On this day in movie history - Roadie (1980)

Roadie

directed by Alan Rudolph,

written by Big Boy Medlin and Michael Ventura,

based on a story by Big Boy Medlin, Michael Ventura, Zalman King and Alan Rudolph,

was released in the United States on June 13, 1980.

Music by Craig Huxley.

Cast:

Meat Loaf, Kaki Hunter, Art Carney, Gailard Sartain, Don Cornelius, Rhonda Bates, Joe Spano, Richard Marion, Sonny Carl Davis, Ginger Varney, Al Mays, Cindy Wills, Allan Graf, Merle Kilgore, Jack Elliott, Roy Orbison, Hank Williams Jr., Hector Britt, Larry Lindsey, Conrad E. Palmisano, Tim Chitwood, Bobby Sargent, Rick Seaman, Hamilton Camp, Lenore Woodward, Terry Wills, Chuck Bulot, Helena Humann, Marcy Hanson, Carole McClellan, Rudy Ortiz, Bruce Patron, Debbie (Deborah) Harry, Chris Stein, Clem Burke, Jimmy Destri, Nigel Harrison, Frank Infante, William Hanna, James Lewis, Ray Benson, Richard Portnow, Anthony Casertano, Alice Cooper, Sheryl Cooper, Joe Gannon, Jesse Frederick, Larry Marshall, Rick Brunt, Eric Gardner, Kurtwood Smith, Paul Jamieson, Alvin Crow, Fred Mandel, Davey Johnstone, Roger Powell, Kasim Sulton, John Wilcox, Chris O’Connell, Bobby Black, Pat Ryan, Daniel Levin, John Nicholas, Francis Christina, Dean DeMerritt, Rick Crow, Smoothie, D.K. Little, Pete Finney, Tiny McFarland, Roger Crabtree, Kerry Craig, Joe Hamilton, Warren Keith, Charles Smith, Dale Stratton, Shona Lay, Bob Murray, Larry Seaman, Randy Franklin, David Cardwell, Peter Frampton, John Lizzi, Johnny Stevens.

On this day in music history - Meat Loaf, Fiona Joy Hawkins, Cecilia Bartoli:

Midnight at the Lost and Found by Meat Loaf (1983)

Flowers Of Fire by Kathy Raimey (2001)

600 Years in a Moment by Fiona Joy Hawkins (2013)

Sound Currents by Tom Moore & Sherry Finzer (2019)

Casta Diva by Cecilia Bartoli (2024)

Midnight at the Lost and Found

Album by Meat Loaf,

released May 17, 1983.

Track list: Razor’s Edge; Midnight at the Lost and Found; Wolf at Your Door; Keep Driving; The Promised Land; You Can Never Be Too Sure About the Girl; Priscilla; Don’t You Look at Me Like That; If You Really Want to; Fallen Angel.

 

Flowers Of Fire

Album by Kathy Raimey,

released May 17, 2001.

Track list: Flowers of Fire; Reverie; Questions to the Sea; Farewell to Lee; Shimmer Float.

600 Years in a Moment

Album by Fiona Joy Hawkins,

released May 17, 2013.

Track list: 600 Years; Naked Love; The Journey; Earthbound; Gliding; Tango on Wednesday; Running on Joy; Ancient Albatross; The Lost Ballerina; Antarctica; Captured Freedom; Forgivness.

Sound Currents

Album by Tom Moore & Sherry Finzer,

released May 17, 2019.

Track list: A Sound Traveler’s Dream; Following The Current; Canyon Echoes; Star Trails; Timeless Flow; Night Tides; Midnight Mystique; This Side of Silence; Theta Waves.

Casta Diva

Album by Cecilia Bartoli,

released May 17, 2024.

Track list: “Casta Diva” (Critical Ed. Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo Minasi); Nacqui All’affanno E Al Pianto” - “Non Più Mesta; “Cari Giorni” (Romanza Der Ines); Una Parola.Chiedi All’aura; “Mira, O Norma” (Critical Ed. Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo Minasi); “Si, Fino All’ore Estreme” (Critical Ed. Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo Minasi); Prendi: L’anel Ti Dono [Edit]; No Mia Vita, Mio Tesoro; O Rendetemi la Speme; Ira Del Ciel; Vaga Luna Che Inargenti; La Danza; No. 12, Voi Che Sapete; Il Cor VI Dono; Se Mai Senti Spirarti Sul Volto; Come Nave in Mezzo All’onde; Di’ Cor Mio; Ma Quando Tornerai.

On this day in movie history - Black Dog (1998)

Black Dog

directed by Kevin Hooks,

written by William Mickelberry and Dan Vining,

was released in the United States on May 1, 1998.

