MARCH 29, 2026

HAPPY BIRTHDAYS!

1918 - Pearl Bailey, a singer, Broadway, motion picture (co-starred with Capitol Records artist Nat "King" Cole in "St. Louis Blues") and television actress, and Capitol Records artist (in Capitol Records' first original Broadway cast album "St. Louis Woman") and a Roulette Records artist, is born Pearl Mae Bailey in Newport News, Virginia.

1959 - Perry Farrell, a singer, songwriter, and a member of the Warner Brothers and Capitol Records group Jane's Addiction is born Perry Bernstein in New York City, New York.

ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY

1947 - Vocalist Jack Smith and The Clark Sisters (vocalists Mary Clark Branson, Peggy Clark Schwartz, Ann Clark Terry, and Jean Clark Frile), with Earl Sheldon and his Orchestra (lineup also unlisted), record the titles "Oh, My Achin' Heart", "Cu-Tu Gu-Ru (Jack, Jack, Jack)", and a rejected take of "Old Devil Moon" in New York City, New York. Capitol Records will issue the first two titles together as a single (Capitol 403).

1948 - Capitol Records releases Nat "King" Cole's single "Nature Boy" (Capitol 15054) with "Lost April" on the flipside. Also, Stan Kenton and His Orchestra and The King Cole Trio finish a week-long stay at Radio City Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

1948 - The vocal group The Sportsmen (Bill Days, Max Smith, Martin Sperzel, and Gurney Bell) records the titles "Happy Birthday, Congratulations" and "Happy Anniversary, 4th Of July" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue both titles on unidentified promotional record(s).

1957 - Vocalist Tommy Sands, with an unlisted tenor saxophone player, Bob Bain on lead guitar, Buck Owens on rhythm guitar, and an unlisted bass player, drummer, and vocal chorus) records the titles "Too Young To Go Steady", "I Don't Know Why", "Gonna Get A Girl", and "I Don't Care Who Knows It" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Sands' album "Steady Date With Tommy Sands" (T 848).

1957 - Ray Bauduc & Nappy Lamare & Their Riverboat Dandies (Martin Peppie on trumpet, Rolly Furnas on trombone, Gene Bolen on clarinet, Don Owens on piano, Nappy Lamare on guitar and banjo, Ray Leatherwood on bass, and Ray Bauduc on drums) record the titles "Riverboat Shuffle", "Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans", "South Rampart Street Parade" and "Walking With The King" with vocals by Nappy Lamare and Rolly Furnas. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on the group's self-titled album "Ray Bauduc & Nappy Lamare & Their Riverboat Dandies" (T 877).

1958 - Nat "King" Cole's Capitol Records single "Looking Back" is #6 on The Billboard magazine's "R&B Territorial Best Sellers - New Orleans" chart, his single "Angel Smile" is #65 on the magazine's "Top 100 Sides" chart and his Capitol Records album "Love Is The Thing" is #19 on the magazine's "Best Selling Pop LPs" chart.

1958 - Vocalist Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps (Clifton Simmons on piano, Johnny Meeks on guitar, Grady Owen on rhythm guitar, Bobby Lee Jones on bass, Juvenal "Juvey" Gomez on drums, Eddie Cochran on bass vocals, and Paul Peek and Tommy Facenda on handclapping and chorus vocals) record the titles "The Wayward Wind" and "Now Is The Hour" in The Capitol Tower Studios in Hollywood, California between 11:30 AM and 2:30 PM. Capitol Records will issue "The Wayward Wind" on the album "A Gene Vincent Record Date" (EAP-1-1509 on 7" EP and T 1059 on 12" LP) and "Now Is The Hour" on the album "Sounds Like Gene Vincent" (T 1207).

1963 - Guitarist Glen Campbell, with unlisted others conducted by Jimmie Haskell using his own arrangements, records the titles "Easy Surf", "Surfing Baja", "Earl's Shorebreak", "Rhodes Surf (Surfing Song Of Greece)", "Infinity", and "Murphy's Grey Wet Suit" in Los Angeles, California with producer Nick Venet. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on the album "John Severson Presents Sunset Surf" (T/ST 1915) and "Murphy's Grey Wet Suit" on the multi-artist compilation album "Surfing's Greatest Hits" (T/ST 1995).

1964 - The Beatles' Capitol Records single "Can't Buy Me Love", with "You Can't Do That" on the flipside, is #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart.

1967 - The Beatles record the title "With A Little Help From My Friends" at Abbey Road Studios in London, England. Capitol Records will issue the title on the band's album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" (MAS/SMAS 2653).

1967 - During two sessions held this day in Los Angeles, California, Mrs. Elva Miller records the titles "This Ole House", "May The Bird Of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose", "Oh, Lonesome Me", and "Shutters & Boards" at the first session and "A Little Bitty Tear", "There Goes My Everything", "I've Got A Tiger By The Tail", and "Memphis, Tennessee" at the second session. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Miller's album "The Country Soul Of Mrs. Miller" (T 2734).

1968 - Hardwater (lineup unlisted) records the titles "To Nowhere" and "Plate Of My Fare" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue both titles on the group's self-titled album "Hardwater" (ST 2954) and will also issue "Plate Of My Fare" as a single (Capitol 2373) with "Good Ole Friends" (recorded March 26, 1968) on the flipside.

1968 - David Rose conducts his own arrangements to His Orchestra (lineup unlisted) as they record the titles "Along About Now", "Somewhere My Love", and "Out Of Sight" in Los Angeles, California for Capitol Records which has yet to issue any of the titles.

1968 - The Beach Boys (lineup unlisted) record the title "Be Here In The Mornin'" in Los Angeles, California. After overdubs are recorded for the title on March 31, 1968, Capitol Records will issue the final mix of the title on the group's album "Friends" (ST 2895).

1974 - Grand Funk Railroad's Capitol Records album "Shinin' On" is certified Gold by the R.I.A.A.

1978 - Vocalist and pianist Alan Gordon, with an orchestra (lineup unlisted) using arrangements by Jack Nitzsche, records the titles "Understanding Your Man", "Running Away Like A Child", and "Soul Sneekers". Capitol Records will issue "Understand Your Man" and "Running Away Like A Child" together as a single (Capitol 4630) and initially schedules all the titles to be released on the album "Alan Gordon - Alley & The Soul Sneekers" (SW-11845) which was not released then issues all the titles on the album "Alley & The Soul Sneekers" (SW-11913) as by Alan Gordon.

1983 - Capitol Records registers the masters it received from EMO for Iron Maiden's titles "Theme From 'Where Eagles Dare'", "Revelations", "Flight Of Icarus", "Die With Your Boots On", "The Trooper", "Still Life", "Quest For Fire", "Sun And Steel", "To Tame A Land", "I've Got The Fire", and "Crossed-Eyed Mary", which were recorded in Nassau, Bahamas. Capitol Will issue "Flight Of Icarus" and "I've Got The Fire" together as a single (Capitol 5248), all the titles except "Sun And Steel", "I've Got The Fire" and "Crossed-Eyed Mary" on the group's album "Piece Of Mind" (ST-12274), and will issue all the titles except "Crossed-Eyed Mary" on the CD release of the album (CD 7-46363-2).

1990 - Bonnie Raitt's Capitol Records album "Nick Of Time" is #1 on Billboard's Top 200 Album chart.

1993 - Liberty Records (which will later be renamed Capitol Records Nashville) releases Lacy J. Dalton's compilation album "The Best of Lacy J. Dalton".

ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY

1943 - Eric Idle, screenwriter, playwright, songwriter, television and motion picture actor, and member of the Virgin Records America group Monty Python's Flying Circus, is born in South Shields, Tyne & Wear, England.

75 Years Ago Today In 1951 - The Academy Award for Best Music/Song is given to Ray Evans and Jay Livingston for "Mona Lisa", which is from the Paramount Pictures motion picture "Captain Carey, U.S.A." and was later recorded by Capitol Records artist Nat "King" Cole.

1968 - The Horace Silver Quintet (Horace Silver on piano, Charles Tolliver on trumpet, Bennie Maupin on tenor saxophone, John Williams on bass, and Billy Cobham, Jr. on drums, records the titles "Kindred Spirits", "Jungle Juice", and, with just Silver, Williams, and Cobham, "Next Time I Fall In Love" at recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder's studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. Blue Note Records will issue all the titles on the quintet's album "Serenade To A Soul Sister" (BLP4277/BST84277 on 12" vinyl and 7-84277-2 on CD).

1983 - EMI America purchases the masters for Kajagoogoo's titles "White Feathers", "Lies And Promises", "Magician Man", "Kajagoogoo", "Ooh To Be Ah", "Hang On Now", "This Car Is Fast", "Ergonomics", and "Frayo" and will issue all the titles on the group's album "White Feathers" (ST-17094) and "Kajagoogoo" and an edited version of "Hang On Now" together as a single (EMI-America 8171).

1999 - Joe Williams, singer and Roulette Records artist with Count Basie and His Orchestra, dies in Las Vegas, Nevada at age 80 after he walks out of the hospital where he is being treated for a respiratory ailment, walks nearly three miles on foot, and collapses on the street a few blocks from his home.

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1932 - Jack Benny appears on what he later said was his radio debut when he was a guest on Ed Sullivan's interview show on WABC at 8:45 PM. According to this article, Jack actually debuted on radio on September 4, 1931, on "RKO Theater On The Air " at 10:30 PM over WEAF, the flagship station of the Red Network of NBC.

MARCH 28, 2026

HAPPY BIRTHDAYS!

1890 - Paul Whiteman, (aka "The King of Jazz") violinist, bandleader (whose members included future Capitol Records co-founder Johnny Mercer as a vocalist and future Capitol Records artists Bing Crosby [also as a vocalist] and Jack Teagarden on trombone), who commissioned George Gershwin's "Rhapsody In Blue" and premiered it in 1924 with Gershwin on piano, motion picture actor, radio show host, music director for the ABC Radio Network, and Capitol Records artist whose first single for the label, "I Found A New Baby" with "The General Jumped At Dawn" on the flipside, was also Capitol Records' first released single, is born in Denver, Colorado.

1930 - William Hughes, a trombonist in the Count Basie band, who worked in sessions with Capitol Records artists Frank Sinatra and Nat "King" Cole, as well as Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn, Carmen McRae, Tony Bennett, Billy Eckstein, Sammy Davis, Jr., Lena Horne, Rosemary Clooney is born in Dallas, Texas.

