SEPTEMBER 13, 2025


HAPPY BIRTHDAYS!

1916 - , singer, radio and motion picture actor, and Capitol Records artist (1955-1957), is born Richard Benjamin Haymes in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

1922 (Or Maybe September 10, 1923) - Yma Sumac, a singer with a five-octave range, Broadway performer, and Capitol Records artist, is born Zoila Augusta Emperatriz Chavarri del Castillo in Ichocán, Peru. If anyone knows for sure which year she was born in, please leave a comment.

100 Years Ago Today In 1925 - Mel Tormé, singer, songwriter, drummer, motion picture and television actor, and Capitol Records artist (1949-1952), is born Melvin Howard Tormé in Chicago, Illinois.

1961 - Dave Mustaine, guitarist, singer, songwriter, member of the band Metallica and the Capitol Records band (1986-2000) Megadeth, is born David Scott Mustaine in La Mesa, California.

1967 - Stephen Perkins, the drummer for the bands Porno For Pyros, Banyan, Infectious Grooves, Hellride, and the Capitol Records bands Jane's Addiction and The Panic Channel, is born Stephen Andrew Perkins in Los Angeles, California.

1993 - Niall Horan, singer, songwriter, and Capitol Records artist, is born in Mullingar, Ireland.

ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY

1944 - Jo Stafford, with Paul Weston and His Orchestra, records the titles "Out Of This World", "Conversations While Dancing" with additional vocals by Johnny Mercer, and "On The Sunny Side Of The Street" with additional vocals by The Pied Pipers in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue "Out Of This World" as a single (Capitol 191) with "There's No You" (recorded December 13, 1944) on the flipside, "Conversation While Dancing" as a single (Capitol 195) with "On The Atchison,Topeka And Santa Fe" (recorded December 13, 1944) on the flipside, and "On The Sunny Side Of The Street" as a single (Capitol 199) with "A Friend Of Yours" (recorded April 2, 1945) on the flipside.

1947 - "King Cole Trio Time" is broadcast from Louisville, Kentucky where The King Cole Trio play listener's requests for the entire show. The Trio then goes on to bookings in Chicago, Illinois, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Charlestown, West Virginia, Lansing, Michigan, and Rochester, Minnesota.

1947 - Vocalist and guitarist T-Bone Walker, with John "Teddy" Buckner on trumpet, Hubert "Bumps" Myers on tenor saxophone, Lloyd Glenn on piano, Arthur Edwards on bass, and Oscar Lee Bradley on drums, records the titles "I Know Your Wig Is Gone", the instrumental "T-Bone Jumps Again", two takes of "Call It Stormy Monday", and two takes of "She Had To Let Me Down" in Los Angeles, California for Black & White Records. Black & White Records will issue "I Know Your Wig Is Gone" and the second take of "Call It Stormy Monday" together as a single (Black & White 122) and "T-Bone Jumps Again" as a single (Black & White 125) with "I Want A Little Girl" (recorded December 29, 1947) on the flipside. Capitol Records will purchase Black & White's catalog and will issue "I Know Your Wig Is Gone" and the second take of "Call It Stormy Monday" on the album "Classics In Jazz - T-Bone Walker" (H-370), "T-Bone Jumps Again" on the album "T-Bone Walker - His Original 1945-50 Performances" (T 1958), and all the titles and takes in the three CD set "Capitol Blues Collection: T-Bone Walker - The Complete Capitol/Black and White Recordings" (8-29379-2).

70 Years Ago Today In 1948 - Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis overdub their vocals on band tracks recorded by The Mario Ruiz Armengol Orchestra on September 9, 1948 for the titles "The Money Song" and "That Certain Party" at Capitol Records' Melrose Avenue studios in Hollywood, California. Capitol Records will issue the two songs together as the duo's first single for the label (Capitol 15249).

1952 - Nat "King" Cole's Capitol Records single "Somewhere Along The Way" is #9 on The Cash Box magazine's Best Selling Single's chart and his single "Walkin' My Baby Back Home" is tied at #11 with Johnnie Ray's Columbia Records single of the same song on the same chart.

1957 - Nat "King" Cole's Capitol Records album "Love Is The Thing" is #1 on WMCA's weekly survey in New York City, New York and his single "With You In Mind" is #28 and his single "Send For Me" is #33 on the same survey.

1957 - Vocalist Will Jordan, with Billy May conducting his own arrangements to the orchestra (Jules Jacob on saxophone, Bill Miller on piano, Al Hendrickson and Alvino Rey on guitars, George "Red" Callender on bass, and Irving Cottler on drums), records the titles "Fly Carpet, Fly" and "Bye, Bye Love" in The Capitol Tower Studios at 1750 North Vine Street in Hollywood, California between 10:00 PM and 1:00 AM on September 14, 1957.

1957 - During two session held this day in Los Angeles, California, guitarist Laurindo Almeida, with Martin Ruderman on flute and vocalist Salli Terri, records Jaym Ovalle's "Tre Pontos De Santo, Opus 10: Chario/Aruanda/Estrella Do Mar", Almeida's "O Caçador", and Villa-Lobos' "Bachianas Brasileiras N° 5" at the first session and Paurillo Barroso's "Para Ninar", Jayme Ovalle-Bandeira's "Azulao", Vladimir Henrique's "Boi Bumba", and Braga Ferreira's "Maracatu" at the second session. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Laurindo Almeida, Martin Ruderman, and Salli Terri's album "Duets With The Spanish Guitar" (P/DP-8406).

1958 - Nat "King" Cole's Capitol Records single "Come Closer To Me (Acercate Mas)" is #26 on KFWB's Fabulous Forty Survey in Los Angeles, California and his album "Cole Espanade" is #5 on the station's Favorite Albums chart. "Come Closer To Me (Acercate Mas)" is also #48 on Cash Box magazine's Best Selling Singles chart.

1963 - Nat "King" Cole's Capitol Records single "That Sunday, That Summer" is #39 on WHB 710 AM's 40 Star Survey in Kansas City, Missouri.

1962 - The Beach Boys (Brian Wilson on lead vocals, Mike Love on vocals, Carl Wilson and David Marks on guitars and vocals, and Dennis Wilson on drums and vocals) record the title "Cindy, Oh Cindy" in The Capitol Tower Studios at 1750 North Vine Street in Hollywood, California. Capitol Records will issue the title on the compilation CD "The Beach Boys - 'Surfin' Safari' and 'Surfin' U.S.A.'" (7-93691-2).

1962 - Vocalists Gordon MacRae, Dorothy Kirsten, Earle Wilkie, Richard Robinson, and William Felber, with Van Alexander conducting The Roger Wagner Chorale and Orchestra (lineups unlisted), record the titles "'The Desert Song': The Riff Song" with vocals by Gordon MacRae, "'The Student Prince': Drinking Song (Reprise)", "'The Student Prince': Serenade" with vocals by MacRae, "'The Desert Song': Let Love Go/One Flower/One Alone" with vocals by MacRae, "'The Student Prince': Golden Days" with vocals by MacRae, and "'The Student Prince': Gaudeamus Igitur" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue "'The Desert Song': The Riff Song" and "'The Desert Song': Let Love Go/One Flower/One Alone" on the album "Desert Song" (W/SW 1842) and "'The Student Prince': Drinking Song (Reprise)", "'The Student Prince': Serenade", "'The Student Prince': Golden Days", and "'The Student Prince': Gaudeamus Igitur" on the album "The Student Prince" (W/SW 1841).

60 Years Ago Today In 1965 - Nancy Wilson, with arranger Sid Feller conducting the orchestra, records the title "I'll Only Miss Him When I Think of Him".

1967 - Vocalist Wayne Newton, with unlisted others, records the titles "(Leaning On) The Everlasting Arms", "His Amazing Grace", "When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder", "He'll Understand And Say Well Done", "Were You There When They Crucified My Lord?", "A Walk In The Valley", and "Turn To Him" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Newton's album "God Is Alive" (T/ST 2832).

50 Years Ago Today In 1968 - The Common People (Joel "Denny" Robinett, his brother Gerald Robinett on drums, William Fausto on keyboards, John Bartley III on guitar, and Michael McCarthy on bass) record the titles "Sing It Away", "I Have Been Alone", "Land Of A Day", and a rejected take of "Feeling" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue "I Have Been Alone" and "Land Of A Day" on the group's album "Of The People/By The People/For The People" (ST-266). "Sing It Away" has yet to be issued. Here's a great article about the history of the band.

1969 - John Lennon and Yoko Ono perform at a rock 'n' roll revival concert at Varsity Stadium in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, backed by Eric Clapton, Klaus Voormann and Alan White. It is the first time Lennon has given a rock performance on stage without Paul McCartney or the rest of The Beatles since 1957.

1972 - Larry Kingston, with unlisted others, records the titles "The Singin' Star", "Arkansas Roads", and "The Feminine Touch" in Nashville, Tennessee for Capitol Records which has yet to issue any of the titles.

1972 - Vocalist Kenny Vernon, with unlisted others, records the titles "Feel So Fine", "Woman, I Just Want To Love You More", and "Run, Baby, Run" in Nashville, Tennessee. After overdubs are recorded in Nashville, Tennessee for "Feel So Fine" on October 18, 1972, Capitol Records will issue the final mix of "Feel So Fine" and "Woman, I Just Want To Love You More" together as a single (Capitol 3691) and all the titles on Vernon's album "Loversville" (ST-11227).

1977 - Vocalist Al Martino, with an orchestra (lineup unlisted) using arrangements by Harold Wheeler, records the titles "One Last Time", "Here I Go Again", "The Next Hundred Years", and "A Song For Lovers" at Media Sound Studios in New York City, New York. with producer Joel Diamond for Silver Blue Productions. After overdubs are recorded for all the titles in Los Angeles, California on September 19 and 20, 1977, Capitol Records will issue "One Last Time" and "Here I Go Again" together as a single (Capitol 4551), "The Next Hundred Years" as a single (Capitol 4508) with "After The Lovin'" (recorded August 16, 1977) on the flipside, and all the titles on Martino's album "The Next Hundred Years" (ST-11741).

1977 - Leopold Stokowski, conductor and Capitol Records artist, dies in his sleep at age 95 in his house in Nether Wallop, Hampshire, England.

1991 - Vern Yocum, copyist, librarian, orchestrator and woodwind player, brother of Clark Yocum of the Capitol Records recording group The Pied Pipers, co-founder of The Musician’s Guild, founder of Hollywood’s top music preparation office which did work for hundreds of performers from the radio, television, film, and recording industries including Capitol Records artists and arrangers Nat "King" Cole, Frank Sinatra, Nelson Riddle, Peggy Lee, Keely Smith, Dean Martin, Ella Fitzgerald, Alex Stordahl, Gordon Jenkins, Billy May, Frank Duval, George Cates, Don Costa, and André Previn, dies of bladder cancer at age 82.

