JUNE 16, 2010
HAPPY BIRTHDAYS!
Keith Mitchell, drummer with the Capitol Records group Mazzy Star, is born in Long Beach, California. If anyone knows what year, please leave a comment.
1919 - Al Viola, guitarist and mandolin player (mandolin solo in the theme for the motion picture "The Godfather"), motion picture performer, member of The Page Cavanaugh Trio, session musician on many of Frank Sinatra's Capitol Records recordings and Julie London's Liberty Records recordings, is born in New York City, New York
1924 - Eli "Lucky" Thompson, tenor and soprano saxophone player, songwriter, song publisher, band leader, who recorded as part of Capitol Records group Stan Kenton and His Orchestra, is born in Detroit, Michigan
1939 - Billy "Crash" Craddock, Capitol Records artist (1978-1983) is born William Wayne Craddock in Greensboro, North Carolina
1941 - Lamont Dozier, songwriter (solo and as part of the team Holland-Dozier-Holland), record producer, recording artist and co-founder of the Capitol Records subsidiary Invictus Records and Hot Wax Records, is born in Detroit, Michigan
ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
65 Years Ago Today In 1945 - The Pied Pipers (with Paul Weston and His Orchestra)' Capitol Records single "Dream" is #8 on Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records chart and Johnnie Johnston (with orchestra conducted by Paul Baron)'s Capitol Records single "Laura" (whose lyrics were written by Capitol Records co-founder Johnny Mercer) is #9
60 Years Ago Today In 1950 - Peggy Lee, with Dave Barbour and His Orchestra, records the tracks "The Cannonball Express" (which will be released by Capitol Records as a single with "That Ol' Devil Won't Get Me", recorded on February 8, 1951, on the flip side), "Show Me The Way To Go Out Of This World", which will be released by Capitol Records as a single with "Happy Music" (which was the next track recorded) on the flip side, "Don't Give Me A Ring On The Telephone" (unreleased!), and "Lover, Come Back To Me" (which will be releases as a single by Capitol Records with "Helpless", recorded March 13, 1950, on the flip side) at Capitol Records' Melrose Avenue studios in Hollywood, California
1951 - Nat "King" Cole's Capitol Records single "Too Young" is #1 on Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records chart, knocking Les Paul and Mary Ford's Capitol Records single "How High The Moon" out of the top spot to #2 for the first time in nine weeks. and Les Paul and Mary Ford's Capitol Records single "Mockin' Bird Hill" is #9
1956 - Les Baxter and His Orchestra's Capitol Records single "Poor People Of Paris" is #18 on Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records chart, Dean Martin's Capitol Records single "Standing On The Corner" is #32, The Four Freshmen's Capitol Records single "Graduation Day" is #33, and Joe "Fingers" Carr's Capitol Records single "Portuguese Washerwoman" enters the top 40 tied at #40 with Georgia Gibbs' single "Kiss Me Another"
1957 - Dave Guard, Nick Reynolds, and Bob Shane form The Kingston Trio in Palo Alto, California
1958 - Dean Martin's Capitol Records single "Return To Me" is #5 down from #4 on Billboard's Top 100 singles chart, Nat "King' Cole's Capitol Records single "Looking Back" is #6 up from #9, The Four Prep's Capitol Records single "Big Man" is #13 down from #7, Laurie London's Capitol Records single "He's Got The Whole World In His Hands" is #15 down from #14, and Ed Townsend's Capitol Records single "For Your Love" is #18 up from #20
1959 - The Four Freshmen (Bob Flanigan on vocals, trombone and bass; Don Barbour on vocals and guitar; Ross Barbour on vocals and drums; and Ken Albers on vocals, trumpet, mellophone and bass) with arranger Dick Reynolds conducting the studio orchestra (Tommy Tedesco, Al Hendrickson, Howard Roberts, Bobby Gibbons, Bill Pitman, George Van Eps on guitar; Red Mitchell on bass; Jack Sperling on drums; Larry Bunker on vibraphones, bells, congas, and bongos) record the tracks "I Never Knew", "Invitation", and "Rain" at the Capitol Tower Studios in Hollywood, California with producer Lee Gillette for their Capitol Records album "The Four Freshmen And Five Guitars"
1959 - Buck Owens records "Under Your Spell Again" at The Capitol Tower Studios in Hollywood, California. Capitol Records would release the track as a single with "Tired Of Living" on the flip side, on July 13, 1959. I wonder if Owens and The Four Freshmen met that day during breaks in recordings or sat in on each other's sessions in the booth.
1963 - The Kingston Trio, with John Stewart on vocals, records the tracks "Rider" and "Those Who Are Wise" (penned by Stewart) for their Capitol Records album "Sunny Side"
1967 - Captiol Records artist Lou Rawls performs at the opening day of The Monterey Pop Festival
1967 - Wynn Stewart's Capitol Records single "It's Such A Pretty World Today", with "Goin' Steady" on the flip side, hits #1 on U.S. Country singles charts where it will stay on top for two weeks
1967 - Capitol Records releases Twiggy's first single, "When I Think Of You", with "Over and Over" on the flip side
1969 - The Beatles' Apple Records single "The Ballad of John & Yoko", distributed by Capitol Records in the United States, is certified Gold by the R.I.A.A.
1976 - The Beatles' Capitol Records album "Rock 'N' Roll Music" is certified Gold by the R.I.A.A.
1991 - Garth Brooks' Liberty Records (later renamed Capitol Records Nashville) single ""The Thunder Rolls" is #1 on the U.S. Country singles charts
2004 - Grand Royal Records, with distribution being handled by Capitol Records, releases The Beastie Boys album "To The Five Boroughs"
ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
55 Years Ago Today In 1955 - Walt Disney Pictures releases the animated feature movie "Lady And The Tramp", with lyrics and vocals by Capitol Records artist Peggy Lee. Capitol Records will later release a childrens record album based on the movie.
1956 - Fats Domino's Imperial Records single "I'm In Love Again" is #8 on Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records chart and its flip side, "My Blue Heaven", is #29
1957 - Curtis Fuller (on trombone, with Hank Mobley on tenor saxophone, Bobby Timmons on piano, Paul Chambers on bass, and Arthur Taylor on drums) records the tracks "Lizzy's Bounce" (which will be released by Blue Note Records on the album "The Opener"), "Soon", "A Lovely Way To Spend An Evening" "Here's To My Lady" (without tenor saxophone), "Oscalypso", and "Hugore" (all of which will be unreleased until the appeared on the 1996 Mosaic Records box set "The Complete Blue Note/UA Curtis Fuller Sessions") with producer Alfred Lion and recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder at The Van Gelder Studio in Hackensack, New Jersey
1958 - Dave Seville's Liberty Records single "Witch Doctor" is still #3 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart and Dion and The Belmonts' Laurie Records single "I Wonder Why" is #42. EMI Music Group, Capitol Music Group's parent company, currently owns Liberty and Laurie Records' catalog.
1962 - Dion's Laurie Records single "Lovers Who Wander" is #6 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart, Bobby Vee's Liberty Records single "Sharing You" is #19, Walter Brennan's Liberty Records single "Old Rivers" is #29, and Jay and The American's United Artists Records single "She Cried" is #32. EMI Music Group, Capitol Music Group's parent company, currently owns the Laurie, Liberty, and United Artists Records catalogs.
1986 - CBS Records announces that former Capitol Records mailroom employee (1969), 36 year old Don Ienner, is the newest, and youngest ever, president of Columbia Records
20 Years Ago Today In 1990 - Roxette's EMI America Records single "It Must Have Been Love" is #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart
1998 - Jack McFadden, manager of Capitol Records artist Buck Owens for over three decades and the talent coordinator for the television show "Hee Haw" dies at age 71
ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
120 Years Ago Today In 1890 - Stan Laurel, motion picture actor as a headliner and as part of the duo Laurel and Hardy, is born Arthur Stanley Jefferson in Ulverston, Cumbria, England
1939 - Chick Webb (born William Henry Webb), drummer and band leader, dies in John Hopkins Hospital, Balitmore Maryland after a major operation. The year of his birth is still not confirmed, so he may have been anywher from 30 to 37 years of age at the time of his death.
1959 - George Reeves, TV's Superman, dies of a gunshot wound to the head in his bedroom in Beverly Hills, California at age 45
1971 - Tupac Amaru Shakur is born Lesane Parish Crooks in Brooklyn, New York
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
JUNE 15, 2010
HAPPY BIRTHDAYS!
1909 - Mickey Katz, clarinetist, klezmer player, arranger, member of Spike Jones and His City Slickers, Yiddish song parodist, comedian, Capitol Records artist (1950-1967), father of Broadway, motion picture and television actor and Capitol Records artist Joel Grey, and grandfather of motion picture and television actress Jennifer Grey, is born Meyer Myron Katz in Cleveland, Ohio. Thanks to Mel for letting me know about Katz' birthday.
1917 - Leon Payne, founder of The Lone Star Buddies, songwriter ("Lost Highway" and "I Love You Because"), singer, musician, and Capitol Records country artist (1949-1953), is born Leon Roger Payne in Alba, Texas. Payne would also release a Rockabilly single on Capitol ("That Ain't It" with "Little Rock" on the flip side) using the name Rock Rogers.
1941 - Harry Nilsson (aka Johnny Niles), singer, songwriter, pianist, guitarist, actor, motion picture score writer, friend of John Lennon, and a Mercury, Tower (a subsidiary of Capitol Records) and RCA Victor Records artist, is born Harry Edward Nilsson III in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn, New York
1963 - Scott Rockenfield, soundtrack composer, drummer with the Capitol Records group Queensryche, and a solo artist, is born in Seattle, Washington
1969 - Ice Cube, singer, actor, and a Priority Records (a division of Capitol Music Group) artist as part of the group NWA and as a solo artist, is born O'Shea Jackson in South Central Los Angeles, California
ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1946 - Andy Russell's Capitol Records single "Laughing On The Outside (Crying On The Inside)", with "They Say It's Wonderful" on the flip side, is #6 on Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records chart
1953 - Jackie Gleason records the track "Laura" for his album "Music To Remember Her" with Buddy Haskin on trumpet
1959 - The Four Freshmen (Bob Flanigan on vocals, trombone and bass; Don Barbour on vocals and guitar; Ross Barbour on vocals and drums; and Ken Albers on vocals, trumpet, mellophone and bass) with arranger Dick Reynolds conducting the studio orchestra (Tommy Tedesco, Al Hendrickson, Howard Roberts, Bobby Gibbons, Bill Pitman, George Van Eps on guitar; Red Mitchell on bass; Jack Sperling on drums; Larry Bunker on vibraphones, bells, congas, and bongos) record the tracks "It All Depends On You", "I Understand", "This October", and "Don't Worry 'Bout Me" at the Capitol Tower Studios in Hollywood, California for their Capitol Records album "The Four Freshmen And Five Guitars" with producer Lee Gillette
1959 - Franck Pourcell and His French Fiddlers' Capitol Records single "Only You (Loin De Vous)" is #10 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart
50 Years Ago Today In 1960 - Peggy Lee, with producer Dave Cavanaugh and arranger Billy May conducting the studio orchestra (Harry Klee, Ronnie Lang, and Wilbur Schwartz on reeds; George Van Eps on guitar; Max Bennett on bass; Lou Levy on piano; Stella Castellucci on harp; Stanley Levy on drums; Harry Bluestone, Harold Dicterow, Jacques Gasselin, Anatol Kaminsky, Murray Kellner, Marvin Limonick, Joseph Livoti, Nathan Ross, and Felix Slatkin on violin; Alvin Dinken, Virginia Majewski, Alex Niemann, and Abraham Weiss on viola; Charles Gates, Edgar Lustgarten, David Pratt, and Joseph Saxon on cello), and vocal director Jimmy Joyce leading The Jimmy Joyce Childrens Choir on background vocals, records the tracks "White Christmas", "The Christmas Waltz", "The Christmas Song", "Christmas Carousel", and "The Star Carol" for her 1960 Capitol Records album "Christmas Carousel" at The Capitol Tower Studios in Hollywood, California
1963 - Kyu Sakamoto's Capitol Records single "Sukiyaki" (with "Anoko No Namaewa Nantenkana" on the flip side) hits #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart, (still the only Japanese language single to do so), knocking Leslie Gore's Mercury Records single "It's My Party", with "Danny" on the flip side, out of the top spot. Al Martino's Capitol Records single "I Love You Because" is #5, Nat "King" Cole's single "Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days Of Summer" is #7, Bobby Darin's Capitol Records single "Yellow Roses" is #10, The Beach Boys' Capitol Records single "Surfin' U.S.A." is #13 and its flip side "Shut Down" is #30
1963 - Buck Owens' Capitol Records single "Act Naturally", with "Over And Over Again" on the flip side, becomes his first single to hit #1 on the U.S. Country singles charts
1964 - Capitol Records releases Peter and Gordon's single "Nobody I Know" (written by Paul McCartney and John Lennon), with "You Don't Have To Tell Me" on the flip side
1966 - The Beatles' Capitol Records album "Yesterday And Today" was supposed to be released today (and a few copies may actually have made it to some stores through independent distributors) but its official released is delayed until June 20 when the new "truck" cover art replaces the original "butcher" cover
1967 - Alan Jardine, Brian Wilson, Carl Wilson, Dennis Wilson of The Beach Boys, with vocalist Diane Rovell of The Honeys, record the track "Vegetables" at The Beach Boys Studio in Bel Air, California
30 Years Ago Today In 1970 - Capitol Records releases Grand Funk Railroad's album "Closer To Home"
1972 - Harvest Records releases Pink Floyd's album "Obscured By Clouds" with Capitol Records handling distribution in the United States
1996 - Ella Fitzgerald (born Ella Jane Fitzgerald) singer, bandleader, motion picture actress and Brunswick, Verve, Capitol and Pablo Records artist, dies in Beverly Hills, California at age 79 from complications brought about by diabetes and is later interred in the Inglewood Park Cemetery in Inglewood, California
1996 - Billboard magazine reports that Capitol Records Inc. has paid $10 million to acquire 49% of shares of Matador Records
ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1943 - Muff Winwood, bass guitarist, songwriter, record producer, member of the Fontana and United Artists Records group The Spencer Davis Band with his brother Steve Winwood, is born Mervyn Winwood in Erdington, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England
1959 - Martin Denny's Liberty Records single "Quiet Village" is #4 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart, Dion and The Belmonts Laurie Records single "A Teenager In Love" is #6, and Fats Domino's Imperial Records single "I'm Ready" is #19. Liberty, Laurie, and Imperial Records' catalogs are currently owned by Capitol Music Group's parent company, EMI Music Group.
1963 - Lou Christie's Roulette Records single "Two Faces Have I" is #11 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart and The Chiffon's Laurie Records single "One Fine Day" is #17. Roulette and Laurie Records' catalogs are currently owned by Capitol Music Group's parent company, EMI Music Group.
1969 - "Hee Haw", starring Capitol Records artist Buck Owens and former Capitol Records artist Roy Clark and with Capitol Records group The Buckaroos as house band, debuts on the CBS television network
1991 - Paula Abdul's Virgin Records America single "Rush Rush" is #1 on Billboards' Top 100 singles chart
ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1901 - Jack Kapp, co-founder of Decca Records and records producer, is born
65 Years Ago Today In 1945 - Judy Garland marries Ben Vincent Minnelli in a ceremony performed by Dr. William Roberts of the Beverly Hills Community Presbyterian Church in the home of her mother Ethel Garland, at 1231 Stone Canyon Road, Los Angeles, California. One of Judy's sisters was her attendant and the best man for Minnelli was lyricist Ira Gershwin.
1962 - EMI lauches the Stateside label in Britain "for repertoire licensed from American labels"
1969 - Judy Garland gives her last performance for a live audience when she appears at the Half Note nightclub, Greenwich Village, NYC
1992 - At ceremony #156, Michael Keaton leaves his footprints in cement at Mann's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California and at ceremony #157, Tom Cruise leaves his footprints
HAPPY BIRTHDAYS!
1909 - Mickey Katz, clarinetist, klezmer player, arranger, member of Spike Jones and His City Slickers, Yiddish song parodist, comedian, Capitol Records artist (1950-1967), father of Broadway, motion picture and television actor and Capitol Records artist Joel Grey, and grandfather of motion picture and television actress Jennifer Grey, is born Meyer Myron Katz in Cleveland, Ohio. Thanks to Mel for letting me know about Katz' birthday.
1917 - Leon Payne, founder of The Lone Star Buddies, songwriter ("Lost Highway" and "I Love You Because"), singer, musician, and Capitol Records country artist (1949-1953), is born Leon Roger Payne in Alba, Texas. Payne would also release a Rockabilly single on Capitol ("That Ain't It" with "Little Rock" on the flip side) using the name Rock Rogers.
1941 - Harry Nilsson (aka Johnny Niles), singer, songwriter, pianist, guitarist, actor, motion picture score writer, friend of John Lennon, and a Mercury, Tower (a subsidiary of Capitol Records) and RCA Victor Records artist, is born Harry Edward Nilsson III in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn, New York
1963 - Scott Rockenfield, soundtrack composer, drummer with the Capitol Records group Queensryche, and a solo artist, is born in Seattle, Washington
1969 - Ice Cube, singer, actor, and a Priority Records (a division of Capitol Music Group) artist as part of the group NWA and as a solo artist, is born O'Shea Jackson in South Central Los Angeles, California
ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1946 - Andy Russell's Capitol Records single "Laughing On The Outside (Crying On The Inside)", with "They Say It's Wonderful" on the flip side, is #6 on Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records chart
1953 - Jackie Gleason records the track "Laura" for his album "Music To Remember Her" with Buddy Haskin on trumpet
1959 - The Four Freshmen (Bob Flanigan on vocals, trombone and bass; Don Barbour on vocals and guitar; Ross Barbour on vocals and drums; and Ken Albers on vocals, trumpet, mellophone and bass) with arranger Dick Reynolds conducting the studio orchestra (Tommy Tedesco, Al Hendrickson, Howard Roberts, Bobby Gibbons, Bill Pitman, George Van Eps on guitar; Red Mitchell on bass; Jack Sperling on drums; Larry Bunker on vibraphones, bells, congas, and bongos) record the tracks "It All Depends On You", "I Understand", "This October", and "Don't Worry 'Bout Me" at the Capitol Tower Studios in Hollywood, California for their Capitol Records album "The Four Freshmen And Five Guitars" with producer Lee Gillette
1959 - Franck Pourcell and His French Fiddlers' Capitol Records single "Only You (Loin De Vous)" is #10 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart
50 Years Ago Today In 1960 - Peggy Lee, with producer Dave Cavanaugh and arranger Billy May conducting the studio orchestra (Harry Klee, Ronnie Lang, and Wilbur Schwartz on reeds; George Van Eps on guitar; Max Bennett on bass; Lou Levy on piano; Stella Castellucci on harp; Stanley Levy on drums; Harry Bluestone, Harold Dicterow, Jacques Gasselin, Anatol Kaminsky, Murray Kellner, Marvin Limonick, Joseph Livoti, Nathan Ross, and Felix Slatkin on violin; Alvin Dinken, Virginia Majewski, Alex Niemann, and Abraham Weiss on viola; Charles Gates, Edgar Lustgarten, David Pratt, and Joseph Saxon on cello), and vocal director Jimmy Joyce leading The Jimmy Joyce Childrens Choir on background vocals, records the tracks "White Christmas", "The Christmas Waltz", "The Christmas Song", "Christmas Carousel", and "The Star Carol" for her 1960 Capitol Records album "Christmas Carousel" at The Capitol Tower Studios in Hollywood, California
1963 - Kyu Sakamoto's Capitol Records single "Sukiyaki" (with "Anoko No Namaewa Nantenkana" on the flip side) hits #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart, (still the only Japanese language single to do so), knocking Leslie Gore's Mercury Records single "It's My Party", with "Danny" on the flip side, out of the top spot. Al Martino's Capitol Records single "I Love You Because" is #5, Nat "King" Cole's single "Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days Of Summer" is #7, Bobby Darin's Capitol Records single "Yellow Roses" is #10, The Beach Boys' Capitol Records single "Surfin' U.S.A." is #13 and its flip side "Shut Down" is #30
1963 - Buck Owens' Capitol Records single "Act Naturally", with "Over And Over Again" on the flip side, becomes his first single to hit #1 on the U.S. Country singles charts
1964 - Capitol Records releases Peter and Gordon's single "Nobody I Know" (written by Paul McCartney and John Lennon), with "You Don't Have To Tell Me" on the flip side
1966 - The Beatles' Capitol Records album "Yesterday And Today" was supposed to be released today (and a few copies may actually have made it to some stores through independent distributors) but its official released is delayed until June 20 when the new "truck" cover art replaces the original "butcher" cover
1967 - Alan Jardine, Brian Wilson, Carl Wilson, Dennis Wilson of The Beach Boys, with vocalist Diane Rovell of The Honeys, record the track "Vegetables" at The Beach Boys Studio in Bel Air, California
30 Years Ago Today In 1970 - Capitol Records releases Grand Funk Railroad's album "Closer To Home"
1972 - Harvest Records releases Pink Floyd's album "Obscured By Clouds" with Capitol Records handling distribution in the United States
1996 - Ella Fitzgerald (born Ella Jane Fitzgerald) singer, bandleader, motion picture actress and Brunswick, Verve, Capitol and Pablo Records artist, dies in Beverly Hills, California at age 79 from complications brought about by diabetes and is later interred in the Inglewood Park Cemetery in Inglewood, California
1996 - Billboard magazine reports that Capitol Records Inc. has paid $10 million to acquire 49% of shares of Matador Records
ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1943 - Muff Winwood, bass guitarist, songwriter, record producer, member of the Fontana and United Artists Records group The Spencer Davis Band with his brother Steve Winwood, is born Mervyn Winwood in Erdington, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England
1959 - Martin Denny's Liberty Records single "Quiet Village" is #4 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart, Dion and The Belmonts Laurie Records single "A Teenager In Love" is #6, and Fats Domino's Imperial Records single "I'm Ready" is #19. Liberty, Laurie, and Imperial Records' catalogs are currently owned by Capitol Music Group's parent company, EMI Music Group.
1963 - Lou Christie's Roulette Records single "Two Faces Have I" is #11 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart and The Chiffon's Laurie Records single "One Fine Day" is #17. Roulette and Laurie Records' catalogs are currently owned by Capitol Music Group's parent company, EMI Music Group.
