On this day in music history - The album Beyond the Crossroads, by Peter Karp & Sue Foley (2012)

Beyond the Crossroad

by Peter Karp & Sue Foley

was released on April 17, 2012.

Born on this day – William Holden:

 

Actor

April 17, 1918 – November 12, 1981

Credits:

Adventures at the Jade Sea (1969); AFI Life Achievement Award (1980); Alvarez Kelly (1966); Apartment for Peggy (1948); Arizona (1940); Ashanti (1979); Bicentennial Minutes (1976); Bing Crosby: His Life and Legend (1978); Blaze of Noon (1947); Boots Malone (1952); Born Yesterday (1950); Breezy (1973); Casino Royale (1967); Ciné regards (1979); Damien: Omen II (1978); Dear Ruth (1947); Dear Wife (1949); Die Jungfrau auf dem Dach (1953); Donahue (1976); Escape from Fort Bravo (1953); Escape to Athena (1979); Et par ord om Danmark (1960); Executive Suite (1954); Father Is a Bachelor (1950); Fedora (1978); Force of Arms (1951); Forever Female (1953); Golden Boy (1939); Good Morning America (1977–1981); Here's Hollywood (1961); Hollywood Today (1955); I Love Lucy (1955); I Wanted Wings (1941); Invisible Stripes (1939); Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955); Lux Video Theatre (1954–1956); Meet the Stars #3: Variety Reel #1 (1941); Meet the Stewarts (1942); Million Dollar Legs (1939); Miss Grant Takes Richmond (1949); Mysteries of the Sea (1980); Network (1976); Once Upon a Time.... is Now Grace Kelly (1977); Open Season (1974); Our Town (1940); Paris When It Sizzles (1964); Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (1956); Person to Person (1955); Picnic (1955); Prison Farm (1938); Producers' Showcase (1955); Rachel and the Stranger (1948); Reconnaissance Pilot (1943); Report on Hong Kong (1961); S.O.B. (1981); Sabrina (1954); Salute to Show Business (1957); Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto (1954); Satan Never Sleeps (1962); Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 12 (1936); Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Night Life (1952); Sheilah Graham in Hollywood (1955); Shooting Stars (1961); Stalag 17 (1953); Streets of Laredo (1949); Submarine Command (1951); Sunset Blvd. (1950); Texas (1941); World's Heavyweight Championship Fight: Floyd Patterson Heavyweight Champion of the World versus Ingemar Johansson Heavyweight Champion of Europe (1959); The 26th Annual Academy Awards (1954); The 27th Annual Academy Awards (1955); The 31st Annual Academy Awards (1959); The 3rd Annual People's Choice Awards (1977); The 49th Annual Academy Awards (1977); The 50th Annual Academy Awards (1978); The 7th Dawn (1964); The American Movie Awards (1980); The Annual National Sports Awards (1974); The Blue Knight (1973); The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957); The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954); The Christmas Tree (1969); The Colgate Comedy Hour (1954–1955); The Counterfeit Traitor (1962); The Country Girl (1954); The Dark Past (1948); The David Frost Show (1971–1972); The Dean Martin Show (1968–1973); The Devil's Brigade (1968); The Dick Cavett Show (1969–1972); The Earthling (1980); The Ed Sullivan Show (1958); The Fleet's In (1942); The Horse Soldiers (1959); The Jack Benny Program (1956); The Joey Bishop Show (1968); The Key (1958); The Lion (1962); The Man from Colorado (1948); The Merv Griffin Show (1968–1980); The Mike Douglas Show (1972–1977); The Moon Is Blue (1953); The Moviemakers (1971); The Proud and Profane (1956); The Remarkable Andrew (1942); The Revengers (1972); The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant (1958); The Steve Allen Plymouth Show (1957); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1969–1981); The Towering Inferno (1974); The Turning Point (1952); The Wild Bunch (1969); The World of Suzie Wong (1960); Those Were the Days! (1940); Toward the Unknown (1956); 21 Hours at Munich (1976); Union Station (1950); Variety Girl (1947); Walt Disney Academy Awards: 26th Annual, 1954 (1954); What's My Line? (1956); When Time Ran Out... (1980); Wild Rovers (1971); Wild Rovers (1971); Wings Up (1943); You Can Change the World (1950); Young and Willing (1943).

