Showing posts with label 1976. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1976. Show all posts

Saturday, May 18, 2024

Born on this day – Phoebe Atwood Taylor:

 

Writer

May 18, 1909 – January 9, 1976


Credits:
Banbury Bog (1938); Beginning with a Bash (1937); Cold Steal (1939); Dead Ernest (1944); Death Lights a Candle (1932); Deathblow Hill (1935); Diplomatic Corpse (1951); Figure Away (1937); File for Record (1943); Going, Going, Gone (1943); Murder and Mystery in Boston (1987); Murder At the New York World's Fair (1938); Octagon House (1937); Out of Order (1936); Proof of the Pudding (1945); Punch with Care (1946); Sandbar Sinister (1934); Spring Harrowing (1939); The Annulet of Gilt (1938); The Cape Cod Mystery (1931); The Criminal C. O. D (1940); The Crimson Patch (1936); The Cut Direct (1938); The Deadly Sunshade (1940); The Hollow Chest (1941); The Iron Clew / aka The Iron Hand (1947); The Left Leg (1940); The Mystery of the Cape Cod Players (1933); The Mystery of the Cape Cod Tavern (1934); The Perennial Boarder (1941); The Six Iron Spiders (1942); The Tinkling Symbol (1935).


Tuesday, April 9, 2024

Born on this day – Mance Lipscomb:


Blues singer

Guitarist

April 9, 1895 – January 30, 1976


Credits:

Albums:

Captain, Captain! (1996); Mama Don't Allow (1996); Navasota (2021); So Different Blues (1993); Texas Sharecropper and Songster (1960); Texas Songster: Volume 2 (1964); Trouble in Mind (1969); Vol. 4 (1967); Vol. 5: Texas Blues and 3 Other Songs (1970); Volume 6 (1974).

Movies and television:

A Well-Spent Life (1971); Blues Under the Skin (1973); Singin' the Yodeling Blues (1983); The Blues Accordin' to Lightnin' Hopkins (1970); The Life and Times of the Red Dog Saloon (1996).

Book:

I Say Me for a Parable: The Oral Autobiography of Mance Lipscomb, Texas Bluesman (1993).