On this day in music history - Machine Head, by Deep Purple (1972)

Machine Head

by Deep Purple,

was released on March 25, 1972.

Track list:

Highway Star; Maybe I'm A Leo; Pictures Of Home; Never Before; Smoke On The Water; Lazy; Space Truckin'.

Machine Head is one of my favorite albums and the very first album I ever purchased.

Best lineup ever - Jon Lord, Ritchie Blackmore, Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, and Ian Paice.

Great songs from a great band.

#HighwayStar #PicturesOfHome #SmokeOnTheWater #SpaceTruckin #JonLord #RitchieBlackmore #IanGillan #RogerGlover #IanPaice

James A. Michener, on writing:

 

I love writing.

I love the swirl of words as they tangle with human emotions.
- James A. Michener.

Recommended reading - The Mothman Prophecies: A True Story, by John A. Keel (1975)

The Mothman Prophecies: A True Story

by John A. Keel.

Published by Tor Books.
First published 1975.
Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0765334984
ISBN-13: 78-0765334985
 
Description:
A true story of unexplained terror…

West Virginia, 1966. For thirteen months the town of Point Pleasant is gripped by a real-life nightmare culminating in a tragedy that makes headlines around the world. Strange occurrences and sightings, including a bizarre winged apparition that becomes known as the Mothman, trouble this ordinary American community. Mysterious lights are seen moving across the sky. Domestic animals are found slaughtered and mutilated. And journalist John Keel, arriving to investigate the freakish events, soon finds himself an integral part of an eerie and unfathomable mystery…

 

The Mothman Prophecies.

Translated into more than thirteen languages, John Keel’s unsettling account of what he encountered in Point Pleasant has long been regarded as a classic in the literature of the unexplained. A New York Times bestseller, it also inspired the acclaimed 2002 film.

Born on this day – Béla Bartók:

Béla Bartók

Composer

Pianist

Ethnomusicologist

March 25, 1881 – September 26, 1945

Credits:

Music compositions:

14 Bagatelles; 44 Duos for Two Violins; Allegro barbaro; An Evening at the Village; BB 34, Sz. 30; Bluebeard's Castle; Buciumeana; Cantata Profana; Concerto for Orchestra; Contrasts; Dance Suite; Divertimento for String Orchestra; Études de Bartók; Fifteen Hungarian Peasant Songs; Hungarian Folk Tunes: III; Hungarian Pictures; Kossuth; Maruntel; Mikrokosmos, Sz. 107, BB 105: Volume VI: 148-153: Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm; Mikrokosmos; Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta; Out of Doors; Piano Concerto No. 1; Piano Concerto No. 2; Piano Concerto No. 3; Piano Method (Zongoraiskola), BB 66, Sz. 52: 116. Moderato; Piano Sonata; Rhapsody for Piano and Orchestra, BB 36b (op. 1): I. Adagio molto; Rhapsody No. 1; Rhapsody No. 2; Romanian Christmas Carols; Romanian Folk Dances; Slovakian Dance; Sonata for Solo Violin; Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion; Sonatina; Sonatina, BB 102a: III. Finale. Allegro vivace; String Quartet No. 1; String Quartet No. 2; String Quartet No. 3; String Quartet No. 4; String Quartet No. 5; String Quartet No. 6; Suite, Op. 14; The Barbarian; The Miraculous Mandarin; The Wooden Prince; Two Pictures: I. In voller Blüte; Viola Concerto; Violin Concerto No. 1; Violin Concerto No. 2.