Born on this day – Anne Shirley:

 

Actress

April 17, 1918 – July 4, 1993

Credits:

4 Devils (1928); A Man to Remember (1938); A Night at the Biltmore Bowl (1935); Alice's Egg Plant (1925); All That Money Can Buy (1941); Anne of Green Gables (1934); Anne of Windy Poplars (1940); Bachelor Bait (1934); Bombardier (1943); Boy Slaves (1939); Career (1939); Chasing Yesterday (1935); Chatterbox (1936); City Girl (1930); Condemned Women (1938); Emma (1932); Finishing School (1934); Four Jacks and a Jill (1942); Girls' School (1938); Government Girl (1943); Gun Smoke (1931); Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2 (1941); Hello Napoleon (1931); His Wooden Wedding (1925); Howdy Mate (1931); Lady Bodyguard (1943); Law of the Underworld (1938); Liliom (1930); Make Way for a Lady (1936); Man from Frisco (1944); Meet the Missus (1937); M'Liss (1936); Moonshine Valley (1922); Mother Carey's Chickens (1938); Mother Knows Best (1928); Murder, My Sweet (1944); Music in Manhattan (1944); Night Life (1927); Picture People No. 1: Stars in Defense (1941); Rasputin and the Empress (1932); Rich Man's Folly (1931); Riders of the Purple Sage (1925); Saturday's Children (1940); School for Girls (1934); Sins of the Fathers (1928); So and Sew (1936); So Big! (1932); Sorority House (1939); Steamboat Round the Bend (1935); Stella Dallas (1937); The Callahans and the Murphys (1927); The Fast Set (1924); The Hidden Woman (1922); The History Chicks (2018); The Key (1934); The Life of Jimmy Dolan (1933); The Man Who Fights Alone (1924); The Mayor of 44th Street (1942); The Powers Girl (1943); The Purchase Price (1932); The Rich Pup (1924); The Rustle of Silk (1923); The Spanish Dancer (1923); The World Is Ours (1938); This Side of Heaven (1934); Three on a Match (1932); Too Many Wives (1937); Unexpected Uncle (1941); Vigil in the Night (1940); West Point Widow (1941); Young America (1932).

Born on this day – Vivian Reed:

Actress

April 17, 1894 – July 19, 1989

Credits:

La belle vie (1985); Vivacious Lady (1938); Student Tour (1934); It's a Bear (1919); The Guilty Man (1918); The Bull's Eye (1917); Trials and Tribulations (1917); The Friendship of Beaupere (1917); The Lad and the Lion (1917); Little Lost Sister (1917); Lost and Found (1917); The Princess of Patches (1917); In the House of the Chief (1916); The Old Man Who Tried to Grow Young (1916); The Conflict (1916); The Return (1916); The Test of Chivalry (1916); The Hard Way (1916); The Temptation of Adam (1916); At Piney Ridge (1916); The Devil, the Servant and the Man (1916); A Social Deception (1916); The Dragnet (1916); Tom Martin: A Man (1916); Selig-Tribune, No. 93 (1916); The Sacred Tiger of Agra (1915); The Print of the Nails (1915); The Lost Messenger (1915); The Sculptor's Model (1915); The Eternal Feminine (1915); The Man with the Iron Heart (1915); The Scarlet Lady (1915); The Isle of Content (1915); Motherhood (1915); The Onion Patch (1915); The Journey's End (1915); Tiger Bait (1915); Ingratitude of Liz Taylor (1915); Perils of the Jungle (1915); The Heart of Maryland (1915); The Last Egyptian (1914); His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz (1914); The Magic Cloak of Oz (1914); The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1914).

J.K. Rowling, on writing:

 

Writing for me is a kind of compulsion,
so I don't think anyone could have made me do it,
or prevented me from doing it.
- J.K. Rowling.