FEBRUARY 24, 2026

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

1947 - Lonnie Turner, songwriter and bass player and vocalist in the Capitol Records group The Steve Miller Band, is born Leonard Lewis Turner in Berkeley, California.

ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY

1945 - Sonny Greer and the Duke's Men (Taft Jordan on trumpet, Barney Bigard on clarinet, Otto Hardwicke on alto saxophone, Duke Brooks on piano, Fred Guy on guitar, Red Callender on bass, and Greer on drums) record the titles "Mood Indigo" (two takes, the first will be used on a single released by Capitol Records, the second will be used on the album released by Capitol), "Bug In A Rug", "The Mooche" (also two takes, the first used on a single released by Capitol Records and the second used on the album released by Capitol), and "Kandylamb" in Los Angeles, California

80 Years Ago Today In 1946 - Betty Hutton's Capitol Records single "Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief", with "A Square In The Social Circle" on the flipside" is #1 on the U.S. Pop singles charts.

1953 - Vocalist Margaret Whiting and Jimmy Wakely, with an orchestra (lineup unlisted), record the title "Gomen Nasai (Forgive Me)" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue the title as a single (Capitol 2402) with "I Learned To Love You Too Late" (recorded January 14, 1952) on the flipside and 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).

1954 - Nat "King" Cole's Capitol Records single "Answer Me, My Love", with "Why?" on the flipside, enters the top 40 of the U.S. Pop singles charts.

70 Years Ago Today In 1956 - Vocalist Andy Griffith, with Dick Ryan, records the titles "Opera Carmen, Part 1" and "Opera Carmen, Part 2" in New York City, New York. Capitol Records will issue both titles together as a single (Capitol F3402) and on Griffith's album "Just For Laughs" (T 962).

70 Years Ago Today In 1956 - The Cues (Ollie Jones on lead tenor vocals, Abel De Costa and Jimmy Breedlove on tenor vocals, Robie Kirk on baritone vocals, and Eddie Barnes on bass vocals), with possibly King Curtis on tenor saxophone, and unlisted trumpet, piano, guitar, bass, and drums players, record the titles "Don't Make Believe" with Jimmy Breedlove on lead vocals, "Crazy, Crazy Party" and "Rock 'N' Roll Mr. Oriole" both with Ollie Jones on lead vocals, and a as yet unissued and lost take of "Destination Twenty-One Hundred And Sixty-Five" in Capitol Records' 47th Street studios in New York City, New York. Capitol Records will issue "Don't Make Believe" as a single (Capitol F3400) with a remake of the title "Destination Twenty-One Hundred And Sixty-Five" (recorded March 1, 1966) on the flipside, Prep Records (a subsidiary of Capitol Records) will issue "Crazy, Crazy Party" as a single (Prep F104) with "I Pretend" (recorded September 20, 1956) on the flipside, and Bear Family Records will release the first three titles in Germany on the album "The Cues" (BFX 15309) and on the CD "The Cues/The Four Students - Why: The Cues" (BCD 15510).

1957 - Trombonist Pee Wee Hunt, with Andy Bartha on clarinet, Leo Kaminsky on clarinet, Joe Hall on piano, Art Ryerson on guitar, Gene Dragoo on bass, and Cody Sandifer on drums and using arrangements by Van Alexander and Dave Cavanaugh, records the titles "Hi-Ho Pee Wee (from Rossini's 'William Tell Overture')", "Hunt's Goulash (from Brahms' 'Hungarian Dance #6')", "The Iceman Cometh (from 'Waldteufel')", and "Twelfth Street Toreador (from Bizet's 'Toreador Song')" in New York City, New York. Capitol Records will issue all the titles except the take of "Twelfth Street Toreador (from Bizet's 'Toreador Song')" recorded today (and will be re-recorded on February 25, 1957), on Hunt's album "The Classics A La Dixie" (T 846).

1957 - The Jonah Jones Quartet (Jonah Jones on trumpet, George Rhodes on piano, John Brown on bass, and Harold Austin on drums) records the titles "Rose Room", "I Can't Get Started", "My Blue Heaven" with vocals by Jonah Jones, "Royal Garden Blues" and "I Could Have Danced All Night" in New York City, New York. Capitol Records will issue all the titles, except "I Could Have Danced All Night" which has yet to be issued, on the quartet's album "Muted Jazz" (T/ST 839).

1958 - It's a Monday and Nat "King" Cole, with a small combo and an augmented 16 piece orchestra with strings, appears for 45 minutes to a half-full house at Cafe Pompeii at the Hotel Eden Roc in Miami, Florida. Cole performs "There Goes My Heart", "Dance Ballerina Dance", "Mona Lisa", "Too Young", "Send For Me", "Stardust", "Just One Of Those Things", "Thou Swell", "These Foolish Things", "I Want To Be Happy", and, during his third encore, "Route 66".

1958 - Nat "King" Cole's Capitol Records album "Just One Of Those Things" is #19 on WJJD's Top Twenty LP and EP Albums chart in Chicago, Illinois.

1958 - The George Shearing Quintet (Emil Richards on vibraphones, 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 (Vincent De Rosa on French horn, Arthur Gleghorn on flute, Wilbur Schwartz and Jules Jacob on clarinets, Victor Garber on basson, Verlye Mills on harp and a string section with Jacques Gasselin, Ben Gill, Murray Kellner, Dan Lube, Erno Neufeld, Lou Raderman, Mischa Russell, Eudice Shapiro, and Marshall Sosson on violins, Paul Robyn, David Sterkin, and Virginia Majewski on viola, and Armand Kaproff, Raphael Kramer, and Edgar Lustgarten on cellos), records the titles "I'm Old Fashioned", "For Heaven's Sake", "Love-Wise", and "Nina Never Knew" in The Capitol Tower Studios at 1750 North Vine Street in Hollywood, California between 8:00 PM and 11:00 PM Capitol Records will issue all the titles, except for the take of "Nina Never Knew" recorded at this session, on the album "Blue Chiffon" (T/ST 1124) as by The George Shearing Quintet And Orchestra. A new take of "Nina Never Knew" would be recorded on February 26, 1958, and would also be issued on the album "Blue Chiffon".

65 Years Ago Today In 1961 - Paul Weston conducts his own arrangements to his orchestra (lineup unlisted) as they record the titles "Always", "For You", "Goodnight Sweetheart", and "Our Love" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Weston's album "Music For My Love" (T 1563).

1963 - During two concerts held this day in New York City, New York which were recorded by Capitol Records, the vocal group The Lettermen (vocalist Jim Pike, Tony Butala, and Bob Engemann), with an unlisted member playing guitar, perform the titles "Up a Lazy River", "Fast Freight", "Folk Medley: Green Fields/Silver Threads & Golden Needles/If I Had A Hammer", "What Kind Of Fool Am I", "Westside Story Medley: Jet Song/Maria/Officer Krupke (The Quintet)", "Hey Look Me Over", "When I Fall In Love", and "Granada" at the first show and the titles "Groups Are Nothing New Medley: Charley Brown/Mr. Blue/Michael The German Navy Song/The Lion Sleeps In Hollywood/America/This Land Of Alley Oop", and "You'll Never Walk Alone" at the second show. Capitol Records will issue all the titles, except "Up A Lazy River" and "Granada" which remain unissued, on the group's album "The Lettermen In Concert" (T/ST 1936).

1964 - Capitol Records releases Buck Owens' single "My Heart Skips A Beat" with "Together Again" on the flipside. Both sides will go on to hit #1 on the U.S. Country singles charts.

60 Years Ago Today In 1966 - Conductor Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians (lineup unlisted) record the titles "King Of The Road", "Dear Heart", "Red Roses For A Blue Lady", and "Yesterday" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Lombardo's album "Wonderful Year" (T 2481).

60 Years Ago Today In 1966 - During two sessions held this day in Los Angeles, California with producer Dave Cavanaugh and associate producer Jack Marshall, The Howard Roberts Quartet (Howard Roberts and Bill Putman on guitars, Henry Cain on organ, Chuck Berghofer on bass, and Earl Palmer on drums), records the titles "Bye Bye Blues" and "Pussy Cat" at the first session and "Michelle", "The Shadow Of Your Smile", "This Is The Life", and "I'll Only Miss Her When I Think Of Her" at the second session. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Roberts' album "Whatever's Fair!" (T 2478).

60 Years Ago Today In 1966 - Vocalist Cindy Malone, with unlisted others, records the titles "Is It Over, Baby?" and "Thou Shall Not Lie" in Los Angeles, California with producer David Axelrod. Capitol Records will issue "Is It Over, Baby?" as a single (Capitol 5629) with "It's Up To You" (recorded February 9, 1966) on the flipside. There is no issuing information listed for "Thou Shall Not Lie".

1967 - Alexis De Azevedo records the titles "I Wanna Be Free" and "'Hotel' Theme" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue both titles together as a single (Capitol 5891).

1967 - Vocalist Wayne Newton, with unlisted others, records the titles "Born Free", "What Now, My Love", "Michelle", "The Impossible Dream (The Quest)", and "Almost Persuaded" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Newton's album "Song Of The Year" (T/ST 2714).

1967 - Dallas Frazier records the titles "Write That Down", "Tell It Like It Is", "Honk 'N Tonk", and "Ain't Nothin' Shakin' But The Leaves" in Nashville, Tennessee. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Frazier's album "Tell It Like It Is" (T/ST 2764).

1975 - Grand Funk's Capitol Records single "Some Kind Of Wonderful", with "Wild" on the flipside, is #4 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart.

1978 - Vocalist Glen Campbell, with unlisted others, records the titles "(When I Feel Like) I Got No Love In Me" and "Highwayman" at the Studio City studio in Sherman Oaks, California. Capitol Records will issue "(When I Feel Like) I Got Not Love In Me" on Campbell's album "Basic" (SW-11722) and "Highwayman" on his album "Highwayman" (SOO-12008).

1978 - Pam Rose, with unlisted others, records the titles "He Don't Make Me Cry", "Drown In The Flood", "Cry For Love", and "City Of Angels" in (listed as possibly) Los Angeles, California for Capitol Records. No issuing information is listed.