20 Years Ago Today In 2005 - Capitol Records releases The Dandy Warhol's album "Odditorium or Warlords of Mars".

ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY

60 Years Ago Today In 1965 - Zack Starkey, son of Capitol Records artist Ringo Starr and his wife Maureen, is born.

1982 - EMI-America Records registers the John Hall Band's titles "Women Of Water" and "Original Sin". No issuing information is listed.

20 Years Ago Today In 2005 - Blue Note Records, a division of Capitol Records, releases David Axelrod's compilation album "The Edge - David Axelrod at Capitol Records 1966-1970".

20 Years Ago Today In 2005 - EMI Classics, a division of Capitol Records, releases the compilation of recordings of compositions by Fritz Kreisler entitled "Kreisler: Original Compositions & Arrangements".

ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY

1996 - Tupac Shakur, singer, songwriter, poet, and actor, dies at age 25 of respiratory failure and cardiac arrest at the University Medical Center in Las Vegas, Nevada six days after being shot four times by an unknown drive-by shooter also in Las Vegas.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2025

HAPPY BIRTHDAYS!

1924 - Ella Mae Morse, singer with Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra, Freddie Slack and His Orchestra, and a Capitol Records solo artist, is born in Mansfield, Texas.

1952 - Gerry Beckley, lead and backing singer, keyboardist, guitarist, bass guitarist, and harmonica player all for the Capitol Records group America (1975-1985), is born in Fort Worth, Texas.

ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY

1947 - At a split session held this day with Paul Weston directing His Orchestra (Ray Woods, Charlie Griffard, Zeke Zarchy, and George Seaberg on trumpets, Allan Thompson, Bill Schaefer, and Elmer Smithers on trombones, Fred Stulce, Matty Matlock, Herbie Haymer, Hap Lawson, and Len Hartman on saxophones, Milt Raskin on piano, George Van Eps on guitar, Jack Ryan on bass, Nick Fatool on drums, and seven unidentified violinists) at Radio Recorders' studios at 932 North Western Avenue in Hollywood, California with producer Lee Gillette, first clarinetist and vocalist Benny Goodman and vocalists Johnny Mercer, Peggy Lee, Margaret Whiting, and The Pied Pipers (vocalists June Hutton, Chuck Lowry, Hal Hopper, and Clark Yocum) record the title "The Freedom Train" then vocalist Margaret Whiting and The Pied Pipers record the title "God Bless America". Capitol Records will issue both titles together as a single (Capitol 15003).

1952 Vocalist Wesley Tuttle with Darol Rice on clarinet, Otis "Joe" Maphis and Jimmie Widener on guitar, Wesley "Speedy" West on steel guitar, and Clarence "Bud" Dooley on bass, records the titles "Our Love Isn't Legal", "Don't Break The Sixth Commandment" with additional vocals by Marilyn Tuttle, "Known Only To Him", and "Song Of Bernadette" at Capitol Records' studios at 5515 Melrose Avenue in Hollywood, California between 1:30PM and 4:30 PM. Capitol Records will issue "Our Love Isn't Legal" and "Don't Break The Sixth Commandment" together as a single (Capitol 2242), "Known Only To Him" as a single (Capitol 2271) with "Gathering Home" (recorded January 30, 1952) on the flipside, and have yet to issue "Song Of Bernadette".

65 Years Ago Today In 1960 - Capitol Records artist Tommy Sands weds Nancy Sinatra, Jr., daughter of Capitol Records artist Frank Sinatra.

65 Years Ago Today In 1960 - Capitol Records releases The Kingston Trio's single "Everglades" with "This Mornin', This Evenin', So Soon".

1961 - Frank Sinatra, with arranger Axel Stordahl conducting the orchestra (Pete Candoli, Mickey Mangano, Uan Rasey, and Zeke Zarchy on trumpet, Dick Nash, Dick Noel, and Milt Bernhart on trombone, George Roberts on bass trombone), Vincent De Rosa, John Cave, and Richard Perissi on French horn, Harry Klee, Ronnie Lang, Gene Cipriano, Willie Schwartz, Justin Gordon, Ted Nash, and Babe Russin on saxophones and woodwinds, Bill Miller on piano, Al Viola on guitar, Joe Comfort on bass, Irving Cottler on drums, Emil Richards on percussion, Verlye Mills on harp, and a string section with Victor Arno, Israel Baker, Harry Bluestone, Herman Clebanoff, David Frisina, Ben Gill, Anatol Kaminsky, Dan Lube, Erno Neufeld, Lou Raderman, Nathan Ross, and Felix Slatkin on violins, Alvin Dinkin, Virginia Majewski, Alex Neiman, and Paul Robyn on violas, and Justin DiTullio, Edgar Lustgarten, Kurt Reher, and Eleanor Slatkin on cellos), records the titles "Somewhere Along The Way", "A Million Dreams Ago", "These Foolish Dreams", and "As Time Goes By" (all arranged by Stordahl), as well as "It's A Blue World" and "I'll Remember April" (both arranged by Heinie Beau) in Studio A at The Capitol Tower Studios at 1750 North Vine Street in Hollywood, California. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Sinatra's last original album for the label, "Point Of No Return" (SW 1676). This will be the last of Sinatra's sessions for Capitol Records before he leaves to start Reprise Records although, due to contractual obligations, "I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues", recorded during a Reprise session at United Recording Studios on March 6, 1962, will be included on the compilation album "Sinatra Sings...Of Love And Things" (SW 1729) released by Capitol.

1962 - Nat "King" Cole's Capitol Records single "Ramblin' Rose" is #2 on WMCA's Top Ten chart in New York City, New York.

1962 - Vocalists Gordon MacRae, Dorothy Kirsten, Earle Wilkie, Richard Robinson, and William Felber, with Van Alexander conducting The Roger Wagner Chorale and Orchestra (lineups unlisted), record the titles "'The Desert Song' Overture And Opening Chorus", "'The Student Prince' Overture And Opening Chorus", and "'The Student Prince': Students' Marching Song/Drinking Song/Come Boys" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue "'The Desert Song' Overture And Opening Chorus" on the album "The Desert Song" (W/SW 1842) and "'The Student Prince' Overture And Opening Chorus" and "'The Student Prince': Students' Marching Song/Drinking Song/Come Boys" on the album "The Student Prince" (W/SW 1841).

1962 - Vocalist and guitarist Glen Campbell, with Jimmie Haskell conducting his own arrangements to the orchestra (lineup unlisted), records the titles "Be Honest With Me", "A Long Black Limousine", "Prima Donna", "I Hang My Head And Cry", and "Here I Am" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue "Be Honest With Me", "A Long Black Limousine", "I Hang My Head And Cry", and "Here I Am" on Campbell's album "Too Late To Worry-Too Blue To Cry" (T/ST 1881) and "Prima Donna" as a single (Capitol 4925) with "Oh My Darlin'" (recorded September 11, 1962) on the flipside.

1963 - The Beatles record "Don't Bother Me" at EMI's Abbey Road Studios in London, England with producer George Martin. This is their first time recording a song written by George Harrison as EMI artists.

60 Years Ago Today In 1965 - Capitol Records releases The Beatles' single "Yesterday" with "Act Naturally" on the flipside.

1966 - The Beatles Capitol Records single "Yellow Submarine", with "Eleanor Rigby" on the flipside, is certified Gold by the R.I.A.A.

1967 - David Rose conducts his own arrangements to His Orchestra (lineup unlisted) as they record the titles "Wait Until Dark", "High Chaparral", and "Merci Cherie" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue "High Chaparral" and "Merci Cherie" together as a single (Capitol 2094) and has yet to issue "Wait Until Dark".

1967 - At two sessions held this day in Los Angeles, California, vocalist Wayne Newton, with unlisted others, records the titles "Let The Lower Lights Be Burning", "Precious Memories", "God Is Alive", and "Bringing In The Sheaves" at the first session and "Love Of The Common People" and "It's Still Loving You" at the second session. Capitol Records will issue "Let The Lower Lights Be Burning", "Precious Memories", "God Is Alive", and "Bringing In The Sheaves" on Newton's album "God Is Alive" (T/ST 2832) and "Love Of The Common People" and "It's Still Loving You" together as a single (Capitol 2016) and on Newton's album "The Greatest Wayne Newton" (T/ST 2847).

1972 - The Fortunes (lineup unlisted) record the titles "Wait Until September" and "Don't Sing To Me" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue both titles together as a single (Capitol 3445).

1972 - William Boyd (born William Lawrence Boyd), motion picture and television actor (best remembered for his ongoing roll as Hopalong Cassidy) and Capitol Records artist (the Hopalong  Cassidy series of Children's records), dies at age 77 in Laguna Beach, California and is later buried in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.

1993 - Garth Brooks' Liberty Records (later renamed Capitol Records Nashville) single "Ain't Going Down ('Til The Sun Comes Up)", with "Kickin' And Screamin'" on the flipside, is #1 on the U.S. Country singles charts.

25 Years Ago Today In 2000 - Capitol Records releases Amy Correia's album "Carnival Love" with Blind Melon's guitarist Christopher Thorn and bass player Brad Smith playing with her.

2004 - Keith Urban's Capitol Records Nashville single "Days Go By", released on a CD-Single with another version of the song on the flipside, is #1 on the U.S. Country singles chart.

2006 - Capitol Records releases Bob Seger's first studio album in 11 years, "Face The Promise", as both a standard CD and a limited edition CD/DVD package. Capitol has also scheduled releases for today of a Dean Martin compilation "Christmas With Dino", David Gray's album "Sell, Sell, Sell", The Proclaimers' album "Sunshine on Leith" and Talk Talk's album "Spirit of Eden".

2006 - Capitol Records Nashville and EMI Music Catalog Marketing release Merle Haggard's compilation album "Hag: The Best Of Merle Haggard" with liner notes by Capitol Records producer Ken Nelson.

ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY

1961 - Bobby Vee's Liberty Records single "Take Good Care Of My Baby", with "Bashful Bob" on the flipside, is #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart. Liberty's catalog is currently owned by Universal Music Group, Capitol Music Group's parent company.

55 Years Ago Today In 1970 - "Josie And The Pussycats" debuts on CBS-TV. Capitol Records releases a soundtrack album featuring vocals by Cheryl Ladd.

1977 - James Louis McCartney, son of Capitol Records artists Paul and Linda McCartney, is born

25 Years Ago Today In 2000 - EMI Classics releases Plácido Domingo's album "Songs Of Love". EMI Classics is currently owned by EMI Music Group, Capitol Music Group's parent company..

2006 - Virgin Records releases Daz Dillinger's album "So So Gangsta" in both an Edited and a Parental Advisory version. Virgin Records is currently owned by Universal Music Group, Capitol Music Group's parent company.

ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY

1866 - "The Black Crook", a four-act performance, becomes the first burlesque show to open in New York City and will run for 475 performances making $1.3 million for its producers (about $18,673,697 in 2016 dollars with inflation).

