NOVEMBER 12, 2007


HAPPY 90TH BIRTHDAY!
1917 - Jo Stafford, singer, a Capitol Records artist as part of the group The Pied Pipers, vocalist with Red Ingle and His Natural Seven (using the name Cinderella G. Stump) and as a solo artist, wife of Capitol Records first music director Paul Weston with whom she recorded as part of the duo Jonathan and Darlene Edwards, and co-founder with Weston of Corinthian Records, is born Jo Elizabeth Stafford in Coalinga, California. Stafford is the first recording artist to sell 25 million records.

HAPPY BIRTHDAYS!
1965 - Vic Chesnutt, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and Capitol Records artist (1996) is born Jacksonville, Florida
1964 - Dave Ellefson, Capitol Records group Megadeth's first bass player, is born David Ellefson, Jr. in in Jackson, Minnesota

ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1947 - Peggy Lee, with Dave Barbour and His Orchestra (Barbour on guitar, Heine Beau on clarinet, Benny Carter on alto saxophone, Herbert Haymer on tenor saxophone, Ray Linn and Zeke Zarchy on trumpet, Red Callendar on bass, Buddy Cole on piano, Red Norvo on vibraphones, Nick Fatool on drums, and an unknown trombonist) and producer Lee Gillette, records the tracks "Story Weather" and "I Can't Give You Anything But Love" which will appear on her Capitol Records album "Rendevous With Peggy Lee", as well as "Happiness Is A Thing Called Joe" (which remained unreleased until it appeared on Lee's 1998 Capitol Records compilation album "Miss Peggy Lee") and "Talkin' To Myself About You" (which was released on her Capitol Records single with "Laroo Laroo Lilli Bolero", which will be recorded on November 25, 1947, on the flip side) using arrangements by Heine Beau, Benny Carter, Billy May and Harold Mooney in Los Angeles, California. If anyone knows who arranged which tracks, who the trombonist was, and/or at which studio in L.A. the session was held, please leave a comment.
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, enters Billboard's singles chart at #27
1988 - Poison's Capitol Records single "Every Rose Has Its Thorn", with "Livin' For The Minute" on the flip side, debuts at #33 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart
1991 - Capitol Records releases Poison's live album "Swallow This Live"
1996 - Capitol Records releases Blind Melon's last studio album "Nico", named after the daughter of the band's late singer Shannon Hoon
1996 - Capitol Records releases Vic Chesnutt's album "About To Choke"

ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1891 - Richard Whiting, composer, writing partner with Capitol Records co-founder Johnny Mercer on songs for motion pictures, father of Capitol Records recording artist Margaret Whiting, is born
1931 - Sir Edward Elgar opens the new EMI Recording Studios at Abbey Road, St. John's Wood, London, England. EMI is the parent company of Capitol Records.
1946 - Walt Disney Pictures' live action/animated feature film "Song Of The South" has its world premiere at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia. Capitol Records will release a soundtrack album as part of its childrens records series.
2001 - Virgin Records America, a subsidiary of Capitol Records, releases Mick Jagger's fourth solo album "Goddess In The Doorway"

ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1954 - Ellis Island closes after processing more than 20 million immigrants since opening in New York Harbor in 1892. My grandfather