On this day in music history - Distant Light, by Renée Fleming (2017):

Distant Light

Album by Renée Fleming,

was released on January 6, 2017.

Track list:

Barber: Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Op.24; Hillborg: 1. Black Sea [The Strand Settings]; Hillborg: 2. Dark Harbor XX [The Strand Settings]; Hillborg: 3. Dark Harbor XXXV [The Strand Settings]; Hillborg: 4. Dark Harbor XI [The Strand Settings]; Sigurdsson, Guðmundsdóttir: Virus; Sigurdsson, Guðmundsdóttir: Joga; Guðmundsdóttir: All Is Full of Love.

On this day in movie history - Dillinger (1991):

Dillinger

directed by Rupert Wainwright,

written by Paul F. Edwards,

was released in the United States on January 6, 1991.
Music by David McHugh.

Cast:

Mark Harmon, Sherilyn Fenn, Will Patton, Bruce Abbott, Tom Bower, Patricia Arquette, Xander Berkeley, Yvonne Suhor, John Philbin, Amy Yasbeck, David Neidorf, Vince Edwards, Lawrence Tierney, Joe Guzaldo, Michael Krawic, Ramsay Midwood, Ralph Wood, Tom White, Malcolm Rothman, Kurt Naebig, Rod Sell, Peggy Roeder, Lucy Childs, Joe Greco, Will Zahrn, Larry Brandenburg, Tim Grimm, Laurel Cronin, Mike McKune, Bob O'Donnell, Greg Kinnear, Larry Gittelson, Rebecca Borter, Jim Ortlieb, Gary Houston, Lance Alberti, Bill Belongia, Ernest Capponi, Laurence S. Chess, Bart Heimburger, Michelle Radish, Tom Simons, Mark Smith, Steven Marcus Smith, Neil Willenson, Sam Younghans.

Born on this day – Doris Troy:

Doris Troy

R&B singer

Songwriter

January 6, 1937 – February 16, 2004

Credits:

Albums:

Another Look (2024); Doris Troy (1970); I'll Do Anything - The Doris Troy Anthology 1960-1996 (2011); Just One Look (1963); Sings Just One Look (2023); Soul Legend (2011); Stretchin' Out (1974).

Songs:

Ain’t That Cute; All That I’ve Got; But I Love Him; Can't Hold On; Dearest Darling; Don’t Call Me No More; Exactly Like You; Face Up to the Truth; Games People Play; Get Back; Give Me Back My Dynamite; Gonna Get My Baby Back; He Don't Belong to Me; Heartaches; Hurry; I'll Do Anything; Jacob’s Ladder; Just One Look; Lazy Days; One More Chance; Please Little Angel; So Far; Soul Legend; Special Care; Stretchin' Out; Tell Him I'm Not Home; Tomorrow Is Another Day; Trust in Me; What You Will Blues; What'cha Gonna Do; What'cha Gonna Do About It; You Give Me Joy Joy; You Tore Me Up Inside.

Movies and television:

4-3-2-1 Hot and Sweet (1970); A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon (1988); American Playboy: The Hugh Hefner Story (2017); Bandstand (1965); Blood Ties (2013); Buster (1988); Calendar Girl (1993); Caught (2018); Clickbait (2021); Cold Case (2005); Colour My Soul (1973); Crazy, Stupid, Love. (2011); Festival of Entertainment (1974); Get Crazy (1983); Gossip Girl (2021); Hjälten (1990); In Concert (1974); Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! (1971); Lift Off (1970); Loot (1970); Lost Girl (2012); Love Child (2014); Mama I Want to Sing (2011); Mermaids (1990); Murder Trial (1996); My Music: Aretha Franklin Presents Soul Rewind (2010); Nashville (2016); Now! (1966); Radio Wonderful (1974); Ready, Steady, Go! (1965–1966); Redfern Now (2013); Ringo Starr: Sentimental Journey (1970); Shindig! (1964); Something from Tiffany's (2022); Sounds for Saturday (1972); That's the Way of the World (1975); The '70s (2000); The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1961); The All Together (2007); The Flamingo Kid (1984); The Last Letter from Your Lover (2021); The Price of Fame or Fame at any Price (1969–1970); The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020); They Came from Manchester: Five Decades of Mancunian Pop (2008); Top of the Pops (1970); We Are Who We Are (2020); Werner and the Wizard of Booze (1990); Where the Action Is (1966).

