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Wednesday, April 22, 2026

On this day in music history - Unspoken, by Jami Sieber (2008):


Unspoken

Album by Jami Sieber,
released April 22, 2008.

Track list:

Opening; Benediction; The River Between; Night Song; 6 O'Clock News; The Moon Inside; Listening; A Dialogue of Silk; Broken Open; Unspoken; Returning.

Tuesday, April 21, 2026

On this day in music history:

Ten Days in November by Sue Foley (1998)
Couldn’t Have Said It Better by Meat Loaf (2003)
Live Texas Trio by Carolyn Wonderland (2015)
The Undercurrent by Sherry Finzer (2023)


Ten Days in November
Album by Sue Foley,
released April 21, 1998.
Track list: Highwayside; Baltimore Skyline; Long Way to Go; The Waiting Game; Give My Love to You; She Don't Belong to You; Through the Night; Winds of Change; The Forest; Promised Land; New Roads.


Couldn’t Have Said It Better
Album by Meat Loaf,
released April 21, 2003.
Track list: I Couldn't Have Said It Better Myself; Did I Say That; Why Isn't That Enough; Love You Out Loud; Man of Steel; Testify; Tear Me Down; You're Right, I Was Wrong; Because of You; Do It; Forever Young.


Live Texas Trio
Album by Carolyn Wonderland,
released April 21, 2015.
Track list: Palace of the King (Live); At the Crossroads (Live); Come Together (Live); Only God Knows When (Live); Samson and Delilah (Live); Money in the Game (Live); Nobody's Fault But Mine (Live); Walk on (Live); Heart (Live); Cumbia Raza (Live); When I Go Away (Live); Let's Go Get Stoned (Live).


The Undercurrent
Album by Sherry Finzer,
released April 21, 2023.
Track list: Introspective; Hidden Emotions; Undercurrent; A Whole New World.

Monday, April 20, 2026

On this day in music history:

The Earth Pressed Flat by 10,000 Maniacs (1999)
Dawn of a New Century by Secret Garden (1999)


The Earth Pressed Flat
Album by 10,000 Maniacs,
released April 20, 1999.
Track list: The Earth Pressed Flat; Ellen; Once A City; Glow; On & On (Mersey Song); Somebody's Heaven; Cabaret; Beyond The Blue; Smallest Step; In The Quiet Morning; Time Turns; Hidden In My Heart; Who Knows Where The Time Goes?; Rainbows.


Dawn of a New Century
Album by Secret Garden,
released April 20, 1999.
Track list: Moongate; Prayer; Elan; Dreamcatcher; Sona - Secret Garden; In Our Tears; Children Of The River; Evensong - Secret Garden; Lore Of The Loom; Aria; Divertimento; Aquabell; Dawn Of A New Century - Secret Garden.

Sunday, April 19, 2026

On this day in music history:

Magazine by Heart (1977)
Hang Cool Teddy Bear by Meat Loaf (2010)


Magazine
Album by Heart,
released April 19, 1977.
Track list: Heartless; Devil Delight; Just The Wine; Without You; Magazine; Here Song; Mother Earth Blues; I've Got The Music In Me.


Hang Cool Teddy Bear
Album by Meat Loaf,
released April 19, 2010.
Track list – includes songs on bonus disc & other editions:
Peace on Earth; Living on the Outside; Los Angeloser; If I Can't Have You; Love Is Not Real/Next Time You Stab Me in the Back; Like a Rose; Song of Madness; Did You Ever Love Somebody; California Isn't Big Enough (Hey There Girl); Running Away from Me; Let's Be in Love; If It Rains; Elvis in Vegas; Boneyard; Prize Fight Lover; Don't Get Me Going; I Want You So Hard (Boy's Bad News); If It Ain't Broke, Break It; Blind as a Bat; Amnesty Is Granted; Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through; I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That); Two Out of Three Ain't Bad; Bat Out of Hell; Roadhouse Blues/Why Don't We Do It in the Road?; Out of the Frying Pan (And Into the Fire); Peace on Earth; Living on the Outside; Song of Madness; Los Angeloser.

Saturday, April 18, 2026

On this day in music history - Doolittle, by the Pixies:


Doolittle

Album by the Pixies,
released April 18, 1989.

Track list:

Debaser; Tame; Wave of Mutilation; I Bleed; Here Comes Your Man; Dead; Monkey Gone to Heaven; Mr. Grieves; Crackity Jones; La la Love You; No. 13 Baby; There Goes My Gun; Hey; Silver; Gouge Away.

Friday, April 17, 2026

On this day in music history:

Desperado by the Eagles (1973)
Beyond the Crossroads by Peter Karp & Sue Foley (2012)


Desperado
Album by the Eagles,
released April 17, 1973.
Track list: Doolin-Dalton (1999 Remaster); Twenty-One (1999 Remaster); Out of Control (1999 Remaster); Tequila Sunrise (1999 Remaster); Desperado (1999 Remaster); Certain Kind of Fool (1999 Remaster); Doolin-Dalton (Instrumental) [1999 Remaster]; Outlaw Man (1999 Remaster); Saturday Night (1999 Remaster); Bitter Creek (1999 Remaster); Doolin-Dalton / Desperado (Reprise) [1999 Remaster].


Beyond the Crossroads
Album by Peter Karp & Sue Foley,
released April 17, 2012.
Track list: We're Gonna Make It; Analyze'n Blues; Beyond The Crossroads; Fine Love; At The Same Time; Take Your Time; More Than I Bargained For; Blowin'; Resistance; Chance Of Rain; Plank Spank; You've Got A Problem.

