Saturday, June 7, 2025

On this day in music history - The album Street Angel, by Stevie Nicks (1994)

 

Street Angel


by Stevie Nicks

was released on June 7, 1994.

Track list:

Blue Denim; Greta; Street Angel; Docklands; Listen to the Rain; Destiny; Unconditional Love; Love Is Like a River; Rose Garden; Maybe Love Will Change Your Mind; Just Like a Woman; Kick It; Jane.

On this day in music history - The album Forever, by Bon Jovi (2024)

 

Forever


by Bon Jovi

was released on June 7, 2024.
 
Track list:
Legendary; We Made It Look Easy; Living Proof; Waves; Seeds; Kiss the Bride; The People’s House; Walls of Jericho; I Wrote You a Song; Living In Paradise; My First Guitar; Hollow Man.

On this day in music history - Oceans (2024)

 

Oceans


Album by Jennifer Thomas,

released June 7, 2024.
 
Track list:
Oceans; The Lighthouse; Underwater Carnival Ride; The Siren and the Sailor (Ft. Alexa Ray); Just a Teardrop in the Ocean; Sea of Diamonds; Something Just Like This (Coldplay / The Chainsmokers cover); Mermaids (Ft. Alexa Ray) (from Pirates of the Caribbean, Hans Zimmer); The Metamorphosis Suite: Metamorphosis I:  Transformation; Metamorphosis II:  Flight; Transcendence (Ft. Ryan Stewart, Ardy); You Carried Me Home; Pirates Cove; The Siren and the Sailor (Instrumental Version); You Carried Me Home (A Cappella Version).

Friday, June 6, 2025

Remembering D-Day - June 6, 1944:


D-Day - June 6, 1944


All gave some, some gave all.

**

In honor of all who served.

We will never forget.


and when he gets to Heaven,
to Saint Peter he will tell:
"Just another soldier reporting, Sir.
I've served my time in Hell."


Beverly Cleary, on books:


My favorite books are a constantly changing list, but one favorite has remained constant: the dictionary.
Is the word I want to use spelled practice or practise?
The dictionary knows.
The dictionary also slows down my writing because it is such interesting reading that I am distracted.

- Beverly Cleary.

Recommended reading - D-Day: June 6, 1944. The Battle for the Normandy Beaches (1994)

 

D-Day: June 6, 1944. The Battle for the Normandy Beaches

by Stephen E. Ambrose.

Originally published in 1994.
 
ISBN-10: 1471158268
ISBN-13: 978-1471158261
 
Description from back cover:
 
D-Day is the epic story of men at the most demanding moment of their lives, when the horrors, complexities, and triumphs of life are laid bare. Distinguished historian Stephen E. Ambrose portrays the faces of courage and heroism, fear and determination — what Eisenhower called “the fury of an aroused democracy” — that shaped the victory of the citizen soldiers whom Hitler had disparaged.
 
Drawing on more than 1,400 interviews with American, British, Canadian, French, and German veterans, Ambrose reveals how the original plans for the invasion had to be abandoned, and how enlisted men and junior officers acted on their own initiative when they realized that nothing was as they were told it would be.
 
The action begins at midnight, June 5/6, when the first British and American airborne troops jumped into France. It ends at midnight June 6/7. Focusing on those pivotal twenty-four hours, it moves from the level of Supreme Commander to that of a French child, from General Omar Bradley to an American paratrooper, from Field Marshal Montgomery to a German sergeant. Ambrose’s D-Day is the finest account of one of our history’s most important days.
 
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Born on this day – Doris Merrick:

 

Doris Merrick


Actress

June 6, 1919 – November 30, 2019

Credits:
Interrupted Melody (1955); The Neanderthal Man (1953); The Adventures of Kit Carson (1952); Death Valley Days (1952); Big Town (1952); Untamed Women (1952); The Cisco Kid (1951–1952); Boston Blackie (1951); The Fighting Stallion (1950); The Counterfeiters (1948); The Pilgrim Lady (1946); Child of Divorce (1946); Hit the Hay (1945); This Love of Ours (1945); Sensation Hunters (1945); In the Meantime, Darling (1944); The Big Noise (1944); Ladies of Washington (1944); Heaven Can Wait (1943); Time to Kill (1942); That Other Woman (1942); Girl Trouble (1942); Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942).