Music by George S. Clinton.

Song: Drivin' My Life Away by Rhett Akins.

Cast:

Patrick Swayze, Meat Loaf, Randy Travis, Gabriel Casseus, Graham Beckel, Brenda Strong, Rusty De Wees, Cyril O'Reilly, Erin Broderick, Charles S. Dutton, Stephen Tobolowsky, Lorraine Toussaint, Hester Hargett, Stuart Greer, Whitt Brantley, Gene Hartline, Bo Keister, André B. Walker.

On this day in music history:

Ten Days in November by Sue Foley (1998)

Couldn’t Have Said It Better by Meat Loaf (2003)

Live Texas Trio by Carolyn Wonderland (2015)

The Undercurrent by Sherry Finzer (2023)

 

Ten Days in November

Album by Sue Foley,

released April 21, 1998.

Track list: Highwayside; Baltimore Skyline; Long Way to Go; The Waiting Game; Give My Love to You; She Don't Belong to You; Through the Night; Winds of Change; The Forest; Promised Land; New Roads.

 

Couldn’t Have Said It Better

Album by Meat Loaf,

released April 21, 2003.

Track list: I Couldn't Have Said It Better Myself; Did I Say That; Why Isn't That Enough; Love You Out Loud; Man of Steel; Testify; Tear Me Down; You're Right, I Was Wrong; Because of You; Do It; Forever Young.

 

Live Texas Trio

Album by Carolyn Wonderland,

released April 21, 2015.

Track list: Palace of the King (Live); At the Crossroads (Live); Come Together (Live); Only God Knows When (Live); Samson and Delilah (Live); Money in the Game (Live); Nobody's Fault But Mine (Live); Walk on (Live); Heart (Live); Cumbia Raza (Live); When I Go Away (Live); Let's Go Get Stoned (Live).

 

The Undercurrent

Album by Sherry Finzer,

released April 21, 2023.

Track list: Introspective; Hidden Emotions; Undercurrent; A Whole New World.

On this day in music history - Magazine, Hang Cool Teddy Bear:

Magazine by Heart (1977)

Hang Cool Teddy Bear by Meat Loaf (2010)

 

Magazine

Album by Heart,

released April 19, 1977.

Track list: Heartless; Devil Delight; Just The Wine; Without You; Magazine; Here Song; Mother Earth Blues; I've Got The Music In Me.

 

Hang Cool Teddy Bear

Album by Meat Loaf,

released April 19, 2010.

Track list – includes songs on bonus disc & other editions:

Peace on Earth; Living on the Outside; Los Angeloser; If I Can't Have You; Love Is Not Real/Next Time You Stab Me in the Back; Like a Rose; Song of Madness; Did You Ever Love Somebody; California Isn't Big Enough (Hey There Girl); Running Away from Me; Let's Be in Love; If It Rains; Elvis in Vegas; Boneyard; Prize Fight Lover; Don't Get Me Going; I Want You So Hard (Boy's Bad News); If It Ain't Broke, Break It; Blind as a Bat; Amnesty Is Granted; Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through; I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That); Two Out of Three Ain't Bad; Bat Out of Hell; Roadhouse Blues/Why Don't We Do It in the Road?; Out of the Frying Pan (And Into the Fire); Peace on Earth; Living on the Outside; Song of Madness; Los Angeloser.

On this day in music history - The album Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster is Loose, by Meat Loaf (2006)

Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster is Loose

by Meat Loaf

was released on October 20, 2006.

Track List:

The Monster Is Loose; Blind As a Bat; It’s All Coming Back To Me Now; Bad For Good; Cry Over Me; In The Land of the Pig, The Butcher Is King; Monstro; Alive; If God Could Talk; If It Ain’t Broke Break It; What About Love; Seize the Night; The Future Ain’t What It Used To Be; Cry To Heaven. 

On this day in music history - Bat Out of Hell, by Meat Loaf (1977)

Bat Out of Hell

by Meat Loaf

was released on October 11, 1977.

Track List:

Bat Out of Hell; You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth; Heaven Can Wait; All Revved Up with No Place to Go; Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad; Paradise by the Dashboard Light (Meat Loaf with Ellen Foley); For Crying Out Loud.

Born on this day – Meat Loaf:

Meat Loaf

Singer

Actor

September 27, 1947 – January 20, 2022

Credits:

Albums:

Bat Out of Hell (1977); Dead Ringer (1981); Midnight at the Lost and Found (1983); Bad Attitude (1984); Blind Before I Stop (1986); Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell (1993); Welcome to the Neighbourhood (1995); Couldn't Have Said It Better (2003); Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose (2006); Hang Cool Teddy Bear (2010); Hell in a Handbasket (2011); Braver Than We Are (2016).