Thursday, April 16, 2026

On this day in music history - Songs from a Secret Garden, by Secret Garden (2016):


Songs from a Secret Garden

Album by Secret Garden,
released April 16, 2016.

Track list:

Nocturne; Pastorale; Song From A Secret Garden; Sigma; Papillon; Serenade To Spring; Atlantia; Heartstrings; Adagio; The Rap; Chaconne; Cantoluna; Ode To Simplicity.

Wednesday, April 15, 2026

On this day in music history:

White Stones by Secret Garden (1997)
Say You Will by Fleetwood Mac (2003)
Reflections 2000​-​2005, The Best of Michele McLaughlin by Michele McLaughlin (2006)
Trialogue by Sherry Finzer, Darin Mahoney & Will Clipman (2016)


White Stones
Album by Secret Garden,
released April 15, 1997.
Track list: Steps; Poeme; Hymn to Hope; Moving; First Day of Spring; Passacaglia; Reflection; Windancer; Appassionata; Escape; Sanctuary; Celebration; Home; Illumination.


Album by Fleetwood Mac,
released April 15, 2003.
Track list: What's the World Coming To; Murrow Turning over in His Grave; Illume (9-11); Thrown Down; Miranda; Red Rover; Say You Will; Peacekeeper; Come; Smile at You; Running Through the Garden; Silver Girl; Steal Your Heart Away; Bleed to Love Her; Everybody Finds Out; Destiny Rules; Say Goodbye; Goodbye Baby.


Reflections 2000​-​2005, The Best of Michele McLaughlin
Album by Michele McLaughlin,
released April 15, 2006.
Track list: I Love You (2005); The Beginning of Forever (2004); Without You (2003); The Greatest Gift (2002); Elysium (2001); Russian Music Box (2000); Coming Home (2005); Surrender (2004); Just Because (2003); A Fresh Start (2002); An Evening With Friends (2001); Not Without Flaw (2000); What You Mean To Me (2005); Enraptured (2004); A Tale of Courage (2003); Learning to Grieve (2002); The Fairies Dance (2001); The Lonely Ballerina (2005); Sunday Morning (2004); Swept Away (2003).


Trialogue
Album by Sherry Finzer, Darin Mahoney & Will Clipman,
released April 15, 2016.
Track list: Cote D'Ivoire; Mending Fences; Midnight in Marrakech; Confused; Dark Horse; Top Down; Alger Street; Woodland Lake; Thanks For Asking; Wolf Haven.

Born on this day – Michael Kamen:


Michael Kamen


Composer

Diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) in 1997

April 15, 1948 – November 18, 2003

Credits:

Concert works:

24 Nights (1991); Concerto for Saxophone (1990); Guitar Concerto (with Tomoyasu Hotei) (1998); Live in Hyde Park (1997); Quintet (Canadian Brass) (2002); S&M (with Metallica) (1999); The New Moon in the Old Moon's Arms (2001).

Movies and television:

