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).

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).

La Cenerentola

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.

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).

On this day in music history:

Deep Blues: A Musical Pilgrimage to the Crossroads (1992)

Shallow Life by Lacuna Coil (2009)

Head or Heart by Christina Perri (2014)

All The Time by Csillagköd (2016)

Into The Mist by Fiona Joy Hawkins (2017)

Deep Blues: A Musical Pilgrimage to the Crossroads

Documentary directed by Robert Mugge.

Written by Robert Palmer.

Released in the United States on April 1, 1992.

Cast: Robert Palmer, David A. Stewart, Abraham Schwab, Booker T. Laury, R.L. Burnside, Jessie Mae Hemphill, Abe Young, Napoleon Strickland, Junior Kimbrough, Joe Ayers, Calvin Jackson, Roosevelt Barnes, Frank Self, Wade Walton, Big Jack Johnson, Jack Owens, Early Wright, Bud Spires, Lonnie Pitchford.

Shallow Life

Album by Lacuna Coil,

Released April 1, 2009.

Track list: Survive; I Won't Tell You; Not Enough; I'm Not Afraid; I Like It; Underdog; The Pain; Spellbound; Wide Awake; The Maze; Unchained; Shallow Life; The Last Goodbye (unreleased B-Side); Leaving Alone (unreleased B-Side); Oblivion (unreleased B-Side); Spellbound (Acoustic recorded at WBYR, Ft. Wayne, IN); Closer (Acoustic recorded at The Mancow Show, Chicago); Within Me (Acoustic recorded at The Mancow Show); Survive (live at The House Of Blues in Hollywood); I'm Not Afraid (live at The House Of Blues in Hollywood); I Won't Tell You (live at The House Of Blues in Hollywood); Tightrope (live in St. Petersburg, FL); Fragments Of Faith (live in St. Petersburg, FL); The Game (live in St. Petersburg, FL).

Head or Heart

Album by Christina Perri,

released April 1, 2014.

Track list: Trust; burning gold; be my forever (feat. Ed Sheeran); human; one night; i dont wanna break; sea of lovers; the words; lonely child; run; butterfly; shot me in the heart; i believe.

All The Time

Album by Csillagköd,

released April 1, 2016.

Track list: All Directions (Brainshaped Universe); Spheres (Part 2); Everything Is Happening; Only Matter; Vy Canis Majoris; Long Far Distant; Cosmic Ocean; Merging of Substances; Outside This World; Transexistential Perspectives.

Into The Mist

Album by Fiona Joy Hawkins,

released April 1, 2017.

Track list: A Walk In The Park; Moon Over The Lotus Pond; Opus: Into The Mist (Part 1); Opus: Mist Rising (Part 2); Opus: Mist Before Dawn (Part 3); Through Cloud; Feeling Sunshine; Grey Sky Morning; Galloping; The Void.

On this day in music history:

Karmacode by Lacuna Coil (2006)

Broken Crown Halo by Lacuna Coil (2014)

Heart of Silence by Peter Kater & Michael Brant DeMaria (2015)

Karmacode

Album by Lacuna Coil,

Released March 31, 2006.

Track list: Fragile; To the Edge; Our Truth; Within Me; Devoted; You Create; What I See; Fragments of Faith; Closer; In Visible Light; The Game; Without Fear; Enjoy the Silence.

Broken Crown Halo

Album by Lacuna Coil,

Released March 31, 2014.

Track list: Nothing Stands in Our Way; Zombies; Hostage to the Light; Victims; Die & Rise; I Forgive (But I Won't Forget Your Name); Cybersleep; Infection; I Burn in You; In the End I Feel Alive; One Cold Day; Chapter 1: Pawn Takes Rook; Chapter 2: Beyond the Queen; Chapter 3: Introducing the Bishop; Chapter 4: Knights at the Ready; Chapter 5: Sicilian Defense; Chapter 6: The Queen's Gambit; Chapter 7: The Castled King; Chapter 8: The Stonewall; Chapter 9: Endgame.

Heart of Silence

Album by Peter Kater and Michael Brant DeMaria,

released March 31, 2015.

Track list: Heart of Silence; Radiant Dawn; First Breath; Holding Space; Tender Heart; Timeless Echoes; Midnight Dreaming; Awakening.

On this day in music history:

Anastacia by Anastacia (2004)

The Unforgiving by Within Temptation (2011)

Anastacia

Album by Anastacia,

released March 29, 2004.

Track list: Seasons Change; Left Outside Alone; Time; Sick and Tired; Heavy on My Heart; I Do; Welcome to My Truth; Pretty Little Dum Dum; Sexy Single; Rearview; Where Do I Belong; Maybe Today.

