Where Do I Go To Surrender", and "My Memory's Gonna Serve You Right" at the second session. Capitol Records will issue "You Might Want To Use Me Again" and "She Loves Austin" together as a single (Capitol 44245) and an edited version of "I Wanta Wake Up With You and "Someday I'm Gonna Finish Leaving You" together as a single (Capitol 44204). No issuing information is listed for "Where Do I Go To Surrender" and "My Memory's Gonna Serve You Right".</div><div><br /><br />ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY</div><div><br />1958 - David Seville's Liberty Records single "Witch Doctor", with "Don't Whistle At My Baby" on the flipside, is #1 The Billboard magazine's Best Selling Pop Singles In Stores and Top 100 Sides charts for the second week. Seville (aka Ross Bagdasarian) would use the techniques from this single to create the sound of The Chipmunks.</div><div><br /><div>1980 - Dottie West's United Artists Records single "A Lesson In Leavin'", with "Love's So Easy For Two" on the flipside, beco<span style="font-family: inherit;">mes her first solo single to reach #1 on the U.S. Country singles chart. United Artists' catalog is currently owned b</span>y Universal Music Group, Capitol Music Group's parent company.</div><div><br /></div>1981 - Sheena Easton's EMI <span style="background-color: white;">America Records single "Morning Train (Nine To Five)", with "Calm Before The Storm" on the flipside is #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart. EMI America's catalog is currently owned by Universal Music Group, Capitol Music Group's parent company.</span></div><div><br /><span style="background-color: white;">1983 - Vocalist Sheena Easton, with unlisted others, records the title "Just One Smile" in an unlisted studio. EMI America will issue the title in the United States on Easton's album "Best Kept Secret" (ST-17101).</span></div><div><br /><span style="background-color: white;">1984 - Count Basie (b<span style="font-family: inherit;">orn William James Basie), composer, pianist, organist,<span style="line-height: 18px;"> and bandleader, who recorded sessions for (among others) the RCA/Bluebird, Decca, Roulette Jazz, and Pablo labels, died of pancreatic cancer in Hollywood, Florida. </span>Roulette's catalog is currently owned by Universal Music Group, Capitol Music Group's parent company.</span></span></div><div><br /><span style="background-color: white;">35 Years Ago Today In 1987 - Cutting Crew's Virgin Records America single "(I Just) Died In Your Arms", with "For the Longest Time" on the flipside, is #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 S</span>ingles chart, becoming the group and the label's first #1 single in the United States.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rrJky8YuTr4" width="320" youtube-src-id="rrJky8YuTr4"></iframe></div></div><div><br />1988 - Superblue (Don Sickler on trumpet, Roy Hargrove on trumpet and flugelhorn, Frank Lacy on trombone, Bobby Watson on alto saxophone, Bill Pierce on tenor saxophone, Mulgrew Miller on piano, Bob Hurst on bass, and Kenny Washington on drums) record the titles "Open Sesame", "Summertime", "Marvelous Marvin", "Time Off", "I Remember Clifford", "Conservation", "Once Forgotten", and "M & M" at recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder's studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey for Somethin' Else Records. Blue Note Records will issue all the titles on the group's self-titled album "Superblue" (B1-91731 on 12" vinyl and 7-91731-2 on CD).</div><div><br />1999 - Sinead O'Connor, a former Chrysalis Records artist, is ordained as the first woman priest in the Latin Tridentine Church, a Roman Catholic splinter group, as Mother Bernadette Mary. She will next appear as a performer on this day in 2005 when she makes a live on-stage appearance at the fifth annual Jammy Awards in New York City, New York with the group Burning Spear.</div><div><br /><br />ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY</div><div><br />45 Years Ago Today In 1977 - The Studio 54 discothèque opens in New York City, New York and will close on the same date three years later in 1980.</div>PopCultureFanBoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01768787919999520127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18285770.post-25957545653091132982022-04-25T00:00:00.001-04:002022-04-25T00:00:00.159-04:00<p> APRIL 25, 2022</p><br />HAPPY BIRTHDAYS!<div><br />105 Years Ago Today In 1917 - Ella Fitzgerald, singer, motion picture actress, and a Verve and a Capitol Records artist, is born Ella Jane Fitzgerald in Newport News, Virginia. Ella would be one of the first non-Capitol artists to record in Studio A in the Capitol Tower. On August 16, 1956, she, along with Louis Armstrong, would record tracks for their duet album on Verve and 5 days later she would record tracks for her "Sings The Rodgers & Hart Song Book", also on Verve. She would go on to record three albums for Capitol with producer Dave Dexter, Jr.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4MoVF467CPgwBZApnQHpuUR5R6z3BeLi1yxAEp1vkSj-GnM4fedW3wPNo5GiTYzXN9jES1VDr7vcX9XNqSb0AkEgZ4jO1OFP9HDwk6Sz7y9x7SWuyZygbiTdDDyfciPjnVwzQ-mUP-Fyp3mK7poDGjuGG2DzVxPxA8AUYtvu6IkPdg2N34eQ/s600/EllaFitzgerald'sChristmas.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="580" data-original-width="600" height="309" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4MoVF467CPgwBZApnQHpuUR5R6z3BeLi1yxAEp1vkSj-GnM4fedW3wPNo5GiTYzXN9jES1VDr7vcX9XNqSb0AkEgZ4jO1OFP9HDwk6Sz7y9x7SWuyZygbiTdDDyfciPjnVwzQ-mUP-Fyp3mK7poDGjuGG2DzVxPxA8AUYtvu6IkPdg2N34eQ/s320/EllaFitzgerald'sChristmas.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div><br />1958 - Derek William Dick (aka Fish), the original vocalist and guitarist with the Capitol Records group Marillion and a solo artist, is born in Dalkeith, Midlothian, Scotland.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKbI4e9FF-GrzvKCkwybQV54QwIMfZmlPaU3IbySOL6qp8GZ44afN__CumGkBX6OrskIKAoxKH6CvXoezNNejimIORjTwcAl-rEDyWh8bI3TiERqJRwcUnRshiOXfX2nz5PKDK6aFAZlkOcIAuUP7KQYGAiFHHHm-LvSkI7qIGVRmnGFoX4og/s1200/DerekWilliamDick1_Fish-of-Marillion.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKbI4e9FF-GrzvKCkwybQV54QwIMfZmlPaU3IbySOL6qp8GZ44afN__CumGkBX6OrskIKAoxKH6CvXoezNNejimIORjTwcAl-rEDyWh8bI3TiERqJRwcUnRshiOXfX2nz5PKDK6aFAZlkOcIAuUP7KQYGAiFHHHm-LvSkI7qIGVRmnGFoX4og/s320/DerekWilliamDick1_Fish-of-Marillion.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div><br />1994 - Maggie Rogers, a singer-songwriter, musician, producer, and a Capitol Records artist, is born Margaret Debay Rogers in Easton Maryland.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh53M0cU87esdvI7z1mPrLRWJBipvZHz4Gi6_UEFATtWYYDOIu2rT7eRdW6xhniNTcDPz7SOWStAO0uo0qU3YADV1gCNZ3E1pb9PGZ6l1Hcln24O-pIG8neipGiz63Uc1s1yWJFS23Fbk97OW1x_uynn7hrc06odQeBPTFofwczSB2DkK2i41c/s600/maggie-rogers-heard-it-in-a-past-life-vinylmnky_2048x.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh53M0cU87esdvI7z1mPrLRWJBipvZHz4Gi6_UEFATtWYYDOIu2rT7eRdW6xhniNTcDPz7SOWStAO0uo0qU3YADV1gCNZ3E1pb9PGZ6l1Hcln24O-pIG8neipGiz63Uc1s1yWJFS23Fbk97OW1x_uynn7hrc06odQeBPTFofwczSB2DkK2i41c/s320/maggie-rogers-heard-it-in-a-past-life-vinylmnky_2048x.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div><br /><br />ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY</div><div><br />75 Years Ago Today In 1947 - Pappy "Gube" Beaver signs a contract with Capitol.</div><div><br />1951 - Pianist Lou Busch as Joe "Fingers" Carr, with the vocal group The Carr-Hops (lineup unlisted), records the titles "Ballin' The Jack", "It Must Be True You Are Mine, All Mine", and "Carr's Hop" (which will be remastered and released as "Rapscallion Rag") in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue "Ballin' The Jack" and "It Must Be True You Are Mine, All Mine" together as a single (Capitol 1558) and "Rapscallion Rag" on Carr's album ""Bar Room Piano" (CCN-280).</div><div><br />1953 - Nat "King" Cole's Capitol Records single "Pretend", with orchestra conducted by arranger Nelson Riddle, is #4 on Billboard's Best Selling Singles chart, Les Baxter and His Orchestra's Capitol Records single "April In Portugal" is #6, Jane Froman's Capitol Records single "I Believe", conducted by Sid Feller, is #18 and Nat "King" Cole's Capitol Records single "Can't I?", also with arranger Nelson Riddle conducting the orchestra is #19.</div><div><br /><div>1956 - Capitol Records artist Peggy Lee marries her third husband, actor Dewey Martin.</div><div><br />1958 - Vocalist Tommy Sands, with Bob Bain's Music (Merrill E. Moore on piano, Bob Bain on lead guitar, Buck Owens on rhythm guitar, and unlisted bass and drums players), records the titles "After The Senior Prom" and "Since I Met You Baby" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue "After The Prom" as a single (Capitol F3985) with "Big Date" (recorded April 28, 1958) on the flipside and "Since I Met You Baby" on Sands' album "Sands Storm!" (EAP-2-1081 on 7" vinyl and T 1081 on 12" vinyl).</div><div><br />1958 - Nelson Riddle conducts his own arrangements to His Orchestra (lineup unlisted) as they record the titles "Love Theme From 'St. Louis Blues'", "The Song From 'Kings Go Forth' (Monique)", "Una Casa Portuguesa" and "Siesta Sevilla" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue "Love Theme From 'St. Louis Blues'" as a single (Capitol F3980) with "The Seventh Voyage Of Sinbad" (recorded April 14, 1958) on the flipside, "The Song From 'Kings Go Forth' (Monique)" and "Siesta In Sevilla" together as a single (Capitol F4005), and "Una Casa Portuguesa" as a single (Capitol F074) with "Birds Of Paradise" (recorded September 16, 1958) on the flipside.</div><div><br /></div>1961 - The Louvin Brothers sign a contract with Capitol Records.</div><div><br />1963 - Vocalist Jean Hoffman, with unlisted others, records the titles "Bye Bye Blackbird", "I Fall In Love Too Easily", "I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face", and "I Love Little Jimmy" in Los Angeles, California for Capitol Records which has yet to issue any of the titles.</div><div><br /><div>1963 - Vocalist June Christy, with Al Viola on guitar and Don Bagley on bass, records the titles <a href="https://open.spotify.com/user/markhn/playlist/0JOqBMpwSRbwWXuEAytlj1?si=Uiv4C3W3S3eU2VxpFb57Zg">"Don't Explain", "Ev'ry Time", "I Get Along Without You Very Well", and "Suddenly It's Spring"</a> in Los Angeles, California with producer Bill Miller. Capitol Records will issue "Don't Explain" and "Ev'ry Time" on Christy's album "The Intimate Miss Christy" (T/ST 1953) and has yet to issue the takes of "I Get Along Without You Very Well" and "Suddenly It's Spring" recorded at this session. New takes of both titles will be recorded on May 23, 1958, and those takes will be the ones issued on the album "The Intimate Miss Christy".</div><div><br /></div><div>1963 - Vocalist Al Martino, with Belford Hendricks conducting his own arrangements to the orchestra and vocal chorus (lineups unlisted), records the titles <a href="https://open.spotify.com/user/markhn/playlist/3SXSJ13X6ZVMu09YYUu0u7?si=0o7lLlbNQ7G_y-H2yExP2A">"Just Call Me Lonesome", "Take These Chains From My Heart", "It's A Sin", "Losing You", and "Still"</a> in New York City, New York. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Martino's album "I Love You Because" (T/ST 1914).</div><div><br /></div>1964 - According to the Ottawa Journal "Hit Parade", The Beatles hold the #1, 2 & 3 slots in Canada with, respectively, the singles "Twist and Shout", "Can't Buy Me Love" and "All My Loving".</div><div><br />55 Years Ago Today In 1967 - The Beatles record the title <a href="https://t.co/UJUpyUHnt2">"Magical Mystery Tour"</a> at Abbey Road Studios in London, England with producer George Martin.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/l8WMGBuNaus" width="320" youtube-src-id="l8WMGBuNaus"></iframe></div></div><div><br />1968 - The Beatles' Apple Corps, Ltd. begins operations in its London offices at 27 Ovington Square, London, SW3 1LJ.</div><div><br />1968 - During two sessions held this day in Los Angeles, California, overdubs are recorded for Glen Campbell's title "(Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay" at the first session and then vocalist Glen Campbell, with Al De Lory conducting his own arrangements to the orchestra (lineup unlisted), records the titles "It Must Be Getting Close To Christmas" and "Fate Of Man" at the second session. After further overdubs are recorded for "(Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay" on May 10, 1968, for "It Must Be Getting Close To Christmas" on July 24, 1968, and for "Fate Of Man" on August 28, 1968, Capitol Records will issue the final mix of "(Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay" and "Fate Of Man" on Campbell's album "Wichita Lineman" (ST-103), the final mix of "It Must Be Getting Close To Christmas" on Campbell's album "That Christmas Feeling" (ST 2978), and "Fate Of Man" as a single (Capitol 2302) with "Wichita Lineman" (recorded May 27, 1968) on the flipside.</div><div><br /><div>1968 - The Lettermen (vocalists Jim Pike, Tony Butala, and Bob Engemann) Perry Botkin, Jr. conducting his own arrangements to the orchestra (lineup unlisted), record the title "Anyone Who Had A Heart" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue the title as a single (Capitol 2196) with "All The Grey Haired Men" (recorded April 13, 1968) on the flipside.</div><div><br /></div><div>1968 - Mad River (David Robinson and Rick Bockner on guitars, Lawrence Hammond on bass, keyboards, and vocals, Greg Dewey on drums, harmonica, and vocals, and Tom Manning on vocals) records the title "Amphetamine Gazelle" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue the title as a single (Capitol 2310) with "High All The Time" (recorded May 29, 1968) on the flipside and on the group's self-titled album "Mad River" (ST 2985).</div><div><br /></div><div>1968 - During three sessions held this day at Century Sound Studios in New York City, New York, The Wind In The Willows (Peter Brittain on lead guitar and vocals, Deborah Harry on vocals, tambura, tambourine, and finger cymbals, Paul Klein on guitar and vocals, Steve "Marvello" DePhillips on bass and vocals, Wayne Kirby on double bass, piano, harpsichord, organ, and vibraphone, Ida Andrews on flute, bassoon, piccolo, flute, chimes and vocals, Anton Carysforth on drums, and session producer Artie Kornfeld on bongos, bass drum, drums, hairy drums) with recording engineer Brooks Arthur and a string section (lineup unlisted) using arrangements by Wayne Kirby, records the titles "My Uncle Used To Love Me But She Died" and "So Sad" at the first session, the titles "Park Avenue Blues" and "She's Fantastic" at the second session, and the titles "A Quite Respectable Older Lady", and "Uptown Girl" at the third session. Capitol Records will issue all the titles, except "A Quite Respectable Older Lady" which has yet to be issued, on the group's self-titled album <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mA6IY6qc6zQ">"The Wind In The Willows"</a> (SKAO 2956).</div><div><br /></div>1971 - Sonny James' Capitol Records single "Empty Arms", with "Everything Begins And Ends With You" on the flipside, is #1 on the U.S. Country singles charts.</div><div><br />1973 - An editing session is held for The Lettermen's title "Mac Arthur Park" (recorded December 15, 1972, with overdubs recorded on December 22 and 29, 1972) to create "Mac Arthur Park (Short Version)" for Capitol Records, which has yet to issue the title.</div><div><br />1981 - Capitol Records group Wings disbands when guitarist Denny Laine quits.</div><div><br />1983 - Capitol Records re-releases Duran Duran's self-titled album "Duran Duran" in the U.S., with the addition of the track "Is There Something I Should Know? as well as new photos, where it will peak at #10.</div><div><br />1983 - As listed in the master files, vocalist Beau Williams, with an orchestra (lineup unlisted) using arrangements by Ron "Have Mercy" Kersey, records the title "Stay With Me" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue the title on Williams' album "Stay With Me" (ST-12286).</div><div><br /><div>1983 - Capitol Records will register the masters for Bruce Murray's titles "Fron Now On" and "Mixed Emotion" and will issue both titles together as a single (Capitol 5234).</div><div><br /></div>30 Years Ago Today In 1992 - Capitol Records vocal group The Five Keys is inducted into the United In Group Harmony Association Hall of Fame. The group does an impromptu performance which will be the last by its original members.</div><div><br /><br />ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY</div><div><br /></div><div>1963 - Coleridge Perkinson directs vocalist, pennywhistle, talking drums, and guitar player Solomon Ilori and His Afro-Drum Ensemble (Chief Bey and Montego Joe on congas, Josiah Ilori on sakara drums and cowbell, Robert Crowder on congas, chekere, and cowbell, Garvin Masseaux on congas, xylophone, and cowbell) with Hosea Taylor on alto saxophone, Jay Berliner on guitar, and Ahmed Abdul-Malik on bass, as they record the titles "Yaba E (Farewell)", "Jojolo (Look At This Beautiful Girl)", "Follow Me To Africa", "Aiye Le (Troubled World)", "Tolani (African Love Song" in recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder's studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. Blue Note Records will issue all the titles on Solomon Ilori and His Afro-Drum Ensemble's album "African High Life" (BLP4136/BST84136 on 12" vinyl and 3-59437-2 on CD).</div><div><br />1973 - Former Capitol Records artist Dean Martin marries his third wife, Catherine Mae Hawn.</div><div><br />1975 - Future Capitol Records band Sweet's Bell Records single "Little Willy" is certified Gold by the R.I.A.A.</div><div><br />1983 - Vocalist Sheena Easton, with unlisted others, records the title "Keep The Motor Running" at an unlisted studio for EMI America. No issuing information is listed.</div><div><br />1983 - Vocalist Ernestine Anderson, with Norman Simmons on piano, George Mraz on bass, and Tim Horner on drums, records the title <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xlFFBxWQFw">"Someday My Prince Will Come"</a> in the Toshiba EMI Studios in Tokyo, Japan. EMI Eastworld Records will issue the title in Japan on the multi-artist compilation LP "Three Pearls" (EWJ 90028) and Blue Note/EMI Toshiba will issue the title in Japan on the CD release of the album (TOCJ-6189).</div><div><br />1990 - Dexter Gordon, a saxophonist, Academy Award-nominated motion-picture actor, and Blue Note Records artist, dies at age 67 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.</div>PopCultureFanBoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01768787919999520127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18285770.post-76804815358864305932022-04-24T00:00:00.001-04:002022-04-24T00:00:00.175-04:00<p> APRIL 24, 2022</p><br />HAPPY BIRTHDAYS!<div><br />1914 - Ray Leatherwood, a bass player with Capitol Records artist Les Brown and His Band of Renown, also with Bob Chester's Orchestra and The Jack Teagarden Sextet, who helped back Liberty Records singers Julie London (most notable on "Cry Me A River"), and Matt Dennis, toured with Capitol Records artist Bob Hope's troupe on 20 Christmas visits to U. S. military bases around the world for the U.S.O., and worked with Rosy McHargue's Ragtimers, but only for recording sessions, is born in Itasca, Texas.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhseKrGdNOdkGPnOEk_Flh-gdm4gzC_rKiZ_WTxQ4wF6W8prU_lbvLSK_dwSVDVXLYIJg9E8hVj4pShfNNPJZcloeZ3CPQYNKN9TGeubDdQCltA8oWZ-2E9EEYnlx0DkwSyt87efhGp-pLsIsAnQe9qX79MKTU3Yd_lunkFyA-jPgxou9y50v8/s517/RayLeatherwood.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="517" data-original-width="432" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhseKrGdNOdkGPnOEk_Flh-gdm4gzC_rKiZ_WTxQ4wF6W8prU_lbvLSK_dwSVDVXLYIJg9E8hVj4pShfNNPJZcloeZ3CPQYNKN9TGeubDdQCltA8oWZ-2E9EEYnlx0DkwSyt87efhGp-pLsIsAnQe9qX79MKTU3Yd_lunkFyA-jPgxou9y50v8/s320/RayLeatherwood.jpg" width="267" /></a></div></div><div><br />1942 - Barbra Streisand, a singer, Broadway and motion picture actress, television variety special host and guest, Grammy, Oscar, Tony, and Emmy awards winner, and a Capitol Records artist (the original Broadway cast album for "Funny Girl") is born Barbara Joan Streisand in Brooklyn, New York.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXVN6G4iBfR7XIfHQWzh9bbFnRhCMt_VXAbrUCmGdw9f758E9_FwcwFSeabZMu2h8_SjQB5W4eDKLwg2KexSdwIbmO7iZoz1qV3CnZZLrddYQxPVKj1A2bc3WEhsOwp6cKJwBMSEsaXGpPgFJk3WdHWGIDiufel27FU7eHZHh-0r7Xp6H9KuQ/s1600/BarbraStreisandFunnyGirl.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXVN6G4iBfR7XIfHQWzh9bbFnRhCMt_VXAbrUCmGdw9f758E9_FwcwFSeabZMu2h8_SjQB5W4eDKLwg2KexSdwIbmO7iZoz1qV3CnZZLrddYQxPVKj1A2bc3WEhsOwp6cKJwBMSEsaXGpPgFJk3WdHWGIDiufel27FU7eHZHh-0r7Xp6H9KuQ/s320/BarbraStreisandFunnyGirl.jpg" width="214" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br />ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY</div><div><br />1946 - Theremin player Dr. Samuel Hoffman, with Leslie (Les) Baxter conducting a vocal group and orchestra (lineups unlisted), records new takes of the titles <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA39KOIp54E">"Celestial Nocturne"</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dawxnlRTgE8">"Lunar Rhapsody"</a>, and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbdjIC4P33U">"Lunette"</a> in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue all three titles on Hoffman's album <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEC2EBD4F6020F297">"Music Out Of The Moon"</a> (CC-47 on 78 RPM, CCF-2000 on 45 RPM, and H-2000 on 33 1/3 RPM).</div><div><br />1946 - Vocalist Ella Mae Morse and pianist Freddie Slack, with a rhythm section (Al Hendrickson on guitar, Phil Stephens on bass, and Nick Fatool on drums), record the titles <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgN636wjz1w">"Your Conscience Tells You"</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouJau7cBr48">"Pig Foot Pete"</a> at Radio Recorders' studios at 932 North Western Avenue in Hollywood, California. Capitol Records will issue the two titles together as a single (Capitol 278).</div><div><br />1948 - Peggy Lee (with then-husband Dave Barbour and His Orchestra)'s Capitol Records single "Manana" is #1 on Billboard's Best Selling Singles chart and The King Cole Trio's Capitol Records single "Nature Boy" is #7.<br /><br />1950 - Mel Blanc is back in the studio again to record tracks for the children's singles "Bugs Bunny Meets Hiawatha" and "Daffy Duck Meets Yosemite Sam" Both tracks are produced by Alan Livingston with the story by Warren Foster and Michael Maltese and music by Billy May. On "Bugs Bunny Meets Hiawatha" additional uncredited vocals are provided by Arthur Q. Bryan. On "Daffy Duck Meets Yosemite Sam" Vance "Pinto" Colvig, also the voice of Bozo for Capitol and Goofy for Disney, provides additional uncredited vocals.