Movies / television / music videos:

Ghost Wars (2017–2018); Elementary (2012); Meat Loaf: Going All the Way (2016); Meat Loaf Feat. Stacy Michelle: Speaking in Tongues (2016); Sausage Party (2016); Wishin' and Hopin' (2014); Stage Fright (2014); All American Christmas Carol (2013); The Moment (2013); Meatloaf: Guilty Pleasure Tour, Live from Sydney (2012); U B Da Judge (2012); Fairly Legal (2011); Absolute Killers (2011); Polish Bar (2010); Glee (2009); Beautiful Boy (2010); Burning Bright (2010); Meat Loaf: Los Angeloser (2010); Monk (2002); Citizen Jane (2009); House (2004); Jimmy Kimmel & Ben Affleck: I'm Fucking Ben Affleck (2008); Urban Decay (2007); Meat Loaf: Cry Over Me (2007); Meat Loaf: Blind As a Bat (2006); Masters of Horror (2005); Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny (2006); Meat Loaf Feat. Marion Raven: It's All Coming Back to Me Now (2006); The Pleasure Drivers (2006); Memento of Flesh and Bones (2005); BloodRayne (2005); Crazylove (2005); Chasing Ghosts (2005); Extreme Dating (2005); Fight Club (2004); A Hole in One (2004); Meat Loaf: Did I Say That? (2003); Meat Loaf: Man of Steel (2003); Learning Curves (2003); Meat Loaf: Couldn't Have Said It Better (2003); John Doe (2002); The Car Kid (2002); Wishcraft (2002); The Salton Sea (2002); Polish Spaghetti (2001); Formula 51 (2001); Focus (2001); Trapped (2001); Rustin (2001); Italian Ties (2001); The Ballad of Lucy Whipple (2001); From Spam to Sperm (2000); Blacktop (2000); The Outer Limits (1995); The Diary of the Hurdy-Gurdy Man (1999); Python Night: 30 Years of Monty Python (1999); Fight Club (1999); Crazy in Alabama (1999); Meat Loaf: Is Nothing Sacred (1999); Outside Ozona (1998); South Park (1997); Everything That Rises (1998); The Mighty (1998); Black Dog (1998); Gunshy (1998); Spice World (1997); Dead Man's Gun (1997); Nash Bridges (1996); Meat Loaf: Not a Dry Eye in the House (1996); Meat Loaf: I'd Lie for You (and That's the Truth) (1995); Meat Loaf: Objects in the Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are (1994); To Catch a Yeti (1994); Meat Loaf: Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through (1994); Top of the Pops (1964); Cher: The Video Collection (1993); Psyched for Snuppa (1993); Meat Loaf: I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That) (1993); Leap of Faith (1992); The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag (1992); Tales from the Crypt (1989); Lightning Force (1991); Wayne's World (1992); Motorama (1991); Monsters (1988); The Squeeze (1987); Meat Loaf: Getting Away with Murder (1986); Talking Heads: Wild Wild Life (1986); Meat Loaf Feat. John Parr: Rock 'n' Roll Mercenaries (1986); Out of Bounds (1986); The Wrestlers: Land of a Thousand Dances (1985); The Equalizer (1985); Rebellious Jukebox (1983); Feel the Motion (1985); Meat Loaf: Surf's Up (1984); Meat Loaf: Nowhere Fast (1984); Meat Loaf: Modern Girl (1984); Meat Loaf: Razor's Edge (1983); Meat Loaf: If You Really Want To (1983); Will Powers: Adventures in Success (1983); Dead Ringer (1982); Meat Loaf: More Than You Deserve (1981); Meat Loaf: I'm Gonna Love Her for Both of Us (1981); Meat Loaf: Dead Ringer for Love (1981); Roadie (1980); Scavenger Hunt (1979); Americathon (1979); Meat Loaf: Bat Out of Hell (1979); Meat Loaf: You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth (Hot Summer Night) (1978); Meat Loaf: Two Out of Three Ain't Bad (1978); Meat Loaf: Paradise by the Dashboard Light (1977); The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975); State Fair (1962).

On this day in music history - Dead Ringer, by Meat Loaf (1981)

Dead Ringer

by Meat Loaf

was released on September 21, 1981.

Written by Jim Steinman.

Album cover art by Bernie Wrightson.

Track list:

Peel Out; I’m Gonna Love Her for Both of Us; More Than You Deserve; I’ll Kill You If You Don’t Come Back; Read ‘Em and Weep; Nocturnal Pleasure; Dead Ringer for Love; Everything Is Permitted.