Thursday, March 6, 2025
On this day in music history - Baby Blue, by Badfinger (1972)
Marianne Wiggins, on writing:
- Marianne Wiggins.
Recommended reading - Missouri Legend
Missouri Legend
A Comedy in Three Acts
Play by E.B. Ginty (1938)Published 1938.
First Edition.
Inspired by the true Jesse James story.
Filmed as The Man from Texas (1948), directed by Leigh Jason.
Born on this day – Ring Lardner:
Ring Lardner
Born on this day – Lidia Quaranta:
Lidia Quaranta
Born on this day – Furry Lewis:
Furry Lewis
Credits:
Albums:
ABC Of The Blues Vol 26 (2010); All Kinds of
Blues (2024); Back On My Feet Again (1961); Blues Magician (1999); Complete
Recorded Works in Chronological Order: 1927–1929 (1990); Done Changed My Mind
(1961); Essential Blues Masters (2010); Fourth and Beale (1992); Furry Lewis
(1960); Furry Lewis 1927–1929 (2005); Furry Lewis 1927-28 (2007); Furry's Blues
Live (2017); Good Morning Judge (2003); In His Prime 1927-1928 (1975); Kassie
Jones (2008); Live At The Gaslight At The Au Go Go (2023); Masters Of Memphis Blues
/ CD A (2006); Memphis (2024); Memphis Blues Masters One (2013); Mistreatin
Mama (2016); Mr Furry's Blues (2015); On the Road Again (1969); Party! At Home
(2001); Presenting Furry Lewis (1927); Presenting the Country Blues (1969);
Shake 'em on Down (1972); Take Your Time (2000); The Blues Collection 61: Beale
Street Blues (1995); The Bluesville Years, Vol. 3: Beale Street Get-Down
(1995); The Classic Years (2021); The Complete Blue Horizon Sessions (2007);
The Legend of Furry Lewis (2022); Worried Blues (2017).
Songs:
Baby You Don’t Want Me; Big Chief Blues; Billy Lyons and Stack O'lee; Black Gypsy Blues; Blues Around My Bed; Cannon Ball Blues; Creeper's Blues; Don't You Wish Your Mama; Dry Land Blues; Early Recording Career; Falling Down Blues; Farewell I'm Growing Old; Furry Lewis Rag; Furry's Blues; Going To Brownsville; Good Morning Judge; I Will Turn Your Money Green; John Henry, Part 1; Judge Boushay Blues; Judge Harsh Blues; Kassie Jones; Kassie Jones, Parts 1 & 2; Lay My Burden Down; Mistreatin' Mama; Old Blue; Old Hobo; Roll and Tumble Blues; Shake ’em On Down; The Medicine Shows; White Lightnin’; Why Don't You Come Home Blues; Worried Blues.
Movies and television:
All You Need Is Love (1977); Blues America
(2013); En remontant le Mississippi (1973); Good Mornin' Blues (1978);
Greenleaf (2020); Killer Diller (2004); Leon Russell - Homewood Session (1970);
Masters of Country Blues: John Lee Hooker & Furry Lewis (1995); Memphis '69
(2019); Mississippi Grind (2015); Stranded in Canton (2005); The Blues (1962 /
2003); The Blues Under the Skin (1973); The Soul of a Man (2003); This Is Elvis
(1981); W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings (1975).
Born on this day – Lou Costello:
Lou Costello
Born on this day – Rochelle Hudson:
Rochelle Hudson
Born on this day – Allison Hayes:
Allison Hayes
Born on this day – David Spielberg:
David Spielberg
Born on this day – Michael Villella:
Michael Villella
Amazing Stories (1987); Audition (2011); Getting Away with Murder (2007); Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film (2006); Gotham / aka The Dead Can't Lie (1988); Hard to Die (1990); Love Letters (1983); Sleepless Nights: Revisiting the Slumber Party Massacres (2010); Sorority House Massacre II (1990); The Slumber Party Massacre (1982); The White Room (2008); Wild Orchid (1989); Wild Orchid II: Two Shades of Blue (1991).
Born on this day – Hilary Heath:
Hilary Heath
Born on this day – Phil Rickman:
Midwinter of the Spirit (2015); Philosophy for Our Times (2018).
On this day in movie history - The Shadow on the Window (1957)
The Shadow on the Window
directed
by William Asher,
written
by Leo Townsend and David P. Harmon,
was
released in the United States on March 6, 1957.
Based
on the story Missing Witness by John Hawkins and Ward Hawkins, published in
Cosmopolitan (1954).
Music
by George Duning.
On this day in movie history - Lethal Weapon (1987)
Lethal Weapon
On this day in television history - M Squad (1959)
M Squad
Season 2. Episode 23.
Episode entitled: Voluntary Surrender.