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

Machine Head

by Deep Purple,

was released on March 25, 1972.

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

On this day in music history: The album Visual Music, by Joan Jeanrenaud (2016)

Visual Music

by Joan Jeanrenaud,

released on March 25, 2016.

 

On this day in television history - Kojak (2005)

Kojak

based on Kojak by Abby Mann,

was released in the United States on March 25, 2005,

and ran for one season until May 22, 2005.

Music by Mark Snow.

Cast:

Ving Rhames, Chazz Palminteri, Roselyn Sánchez, Chuck Shamata, Sybil Temtchine and Michael Kelly.

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 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.

Born on this day – Roberts Blossom:

 

Writer

Actor

March 25, 1924 – July 8, 2011

Born on this day – Simone Signoret:

 

Actress

March 25, 1921 – September 30, 1985

Born on this day – Nancy Kelly:

 

Actress

March 25, 1921 – January 2, 1995

Born on this day – Patrick Troughton:

 

Actor

March 25, 1920 – March 28, 1987

Born on this day – Jeanne Cagney:

 

Actress

March 25, 1919 – December 7, 1984

Born on this day – Jean Rogers:

 

Actress

March 25, 1916 – February 24, 1991

Born on this day – Curley Weaver:

Blues singer

Guitarist

March 25, 1906 – September 20, 1962

Born on this day – Ed Begley:

 

Actor

March 25, 1901 – April 28, 1970

Born on this day – 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 – 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).

James A. Michener, on writing:

 

I love writing.

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