On this day in music history - Bon Jovi, Stevie Nicks, and more:

Vapor Drawings by Mark Isham (1983)

Street Angel by Stevie Nicks (1994)

Once by Nightwish (2004)

Forever by Bon Jovi (2024)

Oceans by Jennifer Thomas (2024)

Vapor Drawings

Album by Mark Isham,

released on June 7, 1983.

Track list: Many Chinas; Sympathy and Acknowledgement; On the Threshold of Liberty; When Things Dream; Raffles in Rio; Something Nice for My Dog; Men Before the Mirror; Mr. Moto’s Penguin (Who’d Be an Eskimo’s Wife?); In the Blue Distance.

Street Angel

Album by Stevie Nicks,

released 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.

Once

Album by Nightwish,

released June 7, 2004.

Track list from all editions: Dark Chest of Wonders; Wish I Had an Angel; Nemo; Planet Hell; Creek Mary's Blood; The Siren; Dead Gardens; Romanticide; Ghost Love Score; Kuolema Tekee Taiteilijan (Finnish for "Death Makes an Artist"); Higher Than Hope (in memory of Marc Brueland); White Night Fantasy; Live to Tell the Tale; Where Were You Last Night (Ankie Bagger cover); Wish I Had an Angel (demo).

Forever

Album by Bon Jovi,

released 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.

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).

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."

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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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.

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).

Born on this day – Joan Marshall:

 

Joan Marshall

Actress

Producer

June 6, 1931 – June 28, 1992

Credits:

77 Sunset Strip (1960–1962); A Star Is Born (1976); Alcoa Premiere (1962); Alcoa Theatre (1957); Bat Masterson (1958); Biography (1999–2003); Bold Venture (1959); Bonanza (1967); Bourbon Street Beat (1960); Bronco (1960–1961); Dante (1960–1961); Dr. Kildare (1966); Follow the Sun (1962); Gunsmoke (1962); Gypsy (1967); Hal (2018); Harbor Command (1958); Have Gun - Will Travel (1958); Hawaiian Eye (1960–1963); Hennesey (1960); Here's Hollywood (1962); Highway Patrol (1958); Homicidal (1961); I Spy (1967); Kiss 'N' Tell: Romance in the 23rd Century (2004); Laredo (1966); Lawman (1960); Live Fast, Die Young (1958); Looking for Love (1964); M Squad (1960); Maverick (1958–1961); Men Into Space (1960); Michael Shayne (1961); Mike Hammer (1958); Paris Is Gay Again (1944); Petticoat Junction (1964); Shampoo (1975); Star Trek (1967); Sunday Night Live (1984); Surfside 6 (1960–1962); Tales of Wells Fargo (1961); Tammy and the Doctor (1963); Target (1958); The 37th Annual Academy Awards (1965); The Chicago Kid (1945); The Detectives (1961); The F.B.I. (1965); The Great Sex War (1969); The Greatest Show You Never Saw (1996); The Happiest Millionaire (1967); The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit (1968); The Jack Benny Program (1963–1964); The Landlord (1970); The Magical World of Disney (1971); The Millionaire (1958); The Munsters (1964); The Road West (1967); The Roaring 20's (1961); The Rough Riders (1958); The Twilight Zone (1962); Tombstone Territory (1958).

Born on this day – Billie Whitelaw:

Billie Whitelaw

Actress

June 6, 1932 – December 21, 2014

Credits:

