OCTOBER 4, 2012
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
1925 - Jack Kingston, singer, songwriter, yodeler, and the first Canadian country artist signed by Capitol Records (1950), is born in St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada
ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1944 - Leadbelly (Huddie Ledbetter), doing vocals and guitar, with Paul Howard on zither (and probably Dave Dexter, Jr. producing) records the tracks "Ella Speed", "Rock Island Line" (which he originally recorded in 1937), "Tell Me Baby" and "Take This Hammer" in Los Angeles, California. "Rock Island Line" will be released by Capitol Records on the anthology album "The History Of Jazz, Volume 1, The 'Solid' South". The other tracks will be released by Capitol Records on the album "Leadbelly" as part of the label's "Classics In Jazz" series.
1944 - Johnny Mercer, The Pied Pipers (Clark Yocum, Hal Hopper, Chuck Lowry) with June Hutton and Paul Weston and His Orchestra (Don Anderson, Ray Linn and Nate Kazebier on trumpet; Allan Thompson and Burt Johnson on trombone; Fred Stulce, Arthur "Doc" Rando, Matty Matlock, Eddie Miller and Harry Schuchman on saxophones; Stan Wrightsman on piano; Nappy Lamare on guitar; Jack Ryan on bass; Nick Fatool on drums; & 6 violins) record the tracks "I'm Gonna See My Baby" and "Ac-cent-tchu-ate The Positive" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will release "Ac-cent-tchu-ate The Positive" as a single (Capitol 180) with the track "There's A Fellow Waiting in P'Keepsie" on the flip side. The single will enter Billboard's Popular Retail Singles chart on January 4, 1945 where it will stay for 13 weeks and eventually peak at #2. "I'm Gonna See My Baby" will be released as the flip side of the single "Candy" (Capitol 183) which enters the charts at #9 on February 24, 1945, stays for 15 weeks and peaks at #2 on April 14, 1945.
1944 - Jo Stafford, with Paul Weston and His Orchestra, records the tracks "I Promise You" and "Let's Take The Long Way Home" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will release the tracks together as a single (Capitol 181) but the will not chart.
1945 - James Baskett and Johnny Mercer, with The Pied Pipers and Billy May and His Orchestra (Mannie Klein, Don Anderson and Holly Humphries on trumpet; William Schaefer, Ed Kusby and Hoyt Bohannon on trombone; Fred Fox on french horn; John Gruey, J.A. Krechter, Donald Renfrew, Warren Baker and Lloyd Hildebrand on saxophones; Frank Leithner on piano; John Ryan on bass; John Cyr on percusssion; Ann Mason on harp; and on strings: Edward Bergman, Walter Edelstein, Peter Ellis, George Kast, Sol Kindler, Dan Lube, Mischa Russell, Marshall Sosson and Olcott Vail on violin; Albert Burton and David Sterkin on viola; Fred Goerner and Joseph Saxonon cello) using a script adaptation by Alan Livingston, record the track "The Laughing Place, Part 1" at the studios of Radio Recorders in Hollywood, California. Capitol will release the track as part of the children's album "Tales Of Uncle Remus", a soundtrack album for Walt Disney's combined live action movie "Song Of The South"
1946 - In a really long recording session at Radio Records in Hollywood, California Wesley Tuttle & His Texas Stars (Tuttle on vocals with Darol A. Rice on clarinet; Charles Linville on fiddle; Paul Sells on accordian; Edwin "Buddy" Cole on piano; Eddie Kirk, Merle Travis, and Lewis Jack Rivers on rhythm guitar; Agapito "Pepe" Martinez on steel guitar; Allen Williams on bass; Tommy Romersa on drums) first record the track "Old Shep". Capitol will release the track on the compilation album "Cowboy Hit Parade" (Capitol AD-55). Then Johnny Mercer, Merle Travis (also on guitar) and Wesley Tuttle share the vocals (with Darol A. Rice on clarinet; Charles K. Linville on fiddle; Edwin "Buddy" Cole on piano; Eddie Kirk and Lewis Jack Rivers on rhythm guitar; Agapito "Pepe" Martinez on steel guitar; Allen J. Williams on bass and Tommy Romersa on drums) when they record the track "The Covered Wagon Rolled Right Along". Then Jerry Colonna with Wesley Tuttle Texas Stars (although Capitol Records' files indicate it was with Frank DeVol and His Orchestra) records the tracks "Oh Why, Oh Why, Did I Ever Leave Wyoming" (written by Morey Amsterdam). Then Johnny Mercer comes back and records the track "A Little Too Far" also with Wesley Tuttle Texas Stars and, finally, Jerry Colonna returns with Wesley Tuttle Texas Stars to record the track "When Rosie Ricoola Do The Hoola Ma Boola". Capitol Records will release the Jerry Colonna's tracks together as a single (Capitol 330) and "The Covered Wagon Rolled Right Along" and "A Little Too Far" together as a single (Capitol 400).
1949 - Pedro De Cordoba, with Richard "Keys" Biggs on organ, speaks on the tracks "1st and 2nd Gospel According To St. Luke" and the medley "3rd Gospel Accord To St. John/The Lord's Prayer/Hail Mary/Gloria" which Capitol Records will release as a single (Capitol 9010).
1951 - The Mellowmen Quartet record 2 tracks for the Capitol Records Transcription Service in Los Angeles, California. If anyone knows what was recorded, please leave a comment.
1951 - Mel Tormé (on piano and vocals, with Mary Osborne on guitar; Clyde Lombardi on bass; and Bunny Shawker on drums) records the tracks "You're A Heavenly Thing" and "Heart And Soul" in New York City, New York. Capitol Records will release "You're A Heavenly Thing" as a single (Capitol 1864) with "Foolish Little Rumors" on the flip side. "Heart And Soul" will eventually be released on the CD "Capitol Sings Hoagy Carmichael - Stardust"
1954 - Ramblin' Jimmie Dolan (doing vocals and guitar with Shelby "Tex" Atchison on fiddle; Billy Liebert on piano; Jimmy Bryant and Billy Strange on guitar; Wesley "Speedy" West on steel guitar; Red Murrell on bass; and Roy Harte on drums) records the tracks "Jolly Captain Huddlestead", "A Sailor's Letter", "What's Another Broken Heart" and "I Wonder If I Can Lose The Blues This Way" at Capitol Records' Melrose Avenue Studios in Hollywood, California. Capitol Records will release "I Wonder If I Can Loose The Blues This Way" and "A Sailor's Letter" together as a single (Capitol 2977) and "Jolly Captain Huddlestead" and "What's Another Broken Heart" together as a single (Capitol 3157).
1954 - Billy May and His Orchestra (John Best, Conrad Gozzo, Mannie Klein and Uan Rasey on trumpet; Si Zentner, Murray McEachern, Ed Kusby and Tommy Pederson on trombone; Skeets Herfurt and Wilbur Schwartz on alto saxophone; Ted Nash and Fred Falensby on tenor saxophone; Chuck Gentry on bass saxophone; Paul Smith on piano; Al Hendrickson on guitara; Joe Mondragon on bass; Alvin Stoller on drums and vocals; Lou Singer on percusssion; Jack Costanzo on bongos; Mike Pacheco on congas; Frank Guerrero on timbales) record the tracks "Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer", "Loop De Loop Mambo" (with vocals by The Maytimers), "Suzette" (with vocals by The Maytimers), "Suddenly" and "Trees" at Capitol Records Studios on Melrose Avenue in Hollywood, California. Capitol Records will release "Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer" and "Loop De Loop Mambo" together as a single (Capitol 2948), "Suzette" will be released as a single with "Street Of Dreams" on the flip side (Capitol 3297), "Suddenly" will be released on the EP "Dance To The Bands" (Capitol TBO 727) and "Trees" remains unissued as of 2005. All the tracks were arranged and conducted by Billy May.
1956 - Nat "King" Cole, with an orchestra (Harry Edison, Conrad Gozzo, Clyde Hurley, Vito Mangano, and Shorty Sherockon on trumpet; Murray McEachern and Ray Sims on trombone; Juan Tizol on valve trombone; George Roberts on bass trombone; Willie Smith and Mahlon Clark on alto saxophone; Babe Russin and William Skalak on tenor saxophone; Joe Koch on bass saxophone; Bill Miller on piano; John Collins on guitar; Charles Harris on bass; and Lee Young on drums), using arrangements and conducted by Nelson Riddle, records the tracks "True Blue Lou", "Like Someone In Love" "I'm Shooting High" and "Tangerine" at The Capitol Tower Studios in Hollywood, California. The tracks will be unreleased until they appear on complilation CDs or are released in foreign markets years later.
55 Years Ago Today In 1957 - Wesley "Speedy" West (on steel guitar with Elmer Schmidt on piano) records the instrumental tracks for the songs "Drifting And Dreaming", "My Little Grass Shack", "Sweet Hawaiian Chimes" and "Blue Hawaii" at The Capitol Tower in Hollywood, California. Capitol Records will release the tracks on his album "Speedy West With The Seven Seas Serenaders - West Of Hawaii" (Capitol T 956)
1959 - Tommy Sands, with an orchestra arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle, records the tracks "Quiet Girl", "You Hold The Future" and "I Gotta Have You" and one other track whose information has been lost in Los Angeles, California. "Quiet Girl" remains unissued as of 2005. Capitol Records released "You Hold The Future" and "I Gotta Have You" together as a single (Capitol 4316). If anyone has any information as to what the fourth track recorded at this session is or where the session was held, please leave a comment.
1960 - Dickie Harrell does drum overdubs for the track "Drum Opus IX: Goon Bat" in Los Angeles, California. The track will be released by Capitol Records on his album "Drums And More Drums" (Capitol ST 1502)
1960 - The Kingston Trio (Dave Guard on vocals and banjo, Nick Reynolds on vocals and guitar, Bob Shane on vocals, guitar and banjo), with Morris "Buck" Wheat on bass, records the track "Oh Mary, Don't You Weep", "Blow The Candle Out", "Come All You Fair And Tender Ladies" and "Blue Eyed Gal" at The Capitol Tower Studios in Hollywood, California. Capitol Records will release the last three tacks on the EP "Make Way!" and the first track would later be released on compilations.
1960 - Organist Jackie Davis (with Irving Ashby on guitar; Joe Comfort on bass; and Weedee Morris on drums) records the tracks "Stop, Look And Listen", "Stompin' At The Savoy" and "Time On My Hands" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will release the last two tracks on his album "Big Beat Hammond". "Stop, Look And Listen" remains unissued as of 2005.
1960 - The DeCastro Sisters (Babette, Cherie, and Olga), with an unknown backing group, record the tracks "There Goes My Heart", "Red Sails In The Sunset", "I Love You" and "I Love You, Yes I Do" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will release the tracks on their album "A Rockin' Beat". If anyone has information on who worked on the session, please leave a comment.
1960 - Virgil Fox records the tracks "Where E'er You Walk" by Handel (which remains unissued as of 2005) and "Dreams" by Hugh McAmis at Riverside Church in New York City, New York. "Dreams" will be released by Capitol Records on Fox's album "Vale Of Dreams" as part of Capitol's Promenade series.
1961 - Vic Damone, with Jack Marshall's Music (arrangements and orchestra conducted by Marshall), records the tracks "When The Lights Are Low", "After The Lights Go Down Low", "Linger Awhile", "Close Your Eyes" and "Stella By Starlight" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will release the tracks on his album "Linger Awhile With Vic Damone" (Capitol T 1646).
1961 - The Beach Boys (Mike Love on vocals; Brian Wilson on vocals and drums; Carl Wilson on lead guitar and vocals; Al Jardine on guitar and vocals) record the track "Surfin'" at Keen Studios in Beverly Hills, California for Candix Records. The master will later be sold to Capitol Records and released on their album "Surfin' Safari".
1961 - Pianist Joe Bushkin, with unknown session musicians, records the tracks "The Man I Love", "The Song Is Ended", "Once In A While" and "The Lady Is A Tramp" in New York City, New York. The tracks remain unreleased by Capitol Records as of 2005.
1961 - Three days of sessions recording the original Broadway cast soundtrack to Noel Cowards' "Sail Away" (featuring Charles Braswell, Grover Dale, Patricia Harty, James Hurst, Paul O'Keefe, and Elaine Stritch on vocals and an unknown men's chorus with Orchestra) with conductor Peter Matz begin in New York City, New York. Capitol Records will release all the tracks on the album "Sail Away" (Capitol WAO 1643).
50 Years Ago Today In 1962 - June Christy, with an orchestra (Ronnie Lang on flute; Laurindo Almeida on guitar; Joe Mondragon on bass; Shelly Manne on drums; Milt Holland and Emil Richards on percussion; and George Kast, Dan Lube, Erno Neufeld, Lou Raderman, Felix Slatkin, Robert Barene, Nathan Kaproff and Samuel Freed on violin) arranged and conducted by Bob Cooper, records the tracks "One Note Samba" and "Bossa Nova" which Capitol Records will release together as a single (F4864)
1963 - The Four Preps (Bruce Belland on tenor vocals, Marvin Ingram [aka Marvin Inabnett] on high tenor vocals, Glen Larson on baritone vocals, and Ed Cobb on bass vocals) with unknown studio musicians, record the tracks "We Don't Give A Hootenanny", "I'm Falling In Love With A Girl", "The Greatest Surfer Couple" and Timbuktu" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will release "I'm Falling In Love With A Girl" and "The Greatest Surfer Couple" together as a single (Capitol 5074). The other two tracks remain unissued as of 2005.
1963 - Tony Roma, with unknown session musicians, records the tracks "Turn Her Around", "You're Nothing But A Girl" and "If You See My Love" in New York City, New York. Capitol Records will release the first and third tracks together as a single (Capitol 5101). "You're Nothing But A Girl" remains unissued as of 2005.
1963 - The Jonas Jones Quartet (Jonah Jones on trumpet; four unknown trombones; André Persiany on piano; John Brown on bass and Danny Farrar on drums) record the tracks "My Monday Date", "Bill Bailey Won't You Please Come Home", "Moten Swing" and "Somethin' (Struttin' With Some Barbecue)" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will release the tracks as part of Jones' album "Blowin' Up A Storm". If anyone knows who performed on trombone, please leave a comment.
1964 - Capitol Records releases Gordon MacRae's album "Kismet" (SW-2022).
1964 - Vocalsist Ernie Andrews, with The Cannonball Adderley Quintet (Nat Adderley on cello; Julian "Cannonball" Adderley on alto saxophone; Joe Zawinul on piano; Sam Jones on bass; and Louis Hayes on drums), records the tracks "I'm Always Drunk In San Francisco", "Bill Bailey", "Don't Be Afraid Of Love", "Big City", "Green Door" and "Work Song" (listed as "Chain Gang" in Capitol's files) at a live performance at The Lighthouse Club in Hermosa Beach, California. Capitol Records will release the first 4 tracks on the album "Live Session!". The last two tracks remain unissued as of 2005.
1965 - Andy Russell, with unknown backing, records the tracks "Nothing Matters But You", "One Kiss For Old Times" and "I'll Be Standing By" in Los Angeles, California. The tracks remain unissed as of 2005
1965 - Dallas Frazier records the tracks "That Ain't No Stuff", "Elvira" and "When The Bell Goes Ding Dong" in Nashville, Tennessee. Capitol Records will release the first two tracks together as a single (Capitol 5560). "When The Bell Goes Ding Dong" remains unissued by Capitol Records.
1966 - Jody Miller, with unknown backing, records the track "If You Were A Carpenter" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records released the track as a single with "Let Me Walk With You" on the flip side (Capitol 5768). If anyone has more information about the session, please leave a comment.
1966 - Lou Lawton records an overdub for the track "I Turned My Back On Love" in New York City, New York which remains unissued by Capitol Records as of 2005.
1966 - The Beach Boys record the track "Our Prayer" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol will eventually release the track on the 5 CD set "Good Vibrations - 30 Years Of The Beach Boys". If anyone has more information about the session, please leave a comment.
45 Years Ago Today In 1967 - Stan Kenton and His Orchestra (Jay Daversa, Clyde Raesinger, Carl Leach, Dalton Smith, and Jack Laubach on trumpet; Tom Whittaker, Dick Shearer, and Tom Senff on trombone; Jim Amlotte on bass trombone; Graham Ellis on bass trombone and tuba; Ray Reed on alto saxophone and piccalo; Alan Rowe and Bob Dahl on tenor saxophone; John Mitchell on bass saxophone; Bill Fritz on baritone and bass saxophone and flute; Stan Kenton on piano; Monty Budwig on bass; Dee Barton on drums; Chino Valdes on congas and bongos) record the tracks "Interchange", "Changing Times", "A Man And A Woman", "Imagine" and "The World We Knew" at The Capitol Tower Studios in Hollywood, California. Capitol Records will release the tracks on Kenton's album "The World We Know".
45 Years Ago Today In 1967 - Elli St. James (aka Elli Janov) records the tracks "Theme 1", "My Heart Won't Let Me Shake You, Baby", and "Portobello Road" in Los Angeles, CA. Capitol will release "Theme 1" and "Portobello Road" together as a single (Capitol 2037). If anyone knows if "My Heart Won't Let Me Shake You, Baby" was ever released, please leave a comment.
45 Years Ago Today In 1967 - Summer Snow records the tracks "Flying On The Ground" and "Your Thoughts Have Wings" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol would purchase the masters and release the tracks together as a single (Capitol 2031).
1968 - Linda Rondstadt and The Stone Poneys record the tracks "Break My Mind", "It's About Time" and "We Need A Lot More Of Jesus (And A Lot Less Of Rock 'N' Roll)" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will release the tracks on the group's album "Hand Sown...Home Grown".
1968 - The Beach Boys record the track "Time To Get Alone" in Los Angeles, California which Capitol Records will release on their album "20/20".
1968 - Bill Tinker records the tracks "Again, Again", "Son", "Dee Anne" and "Anything You Ask" in the first session of the day and "Silver Love Line", "You Could Get High", "Midway" and "Man From Birmingham" at the second session of the day in Los Angeles, California. All the tracks will be included on his Tower Records (a subsidiary of Capitol Records) album "Inside Out". "Man From Birmingham" will be released as a single by Tower Records (Tower 472) with "An Everyday Thing" on the flip side.
1971 - Billy May and The Time-Life Orchestra (John Audino, John Best, Uan Rasey, Pete Candoli, and Mickey Mangano on trumpet; Ed Kusby, Gil Falco, Dick Noel, and Dave Wells on trombone; Les Robinson, Ronnie Lang, Abe Most, Justin Gordon, Nat Brown, and Chuck Gentry on saxophone; Ray Sherman on piano; Bob Bain on guitar; Rollie Bundock on bass; Nick Fatool on drums; and Larry Bunker on vibraphone) with May conducting his own arrangements, record the tracks "Rose Room", "Sidewalks Of Cuba", "Solo Flight" and "Yesterdays" at The Capitol Tower Studios in Hollywood, California. Time-Life will release the tracks.
1971 - Capitol Records releases Tennessee Ernie Ford's album "The Folk Album" which features Ford's youngest son Brion (then 19) accompanying his father on the track "Cotton Fields", and Buck Owen's compilation album "The Best Of Buck Owens, Volume 4"
1973 - David Frizell records the track "I've Been Satisfied" at Buck Owens Studios in Bakersfield, California for Buck Owens Enterprises. Capitol will purchase the masters and release the track as a single (Capitol 3787) with "Jesus and Joe" on the flip side.
1973 - Billy C. Graham records the tracks "Have A Good Time", "I'm Just A Pushover", "Dreaming" and "You're My Kind Of Woman" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will release "Have A Good Time" as a single (Capitol 3909) with "(She's The) Reason For Giving A Damn" on the flip side. The other tracks from the session remain unissued as of 2005.
1974 - Al Martino does an overdub for the track "Love Will Conquer All" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol will release the finished track on Martino's album "To The Door Of The Sun".
1975 - Natalie Cole's first hit Capitol Records single "This Will Be (An Everlasting Love)" written by Chuck Jackson and Cole's future husband Marvin Yancy, with "Joey" on the flip side, hits #1 on Billboard's R&B chart
1975 - Billy Jean Campbell files for divorce from Capitol Records artist Glen Campbell
1976 - Glen Campbell does overdubs for the tracks "When Did I Lose Your Love" (unreleased as of 2005), "Early Morning Song" and "This Is Sarah's Song" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will release the finshed versions of the last two tracks on Campbell's album "Southern Nights".
35 Years Ago Today In 1977 - Connie Cato, with unknown session musicians, records the tracks "It's Late (And I Have To Go)", "Yellow House Of Love" and "Saturday Night Sin" in Nashville, Tennesee. Capitol will release "Yellow House Of Love" as a single (Capitol 4547) with "Then Give Him Back To Me" on the flip side. It is unknown if the other two tracks have been issued.
1978 - A Taste Of Honey's debut Capitol Records album, "A Taste Of Honey", is certified Platinum by the R.I.A.A.
30 Years Ago Today In 1982 - Little River Band records the tracks "The Other Guy", "D", "One Day", "St. Louis", and two mixes of "Down On The Border" in Australia. Capitol Records released "The Other Guy" as a single (Capitol 5185) with "No More Tears" on the flip side. The next three tracks remain unreleased as of 2005. The first mix of "Down On The Border" was released by Capitol Records on the album "Greatest Hits" and the second on the album "The Net".
1985 - Anne Murray, with an orchestra arranged by Keith Diamond, records the track "Reach For Me" at Unique Recording Studio in New York City, New York. Capitol Records will release the track as a single (Capitol 5576) with "Who's Leaving Who" on the flip side.