Movies and television:

40 éves a Cantemus (2015); A Bibo Reader (2002); A kékszakállú herceg vára (1970); A kékszakállú herceg vára (1981); A kékszakállú herceg vára (2005); À la découverte des Français (1957); A la memoria del autor (1966); A Nyolcak nyomában (2011); A varázsló álma (1987); A zene határtalanul (2016); Aleph, lectures contades (2000); Anthropoid (2016); Artemis: The Neverending Quartet (2020); Back on Stage (2020); Bal Masqué (1981); Bartok (2017); Bartók Béla: Az éjszaka zenéje (1970); Bartók Béla: Kontrasztok (1981); Bartóks Requiem (2008); Behind Closed Doors (1988); Being John Malkovich (1999); Bluebeard's Castle (1963); Bluebeard's Castle (2022); Budapeströl jut eszembe (2001); Caniche (1979); Catatonic (2009); Celibidache (1992); China Lake (1983); Chuzhaya belaya i ryaboy (1986); Cinderella (2021); Concerto for Orchestra (1965); Contrasts (1968); Control Room (2004); Correspondances (1953); Cosmos (1980); Csodálatos mandarin (2001); Das muss man erst mal aussprechen können (2021); Das Versprechen (2023); Des hommes qui ont perdu racine (1956); Diamantino (2018); Discovering Masterpieces of Classical Music (2007); Doctor Who (1967–1968); Doomwatch (1972); Drakengard (2003); Duke Bluebeard's Castle (1988); Duke Bluebeard's Castle (2020); Echoes From a Somber Empire (1990); Égetö Eszter (1989); El grosso concerto (2001); Életbevágó (2000); El-Lailah el-Akhirah (1963); Este a székelyeknél (1998); Flaming Creatures (1963); Fuchsmühl (1974); Full House (1972); Grâce à la musique (1981); Grandeur et décadence d'un petit commerce de cinéma (1986); Hamsun (1996); Het slot van hertog Blauwbaard (1965); Hope@Home (2020); Impressions de New York (1956); Imre Eck and Maria Bretus in Csodálatos mandarin (1970); (In Here) I Am God (2018); Ocio (2022); In memoriam Gyarmathy Tihamér (2016); In Search of Dracula (1974); Katzenspiel (1972); Kékszakállú (2016); Klaus Mäkelä dirige Ravel, Debussy et Bartók (2023); Kristallnacht (2022); Le Cabinet des estampes (1954); Le chateau de Barbe-Bleu / La voix humaine (2015); Le mandarin merveilleux (1964); Le roman (1991); Legion (2017); Les grands interprètes (1967); Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997); Long Time No See (2019); Magritte (1978); Medvetánc (1972); Melinda and Melinda (2004); Mindennap (1980); Miroirs (2016); My Homeland (1976); NET Festival (1968); New York Philharmonic Young People's Concerts (1959–1963); Not Reconciled (1965); Obiettivo sul territorio (2009); Oldás és kötés (1963); Orchestre National de France (1964); Playing Mona Lisa (2000); Polyformia (2008); Public Eye (1971); Pursuit (1997); Ready Player One (2018); Réfugiés Algériens (1958); Rosa (1992); Senseless (1962); Simon Says (2015); Singing the Blues in Red (1986); STAR WARS EP 5: Attack of the Phantom Past (2016); Star Wars Ep 6: The Last Laser Master (2018); Steve Martin's Best Show Ever (1981); Stick and Bone (1968); Studio One (1953); Szörnyeteg (1975); Tatort (2017); The Boris Giltburg Five Minute Library (2017); The Catch (1946); The Good Mother (1988); The Illiac Passion (1967); The Legacy (2009); The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2015); The Prediction (1991); The Shepherds of Cat Island (2020); The Shining (1980); The Silent Revolution (2018); The Souvenir (2019); The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien (2010); The Young Pope (2016); Trainwreck (2001); Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps (2006); Ulrike Marie Meinhof (1995); Un paso al frente (1966); Un petit prince (1984); Visions (1977); Zongora a levegöben (1976).