</div><div><br />1953 - Pianist Joe "Fingers" Carr (aka Lou Busch) and His Ragtime Band (lineup unlisted) record the titles "Wang Wang Blues", "Wabash Blues", "Doodle-Doo-Doo", and "Alabamy Bound" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Carr's album "Joe 'Fingers' Carr And His Ragtime Band" (EBF-443 on 7" vinyl, H-443 on 10" vinyl, and T 433 on 12" vinyl).</div><div><br />1954 - Frank Sinatra's Capitol Records single "Young At Heart", with arranger Nelson Riddle conducting the orchestra and "Take A Chance" on the flipside, is #4 on Billboard's Best Selling Singles chart, Nat "King" Cole's Capitol Records single "Answer Me, My Love", also with arranger Nelson Riddle conducting the orchestra and "Why" on the flipside, is #6, Kay Starr (with Harold Mooney conducting the orchestra) has a hit double-sided Capitol Records single with "The Man Upstairs" at #12 and it's flipside "If You Love Me (Really Love Me)" at #13, and Les Paul and Mary Ford's Capitol Records single "I Really Don't Want To Know", with "South" on the flipside, debuts at #20.</div><div><br />1958 - Vocalist Tommy Sands, with Bob Bain's Music (Merrill E. Moore on piano, Bob Bain on lead guitar, Buck Owens on rhythm guitar, and unlisted bass and drums players), records the titles "Warm Your Heart", "Hey, Miss Fannie" with an unlisted tenor saxophonist and without Moore on piano, "Tweedle Dee Dee" also with the tenor saxophonist and Moore back on piano, and "Rock Light" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Sands' album "Sands Storm!" (EAP-1/2/3-1081 on 7" vinyl and T 1081 on 12" vinyl).</div><div><br /><div>1958 - Vocalist Faron Young, with (listed as probably) Tommy Jackson and Dale Potter on twin fiddles, Marvin Hughes on piano and vibraphone, Hank "Sugarfoot" Garland on electric guitar, Chet Atkins on guitar, Loren Otis "Jack" Shook on rhythm guitar, Gene "Buddy" Emmons on steel guitar, Murray M. "Buddy" Harman, Jr. on drums and The Anita Kerr Singers (unlisted chorus vocals), records the titles "Out Of My Heart", "Everytime I'm Kissin' You", and "Alone With You" at Bradley Film and Recording Studio in Nashville, Tennessee. Capitol Records will issue "Out Of My Heart" on Young's album "Hello Walls" (T/ST 1528) and "Everytime I'm Kissin' You" and "Alone With You" together as a single (Capitol F3982) and on Young's album "Faron Young Sing The Best Of Faron Young" (T 1450).</div><div><br /></div><div>1963 - Vocalist June Christy, with Al Viola on guitar and Don Bagley on bass, records the titles "I Fall In Love Too Easily", "Time After Time", and, without Bagley on bass, "Misty", then, with Bagley back on bass, "It Never Entered My Mind" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records has yet to issue the takes of "I Fall In Love Too Easily" and "Time After Time" recorded at this session and both will have new takes recorded on May 23, 1963, which will be issued on Christy's album "The Intimate Miss Christy" (T/ST 1953) along with the takes of "Misty" and "It Never Entered My Mind" recorded at this session.</div><div><br /></div>55 Years Ago Today In 1967 - Capitol Records' subsidiary Tower Records (no relation to the much-missed chain of record stores) releases the first single in the U.S. by "The Pink Floyd" - <a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/2Dsy7Ls7OuvG1fpjrKI5AE">"Arnold Layne"</a> with "Candy And A Current Bun" on the flipside (Tower 333). The track is written by Syd Barrett and features "The Light Kings of England" - Roger Waters, Nick Mason, Syd Barrett, and Rick Wright. For more information on Pink Floyd's discography on Tower Records, <a href="http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/PFArchives/DTower.htm">read this definitive article by Vernon Fitch</a>. For more on the discography and life of late Syd Barret, go to <a href="http://www.sydbarrett.net/welcome.htm">Stephen Scheider's tribute site.</a></div><div><br />1968 - Vocalist Glen Campbell, with Al De Lory conducting his own arrangements to the orchestra (lineup unlisted), records the titles "If You Go Away" and "(Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay" in Los Angeles, California. After overdubs are recorded for "(Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay" on April 25, 1968, and for both titles on May 10, 1968, Capitol Records will issue the final mixes of both titles on Campbell's album "Wichita Lineman" (ST-103).</div><div><br /><div>1968 - Mad River (David Robinson and Rick Bockner on guitars, Lawrence Hammond on bass, keyboards, and vocals, Greg Dewey on drums, harmonica, and vocals, and Tom Manning on vocals) records the title "Eastern Light" in Los Angeles, California with producer by Nick Venet. Capitol Records will issue the title on the group's self-titled album "Mad River" (ST 2985).</div><div><br /></div><div>1968 - During three sessions held this day in New York City, New York, The Wind In The Willows (vocalist Debbie Harry with unlisted others) records the titles "Moments Spent" and "The Djini Judy" at the first session, "There Is But One Truth Daddy" and "Little People" at the second session, and "Friendly Lion" and "Wheel Of Changes" at the third session. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on the group's album "" (SKAO 2956).</div><div><br /></div><div>1968 - Vocalist Peggy Lee, with Lou Levy conducting His Orchestra (Victor Paz, Al De Risi, Tony Robilotte, and Lew Soloff on trumpets and flugelhorns, Ray De Sio, Mort Trautman, and Bill Watrous on trombones, Alan Robinson on French horn, Hubert Laws on saxophone and flute, Jean "Toots" Thielemans on harmonica, Mundell Lowe on guitar, Ben Tucker on bass, Grady Tate on drums, and Francisco Aguabella on percussion) performs the titles "Fever", "Why Don't You Do Right", "Well Alright, Okay, You Win", "Travelin' Light", "What Is A Woman?", and "Lonesome Road" during a show at the Copacabana Club in New York City, New York that is taped. Capitol Records will issue "Well Alright, Okay, You Win", "What Is A Woman?", and "Here's To You" on Lee's album "2 Shows Nightly" (ST-105) and has yet to issue any of the other titles.</div><div><br /></div>1974 - Grand Funk Railroad's Capitol Records single "The Loco-motion", with "Destitute & Losin'" on the flipside, is certified Gold by the R.I.A.A.</div><div><br />1975 - Pete Ham (born William Peter Ham), singer, songwriter, and a founder and leader of the groups The Panthers, The Iveys and Apple Records and Capitol Records group Badfinger, hangs himself in the garage of his home in London, England at age 27, three days before his 28th birthday.</div><div><br />45 Years Ago Today In 1977 - Glen Campbell's Capitol Records single "Southern Nights", with "William Tell Overture" on the flipside, is #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart.</div><div><br />1978 - Vocalist Glen Campbell, with unlisted others, records the title <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0VEA5xGq1k">"Another Fine Mess"</a> at Studio City's studios in Sherman Oaks, California for the soundtrack of the motion picture "the end". Capitol Records will issue the title as a single (Capitol 4584) with "Can You Fool" (recorded February 22, 1978) on the flipside.</div><div><br /><br />ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY</div><div><br />75 Years Ago Today In 1947 - Glenn Cornick, bass player with the Chrysalis Records band Jethro Tull and the band Wild Turkey is born in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England. Chrysalis' American catalog is currently owned by Universal Music Group, Capitol Music Group's parent company.</div><div><br />65 Years Ago Today In 1957 - Future Imperial and Capitol Records artist Ricky Nelson's first single, "A Teenager's Romance", with "I'm Walkin'" on the flipside, is released by Verve Records and sells 60,000 copies in three days.</div><div><br />1959 - The final episode of "Your Hit Parade", the Saturday night pop-music show that's been running on the radio since April 1935, and on television since 1950, is broadcast.</div>PopCultureFanBoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01768787919999520127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18285770.post-17006468428982504242022-04-23T00:00:00.001-04:002022-04-23T00:00:00.164-04:00<p> APRIL 23, 2022</p><p><br /></p><p>HAPPY BIRTHDAYS!</p><p>1931 - <a href="https://www.tennessean.com/obituaries/ten107955">Kelton "Kelso" Dean Herston</a>, a music executive who opened and headed the Nashville offices for United Artists and Capitol Records, the music director for the television show "Hee Haw", a prolific jingle writer, and a music publisher is born in Rogersville, Alabama.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXaf-p9ii4f14aeHwl1xmFjmKnFfB_5_ySfcNL1wU_GCVsveFxttiAVsFJ_n-AS2CETGzm9yv4bqAEG9ZRA53hXCNa4gUU7JXkhmLdxKhm7VKmT_XIYx2wDLKRpoXygLivhnmsheumkCDPyA0xIkltIC2GIoDC-kutYGKfpgZCq8EQlpCGh3A/s526/KeltonKelsoDeanHerston.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="526" data-original-width="400" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXaf-p9ii4f14aeHwl1xmFjmKnFfB_5_ySfcNL1wU_GCVsveFxttiAVsFJ_n-AS2CETGzm9yv4bqAEG9ZRA53hXCNa4gUU7JXkhmLdxKhm7VKmT_XIYx2wDLKRpoXygLivhnmsheumkCDPyA0xIkltIC2GIoDC-kutYGKfpgZCq8EQlpCGh3A/s320/KeltonKelsoDeanHerston.webp" width="243" /></a></div><br /><p></p>1974 - Carlos Dengler (aka Carlos D.), a musician, actor, filmmaker, and one-time bass guitarist and keyboardist for the Matador and Capitol Records band Interpol is born Carlos Andres Dengler in Queens, New York.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiidgv-S4F1caRv9EmC3EzAYDRfBp9UvMO4d3xkaUwiNYswsSMmSA7mij0k0FGM0FFFNboiNUN5OPer6-ZZSMY5Cbzw7HW1YIS7J7nO_GOLc_Cdc8chw4_aL_TY09qLD9lTDxQ80kWZItaDHZcQPJwAfg0eCiNFv0K2YOnTJM2n_rOPcm1UIpk/s2811/CarlosDengler.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2563" data-original-width="2811" height="292" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiidgv-S4F1caRv9EmC3EzAYDRfBp9UvMO4d3xkaUwiNYswsSMmSA7mij0k0FGM0FFFNboiNUN5OPer6-ZZSMY5Cbzw7HW1YIS7J7nO_GOLc_Cdc8chw4_aL_TY09qLD9lTDxQ80kWZItaDHZcQPJwAfg0eCiNFv0K2YOnTJM2n_rOPcm1UIpk/s320/CarlosDengler.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br />ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY<div><br />75 Years Ago Today In 1947 - At their first session for Capitol Records, Mel Blanc and Arthur Q. Bryan record the titles <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0unlrT_u3o">"Bugs Bunny Meets Elmer Fudd - Part 1"</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0unlrT_u3o">"Bugs Bunny Meets Elmer Fudd - Part 2"</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJcHG46Sa1E">"Daffy Duck Flies South - Part 1"</a> using a script by Tedd Pierce and Warren Foster and adapted by Alan Livingston and with Billy May conducting his own arrangements to his Orchestra (Uan Rasey, and Emanuel "Mannie" Klein on trumpets, Ed Kusby and Carl Loeffler on trombones, Mario Grilli on French horn, Harold Lawson, Jules Kinsler, Gordon Green, Arthur Fleming, and George Smith on saxophones, Edwin "Buddy" Cole on piano, Noel Boggs on guitar, Phil Stephens on bass, John Cyr on drums, June Weiland on harp, Nick Pisani, Mischa Russell, and Olcott Vail on violins, David Sterkin on viola, and Cy Bernard on cello), in Radio Recorders' studios at 932 North Western Avenue in Hollywood, California between 8:00 PM and 12:00 AM on April 24, 1947. After additional vocals by Pinto Colvig and the title "Daffy Duck Flies South - Part 2" are recorded on April 30, 1947, Capitol Records will issue all the titles on the children's album "Bugs Bunny's Stories for Children" (CC-64).<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/G0unlrT_u3o" width="320" youtube-src-id="G0unlrT_u3o"></iframe></div></div><div><br />1948 - The King Cole Trio start seven straight days of performances at Radio City in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and their Capitol Records single "Nature Boy" is #2 on The Billboard magazine's Records Most Played By Disk Jockeys chart and #7 on the magazine's Best-Selling Popular Retail Records chart.</div><div><br /><div>1949 - Jo Stafford and Gordon MacRae (with Paul Weston and His Orchestra)'s Capitol Records single "'A' You're Adorable", the flipside of "I Need You", debuts at #4 on Billboard's Best Selling Singles chart where it will peak the next week at #3.</div><div><br /></div>1949 - Mel Tormé has three Capitol Records singles in the top 20 of Billboard's Best Selling Singles chart: "Careless Hands" (with orchestra conducted by Sonny Burke), with "She's A Home Girl" on the flipside, is at #9, "Again" (with orchestra conducted by Pete Rugolo) debuts at #18, and it's flipside, "Blue Moon", debuts at #20 (in a tie with Frankie Yankovic & His Yanks' single "Blue Skirt Waltz").</div><div><br />1953 - During two sessions held on this day in Los Angeles, California, Jack Barbour and His Rhythm Rustlers (lineup unlisted and featuring Bob Osgood on vocals and Odes McDowell on unlisted contribution) record the titles "Grandma's Favorite" in G, "Silver Lake" in G, "Late For Supper" in D, and "Bye Bye Baby" in D at the first session and the titles "Silver Bell" in C, "Jackson's Breakdown" in D, "Bully Of The Town" in C, and "Hornet's Nest" in D at the second session. Capitol Records will issue "Grandma's Favorite" and "Silver Lake" in the album "Jack Barbour And His Rhythm Rustlers - Square Dance Favorites (Without Calls)" (DAS-4040 on 10" shellac and KASF-4040 on 7" vinyl), "Late For Supper" and "Bye Bye Baby" in the album "Jack Barbour And His Rhythm Rustlers - Square Dance Favorites (without calls)" (DAS-4041 on 10" shellac and KASF-4041 on 7" vinyl), "Silver Bell" and "Hornet's Nest" in the album "Jack Barbour And His Rhythm Rustlers - Square Dance Favorites (without calls)" (DAS-4044 on 10" shellac and KASF-4044 on 7" vinyl), and "Jackson's Breakdown" and "Bully Of The Town" in the album "Jack Barbour And His Rhythm Rustlers - Square Dance Favorites (without calls)" (DAS-4045 on 10" shellac and KASF-4045 on 7" vinyl).</div><div><br />1958 - Nat "King" Cole opens at The Coconut Grove at The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California.</div><div><br />1958 - Vocalist Tommy Sands, with Bob Bain's Music (Merrill E. Moore on piano, Bob Bain on lead guitar, Buck Owens on rhythm guitar, and unlisted bass and drums players) and a vocal chorus (lineup unlisted), records the titles "Blue Velvet", "Hearts Of Stone", "Maybelline", and "Little Mama" with an unlisted tenor saxophonist in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Sands' album "Sands Storm!" (T 1081).<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-irW41fz9VwU/Wt4yafEqmfI/AAAAAAAAA6E/uagZJzcYitsxJEuHuaVl1Qvz1wjKAEOSQCLcBGAs/s1600/R-6243781-1457453926-5431.jpeg.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="591" data-original-width="600" height="196" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-irW41fz9VwU/Wt4yafEqmfI/AAAAAAAAA6E/uagZJzcYitsxJEuHuaVl1Qvz1wjKAEOSQCLcBGAs/s200/R-6243781-1457453926-5431.jpeg.jpg" width="200" /></a></div></div><div><br /><div>1958 - Vocalist Robert Mitchum, with Justin Gordon on saxophone, Milt Raskin on piano, Jack Marshall, Otis "Joe" Maphis, and Howard Roberts on guitar, Tiny Timbrell on bass, and Nick Fatool on drums, records the titles "My Honey's Lovin' Arms" and "The Ballad Of Thunder Road" 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 both titles together as a single (Capitol F3986) and "The Ballad Of Thunder Road" on the multi-artist compilation album ""Shutdown" (T/DT 1918).</div><div><br /></div><div>1958 - Guitarist Jack Marshall directs an orchestra (lineup unlisted) as they record the title "Thunder Road Chase" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue the title as a single (Capitol F3978) with "Fingerpoppin'" (recorded January 2, 1958) on the flipside.</div><div><br /></div><div>1958 - The Jonah Jones Quartet (Jonah Jones on trumpet, Hank Jones on piano, John Brown on bass, and Harold Austin on drums) records the titles "Some Enchanted Evening", "The Blues Don't Care", and, with Jonah Jones also on vocals, "It's A Good Day" in New York City, New York. Capitol Records has yet to issue "Some Enchanted Evening" and will issue the other two titles on the quartet's album "Jumpin' With Jonah" (T/ST 1039).</div><div><br /></div><div>1961 - Judy Garland's Sunday night concert at Carnegie Hall is recorded live by Capitol Records and rush-released<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHAvlYYyyNg&list=PLTVX4Gj7TNbGBmGN1UiMfqBYvOn2yvlIm"> as a double album</a> which will go on to win 5 Grammys and be the #1 album for 13 weeks. It will be remastered and re-released in 2001 for its 40th anniversary under the supervision of then-VP of Catalog A&R Paul Atkinson.</div><div><br /></div><div>1963 - Nat "King" Cole's Capitol Records single "Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days Of Summer" is #3 on WABC's Hot Prospects ("Hits Of Tomorrow, Today!") chart.</div><div><br /></div><div>1963 - During two sessions held this day in Los Angeles, California, vocalist Tennessee Ernie Ford, with The San Quentin Prison Choir (40 unlisted vocalists) and Jack Fascinato conducting the orchestra (lineup unlisted), records the titles "We Gather Together" and "Whiter Than Snow" at the first session and the titles "Come Thou Fount", "Somebody Dig A Golden Deed", "Higher Ground", "God Of Our Fathers", and "Must Jesus Bear The Cross Alone" at the second session. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on the album "Tennessee Ernie Ford And The San Quentin Prison Choir - We Gather Together" (T/ST 1937).<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jyMVLS9FsY0/Wt4z5V07w2I/AAAAAAAAA6Q/Rs8QGYNaizYkwtxBq-YlCjQ8lEQHVMuBwCLcBGAs/s1600/R-3005270-1368650779-3093.jpeg.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" height="200" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jyMVLS9FsY0/Wt4z5V07w2I/AAAAAAAAA6Q/Rs8QGYNaizYkwtxBq-YlCjQ8lEQHVMuBwCLcBGAs/s200/R-3005270-1368650779-3093.jpeg.jpg" width="200" /></a></div></div><div><br /></div>55 Years Ago Today In 1967 - Sonny James' Capitol Records single "Need You", with "On And On" on the flipside, hits #1 on the U.S. Country singles charts.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/WpkoxFIa4NY" width="320" youtube-src-id="WpkoxFIa4NY"></iframe></div></div><div><br />1968 - Ben Kalama directs his own arrangements to the orchestra (lineup unlisted but features Hawaiian guitar players) as they record the titles "Sleepy Lagoon", "Adventures In Paradise", "Lovely Hula Girl", "My Tane (My Man)", "Heavenly Islands (Le Bateau De Tahiti)", "Trade Winds", "Hawaiian Rose", "Ebb Tide", "I'll Weave A Lei Of Stars For You", "Sweet Someone", "Palisa", and "Kalena Kai" in an unlisted studio in Hawaii with producer Webley Edwards. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on the album "Webley Edwards Presents: 'Hawaii Calls' Soft Hawaiian Guitars - Favorite Instrumentals Of The Islands - Volume 6" (ST 2917).</div><div><br />1968 - Vocalist Peggy Lee, with Lou Levy conducting His Orchestra (Victor Paz, Al De Risi, Tony Robilotte, and Lew Soloff on trumpets and flugelhorns, Ray De Sio, Mort Trautman, and Bill Watrous on trombones, Alan Robinson on French horn, Hubert Laws on saxophone and flute, Jean "Toots" Thielemans on harmonica, Mundell Lowe on guitar, Ben Tucker on bass, Grady Tate on drums, and Francisco Aguabella on percussion) performs the titles "Personal Property", "By The Time I Get To Phoenix", "Something Stupid", "Until It's Time For You To Go", "Keep Your Hand On The Plow", and "Big Spender" during a performance at the Copacabana Club in New York City, New York that is taped. Capitol Records has yet to issue "Big Spender" and will issue all the other titles on Lee's album "2 Shows Nightly" (ST-105).</div><div><br />1968 - Overdubs are recorded in Nashville, Tennessee for Sonny James' titles "She Thinks I Still Care" and "I Fall To Pieces". Capitol Records will issue the final mix of "She Thinks I Still Care" on James' album "Heaven Says Hello" (ST 2937) and the final mix of "I Fall To Pieces" on James' album "Born To Be With You" (ST-111).</div><div><br />1969 - Glen Campbell's Capitol Records single "Galveston", with "How Come Every Time I Itch I Wind Up Scratchin' You" on the flipside, hits #1 on the U.S. Country singles charts.</div><div><br />1969 - The Beach Boys finish recording the title "Break Away", written by Murray Wilson and produced by Brian Wilson with Carl Wilson on lead vocals. The title will be released as a single, with "Celebrate The News" on the flipside, by Capitol Records on June 23, 1969, and peak at #63 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart.</div><div><br />1973 - Capitol Records registers the masters it purchased for Red Simpson's titles "Awful Lot To Learn About Truck Drivin'", "You Still Got A Hold On Me", "Gas, Food And Lodging", and "Feeling Like Tarzan", which were recorded April 1, 1973 in Portland, Oregon, and will issue "Awful Lot To Learn About Truck Drivin'" and "You Still Got A Hold On Me" together as a single (Capitol 3616) and has yet to issue the other two titles.</div><div><br /><div>1973 - The Trend (lineup unlisted) records the titles "Castaways" and "What Am I Gonna Do?" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue "Castaways" as a single (Capitol 3725) with "Places" (recorded April 20, 1973) on the flipside and has yet to issue "What Am I Gonna Do?".</div><div><br /></div>1986 - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UVN_9lSNR8">Harold Arlen</a> (born Hyman Arluck in Buffalo, New York), bandleader, pianist, Broadway actor, singer, composer ("Stormy Weather", "Over The Rainbow" and many others and worked with lyricists "Yip" Harburg, Capitol Records' co-founder Johnny Mercer, Ted Koehler, and others) and Capitol Records artist, dies at age 81 in New York City, New York and is later interred next to his wife, Anya Taranda, in Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York.</div><div><br />1988 - Iron Maiden's Capitol Records album "Seventh Son of a Seventh Son" is #1 on Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart.</div><div><br />2011 - Tom King, a guitarist and founding member of the Capitol Records band The Outsiders who co-wrote the band's biggest hit, "Time Won't Let Me," died at age 68 at a nursing home in Wickliffe, Ohio, after a period of declining health.