Tower Of Song

Well, it's sort of a doodle, but it's more like a line drawing, or even an architectural drawing, so we're throwing this one in on it's own. It's the Capitol Records Tower on the corner of Hollywood and Vine in SoCal. The LP is by various Capitol artists and is called Full Dimensional Sound From The Capitol Tower (Capitol W9031). One side is labelled Popular Selections, the flip side is Classical Selections. This tower shows up on all sorts of LPs from Capitol over the years. I've got one right here by Ray Anthony called Jam Session At The Tower (Capitol T749, 1956), which claims to be the first recordings made at the new facility. Even today, the website for Capital Records is called Hollywood And Vine.

Whenever I hear Leonard Cohen's Tower Of Song, I picture it as taking place in the Capitol Tower. Hank Williams is way up near the top, and poor Lennie is a thousand floors below him.