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80 Years Ago Today In 1946 - Jo Stafford, with Nat "King" Cole on piano, records the titles "Ridin' On The Gravy Train", "I'll Be With You In Apple Blossom Time" (which will be released as the flipside of Cole's Capitol Records single "This Is Always"), "Baby, Won't You Please Come Home?", and "Cindy" (which she co-wrote with Johnny Mercer and her future husband Paul Weston and will be released as a single by Capitol Records with "I've Never Forgotten", also with Cole on piano, on the flipside).

1947 - The Benny Goodman Sextet (Benny Goodman on clarinet, Ernie Felice on accordion, Tommy Todd on piano, Dave Barbour on guitar, Harry Babasin on bass, and Tom Romersa on drums) records the titles "The Bannister Slide", "Eight, Nine and Ten" (with vocals by Peggy Lee), and "I Never Knew" (without guitar and accordion) at Radio Recorders in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue the second title on Peggy Lee's CD "Rare Gems And Hidden Treasures" (5-27564-2) and the last title on the CD "The Best Of Benny Goodman" (8-21145-2). Mosaic Records will issue all three titles in Goodman's box set "The Complete Capitol Small Group Recordings of Benny Goodman" (MQ6-148).

1948 - It's a cold and clear Easter Sunday and Capitol Records artist Nat "King" Cole marries future Capitol Records artist Maria Ellington at The Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, New York with Adam Clayton Powell officiating at the service. The reception was then held at The Belmont Plaza with some 350 guests. After the reception, a party was given for the couple at the Ebony club on Broadway, after which the couple left on their honeymoon. The wedding is covered by Life magazine in a photo essay called "Life Goes To A Harlem Wedding" starting on page 146 of the April 19, 1948 issue.
Here's a photo of the couple cutting their wedding cake at the reception.

The couple will become the parents of future Capitol Records artist Natalie Cole.

1950 - Dean Martin records the titles "Choo'n Gum" and "I Don't Care If The Sun Don't Shine" which will be released together as a single by Capitol Records.

1953 - Nat "King" Cole's Capitol Records single "Pretend" is #3 on The Billboard magazine's Most Played By Jockeys chart, #4 on the magazine's Best Selling Singles chart, and #5 on its Most Played In Juke Boxes chart. It's also #10 on Cash Box magazine's Best Selling Singles chart.

1953 - Les Baxter and His Orchestra's Capitol Records single "April In Portugal" enters the top 40 of the U.S. Pop singles charts.

1958 - Nat "King" Cole's Capitol Records single "Looking Back" is #20 on WMCA's Wax To Watch chart in New York City, New York.

1958 - A bandleader, clarinet, and alto saxophone player Les Brown and His Band Of Renown (Dick Collins, Wes Hensel, Conrad Gozzo, Jerry Kadowitz, and Mickey McMahan on trumpets, Dick Kenney and Roy Main on trombones, Jim Hill and Stumpy Brown on bass trombones, Matt Utal and Ralph Lapolla on flutes and also on clarinets and alto saxophones, Billy Usselton on tenor saxophone, Butch Stone also on clarinet as well as on baritone saxophone, Abe Aaron on soprano, tenor, baritone, and bass clarinets, Don Trenner on piano, Tony Rizzi on guitar, Don Bagley on bass, Lloyd Morales on drums, David Grupp on percussion and bells) record the titles "Some Enchanted Evening" and "Younger Than Springtime" using arrangements by Les Brown, "Bloody Mary" using an arrangement by Wes Hensel, and "This Nearly Was Mine" using an arrangement by Frank Comstock in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on the album "Dance To The Music Of 'South Pacific'" (EAP-1/2/3-1060 on three-disc 7" EP and T/ST 1060 on 12" LP).

1958 - The Jack Marshall Sextette (Harry Klee on flute, bass flute, and recorder, Milt Raskin on piano and cymbals, Edgar Lustgarten on cello, Jack Marshall on guitar and lute, Red Mitchell on bass, and Shelly Manne on drums), using Marshall's arrangements, records the titles "I've Told Every Little Star", "Like Someone In Love", and "I Didn't Know What Time It Is" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue "I've Told Every Little Star" and "Like Someone In Love" on the sextette's album "18th Century Jazz" (T 1108) and has yet to issue the take of "I Didn't Know What Time It Is" recorded at this session but will issue a take recorded on June 9, 1958 also on the album "18th Century Jazz".

1958 - Vocalist Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps (Clifton Simmons on piano, Johnny Meeks on guitar, Grady Owen on rhythm guitar, Bobby Lee Jones on bass, Juvenal "Juvey" Gomez on drums, and Paul Peek and Tommy Facenda on handclapping and vocal chorus) record the titles "Look What You Gone And Done To Me", "Hey Good Lookin'", "Summertime", and "I Can't Help It (If I'm Still In Love With You)" at an extended session held at The Capitol Tower Studios at 1750 North Vine Street in Hollywood, California between 2:30 PM and 6:00 PM. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on the album "A Gene Vincent Record Date" (EAP-2/3-1059 on three-disc 7" EP set and T 1059 on 12" LP).

1958 - Carmen Dragon conducts The Capitol Symphony Orchestra (lineup unlisted) as they record Ippolitov-Ivanov's "Procession Of The Sardar (From 'Caucasian Sketches')" and Mussorgsky's "Persian Dance (from 'Khavantchina')" on Stage 7 at the Goldwyn Studios at the corner of Santa Monica Boulevard and Formosa in West Hollywood, California. Capitol Records will issue "Procession Of The Sardar (From 'Caucasian Sketches')" on the compilation album "Pomp And Circumstance" as by The Capitol Symphony Orchestra and The Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra" (P/SP-8620) and "Persian Dance (from 'Khavantchina')" on the album "Carmen Dragon Conducting The Capitol Symphony Orchestra ‎–Footlights And Fanfares" (P/SP-8599).

1958 - Pianist Joe Bushkin, with an orchestra (lineup unlisted) using arrangements by Kenyon Hopkins, records the titles "Night And Day", "Love For Sale", "So In Love", and "Where Have You Been" in New York City, New York. Capitol Records will issue "Where Have You Been" on Bushkin's album "I Get A Kick Out Of Porter" (T/ST 1030) and have yet to issue the takes of any of the other titles recorded at this session but will issue takes of "Love For Sale" and "So In Love" recorded on April 8, 1958, and a take of "Night And Day" recorded on April 11, 1958, also on the album "I Get A Kick Out Of Porter".

1962 - Vocalist Peggy Lee, with Benny Carter conducting the orchestra (Conrad Gozzo, Ray Triscari, Al Porcino, and Shorty Sherock on trumpets, Tommy Shepard, Milt Bernhart, Ken Shroyer, and George Roberts on trombones, Justin Gordon on reeds, Lou Levy on piano, Al Hendrickson on guitar, Max Bennett on bass, Mel Lewis on drums, Emil Richards on vibraphones and percussion, and Francisco "Chino" Pozo on percussion) using arrangements by Carter and Billy Byers, records the titles "Ain't That Love", "See See Rider", "Loads Of Love", and "I Believe In You" at The Capitol Tower Studios In Hollywood, California. Capitol Records will issue the first, second, and last titles on Lee's album "Sugar 'N' Spice" (T 1772) and "Loads Of Love" as a single (Capitol F4750) with "The Sweetest Sounds" (recorded April 4, 1962) on the flipside.

1962 - Billy May and His Orchestra (Uan Rasey, Conrad Gozzo, John Best, and Emanuel "Mannie" Klein on trumpets, Ed Kusby, Tommy Pederson, Murray McEachern, and William Schaefer on trombones, Harry Klee, Arthur "Skeets" Herfurt, Plas Johnson, Fred Falensby, and Chuck Gentry on saxophones, Jimmy Rowleson on piano, Al Hendrickson on guitar, Max Bennett on bass, Irving Cottler and Frank Flynn on drums) record the titles "Loads Of Love", "No Strings", "Love Makes The World Go Round", "The Sweetest Sounds", and "Be My Host" at The Capitol Tower Studios in Hollywood, California between 8:00 PM and 11:00 PM. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on May's album "The Sweetest Swingin' Sounds Of "No Strings" (T 1709).

1962 - Cindy Malone (on vocals), with Jimmie Haskell directing an uncredited orchestra, records the titles "The Fool I Used To Be" and "Things That Mean The Most To Me" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue the first title as a single (Capitol 5115) with "Watch What You Do With My Baby" on the flipside. No issuing information is listed for the second title.

1962 - Nathan Milstein (on violin), with an uncredited chamber orchestra conducted by Robert Irving, records Rimsky-Korsakov's "Fantasia On Russian Themes, Opus 33" (arranged by Kreisler) aka "Russian Fantasy" in New York City, New York. Angel Records, a subsidiary of Capitol Records, will issue the title on Milstein's album "Music Of Old Russia" (S-36002).

1963 - Various unlisted artists, record the titles "Waimea Bay", "Goofy-Foot Glen" using an arrangement by Jimmie Haskell, "Locked In", "End Of The World", "Quigg Rides Again" and "Come September" using arrangements by Jimmie Haskell, and "Travelin'" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue all the titles, except "Travelin'" which remains unissued, on the album "John Severson Presents Sunset Surf" (T/ST 1915).

1963 - Pianist Cy Coleman, with Billy May conducting his own arrangement to the orchestra (Conrad Gozzo, Uan Rasey, and Bud Brisbois on trumpets, Francis "Joe" Howard, Milt Bernhart, Ed Kusby, and George Roberts on trombones, Justin Gordon, Ted Nash, and Wilbur Schwartz on woodwinds, Ben Tucker on bass, and Bob Thomas, Irving Cottler, and Larry Bunker on drums), records the titles "The Best Is Yet To Come", "The Riviera", and "Brassman's Holiday" in The Capitol Tower Studios at 1750 North Vine Street in Hollywood, California between 8:30 PM and 1:30 AM on March 29, 1963 for Capitol Records which has yet to issue any of the takes recorded at this session but will issue new takes of all the titles that are recorded on April 1, 1963 on the album "The Piano Witchcraft Of Cy Coleman" (T/ST 1952).

1964 - The Beatles' Capitol Records single "Can't Buy Me Love" enters the top 40 of Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart.

1967 - The Beach Boys canceled a planned session in Los Angeles, California. If anyone knows the reason(s), please leave a comment.