1969 - "Hee Haw", starring Capitol Records artist Buck Owens and former Capitol Records artist Roy Clark and with Capitol Records group The Buckaroos as house band, debuts on the CBS television network
1991 - Paula Abdul's Virgin Records America single "Rush Rush" is #1 on Billboards' Top 100 singles chart
ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1901 - Jack Kapp, co-founder of Decca Records and records producer, is born
65 Years Ago Today In 1945 - Judy Garland marries Ben Vincent Minnelli in a ceremony performed by Dr. William Roberts of the Beverly Hills Community Presbyterian Church in the home of her mother Ethel Garland, at 1231 Stone Canyon Road, Los Angeles, California. One of Judy's sisters was her attendant and the best man for Minnelli was lyricist Ira Gershwin.
1962 - EMI lauches the Stateside label in Britain "for repertoire licensed from American labels"
1969 - Judy Garland gives her last performance for a live audience when she appears at the Half Note nightclub, Greenwich Village, NYC
1992 - At ceremony #156, Michael Keaton leaves his footprints in cement at Mann's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California and at ceremony #157, Tom Cruise leaves his footprints
Monday, June 14, 2010
JUNE 14, 2010
HAPPY BIRTHDAYS!
105 Years Ago Today In 1905 - Nappy Lamare, banjo player, guitarist, singer, member of the group The Bob Crosby Bob Cats, and a Capitol Records session and solo artist, is born Joseph Hilton Lamare on Dumaine Street in New Orleans, Louisiana. Jazz Connection Magazine wrote a wonderul biographcal article to celebrate Nappy's centennial birthday.
1949 - Alan White, drummer with the Apple and Capitol Records group Plastic Ono Band, drummer on John Lennon's album and single "Imagine", George Harrison's album "All Things Must Pass" and single "My Sweet Lord", as well as drummer for the group Yes, is born in Pelton, County Durham, England
1963 - Chris DeGarmo, songwriter, lead and rhythm guitarist with the Capitol Records band Queensryche (1982-1997, 2003), is born Christopher Lee DeGarmo in Wenatchee, Washington
1969 - MC Ren, Capitol Records artist and vocalist with Priority Records (now a subsidiary of Capitol Records) group NWA, is born Lorenzo Patterson in Compton, California
ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1946 - The King Cole Trio records the track "The Christmas Song" (which Mel Tormé and Robert Wells wrote specifically for Nat) at WMCA Studios in New York City. This is the first of four separate recordings Cole would make of the song during his lifetime. Cole was not happy with this version and would persuade Capitol Records to let him re-record the track with a string section, arranged by Charlie Grean, with producers Carl Kress and Walter Rivers on August 19, 1946
1949 - Freddie Slack's Quartet (actually a septet, with Neal Hefti on trumpet, John Haliburton on trombone, Hank Horn on baritone saxophone, Slack on piano, Bob Bain on guitar, Paul Moresy on bass, and Maynard Sloate on drums) record the tracks, "Whatever Happened To Ol' Jack?" (with Phil Gordon and Bobby Troup on vocals) and an untitled Phil Moore instrumental (that went unissued until Mosaic Records released it on their 2005 3 CD set "Mosaic Select: Freddie Slack") in Los Angeles, California
1952 - Al Martino (with orchestra conducted by Monty Kelly)'s debut Capitol Records single "Here In My Heart" (with "I Cried Myself To Sleep" on the flip side) hits #1 on Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records charts, Kay Starr (with orchestra conducted by Harold Mooney)'s Capitol Records single "Wheel Of Fortune" is #18, Jane Froman (with orchestra conducted by Sid Feller)'s Capitol Records single "I'll Walk Alone" is #16, and Ellae Mae Morse (with Nelson Riddle and His Orchestra)'s Capitol Records single "Blacksmith Blues" is #19
55 Years Ago Today In 1955 - Arranger Bob Cooper, on tenor saxophone, oboe, and english horn (with Bud Shank on flute, alto saxophone, and tenor saxophone player; Jimmy Giuffre on clarinet, tenor saxophone and baritone saxophone; Bob Enevoldsen on tenor saxophone, bass clarinet, and valve trombone; John Graas on french horn; Claude Williamson on piano; Ralph Pena on bass; and Shelly Manne on drums) records the tracks "All Or Nothing At All" (which Capitol Records released on the album "Kenton Presents Bob Cooper - Shifting Winds"), "'Round Midnight", and "Tongue Twister" (both of which will finally be released by Mosaic Records as part of its 1999 box set "Kenton Presents Cooper, Holman & Rosolino") with producer Stan Kenton at Capitol Records' Melrose Avenue studios in Hollwyood, California
1957 - Sessions begin for arranger Martin Denny's Liberty Records album "Exotica Volume II" (with Denny on piano and celeste; Arthur Lyman on vibes, marimba, xylophone, and percussion; Augie Colon on bongos, congas, latin effects, and bird calls; Bernard Miller on string bass; Jack Shoop on alto flute and baritone saxophone; Roy Harte on drums and percussion; and Gil Baumgart on percussion and also helping with arranging) in The Capitol Tower Studios in Hollywood, California with recording engineers Val Valintin and Ted Keep
45 Years Ago Today In 1964 - Buck Owens' Capitol Records single "My Heart Skips A Beat" returns to the #1 position on the U.S. Country singles charts
45 Years Ago Today In 1965 - Capitol Records release The Beatles' album "Beatles VI"
45 Years Ago Today In 1965 - Capitol Records releases the Buck Owens' EP "Four By Buck Owens'
45 Years Ago Today In 1965 - The Beatles record the tracks "I've Just Seen a Face" (six takes) and "I'm Down" (seven takes) and the rest of the group stays as Paul McCartney records the track "Yesterday" in Studio 2 at EMI's Abbey Road studios in London, England. "Yesterday" will be released by Capitol Records in the U.S. as a single and on the album "'Yesterday' and Today" as well as by United Artists on the soundtrack to the group's second motion picture "Help!".
1966 - Ron Tepper, manager of Capitol Records' press and information services, sends out a letter to reviewers requesting they disregard and, "if possible", send back (yeah, right) their promotional copy of the "Butcher Cover" version of The Beatles' album "'Yesterday' and Today" album. His assistant, Mickey Diage, handled the distribution of the letter and coordinated the return of the album and promotional posters that used the same artwork.
1967 - The Beach Boys (Alan Jardine, Brian Wilson, Carl Wilson, and Dennis Wilson with session musician Diane Rovell) record the track "Heroes And Villans" at The Beach Boys Studio at 10452 Bellagio Road, Bel Air, California from 3PM to 6PM
1968 - Ken Errier, Capitol Records solo artist (1957), member of Capitol Records recording act The Four Freshmen (1953-1955), and second husband to actress Jane Withers, dies in a small plane crash in California
1969 - Vocalist Letta Mbulu is back in The Capitol Tower Studios with arranger H.B. Barnum who conducts the studio orchestra (Tony Terran and Freddie Hill on trumpet and flugelhorn; Charles Loper on trombone; Dick Leith on trombone and bass trombone; Jackie Kelso on tenor saxophone and flute; Jim Horn on tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, flute, oboe, and recorder; Dick Houlgate on bass saxophone and flute; Don Randi on piano, electric piano and harpsichord; Mike Melvoin on organ; Al Casey, John Gray, and Les Buie on guitar; Bob West on bass and electric bass; Earl Palmer on drums, tympani and bells; Joe Clayton on congas; King Errison on bongos; Gary Coleman boo bams and tamborine; John Guerin on bells, tympani, and mallets; Ken Watson on mallets, traps, and Latin percussion) to record the tracks "Gumba Gumba", "Kukuchi", "What More Could Be Right", and "Only When You're Mine Again" for her Capitol Records album "Free Soul"
1976 - The Bealtes' Capitol Records compilation album "Rock 'N' Roll Music" is certified Gold by the R.I.A.A.
1998 - Capitol Records releases The Beastie Boys album "Hello Nasty"
10 Years Ago Today In 2000 - Merrill Moore, Capitol Records artist and contract session player (1955-1958), country swing and boogie woogie pianist, dies in San Diego, California of cancer
2003 - On the stage of the Grand Ole Opry, Capitol Records Nashville artist, Trace Adkins is invited by Little Jimmy Dickens to become a member with a formal induction to be held on August 23, 2003
5 Years Ago Today In 2005 - A scheduled performance by Capitol Records recording artists Saosin is cancelled due to police reaction to a shooting that occured at the venue a few days earlier
2009 - Bob Bogle, original lead guitarist and founding member of the Dolphin/Doltin Records label group "The Ventures" died of complications from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma at age 75 in a local Southern California hospital according to fellow co-founder Don Wilson
ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1929 - Cy Coleman, child prodigy pianist, composer (best known for "Witchcraft" and "The Best Is Yet To Come" both recorded by Capitol Records artist Frank Sinatra, as well as "Hey Look Me Over" for The musical "Wildcat" as well as the musical "Sweet Charity" with lyricist Dorothy Fields), is born Seymour Kaufman in New York City, New York
1941 - Future Capitol Records artist Tex Ritter weds actress Dorothy Fay. Their marriage that will last until his death on January 2, 1974
60 Years Ago Today In1950 - Harold Perry, radio actor and Capitol Records artist, plays his best known role, The Great Gildersleeve, for the last time after 13 years. Perry is changing networks but he can't take Gildersleeve with him so he will be replaced by Willard Waterman, who will play Gildersleeve for the next 8 years on radio and then for several years on television but, as a mark of respect for Perry, will never imitate Perry's signature laugh.
1961 - Boy George, singer, Broadway musical performer and Virgin Records artist with group The Culture Club and as a solo artist, is born George Alan O'Dowd in Eltham, Kent, England. Virgin Records is a subsidiary of Capitol Music Group.
1963 - Sarah Vaughan, with arranger Benny Carter conducting the studio orchestra (Ed Kusby, Tom Shepard, Dick Nash, and Bob Knight on trombone; Jimmy Rowles on piano; Bobby Gibbons on guitar; Red Callender on bass; Earl Palmer on drums, and unknown string section), records the tracks "These Foolish Things", "Look For Me, I'll Be Around", "Friendless", and "The Man I Love" at United Recorders' studios in Los Angeles, California during her last session for her Roulette Records album "Lonely Hours"
1964 - Ringo Starr rejoins Parlophone and Capitol Records group The Beatles on tour when he arrives in Melbourne, Australia after missing part of the tour due to illness
ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1895 - Cliff Edwards (aka "Ukulele Ike"), singer, ukulele player, Broadway (introduced the song "Toot, Toot, Tootsie"), radio ("The Rudy Vallee Show") and motion picture actor (introduced the song "Singing In The Rain"), and the voice of Jiminy Cricket in Walt Disney's animated feature "Pinochio", is born in Hannibal, Missouri
100 Years Ago Today In 1909 - Burl Ives, singer, author, actor, and voice of the world's second best known snowman, is born Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives in Jasper County, Illinois
1942 - Walt Disney releases the animated movie "Bambi"
1961 - Liberty Records releaes Johnny Burnette's sixth single for the label "I've Got A Lot Of Things To Do" with "Girls" on the flip side
1977 - Alan Reed, motion picture, radio and television actor, and voice of Fred Flintstone, dies of a heart attack at age 69 in West Los Angeles, California
1986 - Alan Jay Lerner, Broadway and motion picture lyricist and librettist (including "Brigadoon", "Paint Your Wagon", "Royal Wedding", "My Fair Lady", "Gigi", "Camelot" and others), and screenwriter ("An American In Paris") dies of lung cancer in New York City at age 67
15 Years Ago Today In 1994 - Henry Mancini (born Enric Nicoloa Mancini), composer (co-wrote "Moon River" with Capitol Records' co-founder "Johnny Mercer"), arranger, and television ("Peter Gunn") and film scorer ("The Pink Panther" series and many others) dies at age 70 of cancer of the pancreas and liver in Beverly Hills, California
2000 - Bob Rolontz, record executive and originator of the Platinum record certification, dies at age 79
HAPPY BIRTHDAYS!
105 Years Ago Today In 1905 - Nappy Lamare, banjo player, guitarist, singer, member of the group The Bob Crosby Bob Cats, and a Capitol Records session and solo artist, is born Joseph Hilton Lamare on Dumaine Street in New Orleans, Louisiana. Jazz Connection Magazine wrote a wonderul biographcal article to celebrate Nappy's centennial birthday.
1949 - Alan White, drummer with the Apple and Capitol Records group Plastic Ono Band, drummer on John Lennon's album and single "Imagine", George Harrison's album "All Things Must Pass" and single "My Sweet Lord", as well as drummer for the group Yes, is born in Pelton, County Durham, England
1963 - Chris DeGarmo, songwriter, lead and rhythm guitarist with the Capitol Records band Queensryche (1982-1997, 2003), is born Christopher Lee DeGarmo in Wenatchee, Washington
1969 - MC Ren, Capitol Records artist and vocalist with Priority Records (now a subsidiary of Capitol Records) group NWA, is born Lorenzo Patterson in Compton, California
ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1946 - The King Cole Trio records the track "The Christmas Song" (which Mel Tormé and Robert Wells wrote specifically for Nat) at WMCA Studios in New York City. This is the first of four separate recordings Cole would make of the song during his lifetime. Cole was not happy with this version and would persuade Capitol Records to let him re-record the track with a string section, arranged by Charlie Grean, with producers Carl Kress and Walter Rivers on August 19, 1946
1949 - Freddie Slack's Quartet (actually a septet, with Neal Hefti on trumpet, John Haliburton on trombone, Hank Horn on baritone saxophone, Slack on piano, Bob Bain on guitar, Paul Moresy on bass, and Maynard Sloate on drums) record the tracks, "Whatever Happened To Ol' Jack?" (with Phil Gordon and Bobby Troup on vocals) and an untitled Phil Moore instrumental (that went unissued until Mosaic Records released it on their 2005 3 CD set "Mosaic Select: Freddie Slack") in Los Angeles, California
1952 - Al Martino (with orchestra conducted by Monty Kelly)'s debut Capitol Records single "Here In My Heart" (with "I Cried Myself To Sleep" on the flip side) hits #1 on Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records charts, Kay Starr (with orchestra conducted by Harold Mooney)'s Capitol Records single "Wheel Of Fortune" is #18, Jane Froman (with orchestra conducted by Sid Feller)'s Capitol Records single "I'll Walk Alone" is #16, and Ellae Mae Morse (with Nelson Riddle and His Orchestra)'s Capitol Records single "Blacksmith Blues" is #19
55 Years Ago Today In 1955 - Arranger Bob Cooper, on tenor saxophone, oboe, and english horn (with Bud Shank on flute, alto saxophone, and tenor saxophone player; Jimmy Giuffre on clarinet, tenor saxophone and baritone saxophone; Bob Enevoldsen on tenor saxophone, bass clarinet, and valve trombone; John Graas on french horn; Claude Williamson on piano; Ralph Pena on bass; and Shelly Manne on drums) records the tracks "All Or Nothing At All" (which Capitol Records released on the album "Kenton Presents Bob Cooper - Shifting Winds"), "'Round Midnight", and "Tongue Twister" (both of which will finally be released by Mosaic Records as part of its 1999 box set "Kenton Presents Cooper, Holman & Rosolino") with producer Stan Kenton at Capitol Records' Melrose Avenue studios in Hollwyood, California
1957 - Sessions begin for arranger Martin Denny's Liberty Records album "Exotica Volume II" (with Denny on piano and celeste; Arthur Lyman on vibes, marimba, xylophone, and percussion; Augie Colon on bongos, congas, latin effects, and bird calls; Bernard Miller on string bass; Jack Shoop on alto flute and baritone saxophone; Roy Harte on drums and percussion; and Gil Baumgart on percussion and also helping with arranging) in The Capitol Tower Studios in Hollywood, California with recording engineers Val Valintin and Ted Keep
45 Years Ago Today In 1964 - Buck Owens' Capitol Records single "My Heart Skips A Beat" returns to the #1 position on the U.S. Country singles charts
45 Years Ago Today In 1965 - Capitol Records release The Beatles' album "Beatles VI"
45 Years Ago Today In 1965 - Capitol Records releases the Buck Owens' EP "Four By Buck Owens'
45 Years Ago Today In 1965 - The Beatles record the tracks "I've Just Seen a Face" (six takes) and "I'm Down" (seven takes) and the rest of the group stays as Paul McCartney records the track "Yesterday" in Studio 2 at EMI's Abbey Road studios in London, England. "Yesterday" will be released by Capitol Records in the U.S. as a single and on the album "'Yesterday' and Today" as well as by United Artists on the soundtrack to the group's second motion picture "Help!".
1966 - Ron Tepper, manager of Capitol Records' press and information services, sends out a letter to reviewers requesting they disregard and, "if possible", send back (yeah, right) their promotional copy of the "Butcher Cover" version of The Beatles' album "'Yesterday' and Today" album. His assistant, Mickey Diage, handled the distribution of the letter and coordinated the return of the album and promotional posters that used the same artwork.
1967 - The Beach Boys (Alan Jardine, Brian Wilson, Carl Wilson, and Dennis Wilson with session musician Diane Rovell) record the track "Heroes And Villans" at The Beach Boys Studio at 10452 Bellagio Road, Bel Air, California from 3PM to 6PM
1968 - Ken Errier, Capitol Records solo artist (1957), member of Capitol Records recording act The Four Freshmen (1953-1955), and second husband to actress Jane Withers, dies in a small plane crash in California
1969 - Vocalist Letta Mbulu is back in The Capitol Tower Studios with arranger H.B. Barnum who conducts the studio orchestra (Tony Terran and Freddie Hill on trumpet and flugelhorn; Charles Loper on trombone; Dick Leith on trombone and bass trombone; Jackie Kelso on tenor saxophone and flute; Jim Horn on tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, flute, oboe, and recorder; Dick Houlgate on bass saxophone and flute; Don Randi on piano, electric piano and harpsichord; Mike Melvoin on organ; Al Casey, John Gray, and Les Buie on guitar; Bob West on bass and electric bass; Earl Palmer on drums, tympani and bells; Joe Clayton on congas; King Errison on bongos; Gary Coleman boo bams and tamborine; John Guerin on bells, tympani, and mallets; Ken Watson on mallets, traps, and Latin percussion) to record the tracks "Gumba Gumba", "Kukuchi", "What More Could Be Right", and "Only When You're Mine Again" for her Capitol Records album "Free Soul"
1976 - The Bealtes' Capitol Records compilation album "Rock 'N' Roll Music" is certified Gold by the R.I.A.A.
1998 - Capitol Records releases The Beastie Boys album "Hello Nasty"
10 Years Ago Today In 2000 - Merrill Moore, Capitol Records artist and contract session player (1955-1958), country swing and boogie woogie pianist, dies in San Diego, California of cancer
2003 - On the stage of the Grand Ole Opry, Capitol Records Nashville artist, Trace Adkins is invited by Little Jimmy Dickens to become a member with a formal induction to be held on August 23, 2003
5 Years Ago Today In 2005 - A scheduled performance by Capitol Records recording artists Saosin is cancelled due to police reaction to a shooting that occured at the venue a few days earlier
2009 - Bob Bogle, original lead guitarist and founding member of the Dolphin/Doltin Records label group "The Ventures" died of complications from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma at age 75 in a local Southern California hospital according to fellow co-founder Don Wilson
ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1929 - Cy Coleman, child prodigy pianist, composer (best known for "Witchcraft" and "The Best Is Yet To Come" both recorded by Capitol Records artist Frank Sinatra, as well as "Hey Look Me Over" for The musical "Wildcat" as well as the musical "Sweet Charity" with lyricist Dorothy Fields), is born Seymour Kaufman in New York City, New York
1941 - Future Capitol Records artist Tex Ritter weds actress Dorothy Fay. Their marriage that will last until his death on January 2, 1974
60 Years Ago Today In1950 - Harold Perry, radio actor and Capitol Records artist, plays his best known role, The Great Gildersleeve, for the last time after 13 years. Perry is changing networks but he can't take Gildersleeve with him so he will be replaced by Willard Waterman, who will play Gildersleeve for the next 8 years on radio and then for several years on television but, as a mark of respect for Perry, will never imitate Perry's signature laugh.
1961 - Boy George, singer, Broadway musical performer and Virgin Records artist with group The Culture Club and as a solo artist, is born George Alan O'Dowd in Eltham, Kent, England. Virgin Records is a subsidiary of Capitol Music Group.
