On this day in music history - The album I Can't Lose, by Deborah Coleman (1997)

 

I Can't Lose

by Deborah Coleman

was released on February 4, 1997.

Track list:

I Can't Lose; My Heart Bleeds Blue; Roll with Me; The Man Is Mine; Brick; Fine & Mellow; Feelin' Alright; Something's Wrong; I Found You; My Love Belongs to You.

On this day in music history - Moonlight In Empty Rooms (2018)

 

Moonlight In Empty Rooms

Album by Heidi Breyer,

released February 4, 2018.

Track list:

Unfinished Conversation; Autumn Snowfall; Autumn In Bruges; Christian's Workshop; Moonlight In Empty Rooms; Eastertide; Rainy Day; The Sound And The Fury; Winter Rose; Half Hour Before Spring; Faith; End Of Summer.

On this day in movie history - Videodrome (1983)

Videodrome

a.k.a. Zonekiller,

directed and written by David Cronenberg,

was released in the United States on February 4, 1983.

Music by Howard Shore.

Cast:

James Woods, Debbie Harry, Sonja Smits, Peter Dvorsky, Leslie Carlson, Jack Creley, Lynne Gorman, Julie Khaner, David Bolt, Reiner Schwarz, Lally Cadeau, King Cosmos, Kay Hawtrey, David Tsubouchi.

Recommended reading - Stage to Lordsburg

Stage to Lordsburg

by Ernest Haycox.

Filmed as Stagecoach (1939), directed by John Ford.

Short story.
First published 1937.Published by Fantasy and Horror Classics.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 1447404130
ISBN-13: 978-1447404132

Description:

Ernest Haycox's 1937 short story, Stage to Lordsburg, was a bestseller and a classic of the Western genre. Popularized by the 1939 film adaptation Stagecoach, this Wild West tale vividly portrays Haycox's setting and characters.

Stage to Lordsburg follows a collection of characters as they journey from Tonto, Arizona Territory, to Lordsburg, New Mexico. A series of dangers and perils face the colorful group as they embark on the uncomfortable trip. Ernest Haycox presents a number of cliché Western characters and the point of view shifts between them as the short story progresses. This masterful tale by Ernest Haycox, a prolific writer of Western fiction, is not to be missed by fans of old cowboy narratives.

Recommended reading - Badge of Evil

Badge of Evil

by Whit Masterson.

Filmed as Touch of Evil (1958), directed by Orson Welles.

Published by Adams Media.
First published 1956.

ASIN: 1440560919
ISBN-10: 9781440560910
ISBN-13: 978-1440560910

Description:

“Orson Welles based his noir masterpiece on this equally fine novel.” – The Washington Post.

Quinlan and McCoy – veteran cops who could smell out a murderer …

A dark, swift-running tale of love and hate and death under the bright California sun.

Assistant District Attorney Mitch Holt suspects the wrong people have been arrested in the murder of Rudy Linneker. But if it wasn't Linneker's daughter and her fiance, who was it? And why do two of the city's most decorated and beloved cops look like they're not shooting straight? If they've planted evidence in this case, what else are they guilty of in the past?

Happy Lunar New Year - Year of the Snake

Happiness and prosperity to all in the Year of the Snake

On this day in music history - Kids in America, by Kim Wilde (1981)

Kids in America

by Kim Wilde,

was released on January 26, 1981.