1968 - Hardwater (lineup unlisted) records the titles "Sanctuary" and "City Sidewalks" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue both titles on the group's self-titled album "Hardwater" and "City Sidewalks" as a single (Capitol 2230) with "Not So Hard" (recorded March 30, 1968) on the flipside.

1968 - The Beach Boys (lineup unlisted) record the title "Wake The World" in Los Angeles, California. After overdubs are recorded on March 30, 1968, Capitol Records will issue the final mix of the title as a single (Capitol 2239) with "Do It Again" (recorded June 6, 1968) on the flipside and on the group's album "Friends" (ST 2895).

1972 - The Stewardesses (lineup unlisted) record the titles "Fly Me" and "Lovin' Ain't Easy" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue both titles together as a single (Capitol 3326).

1972 - Capitol Records registers the masters it purchased for Buddy Alan's titles "I'm In Love" and "The Happiness Song" which were recorded earlier that year at Buck Owens Studios in Bakersfield, California and produced by Buck Owens Enterprises. Capitol will issue the two titles together as a single (Capitol 3346).

1973 - Brush Arbor (lineup unlisted) records the titles "We Need Rain" and "Now That It's Over" in Los Angeles, California for Capitol Records which has yet to issue either title.

1973 - Capitol Records registers the masters it purchased for Buck Owens Enterprises for Buddy Alan's titles "Caribbean" and "Please, Friend, Take Me Home" which were recorded in the Buck Owens Studios in Bakersfield, California and will issue both titles together as a single (Capitol 3598).

1974 - The Capitol Records group The Raspberries break up.

1978 - The Pousette-Dart Band (lineup unlisted) records the title "Where Are You Going" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue the title on the group's album "Pousette-Dart 3" (SW-11781).

1978 - Vocalist Alan Gordon, with an orchestra (lineup unlisted) using arrangements by Jack Nitzche, records the titles "Libertina" and "If Life Could Be" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records initially schedules "Libertina" to be released on the album "Alan Gordon - Alley & The Soul Sneekers" (SW-11845), which was not released, then issues the title on the album "Alley & The Soul Sneekers" (SW-11913) as by Alley & The Soul Sneekers.

1983 -Vocalist, pianist, synthesizer, bass, and tenor saxophone player Ronnie Laws, with Debra Laws on backing vocals, Leon Johnson on drum programming, Steve Turner on drums, Roland Bautista on guitar, and Larry Dunn also on synthesizer, records the title "Third Hour" in (listed as possibly) Lion Share Recording Studios in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue the title on the Laws' album "Mr. Nice Guy" (ST-12261).

2000 - Capitol Nashville releases John Berry's compilation album "Greatest Hits".

ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY

1915 - Jay Livingston, pianist, Academy Award-winning composer (with partner Ray B. Evans) of such songs as "Buttons and Bows", "Mona Lisa", "Silver Bells", "Silver Bells", "Tammy" and the theme song for the television show "Bonanza" and many others), motion picture actor, one-time brother-in-law of Capitol Records artist Betty Hutton, and brother of former Capitol Records Vice-President, President, and Chairman Of The Board Alan Livingston, is born in McDonald, Pennsylvania. If anyone knows Jay's middle name, please leave a comment.

1920 - Actors Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. and Mary Pickford, two of the four founders of United Artists Pictures (the others being Charlie Chaplin and director D.W. Griffith), get married. United Artists would later start a record label, United Artists Records, whose catalog is currently owned by Universal Music Group, Capitol Music Groups' parent company.

1942 - Neil Kinnock, politician and vice president of the U.K. Gene Vincent Fan Club, is born in Tredegar, South Wales.

1948 - John Evan, the keyboard player with the Chrysalis Records group Jethro Tull, is born John Spencer Evans, in Blackpool, Lancashire, England.

1958 - W. C. Handy (born William Christopher Handy), composer, guitarist, cornet player, a founder of Black Swan Records (the first black-owned record company), whose life was the basis of the motion picture "St. Louis Blues" which stars Capitol Records artist Nat "King" Cole as Handy, dies of acute bronchial pneumonia at age 84 before the movie is released later the same year, and is later buried in the Woodlawn Cemetery in Bronx, New York.

1962 - Jimmy Smith (with unlisted musicians) records the title "Walk On The Wild Side" for Verve Records. Blue Note Records will license the title and release it on Smith's album "The Definitive Jimmy Smith" (5-40038-2).

1962 - Ged Grimes, a percussionist, bassist, keyboard player, and vocalist with the Virgin Records America group Meet Danny Wilson, is born Gerard Grimes. If anyone knows for sure where, please leave a comment.

1964 - Jan & Dean's Liberty Records single "Dead Man's Curve", with "The New Girl In School" on the flipside, enters the top 40 Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart where it will peak at #7. Liberty Records catalog is currently owned by Universal Music Group, the parent company of Capitol Music Group.

60 Years Ago Today In 1966 - Gary Lewis and The Playboys record the title "Green Grass" which will be released as a single by Liberty Records with "I Can Read Between The Lines" on the flipside.

1969 - Frank Loesser, a composer, dies in New York City, New York at age 58.

1977 - Vera Lynn (on vocals with unlisted musicians on guitar, steel guitar, bass, drums, and strings) and the vocal group The Jordanaires record the titles "My Mother's Eyes", "Make The World Go Away", and "You Don't Know Me" at The Owen Bradley Studio in Nashville, Tennessee. After creating an edited version of "My Mother's Eyes" EMI will release it and the last two titles in England on Lynn's album "Vera Lynn In Nashville" (EMC 3203).

MARCH 27, 2026

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

1963 - Dave Koz, saxophonist, radio and television show host, restauranteur, and Capitol (1990-2007), EMI, Rendezvous, and Concord Records artist, is born David Stephen Koz in Encino, California.

ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY

1942 - George G. "Buddy" DeSylva, John Mercer, and Glenn E. Wallichs appear before Los Angeles County and California state Notary Public Leta Niccum to acknowledge that they have executed articles of incorporation for Liberty Records, Inc. which will be filed with the state of California on April 9, 1942. The three will apply for a Certificate of Amendment on May 27, 1942, before Ms. Niccum again, to change the name of the corporation to Capitol Records, Inc., which will be filed with the state of California on June 1, 1942.

1947 - Vocalist and guitarist Tex Williams and His Western Caravan (listed as probably Cactus Soldi and Harry Simms on fiddles, Ossie Godson on piano, Pedro De Paul on accordion, Jimmy Bryant on electric guitar, Smokey Rogers on guitar and banjo, Spike Featherstone on harmonica, Deuce Spriggens on bass, and Muddy Berry on drums), with unlisted harmony vocalists, record the titles "Miss Molly", "The Johnston Polka", "Big Hat Polka", and "Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue "Miss Molly" on the multi-artist compilation album "Cowboy Hit Parade" (AD-55), "The Johnston Polka" as a single (Capitol 57-40159) with "Castle Of My Dreams" (recorded January 31, 1949) on the flipside, "Big Hat Polka" as a single (Capitol 15271) with "Life Gits Tee-Jus, Don't It?" (recorded October 25, 1948), and "Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette) as a single (Capitol Americana 40001) with "Roundup Polka" (recorded October 28, 1946) on the flipside. Unfortunately, "The Johnston Polka" is not currently available on YouTube.

1948 - It's Saturday in New York City, New York, and bandleader Tony Pastor is the guest on this episode of "King Cole Trio Time" on NBC Radio. Announcer Freddie Robbins presents the trio an award from The Pittsburgh Courier newspaper whose recent poll has named the trio "the best trio in the land". No known transcription of this show exists.

1950 - Johnny Mercer, with The Skylarks and Ben Pollack & His Pick-A-Rib Boys, records the titles "At The Jazz Band Ball" and "She's Shimmyin' On The Beach Again" which will be released together as a single by Capitol Records.

1953 - Steel guitarist Dennis "Boots" Woodall and The Wranglers (unlisted fiddle, piano, guitar, and bass players) with Tennessee Smith and The Smith Brothers (Audrey L. Smith and John O. Smith) on vocals, record the titles "I Might Have Been (But I Ain't Gonna Be)", "You're Waiting In My Place", "Only Three Days", and "Bet'cha I'm In Love" in (listed as possibly) Atlanta, Georgia. Capitol Records will issue "I Might Have Been (But I Ain't Gonna Be)" and "Only Three Days" together as a single (Capitol 2559) and "You're Waiting In My Place" and "Bet'cha I'm In Love" together as a single (Capitol 2670).

1958 - Vocalist Darla Darret records vocal overdubs in Los Angeles, California onto Sonny James' title "Are You Mine" (recorded January 17, 1958). Capitol Records will issue the final mix of the title as a single (Capitol F3962) with "Let's Play Love" (also recorded January 17, 1958) on the flipside and on James' album "This Is Sonny James!" (T 1178).

1958 - Vocalist Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps (Clifton Simmons on piano, Johnny Meeks on guitar, Grady Owen on rhythm guitar, Bobby Lee Jones on bass, Juvenal "Juvey" Gomez on drums, and Paul Peek and Tommy Facenda on handclapping and chorus vocals), records the titles "Little Lover", "Rocky Road Blues", and, with the addition of Eddie Cochran on bass vocals, "Somebody Help Me" and "Five Feet Of Lovin'" at an extended session in The Capitol Tower Studios at 1750 North Vine Street in Hollywood, California between 10 AM and 1:30 PM. Capitol Records will issue "Little Lover" as a single (Capitol 4051) with "Git It" (recorded March 25, 1958) on the flipside, "Rocky Road Blues" as a single (Capitol 4010) with "Yes, I Love You Baby" (recorded December 10, 1957) on the flipside, and "Somebody Help Me" and "Five Feet Of Lovin'" on Vincent's album "A Gene Vincent Record Date" (EAP-1-1059 on 7" EP and T 1059 on 12" LP).