</div><div><br /><br />ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY</div><div><br />1924 - The Gramophone Company (later to become EMI, Capitol Music Group's parent company) records His Majesty King George V's speech at the opening of the Wembley Exhibition. The recording was made by a semi-electrical process with the wireless loudspeaker connected by a short tube to the recording box.</div><div><br />1936 - Roy Orbison, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and Virgin Records America recording artist, is born Roy Kelton Orbison in Vernon, Texas.</div><div><br />80 Years Ago Today In 1942 - Sandra Dee, motion picture actress and future wife of Capitol Records artist Bobby Darin, is born Alexandra Zuck.</div><div><br />60 Years Ago Today In 1962 - Decca Records releases Tony Sheridan and The Beat Brothers (aka The Beatles with Pete Best on drums) single "My Bonnie", with "The Saints" (aka "When the Saints Go Marching In") on the flipside, in the United States.</div><div><br />1973 - Billy May and The Time-Life Orchestra (lineup unlisted) record overdubs in Los Angeles, for the title "Dear Heart" which was recorded on April 12, 1973, at The Capitol Tower Studios in Hollywood, California. Time-Life Records will issue the final mix of the title as part of its "As You Remember Them Series" in the three-LP set "Volume 7 - Billy May".</div><div><br />1983 - Michael Murphy, with unlisted others, records the title "The Heart Never Lies" in an unlisted studio for Liberty Records. No issuing information by either Liberty or EMI America is listed.</div><div><br />1994 - Pink Floyd's Columbia Records album "The Division Bell" debuts at #1 on Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart where it will stay for 4 weeks. spending 4 weeks as the top album in the country. The album will be certified Gold, Platinum, and Double Platinum in the US in June of 1994 and Triple Platinum in January of 1999. Pink Floyd's catalog is now distributed by Capitol Records.</div></div>PopCultureFanBoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01768787919999520127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18285770.post-73725101528518869752022-04-22T00:00:00.006-04:002022-04-22T00:00:00.207-04:00<p> APRIL 22, 2022</p><br />HAPPY BIRTHDAY!<div><br />1936 - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8TsAh-zYFI">Glen Campbell</a>, a guitarist, singer, motion picture actor, television variety show host, and a Capitol Records session musician and solo artist, is born in Delight, Arkansas.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbYhxOsSteHfoE345-Y4NDbeHadojZ1LWWjGiBALC8dXz3wm95AOInmH-mbt0DWxPcDgu41Kupc18hQURlUOtKrWIkFyhP2u-N3gBzBCYjqQmFp-FcjmAzAGy2GWxD0yXbnMS9Xzk35JXFU9eXwN3Fr6XETRQHYju9AY-hr4q5IpKUNQvFoSY/s2713/Glen-Campbell-In-Studio-Photo-3-%C2%A9Capitol-Photo-Archives.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2713" data-original-width="2668" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbYhxOsSteHfoE345-Y4NDbeHadojZ1LWWjGiBALC8dXz3wm95AOInmH-mbt0DWxPcDgu41Kupc18hQURlUOtKrWIkFyhP2u-N3gBzBCYjqQmFp-FcjmAzAGy2GWxD0yXbnMS9Xzk35JXFU9eXwN3Fr6XETRQHYju9AY-hr4q5IpKUNQvFoSY/s320/Glen-Campbell-In-Studio-Photo-3-%C2%A9Capitol-Photo-Archives.jpg" width="315" /></a></div></div><div><br /><br />ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL HISTORY</div><div><br />1938 - During two sessions held this day in Berlin, Germany for Telefunken Records, Hans von Benda conducts The Berlin Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra (lineup unlisted) as they record Respighi's "Italiana", "Siciliana", "Aria Di Corte, Part 1", "Aria Di Corte, Part 2", and "Passacaglia" at the first session and Corelli's ""Giga And Badinerie" at the second session. After Capitol Records licenses Telefunken's catalog for release in the United States, it will issue all of the titles on the album "RESPIGHI - Dances And Airs In Olden Style/CORELLI - Giga and Badinerie" (ECL-8056 on 10" shellac and KCM-8056 on 7" vinyl).</div><div><br />75 Years Ago Today In 1947 - Paul Weston and His Orchestra (lineup unlisted) record the titles "Romance" with vocals by Lois Butler and, with vocalist Lee Sweetland", "The Desert Song" and "The Riff Song" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Lois Butler and Lee Sweetland's album "Songs Of Sigmund Romberg" (CD-61).</div><div><br />1948 - The King Cole Trio close at the Orpheum Theater in Omaha, Nebraska.</div><div><br />1948 - Capitol Records registers the masters it purchased from Van-Es Recording Co. of Foy Willing & The Riders Of The Purple Sage's titles "I'll Have Somebody Else" and "Lay Your Little Head On My Shoulder" and will issue "I'll Have Somebody Else (As Soon As Your Gone)" as a single (Capitol 15163) with "Sometime" (recorded July 5, 1948) on the flipside and "Lay Your Little Head On My Shoulder" as a single (Capitol 15221) with "Just A Little Lovin'" (recorded August 4, 1948) on the flipside.</div><div><br /><div>1949 - The Miles Davis Nonet (with Davis on trumpet, Kenny Clarke on drums, J.J. Johnson on trombone, Lee Konitz on alto saxophone, John Lewis on piano, Gerry Mulligan on baritone saxophone, Bill Barber on tuba, Nelson Boyd on double bass, and Sandy Siegelstein on french horn) records the titles "Venus De Milo" (arranged by Gerry Mulligan), "Boplicity" (arranged by Gil Evans), "Israel" (arranged by Johnny Carisi), and "Rouge" (arranged by John Lewis). The session, set up by Capitol A&R man Walter Rivers (a cousin of Capitol Records co-founder Johnny Mercer, who also signed Yma Sumac to the label) and produced by Pete Rugolo, was held at radio station WMGM's studios at 711 Fifth Avenue in New York City, New York. Capitol Records eventually released all the titles Davis' album <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WjU4eXYWg4&list=PLED9CF5CAEE7AD60A">"Birth Of The Cool"</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div>1953 - Nat "King" Cole and Billy May open at The Will Rogers Memorial Auditorium & Coliseum in Fort Worth, Texas.</div><div><br /></div><div>1953 - Vocalists Jerry Lewis and Patti Lewis, with Dick Stabile and His Orchestra (lineup unlisted), recorded the titles "Little Man You've Had A Busy Day", "Gimme A Little Kiss", and "If You Loved Me Truly" then, with just Jerry on vocals, the title "Y-y-y-yup" using an arrangement by Nelson Riddle. Capitol Records will issue <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9H6mknKZpk">"Little Man You've Had A Busy Day" and "If You Loved Me Truly"</a> together as a single (Capitol 2481) and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcT53NfEtAI">"Gimme A Little Kiss"</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Og9rxNAIB28">"Y-y-y-yup"</a> together as a single (Capitol 2576).</div><div><br /></div><div>65 Years Ago Today In 1957 - Capitol Records registers the masters it purchased for Les Paul and Mary Ford's titles "Tuxedos And Flowers" and "Hummin' and Waltzin'", both with vocals by Mary Ford, and will issue both titles together as a single (Capitol F3725).</div><div><br /></div>65 Years Ago Today In 1957 - Trumpet player Ray Anthony and His Orchestra (Art De Pew, Jack Laubach, and Jack Holman also on trumpet, Ken Trimble, Lew McCreary, and Jimmy Priddy on trombone, Med Flory and Gene Merlino on alto saxophone, Bob Enevoldsen and Jeff Massingill on tenor saxophone, Leo Anthony on baritone saxophone, Geoff Clarkson on piano, Al Viola on guitar, Don Simpson on bass, and Bill Richmond on drums), using arrangements by Don Simpson, record the titles "Young Ideas", "Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams", "Lonely Night In Paris", and, with the addition of four cellos and a vocal chorus (lineups unlisted), "Cello-phane" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue the first three titles on Anthony's album "Young Ideas" (T/ST 866) and "Cello-phane" as a single (Capitol F3739) with "The Lonely Trumpet" (recorded May 15, 1957) on the flipside.</div><div><br />65 Years Ago Today In 1957 - Vocalist Peggy Lee, with Jack Marshall and His Orchestra (lineup unlisted) records the titles "Every Night", "Uninvited Dream", and "Baby, Baby Wait For Me" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue "Baby, Baby Wait For Me" as a single (Capitol F3722) with "Ev'ry Night" (recorded April 13, 1957) on the flipside, the version recorded at this date (another take was recorded on August 30, 1957) of "Uninvited Dream" on the CD "Peggy Lee - The Singles Collection" (5-39756-2), and have yet to the take of "Every Night" recorded on this date.</div><div><br />1958 - Vocalist Ethel Ennis, with Sid Feller conducting his own arrangments to the orchestra (lineup unlisted), records the titles <a href="https://open.spotify.com/user/markhn/playlist/0YWHG4VZTUmkUA2Kh0ZIpi?si=KfnTp7OpT3ChiwKuC0xBaw">"It Was So Beautiful", "The Things I Love", Harry Warren's "Serenade In Blue", and "How About Me"</a> in New York City, New York. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Ennis' album "Have You Forgotten?" (T 1078). <a href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CEFD81130F93AA25751C0A963958260">For more on Ethel Ennis go to this New York Times article.</a></div><div><br />1958 - The Jonas Jones Quartet (Jonah Jones on trumpet and vocals, Hank Jones on piano, John Brown on bass, and Harold Austin on drums) record the titles "Dance Only With Me" and "That's A Plenty" in New York City, New York. Capitol Records will issue both titles on the quintet's album "Jumpin' With Jonah" (EAP-1/2-1039 on 7" EP and T/ST 1039 on 12" LP).</div><div><br />1961 - Capitol Records artist Faron Young is one of the headliners (along with Webb Pierce, Porter Wagoner, Patsy Cline, and Earl Scruggs) at the first annual Country Music Festival held in the United States at the 13,000-seater Coliseum in Jacksonville, Florida.</div><div><br />1963 - Gene Vincent's recording contract with Capitol Records expires. His last recording for the label is a remake of "Be-Bop-A-Lula".</div><div><br />1968 - Capitol Records registers the masters it purchased for vocalist Joe South's titles "How Can I Unlove You" and "She's Almost You" in Los Angeles, California and will issue both titles together as a single (Capitol 2169).</div><div><br /></div><div><div>1968 - Mad River (David Robinson and Rick Bockner on guitars, Lawrence Hammond on bass, keyboards, and vocals, Greg Dewey on drums, harmonica and vocals, and Tom Manning on vocals) records the title <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dQbr8AipoY">"Merciful Monks (Of Mount Tamalpais)"</a> in Los Angeles, California with producer Nick Venet. Capitol Records will issue the title on the group's self-titled album "Mad River" (ST 2985).</div><div><br /></div><div>1968 - Vocalist Peggy Lee, with Lou Levy conducting His Orchestra (Victor Paz, Al De Risi, Tony Robilotte, and Lew Soloff on trumpets and flugelhorns, Ray De Sio, Mort Trautman, and Bill Watrous on trombones, Alan Robinson on French horn, Hubert Laws on saxophone and flute, Jean "Toots" Thielemans on harmonica, Mundell Lowe on guitar, Ben Tucker on bass, Grady Tate on drums, and Francisco Aguabella on percussion) performs the titles <a href="https://open.spotify.com/user/markhn/playlist/7IGZ0Whpq9KSXkceHOH8Lg?si=1X0bBLpbRcGvecviDzUnQA">"Do I Hear A Waltz?"</a>, "Don't Speak", "Paradise", <a href="https://open.spotify.com/user/markhn/playlist/7IGZ0Whpq9KSXkceHOH8Lg?si=1X0bBLpbRcGvecviDzUnQA">"Reason To Believe", "I Didn't Want To Do It", and "Come Back To Me"</a> during a live performance at the Copacabana Club in New York City, New York that was recorded. Capitol Records will issue all the titles, except "Don't Speak" and "Paradise" which have yet to be issued, on Lee's self-titled album "Peggy Lee" (ST-105).</div><div><br /></div>1969 - John Lennon legally changes his middle name from Winston to Ono in a ceremony on the rooftop of The Beatles' Apple Building and later requires that all of his Gold Record awards bear the correct legal name, John Ono Lennon.</div><div><br />1983 - Ronnie Laws, with unlisted others, records the title <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdG20AEg4r4">"In The Groove"</a> in (listed as possibly) Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue the title as a single (Capitol 5241) with "Summer Fool" (recorded April 9, 1981 for Liberty Records) on the flipside and on Laws' album "Mr. Nice Guy" (ST-12261).</div><div><br />1970 - Variety magazine runs an article entitled "Split Of Beatles Clips Capitol Industries Stocks".</div><div><br />1987 - Irving C. Ashby, guitarist in the Capitol Record group The King Cole Trio, dies in Perris, California at age 66.</div><div><br />1991 - Vocalist Joe Cocker, with Girls Talk (lineup unlisted) on backing vocals, T.M. Stevens on bass, Steve Holley on drums, Phil Grande on guitar, Chris Stainton, Greg Philinganes, and Rory Kaplin on keyboards, and Alex Acuna on percussion, records the titles "A Little Bit Of Love" and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvBgfihq_dY">"I Can Hear The River"</a> at A&M Studios at 1416 North La Brea Avenue in Hollywood, California with producer David Tickle. After additional overdubs are laid down at Metropolis Recording Studios at 70 Chiswick High Road, in London, England, Capitol Records will release the title on Cocker's CD "Night Calls" (7-97801-2).</div><div><br /><br />ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY</div><div><br />1958 - Guitarist Wes Montgomery, with Buddy Montgomery on vibraphone, Richie Crabtree on piano, Monk Montgomery on electric bass, and Benny Barth on drums, performs the titles "Stranger In Paradise" and "Baubles, Bangles And Beads" at a live show held at the Forum Theatre in Los Angeles, California which was recorded. Blue Note Records will issue both titles on Montgomery's album "Beginnings" (BN-LA531-H2).</div><div><br />1978 - Kenny Rogers and Dottie West's United Artists Records single "Every Time Two Fools Collide", with "We Love Each Other" on the flipside, is still #1 on the U.S. Country singles charts. United Artist's catalog is currently owned by Universal Music Group, Capitol Music Group's parent company.</div><div><br />1979 - Blondie's Chrysalis Records single "Heart Of Glass" with "11:59" on the flipside, is #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart. Chrysalis' American catalog is currently owned by Universal Music Group and distributed by Capitol Music Group.</div><div><br />1990 - Sinead O' Connor's Chrysalis Records album "I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got" is #1 on Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart. Chrysalis' American catalog is currently owned by Universal Music Group and distributed by Capitol Music Group.</div>PopCultureFanBoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01768787919999520127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18285770.post-20298514508428050092022-04-21T00:00:00.003-04:002022-04-21T00:00:00.174-04:00<p> APRIL 21, 2022</p><br />HAPPY BIRTHDAYS!<div><br />1924 - Ira Louvin, singer, songwriter, guitarist, 2001 Country Music Hall Of Fame inductee, a part of the Capitol Records duo The Louvin Brothers with his brother Charlie and a solo Capitol Records artist, is born Ira Lonnie Loudermilk in Rainsville, near Section, Alabama. Ira was inducted with his brother into the Alabama Hall of Fame in 1991 with a Lifework Award for Performing Achievement. <a href="http://www.alamhof.org/louvin.htm">They have a great biography of the brothers on their website.</a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.alamhof.org/louvin.htm"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKYEjPSBZFZ2m2_FdPwOsnNkchQIrWXyH5e12Qsrbk19N3kSZKTSY-QLsdmuXEhjLrLo-AMTk0OWduayset_bC94FO9gJQYUbVWkYns73KaUcuvlty5W11FL6dtDQJ2vFKF5o7vZqvDhoJnOX7rI_VxTlsZDbjIDFel-lPTdlil4hDamJmoVk/s640/IraLouvinTheUnforgettable.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="640" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKYEjPSBZFZ2m2_FdPwOsnNkchQIrWXyH5e12Qsrbk19N3kSZKTSY-QLsdmuXEhjLrLo-AMTk0OWduayset_bC94FO9gJQYUbVWkYns73KaUcuvlty5W11FL6dtDQJ2vFKF5o7vZqvDhoJnOX7rI_VxTlsZDbjIDFel-lPTdlil4hDamJmoVk/s320/IraLouvinTheUnforgettable.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div><br />1968 - Michael Franti, poet, songwriter, musician, singer, member of the Island Records group The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy and the Capitol Records solo artist and with the group Spearhead, is born in Oakland, California.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFMOTymm4wi8-NLS_pQy86QGbnXUk-j8WvrZ81H9RnLTj7_JaqFKVm-AkRhObkENL9IG4IYy-D-MUxRbro9VkRWLpJm5w1h7_5-bjZJx6QeB1RwhommqAc_NJg3FgdLBMxacXwWvsk-CcpezUqcmifHKAWl-XM5HNyWXMnannXNkvPJ8zLU8A/s1024/michael-franti-spearhead-stay-human-vol-ii-1024x1024.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFMOTymm4wi8-NLS_pQy86QGbnXUk-j8WvrZ81H9RnLTj7_JaqFKVm-AkRhObkENL9IG4IYy-D-MUxRbro9VkRWLpJm5w1h7_5-bjZJx6QeB1RwhommqAc_NJg3FgdLBMxacXwWvsk-CcpezUqcmifHKAWl-XM5HNyWXMnannXNkvPJ8zLU8A/s320/michael-franti-spearhead-stay-human-vol-ii-1024x1024.webp" width="320" /></a></div></div><div><br /><br />ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY</div><div><br />75 Years Ago Today In 1947 - Vocalist Peggy Lee, with guitarist Dave Barbour and His Orchestra and a male chorus (lineups unlisted), records the titles <a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/3UbKmmSdWRXCwV0897ALIe">"Ain'tcha Ever Comin' Back"</a> and <a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/3JPZlrS5Oi4rON6p7nQBYY">"Chi-Baba Chi Baba (My Bambino Go To Sleep)"</a> in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue both titles together as a single (Capitol 419).<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/yclijMys-rw" width="320" youtube-src-id="yclijMys-rw"></iframe></div></div><div><br />1949 - Mel Blanc starts recording vocal tracks for the Capitol Record Reader "Bugs Bunny In Storyland" and will finish the next day. The sessions are produced by Alan Livingston, with music by Billy May. The story is by Tedd Pierce and Warren Foster with illustrations for the attached booklet by Robert McKimson and Richard Thomas. Also on the record, but uncredited, were Arthur Q. Bryan (Elmer Fudd) and June Foray. <a href="http://records.goldenagecartoons.com/wb01.html">Jack Tatay maintains a great site about all the Capitol children's records with Warner Brothers cartoon characters, with lots of images and sound clips.</a><img border="0" src="https://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2705/1785/200/melblancposter.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></div><div>1951 - Capitol Records releases Les Paul and Mary Ford's single <a href="https://t.co/AzIe9x5yeI">"Mockin' Bird Hill"</a>, with Les Paul's <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZyTmOzPR7k">"Chicken Reel"</a> on the flipside.</div><div><br />1953 - Vocalist Mel Blanc, with Lou Busch and His Orchestra (lineup unlisted), records the titles "Somebody Stole My Gal" and "I Love Me" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue both titles together as a single (Capitol 2470 on shellac and F2740 on 7" vinyl).</div><div><br /><div>1953 - During two sessions held this day at The Riverside Plaza Hotel in New York City, New York, Joseph Levin conducts The Ballet Theatre Orchestra (lineup unlisted) as they record William Schuman's "Undertow, Part 1" at the first session and "Undertow, Part 2" at the second session. Capitol Records will issue both parts on the orchestra's album "William SCHUMAN - Undertow/COPLAND - Billy The Kid" (P-8238).</div><div><br /></div>1958 - Nat "King" Cole's Capitol Records single "Looking Back" is #17 on WMGM's Top 40 Survey in New York City, New York.</div><div><br />1968 - Merle Haggard's Capitol Records single "The Legend Of Bonnie And Clyde" with "I Started Loving You Again" on the flipside, is #1 on the U.S. Country Singles Chart.</div><div><br />1975 - Merle Haggard's Capitol Records single "Always Wanting You", with "I've Got A Yearning" on the flipside, is #1 on the U.S. Country singles chart.</div><div><br />1983 - The Motels (featuring Martha Davis on vocals with unlisted others) record the title "Where Do We Go From Here" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue the title on the group's album "Little Robbers" (ST-12288 on 12" vinyl and 7-46020-2 on CD).</div><div><br />2000 - Neal Matthews, singer with the Capitol Records group The Jordanaires, dies in Nashville, Tennessee at age 70.</div><div><br /><br />ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY</div><div><br />1908 - Alfred Lion, record producer and founder of Blue Note Records, is born in Berlin, Germany. Blue Note Records is currently a division of Capitol Music Group and its catalog is currently owned by Capitol's parent company, Universal Music Group.</div><div><br />1931 - The Gramophone Company Ltd and The Columbia Gramophone Company Ltd merge and register a holding company - "Electric and Musical Industries Ltd". Alfred Clark (The Gramophone Company) becomes Chairman, and Louis Sterling (The Columbia Company) becomes Managing Director. In 1955 E.M.I., under the helm of then managing director Joseph Lockwood (later chairman Sir Joseph Lockwood), bought a controlling interest in Capitol Records for $3 million dollars, and Glenn Wallichs joined the board of E.M.I.. Lockwood was criticized for paying so much but, within 4 years, Capitol would be worth an estimated $85 million. The <a href="http://www.emiarchivetrust.org/">E.M.I. Archive Trust's website</a> has <a href="http://www.emiarchivetrust.org/about/history-of-emi/">a good history section.</a></div><div><br />1955 - Capitol Records artist Bob Hope's NBC radio program airs its last segment.</div><div><br />1963 - Future Capitol Records artists The Beatles and future Virgin Records artists The Rolling Stones meet for the first time at a Rolling Stones performance at The Crawdaddy Club, in Richmond, England.</div><div><br />1983 - EMI America registers Kate Bush's title "James And The Cold Gun", which was recorded live in England sometime in 1980, and will issue the title on Bush's self-titled mini-LP "Kate Bush" (MLP-19004).</div><div><br />1993 - The Junko Onishio Trio (Junko Onishi on piano, Rodney Whitaker on bass, and Billy Higgins on drums), records the titles "Eulogia", "The Shepard", "Summertime", "Congeniality", "Melancholia" without Higgins on drums, "Caravan", "Roz", "Switchin' In", and "Blue Seven" at the Power Station Studio in New York City, New York at an extended session that will go into April 22, 1993. Blue Note Records will issue all the titles on the trio's album "Crusin'" (9-28447-2 on CD).