Born on this day – E. L. Doctorow:

E. L. Doctorow

Writer

January 6, 1931 – July 21, 2015

Credits:

Welcome to Hard Times (1960); Big As Life (1966); The Book of Daniel (1971); Ragtime (1975); Drinks Before Dinner (1979); Loon Lake (1980); American Anthem (1982); World's Fair (1985); Billy Bathgate (1989); The Waterworks (1994); City of God (2000); The March (2005); Homer & Langley (2009); Andrew's Brain (2014); Lives of the Poets (1984); Daniel, Ragtime, Loon Lake (2003); Sweet Land Stories (2004); Poems for Life: A Special Collection of Poetry (2011); All the Time in the World (2011); Essays and Conversations (1983); Jack London, Hemingway, and the Constitution: Selected Essays, 1977-1992 (1993); Poets and Presidents: Selected Essays, 1977-92 (1994); Lamentation: 9/11 (2002); Reporting the Universe (2003); Creationists: Selected Essays, 1993-2006 (2006); Early Sorrow: Ten Stories of Youth (1986); Writing New York (1998); The Best American Short Stories 2000 (2000); The Good Parts (2000); Writers on Writing (2001).

Born on this day – Vic Tayback:

Vic Tayback

Actor

January 6, 1930 – May 25, 1990

Credits:

MacGyver (1985); Horseplayer (1990); All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989); Act Naturally (1989); Beverly Hills Bodysnatchers (1989); Criminal Act (1989); Loverboy (1989); Tales from the Darkside (1983); The Under Achievers (1987); The Three Kings (1987); Adderly (1986); The Love Boat (1977); Treasure Island (1986); Weekend Warriors (1986); Crazy Like a Fox (1984); Murder, She Wrote (1984); Alice (1976); Finder of Lost Loves (1984); The Jesse Owens Story (1984); Hotel (1983); Fantasy Island (1977); Matt Houston (1982); Mysterious Two (1982); The Shape of Things (1982); T.J. Hooker (1982); The Time Crystal (1981); Flo (1980); The Night the City Screamed (1980); CHiPs (1977); Gridlock (1980); Rage! (1980); This Year's Blonde (1980); Portrait of a Stripper (1979); Time Express (1979); Supertrain (1979); Sweepstakes (1979); The Eddie Capra Mysteries (1978); Vega$ (1978); The Cheap Detective (1978); Getting Married (1978); Hawaii Five-O (1968); James at 16 (1977); The Choirboys (1977); Little Ladies of the Night (1977); The Shaggy D.A. (1976); Mansion of the Doomed (1976); McCloud (1970); Special Delivery (1976); The Big Bus (1976); Family (1976); Bronk (1975); The Practice (1976); Medical Center (1969); No Deposit, No Return (1976); Dark Victory (1976); The Black Bird (1975); The Blue Knight (1975); Cannon (1971); Switch (1975); On the Rocks (1975); Insight (1960); Khan! (1975); Barney Miller (1975); Lepke (1975); Report to the Commissioner (1975); The Rookies (1972); Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974); The Gambler (1974); Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974); All in the Family (1971); Griff (1973); Maxie (1973); Papillon (1973); The Don Is Dead (1973); The Blue Knight (1973); The Alpha Caper (1973); Cops (1973); Emperor of the North (1973); Partners in Crime (1973); Emergency! (1972); The Partridge Family (1970); Honor Thy Father (1973); The Streets of San Francisco (1972); Mod Squad (1968); Gunsmoke (1955); Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law (1971); The Bold Ones: The New Doctors (1969); The Super (1972); Every Little Crook and Nanny (1972); Arlene Golonka in Call Holme (1972); The F.B.I. (1965); Longstreet (1971); Ironside (1967); Death Follows A Psycho (1972); Arnie (1970); They Call It Murder (1971); Mannix (1967); The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1969); Columbo (1971); Blood and Lace (1971); Bewitched (1964); The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970); The Young Lawyers (1969); The Silent Force (1970); Bonanza (1959); Here Come the Brides (1968); Lancer (1968); My World and Welcome to It (1969); Land of the Giants (1968); The Outsider (1968); The Good Guys (1968); The Felony Squad (1966); That Girl (1966); Mission: Impossible (1966); Bullitt (1968); With Six You Get Eggroll (1968); Star Trek (1966); Judd for the Defense (1967); The Monkees (1965); Cimarron Strip (1967); The Second Hundred Years (1967); Get Smart (1965); Captain Nice (1967); Occasional Wife (1966); Family Affair (1966); Gambit (1966); Daniel Boone (1964); Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (1966); Love on a Rooftop (1966); I Dream of Jeannie (1965); The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964); F Troop (1965); Rawhide (1959); The Lieutenant (1963); Arrest and Trial (1963); Love with the Proper Stranger (1963); Dr. Kildare (1961); Saints and Sinners (1962); Five Weeks in a Balloon (1962); Surftide 77 (1962); Five Minutes to Live (1961); 77 Sunset Strip (1958); North to Alaska (1960); Hotel de Paree (1959); Gangster Story (1959); Lock Up (1959); T-Bird Gang (1959); The Power of the Resurrection (1958); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955); Buckskin (1958).

