On this day in music history:

I’m John Lee Hooker by John Lee Hooker (1959)

Ashes To Ashes by David Bowie (1980)

Mystical America by Laura Sullivan (2004)

Blue Dream by Fiona Joy Hawkins (2008)

August by Amy Lauren (2010)

Moments from the Life Stories of Strangers Part One by The Luminous World Orchestra (2013)

Transformation by Sherry Finzer & Darin Mahoney (2013)

The Flowers Suite by Barbara Hills (2018)

I’m John Lee Hooker

Album by John Lee Hooker,

released August 1959.

Exact release date unknown.

Track list: Dimples; Hobo Blues; I’m So Excited; I Love You Honey; Boogie Children; Little Wheel; I’m In The Mood; Maudie; Crawlin’ King Snake; Every Night; Time Is Marching; Baby Lee.

Ashes To Ashes

Song by David Bowie,

released August 1, 1980.

Mystical America

Album by Laura Sullivan,

released August 1, 2004.

Track list: America’s Stonehenge; Chaco Canyon; Coral Castle; The Bighorn Medicine Wheel; Tongass Islands; The Serpent Mound; Red Rock Ridge; Pictograph Cave; The Heavener Runestone; Sedona; Hawaiian Islands; Mt. Shasta (Arrangement of the Moonlight Sonata).

Blue Dream

Album by Fiona Joy Hawkins,

released August 1, 2008.

Track list: Contemplating; Sunrise At Ularu; Samite’s Interlude (Fiona Joy Hawkins & Samite Mulondo); Song Phonique; Indigo Interlude; The Void; Turquoise Interlude (Fiona Joy Hawkins & Philip Aaberg); Voice of Angels; Cobalt Interlude; Prelude to a Painting; The Midnight Interlude; Moving On; Azure Interlude; Somewhere.

August

Album by Amy Lauren,

released August 1, 2010.

Track list: I’ll Follow You; Travel This River; Fireflies; The Distance; Fly Away; Road to Allay; The Rain Came Down; Sunset Serene; August; Keeper of Light; Resolution; Summer’s End.

Moments from the Life Stories of Strangers Part One

Album by The Luminous World Orchestra,

conducted by Steven Chesne,

released August 1, 2013.

Track list: Invocation; For When the Love Will Rain Down Upon You; Yorkietown; Flicker of the Glistening; Glory Story #2; Coaxed to Grow; Morning Hocket; Change, Your Oldest Friend; Lumiere Du Soleil.

Transformation

Album by Sherry Finzer & Darin Mahoney,

released August 1, 2013.

Track list: Alger St; Confused; Reflection; Early Spring; Joplin; White Sky In November; Jane’S Song; The Door.

The Flowers Suite

Album by Barbara Hills,

released August 1, 2018.

Track list: Love-In-A-Mist; Among Lilies; Through Iris Halls; The First Snowdrop; When Cherry Blossoms Fall; On Hawkweed Bank; Sweet William; Forget-Me-Nots; Creeping Buttercup; Where Heather Grows; Hedgerow Walk; Canyons of the Black Tulip.

On this day in music history:

Space Oddity by David Bowie (1969)

Music by Ry Cooder by Ry Cooder (1995)

Space Oddity

Song by David Bowie,

released July 11, 1969.

Music by Ry Cooder

Album by Ry Cooder,

released July 11, 1995.

Track list: Paris, Texas; Theme From Southern Comfort; Theme From Alamo Bay; Across The Borderline; Highway 23; Bomber Bash; Greenhouse; Nice Bike; I Like Your Eyes; Main Theme; See You In Hell, Blind Boy; Feelin’ Bad Blues; Swamp Walk; Angola; Viola Lee Blues; The Long Riders; Archie’s Funeral (Hold To God’s Unchanging Hand); Jesse James; King Of The Street; Sunny’s Tune; No Quiero; Cruising With Rafe; Klan Meeting; I Can’t Walk This Time/The Prestige; East St. Louis; Goose and Lucky; Goyakla Is Coming; Canoes Upstream; Cancion Mixteca; Maria; Bound For Canaan (Sieber and Davis); Bound For Canaan (The 6th Calvary); Train To Florida; Houston In Two Seconds.