1958 - The George Shearing Quintet (George Shearing on piano, Emil Richards on vibraphone, Jean "Toots" Thielemans on guitar, Al McKibbon on bass, and Percy Brice on drums), during multiple shows held at the Crescendo Club in Los Angeles, California recorded by Gene Norman, perform the titles "Poor Little Girl", "Joy Spring", "Some Other Spring", "Confirmation", "Bernie's Tune", "Afro-Cuban", with the addition of Armando Peraza on congas the titles "Drume Negrita" and "Mambo Inn (Mambo Calle)", the titles "Cuckoo In The Clock", "To A Wild Rose", "Lonely Moments", "Blame It On My Youth", "As I Love You", "Jos Spring", "Poor Little Extra Girl", ""Bernies Tune", "Some Other Spring", "Mambo Again", "Negrete (Drume Negrita)", "In An 18th Century Drawing Room", "There Will Never Be Another You", "The Nearness Of You" with just Shearing, McKibbon, and Brice, "I Only Have Eyes For You", "Joy Spring", "Jordu", an untitled title, and "Mambo". Capitol Records will register the masters on April 1, 1960 and will issue the the first takes of "Joy Spring" and "Some Other Spring", "Confirmation", the first takes of "Bernie's Tune" and "Drume Negrita", "Mambo Inn (Mambo Calle)", "As I Love You", the second take of "Joy Spring", and "The Nearness Of You" on the album Shearing's album "On The Sunny Side Of The Strip" (T/ST 1416) and has yet to issue any of the other titles and takes. 

1958 - At three sessions held this day in Los Angeles, California, Otto Cesana and His Orchestra (lineup unlisted) record the titles "Hi", "Entre Nous", "Confession", and "A Summer Affair" at the first session, the titles "Strolling Along", "Deception", "Nostalgia", and "Always you" at the second session, and the titles "Heavenly", "Matador", "Illusion", and "Omar, The Tent Maker" at the third session. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Cesana and his orchestra's album "Brief Interlude" (T 1032).

1963 - Randy Boone, with unlisted others, records the titles "Freight Train" and "Rollin' Stone" in Los Angeles, California for Capitol Records which has yet to issue either title.

1963 - Marlina Mars, with unlisted others, records the titles "I Could Have Danced All Night", "Fifty-Six And Forty-Dour", "Mixed Up And Confused", and "Just For The Book" in New York City, New York. Capitol Records will issue "Just For The Book" as a single (Capitol 4997) with "I Thought I Knew Me" (recorded November 16, 1962) on the flipside.

60 Years Ago Today In 1966 - Buck Owens' Capitol Records single "Waitin' In Your Welfare Line", with "In The Palm Of Your Hand" on the flipside, is still #1 on the U.S. Country singles charts.

1968 - During two sessions held this day in Los Angeles, California, Hardwater (lineup unlisted) records the title "My Time" at the first session and the title "Take A Long Look" at the second session. Capitol Records will issue both titles together as a medley on the group's self-titled album "Hardwater" (ST 2954).

55 Years Ago Today In 1971 - Glen Campbell's Capitol Records single "Dream Baby", with "Here And Now" on the flipside (Capitol 3062), enters the U.S. Country singles charts. Many thanks to Richard Price for the correction!

1978 - Crimson Tide (lineup unlisted) records the title "Set Myself Free" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue the title on the group's self-titled album "Crimson Tide" (SW-11806).

1978 - Vocalist Alan Gordon, with an orchestra (lineup unlisted) using arrangements by Jack Nitzsche, records the titles "Let The Music Begin" and "Love Breakdown" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records scheduled both titles to be issued on an album (SW-11845) that was not released, issued "Let The Music Begin" and an edited version of "Love Breakdown" on the album "Alley & The Soul Sneekers" (SW-11913) as by Alley & The Soul Sneekers, and a different, edited, version of "Love Breakdown" as a single (Capitol 4678) with "Running Away Like A Child" (recorded on March 29, 1978) on the flipside.

1978 - Lee Dresser, with unlisted others, records the titles "Hey, What Do You Say" and "Hollywood Heartache" in (listed as possibly) Nashville, Tennessee. Capitol Records will purchase the masters but has yet to issue either title.

1989 - Buck Owens and Ringo Starr record the title "Act Naturally" at Abbey Road Studios, London, England. The title will be released as a single by Capitol Records in August 1989 with Owens' title, "Key's In The Mailbox", on the flipside.

2005 - Paul Hester, the drummer with the group Split Enz and the Capitol Records group Crowded House, is found dead after apparently commiting suicide in a park in Melbourne, Australia at age 46.

2007 - 8:00 PM until at least Midnight - Guitar night at Spazio's with John Pisano featured a "Tribute to Al Viola" by the guitar community with Chuck Berghofer on bass, Tim Pleasant on drums and John Pisano, with at least 20 other guitarists, including veteran Capitol Records session guitarist Bob Bain, in attendance and many who were able to perform. The Sherman Oaks, California restaurant was packed with an audience consisting of Al's family and his many friends and fans. A video remembrance of Al featuring clips of him in the Page Cavanaugh Trio, with a trio lead by Bobby Troup, and later performances was shown and after, a group photo was taken. Then all the guitarists signed the back of a custom guitar now dubbed "The Guitar Night Guitar".

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1924 - Sarah Vaughan, a pianist, singer, and Roulette Records artist (1959-1963) is born Sarah Lois Vaughan in Newark, New Jersey. Roulette's catalog is currently owned by Capitol Music Group's parent company EMI Music Group and is being reissued by Blue Note Records and Mosaic Records.

65 Years Ago Today In 1961 - Clark Datchler, the vocalist with the Virgin Records America group Johnny Hates Jazz, is born in London, England. I converted their first album's art for U.S. release as well as the art for their single "Shattered Dreams" and various trade ads.

1963 - Guitarist Kenny Burrell, with Milt Hinton on bass and Osie Johnson on drums, records the titles "The Good Life" with the addition of Hank Jones on organ, "Stairway To The Stars" with the addition of Sheldon Powell on baritone saxophone and Hank Jones on piano, "Loie" with the addition of Sheldon Powell on flute and Hank Jones on piano at recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder's studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. Blue Note Records will issue "The Good Life" and "Loie" together as a single (Blue Note 45-1884) and, in Japan, all the titles on Jones' compilation CD "Freedom" (GXF-3057).

1968 - Pianist Chick Corea, with Miroslav Vitous on bass and Roy Hayes on drums, records the titles "I Don't Know", "Pannonica", "Samba Yantra", and "Windows" at A & R Studios in New York City, New York. Blue Note Records will issue all the titles on the two-disc album "Circling In" (BN-LA472-H2 on 12" vinyl and 7-90055-2 on CD).

1970 - Mariah Carey, a singer and one-time Virgin Records America artist, is born in New York City, New York.

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1952 - Sun Records begins operations.

1958 - CBS Laboratories introduces "Stereophonic Recordings" which are playable either on ordinary monaural phonographs or on "special" stereo equipment.

MARCH 26, 2026

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

1955 - Dean Dillon (aka professionally as Dean Rutherford and Dean Dalton), a singer, guitarist, songwriter, father of songwriter Jessie Jo Dillon, 2002 inductee into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, 2020 inductee into the Country Music Hall of Fame, and an RCA, Capitol, and Atlantic Records recording artist is born Larry Dean Flynn in Lake City, Tennessee.

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1948 - Peggy Lee's Capitol Records single "Mañana (Is Soon Enough For Me", with "All Dressed Up With A Broken Heart" on the flipside is #1 on The Billboard magazine's Most Played By Disc Jockeys, Best-Selling Popular Retail, and Most-Played Juke Box Records charts for the week ending March 26, 1948.

1948 - Vocal group The Sportsmen (Thurl Ravenscroft, Bill Days, Max Smith, and Martin Sperzel) record the titles "Toolie Oolie Doolie (The Yodel Polka)" and "You Can't Be True, Dear" in Los Angeles, California mostly a capella due to the American Federation of Musicians strike. Capitol Records will issue both titles together as a single (Capitol 15077).

1953 - The Smith Brothers (Vocalists Audrey L. Smith and John O. Smith) record the titles "The Sinner's Dream", "Little Orphan Boy", "I Have But One Goal" with the addition of Bill Lowery and Dennis "Boots" Woodall, and "I'm Gonna Sail Away" with the addition of Gospel singers (lineup unlisted) in (listed as possibly) Atlanta, Georgia. Capitol Records will issue "The Sinner's Dream" and "I Have But One Goal" together as a single (Capitol 2492) and "Little Orphan Boy" and "I'm Gonna Sail Away" together as a single (Capitol 2582).

70 Years Ago Today In 1956 - Judy Garland records the titles "I'm Old Fashioned" and "Memories Of You" with arranger Nelson Riddle conducting the studio orchestra at Capitol Records' Melrose Avenue Studios in Hollywood, California for Garland's Capitol Records album "Judy". "I'm Old Fashioned" would not make it on to the initial release of the album in 1956, but it was eventually included as a bonus track on the 1989 CD release of the album.

1958 - Vocalist Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps (Clifton Simmons on piano, Johnny Meeks on guitar, Grady Owen on rhythm guitar, Bobby Lee Jones on bass, Juvenal "Juvey" Gomez on drums, Eddie Cochran on chorus vocals, and Paul Peek and Tommy Facenda on handclapping and chorus vocals), records the titles "I Love You", "Teenage Parter", "Peace Of Mind", and "Lovely Loretta" at an extended session in The Capitol Tower Studios at 1750 North Vine Street in Hollywood, California between 10:00 AM and 1:30 PM. Capitol Records will issue "I Love You", "Teenage Partner", and "Peace Of Mind" on the album "A Gene Vincent Record Date" (EAP-1/2/3-1059 on 7" EP set and T 1059 on 12" LP) and "Lovely Loretta" on the EP "Gene Vincent - Hot Rod Gang (Film Soundtrack)" (EAP-1-985).

1958 - The George Shearing Quintet (Emil Richards on vibraphone, George Shearing on piano, Jean "Toots" Thielemans on guitar, Al McKibbon on bass, and Percy Brice on drums) with Billy May conducting his own arrangements to His Orchestra (Conrad Gozzo, Frank Beach, Mannie Klein, and John Best on trumpets, Ed Kusby, Joe Howard, Walter Benson, and George Roberts on trombones, Vincent De Rosa, John Cave, James Decker, Richard Perissi, and Arthur Frantz on French horns, and Red Callender on tuba), records the titles "Mine", "Beautiful Love", "If You Were Mine", and "Burnished Brass" at an extended session in The Capitol Tower Studios at 1750 North Vine Street in Hollywood, California between 4:00 PM and 7:30 PM. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Shearing's album "Burnished Brass" (EAP-2/3-1038 on 7" EP set and T/ST 1038 on 12" LP).