1989 - Capitol Records releases Buck Owen's album "Act Naturally" on CD
1994 - Capitol and Virgin Records release rap group College Boys second and final album "Nuttin' Less Nuttin' Mo'".
2000 - Capitol Records artist Faron Young is inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame at the 2000 CMA Award Show in Nashville, Tennessee
2001 - Capitol Record producer Ken Nelson and Capitol Records group The Jordanaires are inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in a special ceremony in Nashville, Tennessee
2005 - Capitol Records releases Liz Phair's album "Somebody's Miracle" (her last for the label), Ebony Eyez's album "7 Day Cycle", The Magic Numbers self-titled album, John Lennon's compilation album "Working Class Hero-The Definitive Lennon" 2 CD set, and a remastered version of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's album "Acoustic" on CD
2005 - Capitol Records Nashville releases Chris Cagle's album "Anywhere But Here"
ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1957 or In 1960 - Afrika Bambaataa, early developer of Hip-Hop, record producer and EMI America artist (1988-1991), may have been born on this day (maybe as Kevin Donovan) in South Bronx, New York City, New York. Capitol Records currently owns EMI America's catalog. If anyone knows his true birth name and birth date, please leave a comment.
1983 - Kim Carnes works on a Dance mix of her track "Invisible Hands" that will be released by EMI America Records as a single (EMI-Am. 7815) with the track's original mix on the flip side. EMI America's catalog is owned by EMI Music Group, Capitol Music Group's parent company.
1989 - Graham Chapman, certified medical doctor, actor, comedian, member of Monty Python's Flying Circus, dies of spinal cancer at age 48 in a hospital in London England, the day before a 20th anniversary celebration for the show. Fellow Python member Terry Jones jokingly said, "I thought it was in terribly bad taste for him to die when he did" and "That was the worst case of party-pooping I have ever come across". In 1988 when I was working for Virgin Records America, I adapted the U.K packaging of Monty Python's "The Final Rip Off" 2 CD set for release in the United States. Capitol Records currently owns the Virgin Records America.
ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
55 Years Ago Today In 1957 - Russell Simmons, co-founder (with Rick Rubin) of Def Jam Records, older brother of Rev. Joseph Simmons (aka "Run" of Run-DMC), and media entrepreneur, is born in Queens, New York
1970 - Janis Joplin, singer, is found dead of a heroin overdose at age 27 in her room at the Landmark Motor Hotel (now called the Highland Gardens Hotel), 7047 Franklin Avenue, Hollywood, CA. She is cremated at the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Westwood, California, and her ashes are scattered into the Pacific Ocean.
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OCTOBER 3, 2012
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
1950 - Ronnie Laws, jazz, blues and funk saxophone and flute player, and Blue Note Records (1975-1976, 1996-1998), United Artists (1976-1980), Liberty Records (1981) and Capitol Records artist (1982-1984), is born Ronald Laws in Houston, Texas. Blue Note, United Artists and Liberty Records' catalogs are currently owned by Capitol Music Group's parent company, EMI Music Group.
ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1945 - Pianist Stan Kenton and His Orchestra (Buddy Childers and Ray Wetzel on trumpet, Vido Musso and Bob Cooper on tenor saxophone, Bob Ahern on guitar, Eddie Safranski on bass, and Robert Collier on drums) record the track "Painted Rhythm", arranged by Kenton, for Capitol Records
1946 - Jascha Datsko and His Gypsy Ensemble record an unissued take of "Granadinas/Clavelitios" in Los Angeles, California for Capitol Records
65 Years Ago Today In 1947 - Uncle Henry's Kentucky Mountaineers (which includes Henry Warren as Uncle Henry and Wava Adams on vocals) record the tracks "Red Headed Woman", "Are You Ashamed Of Me", "Misery In My Soul" and "Achin' And Cryin'" at a session in Los Angeles, California. "Red Headed Woman" and "Misery In My Soul" will be released as a single (Capitol 40077) and the other two tracks remain unissued as of 2005.
65 Years Ago Today In 1947 - Gordon MacRae with Paul Weston and His Orchestra (including strings) record the tracks "I Surrender Dear", "At The Candlelight Cafe", "Just One More Chance", and "I'm Yours To Command" in Los Angeles, California. The first two tracks will be released together as Capitol Records single 15014 and the last two as Capitol Records single 812.
1948 - Margaret Whiting's Capitol Records single "A Tree In The Meadow" is #1 on Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records chart
1950 - Vocalist Clark Dennis with vocal quartet and instrumental accompaniment records the tracks "Give Me A Kiss (To Build A Dream On)", "The Lorelei", "Love's Old Sweet Song" and "The Night The Floor Fell In" in Los Angeles, California. "The Lorelei" and "Love's Old Sweet Song" will be released together as Capitol Records single 1301 and the other two tracks remain unissued as of 2005.
1951 - Bob Crosby and His Bobcats (Billy Butterfield on trumpet, Elmer "Moe" Schneider, Murray McEachern, and Ted Vesely on trombone, Matty Matlock on clarinet, Eddie Miller on tenor saxophone, Jess Stacy on piano, Nappy Lamare on guitar, Bob Haggart on bass, Ray Bauduc on drums, and possibly and The Crew Chiefs on vocals) record the tracks "Bouquet Of Roses" and "Just A Little Lovin'" and (with Warren Smith replacing Schneider, McEachern and Vesely on trombone) the tracks "Savoy Blues" (possibly with Bob Crosby whistling) and "Avalon" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue the first two tracks together as a single (Capitol 18500 and the last two tracks together as a single (Capitol 1894).
60 Years Ago Today In 1952 - Stan Freberg (with Dick Roberts and Red Roundtree on banjo and George Burns Orchestra) records tracks for the song "The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise" in Los Angeles, California. The song will be released in 1954 on his Capitol Records EP "Any Requests?".
60 Years Ago Today In 1952 - Mickey Katz and His Orchestra record the tracks "Feet Up, Pat Him On The Pipick", "You Belong To Me", "Keneh Hora" and "Berele's Sherele" in Los Angeles, California for Capitol Records. The first two tracks will be released together on Capitol single 2267, the third on Capitol single 2863, and the last on his Capitol EP "The Family Danced: American-Yiddish Folk Music and Dances".
1955 - Vocalist Margie Rayburn (with Dennis Farnon conducting the orchestra [John Best, Conrad Gozzo, Vito "Mickey" Mangano, and Uan Rasey on trumpet; Si Zentner, Ed Kusby, and William Schaefer on trombone; Arthur "Skeets" Herfurt, Ted Nash, Jules Jacob, Robert Dawes, and Chuck Gentry on saxophones; Paul Smith on piano; Laurindo Almeida on guitar; Meyer Rubin on bass; Alvin Stoller and Lou Singer on drums; Carlos Vidal on congas; Frank Guerrero on timbales; Fred Aguirre on bongos]) with arranger Billy May, records the track "Basin Street Blues" at Capitol Records' studios on Melrose Avenue in Hollywood, California. The track will be released on the the Capitol Records single 3338 and with "Can I Tell Them You're Mine" on the flip side on a promo single with the same number.
1955 - The musical tracks for Yma Sumac's track "Cha Cha Gitano", "Carnavalito Boliviano" and Gomba Boomba" are recorded at Capitol Records Melrose studios in Hollywood (after Maggie Rayburn's session) by The Rico Mambo Orchetsra (the same line-up as listed in the orchestra for the Margie Rayburn's session) conducted by Billy May. The vocals for all three tracks will be recorded by Sumac on October 14, 1955 and additionl tracks for "Cha Cha Gitano" on October 18, 1955. All the titles will be released on her Capitol Records album "Mambo!"
1956 - Vocalist Bob Roubian, with Cliffie Stone and His Orchestra, records the tracks "It's Only A Paper Moon", "Come On Home", "Pauline, Pauline, Pauline" and "Rocket To The Moon" in Los Angeles, California. The first and last tracks will be released as single F101 by Prep Records, a subsidiary of Capitol Records and the middle two tracks will be released as single F3584 by Capitol Records and as a promo single with the same number
55 Years Ago Today In 1957 - Freddie Martin and His Orchestra (featuring Ralph Anthony, Johnny Cochran, and The Martin Men on vocals) record the tracks "Come To The Mardi Gras", "The Lady From 29 Palms" (both with vocals by Johnny Cochran and The Martin Men), "Why Don't We Do This More Often" (with vocals by Ralph Anthony and Ensemble), and "I've Got A Lovely Bunch Of Cocoanuts" in Los Angeles, California. The tracks will be released on their Capitol Records EP and on their Capitol Records album "Freddy Martin in Hi-Fi".
55 Years Ago Today In 1957 - Frank Sinatra (using arrangements by Billy May who is conducting the orchestra [Mannie Klein on trumpet; Si Zentner, Murray McEachern, and Francis "Joe" Howard on trombone; Skeets Herfurt and Willie Schwartz on alto saxophone; Jules Jacob and Joe Kinsler on tenor saxophone; Fred Falensby on bass saxophone; Frank Flynn on vibraphone; Bill Miller on piano; Verlye Mills on harp; Al Hendrickson on guitar; Joe Mondragon on bass; Country Washburne on tuba: Alvin Stoller on drums and a string section that includes Harold Dicterow, David Frisina, Jacques Gasselin, Dan Lube, Alex Murray, Paul Nero, Lou Raderman, Mischa Russell, Paul Shure, Felix Slatkin, Marshall Sosson, and Gerald Vinci on violins; Alvin Dinkin, Alex Neiman, Paul Robyn and David Sterkin on viola; Armand Kaproff, Ray Kramer, Edgar Lustgarten and Eleanor Slatkin on cello]) records the tracks "Autumn In New York", "London By Night", "April In Paris" and two takes of "Moonlight In Vermont" in Los Angeles, California. All the tracks except the alternate take of "Moonlight In Vermont" will be on Sinatra's Capitol Records album "Come Fly With Me".
55 Years Ago Today In 1957 - Les Brown and His Orchestra record the tracks "Leap Frog" and "Midnight Sun" in Los Angeles, California for Capitol Records but the tracks remain unissued as of 2005.
1960 - Capitol Records releases The Kingston Trio's Christmas album "The Last Month Of The Year"
1960 - "The Andy Griffith Show", featuring Capitol Records artist Andy Griffith and United Artists Records artist Don Knotts and a spinoff of "The Danny Thomas Show", debuts on CBS-TV where it will run until 1968 when Griffith leaves the series and is replaced by Ken Berry and is retitled "Mayberry R.F.D", running with that title until 1971
1963 - John Lennon and Paul McCartney overdub vocals for the track "Little Child" in Studio Three, EMI Studios, London, England.
1965 - Sonny James' Capitol Records single "Behind The Tear", with "Runnin'" on the flip side, is #1 on the U.S. Country singles chart
1966 - Capitol Records releases Merle Haggard and The Strangers' album "Swinging Doors And The Bottle Let Me Down"
45 Years Ago Today In 1967 - Vance Debar "Pinto" Colvig, voice actor for Walt Disney Studios and the original voice of Bozo The Clown for Capitol Records, dies of lung cancer at the age of 75 in Woodland Hills, California
35 Years Ago Today In 1977 - Capitol Record releases Bob Welch's single "Sentimental Lady", featuring vocals by his former Fleetwood Mac bandmate Christine McVie. "Hot Love, Cold World" is on the flip side of the commercial release and a mono version of "Sentimental Lady" on the flip side of the promo single.
1988 - The documentary film "Imagine", about the creation of John Lennon's album, premieres in Hollywood, California
20 Years Ago Today In 1992 - Liberty Records (later renamed Capitol Records Nashville) releases Garth Brooks' album "The Chase"
1994 - Liberty Records (later renamed Capitol Records Nashville) releases Suzy Bogguss with Chet Atkins' album "Simpatico"
2000 - Capitol Records releases Radiohead's album "Kid A" in the United States
2001 - Capitol Records Nashville artist Keith Urban receives the Australian Recording Industry's Achievement Award
2003 - "The Concert For George" (the film of the George Harrison tribute show) opens
2006 - Capitol Records releases The Decemberists' debut album "The Crane Wife", Sean Lennon's album "Friendly Fire" as a CD/DVD 2 disc set, Pink Floyd's compilation "Echoes - The Best Of Pink Floyd" as a 2 CD set, and The Pet Shop Boys' compilation "The Pet Shop Boys - The Hits - Pop Art" as a 2 CD Set.
2006 - Angel Records releases Sarah Brightman's compilation "Diva - The Singles Collection" both as a CD and as a seperate DVD title. Angel Records is a division of Capitol Music Group and is currently owned by Capitol Music Group's parent company, EMI Music Group.
ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1938 - Eddie Cochran, singer, guitarist, and Liberty Records artist, is born Edward Ray Cochran in Albert Lea, Minnesota. Liberty's catalog is currently owned by Capitol Music Group's parent company, EMI Music Group.
60 Years Ago Today In 1952 - "The Adventures Of Ozzie & Harriet" (co-starring sons David and future Imperial and Capitol Records artist Ricky Nelson) begins a 14-year run on ABC-TV
1953 - Chet Baker records his first two vocals for Pacific Jazz, as well as playing trumpet with Russ Freeman on piano, Carson Smith on bass, and Larry Bunker on drums for the tracks "The Thrill Is Gone" and "I Fall In Love Too Easily" at Radio Recorders, Hollywood, California. His vocals and instrumental parts are recorded separately and later spliced together. Pacific Jazz's catalog is currently owned by Capitol Music Group's parent company, EMI Music Group.
1956 - Alto saxophonist, Sonny Criss, with Sonny Clark on piano, Larry Bunker on vibraphone, Buddy Clark on bass, and Lawrence Marable on drums records his last session for Imperial Records. Imperial's catalog is currently owned by Capitol Music Group's parent company, EMI Music Group.
1988 - Future Capitol Records artist Lisa Marie Presley marries her first husband, Danny Keough
2006 - Roulette Jazz, a division of Blue Note Records, releases three more titles in "The Great Jazz Vocal Collection" series: Sarah Vaughan's Roulette Records album "Sarah + 2", Chris Connors' FM Records album "Chris Connors At The Village Gate", and Joe Williams' Roulette album "A Man Ain't Supposed To Cry". All three titles are remastered versions of their original releases. The Blue Note, Roulette and FM Records catalogs are currently owned by Capitol Music Group's parent company, EMI Music Group.
ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1955 - "Captain Kangaroo" premieres on CBS-TV's morning lineup running until 1984 and "The Mickey Mouse Club" begins a four year primetime run on ABC-TV
45 Years Ago Today In 1967 - Woody Guthrie, singer, songwriter, father of Arlo Guthrie, and cousin of Capitol Records artist Jack Guthrie, dies of complications of Huntington's Chorea at Brooklyn State Hospital in New York at age 55
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
1950 - Ronnie Laws, jazz, blues and funk saxophone and flute player, and Blue Note Records (1975-1976, 1996-1998), United Artists (1976-1980), Liberty Records (1981) and Capitol Records artist (1982-1984), is born Ronald Laws in Houston, Texas. Blue Note, United Artists and Liberty Records' catalogs are currently owned by Capitol Music Group's parent company, EMI Music Group.
ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1945 - Pianist Stan Kenton and His Orchestra (Buddy Childers and Ray Wetzel on trumpet, Vido Musso and Bob Cooper on tenor saxophone, Bob Ahern on guitar, Eddie Safranski on bass, and Robert Collier on drums) record the track "Painted Rhythm", arranged by Kenton, for Capitol Records
1946 - Jascha Datsko and His Gypsy Ensemble record an unissued take of "Granadinas/Clavelitios" in Los Angeles, California for Capitol Records
65 Years Ago Today In 1947 - Uncle Henry's Kentucky Mountaineers (which includes Henry Warren as Uncle Henry and Wava Adams on vocals) record the tracks "Red Headed Woman", "Are You Ashamed Of Me", "Misery In My Soul" and "Achin' And Cryin'" at a session in Los Angeles, California. "Red Headed Woman" and "Misery In My Soul" will be released as a single (Capitol 40077) and the other two tracks remain unissued as of 2005.
65 Years Ago Today In 1947 - Gordon MacRae with Paul Weston and His Orchestra (including strings) record the tracks "I Surrender Dear", "At The Candlelight Cafe", "Just One More Chance", and "I'm Yours To Command" in Los Angeles, California. The first two tracks will be released together as Capitol Records single 15014 and the last two as Capitol Records single 812.
1948 - Margaret Whiting's Capitol Records single "A Tree In The Meadow" is #1 on Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records chart
1950 - Vocalist Clark Dennis with vocal quartet and instrumental accompaniment records the tracks "Give Me A Kiss (To Build A Dream On)", "The Lorelei", "Love's Old Sweet Song" and "The Night The Floor Fell In" in Los Angeles, California. "The Lorelei" and "Love's Old Sweet Song" will be released together as Capitol Records single 1301 and the other two tracks remain unissued as of 2005.
1951 - Bob Crosby and His Bobcats (Billy Butterfield on trumpet, Elmer "Moe" Schneider, Murray McEachern, and Ted Vesely on trombone, Matty Matlock on clarinet, Eddie Miller on tenor saxophone, Jess Stacy on piano, Nappy Lamare on guitar, Bob Haggart on bass, Ray Bauduc on drums, and possibly and The Crew Chiefs on vocals) record the tracks "Bouquet Of Roses" and "Just A Little Lovin'" and (with Warren Smith replacing Schneider, McEachern and Vesely on trombone) the tracks "Savoy Blues" (possibly with Bob Crosby whistling) and "Avalon" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue the first two tracks together as a single (Capitol 18500 and the last two tracks together as a single (Capitol 1894).
60 Years Ago Today In 1952 - Stan Freberg (with Dick Roberts and Red Roundtree on banjo and George Burns Orchestra) records tracks for the song "The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise" in Los Angeles, California. The song will be released in 1954 on his Capitol Records EP "Any Requests?".
60 Years Ago Today In 1952 - Mickey Katz and His Orchestra record the tracks "Feet Up, Pat Him On The Pipick", "You Belong To Me", "Keneh Hora" and "Berele's Sherele" in Los Angeles, California for Capitol Records. The first two tracks will be released together on Capitol single 2267, the third on Capitol single 2863, and the last on his Capitol EP "The Family Danced: American-Yiddish Folk Music and Dances".
1955 - Vocalist Margie Rayburn (with Dennis Farnon conducting the orchestra [John Best, Conrad Gozzo, Vito "Mickey" Mangano, and Uan Rasey on trumpet; Si Zentner, Ed Kusby, and William Schaefer on trombone; Arthur "Skeets" Herfurt, Ted Nash, Jules Jacob, Robert Dawes, and Chuck Gentry on saxophones; Paul Smith on piano; Laurindo Almeida on guitar; Meyer Rubin on bass; Alvin Stoller and Lou Singer on drums; Carlos Vidal on congas; Frank Guerrero on timbales; Fred Aguirre on bongos]) with arranger Billy May, records the track "Basin Street Blues" at Capitol Records' studios on Melrose Avenue in Hollywood, California. The track will be released on the the Capitol Records single 3338 and with "Can I Tell Them You're Mine" on the flip side on a promo single with the same number.
1955 - The musical tracks for Yma Sumac's track "Cha Cha Gitano", "Carnavalito Boliviano" and Gomba Boomba" are recorded at Capitol Records Melrose studios in Hollywood (after Maggie Rayburn's session) by The Rico Mambo Orchetsra (the same line-up as listed in the orchestra for the Margie Rayburn's session) conducted by Billy May. The vocals for all three tracks will be recorded by Sumac on October 14, 1955 and additionl tracks for "Cha Cha Gitano" on October 18, 1955. All the titles will be released on her Capitol Records album "Mambo!"
1956 - Vocalist Bob Roubian, with Cliffie Stone and His Orchestra, records the tracks "It's Only A Paper Moon", "Come On Home", "Pauline, Pauline, Pauline" and "Rocket To The Moon" in Los Angeles, California. The first and last tracks will be released as single F101 by Prep Records, a subsidiary of Capitol Records and the middle two tracks will be released as single F3584 by Capitol Records and as a promo single with the same number
55 Years Ago Today In 1957 - Freddie Martin and His Orchestra (featuring Ralph Anthony, Johnny Cochran, and The Martin Men on vocals) record the tracks "Come To The Mardi Gras", "The Lady From 29 Palms" (both with vocals by Johnny Cochran and The Martin Men), "Why Don't We Do This More Often" (with vocals by Ralph Anthony and Ensemble), and "I've Got A Lovely Bunch Of Cocoanuts" in Los Angeles, California. The tracks will be released on their Capitol Records EP and on their Capitol Records album "Freddy Martin in Hi-Fi".
55 Years Ago Today In 1957 - Frank Sinatra (using arrangements by Billy May who is conducting the orchestra [Mannie Klein on trumpet; Si Zentner, Murray McEachern, and Francis "Joe" Howard on trombone; Skeets Herfurt and Willie Schwartz on alto saxophone; Jules Jacob and Joe Kinsler on tenor saxophone; Fred Falensby on bass saxophone; Frank Flynn on vibraphone; Bill Miller on piano; Verlye Mills on harp; Al Hendrickson on guitar; Joe Mondragon on bass; Country Washburne on tuba: Alvin Stoller on drums and a string section that includes Harold Dicterow, David Frisina, Jacques Gasselin, Dan Lube, Alex Murray, Paul Nero, Lou Raderman, Mischa Russell, Paul Shure, Felix Slatkin, Marshall Sosson, and Gerald Vinci on violins; Alvin Dinkin, Alex Neiman, Paul Robyn and David Sterkin on viola; Armand Kaproff, Ray Kramer, Edgar Lustgarten and Eleanor Slatkin on cello]) records the tracks "Autumn In New York", "London By Night", "April In Paris" and two takes of "Moonlight In Vermont" in Los Angeles, California. All the tracks except the alternate take of "Moonlight In Vermont" will be on Sinatra's Capitol Records album "Come Fly With Me".