1963 - Sarah Vaughan, with arranger Benny Carter conducting the studio orchestra (Ed Kusby, Tom Shepard, Dick Nash, and Bob Knight on trombone; Jimmy Rowles on piano; Bobby Gibbons on guitar; Red Callender on bass; Earl Palmer on drums, and unknown string section), records the tracks "These Foolish Things", "Look For Me, I'll Be Around", "Friendless", and "The Man I Love" at United Recorders' studios in Los Angeles, California during her last session for her Roulette Records album "Lonely Hours"
1964 - Ringo Starr rejoins Parlophone and Capitol Records group The Beatles on tour when he arrives in Melbourne, Australia after missing part of the tour due to illness
ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1895 - Cliff Edwards (aka "Ukulele Ike"), singer, ukulele player, Broadway (introduced the song "Toot, Toot, Tootsie"), radio ("The Rudy Vallee Show") and motion picture actor (introduced the song "Singing In The Rain"), and the voice of Jiminy Cricket in Walt Disney's animated feature "Pinochio", is born in Hannibal, Missouri
100 Years Ago Today In 1909 - Burl Ives, singer, author, actor, and voice of the world's second best known snowman, is born Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives in Jasper County, Illinois
1942 - Walt Disney releases the animated movie "Bambi"
1961 - Liberty Records releaes Johnny Burnette's sixth single for the label "I've Got A Lot Of Things To Do" with "Girls" on the flip side
1977 - Alan Reed, motion picture, radio and television actor, and voice of Fred Flintstone, dies of a heart attack at age 69 in West Los Angeles, California
1986 - Alan Jay Lerner, Broadway and motion picture lyricist and librettist (including "Brigadoon", "Paint Your Wagon", "Royal Wedding", "My Fair Lady", "Gigi", "Camelot" and others), and screenwriter ("An American In Paris") dies of lung cancer in New York City at age 67
15 Years Ago Today In 1994 - Henry Mancini (born Enric Nicoloa Mancini), composer (co-wrote "Moon River" with Capitol Records' co-founder "Johnny Mercer"), arranger, and television ("Peter Gunn") and film scorer ("The Pink Panther" series and many others) dies at age 70 of cancer of the pancreas and liver in Beverly Hills, California
2000 - Bob Rolontz, record executive and originator of the Platinum record certification, dies at age 79
Sunday, June 13, 2010
JUNE 13, 2010
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
1949 - Dennis Locorriere, guitarist and singer with the Capitol Records group Dr. Hook, is born in Union City, New Jersey
ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1947 - The King Cole Trio (Nat "King" Cole on piano, Oscar Moore on guitar, and Johnny Miller on bass) records the tracks "Naughty Angeline" and "That's What" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will release the tracks together on a single (Capitol 437)
1953 - Les Baxter and His Orchestra's Capitol Records single "April in Portugal" is #3 on Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records chart and its flip side "Ruby" is 9, Nat "King" Cole (with Nelson Riddle and His Orchestra)'s Capitol Records single "Pretend" is #10, Jane Froman (with Sid Feller and His Orchestra)'s Capitol Records single "I Believe" is #11, Les Paul and Mary Ford's Capitol Records single "Vaya Con Dios (May God Be With You)" (with "Johnny (Is The Boy For Me)" on the flip side) enters the top 20 at #14 and will go on to top the chart and stay there for 11 weeks, and Kay Starr (with orchestra conducted by Harold Mooney)'s Capitol Records single "Half A Photograph" (with "Allez-Vous-En" from the musical "Can Can" on the flip side) is #19
55 Years Ago Today In 1955 - Arranger Bob Cooper, on tenor saxophone, oboe, and english horn, (with Bud Shank on flute alto saxophone and tenor saxophone; Jimmy Giuffre on clarinet, tenor saxophone, and baritone saxophone; Bob Enevoldsen on tenor saxophone, bass clarinet, and valve trombone; John Graas on french horn; Claude Williamson on piano; Joe Mondragon on bass; and Shelly Manne on drums) records the tracks "Hallelujah" (which will be released by Capitol Records on the album "Kenton Presents Bob Cooper - Shifting Winds"), "Deep In A Dream", "It's De-lovely", and "Drawing Lines" (which will finally be released by Mosaic Records as part of its 1999 box set "Kenton Presents Cooper, Holman & Rosolino") with producer Stan Kenton at Capitol Records' Melrose Avenue studios in Hollywood, California
1964 - The Beatles' United Artists soundtrack album "A Hard Day's Night" is released. Capitol Records will eventually buy the United Artists Records catalog and has since re-released the album on the Capitol label.
1968 - Vocalist Letta Mbulu records the tracks "Olu Ati Ayo" and "Welele", with producer David Axlerod, for her Capitol Records album "Free Soul". She also records a version of "Gumba Gumba" that will be re-recorded the next day that will be issued on a single (Capitol 4-2152) with the song "Ade" on the flip side. Arranger H.B. Barnum conducts Tony Terran and Freddie Hill on trumpet and flugelhorn; Lew McCreary on trombone and tenor trombone; Jackie Kelso on tenor saxophone, clarinet and flute; Dick Houlgate on saxophone and clarinet; Jim Horn on saxophone, clarinet, flute and recorder; Don Randi on piano, electric piano and harpsichord; Mike Melvoin on organ; Les Buie, Louis Morell, and Carol Kaye on guitar; Bob West on bass; Earl Palmer on drums, tympani, and bells; John Guerin on drums, vibraphone and tympani; Joe Clayton on congas; Gene Estes and Ken Watson on percussion at The Capitol Tower Studios. Copyists for the arrangements were Allen DeRienzo, Leonard Gordon, and Kenneth Mitchell.
40 Years Ago Today In 1970 - The Beatles' Apple Records single "The Long And Winding Road", distributed by Capitol Records in the United States, hits #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart and The Beatles' Apple Records album "Let It Be" is #1 on Billboard's Top 200 albums chart
40 Years Ago Today In 1970 - Glyn Johns completes a mix of The Band's Capitol Records album "Stage Fright". Many of the tracks will be remixed by Todd Rundgren for the final album release. Dave Hopkins has written reviews of all The Band's 2000 CD reissues.
1986 - Benny Goodman, clarinetist, singer, bandleader, motion picture actor, and Capitol Records artist, dies of cardiac arrest in his Manhattan apartment at age 77 and is later buried in Long Ridge Union Cemetery, Stamford Connecticut
1986 - Dean Reed, Capitol Records and Imperial Records artist (1958), best known for his recordings of "Our Summer Romance" and "Whirly Twirly", singer, songwriter, director, actor and socialist activist, dies after disappearing the day before and will be found in two days in a lake near is home in East Berlin, Germany. Tom Hanks is said to be working on a project about Reed's life. The University of Colorado sponsors the Dean Reed Peace Prize, an annual essay contest held in Reed's memory, as part of its Conference on World Affairs.
1997 - Capitol Records band Megadeth starts their "Cryptic Writings" tour with a concert in Mesa, Arizona that is broadcast live on the internet
2003 - The film contest for a video for Capitol Records artist Fischerspooner, sponsored by iFilm and Capitol, ends and the winner's entry is placed on iFilm.com
2004 - Capitol Records Nashville artists The Jenkins perform on the Riverfront stage of the CMA Music Festival in Nashville, Tennessee
5 Years Ago Today In 2005 - Zane Williams, guitarist, singer and songwriter, auditions for Larry Willoughby, Vice President of A&R for Capitol Records Nashville at the label's top floor offices in Nashville, Tennessee. Zane has a good description of the event in the June 13, 2005 entry on his blog "The Music Row Diaries".
2006 - Capitol Records band Radiohead perform live in concert at The Theatre at Madison Square Garden in New York City. According to a Capitol Records press release, the set list "will draw heavily on the newer material the band has been working on over the past months", and "will feature appropriately scaled down staging and lighting design, creating a suitably intimate environment for the first ever airings of several new songs".
2006 - The surviving original members of The Beach Boys reunite in public after 10 years apart when Brian Wilson, Mike Love and Al Jardine gather on the roof of The Capitol Tower in Hollywood, California to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the album "Pet Sounds" and their 2003 Capitol Records album "Sounds Of Summer: The Very Best Of The Beach Boys" being certified Platinum by the R.I.A.A.
ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1917 - Sy Zenter, trombonist, bandleader, session musician and Liberty Records artist, is born Simon H. Zentner in New York City, New York
50 Years Ago Today In 1960 - Rick Nelson's Imperial Records single "Young Emotions" is #14 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart
1963 - Sarah Vaughn, with arranger Benny Carter conducting the studio orchestra (Shorty Sherock, Carmell Jones, Conrad Gozzo, and Bobby Bryant on trumpet; Ed Kusby and Dick Nash on trombone; Buddy Coillete, Bill Green, Plas Johnson, Wilbur Schwartz, and Bill Hood on reeds; Jimmy Rowles on piano; Barney Kessel and Tommy Tedesco on guitar; Red Callender on bass; and Alvin Stoller on drums), records the tracks "Solitude", "I'll Never Be The Same", "So Long, My Love", and "Lonely Hours" at United Recorders' studios in Los Angeles, California for her Roulette Records album "The Lonely Hours"
1972 - CBS-TV broadcasts the final episode of Capitol Records artist Glen Campbell's variety show "The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour"
1981 - Dottie West and Kenny Roger's Liberty Records single "What Are We Doin' In Love", with "Choosin' Means Losin'" on the flip side is #1 on the U.S. Country singles chart. EMI Music Group, Capitol Music Group's parent company, currently owns the Liberty Records catalog
ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1946 - Edward J. "Major" Bowes, producer and host of radio's "Major Bowes' Original Amateur Hour", dies on his 72nd birthday at his home in Rumson, New Jersey. Cardinal Spellman will perform the last rites at Bowes' home. Those amongst the show's most famous winners were Frank Sinatra and Bob Hope. A year after Bowes' death, Ted Mack would revive the Amateur Hour and bring it to television.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
1949 - Dennis Locorriere, guitarist and singer with the Capitol Records group Dr. Hook, is born in Union City, New Jersey
ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1947 - The King Cole Trio (Nat "King" Cole on piano, Oscar Moore on guitar, and Johnny Miller on bass) records the tracks "Naughty Angeline" and "That's What" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will release the tracks together on a single (Capitol 437)
1953 - Les Baxter and His Orchestra's Capitol Records single "April in Portugal" is #3 on Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records chart and its flip side "Ruby" is 9, Nat "King" Cole (with Nelson Riddle and His Orchestra)'s Capitol Records single "Pretend" is #10, Jane Froman (with Sid Feller and His Orchestra)'s Capitol Records single "I Believe" is #11, Les Paul and Mary Ford's Capitol Records single "Vaya Con Dios (May God Be With You)" (with "Johnny (Is The Boy For Me)" on the flip side) enters the top 20 at #14 and will go on to top the chart and stay there for 11 weeks, and Kay Starr (with orchestra conducted by Harold Mooney)'s Capitol Records single "Half A Photograph" (with "Allez-Vous-En" from the musical "Can Can" on the flip side) is #19
55 Years Ago Today In 1955 - Arranger Bob Cooper, on tenor saxophone, oboe, and english horn, (with Bud Shank on flute alto saxophone and tenor saxophone; Jimmy Giuffre on clarinet, tenor saxophone, and baritone saxophone; Bob Enevoldsen on tenor saxophone, bass clarinet, and valve trombone; John Graas on french horn; Claude Williamson on piano; Joe Mondragon on bass; and Shelly Manne on drums) records the tracks "Hallelujah" (which will be released by Capitol Records on the album "Kenton Presents Bob Cooper - Shifting Winds"), "Deep In A Dream", "It's De-lovely", and "Drawing Lines" (which will finally be released by Mosaic Records as part of its 1999 box set "Kenton Presents Cooper, Holman & Rosolino") with producer Stan Kenton at Capitol Records' Melrose Avenue studios in Hollywood, California
1964 - The Beatles' United Artists soundtrack album "A Hard Day's Night" is released. Capitol Records will eventually buy the United Artists Records catalog and has since re-released the album on the Capitol label.
1968 - Vocalist Letta Mbulu records the tracks "Olu Ati Ayo" and "Welele", with producer David Axlerod, for her Capitol Records album "Free Soul". She also records a version of "Gumba Gumba" that will be re-recorded the next day that will be issued on a single (Capitol 4-2152) with the song "Ade" on the flip side. Arranger H.B. Barnum conducts Tony Terran and Freddie Hill on trumpet and flugelhorn; Lew McCreary on trombone and tenor trombone; Jackie Kelso on tenor saxophone, clarinet and flute; Dick Houlgate on saxophone and clarinet; Jim Horn on saxophone, clarinet, flute and recorder; Don Randi on piano, electric piano and harpsichord; Mike Melvoin on organ; Les Buie, Louis Morell, and Carol Kaye on guitar; Bob West on bass; Earl Palmer on drums, tympani, and bells; John Guerin on drums, vibraphone and tympani; Joe Clayton on congas; Gene Estes and Ken Watson on percussion at The Capitol Tower Studios. Copyists for the arrangements were Allen DeRienzo, Leonard Gordon, and Kenneth Mitchell.
40 Years Ago Today In 1970 - The Beatles' Apple Records single "The Long And Winding Road", distributed by Capitol Records in the United States, hits #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart and The Beatles' Apple Records album "Let It Be" is #1 on Billboard's Top 200 albums chart
40 Years Ago Today In 1970 - Glyn Johns completes a mix of The Band's Capitol Records album "Stage Fright". Many of the tracks will be remixed by Todd Rundgren for the final album release. Dave Hopkins has written reviews of all The Band's 2000 CD reissues.
1986 - Benny Goodman, clarinetist, singer, bandleader, motion picture actor, and Capitol Records artist, dies of cardiac arrest in his Manhattan apartment at age 77 and is later buried in Long Ridge Union Cemetery, Stamford Connecticut
1986 - Dean Reed, Capitol Records and Imperial Records artist (1958), best known for his recordings of "Our Summer Romance" and "Whirly Twirly", singer, songwriter, director, actor and socialist activist, dies after disappearing the day before and will be found in two days in a lake near is home in East Berlin, Germany. Tom Hanks is said to be working on a project about Reed's life. The University of Colorado sponsors the Dean Reed Peace Prize, an annual essay contest held in Reed's memory, as part of its Conference on World Affairs.
1997 - Capitol Records band Megadeth starts their "Cryptic Writings" tour with a concert in Mesa, Arizona that is broadcast live on the internet
2003 - The film contest for a video for Capitol Records artist Fischerspooner, sponsored by iFilm and Capitol, ends and the winner's entry is placed on iFilm.com
2004 - Capitol Records Nashville artists The Jenkins perform on the Riverfront stage of the CMA Music Festival in Nashville, Tennessee
5 Years Ago Today In 2005 - Zane Williams, guitarist, singer and songwriter, auditions for Larry Willoughby, Vice President of A&R for Capitol Records Nashville at the label's top floor offices in Nashville, Tennessee. Zane has a good description of the event in the June 13, 2005 entry on his blog "The Music Row Diaries".
2006 - Capitol Records band Radiohead perform live in concert at The Theatre at Madison Square Garden in New York City. According to a Capitol Records press release, the set list "will draw heavily on the newer material the band has been working on over the past months", and "will feature appropriately scaled down staging and lighting design, creating a suitably intimate environment for the first ever airings of several new songs".
2006 - The surviving original members of The Beach Boys reunite in public after 10 years apart when Brian Wilson, Mike Love and Al Jardine gather on the roof of The Capitol Tower in Hollywood, California to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the album "Pet Sounds" and their 2003 Capitol Records album "Sounds Of Summer: The Very Best Of The Beach Boys" being certified Platinum by the R.I.A.A.
ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1917 - Sy Zenter, trombonist, bandleader, session musician and Liberty Records artist, is born Simon H. Zentner in New York City, New York
50 Years Ago Today In 1960 - Rick Nelson's Imperial Records single "Young Emotions" is #14 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart
1963 - Sarah Vaughn, with arranger Benny Carter conducting the studio orchestra (Shorty Sherock, Carmell Jones, Conrad Gozzo, and Bobby Bryant on trumpet; Ed Kusby and Dick Nash on trombone; Buddy Coillete, Bill Green, Plas Johnson, Wilbur Schwartz, and Bill Hood on reeds; Jimmy Rowles on piano; Barney Kessel and Tommy Tedesco on guitar; Red Callender on bass; and Alvin Stoller on drums), records the tracks "Solitude", "I'll Never Be The Same", "So Long, My Love", and "Lonely Hours" at United Recorders' studios in Los Angeles, California for her Roulette Records album "The Lonely Hours"
1972 - CBS-TV broadcasts the final episode of Capitol Records artist Glen Campbell's variety show "The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour"
1981 - Dottie West and Kenny Roger's Liberty Records single "What Are We Doin' In Love", with "Choosin' Means Losin'" on the flip side is #1 on the U.S. Country singles chart. EMI Music Group, Capitol Music Group's parent company, currently owns the Liberty Records catalog
ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1946 - Edward J. "Major" Bowes, producer and host of radio's "Major Bowes' Original Amateur Hour", dies on his 72nd birthday at his home in Rumson, New Jersey. Cardinal Spellman will perform the last rites at Bowes' home. Those amongst the show's most famous winners were Frank Sinatra and Bob Hope. A year after Bowes' death, Ted Mack would revive the Amateur Hour and bring it to television.
Saturday, June 12, 2010
JUNE 12, 2010
HAPPY BIRTHDAYS!
1928 - Vic Damone, singer, motion picture and television actor, and Capitol Records artist (1961-1965), is born Vito Rocco Farinola in Brooklyn, New York
1938 - Jim Conner, songwriter ("Grandma's Feather Bed"), guitarist, banjoist, harmonica player and vocalist with Capitol Records duo Richard and Jim (1962-1965) and member of The New Kingston Trio (1968-1974) in born in Gadsen, Alabama
1958 - Meredith Brooks, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and Capitol Records artist, is born Meredith Ann Brooks in Oregon City, Oregon
ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1942 - Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra (Monty Kelly, Larry Neil, and Don Waddilove on trumpet; Skip Layton and Murray McEachern on trombone; Alvy West, Danny d'Andrea, Lenny Hartman, King Guion, and Tommy Mace on saxophone; Harry Azen, Sol Blumenthal, and David Newman on strings; Buddy Weed on piano; Mike Pingitore on guitar; Art Shapiro on bass; and Willie Rodriguez on drums) using arrangements by Jimmy Mundy, record the tracks "Travlin' Light" (lyrics by Johnny Mercer, music by Jimmy Mundy and Trummy Young) with vocals by Lady Day (Billie Holiday, who was under contract to Decca, thus the alias), "The Old Music Master" (lyrics by Mercer, music by Hoagy Carmichael, which will be included in Paramount Picture's motion picture "True To Life", released December 24, 1943, and sung by Dick Powell) with vocals by Johnny Mercer and Jack Teagarden, "I'm Old Fashioned" (lyrics by Mercer, music by Jerome Kern, which will be used in the 1942 Columbia Pictures motion picture "You Were Never Lovelier", released November 19, 1942, where it is sung by Nan Wynn who dubbed for Rita Hayworth) with vocals by Martha Tilton, and "You Were Never Lovelier" (also by Mercer and Kern for the motion picture of the same name and where it will be sung by Fred Astaire) with vocals by Larry Neil, at Radio Recorders' studios in Los Angeles, California with Mercer producing all the sessions.
1944 - "Hi, ever'body, hope you feel tip-top; welcome to the Chesterfield Music Shop". Johnny Mercer's "Chesterfield Music Shop" airs it's first 15 minute episode live at 5PM for the east coast and again live at 8PM for the west coast. The series will broadcast from NBC's studio at Sunset and Vine in Hollywood twice daily, Mondays through Thursdays and on Fridays from various military camps and hospitals around Southern California until December 8, 1944 with many of it's episodes recorded for the Armed Forces Radio Services. The show features Mercer, Jo Stafford, Paul Weston and His Orchestra, The Pied Pipers, whose version of Mercer's "Dream" is the show's closing theme song. The show would help the careers of all including songwriters Ray Evans and Jay Livingston as well as one of the show's arrangers, Gil Evans.
1947 Sonny Terry (on vocals and harmonica, with Walter "Brownie" McGhee on guitar and Melvin "Daddy" Merritt on piano) records the tracks "Harmonica Rag" (which will be released by Capitol as a single with "Early Morning Blues" on the flip side), "Screamin' And Cryin' Blues" (which will be released as a single on the Capitol Americana label with "Riff And Harmonica Jump" on the flip side), "Beer Garden Blues" (which will be released as a single on the Capitol American label with "Riff And Harmonica Jump" on the flip side), and "Worried Man Blues" (which will be released as a single on the Capitol American label with "Leavin' Blues" on the flip side) with producer David Edwin Dexter, Jr. in New York City, New York on a Thursday.
1948 - The King Cole Trio's Capitol Records single "Nature Boy" is still #1 on Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records chart, The Pied Pipers' Capitol Records single "My Happiness" is #8, The Sportsmen's a capella Capitol Records single "You Can't Be True, Dear" is #17, Peggy Lee's Capitol Records single "Mañana" is #19, and The Sportsmen's Capitol Records single "Toolie Oolie Doolie (The Yodel Polka)" enters the top 20 at #20
1954 - Kay Starr (with orchestra conducted by Harold Mooney)'s Capitol Records single "If You Love Me (Really Love Me) is # 6 on Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records charts, Frank Sinatra (with Nelson Riddle and His Orchestra)'s Capitol Records single "Young At Heart" is #7, Kay Starr's Capitol Records single "The Man Upstairs (the flip side of "If You Love Me" and also with orchestra conducted by Harold Mooney) is #8, Frank Sinatra (with Nelson Riddle and His Orchestra)'s Capitol Records single "Three Coins In A Fountain" is #9, The Four Knights' Capitol Records single "I Get So Lonely (When I Dream About You)" (with "I Couln't Stay Away From You" on the flip side) is #10, and Nat "King" Cole (with Nelson Riddle and His Orchestra)'s Capitol Records single "Answer Me, My Love" is #11
1958 - Ann Richards (aka Mrs. Stan Kenton, on vocals), with Brian Farnon conducting the orchestra (lineup unlisted) using arrangements by Warren Barker, records a re-recoding of "Nightingale" and the tracks "Will You Still Be Mine?", "Lullaby Of Broadway", and "Deep Night", with producer Lee Gillette in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue all the tracks on Richards' Capitol Records debut solo album "I'm Shooting High" (T 1087).
1961 - Faron Young's Capitol Records single "Hello Walls" is #18 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart
1963 - The Beach Boys record the track "Surfer Girl" at Western Studios in Los Angeles, California. This is the first recording where Brian Wilson gets official credit as producer.
1966 - Sonny James' Capitol Records single "Take Good Care Of Her", with "On The Fingers Of One Hand" on the flip side, is #1 on the U.S. Country singles charts
1972 - Apple Records releases John & Yoko / Plastic Ono Band with Elephant's Memory's album "Sometime In New York City", produced by Phil Spector, with Capitol Records distributing the album in the United States
1976 - Ringo Starr is in the Cherokee Studios in Hollywood, California recording the tracks "A Dose Of Rock 'n' Roll" and "Cookin' (In The Kitchen Of Love)" for his Capitol Records album "Ringo's Rotogravure". John Lennon (who wrote "Cookin'...") plays piano on the two tracks and will stay out of recording studios for the next 4 years until he begins work on his and Yoko's album "Double Fanatsy" in 1980.