On this day in movie history - The Hunger (1983 movie & novel):

The Hunger

directed by Tony Scott,

written by Ivan Davis and Michael Thomas,

based on the novel by Whitley Strieber,

was released in the United States on April 29, 1983.
Music by Howard Blake, Denny Jaeger and Michel Rubini.
Song in opening scene: Bela Lugosi's Dead by Bauhaus.
Additional music includes:
Lakmé by Léo Delibes.
Piano Trio No. 2 in E-flat major by Franz Schubert.

Cast:

Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie, Susan Sarandon, Cliff De Young, Beth Ehlers, Dan Hedaya, Rufus Collins, Suzanne Bertish, James Aubrey, Ann Magnuson, John Stephen Hill, Shane Rimmer, Bauhaus, Douglas Lambert, Bessie Love, John Pankow, Willem Dafoe, Sophie Ward, Philip Sayer, Lise Hilboldt, Michael Howe, Edward Wiley, Richard Robles, George Camiller, Oke Wambu, Kent Miller, Fred Yockers, Susan Hunter, James Wassenich, Allan Richards, Hilary Six, Carole-Ann Scott, Howard Blake, Jane Leeves, Derek Lyons, Peter Murphy, James Payne.

Recommended reading:

The Hunger

By Whitley Strieber.

Filmed as The Hunger (1983), directed by Tony Scott.

Published by Gallery Books.

First published 1981.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 1416583742

ISBN-13: 9781416583745

Description:

Eternal youth is a wonderful thing for the few who have it, but for Miriam Blaylock, it is a curse -- an existence marred by death and sorrow. Because for the everlasting Miriam, everyone she loves withers and dies. Now, haunted by signs of her adoring husband's imminent demise, Miriam sets out in search of a new partner, one who can quench her thirst for love and withstand the test of time. She finds it in the beautiful Sarah Roberts, a brilliant young scientist who may hold the secret to immortality. But one thing stands between the intoxicating Miriam Blaylock and the object of her desire: Dr. Tom Haver...and he's about to realize that love and death go hand in hand.

On this day in music history:

Starman by David Bowie (1972)

To The Wind… by Fiona Joy Hawkins & Rebecca Daniel (2023)

Starman

Song by David Bowie,

released April 28, 1972.

To The Wind…

Album by Fiona Joy Hawkins & Rebecca Daniel,

released April 28, 2023.

Track list: Celtic Contemplation; Blue Dream; The Void; Light in the Darkness; My Hands Were Busy; Necessity for the Mundane; Rain On My Coat; Reverie.

Born on this day – David Bowie:

David Bowie

Singer

Songwriter

Actor

January 8, 1947 – January 10, 2016

Albums:

David Bowie (1967); David Bowie (1969); The Man Who Sold the World (1970); Hunky Dory (1971); The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972); Aladdin Sane (1973); Pin Ups (1973); Diamond Dogs (1974); Young Americans (1975); Station to Station (1976); Low (1977); "Heroes" (1977); Lodger (1979); Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) (1980); Let's Dance (1983); Tonight (1984); Never Let Me Down (1987); Black Tie White Noise (1993); The Buddha of Suburbia (1993); Outside (1995); Earthling (1997); Hours (1999); Heathen (2002); Reality (2003); The Next Day (2013); Blackstar (2016).

Movies:

Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces (2014); Bandslam (2009); August (2008); SpongeBob SquarePants (1999); Arthur and the Invisibles (2006); The Prestige (2006); Extras (2005); Nathan Barley (2005); Zoolander (2001); Empty (2000); The Hunger (1997); The Nomad Soul (1999); Mr. Rice's Secret (1999); Il mio West (1998); B.U.S.T.E.D (1998); Basquiat (1996); Full Stretch (1993); Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992); The Linguini Incident (1991); Dream On (1990); Tina Turner & David Bowie: Tonight (1988); The Last Temptation of Christ (1988); Labyrinth (1986); Absolute Beginners (1986); Into the Night (1985); Yellowbeard (1983); Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983); The Hunger (1983); The Snowman (1982); Baal (1982); Christiane F. (1981); Just a Gigolo (1978); The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976); The Looking Glass Murders (1970); The Virgin Soldiers (1969); The Image (1969); Theatre 625 (1964).

On this day in music history - Heroes, by David Bowie (1977)

Heroes

Song by David Bowie,
released October 14, 1977.