NOVEMBER 26, 2007

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
1938 - Tina Turner, singer, actress, Sue Records artist as part of the Ike and Tina Turner Review, and a Capitol Records solo artist, is born Annie Mae Bullock in Nutbush, Tennessee
1962 - Linda Davis, singer, pianist and Capitol Records (1991) and Liberty Records (1992) artist, is born Linda Kaye Davis in Carthage, Texas

ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1949 - Margaret Whiting & Jimmy Wakely's Capitol Americana single "Slippin' Around", with "Wedding Bells" on the flip side, is #4 on the pop singles charts
1955 - Capitol Records releases eighteen year old Jerry Reed's first single "If The Good Lord's Willing and the Creeks Don't Rise" with "Here I Am" on the flip side
1956 - Frank Sinatra records the tracks "The Lonesome Road", "If I Had You", "The Lady Is A Tramp", and "Night And Day" with arranger and conductor Nelson Riddle at The Capitol Tower Studios in Hollywood, California for his Capitol Records album "A Swingin' Affair"
1960 - Capitol Records artist Nat "King" Cole's stage show "I'm With You" closes it's pre-Broadway run in Detroit, Michigan. The show will not go on to Broadway but Cole will salvage the concept to use as part of his stage presentation, which he'll call "Sights And Sounds: The Merry World of Nat 'King' Cole", during his touring from 1961-1964.
1963 - The Kingston Trio record the tracks "Song For A Friend" and "The Patriot Game" with producer Voyle Gilmore for their Capitol Records album "A Time To Think"
1969 - The Band's self-titled Capitol Records album, "The Band", is certified Gold by the R.I.A.A.
1973 - Ringo Starr's Apple Records single "Photograph" that he co-wrote with George Harrison, with "Down And Out" on the flip side and distributed by Capitol Records in the United States, is at #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart
1974 - Merle Haggard records the track "Always Wanting You" for Capitol Records
1980 - "Rockshow", a movie about the first American tour of Capitol Records group Paul McCartney and Wings, premieres in New York City, New York
1986 - Scatman Crothers, motion picture and television actor, pianist, guitarist, drummer and Capitol Records artist (1948 - with Riff Charles and Friends featuring Vic Dickenson), dies in Van Nuys, California at age 76
1996 - Capitol Records releases Poison's compilation album "Poison's Greatest Hits 1986-1996"
1997 - One day after its release, Garth Brooks' Capitol Records Nashville album "Sevens" breaks a record by placing 12 of its 14 songs in the Hot Country Singles and Tracks Chart in Billboard Magazine
2002 - Capitol Records releases Paul McCartney's live album "Back In the US--Live 2002"
2002 - Capitol Records and Priority Records release Snoop Dogg's album "Paid Tha Cost To Be Da Boss"

ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1962 - The Beatles record the tracks "Please Please Me" and "Ask Me Why" in Studio Two at EMI Studios on Abbey Road in London, England for their second Parlophone Records single. They also play a Lennon-McCartney number, "Tip of My Tongue", for producer George Martin. Martin doesn't care for the arrangement, and the song will never be recorded by The Beatles. However, "Tip of My Tongue" will be recorded in July 1963 by Tommy Quickly, another artist managed by The Beatles' mananger Brian Epstein.
1989 - Paula Abdul's Virgin Records America single "(It’s Just) The Way That You Love Me" is #3 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart

ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1887 - Thomas Edison files for a patent on a battery powered phonograph using wax cylinders
1956 - Tommy Dorsey (born Thomas Francis Dorsey, Jr.), trombone player and bandleader with his brother Jimmy and later a solo bandleader whose vocalists included future Capitol Records artists Frank Sinatra, The Pied Pipers with future Capitol Records solo artist Jo Stafford, Dick Haymes, as well as trombonist and arranger Nelson Riddle, dies at the age of 51 in his Greenwich, Connecticut home due to choking in his sleep because of being sedated with sleeping pills after a heavy meal. He is later interred in Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, New York.
1976 - Microsoft(R) becomes a registered trademark