15 Years Ago Today In 1995 - The Capitol Records/Nettwerk band Skinny Puppy split up
2003 - Billboard Magazine reports that Grammy winner Shelby Lynne has signed with Capitol Records
ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1953 - Rocky Burnette, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and son of Liberty Records artist Johnny Burnette, is born in Memphis, Tennessee
1957 - Jimmy Dorsey (born James Dorsey), clarinetist, alto saxophonist, motion picutre actor, televison variety show host with his brother Tommy Dorsey, and big band leader (one of his girl singers included 14 year old future Capitol Records artist Ella Mae Morse, whom he let go when he found out her true age, and his band included future Capitol Records artist and pianist Freddie Slack, who would remember Morse and suggest her as the vocalist for his Capitol Records single "Cow Cow Boogie"), dies of cancer at age 53 in New York City, New York
1961 - Ricky Nelson's Imperial Records single "Travelin' Man" is #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart and it's flip side "Hello Mary Lou" is #15, Gene McDaniels' Liberty Records single "A Hundred Pounds Of Clay" is #19, The Fleetwood's Dolton Records (distributed by Liberty Records) single "Tragedy" is #20, Ernie K-Doe's Minit Records single "Mother-In-Law" is #22, and Don Costa and His Orchestra and Chorus' United Artists Records single "Never On A Sunday" is #37. EMI Music Group, Capitol Music Group's parent company, currently owns the Imperial, Liberty, Dolton, Minit and United Artists Records catalogs
1963 - Sarah Vaughan begins sessions for her Roulette Records album "Lonely Hours" when she records, with arranger Benny Carter conducting the studio orchestra (Vince De Rosa, Dick Perissi, Jack Cave, and Bill Hinshaw on french horn; Red Callender on tuba; Jimmy Rowles on piano; Barney Kessel on guitar; Joe Comfort on bass; and Alvin Stoller on drums), the tracks "If I Had You", "What'll I Do", "You're Driving Me Crazy", and "Always On My Mind" at United Recorders' studios in Los Angeles, California
1964 - The Beatles fly from Sydney, Australia to perform two sets at Centennial Hall, in Adelaide, Australia with Sounds Incorporated, Johnny Devlin, Johnny Chester and The Phantoms, and have a private party in their hotel suite after the show
45 Years Ago Today In 1965 - George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney and Richard Starkey (aka Ringo Starr) are appointed Members of the British Empire (MBE) by Queen Elizabeth II
45 Years Ago Today In 1965 - Capitol Records artist Tex Ritter joins The Grand Ole Opry
1976 - The King Biscuit Flour Hour broadcasts Capitol Records group The Steve Miller Band in concert at The Beacon Theater in New York City for broadcast. The performance is at the beginning of the "Fly Like An Eagle" tour and will later show up on the CD "The King Biscuit Flour Hour Presents The Steve Miller Band", released in 2003.
1987 - Dan Seals' EMI America single "I Will Be There", with "It's Gonna Be Easy Now" on the flip side, is #1 on the U.S. Country singles charts
ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL HISTORY
1909 - Archie Bleyer, arranger, band leader (1934 - whose vocalists would include Johnny Mercer), musical director for Arthur Godfrey, record producer, and founder of Cadence Records (1952 - whose roster included Julias LaRosa, The Chordettes, Andy Williams and the Everly brothers), is born in the Corona section of Queens, New York
1938 - At her first commercial recording session, Fourteen year-old future Capitol Records artist Judy Garland, with Bob Crosby and His Orchestra (who would also later record for Capitol Records), records the tracks "Stompin' At The Savoy" and "Swing Mr. Charlie" for Decca Records in New York City
1953 - Chet Baker (trumpet) and Stan Getz (tenor sax) perform together with Carson Smith (bass) and Larry Bunker (drums) live at the Haig in Los Angeles, California. This is one of the few times the two would perform together and the show was recorded by engineer Dick Bock.
1962 - Frank Sinatra begins the first of a three day (actually night) series of recording sessions arranged and conducted by Robert Farnon at CTS Bayswater studios in London, England for the album "Great Songs From Great Britain" by recording the track "If I Had You". According to Mark Blackburn's review of the track when it appeared on the later album "Everything Happens To Me", the first take was ruined when there was a problem with Bill Miller's piano so that the second take had to be done with Miller playing a celeste.
2001 - The final episode of Bozo The Clown is taped in Chicago, Illinois and will be aired on WGN-TV on July 14, 2001
HAPPY BIRTHDAYS!
1928 - Vic Damone, singer, motion picture and television actor, and Capitol Records artist (1961-1965), is born Vito Rocco Farinola in Brooklyn, New York
1938 - Jim Conner, songwriter ("Grandma's Feather Bed"), guitarist, banjoist, harmonica player and vocalist with Capitol Records duo Richard and Jim (1962-1965) and member of The New Kingston Trio (1968-1974) in born in Gadsen, Alabama
1958 - Meredith Brooks, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and Capitol Records artist, is born Meredith Ann Brooks in Oregon City, Oregon
ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1942 - Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra (Monty Kelly, Larry Neil, and Don Waddilove on trumpet; Skip Layton and Murray McEachern on trombone; Alvy West, Danny d'Andrea, Lenny Hartman, King Guion, and Tommy Mace on saxophone; Harry Azen, Sol Blumenthal, and David Newman on strings; Buddy Weed on piano; Mike Pingitore on guitar; Art Shapiro on bass; and Willie Rodriguez on drums) using arrangements by Jimmy Mundy, record the tracks "Travlin' Light" (lyrics by Johnny Mercer, music by Jimmy Mundy and Trummy Young) with vocals by Lady Day (Billie Holiday, who was under contract to Decca, thus the alias), "The Old Music Master" (lyrics by Mercer, music by Hoagy Carmichael, which will be included in Paramount Picture's motion picture "True To Life", released December 24, 1943, and sung by Dick Powell) with vocals by Johnny Mercer and Jack Teagarden, "I'm Old Fashioned" (lyrics by Mercer, music by Jerome Kern, which will be used in the 1942 Columbia Pictures motion picture "You Were Never Lovelier", released November 19, 1942, where it is sung by Nan Wynn who dubbed for Rita Hayworth) with vocals by Martha Tilton, and "You Were Never Lovelier" (also by Mercer and Kern for the motion picture of the same name and where it will be sung by Fred Astaire) with vocals by Larry Neil, at Radio Recorders' studios in Los Angeles, California with Mercer producing all the sessions.
1944 - "Hi, ever'body, hope you feel tip-top; welcome to the Chesterfield Music Shop". Johnny Mercer's "Chesterfield Music Shop" airs it's first 15 minute episode live at 5PM for the east coast and again live at 8PM for the west coast. The series will broadcast from NBC's studio at Sunset and Vine in Hollywood twice daily, Mondays through Thursdays and on Fridays from various military camps and hospitals around Southern California until December 8, 1944 with many of it's episodes recorded for the Armed Forces Radio Services. The show features Mercer, Jo Stafford, Paul Weston and His Orchestra, The Pied Pipers, whose version of Mercer's "Dream" is the show's closing theme song. The show would help the careers of all including songwriters Ray Evans and Jay Livingston as well as one of the show's arrangers, Gil Evans.
1947 Sonny Terry (on vocals and harmonica, with Walter "Brownie" McGhee on guitar and Melvin "Daddy" Merritt on piano) records the tracks "Harmonica Rag" (which will be released by Capitol as a single with "Early Morning Blues" on the flip side), "Screamin' And Cryin' Blues" (which will be released as a single on the Capitol Americana label with "Riff And Harmonica Jump" on the flip side), "Beer Garden Blues" (which will be released as a single on the Capitol American label with "Riff And Harmonica Jump" on the flip side), and "Worried Man Blues" (which will be released as a single on the Capitol American label with "Leavin' Blues" on the flip side) with producer David Edwin Dexter, Jr. in New York City, New York on a Thursday.
1948 - The King Cole Trio's Capitol Records single "Nature Boy" is still #1 on Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records chart, The Pied Pipers' Capitol Records single "My Happiness" is #8, The Sportsmen's a capella Capitol Records single "You Can't Be True, Dear" is #17, Peggy Lee's Capitol Records single "Mañana" is #19, and The Sportsmen's Capitol Records single "Toolie Oolie Doolie (The Yodel Polka)" enters the top 20 at #20
1954 - Kay Starr (with orchestra conducted by Harold Mooney)'s Capitol Records single "If You Love Me (Really Love Me) is # 6 on Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records charts, Frank Sinatra (with Nelson Riddle and His Orchestra)'s Capitol Records single "Young At Heart" is #7, Kay Starr's Capitol Records single "The Man Upstairs (the flip side of "If You Love Me" and also with orchestra conducted by Harold Mooney) is #8, Frank Sinatra (with Nelson Riddle and His Orchestra)'s Capitol Records single "Three Coins In A Fountain" is #9, The Four Knights' Capitol Records single "I Get So Lonely (When I Dream About You)" (with "I Couln't Stay Away From You" on the flip side) is #10, and Nat "King" Cole (with Nelson Riddle and His Orchestra)'s Capitol Records single "Answer Me, My Love" is #11
1958 - Ann Richards (aka Mrs. Stan Kenton, on vocals), with Brian Farnon conducting the orchestra (lineup unlisted) using arrangements by Warren Barker, records a re-recoding of "Nightingale" and the tracks "Will You Still Be Mine?", "Lullaby Of Broadway", and "Deep Night", with producer Lee Gillette in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue all the tracks on Richards' Capitol Records debut solo album "I'm Shooting High" (T 1087).
1961 - Faron Young's Capitol Records single "Hello Walls" is #18 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart
1963 - The Beach Boys record the track "Surfer Girl" at Western Studios in Los Angeles, California. This is the first recording where Brian Wilson gets official credit as producer.
1966 - Sonny James' Capitol Records single "Take Good Care Of Her", with "On The Fingers Of One Hand" on the flip side, is #1 on the U.S. Country singles charts
1972 - Apple Records releases John & Yoko / Plastic Ono Band with Elephant's Memory's album "Sometime In New York City", produced by Phil Spector, with Capitol Records distributing the album in the United States
1976 - Ringo Starr is in the Cherokee Studios in Hollywood, California recording the tracks "A Dose Of Rock 'n' Roll" and "Cookin' (In The Kitchen Of Love)" for his Capitol Records album "Ringo's Rotogravure". John Lennon (who wrote "Cookin'...") plays piano on the two tracks and will stay out of recording studios for the next 4 years until he begins work on his and Yoko's album "Double Fanatsy" in 1980.
15 Years Ago Today In 1995 - The Capitol Records/Nettwerk band Skinny Puppy split up
2003 - Billboard Magazine reports that Grammy winner Shelby Lynne has signed with Capitol Records
ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1953 - Rocky Burnette, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and son of Liberty Records artist Johnny Burnette, is born in Memphis, Tennessee
1957 - Jimmy Dorsey (born James Dorsey), clarinetist, alto saxophonist, motion picutre actor, televison variety show host with his brother Tommy Dorsey, and big band leader (one of his girl singers included 14 year old future Capitol Records artist Ella Mae Morse, whom he let go when he found out her true age, and his band included future Capitol Records artist and pianist Freddie Slack, who would remember Morse and suggest her as the vocalist for his Capitol Records single "Cow Cow Boogie"), dies of cancer at age 53 in New York City, New York
1961 - Ricky Nelson's Imperial Records single "Travelin' Man" is #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart and it's flip side "Hello Mary Lou" is #15, Gene McDaniels' Liberty Records single "A Hundred Pounds Of Clay" is #19, The Fleetwood's Dolton Records (distributed by Liberty Records) single "Tragedy" is #20, Ernie K-Doe's Minit Records single "Mother-In-Law" is #22, and Don Costa and His Orchestra and Chorus' United Artists Records single "Never On A Sunday" is #37. EMI Music Group, Capitol Music Group's parent company, currently owns the Imperial, Liberty, Dolton, Minit and United Artists Records catalogs
1963 - Sarah Vaughan begins sessions for her Roulette Records album "Lonely Hours" when she records, with arranger Benny Carter conducting the studio orchestra (Vince De Rosa, Dick Perissi, Jack Cave, and Bill Hinshaw on french horn; Red Callender on tuba; Jimmy Rowles on piano; Barney Kessel on guitar; Joe Comfort on bass; and Alvin Stoller on drums), the tracks "If I Had You", "What'll I Do", "You're Driving Me Crazy", and "Always On My Mind" at United Recorders' studios in Los Angeles, California
1964 - The Beatles fly from Sydney, Australia to perform two sets at Centennial Hall, in Adelaide, Australia with Sounds Incorporated, Johnny Devlin, Johnny Chester and The Phantoms, and have a private party in their hotel suite after the show
45 Years Ago Today In 1965 - George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney and Richard Starkey (aka Ringo Starr) are appointed Members of the British Empire (MBE) by Queen Elizabeth II
45 Years Ago Today In 1965 - Capitol Records artist Tex Ritter joins The Grand Ole Opry
1976 - The King Biscuit Flour Hour broadcasts Capitol Records group The Steve Miller Band in concert at The Beacon Theater in New York City for broadcast. The performance is at the beginning of the "Fly Like An Eagle" tour and will later show up on the CD "The King Biscuit Flour Hour Presents The Steve Miller Band", released in 2003.
1987 - Dan Seals' EMI America single "I Will Be There", with "It's Gonna Be Easy Now" on the flip side, is #1 on the U.S. Country singles charts
ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL HISTORY
1909 - Archie Bleyer, arranger, band leader (1934 - whose vocalists would include Johnny Mercer), musical director for Arthur Godfrey, record producer, and founder of Cadence Records (1952 - whose roster included Julias LaRosa, The Chordettes, Andy Williams and the Everly brothers), is born in the Corona section of Queens, New York
1938 - At her first commercial recording session, Fourteen year-old future Capitol Records artist Judy Garland, with Bob Crosby and His Orchestra (who would also later record for Capitol Records), records the tracks "Stompin' At The Savoy" and "Swing Mr. Charlie" for Decca Records in New York City
1953 - Chet Baker (trumpet) and Stan Getz (tenor sax) perform together with Carson Smith (bass) and Larry Bunker (drums) live at the Haig in Los Angeles, California. This is one of the few times the two would perform together and the show was recorded by engineer Dick Bock.
1962 - Frank Sinatra begins the first of a three day (actually night) series of recording sessions arranged and conducted by Robert Farnon at CTS Bayswater studios in London, England for the album "Great Songs From Great Britain" by recording the track "If I Had You". According to Mark Blackburn's review of the track when it appeared on the later album "Everything Happens To Me", the first take was ruined when there was a problem with Bill Miller's piano so that the second take had to be done with Miller playing a celeste.
2001 - The final episode of Bozo The Clown is taped in Chicago, Illinois and will be aired on WGN-TV on July 14, 2001
Friday, June 11, 2010
JUNE 11, 2010
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
1952 - Donnie Van Zandt, vocalist, guitarist and founder of the Capitol (single "Teacher Teacher" and on the soundtrack album for the motion picture "Teacher") and Charisma Records (a subsidiary of Virgin Records) group 38 Special and with his brother Johnny Van Zant in the group The Van Zants, is born in Jacksonville, Florida
ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1942 - Tex Ritter records the tracks "(I Got Spurs That) Jingle Jangle Jingle" and "Goodbye My Little Cherokee" at has his first Capitol Records recording session (location unknown, but since Capitol was using C. P. MacGregor Studios for other artists at the time, they were probably recorded there). The tracks will be released as the A and B sides respectively of Capitol's tenth 78 rpm single in August 1942.
1946 - Peggy Lee is back at Radio Recorders studios in Los Angeles, California with The Four Of A Kind (Dave Barbour on guitar; Buddy Cole on piano, organ and celeste; Phil Stephens on bass; and Tom Romersa on drums) to record for radio transcription the tracks "The Best Man", "If You Were The Only Boy", "Love Doesn't Grow On Trees", "I Guess I'll Get The Papers And Go Home" and "My Sugar Is So Refined"
1949 - Margaret Whiting and Johnny Mercer (with Paul Whiting and His Orchestra)'s Capitol Records single "Baby, It's Cold Outside" is #6 on Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records chart, Mel Tormé (with orchestra conducted by Pete Rugolo)'s Capitol Records single "Again" is #9, and Jo Stafford and Gordon MacRae (with Paul Weston and His Orchestra)'s Capitol Records single "'A' You're Adorable" is #16
55 Years Ago Today In 1955 - Les Baxter and His Orchestra's Capitol Records single "Unchained Melody" is #2 on Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records chart, Nat "King" Cole's double sided Capitol Records hit "A Blossom Fell" (with Nelson Riddle and His Orchestra) and "If I May" (with The Four Knights on backing vocals and Nelson Riddle and His Orchestra) is #4, Frank Sinatra (with Nelson Riddle and His Orchestra)'s Capitol Records single "Learnin' The Blues" is #9, Tennessee Ernie Ford (with Cliffie Stone's Band)'s Capitol Records single "The Ballad Of Davy Crocket" is #11, and Nat "King" Cole (with Nelson Riddle and His Orchestra)'s Capitol Records single "Darling, Je Vous Aime Beaucoup" is #22
1956 - Bing Crosby with Buddy Bregman's Orchestra record the album "Bing Sings Whilst Bregman Swings" in The Capitol Tower Studios in Hollywood, California
1966 - Capitol Records releases The Beatles' single "Paperback Writer" with "Rain" on the flip side. Rain would be the first popular single to use tape run backwards as part of the song. "Paperback Writer will peak at #1 and "Rain" at #23 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart
30 Years Ago Today In 1980 – Paul McCartney & Wings' Apple Records single "Silly Love Songs", distributed by Capitol Records in the United States, certified Gold by the R.I.A.A.
25 Years Ago Today In 1985 - Ann Murray's Capitol Records album "Heart Over Mind" is certified Gold by the R.I.A.A.
25 Years Ago Today In 1985 - Neil Finn, with Nick Seymour, drummer Paul Hester, and Craig Hooper of The Reels, give their first peformance as The Mullanes (Mullane is Neil's middle name) in Melbourne, Australia. When the group, minus Seymour, relocate to Los Angeles, they change the name of the band to Crowded House (named after their living conditions in L.A.).
1996 - Capitol Records released the 2 CD compilation album "Dean Martin - The Capitol Years" with 40 tracks including previously unreleased material and studio chatter.
2006 - According to a news item on their website, Capitol Records group Queensryche is arrested at the Amsterdam airport for smuggling illegal firearms
ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
70 Years Ago Today In 1940 - Joey Dee, actor and lead singer of the Roulette Records group Joey Dee and The Starlighters (best known for the single "Peppermint Twist" and not to be confused with The Starlighters who recorded for Capitol in the 1940's), is born Joseph DiNicola in Passaic, New Jersey. Capitol Records/EMI now owns the Roulette Records catalog. Nick & Renee DiNicola have put together a great site for Joey who still tours as Joey Dee and The Starlighters. Roulette Records' catalog is currently owned by EMI Music Group, Capitol Music Group's parent company.
1958 - Liberty Records releasese Eddie Cochran's single "Summertime Blues" with "Love Again" on the flip side. Liberty Records' catalog is currently owned by EMI Music Group, Capitol Music Group's parent company.
ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1941 - At ceremony #57, Barbara Stanwick and Robert Taylor leave their hand and footprints at Graumann's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
1952 - Donnie Van Zandt, vocalist, guitarist and founder of the Capitol (single "Teacher Teacher" and on the soundtrack album for the motion picture "Teacher") and Charisma Records (a subsidiary of Virgin Records) group 38 Special and with his brother Johnny Van Zant in the group The Van Zants, is born in Jacksonville, Florida
ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1942 - Tex Ritter records the tracks "(I Got Spurs That) Jingle Jangle Jingle" and "Goodbye My Little Cherokee" at has his first Capitol Records recording session (location unknown, but since Capitol was using C. P. MacGregor Studios for other artists at the time, they were probably recorded there). The tracks will be released as the A and B sides respectively of Capitol's tenth 78 rpm single in August 1942.
1946 - Peggy Lee is back at Radio Recorders studios in Los Angeles, California with The Four Of A Kind (Dave Barbour on guitar; Buddy Cole on piano, organ and celeste; Phil Stephens on bass; and Tom Romersa on drums) to record for radio transcription the tracks "The Best Man", "If You Were The Only Boy", "Love Doesn't Grow On Trees", "I Guess I'll Get The Papers And Go Home" and "My Sugar Is So Refined"
1949 - Margaret Whiting and Johnny Mercer (with Paul Whiting and His Orchestra)'s Capitol Records single "Baby, It's Cold Outside" is #6 on Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records chart, Mel Tormé (with orchestra conducted by Pete Rugolo)'s Capitol Records single "Again" is #9, and Jo Stafford and Gordon MacRae (with Paul Weston and His Orchestra)'s Capitol Records single "'A' You're Adorable" is #16
55 Years Ago Today In 1955 - Les Baxter and His Orchestra's Capitol Records single "Unchained Melody" is #2 on Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records chart, Nat "King" Cole's double sided Capitol Records hit "A Blossom Fell" (with Nelson Riddle and His Orchestra) and "If I May" (with The Four Knights on backing vocals and Nelson Riddle and His Orchestra) is #4, Frank Sinatra (with Nelson Riddle and His Orchestra)'s Capitol Records single "Learnin' The Blues" is #9, Tennessee Ernie Ford (with Cliffie Stone's Band)'s Capitol Records single "The Ballad Of Davy Crocket" is #11, and Nat "King" Cole (with Nelson Riddle and His Orchestra)'s Capitol Records single "Darling, Je Vous Aime Beaucoup" is #22
1956 - Bing Crosby with Buddy Bregman's Orchestra record the album "Bing Sings Whilst Bregman Swings" in The Capitol Tower Studios in Hollywood, California
1966 - Capitol Records releases The Beatles' single "Paperback Writer" with "Rain" on the flip side. Rain would be the first popular single to use tape run backwards as part of the song. "Paperback Writer will peak at #1 and "Rain" at #23 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart
30 Years Ago Today In 1980 – Paul McCartney & Wings' Apple Records single "Silly Love Songs", distributed by Capitol Records in the United States, certified Gold by the R.I.A.A.
25 Years Ago Today In 1985 - Ann Murray's Capitol Records album "Heart Over Mind" is certified Gold by the R.I.A.A.
25 Years Ago Today In 1985 - Neil Finn, with Nick Seymour, drummer Paul Hester, and Craig Hooper of The Reels, give their first peformance as The Mullanes (Mullane is Neil's middle name) in Melbourne, Australia. When the group, minus Seymour, relocate to Los Angeles, they change the name of the band to Crowded House (named after their living conditions in L.A.).
1996 - Capitol Records released the 2 CD compilation album "Dean Martin - The Capitol Years" with 40 tracks including previously unreleased material and studio chatter.
2006 - According to a news item on their website, Capitol Records group Queensryche is arrested at the Amsterdam airport for smuggling illegal firearms
ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
70 Years Ago Today In 1940 - Joey Dee, actor and lead singer of the Roulette Records group Joey Dee and The Starlighters (best known for the single "Peppermint Twist" and not to be confused with The Starlighters who recorded for Capitol in the 1940's), is born Joseph DiNicola in Passaic, New Jersey. Capitol Records/EMI now owns the Roulette Records catalog. Nick & Renee DiNicola have put together a great site for Joey who still tours as Joey Dee and The Starlighters. Roulette Records' catalog is currently owned by EMI Music Group, Capitol Music Group's parent company.