55 Years Ago Today In 1957 - Les Brown and His Orchestra record the tracks "Leap Frog" and "Midnight Sun" in Los Angeles, California for Capitol Records but the tracks remain unissued as of 2005.
1960 - Capitol Records releases The Kingston Trio's Christmas album "The Last Month Of The Year"
1960 - "The Andy Griffith Show", featuring Capitol Records artist Andy Griffith and United Artists Records artist Don Knotts and a spinoff of "The Danny Thomas Show", debuts on CBS-TV where it will run until 1968 when Griffith leaves the series and is replaced by Ken Berry and is retitled "Mayberry R.F.D", running with that title until 1971
1963 - John Lennon and Paul McCartney overdub vocals for the track "Little Child" in Studio Three, EMI Studios, London, England.
1965 - Sonny James' Capitol Records single "Behind The Tear", with "Runnin'" on the flip side, is #1 on the U.S. Country singles chart
1966 - Capitol Records releases Merle Haggard and The Strangers' album "Swinging Doors And The Bottle Let Me Down"
45 Years Ago Today In 1967 - Vance Debar "Pinto" Colvig, voice actor for Walt Disney Studios and the original voice of Bozo The Clown for Capitol Records, dies of lung cancer at the age of 75 in Woodland Hills, California
35 Years Ago Today In 1977 - Capitol Record releases Bob Welch's single "Sentimental Lady", featuring vocals by his former Fleetwood Mac bandmate Christine McVie. "Hot Love, Cold World" is on the flip side of the commercial release and a mono version of "Sentimental Lady" on the flip side of the promo single.
1988 - The documentary film "Imagine", about the creation of John Lennon's album, premieres in Hollywood, California
20 Years Ago Today In 1992 - Liberty Records (later renamed Capitol Records Nashville) releases Garth Brooks' album "The Chase"
1994 - Liberty Records (later renamed Capitol Records Nashville) releases Suzy Bogguss with Chet Atkins' album "Simpatico"
2000 - Capitol Records releases Radiohead's album "Kid A" in the United States
2001 - Capitol Records Nashville artist Keith Urban receives the Australian Recording Industry's Achievement Award
2003 - "The Concert For George" (the film of the George Harrison tribute show) opens
2006 - Capitol Records releases The Decemberists' debut album "The Crane Wife", Sean Lennon's album "Friendly Fire" as a CD/DVD 2 disc set, Pink Floyd's compilation "Echoes - The Best Of Pink Floyd" as a 2 CD set, and The Pet Shop Boys' compilation "The Pet Shop Boys - The Hits - Pop Art" as a 2 CD Set.
2006 - Angel Records releases Sarah Brightman's compilation "Diva - The Singles Collection" both as a CD and as a seperate DVD title. Angel Records is a division of Capitol Music Group and is currently owned by Capitol Music Group's parent company, EMI Music Group.
ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1938 - Eddie Cochran, singer, guitarist, and Liberty Records artist, is born Edward Ray Cochran in Albert Lea, Minnesota. Liberty's catalog is currently owned by Capitol Music Group's parent company, EMI Music Group.
60 Years Ago Today In 1952 - "The Adventures Of Ozzie & Harriet" (co-starring sons David and future Imperial and Capitol Records artist Ricky Nelson) begins a 14-year run on ABC-TV
1953 - Chet Baker records his first two vocals for Pacific Jazz, as well as playing trumpet with Russ Freeman on piano, Carson Smith on bass, and Larry Bunker on drums for the tracks "The Thrill Is Gone" and "I Fall In Love Too Easily" at Radio Recorders, Hollywood, California. His vocals and instrumental parts are recorded separately and later spliced together. Pacific Jazz's catalog is currently owned by Capitol Music Group's parent company, EMI Music Group.
1956 - Alto saxophonist, Sonny Criss, with Sonny Clark on piano, Larry Bunker on vibraphone, Buddy Clark on bass, and Lawrence Marable on drums records his last session for Imperial Records. Imperial's catalog is currently owned by Capitol Music Group's parent company, EMI Music Group.
1988 - Future Capitol Records artist Lisa Marie Presley marries her first husband, Danny Keough
2006 - Roulette Jazz, a division of Blue Note Records, releases three more titles in "The Great Jazz Vocal Collection" series: Sarah Vaughan's Roulette Records album "Sarah + 2", Chris Connors' FM Records album "Chris Connors At The Village Gate", and Joe Williams' Roulette album "A Man Ain't Supposed To Cry". All three titles are remastered versions of their original releases. The Blue Note, Roulette and FM Records catalogs are currently owned by Capitol Music Group's parent company, EMI Music Group.
ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1955 - "Captain Kangaroo" premieres on CBS-TV's morning lineup running until 1984 and "The Mickey Mouse Club" begins a four year primetime run on ABC-TV
45 Years Ago Today In 1967 - Woody Guthrie, singer, songwriter, father of Arlo Guthrie, and cousin of Capitol Records artist Jack Guthrie, dies of complications of Huntington's Chorea at Brooklyn State Hospital in New York at age 55
Tuesday, October 02, 2012
OCTOBER 2, 2012
HAPPY BIRTHDAYS!
1929 - Howard Roberts, music teacher, guitar and speaker designer, motion picture and television soundtrack session guitarist, and Capitol Records artist and band leader, is born Howard Mancel Roberts in Phoenix, Arizona
1948 - Chris LeDoux, singer, songwriter, guitarist, Liberty Records and Capitol Records Nashville artist, is born in Biloxi, Mississippi
1956 - Freddie Jackson, singer, songwriter, and Capitol Records artist (1985-1993) is born Frederick Anthony Jackson in Harlem, New York City, New York
ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1949 - Margaret Whiting and Jimmy Wakely's Capitol Records single "Slipping Around" is #1 on the U.S. Country singles charts
1951 - Gordon MacRae (on vocals), with Van Alexander directing the orchestra (lineup unlisted), records the tracks "Be My Guest" (with an uncredited choir), "How Close", "Green Acres And Purple Mountains" (with an uncredited choir), "Baby Doll" (with an credited choir), "My Love" and "Laughing At Love" (vocals were overdubbed on a band track that was recorded on February 7, 1950) in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue the first and last track together as a single (Capitol 1836), the second and fifth tracks together as a single (Capitol 1846), and the third and fourth tracks together as a single (Capitol 1941).
1956 - The Andrew Sisters record the tracks "Ti-pi-tin", "Bei Mir Bist Du Schon (Means You're Grand)", "Aurora", and "Ferry Boat Serenade" at The Capitol Records Tower in Hollywood, California with an orchestra (lineup unlisted) conducted by Vic Schoen. Capitol Records will issue all the tracks on the trio's album "The Andrews Sisters In Hi-Fi" (W 790)
45 Years Ago Today In 1967 - Capitol Records Canada, as part of its 6000 series, releases the mono and stereo versions of Pink Floyd's album "Pipers At The Gates Of Dawn". Tower Records, a division of Capitol Records, will release the album in the United States on October 21, 1967
1979 - The Odyssey Theatre Ensemble, with John Stewart giving a brief narrative, begins a two day recording session of a live performance of the theatrical arrangement of the original trial transcripts of "The Chicago Conspiracy Trial" in Studio A at The Capitol Tower Studios in Hollywood, California with producer Nik Venet which Capitol Records will release as a two album set in early 1980
30 Years Ago Today In 1982 - Duran Duran's Capitol Records EP "Carnival", containing remixes of some of the songs from the original release of the band's album "Rio" released on the Harvest label in the United States, becomes the first EP to enter Billboard's album chart, where it will appear for one week at #98
1990 - Capitol Records releases Megadeth's album "Rust In Peace"
1991 - Tanya Tucker, Liberty Records (later renamed Capitol Records Nashville) artist, gives birth to her second child, son Beau Grayson Tucker, and wins the Country Music Association's Female Vocalist Of The Year Award at the CMA Awards which she watches from her hospital bed in Nashville, Tennessee
1991 - Also at the CMA Awards Show, held in Nashville, Tennessee, Liberty Records (later renamed Capitol Records Nashville) artist Garth Brooks wins four CMA awards, including Entertainer Of The Year
2001 - Manny Albam, composer, arranger (including tracks for Capitol Records group Woody Herman and His Orchestra as well as for Dizzy Gillespie, Coleman Hawkins, Stan Getz, Sarah Vaughan, and Count Basie), conductor, and teacher, dies of cancer at his home in Croton-On-Hudson, New York at age 79.
ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1935 - Bob Kelly, singer, guitarist, and songwriter ("Git It" and “Somebody Help Me" were covered by Capitol Records artist Gene Vincent), is born Robert Kelly in Fort Worth, Texas
1941 - Future Capitol Records artist Dean Martin marries his first wife Elizabeth (Betty) Anne McDonald who will become mother of their children Stephen (Craig), born June 29, 1942; Claudia, born March 16, 1944; Barbara (Gail), born April 11, 1945; and Deana (Dina), born August 19, 1948
1945 - Don McLean, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and United Artists Records artist, is born Donald Robert McLean in New Rochelle, New York. United Artists' catalog is currently owned by Capitol Music Group's parent company, EMI Music Group.
35 Years Ago Today In 1977 - United Artists Records artist Kenny Rogers marries television actress Marianne Gordon
ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1950 - Charles M. Schulz's comic strip "Peanuts" debuts in seven newspapers (The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Minneapolis Tribune, The Allentown Call-Chronicle, The Bethlehem Globe-Times, The Denver Post and The Seattle Times) and will run eventually in over 2,600 newspapers in 75 countries without interruption until February 13, 2000, one day after the death of Schulz
1951 - Sting, singer, songwriter, member of the band The Police, solo artist and motion picture producer ("A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints") with his wife Trudie Styler, is born Gordon Matthew Sumner in Wallsend, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England. I interviewed Sting while I was entertainment editor for "The California Tech", CalTech's weekly newspaper, when he was on a promotional tour for the movie "Brimstone and Treacle" and later designed promotional billboards for the theatrical release by First Look Studios of "A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints". Trudy has said that Sting was born in 1946. If anyone knows for sure, please leave a comment.
1959 - "The Twilight Zone" television series premieres when its pilot is shown on CBS-TV
50 Years Ago Today In 1962 - Dimension Records, a division of Alton Records, releases The Cookies' single "Chains", with "Stranger In My Arms" on the flip side, written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King. The Beatles will add the song to their set and will record a version which will be released March 23 and April 26, 1963 on the, respectively, mono and stereo versions of their Parlophone album "Please Please Me" in the U.K., on November 1, 1963 on their Parlophone EP "No. 1" in the U.K., on January 6, 1964 and February 10, 1964 on both versions of their Vee-Jay album "Introducing The Beatles" in the United States, and on March 22, 1965 on their Capitol Records album "The Early Beatles" in the United States.
HAPPY BIRTHDAYS!
1929 - Howard Roberts, music teacher, guitar and speaker designer, motion picture and television soundtrack session guitarist, and Capitol Records artist and band leader, is born Howard Mancel Roberts in Phoenix, Arizona
1948 - Chris LeDoux, singer, songwriter, guitarist, Liberty Records and Capitol Records Nashville artist, is born in Biloxi, Mississippi
1956 - Freddie Jackson, singer, songwriter, and Capitol Records artist (1985-1993) is born Frederick Anthony Jackson in Harlem, New York City, New York
ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1949 - Margaret Whiting and Jimmy Wakely's Capitol Records single "Slipping Around" is #1 on the U.S. Country singles charts
1951 - Gordon MacRae (on vocals), with Van Alexander directing the orchestra (lineup unlisted), records the tracks "Be My Guest" (with an uncredited choir), "How Close", "Green Acres And Purple Mountains" (with an uncredited choir), "Baby Doll" (with an credited choir), "My Love" and "Laughing At Love" (vocals were overdubbed on a band track that was recorded on February 7, 1950) in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue the first and last track together as a single (Capitol 1836), the second and fifth tracks together as a single (Capitol 1846), and the third and fourth tracks together as a single (Capitol 1941).
1956 - The Andrew Sisters record the tracks "Ti-pi-tin", "Bei Mir Bist Du Schon (Means You're Grand)", "Aurora", and "Ferry Boat Serenade" at The Capitol Records Tower in Hollywood, California with an orchestra (lineup unlisted) conducted by Vic Schoen. Capitol Records will issue all the tracks on the trio's album "The Andrews Sisters In Hi-Fi" (W 790)
45 Years Ago Today In 1967 - Capitol Records Canada, as part of its 6000 series, releases the mono and stereo versions of Pink Floyd's album "Pipers At The Gates Of Dawn". Tower Records, a division of Capitol Records, will release the album in the United States on October 21, 1967
1979 - The Odyssey Theatre Ensemble, with John Stewart giving a brief narrative, begins a two day recording session of a live performance of the theatrical arrangement of the original trial transcripts of "The Chicago Conspiracy Trial" in Studio A at The Capitol Tower Studios in Hollywood, California with producer Nik Venet which Capitol Records will release as a two album set in early 1980
30 Years Ago Today In 1982 - Duran Duran's Capitol Records EP "Carnival", containing remixes of some of the songs from the original release of the band's album "Rio" released on the Harvest label in the United States, becomes the first EP to enter Billboard's album chart, where it will appear for one week at #98
1990 - Capitol Records releases Megadeth's album "Rust In Peace"
1991 - Tanya Tucker, Liberty Records (later renamed Capitol Records Nashville) artist, gives birth to her second child, son Beau Grayson Tucker, and wins the Country Music Association's Female Vocalist Of The Year Award at the CMA Awards which she watches from her hospital bed in Nashville, Tennessee
1991 - Also at the CMA Awards Show, held in Nashville, Tennessee, Liberty Records (later renamed Capitol Records Nashville) artist Garth Brooks wins four CMA awards, including Entertainer Of The Year
2001 - Manny Albam, composer, arranger (including tracks for Capitol Records group Woody Herman and His Orchestra as well as for Dizzy Gillespie, Coleman Hawkins, Stan Getz, Sarah Vaughan, and Count Basie), conductor, and teacher, dies of cancer at his home in Croton-On-Hudson, New York at age 79.
ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1935 - Bob Kelly, singer, guitarist, and songwriter ("Git It" and “Somebody Help Me" were covered by Capitol Records artist Gene Vincent), is born Robert Kelly in Fort Worth, Texas
1941 - Future Capitol Records artist Dean Martin marries his first wife Elizabeth (Betty) Anne McDonald who will become mother of their children Stephen (Craig), born June 29, 1942; Claudia, born March 16, 1944; Barbara (Gail), born April 11, 1945; and Deana (Dina), born August 19, 1948
1945 - Don McLean, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and United Artists Records artist, is born Donald Robert McLean in New Rochelle, New York. United Artists' catalog is currently owned by Capitol Music Group's parent company, EMI Music Group.
35 Years Ago Today In 1977 - United Artists Records artist Kenny Rogers marries television actress Marianne Gordon
ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1950 - Charles M. Schulz's comic strip "Peanuts" debuts in seven newspapers (The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Minneapolis Tribune, The Allentown Call-Chronicle, The Bethlehem Globe-Times, The Denver Post and The Seattle Times) and will run eventually in over 2,600 newspapers in 75 countries without interruption until February 13, 2000, one day after the death of Schulz
1951 - Sting, singer, songwriter, member of the band The Police, solo artist and motion picture producer ("A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints") with his wife Trudie Styler, is born Gordon Matthew Sumner in Wallsend, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England. I interviewed Sting while I was entertainment editor for "The California Tech", CalTech's weekly newspaper, when he was on a promotional tour for the movie "Brimstone and Treacle" and later designed promotional billboards for the theatrical release by First Look Studios of "A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints". Trudy has said that Sting was born in 1946. If anyone knows for sure, please leave a comment.
1959 - "The Twilight Zone" television series premieres when its pilot is shown on CBS-TV
50 Years Ago Today In 1962 - Dimension Records, a division of Alton Records, releases The Cookies' single "Chains", with "Stranger In My Arms" on the flip side, written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King. The Beatles will add the song to their set and will record a version which will be released March 23 and April 26, 1963 on the, respectively, mono and stereo versions of their Parlophone album "Please Please Me" in the U.K., on November 1, 1963 on their Parlophone EP "No. 1" in the U.K., on January 6, 1964 and February 10, 1964 on both versions of their Vee-Jay album "Introducing The Beatles" in the United States, and on March 22, 1965 on their Capitol Records album "The Early Beatles" in the United States.
Monday, October 01, 2012
OCTOBER 1, 2012
HAPPY BIRTHDAYS!
1915 - Skeets McDonald, songwriter, singer, and Capitol Records artist (1951-1958), is born Enos William McDonald in Greenway, Arkansas
1929 - Bonnie Owens, singer, Capitol Records artist with The Strangers, and former wife of Capitol Records artists Buck Owens and Merle Haggard, is born Bonnie Campbell in in Blanchard, Oklahoma. Thanks to Eileen for the update!
1935 - Ann Richards, singer, wife of Capitol Records artist Stan Kenton, vocalist with Charlie Barnet and His Orchestra, George Redman and His Orchestra, and the Capitol Records group Stan Kenton and His Orchestra (1955), and a solo Capitol Records artist, is born in San Diego, California
ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
65 Years Ago Today In 1947 - Jerry Colonna and His San Fernando Valley Pals (aka Frank de Vol and His Orchestra [lineup unlisted]) record the tracks "Honkey Little Donkey" and "Riding The Old Donner Trail" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will later release the two tracks together as a Capitol Americana single (Capitol 40060).
1948 - Margaret Whiting (on vocals) and The Crew Chiefs (an unlisted vocal chorus) record vocals for "Far Away Places" in Los Angeles, California that will be overdubbed on a band track by Frank De Vol and his Orchestra that was recorded somewhere in Mexico sometime in September 1948. Capitol Records will release the final track as a single (Capitol 15278) with "My Own True Love" (recorded December 9, 1947) on the flipside.
1948 - Jack Smith and The Clark Sisters (on vocals overdubbed on band tracks by an unidentified orchestra) record the tracks "Cuanto La Gusta" and "The Corn Belt Symphony" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue both tracks together as a single (Capitol 15280).
1948 - The Striders (aka The 4 Striders, actually three brothers: tenor Eugene Strider, baritone Charles Strider, and bass James Strider, along with tenor Ernest Griffin) record the as yet unissued track "Feather Your Nest", the tracks "Pleasin' You (As Long As I Live)", "Somebody Stole My Rose Colored Glasses", and the as yet unissued tracks "I'm A Hesitatin' Fool", "Die From A Broken Heart" and "Drop That Other Shoe" at their second (and last) Capitol Records recording session. The second and third tracks will be released by Capitol as a single (Capitol 15306) in November 1948. Marv Goldberg has a great article on the history of this group on his website.
1949 - Margaret Whiting and Jimmy Wakely's Capitol Records single "Slippin' Around" is #5 on Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records chart, up from #9 the week before, and Jo Stafford and Gordon MacRae with Paul Weston and His Orchestra's Capitol Records single "Whispering Hope" is #7 down from #6
1951 - Renzo Cesana (as "The Continental") records vocals and narration with Eddie Baxter directing the orchestra (lineup unlisted) for the tracks "You Go To My Head" and "A Handful Of Stars", the as yet unissued track "Take Me In Your Arms", and the tracks "It Can't Be Wrong", "(All Of A Sudden) My Heart Sings", and "Roses And Champagne" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue "You Go To My Head" and "(All Of A Sudden) My Heart Sings" together as a single (Capitol 1844), "A Handful Of Stars" and "It Can't Be Wrong" together as a single (Capitol 1877) and "Roses And Champagne" on Ruth Welcome's album "Continental Zither" (Capitol T 2472).
1951 - Ray Anthony and His Orchestra (Ray Anthony, Woody Fansler, Jack Laubach, Conrad Gozzo, and Marty White on trumpet, Keith Butterfield, Tom Oblak, Ken Trimble, and Dick Reynolds on trombone, Earl Bergman and Jim Schneider on clarinet and alto saxophone, Ted Nash and Robert "Buddy" Wise on tenor saxophone, Leo Anthony on alto and baritone saxophone, Fred Savarise on piano, Al Hendrickson on guitar, Billy Cronk on bass, and Archie Freeman on drums), using arrangements by George Williams, record the tracks "At Last" and "I Hear A Rhapsody" with vocals by Tommy Mercer and The Anthony Choir (lineup unlisted), "My Concerto" with vocals by Tommy Mercer, and "Brother Fats" with vocals by Georgia Craig in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue the first track as a single (Capitol 1678) with "As Time Goes By" (recorded on April 15, 1952) on the flip side, the second track as a single (Capitol 1973) with "For Dancers Only" (recorded January 3, 1952) on the flip side, the third track as a single (Capitol 1835) with "I'll Remember April" (recorded June 30, 1951) on the flip side, and the last track as a single (Capitol 1857) with "I Remember Harlem" (recorded September 27, 1957) on the flip side.