1959 - "Bonanza" premieres on NBC-TV becoming the first regularly-scheduled TV program broadcast in color. The series was green-lighted by Alan Livingston, former VP of Childrens records and VP A&R at Capitol Records and the company's future president and Chairman of the Board. The series' theme song was written by Livingston's brother Jay Livingston with writing partner Ray Evans.

1966 - "The Monkees" premieres on NBC-TV.

2003 - Johnny Cash, singer, songwriter, guitarist, dies at age 71 at at Baptist Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee due to complications from diabetes, which resulted in respiratory failure.

SEPTEMBER 11, 2025

HAPPY BIRTHDAYS!

85 Years Ago Today In 1940 - Bernie Dwyer, drummer with the Tower Records (a subsidiary of Capitol Records) group Freddie And The Dreamers, is born in Manchester, England.

80 Years Ago Today In 1945 - Leo Kottke, guitarist and Capitol Records artist(1971-1975), is born in Athens, Georgia.

1977 - Jonny Buckland, guitarist with the Capitol Records group Coldplay, is born in London, England.

ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY

1946 - Cootie Williams and His Orchestra (Cootie Williams on trumpet; Bob Merrill on trumpet and vocals; E. V. Perry, Otis Gamble, Clarence "Gene" Redd, and Billy Ford on trumpet; Ed Burke, Edward Johnson, and Julius "Hawkshaw" Watson on trombone; Rupert Cole and Daniel Williams on alto saxohone; Chuck Clarke and Edwin Johnson on tenor saxophone; Bob Ashton on baritone saxophone; Arnold Jarvis on piano; Norman Keenan on bass; and Butch Ballard on drums) record the tracks "Rhapsody In Bass", "Ain't Got No Blues Today" (with vocals by Merrill), and "Bring 'Em Down Front" (with vocals by Merrill), at WMCA Studios in New York City.

1947 - Vocalist Kay Starr, with tenor saxophonist Dave Cavanaugh's Music (Clyde Hurley on trumpet, Clint Neagley and Jack Crowley on alto saxophones, Babe Russin also on tenor saxophone, Joe Koch on baritone saxophone, Johnny Black on piano, Irving Ashby on guitar, Billy Hadnott on bass, and Dick Shanahan on drums), records the titles "So Help Me (If I Don't Love You)", "Sharecroppin' Blues", "You're The One I Care For", and "I'm The Lonesomest Gal In Town" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue "So Help Me (If I Don't Love You)" as a single (Capitol 1902) with "Hold Me, Hold Me, Hold Me" (recorded June 24, 1951) on the flipside, "Sharecroppin' Blues" and "I'm The Lonesomest Gal In Town" together as a single (Capitol Americana 40051), and "You're The One I Care For" as a single (Capitol 811) with "Story Weather" (the first take recorded March 30, 1945) on the flipside.

1952 - During two sessions held this day at Universal Studios in Chicago, Illinois, pianist Stan Kenton and His Orchestra (Buddy Childers, Maynard Ferguson, Conte Candoli, Don Dennis, and Ruben McFall on trumpets, Bob Burgess, Frank Rosolino, Bill Russo, and Keith Moon on trombones, George Roberts on bass trombone, Lee Konitz and Vinnie Dean on alto saxophones, Bill Holman and Richie Kamuca on tenor saxophones, Bob Gioga on baritone saxophone, Sal Salvador on guitar, Don Bagley on bass, Stan Levey on drums, and Ken Walton on bongos) record the titles "23° N - 82° W", and "Taboo" at the first session and "Lonesome Train" with vocals by Kay Brown and an incomplete take of "Invention For Guitar And Trumpet" at the second session. Capitol Records will issue "23° N - 82° W" as a single (Capitol 3134) with "Falling" (recorded March 30, 1955) on the flipside and on Kenton's album "New Concepts Of Artistry In Rhythm" (T-383), "Taboo" and "Lonesome Train" together as a single (Capitol 2250) with just "Taboo" on Kenton's album "Popular Favorites" (T 421), and recorded a complete take of "Invention For Guitar" on September 55, 1952.

1952 - Vocalist and guitarist Jenks "Tex" Carman, with unlisted others, records the titles "Gosh I Miss You All The Time", "Blue Memories", "I'm A Poor Lonesome Fellow", and "Hillbilly Hula" in Capitol Records' studios at 5515 Melrose Avenue in Hollywood, California. Capitol Records will issue "Blue Memories" as a single (Capitol 2621) with "" (recorded ) on the flipside and "I'm A Poor Lonesome Fellow" and "Hillbilly Hula" together as a single (Capitol 2345). Bear Family Records will issue all the titles in Germany on the CD "Jenks "Tex" Carman - Hillbilly Hula" (BCD 15574).

1952 - Capitol Records purchases the masters for Johnny Standley with Horace Heidt and His Musical Knights' titles "It's In The Book, Part 1" and "It's In The Book, Part 2" and will issue both parts together as a single (Capitol 2249) and on Standley's EP "It's In The Book" (EAP-1-697) and on the multi-artist compilation album "Comedy Caravan" (T 732). It will be #1 on The Billboard magazine's Best Selling Singles chart on November 22, 1952 and will become the first comedy single to sell 1 million plus copies in the Unites States.

1952 - Felix Slatkin conducts The Concert Arts Orchestra (lineup unlisted) as they record the titles "Caprice", "Elegie For Violin, Cello And Orchestra" featuring Eleanor Aller on cello, "Intermezzo from 'Hassan' (Incidental Music To James Elroy Flecker's Play)", "Prelude To Irmelin", and "Serenade From 'Hassan' (Incidental Music To James Elroy Flecker's Play)" featuring Paul Shure on violin in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on the orchestra's album "Music Of DELIUS" (P-8182).

1957 - Vocalists Stan Freberg, Chuck Schrouder, Peggy Taylor, Daws Butler, and The Lennon Sisters (lineup unlisted), with Billy May's Music (May conducting his own arrangements to Leonard Mach, John Best, and Mannie Klein on trumpet, William Schaefer on trombone, Wilbur Schwartz, Ted Nash, and Fred Falensby on saxophones, Billy Liebert on accordion, Sam Furman on piano, Al Hedrickson on guitar, Robert Stone on bass, and Frank Flynn on drums), record the titles "Wun'erful, Wun'erful!, Part 1" and "Wun'erful, Wun'erful!, Part 2" in The Capitol Tower Studios at 1750 North Vine Street in Hollywood, California between 8:30 PM and 11:30 PM. Capitol Records will issue both parts together as a single (Capitol F3815) and on Freberg's album "Stan Freberg - With The Original Cast" (T/DT 1242).

1957 - Vocalist Wanda Jackson, with Merrill Moore on piano, Alvis "Buck" Owens on lead guitar, William Everett "Billy" Strange on rhythm guitar, Ralph Mooney on steel guitar, Rollie Bundock on bass, and Roy Harte on drums, records the titles "No Wedding Bells For Joe", "Fujiyama Mama", "and "Just Queen For A Day" in The Capitol Tower Studios at 1750 North Vine Street in Hollywood, California between 7:00 PM and 10:00 PM. Capitol Records will issue "No Wedding Bells For Joe" and "Fujiyama Mama" together as a single (Capitol F3843) with "Fujiyama Mama" also on Jackson's album "Rockin' With Wanda!" (T 1384) and "Just Queen For A Day" as a single (Capitol F3941) with "Honey Bop" (recorded September 20, 1956) on the flipside.

1958 - Frank Sinatra, with Nelson Riddle conducting his own arrangements to the orchestra (Pete Candoli, Conrad Gozzo, Mickey Mangano, and Cappy Lewis on trumpet, Tommy Pederson and Dick Noel on trombone, Juan Tizol on valve trombone, George Roberts on bass trombone, Willie Schwartz, Bill Green, Champ Webb, Joe Koch, and Harry Klee on saxophones and woodwinds, Bill Miller on piano, Al Viola on guitar, Joe Comfort on bass, Alvin Stoller on drums, Kathryn Julye on harp, Jimmy Joyce, Bill Stafford, Charles Parlato, Thomas Kenny, Betty Joyce, Vangie Carmichael, Jackie Noyes, and Hillard Street as a vocal chorus-1) and a string section with Victor Bay, Alex Beller, Harold Dicterow, David Frisina, Ben Gill, Murray Kellner, Lisa Minghetti, Endice Shapiro, Felix Slatkin, and Marshall Sosson on violin, Stanley Harris and David Sterkin on viola, Victor Gottblieb, Elizabeth Greenschpoon, and Eleanor Slatkin on cello), records the titles "Mr. Success", "Sleep Warm", "The Way I Love You",  "Where Or When", and "Who's In Your Arms Tonight?" at The Capitol Tower Studios in Hollywood, California between 9:45 PM and 12:15 AM. Capitol Records will issue "Mr. Success" and "Sleep Warm" together as a single (Capitol F4070) and "Where Or When" on the CD version of Sinatra's album "Frank Sinatra Sings For Only The Lonely" (7-48471-2). "The Way I Love You" and "Who's In Your Arms Tonight?"  have yet to be released.

1961 - Frank Sinatra, with arranger and conductor Axel Stordahl, records the track "I'll See You Again" on the first day of sessions for his last Capitol Records album "Point Of No Return" in Studio A of The Capitol Tower Studios.

1961 - Capitol Records releases The Kingston Trio's album "Close Up" which is their first album with John Stewart as a member

1962 - Nat "King" Cole's Capitol Records single "Ramblin' Rose" is #5 on WGKV 1490 AM's The Official Sing Along Survey in Charleston, West Virginia and #6 on WABC's Silver Dollar Sound Survey in New York City, New York.

1962 - Vocalist and guitarist Glen Campbell, with unlisted others, records the titles "My Special Angel", "I'Ll Hold You In My Heart", "When You Cry, You Cry Alone", "It's Been So Long Darling", and "Oh My Darlin'" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue "My Special Angel" on Campbell's compliation CD "The Essential Glen Campbell, Volume 2" (8-33829-2) and "I'Ll Hold You In My Heart", "When You Cry, You Cry Alone", "It's Been So Long Darling", and "Oh My Darlin'" on Campbell's album "Too Late To Worry-Too Blue To Cry" (T/ST 1881).

1962 - The Beatles (George Harrison on lead guitar and vocals, John Lennon on rhythm guitar and vocals, Paul McCartney on bass guitar and vocals, and Ringo Starr on maracas and tambourine) with Andy White on drums, re-record eighteen takes of "Love Me Do" (with Starr on tambourine), ten takes of "P.S. I Love You" (with Starr on maracas), and a take of "Please Please Me" in E.M.I.'s Abbey Road Studios in London, England with producer Ron Richards and engineer Norman "Hurricane" Smith from 5:00 PM to 6:45 PM. Tollie Records will initially issue "Love Me Do" and "P.S. I Love You" together as a single (Tollie 9008) in the United States. Capitol Records will later issue both titles together in the United States as a single (Capitol 6062) and on the band's U.S. album "The Early Beatles" (T/ST 2309). Apple Records will issue the take of "Please Please Me" on the compilation album "Anthology, Volume 1" (8-34445-2 on CD).

