Johnny Mercer

The Capitol Records Company was founded by songwriter Johnny
Mercer in 1942, with the financial help of fellow songwriter and film
producer Buddy DeSylva and businessman Glenn Wallichs, owner
of Music City which was the largest record store in Los Angeles at
the time. The new company opened its first office in a second-floor
room south of Sunset Boulevard.

As of 2011, Capitol Records is now operating in New York City as
part of Capitol Music Group. The former headquarters building,
the Capitol Tower, is a major landmark located near the corner
of Hollywood and Vine and is owned solely by EMI Music.  

 
Buddy DeSylva
     

Glenn Wallichs (L) with Stan Kenton

The Capitol Tower, contraction was completed in 1956.

"Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888" is a
baseball poem written in 1888 by Ernest Thayer. It was first published in
The San Francisco Examiner on June 3, 1888, it was later popularized
by DeWolf Hopper in many vaudeville performances.The poem was
originally published anonymously (under the pen name "Phin",
based on Thayer’s college nickname, "Phineas").

Ernest Lawrence Thayer (1863-1940)

James Earl Jones

Tony Curtis (Bernard Schwartz) (June 3, 1925 – September 29, 2010)

From the documentary 1974 "The London Palladium Story "