The Unforgiving

Album by Within Temptation,

released March 29, 2011.

Track list: Why Not Me; Shot in the Dark; In the Middle of the Night; Faster; Fire and Ice; Iron; Where Is the Edge; Sinéad; Lost; Murder; A Demon's Fate; Stairway to the Skies.

On this day in music history - 7800° Fahrenheit, by Bon Jovi (1985):

7800° Fahrenheit

Album by Bon Jovi,
released March 27, 1985.

Track list:

In and Out of Love; The Price of Love; Only Lonely; King of the Mountain; Silent Night; Tokyo Road; The Hardest Part Is the Night; Always Run to You; To the Fire; Secret Dreams.

On this day in music history:

Brigade by Heart (1990)

The Bitter Truth by Evanescence (2021)

Brigade

Album by Heart,

released March 26, 1990.

Track list: Wild Child; All I Wanna Do Is Make Love To You; Secret; Tall, Dark Handsome Stranger; I Didn't Want To Need You; The Night; Fallen From Grace; Under The Sky; Cruel Nights; Stranded; Call Of The Wild; I Want Your World To Turn; I Love You.

The Bitter Truth

Album by Evanescence,

released March 26, 2021.

Track list: Artifact/The Turn; Broken Pieces Shine; The Game Is Over; Yeah Right; Feeding The Dark; Wasted On You; Better Without You; Use My Voice; Take Cover; Far From Heaven; Part Of Me; Blind Belief.

On this day in music history:

Machine Head by Deep Purple (1972)

Pastorale by Eric Tingstad & Nancy Rumbel (1997)

Endless Forms Most Beautiful by Nightwish (2015)

Visual Music by Joan Jeanrenaud (2016)

Machine Head

Album by Deep Purple,

released March 25, 1972.

Track list: Highway Star; Maybe I'm A Leo; Pictures Of Home; Never Before; Smoke On The Water; Lazy; Space Truckin'.

Pastorale

Album by Eric Tingstad & Nancy Rumbel,

released March 25, 1997.

Track list: Elysian Fileds; Guinevere's Lament; The Jester; Savannah; Bourree; A Country Dance; Roses And Lace; Pastorale; Fisherman's Dream; Chapel In The Valley; Reverence Track Listings; Elysian Fileds; Guinevere's Lament; The Jester; Savannah; Bourree; A Country Dance; Roses And Lace; Pastorale; Fisherman's Dream; Chapel In The Valley; Reverence.

Endless Forms Most Beautiful

Album by Nightwish,

released March 25, 2015.

Track list: Shudder Before The Beautiful; Weak Fantasy; Élan; Yours Is An Empty Hope; Our Decades In The Sun; My Walden; Endless Forms Most Beautiful; Edema Ruh; Alpenglow; The Eyes Of Sharbat Gula; The Greatest Show On Earth; Shudder Before The Beautiful (instrumental); Weak Fantasy (instrumental); Élan (instrumental); Yours Is An Empty Hope (instrumental); Our Decades In The Sun (instrumental); My Walden (instrumental); Endless Forms Most Beautiful (instrumental); Edema Ruh (instrumental); Alpenglow (instrumental); The Eyes Of Sharbat Gula (orchestral); The Greatest Show On Earth (instrumental).

Visual Music

Album by Joan Jeanrenaud,

Released March 25, 2016.

Track list: Solo Prelude; Pilasters; Harmonic Harlem; Isola; Spinario; Dead Reckoning; Hypocrite; Puzzle; St Paul; Harlem Strut; Winter; Oulipo; This Is Not a Duet; Bacchanal; Moon Above; Virgin & Child; Ethereal Tree.

On this day in music history - Urban Blues, by John Lee Hooker (1967):

Urban Blues

Album by John Lee Hooker,

released March 22, 1967.

Track list:

Cry Before I Go; Boom Boom Boom; Backbiters & Syndicaters; Mr. Lucky; By Own Blues; I Can't Stand To Leave You; Think Twice Before You Go; I'm Standing In Line; Hot Spring Water Pt.1; Hot Spring Water Pt.2; The Motor City Is Burning; Want Ad Blues.

On this day in music history - Magical Ring, by Clannad (1983):

Magical Ring by Clannad (1983)

Soft Place to Fall by Deborah Coleman (2000)

Magical Ring

Album by Clannad,

released March 21, 1983.

Track list: Theme from Harry’s Game / Clannad & Máire Brennan; Tower Hill; Seachrán Charn tSiail; Passing Time; Coinleach Glas An Fhómhair; I See Red; Tá’ Mé Mo Shuí; Newgrange; The Fairy Queen; Thíos Fá’n Chósta; Coinleach Glas An Fhómhair.