1958 - Harpist Marcel Grandjany records Turina's "Sacro-Monte, Opus 55 N° 5, Granados' "Andaluza (Playera)", and Padre Narciso Casanovas' "Sonata In F" in Studio A of Capitol Records' studios in New York City. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Grandjany's album "El Amor D'España" (P-8453).

Marcel Grandjany(harp).

1959 - Vocalist Frank Sinatra, with arranger Gordon Jenkins conducting the orchestra (lineup unlisted), records the titles "I Can't Get Started", "Where Do You Go?", "A Cottage For Sale", and "Just Friends"  in The Capitol Tower Studios at 1750 North Vine Street in Hollywood, California for Sinatra's Capitol Records album "No One Cares".

1962 - Pianist and bandleader Stan Kenton and His Orchestra (Ray Starling, Dwight Carver, Carl Saunders, and Gene Roland on mellophoniums, Newell Parker, Bob Fitzpatrick, and Dee Barton on trombones, Jim Amlotte on bass trombone, Dave Wheeler on bass trombone and tuba, Lex De Azevedo also on piano as well as celeste, Alvino Rey on guitar, Don Bagley on bass, and Art Anton on drums), with vocalist Tex Ritter, records the titles "Cool Water" and "September Song" in Los Angeles, California between 1:00 PM and 4:00 PM. Capitol Records will issue both titles on the album "Stan Kenton! Tex Ritter!" (T/ST 1757).

1963 - Pianist Cy Coleman, with Billy May conducting his own arrangements to the orchestra (Ken Shroyer, Francis "Joe" Howard, Milt Bernhart, Ed Kusby, and William Schaefer on trombones, Justin Gordon, Ted Nash, and Wilbur Schwartz on woodwinds, Ben Tucker on bass, and Bob Thomas and Milt Holland on drums), records the titles "Leave It to Love", "Witchcraft", and "I'm Gonna Laugh You Out Of My Life" in The Capitol Tower Studios in Hollywood, California for Capitol Records which has yet to issue any of the takes from this session. New takes of all the titles will be recorded on March 30, 1963, and Capitol Records will issue all those takes on Coleman's album "The Piano Witchcraft Of Cy Coleman" (T/ST 1952).

60 Years Ago Today In 1966 - Brian Wilson's Capitol Records single "Caroline, No", with "Summer Means New Love" on the flipside, enters Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart where it will peak at #32 on April 30, 1966..

1968 - During two sessions held this day in Los Angeles, California, Hardwater (lineup unlisted) records the title "Good Ole Friends" at the first session and "Love And I" at the second session. Capitol Records will issue "Good Ole Friends" as a single (Capitol 2373) with "Plate Of My Fare" (recorded March 29, 1968) on the flipside and with "Love And I" on the group's self-titled album "Hardwater" (ST 2954).

1968 - The Beach Boys (lineup unlisted) record the titles "Even Steven" in Los Angeles, California for Capitol Records which has yet to issue the title.

1973 - Overdubs are recorded for Buck Owens' title "Arms Full Of Empty" and Capitol Records registered the master it purchased for Owens' title "Old Faithful". After additional overdubs are recorded for "Arms Full Of Empty" on April 13, 1973, Capitol Records will issue the final mix of the title as a single (Capitol 3688) with "Songwriter's Lament" (registered July 5, 1973) on the flipside and on Owens' album "In The Palm Of Your Hand" (ST-11136) and will issue "Old Faithful" on Buck Owens And The Buckaroos' album "Ain't It Amazing, Gracie?" (SMAS-11180).

1973 - Billy May and The Time-Life Orchestra (lineup unlisted) record the titles "California Nights" featuring Bob Bain on guitar, "Jazz Samba", "Petite Fleur" with Abe Most on clarinet, and "Viva Tirado" in The Capitol Tower Studios at 1750 North Vine Street in Hollywood, California. Time-Life Records, as part of its "As You Remember Them" series, will issue "California Nights, "Jazz Samba", and "Viva Tirado" in the three-LP set "Volume 7 - Billy May" (STL 247) and "Jazz Samba" in the three-LP set "Volume 8 - Billy May" (STL 248).

5 Years Ago Today In 2021 - Capitol Records Nashville released Carrie Underwood's album "My Savior".

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1958 - Eddie Cochran (on vocals, guitar, and guitar overdubs) records the title "Summertime Blues" (with Connie 'Guybo' Smith on electric bass, Earl Palmer on drums, and probably Sharon Sheeley and Jerry Capehart on handclapping) at Goldstar Studios in Hollywood, California. Liberty Records will release the song as a single (LIBERTY F-55144) with "Love Again" (recorded sometime in May of 1958) on the flipside. Universal Music Group, owners of EMI and Capitol Music Groups, now controls Liberty Records' masters.

60 Years Ago Today In 1966 - Johnny River's Imperial Records single "Secret Agent Man", with "You Dig" on the flipside, enters the top 40 of Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart.

1973 - Sir Noël Peirce Coward, singer, songwriter, playwright, director, actor, filmmaker, novelist, and EMI Records artist, dies at his home, Firefly Estate, in Jamaica, West Indies at age 73 of heart disease.

1978 - Crystal Gayle's United Artist Records single "Ready For The Times To Get Better", with "Beyond You" on the flipside, is #1 on the U.S. Country singles chart.

 MARCH 25, 2026

HAPPY BIRTHDAYS!

1904 - Pete "Boss Of The Blues" Johnson, a pianist, bandleader of the Blue Note Records group The Pete Johnson Blues Trio, and a member of the Capitol Records group The Capitol Jazzmen, is born Kermit Holden Johnson in Kansas City, Missouri.

1938 - Hoyt Axton, singer, songwriter, guitarist, motion picture and television actor, and Capitol Records artist (1971), is born Hoyt Wayne Axton in Duncan, Oklahoma.

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1947 - Karl and Harty (Karl Davis & Hartford Taylor) record the titles "The B-I-B-L-E", "That Pretty Little Face", "True Love" and the as yet unissued title "Lips That Touch Liquor (Shall Never Touch Mine)" in Los Angeles, California for The Capitol Records Transcription Service. Capitol Records will issue the first two titles together as a single (Capitol 415) and the third title as a single (Capitol Americana 40044) with "Pretty Thing" (recorded May 15, 1947) on the flipside. Unfortunately, "That Pretty Little Face" and "True Love" are not currently available on YouTube.

1947 - Harold Peary (narrating as "The Great Gildersleeve"), with music by Robert Emmett Dolan who is also directing the orchestra (lineup unlisted), records the titles "Cinderella, Part 1", "Cinderella, Part 2" and "Cinderella, Part 3" in Radio Recorders' studios at 932 North Western Avenue in Hollywood, California. After "Cinderella, Part 4" is recorded on June 6, 1947, Capitol Records will issue all the parts together on the children's album "Stories For Children - The Great Gildersleeve, Volume 3" (CD-69).

1948 - Vocalist Merle Travis records a spoken recitation for his title "Deck Of Cards" in the Capitol Lounge in Los Angeles, California between 3:00PM and 3:45PM for Capitol Records. Bear Family Records will issue the title in Germany in Travis' five-CD compilation box set "Guitar Rags And A Too Far Past" (BCD 15637).

1948 - Vocalist Tex Ritter records the vocals for the title "Deck Of Cards" in a radio station in Montgomery, Alabama. After instrumental overdubs are recorded by organist Buddy Cole in Los Angeles, California later in 1948, Capitol Records will issue the final mix of the title as a single (Capitol Americana 40114) with "Rounded Up In Glory" (recorded May 1, 1945) on the flipside and on the multi-artist compilation album "All Time Favorites - Country And Hillbilly" (H-9107).

1949 - Jo Stafford's Capitol Records single "A You're Adorable" enters the top 40 of the U.S. Pop singles charts.

1957 - The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (lineup unlisted), conducted by William Steinberg, records Elgar's "Enigma Variations, Opus 36" in the Syria Mosque at 4400 Bigelow Boulevard in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Capitol Records will issue the title on the orchestra's album "ELGAR - Enigma Variations, Opus 36/VAUGHAN WILLIAMS - Fantasia On A Theme By Tallis" (P-8383).

1958 - Vocalist Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps (Clifton Simmons on piano, Johnny Meeks on guitar, Grady Owen on rhythm guitar, Bobby Lee Jones on bass, Juvenal "Juvey" Gomez on drums, and Paul Peek and Tommy Facenda on handclapping and chorus vocals), records the titles "Dance In The Street" and, with the addition of Eddie Cochran to the chorus vocals, "Git It" in The Capitol Tower Studios at 1750 North Vine Street in Hollywood, California between 10:00 AM and 1:00 PM. Capitol Records will issue "Dance In The Street" on the single-disc EP "Hot Rod Gang (Film Soundtrack)" (EAP-1-985) and "Git It" as a single (Capitol 4051) and on the album "A Gene Vincent Record Date" (EAP-2-1059 on two-disc 7" EP and T 1059 on 12" LP).

1958 - The George Shearing Quintet (Emil Richards on vibraphone, George Shearing on piano, Jean "Toots" Thielemans on guitar, John Neves or James Bond on bass, and Ray Mosca on drums) records the titles "The Story Of Love (Historia De Un Amor)", "It's Not For Me To Say", and "Tu, Mi Delirio" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on the quintet's album "Latin Lace" (EAP-1/2-1082 on 7" EP and T/ST 1082 on 12" LP).

1958 - Pianist Rudolf Firkusny records Brahms' "Intermezzo in E Flat, Opus 118 N° 6", "Rhapsody in G Minor, Opus 79 N° 2", "Intermezzo in B Flat Minor, Opus 117 N° 2", and "Rhapsody in E Flat, Opus 119 N° 4" in New York City, New York. Capitol Records will issue all the titles, except "Intermezzo in B Flat Minor, Opus 117 N° 2" on the album "Firkusny Plays BRAHMS" (P/SP-8485). After a new take of "Intermezzo in B Flat Minor, Opus.117 N° 2" is recorded on January 20, 1959, the new take will also be issued on the album "Firkusny Plays BRAHMS".

1962 - The Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Erich Leinsdorf, records the as yet unissued titles of Mozart's "Divertimento No. 2, K; 131 - Movement 1: Allegro/Menuet No. 1/Allegretto" and "Adagio No. 1/Adagio No. 2" in Los Angeles, California for Capitol Records.