1963 - The Beatles record the track "All I've Got To Do".

60 Years Ago Today In 1965 - The Beatles' Capitol Records album "HELP!" is #1 on Billboard's Top 200 albums chart and will stay on top for nine weeks and their Capitol Records single "HELP!", with "I'm Down" on the flipside, is #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart.

1967 - The Beatles begin filming their BBC Television musical "Magical Mystery Tour" as the cast and crew board the coach and begin travelling around the UK. Capitol Records will release the soundtrack album in the United States.

50 Years Ago Today In 1967 - Capitol Records releases Tennessee Ernie Ford's single "Hand-Me-Down Things" with "The Road" on the flipside.

1967 - The Beach Boys (lineup unlisted) record versions of "Sloop John B", "Help Me, Rhonda", "Good Vibrations", "California Girls", "Surfer Girl", and "God Only Knows" in Los Angeles, California. After overdubs are recorded on September 15, 1967 for "Help Me, Rhonda" and on September 16, 1967 for "Good Vibrations", Capitol Records International will issue all the titles on a tape (catalog # not listed).

1969 - Leon Payne, guitarist, songwriter (best known for "Lost Highway" and "I Love You Because"), member of the group Bob Wills & The Texas Playboys, and a Capitol Records solo artist, dies in San Antonio, Texas at age 52.

1987 - Capitol Records purchases the masters for Suave's title "Back Stabber". No issuing information is listed.

1987 - Lorelei (lineup unlisted) records the title "Dirty Love" in an unlisted studio for Capitol Records. No issuing information is listed.

1987 - Peter Tosh (born Winston Hubert McIntosh), singer, songwriter, member of the band The Wailers, and a EMI-America and Capitol Records solo recording artist, along with musician and herbalist Wilton "Doc" Brown, and popular Jamaican Broadcasting Corporation DJ Jeff "Free-I" Dixon, are shot in Tosh's home in Kingston, Jamaica by three men demanding money. Brown is killed instantly and Tosh and Dixon will later be pronounced dead at University Hospital in Kingston. Tosh was 43 years old.

2007 - Former Capitol Records artist Brian Wilson is announced to be one of the five honorees of the Kennedy Center Honors to be held December 2, 2007 in Washington, D.C. The ceremony will be broadcast by CBS-TV on December 26, 2006. The other honorees are comedian Steve Martin, motion picture director and film preservationist Martin Scorsese, singer Diana Ross and pianist Leon Fleisher.

ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY

1957 - John Moss, with the Virgin Records group Culture Club, is born.

1966 - Gregory Kane, keyboardist with the Circa Records (a division of Virgin Records) band Hue And Cry (and, with his brother and bandmate Pat Kane has also performed or recorded with Madonna, U2, Simply Red, James Brown, The Brecker Brothers, The Average White Band, Ray Charles, and Tito Puente), is born in Coatbridge, Scotland.

1967 - The Beatles begin filming their BBC Television musical "Magical Mystery Tour" as the cast and crew board the coach and begin travelling around the UK. Capitol Records will release the soundtrack album in the United States.

1972 - Billy May conducts The Time-Life Orchestra (lineup unlisted) as they record the titles "An Affair To Remember", "Charade", "The Magnificent Seven", "Vanessa", and "Velvet Glove" in The Capitol Tower Studios at 1750 North Vine Street in Hollywood, California. Time-Life Records will issue all the titles as part of its "As You Remember Them Series" with "An Affair To Remember" in the three disc box set "Bill May - Volume 3" (STL 243), "Charade" and "Vanessa" in the three disc box set "Billy May - Volume 4" (STL 244), "The Magnificent Seven" in the three disc box set "Billy May - Volume Six" (STL 246), and "Velvet Glove" in the three disc box set "Billy May - Volume 5) (STL 245).

1998 - Stella Ritter, granddaughter of Capitol Records artist Tex Ritter and daughter of actors John Ritter and Amy Yasbeck, is born.

2003 - John Ritter, television and motion picture actor, and son of Capitol Records artist Tex Ritter, dies at age 54 (exactly one week before his 55th birthday) from an aortic dissection caused by a previously undiagnosed congenital heart defect, after being rushed to Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center (the same hospital where he was born) in Burbank, California when he became seriously ill during rehearsals on the set of his television series "8 Simple Rules For Dating My Teenage Daughter". Ritter is later interred at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Los Angeles, California.

2025 - Bobby Hart (born Robert Luke Harshman), songwriter and Capitol Records artist as part of the group Boyce, Hart, Dolenz, & Jones, dies at age 86 in his home in Los Angeles, California after a long illness.

ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY

75 Years Ago Today In 1950 - The first photo-typesetting machine is put on public display at the Sixth Educational Graphic Arts Exposition, in Chicago, Illinois. It is the Intertype Fotosetter Photographic Line Composing Machine which is manufactured by the Intertype Corporation of Brooklyn, New York.

1972 - Max Fleischer, animator, animation developer, director and producer, and studio founder with brothers Dave and Richard (Fleisher Studios which innovated using the rotoscope process for animation, created the first sound cartoon in 1924 using the Lee DeForest sound-on-film synchronization process, created the characters Betty Boop and Koko the Clown, created the "follow the bouncing ball" sing along cartoons series, and set the standard for animation with shorts based on the Popeye and Superman characters before selling the studios to Paramount Pictures in 1942), dies at age 89 in Woodland Hills, California.

1981 - The HBO special "The Pee-Wee Herman Show" airs for the first time.

2001 - 9/11. Calls went out early in the morning to Capitol's employees not to come into the office that day. I was woken up by a call from Wendy Dougan and couldn't believe what I had heard. The rest of the day was spent just watching the news unfold. The Tower did re-open the next day but soon there was a bomb scare at around noon that sent all the employees out of the building and in to the newly re-developed far rear parking lot. If anything had happened to the building it would have been a great view but we probably would all have been killed flying pieces of The Tower. After a few hours we were let back into the building. After that day, security was tightened to the point where tourists could no longer enter The Tower to look at the gold records lining the walls of the lobby. This policy is still in effect to this today.

SEPTEMBER 10, 2025

HAPPY BIRTHDAYS!

1923 (Or Maybe September 13, 1922) - Yma Sumac, a singer with a five-octave range, a Broadway performer, and a Capitol Records artist (1949-1958), is born Zoila Augusta Emperatriz Chavarri del Castillo in Ichocán, Peru. If anyone knows for sure which year she was born in, please leave a comment.

1961 - O'Bryan, singer, dancer, songwriter (created the theme song for the television show "Soul Train" used in the 1980s), record producer, and Capitol Records artist (1982-1986), is born McCoy Burnette, Jr. at Pender County Memorial Hospital in Burgaw, North Carolina

ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY

1947 - Tex Williams' Capitol Records single "Smoke, Smoke, Smoke (That Cigarette), with "Roundup Polka" on the flipside, is tied for #2 on the U.S. charts with another version of the song recorded by Phil Harris for RCA Records with "Crawdad Song" on the flipside. Also, Red Ingle And His Natural Seven with guest vocalist Cinderella G. Stump (aka Jo Stafford)'s Capitol Records single "Tim-Tay-Shun", with "For Seventy Mental Reasons" on the flipside is at #5.

1948 - Mario Ruiz Armengol, with unlisted others, records unlisted titles for The Capitol Records Transcription Service at an unlisted studio. No issuing information is listed. Possibly this session was for the transfer of masters of the band tracks recorded on September 9, 1948 in Mexico for Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis' titles "That Certain Party" and "The Money Song" and for Andy Russell and The Pied Pipers' title "If We Can't Be The Same Old Sweethearts" on to acetate discs for the artists for rehearsal for vocal session for Martin & Lewis' titles on September 13, 1948, and Russell's session on October 2, 1948.

1952 - Nat "King" Cole's Capitol Records single "Somewhere Along The Way" is #12 on The Billboard magazine's Records Most Played By Disk Jockeys chart, #15 on the magazine's Best Selling Pop Singles chart, and #19 on the magazine's Most Played Juke Box Records chart. Cole's single "Walkin' My Baby Back Home is #24 also on The Billboard magazine's Best Selling Singles chart.

1953 - Final additional band tracks are overdubbed in Los Angeles, California by Van Alexander conducting his own arrangements to the orchestra (lineup unlisted) for both parts of Mel Blanc's title "Happy Hippety Hopper". Capitol Records will edit the final mixes of both parts into a single title and release it on the children's album "Bugs Bunny And His Friends" (J-3257).

1953 - Vocalist Skeets McDonald, with Harold Glenn Hensley on fiddle, Billy Liebert on piano, Billy Strange on guitar, Wesley "Speedy" West on steel guitar, Red Murrell on bass, and Roy Harte on drums, records the titles "I Need Your Love", "Looking At The Moon And Wishing On A Star", "We're Lovin' And Livin', and "Oh, How It Hurts" in Capitol Records' studios at 5515 Melrose Avenue in Hollywood, California. Capitol Records will issue "I Need Your Love" and "Looking At The Moon And Wishing On A Star" together as a single (Capitol 2607). Bear Family Records will issue all the titles in Germany in the five-CD box set "Skeets McDonald - Don't Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes" (BCD 15937).

70 Years Ago Today In 1955 - The Louvin Brothers' Capitol Records single "When I Stopped Dreaming", with "Pitfall" on the flipside, enters the U.S. Country singles charts.

1957 - It's a Tuesday night at 7:30 PM and "The Nat 'King' Cole Show" airs on NBC-TV with guests The Randy Van Horne Singers, The Four Lads, and Ella Fitzgerald. This will be the first of four consecutive shows originating from the Copa Room at The Sands Hotel in Las Vegas. Here's a copy of the script.

1957 - The Five Keys (Rudy West on lead vocals, Ripley Ingram on tenor vocals, Maryland Pierce and Ramon Loper on baritone vocals, and Bernie West on bass vocals), with the Sid Feller Orchestra (listed as possibly King Curtis on tenor saxophone and unlisted guitar, bass and drums players), record the titles "Handy Andy", "Dog Gone Baby", "It's A Cryin' Shame" and "Whippety Whirl" at Capitol Records' studios in New York City, New York. Capitol Records will issue "Handy Andy" as a single (Capitol F4009) with "Emily Please" (recorded February 11, 1958) on the flipside, have yet to issue "Dog Gone Baby", "It's A Cryin' Shame" as a single (Capitol F3830) with "Do Anything" (recorded September 9, 1957) on the flipside, and "Whippety Whirl" as a single (Capitol F3861) with "From Me To You" (also recorded September 9, 1957) on the flipside.

1958 - Paul Weston conducts his own arrangments to His Orchestra (unlisted brass, reeds, and strings players) as they record the titles "Where Or When", "Stars Fell On Alabama", "Tenderly", "If I Could Be With You" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Weston and his orchestra's album "Music For The Fireside" (T/ST 1192).

1958 - Carmen Dragon conducts The Capitol Symphony Orchestra (lineup unlisted) as they record Louis XIII (King Of France)'s "Amaryllis", Paderewski's "Celebrated Minuet Opus 14, N° 1 (Minuet In G Major)", and Mozart's "Overture, K. 492 (The Marriage Of Figaro)" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue "Amaryllis" and "Celebrated Minuet Opus 14, N° 1 (Minuet In G Major)" on the orchestra's album "Invitation To The Dance" (P/SP-8466) and "Overture, K. 492 (The Marriage Of Figaro)" on its album "A Concert Gala" (P/SP-8511).

1962 - Capitol Records releases Tennessee Ernie Ford's single "How Great Thou Art" with "Eternal Life (The Prayer of St. Francis)" on the flipside.

1963 - During two sessions held this day in The Capitol Tower Studios at 1750 North Vine Street in Hollywood, California, pianist and bandleader Stan Kenton and His Orchesra (Jiggs Whigham, Edwin "Buddy" Baker, and Bob Curnow on trombones, Jim Amlotte and Dave Wheeler on bass trombone, Laurindo Almeida on guitar, John Worster on bass, Dee Barton on drums) and a vocal choir (Evangeline Carmichael, Betty Jane Baker, Loulie Jean Norman, Gloria Wood, Sue Allen, Peggy Clark, Virginia Mancini, Sally Sweetland, George Tipton, Thurl Ravenscroft, Ian Smith, Allan Davies, Jimmy Joyce, Bill Lee, Earl Brown, Jay Meyer, William Cole, and Bernie Parke), using arrangements written and conducted by Pete Rugolo, record the titels "Night Song (Artistry In Rhythm)" and "It's Love (Sunset Tower)" at the first session between 2:00 PM and 5:00 PM and the titles "Concerto Of Love (Concerto To End All Concertos)", "Flame (Artistry In Motion)", "Solitaire", "Moonlove (Collaboration)", and "Painted Rhythm" at the second session between 7:00 PM and 12:00 AM on September 11, 1958. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Kenton's album "Artistry In Voices & Brass" (T/ST 2132).

1966 - The Beatles' Capitol Records album "Revolver" knocks their Capitol Records album "Yesterday & Today" out of the #1 album spot on Billboard's Top 200 albums chart.

1967 - Capitol Records purchases the masters for The Evil's (lineup unlisted) titles "Whatcha Gonna Do About It", "Gotta Move On", "I Know I'll Die", "It's Too Late", "Always Runnin' Around", "Short Life" and "From A Curbstone" produced by Gary Stites and Joe Sessody for Living Legend Productions and recorded in 1966 at Dukoff Recording Studios/F.A.R. 6601 in Miami, Florida, and will issue "Whatcha Gonna Do About It" and "Short Life" together as a single (Capitol 2038) and have yet to issue any of the other titles but an acetate of "From A Curbstone" and "Short Life" is available on YouTube.

1967 - Capitol Records purchases the masters for Norma Shearer's (not the film actress) titles "Fool Me", "You Tore My Playhouse Down", and "Mama Didn't Raise No Fools", issued "Fool Me" and "You Tore My Playhouse Down" together as a single (Capitol 2024), and have yet to issue "Mama Didn't Raise No Fools".

1968 - The Lettermen (vocalists Jim Pike, Tony Butala, and Gary Pike), with Mort Garson and Perry Botking, Jr. conducting their own arrangements to the orchestra (lineup unlisted), record the titles "This Guy's In Love With You", "Gentle On My Mind", "Hello, I Love You", and "Hey Jude" in Los Angeles, California. After overdubs are recorded for all the titles on September 19, 1968, Capitol Records will issue the final mixes off all the titles on the group's album "Put Your Head On My Shoulder" (ST-147).

1968 - Vocalist Clara Ward, with H. B. Barnum directing the orchestra and vocal chorus (lineups unlisted), records the titles "What The World Needs Now Is Love", "Medley: For What It's Worth/Stop, Look And Listen", and "Somewhere" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Ward's album "Soul And Inspiration" (ST-126) and "Somewhere" also as a single (Capitol 2500) with "Born Free" (recorded September 9, 1968) on the flipside.

1968 - The Crackers (aka The Band with Garth Hudson and Richard Manuel on keyboards and vocals, Jaime Robbie Robertson on guitar, and vocals, Rick Danko on bass and vocals, and Levon Helm on drums and vocals) record the title "Key To The Highway" in New York City, New York. Capitol Records will issue the title as a bonus track on the CD "Music From The Big Pink Remastered" (5-25390-2).

1973 - Capitol Records registers the master it purchased from Buck Owens Enterprises for Susan Raye's titles "I'll Fly Away", "Precious Memories", "This World Is Not My Home", "What A Friend We Have In Jesus", "A Land Where We'll Never Grow Old", "Old Time Religion", "Farther Along", "Life's Railway To Heaven", "Who At My Door Is Standing", and "Softly And Tenderly" and will issue all the titles on Raye's album "Hymns By Susan Raye" (ST-11255).

1979 - Triumvirant begins recording its Capitol Records album "Russian Roulette".

35 Years Ago Today In 1990 - Capitol Records releases Megadeth's album "Rust In Peace".

1991 - Capitol Records Nashville releases Garth Brooks' third album "Ropin' The Wind" It is the first country album to carry a $10.98 suggested retail price.

1991 - Capitol Records releases the compilation album "Christmas Kisses".

1992 - Capitol Records registers the masters for The Cavedogs' titles "Love Grenade", "Here Comes Rosie", "Sorrow (Boots Of Rain)", "As You Were", "Boy In A Plastic Bubble", "You're Put Away (Folderol)", "Sonny Day", "I I I", "Murder", On For The Ride", "Tarzan And His Arrow Heads", "Circus Song", and "Ghost Story", will issue all the titles except "Ghost Story" on the group's CD "Soul Martini" (7 97511 2), and have yet to issue "Ghost Story" but is has popped up online on YouTube.

1998 - Grand Royal and Capitol Records group The Beastie Boys are presented with the Video Vanguard Award at the 15th annual MTV Video Music Awards.

ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY

1939 - Cynthia Lennon, artist, mother of John Charles Julian Lennon and first wife of John Lennon, is born Cynthia Lillian Powell in Blackpool, Lancashire, England.

85 Years Ago Today In 1940 - Roy "Daddy Bug" Ayers, vibraphonist with the bands of Curtis Amy, Jack Wilson and the Pacific Jazz group The Gerald Wilson Orchestra, is born Roy E. Ayers Jr. in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Music Group's parent company, EMI Music Group, currently owns the Pacific Jazz catalog.

1947 - Tenor saxophonist Illinois Jaquet (with Russell Jacquet and Joe Newman on trumpet, J.J. Johnson on trombone, Leo Parker on baritone saxophone, Sir Charles Thompson on piano, John Collins on guitar, Al Lucas on bass, and Shadow Wilson on drums) records the tracks "Goofin' Off", "Riffin' With Jacquet", "Don't Push Daddy", two takes of "Sahara Heat", and "It's Wild" for Aladdin Records. Capitol Music Group's parent company, Universal Music Group, currently owns the Aladdin catalog.

1949 - Barriemore Barlow, a percussionist and the drummer with the band The Blades, the Chrysalis Records group Jethro Tull, and founder of the band Tandoori Cassette, is born Barry Barlow in Birmingham, England. Chrysalis' catalog is currently owned by EMI Music Group, Capitol Music Group's parent company.

1957 - Carol Decker, the lead singer with the Virgin Records group T'Pau and a solo artist, is born Carol Ann Decker in Huyton, Merseyside, England. I designed the packaging for the 12" promo for their first U.S. single release "Heart And Soul" using an idea from Virgin Record America's co-president Jeff Ayeroff as my first freelance assignment for the label, and revised the original UK packaging of their self-titled debut album for release on vinyl, cassette, and CD in the United States by the label. I attended their performance at The Roxy on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, catching Carol's eye. When I went upstairs to their dressing rooms afterward, she was kind of surprised and happy to see me, but that faded pretty quickly when she found out I worked for their label. Virgin's catalog is currently owned by Universal Music Group, Capitol Music Group's parent company.

1958 - Trumpet player Art Farmer, with Benny Golson on tenor saxophone, Bill Evans on piano, Addison Farmer on bass, and Dave Bailey on drums, start the first of three days of sessions at Nola Studios in New York City, New York where they record the titles "Mox Nix", "Fair Weather", "Darn That Dream", "The Touch Of Your Lips, "Jubilation", "Like Someone In Love", "I Love You", and "Cool Breeze" for United Artists Records. After E.M.I. acquires United Artists' catalog, Blue Note Records will issue all the titles on the CD reissue of Farmer's album "Modern Art" (7-84459-2).

1982 - Marty Balin, with unlisted others, records the title "Is It You" at an unlisted studio for EMI-America. No issuing information is listed.

1993 - Pianist and vocalist Mose Allison, with Ratso Harris on bass, Paul Motian on drums, and Hugh McCracken on harmonica, records the titles "This Ain't Me", "Cabaret Card", and "What A Shame" at Skyline Studio in New York City, New York. Blue Note Records will issue all the titles on Allison's CD "The Earth Wants You" (8-27640-2).

1994 - Talulah Pine LeBon, daughter of Simon LeBon (singer with the Capitol Records group Duran Duran) and his wife Yasmin Parvenah LeBon, is born.

ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY

1908 - Raymond Scott, pianist, bandleader, radio and television performer and music director, electronic music innovator, and composer (whose works were adapted by Carl Stalling for use in many of Warner Bros.' classic Looney Tunes animated shorts), is born Harry Warnow in Brooklyn, New York.

SEPTEMBER 9, 2025

HAPPY BIRTHDAYS!

1929 - Stu Phillips, television and motion picture score composer, record producer, and creator, producer and conductor of the Capitol Records group The Hollyridge Strings, is born. Thanks to Stu for the corrections and he has a great website at http://www.stuwho.com/ with accurate information, unlike many of the reference sites' listings for him.

1942 - Artie Kornfeld, songwriter ("Dead Man's Curve"), co-organizer and co-producer of the 1969 Woodstock Art Fair and Music Festival, and who, at age 21, became Capitol Records youngest Vice President, is born Arthur Lawerence Kornfeld in Brooklyn, New York.

ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY

1947 - Johnny Mercer, with unlisted others, records tracks for Capitol Records' 1947 Christmas promotional record in Los Angeles, California.

1948 - The Mario Ruiz Armengol Orchestra (lineup unlisted) records the band tracks for Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis' titles "That Certain Party" and "The Money Song" at an unlisted studio in Mexico. After vocal tracks are recorded by Martin and Lewis on September 13, 1948, Capitol Records will issue the final mixes of both titles together as a single (Capitol 15249).