Born on this day – Violet Horner:

Violet Horner

Actress

March 25, 1892 – July 6, 1970

Credits:

A Bad Tangle (1912); A Cave Man Wooing (1912); A Daughter of the Gods (1916); A Happy Family (1912); A Modern Romance (1913); A Strange Case (1912); A Woman Loved (1913); An Eventful Bargain Day (1912); An Imp Romance (1913); Animated Weekly, No. 62 (1913); Aunt Dinah's Plot (1912); Billy in Armor (1913); Billy Plays Poker (1913); Billy Wins (1913); Billy, the Wise Guy (1913); Billy's Adventure (1913); Billy's Board Bill (1913); Billy's Double (1913); Billy's First Quarrel (1913); Billy's Honeymoon (1913); Billy's Troubles (1913); Blood Is Thicker Than Water (1912); Bob's Baby (1913); Caught in a Flash (1912); Chappie the Chaperone (1912); Damages in Full (1913); Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1913); Enlighten Thy Daughter (1917); Ferdie, Be Brave (1912); Fresh Air Filkins (1913); Garden of Lies (1915); Getting Mary Married (1912); Gratitude (1913); He Had But Fifty Cents (1912); Hearts of Oak (1914); Her Nerve (1913); His Other Self (1912); How Ned Got the Raise (1912); In Old Tennessee (1912); Lady Audley's Secret (1912); Lena Rivers (1914); Let No Man Put Asunder (1912); Mr. Smith, Barber (1912); Retribution (1913); She Slept Through It All (1913); Shore Acres (1914); Sisters (1913); Ten Nights in a Barroom (1913); The Baldheaded Club (1913); The Breakdown (1912); The Bridal Room (1912); The Castaway (1912); The Fighting Chance (1916); The Fringe of Sin (1913); The Girl from Alaska (1915); The Higher Law (1913); The Man from the West (1912); The Marble Heart (1916); The Millionaire Cop (1912); The Peril (1912); The Right Clue (1912); The Ring and the Man (1914); The Schemers (1912); The Soul of Man (1913); The Stolen Voice (1915); The Wages of Sin (1913); The Wages of Sin (1914); Tillie, the Terrible Typist (1915); Winning the Latonia Derby (1912); Yvonne, the Foreign Spy (1912).

Born on this day – Ray Enright:

Ray Enright

Director

March 25, 1896 – April 3, 1965

Credits:

Ethel Barrymore Theater (1956); The Man from Cairo (1953); Flaming Feather (1952); Kansas Raiders (1950); Montana (1950); South of St. Louis (1949); Return of the Bad Men (1948); Coroner Creek (1948); Albuquerque (1948); Trail Street (1947); One Way to Love (1946); Man Alive (1945); China Sky (1945); 'Gung Ho!': The Story of Carlson's Makin Island Raiders (1943); The Iron Major (1943); Destroyer (1943); Good Luck, Mr. Yates (1943); The Rear Gunner (1943); Sin Town (1942); Men of Texas (1942); The Spoilers (1942); Wild Bill Hickok Rides (1942); Law of the Tropics (1941); Bad Men of Missouri (1941); Throwing a Party (1941); Thieves Fall Out (1941); The Wagons Roll at Night (1941); River's End (1940); An Angel from Texas (1940); Teddy the Rough Rider (1940); Brother Rat and a Baby (1940); On Your Toes (1939); Angels Wash Their Faces (1939); Naughty But Nice (1939); Going Places (1938); Hard to Get (1938); Gold Diggers in Paris (1938); Swing Your Lady (1938); Back in Circulation (1937); The Singing Marine (1937); Slim (1937); Ready, Willing and Able (1937); Sing Me a Love Song (1936); China Clipper (1936); Earthworm Tractors (1936); Snowed Under (1936); Miss Pacific Fleet (1935); We're in the Money (1935); Alibi Ike (1935); Traveling Saleslady (1935); While the Patient Slept (1935); The St. Louis Kid (1934); Dames (1934); The Circus Clown (1934); Twenty Million Sweethearts (1934); I've Got Your Number (1934); Havana Widows (1933); The Silk Express (1933); Tomorrow at Seven (1933); Blondie Johnson (1933); The Tenderfoot (1932); Play Girl (1932); Fireman, Save My Child! (1932); Local Boy Makes Good (1931); Side Show (1931); Gold Dust Gertie (1931); Scarlet Pages (1930); Outward Bound (1930); Dancing Sweeties (1930); Golden Dawn (1930); Song of the West (1930); Skin Deep (1929); Kid Gloves (1929); Stolen Kisses (1929); The Little Wildcat (1928); Land of the Silver Fox (1928); Domestic Troubles (1928); The Girl from Chicago (1927); Jaws of Steel (1927); Tracked by the Police (1927); The Better 'Ole (1926); The Man on the Box (1925); Verse and Worse (1921).

Born on this day – Ed Begley:

Ed Begley

Actor

March 25, 1901 – April 28, 1970

Born on this day – Curley Weaver:

Curley Weaver

Blues singer

Guitarist

March 25, 1906 – September 20, 1962

Track listings on pictured CD: Curly Weaver The Complete Recorded Works 1933–1935 in Chronological Order, including music with The Georgia Browns:

No No Blues; Leg Iron Blues; Some Cold Rainy Day; Tippin’ Tom; Birmingham Gambler; Tampa Street; Decatur Street 81; Next Door Man (Take 1); Next Door Man (Take 2); It Must Have Been Her; Who Stole de Lock?; Joker Man; You Was Born to Die; Dirty Mistreater; Black Woman; City Cell Blues; Empty Room Blues; Tricks Ain’t Walking No More; Sometime Mama; Oh Lawdy Mama; Two Faced Woman; Early Morning Blues; Fried Pie Blues.

Born on this day – Mabel Seeley:

 

Mabel Seeley

Writer

March 25, 1903 – June 9, 1991

Credits:

Eleven Came Back (1943); The Beckoning Door (1950); The Chuckling Fingers (1941); The Crying Sisters (1939); The Listening House (1938); The Stranger Beside Me (1951); The Whispering Cup (1940); The Whistling Shadow (aka The Blonde with the Deadly Past) (1954); Women of Property (1947).

Born on this day – Jean Rogers:

 

Jean Rogers

Actress

March 25, 1916 – February 24, 1991

Credits:

8 Girls in a Boat (1934); A Stranger in Town (1943); Ace Drummond (1936); Always in Trouble (1938); American Experience (2013); Backlash (1947); Brigham Young (1940); Charlie Chan in Panama (1940); Cineficción Radio (2020); Conflict (1936); Crash Donovan (1936); Dames (1934); Deadly Ray from Mars (1966); Design for Scandal (1941); Don't Get Personal (1936); Dr. Kildare's Victory (1942); Fighting Back (1948); Fighting Youth (1935); Flash Gordon (1936); Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars (1938); Footlight Parade (1933); Gay Blades (1946); Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence (1939); His Night Out (1935); Hollywood on Parade No. A-9 (1933); Hot Cargo (1946); Hotel for Women (1939); Inside Story (1939); Lady Tubbs (1935); Let's Make Music (1940); Manhattan Moon (1935); Mars Attacks the World (1938); My Man Godfrey (1936); Mysterious Crossing (1936); Night Key (1937); Pacific Rendezvous (1942); Personalities (1942); Reported Missing! (1937); Rocket Ship (1938); Rough, Tough and Ready (1945); Secret Agent X-9 (1937); Spaceship to the Unknown (1966); Speed to Spare (1948); Squadron of Doom (1949); Stand Up and Cheer! (1934); Stop, Look and Love (1939); Stormy (1935); Sunday Punch (1942); Swing Shift Maisie (1943); Tailspin Tommy in the Great Air Mystery (1935); The Adventures of Frank Merriwell (1936); The Man Who Wouldn't Talk (1940); The Second Woman (1950); The Strange Mr. Gregory (1945); The War Against Mrs. Hadley (1942); The Wildcatter (1937); These Amazing Shadows (2011); Time Out for Murder (1938); Twenty Million Sweethearts (1934); Viva Cisco Kid (1940); When Love Is Young (1937); While New York Sleeps (1938); Whistling in Brooklyn (1943); Yesterday's Heroes (1940).