1963 - Capitol Records releases The Beach Boys' second album "Surfin' U.S.A.".

1963 - Pianist Cy Coleman, with Billy May conducting his own arrangements to the orchestra (George Roberts on trombone, John Cave, Vincent De Rosa, James Decker, William Hinshaw on French horns, Ted Nash, Justin Gordon, Ronnie Lang, and Wilbur Schwartz on woodwinds, Ben Tucker on bass, and Bob Thomas on drums), records the titles "Autumn Nocturne", "Misty", "I Thought About You", and "It Amazes Me" in The Capitol Tower Studios at 1750 North Vine Street in Hollywood, California between 8:30 PM and 11:30 PM. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Coleman's album "The Piano Witchcraft Of Cy Coleman" (T/ST 1952).

1963 - During two sessions held this day in Los Angeles, California, Randy Boone, with unlisted others, records the titles "The Wanderer" and "Young Man" at the first session and new takes of "Young Man" and "The Wanderer" and the title "Fast Freight" at the second session for Capitol Records which has yet to issue either take of "The Wanderer" or "Fast Freight". No issuing information is listed for either take of "Young Man".

1964 - The Beach Boys' Capitol Records single "Fun Fun Fun" is #2 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart.

60 Years Ago Today In 1966 - Buck Owens and The Buckaroos play to a sold-out Carnegie Hall audience in New York, City. Capitol Records tapes the show and later releases a live album of the event.

1968 - Vocalist Lou Rawls, with H. B. Barnum conducting his own arrangements to the orchestra and vocal chorus (lineups unlisted), records the titles "You're Good For Me" and "Soul Serenade" in Los Angeles, California with producer David Axelrod. Capitol Records will issue both titles together as a single (Capitol 2172) and on Rawls' album "You're Good For Me" (ST 2927).

1972 - Capitol Records releases Merle Haggard's single "Grandma Harp" which will become his twelfth # 1 record.

1973 - Capitol Records registers in Los Angeles, California the masters it purchased for Nitzinger's titles "Color Or Guns", "Hot Pocket", "Pretty Song", "Yellow Dog", "Happy Birthday", "Sharing Days With You", "Get Down", "Night Watchman", and "Lightning" but has yet to issue any of the titles.

1977 - Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band's Capitol Records album "Night Moves" is certified Platinum by the R.I.A.A.

1977 - Final mixes are done for Gary Bartz's titles "Carnaval De L'Esprit", "Ooh Baby Baby", "Love Ballad", "Funked Up", "Swing Thing", and "Macaroni" at Sound Factory West in Hollywood, California. Capitol Records will issue all the titles, except the yet-to-be-issued "Funked Up", on Bartz's album "Music Is My Sanctuary" (ST-11647).

1978 - Vocalist Juice Newton, with unlisted others, records the title "Go Easy" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue the title on Newton's album "Well Kept Secret" (SW-11811) and, as "Go Easy On Me", as a single (Capitol 4818) with "Sunshine" (recorded April 1, 1989) on the flipside.

1982 - Storm (Lear Stevens on guitar, Ronni Hanson on bass, Jimmy Monroe on drums, and Jeanette Chase on vocals) record the titles "Hand In Hand" and "Settle Down" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue both titles on the band's self-titled album "Storm" (ST-12259).

1988 - Dave Edmunds, with unlisted others, records the title "Fallin' Through A Hole" at an unlisted studio. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Edmunds' album "Closer To Fame" (C1-90372 on 12" LP and C2-90372-2 on CD).

2003 - Capitol Records releases Rosanne Cash's album "Rules of Travel".

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1934 - Johnny Burnette, a singer, songwriter, guitarist, and Liberty Records artist, is born in Memphis, Tennessee.

1958 - Liberty Records artist Eddie Cochran joins Tommy Facenda and Paul Peeks (Gene Vincent's backing singers) for The Capitol Session at The Capitol Tower in Hollywood, California.

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1913 - The Palace Theatre opens its doors at 1564 Broadway (at West 47th Street) in Manhattan, New York with Ed Wynn as the first entertainer on the vaudeville bill.

1939 - Billboard magazine publishes its first "Hillbilly Records" chart.

1949 - Jack Kapp, the co-founder of Decca Records, dies at age 47 in New York City, New York.

 MARCH 24, 2026

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

1935 - Carol Kaye, bass guitar player on sessions for many Capitol Records artists, for artists on many other labels, and for television and movie soundtracks as well as a member of The Clique (aka The Wrecking Crew) is born in Everett, Washington. She also plays 12-string, six-string electric, and acoustic guitars.

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1945 - The King Cole Trio's first Capitol Records album, "Capitol Presents The King Cole Trio" (listed as "Collection Of Favorites" in the chart), is the first #1 album on Billboard Magazine's new "Best-Selling Popular Record Albums" chart for the week of March 15, 1945 on page 65 in the March 24, 1945 issue.

1947 - Merle Travis' Capitol Records single "So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed", with "Sweet Temptation" on the flipside, is #1 on the U.S. Country singles charts.

1947 - Jimmy Wakely, with Stan Ellison directing an uncredited orchestra, records the titles "I Hear You Talkin'", "I'm Gonna Marry Mary", "Song Of The Sierras", "Too Many Sweethearts", and "Oklahoma Hills" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue the first and third titles together as a single (Capitol Americana 40016), the second and fourth titles together as a single (Capitol 414), and the last title on the compilation album "Cowboy Hit Parade" (AD-55).

1952 - Vocalist Gordon MacRae, with Van Alexander and his Orchestra (lineup unlisted), records the title "There's A Lull In My Life", unissued takes of the titles "Lost (I'm Lost)" and "Lazy As The Day Is Long", and the title "Blame It On My Youth" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue the first and last title together as a single (Capitol 2196).

1955 - Nat "King" Cole's Capitol Records single "Darling Je Vous Aime Beaucoup", with "The Sand And The Sea" on the flipside, is #4 on the U.S. Pops singles charts.

1957 - Final overdubs are recorded for Stan Freberg's title "Tele-Vee-Shun" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue the final mix of the title as a single (Capitol F3687) with "Banana Boat (Day-O)" on the flipside.

1958 - Laurie London's Capitol Records single "He's Got The Whole World (In His Hands)", with "Handed Down" on the flipside, enters the top 40 of the U.S. Pop singles chart and will become the first single certified Gold by the R.I.A.A.

1958 - Vocalist Molly Bee, with unlisted others, records the titles "Don't Look Back" and "Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue both titles together as a single (Capitol F3968).

1958 - Harpist Marcel Grandjany records Chavarri's "El Viejo Castillo Moro", Freixanet's "Sonata In A Minor", De Falla's "Spanish Dance N° 2, From 'La Vida Breve'", and Padre Rafael Angles' "Aria In D Minor" in Studio A of the Capitol Records studios in New York City, New York. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Grandjany's album "El Amor D'España" (P-8473).

1962 - The Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Erich Leinsdorf, records Mozart's "Divertimento N∞2 K.131: Menuet N∞ 2/Allegro N∞2" in Los Angeles, California for Capitol Records which has yet to issue the title.

1967 - The Lettermen (vocalists Jim Pike, Tony Butala, and Bob Engemann), with uncredited musicians, record the title "Mr. Sun" and an unissued take of the title "Something Stupid". Capitol Records will issue "Mr.Sun" as a single (Capitol 5913) with "Volare" on the flipside.

1967 - Vocalist Willie Hightower, with Robert Banks directing the orchestra (lineup unlisted) using his own arrangements, records the titles "For Sentimental Reasons/You Send Me", "You Are Mine", and "Because I Love You" in New York City, New York with producers Richard Gottehrer and Seymore Stein (who would later found Sire Records). After a sweetening session for all the titles is held the same day, Capitol Records will issue the first and last titles together as a single (Capitol 5916) and all the titles on Hightower's album "If I Had A Hammer" (ST-367).

1968 - Final overdubs are recorded in Los Angeles, California for Tony Bruno's title "I'm Feeling It Now". Capitol Records will issue the final mix of the title on Bruno's album "I'm Feeling It Now" (ST 2930).

1972 - Vocalist Marjorie McCoy, with unlisted musicians using arrangements by Allan A. Capps, records the title "And That's Saying A Lot", an unissued take of the title "Looking Back", and the title "I'd Rather Go Blind" with producer David D. Cavanaugh in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue the first and last titles together as a single (Capitol 3423). Unfortunately, "And That's Saying A Lot" is not currently available on YouTube.

1972 - During two sessions held this day at Music City Recorders in Nashville, Tennessee, vocalist Anita Carter, with Hargus "Pig" Robbins on piano, Ray Edenton, David Kirby, and Hollis "Red Lane" DeLaughter on guitar, Pete Drake on steel guitar, Bob Moore on bass, and Murrey M. "Buddy" Harman Jr. on drums, records the titles "How To Be A Woman", "Too Much Of A Man To Be Tied Down", and "Walk On Out Of My Mind" at the first session between 2:00 PM and 5:00 PM and the title "Love Is On The Way", the unissued, and listed as now lost, title "I Kinda Miss The Band", and the title "There's So Much Love Left Over" at the second session between 6:00 PM and 9:00 PM. After overdubs are recorded for the first, second, and fourth titles at the same location between 2:00 PM and 5:00 PM on March 27, 1972 (with Johnny Gimble on fiddle, Pete Drake on steel guitar, and a vocal chorus consisting of Marcy Lynn Cates and Marjorie Ann Cates), the first and third titles on March 29, the second and sixth titles on April 19, 1972, and the fourth and fifth titles on May 27, 1972, Capitol Records will issue all the titles, except the fifth title, on Carter's album "So Much Love" (ST-11085).

1972 - David Arlen records the title "Always Missing You" and unissued takes of the titles "Tenderness Road" and "You're Everything Love's Supposed To Be" in Nashville, Tennessee. Capitol Records will issue "Always Missing You" as a single (Capitol 3384) with "I'm Beginning To See The Light" (recorded March 27, 1972) on the flipside. Unfortunately, "Always Missing You" is not currently available on YouTube.

1973 - Some references give this as the date Pink Floyd's album "Dark Side Of The Moon" is released either in the U.K. by Harvest Records or in the U.S. by Capitol Records. The album is now distributed by Sony Music Entertainment.