1955 - Les Baxter and His Orchestra with vocals by The Notables' Capitol Records single "Wake The Town And Tell All The People" with "I'll Never Stop Loving You" on the flip side, is #14 on Billboard's Best Selling Popular Retail Records chart, down from #13 the previous week and The Cheers with Les Baxter and His Orchestra and Chorus' Capitol Records' single "Black Denim Trousers" with "Some Night In Alaska" on the flip side is #18 up from #23 the previous week
1956 - Capitol Records releases Tennessee Ernie Ford's single "First Born", which was recorded June 4, 1956, with "Have You Seen Her?" on the flip side
55 Years Ago Today In 1957 - Frank Sinatra records the tracks "On The Road To Mandalay" "Let’s Get Away From It All", and "Isle of Capri" with arranger and conductor Billy May for his Capitol Records album "Come Fly With Me" in Studio A at The Capitol Tower Studios in Hollywood, California
55 Years Ago Today In 1957 - Lyle Ritz finishes recording tracks for his album "How About Uke?" at The Capitol Tower Studios in Hollywood, California
1959 - Dakota Staton, with producer Dave Cavanaugh and an orchestra conducted by Sid Feller, records the track "September in the Rain" for her 1960 Capitol Records album "More Than Most"
50 Years Ago Today In 1962 - Capitol Records releases The Beach Boys' first album "Surfin' Safari"
50 Years Ago Today In 1962 - Capitol Records releases Buck Owens' album "Your For Me"
1969 - The Beatles' Apple Records album "Abbey Road" is released and distributed in the United States by Capitol Records
1971 - John Lennon's third solo Apple Records album "Imagine", distributed in the United States by Capitol Records, is certified Gold by the R.I.A.A.
1973 - "Texas" Bill Strength, singer, guitarist, inductee to the Country Music Disc Jockey Hall of Fame, and a Capitol Records artist (1953-1956) dies of injuries after an auto accident in August 1973 left him paralyzed from the waist down and later sent him into a coma at age 45
2005 - Capitol Records Nashville artist Dierks Bentley becomes the youngest current member of The Grand Ole Opry
2005 - Paul Pena, singer and Capitol Records artist (1972), dies at age 55 in his San Francisco, California apartment of complications from diabetes and pancreatitis
2008 - Nick Reynolds (born Nicholas Wells Reynolds), singer, songwriter, guitarist and founding member of the Capitol Records group The Kingston Trio, dies at age 75 in San Diego, California when his family chooses to have his life support turned off after his being hospitalized for weeks with acute respiratory disease and a variety of other illnesses.
ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1936 - "Dr." George Butler, drummer in the bands Eggs Over Easy and Kilburn & The High Roads, producer for Blue Note (for artists Noel Pointer, Bobbi Humphrey, Donald Byrd, Ronnie Laws and others) and Columbia Records (for artists Harry Connick, Jr., Branford Marsalis, Wynton Marsalis, Terence Blanchard, and Marlon Jordan), is born in Autaugaville, Alabama
1955 - Future Capitol Records artist Jackie Gleason's CBS-TV series "The Honeymooners" premieres
1955 - Fats Dominio's Imperial Records single "Ain't That A Shame" is still #1 on Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records chart
1958 - Martin Cooper, saxophonist with the Virgin Records group Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, is born in Liverpool, England. I adapted the original U.K packaging of the group's albums for release in the United States by Virgin Records America.
1959 - Youssou N'dour, singer and Earthworks Records artist, is born in Dakar, Senegal, Africa. I adapted the original U.K packaging of N'dour's "Immigrés" and "The Lion" albums for release in the United States by Virgin Records America and designed promotional materials for the single "The Truth".
1964 - The Beatles' United Artists motion picture "A Hard Day's Night" premieres in Prague, Czechoslovakia becoming the first Western pop culture film to be seen behind the Iron Curtain
1964 - Vee-Jay Records releases the compliation album "The Beatles vs THE FOUR SEASONS"
1964 - Souvenir Press releases Brian Epstein (manager of The Beatles)' book "A Cellar Full of Noise"
1971 - Former Capitol Records artist Gene Vincent records an interview and the tracks "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" and "Distant Drums" at BBC's Maida Vale studios in London, England for Radio One with Richard Cole and The Kansas Hook Band. This will be his last recording session before his death on October 12, 1971.
1988 - Bobby McFerrin's EMI Manhattan single "Don't Worry Be Happy" is still #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart
ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1928 - According to Walt Disney in a 1933 article in Film Pictorial, today is Mickey Mouse's birthday and the anniversary of the first public showing of his first cartoon – the silent short "Plane Crazy". The entire cartoon was animated by Ub Iwerks and inked in Walt's garage on Lyric Avenue in a makeshift studio where Walt and Roy Disney's wives (Lillian and Edna) along with Walt's sister-in-law (Hazel Sewell) inked and painted Ub's artwork onto cels.
1935 - Future Capitol Records artist Judy Garland's first M-G-M contract officially starts at $100.00 per week (equal to about $1300 today)
HAPPY BIRTHDAYS!
1915 - Skeets McDonald, songwriter, singer, and Capitol Records artist (1951-1958), is born Enos William McDonald in Greenway, Arkansas
1929 - Bonnie Owens, singer, Capitol Records artist with The Strangers, and former wife of Capitol Records artists Buck Owens and Merle Haggard, is born Bonnie Campbell in in Blanchard, Oklahoma. Thanks to Eileen for the update!
1935 - Ann Richards, singer, wife of Capitol Records artist Stan Kenton, vocalist with Charlie Barnet and His Orchestra, George Redman and His Orchestra, and the Capitol Records group Stan Kenton and His Orchestra (1955), and a solo Capitol Records artist, is born in San Diego, California
ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
65 Years Ago Today In 1947 - Jerry Colonna and His San Fernando Valley Pals (aka Frank de Vol and His Orchestra [lineup unlisted]) record the tracks "Honkey Little Donkey" and "Riding The Old Donner Trail" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will later release the two tracks together as a Capitol Americana single (Capitol 40060).
1948 - Margaret Whiting (on vocals) and The Crew Chiefs (an unlisted vocal chorus) record vocals for "Far Away Places" in Los Angeles, California that will be overdubbed on a band track by Frank De Vol and his Orchestra that was recorded somewhere in Mexico sometime in September 1948. Capitol Records will release the final track as a single (Capitol 15278) with "My Own True Love" (recorded December 9, 1947) on the flipside.
1948 - Jack Smith and The Clark Sisters (on vocals overdubbed on band tracks by an unidentified orchestra) record the tracks "Cuanto La Gusta" and "The Corn Belt Symphony" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue both tracks together as a single (Capitol 15280).
1948 - The Striders (aka The 4 Striders, actually three brothers: tenor Eugene Strider, baritone Charles Strider, and bass James Strider, along with tenor Ernest Griffin) record the as yet unissued track "Feather Your Nest", the tracks "Pleasin' You (As Long As I Live)", "Somebody Stole My Rose Colored Glasses", and the as yet unissued tracks "I'm A Hesitatin' Fool", "Die From A Broken Heart" and "Drop That Other Shoe" at their second (and last) Capitol Records recording session. The second and third tracks will be released by Capitol as a single (Capitol 15306) in November 1948. Marv Goldberg has a great article on the history of this group on his website.
1949 - Margaret Whiting and Jimmy Wakely's Capitol Records single "Slippin' Around" is #5 on Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records chart, up from #9 the week before, and Jo Stafford and Gordon MacRae with Paul Weston and His Orchestra's Capitol Records single "Whispering Hope" is #7 down from #6
1951 - Renzo Cesana (as "The Continental") records vocals and narration with Eddie Baxter directing the orchestra (lineup unlisted) for the tracks "You Go To My Head" and "A Handful Of Stars", the as yet unissued track "Take Me In Your Arms", and the tracks "It Can't Be Wrong", "(All Of A Sudden) My Heart Sings", and "Roses And Champagne" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue "You Go To My Head" and "(All Of A Sudden) My Heart Sings" together as a single (Capitol 1844), "A Handful Of Stars" and "It Can't Be Wrong" together as a single (Capitol 1877) and "Roses And Champagne" on Ruth Welcome's album "Continental Zither" (Capitol T 2472).
1951 - Ray Anthony and His Orchestra (Ray Anthony, Woody Fansler, Jack Laubach, Conrad Gozzo, and Marty White on trumpet, Keith Butterfield, Tom Oblak, Ken Trimble, and Dick Reynolds on trombone, Earl Bergman and Jim Schneider on clarinet and alto saxophone, Ted Nash and Robert "Buddy" Wise on tenor saxophone, Leo Anthony on alto and baritone saxophone, Fred Savarise on piano, Al Hendrickson on guitar, Billy Cronk on bass, and Archie Freeman on drums), using arrangements by George Williams, record the tracks "At Last" and "I Hear A Rhapsody" with vocals by Tommy Mercer and The Anthony Choir (lineup unlisted), "My Concerto" with vocals by Tommy Mercer, and "Brother Fats" with vocals by Georgia Craig in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue the first track as a single (Capitol 1678) with "As Time Goes By" (recorded on April 15, 1952) on the flip side, the second track as a single (Capitol 1973) with "For Dancers Only" (recorded January 3, 1952) on the flip side, the third track as a single (Capitol 1835) with "I'll Remember April" (recorded June 30, 1951) on the flip side, and the last track as a single (Capitol 1857) with "I Remember Harlem" (recorded September 27, 1957) on the flip side.
1955 - Les Baxter and His Orchestra with vocals by The Notables' Capitol Records single "Wake The Town And Tell All The People" with "I'll Never Stop Loving You" on the flip side, is #14 on Billboard's Best Selling Popular Retail Records chart, down from #13 the previous week and The Cheers with Les Baxter and His Orchestra and Chorus' Capitol Records' single "Black Denim Trousers" with "Some Night In Alaska" on the flip side is #18 up from #23 the previous week
1956 - Capitol Records releases Tennessee Ernie Ford's single "First Born", which was recorded June 4, 1956, with "Have You Seen Her?" on the flip side
55 Years Ago Today In 1957 - Frank Sinatra records the tracks "On The Road To Mandalay" "Let’s Get Away From It All", and "Isle of Capri" with arranger and conductor Billy May for his Capitol Records album "Come Fly With Me" in Studio A at The Capitol Tower Studios in Hollywood, California
55 Years Ago Today In 1957 - Lyle Ritz finishes recording tracks for his album "How About Uke?" at The Capitol Tower Studios in Hollywood, California
1959 - Dakota Staton, with producer Dave Cavanaugh and an orchestra conducted by Sid Feller, records the track "September in the Rain" for her 1960 Capitol Records album "More Than Most"
50 Years Ago Today In 1962 - Capitol Records releases The Beach Boys' first album "Surfin' Safari"
50 Years Ago Today In 1962 - Capitol Records releases Buck Owens' album "Your For Me"
1969 - The Beatles' Apple Records album "Abbey Road" is released and distributed in the United States by Capitol Records
1971 - John Lennon's third solo Apple Records album "Imagine", distributed in the United States by Capitol Records, is certified Gold by the R.I.A.A.
1973 - "Texas" Bill Strength, singer, guitarist, inductee to the Country Music Disc Jockey Hall of Fame, and a Capitol Records artist (1953-1956) dies of injuries after an auto accident in August 1973 left him paralyzed from the waist down and later sent him into a coma at age 45
2005 - Capitol Records Nashville artist Dierks Bentley becomes the youngest current member of The Grand Ole Opry
2005 - Paul Pena, singer and Capitol Records artist (1972), dies at age 55 in his San Francisco, California apartment of complications from diabetes and pancreatitis
2008 - Nick Reynolds (born Nicholas Wells Reynolds), singer, songwriter, guitarist and founding member of the Capitol Records group The Kingston Trio, dies at age 75 in San Diego, California when his family chooses to have his life support turned off after his being hospitalized for weeks with acute respiratory disease and a variety of other illnesses.
ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1936 - "Dr." George Butler, drummer in the bands Eggs Over Easy and Kilburn & The High Roads, producer for Blue Note (for artists Noel Pointer, Bobbi Humphrey, Donald Byrd, Ronnie Laws and others) and Columbia Records (for artists Harry Connick, Jr., Branford Marsalis, Wynton Marsalis, Terence Blanchard, and Marlon Jordan), is born in Autaugaville, Alabama
1955 - Future Capitol Records artist Jackie Gleason's CBS-TV series "The Honeymooners" premieres
1955 - Fats Dominio's Imperial Records single "Ain't That A Shame" is still #1 on Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records chart
1958 - Martin Cooper, saxophonist with the Virgin Records group Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, is born in Liverpool, England. I adapted the original U.K packaging of the group's albums for release in the United States by Virgin Records America.
1959 - Youssou N'dour, singer and Earthworks Records artist, is born in Dakar, Senegal, Africa. I adapted the original U.K packaging of N'dour's "Immigrés" and "The Lion" albums for release in the United States by Virgin Records America and designed promotional materials for the single "The Truth".
1964 - The Beatles' United Artists motion picture "A Hard Day's Night" premieres in Prague, Czechoslovakia becoming the first Western pop culture film to be seen behind the Iron Curtain
1964 - Vee-Jay Records releases the compliation album "The Beatles vs THE FOUR SEASONS"
1964 - Souvenir Press releases Brian Epstein (manager of The Beatles)' book "A Cellar Full of Noise"
1971 - Former Capitol Records artist Gene Vincent records an interview and the tracks "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" and "Distant Drums" at BBC's Maida Vale studios in London, England for Radio One with Richard Cole and The Kansas Hook Band. This will be his last recording session before his death on October 12, 1971.
1988 - Bobby McFerrin's EMI Manhattan single "Don't Worry Be Happy" is still #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart
ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1928 - According to Walt Disney in a 1933 article in Film Pictorial, today is Mickey Mouse's birthday and the anniversary of the first public showing of his first cartoon – the silent short "Plane Crazy". The entire cartoon was animated by Ub Iwerks and inked in Walt's garage on Lyric Avenue in a makeshift studio where Walt and Roy Disney's wives (Lillian and Edna) along with Walt's sister-in-law (Hazel Sewell) inked and painted Ub's artwork onto cels.
1935 - Future Capitol Records artist Judy Garland's first M-G-M contract officially starts at $100.00 per week (equal to about $1300 today)
Sunday, September 30, 2012
SEPTEMBER 30, 2012
HAPPY BIRTHDAYS!
90 Years Ago Today In 1922 - Oscar Pettiford, double bass and cello player, composer, member of Capitol Records group Woody Herman and His Orchestra, Thad Jones' Blue Note Records group, and Jimmy Guiffre's Atlantic Records group, as well as a player on recordings with Charlie Barnet, Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington, and Stan Getz, and "discoverer" of Capitol Records artist Cannonball Adderley, is born in Okmulgee, Oklahoma
1940 - Dewey Martin, singer, drummer, with the Tower Records band Sir Raleigh and The Coupons, on a demo for Capitol for the band The Dillards, drummer with the band The Herd which will become Buffalo Springfield, is born Walter Milton Dewayne Midkiff in Chesterville, Ontario, Cananda
1953- Deborah Allen, singer, songwriter, keyboardist, and Capitol Records artist, is born Deborah Lynn Thurmond in Memphis, Tennessee
ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1958 - Frank Sinatra, with arranger and conductor Billy May, records the tracks "Just In Time", "The Song Is You", and "It All Depends On You" which will be remain unreleased until it is included as a bonus track in 1987 on the CD version of his Capitol Records album "Come Dance With Me!"
1968 - Capitol Records releases Buck Owens' single "I've Got You On My Mind Again" with "That's All Right With Me" on the flip side
35 Years Ago Today In 1977 - Mary Ford (born Iris Colleen Hatfield), singer, motion picture actress, guitarist, television variety show co-host ("The Les Paul and Mary Ford at Home Show"), one-time wife of Capitol Records artist Les Paul, and half of the Capitol Records duo Les Paul and Mary Ford, dies at age 53 in Arcadia, California of cancer after spending 54 days in a diabetic coma and is later buried at Forest Lawn-Covina Hills in Covina, California
1990 - Garth Brooks' Liberty Records (later renamed Capitol Records Nashville) single "Friends In Low Places", on the flip side of "Dance", is #1 on the U.S. Country singles charts
2003 - Capitol Records releases Bonnie Raitt's compilation album "The Best of Bonnie Raitt"
2004 - Capitol Records releases The Smashing Pumpkins' album "I Might Be Wrong-Live Recordings"
ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1955- James Dean, stage, television and motion picture actor, is killed in head-on collision while driving his Porsche Syder at 75 miles an hour at the intersection of routes 46 and 41, near Cholame, California. Capitol Records will later release a soundtrack album for the documentary film "The James Dean Story.
25 Years Ago Today In 1987 - Virgin Records artist Roy Orbison records the television special "Roy Orbison and Friends, A Black and White Night" for Cinemax at The Coconut Grove in The Ambassador Hotel. I was working at Virgin at the time and was in the audience in the back of the room. Also in the audience were singer Billy Idol (who was in total awe of Roy) and actor Patrick Swayze (who, by the end of the show was feeling no pain). The Ambassador was torn down in 2006 to make room for a new school. After the show I met Roy and he was nice enough to sign a CD I brought of his early recordings. The next morning Los Angeles was hit by the biggest earthquake (5.6 on the Richter scale) and after shocks since the '70s. I was at home when the first one hit and at Virgin's offices for a large aftershock that had the staircases swaying. I later designed the packaging for Virgin's promotional version of the video. Virgin Records is currently owned by Capitol Music Group's parent company, EMI Music Group. The Ambassador Hotel was demolished by its new owner, The Los Angeles Unified School District, in 2006 to make way for a new school. The Coconut Grove building is also no longer standing. It was originally promised to be turned into the new school's auditorium after the floor had been tilted for seating, but an examination determined that the concrete in 66 percent of the structure didn't meet current standards for surviving a large earthquake and the LAUSD board got its way and it was demolished to make way for a new auditorium. An article in the Los Angeles Times said that one bright note was that the original sign for the Coconut Grove was found when the glass entryway that was a later addition to the building was demolished.
1988 - John Lennon's star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame is unveiled with Yoko Ono in attendance
1990 - Maxi Priest's Charisma Records (a subsidiary of Virgin Records, distributed at the time in the United State by Atlantic Records) single "Close To You", with "I Know Love" on the flip side, is #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart. The single was released by 10 Records (another Virgin Records subsidiary) in the United Kingdom. 10 Records' and Charisma Records' catalogs are currently owned by Capitol Music Group's parent company, EMI Music Group.
1991 - Former Capitol Records artist, Broadway and motion picture actress Liza Minnelli receives a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame
1993 - George Harrison guests on Fox-TV's "The Simpsons"
ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
560 Years Ago Today In 1452 - Johann Guttenberg publishes a German language version of The Bible, the first book in Europe to be printed using movable type
1935 - George and Ira Gershwin's opera "Porgy And Bess" premieres at The Colonial Theatre in Boston, Massachusetts
1950 - Billboard Magazine renames its Hillbilly singles chart to become the "Country & Western" chart
1960 - At the end of the last episode of the NBC-TV series "The Howdy Doody Show" the normally silent character Clarabell The Clown says "Good-bye" to the audience.
HAPPY BIRTHDAYS!
90 Years Ago Today In 1922 - Oscar Pettiford, double bass and cello player, composer, member of Capitol Records group Woody Herman and His Orchestra, Thad Jones' Blue Note Records group, and Jimmy Guiffre's Atlantic Records group, as well as a player on recordings with Charlie Barnet, Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington, and Stan Getz, and "discoverer" of Capitol Records artist Cannonball Adderley, is born in Okmulgee, Oklahoma
1940 - Dewey Martin, singer, drummer, with the Tower Records band Sir Raleigh and The Coupons, on a demo for Capitol for the band The Dillards, drummer with the band The Herd which will become Buffalo Springfield, is born Walter Milton Dewayne Midkiff in Chesterville, Ontario, Cananda
1953- Deborah Allen, singer, songwriter, keyboardist, and Capitol Records artist, is born Deborah Lynn Thurmond in Memphis, Tennessee
ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1958 - Frank Sinatra, with arranger and conductor Billy May, records the tracks "Just In Time", "The Song Is You", and "It All Depends On You" which will be remain unreleased until it is included as a bonus track in 1987 on the CD version of his Capitol Records album "Come Dance With Me!"
1968 - Capitol Records releases Buck Owens' single "I've Got You On My Mind Again" with "That's All Right With Me" on the flip side
35 Years Ago Today In 1977 - Mary Ford (born Iris Colleen Hatfield), singer, motion picture actress, guitarist, television variety show co-host ("The Les Paul and Mary Ford at Home Show"), one-time wife of Capitol Records artist Les Paul, and half of the Capitol Records duo Les Paul and Mary Ford, dies at age 53 in Arcadia, California of cancer after spending 54 days in a diabetic coma and is later buried at Forest Lawn-Covina Hills in Covina, California
1990 - Garth Brooks' Liberty Records (later renamed Capitol Records Nashville) single "Friends In Low Places", on the flip side of "Dance", is #1 on the U.S. Country singles charts
2003 - Capitol Records releases Bonnie Raitt's compilation album "The Best of Bonnie Raitt"
2004 - Capitol Records releases The Smashing Pumpkins' album "I Might Be Wrong-Live Recordings"
ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1955- James Dean, stage, television and motion picture actor, is killed in head-on collision while driving his Porsche Syder at 75 miles an hour at the intersection of routes 46 and 41, near Cholame, California. Capitol Records will later release a soundtrack album for the documentary film "The James Dean Story.