100 Greatest Number One Singles (2001); 101 Dalmatians (1996); 20 Moments That Rocked Pop (2015); A Good Day to Die Hard (2013); Action Jackson (1988); Adventures in Babysitting (1987); Against the Ropes (2004); Alarm für Cobra 11 - Die Autobahnpolizei (2009); Alaska (1996); Amazing Stories (1986); American Idol (2003–2006); Angelo My Love (1983); Animals, Animals, Animals (1976); Anna Magdalena (1998); Arrested Development (2005); Asaf Avidan: Live at the Acropolis - Odeon of Herodes Atticus (2023); Assassins (1995); Australian Idol (2003); Bailando por un sueño (2007); Band of Brothers (2001); BaseBoys (2018); Beavis and Butt-Head (1994); Behind Poem (2004); Big Sister (2016); Blue Ice (1992); Boardwalk (1979); Boo, Zino & the Snurks (2004); Bordello of Blood (1996); Brandy: (Everything I Do) I Do It for You (2000); Brazil (1985); Britain's Got Talent (2013); Bryan Adams in Bryan Adams: (Everything I Do) I Do It for You (Live at Wembley 1996) (1996); Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart & Sting: All for Love (1993); Bryan Adams: (Everything I Do) I Do It for You (1991); Bryan Adams: (Everything I Do) I Do It for You (Live) (1992); Bryan Adams: Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman? (1995); Bryan Adams: Star (1996); Canadian Idol (2004); Cesko hledá SuperStar (2006); Cine Chalom (2019–2020); Circle of Friends (1995); Classic Albums (2001); Cold Dog Soup (1990); Company Business (1991); Concert for George (2003); Crusoe (1988); Dancing with the Stars (2010–2015); Das Geheimnis von Schloss Balthasar (2011); David Gilmour Live 1984 (1984); Dead Bang (1989); Der Klang der Bilder (1995); Deutschland sucht den Superstar (2002–2006); Die Hard (1988); Die Hard 2 (1990); Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995); Diminishing Returns (2016); Divendres (2011); Divorce (2013); Don Juan DeMarco (1994); Double You: Everything I Do (I Do It for You) (2003); Earth to Echo (2014); EastEnders (1991–2013); Easter (2023–2024); Edge of Darkness (1985); El making of del disc de La Marató (2015); Em dónes vida. El llibre i el disc de La Marató (2011); Eric Clapton: 24 Nights (1991); Event Horizon (1997); Fair Game (1995); Family Guy (2009); First Daughter (2004); For Queen & Country (1988); Free Willy (1994); Frequency (2000); From the Earth to the Moon (1998); Gintberg pÃ¥ kanten (2012); Gintberg pÃ¥ kanten (2014); Gladys Knight: Licence to Kill (1989); Godspell (1973); Hab (2020); Hand Made in Hong Kong..... The Making of Shanghai Surprise (1986); Ha-Shminiya (2006); Highlander (1986); Homeboy (1988); Hope Floats (1998); House of Fools (2002); Hudson Hawk (1991); Idol - Jakten pÃ¥ en superstjerne (2004–2005); Idol (2002–2005); Idol stjörnuleit (2003); Idols (2002–2009); If I Should Fall from Grace: The Shane MacGowan Story (2001); Inventing the Abbotts (1997); Jack (1996); Jerry Seinfeld: 'I'm Telling You for the Last Time' (1998); Judge Dredd (1995); Kelly & Cal (2014); La Marató 2015 (2015); La vengeance est un plat qui ne se mange pas (2007); Ladykracher (2002); Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001); Last Action Hero (1993); Leaving the Life (2005); Let Him Have It (1991); Lethal Weapon (1987); Lethal Weapon 2 (1989); Lethal Weapon 3 (1992); Lethal Weapon 4 (1998); Licence to Kill (1989); Lifeforce (1985); Live Free or Die Hard (2007); Liza's Pioneer Diary (1976); Love & Life (1992); Mad TV (2000); Marry Me (2014); McHale's Navy (1997); Memento (1993); Metallica: S&M (2000); Michael Kamen: Concert for Saxophone (1991); Mild Poison (1999); Mona Lisa (1986); Monkey Dust (2003); Mr. Dreyfuss Goes to Washington (2001); Mr. Holland's Opus (1995); Na plovárne (2003); NBC Special Treat (1978); Night City Angels (1981); Nothing But Trouble (1991); Open Range (2003); Operación triunfo (2001); Pavarotti & Friends 2 (1994); Pink Floyd: The Final Cut (1983); Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982); Polyester (1981); Pop Charts Britannia: 60 Years of the Top 10 (2012); Pop Idol (2001–2003); Radioman (2012); Reel Iconic (2015); Remember Me? (1997); Renegades (1989); Richard Osman's House of Games (2017); Rifftrax: Highlander (2011); Rifftrax: Road House (2016); Rita, Sue and Bob Too (1987); Road House (1989); Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991); Robin Hood: The Myth, the Man, the Movie (1991); Rodin mis en vie (1976); Rooftops (1989); Rude Tube (2013); S&M Documentary (2000); S.H.E: Security Hazards Expert (1980); Scream Queens (2015); Scrubs (2003); Shanghai Surprise (1986); Shining Through (1992); Shoot for the Sun (1986); Singapore Idol (2004); Someone to Watch Over Me (1987); Splitting Heirs (1993); Spoof Movie No Jutsu! (2011); Stars in Their Eyes (1992); Sting Feat. Eric Clapton: It's Probably Me (1992); Sting in The Best of Sting: Fields of Gold 1984-1994 (1994); Stonewall (1995); Strange Days (1995); Strictly Come Dancing (2016); Stunts (1977); Super Idol (2004); SuperStar KZ (2004); Suspect (1987); Tales from the Crypt (1992–1993); Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight (1995); The 64th Annual Academy Awards (1992); The 68th Annual Academy Awards (1996); The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988); The Alps (2007); The Avengers (1998); The Beatles Revolution (2000); The Big Bang Theory (2007); The Bond Sound: The Music of 007 (2000); The Dead Zone (1983); The Fighting Temptations (2003); The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies (1995); The Heart Surgeon (1997); The Iron Giant (1999); The Krays (1990); The Last Boy Scout (1991); The Longest Yard (2005); The Madness and Misadventures of Munchausen (2008); The Making of 'The Iron Giant' (2000); The Next Man (1976); The Official Top 50 Best-Selling Singles of the 90s and 00s (2015); The Raggedy Rawney (1988); The Three Musketeers (1993); The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (2015–2016); The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (2012); The Video Pool (1996); The Winter Guest (1997); The Work of Director Anton Corbijn (2005); The X Factor UK (2005–2012); This Life (1996); Todd's Pop Song Reviews (2015); Top of the Pops (1994–1995); Top of the Pops 2 (1999); Tosh.0 (2012); Traveling Hopefully (1982); Tvoje tvár má známý hlas (2016); Two-Fisted Tales (1992); Two-Fisted Tales / Showdown (1992); U Turn (1997); Ultrasordine (2007); Venom (1981); Visions (1976); Viudas e hijos del Rock & Roll (2014); What Dreams May Come (1998); What's Up Doc? (1994); Whispers: An Elephant's Tale (2000); Who Are 'They'? (2006); Wilder Napalm (1993); X-Men (2000); X-Men: First Class (2011); X-Men: The Animated Series (1993); Zachariah (1971).

Monday, April 13, 2026

On this day in music history:

Tango in the Night by Fleetwood Mac (1987)
Ember by Breaking Benjamin (2018)


Tango in the Night
Album by Fleetwood Mac,
Released April 13, 1987.
Track list: Big Love; Seven Wonders; Everywhere; Caroline; Tango in the Night; Mystified; Little Lies; Family Man; Welcome to the Room... Sara; Isn’t It Midnight; When I See You Again; You and I, Pt. II.


