DECEMBER 2

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
1954 - Kenni Huskey, singer, guitarist, songwriter, and Capitol Records artist (1959-1964), is born Nora Carolene Huskey in Newport, Arkansas
1968 - Nate Mendel, bassist in the Capitol Records group Foo Fighters, is born Nathan Gregor Mendel in Seattle, Washington

ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1949 - Yogi Yorgesson's Capitol Records single "I Yust Go Nuts At Christmas" enters the top 40 of the U.S. Pop singles chart
1955 - Tennessee Ernie Ford's Capitol Records single "Sixteen Tons", with "You Don't Have To Be A Baby To Cry" on the flip side, is still #1 on the U.S. Pop singles charts and Dean Martin's Capitol Records single "Memories Are Made of This", with "Change Of Heart" on the flip side, is #3
1958 - Capitol Records releases Stan Freberg's single "Green Chri$tma$" with "The Meaning Of Christmas" on the flip side. With animation voice work demanding more of his time, this would be the last single that Daws Butler (who voices Bob Cratchit on this single) would appear on with Freberg.
1963 - Buck Owens' Capitol Records single "Love’s Gonna Live Here", with "Getting Used To Losing You" on the flip side, is #4 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart
1971 - Merle Haggard's Capitol Records single "Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man)", with "My Heart Would Know" on the flip side, is #1 on Billboard's Country Singles chart and #4 on it's Hot 100 Singles chart
1974 - Capitol Records releases Unicorn's single "Electric Night" with "Blue Pine Trees" on the flip side. Both tracks were produced by Dave Gilmour, member of Capitol Records group Pink Floyd.
1978 - Anne Murray's Capitol Records single "Broken Hearted Me", with "Why Don't You Stick Around" on the flip side, is #4 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart
1998 - First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and Capitol Records Nashville artist Garth Brooks light the Christmas tree in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center for the first time for the season

ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1974 - EMI Records releases The Country Hams' instrumental single "Walking In The Park With Eloise" with "Bridge Over The River Suite" on the flip side in a picture sleeve. The Country Hams are Paul and Linda McCartney, Floyd Cramer and Chet Atkins and the tracks are recorded in Nashville, Tennessee at the same time that McCartney and Wings recorded "Junior's Farm" and "Sally G". "Walking In The Park With Eloise" was written by James McCartney, Paul's father. There is nothing on the label or the sleeve that let's on who is on the single, which probably explains why it did not chart. McCartney will never release another solo single on Apple Records. Both tracks will later be included on the CD version of Wings' Capitol Records album "Wings at the Speed of Sound"

ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1906 - Peter Carl Goldmark, cellist, pianist, inventor of the Long Playing (LP) vinyl record and developer of the first commercial color television, is born in Budapest, Hungary
1948 - Cole Porter's musical "Kiss Me Kate" premieres at a tryout at the Shubert Theatre, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania