On this day in music history:

Crystal Ball by Styx (1976)

There Is Always One More Time by B.B. King (1991)

The Sacred Well: The Best of 2002 by 2002 (2002)

Someone Like Me by Sherry Finzer (2011)

Sol Novo by Olivia Belli (2021)

Warming by the Devil’s Fire / documentary (2003)

Crystal Ball

Album by Styx,

released October 1, 1976.

Track list: Put Me on; Mademoiselle; Jennifer; Crystal Ball; Shooz; This Old Man; Clair de Lune/Ballerina.

There Is Always One More Time

Album by B.B. King,

released October 1, 1991.

Track list: I’m Moving On; Back In L.A.; The Blues Come Over Me; Fool Me Once; The Lowdown; Mean And Evil; Something Up My Sleeve; Roll, Roll, Roll; There Is Always One More Time.

The Sacred Well: The Best of 2002

Album by 2002,

released October 1, 2002.

Track list: City of Peace; Lovers’ Bridge; Summer of 300 Years; Lady of the Moon; The Sea at Night; Stella Maris; Kindred Spirit; To Touch the Sky; The Calling; The Ocean Dreams; Full Circle.

Someone Like Me

Album by Sherry Finzer,

released October 1, 2011.

Track list: Moves Like Jagger; Firework; Payphone; Someone Like You; Marry Me; Give Your Heart a Break; Call Me Maybe; Breathe; Raise Your Glass; Only Girl; What Makes You Beautiful; Someone Like You (Bonus Track).

Sol Novo

Album by Olivia Belli,

released October 1, 2021.

Track list: Two Seas; Island I; Open Air; Bora; Grain Moon; Island II; Bilico; Fingers, Be Rain; Grembo; Visions to Come; Bleak; As I Was; The Light Endures.

Warming by the Devil’s Fire

Documentary directed and written by Charles Burnett.

Part 4 of the documentary series The Blues.

Produced by Martin Scorsese.

Released in the United States on October 1, 2003.

Additional music by Stephen James Taylor.

Cast: Tommy Redmond Hicks, Nathaniel Lee Jr., Carl Lumbly, Ivy Cassel, Frances Horton White, Susan McWilliams, Tommie Tc Carter, Goodman. Wille, Colleen White, Vasti Jackson, Nathaniel Lee Sr., Ted Davis, Ilona W. Wilkes, Jay R. Unger, Big Bill Broonzy, Sam Chatmon, Elizabeth Cotton, Ida Cox, Gary Davis, Willie Dixon, John Lee Hooker, Lightnin Hopkins, Son House, Mississippi John Hurt, Brownie McGhee, Bessie Smith, Mamie Smith, Victoria Spivey, Sonny Terry, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, T-Bone Walker, Dinah Washington, Muddy Waters, Sonny Boy Williamson.

On this day in movie history - Diary of the Dead (1976 movie & novel):

Diary of the Dead

directed by Arvin Brown,

written by I.C. Rapoport and Robert L. Fish,

based on the novel One Across, Two Down by Ruth Rendell,

was released in the United States in October 1976.
Exact release date unknown.
Music by Jacques Urbont.

Cast:

Hector Elizondo, Edward Binns, Joyce Ebert, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Salome Jens, Laurie Kennedy, Joseph Maher, James Naughton, Austin Pendleton, George Spalding, Richard Venture, Lee Wallace, Kate Wilkinson.

Recommended reading:

One Across, Two Down

By Ruth Rendell.

Filmed as Diary of the Dead (1976), directed by Arvin Brown.

Published by Vintage Crime / Black Lizard.

First published 1971.

ASIN: 0375704949

ISBN-10: 9780375704949

ISBN-13: 978-0375704949

Description:

Two things interest Stanley Manning: crossword puzzles, and the substantial sum his wife Vera stands to inherit when his mother-in-law dies. Otherwise, life at 61 Lanchester Road is a living hell. For Mrs. Kinaway lives with them now – and she will stop at nothing to tear their marriage apart. One afternoon, Stanley sets aside his crossword puzzles and changes all their lives forever...

In One Across, Two Down, master crime writer Ruth Rendell describes a man whose strained sanity and stained reputation transform him from a witless loser into a killer afraid of his own shadow.  Mischievously plotted, smart, maddeningly entertaining, One Across, Two Down is a dark delight – classic Rendell.

"The best mystery writer in the English-speaking world." – Time.

On this day at Moonbase Alpha:

Space 1999

Season 2. Episode 3.

Episode entitled: Journey to Where.

Released September 26, 1976.

Directed by Tom Clegg.

Written by Donald James.

Series created by Gerry Anderson and Sylvia Anderson.

Music by Derek Wadsworth.

Cast:

Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Catherine Schell, Tony Anholt, Nick Tate, Freddie Jones, Isla Blair, Jeffery Kissoon, Yasuko Nagazumi, Roger Bizley, Laurence Harrington, Norwich Duff, Peggy Paige, Peter Brayham, Sarah Bullen, Tim Condren, Jenny Cresswell, Doug Robinson, Eddie Stacey, Terry Walsh.

On this day at Moonbase Alpha:

Space 1999

Season 2. Episode 2.

Episode entitled: The Exiles.

Released September 19, 1976.

Directed by Ray Austin.

Written by Donald James.

Series created by Gerry Anderson and Sylvia Anderson.

Music by Derek Wadsworth.

Cast:

Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Catherine Schell, Tony Anholt, Nick Tate, Zienia Merton, Peter Duncan, Stacy Dorning, Margaret Inglis, Anthony Blackett, Peggy Ledger, Anton Phillips, Glenda Allen, Vic Armstrong, Sarah Bullen, Jenny Cresswell, Andy Cummings, Roy Everson, Frank Maher, Quentin Pierre, Peter Porteous, Charlie Price, Robert Reeves, Pam Rose, Bill Westley.

On this day at Moonbase Alpha:

Space 1999

Season 2. Episode 1.
Episode entitled: The Metamorph.
Released September 12, 1976.
Directed by Charles Crichton.
Written by Johnny Byrne.
Series created by Gerry Anderson and Sylvia Anderson.
Music by Derek Wadsworth.

Cast:

Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Catherine Schell, Tony Anholt, Nick Tate, Zienia Merton, Brian Blessed, Anouska Hempel, John Hug, Gerard Paquis, Peter Porteous, Nick Brimble, Anton Phillips, Sarah Bullen, George Lane Cooper, Jenny Cresswell, John Dixon, Alf Joint, Reuben Martin, Neil McCaul, Nina Mitchen, Geoffrey Moon, Robert Reeves, Pam Rose, Roy Stewart.

On this day in movie history - St. Ives (1976):

St. Ives

directed by J. Lee Thompson,

written by Barry Beckerman,

based on the novel by The Procane Chronicle by Oliver Bleeck,

was released in the United States on September 1, 1976.
Music by Lalo Schifrin.

Cast:

Charles Bronson, John Houseman, Jacqueline Bisset, Maximilian Schell, Harry Guardino, Harris Yulin, Dana Elcar, Michael Lerner, George Memmoli, Dick O’Neill, Elisha Cook Jr., Jerome Thor, Val Bisoglio, Burr DeBenning, Daniel J. Travanti, Stanley Brock, Tom Pedi, Joseph Roman, Walter Brooke, Jeff Goldblum, Robert Englund, Mark Thomas, Joe De Nicola, Bob Terhune, Don Hanmer, Norman Palmer, George Sawaya, Larry Martindale, Olan Soule, Louis H. Kelly, Rosalyn Marshall, Glenn Robards, Lynn Borden, Owen Pace, Morris Buchanan, Ben Young, John Steadman, Benjie Bancroft, Layla Bias Galloway, Jill Stone, Edward Cross, Al Beaudine, Jack Berle, Jerry Brutsche, Daniel Elam, Len Felber, Duke Fishman, Bob Harks, Michael Jeffers, Dale Johnson, John Marlin, John Hugh McKnight, Jim Michael, Ernesto Molinari, Dar Robinson, George Tracy, Paul Van.

On this day in movie history - The Gumball Rally (1976):

The Gumball Rally

directed by Charles Bail,

written by Leon Capetanos,

based on a story by Leon Capetanos and Charles Bail,

was released in the United States on July 28, 1976.
Music by Michael Small.

Cast:

Michael Sarrazin, Nicholas Pryor, Tim McIntire, Raúl Juliá, Norman Burton, John Durren, Gary Busey, Joanne Nail, Susan Flannery, J. Pat O'Malley, Vaughn Taylor, Lazaro Perez, Tricia O'Neil, Harvey Jason, Steven Keats, Wally Taylor, Eddy Donno, Dick Karie, Alfred Shelly, Whitey Hughes, Larry Silvestri, Wes Dawn, John Morton, Stephen Blood, Linda Vaughn, Walter R. Smith, John Lawlor.

On this day in movie history - The Shootist (1976 movie & novel):

The Shootist

directed by Don Siegel,

written by Miles Hood Swarthout and Scott Hale,

based on the novel by Glendon Swarthout,

was released in the United States on July 21, 1976.
Music by Elmer Bernstein.