A Dinner of Herbs (2000); A Matter of Conscience (1962); A Murder of Quality (1991); A Tale of Two Cities (1980); An Audience with Bob Monkhouse (1994); An Audience with Mel Brooks (1983); An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1982); Anna Christie (1963); Arena (1976 / 1995); Armchair Mystery Theatre (1960); Armchair Theatre (1956–1971); BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1953–1959); BBC2 Playhouse (1981); Big City (1956); Bobbikins (1959); Born to Run (1997); Breakout (1959); ...but the clouds... (1977); Call My Bluff (1967–1969); Camille (1984); Carve Her Name with Pride (1958); Charlie Bubbles (1968); Companions in Crime (1954); Confidential Report (1955); Deadly Advice (1994); Dixon of Dock Green (1955); Don't Say a Word (1963); Dope Sheet (1998); Duel of Hearts (1991); Eagle in a Cage (1972); Emergency-Ward 10 (1959); Espionage (1963); Eustace and Hilda (1977); Film '81 (1981); Firm Friends (1992–1994); First Night (1963); Flight of the Dove (1957); Freddie as F.R.O.7. (1992); Frenzy (1972); Ghost Trio (1977); Gideon of Scotland Yard (1958); Golden Gala (1978); Gumshoe (1971); Hell Is a City (1960); Hell's Kitchen (2004); Hindle Wakes (1957); Hot Fuzz (2007); Huckleberry Finn (1952); I Like Money (1961); I Promised to Pay (1961); Imaginary Friends (1987); In Search of Maitland (1953); ITV Play of the Week (1957–1960); ITV Saturday Night Theatre (1970); ITV Television Playhouse (1959–1961); Jackanory (1969); Jamaica Inn (1983); Jane Eyre (1996); Joyriders (1988); Judge John Deed (2002); Knock on Any Door (1966); Kraft Mystery Theater (1961); Late Show London (1966); Leo the Last (1970); Leopard in the Snow (1978); Lilli Palmer Theatre (1955); Little Red Monkey (1953); Lorna Doone (1990); Love Story (1966); Make Mine Mink (1960); Masterchef (1997); Maurice (1987); Merlin (1998); Miracle in Soho (1957); Morrissey: Everyday Is Like Sunday (1988); Murder Elite (1985); My Pal Bob (1957); Napoleon and Love (1974); Night of One Hundred Stars (1980); Night Watch (1973); No Love for Johnnie (1961); Not a Word (1970); Not I (1973); NOTFILM (2015); Oresteia (1979); Othello (1955); Patrol Car (1955); Performance (1993); Poet Game (1971); Private Schulz (1981); Quills (2000); Rheingold Theatre (1954); Rockaby (1982); Room in the House (1955); Samuel Beckett: Silence to Silence (1984); Screen Two (1989–1994); Shadey (1985); Shooting the Past (1999); Simply Red: Never Never Love (1996); Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1967); Slayground (1983); Small Hotel (1957); Space: 1999 (1976); Special Collector's Edition (2015); Start the Revolution Without Me (1970); Stryker of the Yard (1961); Sunday Story (1964–1965); Supernatural (1977); Tales from Soho (1956); Tangiers (1982); Television (1985); Television Playwright (1958); Television Scrabble (1984); Ten from the Twenties (1975); Terminus (1955); Terror in the Aisles (1984); The 21st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2015); The Adding Machine (1969); The Adventures of Robin Hood (1957); The Ball Is Round (1994); The British Academy Award (1973); The British Academy Awards (1979); The Canterbury Tales (1998–2000); The Chain (1984); The Cloning of Joanna May (1992); The Comedy Man (1964); The Crimean War (1997); The Curse of 'The Omen' (2005); The Dark Crystal (1982); The Devil's Agent (1962); The Dressmaker (1988); The Eamonn Andrews Show (1966); The Fake (1953); The Fifteen Streets (1989); The Flesh and the Fiends (1960); The Krays (1990); The Last of the Blonde Bombshells (2000); The Lively Arts (1977 / 1978); The Lost Son (1999); The Madhouse on Castle Street / BBC Sunday-Night Play (1960); The Omen (1976); The Pattern of Marriage (1953); The Respectful Prostitute (1964); The Secret Garden (1952 / 1987); The Sextet (1972); The Slackering Field (1955); The Sleeping Tiger (1954); The Story of 'Frenzy' (2001); The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1968); The Water Babies (1978); The World Our Stage (1957); Thirty-Minute Theatre (1966); This Is Your Life (1999); Three Plays by Samuel Beckett: Rockaby, Footfalls and Eh Joe. (1988); Time Out for Peggy (1958–1959); Twisted Nerve (1968); Val Parnell's Spectacular (1959); Variety Club of Great Britain Awards for 1960 (1961); Wessex Tales (1973); Whodunnit? (1974); Wicked Women (1970); Without Love (1956); Without the Prince (1952); Wogan (1985–1989); You're a Long Time Dead (1958).