1958 - Liberty Records releasese Eddie Cochran's single "Summertime Blues" with "Love Again" on the flip side. Liberty Records' catalog is currently owned by EMI Music Group, Capitol Music Group's parent company.
ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1941 - At ceremony #57, Barbara Stanwick and Robert Taylor leave their hand and footprints at Graumann's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California
Thursday, June 10, 2010
JUNE 10, 2010
HAPPY BIRTHDAYS!
1922 - Judy Garland, motion picture actress, television variety show host, Capitol Records artist and mother of Capitol Records artist Liza Minnelli, whose on and off long term affair with Capitol Records co-founder Johnny Mercer was the inspiration for Mercer writing the song "I'll Remember You", is born Francis Ethel Gumm in Grand Rapids, Minnesota. Scott Brogan's website, The Judy Room, is where you need to go to find out more about the life and works of Miss Garland.
1973 - Faith Evans, singer and Capitol Records artist (2003 to present), is born Faith Rene Evans in Lakeland, Florida
ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1944 - Jo Stafford (with Paul Weston and His Orchestra)'s Capitol Records single "Long Ago (And Far Away) enters the top 10 of Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records chart at #7, Andy Russell (with orchestra conducted by Al Sack)'s Capitol Records single "Amor" enters at #8, and Ella Mae Morse (with orchestra conducted by Dick Walters)'s Capitol Records single "Milkman, Keep Those Bottles Quiet" enters at #10
1946 - Peggy Lee (with the Four Of A Kind [Dave Barbour on guitar; Buddy Cole on piano; Phil Stephens on bass; and Tom Romerosa on drums] records the tracks "Wherever There's Me There's You", "All The Cats Join In", "A Nightingale Can Sing The Blues" and "Come Rain Or Come Shine" for transcription for radio with arranger Frank DeVol conducting his orchestra (Uan Rasey, Abe Benike, and Irv Shulkin on trumpet; Si Zentner and George Faye on trombone; Dick Perissi on french horn; Skeets Herfurt, Julius Kinsler, Ron Perry, Ted Romersa, and Jerry Kasper on reeds; Henry Sugar, Joe Livoti, Victor Arno, Joe Quadri on violin; Jacob Kaz and Paul Lowenkron on viola; Julius Tannenbaum, Joe Saxton, and Fred Goerner on cello; June Weiland on harp), at Radio Recorders in Los Angeles, California with engineer John Palladino
60 Years Ago Today In 1950 - Nat King Cole's Capitol Records single "Mona Lisa", initially the flip side of "The Greatest Inventor Of Them All" (which is unavailable on any current Capitol Records CD release, but can be found on the French company Classic Jazz's CD "Nat "King" Cole 1949-1950"), is #14 on Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records chart, Kay Starr (with orchestra conducted by Frank DeVol)'s Capitol Records single "Hoop-De-Doo" enters the chart at #16, and Joe "Fingers" Carr and His Orchestra (with vocals by The Carr-Hops)'s Capitol Records single "Sam's Song" enters the chart at #20
55 Years Ago Today In 1955 - Lee Gillette produces a session at Capitol Records's Melrose Avenue studios in Hollywood, California that lays down an instrumental track of "But Not For Me" for Nat "King" Cole to use on his television show, but Cole does not record vocals for a commercial release. Nat can be seen perfoming the song on video recordings of the show.
55 Years Ago Today In 1955 - Jimmy Giuffre (with Jack Sheldon on trumpet, Ralph Pena on bass, and Artie Anton on drums), records the tracks ""Scintilla III" and "The Leprechaun" with Giuffre on clarinet, "Rhetoric" with Guiffre on tenor saxophone, and "Finger Snapper" with Giuffre on bariton saxophone at Capitol Records' Melrose Avenue Studios in Hollywood, California. Capitol Records will release "Scintilla III" on Giuffre's album "Jimmy Giuffre: Tangents In Jazz" and the rest will be released by Mosaic Records on the 1997 box set "The Complete Capitol & Atlantic Recordings of Jimmy Giuffre"
1957 - Ferlin Husky's Capitol Records single "Gone" is tied for #10 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart with The Del Vikings single "Come Go With Me", Tommy Sand's Capitol Records single "Goin' Steady" is #26, and The Four Lad's Capitol Records single "I Just Don't Know" is #28
1961 - Faron Young's Capitol Records single "Hello Walls" is #1 on the Country singles charts
45 Years Ago Today In 1965 - The Beatles' Capitol Records album "Beatles VI" is #1 on Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart
45 Years Ago Today In 1965 - Carl Kress, banjoist, guitarist, band leader, and Capitol Records artist, dies in Reno, Nevada at age 57 of a heart attack
1966 - According to Bruce Spitzer's book "The Beatles’ Story on Capitol Records, Part Two: The Albums", this is the day that the recall notice went out to Capitol's distributors for The Beatles' "Yesterday And Today" "Butcher Cover"
1967 - Peggy Lee (with Toots Thielemans on guitar, and an unknown reed, bass, string and drum section) records the tracks "I Can Hear The Music", "It Might As Well Be Spring", and "Sing A Rainbow" with producer Dave Cavanaugh for her Capitol Records album "Somethin' Groovy"
1968 - Capitol Records releases The Band's self-titled first album "The Band"
1976 - Capitol Records group Paul McCartney and Wings set a new world's record for attendance when 67,100 fans gather for an indoor concert at the Kingdome in Seattle, Washington
1977 - The Steve Miller Band's album "Book Of Dreams" is certified Platinum by the R.I.A.A.
1991 - Capitol Records releaseds Skip Ewing's album "Naturally"
2003 - Capitol Records release Radiohead's album "Hail To The Thief" and The Beach Boys' compilation album "Sounds Of Summer: The Very Best Of The Beach Boys"
2003 - EMI/Capitol Records releases albums in their "Classic Masters" series by Crowded House, J Geils Band, Gordon Lightfoot, Najee, and The O'Jays
2009 - Jack Nimitz, baritone saxophonist who played in the Woody Herman and Stan Kenton big bands and in the Capitol Records group Supersax as well as being a popular Hollywood studio musician, died at age 79 of complications from emphysema at his home in Studio City, California.
2009 - Barry Beckett, keyboardist with the Fame Studio house band and record producer of sessions with various artists including Capitol Records artist Bob Seger, died at age 66 of complications from a stroke at his home in Henderson, Tennessee according to his son Matthew.
ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
85 Years Ago Today In 1925 - Don Costa, composer, arranger, and United Artists Records artist, is born in Boston, Massachusettes
1957 - Rick Nelson's Imperial Records single "Teenager's Romance" is #13 on Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records chart and his Imperial Records single "I'm Walkin'" is #17, and Fats Domino's Imperial Records single "Valley Of Tears" is #22. Imperial Records' catalog is currently owned by EMI Music Group, Capitol Music Group's parent company.
1963 - Sarah Vaughn (with arranger Gerald Wilson conductin Carmell Jones on trumpet, Teddy Edwards on tenor saxophone, Ernie Freeman on organ, John Collins on guitar, Al McKibbon on bass, and Milt Turner on drums) records the tracks"Sermonette", "Gravy Waltz", and "Baby, Won't You Please Come Home" with producer Teddy Reig at United Recorders studios in Los Angeles, California for her Roulette Records album "Sarah Sings Soulfully". EMI Music Group, Capitol Music Groups' parent company, currently owns the Roulette catalog
1964 - Jimmy Chamberlin, drummer with the Virgin Records America group Smashing Pumpkins is born
1978 - United Artists Records group The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band celebrates its 20th anniversary at a performance in Rocks, Colorado
ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1952 - Saxophonist Gerry Mulligan records the tracks "Get Happy", "'S Wonderful" and "Godchild" with Red Mitchell on bass on and Chico Hamilton on drums at his first session for the Pacific Jazz label, held at Phil Turetsky's home studio, in Los Angeles, California. Jimmy Bowles was supposed to be on piano but he didn't show up for the session, so Mulligan playing the piano during the bass solos.
HAPPY BIRTHDAYS!
1922 - Judy Garland, motion picture actress, television variety show host, Capitol Records artist and mother of Capitol Records artist Liza Minnelli, whose on and off long term affair with Capitol Records co-founder Johnny Mercer was the inspiration for Mercer writing the song "I'll Remember You", is born Francis Ethel Gumm in Grand Rapids, Minnesota. Scott Brogan's website, The Judy Room, is where you need to go to find out more about the life and works of Miss Garland.
1973 - Faith Evans, singer and Capitol Records artist (2003 to present), is born Faith Rene Evans in Lakeland, Florida
ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1944 - Jo Stafford (with Paul Weston and His Orchestra)'s Capitol Records single "Long Ago (And Far Away) enters the top 10 of Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records chart at #7, Andy Russell (with orchestra conducted by Al Sack)'s Capitol Records single "Amor" enters at #8, and Ella Mae Morse (with orchestra conducted by Dick Walters)'s Capitol Records single "Milkman, Keep Those Bottles Quiet" enters at #10
1946 - Peggy Lee (with the Four Of A Kind [Dave Barbour on guitar; Buddy Cole on piano; Phil Stephens on bass; and Tom Romerosa on drums] records the tracks "Wherever There's Me There's You", "All The Cats Join In", "A Nightingale Can Sing The Blues" and "Come Rain Or Come Shine" for transcription for radio with arranger Frank DeVol conducting his orchestra (Uan Rasey, Abe Benike, and Irv Shulkin on trumpet; Si Zentner and George Faye on trombone; Dick Perissi on french horn; Skeets Herfurt, Julius Kinsler, Ron Perry, Ted Romersa, and Jerry Kasper on reeds; Henry Sugar, Joe Livoti, Victor Arno, Joe Quadri on violin; Jacob Kaz and Paul Lowenkron on viola; Julius Tannenbaum, Joe Saxton, and Fred Goerner on cello; June Weiland on harp), at Radio Recorders in Los Angeles, California with engineer John Palladino
60 Years Ago Today In 1950 - Nat King Cole's Capitol Records single "Mona Lisa", initially the flip side of "The Greatest Inventor Of Them All" (which is unavailable on any current Capitol Records CD release, but can be found on the French company Classic Jazz's CD "Nat "King" Cole 1949-1950"), is #14 on Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records chart, Kay Starr (with orchestra conducted by Frank DeVol)'s Capitol Records single "Hoop-De-Doo" enters the chart at #16, and Joe "Fingers" Carr and His Orchestra (with vocals by The Carr-Hops)'s Capitol Records single "Sam's Song" enters the chart at #20
55 Years Ago Today In 1955 - Lee Gillette produces a session at Capitol Records's Melrose Avenue studios in Hollywood, California that lays down an instrumental track of "But Not For Me" for Nat "King" Cole to use on his television show, but Cole does not record vocals for a commercial release. Nat can be seen perfoming the song on video recordings of the show.
55 Years Ago Today In 1955 - Jimmy Giuffre (with Jack Sheldon on trumpet, Ralph Pena on bass, and Artie Anton on drums), records the tracks ""Scintilla III" and "The Leprechaun" with Giuffre on clarinet, "Rhetoric" with Guiffre on tenor saxophone, and "Finger Snapper" with Giuffre on bariton saxophone at Capitol Records' Melrose Avenue Studios in Hollywood, California. Capitol Records will release "Scintilla III" on Giuffre's album "Jimmy Giuffre: Tangents In Jazz" and the rest will be released by Mosaic Records on the 1997 box set "The Complete Capitol & Atlantic Recordings of Jimmy Giuffre"
1957 - Ferlin Husky's Capitol Records single "Gone" is tied for #10 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart with The Del Vikings single "Come Go With Me", Tommy Sand's Capitol Records single "Goin' Steady" is #26, and The Four Lad's Capitol Records single "I Just Don't Know" is #28
1961 - Faron Young's Capitol Records single "Hello Walls" is #1 on the Country singles charts
45 Years Ago Today In 1965 - The Beatles' Capitol Records album "Beatles VI" is #1 on Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart
45 Years Ago Today In 1965 - Carl Kress, banjoist, guitarist, band leader, and Capitol Records artist, dies in Reno, Nevada at age 57 of a heart attack
1966 - According to Bruce Spitzer's book "The Beatles’ Story on Capitol Records, Part Two: The Albums", this is the day that the recall notice went out to Capitol's distributors for The Beatles' "Yesterday And Today" "Butcher Cover"
1967 - Peggy Lee (with Toots Thielemans on guitar, and an unknown reed, bass, string and drum section) records the tracks "I Can Hear The Music", "It Might As Well Be Spring", and "Sing A Rainbow" with producer Dave Cavanaugh for her Capitol Records album "Somethin' Groovy"
1968 - Capitol Records releases The Band's self-titled first album "The Band"
1976 - Capitol Records group Paul McCartney and Wings set a new world's record for attendance when 67,100 fans gather for an indoor concert at the Kingdome in Seattle, Washington
1977 - The Steve Miller Band's album "Book Of Dreams" is certified Platinum by the R.I.A.A.
1991 - Capitol Records releaseds Skip Ewing's album "Naturally"
2003 - Capitol Records release Radiohead's album "Hail To The Thief" and The Beach Boys' compilation album "Sounds Of Summer: The Very Best Of The Beach Boys"
2003 - EMI/Capitol Records releases albums in their "Classic Masters" series by Crowded House, J Geils Band, Gordon Lightfoot, Najee, and The O'Jays
2009 - Jack Nimitz, baritone saxophonist who played in the Woody Herman and Stan Kenton big bands and in the Capitol Records group Supersax as well as being a popular Hollywood studio musician, died at age 79 of complications from emphysema at his home in Studio City, California.
2009 - Barry Beckett, keyboardist with the Fame Studio house band and record producer of sessions with various artists including Capitol Records artist Bob Seger, died at age 66 of complications from a stroke at his home in Henderson, Tennessee according to his son Matthew.
ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
85 Years Ago Today In 1925 - Don Costa, composer, arranger, and United Artists Records artist, is born in Boston, Massachusettes
1957 - Rick Nelson's Imperial Records single "Teenager's Romance" is #13 on Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records chart and his Imperial Records single "I'm Walkin'" is #17, and Fats Domino's Imperial Records single "Valley Of Tears" is #22. Imperial Records' catalog is currently owned by EMI Music Group, Capitol Music Group's parent company.
1963 - Sarah Vaughn (with arranger Gerald Wilson conductin Carmell Jones on trumpet, Teddy Edwards on tenor saxophone, Ernie Freeman on organ, John Collins on guitar, Al McKibbon on bass, and Milt Turner on drums) records the tracks"Sermonette", "Gravy Waltz", and "Baby, Won't You Please Come Home" with producer Teddy Reig at United Recorders studios in Los Angeles, California for her Roulette Records album "Sarah Sings Soulfully". EMI Music Group, Capitol Music Groups' parent company, currently owns the Roulette catalog
1964 - Jimmy Chamberlin, drummer with the Virgin Records America group Smashing Pumpkins is born
1978 - United Artists Records group The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band celebrates its 20th anniversary at a performance in Rocks, Colorado
ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1952 - Saxophonist Gerry Mulligan records the tracks "Get Happy", "'S Wonderful" and "Godchild" with Red Mitchell on bass on and Chico Hamilton on drums at his first session for the Pacific Jazz label, held at Phil Turetsky's home studio, in Los Angeles, California. Jimmy Bowles was supposed to be on piano but he didn't show up for the session, so Mulligan playing the piano during the bass solos.
Wednesday, June 09, 2010
JUNE 9, 2010
HAPPY BIRTHDAYS!
1891 - Cole Porter, lyricist and composer, is born Cole Albert Porter in Peru, Indiana. Capitol Records will release the original Broadway cast album to Porter's musical "Can-Can" as well as soundtrack when it was turned into a movie. Capitol also released the soundtrack to Porter's "High Society" and the single from that album, "True Love", would earn Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly a gold record (Crosby's last).
110 Years Ago Today In 1900 - Fred Waring, band leader, choir master, motion picture and radio performer, television variety show host, inventor (the Waring blender), and leader of the Capitol Records group Fred Waring and The Pennsylvanians, is born Fredrick Malcolm Waring in Tyrone, Pennsylvania
95 Years Ago Today In 1915 - Les Paul, Capitol Records legend, guitarist, producer, early innovator of multi-track recording and the modern electric guitar, is born Lester William Polsfuss in Waukesha, Wisconsin
ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
65 Years Ago Today In 1945 - Johnnie Johnston (with orchestra conducted by Paul Baron)'s Capitol Records single "Laura" is #5 on Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records chart and The Pied Pipers (with Paul Weston and His Orchestra)'s Capitol Records single "Dream" is #6
60 Years Ago Today In 1950 - Capitol Records releases Joe "Fingers" Carr's single "Sam's Song" and Kay Starr's single Bonaparte's Retreat"
1951 - Les Paul and Mary Ford's Capitol Records single "How High The Moon" is still #1 on Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records chart, Nat "King" Cole (with orchestra conducted by Les Baxter to a Nelson Riddle arrangement)'s Capitol Records single "Too Young" is #2, and Les Paul and Mary Ford's Capitol Records single "Mockin'bird Hill" is #10
1952 - Hank Thompson's Capitol Records single "The Wild Side Of Life", with "Crying In The Deep Blue Sea" on the flip side, is #1 on the U.S. Country singles chart
1956 - Les Baxter and His Orchestra's Capitol Records single "Poor People Of Paris" is #13 on Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records chart, Dean Martin's Capitol Records single "Standing On The Corner" is #30, Nelson Riddle and His Orchestra's Capitol Records single "Lisbon Antigua" is #35, and The Four Freshmen's Capitol Records single "Graduation Day" enters the top 40 at #38
1958 - Harry James and His Orchestra (with James, Nick Buono, Bob Rolfe,Ollie Mitchell on trumpet; Bob Edmondson and Ray Sims on trombone; Ernie Tack on bass trombone; Willie Smith and Herb Lorden on alto saxophone; Bob Poland and Sam Firmature on tenor saxophone; Ernie Small on baritone saxophone; Jack Perciful on piano; Dennis Budimir on guitar; Russ Phillips on bass; and Jackie Mills on drums), record the tracks "Blues For Sale" and "Just For Fun" using arrangements by Ernie Wilkins with producer Bill Miller in Los Angeles, California. "Blues For Sale" would appear on James' Capitol Records album "Harry's Choice" and "Just For Fun" would remain unreleased until it appeared on Mosaic Records' 1999 box set "The Complete Capitol Recordings of the Gene Krupa and Harry James Orchestras"
1958 - Dean Martin's Capitol Records single "Return To Me" is #4 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart, The Four Prep's Capitol Records single "Big Man" is #7, Nat "King" Cole's Capitol Records single "Looking Back" is #9, Laurie London's Capitol Records single "He's Got The Whole World In His Hands" is #14, and Ed Townsend's Capitol Records single "For Your Love" is #20
50 Years Ago Today In 1960 - Judy Garland, with an orchestra conducted by Jack Marshall, records the tracks "Down With Love", "Puttin' On The Ritz" and "Who Cares (As Long As You Care For Me)" for her album "Judy/That's Entertainment"
1963 - Buck Owen's Capitol Records single "Act Naturally", with "Over And Over Again" on the flip side, is #1 on the U.S. Country singles charts
45 Years Ago Today In 1965 - The Beach Boys' Capitol Records single "Help Me Rhonda" is #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart
1967 - Peggy Lee (with guitarist Toots Thielemans and an unknown reed, bass, string and drum section) records the tracks "Something Stupid", "Two For The Road", "Makin' Whoopee", and "(Our) Love Is Here To Stay" for her Capitol Records album "Somethin' Groovy" at The Capitol Tower Studios in Hollywood California with producer Dave Cavanaugh
35 Years Ago Today In 1975 - Capitol Records Canada releases Sylvia Tyson's album "Woman's World"
30 Years Ago Today In 1980 - Capitol Records releases The Motel's second album, "Careful"
30 Years Ago Today In 1980 - Capitol Records recording artists Klaatu, whose members' identities had been kept from the public since their 1976 debut album, are finally announced to be John Woloschuk (vocals, keyboards, rhythm and bass guitar), Dee Long (vocals, lead guitarist, synthesizers), and Terry Draper (vocals, drums, percussion, keyboards, rhythm guitar). All three are natives of Toronto, Canada, Earth (not 4 lads from Liverpool, as a few had hoped, or anywhere else in the universe).
20 Years Ago Today In 1990 - Wilson Phillips' SBK Records (at the time a division of Capitol Records) single "Hold On" is #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart
ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1956 - Fats Domino's Imperial Records single "I'm In Love Again" is #12 on Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records chart and Domino's Imperial Records single "My Blue Heaven" is #31. EMI Music Group, Capitol Music Group's parent company, currently owns Imperial Records' catalog
1957 - Capitol Records artist Frank Sinatra, with Nelson Riddle's Orchestra, gives a concert in Seattle, Washington that is recorded and finally released in 1999 on the album "Sinatra '57" by the Artanis (spell it backwards) Entertainment Group
1958 - David Seville's Liberty Records single "Witch Doctor" is #3 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart, Dion and The Belmont's Laurie Records single "I Wonder Why" is #33, and Fats Domino's Imperial Records single "Sick And Tired" is tied for #40 with Kathy Linden's single "Billy". Liberty, Laurie and Imperial Records' catalogs are currently owned by EMI Music Group, Capitol Music Group's parent company.
1962 - Dion's Laurie Records single "Lovers Who Wander" is #3 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart, Jay and The American's United Artists Records single "She Cried" is #16, Walter Brennan's Liberty Records single "She Cried" is #17, Bobby Vee's Liberty Records single "Sharing You" is #31, and Dick and DeeDee's Liberty Records single "Tell Me" is #40. Laurie, United Artists, and Liberty Record's catalogs are currently owned by EMI Music Group, Capitol Music Group's parent company.
1968 - Bobby Goldsboro's United Artists Records single "Honey" is #1 on the U.S. Country singles chart. United Artists' catalog is currently owned by EMI Music Group, Capitol Music Group's parent company.
1991 - Paula Abdul's Virgin Records America single "Rush Rush" is #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart. Virgin Records is a division of Capitol Music Group.
