On this day in music history - Dreamboat Annie and Bébé le Strange by Heart, Sleepless Empire by Lacuna Coil, Babe’s and Ricky’s Inn

Dreamboat Annie by Heart (1976)

Bébé le Strange by Heart (1980)

Sleepless Empire by Lacuna Coil (2025)

Babe’s and Ricky’s Inn (2013)

Dreamboat Annie

Album by Heart,

released February 14, 1976.

Track list: Magic Man; Dreamboat Annie (Fantasy Child); Crazy on You; Soul of the Sea; Dreamboat Annie; White Lightning and Wine; (Love Me Like Music) I'll Be Your Song; Sing Child; How Deep It Goes; Dreamboat Annie.

Bébé le Strange

Album by Heart,

Released February 14, 1980.

Track list: Bebe Le Strange; Down On Me; Silver Wheels; Break; Rockin' Heaven Down; Even It Up; Strange Night; Raised On You; Pilot; Sweet Darlin'; Jackleg Man; Break.

 

Sleepless Empire

Album by Lacuna Coil,

released February 14, 2025.

Track list: The Siege; Oxygen; Scarecrow; Gravity; I Wish You Were Dead; Hosting the Shadow (feat. Randy Blythe); In Nomine Patris; Sleepless Empire; Sleep Paralysis; In The Mean Time (feat. Ash Costello); Never Dawn.

Babe’s and Ricky’s Inn

Documentary directed and written by Ramin Niami.

Released in the United States on February 14, 2013.

Cast: Ray Bailey, Andrea Balestra, Shawn Barry, Bobby Bryan, Mickey Champion, Charlie Chan, Chu Chu, Grant Cihlar, George Dezz, Ken Frizzelle, Takahiro Fukuda, Eric Garcia, Lady Gigi, Laura Mae Gross, Tony Ibarra, Alvon Johnson, Deacon Jones, Dennis Jones, Richard Martin-Ross, Johnny Mastro, Tokyo Mississippi, Keb’ Mo’, Barbara Morrison, Oklahoma Ollie, Sherry Pruitt, Jeff Ross, Southside Slim, Mike Stoller, Suzanne Thomas, Peter Tork, Ferekiea White, Earl Williams, Gregg Wright.

The Blue Ridge Poem by Harriet Monroe

The Blue Ridge

Poem by Harriet Monroe.
 
Still and calm,
In purple robes of kings,
The low-lying mountains sleep at the edge of the world.
The forests cover them like mantles;
Day and night
Rise and fall over them like the wash of waves.
Asleep, they reign.
Silent, they say all.
Hush me, O slumbering mountains –
Send me dreams.

Harriet Monroe

December 23, 1860 – September 26, 1936
 
Video by Jack Kost
2025
 
Blue Ridge Mountains (2019)
Photographs by Jack Kost.
 
Sound effect credit:
Forest wind and birds
by freesound_community
from Pixabay.

Mason Cooley, on reading:

Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.

- Mason Cooley.

Recommended reading – Crawlspace

Crawlspace

by Herbert Lieberman.
 
Published by Pocket.
First published 1971.
First Edition.
Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0671775324
ISBN-13: 978-0671775322

Description:

In this novel of mounting suspense from award-winning author Herbert Lieberman, a terrifying surprise waits beneath a couple’s New England home. Albert and Alice Graves live a normal, if monotonous, domestic life. They never had children; they spend their days tending to their home and enjoying their time together.

One day, when the oil man, Richard, is refilling their furnace, Alice invites him to dinner, never suspecting that a casual act of charity will lead to a horrifying, morbid discovery in the crawlspace underneath their beloved house.

The Graves take Richard into their lives, becoming attached to his presence as though to the son they never had. Their town, though, is not nearly so welcoming. When the locals lash out against the Graves and their strange houseguest, the contented household is irrevocably drawn into a darkness they could not have imagined.