1978 - Navarro (lineup unlisted) records the titles "Keep The Faith", "Can You See Me", and "Childhood A Stardust" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue "Can You See Me" on the group's album "Straight To The Heart" (SW-11784). No issuing information is listed for the other titles.

1978 - The Pousette-Dart Band (lineup unlisted but includes a string section using an arrangement by Dave Appell) records the title "Stand By Me" at an unlisted studio. Capitol Records will issue the title as a single (Capitol 4590) with "I'm So In Love With You" (recorded February 22, 1978) and on the group's album "Pousette-Dart Band 3" (SW-11781).

45 Years Ago Today In 1981 - Jay Ferguson records the titles "Million Dollar (Love Affair)", "Debra Lee", and "She's Mine Tonight" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue "Million Dollar (Love Affair)" and "She's Mine Tonight" on Ferguson's album "White Noise" (ST-12196) and has yet to issue "Debra Lee".

45 Years Ago Today In 1981 - Vocalist Cheryl Ladd, with unlisted others, records the titles "Just Another Lover Tonight" and "Hold On To Love" in Los Angeles, California with producer Daryl Dragon. Capitol Records, with distribution by Toshiba-EMI, will issue both titles in Japan on Ladd's album "Take A Chance" (ECS-91031) which was released only in Japan.

45 Years Ago Today In 1981 - Charles Veal records the title "How Many Times" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue the title on Veal's album "Believe It!" (ST-12174).

1983 - Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band's Capitol Records single "Shame On The Moon", with "House Behind A House" on the flipside, is #2 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart.

1994 - Dinah Shore (born Frances Rose Shore on February 29th, 1916), singer, radio show performer, motion picture actress, television talk show host, golfer, and Capitol Records artist from 1959 to 1962, dies of ovarian cancer in Beverly Hills, California at age 77, five days before her 78th birthday (though some would say she had two years and five days before her next birthday as she was born in a leap year and her next birthday, her 20th, would be in 1996). Her ashes are later divided. Half are interred in the Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City, California, and the other half at Forest Lawn Cemetery (Cathedral City) near Palm Springs, California.

ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY

1950 - George Thorogood, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and an EMI America Records artist, is born in Wilmington, Delaware.

75 Years Ago Today In 1951 - Future Capitol Records artist Judy Garland ends a nineteen-week engagement (originally scheduled for just 4 weeks) that reopened The Palace Theatre in New York City.

1959 - Colin Farley, bass player with the Virgin Records America group Cutting Crew, is born in England.

1982 - Pat Benatar wins the Best Female Rock Performance Grammy for her Chrysalis Records title "Fire and Ice".

1983 - EMI America registers the masters it licensed from EMI Records for Kajagoogoo's titles "Too Shy" and "Take Another View" which it will issue together as a single (EMI-AM 7806) and, after editing "Too Shy", will issue the edited version of the title also as a single (EMI-AM 8161) also with "Take Another View" on the flipside.

1998 - Virgin Records America, Inc. files suit against The Smashing Pumpkins for alleged breach of contract and non-delivery of albums.

FEBRUARY 23, 2026

HAPPY BIRTHDAYS!

1950 - Steve Priest, bass player, vocalist, and founding member of the Parlophone and Capitol Records group Sweet, is born Stephen Norman Priest in Hayes, Middlesex, England.

1962 - Michael Wilton, bass guitarist with the Capitol Records group Queensrÿche, is born in San Francisco, California.

ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY

1945 - Coleman Hawkins (on tenor saxophone) and His Orchestra (Howard McGhee on trumpet, Sir Charles Thompson on piano, Allan Reuss on guitar, Oscar Pettiford on bass and Denzil Best on drums) record "April In Paris", "Rifftide", "Stardust" and "Stuffy" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue the first and third titles on the album "Classics In Jazz - Coleman Hawkins" (CCF-327), the second title as a single (Capitol 15335) with "What Is There To Say" on the flipside, and the last title as a single (Capitol 205) with "It's The Talk Of The Town" on the flipside.

1945 - Shug Fisher and His Ranchmen Trio (Shug Fisher and Wesley Tuttle on vocal, Merle Travis on vocals and lead guitar with Charles Linville and Margie Ann DeVere on fiddle, Don Whiston on guitar. Frankie Marvin on steel guitar and Cliffie Stone on bass) record "The Texas Plain", the (as of 2005) unreleased title "Cool Water", and the titles "Out On The Open Range" and "The Cowboy's Dream" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue the first, third, and fourth titles on the album "Sing, Cowboy, Sing" (AC-77).

80 Years Ago Today in 1946 - Margaret O'Brien records the vocal track for an as yet unissued take of the title "Goldilocks And The Three Bears" in Los Angeles, California for Capitol Records.

75 Years Ago Today in 1951 - Les Baxter and His Orchestra, with a chorus (lineups unlisted), record the titles "Sparrow In The Treetop" and "Tonight We'll Go Dancing", both with additional vocals by Linda Doherty,  a as yet unissued take of the title "John And Marsha", and the titles "Roller Coaster" and, also with additional vocals by Linda Doherty, "Sarah Kelly From Plum Nelly (Way Down In Georgia)" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue the first two titles together as a single (Capitol 1440), "Roller Coaster" as a single (Capitol 1546) with "On Top Of The Ferris Wheel" (recorded March 22, 1951) on the flipside, and the last title as a single (Capitol 1731) with "Longing For You" (recorded May 28, 1951) on the flipside.

1953 - Vladimir Golshmann conducts The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra (lineup unlisted) as they record Cesar Franck's "Symphony In D Minor" and Tchaikovsky's "Francesca Da Rimini, Opus 32" and "Romeo And Juliet (Fantasy Overture)" at Kiel Auditorium in St. Louis, Missouri at a session that started today and would end the next day, on February 24, 1953. Capitol Records will issue "Symphony In D Minor" on the orchestra's album "Cesar FRANCK - Symphony in D Minor" (P-8221) and "Francesca Da Rimini, Opus 32" and "Romeo And Juliet (Fantasy Overture)" on the album "TCHAIKOVSKY - Francesca Da Rimini, Opus 32/Romeo and Juliet (Fantasy Overture)" (P-8225).

1953 - Pianist Leonard Pennario records Frederic Chopin's "Barcarolle In F Sharp Minor, Opus 60" at the Syria Mosque in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Capitol Records will issue the title on Pennario's 10" 33 1/3 RPM album "LISZT - Mephisto Waltz/CHOPIN - Barcarolle In F Sharp Minor" (H-8246).

70 Years Ago Today in 1956 - Vocalist and guitarist "Texas" Bill Strength, with unlisted piano, guitar, steel guitar, bass and drums players, records the titles "Where Did My Heart Go?", "When The Bright Lights Grow Dim" with an unlisted fiddle player, "Gotta Lotta Love", and "It Ain't Much But It's Home" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue the first and third titles together as a single (Capitol F3477) and the second and fourth titles together as a single (Capitol F3394).

70 Years Ago Today in 1956 - Vocalist Kathy Lloyd, with Nelson Riddle conducting his own arrangements to the orchestra (lineup unlisted), records the titles "You Are Mine", "The Wind-Up", "Only When You're Lonely" and an as yet unissued take of the title "Let The Chips Fall (Where They May)" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue the first and third titles together as a single (Capitol 3385) and the "The Wind-Up" as a single (Capitol 3479) with "The West Point Dress Parade" (recorded June 8, 1956) on the flipside.

1957 - Tommy Sands' Capitol Records single "Teen-Age Crush", with "Hep Dee Hootie (Cutie Wootie)" on the flipside, enters the top 40 of the U.S. Pop singles charts.

1957 - The Hollywood String Quartet (unlisted musicians), conducted by Felix Slatkin, records Beethoven's "Quartet N°12 In E Flat Major, Opus 127, 3rd Movement" in Studio A at The Capitol Tower Studios in Hollywood, California. Capitol Records will issue the title on the quartet's album "BEETHOVEN - Quartet N°12 in E Flat Major, Op.127" (P-8443).

1957 - Pee Wee Hunt (on trombone, with Andy Bartha on cornet, Leo Kaminsky on clarinet, Joe Hall on piano, Joe Galbraith on guitar, Gene Dragoo on bass, and Cody Sandifer on drums), using arrangements by Van Alexander and Dave Cavanaugh, records the titles "Springtime Down In Dixie (From 'Spring Song' By Mendelssohn)", "Cotton Pickin' Carmen (From 'Habanera' By Bizet)", and "Hoffman's Hideaway (From 'Barcarolle' By Offenbach)" in New York City, New York. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Hunt's album "The Classics A La Dixie" (T 846).

65 Years Ago Today in 1961 - Vocalist Kay Starr, with Jimmie Haskell conducting the orchestra (lineup unlisted), records the title "Foolin' Around" and an as yet unissued take of the title "Two Brothers" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue "Foolin' Around" as a single (Capitol 4542) with "Kay's Lament" (recorded on February 10, 1961) on the flipside.

65 Years Ago Today in 1961 - Cornet player Red Nichols and His Five Pennies (Robbie Robinson on trombone, Bill Wood on clarinet, Joe Rushton on bass saxophone, Bobby Hammack on piano, and Rollie Culver on drums), record the titles "Summertime", "Corky", "Londonberry Air", "Moonlight Bay", "Why Was I Born?", and "What Is There To Say" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Nichols' album "Dixieland Supper Club" (T 1665).

65 Years Ago Today in 1961 - The Lettermen (vocalists Jim Pike, Tony Butala, and Bob Engemann), with unlisted others, record the title "There's Got To Be A Girl" and unissued takes of the titles "My Desire" and "The Glory Of Love". Capitol Records will issue "There's Got To Be A Girl" on the trio's album "A Song For Young Love" (T 1669).