Born on this day – Loretta Young:

Loretta Young

Actress

January 6, 1913 – August 12, 2000

Credits:

The Spark (2018); Lady in the Corner (1989); Christmas Eve (1986); A Day at the Beach (1963); The Loretta Young Show (1953); It Happens Every Thursday (1953); Because of You (1952); Paula (1952); Family Theatre (1949); Half Angel (1951); Cause for Alarm! (1951); Key to the City (1950); Come to the Stable (1949); Mother Is a Freshman (1949); The Accused (1949); Rachel and the Stranger (1948); The Bishop's Wife (1947); The Farmer's Daughter (1947); The Perfect Marriage (1946); The Stranger (1946); Along Came Jones (1945); And Now Tomorrow (1944); Ladies Courageous (1944); China (1943); A Night to Remember (1942); Bedtime Story (1941); The Men in Her Life (1941); The Lady from Cheyenne (1941); He Stayed for Breakfast (1940); The Doctor Takes a Wife (1940); Eternally Yours (1939); The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939); Wife, Husband and Friend (1939); Kentucky (1938); Suez (1938); Three Blind Mice (1938); Four Men and a Prayer (1938); Second Honeymoon (1937); Wife, Doctor and Nurse (1937); Love Under Fire (1937); Café Metropole (1937); Love Is News (1937); Ladies in Love (1936); Ramona (1936); Private Number (1936); The Unguarded Hour (1936); Hollywood Extra Girl (1935); The Crusades (1935); Call of the Wild (1935); Shanghai (1935); Clive of India (1935); The White Parade (1934); Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back (1934); Born to Be Bad (1934); The House of Rothschild (1934); Caravan (1934); Man's Castle (1933); The Devil's in Love (1933); She Had to Say Yes (1933); Midnight Mary (1933); Heroes for Sale (1933); The Life of Jimmy Dolan (1933); Zoo in Budapest (1933); Grand Slam (1933); Employees' Entrance (1933); Hollywood on Parade No. A-6 (1933); They Call It Sin (1932); Life Begins (1932); Week-End Marriage (1932); Play Girl (1932); The Hatchet Man (1932); Taxi (1931); Platinum Blonde (1931); I Like Your Nerve (1931); The Ruling Voice (1931); How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 8: 'the Brassie' (1931); Big Business Girl (1931); Three Girls Lost (1931); The Stolen Jools (1931); Too Young to Marry (1931); Beau Ideal (1931); The Devil to Pay! (1930); The Right of Way (1930); The Truth About Youth (1930); Kismet (1930); Road to Paradise (1930); The Second Floor Mystery (1930); Show Girl in Hollywood (1930); The Man from Blankley's (1930); Loose Ankles (1930); Show of Shows (1929); The Forward Pass (1929); The Careless Age (1929); Fast Life (1929); The Girl in the Glass Cage (1929); The Squall (1929); Seven Footprints to Satan (1929); Scarlet Seas (1928); The Head Man (1928); The Magnificent Flirt (1928); Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928); The Whip Woman (1928); Her Wild Oat (1927); Naughty But Nice (1927); The Sheik (1921); White and Unmarried (1921); The Only Way (1919); Sirens of the Sea (1917); The Primrose Ring (1917).