1973 - During live shows held this day in New Orleans, Louisiana that are recorded by Capitol Records, vocalist Merle Haggard and The Dixieland Express (lineup unlisted) performed the titles "Hammin' It Up", "Everybody's Had The Blues", "Big Bad Bill (Is Sweet William Now)", "I Forget You Every Day", "I Ain't Got Nobody (And Nobody Cares For Me)", "Carolyn", "Champagne", "Lovesick Blues", "The Emptiest Arms In The World", "Nobody Knows I'm Hurtin'", "Intro To: Way Down Yonder In New Orleans", "Way Down Yonder In New Orleans", "Okie From Muskogee", "I Wonder If They Ever Think Of Me", and "Finale". Capitol Records will issue all the titles on the album "Merle Haggard - I Love Dixie Blues" (ST-11200).

1978 - At a live show recorded by Capitol Records at the Latin Casino in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, vocalist Natalie Cole, with Linda Williams conducting the orchestra (lineup unlisted) using arrangements by Gene Barge, performs the titles "Lovers", "La Costa", and "Something's Got A Hold Of Me". Capitol Records will issue "Lovers" as a single (Capitol 4623) with "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" (recorded March 23, 1978) on the flipside and with "Something's Got A Hold On Me" on the two-disc set "Natalie Live!" (SKBL-11709) and has yet to issue "La Costa".

1978 - Caldera (lineup unlisted) records the title "Cross Country" in (listed as possibly) Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue the title on Caldera's album "Time And Chance" (SW-11810).

1979 - Anne Murray's Capitol Records single "I Just Fall In Love Again", with "Just To Feel This Love From You" on the flipside, hits #1 on the U.S. Country Singles chart.

1980 - Capitol Records releases The Beatles' compilation album "Rarities".

1983 - Capitol Records registers the masters it licensed from EMI for Duran Duran's titles "Is There Something I Should Know" and "Faith In This Color" and will issue "Is There Something I Should Know" as a single (Capitol 5233) with "Careless Memories" (registered March 25, 1981) and on the group's self-titled album "Duran Duran" (ST-12158). No issuing information is listed for "Faith In This Color".

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1949 - Jay Livingston and Ray Evans win the Academy Award for Best Music/Song for "Buttons and Bows" from the Paramount Pictures movie "The Paleface". Capitol Records has released two versions of the title as singles, one recorded by The Dinning Sisters with "San Antonio Rose" on the flipside and the other with vocals by Bob Hope and The Clark Sisters with "That's Not The Knot" on the flipside.

 MARCH 23, 2026

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

75 Years Ago Today In 1951 - Patrice Holloway, a singer, Capitol Records and Motown Records solo artist, backing session singer, member of the Capitol Records group Josie And The Pussycats (and provided the singing voice of the character Valarie for the first season of the cartoon show), and younger sister of Motown Records artist Brenda Holloway, is born Patrice Yvonne Holloway in Los Angeles, California.

ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY

1944 - Stan Kenton and His Orchestra's Capitol Records single "Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me", with "Harlem Folk Dance" on the flipside, enters the top 40 of the U.S. Pop singles charts.

80 YearscAgo Today In 1946 - Johnny Mercer's Capitol Records single "Personality", with "If I Knew Then" on the flipside, is #2 on the U.S. Pop singles chart.

1948 - Capitol Records artists Stan Kenton and His Orchestra and The King Cole Trio start a week-long stay at Radio City Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota, working a 50-50 split from the first dollar.

1950 - Billy May and His Orchestra, with May conducting his own arrangements to Uan Rasey, Rubin "Zeke" Zarchy, Irv Shulkin, and William Guy on trumpet, Ed Kusby, James Priddy, Si Zentner, and James Skiles on trombone, Arthur "Skeets" Herfurt, Jules Kinsler, Donald Lazenby, Fred Falensby, and Arthur Fleming on saxophones, Edwin "Buddy" Cole on piano, J.H. Washburne on bass, and John Cyr on drums,  record the titles "Minor March (Bottom Of The Cage)", "Circus Waltz" (with the scripts for both written by Alan Livingston), and the instrumental tracks for "Francis (The Talking Mule)" and "A Mule Is A Fool" at Capitol Records' studios at 5515 Melrose Avenue in Hollywood, California on March 23, 1950 between 9:00 PM and 12:00 AM on March 24, 1950. The vocals for the last two titles will be overdubbed by Chill Wills and The Starlighters on March 27, 1950. Capitol Records will issue the first two songs together on the children's album "Bozo's Circus Band" (DC-253) and the last two songs together on the children's album "Francis *The Talking Mule)" (CAS-3071).

75 Years Ago Today In 1951 - Les Paul and Mary Ford's Capitol Records single "How High The Moon", with "The Walkin' and Whistlin' Blues" on the flipside, enters the top 40 of the U.S. Pop singles charts.

1953 - Vocalist Ella Mae Morse, with Nelson Riddle conducting his own arrangements to His Orchestra (Conrad Gozzo on trumpet, Murray McEachern on trombone, Harry Klee on alto saxophone and flute, Ted Nashon tenor saxophone, Joe Koch on baritone saxophone, Joe Rushton on bass saxophone, Jimmy Rowles on piano, Bob Bain on guitar, Morty Corb on bass, Frankie Carlson on drums, Lou Singer on xylophone, and a string section with Victor Bay, Mischa Russell, Felix Slatkin, and Marshall Sosson on violins, Stanley Harris and Paul Robyn on violas, and Eleanor Slatkin on cello), records the titles "Big Mamou", "T'aint What You Do (It's The Way That Cha Do It)", "Carioca", and "Is It Any Wonder" at Capitol Records' studios at 5515 Melrose Avenue in Hollywood, California between 3:00 PM and 6:00 PM. Capitol Records will issue "Big Mamou" and "Is It Any Wonder" together as a single (Capitol 2441), "Big Mamou" on the multi-artist compilation album "Today's Top Hits, Volume 9" (EBF-9114 on two-disc 7" EP and H-9114 on 10" LP), "T'aint What You Do (It's The Way That Cha Do It)" as a single (Capitol 2658) with "It Ain't Necessarily So" (recorded June 19, 1953) on the flipside. Bear Family Records will issue all the titles on Morse's five-CD compilation set "Barrelhouse, Boogie And The Blues" (BCD 16117).

1953 - Van Alexander conducts his own arrangements to his orchestra (lineup unlisted) as the record the instrumental tracks for the titles "Woody Woodpecker And The Lost Monkey: Part 1", "Woody Woodpecker And The Lost Monkey: Part 2", "Mickey Mouse's Birthday Party: Part 1", and "Mickey Mouse's Birthday Party: Part 2" in Los Angeles, California. After Mel Blanc records the vocal tracks for both parts of "Woody Woodpecker And The Lost Monkey" on April 3, 1953, and Stan Freberg, June Foray, and Pinto Colvig record the vocal tracks for both parts of "Mickey Mouse's Birthday Party" on April 8, 1953, Capitol Records will issue the final mixes of both parts of "Woody Woodpecker And The Lost Monkey" together on the children's album ""Woody Woodpecker And The Lost Monkey" (CAS-3161) and the final mixes of both parts of "Mickey Mouse's Birthday Party" together on the Record Reader children's album "Mickey Mouse's Birthday Party" (DBX-3165).

1953 - During three sessions held this day in Los Angeles, California, Felix Slatkin conducts The Concert Arts Orchestra (lineup unlisted), with Victor Aller on piano, as they record parts one and two of Hindemith's "The Four Temperaments" at the first session, parts three and five at the second session, and part four at the third session. Capitol Records will issue all the parts on the album "HINDEMITH - The Four Temperaments" (L-8228) as by The Concert Arts Orchestra.

1953 - The Louvin Brothers (Charlie Louvin on vocals and guitar and Ira Louvin on vocals and mandolin), with Chet Atkins on electric guitar, and (listed as probably) Eddie Hill on guitar, and Floyd T. "Lightnin'" Chance on bass, record the titles "I Love God's Way Of Living", "Born Again", "Preach The Gospel", and "From Mother's Arms To Korea" at Castle Studio in the Tulane Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee. Capitol Records will issue "I Love God's Way Of Living" and "Preach The Gospel" together as a single (Capitol 2612) and "Born Again" and "From Mother's Arms To Korea" together as a single (Capitol 2510).

70 Years Ago Today In 1956 - Les Baxter's "Poor People of Paris", with "Theme From Helen Of Troy" on the flipside, is still #1 on the U.S. Pop Singles charts.

1963 - Nat "King" Cole's Capitol Records album "Where Did Everyone Go?" is #4 on KTKT 990 AM's Album Sound Of The Day chart in Tucson, Arizona, Cole's Capitol Records album "Dear Lonely Hearts" is #43 on Billboard magazine's Top LPs - 50 Best Sellers - Stereo chart and #74 on Billboard magazine's Top LPs - 150 Best Sellers - Monaural chart. Nat "King" Cole's Capitol Records single "All Over The World" is #18 on Billboard magazine's Middle-Road Singles chart, #50 on the magazine's Hot 100 chart, and #53 on Cash Box magazine's Top 100 Singles chart. Also, Cole's Capitol Records single "Skip To My Lou" debuts at #8 in Sweden according to Billboard magazine's Hits Of The World charts.

1964 - Chet Baker signs a contract with Capitol Records.

1967 - Pete "Boss Of The Blues" Johnson, a pianist, bandleader of the Blue Note Records group The Pete Johnson Blues Trio, and a member of the Capitol Records group The Capitol Jazzmen dies in the Edward J. Meyer Memorial Hospital (now the Erie County Medical Center) at 462 Grider Street in Buffalo, New York (where he had lived since 1950) at age 62, two days before his 63rd birthday, after years of heart problems, of complications after suffering a stroke at his home on Sunday, March 20, 1967. Earlier in the year, on January 15, 1967, he came out of a nine-year retirement to perform in Carnegie Hall as part of the "From Spirituals To Swing - 1967" concert. He will later be buried in Section CC of Forest Lawn cemetery in Buffalo, New York.

1968 - The Beatles' Apple Records single "Lady Madonna", with "The Inner Light" on the flipside and distributed by Capitol Records in the United States, enters the top 40 of Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart.

1969 - Merle Haggard records the title "Jesus, Take A Hold" for Capitol Records.

1969 - Buck Owen's Capitol Records single "Who's Gonna Mow Your Grass", the flipside of "There's Gotta Be Some Changes Made" hits #1 on the U.S. Pop Singles chart.