1948 - With special dispensation from the recording ban by AFM president James Petrillo due to its proposed use on a charity album, The Benny Goodman Septet (Fats Navarro on trumpet, Benny Goodman on clarinet, Wardell Gray on tenor saxophone, Gene Di Novi on piano, Mundell Lowe on guitar, Clyde Lombardi on bass, and Mel Zelnick on drums) record the title "Stealin' Apples" at Capitol Records' studios in New York City, New York. Capitol Records will issue the title on the multi-artist soundtrack album "Giants Of Jazz - A Song Is Born" (CC-106) whose profits will go to the Daymon Runyon Cancer Fund.

1952 - During two session held this day in Los Angeles, California, Jan Garber conducts His Orchestra (lineup unlisted) as they record the titles "Carolina Moon", "Jeannine, I Dream Of Lilac Time", "Beautiful Lady In Blue" and "When It's Springtime In The Rockies" at the first session and the titles "Mexicali Rose", "Tennessee Waltz", "Ciribiribin", and "Skater's Waltz" at the second session. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Garber's album "Garden Of Waltzes" (H-365).

1957 - Nat "King" Cole's Capitol Records single "Send For Me" is #26 on WMGM's Top 40 Survey in New York City, New York.

1957 - At a splits session held this day in The Capitol Tower Studios at 1750 North Vine Street in Hollywood, California between 2:00 PM and 5:30 PM with guitarist Jack Marshall and His Orchestra (Plas Johnson on tenor saxophone, Ray Sherman on piano, Al Hendrickson also on guitar, Larry Breen on bass, Raymond Martinez and Milt Holland on drums), first vocalist Nick Greene records the titles "Later For You, Baby" and "The Blues Down Home" then vocalist and guitarist Joel Gray records the title "My Goose Is Cooked". Capitol Records will issue "Later For You, Baby" as a single (Capitol F3812) with "Honey Bird" (recorded May 29, 1957) on the flipside, "The Blues Down Home" as a single (Capitol F3935) with "My Adobe Hacienda" (also recorded May 29, 1957) on the flipside, and "My Goose Is Cooked" as a single (Capitol F3821) with "I Lost Her To Him" (recorded July 18, 1957) on the flipside.

1957 - The Premiers (vocalists Annette Williams, Gloria Jones, Fanita Barrett, and Nannette Williams), with Eddie Beal and His Orchestra (lineup unlisted), record the titles "Move On", "He Promised Me", "Baby" and "Misty Moon" in Los Angeles, California. After vocalist Fanita Barrett records a vocal overdub for "He Promised Me" on September 13, 1957, Capitol Records will issue "Move On" and "He Promised Me" together as a single (Capitol F3822) as by The Blossoms and have yet to issue "Baby" and "Misty Moon".

1957 - Vocalist Mel Blanc, with Billy May conducting his own arrangements to the orchestra (Mannie Klein on trumpet, Bill Miller on piano, Jack Marshall on guitar, George "Red" Callender on bass, Milt Holland on drums, and Larry Bunker on marimba), records the titles "The Hat I Got For Christmas Is Too Beeg" and "Pancho's Christmas" in The Capitol Tower Studios at 1750 North Vine Street in Hollywood, California between 8:30 PM and 11:30 PM. Capitol Records will issue both titles together as a single (Capitol F3902).

1957 - The Five Keys (Rudy Weston lead vocals, Ripley Ingram on tenor vocals, Maryland Pierce and Ramon Loper on baritone vocals, and Bernie West on bass vocals), with unlisted others, record the titles "Do Anything", "From Me To You", "Every Heart Go Home At Christmas", and "With All My Love" in Capitol Records' studios in New York City, New York. Capitol Records will issue "Do Anything" as a single (Capitol F3830) with "It's A Cryin' Shame" (recorded September 10, 1957) on the flipside, "From Me To You" as a single (Capitol F3861) with "Whippety Whirl" (also recorded September 10, 1957) on the flipside, "Every Heart Go Home At Christmas" on the multi-artist compilation CD "Christmas Kisses - Christmas Classics From Capitol's Early Years" (7-94701-2), and "With All My Love" as a single (Capitol F3948) with "You're For Me" (recorded February 11, 1958) on the flipside.

1959 - The Four Freshmen begin three straight days of sessions for their Capitol Records album "Voices And Brass" at The Capitol Tower Studios in Hollywood, California.

1962 - Vocalists Vic Damone, with guitarist Jack Marshall conducting his own arrangements to the orchestra (lineup unlisted), records the titles "You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby", "I'm Nobody's Baby", "My Baby Loves To Swing", and "Let's Sit This One Out" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Damone's album "My Baby Loves To Swing" (T/ST 1811).

1962 - The Tren-Dells (vocalists Lee Cornell, James Harrison, Jerry Passion, and Robert Passion), with unlisted others, record the titles "Hully Gully Jones" and "Nite Owl" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue both titles together as a single (Capitol 4862).

1963 - Nat "King" Cole's Capitol Records single "Mr. Wishing Well" and its flipside, "That Sunday, That Summer", debut at #49 on WIBG 990 AM's Top 99 Records Of The Week survey in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

1964 - Arranger Johnny Richards (with musicians Bob McCoy, Jerry Kail, and Ray Copeland on trumpets; Burt Collins on trumpet and flugelhorn; Jiggs Whigham, Bill Watrous, and Tom McIntosh on trombones; Ray Starling on mellophonium; Jay McAllister on tuba; Jerry Dodgion on alto saxophone; Frank Perowsky on tenor saxophone; Joel Kaye on baritone saxophone and piccolo; Shelly Russell on bass saxophone; Johnny Knapp on piano; Chet Amsterdam on bass; Ronnie Bedford on drums; and Warren Smith on percussion), records the tracks "Get Me To The Church On Time", "On The Street Where You Live", "I Could Have Danced All Night", "Wouldn't It Be Loverly", "Show Me", "The Rain In Spain", "I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face", and "With A Little Bit Of Luck" for his Roulette Records album "My Fair Lady - My Way" with producers Hugo & Luigi, and recording engineer Bob Arnold, at Capitol Records' New York City studios. Capitol Records currently owns the Roulette catalog.

1968 - Capitol Records, in a press release with today's date, states that The Beatles' single "I Want To Hold Your Hand" has sold nearly 5 million copies in the United States, making it the best selling single of the 1960s. This was before the R.I.A.A. created the Platinum Single award.

1968 - Capitol Records artists Buck Owens and The Buckaroos play at The White House for President Johnson.

1971 - Apple Records, with distribution by Capitol Records in the United States, releases John Lennon's album "Imagine".

1972 - During two sessions held this day in Los Angeles, California, Lori Jacobs, with unlisted others, records the title "Wouldn't It Be Something" at the first session and the titles "Heavy Thinking" and "Free" at the second session. Capitol Records will issue "Wouldn't It Be Something" and "Heavy Thinking" together as a single, "Free" as a single (Capitol 3479) with "Constant Disappointment" (recorded September 8, 1972) on the flipside, and all the titles on Jacobs' album "Free" (ST-11134).

1973 - Helen Reddy's Capitol Records single "Delta Dawn", with "If We Could Still Be Friends" on the flipside, is #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart.

1978 - A Taste of Honey's Capitol Records single "Boogie Oogie Oogie", with "World Spin" on the flipside, hits #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart and will eventually sell more than 2 million copies, becoming Capitol's first Platinum single.

1979 - Norrie Paramor, pianist, record producer (26 number #1 hits on the U.K. singles charts), composer, arranger, orchestral conductor, motion picture and radio actor, recording director for EMI's Columbia Records (where he produced hit singles for Cliff Richards, The Shadows, and Frank Ifield among others), and recorded one of the biggest selling albums in Capitol Records' "Capitol of the World" import series - "In London in Love" (which featured soprano Patricia Clark), dies of cancer at age 65.

1982 - Ava Cherry, with unlisted others, records the titles "You Can't Take It With You" and "I Want You" in Los Angeles, California for Capitol Records which has yet to issue either title.

1987 - Suave (lineup unlisted) record the title "Don't Rush" in an unlisted studio. Capitol Records will purchase the masters and issue the title in two parts together as a single (Capitol 44196).

1988 - Garth Brooks' debut Capitol Records Nashville single "If Tomorrow Never Comes", with "The Dance" on the flipside, debuts on Billboard's Country Singles chart.

35 Years Ago Today In 1990 - Wilson Phillips' SBK Records single (distributed by Capitol Records) "Release Me", with "Eyes Like Twins" on the flipside, is #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart.

1993 - Helen O'Connell, a singer (with Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra), dancer, actress, wife of Capitol Records artist and arranger Frank DeVol, and a Capitol Records solo artist, dies at age 73 in San Diego, California.

2001 - VH1 premieres the documentary "Behind The Music: Blind Melon" about the Capitol Records group

2003 - Capitol Records group Coldplay's frontman Chris Martin delivers the "Big Noise" petition calling for fairer trade policies to the World Trade Organization (WTO) at it's meeting in Cancun, Mexico.

2004 - Capitol Records Nashville artists The Jenkins perform at a special gathering of Capitol Hill VIPs and members of Congress in Washington D.C. put together by the MUSIC Coalition (Music United for Strong Internet Copyright) to celebrate digital music done legally.

2009 - The remastered stereo and mono versions of The Beatles' studio albums and "Past Masters" album are released as well as The Beatles' Rock Band game.

ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY

1942 - Inez Foxx, singer and member of the Sue Records duo Charlie (her brother) and Inez Foxx (best remembered for the single "Mockingbird" with "Hurt By Love" on the flipside), is born in Greensboro, North Carolina.. Sue's catalog was bought by E.M..I. and is currently owned by Universal Music Group, Capitol Records' parent company.

1956 - The Rock And Roll Trio (Johnny Burnett on vocals and acoustic guitar, Dorsey Burnette on bass guitar, Paul Burlison on lead guitar and newly added drummer and cousin of Carl Perkins, Tony Austin) appear as finalists on the Ted Mack Original Amateur Hour at Madison Square Garden.

1956 - The Goons' (Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, and Harry Secombe) Decca U.K. (distributed by Capitol's parent company EMI in the U.K.) single "Ying Tong Song", with "Bloodnok's Rock n' Roll Call" on the flipside, enters the UK singles chart at #9.

1959 - Capitol Records co-founder Johnny Mercer appears on NBC-TV's "Kraft Music Hall".