Born on this day – Florence Turner:

Florence Turner

Actress

January 6, 1885 – August 28, 1946

Credits:

Whistling in Brooklyn (1943); Thousands Cheer (1943); One Rainy Afternoon (1936); Hollywood on Parade (1934); He Couldn't Take It (1933); The Animal Kingdom (1932); The Sign of the Cross (1932); Sinners in the Sun (1932); The Trial of Vivienne Ware (1932); Taxi (1931); The Ridin' Fool (1931); King of Jazz (1930); The Rampant Age (1930); The Iron Mask (1929); The Kid's Clever (1929); The Pace That Kills (1928); Jazzland (1928); Walking Back (1928); The Road to Ruin (1928); Marry the Girl (1928); The Law and the Man (1928); Sally in Our Alley (1927); The Cancelled Debt (1927); The Chinese Parrot (1927); Stranded (1927); College (1927); The Broken Gate (1927); The Overland Stage (1927); Padlocked (1926); Flame of the Argentine (1926); The Last Alarm (1926); The Gilded Highway (1926); The Dark Angel (1925); The Price of Success (1925); Never the Twain Shall Meet (1925); The Mad Marriage (1925); Janice Meredith (1924); Women and Diamonds (1924); The Boatswain's Mate (1924); Sally Bishop (1923); Hornet's Nest (1923); Was She Justified? (1922); The Street Tumblers (1922); The Lights o' London (1922); The Little Mother (1922); The Old Wives' Tale (1921); All Dolled Up (1921); Passion Fruit (1921); Three Men in a Boat (1920); Blackmail (1920); The Ugly Duckling (1920); Thirty Minutes in Havana (1920); Old Dials for New (1920); The Brand of Lopez (1920); Oh, It's E.Z. (1919); Fool's Gold (1919); East Is East (1916); Grim Justice (1916); Doorsteps (1916); A Welsh Singer (1915); Far from the Madding Crowd (1915); Lost and Won (1915); My Old Dutch (1915); Alone in London (1915); As Ye Repent (1915); Snobs (1914); Shopgirls: or, The Great Question (1914); One Thing After Another (1914); Polly's Progress (1914); Through the Valley of Shadows (1914); The Shepherd Lassie of Argyle (1914); For Her People (1914); Flotilla the Flirt (1914); Daisy Doodad's Dial (1914); The Murdoch Trial (1914); Creatures of Habit (1914); The Harper Mystery (1913); The Lucky Stone (1913); The Younger Sister (1913); Pumps (1913); Rose of Surrey (1913); Jean's Evidence (1913); Up and Down the Ladder (1913); Counsellor Bobby (1913); The Deerslayer (1913); A Window on Washington Park (1913); Let 'Em Quarrel (1913); Checkmated (1913); The House in Suburbia (1913); Sisters All (1913); The One Good Turn (1913); Under the Make-Up (1913); Stenographer Troubles (1913); The Skull (1913); Cutey and the Twins (1913); Everybody's Doing It (1913); What a Change of Clothes Did (1913); The Wings of a Moth (1913); While She Powdered Her Nose (1912); The Signal of Distress (1912); Susie to Susanne (1912); The Servant Problem; or, How Mr. Bullington Ran the House (1912); Una of the Sierras (1912); The Face or the Voice (1912); When Persistency and Obstinacy Meet (1912); She Cried (1912); The Irony of Fate (1912); A Vitagraph Romance (1912); The Loyalty of Sylvia (1912); Two Cinders (1912); Flirt or Heroine (1912); Wanted... a Grandmother (1912); Aunty's Romance (1912); Her Diary (1912); Mrs. Carter's Necklace (1912); Indian Romeo and Juliet (1912); Jean Intervenes (1912); The Path of True Love (1912); A Red Cross Martyr; or, on the Firing Lines of Tripoli (1912); One Touch of Nature (1911); Hypnotizing the Hypnotist (1911); Auld Lang Syne (1911); Wig Wag (1911); The Answer of the Roses (1911); Forgotten; or, an Answered Prayer (1911); Cherry Blossoms (1911); Florence Turner in Jealousy (1911); The Thumb Print (1911); The Wrong Patient (1911); Birds of a Feather (1911); Intrepid Davy (1911); The Stumbling Block (1911); Proving His Love; or, the Ruse of a Beautiful Woman (1911); The Sacrifice (1911); The Show Girl (1911); Prejudice of Pierre Marie (1911); The Spirit of the Light; or, Love Watches on Through the Years (1911); For His Sake; or, the Winning of the Stepchildren (1911); Captain Barnacle's Courtship (1911); A Tale of Two Cities (1911); The New Stenographer (1911); Jean Rescues (1911); Where the Winds Blow (1910); Dixie Mother (1910); The Winning of Miss Langdon (1910); A Tin-Type Romance (1910); Love, Luck and Gasoline (1910); Francesca da Rimini (1910); Jean Goes Fishing (1910); In the Mountains of Kentucky (1910); Auld Robin Gray (1910); Brother Man (1910); Renunciation (1910); Jean the Match-Maker (1910); Rose Leaves (1910); The Men Haters' Club (1910); Back to Nature; or, the Best Man Wins (1910); Her Mother's Wedding Gown (1910); Peg Woffington (1910); Uncle Tom's Cabin (1910); Davy Jones and Captain Bragg (1910); Wilson's Wife's Countenance (1910); Over the Garden Wall (1910); Sisters (1910); St. Elmo (1910); For Her Sister's Sake (1910); Ranson's Folly (1910); Twelfth Night (1910); Caught in His Own Trap (1910); A Pair of Schemers; or, My Wife and My Uncle (1910); A Midsummer Night's Dream (1909); A Gift from Santa Claus (1909); The Heart of a Clown (1909); Launcelot and Elaine (1909); Florence Turner in His Masterpiece (1909); The Three Kisses (1909); Fuss and Feathers (1909); King Lear (1909); Kenilworth (1909); A Daughter of the Sun (1909); An Unexpected Santa Claus (1908); The Merchant of Venice (1908); Miss Sherlock Holmes (1908); The New Stenographer (1908); Saved by Love (1908); Ex-Convict No. 900 (1908); Richard III (1908); Romance of a War Nurse (1908); Love Will Find a Way (1908); Romeo and Juliet (1908); Macbeth (1908); Tale the Autumn Leaves Told (1908); Francesca di Rimini; or, the Two Brothers (1908); The Last Cartridge, an Incident of the Sepoy Rebellion in India (1908); The Gipsy's Warning (1907); Cast Up by the Sea (1907); Bargain Fiend; or, Shopping à la Mode (1907); Athletic American Girls (1907); How to Cure a Cold (1907).

