On this day in music history: Lee Aaron, Hormonally Yours, Buena Vista Social Club, Passionata

Lee Aaron by Lee Aaron (1987)

Hormonally Yours by Shakespears Sister (1992)

Buena Vista Social Club (1999)

Passionata by Denise Young (2014)

Lee Aaron

Album by Lee Aaron,

released February 17, 1987.

Track list: Powerline; Hands Are Tied; Only Human; Empty Heart; Number One; Don't Rain on My Parade; Goin' Off the Deep End; If This Is Love; Eye for An Eye; Heartbeat of the World; Dream with Me.

Hormonally Yours

Album by Shakespears Sister,

released February 17, 1992.

Track list: Goodbye Cruel World; I Don't Care; My 16th Apology; Are We In Love Yet; Emotional Thing; Stay; Black Sky; The Trouble With Andre; Moonchild; Catwoman; Let Me Entertain You; Hello (Turn Your Radio On).

Buena Vista Social Club

Documentary directed and written by Wim Wenders.

Based on a concept by Nick Gold.

Released at the Berlin International Film Festival in Germany, on February 17, 1999.

Cast: Octavio Calderon, Joachim Cooder, Ry Cooder, Angel Terry Domech, Ibrahim Ferrer, Ibrahim Ferrer Jr., Manuel Galbán, Hugo Garzón, Carlos Gonzalez, Juan de Marcos González, Rubén González, Pío Leyva, Manuel ‘Puntillita’ Licea, Orlando ‘Cachaíto’ López, Manuel ‘Guajiro’ Mirabal, Eliades Ochoa, Gilberto ‘Papi’ Oviedo, Alejandro Pichardo, Yanko Pichardo, Omara Portuondo, Jesús ‘Aguaje’ Ramos, Salvador Repilado Labrada, José Antonio Rodriguez, Compay Segundo, Benito Suárez Magana, Barbarito Torres, Amadito Valdés, Alberto ‘Virgilio’ Valdés, Lázaro Villa, Heitor Goldflus.

Passionata

Album by Denise Young,

released February 17, 2014.

Track list: Passionata; Above the Clouds; Moon Song; The Way; Starlight Melody; There; Cobblestones in the Rain; Awakened; Desire; Figure 8; Secrets.

On this day in music history - The album box set 1970 - 1987, by Ry Cooder (2013)

1970 - 1987

by Ry Cooder

was released on November 12, 2013.

Track list:

Goin’ to Brownsville; Dark Is the Night; How Can You Keep Moving (Unless You Migrate Too); Billy the Kid; Money Honey; F.D.R. in Trinidad; Teardrops Will Fall; Denomination Blues; On a Monday; Hey Porter; Great Dream from Heaven; Taxes on the Farmer Feeds Us All; Vigilante Man; Boomer’s Story; Cherry Ball Blues; Crow Black Chicken; Ax Sweet Mama; Maria Elena; Dark End of the Street; Rally ‘Round the Flag; Comin’ in on a Wing and a Prayer; President Kennedy; Good Morning Mr. Railroad Man; Tamp’ Em up Solid; Tattler; Married Man’s a Fool; Jesus on the Mainline; It’s All over Now; Medley: Fool for a Cigarette / Feelin Good; If Walls Could Talk; Mexican Divorce; Ditty Wah Ditty; The Bourgeois Blues; I Got Mine; Always Lift Him Up / Kanaka Wai Wai; He’ll Have to Go; Smack Dab in the Middle; Stand by Me; Yellow Roses; Chloe; Goodnight Irene; School Is Out; Alimony; Jesus on the Mainline; The Dark End of the Street; Viva Sequin / Do Re Mi; Volver, Volver; How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live; Smack Dab in the Middle; Big Bad Bill Is Sweet William Now; Face To Face That I Shall Meet Him; The Pearls / Tia Juana; The Dream; Happy Meeting in Glory; In A Mist; Flashes; Davenport Blues; Shine; Nobody; We Shall Be Happy; Little Sister; Go Home, Girl; The Very Thing That Makes You Rich (Makes Me Poor); I Think Its Going to Work Out Fine; Down in Hollywood; Look at Granny Run Run; Trouble, You Can’t Fool Me; Don’t Mess up a Good Thing; I Can’t Win; 634-5789; Speedo; Why Don’t You Try Me; Down in the Boondocks; Johnny Porter; The Way We Make a Broken Heart; Crazy ‘Bout an Automobile (Every Woman I Know); The Girls from Texas; Borderline; Never Make Your Move Too Soon; UFO Has Landed In The Ghetto; I Need A Woman; Gypsy Woman; Blue Suede Shoes; Mama, Don’t Treat Your Daughter Mean; I’m Drinking Again; Which Came First; That’s The Way Love Turned Out For Me; Get Rhythm; Low–Commotion; Going Back to Okinawa; 13 Question Method; Women Will Rule the World; All Shook Up; I Can Tell by the Way You Smell; Across the Borderline; Let’s Have a Ball.