1964 - Arranger and conductor Johnny Richards (with Bob McCoy, Jerry Kail, and Ray Copeland on trumpets; Burt Collins on trumpet and flugelhorn; Jiggs Whigham, Bill Watrous, and Tom McIntosh on trombones; Ray Starling on mellophonium; Jay McAllister on tuba; Jerry Dodgion on alto saxophone; Frank Perowsky on tenor saxophone; Joel Kaye on baritone saxophone and piccolo; Shelly Russell on bass saxophone; Johnny Knapp on piano; Chet Amsterdam on bass; Ronnie Bedford on drums; and Warren Smith on percussion) record the tracks "Get Me To The Church On Time", "On The Street Where You Live", "I Could Have Danced All Night", "Wouldn't It Be Loverly", "Show Me", "The Rain In Spain", "I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face", and "With A Little Bit Of Luck" at Capitol Records' New York City recording studio with producers Hugo and Luigi and recording engineer Bob Arnold. Roulette Records will release the tracks on Richards' album "My Fair Lady - My Way".

1966 - Greg Kane, keyboardist with the Circa Records (a division of Virgin Records) group Hue And Cry, is born in Coatbridge, Scotland. While a designer at Virgin Records America, I adapted the group's UK packaging for U.S. release on Virgin Records America, as well as designing promo items and advertising.

1972 - Over three sets, drummer Elvin Jones (with David Liebman on flute, soprano saxophone and tenor saxophone; Steve Grossman on saxophone and tenor saxophone; and Gene Perla on bass) records the titles (Set No. 1) "Brite Piece", "New Breed", "Sambra", "My Ship", "Taurus People", (Set No. 2) "Fancy Free", "I'm A Fool To Want You", "Sweet Mama", "The Children, Save The Children", (Set No.3), "The Children's Merry-Go-Round March", "Small One", "P. P. Phoenix", and "For All The Other Times" live at The Lighthouse in Hermosa Beach, California with producer George Butler and recording engineer Dino Lapas. The titles will appear on the Blue Note Records albums "Live At The Lighthouse, Volume One" and "Live At The Lighthouse, Volume Two". Blue Note's catalog is currently owned by Capitol Records.

1982 - Vocalist Kim Carnes, with unlisted others, records the title "Voyeur (Dance Version) in an unlisted studio for EMI America. No issuing information is listed.

30 Years Ago Today In 1995 - Chynna Phillips, a member of the former SBK Records group Wilson Phillips, marries actor William Baldwin. Phillips' former Wilson Phillips partners, Carnie and Wendy Wilson, are also present at the ceremony.

2002 - Former Capitol Records artist Anne Murray is inducted into the Canadian Country Music Artists Hall Of Fame at the 2002 Canadian Country Music Artists Awards ceremony held in Calgary, Canada.

ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY

1839 - Astronomer John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph and would go on to coin the terms "photography", "negative", and "positive", and discover sodium thiosulphite as a fixer of silver halides.

1894 - Arthur Freed, vaudevillian, Broadway and motion picture composer (best known for "Singing In The Rain"), associate motion picture producer ("The Wizard Of Oz"), and motion picture producer (had his own "unit" at M-G-M which created "Singing In The Rain", "An American In Paris", "Gigi", and many more), is born in Charleston, South Carolina.

1956 - Elvis Presley appears on CBS-TV's "Toast of the Town" (with actor and future Capitol Records artist Charles Laughton filling in for the show's normal host, the ailing Ed Sullivan), for the first time and 54,000,000 viewers (82.6 percent of the U.S. television audience) tune in to watch Presley sing "Don’t Be Cruel" and "Ready Teddy".

1958 - The first stereo two-channel records are issued, by Audio Fidelity in the United States and Pye in Britain, using the Westrex "45/45" single-groove system.

SEPTEMBER 8, 2025

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

30 Years Ago Today In 1958 - Michael Lardie, a guitarist, singer, arranger, keyboardist, producer, recording engineer, and a member the Capitol Records group Great White, is born in Anchorage, Alaska.

ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY

1937 - Adalbert Lutter directs a large dance orchestra (lineup unlisted) as they record "Rheinlaender-Potpourri (Rhinelander-Medley) in two parts in (listed as possibly) Berlin, Germany for Telefunken Records. Capitol Records will license Telefunken's catalog for release in the United States and issue both parts together as a single as part of its International Folk Series (Capitol 51103).

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) record the titles "(Then You'll Know) What It Means To Be Blue", "Don't Telephone-Don't Telegraph (Tell A Woman)", "Pretty Red Lights" and "Western Jamboree" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue "(Then You'll Know) What It Means To Be Blue" as a single (Capitol Americana 40054) with "Never Trust A Woman" (recorded September 27, 1947) on the flipside, "Don't Telephone-Don't Telegraph (Tell A Woman)" as a single (Capitol Americana 40081) with "Blues As A Heartache" (recorded October 10, 1946) on the flipside, "Pretty Red Lights" as a single (Capitol 15101) with "Banjo Polka" (recorded October 28, 1946) on the flipside, and have yet to issue "Western Jamboree".

1947 - Jan Garber and His Orchestra (lineup unlisted), with vocalist Tim Reardon, record the titles "Golden Earrings" and "How Lucky You Are" probably at "The Chateau" on De Longpres near Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, California. The Capitol Transcription Service will issue both titles on transcription disc A-67.

1947 - Saxophonist Sam Donahue and His Orchestra (Anthony DiNardi, Lee Katzman, Fern Caron, and Bill Faffley on trumpets, Ed Fromm, Ken Trimble, Ollie Wilson, and Dick Nash on trombones, Bill Nichol, Joe Reisman, Leonard Peterson, Allen Jensen, and Joseph Lenza also on saxophones, Ray Rossi on piano, Ed Cunningham on bass, and Hal Hahn on drums), record the titles "Red Wing" with vocalist Shirley Lloyd and a chorus (lineup unlisted) and "The Whistler" with vocalist Shirley Lloyd, the chorus, and whistler William Bassford,  in New York City, New York. Capitol Records will issue both titles together as a single (Capitol 472).

1948 - The King Cole Trio's Capitol Records children's album "King Cole For Kids Album" is #7 on The Billboard magazine's Best-Selling Children's Records chart.

1952 - During two sessions held this day at Universal Studios in Chicago, Illinois, pianist Stan Kenton and His Orchestra (Buddy Childers, Maynard Ferguson, Conte Candoli, Don Dennis, and Ruben McFall on trumpets, Bob Burgess, Frank Rosolino, Bill Russo, and Keith Moon on trombone, George Roberts on bass trombone, Lee Konitz and Vinnie Dean on alto saxophones, Bill Holman and Richie Kamuca on tenor saxophone, Bob Gioga on baritone saxophone, Sal Salvador on guitar, Don Bagley on bass, and Stan Levey on drums), record Johnny Richards' "Prologue - This Is An Orchestra" in four parts (Parts 1 and 2 at the first session and Parts 3 and 4 at the second session) using arrangements also by Richards. After Stan Kenton overdubs a narration vocal track on September 9, 1952, Capitol Records will issue all the parts on Kenton's album "Prologue" (DBN-386).

1952 - Vocalist Bob Eberly, with Les Baxter and His Orchestra (lineup unlisted), records the titles "When I Dream", "You Are Too Beautiful", "A Blues Serenade", "Cryin' My Heart To Sleep", and "Back Street Affair" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue "When I Dream" and "Back Street Affair" together as a single (Capitol 2239), "You Are Too Beautiful" and "Cryin' My Heart To Sleep" together as a single (Capitol 2525), and have yet to issue "A Blues Serenade".

1952 - Felix Slatkin conducts The Concert Arts Orchestra (lineup unlisted) as they record Delius' "On Hearing The First Cuckoo In The Spring" and "Summer Night On The River" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue both titles on the orchestra's album "DELIUS" (FAP-8201).

1953 - Vocalist Betty Hutton, with Nelson Riddle conducting the orchestra and vocal group (lineups unlisted), records the titles "I'm Nobody's Baby", "Broke, Bare-Foot And Starry-Eyed", "Hot Dog! That Made Him Mad!" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue "I'm Nobody's Baby" and "Hot Dog! That Made Him Mad!" together as a single (Capitol 2608 on 10" shellack and F2608 on 7" vinyl) and "Broke, Bare-Foot And Starry-Eyed" as a single (Capitol 2688 on 10" shellac and F2688 on 7" vinyl) with "I Took The Long Way Around" (recorded June 5, 1953) on the flipside.

1953 - Vocalist and rhythm guitarist Tommy Collins, with Bill Woods on fiddle, Alvis E. "Buck" Owens on lead guitar, Lewis Talley also on rhythm guitar, and Charles Lee "Fuzzy" Owen on bass, records his self-penned titles "Boob-I-Lak", "You Better Not Do That", "I Always Get A Souvenir", and "High On A Hilltop" in Capitol Records' studios at 5515 Melrose Avenue in Hollywood, California between 1:00 PM and 4:00 PM with producer Ken Nelson. Capitol Records will issue "Boob-I-Lak" as a single (Capitol 3017 on 10" shellac and F3017 on 7" vinyl) with "Untied" (recorded April 13, 1954) on the flipside, "You Better Not Do That" and "High On A Hilltop" together as a single (Capitol 2806 on 10" shellac and F2806 on 7" vinyl which will peak at # on the U.S. Country charts and become Collins' first hit record), and "I Always Get A Souvenir" as a single (Capitol 2806 on 10" shellac and F2806 on 7" vinyl) with "Let Me Love You" (recorded June 25, 1953) on the flipside.

1958 - Nat "King" Cole's Capitol Records single "Come Closer To Me (Acercate Mas) is #33 on WMGM's Top 40 Survey in New York City, New York.
60 Years Ago Today In 1958 - Capitol Records, after many requests by disc jockeys, releases The Kingston Trio's single "Tom Dooley" (F4049) with "Ruby Red" on the flipside.

1958 - Trumpet player and bandleader Ray Anthony and His Orchestra (Pete Candoli, Conrad Gozzo, Jack Laubach, and Gene Duermeyer also on trumpets, Frank Lane, Lloyd Elliott, and Dick Nash on trombones, Ken Shroyer on bass trombone, Gus Bivona and Wilbur Schwartz on clarinets and alto saxophones, Bob Hardaway and Plas Johnson on tenor saxophones, Med Flory on baritone saxophone, Paul Smith on piano, Al Hendrickson on guitar, Don Simpson on bass, Alvin Stoller on drums, Lou Singer on percussion, and Ann Mason Stockton on harp), using arrangements by Don Simpson, record the titles "The Shadows", "The Bells Of Verona", and "Blue" in Los Angeles, California for Capitol Records which has yet to issue any of the titles.

1958 - Guitarist Laurindo Almeida records "Zoraida", "Dona Mencia", and"Betsabe" from Pedrell's "Danzas De Las Tres Princessas" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Almeida's album "Danzas!" (P/SP-8467).

1958 - Violinist Michael Rabin records the final parts of Paganini's "Caprices, Op. 1" in Capitol Records' Studio A in New York City, New York. Capitol Records will issue the entire piece on Rabin's two-LP set "PAGANINI - Caprices, Op. 1" (PBR/SPBR-8477).