1962 - During four sessions held this day in The Capitol Tower Studios at 1750 North Vine Street in Hollywood, California. trumpet player and vocalist Louis Prima, with tenor saxophonist and vocalist Sam Butera and The Witnesses (Morgan Thomas also on trumpet, Lou Sineaux on trombone, John Nagy on piano, Allan Seltzer on guitar, Roland "Rolly Dee" Diorio on bass, and James Vincent Faraci on drums), record the titles "You're Just In Love", "Harlem Nocturne", "Glow-Worm", and "Just One Of Those Things" at the first session between 12:00 PM and 3:00 PM, then, with the addition of Allan Reuss on guitar, record the titles "All Night Long", "Lover Come Back To Me", "Everybody Knows", and "Ain't Misbehavin'/'Way Down Yonder In New Orleans" at the second session between 3:30 PM and 6:30 PM, then the titles "Three Handed Woman" and "St. Louis Blues" at the third session between 8:00 PM and 11:00 PM, then the titles "Twist All Night" and "John Ping Pong" between 11:30 PM and 12:00 AM on February 24, 1952. Capitol Records will issue all the titles except "John Ping Pong" on Prima's album "The Wildest Comes Home!" (T/ST 1723) and will issue "John Ping Pong" as part of the Ultra-Lounge series on the two-CD set "Wild, Cool And Swinging: Louis Prima" (5-20437-2),

1962 - Vocalist Lou Rawls and the vocal group The Pilgrim Travelers (lineup unlisted), with J.W. Alexander and Rene Hall conducting their arrangements to Bobby Bryant and Stu Williamson on trumpets, Dave Wells and John Ewing on trombones, Edgar Redmond on saxophone, Ernie Freeman on piano, Cliff White and Tommy Tedesco on guitars, Jimmy Bond on bass, Sharkey Hall on drums, Frank Capp on percussion, and an uncredited string section, records the titles "Please Let Me Be The First To Know", "Didn't It Rain", "Count On Me", and "Trust Me" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue "Please Let Me Be The First To Know" and "Trust Me" together as a single (Capitol 4743) and "Didn't It Rain" on the album "The Soul-Stirring Sounds Of The Pilgrim Travelers Featuring Lou Rawls" (T/ST 1768). Mighty Quinn will issue all the titles on the CD version of the album (MQP-1102). Unfortunately, "Count On Me" and "Trust Me" are not currently available on YouTube.

60 Years Ago Today in 1966 - Vocalist Mrs. Elva Miller, with Fred Block conducting his own arrangements to the orchestra (lineup unlisted), records the titles "The Shadow Of Your Smile", "My Love", "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'", and "Gonna Be Like That" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Mrs. Miller's album "Mrs. Elva Miller's Greatest Hits" (T 2494).

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 #1 on the U.S. Country singles charts.

1967 - The Beatles record the title "Lovely Rita" at EMI's 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 2653).

1967 - The "E" Types (lineup unlisted) record the titles "Put The Clock Back On The Wall" and "4th Street" in Los Angeles, California with producer Ed Cobb and engineer Richard Podolor. Tower Records, a subsidiary of Capitol Records, will issue both titles together as a single (Tower 325).

1967 - The Sunrays (lineup unlisted) record the titles "I Wanna Know", "Loaded With Love" and "Time (A Special Thing)" in Los Angeles, California with producers Murray Wilson and Don Ralke. Tower Records, a subsidiary of Capitol Records, will issue "Loaded With Love" and "Time (A Special Thing)" together as a single (Tower 340). Capitol Records has yet to issue "I Wanna Know". Unfortunately, "I Wanna Know" and "Time (A Special Thing)" are not currently available on YouTube.

1967 - Pink Floyd records the title "Matilda Mother" in London, England. Tower Records, a subsidiary of Capitol Records, will issue the title on the band's album "The Piper At The Gate Of Dawn" (ST 5093).

1968 - Capitol Records purchases the masters from Sidewalk Productions for all the titles it will issue on the soundtrack album for the surfing documentary film "The Golden Breed" (ST 2886), which introduced The Back-Wash Rhythm Band (Davie Allan on guitar with unlisted others) and had vocals by Mike Clifford and members of The Riptides (lineup unlisted).

1968 - Dink Kaplan, with unlisted others, records the titles "I Know You Know" and "If You Really Love Me" in Los Angeles, California for Capitol Records which has yet to issue either title.

55 Years Ago Today in 1971 - Vocalist and piano player Leon Russell and The Shelter People (lineup unlisted) finish recording their eponymous album "Leon Russell And The Shelter People" (SW-8903) which will be released by Shelter Records and distributed by Capitol Records.

1972 - Vocalist Dorsey Burnette, with unlisted others using arrangements by Larry Muhoberac, records the titles "Cry Mama", "In The Spring (The Roses Always Turn Red)", "The Same Old You, The Same Ole Me", and "Daddy, Don't You Walk So Fast" in Los Angeles, California with producer Steve Stone. Capitol Records will issue "Cry Mama" as a single (Capitol 3463) with "Lonely To Be Alone" (recorded December 1, 1971) on the flipside, "In The Spring (The Roses Always Turn Red)" and"The Same Old You, The Same Ole Me" together as a single (Capitol 3307), and all the titles on Burnette's album "Here & Now" (ST-11094).

1972 - Jim Roberts records the titles "Night Is Done", and "Take Yourself" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue both titles together as a single (Capitol 3299). Unfortunately, neither title is currently available on YouTube.

1972 - Vocalist Merle Haggard, with unlisted others, records the titles "Combine Blues", "Blues Stay Away From Me", and "Tired Of Your Understanding Ways" at the Buck Owens Studio in Bakersfield, California. Capitol Records will issue "Blues Stay Away From Me" as a single (Capitol 4477) with "A Working Man Can't Get Nowhere Today" (recorded November 11, 1975) on the flipside and on Haggard's album "A Working Man Can't Get Nowhere Today" (ST-11693) and have yet to issue "Combine Blues" and "Tired Of Your Understanding Ways".

1974 - Paul McCartney and Wings Apple Records single "Jet", distributed by Capitol Records in the United States with "Let Me Roll It" on the flipside, enters the top 40 of Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart.

50 Years Ago Today in 1976 - Sweet's Capitol Records single "Fox On The Run", with "Burn On The Flame" on the flipside, is certified Gold by the R.I.A.A.

1978 - Navarro (lineup unlisted) records the titles "Backroads, Part 2" and "Straight To The Heart" in Los Angeles, California. No issuing information is listed for "Backroads, Part 2". Capitol Records will issue "Straight To The Heart" on the band's album "Straight To The Heart" (SW-11784).

1978 - The Bousette-Dart Band (lineup unlisted) records the title "Love Is My Belief" in an unlisted studio. Capitol Records will issue the title on the band's album "Pousette-Dart Band 3" (SW-11781).

1978 - Mel McDaniel, with unlisted others, records the title "Bordertown Woman" in Nashville, Tennessee. Capitol Records will issue the title as a single (Capitol 4597) with "The Grandest Lady Of Them All" (recorded November 23, 1977) on the flipside and on McDaniel's album "The Farm" (ST-11779).

1983 - Prism (lineup unlisted) records the titles "Is He Better Than Me", "Nightmare", and "Dirty Mind" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on the group's album "Beat Street" (ST-12266) and "Is He Better Than Me" as a single (Capitol 5266) with "State Of The Heart" (recorded January 18, 1983) on the flipside.

1987 - Vocalist Martha Davis, with a vocal chorus (Carmen Twillie, Daryl Phinnesee, James Gilstrap, Joe Pizzulo, Julia Waters Tillman, Marlena Jeter, Maxine Waters, Oren Waters, Philip Ingram, and Phyllis St. James) using an arrangement by Joe Pizzulo and producer Richie Zito on guitar and additional keyboards, Michael Goodroe on bass, Gary Chang on synthesizer, Vinnie Colaiuta on drums, and Pauliñho Da Costa on percussion, records the titles "Heaven Outside Your Door" and "Tender Love" at either The Enterprise Recording, Inc at 4620 West Magnolia Boulevard in Burbank, California or at One On One Studios at 5253 Lankershim Boulevard in North Hollywood, California. If anyone knows for sure which studio, please leave a comment. Capitol Records will release "Heaven Outside Your Door" on Davis' album "Policy" (CLT-48054) and has yet to issue "Tender Love".

35 Years Ago Today in 1991 - Wilson Phillips' SBK Records (a division of Capitol Records) single "You're In Love" enters the top 40 of Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart.

ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY

1958 - David Sylvian, singer, songwriter, guitarist, keyboardist, with the group Japan, recorded with Virgin Records America artist Ryuichi Sakamoto, and a solo Virgin Records America artist, is born David Batt in London, England.

1959 - The Chipmunk's single "Alvin's Harmonica", the flipside of "The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Time Is Here Again), enters the top 40 of the U.S. Pop singles chart.

1968 - Pianist Horace Silver, with Charles Tolliver on trumpet, Stanley Turrentine on tenor saxophone, Bob Cranshaw on bass, and Mickey Roker on drums, records the titles "Serenade To A Soul Sister", "Psychedelic Sally" with Cranshaw on electric bass, and "Rain Dance" in recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder's studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. Blue Note Records will issue all the titles on Silver's album "Serenade To A Soul Sister" (BLP4277/BST4277 on vinyl and 7-84277-2 on CD).

1978 - Kenny Rogers wins the Grammy for Best Male Country Vocal Performance for his United Artists Records title "Lucille" (aka Country Music's National Anthem that year :) ). The flipside of the single is "Till I Get It Right".

1982 - The J. Geils Band's EMI America Records single "Centerfold" is still #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart.

1993 - EMI Records USA and Liberty Records re-released Eddie Cochran's albums "Singin' To My Baby" and "Never To Be Forgotten" together on a single CD. Both albums were originally released by Liberty Records.

 FEBRUARY 22, 2026

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

75 Years Ago Today In 1951 - Michael Frondelli, producer, engineer, mixer, and vice president from 1990 to 2001 of The Capitol Tower Studios in Hollywood, California, is born in New York City, New York.

ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY

1945 - Johnny Mercer and Jo Stafford with The Pied Pipers and Paul Weston and His Orchestra's Capitol Records single "Candy", with Mercer's "I'm Gonna See My Baby" on the flipside, enters the top 40 of the U.S. Pop singles charts.

1949 - Margaret Whiting's Capitol Records single "Far Away Places", with "My Own True Love" on the flipside, is #2 on the U.S. Pop Singles chart.

1949 - Jimmy Wakely's Capitol Records single "I Love You So Much It Hurts", with "I Don't Want Your Sympathy" on the flipside, is still #1 on the U.S. Country singles charts.

75 Years Ago Today In 1951 - Vocalist Mary Mayo, with Al Ham conducting the orchestra (Louis Mucci and Joe Ferrante on trumpets, Will Bradley on trombone, Bill Stegmeyer, Stanley Webb, and Sam Donahue on reeds, probably Art Wagner on piano, Arnold Fishkin on bass, and Jimmy Crawford on drums), records the titles "My Love An' My Mule" and "It Only Takes A Minute" and the as yet unissued titles "Mighty Lak' A Rose" and "I'll See You In My Dreams" in New York City, New York. Capitol Records will issue "My Love An' My Mule" and "It Only Takes A Minute" together as a single (Capitol 1439).

1952 - Vocalist Tex Ritter and The Oklahoma Sweethearts (vocalists Jean Aderson and Edna Leeper), with Lionel Taylor on piano, George Bamby on accordion, Wesley Tuttle on guitar, Wesley "Speedy" West on steel guitar, and Cliffie Stone on bass, using arrangements by Ken Nelson, record the titles "The Letter Edged In Black", "When It's Springtime In The Rockies", "There Shall Be Showers Of Blessings", and "When It's Lamplightin' Time In The Valley" at Capitol Records' studios at 5515 Melrose Avenue in Hollywood, California between 8:00 PM and 11:30 PM. Capitol Records will issue "The Letter Edged In Black" and "There Shall Be Showers Of Blessings" together as a single and Bear Family Records will issue all the titles in Germany in the four-CD box set "High Noon" (BCD 16356). Unfortunately, only "There Shall Be Showers Of Blessings" is the only title from this session currently on YouTube.

1953 - Pianist Leonard Pennario records Liszt's "Mephisto Waltz" at the Syria Mosque in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Capitol Records will issue the title on Pennario's 10" 33 1/3 album "LISZT - Mephisto Waltz/CHOPIN - Barcarolle In F Sharp Minor" (H-8246) and in England by EMI on his 10" 33 1/3 album "LISZT/CHOPIN" (CCL-7523).

70 Years Ago Today In 1956 - At the first recording session held in The Capitol Tower Studios in Hollywood, California, Frank Sinatra conducts the orchestra (Mannie Klein, Uan Rasey, and Cecil Read on trumpets, Si Zentner and Ed Kusby on trombones, George Roberts on bass trombone, James Decker, John Cave, Arthur Frantz, and Hyman Markowitz on French horns, Arthur Gleghorn and Harry Klee on flutes, Mitchell Lurie and Sal Franzella on clarinets, Bert Gassman and Harry Schuchman on oboes, Fred Moritz and John Hacker on bassoons, Bill Miller on piano, George Van Eps on guitar, George Boujie, Sam Goldman, and Eddie Gilbert on basses, David Grupp and Milt Holland on drums and percussion, Kathryn Julye on harp, and a string section with Victor Arno, Victor Bay, Alex Beller, Harry Bluestone, Samuel Cytron, David Frisina, Ben Gill, Henry Hill, Murray Kellner, Dan Lube, Paul Nero, Erno Neufeld, Lou Raderman, Nathan Ross, Eudice Shapiro, and Marshall Sosson on violins, Maxine Johnson, Virginia Majewski, Paul Robyn, David Sterkin, Milton Thomas, and Abraham Weiss on violas, and Cy Bernard, Victor Gottlieb, Armand Kaproff, Edgar Lustgarten, Joseph Saxon, and Eleanor Slatkin on cello), with copyist Vern Yocum, as they record the titles "Black" arranged by Victor Young, "Orange" arranged by Nelson Riddle, "White" arranged by Victor Young, and "Brown" arranged by Jeff Alexander between 8:00 PM and 11:30 PM. Also in attendance are copyist Vern Yocum, Capitol Records president Glenn Wallichs, and photographer Ken Veeder. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Sinatra's album "Tone Poems Of Color" (W735).

70 Years Ago Today In 1956 - Vocalists Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly, with Johnny Green conducting The MGM Studio Orchestra (lineup unlisted), record the title "True Love" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue the title on the soundtrack album "High Society" (W 750) as well as a single (Capitol 3507) with "Well Did You Evah" (recorded January 17, 1956) on the flipside. The single will go on to earn Crosby a gold record, the last of his career.

1957 - Sonny James' Capitol Records single "Young Love", with "You're The Reason I'm In Love" on the flipside, is still #1 on the U.S. Country singles chart.

1957 - During two sessions held this day in The Capitol Tower Studios at 1750 North Vine Street in Hollywood, California, vocalist Robert Mitchum, with pianist Jimmy Rowles conducting the orchestra (Tony Terran on trumpet, Morris Bercov on saxophone, Laurindo Almeida and Jack Marshall on guitars, Joe Comfort on bass, Eddie Aparicio and Frank Carlson on drums and percussion, Mike Pacheco on drums and bongos, Lous Singer on drums and vibraphones, and Carlos Mejia on bongos) records the titles "Tic, Tic, Tic" and "Coconut Water" at the first session between 8:00 PM and 11:00 PM and the titles "Matilda, Matilda", "Beauty Is Only Skin Deep", and "Not Me" at the second session between 11:30PM and 2:30 AM on February 23, 1957. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Mitchum's album "Calypso-Is Like So..." (T 853).

1957 - Bandleader and pianist Stan Kenton and His Orchestra (Bob Fitzpatrick, Kent Larsen, John Halliburton, and Jim Amlotte on trombones, George Roberts on bass trombone, Lennie Niehaus and Charlie Mariano on alto saxophones, Bill Perkins and Richie Kamuca on tenor saxophones, Pepper Adams on baritone saxophone, Ralph Blaze on guitar, Red Mitchell on bass, Mel Lewis on drums, and Jack Costanzo on bongos), with vocals by The Modern Men (lineup unlisted), record the titles "Eager Beaver", "Temptation", and, with additional vocals by Ann Richards, "Softly" at The Capitol Tower Studios at 1750 North Vine Street in Hollywood, California. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Kenton's album "Kenton With Voices" (T 810).

1957 - Vocalist Judy Garland, with Gordon Jenkins conducting his own arrangements to the orchestra (lineup unlisted), records the titles "Mean To Me", "By Myself", "Blue Prelude" and "Then You've Never Been Blue" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue "Mean To Me", "By Myself", and "Blue Prelude" on Garland's album "Alone" (T/DT 835) and all the titles on the album's CD release (7-92346-2).

1957 - Pianist Joe "Fingers" Carr (aka Lou Busch), with unlisted others, records the titles "Under The Double Eagle", "The March Of The Siamese Children", "Parade Of The Wooden Soldiers", and "Stars And Stripes Forever" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Carr's album "Honky Tonk Street Parade" (T 809). Unfortunately, neither "The March Of The Siamese Children" nor "Stars And Stripes Forever" are currently available on YouTube.

1957 - The Jonah Jones Quartet (Jonah Jones on trumpet, George Rhodes on piano, John Brown on bass, and Harold Austin on drums) records the titles "Too Close For Comfort", "Mack The Knife" with vocals by Jonah Jones, "Molly-O", and "Undecided" in New York City, New York. Capitol Records will issue "Too Close For Comfort", "Mack The Knife", and "Undecided" on the quartet's album "Muted Jazz" (T 839) and "Molly-O" on Jones' album "Hit Me Again!" (T/ST 1375).

1957 - Felix Slatkin conducts The Hollywood String Quartet (lineup unlisted) as they record Ludwig Van Beethoven's "Quartet N° 12 In E Flat Major, Op. 127, 1st Mvt." in Studio A in The Capitol Tower Studio at 1750 North Vine Street in Hollywood, California. The rest of the piece will be recorded on February 23, March 2, and March 9, 1957. Capitol Records will issue the title on the quartet's album "BEETHOVEN - Quartet N° 12 In E Flat Major, Op. 127" (P-8443). Currently, only the full album is available on YouTube. 

1958 - Nat "King" Cole's Capitol Records single "Angel Smile" is #31 on Cash Box magazine's Best Selling Singles chart and #33 on The Billboard magazine's Best Selling Pop Singles In Stores chart. 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 #21 on the magazine's Best Selling Pop LPs chart.

1963 - Nat "King" Cole's Capitol Records single "Nothing Goes Up" debuts at #31 on KOSA 1230 AM's "Fab"ulous Forty survey in Odessa, Texas.

1963 - Jackie Gleason conducts a large string orchestra (lineup unlisted but features Pee Wee Erwin on trumpet and Charlie Ventura on tenor saxophone) as they record the titles "The Third Man Theme (Harry Lime Theme)", "Call Me Irresponsible", "My Romance" and "You're All The World To Me" in New York City, New York. Capitol Records will issue all the titels on Gleason's album "Movie Themes: For Lovers Only" (W/SW 1877).

1963 - Trumpetist Charlie Shavers, with Billy Byers on trombone, Jerome Richardson on alto saxophone, Budd Johnson on tenor saxophone, Bruce Martin on piano, George Barnes on guitar, Tom Bryant on bass, and Oliver Jackson on drums, records the titles, "Memories Of You", "Porgy", "Night In Tunisia", "Big Time Blues", "Yes, We Have No Bananas", and "Minor Blues" in New York City, New York. Capitol Records will issue all the titles, except "Memories Of You" and "Yes, We Have No Bananas" which remain unissued, on Shaver's album "Excitement Unlimited" (T/ST 1883).