</div><div><br /><br />ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY</div><div><br />1985 - Irving Mills, a music publisher, dies in Palm Springs, California at age 91</div>PopCultureFanBoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01768787919999520127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18285770.post-69430081167148984242022-04-20T00:00:00.001-04:002022-04-20T00:00:00.221-04:00<p> APRIL 20, 2022</p><br />HAPPY BIRTHDAYS!<div><br />1908 - Lionel Hampton, a drummer, bandleader, vibraphone player, percussionist, a solo artist on Vogue Records and with Capitol Records artist Benny Goodman and His Orchestra, is born in Louisville, Kentucky.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij2Rhn9C_4qyNMQjmqOSpzkQMLLKGK-8axiWltc17CnLdSv0CqumPj9VYbo0Jh9RPp-5CyCnd6OeBE2xz_fwMFtftLxT5oC1mroGI9ingwf0eGqhQzvJSPQwKP7ARMmmZ6B9K4BDENkoaLHptI5uuQIs5R_d6AMr8QrWMydZLYmCAPCFmySN8/s600/LionelHampton.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij2Rhn9C_4qyNMQjmqOSpzkQMLLKGK-8axiWltc17CnLdSv0CqumPj9VYbo0Jh9RPp-5CyCnd6OeBE2xz_fwMFtftLxT5oC1mroGI9ingwf0eGqhQzvJSPQwKP7ARMmmZ6B9K4BDENkoaLHptI5uuQIs5R_d6AMr8QrWMydZLYmCAPCFmySN8/s320/LionelHampton.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div><br />100 Years Ago Today In 1922 - Frank "Hylo" Brown, Jr., a vocalist for Capitol Records artist Bradley Kincaid, leader of his own bluegrass band The Timberliners, and Capitol Records solo artist (1954-1960), is born in River, Johnson County, Kentucky. He would get his nickname "Hylo" from his wide vocal range. Brown would go to be the lead singer for Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs, and be inducted into the Grand Ol' Opry, the Kentucky Hall of Fame and become the 52nd member of the SPBGMA's Preservation Hall of Greats.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTZWrHLFsiziuaO_5m3XSh8BqMB0VzgVmPGApS6tZ8q4eyStKR1mmx4i3gl3RgE63zH7P0fYNhSZD8-cwRQWFaohsdAOvEChZ3pw0fx4jNyJ7ZY8VbSqt1HlHv5y0s9lFpQTqv2iOThM8-IIuSaV69rGIkcKtac3sxQioBY9trzbrYWzwALq0/s1109/HyloBrown.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1107" data-original-width="1109" height="319" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTZWrHLFsiziuaO_5m3XSh8BqMB0VzgVmPGApS6tZ8q4eyStKR1mmx4i3gl3RgE63zH7P0fYNhSZD8-cwRQWFaohsdAOvEChZ3pw0fx4jNyJ7ZY8VbSqt1HlHv5y0s9lFpQTqv2iOThM8-IIuSaV69rGIkcKtac3sxQioBY9trzbrYWzwALq0/s320/HyloBrown.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div><br />1948 - Craig Frost, the keyboardist for the Capitol Records groups Grand Funk Railroad (aka Grand Funk) and Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band, is born in Flint, Michigan. If anyone knows his middle name, please leave a comment.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho-PuU8pHpylAQKBRjRgCNVUpxKPlc-EyPN5_mjuOfW80Dm63WwwO7hXD76XAQFxWeexsOYY6PkR5K4jPYVxFkntjzLJ1qI1pR_TCwmTRp_Azp9l6h3tBQkzw8ri91Ga1O1j8kgNT4ul33qeUeAahe7M-miUnLfkad4BcA0VSWLGK4VbjE2CI/s804/CraigFrostC.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="804" data-original-width="804" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho-PuU8pHpylAQKBRjRgCNVUpxKPlc-EyPN5_mjuOfW80Dm63WwwO7hXD76XAQFxWeexsOYY6PkR5K4jPYVxFkntjzLJ1qI1pR_TCwmTRp_Azp9l6h3tBQkzw8ri91Ga1O1j8kgNT4ul33qeUeAahe7M-miUnLfkad4BcA0VSWLGK4VbjE2CI/s320/CraigFrostC.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div><br /><br />ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY</div><div><br />1938 - During two sessions held this day in Berlin, Germany for Telefunken Records, baritone vocalist Karl Schmitt-Walter, with Ferdinand Leitner on piano, records from Hugo Wolf's "German Lieder" "Das Doc Gemalt All' Deine Reize Waren", "Auf Einer Wanderung", and "Benedeit, Die Selge Mutter" at the first session and Johannes Brahms' "Standohen" and "Minnelied" at the second session. After Capitol Records licenses Telefunken's catalog for release in the United States, Capitol Records will issue all the titles on the album "SCHUBERT - German Lieder (Songs From 'Die Winterreise')/BRAHMS-German Lieder/ HUGO WOLF - German Lieder" (P-8123).</div><div><br />1944 - Jo Stafford's Capitol Records single "I Love You", with "Long Ago And Far Away" on the flipside, enters the top 40 of the U.S. Pop singles charts.</div><div><br />1948 - Capitol Records releases the children's record "Sparky's Magic Piano".</div><div><br />70 Years Ago Today In 1952 - Pee Wee Hunt's Capitol Records single <a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/6M3VIW6hdSYz75bXz0G0yj">"Oh!"</a>, with <a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/3kfndeQtdTRwRVIgu5CPkX">"San"</a> on the flipside, becomes a million seller.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/p08p6axZNb4" width="320" youtube-src-id="p08p6axZNb4"></iframe></div></div><div><br />1953 - During two sessions held this day at The Riverside Plaza Hotel in New York City, New York, Joseph Levine conducts The Ballet Theatre Orchestra (lineup unlisted) as they record Copland's "Billy The Kid, Part 1" at the first session and "Billy The Kid, Part 2" at the second session. Capitol Records will issue the complete piece on the orchestra's album "William SCHUMAN - Undertow/COPLAND - Billy The Kid" (P-8238).</div><div><br />1953 - According to his artist file, vocalist and rhythm guitarist Jimmy Work, with (listed as possibly) Al Myers on lead guitar and bass and Jerry Byrd on steel guitar, records the titles "Crazy Moon", "Little Popcorn Man", "How Can I Love You (When You're Not Around)", and "Out Of My Mind" in Cincinnati, Ohio. Capitol Records will issue "Crazy Moon" and "Out Of My Mind" together as a single (Capitol 2565) and "How Can I Love You (When You're Not Around)" as a single (Capitol 2682) with "I'm Lonesome For Someone" (recorded October 16, 1952) on the flipside. Bear Family Records will issue all the titles on Work's compilation album "Crazy Moon" (BFX 15267 on 12" vinyl) and on Work's self-titled two-disc compilation CD "Jimmy Work" (BCD 15651).</div><div><br /></div><div>1956 - Vocalist and trumpet player Louis Prima and vocalist Keely Smith, with tenor saxophonist Sam Butera & The Witnesses (James "Little Red" Blount Jr. on trombone, William "Willie" McCumber on piano, Jack Marshall on guitar, Amado Rodrigues on bass, and Robert "Bobby" Morris on drums), record the instrumental title <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwfUJABaOeU">"Night Train"</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmiKFimvylQ">"The Lip"</a> with Prima and Smith on vocals at The Capitol Tower Studios at 1750 Vine Street in Hollywood, California between 1:00 AM and 4:00 AM. Capitol Records will issue both titles on Prima's album "the WILDEST!" (T 755). Here's <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kTcjXhGbxU">a live video of "Night Train"</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div>1958 - Laurie London's Capitol Records single "He’s Got the Whole World (In His Hand)", with "Handed Down" on the flipside, is #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart, after becoming the third single to be certified Gold by the R.I.A.A. on March 14, 1958.</div><div><br /></div><div>1960 - The Kingston Trio record the track "Bad Man's Blunder" for Capitol Records, which is the last single to feature the line up of Dave Guard, Nick Reynold, and Bob Shane. This was also the first time Dave Guard recorded playing the first 12 string guitar made by Gibson Guitars, which was custom built for him.</div><div><br />1963 - The Kingston Trio's Capitol Records single "Reverend Mr. Black", with "One More Round" on the flipside, enters the top 40 of Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart.</div><div><br />1963 - Nat "King" Cole's Capitol Records album "Dear Lonely Hearts" is #60 and his album "Ramblin' Rose" is #76 on Billboard magazine's Top LPs - 150 Best Sellers - Monaural chart. Nat "King" Cole's Capitol Records single "All Over The World" is #44 on Billboard magazine's Hot 100 chart. Also, Nat "King" Cole's Capitol Records single is nominated for the Grammy for Record Of The Year and his album with The George Shearing Quintet, "Nat 'King' Cole Sings, George Shearing Plays" is nominated for the Best Jazz Performance - Soloist Or Small Group (Instrumental).</div><div><br /><div>1969 - The last original episode of The Beatles' King Features Syndicate cartoon show aired on ABC. Paul Frees voiced John and George and Lance Percival voiced Ringo and Paul..</div><div><br /></div><div>1973 - The Trend (lineup unlisted) record the titles "Places" and "Papa Was A Music Man" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue "Places" as a single (Capitol 3725) with "Castaways" (recorded April 23, 1973) on the flipside and "Papa Was A Music Man" as a single (Capitol 3659) with "Home Cookin'" (April 19, 1973) on the flipside.</div><div><br /></div>1974 - Capitol Records releases Paul McCartney & Wing's Apple Records single "Band On The Run", with Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five" on the flipside, in the United States.</div><div><br />1974 - Savannah Churchill, a singer, singer for Capitol Records artist Benny Carter and His Orchestra, and a Capitol Records solo artist (1943-1945 with tracks that included "Hurry, Hurry" written by Carter for her and "Just a Baby's Prayer at Twilight"), dies in Brooklyn, New York at age 54.</div><div><br />1974 - Grand Funk Railroad's Capitol Records single "The Loco-Motion", with "Destitute & Losin’" on the flipside, enters the top 10 of Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart.</div><div><br />1976 - The Sylvers' Capitol Records single "Boogie Fever", with "Free Style" on the flipside, is certified Gold.</div><div><br />45 Years Ago Today In 1977 - Glen Campbell's Capitol Records single <a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/7kv7zBjMtVf0eIJle2VZxn">"Southern Nights"</a>, with "William Tell Overture" on the flipside, is certified Gold by the R.I.A.A.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/JYwmRTUCrVw" width="320" youtube-src-id="JYwmRTUCrVw"></iframe></div></div><div><br />1983 - Sherry Kean, with unlisted others, records the title "Be Mine" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue the title on Kean's album "People Talk" (ST-12328).</div><div><br />1985 - Katrina and The Waves' Capitol Records single "Walking On Sunshine", with "Going Down To Liverpool" on the flipside, enters the top 40 of Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart.</div><div><br />1986 - Anne Murray's Capitol Records single "Now And Forever (You And Me)", with "I'd Fall In Love Tonight" on the flipside, is #1 on the U.S. Country singles charts.</div><div><br /><br />ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY</div><div><br />1953 - The Miles Davis All Stars (Miles Davis on trumpet, J. J. Johnson on trombone, Jimmy Heath on tenor saxophone, Gil Coggins on piano, Percy Heath on bass, and Art Blakey on drums) record two takes of "Kelo", two takes of "Enigma", two takes of "Ray's Idea", two takes of "Tempus Fugit", and two takes of "C.T.A." at radio station WOR's studios in New York City, New York. The session was produced by Alfred Lion and Doug Hawkins was the recording engineer. Blue Note Records will issue all the titles and takes on the CD release of Davis' album "Volume 2" (7-81502-2).. Blue Note Records is a division of Capitol Music Group and its catalog is currently owned by Capitol's parent company, Universal Music Group.</div><div><br />1960 - Tommy Guard, son of Capitol Records artist Dave Guard (part of The Kingston Trio), is born.</div><div><br />1960 - Pianist Horace Parlan, along with George Tucker on bass and Al Harewood on drums, records seven tracks, including the title song for his "Us Three" Blue Note Records album, at Rudy Van Gelder's Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey studio. Blue Note Records is a division of Capitol Music Group and its catalog is currently owned by Capitol's parent company, Universal Music Group.</div><div><br />1980 - Dottie West's United Artists Records single "A Lesson In Leavin'", with "Love Is Easy" on the flipside, is #1 on the U.S. Country singles charts. United Artists' catalog is currently owned by Universal Music Group, Capitol Music Group's parent company.</div><div><br />1988 - Drummer Ralph Peterson, with Geri Allen on piano, and Phil Bowler on bass, records the title "Just You, Just Me" at A & R Studios in New York City, New York. Blue Note Records will issue the title on Peterson's album "Triangular" (B1-92750 on 12" vinyl and 7-92750-2 on CD).</div><div><br /><br />ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY</div><div><br />1935 - The first episode of "Your Hit Parade", starring Kay Thompson, Charles Carlyle, Gogo DeLys and Johnny Hanser, is broadcast on NBC Radio. The show will air for the next 24 years and future Capitol Records artist Frank Sinatra will later be a featured vocalist on the program.</div>PopCultureFanBoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01768787919999520127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18285770.post-6874202453890509912022-04-19T00:00:00.001-04:002022-04-19T00:00:00.165-04:00<p> APRIL 19, 2022</p><br />HAPPY BIRTHDAY!<div><br />95 Years Ago Today In 1927 - Don Barbour, a singer in the Capitol Records group The Four Freshmen and, posthumously, a solo Capitol Records artist, is born in Greencastle, Indiana.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlrVYQLSwF2trDHoPh7MesRp5KX9HOEK9ETsTgOT5gPovHlT4VVWxkxPL7CvRpnIfqZvTPJsQC4Uz-8hQTNb55Cem3km---PTkvCpfOqiT6bEMxVzF_jLppL8GNudcFBBWINttD-K1Sau7BaHutzC7Glg5L2gkiCvXiKR2vBz6p9a06yorVNE/s599/DonBarbourHere'sTheSoloVoice.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="597" data-original-width="599" height="319" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlrVYQLSwF2trDHoPh7MesRp5KX9HOEK9ETsTgOT5gPovHlT4VVWxkxPL7CvRpnIfqZvTPJsQC4Uz-8hQTNb55Cem3km---PTkvCpfOqiT6bEMxVzF_jLppL8GNudcFBBWINttD-K1Sau7BaHutzC7Glg5L2gkiCvXiKR2vBz6p9a06yorVNE/s320/DonBarbourHere'sTheSoloVoice.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div><br /><br />ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY</div><div><br />1948 - During two sessions held this day in Los Angeles, California Jan Garber and His Orchestra (lineup unlisted) record the titles "Rambling Wreck From Georgia Tech/Fight Alabama", "Maryland, My Maryland/Hark The Sound Of Tal Heel Voices", "Washington And Lee Swing/Glory To Old Georgia", and "Maine Stein Song/Hail To Old O.S.C." at the first session and "Yale's Boola Song/The Princeton Canon Song", "The Fordham Ram/Hail To Pitt", "On, Brave Old Army Team/Anchors Aweigh", and "Lights Out (University Of California)/Strike Up The Band (UCLA)" at the second session. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Garber's album "College Medleys" (CD-95 on 10" shellac album, EBF-154 on 7" EP set, and H-154 on 10" LP).</div><div><br />1951 - General Douglas MacArthur delivers a farewell address before a joint meeting of Congress in the chamber of the House of Representatives in the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. Capitol Records will issue two highlights of the speech on the 78 RPM version (DAS-274) and six excerpts on the 10 inch 33 1/3 RPM version (H-274) of the album "General MacArthur Farewell Address".<br />Here's the entire speech: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rknwIpU5F2U">Part One</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32Uu17Sy_i8">Part Two</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQ3GLrRpKMY">Part Three</a>, and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M87s_I-c-Xw">Part Four</a> of the entire speech.</div><div><br />1954 - Frank Sinatra, with arranger Nelson Riddle conducting the orchestra (Harry Edison on trumpet, Tommy Pederson and Ray Sims on trombone, George Roberts on bass trombone, Abe Most and Skeets Herfurt on alto saxophone, Eddie Miller and Babe Russin on tenor saxophone and clarinet, Joe Koch on baritone saxophone, Frank Flynn on vibraphone, Bill Miller on piano, Bob Bain on guitar, Joe Comfort on bass, and Alvin Stoller on drums), records the titles "All Of Me", "Jeepers Creepers", "Get Happy", and "Taking A Chance On Love" for his Capitol Records album "Swing Easy" at radio station KHJ's studios (now the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science's Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study and the Academy Film Archive) at 1313 North Vine Street, Hollywood, California. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Sinatra's album "Swing Easy" (H-528).</div><div><br />1955 - It's a Tuesday, and Capitol Records album department head, Francis Scott, leaves on the first leg of a trip to London to confer with executives of Electric & Musical Industries, Ltd. on a mutual exchange of masters between the companies.</div><div><br />1956 - Actress Grace Kelly, actress and Capitol Records artist (on the motion picture soundtrack to "High Society", and whose duet with Bing Crosby on the single "True Love" earned a Gold record [the last in Crosby's career]), marries Prince Rainier III of Monaco.</div><div><br />1956 - During two sessions held this day in The Capitol Tower at 1750 Vine Street in Hollywood, California vocalist and trumpet player Louis Prima, with Keely Smith on background vocals and tenor saxophonist Sam Butera & The Witnesses (James "Little Red" Blount Jr. on trombone, William "Willie" McCumber on piano, Jack Marshall on guitar, Amado Rodrigues on bass, and Robert "Bobby" Morris on drums) records the titles <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TNNzTQS05Y">"Medley: Just A Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody (And Nobody Cares For Me)"</a>, the instrumental <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq-eSB5Jt-Q">"Body And Soul"</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmlI0PD3gg0">"Oh Marie"</a>, and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qr91dJvbqs">"Buona Sera"</a> at the first session between 7:00 PM and 10:00 PM and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmT7jwEKiXo">"Jump. Jive An' Wail"</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmvAbvLCzjw">"(Nothin's Too Good) For My Baby"</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OaU1hIX874">"(I'll Be Glad When You're Dead) You Rascal You"</a>, and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iYJ2vRnddg">"Medley: Basin Street Blues/When It's Sleepy Time Down South"</a> at the second session between 10:00 PM and 1:00 AM on April 20, 1951. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Prima's album "the Wildest!" (T 755).</div><div><br />1956 - Pianist Lou Busch as Joe "Fingers" Carr, with an orchestra (lineup unlisted) records the titles "Spaghetti Rag", <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JG_AVvSuwiA">"12th Street Rag"</a>, and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBWxfag2RnU">"The Old Piano Roll Blues"</a> in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Carr's album "Mister Ragtime" (T 760).</div><div><br />1956 - Vocalist Sonny James, with Bill Simmons on piano, Paul Buskirk on electric mandolin, and possibly Paul Brawley on bass, and William Pecchi on drums, records the titles <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xR-a_EzfS90">"Twenty Feet Of Muddy Water"</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bXX1A4-w7w">"All Mixed Up"</a> at the Jim Beck Studio in Dallas, Texas. Capitol Records will issue both titles together as a single (Capitol 3441).</div><div><br />65 Years Ago Today In 1957 - Ferlin Husky's Capitol Records single "Gone", with "Missing Persons" on the flipside, is #1 on the U.S. Country singles chart.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/SODY49318Yc" width="320" youtube-src-id="SODY49318Yc"></iframe></div></div><div><br />1958 - Nat "King" Cole's Capitol Records single "Looking Back" is #6 on The Billboard magazine's R&B Best Sellers In Stores and Most Played R&B By Jockeys charts, #28 on Cash Box magazine's Best Selling Singles chart and The Billboard magazine's Top 100 Sides chart, and #29 on The Billboard magazine's Honor Roll Of Hits chart.</div><div><br /><div>60 Years Ago Today In 1962 - The Beach Boys (David Marks on guitar, Carl Wilson on guitar and vocals, Brian Wilson on bass guitar and vocals, Mike Love on vocals, and Dennis Wilson on drums and vocals) record the tracks "Surfin' Safari", "409", "Lonely Sea", and "Their Hearts Were Full Of Spring" at Western Recorders in Los Angeles, California with Brian Wilson producing the session. Capitol Records will issue "Surfin' Safari" and "409" as the band's first single for the label (Capitol 4777).</div><div><br /></div><div>1963 - Nat "King" Cole's Capitol Records album "Where Did Everyone Go" is #3 on KTKT 990 AM's Album Chart in Tucson, Arizona.</div><div><br />1963 - Bandleader and pianist Stan Kenton and His Orchestra (Milt Bernhart, Bob Fitzpatrick, Kent Larsen, and Jim Amlotte on trombones, Dave Wheeler on bass trombone, Laurindo Almeida on guitar, Don Bagley on bass, Dee Barton on drums, and Larry Bunker on percussion) and a vocal choir (Evangeline Carmichael, Betty Jane Baker, Loulie Jean Norman, Gloria Wood, Sue Allen, Peggy Clark, Jackie Allen, Sally Sweetland, Jimmy Joyce, Bill Lee, Jay Meyer, Thomas Kenny, Allan Davies, Ian Smith, Charles Schrouder, Bill Stafford, William Cole, and Bernie Parke) and Pete Rugolo conducting his own arrangements, record the titles "Daydreams In The Night (Machito)", "Those Wonderful Things (Lush Waltz)", "Intermission Riff", and "Eager Beaver" at an extended session held in The Capitol Tower Studios at 1750 North Vine Street in Hollywood, California between 1:00 PM and 4:30 PM with composer Milt Rasking supervising the session. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Kenton's album "Artistry In Voices And Brass" (T/ST 2132).</div><div><br />1963 - Vocalist Glen Campbell, with unlisted others, records the titles "John Henry", "Who Can I Count On?", and "Ole 99" in Los Angeles, California for Capitol Records which has yet to issue any of the titles.</div><div><br /></div><div>1964 - The Beatles pre-record the tracks "Can't Buy Me Love"; "I Wanna Be Your Man"; "Long Tall Sally"; a medley that used "Love Me Do", "Please Please Me", "From Me To You", "She Loves You", and "I Want to Hold Your Hand"; "Roll Over Beethoven"; "Shout"; and "Twist and Shout" for an Associated Rediffusion UK TV special "Around The Beatles" that will air on May 9, 1964.</div><div><br /></div>1965 - Capitol Records releases The Beatles' single "Ticket To Ride" with "Yes It Is" on the flipside.</div><div><br />1968 - The Sidewalk Skipper Band (lineup unlisted) records the titles "Jeannie At The Circus", "(Would You Believe) It's Raining Flowers In My House", and "Seventeenth Summer" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records has yet to issue "Jeannie At The Circus" and will issue the other two titles together as a single (Capitol 2205).