Ember
Album by Breaking Benjamin,
released April 13, 2018.
Track list: Lyra; Feed the Wolf; Red Cold River; Tourniquet; Psycho; The Dark of You; Down; Torn in Two; Blood; Save Yourself; Close Your Eyes; Vega.

Sunday, April 12, 2026

On this day in music history:

Weight by Rollins Band (1994)
Damayanti by 2002 (2011)


Weight
By Rollins Band,
released April 12, 1994.
Track list: Disconnect; Fool; Icon; Civilized; Divine; Liar; Step Back; Wrong Man; Volume 4; Tired; Alien Blueprint; Shine.


Damayanti
By 2002,
released April 12, 2011.
Track list: Forever My Love; Flight of the Swan; Beauty and Grace; Challenge from Heaven; A Choice from the Heart; Cycle of Time; A Divine Encounter; Destinies; Enduring Love; Time Stands Still.

Thursday, April 9, 2026

On this day in music history:

Behind the Mask by Fleetwood Mac (1990)
Leave Your Sleep by Natalie Merchant (2010)


Behind the Mask
Album by Fleetwood Mac,
released April 9, 1990.
Track list: Skies the Limit; Love Is Dangerous; In the Back of My Mind; Do You Know; Save Me; Affairs of the Heart; When the Sun Goes Down; Behind the Mask; Stand on the Rock; Hard Feelings; Freedom; When It Comes to Love; The Second Time.


Leave Your Sleep
Album by Natalie Merchant,
released April 9, 2010.
Track list: Nursery Rhyme of Innocence and Experience; Equestrienne; Calico Pie; Bleezer's Ice-Cream; It Makes a Change; The King of China's Daughter; The Dancing Bear; The Man in the Wilderness; maggie and milly and molly and may; If No One Ever Marries Me; The Sleepy Giant; The Peppery Man; The Blind Men and the Elephant; Adventures of Isabel; The Walloping Window Blind; Topsyturvey-World; The Janitor's Boy; Griselda; The Land of Nod; Vain and Careless; Crying, My Little One; Sweet and a Lullaby; I Saw a Ship A-Sailing; Autumn Lullaby; Spring and Fall: To a Young Child; Indian Names.

Wednesday, April 8, 2026

On this day in music history - Hopes & Dreams, by Lisa Lynne (2003):


Hopes & Dreams

Album by Lisa Lynne,
released April 8, 2003.

Track list:

Earth & Sky; Living in Love; Dreamdance; Circle the Sun; Bamboo Morning; Soliloquy; Sea March; Home; Interlude; Natural World.

Tuesday, April 7, 2026

Born on this day – Billie Holiday:


Billie Holiday


Singer

April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959

Credits:

Albums:

A Rare Live Recording Of Billie Holiday (1964); All Or Nothing At All (1958); An Evening with Billie Holiday (1953); BD Jazz (2003); Billie Holiday - Billie's Blues (2009); Billie Holiday & Friends (2007); Billie Holiday (1954); Billie Holiday (Best Of) (2011); Billie Holiday And Teddy Wilson (1951); Billie Holiday at Jazz at the Philharmonic (1954); Billie Holiday at Storyville (1999); Billie Holiday Live (1990); Billie Holiday Sings (1952); Billie Holiday, Lester Young (2013); Billie Holiday: Easy Living (2012); Billie's Best (1992); Body and Soul (1957); Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday at Newport (1958); Ella Fitzgerald vs. Billie Holiday (2013); From the Original Decca Masters (1986); Giants Of Jazz: Billie Holiday (1979); Greatest Hits (1995); Happy Billie (2003); Lady Day: The Best of Billie Holiday (2001); Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia 1933–1944 (2001); Lady Day: The Master Takes and Singles (2007); Lady Day: The Very Best of Billie Holiday (1997); Lady in Satin (1958); Lady Sings the Blues (1956); Last Recording (1959); Music for Torching (1955); Night and Day (2003); Sam & Billie (2014); Solitude (1952); Songs for Distingué Lovers (1958); Summer of '49 (1949); Teddy Wilson And His Orchestra Featuring Billie Holiday (1949); The Best of Billie Holiday (2001); The Billie Holiday Playlist (2014); The Billie Holiday Songbook (1986); The Billie Holiday Story (1990); The Commodore Master Takes (2000); The Complete Billie Holiday on Verve 1945-1959 (1993); The Complete Decca Recordings (1991); The Complete Verve Studio Master Takes (2005); The Essential Billie Holiday: Carnegie Hall Concert Recorded Live (1961); The Quintessential Billie Holiday Volume II (1987); The Silver Collection (1984).

Songs:

All of Me; Any Old Time; Autumn In New York; Blue Moon; Body and Soul; Crazy He Calls Me; Easy Living; Fine and Mellow; Gloomy Sunday; God Bless The Child; Good Morning Heartache; I Love My Man; I’m a Fool to Want You; I'll Be Seeing You; I'm a Fool to Want You; Jeepers Creepers; Lady Sings The Blues; Love Is Here to Stay; Lover Man; Lover, Come Back to Me; On the Sunny Side of the Street; Pennies From Heaven; Strange Fruit; Sugar; Summertime; The Very Thought of You; Them There Eyes; These Foolish Things; What a Little Moonlight Can Do; When You're Smiling; Why Not Take All of Me; You Go to My Head.