Soft Place to Fall

Album by Deborah Coleman,

released March 21, 2000.

Track list: Look What You Do to Me - Deborah Coleman; Confused - Deborah Coleman; Look What You Do to Me; Don’t Lie to Me; If You Love Me Like You Say; Another Hoping Fool; I’m a Woman; So Damn Easy; Nothing’ to Do with Love; What Goes Around; The Day It Comes.

On this day in music history:

Halflife by Lacuna Coil (2000)

Unleashed Memories by Lacuna Coil (2001)

Halflife

EP by Lacuna Coil,

released March 20, 2000.

Track list: Halflife; Trance Awake; Senzafine; Hyperfast; Stars (Dubstar cover).

Unleashed Memories

Album by Lacuna Coil,

released March 20, 2001.

Track list: Heir Of A Dying Day; To Live Is To Hide; Purify; Senzafine; When A Dead Man Walks; 1:19; Cold Heritage; Distant Sun; A Current Obsession; Wave Of Anguish; Lost Lullaby.

On this day in music history - Lord of Light, by Fiona Joy Hawkins (2021):

Lord of Light

Song by Fiona Joy Hawkins,
released March 19, 2021.

On this day in music history:

For Dreaming by Roxanne Potvin (2016)

Signature Synchronicity by Fiona Joy Hawkins (2016)

For Dreaming

Album by Roxanne Potvin,

released March 18, 2016.

Track list: I Thought I’d Miss You; Prairie Sunrise; Help Each Other; Little Heartbreaks; I Wouldn’t Tell You That; The March; Figuring It Out; Ni Toi Non Plus; For Dreaming; In Your Sleep.

Signature Synchronicity

Album by Fiona Joy Hawkins,

released March 18, 2016.

Track list: Ceremony; Grace; Fair Not; Once Upon Impossible; Calling Earth; Invisible Train; Grace (Chill Version); Signature; From the Mist; Little Star.

On this day in music history:

King of the Blues / My Kind of Blues by B.B. King (1960)

Homeland by Eric Tingstad & Nancy Rumbel (1990)

He Said She Said by Peter Karp & Sue Foley (2010)

King of the Blues / My Kind of Blues

Album by B.B. King,

released March 16, 1960.

Track list: King Of The Blues; I've Got A Right To Love My Baby; What Way To Go; Long Nights; Feel Like A Million; I’ll Survive; Good Man Gone Bad; If I Lost You; You’re On The Top; Partin’ Time; I’m King; You Done Lost Your Good Thing Now; Mr. Pawnbroker; Understand; Someday Baby; Driving Wheel; Walking Dr. Bill; My Own Fault, Baby; Catfish Blues; Hold That Train; Please Set The Date; Whole Lotta Love; Woke Up This Morning; Let’s Do The Boogie; Story From My Heart And Soul; Jump With You Baby; Bye Bye Baby.

Homeland

Album by Eric Tingstad & Nancy Rumbel,

released March 16, 1990.

Track list: Homeland; Lotus; Peru; Aria; Clancy's Heart; Traveling Home; Caravan Crossing; Immigrant; The Voyage.

He Said She Said

Album by Peter Karp & Sue Foley,

released March 16, 2010.

Track list: Treat Me Right; So Far so Fast; Wait; Rules of Engagement; Hold on Baby; Mm Hmm; Danger Lurks; Ready for Your Love; Scared; Valentine's Day; Dear Girl; Baby Don't Go; Regret; Lost in You.

On this day in music history:

Angels & Ecstasy by Herb Ernst (1997)

Angels & Ecstasy

Album by Herb Ernst,

released March 15, 1997.

Track list: Angel Wings; Angel of the Lovers; Sweet Devotion; Two Hearts Enfolded; Magic Love; Touch; Heaven on Earth; Romantique Fantastique; The Joining.

On this day in music history: The Way It Feels, by Roxanne Potvin (2006):

The Way It Feels

Album by Roxanne Potvin,

released March 14, 2006.

Track list:

A Love That's Simple; I Want To (Do Everything For You); Hurting Child; Caught Up; La Merveille; While I Wait For You; Your Love Keeps Working On Me; Say It; Don't Pay Attention; Sweet Thoughts Of You; Let It Feel The Way It Feels; Break Away.

On this day in music history - Southside, by Texas (1989):

Southside

Album by Texas,

released March 13, 1989.

Track list:

I Don't Want a Lover; Tell Me Why; Everyday Now; Southside; Prayer for You; Faith; Thrill Has Gone; Fight the Feeling; Fool for Love; One Choice; Future Is Promises.