</div><div><br />1973 - Overdubs recordings are started in Los Angeles, California for The Band's titles "I'm Ready (Bring It On Home)", "Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever", and "Ill Wind". After more overdubs are recorded through April 27, 1973, and May 1973, Capitol Records will issue the final mix of "I'm Ready (Bring It On Home" on the group's album "Moondog Matinee" (SW-11214) and has yet to issue either of the other titles.</div><div><br />1973 - The Trend (lineup unlisted) records the titles "Home Cookin'" and "Revival" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue "Home Cookin'" as a single (Capitol 3659) with "Papa Was A Music Man" (recorded April 20, 1973) on the flipside. No issuing information is listed for "Revival".</div><div><br />1973 - Sir Robert Charles Griggs, with unlisted others, records the titles "Uncle Ned", "Country Soul", "Cling Texas", and "In L.A." in Nashville, Tennessee. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Griggs' album "The Legend Of Sir Robert Charles Griggs" (ST-11234).</div><div><br />1975 - Grand Funk Railroad's Capitol Records single "Bad Time", with "Good And Evil" on the flipside, enters the top 40 of Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart.</div><div><br />1983 - Sherry Kean, with unlisted others, records the title "You're So Minor" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue the title as a single (Capitol 5368) with "Would You Miss Me?" (recorded December 13, 1983) on the flipside.</div><div><br />1988 - Capitol Records registers in Los Angeles, California the masters for Peter Bardens' titles "Westward Ho", "Black Elk", "Gold", "This Could Be Paradise", "Afterthought", "Speed Of Light", "Whisper In The Wind", "Heartland", "Columbine", and "Gold (Reprise)" and will issue all the titles on Bardens' album "Speed Of Light" (C1-48967 on 12" vinyl and 7-48967-2 on CD).</div><div><br />1990 - Dave Dexter, author, Kansas City reporter for Down Beat magazine (his reviews for Count Basie and His Orchestra got the band noticed), Capitol Records publicity and A&R man (got Peggy Lee to come out of retirement, signed Nellie Lutcher and Julia Lee) and record producer (The History Of Jazz series, New American Jazz all star album, Ella Fitzgerald, and many others), VP of A&R for Capitol Records' International division (created over 500 albums for "The Capitol Of The World" series of world music), remixed the early albums by The Beatles (until Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band) for U.S. release, editor and writer for Billboard Magazine, dies in Sherman Oaks, California at age 74. His papers have been donated to the University of Missouri Kansas City and <a href="http://library.umkc.edu/spec-col/club-kaycee/JAZZFOLK/dextd_00.htm">they have a great biography of Dave as part of their Club Kaycee website</a>.</div><div><br />2001 - Billy Idol and his band travel to New York City to tape his edition of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77La9gOdZHE">"VH1 Storytellers"</a>. Ten months after the taping, on February 26, 2002, Capitol Records will release "Billy Idol's VH1 Storytellers" featuring 14 songs from the session including three tracks from his days fronting the band Generation X ("Dancing With Myself," "Kiss Me Deadly," "Ready Steady Go") to his 1983 solo hit, "White Wedding" and Idol's covers of Tommy James & The Shondell's "Mony, Mony" and the Doors' "L.A. Woman".</div><div><br />2011 - Roy Edward "Eddie" Burris, a drummer for Capitol Records artist Merle Haggard's band The Strangers who co-wrote the 1969 song "Okie From Muskogee" with Haggard, dies at age 79 of heart-related problems at a Tulsa, Oklahoma hospital.</div><div><br />2011 - Vanguard/Capitol Records releases Kimberly Caldwell's debut album "Without Regret".</div><div><br /><br />ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY</div><div><br />1968 - Pianist Andrew Hill, with Woody Shaw on trumpet, Frank Mitchell on tenor saxophone, Jimmy Ponder on guitar, Reggie Workman on bass, and Idris Muhammad (aka Leo Morris) on drums, records the titles "Bayou Red", "Venture Inward" without Ponder on guitar, "Soul Special", "MC", and "Love Nocture" also without Ponder on guitar in recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder's studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. Blue Note Records will issue all the titles on the CD release of Hill's album "Grass Roots" (5-22672-2) and "Soul Special" in the two-LP multi-artist compilation album "Blue Note Rare Grooves" (B1-35636).</div><div><br />1981 - Sheena Easton's EMI America single "Morning Train (Nine to Five)", with "Calm Before The Storm" on the flipside, is #2 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart. EMI America's catalog is currently owned by Capitol Music Group's parent company, Universal Music Group.</div><div><br />1983 - Michael Murphey recorded the title "Disenchantment" in an unlisted studio for Liberty Records. EMI America will reissue the title on Murphey's compilation album "Best Of Michael Martin Murphey" (ST-17143 on 12" vinyl and 7-46556-2 on CD).</div><div><br />1988 - The Ralph Peterson Quintet (Terence Blanchard on trumpet, Steve Wilson on alto saxohone, (ss-1,as) Geri Allen on piano, Phil Bowler on bass, and Ralph Peterson on drums) record the titles "Enemy Within", "Monief" with Wilson on soprano saxophone, "The Short End Of The Stick", "Soweto 6", "Viola's Dance" again with Wilson on soprano saxophone, and "Bebopskerony" at A & R Studios in New York City, New York, in a session that ended early the next day on April 20, 1988, for Somethin' Else Records. Blue Note will issue all the titles on the quintet's album "V" (B1-91730 on 12" vinyl and 7-91730-2 on CD).</div><div><br />1993 - At sessions that start today and go until April 23, 1993 at Sound On Sound studio in New York City, New York, guitarist Kevin Eubanks, with Dave Holland on bass and Mark Mondesir on drums, records the titles "Landing" and "Contact" with the addition of Robin Eubanks on trombone and Kent Jordan on alto flute, "Union" with Robin Jordan on trombone, and "Spirit Talk" with Kent Jordan on alto flute at the first session, the titles "Earth Party", ""Going Outside with Kent Jordan on alto flute, and "Living" with Robin Eubanks on trombone and Kent Jordan on alto flute at the second session, and the titles "Inside" with Robin Eubanks on trombone and "Journey" at the third session. Blue Note Records will lease all the masters from Kevin Eubanks and will issue all the titles on Eubank's CD "Spirit Talk" (7-89286-2).</div><div><br />1993 - Bob Belden and Tim Hagans, with unlisted others, record the title "Venus De Milo" at an unlisted studio. Blue Note Records will issue the title on the CD "Blue Note Plays Prince" (8-6382602).</div><div><br />1995 - The Georgia legislature declares April 19, 1995 to be Johnny Mercer Day in the state for Mercer's "outstanding contributions to the field of music". Johnny Mercer is a co-founder of Capitol Records.</div>PopCultureFanBoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01768787919999520127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18285770.post-15053372343566344562022-04-18T00:00:00.001-04:002022-04-18T00:00:00.174-04:00<p> APRIL 18, 2022</p><br />HAPPY BIRTHDAYS!<div><br />140 Years Ago Today In 1882 -<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gt1V61SPI_w"> Leopold Stokowski</a>, a conductor, bandleader, and Capitol Records artist as part of Leopold Stokowski and His Symphony Orchestra, is born in London, England.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2HePUKYcWKl5YbOhXz9Z49AjnsOQb5EswloCl7YEieKxdSB8wtuffc3A_zXTWcWIi5BweNOuJ1Ynw5pK7tWyBv49xmyQuP08sJczLxRDO0o-Lv1Wg25lkjLrqnIJkFSKZaPDEg7KMgnS8sA9a0dhmGmcZ79hzLloz3ZH0tTncJoRDbvTUztg/s1500/Stokowski.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2HePUKYcWKl5YbOhXz9Z49AjnsOQb5EswloCl7YEieKxdSB8wtuffc3A_zXTWcWIi5BweNOuJ1Ynw5pK7tWyBv49xmyQuP08sJczLxRDO0o-Lv1Wg25lkjLrqnIJkFSKZaPDEg7KMgnS8sA9a0dhmGmcZ79hzLloz3ZH0tTncJoRDbvTUztg/s320/Stokowski.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div><br />70 Years Ago Today in 1952 - Jim Scholten, a singer and bass player for the Liberty Records, Capitol Records Nashville, and Curb Records group Sawyer Brown, is born in Midland, Michigan.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQpOfZq_e_PgLt7cSCez1i4OTnp_X6glDkLkGAD43GKhU0r1UFJqYSw-Etm8mCvkvM5VXuBppykhUlAkGKB8C3MIz46KwoPTWP1gUdXCpwC7NcR7P_Ux51l7Y68ymStBlAxNz4HwwsJp2rVAOBjEwWn4w5RJllvN2YOX2FwU81qpe1OCyU9wo/s659/Jim_Scholten.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="659" data-original-width="609" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQpOfZq_e_PgLt7cSCez1i4OTnp_X6glDkLkGAD43GKhU0r1UFJqYSw-Etm8mCvkvM5VXuBppykhUlAkGKB8C3MIz46KwoPTWP1gUdXCpwC7NcR7P_Ux51l7Y68ymStBlAxNz4HwwsJp2rVAOBjEwWn4w5RJllvN2YOX2FwU81qpe1OCyU9wo/s320/Jim_Scholten.webp" width="296" /></a></div></div><div><br /><br />ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY</div><div><br />1945 - Capitol Records Recording Department is established with Bill Miller (not to be confused with Frank Sinatra's accompanist, Bill Miller) as boss. Miller would, 21 years later in 1966, "prepare for release" The Beatles' "Yesterday...And Today" and "Revolver" albums. He was also an A&R man and producer. He was responsible for signing and producing Jackie Davis and producing sessions for June Christy, Benny Goodman, The Four Freshmen, Sebastian Temple, Warren Durrett and even co-produced Ted Cassidy's novelty record "The Lurch". The current manager is Paula Salvatore, who has guided the always busy Capitol Studios since 2001. <a href="http://www.capitolstudios.com/">Check out Capitol Studios' website </a>for more information. There's also a great article about the Capitol Studios on the <a href="http://www.studioexpresso.com/Spotlight%20Archive/Spotlight%20Capitol.htm">studio expresso </a>website.</div><div><br />1951 - Les Paul and Mary Ford's Capitol Records single <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rITJyZVTfy4">"How High The Moon"</a>, with "Walkin' And Whistlin' Blues" on the flipside, is #1 on The Billboard magazine's Records Most Played by Disc Jockeys and Best Selling Pop Singles charts and #6 on the magazine's Most Played Juke Box Records chart.</div><div><br />1951 - Yma Sumac's Capitol Records album <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAmCTX2mDWj6giARHA__DGyXUxcXFt62e">"Voice Of The Xtabay"</a> hits #1 on The Billboard magazine's Best Selling Pop Albums chart in both the album's 33 1/3 RPM and 45 RPM formats.</div><div><br />1953 - Nat "King" Cole's Capitol Records single "Pretend" is #3 on The Billboard magazine's Best Selling Singles and Most Played By Jockeys charts and #4 on The Billboard magazine's Most Played In Juke Boxes chart and Cash Box magazine's Best Selling Singles chart. Cole's Capitol Records single "Can't I?" is #18 on The Billboard magazine's Best Selling Singles chart and #19 on Cash Box magazine's Best Selling Singles chart and its flipside "Blue Gardenia" is #31 on also on Cash Box magazine's Best Selling Singles chart.</div><div><br />1958 - Nat "King" Cole's Capitol Records single "Looking Back" is #8 on WMCA's Wax To Watch chart in New York City, New York.</div><div><br /><div>1958 - Vocalist Tennessee Ernie Ford, with Harry Geller conducting the orchestra (lineup unlisted), records the titles "Adeste Fideles", "Sleep My Little Lord Jesus", and "O Harken Ye" in The Capitol Tower Studios at 1750 North Vine Street in Hollywood, California. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Ford's album "Tennessee Ernie Ford Sings His Christmas Favorites - The Star Carol" (T/ST 1071).</div><div><br /></div>1958 - Jackie Gleason conducts His Orchestra (a large string orchestra featuring Romeo Penque on alto saxophone and flute, Bernie Leighton on piano, and unlisted others) as they record the titles "Long Before I Knew You", "Satin Doll", "You Oughta Be In Pictures", "All The Things You Are", "My Sin", and new takes of the titles "Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me", "Nevertheless", "I'm Making Believe", and "Ain't Misbehavin'" in New York City, New York. Capitol Records will issue all the titles, except "My Sin" which remains unissued, on Gleason's album "Jackie Gleason Presents - Rebound" (W/SW 1075).</div><div><br /><div>1958 - During two sessions held this day in New York City, New York, organist Jackie Davis, with Eddie Costa on vibraphone, Kenny Burrell and Mundell Lowe on guitar, and Burtell Knox on drums, records the titles "Surprise", "Just My Luck", and "I Feel Pretty" at the first session and the titles "Jubilation T. Cornpone", a new take of "Say Darling", and the titles "Standing On The Corner" and "Till There Was You" at the second session. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Davis' album "Most Happy Hammond" (T/ST 1046).</div><div><br /></div><div>1958 - Pianist Joe Bushkin, with an orchestra (lineup unlisted) using arrangements by Kenyon Hopkins, records the titles "Let's Do It", "In The Still Of The Night", "What Is This Thing Called Love?", "Just One Of Those Things", "Round Table Walk", and "Lucky Me" in New York City, New York. Capitol Records will issue "Let's Do It", "In The Still Of The Night", "What Is This Thing Called Love?", and "Just One Of Those Things" on Bushkin's album "I Get A Kick Out Of Porter" (T/ST 1030), "Round Table Walk" as a single (F4027) with "Trudie" (recorded June 26, 1958) on the flipside, and has yet to issue "Lucky Me".</div><div><br /></div>60 Years Ago Today In 1962 - Buck Owens records the title "Save The Last Dance For Me" which will be released by Capitol Records as a single with "King Of Fools" on the flipside and enters the Country single charts on May 24, 1962.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/jKqLQLQh-as" width="320" youtube-src-id="jKqLQLQh-as"></iframe></div></div><div><br />1963 - Vocalist June Christy, with Al Viola on guitar and Don Bagley on bass, records the titles "Fly Me To The Moon", "Spring Is Here", "The More I See You", and "You're Nearer" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue "Spring Is Here" on Christy's album "The Intimate Miss Christy" (T/ST 1953). The new takes of the other three titles will be recorded on May 23, 1963, and those takes will also be issued on the album "The Intimate Miss Christy".</div><div><br /><div>1966 - Wanda Jackson records the track "I Talk A Pretty Story" at Columbia Studios in Nashville, Tennessee with producer Ken Nelson which will be released as a single by Capitol Records as the flipside of "Little Soldier Boy" in July 1968.</div><div><br />1968 - During two sessions held this day in Los Angeles, California, vocalist Tennessee Ernie Ford, with Jack Fascinato conducting his own arrangements to the orchestra (lineup unlisted), records the titles "He Is Born, The Holy Child", "The Friendly Beasts", and "The Wassail Song" at the first session and the titles "Good Christian Men, Rejoice" and "White Christmas" at the second session. After overdubs are recorded on May 21, 1968 for "He Is Born, The Holy Child", "The Wassail Song", and "Good Christian Men, Rejoice", and on May 22, 1968 for the titles "The Friendly Beasts" and "White Christmas", Capitol Records will issue the final mixes of all the titles on Ford's album "O Come All Ye Faithful" (ST 2968).</div><div><br />1973 - Vocalist Kay Adams, with the Cliffie Stone Group (lineup unlisted), records the titles "Ain't It Funny (How The Heart Rules The Mind)", "Reason To Feel", "I Can, I Can", and "Hearts Of Stone" in Los Angeles, California. After overdubs are recorded for all the titles on April 26, 1973, Capitol Records will issue "Ain't It Funny (How The Heart Rules The Mind)" and "Reason To Feel" as a single (Capitol 3692) and "I Can, I Can" and "Hearts Of Stone" together as a single (Capitol 3624).</div><div><br /></div><div>1973 - Denny Saeger, with unlisted others, records the title "The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue the title as a single (Capitol 3618) with "The Finer Things In Life" (recorded November 3, 1972) on the flipside.</div><div><br /></div><div>1973 - Capitol Records will register the masters for Freddie Hart and The Heartbeats' titles "Trip To Heaven" and "Look-A-Here" in Los Angeles, California and will issue both titles together as a single (Capitol 3612) and on Hart's album "Trip To Heaven" (ST-11197).</div><div><br /></div><div>1973 - Vocalist and guitarist Freddie King, with either Reverend Patrick Henderson or Leon Russell on piano, Don Preston also on guitar, Carl Radle on electric bass, and Chuck Blackwell and Jim Keltner on drums, records the titles "Woman Across The River" with unlisted female background singers, "Hootchie Cootchie Man" with The O'Neil Twins (lineup unlisted) and other female background singers, "Danger Zone" with The O'Neil Twins on background vocals and a string section (lineup unlisted), "Boogie Man", "Leave My Woman Alone" with The O'Neil Twins and other female background singers, "Just A Little Bit", "Yonder Wall", "Help Me Through The Day" with a string section, "I'm Ready", "Trouble In Mind" with The O'Neil Twins on background vocals and a string section, and "You Don't Have to Go" with The O'Neil Twins and other female background singers in Tia Juana, Oklahoma. Shelter Records, at the time distributed by Capitol Records, will issue all the titles on King's self-titled album "Freddie King" (SW-8919) and "Woman Across The River" and "Help Me Through The Day" together as a single (Shelter 7333).</div><div><br /></div><div>1973 - Leon Russell, with unlisted others, records the title "Mighty Quinn Medley: I'll Take You There/Idol With The Golden Head/I Serve A Living Savior/The Mighty Quinn", "Dixie Lullaby", "Queen Of The Roller Derby", "Roll Away The Stone", "It's Been A Long Time Baby", "Great Day", "Alcatraz", "Crystal Closet Queen", "Prince Of Peace", "Sweet Emily", and "Stranger In A Strange Land" in an unlisted studio. Shelter Records, at the time distributed by Capitol Records, will issue all the titles on Russell's self-titled three-LP set "Leon Russell" (STCO-8917).</div><div><br /></div><div>45 Years Ago Today In 1977 - The Steve Miller Band's Capitol Records album "Fly Like An Eagle" is certified Gold by the R.I.A.A.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/WuXwSyahgW4" width="320" youtube-src-id="WuXwSyahgW4"></iframe></div></div><div><br /></div><div>1978 - The Honeys (vocalists Diane Rovell, Marilyn Rovell, and Ginger Blake), with an orchestra (lineup unlisted) using arrangements by Elmo Peeler, records the title "Sweet Sunday Kinda Love" in United/Western Studios on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, California. Capitol Records will issue the title on the group's compilation CD "Capitol Collectors Series - The Honeys" (7-93193-2).</div><div><br /></div><div>1983 - Sherry Kean, with unlisted others, records the title "I Want You Back" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue the title as a single (Capitol 5320) with "Sever The Ties" (recorded April 13, 1983) on the flipside and an edited version of the title on Kean's album "People Talk" (ST-12328).</div><div><br /></div><div>1989 - Judge Robert Takasugi bars Curb Records from releasing Donny Osmond's album and single "Soldier Of Love" in the United States. Owner Mike Curb (who had signed The Osmonds to M-G-M Records in 1970) had argued that he had a verbal agreement with Osmond to release the album previously released by Virgin Records in the UK which Osmond denied. Capitol Records will release the album in the United States on April 25, 1989.</div><div><br /></div>1996 - Bernard Edwards, record producer with partner Nile Rodgers for Diana Ross, Debbie Harry, Norma Jean Wright, and Sister Sledge; solo producer for Rod Stewart, Nona Hendryx, ABC, Starpoint, and Missing Persons; songwriter, bass player, and producer for the group Chic and the Capitol Records band Power Station, dies of pneumonia in his hotel room in Tokyo, Japan at age 43 after performing with a reformed Chic as well as with guests Simon Le Bon, Slash, Steve Winwood and Sister Sledge, at The SuperProducers tribute show for Niles Rodgers, who had been named JT SuperProducer of the Year in Japan, at the Budokan Arena.</div><div><br /><br />ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY</div><div><br />1929 - Future Capitol Records artist Red Nichols and His Five Pennies (which includes at the time Gene Krupa and future Capitol Records artists Benny Goodman and Jack Teagarden) record Glenn Miller's arrangement of "Indiana" for Brunswick Records in New York City, New York.</div><div><br />1958 - Guitarist Wes Montgomery, with Harold Land on tenor saxophone, Buddy Montgomery on piano, Monk Montgomery on electric bass, and Tony Bazley on drums, records the titles "Far Wes", "Leila", "Wes' Tune", "Hymn For Carol", "Montgomeryland Funk" and "Stompin' At The Savoy" in Los Angeles, California for United Artists Records. Blue Note Records will issue all the titles on Montgomery's two-disc compilation album "Beginnings" (BN-LA531-H2).</div><div><br />1973 - Electric alto saxophonist Lou Donaldson, with electric pianist Horace Ott conducting his own arrangements to Thad Jones on trumpet, Garnett Brown on trombone, Seldon Powell on flute and tenor saxophone, Buddy Lucas on harmonica, Paul Griffin also on an electric piano as well as piano and organ, David Spinozza, John Tropea, and Hugh McCracken on electric guitars, Wilbur Bascomb on electric bass, Bernard Purdie on drums, and Omar Clay and Jack Jennings on percussion, records the titles "Pillow Talk", "Sassy Soul Strut", "Good Morning Heartache" with Donaldson on alto saxophone, and "City, Country, City" at Generation Sound Studio in New York City, New York. Blue Note Records will issue all the titles on Donaldson's album "Sassy Soul Strut" (BN-LA109-F).</div><div><br />1988 - Pianist and synthesizer player Renee Rosnes, with Wayne Shorter on soprano saxophone, records the title "Diana" at the Montmartre Club in Copenhagen, Denmark for the Somethin' Else Records. Blue Note Records will issue the title on Rosnes' 1990 self-titled album "Renee Rosnes" (B1-93561 on 12" Vinyl and 7-93561-2 on CD).</div>PopCultureFanBoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01768787919999520127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18285770.post-34152282644301665932022-04-17T00:00:00.005-04:002022-04-17T00:00:00.170-04:00<p> APRIL 17, 2022</p><br />HAPPY BIRTHDAYS!<div><br />1933 - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTio3d4kMR2RhRdUbU4e17GeXSjX98s_y">David Axelrod</a>, a composer, arranger, record producer, and <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/5wK9u9A4mDMLy8oaZOTI9K?si=wincRjnqSgmcL1rKXdTKYw">Capitol Records artist</a>, is born in Los Angeles, California.