On this day in music history - History: America’s Greatest Hits, by America (1975)

 

History: America’s Greatest Hits

by America 

was released on November 3, 1975.

A true classic!

Songs include A Horse with No Name, I Need You, Sandman, Ventura Highway,

Tin Man, Lonely People, Sister Golden Hair, and more!

Track list:

A Horse with No Name; I Need You; Sandman; Ventura Highway; Don’t Cross the River; Only in Your Heart; Muskrat Love; Tin Man; Lonely People; Sister Golden Hair; Daisy Jane; Woman Tonight.

On this day in music history - Keep the Faith, by Bon Jovi (1992)

Keep the Faith

by Bon Jovi,

was released on November 3, 1992.

Track list:

I Believe; Keep The Faith; I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead; In These Arms; Bed Of Roses; If I Was Your Mother; Dry County; Woman In Love; Fear; I Want You; Blame It On The Love Of Rock and Roll; Little Bit Of Soul.

On this day in music history: The album Bursting with Flavor, by Carolyn Wonderland & the Imperial Monkeys (1997)

Bursting with Flavor

by Carolyn Wonderland & the Imperial Monkeys

was released on November 3, 1997.

Track list:

Last Living Stranger; Harmonicar; Stuck In The Road; Lowdown; Loose Ends; Oh Yeah; Silver Tongue; Jim & Jack; Momma Don’t Like My Friends; It Ain’t Me Dammit; Darlene; Stay.

On this day in music history: The album Christmas in New York, by Renée Fleming (2014)

Christmas in New York

by Renée Fleming

was released on November 3, 2014.

Track list:

Winter Wonderland, with Wynton Marsalis; Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, with Gregory Porter; Silver Bells, with Kelli O Hara; Merry Christmas Darling, with Chris Botti; Christmas Waltz; Who Knows Where the Time Goes, with Brad Mehldau; Sleigh Ride, with Wynton Marsalis; Snowbound, with Kurt Elling; In the Bleak Midwinter, with Rufus Wainwright; Central Park Serenade, with Gregory Porter; The Man with the Bag; Love and Hard Times, with Brad Mehldau; Still, Still, Still, with Kurt Elling.

Stephen King, on writing:

 

A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer.

But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.

- Stephen King.

Recommended reading - Jacob's Ladder, by Bruce Joel Rubin (2000)

Jacob's Ladder

by Bruce Joel Rubin

Published 2000.
Published by Applause Books.
 
ISBN-10: 155783086X
ISBN-13: 978-1557830869
 
Back cover description:
 
From the director of Fatal Attraction…
and the writer of Ghost…

Jacob’s Ladder.

Written by Bruce Joel Rubin.
An Adrian Lyne Film.
From Carolco Picture.
Produced by Alan Marshall.
Directed by Adrian Lyne.

With over 100 photographs from the film.

“… the screenplay moves from the nightmarish to the visionary … page for page, it is one of the very few screenplays I’ve read with the power to consistently raise hackles in broad daylight … Read it. It’s extraordinary.” – American Film.

“… one of the most original and powerful screenplays to be seen in Hollywood in years … One feels in the hands of a benevolent and sophisticated teller.” – Cinefantastique.

“… a humanistic thriller that hits like a thunderbolt.” – Fangoria.

The complete final shooting script in professional screenwriter’s format together with an annotated appendix of deleted scenes.

Jacob’s Chronicle, Bruce Joel Rubin’s book-length account of Jacob’s odyssey to the screen.

Applause screenplay series.

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