Movies and television:

15 Till Midnight (2010); 42 (2013); 90 Minutes Live (1977); 9½ Weeks (1986); 9-1-1 (2020–2024); A Cat in Paris (2010); A Fond Kiss (2004); A Man in Full (2024); A Salute to Billie Holiday (1979); About Endlessness (2019); Alcatraz (2012); All You Need Is Love (1977); Amazing Stories (1986); Amélie (2001); American Crime Story (2018); American Dad! (2013); American Idol (2005); American Masters (1986–2025); American Playboy: The Hugh Hefner Story (2017); An Unmarried Woman (1978); ...and Beautiful II (1970); Angela's Ashes (1999); Antenize (2019); Any Given Sunday (1999); Anything Else (2003); Apollo Theatre Hall of Fame (1993); Arbitrage (2012); Archive 81 (2022); Arena (1984–1985); Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got (1985); August Rush (2007); Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard (2011); Back to Black (2024); Bad Sisters (2022); Bad Timing: A Sensual Obsession (1980); Banda sonora (2010); Basic Sanitation, the Movie (2007); Benny Carter: Symphony in Riffs (1990); Billie (2019); Billie Holiday: A Sensation (2015); Billie Holiday: The Ultimate Collection (2005); BioShock (2007); Black Music in America: From Then Till Now (1971); Black-ish (2017); Bloodline (2017); Body Electric (2004); Bomb Girls (2012); Born in Flames (1983); Bosch (2021); Bowl of Dreams (2011); Broken City (2013); Brother Can You Spare a Dime (1975); Brown Sugar (1986); Burnt Money (2000); Cafe Society (1995); Calamari Union (1985); Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018); Canada After Dark (1978); Canadian Idol (2004–2006); Canopy (2013); Capote (2005); Carnivàle (2003); Carol (2015); Carols by Kindlelight (2014); CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley (2021–2022); Celebrity (1998); Chanel No. 5: Train de Nuit (2009); Changing Ends (2024); Chelsea at Nine (1959); Chelsea Walls (2001); Children in Need (1998); Clueless (1995); Cold Case (2004–2009); Cold War (2018); Confess, Fletch (2022); Constellation (2005); Corrina, Corrina (1994); Count Basie: Through His Own Eyes (2018); Cover Your Ears (2023); Cradle Will Rock (1999); Criminal Minds (2006–2013); Crooked House (2017); Crossing Jordan (2005); Crossroads (1999); Dark Buenos Aires (2009); Dediscina (1984); Democracy Now! (2017); Diana Ross in Concert! (1980); Diana Ross Live! The Lady Sings... Jazz & Blues: Stolen Moments (1992); Diana Ross: Don't Explain (1993); Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over (2021); Duets (2012); Dzi Croquettes (2009); El resultado del amor (2007); Empty Suitcases (1980); End of the Road (1970); Enemies, A Love Story (1989); Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005); Equinox (1992); Eric (2024); ESCZ Offstage with Kraig (2019); Eva (1962); Fallen Angels (1993); Fallout 3 (2008); Fallout 4 (2015); Fellow Travelers (2023); Floor Show (1949); Forever (2018); Forever Young (1992); Forget Paris (1995); Fritz the Cat (1972); Fyra veckor i juni (2005); Gent de paraula (2010); Gershwin's Summertime: The Song That Conquered the World (2011); Get Up, Stand Up (2003); Gin & Dry (2010); Gloomy Sunday (2014); Good Night Oppy (2022); Great Performances (1994); Grey's Anatomy (2006); Guilty by Suspicion (1991); Hale County This Morning, This Evening (2018); Happiness Never Comes Alone (2012); Harlem Nights (1989); Helen (2009); Herbie Hancock Presents Living Jazz (1996); Hollywood Insider (2021); Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression (2009); Home Before Dark (2020); Hookers Hustlers Pimps and Their Johns (1993); Hotel Hooker (1974); Howard Goodall's Story of Music (2013); I Hired a Contract Killer (1990); Icons (2019); If Not Us, Who? (2011); If We Were a Love Song (2021); In Her Place (2024); In Living Color (1992); In the Mood (1987); Independent Lens (2005); Insecure (2018); Instinct (2018); Io sono Tony Scott, ovvero come l'Italia fece fuori il più grande clarinettista del jazz (2010); Ironside (1967); It Could Happen to You (1994); It's Black Entertainment (2002); Jazz (2001); Joe Albany... a Jazz Life (1980); Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me (2009); L.A. Noire (2011); Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill (2016); Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday (1990); Lady Sings the Blues (1972); Land Girls (2009); Late Night with David Letterman (1988); Later... With Jools Holland (2008); Legends in Concert: Duke Ellington (2004); Les mots pour le dire (1983); Les refrains de la mémoire (2002); Life Is Not a Fairytale: The Fantasia Barrino Story (2006); Little Fires Everywhere (2020); Livshunger (2002); Liza with a Z (1972); Lost (2009); Love Comes After (2013); Lovecraft Country (2020); Lumière and Company (1995); M Squad (1959); Malcolm X (1972 / 1992); Manhattan (2014); Marlowe (2022); Maxine's Baby: The Tyler Perry Story (2023); Me (1987); Me and Orson Welles (2008); Med sjela i Sjøgata (2004); Mildred Pierce (2011); Minority Report (2002); Monterey Jazz Festival: 40 Legendary Years (1998); Mozart in the Jungle (2014); Mr. Church (2016); Murder on the Orient Express (2017); Murphy Brown (1989); Music Hall Parade (1958); Musiques au Coeur (1991); My Kinda People (2003); Mysteries of the Abandoned: Hidden America (2024); New British Canon (2020); New Orleans (1947); Nice Jazz Festival (2020); Night at the Golden Eagle (2001); Nip/Tuck (2007); No One But Me (2012); No Way Out (2023); Novo (2002); Nurse Jackie (2009); Nynne (2005); O Cristo de Vitória da Conquista (1980); On the Road (2012); Ordinary Love (2019); P2 Dokumentär (2024); Page Eight (2011); Pain of Love (1992); Pan Am (2011); Panic in the Streets (1950); Passage to Mars (2016); Pimeys odottaa (1985); Poetry in America with Elisa New (2022); Pollock (2000); Private Life (2018); Private Practice (2010); Probe and Night Beat (1956); Promises in the Dark (1979); Public Enemies (2009); Queens of Heartache (2006); Queens of Jazz: The Joy and Pain of the Jazz Divas (2013); Reaching for the Moon (2013); Read My Lips (2001); ReMastered: The Two Killings of Sam Cooke (2019); Rembob'Ina (2021); Reputations (2001); Rhythm & Jam (1993); Rich in Love (1992); Rocket Gibraltar (1988); Salto al vacío (1995); Satisfaction (1988); Saturday Night Live (2012); Schindler's List (1993); Schwarzkopf BRD: Martin Luther King in Berlin! (2014); Se7en (1995); Serena (2014); Severance (2022–2025); Sex and the City (2002); SexTV (2002); Shindig! (1965); $#*! My Dad Says (2010); Sir John Dankworth at the BBC (2010); SkärgÃ¥rdsdoktorn (2000); SkogskyrkogÃ¥rden (2008); Slaves of New York (1989); Sleepy Hollow (2013); Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005); Sound of Redemption: The Frank Morgan Story (2014); Speed (1984); Standing in the Shadows of Motown (2002); Star Trek: Enterprise (2004); Star Trek: Picard (2020); Stars of Jazz (1956); Stealing Beauty (1996); Stranded in Canton (2005); Strange Fruit (2002 / 2005 / 2012 / 2020); Stranger Things (2017); 'Sugar Chile' Robinson, Billie Holiday, Count Basie and His Sextet (1951); Sunset Strip (2012); Sweet Talker (1991); Sweet Thing (2020); Switch (1991); Symphony in Black: A Rhapsody of Negro Life (1935); 't Bolleken (1988); Television (1988); Texas Chili (1985); That's Black Entertainment (1990); The 4400 (2004); The Affair (1995); The Apollo (2019); The Arsenio Hall Show (1992); The Art Ford Show (1949); The Big House (1999); The Blues (2003); The Bob Hope Show (1977); The Colbert Report (2014); The Comeback Story (1953); The Cross Connection with Tiffany Cross (2021); The Crown (2019); The Diahann Carroll Special (1971); The Dressmaker (2015); The Emperor Jones (1933); The Equalizer (2023); The Final Arrangement (1987); The Flash (2016–2021); The Funeral (1996); The Game Day (1992); The Greatest (1999); The Green Mile (1999); The Humans (2021); The Hummingbird (2022); The Intern (2015); The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996); The King (2017); The Kovak Box (2006); The Ladies Sing the Blues (1989); The Laramie Project (2002); The Last Resort with Jonathan Ross (1988); The Last Tycoon (2017); The Leftovers (2017); The Man in the High Castle (2015–2019); The Marrying Man (1991); The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2018); The Meteor Man (1993); The Muppet Show (1980); The Notebook (2004); The Originals (2015–2016); The Pacific (2010); The Perfect Find (2023); The Peripheral (2022); The Rage: Carrie 2 (1999); The Rocketeer (1991); The Seven Lively Arts (1957); The Simpsons (2006–2022); The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour (1976); The Source (1999); The Terror (2019); The Thing (1982); The Tie That Binds (1995); The Tonight Show (1955–1956); The Ultimate Life (2013); The United States vs. Billie Holiday (2021); The Vampire Diaries (2016–2017); The War (2007); The Well-Digger's Daughter (2011); The West Wing (2006); The Wire (2006); The World Unseen (2007); The Worst Person in the World (2021); The X Factor UK (2004–2013); Them (2021); This Is Pop (2021); This Is Tom Jones (1969); This Is Us (2018); Thomas Sanders (2019); Three Pines (2022); Timeshift (2005); Toll (2023); Tongues Untied (1989); Tony Bennett at the Talk of the Town (1972); Torch Song Trilogy (1988); Transatlantic Coffee (2012); True Blood (2010); True Detective (2019); Trumbo (2015); Two Weeks Notice (2002); U2: Window in the Skies (2007); Ulee's Gold (1997); United States of Tara (2009); Unprisoned (2024); Upstairs Downstairs (2012); Uvolnete se, prosím (2007); Vago (2011); Valentina (1989); Venice West (2016); Vrouwenvleugel (1995); Waiting for a Stranger (2011); Walk on By: The Story of Popular Song (2001); Watchmen (2009 / 2019); Waterloo Road (2012); We, the People (1948); What If... (2012); When Lights Are Low (2010); Win or Lose (2025); Worlds Apart (2015); Wrestling with Alligators (1998); Zum Teufel mit der Wahrheit (2015).