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgubVj0ab1dtON_9ybX8elZ1En5myMTpIexyS9npW_RHCNA9ZH325X8dEZ_5czK57z0k9pWxKn70ze89KDprINNNUJo4jzXDPYD64X3lt5TlLF6GZCva8yPItNUEi7wTpGUdQHEHz2nO1vuIvdfutz6FCq3xc5xto9f56lyH0BhUdfF4hu4KFQ/s755/DavidAzelrod.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="527" data-original-width="755" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgubVj0ab1dtON_9ybX8elZ1En5myMTpIexyS9npW_RHCNA9ZH325X8dEZ_5czK57z0k9pWxKn70ze89KDprINNNUJo4jzXDPYD64X3lt5TlLF6GZCva8yPItNUEi7wTpGUdQHEHz2nO1vuIvdfutz6FCq3xc5xto9f56lyH0BhUdfF4hu4KFQ/s320/DavidAzelrod.png" width="320" /></a></div></div><div><br />1967 - Liz Phair, a musician, singer, songwriter, and Capitol Records artist is born in New Haven, Connecticut.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk4htfEbYDi72uuPSSK5lHPJqO_nIWA1oIqX446hBNDae9ff3x6jcsvEAiOXQ3OXnVfCY2voAh8rDpVIPm3lZ3FnSPt2o9CM6WAye7_GxecKJRD5v_bap_EI6hHfY4rUlOT58-I8GVGsfXOKnQwLqRzQbU4REy7hdKbr3NgW6zNK9fwV3LPnQ/s600/LizPhair.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk4htfEbYDi72uuPSSK5lHPJqO_nIWA1oIqX446hBNDae9ff3x6jcsvEAiOXQ3OXnVfCY2voAh8rDpVIPm3lZ3FnSPt2o9CM6WAye7_GxecKJRD5v_bap_EI6hHfY4rUlOT58-I8GVGsfXOKnQwLqRzQbU4REy7hdKbr3NgW6zNK9fwV3LPnQ/s320/LizPhair.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div><br /><br />ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY</div><div><br />1946 - The King Cole Trio (Nat "King" Cole on piano and vocals, Oscar Moore on guitar, and Johnny Miller on bass) record two takes of the title <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weHpBwq9xjI">"Could 'Ja"</a>, two takes of the title <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax-S_EmmvVg">"Baby, Baby All The Time"</a>, and the titles <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kpsxjZ9jrU">"Oh, But I Do"</a> with a vocal ensemble (possibly just Cole, Moore, and Miller) and the instrumental <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRmOR7GBR38">"Rex Rumba" (aka "Rumba A La King")</a> at Radio Recorders' studios on Western Avenue in Hollywood, California. Capitol Records will issue the second take of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Px5n3naJuIA">"Could 'Ja"</a> on the compilation album "Campus Capers" (BD-58), the second take of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DaGa7odzH4">"Baby, Baby All The Time"</a> as a single (Capitol 15165) with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBWZPzjLBAQ">"Money Is Honey"</a> (recorded November 3, 1947) on the flipside, "Oh, But I Do" as a single (Capitol 274) with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-a0Y6_zz3U">"You Call It Madness (But I Call It Love)"</a> (recorded May 1, 1946) on the flipside, and "Rex Rhumba" as a single (Capitol 15240) with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Pk0PlBD7BA">"Kee-mo Ky-mo (The Magic Song)"</a> (recorded September 26, 1948) on the flipside. Mosaic Records will issue all the titles and takes in the box set "The Complete King Cole Trio Sessions" (MR27-138 on vinyl and MD18-138 on CD).</div><div><br />75 Years Ago Today In 1947 - Merle Travis' Capitol Records single "So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed", with "Sweet Temptation" on the flipside, is still #1 on the U.S. Country singles chart.</div><div><br />75 Years Ago Today In 1947 - Benny Goodman (on clarinet), with Jimmy Rowles on piano, Harry Babasin on bass, and Tommy Romersa on drums, records the titles "The Bannister Slide" (with Ernie Felice on accordion and Al Hendrickson on guitar), "Benny's Boogie", and "How High The Moon" (with Ernie Felice on accordion and Ray Sims on trombone) in Radio Recorders' studios at 932 North Western Avenue in Hollywood, California, California. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Goodman's album "Benny Goodman Rides Again" (BD-57).</div><div><br />70 Years Ago Today In 1952 - Cliffie Stone and His Square Dance Band (lineup unlisted) record the titles "Virginia Reel", "American Patrol", "Shot Gun Boogie", and "Moonwinks" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue "Virginia Reel" and "American Patrol" together as a single (CAS-4025), "Shot Gun Boogie" as a single (CAS-4026) with "Washington And Lee Swing" (recorded on October 10, 1946) on the flipside, and "Moonwinks" as a single (Capitol CAS-4034) with "Stepping Stone Schottische" (recorded on January 9, 1952) on the flipside.</div><div><br />70 Years Ago Today In 1952 - The Four Knights (Gene Alford - 1st tenor vocals, John Wallace - 2nd tenor vocals and guitar, Clarence Dixon - baritone vocals, and Oscar Broadway - bass vocals), with an unlisted orchestra, record a new take of the title "Easy Street" and the titles "I'm The World's Biggest Fool", "If I Had My Way", "It's A Sin To Tell A Lie", "Doo Wacka Doo", and "Oh Miss Hannah" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue "Easy Street" and "Oh Miss Hannah" on the group's album "Spotlight Songs" (T 346), "I'm The World's Biggest Fool" and "It's A Sin To Tell A Lie" together as a single (Capitol 2087) and "Doo Wacka Doo" as a single (Capitol 2127) with "Win Or Lose" (recorded May 13, 1952) on the flipside. Capitol Records will sell the master to "If I Had My Way" to Coral Records which will issue it on the group's self-titled album "The Four Knights" (CRL-57221).</div><div><br />1953 - Bandleader and pianist Joe "Fingers" Carr (aka Lou Busch) and His Ragtime Band (Mannie Klein on trumpet, Tommy Pederson on trombone, Skeets Herfurt on clarinet and alto saxophone, Phil Stephens on bass, and Nick Fatool and John Cyr on drums) record the titles "Down Home Rag", "Canadian Capers", "Sweet Georgia Brown", and "San Antonio Rose" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on the album "Joe 'Fingers' Carr And His Ragtime Band" (EAP-1/2-443 on 7" EPs, EBF-443 on 7" EP set, H-443 on 10" LP, and T 433 on 12" LP).</div><div><br />65 Years Ago Today In 1957 - Violinist Nathan Milstein, with William Steinberg conducting The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, records Dvorak's "Concerto In A Minor, Opus 53 For Violins And Orchestra" and Glazounov's "Concerto In A Minor, Opus 82 For Violin And Orchestra" at Syria Mosque in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Capitol Records will issue both titles on Milstein's album "DVORAK - Concerto In A Minor, Opus 53 For Violin And Orchestra/GLAZOUNOV - Concerto In A Minor, Opus 82 For Violin And Orchestra" (P-8382).</div><div><br />65 Years Ago Today In 1957 - At two sessions held at Bradley Film & Recording Studio in Nashville, Tennessee, Sonny James (on vocals and guitar), with Chet Atkins on guitar, Floyd T. "Lightnin'" Chance on bass, Murrey M. "Buddy" Harman Jr. on drums, and The Jordanaires (lineup unlisted) as a vocal chorus, records the titles "A Fool Such As I", "Near You", and "Ages And Ages Ago" at the first session and the titles "Just Out Of Reach (Of My Two Open Arms)", "I'll Never Get Over You", "I Forgot More Than You'll Never Know" at the second session. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on James' album "Sonny" (T 867).</div><div><br />1958 - Vocalist and guitarist Hank Thompson, with The Brazos Valley Boys (Tommy Camfield and Robert "Bob" White on fiddle, Vic Davis on piano, Billy Gray and Merle Travis also on guitars, Floyd Lester "Bobbie" White on steel guitar, Billy Briggs Stewart on bass, and John Sterling "Butch" White on drums), records the titles "Squaws Along The Yukon", "Two Hearts Deep In The Blues", and the instrumental title "Gathering Flowers" featuring Merle Travis on guitar in The Capitol Tower Studios at 1750 North Vine Street in Hollywood, California at an extended session between 6:00 PM and 9:30 PM. After vocal overdubs are recorded for "Squaws Along The Yukon" and "Two Hearts Deep In The Blues" on May 6, 1958, Capitol Records will issue the final mix of "Squaws Along The Yukon" and "Gathering Flowers" together as a single (Capitol F4017) and the final mix of "Two Hearts Deep In The Blues" as a single (Capitol F4502) with "Just One Step Away" (recorded December 18, 1958) on the flipside.</div><div><br /><div>1958 - Jackie Gleason conducts His Orchestra (a large string orchestra featuring Romeo Penque on alto saxophone and flute, Bernie Leighton on piano, and unlisted others) as they record the titles "Close Your Eyes", "All This And Heaven Too", "Without Love", "More Than You Know", and "You Stepped Out Of A Dream" in New York City, New York for Capitol Records which rejects all the takes recorded at this session and will record new takes on April 29, 1958.</div><div><br /></div><div>1958 - During two sessions held this day in New York City, New York, organist Jackie Davis, with Eddie Costa on vibraphone, Kenny Burrell and Mundell Lowe on guitars, and Burtell Knox on drums, records the titles "All Of You", "Say Darling", and "It's The Second Time You Meet That Matters" at the first session and the titles "Wish", "Push De Button", and "Long Before I Knew You" at the second session. Capitol Records will issue all of the titles, except the take of "Say Darling" recorded at this session which was rejected and recorded again on April 18, 1958, on Davis' album "Most Happy Hammond" (T/ST 1046).</div><div><br /></div>1960 - Capitol Records artist Gene Vincent is seriously injured after the taxicab hired after a gig in Bristol, England, blows a tire while rounding a curve on the way back to London, England and crashes into a cement post at 70 mph on the A4 at Chippenham, Wilshire. Vincent survives with a badly injured leg that will give him a limp for the rest of his life, but Liberty Records artist Eddie Cochran, who was touring with Vincent and shared the cab, is killed at age 21 and Cochran's girlfriend, songwriter Sharon Sheeley, is seriously injured. Cochran is later interred in the Forest Lawn Cypress cemetery in Cypress, California.</div><div><br />1963 - Nat "King" Cole's Capitol Records single "All Over The World" is #8 on KVCV 600 AM's "Top Pop 40" survey in Redding, California.</div><div><br />1963 - During two sessions held this day in The Capitol Tower Studios at 1750 North Vine Street in Hollywood, California, bandleader and pianist Stan Kenton and His Orchestra (Bud Brisbois, Dalton Smith, Conte Candoli, Bob Behrendt, and Bob Rolfe on trumpets, Bob Fitzpatrick, Kent Larsen, Gilbert Falco, and Jim Amlotte on trombone, Dave Wheeler on bass trombone and tuba, Dwight Carver, Tony Scodwell, Joe Burnett, and Bob Grull on mellophones, Gabe Baltazar on alto saxophone, Steve Marcus and Ray Florian on tenor saxophones, Jack Nimitz on baritone saxophone, Joel Kaye baritone and bass saxophones, Don Bagley on bass, Dee Barton on drums, and Larry Bunker and Frank Guerrero on percussion), record the titles "Kentonova", "Painted Rhythm", "Artistry In Bossa Nova", and "Opus In Chartreuse" between 12:00 PM and 4:00 PM and the titles "Artistry In Rhythm", "Jump For Joe", "Loca-Nova", "Eager Beaver", and "Opus In Pastels" at the second session between 4:00 PM and 7:30 PM. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Kenton and his orchestra's album "Artistry In Bossa Nova" (T/ST 1931).</div><div><br /><div>1963 - Tenor saxophonist King Curtis with unlisted vibraphone, piano, guitar, bass, drums, and strings players, records the titles "Sukiyaki" and "Summer Dream" in (listed as possibly) Capitol Records' studios in New York City, New York. Bear Family Records will issue both titles in Germany in the three-CD set "King Curtis - Blow Man Blow (The Capitol Years 1962-1965)" (BCD 15670).</div><div><br />1968 - Vocalist Tennessee Ernie Ford, with Jack Fascinato conducting his own arrangements to the orchestra (lineup unlisted), records the titles "Bring A Torch, Jeanette Isabella", "While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks", and "The Little Boy King" in Los Angeles, California. After overdubs are recorded for "While Shepards Watched Their Flocks" and "The Little Boy King" on May 21, 1968 and for "Bring A Torch, Jeanette Isabella" on May 22, 1968, Capitol Records will issue the final mixes of all the titles on Ford's album "O Come All Ye Faithful" (ST 2968).</div><div><br />1968 - The Sugar Shoppe (Peter Mann on vocal and guitar, Laurie Hood on vocals, Victor Garber on vocals and guitar, and Lee Harris on vocals), with The Clique (Al Casey, Al Viola, Howard Robert, Louis Morrell, and Mike Deasy on guitars, Bill Plummer on sitar, Lewis Carroll on trumpet, Lew McCreary and Louis Blackburn on trombones, Abe Most, Jim Horn, and Plas Johnson on saxophones, Al De Lory, Larry Knechtel, and Michael Rubini on pianos and keyboards, Gary Coleman on vibraphone, and percussion, Carol Kaye and Don Bagley on basses, Earl Palmer and Stan Levey on drums, Hal Blaine on drums, vibraphone, and percussion, Stella Castellucci on harp) and a string section (Alfred Lastgarten, Arnold Belnick, Harry Hyams, Henry Roth, Israel Baker, James Getzoff, Marshall Sasson, Nathan Ross, Sam Boghossian, and William Hymanson on violins and violas, and Anne Goodman, Armand Kaproff, Frederick Seykora, and Nathan Gershman on cellos) using vocal arrangments by Peter Mann and instrumental arrangements by Mort Garson, record the titles "Thank You Love", "You're A Big Boy Now", and "Don't You Ever Give Up On Me" in Los Angeles, California with producer Al De Lory for Capitol Records. No issuing information is listed.</div><div><br />1968 - Vocalist Sonny James, with unlisted others, records the titles "Crazy Arms", "'68 Rock Island Line", "I Fall To Pieces", and "Clinging To A Hope" in Nashville, Tennessee. Capitol Records will issue "Crazy Arms" on James' album "Heaven Says Hello" (ST 2937), after overdubs are recorded for "I Fall To Pieces" on April 23, 1968, the final mixes of the rest of the titles on James' album "Born To Be With You" (ST-111), and "Clinging To Hope" also as a single (Capitol 2595) with "Since I Met You Baby" (recorded January 17, 1969) on the flipside.</div><div><br /></div>1969 - Capitol Records group The Band make their solo stage debut at the Winterland in San Francisco, California.</div><div><br />1970 - Apple Records releases Paul McCartney's first solo album, "McCartney", which is distributed by Capitol Records in the United States. McCartney plays all the instruments heard on the album.</div><div><br />1970 - The Beatles officially disband.</div><div><br />1971 - Sonny James' Capitol Records single "Empty Arms", with "Everything Begins And Ends With You" on the flipside, is #1 on the U.S. Country singles chart.</div><div><br />1973 - Pink Floyd's album "Dark Side Of The Moon" is certified Gold by the R.I.A.A.</div><div><br /><div>1973 – Tavares signs a contract with Capitol Records.</div><div><br /></div>1976 - Paul McCartney and Wings' Capitol Records single <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_9QooYDYtU">"Silly Love Songs"</a>, with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iaOq3W3NE4">"Cook Of The House"</a> on the flipside, is #2 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart.</div><div><br />1978 - During two sessions held this day in (listed as possibly) Los Angeles, California, Caldera (lineup unlisted) records the title "Shanti" at the first session and "Passages" at the second session. Capitol Records will issue both titles on the group's album "Time And Chance" (SW-11810).</div><div><br />35 Years Ago Today In 1987 - Crowded House's Capitol Records single "Don’t Dream It’s Over", with "That's What I Call Love" on the flipside, is #4 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart.</div><div><br />1998 - <a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/6QEKXJs8gQCiyBq5L8knco?si=gQk_qaE6SZK2YhlSmghq8Q">Linda McCartney</a> (born Linda Eastman), photographer, activist, creator and owner of a vegetarian frozen meal company, keyboard player, singer, wife of Capitol Records artist Paul McCartney, member of the Capitol Records band Wings, and, posthumously, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/6nlkCGffHeYUf9J1XoQbGz?si=J_1Sckc_SO2msgapjuwhcw">a Capitol Records solo artist</a>, dies of breast cancer at age 56.</div><div><br />2000 - Godhead signs a contract with Capitol Records.</div><div><br /><br />ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY</div><div><br />1955 - Imperial Records releases Fats Domino's single "Ain't That a Shame", with "Goin' Home" on the flipside. Imperial's catalog is currently owned by Universal Music Group, Capitol Records' parent company.</div><div><br />65 Years Ago Today In 1957 - Composer, arranger, and conductor Johnny Richards (with Al Stewart, Charlie Shavers, Burt Collins, and Ray Copeland on trumpets; Jimmy Cleveland, Jim Dahl, and Frank Rehak on trombones; Julius Watkins on French horn; Jay McAllister on tuba; Gene Quill on alto saxophone; Seldon Powell and Frank Socolow on tenor saxophone; Billy Slapin on baritone saxophone and piccolo; Shelly Gold on bass saxophone; Hank Jones on piano; Chet Amsterdam on bass; Jimmy Campbell on drums; Joe Venuto on tympani; Sol Gubin on maracas; Pete Terrace on bongos; Umbaldo Nieto on timbales; Carlos Valdes on congas; Raymond Rodriguez on tambauri; and Al Epstein on percussion) records the self-penned titles "La Pecadora" and "Ofo" for his Roulette Records album "The Rites Of Diablo" at Webster Hall in New York City, New York. Roulette's catalog is currently owned by Universal Music Group, Capitol Records' parent company.</div><div><br />1963 - Tenor saxophonist Charlie Rouse, with Joe Zawinul on piano, Grant Green on guitar, Sam Jones on bass, and Frankie Dunlop on drums, records the titles "Clo-E", "Little Sherri", "What Kind Of Fool Am I", and "I Left My Heart In San Francisco" at recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder's studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey for Blue Note Records which rejected all the takes of all the titles.<br />1965 - Liberty Records releases Gary Lewis and The Playboys' single "Count Me In" with "Little Miss Go-Go" on the flipside. Liberty's catalog is currently owned by Universal Music Group, Capitol Records' parent company.</div><div><br />1973 - Electric alto saxophonist Lou Donaldson, with electric pianist Horace Ott conducting his own arrangements to Thad Jones on trumpet, Garnett Brown on trombone, Seldon Powell on flute and tenor saxophone, Buddy Lucas on harmonica, Paul Griffin also on electric piano as well as piano and organ, David Spinozza, John Tropea, and Hugh McCracken on electric guitars, Wilbur Bascomb on electric bass, Bernard Purdie on drums, and Omar Clay and Jack Jennings on percussion, records the titles "Sanford And Son Theme", "This Is Happiness", and "Inner Space" at Generation Sound Studio in New York City, New York. Blue Note Records will issue all the titles on Donaldson's album "Sassy Soul Strut" (BN-LA109-F).</div><div><br /><br />ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY</div><div><br />1924 - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios is formed after a merger of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures, and The Louis B. Mayer Company.</div><div><br />85 Years Ago Today In 1937 - Daffy Duck debuts in the Warner Bros.' cartoon <a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3s9oce">"Porky's Duck Hunt"</a></div>PopCultureFanBoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01768787919999520127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18285770.post-72826007490729290232022-04-16T00:00:00.001-04:002022-04-16T00:00:00.165-04:00<p> APRIL 16, 2022</p><br />HAPPY BIRTHDAY!<div><br />1971 - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKGbjJarMeA">Selena</a>, a singer, actress, and EMI Latin Records (a division of Capitol Records) artist, is born Selena Quintanilla Perez in Lake Jackson, Texas.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBctVDw-VZvRSuzmWiZplWKKTPevDHj1hWf6GzzkG94wVjBxmxmjaf_QYzMsJEQlHFElEJeC2Ixc370OEnsEpTI0MHPU8d5gGW6ANyT5qvLaqPEPMQBA_Df94yN-3IQxuDQwgBTTCDE267-14qveK3dpaF5HN0lSJQD7V6mgLAQaVHRJ63nY0/s1080/Selena.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBctVDw-VZvRSuzmWiZplWKKTPevDHj1hWf6GzzkG94wVjBxmxmjaf_QYzMsJEQlHFElEJeC2Ixc370OEnsEpTI0MHPU8d5gGW6ANyT5qvLaqPEPMQBA_Df94yN-3IQxuDQwgBTTCDE267-14qveK3dpaF5HN0lSJQD7V6mgLAQaVHRJ63nY0/s320/Selena.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div><br /><br />ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY</div><div><br />1945 - The San Francisco branch of Capitol Records Distribution Corporation opens for business under the direction of Paul Featherstone with salesmen Voyle Gilmore, Ed Nielsen, and Bob Martin.</div><div><br />1946 - Betty Hutton's Capitol Records single "Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief", with "A Square In The Social Circle" on the flipside enters the top 40 of the U.S. Pop singles chart.</div><div><br />1948 - The King Cole Trio's Capitol Records single "Nature Boy" is #5 on The Billboard magazine's Records Most Played by Disk Jockeys chart and its flipside, "Lost April", is #6 on the magazine's Record Possibilities - The Disk Jockeys Pick chart..</div><div><br />1948 - The Pied Pipers (vocalists June Hutton, Chuck Lowry, Hal Hooper, and Clark Yocum), with Paul Weston and His Orchestra (lineup unlisted) record the title "My Happiness" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue the title as a single (Capitol 15094) with "Highway To Love" (recorded December 5, 1947) on the flipside.</div><div><br /><div>1948 - Vocalists Jack Smith and The Clark Sisters (lineup unlisted), with an uncredited orchestra, record the titles "Tea Leaves" and "Highways Are Happy Ways" in New York City, New York. Capitol Records will issue both titles together as a single (Capitol 15102).</div><div><br /></div>1949 - Capitol Records artist Tex Ritter is a judge on the final day of a two-day music contest for country musicians sponsored by radio station WESC in Greenville, South Carolina with a $1,500 top prize. A one-hour portion of the finals is aired at 11PM (CST) on the Mutual network.</div><div><br />1950 - Victor Blanchard becomes a vice-president of Capitol Records Distribution Corporation.</div><div><br />1951 - Capitol Custom Division is started. This division of Capitol handled creating, producing, and distributing special promo records for outside companies and charities like Scripto, Uniroyal, Bacardi, 7-Up, Firestone, A&W Root Beer, Chevrolet, Dextol, March of Dimes, Renuzit, Salada Tea using tracks from Capitol's catalog as well as specially created material by Capitol artists.<br />Capitol Custom also produced demos and commercial records for independent artists like Cracker Jills, Help, Gert Benhana, Rafael Mendez, Harry Fields, The Legends, V. Attl, etc. as well as for church choirs and school bands.</div><div>Capitol Custom also handled creating promotional records for events like the 1962 Seattle World's Fair and even a single for John F. Kennedy's 1960 campaign featuring Frank Sinatra singing a reworded version of his hit "High Hopes".<br />Probably the most desired record created by Capitol Custom is the 7" single created as a limited pressing, released on June 5, 1964, to promote the Beatles for Hollywood radio station KFWB and Wallichs' Music City that had an interview on side 1 and "You Can't Do That" on the flipside. Copies of this disc have been valued for as much as $2250 with the original mailer.<br />Most of the physical production was done out of the Capitol pressing plant in Scranton, PA.<br />There were branches of Capitol Custom in Canada, the U.K., and Australia.<br /><div data-block="true" data-editor="f2vpg" data-offset-key="4h8cl-0-0" style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4h8cl-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><div style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-offset-key="4h8cl-0-0">Capitol Custom eventually became EMI-Capitol Special Markets and Capitol and its associated label's catalog are now marketed this way as part of <a href="http://www.universalmusicenterprises.com/">Universal Music Enterprises</a>' <a href="http://www.universalsm.com/licensing/">Universal Music Special Markets</a> division.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9zm4H951vg0/VxIgLC5bR8I/AAAAAAAAAVg/_QbhgGNRD84c5ZgrreW7EaAeDlCNhCmAQCLcB/s1600/capitolcustom.1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="73" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9zm4H951vg0/VxIgLC5bR8I/AAAAAAAAAVg/_QbhgGNRD84c5ZgrreW7EaAeDlCNhCmAQCLcB/s320/capitolcustom.1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></span> </div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap;">