1963 - Nat "King" Cole (on vocals, piano, and clavietta), with Reunald Jones on trumpet, John Collins on guitar, Charlie Harris on bass, Leon Petties on drums, and Nabuo Hara's Sharps & Flats Big Band Plus Strings (lineup unlisted), performs at The New Latin Quarter in Tokyo, Japan. The concert will be recorded and will be issued by the In Crowd label on the CD "Live In Tokyo" (996682).

1964 - The Beach Boys' Capitol Records single "Fun, Fun, Fun", with "Why Do Fools Fall In Love" on the flipside, enters the top 40 of Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart.

1967 - Capitol Records registers the masters it purchased for the soundtrack to the show "Hello, Solly!" featuring Mickey Katz's with Company and Orchestra's titles "Mickey Katz: Overture & Introduction - 'Darktown Strutters Ball', 'Sunrise, Sunset', 'Yiddish Folk Song'", "Vivian Lloyd: Song & Humor - 'Matchmaker', 'Shein Vi Di L'vone'", "Mickey Katz: Stories, Sing-Along, & Heb-Bop - 'Die Greene Koseene' and 'The Wedding Dance'",  "Stan Porter:  Songs Of Childhood & Israel - 'Childhood Medley (Seise Kinder Yohren/Zing, Faigele, Zing)', 'Chassidic Nigun (A Zemmer, Sheyibone Beis Hamikdosh)'", and "Larry Best: Jokes & Stories - Closing ('Kishenever Shtickel/Hey Look Me Over')" which were recorded on September 9, 1966, live at Carnegie Hall in New York City, New York with musical director Al Hausman. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on the soundtrack album "Hello, Solly!" (W/SW 2731). Unfortunately, none of the titles are currently available on YouTube.

1967 - Vocalist Dallas Frazier, with unlisted others, records the titles "Green Green Grass Of Home", "Ain't Had No Lovin'", "Hurtin' From The Hunger Of Your Love", and "Don't Come Knockin' On My Door" in Nashville, Tennessee. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Frazier's album "Tell It Like It Is" (T/ST 2764).

1968 - Hearts And Flowers (lineup unlisted) record the title "Extra Extra" in Los Angeles, California for Capitol Records. No issuing information is listed.

1968 - Capitol Records registers in Los Angeles, California the masters it purchased for Epic Splendor's titles "Brother Speed", "So Is Our Gang", and "Touch 'N Go". No issuing information is listed.

1972 - Billy May conducts his own arrangements to The Time-Life Orchestra (John Audino, John Best, Pete Candoli, Uan Rasey, and Ray Triscari on trumpet, Joe Howard, Lloyd Ulyate, Gil Falco, Dave Wells, and Phil Teele on trombone, Les Robinson, Wilbur Schwartz, Justin Gordon, Abe Most, Plas Johnson, and Jack Nimitz on saxophones, Ray Sherman on piano, Jack Marshall and Al Hendrickson on guitar, Morty Corb on bass, and Nick Fatool on drums) as they record the titles "Drumboogie" with vocalist Eileen Wilson, "Ingie Speaks", "It's De-Lovely", and "Painted Rhythm" in The Capitol Tower Studios at 1750 North Vine Street in Hollywood, California. Time-Life Records will issue all the titles as part of "The Swing Era" series in the three-LP box set "Volume 14 - One More Time - Swing Lives!: Billy May" (STA/STL 353). Unfortunately, none of the titles are currently available on YouTube.

1973 - Merle Haggard's Capitol Records single "I Wonder If They Ever Think Of Me", with "I Forget You Every Day" on the flipside, is #1 on the U.S. Country singles charts.

1975 - John Lennon's Apple Records single "No. 9 Dream", with "What You Got!" on the flipside and distributed by Capitol Records in the United States, peaks at #9 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart.

1975 - Ringo Starr's Apple Records single "No No Song", with "Snookaroo" on the flipside, enters the top 40 Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart.

1977 - Lonnie Mack, with unlisted others, records the titles "Running Wild", "My House", "Funky Country Living", "Lay Some Loving On Me", "Glad That I'm Home", "Love And You And Me", "Britches", "Drive To The Country", "The Other Side", "Give Me Your Love", and "Outskirts Of Town" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue "Running Wild" and "Funky Country Living" together as a single (Capitol 4441) and all the titles on Mack's album "Home At Last" (ST-11619). Unfortunately, only "Glat That I'm Home" is the only title currently available on YouTube.

1977 - Trombonist, percussionist, and vocalist Raul De Souza, with Freddie Hubbard on fluegelhorn, Patrice Rushen on electric piano, Ian Underwood on synthesizer, Al McKay on guitar, Embamba on bass, Byron Miller on bass, and Leon "Ngudu" Chancler on drums, records the titles "New Love (Cançao Do Nosso Amor)" and "Wild And Shy" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue both titles on De Souza's album "Sweet Lucy" (ST-11648).

1978 - Vocalist and guitarist Glen Campbell, with unlisted others, records the titles "California", "Can You Fool", "(Let My Life Be Your) Love Song", and a new take of "One Of The Few" at Studio City studios in Sherman Oaks, California. Capitol Records will issue "California" as a single (Capitol 4715), "Can You Fool" as a single (Capitol 4584), "(Let My Life Be Your) Love Song" on the album "Highwayman" (SOO-12008), and has yet to issue the take of "One Of The Few" recorded at this session.

1978 - Navarro (lineup unlisted) records the titles "Mystery" and "Realengo" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue both titles on the group's album "Straight To The Heart" (SW-11784)

1978 - Pousette-Dart Band (lineup unlisted) records the title "I'm So In Love With You" at an unlisted studio. Capitol Records will issue the title as a single (Capitol 4590) with "Stand By Me" (recorded February 24, 1978) on the flipside.

1982 - The Beach Boys' Capitol Records single "I Get Around", with "Don't Worry Baby" on the flipside, is certified Gold by the R.I.A.A.

1989 - Dan Seals Capitol Records single "Big Wheels in the Moonlight", with "Factory Town" on the flipside, is #1 on the U.S. Country singles charts.

15 Years Ago Today In 2011 - Jean Dinning (born Eugenia Dinning), singer, songwriter ("Teen Angel" recorded by her younger brother Mark Dinning), and part of the Capitol Records vocal group The Dinning Sisters, died of respiratory illness in Garden Grove, California at age 86.

ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY

85 Years Ago Today In 1936 - Ernie K-Doe, a singer, songwriter and Minit Records artist (best known for the 1961 #1 single "Mother-In-Law"), is born Ernest Kador, Jr. in New Orleans, Louisiana. Minit's catalog is currently owned by Universal Music Group, Capitol Music Group's parent company.

1953 - Alto saxophonist Charlie Parker (on a plastic saxophone and no sheet music), with drummer Joe Timer directing his Orchestra (Ed Leddy, Marky Markowitz, Charlie Walp, and Bob Carey on trumpets, Earl Swope, Rob Swope, and Dan Spiker on trombones, Jim Riley also on alto saxophone, Jim Parker, Angelo Tompros, and Ben Lary on tenor saxophone, Jack Nimitz on baritone saxophone, Jack Holliday on piano, and Mert Oliver on bass), perform the titles "Fine And Dandy" using an arrangment by Al Cohn, "These Foolish Things" using an arrangement by Joe Timer, "Light Green" using an arrangement by Pill Potts, "Thou Swell" using an arrangement by Johnny Mandel, "Willis" using an arrangement by Bill Potts, "Don't Blame Me" using an arrangement by Jack Holliday, "Something To Remember You By/Blue Room" using an arrangement by Joe Timer, and "Roundhouse" using an arrangement by Gerry Mulligana during a concert at Club Kavakos in Washington, D.C. that is M.C.'d by Willis Conover which were recorded. Elektra Records first issued all eight titles in 1983. Blue Note Records will license the masters and will issue all the titles in 2001 on the CD "Washington Concerts - Charlie Parker With Quartet And Orchestra" (5-22626-2).

1964 - Classics IV's Liberty Records single "Traces" with "Everyday With You Girl" on the flipside, enters the top 40 of Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart.

1964 - The Beatles' Vee-Jay Records Single "Please Please Me", with "From Me To You" on the flipside, enters the top 40 of Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart.

1965 - The Beatles start filming their second film "HELP!" ("this one's a gonna be in colour") in the Bahamas.

1989 - Paula Abdul's Virgin Records America single "Straight Up", with "Cold Hearted" on the flipside, is still #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart.

ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY

130 Years Ago Today In 1896 - Nacio Herb Brown, composer (while working for M-G-M he wrote "Broadway Melody", "You Are My Lucky Star", "Temptation", "Singing In The Rain" and many others with lyricist Arthur Freed and also composed with Richard Whiting, father of Capitol Records artist Margaret Whiting, and Capitol Records co-founder Buddy DeSylva) and music publisher (managing the sales of songs by Hoagy Carmichael, Sammy Fain and many others), is born Ignacio Herb Brown Jr. in Deming, New Mexico.

1907 - Sheldon Leonard, motion picture actor ("Another Thin Man", "It’s a Wonderful Life", "To Have And Have Not", "Guys and Dolls"), radio actor (recurring role as the racetrack tout on "The Jack Benny Show" and various roles on "The Adventures Of The Saint"), Emmy Award-winning television director ("The Danny Thomas Show", "My Favorite Martian"), and Executive Producer ("The Danny Thomas Show", "The Andy Griffith Show", "The Dick Van Dyke Show", "I Spy" and "My World and Welcome to It"), inspiration for the names of the roommates on "Big Bang Theory", and voice of the Warner Bros. cartoon character Dodsworth ("Y'know, one of these days I'ma gonna have to buy me a mousetrap"), is born Sheldon Leonard Bershad in New York City, New York.

FEBRUARY 21, 2026

HAPPY BIRTHDAYS!

1917 - Tadd Dameron, pianist, arranger, bandleader, and a Capitol and Blue Note Records artist, is born Tadley Ewing Peake Dameron in Cleveland, Ohio.

75 Years Ago Today In 1951 - Vince Welnick, keyboard player with the Capitol Records band The Tubes and The Grateful Dead, is born in Phoenix, Arizona.

ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY

1948 - It's a Saturday and The King Cole Trio record a new episode of "King Cole Trio Time" in Louisville, Kentucky. The trio perform "Straighten Up And Fly Right", "I Feel So Smoochie", "But Beautiful", "Pianissimo", "Your Red Wagon", "This Is My Night To Dream", "A-N-G-E-L Spells Mary", "Too Marvelous For Words", and close with "Wildroot Bebop". The Armed Forces Radio Network will issue the entire show on an electronic transcription disc (King Cole Trio 39).

75 Years Ago Today In 1951 - The Voices Of Walter Schumann (vocal choir - lineup unlisted), with rhythm accompaniment (lineup also unlisted), records the title "In That Great Gettin' Up Mornin'" and the as yet unissued take of the title "Wonderful Counselor" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue "In That Great Gettin' Up Mornin'" on the group's album "Great Gettin' Up Mornin'" (CCN-316).

75 Years Ago Today In 1951 - Vocalist Johnny Parker, with Sid Feller directing the orchestra (featuring Will Bradley on trombone with unlisted others), records the titles "Caring", "My Love Serenade", "Go Tell Your Troubles To Somebody Else", and "When Are You Gonna Come Home" in New York City, New York. Capitol Records will issue "Caring" and "When Are You Gonna Come Home" together as a single (Capitol 1516) and "My Love Serenade" and "Go Tell Your Troubles To Somebody Else" together as a single (Capitol 1442).

75 Years Ago Today In 1951 - Don Wilson records narration overdubs on to band tracks recorded by The INR Symphony Orchestra conducted by Franz Andre in Brussels, Belgium in 1950 for the four parts of Paul Dukas' "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" at Capitol Records' studios at 5515 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, California. Capitol Records will issue all the parts on Wilson's album "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" (DBS-3094) as part of the label's Classics For Children line.

1952 - Pianist and vibraphonist Ben Light, with unlisted organ, guitar, bass, and drums players, records the titles "Rose Room", "I Got Rhythm", "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You", and "Benny's Bounce" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Light's album "Juke Box Favorites" (H-330). Unfortunately, none of the titles are currently available on YouTube.

1953 - Nat "King" cole's Capitol Records single "Pretend" is #10 and his single "Strange" is #42 on Cash Box magazine's Best Selling Singles chart.

1953 - Al Rogers and His Rocky Mountain Boys (lineup unlisted) record the titles "All Alone, All Alone", "Too Blue To Care", "Am I Seeing Things", and "I Hope It Will Be Me" in (listed as possibly) Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue "All Alone, All Alone" and "Too Blue To Care" together as a single (Capitol 2435) and has yet to issue the last two titles.

70 Years Ago Today In 1956 - Vocalist Betty Hutton, with Vic Schoen directing the orchestra and chorus (lineups unlisted), records the titles "Sleepy Head" and "Hit The Road To Dreamland" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue both titles together as a single (Capitol 3383).

70 Years Ago Today In 1956 - Les Baxter conducts his own arrangements to his orchestra (lineup unlisted) as they record the titles "Green Eyes", "The Breeze And I", "Nightingale", and "Ay, Ay, Ay" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Baxter's album "Caribbean Moonlight" (T 733).

1957 - The Farmer Boys (Bobby Adamson on lead vocals, Woodie Wayne Murray on harmony vocals), with The Desert Stars ("Jelly" Sanders on fiddle, Gene Breeden on electric guitar, Buck Owens on rhythm guitar, Norman Hamlett on steel guitar, Bud Mills on bass, and Richard Stokes on drums), record the titles "Flash, Crash And Thunder", "Yearning, Burning Heart", "No One", and "Someone To Love" in The Capitol Tower Studios at 1750 North Vine Street in Hollywood, California. Capitol Records will issue "Flash, Crash And Thunder" and "Someone To Love" together as a single (Capitol F3732) and "Yearning, Burning Heart" and "No One" together as a single (Capitol F3827).

1957 - Nelson Riddle conducts his own arrangements to His Orchestra (Harry Edison, Conrad Gozzo, Shorty Sherock, Pete Candoli, Mannie Klein, and Mickey Mangano on trumpets, Dick Nash, Murray McEachern, Tommy Pederson, and Jimmy Priddy on trombones, George Roberts on bass trombone, Vince De Rosa or John Cave on French horn, Willie Schwartz and Harry Klee on alto saxophones and flutes, Ted Nash, Babe Russin, Justin Gordon, and Jim Williamson on tenor saxophones, Joe Koch or Chuck Gentry on baritone saxophone, Bill Miller on piano, Nick Bonney or Allan Reuss on guitar, Joe Comfort or Joe Mondragon on bass, Alvin Stoller on drums, Frank Flynn on vibraphones and percussion, and an unlisted string section led by Felix Slatkin) as they record the titles "You Leave Me Breathless", "Then I'm Happy", and "I Get Along Without You Very Well" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue "Then I'll Be Happy" and "I Get Along Without You Very Well" on Riddle's album "Hey! Let Yourself Go!" (T 814) and have yet to issue the take of "You Leave Me Breathless" recorded at this session but will release a take of the song recorded on February 25, 1957.

1957 - Buck Owens signs a recording contract with Capitol Records in Los Angeles, California.

65 Years Ago Today In 1961 - During two sessions held this day at Goldwyn Studios in Hollywood, California, piano and celeste player Stan Kenton and His Orchestra (Dalton Smith, Bud Brisbois, Bob Rolfe, and Sanford Skinner on trumpets, Bob Fitzpatrick, Tom Shepard, Jim Amlotte, and Bob Knight on trombones, Albert Pollan on tuba, Dwight Carver, Gene Roland, Gordon Davison, and Joe Burnett on mellophones, Pete Chivily on bass, Art Anton on drums, and Larry Bunker on percussion) records the titles "O Holy Night", "O Come All Ye Faithful", and "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" at the first session between 1:00 PM and 4:00 PM and the title "Angels We Have Heard On High" and some of "Christmas Medley - Joy To The World/We Wish You A Merry Christmas/Away In A Manger/Hark! The Herald Angels Sing/The First Noel/Silent Night" at the second session between 4:30 PM and 7:30 PM. After finishing recording "Christmas Medley" on March 14, 1961, Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Kenton's album "A Merry Christmas" (T 1621).

1962 - Bobby Kalina, with unlisted others, records the titles "When Saturday Night Becomes Sunday Morning", "Two Loves", and "Old English, New English" in New York City, New York. Capitol Records will issue "When Saturday Night Becomes Sunday Morning" and "Two Loves" together as a single (Capitol 4747) and has yet to issue "Old English, New English". Unfortunately, "When Saturday Night Becomes Sunday Morning" is not currently available on YouTube.

1963 - Nat "King Cole with The Four Coins finish the last of three performances in Tokyo, Japan, and will make other appearances around Japan on March 4, 1963.

1963 - Jackie Gleason conducts a large string orchestra (with Charlie Venture on tenor saxophone but the rest of the players are unlisted) as they record the titles "Colette", "La Dolce Vita (The Sweet Life)", "The Man That Got Away", and "Days Of Wine And Roses" (featuring Pee Wee Erwin on trumpet) in New York City, New York. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Gleason's album "Movie Themes: For Lovers Only" (W/SW 1877).

1963 - Trumpeter Charlie Shavers, with Billy Byers on trombone, Jerome Richardson on alto saxophone, Budd Johnson on tenor saxophone, Bruce Martin on piano, George Barnes on guitar, Tom Bryant on bass, and Oliver Jackson on drums, records the titles "I Kid You Not", "Bossa Nova Petite", "Tenderly", "Period Of Adjustment", and "Shiny Stockings" in New York City, New York. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Shavers' album "Excitement Unlimited" (T/ST 1883).

60 Years Ago Today In 1966 - Capitol Records releases The Beatles' single "Nowhere Man" with "What Goes On" on the flipside (Capitol 5587) in the United States.

60 Years Ago Today In 1966 - The Girls (vocalists Diane Sandoval,  Margaret Sandoval, Rosemary Sandoval, and Sylvia Sandoval), with unlisted others, record the as yet unissued takes of the titles "Goodbye, Boys, Goodbye" and "Top 20" and the titles "Chico's Girl" and "The Dumb Song" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue the titles "Chico's Girl" and "The Dumb Song" together as a single (Capitol 5675).

60 Years Ago Today In 1966 - The Roundabouts (lineup unlisted) record the titles "Falling So In Love With You" and "Hey! Little Lover" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue both titles together as a single (Capitol 5627).

60 Years Ago Today In 1966 - Vocalist Verdelle Smith, with Alan Lorber conducting the orchestra (Irving Markowitz and Burt Collins on trumpets, Richard Berg on cornet, Joe Grimaldi and Art Kaplan on reeds, Ernie Hayes on organ, Lee Pockriss on piano, Allen Hanlon and Al Gorgoni on guitars, Russ Saunders and Earl Chaplin on bass, Maurice Belkin on cello, Ted Sommer on drums, and Michael Chimes on harmonica), records the titles "Over The Rainbow", "Oh How Much I Love You", and "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" in New York City, New York. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Smith's album "(Alone) In My Room" (T 2476).

1967 - The Howard Roberts Quartet (Howard Roberts on guitar, Bill Pitman on rhythm guitar, Chuck Berghofer on bass and Fender Bass, Dave Grusin on electric organ, Emil Richards and Larry Bunder on percussion and drums, and Shelly Manne on drums), with producer Dave Cavanaugh, records the titles "I Will Wait For You", "All", "So Nice (Summer Samba)", and "The Face I Love" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on the group's album "Jaunty-Jolly!" (T/ST 2716).

1968 - Hearts And Flowers (lineup unlisted) record the titles "Color Your Daytime" and "Second-Hand Sundown Queen" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue both titles on the group's album "Of Horses, Kids & Forgotten Women" (ST 2868).