Born on this day – Kate Price:

Kate Price

Actress

Writer

February 13, 1872 – January 4, 1943

Credits:

A Bargain at $37.50 (1917); A Dangerous Game (1922); A Doubly Desired Orphan (1911); A Family Picnic (1915); A Game of Cards (1913); A Gentleman of Fashion (1913); A Horseshoe – for Luck (1914); A Juvenile Love Affair (1912); A Lady and Her Maid (1913); A Lively Affair (1912); A Maid to Order (1916); A Million Bid (1914); A Mistake in Spelling (1912); A Night Out (1916); A Pair of Queens (1915); A Slight Mistake (1911); A Trap to Catch a Burglar (1913); A Warm Reception (1916); After the Matinee (1917); All for a Girl (1912); All's Swell on the Ocean (1924); Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley (1918); Ambition (1917); An Elephant on Their Hands (1912); An Eventful Elopement (1912); An Expensive Shine (1912); An Innocent Burglar (1911); And His Wife Came Back (1913); Another Man's Wife (1924); Anybody Here Seen Kelly? (1928); Arizona (1918); Arizona Sweepstakes (1926); As You Like It (1912); Behold My Wife! (1934); Belinda the Slavey; or, Plot and Counterplot (1913); Between Two Fires (1915); Bread Upon the Waters (1914); Bright Skies (1920); Bringing Up Father (1915); Broken Hearts of Broadway (1923); Bunny and the Twins (1912); Bunny's Birthday (1914); Cabman Kate (1915); Captain Barnacle's Baby (1911); Captain Barnacle's Legacy (1912); Captain Barnacle's Messmates (1912); Captain Jenks' Diplomacy (1912); Casey at the Bat (1913); Casey Jones (1927); Chiefly Concerning Males (1915); Cockeyed Cavaliers (1934); Come on Over (1922); Conductor Kate (1916); Crossed Wires (1923); Cupid Through a Keyhole (1913); Daddy's Boy and Mammy (1911); Dancing Sweeties (1930); David Garrick (1914); Diamond Cut Diamond (1912); Dinty (1920); Double Cross (1917); Down the Hill to Creditville (1914); Dr. Crathern's Experiment (1913); Easy Living (1937); Enemies of Children (1923); Everybody's Doing It (1913); Fair, Fat and Saucy (1915); Faithful Wives (1926); Fanny's Melodrama (1914); Fat and Fickle (1916); Father and Son (1912); Father's Flirtation (1914); Father's Hot Toddy (1912); Fight and Win (1924); Fisherman Kate (1914); Flaming Hearts (1913); Flesh and Blood (1922); Fools Highway (1924); Foraging (1911); Four Days (1913); Frisco Sally Levy (1927); Getting Rid of Aunt Kate (1915); God's Crucible (1921); Good Night, Nurse! (1918); Goodbye Girls (1923); Goodness Gracious (1914); Great Guy (1936); Have a Heart (1934); He Winked and Won (1916); Heavy Villains (1915); Her Crowning Glory (1911); Her Fatal Millions (1923); Her Forgotten Dancing Shoes (1912); Her Old Sweetheart (1912); Her Sweetest Memory (1913); His House in Order; or, the Widower's Quest (1913); His Last Cent (1911); His People (1925); Hollywood on Parade (1934); How He Papered the Room (1912); How Millie Became an Actress (1911); Hubby Buys a Baby (1913); Hughey, the Process Server (1916); Humdrum Brown (1918); Hypnotizing the Hypnotist (1911); In Arcadia (1916); In High Speed (1917); In Northern Forests (1911); In the Flat Above (1912); In the Land of Arcadia (1914); Irene (1926); It Made Him Mad (1913); Jack Fat and Jim Slim at Coney Island (1910); Jerry's Mother-in-Law (1913); Jerry's Uncle's Namesake (1914); Just Show People (1913); Kill or Cure (1914); Ladies of the Jury (1932); Lady Godiva (1911); Lillian's Dilemma (1914); Lily of the Valley (1914); Linda (1929); Little Lord Fauntleroy (1921); Love's Blindness (1926); Love's Quarantine (1913); Mad Hour (1928); Ma's Apron Strings (1913); Memory Lane (1926); Money Isn't Everything (1918); Monkey, Maid, Man (1917); More Money Than Manners (1916); Mother's Child (1916); Mountains of Manhattan (1927); Movie Memories #1 (1933); Mr. Bingle's Melodrama (1914); Mr. Bunnyhug Buys a Hat for His Bride (1914); Mr. Horatio Sparkins (1913); Mr. Jack Trifles (1916); Mr. Jack Wins a Double-Cross (1916); Mrs. Maloney's Fortune (1914); My Wife's Relations (1922); No Sweets (1913); No Tickee, No Washee (1915); Nothing to Wear (1912); Officer John Donovan (1914); Officer Kate (1914); O'Hara and the Youthful Prodigal (1913); O'Hara as a Guardian Angel (1913); O'Hara Helps Cupid (1913); O'Hara, Squatter and Philosopher (1912); O'Hara's Godchild (1913); Omens and Oracles (1913); On the Love Line (1917); One Can't Always Tell (1913); Orchids and Ermine (1927); Out Ag'in, in Ag'in (1916); Paid Back (1922); Pals (1917); Pandora's Box (1912); Papa Puts One Over (1913); Paradise (1926); Pardon Me (1922); Passion's Pathway (1924); Pat Hogan, Deceased (1915); Patent Food Conveyor (1915); Perils of Thunder Mountain (1919); Pipe Dreams (1916); Prize Winners (1916); Put Up Your Hands! (1919); Quality Street (1927); Reaching for the Moon (1930); Remember Last Night? (1935); Riders Up (1924); Sally, Irene and Mary (1925); Selecting His Heiress (1911); Seven Chances (1925); Shadow Ranch (1930); She Took a Chance (1915); She Wanted a Boarder (1912); Show Girl (1928); Sleuthing (1913); Smashing the Plot (1918); Some Duel (1915); Stenographers Wanted (1912); Strictly Neutral (1915); Sweeney's Christmas Bird (1914); Telemachus, Friend (1920); Terrible Kate (1917); Terry's Tea Party (1916); Thanks for the Buggy Ride (1928); That Girl Montana (1921); The Absent-Minded Valet (1912); The Athletic Family (1914); The Autocrat of Flapjack Junction (1913); The Bachelor's Baby, or How It All Happened (1913); The Beautiful Cheat (1926); The Best of a Bad Bargain (1917); The Bond of Music (1912); The Boycotted Baby (1917); The Bringing Out of Papa (1913); The Chains of an Oath (1913); The Cohens and Kellys (1926); The Cohens and Kellys in Atlantic City (1929); The Cohens and the Kellys in Africa (1930); The Cohens and the Kellys in Paris (1928); The Cohens and the Kellys in Scotland (1930); The Coming of Gretchen (1913); The Conquest of Constantia (1915); The Countess Veschi's Jewels (1914); The Dangerous Maid (1923); The Desert Flower (1925); The Detective (1917); The Devil's Riddle (1920); The Diamond Brooch (1912); The Eavesdropper (1912); The Education of Aunt Georgiana (1913); The Elk's Tooth (1924); The Evil Artist or a Girl Wronged (1910); The Figurehead (1920); The First Violin (1912); The Gang (1914); The Ghost of Rosy Taylor (1918); The Girl at the Lunch Counter (1913); The Godless Girl (1928); The Goose Woman (1925); The Great Diamond Robbery (1912); The Guilty Ones (1916); The Guttersnipe (1922); The Hoodoo Umbrella (1913); The Iron Test (1918); The Jocular Winds of Fate (1912); The Kid (1916); The Lady of Shalott (1915); The Latent Spark (1911); The Little Minister (1913); The Love Bugs (1917); The Lovesick Maidens of Cuddleton (1912); The Loyalty of Sylvia (1912); The Man from Egypt (1916); The Man He Used to Be (1916); The Man Higher Up (1913); The Man Without a Conscience (1925); The Mantle of Charity (1918); The Midget's Romance (1913); The Model for St. John (1912); The Mystery of the Stolen Jewels (1913); The Near Lady (1923); The New Teacher (1922); The Old Fire Horse and the New Fire Chief (1914); The Old Kent Road (1912); The Old Silver Watch (1912); The Ordeal of Elizabeth (1916); The Other Woman (1921); The Perfect Clown (1925); The Pest Vamooser (1915); The Professor and the Lady (1912); The Professor's Nightmare (1915); The Red Ink Tragedy (1912); The Return of 'Widow' Pogson's Husband (1911); The Revolt of Mr. Wiggs (1915); The Rogue Song (1930); The Rounders / Love (1919); The Sale of a Heart (1913); The Sea Hawk (1924); The Sea Tiger (1927); The Seal of Silence (1918); The Servant Problem; or, How Mr. Bullington Ran the House (1912); The Spirit and the Clay (1914); The Spoilers (1923); The Sporting Venus (1925); The Tables Turned (1913); The Third Degree (1926); The Tornado (1924); The Two Purses (1913); The Unchastened Woman (1925); The Waiters' Ball (1916); The Wardrobe Woman (1915); The Way of a Girl (1925); The Way Out (1913); The Widow's Might (1913); The Wife of the Centaur (1924); The Woes of a Wealthy Widow (1911); The Wooing of Riley (1918); Them Was the Good Old Days (1916); They Loved Him So (1915); Through the Back Door (1921); Tim Grogan's Foundling (1913); Tin Pan Alley (1919); Too Many Caseys (1912); Twin Flats (1916); Two and Two (1915); Two Overcoats (1911); Two Weeks Off (1929); Umbrellas to Mend (1912); Up in a Balloon (1913); Vanity Fair (1911); Victor's at Seven (1915); Vultures and Doves (1912); Wages of War (1911); Wanted, a Strong Hand (1913); War (1915); Week-End Shopping (1917); West Point of the Air (1935); When Hooligan and Dooligan Ran for Mayor (1916); When Samuel Skidded (1915); When Women Go on the Warpath; or, Why Jonesville Went Dry (1913); Who's to Win? (1912); Whose Husband? (1915); Wisteria Memories (1911); Wolf Tracks (1923).