2004 - Barbara Whiting Smith, radio, movie and television actress, daughter of composer Richard Whiting, and sister of Capitol Records artist Margaret Whiting dies of cancer at age 73 in Pontiac, Michigan and is buried at Greenwood Cemetery, Birmingham
ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1934 - Donald Duck makes his debut in the Silly Symphonies cartoon "The Little Hen"
1957 - Alto saxophonist Lou Donaldson (with Herman Foster on piano, Peck Morrison on bass, Dave Bailey on drums, and Ray Barretto on congas) records the tracks "Herman's Mambo", "Peck Time" a mono and a stero version of ""There'll Never Be Another You", "Groove Junction", "Dorothy", "Grits And Gravy" and ""I Won't Cry Anymore" for his Blue Note Records album "Swing And Soul". The session was produced by Alfred Lion with recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder at Van Gleder's studio at his home in Hackensack, New Jersey. Blue Note's catalog is currently owned by EMI Music Group, Capitol Music Group's parent company.
HAPPY BIRTHDAYS!
1891 - Cole Porter, lyricist and composer, is born Cole Albert Porter in Peru, Indiana. Capitol Records will release the original Broadway cast album to Porter's musical "Can-Can" as well as soundtrack when it was turned into a movie. Capitol also released the soundtrack to Porter's "High Society" and the single from that album, "True Love", would earn Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly a gold record (Crosby's last).
110 Years Ago Today In 1900 - Fred Waring, band leader, choir master, motion picture and radio performer, television variety show host, inventor (the Waring blender), and leader of the Capitol Records group Fred Waring and The Pennsylvanians, is born Fredrick Malcolm Waring in Tyrone, Pennsylvania
95 Years Ago Today In 1915 - Les Paul, Capitol Records legend, guitarist, producer, early innovator of multi-track recording and the modern electric guitar, is born Lester William Polsfuss in Waukesha, Wisconsin
ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
65 Years Ago Today In 1945 - Johnnie Johnston (with orchestra conducted by Paul Baron)'s Capitol Records single "Laura" is #5 on Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records chart and The Pied Pipers (with Paul Weston and His Orchestra)'s Capitol Records single "Dream" is #6
60 Years Ago Today In 1950 - Capitol Records releases Joe "Fingers" Carr's single "Sam's Song" and Kay Starr's single Bonaparte's Retreat"
1951 - Les Paul and Mary Ford's Capitol Records single "How High The Moon" is still #1 on Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records chart, Nat "King" Cole (with orchestra conducted by Les Baxter to a Nelson Riddle arrangement)'s Capitol Records single "Too Young" is #2, and Les Paul and Mary Ford's Capitol Records single "Mockin'bird Hill" is #10
1952 - Hank Thompson's Capitol Records single "The Wild Side Of Life", with "Crying In The Deep Blue Sea" on the flip side, is #1 on the U.S. Country singles chart
1956 - Les Baxter and His Orchestra's Capitol Records single "Poor People Of Paris" is #13 on Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records chart, Dean Martin's Capitol Records single "Standing On The Corner" is #30, Nelson Riddle and His Orchestra's Capitol Records single "Lisbon Antigua" is #35, and The Four Freshmen's Capitol Records single "Graduation Day" enters the top 40 at #38
1958 - Harry James and His Orchestra (with James, Nick Buono, Bob Rolfe,Ollie Mitchell on trumpet; Bob Edmondson and Ray Sims on trombone; Ernie Tack on bass trombone; Willie Smith and Herb Lorden on alto saxophone; Bob Poland and Sam Firmature on tenor saxophone; Ernie Small on baritone saxophone; Jack Perciful on piano; Dennis Budimir on guitar; Russ Phillips on bass; and Jackie Mills on drums), record the tracks "Blues For Sale" and "Just For Fun" using arrangements by Ernie Wilkins with producer Bill Miller in Los Angeles, California. "Blues For Sale" would appear on James' Capitol Records album "Harry's Choice" and "Just For Fun" would remain unreleased until it appeared on Mosaic Records' 1999 box set "The Complete Capitol Recordings of the Gene Krupa and Harry James Orchestras"
1958 - Dean Martin's Capitol Records single "Return To Me" is #4 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart, The Four Prep's Capitol Records single "Big Man" is #7, Nat "King" Cole's Capitol Records single "Looking Back" is #9, Laurie London's Capitol Records single "He's Got The Whole World In His Hands" is #14, and Ed Townsend's Capitol Records single "For Your Love" is #20
50 Years Ago Today In 1960 - Judy Garland, with an orchestra conducted by Jack Marshall, records the tracks "Down With Love", "Puttin' On The Ritz" and "Who Cares (As Long As You Care For Me)" for her album "Judy/That's Entertainment"
1963 - Buck Owen's Capitol Records single "Act Naturally", with "Over And Over Again" on the flip side, is #1 on the U.S. Country singles charts
45 Years Ago Today In 1965 - The Beach Boys' Capitol Records single "Help Me Rhonda" is #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart
1967 - Peggy Lee (with guitarist Toots Thielemans and an unknown reed, bass, string and drum section) records the tracks "Something Stupid", "Two For The Road", "Makin' Whoopee", and "(Our) Love Is Here To Stay" for her Capitol Records album "Somethin' Groovy" at The Capitol Tower Studios in Hollywood California with producer Dave Cavanaugh
35 Years Ago Today In 1975 - Capitol Records Canada releases Sylvia Tyson's album "Woman's World"
30 Years Ago Today In 1980 - Capitol Records releases The Motel's second album, "Careful"
30 Years Ago Today In 1980 - Capitol Records recording artists Klaatu, whose members' identities had been kept from the public since their 1976 debut album, are finally announced to be John Woloschuk (vocals, keyboards, rhythm and bass guitar), Dee Long (vocals, lead guitarist, synthesizers), and Terry Draper (vocals, drums, percussion, keyboards, rhythm guitar). All three are natives of Toronto, Canada, Earth (not 4 lads from Liverpool, as a few had hoped, or anywhere else in the universe).
20 Years Ago Today In 1990 - Wilson Phillips' SBK Records (at the time a division of Capitol Records) single "Hold On" is #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart
ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1956 - Fats Domino's Imperial Records single "I'm In Love Again" is #12 on Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records chart and Domino's Imperial Records single "My Blue Heaven" is #31. EMI Music Group, Capitol Music Group's parent company, currently owns Imperial Records' catalog
1957 - Capitol Records artist Frank Sinatra, with Nelson Riddle's Orchestra, gives a concert in Seattle, Washington that is recorded and finally released in 1999 on the album "Sinatra '57" by the Artanis (spell it backwards) Entertainment Group
1958 - David Seville's Liberty Records single "Witch Doctor" is #3 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart, Dion and The Belmont's Laurie Records single "I Wonder Why" is #33, and Fats Domino's Imperial Records single "Sick And Tired" is tied for #40 with Kathy Linden's single "Billy". Liberty, Laurie and Imperial Records' catalogs are currently owned by EMI Music Group, Capitol Music Group's parent company.
1962 - Dion's Laurie Records single "Lovers Who Wander" is #3 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart, Jay and The American's United Artists Records single "She Cried" is #16, Walter Brennan's Liberty Records single "She Cried" is #17, Bobby Vee's Liberty Records single "Sharing You" is #31, and Dick and DeeDee's Liberty Records single "Tell Me" is #40. Laurie, United Artists, and Liberty Record's catalogs are currently owned by EMI Music Group, Capitol Music Group's parent company.
1968 - Bobby Goldsboro's United Artists Records single "Honey" is #1 on the U.S. Country singles chart. United Artists' catalog is currently owned by EMI Music Group, Capitol Music Group's parent company.
1991 - Paula Abdul's Virgin Records America single "Rush Rush" is #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart. Virgin Records is a division of Capitol Music Group.
2004 - Barbara Whiting Smith, radio, movie and television actress, daughter of composer Richard Whiting, and sister of Capitol Records artist Margaret Whiting dies of cancer at age 73 in Pontiac, Michigan and is buried at Greenwood Cemetery, Birmingham
ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1934 - Donald Duck makes his debut in the Silly Symphonies cartoon "The Little Hen"
1957 - Alto saxophonist Lou Donaldson (with Herman Foster on piano, Peck Morrison on bass, Dave Bailey on drums, and Ray Barretto on congas) records the tracks "Herman's Mambo", "Peck Time" a mono and a stero version of ""There'll Never Be Another You", "Groove Junction", "Dorothy", "Grits And Gravy" and ""I Won't Cry Anymore" for his Blue Note Records album "Swing And Soul". The session was produced by Alfred Lion with recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder at Van Gleder's studio at his home in Hackensack, New Jersey. Blue Note's catalog is currently owned by EMI Music Group, Capitol Music Group's parent company.
Tuesday, June 08, 2010
JUNE 8, 2010
HAPPY BIRTHDAYS!
1918 - Robert Preston, Broadway and motion picture actor, and Capitol Records artist (original Broadway cast album "The Music Man"), is born Robert Preston Meservey in Newton, Massachusetts
1936 - Odessa Harris who, with producers Earl Wainwright and Bill Wyler, recorded the tracks "You're What I Need" and "Since I Fell For You", "The Color Of His Love Is Blue" and "Driving Wheels", which were released in 1967 as two singles for the Uptown Records label (a subsidiary of Tower Records, itself a subsidiary of Capitol Records), is born in West Helena, Arkansas
1936 - James Darrin, motion picture and television actor and singer, who would record his first album, "Album No. 1", for ColPix Records in Studio A of The Capitol Tower Studios in 1959 and return 42 years later in 2001 to record his album "Because Of You" for Concord Jazz Records, is born James William Ercolani in Philadelphia Pennsylvania
1953 - Jeff Rich, drummer with the Capitol Records group Status Quo is born
1962 - Nick Rhodes, keyboardist for the Capitol Records bands Duran Duran and Arcadia as well as The Devils, is born Nicholas James Bates in Moseley, West Midlands, England
ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL HISTORY
1931 - Future Capitol Records cofounder Johnny Mercer marries Ginger Meehan (born Elizabeth Meltzer), in New York City. Ginger would suggest the name Capitol Records over dinner at Chasen's restaurant in Beverly Hills after the company couldn't retain the rights to the name Liberty Records.
1946 - The King Cole Trio’s recording of “(Get Your Kicks On) Route 66” enters the U.S. R&B charts, where it will peak at #3
1946 - Andy Russell's Capitol Records single "Laughing On The Outside (Crying On The Inside)" is #5 on Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records chart and Alvino Ray and His Orchestra (with vocals by Rocky Coluccio)'s Capitol Records single "Cement Mixer (Put-Ti Put-Ti) is #9
1953 - Hank Thompson, with producer Ken Nelson, records the tracks "Wakeup Irene" (which will be released by Capitol Records as a single with "Go Cry Your Heart Out" on the flip side in November 1953) and "Breakin' The Rules" (which will be released by Capitol as a single with "Fooler A Faker" on the flip side in March 1954) at Capitol's Melrose Studios in Hollywood, California
55 Years Ago Today In 1955 - Faron Young's Capitol Records single "Live Fast Love Hard Die Young", with "Forgive Me Dear" on the flip side, becomes Young's first #1 on the U.S. Country singles charts
1959 - Franck Pourcell and His French Fiddlers' Capitol Records single "Only You (Loin De Vous)" is #9 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart
50 Years Ago Today In 1960 - John Stewart, member of the Capitol Records group The Kingston Trio marries Julie Koehler, whom he met in high school
1963 - Kyu Sakamoto's Capitol Records single "Sukiyaki" is #2 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart, Al Martino's Capitol Records single "I Love You Because" is #4, Nat "King" Cole's Capitol Records single "Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days Of Summer" is #9, The Beach Boys' Capitol Records single "Surfin' U.S.A." is #10, Bobby Darin's Capitol Records single "Yellow Roses" is #11, The Kingston Trio's Capitol Records single "Reverend Mr. Black" is #26, and The Beach Boys' Capitol Records single "Shut Down' (the flip side of "Surfin' U.S.A.") is #32
1967 - Wynn Stewart's Capitol Records single "It's Such A Pretty World Today", with "Ol' What's Her Name" on the flip side, is #1 on the U.S. Country singles charts
1968 - The Beach Boys record the track "Sail Plane Song" (aka "Glide Plane Song"), that will become the song "Loop De Loop", at Brian Wilson's home studio with Carl Wilson on bass, Alan Jardine on guitar, Brian Wilson on piano, Bruce Johnston on organ and Dennis Wilson on drums
1969 - Sonny James' Capitol Records single "Running Bear", with "Midnight Mood" on the flip side, is #1 on the U.S. Country singles charts
1974 - Paul McCartney & Wings' album "Band On The Run" hits #1 on Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart
35 Years Ago Today In 1975 - Linda Ronstadt's Capitol Records single "When Will I Be Loved", with "It Doesn't Matter Anymore" on the flip side, is #1 on the U.S. Country singles charts
1999 - Capitol Records releases the album "Mrs. Miller: Wild, Cool & Swingin'" as part of their UltraLounge Series
5 Years Ago Today In 2005 - Capitol Records group The Shout Out Louds make their late night television debut on "The Late Show with David Letterman"
2005 - Nick Ulleseit, Jonathan Gelber, Jayinee Basu, Dan Kent and Taylor Baxley, Los Gatos, California students, flew to Los Angeles for the day to visit Capitol Records, getting tips about how to make themselves more marketable and successful, and a got a chance to promote their own music.
2007 - Nellie Lutcher, arranger, songwriter, pianist, singer, bandleader (Nellie Lutcher and Her Rhythm), sister of Capitol Records artist Joe Lutcher, and a Capitol Records artist who was signed to the label in 1947 by Dave Dexter, Jr. after hearing her on a live benefit show (which she was booked to play by deejay Frank Bull) on Los Angeles radio station KFWB, dies at age 94 of of complications of old age old in a nursing home in Los Angeles, California. There will be a memorial service on Tuesday, June 19, at 11AM at Founder's Church of Religious Science, 3281 W. 6th Street, in Los Angeles, California.
ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
70 Years Ago Today In 1940 - Nancy Sinatra, singer, motion picture actress, and daughter of future Capitol Records artist Frank Sinatra, is born Nancy Sandra Sinatra, Jr. in Jersey City, New Jersey
1959 - Martin Denny's Liberty Records single "Quiet Village" is #5 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart, Dion and The Belmont's Laurie Records single "A Teenager In Love" is #6, and Fats Domino's Imperial Records single "I'm Ready" is #16. EMI Music Group, Capitol Music Group's parent company, currently owns Liberty, Laurie, and Imperial Records' catalogs.
1963 - Lou Christie's Roulette Records single "Two Faces Have I" is #6 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart and The Chiffons' Laurie Records single "One Fine Day" is #36. EMI Music Group, Capitol Music Group's parent company, currently owns Roulette and Laurie Records' catalogs.
1968 - Paul McCartney was the best man at his brother Michael's wedding to hair stylist Angela Fishwick, held at St. Bridget's Parish Church in Carrog, Merioneth, North Wales (the same church where Paul and Mike's father Jim married his second wife in 1966). The other Beatles sent congratulatory telegrams (George and Ringo visited folksinger Joan Baez at her home in Carmel, California). The reception was held at Jim McCartney's home in Gayton, Cheshire, and featured a family sing-song, led by Paul at the piano.
1969 - Brian Jones, founding member and guitarist of future Virgin Records group The Rolling Stones, is fired from the band by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards
1977 - Kanye West is born Kanye Omari West in Atlanta, Georgia and, in 2002, was this close to being signed to Capitol
1981 - Duran Duran's self titled first album is released by Parlophone Records in the UK
1998 - Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr appear together in public for the first time since 1969 at a memorial service for Linda McCartney, which is also attended by among others Sting, Pete Townshend and Sir Elton John, at a private service at St. Martins-in-the-Fields church in London, England
2004 - Publisher Bill Lowery, who started Lowery Music Company (eventually becoming Lowery Music Group) because of a suggestion by Capitol A&R VP Ken Nelson and who's first million seller was "Be-Bop-A-Lula", dies of cancer at age 79 in Atlanta, Georgia
ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1867 - Frank Lloyd Wright, architect and founder of the Taliesin School of Architecture, is born in Richland Center, Wisconsin
1912 - Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.
1941 - Clarence "Fuzzy" Haskins, vocalist for the bands The Parliaments and Funkadelic, is born in Elkhorn, West Virginia
HAPPY BIRTHDAYS!
1918 - Robert Preston, Broadway and motion picture actor, and Capitol Records artist (original Broadway cast album "The Music Man"), is born Robert Preston Meservey in Newton, Massachusetts
1936 - Odessa Harris who, with producers Earl Wainwright and Bill Wyler, recorded the tracks "You're What I Need" and "Since I Fell For You", "The Color Of His Love Is Blue" and "Driving Wheels", which were released in 1967 as two singles for the Uptown Records label (a subsidiary of Tower Records, itself a subsidiary of Capitol Records), is born in West Helena, Arkansas
1936 - James Darrin, motion picture and television actor and singer, who would record his first album, "Album No. 1", for ColPix Records in Studio A of The Capitol Tower Studios in 1959 and return 42 years later in 2001 to record his album "Because Of You" for Concord Jazz Records, is born James William Ercolani in Philadelphia Pennsylvania
1953 - Jeff Rich, drummer with the Capitol Records group Status Quo is born
1962 - Nick Rhodes, keyboardist for the Capitol Records bands Duran Duran and Arcadia as well as The Devils, is born Nicholas James Bates in Moseley, West Midlands, England
ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL HISTORY
1931 - Future Capitol Records cofounder Johnny Mercer marries Ginger Meehan (born Elizabeth Meltzer), in New York City. Ginger would suggest the name Capitol Records over dinner at Chasen's restaurant in Beverly Hills after the company couldn't retain the rights to the name Liberty Records.
1946 - The King Cole Trio’s recording of “(Get Your Kicks On) Route 66” enters the U.S. R&B charts, where it will peak at #3
1946 - Andy Russell's Capitol Records single "Laughing On The Outside (Crying On The Inside)" is #5 on Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records chart and Alvino Ray and His Orchestra (with vocals by Rocky Coluccio)'s Capitol Records single "Cement Mixer (Put-Ti Put-Ti) is #9
1953 - Hank Thompson, with producer Ken Nelson, records the tracks "Wakeup Irene" (which will be released by Capitol Records as a single with "Go Cry Your Heart Out" on the flip side in November 1953) and "Breakin' The Rules" (which will be released by Capitol as a single with "Fooler A Faker" on the flip side in March 1954) at Capitol's Melrose Studios in Hollywood, California
55 Years Ago Today In 1955 - Faron Young's Capitol Records single "Live Fast Love Hard Die Young", with "Forgive Me Dear" on the flip side, becomes Young's first #1 on the U.S. Country singles charts
1959 - Franck Pourcell and His French Fiddlers' Capitol Records single "Only You (Loin De Vous)" is #9 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart
50 Years Ago Today In 1960 - John Stewart, member of the Capitol Records group The Kingston Trio marries Julie Koehler, whom he met in high school
1963 - Kyu Sakamoto's Capitol Records single "Sukiyaki" is #2 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart, Al Martino's Capitol Records single "I Love You Because" is #4, Nat "King" Cole's Capitol Records single "Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days Of Summer" is #9, The Beach Boys' Capitol Records single "Surfin' U.S.A." is #10, Bobby Darin's Capitol Records single "Yellow Roses" is #11, The Kingston Trio's Capitol Records single "Reverend Mr. Black" is #26, and The Beach Boys' Capitol Records single "Shut Down' (the flip side of "Surfin' U.S.A.") is #32
1967 - Wynn Stewart's Capitol Records single "It's Such A Pretty World Today", with "Ol' What's Her Name" on the flip side, is #1 on the U.S. Country singles charts
1968 - The Beach Boys record the track "Sail Plane Song" (aka "Glide Plane Song"), that will become the song "Loop De Loop", at Brian Wilson's home studio with Carl Wilson on bass, Alan Jardine on guitar, Brian Wilson on piano, Bruce Johnston on organ and Dennis Wilson on drums
1969 - Sonny James' Capitol Records single "Running Bear", with "Midnight Mood" on the flip side, is #1 on the U.S. Country singles charts
1974 - Paul McCartney & Wings' album "Band On The Run" hits #1 on Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart
35 Years Ago Today In 1975 - Linda Ronstadt's Capitol Records single "When Will I Be Loved", with "It Doesn't Matter Anymore" on the flip side, is #1 on the U.S. Country singles charts
1999 - Capitol Records releases the album "Mrs. Miller: Wild, Cool & Swingin'" as part of their UltraLounge Series
5 Years Ago Today In 2005 - Capitol Records group The Shout Out Louds make their late night television debut on "The Late Show with David Letterman"
2005 - Nick Ulleseit, Jonathan Gelber, Jayinee Basu, Dan Kent and Taylor Baxley, Los Gatos, California students, flew to Los Angeles for the day to visit Capitol Records, getting tips about how to make themselves more marketable and successful, and a got a chance to promote their own music.
2007 - Nellie Lutcher, arranger, songwriter, pianist, singer, bandleader (Nellie Lutcher and Her Rhythm), sister of Capitol Records artist Joe Lutcher, and a Capitol Records artist who was signed to the label in 1947 by Dave Dexter, Jr. after hearing her on a live benefit show (which she was booked to play by deejay Frank Bull) on Los Angeles radio station KFWB, dies at age 94 of of complications of old age old in a nursing home in Los Angeles, California. There will be a memorial service on Tuesday, June 19, at 11AM at Founder's Church of Religious Science, 3281 W. 6th Street, in Los Angeles, California.
ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
70 Years Ago Today In 1940 - Nancy Sinatra, singer, motion picture actress, and daughter of future Capitol Records artist Frank Sinatra, is born Nancy Sandra Sinatra, Jr. in Jersey City, New Jersey
1959 - Martin Denny's Liberty Records single "Quiet Village" is #5 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart, Dion and The Belmont's Laurie Records single "A Teenager In Love" is #6, and Fats Domino's Imperial Records single "I'm Ready" is #16. EMI Music Group, Capitol Music Group's parent company, currently owns Liberty, Laurie, and Imperial Records' catalogs.
1963 - Lou Christie's Roulette Records single "Two Faces Have I" is #6 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart and The Chiffons' Laurie Records single "One Fine Day" is #36. EMI Music Group, Capitol Music Group's parent company, currently owns Roulette and Laurie Records' catalogs.
1968 - Paul McCartney was the best man at his brother Michael's wedding to hair stylist Angela Fishwick, held at St. Bridget's Parish Church in Carrog, Merioneth, North Wales (the same church where Paul and Mike's father Jim married his second wife in 1966). The other Beatles sent congratulatory telegrams (George and Ringo visited folksinger Joan Baez at her home in Carmel, California). The reception was held at Jim McCartney's home in Gayton, Cheshire, and featured a family sing-song, led by Paul at the piano.