Sunday, April 5, 2026

On this day in music history - Ice - Piano Slightly Chilled, by Fiona Joy Hawkins (2015):


Ice - Piano Slightly Chilled

Album by Fiona Joy Hawkins,
released April 5, 2015.

Track list:

Iced Rain; Cloud Chill; Frosted View; Antarctic Wings; Love in the Refrigerator; Winter Cold; Frozen Rose; White View; Snow Bird; Crystalized Love.

Saturday, April 4, 2026

On this day in music history:

Slick Chick by Lee Aaron and the Swingin’ Barflies (2000)
Songs of Ned Rorem by Susan Graham (2000)


Slick Chick
Album by Lee Aaron and the Swingin’ Barflies,
released April 4, 2000.
European album cover:


Track list: He Ain't Got Rhythm; Evil Gal Blues; I'd Love To; Why Don't You Do Right?; Chaser for the Blues; Doodlin'; Slick Chick; TV Is the Thing This Year; In the Dark; Twisted; Teach Me Tonight; Samll Day Tomorrow; Tell Him I Said Hello.


Songs of Ned Rorem
Album by Susan Graham,
released April 4, 2000.
Track list: The Santa Fe Songs, song cycle of 12 poems of Witter Bynner for medium voice, violin, viola, cello & piano: Santa Fe Songs: No. 4, S; Clouds, for voice & piano (from 'Poems of Paul Goodman'); Early in the Morning, for voice & piano; The Serpent, for voice & piano (from 'Three Poems of Theodore Roethke'); Now sleeps the crimson petal, for voice & piano (from 'Poems of Tennyson'); The Santa Fe Songs, song cycle of 12 poems of Witter Bynner for medium voice, violin, viola, cello & piano: Santa Fe Songs: No. 2, O; I Strolled Across an Open Field, for voice & piano; To a Young Girl, for voice & piano; Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair, for voice & piano; Poèms pour la paix, for medium voice & strings: Ode; For Poulenc, for voice & piano; Little Elegy, for voice & piano; Alleluia, song for voice & piano; Look Down Fair Moon, for voice & piano; O you whom I often and silently come, for voice & piano (from 'Poems of Walt Whitman'); I will always love you, for voice, string trio & piano; The Tulip Tree, for voice & piano; The Santa Fe Songs, song cycle of 12 poems of Witter Bynner for medium voice, violin, viola, cello & piano: Santa Fe Songs: No. 8, T; The Lordly Hudson, for voice & piano (from 'Poems of Paul Goodman'); O Do Not Love Too Long, for voice & piano; Far-Far-Away, for voice & piano (from 'Poems of Tennyson'); For Susan, for voice & piano (from 'Poems of Paul Goodman'); A Journey, for voice & piano; Sometimes with One I Love, for voice & piano (from 'Poems of Walt Whitman'); Love, for voice & piano; Orchids, for voice & piano; Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, for voice & piano; Poems of Love and the Rain, song cycle for mezzo-soprano & piano: Do I love you more than a day?; Nantucket Songs, song cycle for voice & piano: Ferry Me Across the Water; The Santa Fe Songs, song cycle of 12 poems of Witter Bynner for medium voice, violin, viola, cello & piano: The Sowers (Santa Fe Song); Whitman Cantata, for men's chorus, 12 brass & timpani: The Shadow, My Likeness.

Born on this day - Heath Ledger:


Heath Ledger


Actor

Music video director

Photographer

April 4, 1979 – January 22, 2008

Credits:

10 Things I Hate About You (1999); 10 Things I Hate About You: Outtakes (1999); 10th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2004); 12th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2006); 2000 Blockbuster Entertainment Awards (2000); 2000 MTV Movie Awards (2000); 2002 MTV Video Music Awards (2002); 2006 Independent Spirit Awards (2006); A Knight's Tale (2001); A.J. After Hours (2001); ABC TGIF (1999); Ben Harper: Morning Yearning (2006); Blackrock (1997); Brokeback Mountain (2005); Candy (2006); Candy: Behind the Scenes (2006); Candy: Deleted Scenes (2006); Candy: Interview Featurette with Director and Writer (2006); Candy: The Path to Wild Abandon (2006); Cartaz Cultural (2003); Casanova (2005); Charlie Rose (2005); Clowning Around (1992); Corazón de... (2005–2006); Enough Rope with Andrew Denton (2003); Entertainment Tonight (2007); Film '72 (2005); Film Independent's 2007 Spirit Awards (2007); Grace Woodroofe: Quicksand (2009); HBO First Look (2000–2001); Heath Ledger Profile (2001); Home and Away (1997); I'm Not There (2007); Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2004); Late Night with Conan O'Brien (2005); Late Show with David Letterman (2000–2001); Live with Kelly and Mark (2005); Logo Movie Special: 'Brokeback Mountain' (2005); Lords of Dogtown (2005); Los Angeles (2004); Magacine (2005); Modest Mouse: King Rat (2009); Monster's Ball (2001); Ned Kelly (2003); Ned Kelly in Popular Culture (2003); N'fa: Cause an Effect (2009); N'fa: Seduction Is Evil (She's Hot) (2005); Nick Drake: Black Eyed Dog (2007); On Being a Cowboy (2005); Paws (1997); Roar (1997); Roar: The Making of (1997); Rove Live (2001); Sexy Armor and a Rock Band on Tour (2001); Ship to Shore (1993–1994); Sweat (1996); Terryho dotocná (2004); The 2006 Australian Film Institute Awards (2006); The 60th Annual Golden Globe Awards (2003); The 63rd Annual Golden Globe Awards 2006 (2006); The 76th Annual Academy Awards (2004); The 78th Annual Academy Awards (2006); The Art of War (2000); The Brothers Grimm (2005); The Daily Show (2001); The Dark Knight (2008); The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2004–2006); The Four Feathers (2002); The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009); The Insider (2007); The Making of 'A Knight's Tale' (2001); The Making of 'Lords of Dogtown' (2005); The Marquee Event (2001); The Oprah Winfrey Show (2006); The Orange British Academy Film Awards (2006); The Order (2003); The Panel (1999–2001); The Patriot (2000); The Ray Martin Show (2001); The Reichen Show (2006); The Rock Music Scene in 1370 (2001); The Rules of Love (2001); The Teen Choice Awards 1999 (1999); The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (2000–2006); The View (2005); Today (2005); Two Hands (1999); Up Close with Carrie Keagan (2007); V Graham Norton (2002); Venecia 2005: Crónica de Carlos Boyero (2005).