1953 - Mel Blanc, using a script written by Ted Pierce and Warren Foster, records vocal overdubs in Los Angeles, California onto orchestral tracks recorded by Van Alexander and His Orchestra for the titles "Bugs Bunny And The Rabbit Seasoning: Part 1" and "Bugs Bunny And The Rabbit Seasoning: Part 2". Capitol Records will issue the final mixes of both parts in the children's album "Bugs Bunny And The Rabbit Seasoning" (CAS-3168 on 12" shellac and CASF-3168 on 7" vinyl).
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<span style="background-color: transparent;">1956 - Vocalist Tex Ritter, with Harry Gellar conducting the orchestra and chorus (lineup unlisted), records the titles </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZQffvUspR8" style="background-color: transparent;">"The Searchers"</a><span style="background-color: transparent;"> and </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yrh92fvhez0" style="background-color: transparent;">"The Wayward Wind"</a><span style="background-color: transparent;"> in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue both titles together as a single (Capitol 3430).</span></div>
</div>1956 - Vocalist Dick Haymes, with Ian Bernard and his orchestra (lineup unlisted), records the titles <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imKN58_3ldM">"Then I'll Be Tired Of You"</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXOMuamglU0">"Skylark"</a>, and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvhXTNkGEms">"You Don't Know What Love Is"</a> in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Haymes' album "Moondreams" (T 787).</div><div><br />1958 - Capitol Records releases Dean Martin's promotional recording <a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/7ACDdwEPWwRcW97yG6bX8L?si=Nu_14XFaSz-Y0e27eXw8wA">"It's 1200 Miles From Palm Springs To Texas"</a> (HB-2160) for Texas Desert Week held in Palm Springs, California.</div><div><br />1958 - Jacke Gleason conducts His Orchestra (featuring Romeo Penque on alto saxophone and flute, Bernie Leighton on piano, and unlisted others) as they record the titles "Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me", "I Must Have That Man", "Ain't Misbehavin'", "Nevertheless", "I'm Making Believe", and "I Just Can't Take It" in New York City, New York for Capitol Records. All the takes of all the titles were rejected.</div><div><br />1958 - Pianist Hank Jones, with unlisted others, had a recording session for Capitol Records in New York City, New York for which no details are listed.</div><div><br />1963 - The Four Preps (Bruce Belland on tenor vocals, Marvin Inabnett on high tenor vocals, Glen Larson on baritone vocals, and Ed Cobb on bass vocals), with Lincoln Mayorga conducting the orchestra (lineup unlisted), record the titles "Charmaine" and "Demons And Witches" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue "Charmaine" as a single (Capitol 4974) with "Hi Ho Anybody Home?" (recorded April 15, 1963) on the flipside and "Demons And Witches" as a single (Capitol 5028) with "Oh Where, Oh Where (Where Has My Little Girl Gone)" (also recorded April 15, 1963) on the flipside.</div><div><br />1963 - Bandleader and pianist Stan Kenton and His Orchestra (Bud Brisbois, Dalton Smith, Conte Candoli, Bob Behrendt, and Bob Rolfe on trumpets, Bob Fitzpatrick, Kent Larsen, Gilbert Falco, and Jim Amlotte on trombone, Dave Wheeler on bass trombone and tuba, Dwight Carver, Tony Scodwell, Joe Burnett, and Bob Grull on mellophones, Gabe Baltazar on alto saxophone, Steve Marcus and Ray Florian on tenor saxophones, Jack Nimitz on baritone saxophone, Joel Kaye baritone and bass saxophones, Don Bagley on bass, Dee Barton on drums, and Larry Bunker and Frank Guerrero on percussion), record the titles "Interlude", "Concerto To End All Concertos", "Brasilia", and "Kentonova" in The Capitol Tower Studios at 1750 North Vine Street in Hollywood, California between 1:00 PM and 4:00 PM. The take of "Kentonova" recorded at this session is rejected and Capitol Records will issue "Interlude", "Concerto To End All Concertos", and "Brasilia" on Kenton's album "Artistry In Bossa Nova" (T/ST 1931).</div><div><br />1968 - Vocalist Tennessee Ernie Ford, with Jack Fascinato conducting his own arrangements to the orchestra (lineup unlisted), records the titles "O Come All Ye Faithful", "As Lately We Watched", and "Slumber Song Of The Infant Jesus" in Los Angeles, California. After overdubs are recorded for "O Come All Ye Faithful" and "Slumber Song Of The Infant Jesus" on May 21, 1968 and for "As Lately We Watched" on May 22, 1968, Capitol Records will issue the final mixes for all the titles on Ford's album "O Come All Ye Faithful" (ST 2968).</div><div><br />1968 - Vocalists Tony Sandler and Ralph Young, with unlisted others, record the titles "Jingle Bells", "Susa Ninna", "Adeste Fidelis", and "Do You Hear What I Hear?" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue "Adeste Fidelis" as part of its Leisure Series on the multi-artist compilation album "Joys Of Christmas" (SL-6610) and has yet to issue any of the other titles.</div><div><br /><div>1968 - Eddie Heywood, with unlisted others, records the titles "Give My Regards To Broadway" and "Ramona" in New York City, New York. After overdubs are recorded for both titles on May 23, 1968, Capitol Records will issue the final mixes of both titles on Heywood's album "The Piano Artistry Of Eddie Heywood - Soft Summer Breeze" (ST-163).</div><div><br /></div><div>1968 - Vocalist Sonny James, with unlisted others, records the titles "She Still Thinks I Care", "Don't Be Angry", and "It's Over" in Nashville, Tennessee. After overdubs are recorded for "She Still Thinks I Care" on April 23, 1968, Capitol Records will issue the final mixes of all the titles on the James' album "Heaven Says Hello" (ST 2937).</div><div><br /></div>1969 - Glen Campbell's Capitol Records single "Galveston", with "How Come Every Time I Itch I Wind Up Scratchin' You" on the flipside, is certified Gold by the R.I.A.A.</div><div><br />1973 - Paul McCartney stars in his first solo TV special, "James Paul McCartney", which features his new band, Wings.</div><div><br />1973 - Vocalist Stoney Edwards, with unlisted others, records the titles "I Spent A Week There Last Night", "I'm Just Tired Of Hurting You", "You're A Family Man", "It's Rainin' On My Sunny Day", and "Seems Like Only Yesterday". After overdubs are recorded for "You're A Family Man" and "Seems Like Only Yesterday" on June 18, 1974, Capitol Records will issue "It's Rainin' On My Sunny Day" as a single (Capitol 3766) with "Daddy Bluegrass" (recorded August 29, 1973) on the flipside and has yet to issue any off the other titles.</div><div><br />1994 - Bonnie Raitt's Capitol Records album "Longing In Their Hearts" is #1 on Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart.</div><div><br />1996 - Capitol Records releases Richard Thompson's double CD album <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyC9-EpySTOSrMA4XAw7hqX3qxQhiNYxe">"You? Me? Us?"</a><span> (<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;">CDP 7243 8 33704 2 9) in the United States </span></span>with one disc of acoustic material being dubbed "Nude" and the other disc of electric material titled "Voltage Enhanced". Capitol also releases The Jesus Lizard's label debut "Shot" after recording six albums for Touch And Go and a live album for Collision Arts.</div><div><br />2013 - Capitol Records releases Sky Ferreira's single "Everything Is Embarrassing" from her second EP "Ghost" in the United Kingdom and Ireland.</div><div><br /><br />ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY</div><div><br />1889 - Charlie Chaplin, an actor, writer, motion picture actor, director and producer, and co-founder of United Artists Pictures, is born Charles Spencer Chaplin in Walworth, London, England. United Artists would later create United Artists Records whose catalog is currently owned by Capitol Music Group's parent company, EMI Music Group.</div><div><br />1918 - Spike Milligan, comedian, musician, radio (most notably on BBC Radio's "The Goon Show"), television, and motion picture writer and actor, Parlophone Records recording artist as part of "The Goon Show" cast with producer George Martin, is born Terence Alan Milligan in Ahmed Nagar or Ahmadnagar, India.</div><div><br />1929 - Edie Adams, a singer, Broadway (originated the role of Daisy Mae in the Johnny Mercer musical "Li'l Abner" and won the 1956 Tony award for her performance), motion picture and television actress, one-time wife of comedian, motion picture and television actor Ernie Kovacs, one-time wife of trumpet player and Capitol Records artist Pete Candoli, is born Elizabeth Edith Enke in Kingston, Pennsylvania.</div><div><br />1935 - "Fibber McGee and Molly" debuts on NBC Radio. Future Capitol Records music director Paul Weston will begin doing arrangements for the show in 1940 and future Capitol Records artist Martha Tilton will be on the show for about a year starting in 1941. One of Capitol Records' first album releases will be "On The Night Before Christmas" which features the cast of the show (Jim and Marion Jordan) as well as the vocal group The King's Men, with the orchestra conducted by Billy Mills and music and vocal arrangements by Ken Darby.</div><div><br />75 Years Ago Today In 1947 - Gerry Rafferty, singer, guitarist, member of the groups The Humblebums and Stealers Wheel, and United Artists Records solo artist, is born in Paisley, Scotland.</div><div><br />1953 - The Kenny Drew Trio (Kenny Drew on piano, Curly Russell on bass, and Art Blakey on drums) record the titles "Lover Come Back To Me", two takes of "Yesterdays", "Everything Happens To Me", "It Might As Well Be Spring", "Be My Love", "Drew's Blues", "Gloria", "Stella By Starlight" and another take of "Everything Happens To Me" at recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder's studio in Hackensack, New Jersey. Blue Note Records will issue "Lover Come Back To Me", the second take of "Yesterdays", the first take of "Everything Happens To Me", "It Might As Well Be Spring", "Be My Love", "Drew's Blues", "Gloria", and "Stella By Starlight" on the trio's album "New Faces – New Sounds, Introducing The Kenny Drew Trio" (BLP5023) and all the titles and takes on the double album CD by Howard McGhee and The Kenny Drew Trio "Howard McGhee - Introducing The Kenny Drew Trio" (4-95747-2).</div><div><br />1979 - Kenny Rogers and Dottie West's United Artists Records single "Every Time Two Fools Collide", with "We Love Each Other" on the flipside, is #1 on the U.S. Country singles chart.</div>PopCultureFanBoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01768787919999520127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18285770.post-16940006146747843232022-04-15T00:00:00.021-04:002022-04-15T00:00:00.164-04:00<p>APRIL 15, 2022<br /><br /><br />HAPPY BIRTHDAYS!</p><p>1898 - Marian Jordan, a radio and motion picture actress (best known as Molly McGee on the series "Fibber McGee and Molly") and a Capitol Records artist (on the 78 rpm album <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeNEU_LVTP8">"On The Night Before Christmas"</a>), is born Marian Driscoll in Peoria, Illinois.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vLWlOc3vE4M/WtOvVaMYcYI/AAAAAAAAA5Q/NqOmuRlKqCgBDpp29Pa76cWhePa27yNCgCLcBGAs/s1600/capital-records-3-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1400" data-original-width="1073" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vLWlOc3vE4M/WtOvVaMYcYI/AAAAAAAAA5Q/NqOmuRlKqCgBDpp29Pa76cWhePa27yNCgCLcBGAs/s320/capital-records-3-1.jpg" width="245" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><p></p><p></p><p>1908 - <a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/10uwDZEuXM1HzOeDlrybCS?si=s4L3nnsUSue5WBH7teB1JA">eden ahbez</a>, songwriter (best known for Nat "King" Cole's Capitol Records title "Nature Boy"), is born Alexander Aberle in Brooklyn, New York.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgLD7EF5-Xd8kpLroReywsG5fMloRlnGYtpBnLdg4sgvhu259Lm604gXShf2bus7zxzvaYogAL1R-NsQmfLHLrLhY_HgRr1WduGo_GJyC-Tms9MSt_HOplqQZev0ZLvTDudw_mODVFqNiH6LaVvPwqmAn597ZPcxs_kcZMCFhJn3jAA2zLi0E/s500/edenahbez3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgLD7EF5-Xd8kpLroReywsG5fMloRlnGYtpBnLdg4sgvhu259Lm604gXShf2bus7zxzvaYogAL1R-NsQmfLHLrLhY_HgRr1WduGo_GJyC-Tms9MSt_HOplqQZev0ZLvTDudw_mODVFqNiH6LaVvPwqmAn597ZPcxs_kcZMCFhJn3jAA2zLi0E/s320/edenahbez3.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p>1909 - Vern Yocum, a clarinetist, alto and baritone saxophone player, vocalist, copyist, orchestrator, whose company maintained the arrangement libraries for Capitol Records artists Frank Sinatra, Nat "King" Cole, Nelson Riddle, Roy Clark, and Nancy Wilson as well as for Rosemary Clooney, Frankie Lane, Trini Lopez, and Julie Andrews, and brother of Capitol Records group The Pied Pipers singer Clark Yocum, is born George Vernon Yocum in Sunbury, Pennsylvania.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDsYNhNjTwtrICPsD3XrRjiP3T-AaPPqiQO7HG44nTTc5EMvNqLhsoOfJVpdeG6CCvp1Jr9UINJNpZsbG0Bw_frXqxK46V1f4Uoqv-A1x6vlUG0ij2izU9sZsJBSVO3QuCmCfqOzocoBOGguiFWPQooaKevGOTOzTXD2GG2nDn13_xOa4l8SM/s200/VernYocum.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="160" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDsYNhNjTwtrICPsD3XrRjiP3T-AaPPqiQO7HG44nTTc5EMvNqLhsoOfJVpdeG6CCvp1Jr9UINJNpZsbG0Bw_frXqxK46V1f4Uoqv-A1x6vlUG0ij2izU9sZsJBSVO3QuCmCfqOzocoBOGguiFWPQooaKevGOTOzTXD2GG2nDn13_xOa4l8SM/s1600/VernYocum.jpg" width="160" /></a></div><p></p><p>1933 - Roy Clark, a singer, guitarist, banjo player, motion picture actor, television variety show host, and Capitol Records artist, is born Roy Linwood Clark in Meherrin, Virginia.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu-16XycjaYsEvcICc9zlidTk4CQ5xDZt9rkcbC-18p1YQGMTj5cvkXs7zwtGbCm84isEAlhNbh4FMIaJaaNxIKpfGGjjhPNVPzcr74uUquNxgCTKjxYWdfYAh7xDAkMbjd-HOT62GZglX1JoFn88NaTkoo1NllnmO2Fgded6yKHpWF5bl-tM/s580/RoyClarkTheLightningFingersOf.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="573" data-original-width="580" height="316" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu-16XycjaYsEvcICc9zlidTk4CQ5xDZt9rkcbC-18p1YQGMTj5cvkXs7zwtGbCm84isEAlhNbh4FMIaJaaNxIKpfGGjjhPNVPzcr74uUquNxgCTKjxYWdfYAh7xDAkMbjd-HOT62GZglX1JoFn88NaTkoo1NllnmO2Fgded6yKHpWF5bl-tM/s320/RoyClarkTheLightningFingersOf.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p>1968 - Ed O'Brien, a guitarist and a vocalist with the Capitol Records group Radiohead, is born Edward John O'Brien in Oxford, England.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTizVGkKU1AaBn3-w_fTbvlvWG2VKyLUcmL6mwzPbk7g5zwIPUEZuDGk-weGXxvpFIY_EHSalpPJ9Lx-mSCAlSZKN4Ty2DRIaHIBTxbBpe_bjXfSBv3vOx1mpqPeYzHXJwj4ZYNwQPJm8ALJOdtZMWgNMYubb6l4lQT7HpMUHihEcfpzdnCKE/s914/EdO'Brien.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="914" data-original-width="914" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTizVGkKU1AaBn3-w_fTbvlvWG2VKyLUcmL6mwzPbk7g5zwIPUEZuDGk-weGXxvpFIY_EHSalpPJ9Lx-mSCAlSZKN4Ty2DRIaHIBTxbBpe_bjXfSBv3vOx1mpqPeYzHXJwj4ZYNwQPJm8ALJOdtZMWgNMYubb6l4lQT7HpMUHihEcfpzdnCKE/s320/EdO'Brien.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p><br />ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY</p><p>1945 - Johnny Mercer and Jo Stafford's Capitol Records single "Candy", with "I'm Gonna See My Baby" on the flipside, is #4 on the U.S. Pop singles charts.</p><p>1946 - Guitarist Alvino Rey and his orchestra (Chuck Peterson, Jake Gerheim, Russ Granger, and Frank Nelson on trumpets, Sam Levine, Bob McReynolds, and Bob Swift on trombones, Bob Walsh and Hal McKusick on alto saxophones, Herbie Steward on tenor saxophone, Chuck Gentry on baritone saxophone, Rocky Coluccio on piano and vocals, Jim Bates on bass, and Ben Weber on drums) record the titles <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Qtl3tiYwZo">"Bumble Boogie"</a> in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue the title as a single (Capitol 262) with "Sepulveda" (recorded February 26, 1946) on the flipside.</p><p>1946 - Tenor saxophonist Sam Donahue and his orchestra (Mitch Paul, Bill Marshall, Frank Beach, and Earl Collier on trumpets, Dick Le Fave, Tak Takvorian, Kenny Miesel, and Sid Brantley on trombones, Harry Peterson, Bill Nichol, and Paul Petrillo on alto saxophones, Max Kriseman also on tenor saxophone, George Perry on baritone saxophone, Bob Durant on piano, Louis Pop on bass, and Harold Hahn on drums) record the titles <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zap3yF_ltrk">"Take Five"</a> with vocals by Mynell Allen and the instrumental <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKlSPGNBkOk">"Convoy"</a> in New York City, New York. Capitol Records will issue "Take Five" as a single (Capitol 260) with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIVmBn0G_wg">"Dinah"</a> (recorded April 3, 1946) on the flipside and "Convoy" in the compilation album "Classics In Jazz - Sam Donahue" (T 626).</p><p>1953 - Vocalist Kay Starr, with Harold Mooney and His Orchestra (lineup unlisted), records the title "Allez-Vous-En (Go Away)" and a new take of the title "Half A Photograph" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue both titles together as a single (Capitol 2464).</p><p>1958 - Tenor saxophonist Plas Johnson, with unlisted trumpet, baritone saxophone, piano, bass, and drums players, records the titles "Dinah" with The Corairs (unlisted vocalists), "Everyone Knows", "Blow Your Blues Away" with The Evelyn Freeman Voices (lineup unlisted), and "Little Rockin' Deacon" also with The Corairs on vocals in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue "Dinah" and "Little Rockin' Deacon" together as a single (Capitol F3977) and "Everyone Knows" and "Blow Your Blues Away" together as a single (Capitol F4029).<br /><br />1958 - During two sessions held this day in The Capitol Tower Studios at 1750 North Vine Street in Hollywood, California, vocalist and guitarist Hank Thompson, with The Brazos Valley Boys (Dubert Ray Dobson on trumpet, Tommy Camfield, Harold Glenn Hensley, and Robert "Bob" White on fiddles, Vic Davis on piano, Billy Gray and Merle Travis also on guitars, Floyd Lester "Bobbie" White on steel guitar, Billy Briggs Stewart on bass, and John Sterling "Butch" White on drums), records the titles "Let Me Call You Sweetheart", "What Will I Do On Monday", "You're Going Back To Your Old Ways Again", and "I've Run Out Of Tomorrows" at the first session between 11:30 AM and 2:30 PM and the titles "Shenandoah Waltz", "Signed, Sealed And Delivered", "In The Valley Of The Moon", and "Warm Red Wine" at the second session (time of session unlisted). After vocal overdubs are recorded in Los Angeles on May 2, 1958 for "Shenandoah Waltz", "Signed, Sealed And Delivered", "In The Valley Of The Moon", and "Warm Red Wine" and on May 6, 1958 for "What Will I Do ON Monday" and "You're Going Back To Your Old Ways Again", Capitol Records will issue the final mixes of "Let Me Call You Sweet Heart", "What Will I Do On Monday", "Shenandoah Waltz", "Signed, Sealed And Delivered", "In The Valley Of The Moon", and "Warm Red Wine" on the album "Favorite Waltzes By Hank Thompson With The Brazos Valley Boys" (T 1111), "You're Going Back To Your Old Ways Again" and "I've Run Out Of Tomorrows" together as a single (Capitol F4085),<br /></p><div>1958 - Trombonist and vocalist Jack Teagarden, with Doc Oakley on trumpet, Jerry Fuller on clarinet, Don Ewell on piano, Stan Puls on bass, and Ronnie Greb on drums, records the titles "Walleritis", "Doc Jazz", and "China Boy" at Universal Studios in Chicago, Illinois. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Teagarden's album "Big T's Dixieland Band" (T 1095).</div><p>1961 - Vocalist Peggy Lee, with Quincy Jones conducting his own arrangements to the orchestra (Bob Fowler, Conrad Gozzo, Al Porcino, and Jack Sheldon on trumpets, Vernon Friley, Lewis McCreary, and Frank Rosolino on trombones, George Roberts on bass trombone, Benny Carter and Bill Green on alto saxophones, Plas Johnson and Bill Perkins on tenor saxophones, Jack Nimitz on baritone saxophone, Jimmy Rowles on piano, Dennis Budimir and Howard Roberts on guitar, Max Bennett on bass, Stan Levey on drums, and Chino Pozo on congas and percussion), records a new take of the title <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxlLqop3Ov0">"Goin' To Chicago Blues"</a> and the titles <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZfKdQUI2YI">"Boston Beans"</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRp-NlZChPg">"The Grain Belt Blues"</a> (aka "Orange Blues"), and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRp-NlZChPg">"Basin Street Blues"</a> in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Lee's album "Blues Cross Country" (T 1671).