25 Years Ago Today In 1987 - Virgin Records artist Roy Orbison records the television special "Roy Orbison and Friends, A Black and White Night" for Cinemax at The Coconut Grove in The Ambassador Hotel. I was working at Virgin at the time and was in the audience in the back of the room. Also in the audience were singer Billy Idol (who was in total awe of Roy) and actor Patrick Swayze (who, by the end of the show was feeling no pain). The Ambassador was torn down in 2006 to make room for a new school. After the show I met Roy and he was nice enough to sign a CD I brought of his early recordings. The next morning Los Angeles was hit by the biggest earthquake (5.6 on the Richter scale) and after shocks since the '70s. I was at home when the first one hit and at Virgin's offices for a large aftershock that had the staircases swaying. I later designed the packaging for Virgin's promotional version of the video. Virgin Records is currently owned by Capitol Music Group's parent company, EMI Music Group. The Ambassador Hotel was demolished by its new owner, The Los Angeles Unified School District, in 2006 to make way for a new school. The Coconut Grove building is also no longer standing. It was originally promised to be turned into the new school's auditorium after the floor had been tilted for seating, but an examination determined that the concrete in 66 percent of the structure didn't meet current standards for surviving a large earthquake and the LAUSD board got its way and it was demolished to make way for a new auditorium. An article in the Los Angeles Times said that one bright note was that the original sign for the Coconut Grove was found when the glass entryway that was a later addition to the building was demolished.
1988 - John Lennon's star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame is unveiled with Yoko Ono in attendance
1990 - Maxi Priest's Charisma Records (a subsidiary of Virgin Records, distributed at the time in the United State by Atlantic Records) single "Close To You", with "I Know Love" on the flip side, is #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart. The single was released by 10 Records (another Virgin Records subsidiary) in the United Kingdom. 10 Records' and Charisma Records' catalogs are currently owned by Capitol Music Group's parent company, EMI Music Group.
1991 - Former Capitol Records artist, Broadway and motion picture actress Liza Minnelli receives a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame
1993 - George Harrison guests on Fox-TV's "The Simpsons"
ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
560 Years Ago Today In 1452 - Johann Guttenberg publishes a German language version of The Bible, the first book in Europe to be printed using movable type
1935 - George and Ira Gershwin's opera "Porgy And Bess" premieres at The Colonial Theatre in Boston, Massachusetts
1950 - Billboard Magazine renames its Hillbilly singles chart to become the "Country & Western" chart
1960 - At the end of the last episode of the NBC-TV series "The Howdy Doody Show" the normally silent character Clarabell The Clown says "Good-bye" to the audience.
Saturday, September 29, 2012
SEPTEMBER 29, 2012
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
90 Years Ago Today In 1922 - Louise Dinning aka Lou Dinning, singer and part of the Capitol Records group The Dinning Sisters (with her sisters Ginger and Jean), is born in Grant County, Oklahoma. Her brother, Mark Dinning, had his own hit with the single "Teen Angel" which was written by their sister Jean.
1938 - Tommy Boyce, music producer, songwriter (most notably with partner Bobby Hart) and member of the Capitol Records band Dolenz, Jones, Boyce & Hart is born Sidney Thomas Boyce in Charlottesville, Virginia
1948 - Mark Farner, guitarist and lead vocalist for the Capitol Records band Grand Funk Railroad is born in Flint, Michigan
1968 - Brad Smith, bass and flute player for the Capitol Records band Blind Melon is born in West Point, Mississippi
ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1945 - Capitol Records artist Jimmy Wakely debuts on The Grand Ole Opry
1948 - The Mel Powell Septet (Clyde Hurley on trumpet, Lou McGarity on trombone, Gus Bivona on clarinet, Don Lodice on tenor saxophone, Mel Powell on piano, Tiny Berman on bass, and Frank Carlson on drums) record the track "Muskrat Ramble" in Los Angles, California for Capitol Records as part of the soundtrack album for the Samuel Goldwyn film "A Song Is Born" which was sold to benefit the Damon Runyon Memorial Cancer Fund
1956 - Tex Ritter records the tracks "America Our Land", "This Land Is Your Land", and "Remember The Alamo" in Nashville, Tennessee. Capitol Records will later issue the tracks on Ritter's album "Sweet Land Of Liberty" (T 2743).
1956 - During two sessions held this day in Los Angeles, California Victor Aller (on piano) and The Concert Arts Orchestra (lineup unlisted), conducted by Felix Slatkin, record Dohnanyi's "Variations On A Nursery Tune, Part 1" at the first session and "Variations On A Nursery Tune, Part 2" at the second session. Capitol Records will issue the tracks on the orchestra's album "BRITTEN - The Young Person's Guide To The Orchestra/DOHNANYI - Variations On A Nursery Tune" (P-8373).
1961 - Jeanne Black (on vocals) with unlisted others, records the tracks "Heartbreak U.S.A.", "His Own Little Island", "Guessin' Again" and the as yet unissued track "Keep It Secret" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue the first two tracks together as a single (Capitol 4654) and the third track as a single (Capitol 4685) with "A Letter To Anya" (recorded December 18, 1961) on the flip side.
1961 - Joe Bushkin (on piano), with unlisted others, records the as yet unissued tracks "Soliloquy", "Hallelujah", and "One For My Baby" for Capitol Records in New York City, New York.
1964 - The Beatles record the track "I Don't Want To Spoil The Party" at Abbey Road Studios in London, England. Capitol Records will issue the track on the group's album "Beatles VI" (Capitol T 2358).
1971 - Quicksilver Messenger Service recorded the track "Song For Frisco" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will later issue the track on the band's album "Quicksilver" (Capitol SW-819).
1969 - Capitol Records releases Buck Owens' album "Tall Dark Stranger"
1973 - Grand Funk's Capitol Records single "We're An American Band", with "Creepin'" on the flip side, is still #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart
1979 - The Knack's Capitol Records single "My Sharona", with "Let Me Out" on the flip side, is still #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart
1986 - During two sessions held this day, Suzy Bogguss with leader Sonny Garrish and Larry Paxton, Jerry Kroon, Brent Rowan, and Mitch Humphries, records the tracks "A Little Common Kindness", "I Don't Want To Set The Word On Fire", and "What About Her Heart" at the first session between 10 AM and 1 PM and, after Robert Ogdin replaces Mitch Humphries, records the the tracks "It Must Be You", "It Just So Happened", "Hopeless Romantic", and "Don't Talk To Me" at the second session between 2 PM and 5PM at Music City Music Hall in Nashville, Tennessee. After Overdubs are recorded at Woodland Studios in Nashville, Tennessee on September 30 and October 10, 1986 Capitol Records will issue "I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire" and "Hopeless Romantic" together as a single (Capitol 5669). The other tracks are, so far, unreleased.
1986 - Ann Wilson (on vocals), with unlisted others, records "The Best Man In The World" for "The Golden Child" motion picture soundtrack. Capitol Records will issue the track as a single (Capitol 5654) with an instrumental version of the song on the flipside.
2003 - Wesley Tuttle, singer, yodeler (yodeled in Disney's "Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs"), actor, guitarist and the second country artist signed to Capitol Records (1944-1957), dies in Sylmar, California of heart failure at age 85
2006 - The Los Angeles Times reports that EMI is selling The Capitol Tower and adjoining buildings and property to an East Coast developer for $50 million dollars (cheap!) and that Capitol Records and The Capitol Tower Studios will become tenants of the building "for many years". The article also stated that the south east parking lot will probably be developed into a multi purpose building with housing, offices and shops. So far no renderings of the new building or any idea on how much it will block the view of The Tower when driving by on Hollywood Boulevard or north on Vine Street.
ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1956 - Future Capitol Records artist Rose Maddox joins The Grand Ole Opry
1963 - "The Judy Garland Show" premieres on CBS-TV with former Capitol Records artist Mel Torme as musical advisor and arranger for the series. Capitol would eventually be one of the many companies to release live tracks from the show on various compilation albums.
1984 - Teddy Reig, A&R man and record producer for Roulette Records artists Count Basie, Jack Teagarden, Randy Weston, Thad Jones and Sara Vaughn, dies in Teaneck, New Jersey at age 65. Roulette's catalog is currently owned by Capitol Music Group's parent company, EMI Music Group.
25 Years Ago Today In 1987 - Dan Seal's EMI America single "Three Time Loser", with "On The Front Line" on the flip side, is #1 on the U.S. Country singles chart. EMI America's catalog is currently owned by Capitol Music Group's parent company, EMI Music Group.
25 Years Ago Today In 1987 - EMI America Records releases The Red Hot Chili Peppers' album "The Uplift Mofo Party Plan".
15 Years Ago Today In 1992 - EMI America Records releases The Red Hot Chili Pepper's compilation album and video "What Hits!?".
ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
105 Years Ago Today In 1907 - Gene Autry, actor, singer, and baseball team owner, is born Orvon Gene Autry in Tioga, Texas
1935 - Jerry Lee Lewis, pianist, singer and Sun Records recording artist, is born in Ferriday, Louisiana
1970 - Edward Everett Horton, singer, dancer, Vaudeville, Broadway, and motion picture actor, and cartoon voice artist, dies of cancer in Encino, California at age 84
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
90 Years Ago Today In 1922 - Louise Dinning aka Lou Dinning, singer and part of the Capitol Records group The Dinning Sisters (with her sisters Ginger and Jean), is born in Grant County, Oklahoma. Her brother, Mark Dinning, had his own hit with the single "Teen Angel" which was written by their sister Jean.
1938 - Tommy Boyce, music producer, songwriter (most notably with partner Bobby Hart) and member of the Capitol Records band Dolenz, Jones, Boyce & Hart is born Sidney Thomas Boyce in Charlottesville, Virginia
1948 - Mark Farner, guitarist and lead vocalist for the Capitol Records band Grand Funk Railroad is born in Flint, Michigan
1968 - Brad Smith, bass and flute player for the Capitol Records band Blind Melon is born in West Point, Mississippi
ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1945 - Capitol Records artist Jimmy Wakely debuts on The Grand Ole Opry
1948 - The Mel Powell Septet (Clyde Hurley on trumpet, Lou McGarity on trombone, Gus Bivona on clarinet, Don Lodice on tenor saxophone, Mel Powell on piano, Tiny Berman on bass, and Frank Carlson on drums) record the track "Muskrat Ramble" in Los Angles, California for Capitol Records as part of the soundtrack album for the Samuel Goldwyn film "A Song Is Born" which was sold to benefit the Damon Runyon Memorial Cancer Fund
1956 - Tex Ritter records the tracks "America Our Land", "This Land Is Your Land", and "Remember The Alamo" in Nashville, Tennessee. Capitol Records will later issue the tracks on Ritter's album "Sweet Land Of Liberty" (T 2743).
1956 - During two sessions held this day in Los Angeles, California Victor Aller (on piano) and The Concert Arts Orchestra (lineup unlisted), conducted by Felix Slatkin, record Dohnanyi's "Variations On A Nursery Tune, Part 1" at the first session and "Variations On A Nursery Tune, Part 2" at the second session. Capitol Records will issue the tracks on the orchestra's album "BRITTEN - The Young Person's Guide To The Orchestra/DOHNANYI - Variations On A Nursery Tune" (P-8373).
1961 - Jeanne Black (on vocals) with unlisted others, records the tracks "Heartbreak U.S.A.", "His Own Little Island", "Guessin' Again" and the as yet unissued track "Keep It Secret" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue the first two tracks together as a single (Capitol 4654) and the third track as a single (Capitol 4685) with "A Letter To Anya" (recorded December 18, 1961) on the flip side.
1961 - Joe Bushkin (on piano), with unlisted others, records the as yet unissued tracks "Soliloquy", "Hallelujah", and "One For My Baby" for Capitol Records in New York City, New York.
1964 - The Beatles record the track "I Don't Want To Spoil The Party" at Abbey Road Studios in London, England. Capitol Records will issue the track on the group's album "Beatles VI" (Capitol T 2358).
1971 - Quicksilver Messenger Service recorded the track "Song For Frisco" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will later issue the track on the band's album "Quicksilver" (Capitol SW-819).
1969 - Capitol Records releases Buck Owens' album "Tall Dark Stranger"
1973 - Grand Funk's Capitol Records single "We're An American Band", with "Creepin'" on the flip side, is still #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart
1979 - The Knack's Capitol Records single "My Sharona", with "Let Me Out" on the flip side, is still #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart
1986 - During two sessions held this day, Suzy Bogguss with leader Sonny Garrish and Larry Paxton, Jerry Kroon, Brent Rowan, and Mitch Humphries, records the tracks "A Little Common Kindness", "I Don't Want To Set The Word On Fire", and "What About Her Heart" at the first session between 10 AM and 1 PM and, after Robert Ogdin replaces Mitch Humphries, records the the tracks "It Must Be You", "It Just So Happened", "Hopeless Romantic", and "Don't Talk To Me" at the second session between 2 PM and 5PM at Music City Music Hall in Nashville, Tennessee. After Overdubs are recorded at Woodland Studios in Nashville, Tennessee on September 30 and October 10, 1986 Capitol Records will issue "I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire" and "Hopeless Romantic" together as a single (Capitol 5669). The other tracks are, so far, unreleased.
1986 - Ann Wilson (on vocals), with unlisted others, records "The Best Man In The World" for "The Golden Child" motion picture soundtrack. Capitol Records will issue the track as a single (Capitol 5654) with an instrumental version of the song on the flipside.
2003 - Wesley Tuttle, singer, yodeler (yodeled in Disney's "Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs"), actor, guitarist and the second country artist signed to Capitol Records (1944-1957), dies in Sylmar, California of heart failure at age 85
2006 - The Los Angeles Times reports that EMI is selling The Capitol Tower and adjoining buildings and property to an East Coast developer for $50 million dollars (cheap!) and that Capitol Records and The Capitol Tower Studios will become tenants of the building "for many years". The article also stated that the south east parking lot will probably be developed into a multi purpose building with housing, offices and shops. So far no renderings of the new building or any idea on how much it will block the view of The Tower when driving by on Hollywood Boulevard or north on Vine Street.
ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1956 - Future Capitol Records artist Rose Maddox joins The Grand Ole Opry
1963 - "The Judy Garland Show" premieres on CBS-TV with former Capitol Records artist Mel Torme as musical advisor and arranger for the series. Capitol would eventually be one of the many companies to release live tracks from the show on various compilation albums.
1984 - Teddy Reig, A&R man and record producer for Roulette Records artists Count Basie, Jack Teagarden, Randy Weston, Thad Jones and Sara Vaughn, dies in Teaneck, New Jersey at age 65. Roulette's catalog is currently owned by Capitol Music Group's parent company, EMI Music Group.
25 Years Ago Today In 1987 - Dan Seal's EMI America single "Three Time Loser", with "On The Front Line" on the flip side, is #1 on the U.S. Country singles chart. EMI America's catalog is currently owned by Capitol Music Group's parent company, EMI Music Group.
25 Years Ago Today In 1987 - EMI America Records releases The Red Hot Chili Peppers' album "The Uplift Mofo Party Plan".
15 Years Ago Today In 1992 - EMI America Records releases The Red Hot Chili Pepper's compilation album and video "What Hits!?".
ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
105 Years Ago Today In 1907 - Gene Autry, actor, singer, and baseball team owner, is born Orvon Gene Autry in Tioga, Texas
1935 - Jerry Lee Lewis, pianist, singer and Sun Records recording artist, is born in Ferriday, Louisiana
1970 - Edward Everett Horton, singer, dancer, Vaudeville, Broadway, and motion picture actor, and cartoon voice artist, dies of cancer in Encino, California at age 84
Friday, September 28, 2012
SEPTEMBER 28, 2012
HAPPY BIRTHDAYS!
1930 - Tommy Collins, songwriter, singer, Nashville Songwriters Hall Of Fame inductee, and a Capitol Records artist (1953-1957 and 1963-1964) is born Leonard Raymond Sipes at a farm just outside of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The Rockabilly Hall Of Fame website has a great biography page on Tommy.
60 Years Ago Today In 1952 - Andy Ward, drummer with the Capitol Records group Marillion (1983), is born in London, England
ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1959 - Stan Kenton, his orchestra, June Christy, and The Four Freshmen begin a five-week road tour with a concert at Murray State College in Kentucky. Their October 10 concert at Purdue University in Lafayette, Indiana, performed in front of more than twelve thousand people in a pouring rainstorm, will be recorded and released as the Capitol Records album "Road Show".
1959 - The Kingston Trio records John Stewart's "Green Grasses" which will be initially released as the flip side of their Capitol Records single "Coo Coo-U"
50 Years Ago Today In 1962 - Capitol Records artist Judy Garland files for divorce from her husband and manager Sid Luft, father of her daughter Lorna and son Joseph
1963 - The Beach Boys' "Little Deuce Coupe", the flip side of their Capitol Records' single "Surfer Girl", peaks at #15 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart
1966 - The Leaves (lineup unlisted) record the tracks "Lemon Princess" and "Officer Shayne" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue both tracks on the group's album "All The Good That's Happening" (Capitol T 2638).
1966 - Lou Rawls (on vocals), with H.B. Barnum conducting his own arrangements to the orchestra (Freddie Hill and Tony Terran on trumpet, Jackie Kelso, Jim Horn, and Jay Migliori on saxophones, Tommy Strode on piano, Tommy Tedesco and Arthur Wright on guitar, Jimmy Bond on bass, and John Gueri on drums), records the tracks "A Woman Who's A Woman" and "You Can Bring Me All Your Heartaches" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue both tracks together as a single (Capitol 5790).
45 Years Ago Today In 1967 - Sonny James' Capitol Records single "It's The Little Things", with "Don't Cut Timber On A Windy Day" on the flip side, is #1 on the U.S. Country singles chart
1968 - The Beatles' Apple Records single "Hey Jude", with "Revolution" on the flip side, hits #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart where it will stay for nine weeks
1974 - Andy Kim's Capitol Records single "Rock Me Gently", with "Rock Me Gently Part II" on the flip side, is still #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart
1988 - Capitol Records releases Buck Owens' single "Hot Dog", with "Second Fiddle" on the flip side
1991 - Garth Brooks' Capitol Nashville album "Ropin' The Wind" becomes the first album to ever enter both of Billboard's Top 200 Albums and Top Country Albums charts at #1 at the same time
1991 - Miles Davis, trumpet player and Capitol Records (1949-1950)and Blue Note Records (1952-1954) artist, dies after a stroke in Santa Monica, California at age 65
1999 - Capitol Records releases Garth Brooks' album "Garth Brooks In... The Life of Chris Gaines"
2004 - Capitol Records releases Duran Duran's album "Astronaut" on CD and a limited double vinyl version. Capitol Records also releases Everclear's compilation album "Ten Years Gone - The Best Of Everclear 1994-2004", and the compilation CD "Ultimate Christmas Cocktails" as part of its Ultra-Lounge series
ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
110 Years Ago Today In 1902 - Ed Sullivan, newspaper sportswriter and theater columnist, gossip columnist on radio and newsreels, and radio and television variety show host (CBS' "Toast Of The Town" which will become "The Ed Sullivan Show" and showcases many Capitol Records artists, and played an important part in kicking of Beatlemania in the U.S.), is born Edward Vincent Sullivan in Manhattan, New York
1963 - Murray The K becomes the first disc jockey in the United States to spin a track by The Beatles when he plays their Swan Records single "She Loves You", which has "I'll Get You" on the flip side, on his daily record review contest on radio station WINS in New York City, New York. The single came in third out of the five played.
2004 - Nonesuch Records releases a newly recorded version of Brian Wilson's album "Smile", which had been started 38 years earlier as a Beach Boys' album for Capitol Records and shelved a year after recording started.
ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1909 - Al Capp, cartoonist who created the strp "Li'l Abner" (which was later adapted into a musical with lyrics by Capitol Records' co-founder Johnny Mercer) and also invented the holiday Sadie Hawkins Day, is born Alfred Gerald Caplin in New Haven, Connecticut
1964 - Nacio Herb Brown (born Ignacio Herb Brown), Broadway and Hollywood composer ("Singin' In The Rain", "Lucky Star", "Broadway Melody", etc. with lyricist Alan Freed) and 1970 inductee into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, dies in San Francisco, California at age 68
HAPPY BIRTHDAYS!
1930 - Tommy Collins, songwriter, singer, Nashville Songwriters Hall Of Fame inductee, and a Capitol Records artist (1953-1957 and 1963-1964) is born Leonard Raymond Sipes at a farm just outside of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The Rockabilly Hall Of Fame website has a great biography page on Tommy.
60 Years Ago Today In 1952 - Andy Ward, drummer with the Capitol Records group Marillion (1983), is born in London, England
ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1959 - Stan Kenton, his orchestra, June Christy, and The Four Freshmen begin a five-week road tour with a concert at Murray State College in Kentucky. Their October 10 concert at Purdue University in Lafayette, Indiana, performed in front of more than twelve thousand people in a pouring rainstorm, will be recorded and released as the Capitol Records album "Road Show".
1959 - The Kingston Trio records John Stewart's "Green Grasses" which will be initially released as the flip side of their Capitol Records single "Coo Coo-U"
50 Years Ago Today In 1962 - Capitol Records artist Judy Garland files for divorce from her husband and manager Sid Luft, father of her daughter Lorna and son Joseph
1963 - The Beach Boys' "Little Deuce Coupe", the flip side of their Capitol Records' single "Surfer Girl", peaks at #15 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart
1966 - The Leaves (lineup unlisted) record the tracks "Lemon Princess" and "Officer Shayne" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue both tracks on the group's album "All The Good That's Happening" (Capitol T 2638).
1966 - Lou Rawls (on vocals), with H.B. Barnum conducting his own arrangements to the orchestra (Freddie Hill and Tony Terran on trumpet, Jackie Kelso, Jim Horn, and Jay Migliori on saxophones, Tommy Strode on piano, Tommy Tedesco and Arthur Wright on guitar, Jimmy Bond on bass, and John Gueri on drums), records the tracks "A Woman Who's A Woman" and "You Can Bring Me All Your Heartaches" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue both tracks together as a single (Capitol 5790).