1970 - John Ono Lennon's Apple Records single "Instant Karma! (We All Shine On)", with Yoko Lennon Ono's "Who Has Seen The Wind?" on the flipside, enters the U.S. Pop singles charts one day after being released and just 26 days after being recorded.

55 Years Ago Today In 1971 - Vocalist Merle Haggard and The Strangers (lineup unlisted), at a live performance at the Assembly of God Tabernacle in Keyes, California after a "Introduction" by Reverend J.D. Smith and the congregation singing "Leaning On The Everlasting Arms", perform the titles "Guide Me, Lord", "The Family Bible", "I'll Be List'ning", and "Just A Closer Walk With Thee" with the congregation joining in, then Reverend Smith delivers the "Closing Prayer". Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Haggard and The Strangers' two-LP set "The Land Of Many Churches" (SWBO-803).

1972 - Vocalist Roy Rogers, with unlisted others, records the titles "He'll Have To Go", "Candy Kisses", "Tennessee Waltz", "In Another Lifetime", and "A Letter To Roy" in Nashville, Tennessee. Capitol Records will issue "He'll Have To Go", "Candy Kisses", "Tennessee Waltz" on Rogers album "Take A Little Love" (ST-11020), "In Another Lifetime" as a single (Capitol 3490) with "Talkin' About Love" (recorded February 18, 1972) on the flipside, and have yet to issue "A Letter To Roy". Unfortunately, only "In Another Lifetime" is the only one of the titles that is currently available on YouTube.

1977 - During two sessions held this day in Los Angeles, California, trombonist and percussionist Raul De Souza, with Patrice Rushen on electric piano, Dawilli Gonga on electric piano and synthesizer, Ian Underwood on synthesizer, Al McKay on guitar, Byron Miller on bass, Leon "Ngudu" Chancler on drums and vocals, and Airto Moreira on percussion, records the titles "A Vontade Mesno (At Will)", "Banana Tree" with Deborah Thomas, Lynn Davis, Victoria Miles, and Sybil Thomas on background vocals, and "A Song Of Love" at the first session and, with the addition of Freddie Hubbard on trumpet, the titles "Bottom Heat", "Wires" with vocals by Leon "Ngudu" Chancler, and "Sweet Lucy" with Deborah Thomas, Lynn Davis, Victoria Miles, and Sybil Thomas on background vocals at the second session. After overdubs are recorded on February 22, 23, 24, 25, and March 7, 8, and 9, Capitol Records will issue all the titles on De Souza's album "Sweet Lucy" (ST-11648).

1978 - Navarro (lineup unlisted) records the title "There's A War" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue the title on the group's album "Straight To The Heart" (SW-11784).

1978 - Saxophonist Gary Bartz, with unlisted others including a string section using arrangements by Wade Marcus, records the title "Penelope" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue the title on Bartz's album "Love Affair" (SW-11789).

1978 - At two sessions held this day at The Rat Hole studio in Nashville, Tennessee with producer Johnny McRae, vocalist Mel McDaniel, with unlisted others, records the titles "Dim The Lights (And Pour The Wine)" and "Misty Morning Memories" at the first session and the titles "Love Is A Miracle" and "The Farm" at the second session. Capitol Records will issue "Dim The Lights (And Pour The Wine)", "Love Is A Miracle", and "The Farm" on McDaniel's album "The Farm" (ST-11779) and "The Farm" as a single (Capitol 4569) with "Every Square Has An Angle" (recorded November 23, 1977) on the flipside. No issuing information is listed for "Misty Morning Memories".

1987 - Crowded House's Capitol Records single "Don't Dream It's Over", with "That's What I Call Love" on the flipside, enters the top 40 of Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart.

1988 - Tanya Tucker (with Paul Davis and Paul Overstreet)'s Capitol Records single "I Won't Take Less Than Your Love", with "Heartbreaker" on the flipside, is #1 on the U.S. Country Singles charts.

1990 - Bonnie Raitt's Capitol Records album "Nick Of Time" wins the Grammy for Album Of The Year.

1990 - Paul McCartney, Polygram, Parlophone, Vee-Jay, Swan, Capitol, Apple, Columbia and Capitol (again) Records artist, is honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 32nd annual Grammy Awards ceremony.

2007 - Al Viola, mandolin player, guitarist, member of the Page Cavanaugh Trio, session musician for motion pictures (most notably the mandolin solo in the soundtrack for "The Godfather"), and a Capitol Records and Liberty Records session musician at many sessions for Frank Sinatra, Nat "King" Cole, Frank Zappa and with Bobby Troup, dies of cancer at age 87 at his home in Studio City, California. I was able to talk to Al briefly at Bill Miller's wake in 2006 and he was a very approachable guy and was still performing until late January 2007 at Spazio, a jazz supper club, in Sherman Oaks, California. The first photo is Al with fellow guitarist Tony Rizzi at United Western Recorders in Los Angeles, California sometime in February 1961.

15 Years Ago Today In 2011 - Haila Stoddard, actress, Broadway producer as herself and as Bonard Productions which produced, in association with Charles Russel, the musical "Sail Away" whose original Broadway cast album was distributed by Capitol Records, died of cardiopulmonary arrest at her home in Weston, Connecticut at age 97.

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1965 - Gary Lewis and The Playboy's United Artists Records single "This Diamond Ring" is still #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart.

1982 - "Murray The K" Kaufman, a disc jockey at Radio WINS in New York City and an early United States supporter of The Beatles (aka "The Fifth Beatle"), dies of cancer at age 60 in Los Angeles, California.

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2003 - Tom Glazer, a singer and songwriter (best known for "On Top of Spaghetti" [1963]) dies in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at age 88.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAYS!

1937- Nancy Wilson, singer, television variety show host and actress, 1999 Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame inductee, and a Capitol Records artist, is born Nancy Sue Wilson in Chillicothe, Ohio

80 Years Ago Today In 1946 - J. Giles, guitarist and the leader of the Capitol Records group J. Giles Band, is born John Warren Giles, Jr. in New York City, New York.

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80 Years Ago Today In 1946 - Carlos Molina and His Orchestra (lineup unlisted) record the title "Palabras De Mujer" with vocalist Bobby Rivera and the as yet unissued takes of the titles "Acabaste" with vocals by Jean Colby, "Pearl Fisher", and "Siboney" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue "Palabras De Mujer" as a single (Capitol 307) with "Estoy Apriendo Ingles (I'm Learning To Speak English)" (recorded June 19, 1945) on the flipside.

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 charts

1952 - Billy May conducts his own compositions and arrangements to the orchestra (Conrad Gozzo and Uan Rasey on trumpet, Si Zentner and James Priddy on trombone, Wilbur Schwartz, Jules Kinsler, Jules Jacob, and Fred Falensby on saxophones, Edwin "Buddy" Cole on piano, Al Hendrickson on guitar, Meyer Rubin on bass, John Cyr on drums, Ann Mason Stockton on harp, and a string section with Ivan Eppinoff, Lou Raderman, and Mischa Russell on violin, Paul Robyn on viola, and Cy Bernard on cello) as they record the music tracks for the two parts of the title "Tweet, Tweet, Tweety" and the two parts of the title "Bugs Bunny And The Grow-Small Juice" (originally entitled "14 Carrot Rabbit") at Capitol Records' studios at 5515 Melrose Avenue in Hollywood, California between 8:30 PM and 11:30 PM. After Mel Blanc and June Foray record vocal tracks for "Tweet, Tweet, Tweeety" using a script adaptation by Alan Livingston and "Bugs Bunny And The Grow-Small Juice" using a script by Ted Pierce and Warren Foster on February 28, 1952, Capitol Records will issue both parts of "Tweet, Tweet, Tweety" on the children's record of the same title (CAS-3118) and both parts of "Bugs Bunny And The Grow-Small Juice" on the children's record of the same title (CAS-3119).

1953 - Vocalists Gordon MacRae and June Hutton, with Axel Stordahl and His Orchestra (lineup unlisted but includes trumpets, reeds, piano, guitar, bass, drums players) and a vocal chorus (lineup also unlisted), record the titles "By The Light Of The Silvery Moon", "My Home Town Is A One Horse Town" without Hutton, "Ain't We Got Fun", and "Be My Little Bumble Bee" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue "My Home Town Is A One Horse Town" and "Ain't We Got Fun" on the 7" EP "Songs From 'By The Light Of The Silvery Moon'" (EAP-1-422), "By The Light Of The Silvery Moon" and "Be My Little Bumble Bee" on the 7" EP "Songs From 'By The Light Of The Silvery Moon'" (EAP-2-422), all titles and the album "Songs From 'By The Light Of The Silvery Moon'" (EBF/FBF-422 on a two disc 45 RPM EP and H-422 on 10" 33 1/3 RPM LP).

1957 - Vocalist Chester Smith and vocalist and guitarist Del Reeves, with Red Sylva on fiddle, Jim Pierce on piano, Buck Owens on lead guitar, Grover Jackson on guitar, Skeets McDonald on bass, and Hank Stallings on drums, record the titles "One Life To Live", "There'll Be Other Times" without Reeves on vocals, "You're Not The Changing Kind" without Smith on vocals, and "Love, Love, Love" in Studio A of The Capitol Tower Studios at 1750 North Vine Street in Hollywood, California. Capitol Records will issue "One Life To Live" and "There'll Be Other Times" together as a single (Capitol F3692) and "You're Not The Changing Kind" and "Love, Love, Love" together as a single (Capitol F3819).

1957 - During two session held this day in The Capitol Tower Studios at 1750 North Vine Street in Hollywood, California, vocalist Robert Mitchum, with pianist Jimmy Rowles conducting the orchestra (Tony Terran on trumpet, Morris Bercov on saxophone,Laurindo Almeida and Jack Marshall on guitar, Joe Comfort on bass, Eddie Aparicio, Frank Carlson, and Frank Guerrero on drums and percussion, Lou Singer on drums and vibraphones, and Carlos Mejia on bongos), records the titles "I Learn A Merengue Mama" and "From A Logical Point Of View" at the first session between 8:00 PM and 11:00 PM and a new take of "From A Logical Point Of View" and the titles "They Dance All Night" and "Take Me Down To Lover's Row" at the second session between 11:30 PM and 2:30 AM on February 21, 1952. Capitol Records will issue all the titles, except the first take of ""From A Logical Point Of View" which is listed as lost,  on Mitchum's album "Calypso - Is Like So..." (T 853).