<br /><br />1963 - Nat "King" Cole's Capitol Records single "All Over The World" is #29 on WEEZ 1550's Nifty Fifty chart in Chester, Pennsylvania.</p><p>1963 - Trombonist Bob Flanigan and guitarist John Gray, with Al Viola also on guitar, Don Bagley on bass, and Bob Neal on drums, record the titles"Coral Reef", "Putt-It (How's Your Bird)", and "A Lot Of Livin' To Do" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Flanigan and Gray's album "Togetherness" (T/ST 1957).<br /></p><div>1963 - The Four Preps (Bruce Belland on tenor vocals, Marvin Inabnett on high tenor vocals, Glen Larson on baritone vocals, and Ed Cobb on bass vocals) with Lincoln Mayorga directing the orchestra (lineup unlisted), record the titles "Hi Ho Anybody Home?" and "Oh Where, Oh Where (Where Has My Little Girl Gone)" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue "Hi Ho Anyone Home?" as a single (Capitol 4974) with "Charmaine" (recorded April 16, 1963) on the flipside and "Oh Where, Oh Where (Where Has My Little Girl Gone)" as a single (Capitol 5020) with "Demons And Witches" (also recorded April 16, 1963) on the flipside.<br /><br /></div><div>1963 - The Lettermen (vocalists Jim Pike, Tony Butala, and Bob Engemann on vocals), with unlisted others, record the titles "Allentown Jail" and "Two Brothers" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue both titles together as a single (Capitol 4976).<br /><br /></div><div>1968 - Vocalist Glen Campbell, with Al De Lory conducting his own arrangments to the orchestra (lineup unlisted), records the titles "That's Not Home", "Christmas Is For Children", and "Dreams Of An Everyday Housewife" in Los Angeles, California. After overdubs are recorded for "Christmas Is For Children" on April 27, 1968, for "Dreams Of An Everyday Housewife" on May 10, 1968, and for "That's Not Our Home" on September 28, 1968, Capitol Records will issue "That's Not Home" and "Dreams Of An Everyday Housewife" on Campbell's album "Wichita Lineman" (ST-103), "Dreams Of An Everyday Housewife" also as a single (Capitol 2224) with the instrumental "Kelly Hoedown" (recorded April 19, 1967) on the flipside, and "Christmas Is For Children" as a single (Capitol 2336) with "There's No Place Like Home" (recorded July 24, 1968) on the flipside and also on the album "That Christmas Feeling" (ST 2978).<br /><br /></div><div>1968 - Human Beinz (lineup unlisted) record the titles "Two Of A Kind" and "April 15th" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue both titles on the group's album "Evolutions" (ST 2926).<br /><br /></div><div>50 Years Ago Today In 1972 - Ringo Starr's Apple Records single, "Back Off Boogaloo", distributed by Capitol Records in the United States with "Blindman" on the flipside, enters the top 40 Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart</div><p>1978 - Sweet's Capitol Records single "Love Is Like Oxygen", with "Cover Girl" on the flipside, enters the top 40 Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart.<br /><br />1983 - Sherry Kean, with unlisted others, records the title "Stop This Sorrow" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue the title on Kean's album "People Talk" (ST-12328).<br /><br />1989 - Donny Osmond's Capitol Records single "Soldier Of Love", with "My Secret Touch" on the flipside, enters the top 40 Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart. I met Donny in 1988 at the listening party for Ziggy Marley and The Melody Maker's first Virgin Records album "Conscious Party", which was held at Virgin's first office in Beverly Hills, California.<br /><br />1990 - Dan Seals' Capitol Records single "Love On Arrival", with "Those" on the flipside, is #1 on the U.S. Country singles chart.<br /><br />1991 - MC Hammer's Capitol Records album "Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em" is certified Diamond (10 million units sold) by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).<br /><br />1998 - Rose Maddox, singer, with the group The Maddox Brothers & Rose, and a Capitol Records solo artist, dies in Ashland, Oregon at age 72.</p><p><br />ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY<br /><br />1968 - Tenor saxophonist Stanley Turrentine, with Snooky Young and Jimmy Nottingham on flugelhorns, Jim Buffington on French horn, Benny Powellon bass trombone, Kenny Burrell on guitar, George Duvivier on bass, and Grady Tate on drums, records the titles "Blues For Stan" and "Stan" both arranged by Thad Jones and with Hank Jones on piano and "The Look Of Love" arranged by Duke Pearson who is also on piano at recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder's studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. After an uncredited fourteen-piece string section records overdubs for all the titles on May 27, 1968, Blue Note Records will issue all the titles on Turrentine's album "The Look Of Love" (BST84286).<br /><br />45 Years Ago Today In 1977 - Kenny Rogers United Artists Records single "Lucille" (aka Country Music's "National Anthem"), with "Till I Get It Right" on the flipside, is #1 on the U.S. Country singles charts. United Artists' catalog is currently owned by Capitol Music Group's parent company, Universal Music Group.<br /><br />1979 - Kenny Rogers and Dottie West's United Artists Records single "All I Ever Need Is You", with "(Hey Won't You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song" on the flipside, is #1 on the U.S. Country singles chart. United Artists' catalog is currently owned by Capitol Music Group's parent company, Universal Music Group.<br /><br />1990 - Sinead O'Connor's Chrysalis Records single "Nothing Compares 2 U", with "Jump In The River" on the flipside, is #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart. Chrysalis' U.S. catalog was merged with Capitol Records catalog by Universal Music Group in 2013 and Capitol currently distributes Chrysalis' U.S. catalog.<br /><br />20 Years Ago Today In 1998 - Green Hill Records releases the CD compilation "The Nat 'King' Cole Collection".</p>PopCultureFanBoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01768787919999520127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18285770.post-31044721610820166632022-04-14T00:00:00.005-04:002022-04-14T00:00:00.170-04:00<p> APRIL 14, 2022</p><p><br /></p>HAPPY BIRTHDAYS!<div><br />1924 - Shorty Rogers, a trumpet player, bandleader, composer, arranger, a member of Capitol Records band Stan Kenton and His Orchestra, and Blue Note Records artist, is born Milton M. Rajonsky in Great Barrington, Massachusettes.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2C9r5jCbsbdruhhJj42XsypwIcJDbKI9Gy6QUkUT-sRtKUyseHbXsXavrGQVRFkvVL7rbJMgK8VFN-lJjFDJymqX4y90U0L0CkoZp_ZmdSGccnzB8PqManlpfGXj-BOu4-7C_-wGZz5OiEMNV-ks13OHHtseJaRvjLbUgBnxiq92YGVli7_c/s600/ShortyRogersModernSounds.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2C9r5jCbsbdruhhJj42XsypwIcJDbKI9Gy6QUkUT-sRtKUyseHbXsXavrGQVRFkvVL7rbJMgK8VFN-lJjFDJymqX4y90U0L0CkoZp_ZmdSGccnzB8PqManlpfGXj-BOu4-7C_-wGZz5OiEMNV-ks13OHHtseJaRvjLbUgBnxiq92YGVli7_c/w228-h228/ShortyRogersModernSounds.jpg" width="228" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimwmHG-jEpOS-opmSa0EBtc5N32XbO2Ur3Nfq_kEXeJaOJgoUkrDH91rO3rbX6c9k1MQtLADX2m-2VwChHSMlf0JlRjeMVCaIeP10Xueqev1LxVKyM1c8b8hHvOA7vZ6aNt34Wooala6nPgqKH-pglVBAO0C9vLZekAvt0MmTdd4sNcEx1Bcw/s560/ShortyRogers.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="560" data-original-width="560" height="227" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimwmHG-jEpOS-opmSa0EBtc5N32XbO2Ur3Nfq_kEXeJaOJgoUkrDH91rO3rbX6c9k1MQtLADX2m-2VwChHSMlf0JlRjeMVCaIeP10Xueqev1LxVKyM1c8b8hHvOA7vZ6aNt34Wooala6nPgqKH-pglVBAO0C9vLZekAvt0MmTdd4sNcEx1Bcw/w227-h227/ShortyRogers.jpg" width="227" /></a></div><br /></div><div><br />1925 - Rod Steiger, a Broadway and motion picture actor and singer, and a Capitol Records artist (1955 on the "Oklahoma!" motion picture soundtrack) is born Rodney Stephen Steiger in Westhampton, New York.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP0caBLl0SiAqa-UsN9qMfTvYPzR3syoCfh4pENY1NXsPGA67o4aPyvNvQcEkA0SlpXaADx3_fPzB_rwVJm0vxA3bXyBdbultgpq92f1g8NGRD6pCzM-pKz3SfNdF_ZzwyGWT1s6F6QBS-yzXw0RPZ8pGf19KCeA2uMw2MJH1hiM-4-Hjgytw/s581/RodSteigerOklahoma.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="579" data-original-width="581" height="227" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP0caBLl0SiAqa-UsN9qMfTvYPzR3syoCfh4pENY1NXsPGA67o4aPyvNvQcEkA0SlpXaADx3_fPzB_rwVJm0vxA3bXyBdbultgpq92f1g8NGRD6pCzM-pKz3SfNdF_ZzwyGWT1s6F6QBS-yzXw0RPZ8pGf19KCeA2uMw2MJH1hiM-4-Hjgytw/w228-h227/RodSteigerOklahoma.jpg" width="228" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaHOLUpuEipmIWP9V8lEuqto2TS_fTIKK3XMfjq97md7pwTe5QjMh75c46c7U-t2rcwp0kyB5uHqzpq0F-pthX0KXiY9zp4E0bYfip6YL25eB0eEG-qdzbZxASwbH-n-o6GJwln9i_VOYOIp4-OMEqw4_OCIiZc_saUGWxfucekjCg70F-2wY/s1500/ShirleyJonesOklahoma!.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaHOLUpuEipmIWP9V8lEuqto2TS_fTIKK3XMfjq97md7pwTe5QjMh75c46c7U-t2rcwp0kyB5uHqzpq0F-pthX0KXiY9zp4E0bYfip6YL25eB0eEG-qdzbZxASwbH-n-o6GJwln9i_VOYOIp4-OMEqw4_OCIiZc_saUGWxfucekjCg70F-2wY/w226-h226/ShirleyJonesOklahoma!.jpg" width="226" /></a></div></div><div><br /><br />ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY</div><div><br />80 Years Ago today In 1942 - Willem Mengelberg conducts The Concertgebouw Orchestra (lineup unlisted) as they record Richard Strauss' <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbDYJrZzAWA">"Death and Transfiguration, Op. 24"</a> in six parts in Amsterdam, Holland for Telefunken Records. Capitol Records will issue all six parts on the album "Richard STRAUSS - Death and Transfiguration Op. 24/Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks" after it acquires distribution rights in the United States to Telefunken's library (P-8100):</div><div><br />75 Years Ago Today In 1947 - Vocalist Betty Hutton, with Paul Weston conducting his own arrangements to the orchestra (lineup unlisted but included brass, reeds, piano, guitar, bass, and drums players but credited as with Joe Lillie and His Orchestra on single the label), records the titles "The Sewing Machine" and "I Wish I Didn't Love You So" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue both titles together as a single (Capitol 409).<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/k5SplLtiOT4" width="320" youtube-src-id="k5SplLtiOT4"></iframe></div></div><div><br />75 Years Ago Today In 1947 - Vocalist Jerry Colonna, with Frank De Vol and His Orchestra (lineup unlisted), records the titles "Cowpasture Polka", "Saloon", and "The Spaniard That Blighted My Life" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue "Cowpasture Polka" and "Saloon" together as a single (Capitol 420) and have yet to issue "The Spaniard That Blighted My Life".<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/bQS094her7A" width="320" youtube-src-id="bQS094her7A"></iframe></div></div><div><br />70 Years Ago Today In 1952 - Capitol Records registers the masters it purchased for Les Paul and Mary Ford's titles "I'm Confessin' (That I Love You)" featuring vocals by Mary Ford and "Carioca" and will issue both titles together as a single (Capitol 2080).<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Vsml8-n4tPo" width="320" youtube-src-id="Vsml8-n4tPo"></iframe></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>70 Years Ago Today In 1952 - Skip Martin and His Orchestra (lineup unlisted) record the titles "Night And Day", "The Continental", "The Waltz In Sambatime", and "We Saw The Sea" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Martin's album "Music For Tap Dancing" (L-341). Unfortunately, none of the titles are currently available on YouTube.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>1953 - Mel Blanc records vocal overdubs in Los Angeles, California, using a script written by Ted Pierce and Warren Foster, onto instrumental tracks recorded by Van Alexander conducting the orchestra (lineup unlisted) recorded earlier in the month of April 1953 (exact date unlisted) for the titles "Wild West Henery Hawk: Part 1" and "Wild West Henery Hawk: Part 2". Capitol Records will issue the final mixes of both titles on the children's album "Wild West Henery Hawk" (CAS-3172 on 10" shellac and CASF-3172 on 7" vinyl).<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-oh_PQwA9GgY/WtIt6qURStI/AAAAAAAAA40/3c-HxjyNoUwulmvsVrZwfYQuEYiAo_qegCLcBGAs/s1600/453415698e9ced25d77da34c43f6cadb.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1281" data-original-width="1280" height="200" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-oh_PQwA9GgY/WtIt6qURStI/AAAAAAAAA40/3c-HxjyNoUwulmvsVrZwfYQuEYiAo_qegCLcBGAs/s200/453415698e9ced25d77da34c43f6cadb.jpg" width="199" /></a></div></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>1953 - The Duke Ellington Trio (Duke Ellington on piano, Wendell Marshall on bass, and Butch Ballard on drums) record the titles <a href="https://open.spotify.com/user/markhn/playlist/3PI89yF0r4ngqQnbTzlID5?si=5DU2WvFmSBaa8J-M14a0dg">"In A Sentimental Mood", "Things Ain't What They Used To Be", "All Too Soon", and "Janet"</a> in Capitol Records' studios at 5515 Melrose Avenue in Hollywood, California. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Ellington's album <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/16DFutmQC0e4V8etsg5ZGG?si=1mcU1JQYTXOjLzyiDQtAqw">"The Duke Plays Ellington"</a> (T 477).<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5jAiFgCBczE/WtIv3V7x1rI/AAAAAAAAA5A/QXLo8d6JMjsw5yxPCIrjFL8Le4gjC3QygCLcBGAs/s1600/images.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" height="200" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5jAiFgCBczE/WtIv3V7x1rI/AAAAAAAAA5A/QXLo8d6JMjsw5yxPCIrjFL8Le4gjC3QygCLcBGAs/s200/images.jpg" width="200" /></a></div></div><div><br /><div>1954 - Kay Starr's Capitol Records single "If You Love Me (Really Love Me)", with "The Man Upstairs" on the flipside, enters the top 40 of the U.S. Pop singles charts.</div><div><br /></div>65 Years Ago Today In 1957 - Vocalist and pianist Carole Simpson records vocal tracks in Los Angeles, California over band tracks recorded by Lennie Neihaus and His Orchestra (lineup unlisted but included guitar, bass, drums, three violas, and cello players) on April 3, 1957, for the titles "There Will Never Be Another You", "Your Name Is Love", "Oh, Look At Me Now", and "A Gentleman Friend". Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Simpson's album "The Song Stylings Of Carole Simpson - All About Carole" (T 878).<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/QRPGKMOhUyk" width="320" youtube-src-id="QRPGKMOhUyk"></iframe></div></div><div><br />1958 - Nat "King" Cole's Capitol Records single "Looking Back" is #27 on WMGM 1050 AM's Top 40 Survey in New York City, New York.</div><div><br />1958 - During two sessions held this day in The Capitol Tower Studios at 1750 North Vine Street in Hollywood, California, vocalist and guitarist Hank Thompson, with The Brazos Valley Boys (Dubert Ray Dobson on trumpet, Tommy Camfield, Harold Glenn Hensley, and Robert "Bob" White on fiddles, Vic Davis on piano, Billy Gray and Merle Travis also on guitars, Floyd Lester "Bobbie" White on steel guitar, Billy Briggs Stewart on bass, and John Sterling "Butch" White on drums), records the titles "La Zinda Waltz" and "Anniversary Waltz" at the first session between 6:00 PM and 10:00 PM then the titles "Wednesday Night Waltz", "Gold And Silver Waltz", "Skaters' Waltz", and "Fifty Year Ago Waltz" between 6:00 PM and 10:00 PM then at the second session from 11:30 PM and 2:30 AM on April 15, 1958. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Thompson's album "Favorite Waltzes By Hank Thompson With The Brazos Valley Boys" (T 1111).</div><div><br />1958 - Freddy Martin conducts His Orchestra (lineup unlisted) as the record the titles "Tonight We Love (Tchaikovsky - 'Concerto In B Minor')", "Rhapsody In Blue", "Strange Music", "Theme From Tchaikovsky's '6th Symphony'", "Liebestraum", and "My Reverie" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Martin and his orchestra's album "Concerto!" (W/SW 1066).</div><div><br /><div>1958 - At a split and extended session held this day in The Capitol Tower Studios at 1750 North Vine Street in Hollywood, California between 5:00 PM and 9:00 PM, first Nelson Riddle conducts his own arrangement to His Orchestra (Tommy "Pullman" Pederson, Jimmy Priddy, Kenneth Shroyer, and Juan Tizol on trombones, John Cave and James Decker on French horns, Gene Cipriano, Buddy Collette, Joseph Koch, Lee Elliott, Arthur "Skeets" Herfurt, and Harry Klee on saxophones, Geoffrey Clarkson on piano, Bob Bain on guitar, Joe Comfort on bass, Larry Bunker and Frank Flynn on drums, Kathryn Julye on harp, and a string section with Alex Beller, Al Belnick, David Frisina, Marvin Limonick, Dan Lube, Erno Neufeld, Eudice Shapiro, Paul Shure, Felix Slatkin, Marshall Sosson, and David Sterkin on violins, Alvin Dinkin and Maxine Johnson on violas, and Edgar Lustgarten and Kurt Reher on cellos) as they record the title "The Seventh Voyage Of Sinbad" then, with Keely Smith on vocals, conducts as they record titles "The Whippoorwill", "You Are My Love", "Sometimes", and "Just As Much". Capitol Records will issue "The Seventh Voyage Of Sinbad" as a single (Capitol F3980) with "Love Theme From 'St. Louis Blues'" (recorded April 25, 1958) on the flipside, "The Whippoorwill" and "Sometimes" together as a single (Capitol F3975) by Kelly Smith, and "You Are My Love" as a single (Capitol F4063) with the live version of "That Old Black Magic" (recorded August 25, 1958 in the main room of the Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada with Louis Prima, Sam Butera and The Witnesses) on the flipside also as by Smith. Bear Family Records will issue all the titles in Germany in the eight-CD box set "Louis Prima, Sam Butera, and Keely Smith - Their Capitol Recordings" (BCD 15776).</div><div><br /></div><div>1958 - During two sessions held this day at Universal Studios in Chicago, Illinois, trombonist Jack Teagarden, with Dick Oakley on trumpet, Jerry Fuller on clarinet, Don Ewell on piano, Stan Puls on bass, and Ronnie Greb on drums, records the titles "Mobile Blues", "Wolverine Blues", "Tishomingo Blues", and, with Teagarden also on vocals, "Someday You'll Be Sorry" at the first session and the titles "Rip-A-Tutte", "Weary River" with Teagarden also on vocals, "Dallas Blues", and "Casanova's Lament" also with Teagarden on vocals at the second session. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Teagarden's album "Big T's Dixieland Band" (T 1095).</div><div><br /></div>1961 - Comedians Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks record the titles "The Astronaut", "Taxes", "2000 Year & 6 Month Old Man", and "Baby Routine" in New York City, New York. Capitol Records will issue "2000 Year & 6 Month Old Man" on the multi-artist comedy album "Fly Buttons" (T/ST 2502) and have yet to issue any of the other titles.</div><div><br />1966 - The Beatles record the title <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTxlDC93mXs">"Rain"</a> at Abbey Road Studios in London, England with producer George Martin. Capitol Records will issue the title as a single (Capitol 5651) with "Paperback Writer" (recorded April 13, 1966) on the flipside in the United States.</div><div><br />1968 - Final overdubs are recorded in Los Angeles, California for Glen Campbell's title "She Called Me Baby". Capitol Records will issue the final mix of the title on Campbell's album "A New Place In The Sun" (ST 2097).</div><div><br />1969 - Paul McCartney and John Lennon finish recording the title "The Ballad Of John And Yoko" at EMI's Abbey Road Studios in London, England. It is the first title released as a single by The Beatles not to feature George Harrison and Ringo Starr.</div><div><br />1975 - Fredric March (born Ernest Frederick McIntyre Bickel), motion picture actor and Capitol Records artist (narrator on the album "Hark The Years"), dies at age 77 in Los Angeles, California from cancer.</div><div><br />1978 - Vocalist Cheryl Ladd, with unlisted others, records the title "Bound To Please" in Los Angeles, California for Capitol Records which has yet to issue the title.</div><div><br /><div>1978 - No Dice (Jimmy Jewell on saxophone, Steve Smith on harmonica, Dave Martin and Dave Moore on guitars, Gary Strange on bass, Chris Wyles on drums and percussion, and Roger Ferris on vocals) record the titles "Angel With A Dirty Face" and "Jail House" in San Francisco, California for Capitol Records which has yet to issue either title.</div><div><br /></div>1980 - The Knack's Capitol Records album "…But The Little Girl's Understand" is certified Gold by the R.I.A.A.</div><div><br />1983 - Tina Turner signs a contract with Capitol Records.</div><div><br />1983 - Sherry Kean, with unlisted others, records the title "Universe Of Two" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue the title on Kean's album "People Talk" (ST-12328).</div><div><br />1990 - Heart's Capitol Records single "All I Wanna Do Is Make Love To You", with "Call Of The Wild" on the flipside, enters the top 40 of Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart.</div><div><br />1991 - Wilson Phillip's SBK Records (a division of Capitol Records) single "You're In Love" is #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart.</div><div><br /><br />ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY</div><div><br />1959 - The Fleetwood's Liberty Records single "Come Softly To Me", with "I Care So Much" on the flipside, hits #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart.</div><div><br />1983 - EMI America registers the masters it purchased for Any Trouble's titles "I'll Be Your Man", "Please Don't Stop", "Touch And Go", "foundations", "Party In The Streets", "Northern Soul", "Man Of The Moment", "Time Does Not Heal", "You'd Better Go Home", "Falling In Love With You Again", "Wrong End Of The Race", "Step By Step", and "Human Heart" and will issue "I'll Be Your Man", "Please Don't Stop", "Touch And Go", "foundations", "Party In The Streets", "Northern Soul", "Man Of The Moment", "Time Does Not Heal", "You'd Better Go Home", and "Falling In Love With You Again" on the group's album "" (ST-17096) and "Man Of The Moment" and an edited version of "Touch And Go" together as a single (EMI America 8166). No issuing information is listed for either "Step By Step" or "Human Heart".</div><div><br />1990 - Thurston Harris, singer (best know for the track "Little Bitty Pretty One") and Aladdin Records artist, dies of a heart attack in Pomona, California at age 58. I designed the album cover, with art director Henry Marquez, for EMI America's release of Harris' "Greatest Hits" album in 1986.</div>PopCultureFanBoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01768787919999520127noreply@blogger.com0