Thursday, September 12, 2024

Born on this day – Gus Cannon:


Gus Cannon


Blues singer

Musician

September 12, 1883 – October 15, 1979

Credits:

Songs:

Big Railroad Blues; Boll Weevil; Bring It With You When You Come; Cairo Rag; Crawdad Hole; Feather Bed; Going to Germany; Hollywood Rag; Jazz Gypsy Blues; Jonestown Blues; Last Chance Blues; Madison Street Rag; Minglewood Blues; Mule Get Up in the Alley; Noah's Blues; Old John Booker - You Call That Gone; Pig Ankle Strut; Poor Boy, Long Ways From Home; Pretty Mama Blues; Prison Wall Blues; Riley’s Wagon; Ripley Blues; Springdale Blues; The Rooster's Crowing Blues; Viola Lee Blues; Walk Right In; Wolf River Blues.

Albums:

Gus Cannon & Noah Lewis Vol. 2 (1929 - 1930) (2005); Gus Cannon Vol. 1 (1927 - 1928) (2005); Jug Band Blues Essentials (2010); Last Sessions (2010); Memphis Blues Masters One (2013); Walk Right In (1962).

Movies and television:

All Things Must Pass (2015); Bandstand (1967); Blues Like Showers of Rain (1970); Forrest Gump (1994); Get It Together (1978); Give Me the Banjo (2011); Good Morning Britain (1984); Hollywood a Go Go (1965); Long John Baldry: In the Shadow of the Blues (2000); Long Strange Trip (2017); My Way (2012); Mystery Science Theater 3000 (1992); Sex Education (2019); Someone to Watch Over Me (1987); Soundstage (1979); The Blues (1962); The Danny Kaye Show (1963); The Flamingo Kid (1984).


Born on this day – Gianna Maria Canale:


Gianna Maria Canale


Actress

September 12, 1927 – February 13, 2009


Born on this day – Bill McKinney:


Bill McKinney


Actor

September 12, 1931 – December 1, 2011


Born on this day – Ian Holm:

Ian Holm

Actor

September 12, 1931 – June 19, 2020


Born on this day – Daniela Rocca:


Daniela Rocca


Actress

Writer

September 12, 1937 – May 28, 1995


On this day in movie history - A Fistful of Dollars (1964)


A Fistful of Dollars


directed by Sergio Leone,

written by Sergio Leone, Víctor Andrés Catena, Jaime Comas Gil, Fernando Di Leo, Duccio Tessari, and Tonino Valerii,

based on a story by Sergio Leone, Adriano Bolzoni, Víctor Andrés Catena and Mark Lowell,

was released in Italy on September 12, 1964.

Based on the movie Yojimbo (1961), directed by Akira Kurosawa.

Music by Ennio Morricone (as Dan Savio).


Cast:
Clint Eastwood, Marianne Koch, Gian Maria Volonté, W. Lukschy, Sieghardt Rupp, Joe Edger, Antonio Prieto, Pepe Calvo, Margherita Lozano, Daniel Martín, Benny Reeves, Richard Stuyvesant, Bruno Carotenuto, Aldo Sambreli, Antonio Moreno, Nino del Arco, Enrique Santiago, Umberto Spadaro, Fernando Sánchez Polack, José Riesgo, Luis Barboo, Frank Braña, Antonio Molino Rojo, Lorenzo Robledo, William R. Thompkins, José Canalejas, Álvaro de Luna, Nazzareno Natale, Antonio Pica.

On this day in movie history - Five Easy Pieces (1970)


Five Easy Pieces


directed by Bob Rafelson, and written by Adrien Joyce,

based on a story by Bob Rafelson and Adrien Joyce,

was released in the United States on September 12, 1970.


Music credits:

Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue, BWV 903, by Johann Sebastian Bach.
Fantasy in F minor, Op. 49, by Frédéric Chopin.
Prelude in E minor, Op. 28, No. 4, by Frédéric Chopin.
Piano Concerto No. 9 in E-flat major, K. 271, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Fantasy in D minor, K. 397, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.


Four songs by Tammy Wynette:

Stand by Your Man.
D-I-V-O-R-C-E.
Don't Touch Me.
When There's a Fire in Your Heart.



Cast:
Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Susan Anspach, Lois Smith, Ralph Waite, Billy "Green" Bush, Irene Dailey, Toni Basil, Helena Kallianiotes, William Challee, John Ryan, Fannie Flagg, Marlena MacGuire, Sally Ann Struthers, Lorna Thayer, Richard Stahl, Garrett Cassell, Clay Greenbush, Bob Rafelson.