1958 - During two sessions held this day in The Capitol Tower Studios at 1750 North Vine Street in Hollywood, California, Nat "King" Cole overdubs vocals for the titles "Te Queiro Dijiste (Mucho, Mucho) (Magic Is The Moonlight)", "Arrivederci Roma (Goodbye To Rome)", and "Quizas, Quizas, Quiza (Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps)" over instrumental tracks recorded by Armando Romeu, Jr. And His Orchestra at the Panart Studio in Havana, Cuba in 1957 at the first session and for the titles "Las Mananitas (Few Early Morning)" and "Adelita" at the second session,  over instrumental tracks recorded by Mariachis de Alfredo Serra at the Panart Studio in Havana, Cuba. Capitol Records will issue all the songs on Cole's album "Cole Español" (W1031). Bear Family Records will also issue all the titles in the box set "Nat 'King' Cole - Stardust (The Complete Capitol Recordings 1955-1959)" (BCD 16342).

1958 - Leopold Stokowski conducts a string orchestra (lineup unlisted) as they record Berger's "Rondino Giocoso", Purcell's "Hornpipe (From 'King Arthur' Suite)", Handel's "Tamburino (From 'Alcina')", and Boccherini's "Menuet" at the Riverside Plaza Hotel in New York City, New York. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Stokowski's album "String Orchestra" (P/SP-8458).

1959 - Tennessee Ernie Ford's Capitol Records album "Hymns" is certified Gold by the R.I.A.A.1961 - The Derringers (lineup unlisted) record the titles "Maybe Baby" and "Pledging My Love" in Los Angeles, California with producer Nick Venet. Capitol Records will issue "Maybe Baby" as a single (Capitol 4572) with "Don't Deceive Me" (recorded March 29, 1961) on the flipside. No release information is listed for "Pledging My Love".

1960 - Capitol Records artist Gene Vincent and Liberty Records artist Eddie Cochran sing "White Lightning" live in England on ITV's "Boy Meets Girl" show.

1962 - B. Phillips records the title "The Laughing Man" in Los Angeles, California for Capitol Records. No issuing information is listed.

1962  - Vocalist Jan Howard, with unlisted others, records the titles "Tomorrow You Won't Even Know My Name", "The Belle Of The Ball", and "Please Pass The Kisses" in Nashville, Tennessee. Capitol Records will issue "Tomorrow You Won't Even Know My Name" and "Please Pass The Kisses" together as a single (Capitol 4744) and "The Belle Of The Ball" on Howard's album "Sweet & Sentimental" (T 1779).

1963 - Nat "King" Cole, with The Four Coins, performs the second of three shows in Tokyo, Japan.

1963 - Vocalist Al Martino, with unlisted others, records the titles "Chitarra Romana", "Al Di La", "Maria Mari", and "Vurria" in New York City, New York. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Martino's album "The Italian Voice Of Al Martino" (T/ST 1907).

1963 - Jackie Gleason conducts a large string orchestra (lineup unlisted but features Pee Wee Erwin on trumpet) as they record "Love Theme From 'Mutiny On The Bounty (Follow Me)", "A Home In The Meadow", "Theme From Tara Bulba (The Wishing Star)", and "Lawrence Of Arabia (featuring Charlie Ventura on tenor saxophone) in New York City, New York. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Gleason's album "Movie Themes: For Lovers Only" (W/SW 1877).

1963 - Trumpetist Charlie Shavers, with Billy Byers on trombone, Jerome Richardson on alto saxophone, Budd Johnson on tenor saxophone, Bruce Martin on piano, George Barnes on guitar, Tom Bryant on bass, and Oliver Jackson on drums, records the titles "Heckle Me", "Undecided", "School Days", and "Opus Five" in New York City, New York. Capitol Records has yet to issue "Heckle Me" and will issue the rest of the titles on Shaver's album "Excitement Unlimited" (T/ST 1883).

1965 - Buck Owens' Capitol Records single "I've Got A Tiger By The Tail", with "Cryin' Time" on the flipside, is #1 on the U.S. Country singles charts

1965 - The Beatles record the track "That Means a Lot" at EMI's Abbey Road Studios around midday

60 Years Ago Today In 1966 - Vocalist Matt Monro, with John Barry conducting his own arrangements to the orchestra (lineup unlisted but includes players of horns, reeds, piano, guitar, bass, drums, percussion, and strings) records the titles "Born Free" and "Other People" in London, England. Capitol Records will issue both titles together as a single (Capitol 5623).

1967 - On her 30th birthday, vocalist Nancy Wilson, with Billy May conducting his own arrangements to the orchestra (Pete Candoli, John Audino, Ray Triscari, and Bud Brisbois on trumpet, Vernon Friley, Lew McCreary, Dick Noel, and William Schaefer on trombone, Arthur "Skeets" Herfurt, Ernest Green, Justin Gordon, Plas Johnson, and Jack Nimitz on saxophone,s Don Trenner on piano, Mike Melvoin on organ, John Collins on guitar, Charles Williams on bass, and Earl Palmer on drums, Latin percussion, and bells), records the titles "What Now, My Love", "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy", "Winchester Cathedral", and "Alfie" in The Capitol Tower Studios at 1750 North Vine Street in Hollywood, California between 7:00 PM and 11:00 PM with producer Dave Cavanaugh. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Wilson's album "Just For Now" (T/ST 2712) and "Alfie" also as a bonus track on the CD release of Wilson's album "Hollywood-My Way" (3-64641-2).

1967 - The Ted Neeley Five (lineup unlisted) record the titles "You Must Believe Me" and "Love Her" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue both titles together as a single (Capitol 5781).
1967 - The Duncan Brothers (lineup unlisted) record the titles "It's Magic", "Warm, Soft And Good", "Theme Of Love", and "A Feelin'" in Los Angeles, California for Capitol Records which has yet to issue any of the titles.

1968 - Vocalist Glen Campbell, with Al De Lory conducting his own arrangements to the orchestra (lineup unlisted), records a new take of the title "Visions Of Sugarplums", "Have I Stayed Away Too Long?", "The Legend Of Bonnie And Clyde", and "She Called Me Baby" in Los Angeles, California. After overdubs are recorded for "Have I Stayed Away Too Long?" and "The Legend Of Bonnie And Clyde" on March 11, 1968, for "Visions Of Sugarplums" and "She Called Me Baby" on March 12, 1968, and for "She Called Me Baby" on April 14, 1968, Capitol Records will issue the final mixes of all the titles on Campbell's album "A New Place In The Sun" (ST 2907).

1968 - Maffitt & Davies (guitarists Clark Maffitt and Brian Davies), with Michael Lang on piano, Jimmy Bond and Joe Osborne on bass, James Gordon on drums, and Milt Holland on tabla, record the titles "City Sidewalks" and "A Kind Word" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue "City Sidewalks" on the duo's album "The Rise & Fall Of Honesty" (ST 2999). No issuing information is listed for "A Kind Word".

1968 - The Band (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) record the titles "If I Lose" and "Long Distance Operator" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue both titles on the CD "Music From The Big Pink Remastered" (5-25390-2).

1970 - John Ono Lennon's Apple Records single "Instant Karma! (We All Shine On)", with Yoko Lennon Ono's "Who Has Seen The Wind?" on the flipside, is released by Capitol Records in the United States just 25 days after being recorded

1973 - Billy May conducts The Time-Life Orchestra (lineup unlisted) as they record the titles "All The Things You Are", "Fascination", "The Impossible Dream", "Theme For Young Lovers", and "You Stepped Out Of A Dream" in The Capitol Tower Studios at 1750 North Vine Street in Hollywood, California. Time-Life Records will issue all the titles, except "The Impossible Dream", in the three-LP set "Volume 6 - Billy May" (STL 246) and, after overdubs are recorded in March of 1973, will issue "The Impossible Dream" in the three-LP set "Volume 7 - Billy May" (STL 247) as part of its "As You Remember Them" series.

1978 - Navarro (lineup unlisted) records the titles "Run Away" and "Already Here" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue both titles on the band's album "Straight To The Heart" (SW-11784).

1985 - Clarence Nash, voice actor (best known for "Donald Duck") and Capitol Records artist, dies at age 80

35 Years Ago Today In 1991 - Polygram, Parlophone, Vee-Jay, Swan, Capitol, Apple, Zapple, and Geffen Records artist John Lennon is posthumously awarded a Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award

2007 - Capitol Records releases Luscious Jackson's compilation album "Greatest Hits"

2009 - I was interviewed for a documentary about Johnny Mercer by director/producer Bruce Ricker at the Warner Brothers Studios in Burbank, CA in the Eastwood Sound Stage. I followed Leonard Maltin and Miles Kreuger and met Richard Carpenter on the way in.

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1957 - Dave Guard And The Calypsonians, forerunners of the Capitol Records group The Kingston Trio, record an acetate demo of "Run Joe"

65 Years Ago Today In 1961 - Johnny Burnette's Liberty Records single "Little Boy Sad", with "(I Go) Down To The River" on the flipside, enters the U.S. Country singles charts.

1963 - Guitarist Grant Green, with John Patton on organ and Ben Dixon on drums, record the titles "Look At That Girl", "Personality", "The Surrey With The Fringe On Top", "This Little Girl Of Mine", "I'm Just A Lucky So And So", "Have You Ever Had The Blues", "Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying", and "Big John" in recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder's studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. Blue Note Records will reject the take of "I'm Just A Lucky So And So" and will issue the rest of the titles on Green's CD "Blues For Lou" (5-21438-2).

1972 - James C. Bracken, co-owner of Vee Jay Records, dies in Chicago, Illinois at age 62.

1982 - Chrysalis Records artist Pat Benatar marries guitarist Neil Giraldo in Hawaii.