1969 - Brian Jones, founding member and guitarist of future Virgin Records group The Rolling Stones, is fired from the band by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards
1977 - Kanye West is born Kanye Omari West in Atlanta, Georgia and, in 2002, was this close to being signed to Capitol
1981 - Duran Duran's self titled first album is released by Parlophone Records in the UK
1998 - Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr appear together in public for the first time since 1969 at a memorial service for Linda McCartney, which is also attended by among others Sting, Pete Townshend and Sir Elton John, at a private service at St. Martins-in-the-Fields church in London, England
2004 - Publisher Bill Lowery, who started Lowery Music Company (eventually becoming Lowery Music Group) because of a suggestion by Capitol A&R VP Ken Nelson and who's first million seller was "Be-Bop-A-Lula", dies of cancer at age 79 in Atlanta, Georgia
ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1867 - Frank Lloyd Wright, architect and founder of the Taliesin School of Architecture, is born in Richland Center, Wisconsin
1912 - Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.
1941 - Clarence "Fuzzy" Haskins, vocalist for the bands The Parliaments and Funkadelic, is born in Elkhorn, West Virginia
Monday, June 07, 2010
JUNE 7, 2010
HAPPY BIRTHDAYS!
1906 - Glen Gray, alto saxophone player, band leader, and Capitol Records artist as Glen Gray and The Casa Loma Orchestra, is born Glen Gray Knoblauch in Roanoke, Illinois
1917 - Dean Martin, singer, radio and motion picture actor, television variety show co-host and host, and Capitol Records artist, first as part of the team Martin and Lews with Jerry Lewis and then as a solo act, is born Dino Paul Crocetti at 319 South Sixth Street, Stubenville, Ohio at 11:55 pm
1924 - Dolores Gray, Broadway and Motion Picture actress and singer, and a Capitol Records artist (the 1959 album "Warm Brandy"), is born in Chicago, Illinois
1934 - Wynn Stewart, Capitol Records artist (1956-1958 and 1965-1972) and major influence on the "Bakersfield Sound" of Buck Owens and Merle Haggard, is born Winford Lindsey Stewart in Morrisville, Missouri
1967 - Dave Navarro, author, television game show host, and Capitol Records solo artist (and guitarist for the bands Jane's Addiction, Deconstruction, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Panic Channel, and Camp Freddy), is born David Michael Navarro in Santa Monica, California
ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1946 - Stan Kenton and His Orchestra (same lineup as at session on June 4, 1946) record, for transcription at Radio Recorders in Hollywood, California, the tracks: "Who's Got A Tent For Rent" with vocal and trumpet solo by Ray Wetzel; "I Got The Sun In The Morning" with vocal by June Christy and solos by Stan Kenton (piano), Eddie Safranski (bass), and Vido Musso (tenor saxophone); "Peg O' My Heart" with solos by Kenton, Safranski, Musso, Chico Alvarez (trumpet), Kai Winding (trombone), and Al Anthony (alto saxophone); "Come Rain Or Come Shine" with vocal by Christy and solos by Kenton and Safranski; "They Say It's Wonderful" with vocal by Gene Howard and solo by Musso; "I Don't Know Why, I Just Do" with vocal by Howard and solos by Kenton and Anthony; "He's Funny That Way" with vocal by Christy; "Lover" with solos by Kenton, Safranski, Musso and Winding
1952 - Al Martino (with orchestra conducted by Monty Kelly)'s Capitol Records single "Here In My Heart" is #2 on Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records chart, Kay Starr (with orchestra conducted by Harold Mooney)'s Capitol Records single "Wheel Of Fortune" is #8, Ella Mae Morse (with Nelson Riddle and His Orchestra)'s Capitol Records single "Blacksmith Blues" is #18, Jane Froman (with orchestra conducted by Sid Feller)'s Capitol Records single "I'll Walk Alone" is #17, and Les Paul's Capitol Records single "Carioca" is #18
55 Years Ago Today In 1955 - Woody Herman and His Orchestra (with the same line up as the sessions on June 6, 1955 but without Glow and Travis on trumpet) records the tracks "You're Here My Love" (arranged by Ralph Burns), "The Girl Upstairs" (arranged by George Williams), "House Of Bamboo" (arranged by Burns), "Buttercup" (probably arranged by Nat Pierce), "Sentimental Journey" (arranged by Nat Pierce), "Skinned Again" (arranged by Williams), and "Where Or When (arranged by Bill Holman with Ted Sommer on bells, an unknown harpist, and an unidentified vocal chorus), in New York City. "You're Here My Love", "House Of Bamboo", and "Skinned Again" appeared on Capitol Record singles, "Sentimental Journey" and "Where And When" appeared on the Capitol Records album "Road Band!", and "The Girl Upstairs" on the Capitol Records album "The Hits Of Woody Herman". "Buttercup" which went unissued until it appeared on Mosaic Records' 2000 box set "The Complete Capitol Recordings of Woody Herman".
55 Years Ago Today In 1955 - Jimmy Giuffre, clarinet, tenor saxophone and baritone saxophone player, with (cl-1, ts-2, bari-3) with Jack Sheldon on trumpet, Ralph Pena on bass, and Artie Anton on drums, records the tracks "Finger Snapper" (with Giuffre on baritone saxophone), "Scintilla I" (with Giuffre on baritone saxophone), "Rhetoric" (with Giuffre on tenor saxophone), "Lazy Tones" (with Giuffre on clarinet), and "Scintilla IV" (with Giuffre on baritone saxophone) in Capitol Records' Melrose Avenue studios in Hollywood, California for the album "Jimmy Giuffre: Tangents In Jazz". The takes of "Finger Sanpper" and "Rhetoric" were rejected by Capitol and were re-recorded on June 10, 1955. The first takes were finally released by Mosaic Records in 1997 on the box set "The Complete Capitol & Atlantic Recordings of Jimmy Giuffre"
45 Years Ago Today In 1965 - Judy Holliday, singer and actress who appears on Capitol Record's soundtrack of "Bells Are Ringing" with Dean Martin, dies of breast cancer at age 43 at 5:00 AM at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. Two days later a funeral service is held at the Frank E. Campbell Funeral Chapel in New York City, NY. Algernon Black of the Ethical Cultural Society delivers the eulogy. Among the mourners Gerry Mulligan, Yetta Cohn, David Oppenheim, Sydney Chaplin, Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Jule Styne, Abe Burrows and Howard Teichmann. After the service, Judy will be laid to rest at Westchester Hills Cemetery in Hastings-on-Hudson, NY with a private service conducted at the grave site in Hebrew.
1969 - Apple and Capitol Records artists John Lennon and Yoko Ono appear on David Frost's TV show
40 Years Ago Today In 1970 - The Beatles' last #1 single as a band "The Long And Winding Road", with "For You Blue" on the flip side, hits #1 on Billboards' Hot 100 Singles chart
1976 - Capitol Records releases The Beatles' compilation album "Rock 'n' Roll Music" in the U.S.
1976 - Bobby Hackett (born Robert Leo Hackett), coronet, trumpet and guitar player, member of Benny Goodman and His Orchestra (played at the 1938 Carnegie Hall concert), and Glenn Miller and His Orchestra (initally as a guitarist while his lip was healing, then on short solos such as on "String Of Pearls"), band leader, a Capitol Records solo artist, and on Jackie Gleason's Capitol Records albums, dies in Chatham, Massachusetts of a heart attack at age 61
1982 - Capitol Records rushes Duran Duran's single "Hungry Like A Wolf" to radio stations, and MTV puts the video for the track into heavy rotation
1993 - Liberty Records (later renamed Capitol Records Nashville) releases John Berry's album "John Berry"
1997 - The second Tibetian Freedom concerts, a two day event held at Downing Stadium on Randall's Island, New York City, features Capitol Records artists The Foo Fighters, The Beastie Boys and Radiohead and many others
5 Years Ago Today In 2005 - Simon Waronker, violinist, orchestra contractor and, in 1955, founder of Liberty Records (I guess the NYC store had closed since Capitol had wanted to use the name in 1942) and the basis for one of The Chipmunks' names, dies at his home in Beverly Hill, California at age 90
5 Years Ago Today In 2005 - Released today by Capitol Records in the U.S. are Coldplay's album "X&Y" (which will go on to sell 737,294 copies its first week becoming the biggest 1st week for any album of new material in Capitol Records' history), Les Paul with Mary Ford's album "The Best Of The Capitol Masters - 90th Birthday Edition", a reissue of june christy's 1959 album "ballads for night people" (the type on the cover of the album is all lower case, at least 25 years before k. d. lang got the idea), and a reissue of Bob Seger's 1972 album "Smokin' O.P.'s"
ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
70 Years Ago Today In 1940 - Singer Tom Jones is born Thomas Jones Woodward in Pontypridd, Mid-Glamorgan, Wales
1944 - Judy Garland files for divorce from David Rose
1958 - Prince is born Prince Rogers Nelson in Minneapolis, Minnesota
HAPPY BIRTHDAYS!
1906 - Glen Gray, alto saxophone player, band leader, and Capitol Records artist as Glen Gray and The Casa Loma Orchestra, is born Glen Gray Knoblauch in Roanoke, Illinois
1917 - Dean Martin, singer, radio and motion picture actor, television variety show co-host and host, and Capitol Records artist, first as part of the team Martin and Lews with Jerry Lewis and then as a solo act, is born Dino Paul Crocetti at 319 South Sixth Street, Stubenville, Ohio at 11:55 pm
1924 - Dolores Gray, Broadway and Motion Picture actress and singer, and a Capitol Records artist (the 1959 album "Warm Brandy"), is born in Chicago, Illinois
1934 - Wynn Stewart, Capitol Records artist (1956-1958 and 1965-1972) and major influence on the "Bakersfield Sound" of Buck Owens and Merle Haggard, is born Winford Lindsey Stewart in Morrisville, Missouri
1967 - Dave Navarro, author, television game show host, and Capitol Records solo artist (and guitarist for the bands Jane's Addiction, Deconstruction, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Panic Channel, and Camp Freddy), is born David Michael Navarro in Santa Monica, California
ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1946 - Stan Kenton and His Orchestra (same lineup as at session on June 4, 1946) record, for transcription at Radio Recorders in Hollywood, California, the tracks: "Who's Got A Tent For Rent" with vocal and trumpet solo by Ray Wetzel; "I Got The Sun In The Morning" with vocal by June Christy and solos by Stan Kenton (piano), Eddie Safranski (bass), and Vido Musso (tenor saxophone); "Peg O' My Heart" with solos by Kenton, Safranski, Musso, Chico Alvarez (trumpet), Kai Winding (trombone), and Al Anthony (alto saxophone); "Come Rain Or Come Shine" with vocal by Christy and solos by Kenton and Safranski; "They Say It's Wonderful" with vocal by Gene Howard and solo by Musso; "I Don't Know Why, I Just Do" with vocal by Howard and solos by Kenton and Anthony; "He's Funny That Way" with vocal by Christy; "Lover" with solos by Kenton, Safranski, Musso and Winding
1952 - Al Martino (with orchestra conducted by Monty Kelly)'s Capitol Records single "Here In My Heart" is #2 on Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records chart, Kay Starr (with orchestra conducted by Harold Mooney)'s Capitol Records single "Wheel Of Fortune" is #8, Ella Mae Morse (with Nelson Riddle and His Orchestra)'s Capitol Records single "Blacksmith Blues" is #18, Jane Froman (with orchestra conducted by Sid Feller)'s Capitol Records single "I'll Walk Alone" is #17, and Les Paul's Capitol Records single "Carioca" is #18
55 Years Ago Today In 1955 - Woody Herman and His Orchestra (with the same line up as the sessions on June 6, 1955 but without Glow and Travis on trumpet) records the tracks "You're Here My Love" (arranged by Ralph Burns), "The Girl Upstairs" (arranged by George Williams), "House Of Bamboo" (arranged by Burns), "Buttercup" (probably arranged by Nat Pierce), "Sentimental Journey" (arranged by Nat Pierce), "Skinned Again" (arranged by Williams), and "Where Or When (arranged by Bill Holman with Ted Sommer on bells, an unknown harpist, and an unidentified vocal chorus), in New York City. "You're Here My Love", "House Of Bamboo", and "Skinned Again" appeared on Capitol Record singles, "Sentimental Journey" and "Where And When" appeared on the Capitol Records album "Road Band!", and "The Girl Upstairs" on the Capitol Records album "The Hits Of Woody Herman". "Buttercup" which went unissued until it appeared on Mosaic Records' 2000 box set "The Complete Capitol Recordings of Woody Herman".
55 Years Ago Today In 1955 - Jimmy Giuffre, clarinet, tenor saxophone and baritone saxophone player, with (cl-1, ts-2, bari-3) with Jack Sheldon on trumpet, Ralph Pena on bass, and Artie Anton on drums, records the tracks "Finger Snapper" (with Giuffre on baritone saxophone), "Scintilla I" (with Giuffre on baritone saxophone), "Rhetoric" (with Giuffre on tenor saxophone), "Lazy Tones" (with Giuffre on clarinet), and "Scintilla IV" (with Giuffre on baritone saxophone) in Capitol Records' Melrose Avenue studios in Hollywood, California for the album "Jimmy Giuffre: Tangents In Jazz". The takes of "Finger Sanpper" and "Rhetoric" were rejected by Capitol and were re-recorded on June 10, 1955. The first takes were finally released by Mosaic Records in 1997 on the box set "The Complete Capitol & Atlantic Recordings of Jimmy Giuffre"
45 Years Ago Today In 1965 - Judy Holliday, singer and actress who appears on Capitol Record's soundtrack of "Bells Are Ringing" with Dean Martin, dies of breast cancer at age 43 at 5:00 AM at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. Two days later a funeral service is held at the Frank E. Campbell Funeral Chapel in New York City, NY. Algernon Black of the Ethical Cultural Society delivers the eulogy. Among the mourners Gerry Mulligan, Yetta Cohn, David Oppenheim, Sydney Chaplin, Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Jule Styne, Abe Burrows and Howard Teichmann. After the service, Judy will be laid to rest at Westchester Hills Cemetery in Hastings-on-Hudson, NY with a private service conducted at the grave site in Hebrew.
1969 - Apple and Capitol Records artists John Lennon and Yoko Ono appear on David Frost's TV show
40 Years Ago Today In 1970 - The Beatles' last #1 single as a band "The Long And Winding Road", with "For You Blue" on the flip side, hits #1 on Billboards' Hot 100 Singles chart
1976 - Capitol Records releases The Beatles' compilation album "Rock 'n' Roll Music" in the U.S.
1976 - Bobby Hackett (born Robert Leo Hackett), coronet, trumpet and guitar player, member of Benny Goodman and His Orchestra (played at the 1938 Carnegie Hall concert), and Glenn Miller and His Orchestra (initally as a guitarist while his lip was healing, then on short solos such as on "String Of Pearls"), band leader, a Capitol Records solo artist, and on Jackie Gleason's Capitol Records albums, dies in Chatham, Massachusetts of a heart attack at age 61
1982 - Capitol Records rushes Duran Duran's single "Hungry Like A Wolf" to radio stations, and MTV puts the video for the track into heavy rotation
1993 - Liberty Records (later renamed Capitol Records Nashville) releases John Berry's album "John Berry"
1997 - The second Tibetian Freedom concerts, a two day event held at Downing Stadium on Randall's Island, New York City, features Capitol Records artists The Foo Fighters, The Beastie Boys and Radiohead and many others
5 Years Ago Today In 2005 - Simon Waronker, violinist, orchestra contractor and, in 1955, founder of Liberty Records (I guess the NYC store had closed since Capitol had wanted to use the name in 1942) and the basis for one of The Chipmunks' names, dies at his home in Beverly Hill, California at age 90
5 Years Ago Today In 2005 - Released today by Capitol Records in the U.S. are Coldplay's album "X&Y" (which will go on to sell 737,294 copies its first week becoming the biggest 1st week for any album of new material in Capitol Records' history), Les Paul with Mary Ford's album "The Best Of The Capitol Masters - 90th Birthday Edition", a reissue of june christy's 1959 album "ballads for night people" (the type on the cover of the album is all lower case, at least 25 years before k. d. lang got the idea), and a reissue of Bob Seger's 1972 album "Smokin' O.P.'s"
ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
70 Years Ago Today In 1940 - Singer Tom Jones is born Thomas Jones Woodward in Pontypridd, Mid-Glamorgan, Wales
1944 - Judy Garland files for divorce from David Rose
1958 - Prince is born Prince Rogers Nelson in Minneapolis, Minnesota
Sunday, June 06, 2010
JUNE 6, 2010
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
1973 - Lisa Brokop, Capitol Records Nashville/Liberty Records artist (1992-1996), is born Lisa Ann Brokop in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL HISTORY
1942 - Future Capitol Records artist Yma Sumac marries bandleader and composer Moisés Vivanco in Lima, Peru
1953 - Les Baxter and His Orchestra's Capitol Records single "April In Portugal" is #2 on Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records chart, Nat "King" Cole (with Nelson Riddle and His Orchestra)'s Capitol Records single "Pretend" is 10, Les Baxter and His Orchestra's Capitol Records single "Ruby" (the flip side of "April In Portugal" is #15, Jane Froman (with orchestra conducted by Sid Feller)'s Capitol Records single "I Believe" is #16, and Kay Starr (with orchestra conducted by Harold Mooney)'s Capitol Records single "Half A Photograph" (with "Allez-Vous-En" on the flip side) enters the top 20 at #18
55 Years Ago Today In 1955 - Over two sessions on the same day, Woody Herman and His Orchestra (Dick Collins, Bernie Glow, Jerry Kail, Gerry LaFurn, Reuben McFall, and Charlie Walp on trumpet; on Cy Touff on bass trumpet, Dick Kenney, Keith Moon on trombone; Woody Herman on clarinet, alto saxophone and vocals; Richie Kamuca, Dick Hafer, and Art Pirie on tenor saxophone; Jack Nimitz on baritone saxophone; Nat Pierce on piano; Billy Bauer on guitar; John Beal on bass; and Chuck Flores on drums) record the tracks "Opus De Funk" (arranged by Nat Pierce), "Cool Cat On A Hot Tin Roof" (arranged by Ralph Burns), "Pimlico" (arranged by Burns) during the first session with Glow on trumpet, then Travis replaces Glow for the second session when the band records the tracks "Captain Ahab" (arranged by Manny Albam), "I Remember Duke" (arranged by Burns); "Skinned" (arranged by George Williams), and "Love Is A Many Splendored Thing" (arranged by Burns), in New York City, New York for their Capitol Records album "Road Band!"
55 Years Ago Today In 1955 - Jimmy Giuffre (on clarinet on the first track and tenor saxophone on the second and third, with Jack Sheldon on trumpet, Ralph Pena on bass, and Artie Anton on drums for all three tracks) records the tracks "Chirpin' Time", "Scintilla II", and "This Is My Beloved" at Capitol Records' Melrose Avenue studios. "Chirpin' Time" will be included on Giuffre's Capitol Records album "Jimmy Giuffre: Tangents In Jazz" and the other two will be released on Mosaic Records' 1997 compilation box set "The Complete Capitol & Atlantic Recordings of Jimmy Giuffre".
50 Years Ago Today In 1960 - Capitol Records releases Kay Starr's album "Movin' On Broadway" which was produced by Dave Cavanaugh with arrangements by Van Alexander who also conducts the orchestra
1962 - The Beatles, with Pete Best on drums and George Martin producing, record the track "Love Me Do" as part of their first session for Parlophone Records
1964 - Capitol Records original Broadway cast album "Funny Girl" is #2 on Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart and The Beatles' Capitol Records album "Meet The Beatles" slips to #4 after 5 weeks at #1.
1966 - Capitol Records Canada releases The Hollies' album "Look Through Any Window", The Swinging Blue Jeans' album "Don't Make Me Over", The Newman Centre Troubadors' album "The Canticle Of The Gift" on the Rainbow label, The Dave Clark Five's album "At The Scene", The Merrymen (featuring Emile Straker)'s album "Caribeat With The Merrymen", Cliff Richard's album "Blue Turns To Grey", and Manfred Mann's album "Mann Made"
1966 - Tower Records (a subsidiary of Capitol Records) releases Dick Curless' album "Travelin' Man" and Dick Curless and Kay Adams' album "A Devil Like Me"
1976 - Wings' Apple Records single "Silly Love Songs", released by Capitol Records in the United States, returns to #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart
1991 - Stan Getz (born Stanley Gayetzky), tenor saxophone player, band leader, member of the Capitol Records bands Woody Herman and His Orchestra and The Metronome All Stars, and who as a solo artist on the Verve label would record in Capitol's Studios on Melrose Avenue and in The Capitol Tower until 1957, dies at age 64 of liver cancer in Malibu, California
10 Years Ago Today In 2000 - Capitol Records releases Nancy Wilson's 2 CD compilation "Anthology"
10 Years Ago Today In 2000 - The first three volumes of Capitol Records' "From The Vaults" series, "Birth Of A Label", "Capitol Jumps" and "Vine Street Divas" are released. The series is compiled and produced by Billy Vera, who also wrote the series' extensive and informative liner notes. The look of the series' packaging is based on samples of packaging and advertisements from Capitol's early days that I pulled from my collection when I was working as a full time freelancer in Capitol's art department.
2003 - Roger G. Hall, promoter for Capitol Records subsidiary Angel Records (1956-1959), manager of the Philadelphia Orchestra (1959-1963) and head of artists and repertoire for RCA's classical-music label, Red Seal (1963-1970), dies at age 79 from complications of Parkinson's disease at his home in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania
2006 - Capitol Records releases "The Very Best Of Lou Rawls: You'll Never Find Another" with liner notes by Billy Vera that'll tear your heart out.
2006 - Capitol Records releases Sound Team's first full-length album "Movie Monster"
2006 - Billy Preston, singer, keyboardist for both The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, and solo Apple Records artist, dies in Shea Scottsdale Hospital in Scottsdale, Arizona at age 59 from compliations of an acute respiratory arrest, due to improper treatement for pericarditas, that put him into a coma on November 21, 2005
2007 - I got my copy of Johnny Mercer's 3 CD compilation "Mosaic Selects johnny mercer" that I had pre-ordered. It has a great note from Margaret Whiting and superb liner notes written by Billy Vera. There was a bit of confusion when I went to play disc 1 using iTunes as it gave the track listing for disc 3 and some unhappy reviewers comments next to each track. Playing the disc, the tracks that played were the one's listed for disc 1 on the packaging. I emailed Blue Note to let them know about the problem which the wrote back that they would look into.
ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1939 - Gary U.S. Bonds, singer and EMI artist, is born Gary Anderson in Jacksonville, Florida
50 Years Ago Today In 1960 - Rick Nelson's Imperial Records single "Young Emotions" is #14 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart
1963 - Singer Sarah Vaughn (with Carmell Jones on trumpet, Teddy Edwards on tenor saxophone, Jack Wilson on organ, John Collins on guitar, Al McKibbon on bass, and Earl Palmer drums) records the tracks "What Kind Of Fool Am I" and "The Good Life" (without Jones and Edwards) with producer Teddy Reig at United Recorders in Los Angeles, California for her Roulette Records album "Sarah Sings Soulfully". EMI Music Group, Capitol Music Group's parent company, currently owns Roulette's catalog.
1972 - Jethro Tull's Chrysalis Records album "Thick As A Brick" is #1 on Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart. Chrysalis' catalog is currently owned by EMI Music Group, Capitol Music Group's parent company.
1976 - Crystal Gayle's United Artists Records single "I'll Get Over You", with "High Time" on the flip side, is #1 on the U.S. Country singles charts
2006 - Rhino Records releases Frank Sinatra, Jr.'s first album in a decade, "That Face!" (recorded in The Capitol Tower Studios). Rhino didn't put their logo on this package, instead they used the Reprise ":r" logo. The album was recorded in The Capitol Tower Studios, features arrangements by Billy May, Nelson Riddle and Torrie Zito, and features Frank Sr.'s longtime pianist Bill Miller, who will go on tour with Frank Jr. starting in July in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL HISTORY
1944 - D-Day occurs on the beaches and coast of Normandy, France
1968 - After winning the California Democratic primary, Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy dies of gunshot wounds sustained in a pantry while leaving the ballroom of The Ambassador Hotel. Rosemary Clooney, a friend and supporter of Kennedy, was performing at the hotel and sufferes a nervous breakdown after hearing the news.
1971 - The last episode of "The Ed Sullivan Show" is broadcast on CBS. The episode is a repeat (the last original episode aired on March 28, 1971) of the episode that aired on February 7, 1971 that featured Melanie singing "Look What They've Done to My Song, Ma," "Ruby Tuesday" and "Alexander Beetle"; Joanna Simon (mezzo-soprano) singing "My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice"; impressionist David Frye; Danny Davis & the Nashville Brass; singers Tony Sandler & Ralph Young; comedian Norman Wisdom; sleight-of-hand artist Vic Perry; comedian Tony Fane and comedian Lennie Schultz. The next week the show is replaced by Sunday Night Movies which, after 35 years, will itself be ends at the end of CBS' 2005-2006 season.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
1973 - Lisa Brokop, Capitol Records Nashville/Liberty Records artist (1992-1996), is born Lisa Ann Brokop in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL HISTORY
1942 - Future Capitol Records artist Yma Sumac marries bandleader and composer Moisés Vivanco in Lima, Peru
1953 - Les Baxter and His Orchestra's Capitol Records single "April In Portugal" is #2 on Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records chart, Nat "King" Cole (with Nelson Riddle and His Orchestra)'s Capitol Records single "Pretend" is 10, Les Baxter and His Orchestra's Capitol Records single "Ruby" (the flip side of "April In Portugal" is #15, Jane Froman (with orchestra conducted by Sid Feller)'s Capitol Records single "I Believe" is #16, and Kay Starr (with orchestra conducted by Harold Mooney)'s Capitol Records single "Half A Photograph" (with "Allez-Vous-En" on the flip side) enters the top 20 at #18
55 Years Ago Today In 1955 - Over two sessions on the same day, Woody Herman and His Orchestra (Dick Collins, Bernie Glow, Jerry Kail, Gerry LaFurn, Reuben McFall, and Charlie Walp on trumpet; on Cy Touff on bass trumpet, Dick Kenney, Keith Moon on trombone; Woody Herman on clarinet, alto saxophone and vocals; Richie Kamuca, Dick Hafer, and Art Pirie on tenor saxophone; Jack Nimitz on baritone saxophone; Nat Pierce on piano; Billy Bauer on guitar; John Beal on bass; and Chuck Flores on drums) record the tracks "Opus De Funk" (arranged by Nat Pierce), "Cool Cat On A Hot Tin Roof" (arranged by Ralph Burns), "Pimlico" (arranged by Burns) during the first session with Glow on trumpet, then Travis replaces Glow for the second session when the band records the tracks "Captain Ahab" (arranged by Manny Albam), "I Remember Duke" (arranged by Burns); "Skinned" (arranged by George Williams), and "Love Is A Many Splendored Thing" (arranged by Burns), in New York City, New York for their Capitol Records album "Road Band!"
55 Years Ago Today In 1955 - Jimmy Giuffre (on clarinet on the first track and tenor saxophone on the second and third, with Jack Sheldon on trumpet, Ralph Pena on bass, and Artie Anton on drums for all three tracks) records the tracks "Chirpin' Time", "Scintilla II", and "This Is My Beloved" at Capitol Records' Melrose Avenue studios. "Chirpin' Time" will be included on Giuffre's Capitol Records album "Jimmy Giuffre: Tangents In Jazz" and the other two will be released on Mosaic Records' 1997 compilation box set "The Complete Capitol & Atlantic Recordings of Jimmy Giuffre".
50 Years Ago Today In 1960 - Capitol Records releases Kay Starr's album "Movin' On Broadway" which was produced by Dave Cavanaugh with arrangements by Van Alexander who also conducts the orchestra
1962 - The Beatles, with Pete Best on drums and George Martin producing, record the track "Love Me Do" as part of their first session for Parlophone Records
1964 - Capitol Records original Broadway cast album "Funny Girl" is #2 on Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart and The Beatles' Capitol Records album "Meet The Beatles" slips to #4 after 5 weeks at #1.
1966 - Capitol Records Canada releases The Hollies' album "Look Through Any Window", The Swinging Blue Jeans' album "Don't Make Me Over", The Newman Centre Troubadors' album "The Canticle Of The Gift" on the Rainbow label, The Dave Clark Five's album "At The Scene", The Merrymen (featuring Emile Straker)'s album "Caribeat With The Merrymen", Cliff Richard's album "Blue Turns To Grey", and Manfred Mann's album "Mann Made"
1966 - Tower Records (a subsidiary of Capitol Records) releases Dick Curless' album "Travelin' Man" and Dick Curless and Kay Adams' album "A Devil Like Me"
1976 - Wings' Apple Records single "Silly Love Songs", released by Capitol Records in the United States, returns to #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart
1991 - Stan Getz (born Stanley Gayetzky), tenor saxophone player, band leader, member of the Capitol Records bands Woody Herman and His Orchestra and The Metronome All Stars, and who as a solo artist on the Verve label would record in Capitol's Studios on Melrose Avenue and in The Capitol Tower until 1957, dies at age 64 of liver cancer in Malibu, California
10 Years Ago Today In 2000 - Capitol Records releases Nancy Wilson's 2 CD compilation "Anthology"
10 Years Ago Today In 2000 - The first three volumes of Capitol Records' "From The Vaults" series, "Birth Of A Label", "Capitol Jumps" and "Vine Street Divas" are released. The series is compiled and produced by Billy Vera, who also wrote the series' extensive and informative liner notes. The look of the series' packaging is based on samples of packaging and advertisements from Capitol's early days that I pulled from my collection when I was working as a full time freelancer in Capitol's art department.
2003 - Roger G. Hall, promoter for Capitol Records subsidiary Angel Records (1956-1959), manager of the Philadelphia Orchestra (1959-1963) and head of artists and repertoire for RCA's classical-music label, Red Seal (1963-1970), dies at age 79 from complications of Parkinson's disease at his home in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania
2006 - Capitol Records releases "The Very Best Of Lou Rawls: You'll Never Find Another" with liner notes by Billy Vera that'll tear your heart out.
2006 - Capitol Records releases Sound Team's first full-length album "Movie Monster"
2006 - Billy Preston, singer, keyboardist for both The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, and solo Apple Records artist, dies in Shea Scottsdale Hospital in Scottsdale, Arizona at age 59 from compliations of an acute respiratory arrest, due to improper treatement for pericarditas, that put him into a coma on November 21, 2005
2007 - I got my copy of Johnny Mercer's 3 CD compilation "Mosaic Selects johnny mercer" that I had pre-ordered. It has a great note from Margaret Whiting and superb liner notes written by Billy Vera. There was a bit of confusion when I went to play disc 1 using iTunes as it gave the track listing for disc 3 and some unhappy reviewers comments next to each track. Playing the disc, the tracks that played were the one's listed for disc 1 on the packaging. I emailed Blue Note to let them know about the problem which the wrote back that they would look into.
ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1939 - Gary U.S. Bonds, singer and EMI artist, is born Gary Anderson in Jacksonville, Florida
50 Years Ago Today In 1960 - Rick Nelson's Imperial Records single "Young Emotions" is #14 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart
1963 - Singer Sarah Vaughn (with Carmell Jones on trumpet, Teddy Edwards on tenor saxophone, Jack Wilson on organ, John Collins on guitar, Al McKibbon on bass, and Earl Palmer drums) records the tracks "What Kind Of Fool Am I" and "The Good Life" (without Jones and Edwards) with producer Teddy Reig at United Recorders in Los Angeles, California for her Roulette Records album "Sarah Sings Soulfully". EMI Music Group, Capitol Music Group's parent company, currently owns Roulette's catalog.
1972 - Jethro Tull's Chrysalis Records album "Thick As A Brick" is #1 on Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart. Chrysalis' catalog is currently owned by EMI Music Group, Capitol Music Group's parent company.
1976 - Crystal Gayle's United Artists Records single "I'll Get Over You", with "High Time" on the flip side, is #1 on the U.S. Country singles charts
2006 - Rhino Records releases Frank Sinatra, Jr.'s first album in a decade, "That Face!" (recorded in The Capitol Tower Studios). Rhino didn't put their logo on this package, instead they used the Reprise ":r" logo. The album was recorded in The Capitol Tower Studios, features arrangements by Billy May, Nelson Riddle and Torrie Zito, and features Frank Sr.'s longtime pianist Bill Miller, who will go on tour with Frank Jr. starting in July in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL HISTORY
1944 - D-Day occurs on the beaches and coast of Normandy, France
1968 - After winning the California Democratic primary, Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy dies of gunshot wounds sustained in a pantry while leaving the ballroom of The Ambassador Hotel. Rosemary Clooney, a friend and supporter of Kennedy, was performing at the hotel and sufferes a nervous breakdown after hearing the news.
1971 - The last episode of "The Ed Sullivan Show" is broadcast on CBS. The episode is a repeat (the last original episode aired on March 28, 1971) of the episode that aired on February 7, 1971 that featured Melanie singing "Look What They've Done to My Song, Ma," "Ruby Tuesday" and "Alexander Beetle"; Joanna Simon (mezzo-soprano) singing "My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice"; impressionist David Frye; Danny Davis & the Nashville Brass; singers Tony Sandler & Ralph Young; comedian Norman Wisdom; sleight-of-hand artist Vic Perry; comedian Tony Fane and comedian Lennie Schultz. The next week the show is replaced by Sunday Night Movies which, after 35 years, will itself be ends at the end of CBS' 2005-2006 season.
Saturday, June 05, 2010
JUNE 5, 2010
HAPPY BIRTHDAYS!
115 Years Ago Today In 1895 - William Boyd, (aka Hopalong Cassidy) television and movie actor and Capitol Children's Records artist, is born William Lawrence Boyd in Hendrysburg, Ohio. Dinobil has created a great fan site with images and letters sent him by Boyd and his fans as well as links to many other Hopalong Cassidy fan sites.
1947 - Tom Evans, bass player and vocalist in the Capitol Records band Badfinger, is born in Liverpool, England
1953 - Nico McBrain, drummer for the Capitol Records group Iron Maiden, is born Michael Henry McBain in Hackeny, London, England. McBrain keeps a tour diary on Iron Maiden's Official Website.
ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1942 - With Johnny Mercer producing, Paul Whitman and His Orchestra (Monty Kelly, Larry Neil, Billy Butterfield, and Don Waddilove on trumpet; Skip Layton and Murray McEachern on trombone; Alvy West, Danny d'Andrea, Lenny Hartman, King Guion, and Tommy Mace on saxophone;, Buddy Weed on piano; Mike Pingitore on guitar; Art Shapiro on bass; Lou Paino on drums) back Martha Tilton on the track "Serenade in Blue" at Radio Recorders' studios in Los Angeles. Then, using arrangements by Jimmy Mundy, the band record the tracks "I Found A New Baby", "The General Jumped At Dawn" (the A and B sides respectively of Capitol 101 - the label's first single release) and, with vocals by The Mellowaires, "I've Got A Gal In Kalamazoo". The Red Hot Jazz site has an informative page on Whiteman as well as links to audio files of the Whiteman tracks recorded this day.
1948 - The King Cole Trio's Capitol Records single "Nature Boy" is #1 on Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records chart, The Pied Pipers' Capitol Records single "My Happiness" enters the top 20 at #9, The Sportsmen's a cappella Capitol Records single "You Can't Be True, Dear" is #15, Peggy Lee's Capitol Records single "Mañana" is #18, and Jack Smith and The Clark Sisters' Capitol Records single "Baby Face" is #19
1954 - Kay Starr (with orchestra conducted by Harold Mooney)'s Capitol Records single 'If You Love Me (Really Love Me)" is #6 on Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records chart, Frank Sinatra (with Nelson Riddle and His Orchestra)'s Capitol Records single "Young At Heart" is #7, Nat "King" Cole (with Nelson Riddle and His Orchestra)'s Capitol Records single "Answer Me, My Love" is #8, Kay Starr (with orchestra conducted by Harold Mooney)'s Capitol Records single "The Man Upstairs" is #10, and Frank Sinatra (with Nelson Riddle and His Orchestra)'s Capitol Records single "Three Coins In A Fountain" enters the top 20 at #16
1961 - Faron Young's Capitol Records single "Hello Walls" (written by Willie Nelson) is #12 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart
1963 - Wanda Jackson records the tracks "Slippin'" and "Violet And A Rose" at Columbia Studios in Nashville, Tennessee with producer Ken Nelson for her Capitol Records album "Wanda Jackson Sings Country Songs"
1964 - A limited pressing of a 45 rpm single used to promote The Beatles for Hollywood radio station KFWB and Wallichs' Music City is released by Capitol Records. It has an interview on side 1 and "You Can't Do That" on the flip side. Copies of this disc have been valued for as much as $2250 with the original mailer.
1964 - Capitol Records releases The Applejacks single "Like Dreamers Do" (written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney) with "Everybody Fall Down" on the flip side
1966 - The promotional film for The Beatles Capitol Records single "Paperback Writer" gets its first showing when it's played on CBS-TV's "The Ed Sullivan Show"
1968 - The Beatles record the track "Don't Pass Me By" at EMI's Abbey Road studios in London, England for their Apple Records album "The Beatles" which will be distributed in the United States by Capitol Records
1971 - John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and Frank Zappa and The Mothers Of Invention are recorded live at a performance at the Fillmore East on this night and the next, some of which will appear on the Plastic Ono Band's album "Sometime In New York City" and on Zappa's album "Fillmore East, June 1971"
1976 - Capitol Records releases Mel McDaniel's first single "Have A Dream On Me" with "Gotta Lotta Love" on the flip side
1983 - Duran Duran's Capitol Records album "Rio" peaks at #5 on Billboard's Top 200 Albums charts
1989 - Capitol Records releases Paul McCartney's album "Flowers In The Dirt"
1999 - Mel Tormé, singer, songwriter, drummer, motion picture and television actor, and Capitol Records artist is pronounced dead at 1:45AM at UCLA Medical Center, Westwood, California where he had been rushed after having breathing problems at his home in Beverly Hills, California
2001 - Capitol Records releases Radiohead's fifth album "Amnesiac"
2007 - Capitol Records releases Poison's album "Poison'd"
ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1961 - Ricky Nelson's Imperial Records single "Travelin' Man" is #2 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart, Gene McDaniels' Liberty Records single "A Hundred Pounds Of Clay" is #8, The Fleetwoods' Dolton Records (distributed by Liberty Records) single "Tragedy" is #11, Ricky Nelson's Imperial Records single "Hello Mary Lou" (written by Gene Pitney and the flip side of "Travelin' Man") is #14, Ernie K-Doe's Minit Records single "Mother-In-Law" is #19, Steve Lawrence's United Artists Records single "Portrait Of My Love" is #30, and Don Costa and His Orchestra and Chorus' United Artists Records single "Never On A Sunday" is #38. Imperial, Liberty, Dolton, Minit, and United Artists Records' catalogs are currently owned by EMI Music Group, Capitol Music Group's parent company.
HAPPY BIRTHDAYS!
115 Years Ago Today In 1895 - William Boyd, (aka Hopalong Cassidy) television and movie actor and Capitol Children's Records artist, is born William Lawrence Boyd in Hendrysburg, Ohio. Dinobil has created a great fan site with images and letters sent him by Boyd and his fans as well as links to many other Hopalong Cassidy fan sites.
1947 - Tom Evans, bass player and vocalist in the Capitol Records band Badfinger, is born in Liverpool, England
1953 - Nico McBrain, drummer for the Capitol Records group Iron Maiden, is born Michael Henry McBain in Hackeny, London, England. McBrain keeps a tour diary on Iron Maiden's Official Website.
ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1942 - With Johnny Mercer producing, Paul Whitman and His Orchestra (Monty Kelly, Larry Neil, Billy Butterfield, and Don Waddilove on trumpet; Skip Layton and Murray McEachern on trombone; Alvy West, Danny d'Andrea, Lenny Hartman, King Guion, and Tommy Mace on saxophone;, Buddy Weed on piano; Mike Pingitore on guitar; Art Shapiro on bass; Lou Paino on drums) back Martha Tilton on the track "Serenade in Blue" at Radio Recorders' studios in Los Angeles. Then, using arrangements by Jimmy Mundy, the band record the tracks "I Found A New Baby", "The General Jumped At Dawn" (the A and B sides respectively of Capitol 101 - the label's first single release) and, with vocals by The Mellowaires, "I've Got A Gal In Kalamazoo". The Red Hot Jazz site has an informative page on Whiteman as well as links to audio files of the Whiteman tracks recorded this day.
1948 - The King Cole Trio's Capitol Records single "Nature Boy" is #1 on Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records chart, The Pied Pipers' Capitol Records single "My Happiness" enters the top 20 at #9, The Sportsmen's a cappella Capitol Records single "You Can't Be True, Dear" is #15, Peggy Lee's Capitol Records single "Mañana" is #18, and Jack Smith and The Clark Sisters' Capitol Records single "Baby Face" is #19
1954 - Kay Starr (with orchestra conducted by Harold Mooney)'s Capitol Records single 'If You Love Me (Really Love Me)" is #6 on Billboard's Best Selling Retail Records chart, Frank Sinatra (with Nelson Riddle and His Orchestra)'s Capitol Records single "Young At Heart" is #7, Nat "King" Cole (with Nelson Riddle and His Orchestra)'s Capitol Records single "Answer Me, My Love" is #8, Kay Starr (with orchestra conducted by Harold Mooney)'s Capitol Records single "The Man Upstairs" is #10, and Frank Sinatra (with Nelson Riddle and His Orchestra)'s Capitol Records single "Three Coins In A Fountain" enters the top 20 at #16
1961 - Faron Young's Capitol Records single "Hello Walls" (written by Willie Nelson) is #12 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart
1963 - Wanda Jackson records the tracks "Slippin'" and "Violet And A Rose" at Columbia Studios in Nashville, Tennessee with producer Ken Nelson for her Capitol Records album "Wanda Jackson Sings Country Songs"
1964 - A limited pressing of a 45 rpm single used to promote The Beatles for Hollywood radio station KFWB and Wallichs' Music City is released by Capitol Records. It has an interview on side 1 and "You Can't Do That" on the flip side. Copies of this disc have been valued for as much as $2250 with the original mailer.
1964 - Capitol Records releases The Applejacks single "Like Dreamers Do" (written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney) with "Everybody Fall Down" on the flip side
1966 - The promotional film for The Beatles Capitol Records single "Paperback Writer" gets its first showing when it's played on CBS-TV's "The Ed Sullivan Show"
1968 - The Beatles record the track "Don't Pass Me By" at EMI's Abbey Road studios in London, England for their Apple Records album "The Beatles" which will be distributed in the United States by Capitol Records
1971 - John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and Frank Zappa and The Mothers Of Invention are recorded live at a performance at the Fillmore East on this night and the next, some of which will appear on the Plastic Ono Band's album "Sometime In New York City" and on Zappa's album "Fillmore East, June 1971"
1976 - Capitol Records releases Mel McDaniel's first single "Have A Dream On Me" with "Gotta Lotta Love" on the flip side
1983 - Duran Duran's Capitol Records album "Rio" peaks at #5 on Billboard's Top 200 Albums charts
1989 - Capitol Records releases Paul McCartney's album "Flowers In The Dirt"
1999 - Mel Tormé, singer, songwriter, drummer, motion picture and television actor, and Capitol Records artist is pronounced dead at 1:45AM at UCLA Medical Center, Westwood, California where he had been rushed after having breathing problems at his home in Beverly Hills, California
2001 - Capitol Records releases Radiohead's fifth album "Amnesiac"
2007 - Capitol Records releases Poison's album "Poison'd"
ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1961 - Ricky Nelson's Imperial Records single "Travelin' Man" is #2 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart, Gene McDaniels' Liberty Records single "A Hundred Pounds Of Clay" is #8, The Fleetwoods' Dolton Records (distributed by Liberty Records) single "Tragedy" is #11, Ricky Nelson's Imperial Records single "Hello Mary Lou" (written by Gene Pitney and the flip side of "Travelin' Man") is #14, Ernie K-Doe's Minit Records single "Mother-In-Law" is #19, Steve Lawrence's United Artists Records single "Portrait Of My Love" is #30, and Don Costa and His Orchestra and Chorus' United Artists Records single "Never On A Sunday" is #38. Imperial, Liberty, Dolton, Minit, and United Artists Records' catalogs are currently owned by EMI Music Group, Capitol Music Group's parent company.
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