45 Years Ago Today In 1967 - Sonny James' Capitol Records single "It's The Little Things", with "Don't Cut Timber On A Windy Day" on the flip side, is #1 on the U.S. Country singles chart
1968 - The Beatles' Apple Records single "Hey Jude", with "Revolution" on the flip side, hits #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart where it will stay for nine weeks
1974 - Andy Kim's Capitol Records single "Rock Me Gently", with "Rock Me Gently Part II" on the flip side, is still #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart
1988 - Capitol Records releases Buck Owens' single "Hot Dog", with "Second Fiddle" on the flip side
1991 - Garth Brooks' Capitol Nashville album "Ropin' The Wind" becomes the first album to ever enter both of Billboard's Top 200 Albums and Top Country Albums charts at #1 at the same time
1991 - Miles Davis, trumpet player and Capitol Records (1949-1950)and Blue Note Records (1952-1954) artist, dies after a stroke in Santa Monica, California at age 65
1999 - Capitol Records releases Garth Brooks' album "Garth Brooks In... The Life of Chris Gaines"
2004 - Capitol Records releases Duran Duran's album "Astronaut" on CD and a limited double vinyl version. Capitol Records also releases Everclear's compilation album "Ten Years Gone - The Best Of Everclear 1994-2004", and the compilation CD "Ultimate Christmas Cocktails" as part of its Ultra-Lounge series
ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
110 Years Ago Today In 1902 - Ed Sullivan, newspaper sportswriter and theater columnist, gossip columnist on radio and newsreels, and radio and television variety show host (CBS' "Toast Of The Town" which will become "The Ed Sullivan Show" and showcases many Capitol Records artists, and played an important part in kicking of Beatlemania in the U.S.), is born Edward Vincent Sullivan in Manhattan, New York
1963 - Murray The K becomes the first disc jockey in the United States to spin a track by The Beatles when he plays their Swan Records single "She Loves You", which has "I'll Get You" on the flip side, on his daily record review contest on radio station WINS in New York City, New York. The single came in third out of the five played.
2004 - Nonesuch Records releases a newly recorded version of Brian Wilson's album "Smile", which had been started 38 years earlier as a Beach Boys' album for Capitol Records and shelved a year after recording started.
ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1909 - Al Capp, cartoonist who created the strp "Li'l Abner" (which was later adapted into a musical with lyrics by Capitol Records' co-founder Johnny Mercer) and also invented the holiday Sadie Hawkins Day, is born Alfred Gerald Caplin in New Haven, Connecticut
1964 - Nacio Herb Brown (born Ignacio Herb Brown), Broadway and Hollywood composer ("Singin' In The Rain", "Lucky Star", "Broadway Melody", etc. with lyricist Alan Freed) and 1970 inductee into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, dies in San Francisco, California at age 68
Thursday, September 27, 2012
SEPTEMBER 27, 2012
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!
1933 - Glenn and Dorothy Wallichs are married. Glenn will go on to found Hollywood's first music superstore – Wallichs' Music City ("Sunset and Vine") – and co-found Capitol Records, where he will also serve as vice-president, president and chairman of the board. After Glenn's death in 1971 Dorothy, who will die on December 19, 2002, will go on to quietly do charitable works including contributing funds to the University of Redlands in California to build, and then refurbish, The Glenn Wallichs Theatre.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
85 Years Ago Today In 1927 - Bud Powell, composer, pianist, member of the Capitol Records band Cootie Williams and His Orchestra and a solo Blue Note Records artist, is born Earl Powell in New York City, New York
ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1954 - Ground breaking occurs for the world's first round office building – The Capitol Tower – when Capitol Records' president Glenn Wallichs uses a bulldozer instead of a traditional shovel to start construction. The ceremony is emceed by Don Wilson with many Capitol Records artists and executives attending as well as local politicians. Later that day, Capitol Records president Glenn Wallichs is roasted by local Los Angeles radio disc jockeys at a lunch hosted by The Los Angeles Ad Club, with emcee Dean Martin. Both events are recorded and pressed as the souvenir two record 10" 33RPM album called "Glenn Wallichs' Day" which is given to employees and others. Wallichs and his wife Dorothy will then continue to celebrate their 21st wedding anniversary.
1964 - Capitol Records group The Beach Boys make their first appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show"
1965 - Stan Kenton begins three straight days of sessions, recording tracks for his Capitol Records album "Stan Kenton Conducts The Los Angeles Neophonic Orchestra", at The Capitol Tower Studios in Hollywood, California
1966 - Soupy Sales records the tracks "Use your noggin'", "The Backwards Alphabet", and the as yet unissued track "You Came A Long Way From St. Louis" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue the first two tracks together as a single (Capitol 5766).
45 Years Ago Today In 1967 - Gordon Waller, of Capitol Records group Peter and Gordon, records the track "So Long Dad" by Randy Newmann, but the track is never released
1973 - Tennessee Ernie Ford records the tracks "Bits And Pieces Of Life", which will be released as the flip side of Ford's Capitol Records single "Come On Down" on June 24, 1974, and "Smokey Taverns, Bar Room Girls", which will have the track "The Devil Ain't A Lonely Woman's Friend" as its flip side when it's released as a single on October 13, 1975
1973 - Grand Funk's Capitol Records single "We're An American Band", a version of which Capitol has pressed on gold-colored vinyl, is still #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart
1979 - Jimmy McCulloch, lead guitarist with the Capitol Records band Wings as well as a member of the bands Thunderclap Newman and Stone The Crows, dies in London, England at age 26 of a heart failure due to overuse of heroin, morphine, alcohol and marijuana
1995 - Rosemary Clooney begins four straight days of sessions, recording tracks for her album "Dedicated To Nelson", at The Capitol Tower Studios in Hollywood, California
In 2005 - Capitol Records releases: Blind Melon's compilation album "Tones Of Home: The Best Of Blind Melon" on CD and their concert film "Live At The Metro" on DVD; The Band's "A Musical History", a box set covering The Band's recording career from 1963 to 1976, with 37 previously unreleased tracks; and the Christmas compilation "Christmas Cocktails Part Three" as part of its Ultra-Lounge series
2010 - Buddy Morrow (born Muni Zudekoff on February 8, 1919 in New Haven, Connecticut), trombonist, bandleader of The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra for over 30 years (last playing with the band three days earlier on September 24, 2010 in Ormond Beach, Florida) and Capitol Records session artist for recordings by Nat "King" Cole, Mel Tormé (including a duet with Tormé and Peggy Lee), Jackie Gleason and Arte Shaw, dies at his home in Maitland, Florida at age 91.
ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1954 - NBC-TV broadcasts the nationwide debut of "Tonight!" (later renamed "The Tonight Show"), hosted by future Capitol Records artist Steve Allen. It is also Allen's new wife's (they married on July 31, 1954), motion picture and television actress Jayne Meadows, birthday. She was born Jayne Meadows Cotter in Wuchang, China in 1920.
1961 - Liberty Records releases Johnny Burnette's single "God, Country and My Baby" with "Honestly I Do" on the flip side. Capitol Records currently owns Liberty's catalog
1963 - Parlophone Records, a subsidiary of EMI, releases Cillia Black's first single, "Love of the Loved", in the United Kingdom. Capitol Records will later distribute Black's releases in the United States.
ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1885 - Joseph McCarthy, lyricist (best known for the Broadway musicals "Irene", "Kid Boots", and "Rio Rita" as well as the songs "You Made Me Love You", "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows", "In My Sweet Little Alice Blue Gown", and "Rio Rita"), is born in Somerville, Massachusettes
1898 - Vincent Youmans, musician, composer ("Hit The Deck", "Great Day!", "No, No Nanette" {w/Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II}, "I Know That You Know (w/Harbach}, "More Than You Know", "Rise ’n’ Shine", "Flying Down To Rio", "The Carioca" and many more), and Songwriters’ Hall of Fame inductee, is born in New York City, New York
1936 - Don Cornelius, television show creator (best known for the syndicated show "Soul Train" which he hosted from 1971-1994 and still produces), is born in Chicago, Illinois
70 Years Ago Today In 1942 - Glenn Miller gives his final civilian performance before entering the U.S. Army when he and his orchestra perform at the Central Theater in Passaic County, New Jersey
65 Years Ago Today In 1947 - Meatloaf, actor and singer, is born Marvin Lee Aday in Dallas, Texas
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!
1933 - Glenn and Dorothy Wallichs are married. Glenn will go on to found Hollywood's first music superstore – Wallichs' Music City ("Sunset and Vine") – and co-found Capitol Records, where he will also serve as vice-president, president and chairman of the board. After Glenn's death in 1971 Dorothy, who will die on December 19, 2002, will go on to quietly do charitable works including contributing funds to the University of Redlands in California to build, and then refurbish, The Glenn Wallichs Theatre.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
85 Years Ago Today In 1927 - Bud Powell, composer, pianist, member of the Capitol Records band Cootie Williams and His Orchestra and a solo Blue Note Records artist, is born Earl Powell in New York City, New York
ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1954 - Ground breaking occurs for the world's first round office building – The Capitol Tower – when Capitol Records' president Glenn Wallichs uses a bulldozer instead of a traditional shovel to start construction. The ceremony is emceed by Don Wilson with many Capitol Records artists and executives attending as well as local politicians. Later that day, Capitol Records president Glenn Wallichs is roasted by local Los Angeles radio disc jockeys at a lunch hosted by The Los Angeles Ad Club, with emcee Dean Martin. Both events are recorded and pressed as the souvenir two record 10" 33RPM album called "Glenn Wallichs' Day" which is given to employees and others. Wallichs and his wife Dorothy will then continue to celebrate their 21st wedding anniversary.1964 - Capitol Records group The Beach Boys make their first appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show"
1965 - Stan Kenton begins three straight days of sessions, recording tracks for his Capitol Records album "Stan Kenton Conducts The Los Angeles Neophonic Orchestra", at The Capitol Tower Studios in Hollywood, California
1966 - Soupy Sales records the tracks "Use your noggin'", "The Backwards Alphabet", and the as yet unissued track "You Came A Long Way From St. Louis" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue the first two tracks together as a single (Capitol 5766).
45 Years Ago Today In 1967 - Gordon Waller, of Capitol Records group Peter and Gordon, records the track "So Long Dad" by Randy Newmann, but the track is never released
1973 - Tennessee Ernie Ford records the tracks "Bits And Pieces Of Life", which will be released as the flip side of Ford's Capitol Records single "Come On Down" on June 24, 1974, and "Smokey Taverns, Bar Room Girls", which will have the track "The Devil Ain't A Lonely Woman's Friend" as its flip side when it's released as a single on October 13, 1975
1973 - Grand Funk's Capitol Records single "We're An American Band", a version of which Capitol has pressed on gold-colored vinyl, is still #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart
1979 - Jimmy McCulloch, lead guitarist with the Capitol Records band Wings as well as a member of the bands Thunderclap Newman and Stone The Crows, dies in London, England at age 26 of a heart failure due to overuse of heroin, morphine, alcohol and marijuana
1995 - Rosemary Clooney begins four straight days of sessions, recording tracks for her album "Dedicated To Nelson", at The Capitol Tower Studios in Hollywood, California
In 2005 - Capitol Records releases: Blind Melon's compilation album "Tones Of Home: The Best Of Blind Melon" on CD and their concert film "Live At The Metro" on DVD; The Band's "A Musical History", a box set covering The Band's recording career from 1963 to 1976, with 37 previously unreleased tracks; and the Christmas compilation "Christmas Cocktails Part Three" as part of its Ultra-Lounge series
2010 - Buddy Morrow (born Muni Zudekoff on February 8, 1919 in New Haven, Connecticut), trombonist, bandleader of The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra for over 30 years (last playing with the band three days earlier on September 24, 2010 in Ormond Beach, Florida) and Capitol Records session artist for recordings by Nat "King" Cole, Mel Tormé (including a duet with Tormé and Peggy Lee), Jackie Gleason and Arte Shaw, dies at his home in Maitland, Florida at age 91.
ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1954 - NBC-TV broadcasts the nationwide debut of "Tonight!" (later renamed "The Tonight Show"), hosted by future Capitol Records artist Steve Allen. It is also Allen's new wife's (they married on July 31, 1954), motion picture and television actress Jayne Meadows, birthday. She was born Jayne Meadows Cotter in Wuchang, China in 1920.
1961 - Liberty Records releases Johnny Burnette's single "God, Country and My Baby" with "Honestly I Do" on the flip side. Capitol Records currently owns Liberty's catalog
1963 - Parlophone Records, a subsidiary of EMI, releases Cillia Black's first single, "Love of the Loved", in the United Kingdom. Capitol Records will later distribute Black's releases in the United States.
ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1885 - Joseph McCarthy, lyricist (best known for the Broadway musicals "Irene", "Kid Boots", and "Rio Rita" as well as the songs "You Made Me Love You", "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows", "In My Sweet Little Alice Blue Gown", and "Rio Rita"), is born in Somerville, Massachusettes
1898 - Vincent Youmans, musician, composer ("Hit The Deck", "Great Day!", "No, No Nanette" {w/Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II}, "I Know That You Know (w/Harbach}, "More Than You Know", "Rise ’n’ Shine", "Flying Down To Rio", "The Carioca" and many more), and Songwriters’ Hall of Fame inductee, is born in New York City, New York
1936 - Don Cornelius, television show creator (best known for the syndicated show "Soul Train" which he hosted from 1971-1994 and still produces), is born in Chicago, Illinois
70 Years Ago Today In 1942 - Glenn Miller gives his final civilian performance before entering the U.S. Army when he and his orchestra perform at the Central Theater in Passaic County, New Jersey
65 Years Ago Today In 1947 - Meatloaf, actor and singer, is born Marvin Lee Aday in Dallas, Texas
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
SEPTEMBER 26, 2012
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
45 Years Ago Today In 1967 - Shannon Hoon, lead singer and harmonica, kazoo and acoustic guitar player with the Capitol Records band Blind Melon, is born Richard Shannon Hoon in Lafayette, Indiana
ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1955 - Capitol Records releases Judy Garland's debut album for the label, "Miss Show Business"
1956 - Gordon Jenkins conducts his own arrangements to an uncredited orchestra and The Ralph Brewster Singers (lineup also unlisted) as they record "To Each His Own", "I Kiss Your Hand Madam", "My Reverie" and "Cherie, I Love You" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue all the tracks on Gordon Jenkins and His Orchestra's album "Night Dreams" (T 781).
1961 - Lonnie Sattin (on vocals), with Ray Ellis conducting an uncredited orchestra and chorus, records the track "I Remember You Love", the as yet unissued track "Don't Have To Tell Nobody", and the tracks "(You're) The First One To Find The Rainbow" and "I Think I Go, I Think I Stay" in New York City, New York. Capitol Records will issue the first and third tracks together as a single (Capitol F374) and the last track as a single (Capitol F3632) with "Walk Along With Kings".
1961 - Buck Owens and His Buckaroos (lineup unlisted) record the tracks "Down On The Corner Of Love", "The House Down The Block", "Fool Me Again". "You're For Me", and "Blues For Life" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will release "You're For Me" as a single on November 5, 1962 with "House Down The Block" on the flip side (Capitol 4872) and all the tracks on Owens' album "You're For Me" (Capitol T 1777).
1961 - Joe Bushkin, on piano with unlisted others, records the as yet unissued tracks "Make Someone Happy", "You're Just In Love", "I've Got A Crush On You", and "Stompin' At The Savoy" for Capitol Records in New York City, New York.
1961 - Arch Oboler records the tracks "Dentist-Patient/Lights Out/Western/Railroad tTrack-Drunk/Housewife" at the first session and at the second he records the tracks "Chicken Heart/Dachau/Baby & Dog/Laughing Man/Medieval Execution/Inside out" and "Baby in Frypen" in Los Angeles, California. There is no listing for any release.
50 Years Ago Today In 1962 - The Kingston Trio record the track "The First Time (Ever I Saw Your Face)" for their Capitol Records album "New Frontier". Ten years later Roberta Flack would cover the song.
1965 - Buck Owens' Capitol Records single "Only You (Can Break My Heart)", with "Gonna Have Love" on the flip side, is #1 on the U.S. Country singles chart
1966 - Dobie Gray, singer and songwriter, signs with Capitol Records
1969 - The Beatles' last recorded studio album "Abbey Road" is released by Apple Records and distributed by Capitol Records in the United States
1970 - Glen Campbell's Capitol Records single "It's Only Make Believe", with "Pave You Way Into Tomorrow" on the flip side, enters the U.S. Country singles charts where it will peak at #3
1974 - Apple Records releases John Lennon's album "Walls And Bridges" with Capitol Records handling distribution in the United States
1993 - Garth Brooks' Liberty Records (later renamed Capitol Records Nashville) single "Ain't Goin' Down (Till The Sun Comes Up)" with "Kickin' And Screamin'" on the flip side, is #1 on the U.S. Country singles charts
1995 - Capitol Records releases Jill Sobule's track "Supermodel", from the original motion picture soundtrack album for the film "Clueless" (also released by the label), as a 7" jukebox 45rpm single with The Smoking Pope's track "Need You Around" (also on the soundtrack album) as the flip side
1995 - Capitol Records Nashville releases John Berry's album "O Holy Night"
1995 - Capitol Records releases The Kingston Trio's compilation CD set "The Capitol Years"
15 Years Ago Today In 1997 - A memorial service is held for one time Capitol Records artist Jimmy Witherspoon at the True Vine Baptist Church1437 in Inglewood, California
2000 - Capitol Records releases the Frank Sinatra box set, "Frank Sinatra - Concepts", which contains all 16 of Sinatra's Capitol Concepts albums digitally remastered and replaces the previous, limited-run, wooden "Concepts" box
2003 - Robert Palmer (born Robert Allen Palmer), lead singer of the Capitol Records group Power Station, dies in Paris, France of a heart attack at the age of 54. He is later interred at the cemetery in city where he resided at the time, Lugano, Switzerland.
2004 - Keith Urban's Capitol Records Nashville single "Days Go By" is #1 on the U.S. Country singles charts, becoming his fifth #1
2006 - Sean Lennon appears on "The Late Show with David Letterman" to promote his new album "Friendly Fire" whose release has been delayed to October 3 from it's original September 26 date
2006 - Capitol Records releases: Saosin's self-titled album as a standard CD and as a CD and DVD set that includes videos of songs on the album; the soundtrack to the motion picture "The U.S. VS John Lennon"; Peggy Lee's compilation album "Christmas With Peggy Lee"; and re-releases George Harrison's "Living In A Material World" as a digitally remastered CD and as a CD and DVD set that includes a live performance of "Give Me Love" as well as a rare photos that play to other songs
2006 - Capitol Jazz re-releases, as part of its "The Great Jazz Vocal Collection", Dinah Shore and Andre Previn's Capitol Records album "Dinah Sings Previn Plays", June Christy's Capitol Records album "The Intimate Miss Christy", Sue Raney's Capitol Records album "All By Myself", Irene Kral and Herb Pomeroy's United Artists album "The Band And I", and Julie London's Liberty Records album "Around Midnight". Capitol Jazz is a Blue Note label, which is currently a subsidiary of Capitol Records. The Liberty and United Artists catalogs are currently owned by Capitol Records.
ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1928 - Julie London, singer, motion picture and television actress, wife first to actor and television producer Jack Webb and then to actor, record producer, composer and pianist Bobby Troupe, and Liberty Records artist, is born Julie Peck in Santa Rosa, California
1956 - Fats Domino's Imperial Records single "Blueberry Hill" enters Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records chart where it will eventually reach # 4. Imperial's catalog is currently owned by Capitol Music Group's parent company, EMI Music Group.
1969 - Drummer Elvin Jones, with Joe Farrell on tenor saxophone, flute and english horn, George Coleman on tenor saxophone, Pepper Adams on baritone saxophone, Wilbur Little on bass, and Candido Camero on congas, records the tracks "Mr. Jones", "Yes" without Camero, "Agappe Love", "Whew" without Adams and Camero, and "Agenda", at the Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, with producer Francis Wolff and recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder. The tracks would appear on Jones' Blue Note Records albums "Mr. Jones" and "Polycurrents". Blue Notes catalog is currently owned by Capitol Records
2006 - EMI Classics releases Paul McCartney's fourth classical album "Ecce Cor Meum"
ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
125 Years Ago Today In 1887 - Emile Berliner, a German immigrant living in Washington, D.C., patents a disk recording device that makes mass production of phonograph records feasible. He will later license the patent in the U.K. to The Gramophone Corporation which would become EMI. They would in turn license the use of their logo "His Master's Voice" to Berliner to use in the United States. Berliner's company would later become RCA.
1898 - George Gershwin, composer, is born Jacob Gershowitz in Brooklyn, New York
50 Years Ago Today In 1962 - "The Beverly Hillbillies" debuts on CBS-TV and will air 274 episodes over 9 seasons. It is also series co-star (Ellie Mae Clampett) Donna Douglas' 29th birthday. Douglas has also had a role on an episode of "The Twilight Zone" and co-stars with Elvis Presely in the motion picture "Frankie And Johnny".
1964 - "Gilligan's Island" debuts on CBS-TV and will air 98 episodes over 3 seasons
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
45 Years Ago Today In 1967 - Shannon Hoon, lead singer and harmonica, kazoo and acoustic guitar player with the Capitol Records band Blind Melon, is born Richard Shannon Hoon in Lafayette, Indiana
ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1955 - Capitol Records releases Judy Garland's debut album for the label, "Miss Show Business"
1956 - Gordon Jenkins conducts his own arrangements to an uncredited orchestra and The Ralph Brewster Singers (lineup also unlisted) as they record "To Each His Own", "I Kiss Your Hand Madam", "My Reverie" and "Cherie, I Love You" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue all the tracks on Gordon Jenkins and His Orchestra's album "Night Dreams" (T 781).