Cast:

John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, Ron Howard, James Stewart, Richard Boone, Hugh O'Brian, Bill McKinney, Harry Morgan, John Carradine, Sheree North, Rick Lenz, Scatman Crothers, Gregg Palmer, Alfred Dennis, Dick Winslow, Melody Thomas Scott, Kathleen O'Malley, Jack Berle, Johnny Crawford, Chuck Dawson, George Dunn, Duke Fishman, Christopher George, Jonathan Goldsmith, Leo Gordon, Charles G. Martin, Jim Michael, Ernesto Molinari, Ricky Nelson, James Nolan, Nick Raymond, Henry Slate, Bob Steele, Ralph Volkie, John Zimeas.

Recommended reading:

The Shootist

By Glendon Swarthout.

Introduction by Miles Swarthout.

Filmed as The Shootist (1976), directed by Don Siegel.

Published by Bison Books.

First published 1975.

ISBN-10: 0803238231

ISBN-13: 9780803238237

Description:

"Such style...such a strong central idea...the showdown is an unremitting as the build-up." – Sunday Times of London.

"This is an extremely well-written Western and gives the reader vivid insight into the workings of the mind of a wanderer and gunman." – Baton Rouge, Louisiana Sunday Advocate.

"The Shootist by Glendon Swarthout is the taleof the Old West's version of the modern 'hit man'. It is a splendid story, well-told and with a really satisfying ending." – Charleston, South Carolina Evening Post.

The Shootist is John Bernard Books, a man of principle and the only surviving gunfighter in a vanishing American West. He rides into El Paso in the year 1901, on the day Queen Victoria died, there to be told by a doctor that he must soon confront the greatest shootist of all: Death. In such a showdown, against such an antagonist, he cannot win. Most men may end their days in bed or take their own lives, but a man-killer has a 3rd option, one which Books decides to exercise. He may choose his own executioner.

As word spreads that the famous assassin has reached the end of his rope, an assortment of vultures gathers to feast upon his corpse--among them a gambler, a rustler, an undertaker, an old love, a reporter, even a boy. Books outwits them, however, by selecting the where, when, who, and why of his death, and writing in fire from a pair of Remingtons the last courageous act of his own legend. The climatic gunfight itself is an incredible performance by an incredible man, and by his creator, Glendon Swarthout.

The Shootist will rank with such classics as Shane and The Ox-Bow Incident, but it is much more than a Western. When, in the final afternoon of his life, J. B. Books crosses a street and enters a saloon to make something of his death, we cross, we enter, with him. He is us.

From a corner of the south window Gillom Rogers spied on the new lodger. The man unpacked his valise and put things in a drawer of the chiffonier, then hung his Price Albert coat in the closet. When he turned from the closet he was in shirt and vest. The boy's eyes rounded. Sewn to each side of the vest was a holster, reversed, and in each holster was a pistol, butt forward. As he watched, sucking in his breath, the man took the weapons out, revolved the cylinders, filled a chamber in one he had evidently fired, and replaced them before hanging the vest, too, in the closet. The pistols were a pair of nickel-plated, short-barreled, unsighted, single-action .44 Remingtons, obviously manufactured to order. The handle of one was black gutta-percha, the other pearl.

Gillom slipped away to take the horse to the livery, letting the breath of revelation out of his lungs. He was seventeen, and spent much of his time in saloons. He was not yet served, but he enjoyed himself and picked up a great deal of miscellaneous information, some of it true, some of it of doubtful authenticity. But the man in corner room was no stranger to him now. He had heard enough scalp-itch, blood-freeze tales to know that only one man carried a similar pair of guns in a similar manner...

On this day in movie history - The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976):

The Outlaw Josey Wales

directed by Clint Eastwood,

written by Philip Kaufman and Sonia Chernus,

based on the novel Gone to Texas by Forest Carter,

was released in the United States on June 30, 1976.
Music by Jerry Fielding.

Cast:

Clint Eastwood, Chief Dan George, Sondra Locke, Bill McKinney, John Vernon, Paula Trueman, Sam Bottoms, Geraldine Keams, Woodrow Parfrey, Joyce Jameson, Sheb Wooley, Royal Dano, Matt Clark, John Verros, Will Sampson, William O'Connell, John Quade, Frank Schofield, Buck Kartalian, Len Lesser, Doug McGrath, John Russell, Charles Tyner, Bruce M. Fischer, John Mitchum, John Davis Chandler, Tom Roy Lowe, Clay Tanner, Bob Hoy, Madeleine Taylor Holmes, Erik Holland, Cissy Wellman, Faye Hamblin, Danny Green, Stephen Douglas Butler, Frank Cockrell, Kyle Eastwood, Richard Farnsworth, Joseph Hernandez, John Hudkins, Ron Manning, Walter Scott.