Born on this day – Dorothy Mathews:

 

Dorothy Mathews

Actress

Producer

Production Manager

February 13, 1912 – May 18, 1977

Credits:

A Girl in Every Port (1928); Love Birds (1929); Love 'Em and Leave 'Em (1926); Millie's Daughter (1947); Navy Wife (1935); One Night at Susie's (1930); Producers' Showcase (1945–1956); Scarlet Pages (1930); Son of the Gods (1930); Strictly Personal (1933); Studio One (1952); Sweetie (1929); The American Venus (1926); The Devil Dancer (1927); The Doorway to Hell (1930); The Gay Deception (1935); The Prudential Family Playhouse (1950); The Revlon Mirror Theater (1953); The Truth About Youth (1930); The Way of All Men (1930); The Widow from Chicago (1930); Wayward (1932).

Born on this day – Morton Lowry:

 

Morton Lowry

Actor

February 13, 1914 – November 26, 1987

Credits:

A Yank in the RAF (1941); BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950–1951); British Intelligence (1939); Calcutta (1946); Captains of the Clouds (1942); Charley's Aunt (1941); Corvette K-225 (1943); Counter-Espionage (1942); How Green Was My Valley (1941); Hudson's Bay (1940); Immortal Sergeant (1943); Nightmare: The Birth of Victorian Horror (1997); No Time for Love (1943); None But the Lonely Heart (1944); Playgirl After Dark (1960); Pursuit to Algiers (1945); Skippy Smith Goes to the Circus (1953); Son of Lassie (1945); Sword of Freedom (1957); Tarzan Finds a Son! (1939); The Adventures of Robin Hood (1959–1960); The Dawn Patrol (1938); The Four Just Men (1959–1960); The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939); The Hour Before the Dawn (1944); The Keys of the Kingdom (1944); The Little Princess (1939); The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe (1942); The Man in Half Moon Street (1944); The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945); The Pied Piper (1942); The Story of Dr. Wassell (1944); The Unwritten Code (1944); The Verdict (1946); Theatre Royal (1952); This Above All (1942); Wednesday Theatre (1953); Winter Carnival (1939).