Friday, April 3, 2026

On this day in music history:

Bookends by Simon & Garfunkel (1968)
La Cenerentola (1996)
Night Songs by Renée Fleming and Jean-Yves Thibaudet (2001)


Bookends
Album by Simon & Garfunkel,
released April 3, 1968.
Track list: Bookends Theme; Save the Life of My Child; America; Overs; Voices of Old People; Old Friends; Bookends Theme (Reprise); Fakin’ It; Punky’s Dilemma; Mrs. Robinson (From “The Graduate” Soundtrack); A Hazy Shade of Winter; At the Zoo; You Don’t Know Where Your Interest Lies; Old Friends (Demo).


An episode of the Great Performances TV series.
Directed by Brian Large.
Written by Jacopo Ferretti and Charles Perrault.
Released in the United States on April 3, 1996.
Music by Gioachino Rossini.
Cast: Cecilia Bartoli, Enzo Dara, Raúl Giménez, Alessandro Corbelli, Michele Pertusi, Laura Knoop, Jill Grove, Bruno Campanella, Houston Grand Opera Chorus, Spiro Winsett.


Night Songs
Album by Renée Fleming and Jean-Yves Thibaudet,
released April 3, 2001.
Track list: Debussy: Mandoline; Debussy: Apparition; Debussy: Chansons de Bilitis, L. 90 - La Flûte de Pan; Debussy: Chansons de Bilitis, L. 90 - La Chevelure; Debussy: Chansons de Bilitis, L. 90 - Le Tombeau des Naiades; Marx: Nocturne; Marx: Nachtgebet; Marx: Selige Nacht; Marx: Pierrot Dandy; R. Strauss: Ruhe, meine Seele, Op. 27, No. 1; R. Strauss: Schlechtes Wetter, Op. 69, No. 5; R. Strauss: Leises Lied, Op. 39, No. 1; R. Strauss: Leise Lieder, Op. 41a, No. 5; R. Strauss: Caecilie, Op. 27, No. 2; Rachmaninoff: Zdes’ khorosho, Op. 21, No. 7; Rachmaninoff: V molchani nochi taynoy, Op. 4, No. 3; Rachmaninoff: The Waterlily, Op. 8, No. 1; Rachmaninoff: Dreams, Op. 38, No. 5; Rachmaninoff: These Summer Nights, Op. 14, No. 5; Rachmaninoff: Ne poy, krasavitsa, pri mne, Op. 4, No. 4.

April 3 – National Film Score Day:

Celebrating music in the movies.

Thursday, April 2, 2026

On this day in music history:

Digital Wildlife by Fred Frith / Maybe Monday & Joan Jeanrenaud (2002)
French Operetta Arias: C’est ça la vie, c’est ça l’amour by Susan Graham … (2002)


Digital Wildlife
Album by Fred Frith / Maybe Monday & Joan Jeanrenaud,
released April 2, 2002.
Artists: Fred Frith: electric guitar. Miya Masaoka: koto, electronics. Larry Ochs: tenor saxophone, sopranino saxophone. Joan Jeanrenaud: cello.
Track list: Digital Wildlife; Image In and Atom; The Prisoners' Dilemma; Touch / Risk; Close to Home.


French Operetta Arias: C’est ça la vie, c’est ça l’amour
Album by Susan Graham, Yves Abel, and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra,
released April 2, 2002.
Track list: C'est ca la vie, c'est ca l'amour (Moises Simons, from Toi c'est moi, 1934); J'ai deux amants (Andre Messager, from L'Amour masque, 1923); Yes (Maurice Yvain, from Yes, 1928); Si vous saviez (Arthur Honegger, from Les Aventures du roi Pausole, 1930); O mon bel inconnu (Reynaldo Hahn, from O mon bel inconnu, 1933); Je ne vois rien..Lorsque je n'etais qu'une enfant (Andre Messager, from Fortunio, 1907); Les hommes sont biens tous les memes (Andre Messager, from Coups de roulis, 1928); Air de la Lettre (Reynaldo Hahn, from Brummell, 1931); L'amour est un oiseau rebelle (Andre Messager, from Passionnement, 1926); Vois-tu, je m'en veux (Andre Messager, from Les P'tites Michu, 1897); Etre adore (Reynaldo Hahn, from Mozart, 1925); Je regrette mon Pressigny (Andre Messager, from la Petite Fonctionnaire, 1921); Amour, amour, quel est donc ton pouvoir (Andre Messager, from Les Dragons de lImperatrice, 1905); Mon reve (Andre Messager, from L'Amour masque, 1923); C'est tres vilain d'etre infidele (Reynaldo Hahn, from O mon bel inconnu, 1933); C'est pas Paris, c'est sa banlieue (Reynaldo Hahn, from Ciboulette, 1923); Vagabonde (Moises Simons, from Toi c'est moi, 1934).