1961 - Lonnie Sattin (on vocals), with Ray Ellis conducting an uncredited orchestra and chorus, records the track "I Remember You Love", the as yet unissued track "Don't Have To Tell Nobody", and the tracks "(You're) The First One To Find The Rainbow" and "I Think I Go, I Think I Stay" in New York City, New York. Capitol Records will issue the first and third tracks together as a single (Capitol F374) and the last track as a single (Capitol F3632) with "Walk Along With Kings".
1961 - Buck Owens and His Buckaroos (lineup unlisted) record the tracks "Down On The Corner Of Love", "The House Down The Block", "Fool Me Again". "You're For Me", and "Blues For Life" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will release "You're For Me" as a single on November 5, 1962 with "House Down The Block" on the flip side (Capitol 4872) and all the tracks on Owens' album "You're For Me" (Capitol T 1777).
1961 - Joe Bushkin, on piano with unlisted others, records the as yet unissued tracks "Make Someone Happy", "You're Just In Love", "I've Got A Crush On You", and "Stompin' At The Savoy" for Capitol Records in New York City, New York.
1961 - Arch Oboler records the tracks "Dentist-Patient/Lights Out/Western/Railroad tTrack-Drunk/Housewife" at the first session and at the second he records the tracks "Chicken Heart/Dachau/Baby & Dog/Laughing Man/Medieval Execution/Inside out" and "Baby in Frypen" in Los Angeles, California. There is no listing for any release.
50 Years Ago Today In 1962 - The Kingston Trio record the track "The First Time (Ever I Saw Your Face)" for their Capitol Records album "New Frontier". Ten years later Roberta Flack would cover the song.
1965 - Buck Owens' Capitol Records single "Only You (Can Break My Heart)", with "Gonna Have Love" on the flip side, is #1 on the U.S. Country singles chart
1966 - Dobie Gray, singer and songwriter, signs with Capitol Records
1969 - The Beatles' last recorded studio album "Abbey Road" is released by Apple Records and distributed by Capitol Records in the United States
1970 - Glen Campbell's Capitol Records single "It's Only Make Believe", with "Pave You Way Into Tomorrow" on the flip side, enters the U.S. Country singles charts where it will peak at #3
1974 - Apple Records releases John Lennon's album "Walls And Bridges" with Capitol Records handling distribution in the United States
1993 - Garth Brooks' Liberty Records (later renamed Capitol Records Nashville) single "Ain't Goin' Down (Till The Sun Comes Up)" with "Kickin' And Screamin'" on the flip side, is #1 on the U.S. Country singles charts
1995 - Capitol Records releases Jill Sobule's track "Supermodel", from the original motion picture soundtrack album for the film "Clueless" (also released by the label), as a 7" jukebox 45rpm single with The Smoking Pope's track "Need You Around" (also on the soundtrack album) as the flip side
1995 - Capitol Records Nashville releases John Berry's album "O Holy Night"
1995 - Capitol Records releases The Kingston Trio's compilation CD set "The Capitol Years"
15 Years Ago Today In 1997 - A memorial service is held for one time Capitol Records artist Jimmy Witherspoon at the True Vine Baptist Church1437 in Inglewood, California
2000 - Capitol Records releases the Frank Sinatra box set, "Frank Sinatra - Concepts", which contains all 16 of Sinatra's Capitol Concepts albums digitally remastered and replaces the previous, limited-run, wooden "Concepts" box
2003 - Robert Palmer (born Robert Allen Palmer), lead singer of the Capitol Records group Power Station, dies in Paris, France of a heart attack at the age of 54. He is later interred at the cemetery in city where he resided at the time, Lugano, Switzerland.
2004 - Keith Urban's Capitol Records Nashville single "Days Go By" is #1 on the U.S. Country singles charts, becoming his fifth #1
2006 - Sean Lennon appears on "The Late Show with David Letterman" to promote his new album "Friendly Fire" whose release has been delayed to October 3 from it's original September 26 date
2006 - Capitol Records releases: Saosin's self-titled album as a standard CD and as a CD and DVD set that includes videos of songs on the album; the soundtrack to the motion picture "The U.S. VS John Lennon"; Peggy Lee's compilation album "Christmas With Peggy Lee"; and re-releases George Harrison's "Living In A Material World" as a digitally remastered CD and as a CD and DVD set that includes a live performance of "Give Me Love" as well as a rare photos that play to other songs
2006 - Capitol Jazz re-releases, as part of its "The Great Jazz Vocal Collection", Dinah Shore and Andre Previn's Capitol Records album "Dinah Sings Previn Plays", June Christy's Capitol Records album "The Intimate Miss Christy", Sue Raney's Capitol Records album "All By Myself", Irene Kral and Herb Pomeroy's United Artists album "The Band And I", and Julie London's Liberty Records album "Around Midnight". Capitol Jazz is a Blue Note label, which is currently a subsidiary of Capitol Records. The Liberty and United Artists catalogs are currently owned by Capitol Records.
ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1928 - Julie London, singer, motion picture and television actress, wife first to actor and television producer Jack Webb and then to actor, record producer, composer and pianist Bobby Troupe, and Liberty Records artist, is born Julie Peck in Santa Rosa, California
1956 - Fats Domino's Imperial Records single "Blueberry Hill" enters Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records chart where it will eventually reach # 4. Imperial's catalog is currently owned by Capitol Music Group's parent company, EMI Music Group.
1969 - Drummer Elvin Jones, with Joe Farrell on tenor saxophone, flute and english horn, George Coleman on tenor saxophone, Pepper Adams on baritone saxophone, Wilbur Little on bass, and Candido Camero on congas, records the tracks "Mr. Jones", "Yes" without Camero, "Agappe Love", "Whew" without Adams and Camero, and "Agenda", at the Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, with producer Francis Wolff and recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder. The tracks would appear on Jones' Blue Note Records albums "Mr. Jones" and "Polycurrents". Blue Notes catalog is currently owned by Capitol Records
2006 - EMI Classics releases Paul McCartney's fourth classical album "Ecce Cor Meum"
ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
125 Years Ago Today In 1887 - Emile Berliner, a German immigrant living in Washington, D.C., patents a disk recording device that makes mass production of phonograph records feasible. He will later license the patent in the U.K. to The Gramophone Corporation which would become EMI. They would in turn license the use of their logo "His Master's Voice" to Berliner to use in the United States. Berliner's company would later become RCA.
1898 - George Gershwin, composer, is born Jacob Gershowitz in Brooklyn, New York
50 Years Ago Today In 1962 - "The Beverly Hillbillies" debuts on CBS-TV and will air 274 episodes over 9 seasons. It is also series co-star (Ellie Mae Clampett) Donna Douglas' 29th birthday. Douglas has also had a role on an episode of "The Twilight Zone" and co-stars with Elvis Presely in the motion picture "Frankie And Johnny".
1964 - "Gilligan's Island" debuts on CBS-TV and will air 98 episodes over 3 seasons
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
SEPTEMBER 25, 2012
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
1940 - Wade Flemons, solo VeeJay Records artist and founding member, musician, and vocalist in the Capitol Records group The Salty Peppers which later became Earth, Wind and Fire, is born in Coffeyville, Kansas
1973 - Ras Kass, rapper and Priority Records solo artist and part of the group The HRSMN, is born John Austin IV in Carson, California. Priority Records is a division of Capitol Records.
1974 - Daniel Kessler, guitarist and backing vocalist in the Capitol Records/EMI band Interpol, is born Daniel Alexander Kessler in London, England.
ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1946 - On the last night of a four night stand at The Circle Room in the Hotel La Salle in Milwaukee, Wisconsin that is broadcast on WEMP, The King Cole Trio (arranger Nat "King" Cole on piano and vocals, Oscar Moore on guitar, and Johnny Miller on bass) performs an instrumental version of "Sweet Georgia Brown" as well as songs "Sweet Lorraine", "Oh, But I Do" (with the entire band on vocals), "My Sugar Is So Refined" and "Closing Theme (F.S.T.)". Capitol Records will release transcriptions of the all the tracks on the CD "Nat King Cole Trio - Live At The Circle Room" (Capitol 5-21859-2).
1951 - In a split session held on this day in Los Angeles, California Jimmy Wakely (on vocals) and his Cowboy Band (lineup unlisted) record the tracks "Keep A Light In Your Window Tonight" and "Won't You Ride In My Little Red Wagon" at the first session and then at the second session Jimmy Wakely and Lucille "Lou" Dinning (both on vocals) with Don Robertson's Music (lineup unlisted) record the tracks "Each Step Of The Way" and "Just A Little More Waiting". Capitol Records will issue the first two tracks together as a single (Capitol 1880), the third track as a single (Capitol 1838) with "Gonna Walk With My Lord" on the flipside, and the last track as a single (Capitol 1936) with "Missing In Action" on the flipside.
1953 - Jerry Lewis and June Foray (on vocals) with the Van Alexander Orchestra (lineup unlisted) record the tracks "The Nagger, Part 1" and "The Nagger, Part 2" using a script written by Warren Foster and adapted by Alan Livingston at Capitol's Melrose Avenue Studios in Hollywood, California. Capitol Records will issue the tracks together on the children's records album "The Nagger" (Capitol CAS-3190).
1955 - Gordon Jenkins conducts his own arrangements to an uncredited orchestra along with The Ralph Brewster Singers (lineup also unlisted) as they record the tracks "Drifting And Dreaming", "My Silent Love", "Allah's Holiday", and "Does Your Heart Beat For Me?" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue all the tracks on Gordon Jenkins and His Orchestra's album "Night Dreams" (Capitol T 781).
1961 - Vic Damone (on vocals) with Jack Marshall conducting his own arrangements to an uncredited orchestra records the tracks "'Tender Is The Night' Theme" and "Something You Never Had Before" and unissued takes of the tracks "Stella By Starlight" and "Linger Awhile" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol will issue the first two tracks together as a single (Capitol F4645).
1966 - Capitol Records artist Donna Loren appears on the NBC-TV series "The Monkees" in the episode "Everywhere A Shiek, Shiek"
45 Years Ago Today In 1967 - Capitol Records releases Buck Owens' single "It Takes People Like You" with "You Left Her Lonely Too Long" on the flip side
1974 - Andy Kim's Capitol Records single "Rock Me Gently", with "Rock Me Gently Part II" on the flip side, is still #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart
1976 - Capitol Records releases Mel McDaniel's second single "I Thank God She Isn't Mine" with "I'll Keep On Lovin' You" on the flip side
1976 - Captiol Records group Wings raises $50,000 when it plays a benefit concert for the restoration of water-damaged art treasures in St. Mark's Square in Venice, Italy
30 Years Ago Today In 1982 - The Steve Miller Band's Capitol Records single "Abracadabra" is still #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart
1993 - Apple and Capitol Records artist George Harrison makes guest appearances on "The Simpsons" along with David Crosby
15 Years Ago Today In 1997 - Capitol Records releases Everclear's album "So Much For The Afterglow"
2001 - Capitol Records releases Dave Koz & Friends' album "A Smooth Jazz Christmas"
10 Years Ago Today In 2002 - Capitol Records releases a 24 bit digitally remastered CD of Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band's "Stanger In Town" album
10 Years Ago Today In 2002 - Masanori Sasaji & L. A. Allstars start the first of two straight days of recording sessions for their album "Afro Blue" in front of a live audience, using the combined space of Studio A and B at The Capitol Tower Studios in Hollywood, California by opening the retractable walls
2005 - Keith Urban's Capitol Records Nashville album "Golden Road" is certified triple platinum by the R.I.A.A.
ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
55 Years Ago Today In 1957 - Roulette release Frankie Lymon's first solo single, "My Girl". Roulette's catalog is currently owned by Capitol Music Group's parent company, EMI Music Group.
1963 - The Jazz Crusaders (Wayne Henderson on trombone, Wilton Felder on tenor saxophone, Joe Sample on piano, Bobby Haynes on bass, and Stix Hooper on drums) record the tracks "Mr. Sandman", "Some Samba", and with Joe Sample on electric piano, "Stix March" for their Pacific Jazz album "Heat Wave" at the Pacific Jazz Studios in Los Angeles, California with producer and recording engineer Richard Bock on to four track masters. Pacific Jazz's library is currently owned by Capitol Records and re-issued by Blue Note Records.
1965 - ABC-TV debuts the King Features Syndicate cartoon series "The Beatles"
1969 - With its final acquisition of Northern Songs and Lenmac Enterprises Ltd., which is started on May 5, 1969, Associated Television (ATV) gains control of almost all of the Lennon-McCartney song catalog
35 Years Ago Today In 1977 - Kenny Rogers' United Artists single "Daytime Friends", with "We Don't Make Love Anymore" on the flip side, is #1 on the U.S. Country singles charts. United Artists' catalog is currently owned by Capitol Music Group's parent company, EMI Music Group.
1990 - Dave Grohl, former drummer of the Washington, D.C. band Scream and future guitarist of the Capitol Records band Foo Fighters, joins the band Nirvana
1991 - Saffron Sahara, daughter of Simon LeBon (best known as the lead singer of the Capitol Records group Duran Duran) and his wife Yasmin Parvenah, is born
2001 - Virgin Records releases two singles, "Dig In," by Lenny Kravitz and "God Gave Me Everything" by Mick Jagger to digital retailers via Liquid Audio. They will be the first downloadable singles that The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) will agree to accept for Grammy consideration.
2001 - EMI America, a division of Capitol Records, releases Poison's compilation album "Poison – Rock Champions"
5 Years Ago Today In 2007 - Capitol Records releases Hurt's album "Vol. II".
ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1639 - The first printing press in the English colonies in North America begins operation at The Cambridge Press in New England
1690 - "Publick Occurrences", the first newspaper published in America, is printed by Richard Pierce and edited by Benjamin Harris in Boston in the English colony of Massachusettes. Only one issue will be published before the English authorities suppress it.
1951 - Mark Hamill, television, motion picture and stage actor, cartoon voice actor, and silver age comic book collector, is born Mark Richard Hamill in Oakland, California
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
1940 - Wade Flemons, solo VeeJay Records artist and founding member, musician, and vocalist in the Capitol Records group The Salty Peppers which later became Earth, Wind and Fire, is born in Coffeyville, Kansas
1973 - Ras Kass, rapper and Priority Records solo artist and part of the group The HRSMN, is born John Austin IV in Carson, California. Priority Records is a division of Capitol Records.
1974 - Daniel Kessler, guitarist and backing vocalist in the Capitol Records/EMI band Interpol, is born Daniel Alexander Kessler in London, England.
ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1946 - On the last night of a four night stand at The Circle Room in the Hotel La Salle in Milwaukee, Wisconsin that is broadcast on WEMP, The King Cole Trio (arranger Nat "King" Cole on piano and vocals, Oscar Moore on guitar, and Johnny Miller on bass) performs an instrumental version of "Sweet Georgia Brown" as well as songs "Sweet Lorraine", "Oh, But I Do" (with the entire band on vocals), "My Sugar Is So Refined" and "Closing Theme (F.S.T.)". Capitol Records will release transcriptions of the all the tracks on the CD "Nat King Cole Trio - Live At The Circle Room" (Capitol 5-21859-2).
1951 - In a split session held on this day in Los Angeles, California Jimmy Wakely (on vocals) and his Cowboy Band (lineup unlisted) record the tracks "Keep A Light In Your Window Tonight" and "Won't You Ride In My Little Red Wagon" at the first session and then at the second session Jimmy Wakely and Lucille "Lou" Dinning (both on vocals) with Don Robertson's Music (lineup unlisted) record the tracks "Each Step Of The Way" and "Just A Little More Waiting". Capitol Records will issue the first two tracks together as a single (Capitol 1880), the third track as a single (Capitol 1838) with "Gonna Walk With My Lord" on the flipside, and the last track as a single (Capitol 1936) with "Missing In Action" on the flipside.
1953 - Jerry Lewis and June Foray (on vocals) with the Van Alexander Orchestra (lineup unlisted) record the tracks "The Nagger, Part 1" and "The Nagger, Part 2" using a script written by Warren Foster and adapted by Alan Livingston at Capitol's Melrose Avenue Studios in Hollywood, California. Capitol Records will issue the tracks together on the children's records album "The Nagger" (Capitol CAS-3190).
1955 - Gordon Jenkins conducts his own arrangements to an uncredited orchestra along with The Ralph Brewster Singers (lineup also unlisted) as they record the tracks "Drifting And Dreaming", "My Silent Love", "Allah's Holiday", and "Does Your Heart Beat For Me?" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue all the tracks on Gordon Jenkins and His Orchestra's album "Night Dreams" (Capitol T 781).
1961 - Vic Damone (on vocals) with Jack Marshall conducting his own arrangements to an uncredited orchestra records the tracks "'Tender Is The Night' Theme" and "Something You Never Had Before" and unissued takes of the tracks "Stella By Starlight" and "Linger Awhile" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol will issue the first two tracks together as a single (Capitol F4645).
1966 - Capitol Records artist Donna Loren appears on the NBC-TV series "The Monkees" in the episode "Everywhere A Shiek, Shiek"
45 Years Ago Today In 1967 - Capitol Records releases Buck Owens' single "It Takes People Like You" with "You Left Her Lonely Too Long" on the flip side
1974 - Andy Kim's Capitol Records single "Rock Me Gently", with "Rock Me Gently Part II" on the flip side, is still #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart
1976 - Capitol Records releases Mel McDaniel's second single "I Thank God She Isn't Mine" with "I'll Keep On Lovin' You" on the flip side
1976 - Captiol Records group Wings raises $50,000 when it plays a benefit concert for the restoration of water-damaged art treasures in St. Mark's Square in Venice, Italy
30 Years Ago Today In 1982 - The Steve Miller Band's Capitol Records single "Abracadabra" is still #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart
1993 - Apple and Capitol Records artist George Harrison makes guest appearances on "The Simpsons" along with David Crosby
15 Years Ago Today In 1997 - Capitol Records releases Everclear's album "So Much For The Afterglow"
2001 - Capitol Records releases Dave Koz & Friends' album "A Smooth Jazz Christmas"
10 Years Ago Today In 2002 - Capitol Records releases a 24 bit digitally remastered CD of Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band's "Stanger In Town" album
10 Years Ago Today In 2002 - Masanori Sasaji & L. A. Allstars start the first of two straight days of recording sessions for their album "Afro Blue" in front of a live audience, using the combined space of Studio A and B at The Capitol Tower Studios in Hollywood, California by opening the retractable walls
2005 - Keith Urban's Capitol Records Nashville album "Golden Road" is certified triple platinum by the R.I.A.A.
ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
55 Years Ago Today In 1957 - Roulette release Frankie Lymon's first solo single, "My Girl". Roulette's catalog is currently owned by Capitol Music Group's parent company, EMI Music Group.
1963 - The Jazz Crusaders (Wayne Henderson on trombone, Wilton Felder on tenor saxophone, Joe Sample on piano, Bobby Haynes on bass, and Stix Hooper on drums) record the tracks "Mr. Sandman", "Some Samba", and with Joe Sample on electric piano, "Stix March" for their Pacific Jazz album "Heat Wave" at the Pacific Jazz Studios in Los Angeles, California with producer and recording engineer Richard Bock on to four track masters. Pacific Jazz's library is currently owned by Capitol Records and re-issued by Blue Note Records.
1965 - ABC-TV debuts the King Features Syndicate cartoon series "The Beatles"
1969 - With its final acquisition of Northern Songs and Lenmac Enterprises Ltd., which is started on May 5, 1969, Associated Television (ATV) gains control of almost all of the Lennon-McCartney song catalog
35 Years Ago Today In 1977 - Kenny Rogers' United Artists single "Daytime Friends", with "We Don't Make Love Anymore" on the flip side, is #1 on the U.S. Country singles charts. United Artists' catalog is currently owned by Capitol Music Group's parent company, EMI Music Group.
1990 - Dave Grohl, former drummer of the Washington, D.C. band Scream and future guitarist of the Capitol Records band Foo Fighters, joins the band Nirvana
1991 - Saffron Sahara, daughter of Simon LeBon (best known as the lead singer of the Capitol Records group Duran Duran) and his wife Yasmin Parvenah, is born
2001 - Virgin Records releases two singles, "Dig In," by Lenny Kravitz and "God Gave Me Everything" by Mick Jagger to digital retailers via Liquid Audio. They will be the first downloadable singles that The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) will agree to accept for Grammy consideration.
2001 - EMI America, a division of Capitol Records, releases Poison's compilation album "Poison – Rock Champions"
5 Years Ago Today In 2007 - Capitol Records releases Hurt's album "Vol. II".
ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1639 - The first printing press in the English colonies in North America begins operation at The Cambridge Press in New England
1690 - "Publick Occurrences", the first newspaper published in America, is printed by Richard Pierce and edited by Benjamin Harris in Boston in the English colony of Massachusettes. Only one issue will be published before the English authorities suppress it.
1951 - Mark Hamill, television, motion picture and stage actor, cartoon voice actor, and silver age comic book collector, is born Mark Richard Hamill in Oakland, California
Monday, September 24, 2012
SEPTEMBER 24, 2012
HAPPY BIRTHDAYS!
1923 - Fats Navarro, trumpet player, bandleader, and Capitol (as a member of Illinois Jacquet and His Orchestra and The Benny Goodman Sextet) and Blue Note Records (solo and part of The Tadd Dameron Sextet) artist, is born Theodore Navarro in Key West, Florida. Dr. Stuart A. Varden has a wondeful site on the life of Fats with a pretty detailed sessionography.