On this day in music history - The album The Ry Cooder Anthology: The UFO Has Landed, by Ry Cooder (2008)

The Ry Cooder Anthology: The UFO Has Landed

by Ry Cooder

was released on October 28, 2008.

Track list:

Get Rhythm; Low-Commotion; Available Space; On a Monday; Do Re Mi; Which Came First; The Very Thing That Makes You Rich (Makes Me Poor); Down in Hollywood; Smells Like Money; Let’s Work Together; I Got Mine; Cherry Ball Blues; Jesus on the Mainline; Tattler; Teardrops Will Fall; Maria Elena; Jesse James; Paris, Texas; Theme from Southern Comfort; Tamp ‘Em Up Solid; Billy the Kid; Crazy ‘Bout An Automobile (Every Woman I Know); Drive Like I Never Been Hurt; Feelin’ Bad Blues; Boomer’s Story; How Can You Keep Moving (Unless You Migrate Too); Alimony; Always Lift Him Up/Kanaka Wai Wai; Theme from Alamo Bay; Dark End of the Street; Why Don’t You Try Me; Poor Man’s Shangri-La; Going Back to Okinawa; Little Sister.

On this day in movie history - Last Man Standing (1996)

Last Man Standing

written and directed by Walter Hill,

based on Yojimbo (1961) by Akira Kurosawa,

was released in the United States on September 20, 1996.

Music by Ry Cooder.

Cast:

Bruce Willis, Bruce Dern, William Sanderson, Christopher Walken, David Patrick Kelly, Karina Lombard, Ned Eisenberg, Michael Imperioli, R. D. Call, Alexandra Powers, Ken Jenkins, Ted Markland, Leslie Mann, Patrick Kilpatrick.

On this day in music history - Music by Ry Cooder, by Ry Cooder (1995)

Music by Ry Cooder

by Ry Cooder

was released on July 11, 1995.

Track list:

Paris, Texas; Theme From Southern Comfort; Theme From Alamo Bay; Across The Borderline; Highway 23; Bomber Bash; Greenhouse; Nice Bike; I Like Your Eyes; Main Theme; See You In Hell, Blind Boy; Feelin’ Bad Blues; Swamp Walk; Angola; Viola Lee Blues; The Long Riders; Archie’s Funeral (Hold To God’s Unchanging Hand); Jesse James; King Of The Street; Sunny’s Tune; No Quiero; Cruising With Rafe; Klan Meeting; I Can’t Walk This Time/The Prestige; East St. Louis; Goose and Lucky; Goyakla Is Coming; Canoes Upstream; Cancion Mixteca; Maria; Bound For Canaan (Sieber and Davis); Bound For Canaan (The 6th Calvary); Train To Florida; Houston In Two Seconds.

On this day in music history - The album Paradise and Lunch, by Ry Cooder (1974)

Paradise and Lunch

by Ry Cooder

was released on June 8, 1974.

Track list:

Tamp ‘Em Up Solid; Tattler; Married A Man’s A Fool; Jesus On The Mainline; It’s All Over Now; Fool For A Cigarette / Feelin’ Good; If Walls Could Talk; Mexican Divorce; Ditty Wah Ditty.