Recommended reading - The Stop-motion Filmography (2007):

The Stop-motion Filmography

A Critical Guide to 297 Features Using Puppet Animation

By Neil Pettigrew.

2-Volume Set.

Published by McFarland & Company.

Published 2007.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0786431075

ISBN-13: 978-0786431076

Description:

This is a major McFarland reference work providing in-depth analyses of all puppet animation sequences in every film that has featured the process, including King Kong and Jason and the Argonauts. The focus is on how effective the sequence was and how it was executed. In addition to the analysis, each entry provides title, year of release, cast and production credits including producer, director, screenplay, director of photography, art director or production designer, music, stop-motion animators, armature builders, puppet makers, stop-motion cameramen, sequence supervisors, and more. Ratings of the film and of the effectiveness of its stop-motion sequences are also given.

“Gargantuan...an insightful and affectionate tribute to [puppet animation] films. Brilliant color photographs shine out alongside numerous black and white photos...recommended.” – Choice.

“Well-researched, well-written and a solid addition.” – Video Watchdog.

“Detailed…a ‘must have’.” – Famous Monsters of Filmland.

“Amazing...thousands of details...an important work.” – Association Internationale du Film d'Animation (ASIFA) / The International Animated Film Association.

“A mightily impressive tome...exhaustive...an essential book for stop motion fans.” – SFX Magazine.

“Staggeringly comprehensive study...provides shot-by-shot analysis of every stop-motion sequence in every known feature film that uses the process...Pettigrew’s thoroughness and accuracy border on the astounding...a work of impeccable scholarship.” – Scarlet Street.

“A treasure-trove of information.” – Ani-Mato.

“Superbly researched and informative text and illustrations...provides in-depth analyses of all puppet animation sequences...a valuable source of information...immaculately researched and written in a lucid and very readable manner” – Talking Pictures Magazine.

Sylvia Plath, on inspiration and writing:

Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.

- Sylvia Plath.