1924 - Sheila MacRae, singer, motion picture and television actress (best known as the third Alice Kramden on "The Honeymooners" segment of "The Jackie Gleason Show", wife of Capitol Records artist Gordon MacRae, and a Capitol Records artist as part of a duo with her husband, is born Sheila Margaret Stephens in London, England. Gordon and Sheila were at the opening night festivities for The Capitol Tower.
1936 - Jim Henson, puppeteer, television and motion picture producer, and creator of The Muppets (an adaptation of their move "Muppets Treasure Island" was released by Capitol Records), is born James Maury Henson in Greenville, Mississippi
1941 - Linda McCartney, photographer, singer, keyboard player, first wife of Paul McCartney, member of the Capitol Records group Wings, author, animal rights protector, vegetarian food manufacturer and, posthumously, a Capitol Records solo artist, is born Linda Louise Eastman in Scarsdale, New York
ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1946 - James (Jim) Baskett, Johnny Mercer, The Pied Pipers and Billy May conducting his own arrangements to his Orchestra (Uan Rasey on trumpet, Ed Kusby, Elmer Smithers, Carl Loeffler, and Arthur Frantz on trombone Nicholas Dann, J.A. Krechter, George Smith, Herman Berardinelli, and Arthur Fleming on saxophones, Ray Turner on piano, Phil Stephens on bass, Ralph Hansell on percussion, Kathryn Thompson on harp & a string section with Harry Bluestone, Ivan Eppinoff, Howard Halbert, Nicholas Pisani, Mischa Russell, Felix Slatkin, Marshall Sosson, and Olcott Vail on violin, Stanley Spiegelman and David Sterkin on viola, Cy Bernard and Fred Goerner on cello), using a script adaptation by Alan Livingston, record the tracks "Running Away, Part 2" and "Brer Rabbit And The Tar Baby, Part 2" at Radio Recorders in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will release both tracks as part of the children's album "Tales Of Uncle Remus" (Capitol CC-40).
1951 - Jan Garber and His Orchestra featuring Roy Cordell and The Dinning Sisters (Ginger, Delores and Jean Dinning) on vocals, record the tracks "Painting Clouds With Sunshine", "Heartbreak Hill" (with vocals by The Dinning Sisters), "We're In The Money (Gold digger's Song)", "Chances Are" (vocals by Roy Cordell), and "Jazz Pizzicato" (vocals by Roy Cordell) in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue the first and third tracks together as a single (Capitol 1852), "Heartbreak Hill" as a single (Capitol 1858) with "No! No! No! Not That!" (record on October 12, 1951) on the flip side, and the last two tracks together as a single (Capitol 1827).
1951 - Bob Crosby and His Orchestra (with Bob leading Charlie Teagarden, Zeke Zarchy, and Ray Linn on trumpet, Murray McEachern, Ted Vesely, and Elmer Schneider on trombone, Matty Matlock on clarinet and alto saxophone), Willie Schwartz on alto saxophone, Eddie Miller on tenor saxophone, John Rotella on tenor and baritone saxophone, Stan Wrightsman on piano, Nappy Lamare on guitar, Phil Stephens on bass, and Nick Fatool on drums) record the tracks "I Never Was Loved By Anyone Else" and "Sans Souci" (both with vocal by Gisele MacKenzie), and "Crying Shame" (with vocals by Bob Crosby and Jeanne Gayle) in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue the first two tracks together as a single (Capitol 1826) and the last track as a single (Capitol 1894) with "Savoy Blues" (recorded October 3, 1951).
1956 - The Andrews Sisters (vocalists Laverne Andrews, Maxene Andrews, and Patty Andrews) with The Robert Mitchell Boys Choir (8 unidentified children) and The Lynn Murray Orchestra (with unlisted musicians) record the as yet unissued track "Hosanna, Hosanna" and the tracks "A Child's Christmas Song" and "Silver Bells" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue the last two tracks together as a single (Capitol F3583).
1956 - Nat "King" Cole on piano and vocals), with Stuff Smith on violin, John Collins on guitar, Alvino Rey on steel guitar, Charlie Harris on bass, and Lee Young on drums, records the tracks "Sometimes I'm Happy", "I Know That You Know", "When I Grow Too Old To Dream", and "Two Loves Have I" at The Capitol Tower Studios in Hollywood, California between 2 PM and 7PM. EMI and Capitol will release all the tracks together for the first time on the English pressing of Cole's album "After Midnight" (EMS1103).
1956 - At two sessions held this day in New York City, New York for Capitol Records Benny Goodman and His Orchestra record the as yet unissued tracks "'Warm Up' Derivations For Clarinet And Band" and "'Rag' Derivations For Clarinet And Band" at the first session and "'Ride Out' Derivations For Clarinet And Band" and "'Contrapuntal Blue' Derivations For Clarinet And Band" at the second session.
1956 - Laurindo Almeida on guitar, with Ray Turner on piano, records Gnattali's "Concertino For Guitar And Piano, Movements 1 and 2" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will release the track on Almeida's album "Impressoes Do Brasil (Impressions Of Brazil)" (Capitol P-8381).
1961 - Capitol Records releases Buck Owens' single "Under The Influence Of Love" with "Bad Bad Dream" on the flip side. Other references list this single as being released on July 24, 1961. If anyone knows for sure which date is accurate, please leave a comment.
50 Years Ago Today In 1962 - Capitol Records releases The Kingston Trio's single "One More Town" (Capitol 4842) with "She Was Too Good To Me" on the flip side. On the same day, the group records the track "New Frontier", written by John Stewart, for their upcoming Capitol Records album of the same name.
1966 - Billboard magazine, in an article with today's street date, reports that The Beatles' Capitol Records single "Paperback Writer", with "Eleanor Rigby" on the flip side, has sold 1.2 million copies in just 4 weeks and has become the band's 21st gold single, setting a record for the most gold records earned by any act in R.I.A.A. history to that date
1966 - The Knack records the tracks "I'm Aware", "No Show Today" and "Merry-Go-Round" in Los Angeles, California.
1968 - The Beatles' Apple Records single "Hey Jude", distributed by Capitol Records in the United States, is #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart
1969 - Before it's release, Capitol Records sends out new artwork to manufactures for the back cover of The Beatles' album "Abbey Road" which adds the song "Her Majesty" after "The End" in the track listing after many covers had been printed (and used) without listing the song. Both versions are shipped, with the revised version being rarer.
1971 - Helen Reddy records the track "I Think It's Going To Rain Today" in Los Angles, California. Capitol Records will issue the track on Reddy's album "No Sad Song" (Capitol ST-857).
1973 - Capitol Records releases Tennessee Ernie Ford's album "Ernie Ford Sings About Jesus" (Capitol Capitol ST-11232)
1976 - The Pousette-Dart Band records the tracks "May You Dance" and "Listen To The Spirit" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue both tracks on the band's album "Amnesia" (Capitol SW-11608).
1990 - Capitol Records releases Megadeth's album "Rust In Peace"
1991 - Liberty/SBK Records, a division of Capitol Records, releases Billy Dean's album "Billy Dean". It will go on to be certified Gold by the R.I.A.A. and have 2 singles that peaked at #4 on the U.S. Country charts in 1991 - "You Don't Count the Cost" and "Only the Wind" - and two that charted in 1992 - "Billy the Kid" which peaked also at #4, and "If There Hadn't Been You" which peaked at #3.
1991 - Capitol Records releases Barbara Mandrell's last studio album for the label "Key's In The Mailbox".
1991 - Theodor Seuss Geisel (aka Dr. Seuss), cartoonist, writer, whose children's stories "Gerald McBoing Boing" and "Gossamer Wump" were released as double sided singles with original artwork paper sleeves by Capitol Records, dies at age 87 in La Jolla, California following several years of illness
1998 - Capitol Records releases Less Than Jake's album "Hello Rockview"
10 Years Ago Today In 2002 - Tuckertime Records releases Tanya Tucker's album "Tanya" with distribution by Capitol Records Nashville
10 Years Ago Today In 2002 - Capitol Records releases the compilation album "Judy Garland: The Capitol Years 1955-1965" on CD
10 Years Ago Today In 2002 - Capitol Records Nashville releases John Berry's compilation album "Certified Hits"
2003 - Matthew Jay, Capitol Records artist, dies at age 24 after falling seven stories from his apartment in Nottingham, England
5 Years Ago Today In 2007 - Rob Sweitzer and Mark Padgett of the Capitol Records group Mae quit the band. They would return in 2010 and resumed playing with the band on June 19, 2010 when Mae played a show in Singapore.
ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1915 - Mary Jane Gumm (aka aka Janie, aka Susie or Suzy), member of the singing group The Gumm Sisters, sister of future Capitol Records artist Judy Garland and aunt to future Capitol Records artist Liza Minnelli, is born. If anyone knows where (possibly Grand Rapids, Minnesota), please leave a comment.
70 Years Ago Today In 1942 - Gerry Marsden, lead singer with the Parlophone Records group Gerry and The Pacemakers (the second group managed by The Beatles' manager Brian Epstein), is born in (Toxteth) Liverpool, England. Parlophone is distributed by Capitol Music Group's parent company EMI Music Group in the United Kingdom.
1955 - Fats Domino's Imperial Records single "Ain't That A Shame" is #1 on Billboard's Best Selling Singles chart
1955 - "The Ford Star Jubilee" 90 minute variety show premieres on CBS-TV with Judy Garland, on her first television special, re-creating much of her popular stage show. Two days later, on September 26, 1955, Capitol Records releases Garland's album "Miss Show Business" which contains studio versions of many of the songs she performed on the special.
1963 - The Jazz Crusaders (Wayne Henderson on trombone, Wilton Felder on tenor saxophone, Joe Sample on piano, Bobby Haynes on bass, and Stix Hooper on drums) record the tracks "On Broadway Pacific", "Free Sample", "Sassy", "You Are Sometimes Only Rain", and "Moon River" for their Pacific Jazz album "Heat Wave" at the Pacific Jazz Studios in Los Angeles, California with producer and recording engineer Richard Bock on to four track masters. Pacific Jazz's library is currently owned by Capitol Records and re-issued by Blue Note Records.
1964 - "The Munsters" premieres on CBS-TV. Tower Records (a subsidiary of Capitol Records) group The Standells will make a guest appearance on an episode performing two songs
35 Years Ago Today In 1977 - "The Love Boat" premieres on ABC-TV starring Gavin MacLeod, stepfather of Capitol Records' one-time VP of Creative Services Tommy Steele. Not knowing this the first time it happened while I was working freelance inhouse at Capitol, I was wondering why Captain Stubing was sitting on the couch in Tommy's office.
1988 - Bobby McFerrin's EMI Manhattan single "Don't Worry Be Happy", the first a cappella record to top Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart, is still #1
HAPPY BIRTHDAYS!
1923 - Fats Navarro, trumpet player, bandleader, and Capitol (as a member of Illinois Jacquet and His Orchestra and The Benny Goodman Sextet) and Blue Note Records (solo and part of The Tadd Dameron Sextet) artist, is born Theodore Navarro in Key West, Florida. Dr. Stuart A. Varden has a wondeful site on the life of Fats with a pretty detailed sessionography.
1924 - Sheila MacRae, singer, motion picture and television actress (best known as the third Alice Kramden on "The Honeymooners" segment of "The Jackie Gleason Show", wife of Capitol Records artist Gordon MacRae, and a Capitol Records artist as part of a duo with her husband, is born Sheila Margaret Stephens in London, England. Gordon and Sheila were at the opening night festivities for The Capitol Tower.
1936 - Jim Henson, puppeteer, television and motion picture producer, and creator of The Muppets (an adaptation of their move "Muppets Treasure Island" was released by Capitol Records), is born James Maury Henson in Greenville, Mississippi
1941 - Linda McCartney, photographer, singer, keyboard player, first wife of Paul McCartney, member of the Capitol Records group Wings, author, animal rights protector, vegetarian food manufacturer and, posthumously, a Capitol Records solo artist, is born Linda Louise Eastman in Scarsdale, New York
ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1946 - James (Jim) Baskett, Johnny Mercer, The Pied Pipers and Billy May conducting his own arrangements to his Orchestra (Uan Rasey on trumpet, Ed Kusby, Elmer Smithers, Carl Loeffler, and Arthur Frantz on trombone Nicholas Dann, J.A. Krechter, George Smith, Herman Berardinelli, and Arthur Fleming on saxophones, Ray Turner on piano, Phil Stephens on bass, Ralph Hansell on percussion, Kathryn Thompson on harp & a string section with Harry Bluestone, Ivan Eppinoff, Howard Halbert, Nicholas Pisani, Mischa Russell, Felix Slatkin, Marshall Sosson, and Olcott Vail on violin, Stanley Spiegelman and David Sterkin on viola, Cy Bernard and Fred Goerner on cello), using a script adaptation by Alan Livingston, record the tracks "Running Away, Part 2" and "Brer Rabbit And The Tar Baby, Part 2" at Radio Recorders in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will release both tracks as part of the children's album "Tales Of Uncle Remus" (Capitol CC-40).
1951 - Jan Garber and His Orchestra featuring Roy Cordell and The Dinning Sisters (Ginger, Delores and Jean Dinning) on vocals, record the tracks "Painting Clouds With Sunshine", "Heartbreak Hill" (with vocals by The Dinning Sisters), "We're In The Money (Gold digger's Song)", "Chances Are" (vocals by Roy Cordell), and "Jazz Pizzicato" (vocals by Roy Cordell) in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue the first and third tracks together as a single (Capitol 1852), "Heartbreak Hill" as a single (Capitol 1858) with "No! No! No! Not That!" (record on October 12, 1951) on the flip side, and the last two tracks together as a single (Capitol 1827).
1951 - Bob Crosby and His Orchestra (with Bob leading Charlie Teagarden, Zeke Zarchy, and Ray Linn on trumpet, Murray McEachern, Ted Vesely, and Elmer Schneider on trombone, Matty Matlock on clarinet and alto saxophone), Willie Schwartz on alto saxophone, Eddie Miller on tenor saxophone, John Rotella on tenor and baritone saxophone, Stan Wrightsman on piano, Nappy Lamare on guitar, Phil Stephens on bass, and Nick Fatool on drums) record the tracks "I Never Was Loved By Anyone Else" and "Sans Souci" (both with vocal by Gisele MacKenzie), and "Crying Shame" (with vocals by Bob Crosby and Jeanne Gayle) in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue the first two tracks together as a single (Capitol 1826) and the last track as a single (Capitol 1894) with "Savoy Blues" (recorded October 3, 1951).
1956 - The Andrews Sisters (vocalists Laverne Andrews, Maxene Andrews, and Patty Andrews) with The Robert Mitchell Boys Choir (8 unidentified children) and The Lynn Murray Orchestra (with unlisted musicians) record the as yet unissued track "Hosanna, Hosanna" and the tracks "A Child's Christmas Song" and "Silver Bells" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue the last two tracks together as a single (Capitol F3583).
1956 - Nat "King" Cole on piano and vocals), with Stuff Smith on violin, John Collins on guitar, Alvino Rey on steel guitar, Charlie Harris on bass, and Lee Young on drums, records the tracks "Sometimes I'm Happy", "I Know That You Know", "When I Grow Too Old To Dream", and "Two Loves Have I" at The Capitol Tower Studios in Hollywood, California between 2 PM and 7PM. EMI and Capitol will release all the tracks together for the first time on the English pressing of Cole's album "After Midnight" (EMS1103).
1956 - At two sessions held this day in New York City, New York for Capitol Records Benny Goodman and His Orchestra record the as yet unissued tracks "'Warm Up' Derivations For Clarinet And Band" and "'Rag' Derivations For Clarinet And Band" at the first session and "'Ride Out' Derivations For Clarinet And Band" and "'Contrapuntal Blue' Derivations For Clarinet And Band" at the second session.
1956 - Laurindo Almeida on guitar, with Ray Turner on piano, records Gnattali's "Concertino For Guitar And Piano, Movements 1 and 2" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will release the track on Almeida's album "Impressoes Do Brasil (Impressions Of Brazil)" (Capitol P-8381).
1961 - Capitol Records releases Buck Owens' single "Under The Influence Of Love" with "Bad Bad Dream" on the flip side. Other references list this single as being released on July 24, 1961. If anyone knows for sure which date is accurate, please leave a comment.
50 Years Ago Today In 1962 - Capitol Records releases The Kingston Trio's single "One More Town" (Capitol 4842) with "She Was Too Good To Me" on the flip side. On the same day, the group records the track "New Frontier", written by John Stewart, for their upcoming Capitol Records album of the same name.
1966 - Billboard magazine, in an article with today's street date, reports that The Beatles' Capitol Records single "Paperback Writer", with "Eleanor Rigby" on the flip side, has sold 1.2 million copies in just 4 weeks and has become the band's 21st gold single, setting a record for the most gold records earned by any act in R.I.A.A. history to that date
1966 - The Knack records the tracks "I'm Aware", "No Show Today" and "Merry-Go-Round" in Los Angeles, California.
1968 - The Beatles' Apple Records single "Hey Jude", distributed by Capitol Records in the United States, is #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart
1969 - Before it's release, Capitol Records sends out new artwork to manufactures for the back cover of The Beatles' album "Abbey Road" which adds the song "Her Majesty" after "The End" in the track listing after many covers had been printed (and used) without listing the song. Both versions are shipped, with the revised version being rarer.
1971 - Helen Reddy records the track "I Think It's Going To Rain Today" in Los Angles, California. Capitol Records will issue the track on Reddy's album "No Sad Song" (Capitol ST-857).
1973 - Capitol Records releases Tennessee Ernie Ford's album "Ernie Ford Sings About Jesus" (Capitol Capitol ST-11232)
1976 - The Pousette-Dart Band records the tracks "May You Dance" and "Listen To The Spirit" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue both tracks on the band's album "Amnesia" (Capitol SW-11608).
1990 - Capitol Records releases Megadeth's album "Rust In Peace"
1991 - Liberty/SBK Records, a division of Capitol Records, releases Billy Dean's album "Billy Dean". It will go on to be certified Gold by the R.I.A.A. and have 2 singles that peaked at #4 on the U.S. Country charts in 1991 - "You Don't Count the Cost" and "Only the Wind" - and two that charted in 1992 - "Billy the Kid" which peaked also at #4, and "If There Hadn't Been You" which peaked at #3.
1991 - Capitol Records releases Barbara Mandrell's last studio album for the label "Key's In The Mailbox".
1991 - Theodor Seuss Geisel (aka Dr. Seuss), cartoonist, writer, whose children's stories "Gerald McBoing Boing" and "Gossamer Wump" were released as double sided singles with original artwork paper sleeves by Capitol Records, dies at age 87 in La Jolla, California following several years of illness
1998 - Capitol Records releases Less Than Jake's album "Hello Rockview"
10 Years Ago Today In 2002 - Tuckertime Records releases Tanya Tucker's album "Tanya" with distribution by Capitol Records Nashville
10 Years Ago Today In 2002 - Capitol Records releases the compilation album "Judy Garland: The Capitol Years 1955-1965" on CD
10 Years Ago Today In 2002 - Capitol Records Nashville releases John Berry's compilation album "Certified Hits"
2003 - Matthew Jay, Capitol Records artist, dies at age 24 after falling seven stories from his apartment in Nottingham, England
5 Years Ago Today In 2007 - Rob Sweitzer and Mark Padgett of the Capitol Records group Mae quit the band. They would return in 2010 and resumed playing with the band on June 19, 2010 when Mae played a show in Singapore.
ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1915 - Mary Jane Gumm (aka aka Janie, aka Susie or Suzy), member of the singing group The Gumm Sisters, sister of future Capitol Records artist Judy Garland and aunt to future Capitol Records artist Liza Minnelli, is born. If anyone knows where (possibly Grand Rapids, Minnesota), please leave a comment.
70 Years Ago Today In 1942 - Gerry Marsden, lead singer with the Parlophone Records group Gerry and The Pacemakers (the second group managed by The Beatles' manager Brian Epstein), is born in (Toxteth) Liverpool, England. Parlophone is distributed by Capitol Music Group's parent company EMI Music Group in the United Kingdom.
1955 - Fats Domino's Imperial Records single "Ain't That A Shame" is #1 on Billboard's Best Selling Singles chart
1955 - "The Ford Star Jubilee" 90 minute variety show premieres on CBS-TV with Judy Garland, on her first television special, re-creating much of her popular stage show. Two days later, on September 26, 1955, Capitol Records releases Garland's album "Miss Show Business" which contains studio versions of many of the songs she performed on the special.
1963 - The Jazz Crusaders (Wayne Henderson on trombone, Wilton Felder on tenor saxophone, Joe Sample on piano, Bobby Haynes on bass, and Stix Hooper on drums) record the tracks "On Broadway Pacific", "Free Sample", "Sassy", "You Are Sometimes Only Rain", and "Moon River" for their Pacific Jazz album "Heat Wave" at the Pacific Jazz Studios in Los Angeles, California with producer and recording engineer Richard Bock on to four track masters. Pacific Jazz's library is currently owned by Capitol Records and re-issued by Blue Note Records.
1964 - "The Munsters" premieres on CBS-TV. Tower Records (a subsidiary of Capitol Records) group The Standells will make a guest appearance on an episode performing two songs
35 Years Ago Today In 1977 - "The Love Boat" premieres on ABC-TV starring Gavin MacLeod, stepfather of Capitol Records' one-time VP of Creative Services Tommy Steele. Not knowing this the first time it happened while I was working freelance inhouse at Capitol, I was wondering why Captain Stubing was sitting on the couch in Tommy's office.
1988 - Bobby McFerrin's EMI Manhattan single "Don't Worry Be Happy", the first a cappella record to top Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart, is still #1
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