Wednesday, September 11, 2024

Born on this day – Barbecue Bob:


Barbecue Bob


Blues singer

Guitarist

September 11, 1902 – October 21, 1931


Credits:

Songs:

Bad Times Blues; Barbecue Blues; Black Skunk Blues; Blind Pig Blues; California Blues; Cloudy Sky Blues; Easy Rider Don't You Deny My Name; 'Fo Day Creep; Freeze to Me Mama; Going up the Country; Good Time Rounder; Honey Your Going Too Fast; I'm on My Way Down Home; It Just Won't Hay; It's Just Too Bad; Jacksonville Blues; Me and My Whiskey; Mississippi Heavy Water Blues; Motherless Chile Blues; My Mistake Blues; New Mojo Blues; Poor Boy a Long Ways From Home / Poor Boy Long Way From Home; She Moves It Just Right; She's Coming Back Some Cold Rainy Day; Spider and the Fly; Tellin' It to You; Thinkin' Funny Blues; Twistin’ Your Stuff; We Sure Got Hard Times; When the Saints Go Marching In; Yo Yo Blues.

Albums:

ABC Of The Blues Vol 2 (2010); Atlanta Blues (2021); Atlanta Moan (2019); Barbecue Blues (2007); Barbecue Bob Vol. 1 (1927 - 1928) (2005); Barbecue Bob Vol. 2 (1928 - 1929) (2005); Barbecue Bob Vol. 3 (1929 - 1930) (2005); Blues (2024); Blues Essentials (2011); Chef's Blues (2015); Chocolate To The Bone (1992); New Standards (1992); Presenting Barbecue Bob (1927); Rough Guide To Barbecue Bob (2015); Textures in Hi-Fi with Pete Rugolo and his Orchestra (1999); Winter Awhile (2022); Winter Awhile / 2023 Remaster (2023).





Born on this day – Jazz Gillum:


Jazz Gillum


Blues Harmonicist

September 11, 1904 – March 29, 1966

Credits:

Songs:

Alberta Blues; Boar Hog Blues; Crazy About You; Down south blues; Early in the Morning; Gillum's Windy Blues; Go Back to the Country; Good Old 51 Highway; Got to Reap What You Sow; Harmonica Stomp; I Want You by My Side; I'll Get Along Somehow; I'm Gonna Get It; I'm Gonna Train My Baby; Is That a Monkey You Got?; Jazz Gillum's Blues; Just Like Jesse James; Key to the Highway; Look on Yonder Wall; Mule Blues; Reefer Head Woman; Sarah Jane; Signifying Woman; Stavin' chain; Sweet Sweet Woman; Take A Little Walk With Me; Take One More Chance With Me; The Race of the Jim Lee and the Katy Adam; War Time Blues; Worried and Bothered; You Got to Run Me Down; You're Laughing Now.


Born on this day – Anne Seymour:

 

Anne Seymour


Actress

September 11, 1909 – December 8, 1988


Born on this day – Herbert Lom:

Herbert Lom


Actor

September 11, 1917 – September 27, 2012

 

Born on this day – Betsy Drake:


Betsy Drake


Actress

Writer

Psychotherapist

September 11, 1923 – October 27, 2015

Credits:

American Masters (2004); Becoming Cary Grant (2017); Biography (1993); Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man (1988); Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion (1965); Dancing in the Dark (1949); Every Girl Should Be Married (1948); General Electric Theater (1958); Houseboat (1958); Intent to Kill (1958); Next to No Time! (1958); Off to See the Wizard (1967); Pretty Baby (1950); Room for One More (1952); TCM Remembers 2015 (2015); The 17th Golden Globe Awards (1960); The Second Woman (1950); Wanted: Dead or Alive (1959); Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957).


On this day in music history - A Woman and a Man, by Belinda Carlisle (1996)

A Woman and a Man

by Belinda Carlisle

was released September 11, 1996.



On this day in movie history - 99 River Street (1953)


99 River Street


directed by Phil Karlson, and written by Robert Smith,

was released in the United States on September 11, 1953.

Based on the short story Crosstown, by George Zuckerman, originally published in the October 1945, edition of Cosmopolitan.

Music by Arthur Lange and Emil Newman.


Cast:
John Payne, Evelyn Keyes, Brad Dexter, Frank Faylen, Peggie Castle, Jay Adler, Jack Lambert, Glenn Langan, Eddy Waller, John Daheim, Ian Wolfe, Peter Leeds, William Tannen, Gene Reynolds, Hal Baylor, Paul Bryar, Claire Carleton, G. Pat Collins, Sayre Dearing, Tom Greenway, Harry Hines, John Indrisano, Vivi Janiss, Helen Kleeb, Joey Ray, Dick Rich, Ric Roman, Michael Ross, Frank J. Scannell, Arthur Tovey, John Wald.