1961 - Dean Martin (on vocals) with Gus Levene conducting the orchestra (Ken Lane on piano, Carl Fortina on accordion, Bob Bain, Al Hendrickson, and Allan Reuss on guitar, Murray Shapinsky on bass, Nick Fatool and Lou Singer on drums, Ann Mason Stockton on harp and a string section comprised of Victor Arno, Israel Baker, Kurt Dieterle, Jacques Gasselin, James Getzoff, Benny Gill, Anatol Kaminsky, Nathan Kaproff, Joseph Livoti, Dan Lube, Mischa Russell, and Harry Zagon on violin, Joseph DiFiore, Louis Kievman, Virginia Majewski, and Paul Robyn on viola, Justin DiTullio, Armand Kaproff, Edgar Lustgarten, and Ray Kramer on cello), records the tracks "Take Me In Your Arms (Torna A Surriento)", My Heart Reminds Me", and "Vieni Su (Say You Love Me Too)" between 8 and 11pm at The Capitol Tower Studios in Hollywood, California. Capitol Records will release all the tracks on Martin's album "Dino (Italian Love Songs)" (Capitol T 1659).

1962 -  "An Evening With Nat 'King' Cole" closes at The Warwick Musical Theatre at the junction of Routes 2 and 3 in Warwick, Rhode Island. Also, Nat "King" Cole's Capitol Records single "Ramblin' Rose" is #2 on Billboard Music Week magazine's Easy Listening chart, #3 on WYRE 1080 AM's top 10 list in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, #4 on Billboard Music Week magazine's Hot 100 singles chart, #12 on WLS' Silver Dollar Survey in Chicago, Illinois, #16 on KFWB's Fabulous Forty Survey in Los Angeles, California, #24 on C-FUN's C-Funtastic Fifty survey in Vancouver, Canada, and #28 on Billboard Music Week magazine's Hot R&B Sides chart. Nat "King" Cole and The George Shearing Quintet's single "Let There Be Love" is #11 in Britain according to New Musical Express magazine and Cole's single "Cappuccine" is #4 in Finland according to the evening newspaper in Helsinki, Ilta-Sanomat.

1962 - At two sessions held this day in Los Angeles, California, vocalist Vic Damone, with Jack Marshall conducting his own arrangements to the orchestra (lineup unlisted), records the titles "Baby, Won't You Please Come Home?", "Baby, Baby All The Time", "Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby?", and "Alright, O.K., You Win" at the first session and "My Melancholy Baby", "Make This A Slow Goodbye", "Everybody Loves My Baby", and "My Baby Just Cares For Me" at the second session. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Damone's album "My Baby Loves To Swing" (T/ST 1811).

1963 - Nat "King" Cole's Capitol Records single "That Sunday - That Summer" is #34 on KQV's Finest "50" Tunedex in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

1963 - Guitarist Dick Dale And His Del-Tones (unlisted tenor saxophone, guitar, bass, and drums players), records the titles "The Wedge" and "Night Rider" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue both titles together as a single (Capitol 5098) and also on the multi-artist compilation album "Big Hot Rod Hits!" (T/ST 2024).

1966 - Wayne Newton (on vocals), with Perry Botkin, Jr. conducting his own arrangements to the orchestra (lineup unlisted), records the tracks "Half A World Away", "To Each His Own", "It's Only The Good Times", "Games That Lovers Play", and "You've Let Yourself Go" at The Capitol Records Tower  Studios in Hollywood, California. Capitol Records will issue all the tracks on Newton's album "It's Only The Good Times" (T 2635).

1967 - The Beatles record the title "Flying" under the working title "Aerial Tour Instrumental" in Studio Three at EMI's Abbey Road Studios in London, England with producer George Martin for their television musical "Magical Mystery Tour". Capitol Records will issue the title in the United States on the soundtrack album for the show (MAL/SMAL-2835). This is The Beatles' first instrumental title released since "Cry For A Shadow", which they recorded in Hamburg, Germany for Polydor in 1961. It was also the first song credited to all four Beatles: Harrison-Lennon-McCartney-Starkey.

55 Years Ago Today In 1970 - Capitol Records releases Buck Owens and Susan Raye's album "The Great White Horse".

1972 - At three sessions held this day In Los Angeles, California, Lori Jacobs, with unlisted others, records the title "I've Never Been A Fool Like This Before" at the first session, the title "Constant Disappointment" at the second session, and "My Own Way Home" at the third session. Capitol Records will issue all the titles on Jacobs' album "Free" (ST-11134), an edited version of "I've Never Been A Fool Like This Before" as a single (Capitol 3620) with an edited version of "Crack Of Dawn (I'll Be Gone)" (recorded September 7, 1972) on the flipside and "Constant Disappointment" as a single (Capitol 3479) with "Free" (recorded September 9, 1972) on the flipside.

1972 - Vocalist Tex Ritter, with an orchestra and chorus (lineups unlisted), records the title "Comin' After Jinny" in Nashville, Tennessee. Capitol Records will issue the title as a single (Capitol 3457) with "You Will Have To Pay For Your Yesterday" (recorded February 29, 1972) on the flipside and on Ritter's album "Comin' After Jinny" (ST-11503).

1977 - Mary Ford (born Iris Colleen Summers), guitarist, singer, one-time wife of Les Paul with whom she was a Capitol Records duo group, dies at age 49.

1977 - Zero Mostel (born Samuel Joel Mostel), comedian, Broadway and motion picture actor, and Capitol Records artist (the soundtrack to "A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum") dies at age 62.

1978 - Tavares (lineup unlisted) records the titles "Let Me Heal The Bruises" and "Games, Games" in Los Angeles, California. Capitol Records will issue both titles on the group's album "Madam Butterfly" (SW-11874) and "Let Me Heal The Bruises" also as a single (Capitol 4738) with "One Telephone Call Away" (recorded September 5, 1978) on the flipside.

1978 - Don Schlitz, with unlisted others, records the title 'I've Been Loved" in Nashville, Tennessee. Capitol Records will issue the title as a single (Capitol 4661) with "You're The One Who Rewrote My Life Story" (recorded July 24, 1978) on the flipside and on Schlitz's album "Dreamers Matinee" (ST-12086).

1982 - Ava Cherry, with unlisted others, records the titles "Da-Da-Da" and "Easy For You To Say" in Los Angeles, California for Capitol Records which has yet to issue either title.

1988 - Capitol Records registers the master for the instrumental version of M.C. Hammer's title "Pump It Up (Here's The News)" and will issue the title as a single (Capitol 44266) with the vocal version of "Pump It Up" (no dates given) on the flipside.

1992 - Capitol Records releases the compilation album "The Best Of James Bond 30th Anniversary Limited Edition" on CD and cassette.

1998 - Paul Westerburg's album "Self Defense" was scheduled to be released but was delayed until January 1999, possibly due to Gary Gersh's exit as president of Capitol Records.

1998 - Capitol Records releases a remastered CD containing both of Frank Sinatra's first 10" Capitol albums, "Songs for Young Lovers" and "Swing Easy", both of which featured the arrangements of Nelson Riddle.

ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY

1921 - Sir Harry Secombe, CBE, a tenor singer, comedian, radio and television actor, and an E.M.I. recording artist (solo and as part of The Goons), is born Harry Donald Secombe in St Thomas, Swansea, Glamorgan, Wales, UK.

100 Years Ago Today In 1925 - Peter Sellers, a comedian, radio and motion picture actor, and an E.M.I. recording artist (solo, as a duo with Sophia Loren, and as part of The Goons), is born Richard Henry Sellers in Southsea, Hampshire, England.

90 Years Ago Today In 1935 - The Hoboken Four, featuring future Capitol Records artist Frank Sinatra as lead singer, appear and win the competition on "Major Bowes Amateur Hour" on WOR Radio, broadcast from The Capitol Theatre in New York City, New York.

1967 - Alto saxophonist Jackie McLean, with Woody Shaw on trumpet, Grachan Moncur III on trombone, Lamont Johnson on piano Scotty Holt on bass, and Rashied Ali on drums, records the tracks "Conversion Point", "Erdu", and "Soul" for his Blue Note Records album "'Bout Soul" with producer Francis Wolff and recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder at the Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. Blue Note's catalog is currently owned by EMI Music Group, Capitol Music Group's parent company.

1982 - Kenny Rogers' United Artists single "Love Will Turn You Around", with "I Want A Son" on the flipside, hits #1 on the U.S. Country singles chart. United Artists' catalog is currently owned by EMI Music Group, Capitol Music Group's parent company.

1987 - Columbia Records releases Pink Floyd's album "A Momentary Lapse of Reason" in the United States. Capitol Records currently re-issues the album along with the rest of Pink Floyd's Columbia releases which in the UK are released by EMI.

1988 - The Hard Rock Cafe purchases the original bus used in The Beatles television musical "Magical Mystery Tour", which they'll refurbish and tour around the United States at various Hard Rock Cafes and eventually give away for the restaurant's 30th anniversary in 2001.

1991 - Paula Abdul's Virgin Records America single "The Promise Of A New Day" is #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart. Virgin Records is currently owned by Universal Music Group, Capitol Music Group's parent company.

1993 - Pianist and vocalist Mose Allison, with Randy Brecker on trumpet, Joe Lovano on alto saxophone,  Bob Malach on tenor saxophone, Ratso Harris on bass, and Paul Motian on drums, records the titles "Certified Senior Citizen", "My Ideal", "Red Wagon", "Children Of The Future", and "Variation On Dixie" at Skyline Studio in New York City, New York. Blue Note Records will issue all the titles on Allison's CD "The Earth Wants You" (8-17640-2).

1999 - To promote Apple/EMI's September 14 release of The Beatles' "Yellow Submarine" album, a Eurostar cross-Channel train custom-designed with artwork from the animated film leaves London's Waterloo Station at 11:57 a.m. GMT for Paris.

ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY

1922 - Sid Caesar, comedian, motion picture and television actor, is born Isaac Sidney Caesar in Yonkers, New York. I designed the logo and did the packaging for Caesar's 1984 Media Home Entertainment exercise video "Shape Up!" (made for people who don't always have access to a gym, Caesar showed how to use available items to get a good workout). I designed and handled getting t-shirts made for the photo shoot. I went to the photo shoot and found out that the photographer was the nephew of Howard Morris, one of Caesar's co-stars on "Your Show Of Shows". Mr. Caesar was very professional, and once the cover concept was explained to him, really got into it, making it a great experience. The only scary part was that he ripped the sleeves of the t-shirts to show off his biceps and I only had maybe 6 shirts made on different styles of t-shirts, so I hoping that the one he picked worked because we didn't have another just like it.

1932 - Patsy Cline, singer, is born Virginia Patterson Hensley in the Shenandoah Valley in Winchester, Virginia.

60 Years Ago Today In 1965 - Auditions are announced in Daily Variety for a new series called "The Monkees".

1966 - The television series "Star Trek" premieres on NBC-TV with the episode "Man Trap" (aka "The Salt Vampire")