Born on this day – Jeanne Cagney:

 

Jeanne Cagney

Actress

March 25, 1919 – December 7, 1984

Born on this day – Patrick Troughton:

 

Patrick Troughton

Actor

March 25, 1920 – March 28, 1987

Born on this day – Nancy Kelly:

 

Nancy Kelly

Actress

March 25, 1921 – January 2, 1995

Credits:

A Very Young Lady (1941); Alcoa Theatre (1958); All-Star Party for 'Dutch' Reagan (1985); Betrayal from the East (1945); Bronk (1975); Celebrity Time (1950); Climax! (1957); Compression (2024); Double Exposure (1944); Faith Baldwin Romance Theatre (1951); Fly-By-Night (1942); Follow That Woman (1945); Friendly Enemies (1942); Frontier Marshal (1939); Gambler's Choice (1944); Girl Talk (1963); Glorifying the American Girl (1929); He Married His Wife (1940); Hollywood Preview (1956); Jesse James (1939); Kraft Theatre / The Philco Television Playhouse (1954); Leave It to the Girls (1949); Lux Video Theatre (1953–1954); Medallion Theatre (1954); Medical Center (1974); Mismates (1926); Murder at the World Series (1977); Murder in the Music Hall (1946); One Night in the Tropics (1940); Parachute Battalion (1941); Picture People No. 3 (1940); Playhouse 90 (1957); Ponds Theater (1954); Private Affairs (1940); Sailor's Lady (1940); Sam Benedict (1962); Scotland Yard (1941); Show Business (1944); Showtime, U.S.A. (1951); Song of the Sarong (1945); Stanley and Livingstone (1939); Starlight Theatre (1950); Studio One (1953–1956); Submarine Patrol (1938); Suspense (1954); Suspicion (1957); Tail Spin (1939); Tarzan's Desert Mystery (1943); The 11th Annual Tony Awards (1957); The 12th Annual Tony Awards (1958); The 17th Annual Tony Awards (1963); The 27th Annual Academy Awards (1955); The 29th Annual Academy Awards (1957); The 68th Annual Academy Awards (1996); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1963); The Bad Seed (1956); The Bigelow Theatre (1951); The Ed Sullivan Show (1959); The Girl on the Barge (1929); The Great Gatsby (1926); The Igor Cassini Show (1955); The Impostor (1975); The Kaiser Aluminum Hour (1956); The Mike Douglas Show (1962–1963); The Pig's Curly Tail (1926); The Roy Leonard Show (1972); The Silver Theatre (1950); The Untamed Lady (1926); Thriller (1962); To the Shores of Tripoli (1942); Tornado (1943); Woman Who Came Back (1945); Women in Bondage (1943); Wonderful Town, U.S.A. (1951).

Born on this day – Simone Signoret:

Simone Signoret

Actress

March 25, 1921 – September 30, 1985

Born on this day – Roberts Blossom:

 

Roberts Blossom

Writer

Actor

March 25, 1924 – July 8, 2011

Born on this day – John A. Keel:

 

John A. Keel

Writer

Ufologist

March 25, 1930 – July 3, 2009

Credits:
 
Written work:
 