55 Years Ago Today In 1971 - Vocalist and guitarist Buck Owens and The Buckaroos (lineup unlisted), record the titles "Ruby (Are You Mad)", "Heartbreak Mountain", and "Uncle Pen" in Bakersfield, California. Capitol Records will issue the first two titles together as a single (Capitol 3096) and all three titles on Owens' album "Ruby" (ST-795).

1974 - Ringo Starr's Apple Records single "Oh My My", distributed by Capitol Records in the United States and with "Step Lightly" on the flipside, enters the top 40 of Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart.

1978 - Saxophonist Gary Bartz, with unlisted others, records the title "Who Loves You Baby" in Los Angeles, California for Capitol Records which has yet to issue the title.

1978 - Vocalist Natalie Cole, with Linda Williams conducting the orchestra (lineup unlisted) using arrangements by Gene Barge, performs the titles "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds", "Mona Lisa", "Be Thankful", "Just Can't Stay Away", "Cry Baby", Our Love", and "Annie Mae" at a concert held at the Latin Casino in Cherry Hill, New Jersey that is recorded by Capitol Records which will issue "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" as a single (Capitol 4623) with "Lovers" (recorded March 24, 1978) on the flipside and, with "Be Thankful", "Cry Baby", and "Our Love" on the two-LP set "Natalie Live!" (SKBL-11709), an edited version of "Lucy In The Sky with Diamonds" as a single (Capitol 6273) with an edited version of "Stand By Me" (recorded October 11, 1978) on the flipside, and has yet to issue "Mona Lisa", "Just Can't Stay Away", and "Annie Mae".

1983 - Russel Smith, with unlisted others, records the title "Where Did We Go Right" in Nashville, Tennessee. Capitol Records will issue the title as a single (Capitol 5293) with "Hesitation" (recorded March 3, 1983) on the flipside.

ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY

1958 - Trombonist Bennie Green, with Charlie Rouse on tenor saxophone, Joe Knight on piano, George Tucker on bass, and Louis Hayes on drums, records the titles "I Love You", "Melba's Mood", "Just Friends", "Green Street", "Bennie Blows The Blues", and "You're Mine" at recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder's studio in Hackensack, New Jersey. Blue Note Records will issue "I Love You" and "You're Mine You" together as a single (Blue Note 45-1706), "Melba's Mood" and "Just Friends" together as a single (Blue Note 45-1707), and all the titles on Green's album "Back On The Scene" (BLP1587/BST81587).

MARCH 22, 2026

HAPPY BIRTHDAYS!

1912 - Robert Earl Myers Jr., also known as Bob Myers, an American classical music record producer, artists & repertoire specialist at Capitol Records, and sales manager, then director of artists & repertoire then general manager for the classical music division of its EMI parent company, Angel Records, is born in Mexico City, Mexico.

Hector Villa Lobos and Robert Myers

1927 - Max A. Million, who worked in promotion and sales for Stan Kenton and His Orchestra and Capitol Records, is born John Edmond Faraher in Jacksonville, Illinois. If anyone has a photo, please contact me.

ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY

1948 - Disk jockey Jerry Marshall introduces Nat "King" Cole's Capitol Records single "Nature Boy" at 2:16 PM EST on WNEW's "Music Hall" program. By 2:20 PM, the station was swamped with calls. During the next few weeks, the song was played at least ten times a day on the station. Also, Nat and Nadine Cole are officially divorced.

1958 - Nat "King" Cole's Capitol Records album "Just One Of Those Things" is #6 on The Billboard magazine's Most Played By Jockeys chart and Cole's Capitol Records single "Angel Smile" is #55 on the magazine's Top 100 Sides chart and #59 on Cash Box magazine's Best Selling Singles chart.

1963 - During two sessions held this day in New York City, New York for Capitol Records, pianist Cy Coleman, with unlisted others, records the title "It's A Wonderful World" at the first session and the titles "Fly Me To The Moon (In Other Words)", "Time After Time", and new takes of the titles "Blue Grass Groove", and "Sweet Georgia Brown" at the second session. Capitol has yet to issue any of the titles from either session.

1965 - Capitol Records releases The Beatles' album "The Early Beatles".

1968 - Overdubs are recorded for Bonnie Owens' titles "How Can Our Cheatin' Be Wrong?" and "I'll Look You Over" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue the final mixes of both titles on the album "Lead Me On" (ST-195) as by Bonnie Owens And The Strangers and "How Can Our Cheatin' Be Wrong" as a single (Capitol 2210) with "Yes, I Love You Only" (recorded February 2, 1968) on the flipside.

1968 - During two sessions held this day in Los Angeles, California, The Howard Roberts Quartet (Roberts on guitar with unlisted others) record the titles "Music To Think By", "I Say A Little Prayer", and "Pretty Butterfly" at the first session and the titles "It's About Time", "Fred", and "Love Is Blue (L'Amour Est Bleu)" at the second session. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Roberts' album "Out Of Sight But 'In' Sound" (ST 2901).

1968 - The Beach Boys (lineup unlisted) record the title "Passing" (originally listed as "Instrumental #1") in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue the title on the group's album "Friends" ST 2895).

1968 - Overdubs are recorded in Los Angeles, California for Peggy Lee's titles "Daydream", "It'll Never Happen", and "Misty Roses". Capitol Records has yet to issue any of the titles.

1968 - The Crackers (aka The Band, with Garth Hudson on piano, organ, and vocals, Richard Manuel on piano, organ, guitar, bass, and vocals, Jaime Robbie Robertson on guitar and vocals, Rick Danko on bass and vocals, and Levon Helm on drums and vocals) records new takes of the titles "Long Black Veil" and "Chest Fever" in New York City, New York. Capitol Records will issue the new takes on the group's album "Music From Big Pig" (SKAO 2955).

1968 - Sidewalk Records, at the time being distributed by Capitol Records, purchases the masters for the soundtrack to the movie "Psych-Out" from American International Productions. The titles include, in order of appearance, The Storybook's "The Pretty Song From 'Psych-Out'" and "Rainy Day Mushroom Pillow", The Seeds' "Two Fingers Pointing On You", Bienzee Cryque's "Ashbury Wednesday", Strawberry Alarm Clock's "The World Is On Fire", The Storybook's "Psych-Out Sanctorum", "Beads Of Innocence from 'Psych-Out'", "The Love Children", and "Psych-Out", and Strawberry Alarm Clock's "The World's On Fire (Long Version)". Sidewalk will issue all the titles on the soundtrack album "Psych-Out" (T/ST-5913) and "Beads Of Innocence From 'Psych-Out'" and "Psych-Out" together as a single (Sidewalk 940). Tower Records, a subsidiary of Capitol Records, will issue "The Love Children" and "Psych-Out" on the compilation album "Best Of The Soundtracks" (ST 5148).

1969 - Sonny James' Capitol Records single "Only The Lonely", with "The Journey" on the flipside, is #1 on the U.S. Country singles chart.

55 Years Ago Today In 1971 - Capitol Records releases Tennessee Ernie Ford's single "Don't Let The Good Life Pass You By" with "Happy Songs Of Love" on the flipside.

1973 - Capitol Records registers the masters it purchased for Buck Owens' and Susan Raye's titles "Take A Taste Of My Wine", "I Think I'm Gonna Like Loving You", "Sweethearts In Heaven", "I've Got A Happy Heart", "Arms Full Of Empty", "All The Dreamin' They Can Stand", "Honey...Let's Fall In Love", "When You Get To Heaven (I'll Be There)", and "Love Makes The World Go Round" from Buck Owens Enterprises and will issue all the titles on Owens and Raye's album "The Good Old Days (Are Here Again)" (ST-11204), "Sweethearts In Heaven" as a single (Capitol 4100) with "Love Is Strange" (recorded April 11, 1975) on the flipside, and "When You Get To Heaven (I'll Be There)" as a single (Capitol 3601) with "The Good Old Days (Are Here Again)" (registered March 19, 1973) on the flipside.

1974 - Sam Donahue, tenor saxophone, trumpet, and valve trombone player, arranger, bandleader (his own, the U.S. Navy's, Billy May's for the Ray Anthony organization, Tommy Dorsey's which became the Frank Sinatra, Jr. Show's), Capitol Records session musician and member of the Capitol Records group Stan Kenton and His Orchestra, dies at age 56 of complications of cancer in Reno, Nevada.

1977 - The Steve Miller Band's Capitol Records single "Fly Like An Eagle", with "Lovin' Cup" on the flipside, is #2 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart.

1977 - Glen Campbell's Capitol Records single "Southern Nights", with "William Tell Overture" on the flipside, is #1 on the U.S. Country singles chart.

40 Years Ago Today In 1986 - Heart's "These Dreams", with "Shell Shock" on the flipside, is still #1 (the band's first) on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart.

1988 - Vocalist Anne Murray, with unlisted others, records the titles "Who But You" and "If I Don't Fall Tonight" at Nightingale Studio in Nashville, Tennessee. Capitol Records will issue "Who But You" as a single (Capitol 44341) with "You Make Me Curious" (recorded January 29, 1988) on the flipside. No issuing information is listed for "If I Don't Fall Tonight".

ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY

1958 - Pete Wylie, a singer, guitarist, harmonica player, remixer, record producer, member of the groups Echo And The Bunnymen and Wah!, and a Virgin Records America solo artist, is born in Liverpool, England. I designed the cover for the U.S. release of the 12" version of his single "Sinful".

1962 - Perry Baggs, a vocalist, and drummer with the EMI America group Jason & The Scorchers, is born Perry Armand Baggs III, in Nashville, Tennessee. I worked on designs for the band's EMI America single "Golden Ball And Chain" and was at their video shoot for the single at the Palace Theater in Hollywood, California in 1986.

1963 - Parlophone Records releases The Beatles' first album "Please Please Me".

1978 - The Rutles' mockumentary "All You Need Is Cash", spoofing the career of The Beatles, produced by George Harrison (who also appears briefly as a reporter), and written by Eric Idle, makes its world debut when it airs on NBC-TV. It will air in the UK a week later.

45 Years Ago Today In 1981 - Blondie's Chrysalis Records single "Rapture", with "Walk Like Me" on the flipside, is #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart. Chrysalis' UK catalog was once owned by Capitol Records' former parent company, EMI Music Group, was sold to Warner Music Group, who in turn sold it to Blue Raincoat Music who sold it to Reservoir Media Management.