Disneyland of the Gods (1988); Flying Saucer to the Center of Your Mind: Selected Writings of John A. Keel (2013); Jadoo (1957); Operation Trojan Horse / aka Why UFOs (1970 / 1978); Our Haunted Planet (1971); Pursuing the Addenda: Supernatural Reports From the Natural World (2016); Searching For the String: Selected Writings of John A. Keel (2014); Strange Creatures From Time And Space / aka The Complete Guide To Mysterious Beings (1970 / 1994); The Best of John Keel (2006); The Eighth Tower / aka The Cosmic Question (1975 / 1978); The Fickle Finger of Fate (1966); The Flying Saucer Subculture (1973); The Great Phonograph in the Sky: Selected Writings of John A. Keel (2015); The Mothman Prophecies (1975); The Outer Limits of the Twilight Zone: Selected Writings of John A. Keel (2013); The Passionate Percipient: Illusions I Have Known And Loved - Selected Writings of John A. Keel (2015); The Perspicacious Percipient: How to Investigate UFOs and Other Insane Urges - Selected Writings of John A. Keel (2015).

 

Movies and television:
 

Ancient Aliens (2020–2023); City Sluckers (1998); Mack & Myer for Hire (1963); Metropolitan Monologues (2000); Secrets of the Shadow World, Parts 1-3 (1999); Summer Sketch Marks (2001); Tales of the Twilight Typist (1994); The Exiled Files of Eddie Gray (1997); The Mothman of Point Pleasant (2017); The Mothman Prophecies (2002); The Mothman's Photographer (2008).

On this day in movie history - Seventh Heaven (1937)

 

Seventh Heaven

directed by Henry King,

written by Melville Baker,

based on the play Seventh Heaven by Austin Strong,

was released in the United States on March 25, 1937.

Music by David Buttolph and Cyril J. Mockridge.

Cast:

Simone Simon, James Stewart, Jean Hersholt, Gregory Ratoff, Gale Sondergaard, J. Edward Bromberg, John Qualen, Victor Kilian, Thomas Beck, Sig Rumann, Mady Christians, Rollo Lloyd, Rafaela Ottiano, Georges Renavent, Edward Keane, John Hamilton, Paul Porcasi, Leonid Snegoff, Adrienne D'Ambricourt, Carol Adams, John Bleifer, Eugene Borden, Marcelle Corday, Joe De Stefani, Constant Franke, Alphonse Martell, Gene Massett, John Picorri, Frank Puglia, Evelyn Selbie.

On this day in movie history - The Big Combo (1955)

The Big Combo

directed by Joseph H. Lewis,

written by Philip Yordan,

was released in the United States on March 25, 1955.

Music by David Raksin.

Cast:

Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte, Brian Donlevy, Jean Wallace, Robert Middleton, Lee Van Cleef, Earl Holliman, Helen Walker, Jay Adler, John Hoyt, Ted de Corsia, Helene Stanton, Roy Gordon, Whit Bissell, Steve Michaell, Baynes Barron, James McCallion, Tony Michaels, Brian O'Hara, Bruce Sharpe, Michael Mark, Philip Van Zandt, Donna Drew.

On this day in movie history - James Ellroy: Demon Dog of American Crime Fiction (1998)

 

Ellroy: Demon Dog of American Crime Fiction

documentary directed by Reinhard Jud,

written by Reinhard Jud and Wolfgang Lehner, 

filmed in 1993,

was released in the United States on March 25, 1998.

Music by Sam Auinger and Deedee Neidhart.

 
Cast:
James Ellroy, Elizabeth Short.

On this day in the Star Trek universe - The Next Generation

Star Trek: The Next Generation (1989)
 

Star Trek: The Next Generation
Season 2. Episode 12.

Episode entitled: The Royale.

Released March 25, 1989.

Directed by Cliff Bole.

Written by Tracy Tormé / Keith Mills, Leonard Mlodinow, Scott Rubenstein, Melinda M. Snodgrass.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Ron Jones.

Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Wil Wheaton, Colm Meaney, Diana Muldaur, Sam Anderson, Jill Jacobson, Leo Garcia, Noble Willingham, Greg Beecroft, David Armstrong, Majel Barrett, John Blower, Peter Eastman, Norman Fessler, Kaye Wade, Laura Walsh.