On this day in music history:

Landmarks by Clannad (1998)

Soundies: A Musical History (2007)

Landmarks

Album by Clannad,

released March 3, 1998.

Track list: An Gleann; Fado; A Mhuirnin O; Of This Land; Court To Love; The Golden Ball; The Bridge Of Tears; Autumn Leaves Are Falling; Let Me See; Loch Na Cailli.

Soundies: A Musical History

Documentary directed by Chris Lamson.

Written by Chris Lamson and Jennifer Sneider.

Released in the United States on March 3, 2007.

Hosted by Michael Feinstein.

Music by Michael Feinstein.

Cast: Van Alexander, Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Mel Blanc, Will Bradley, Les Brown, Cab Calloway, Mark Cantor, Cyd Charisse, Nat ‘King’ Cole, Dorothy Dandridge, Doris Day, Yvonne De Carlo, Jimmy Dorsey, George Duke, Roy Eldridge, Duke Ellington, Frances Faye, Michael Feinstein, Irving Fields, Joe Franklin, Hugh Hefner, Spike Jones, Louis Jordan, Gene Krupa, Liberace, Leonard Maltin, Ginny Mancini, Wynton Marsalis, Hugh Martin, The Mills Brothers, Dan Morgenstern, Helen O’Connell, Anita O’Day, Jackie Parton, Les Paul, ‘Snub’ Pollard, Stan Ridgway, Kay Starr, Claude Thornhill, Mel Tormé, Merle Travis, Fats Waller, Ben Webster, Lawrence Welk.

Born on this day – Roberta Alexander:

Roberta Alexander

Opera singer (soprano)

March 3, 1949 – October 14, 2025

Credits:

Albums:

Andriessen: Miroir de Peine, Orchestral Music & Concertos (2021); Bach, J.S.: Johannes-Passion (1972); Charles Ives, Songs (2005); Gershwin: Porgy and Bess (Highlights) (1985); Giacomo Puccini, Songs & other rare pieces (1987); Handel: Giulio Cesare in Egitto [Highlights] (- Apex) (1987); Leonard Bernstein, Songs (1986); Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, The Divan of Moses Ibn Ezra, for voice and guitar op 207 (1992); Mass in B minor (1994); Richard Strauss Lieder, Op. 10, 22, 27, 29 (1985); Roberta Alexander sings Samuel Barber, with The Netherlands Radio Philharmonic (1992); Roberta Alexander, a retrospective, Barber, Ives, Mozart, Puccini, Bernstein, Copland (1999); Songs by Dutch Composers (2002); Songs my mother taught me (1999); Symphony no. 4 in G major (1984); Theodora (Arnold Schoenberg Chor & Concentus Musicus Wien feat. conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt) (1999); With you, Broadway Songs (1996); Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Songs for soprano and fortepiano (1985).

Songs:

An Chloë, KV 524; Autumn; Avanti Urania!; Dans un bois solitaire, KV 308; Did you ever cross over to sneden's; Do not go, my love; E l'uccellino; Feldeinsamkeit; Give me jesus, Arr. Hall Johnson; I don't remember you; Inno a Diana; Knoxville: summer of 1915, Opus 24; Let all my life be music; Love's philosophy; Mass - A simple song; Miroir De Peine: I. Agonie au Jardin; Morire?; Music I heard with you; My soul's been anchored, Arr. Florence price; On the counter; peter pan - my house; peter pan - who am I?; Rimsky-Korsakov: The Snow Maiden – Suite; Rimsky-Korsakov: The Snow Maiden - Suite: 2. Dance of the Birds; Salve regina; Sole e amore; Solitary hotel; Songs my mother taught me; Storiella d'amore; Terra e mare; Three orchestrated songs, Sure on this shining night; Two little flowers.

Movies and television:

Angels in America: The Opera (2004); Elektra, tragédie en un acte (2013); Giulio Cesare (1985); Hello I Must Be Going (2012); Hier is... Adriaan van Dis (1983); Jenufa (1989); Podium Witteman (2018); The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2016); The Metropolitan Opera Presents (2015).

Born on this day – Gia Scala:

Gia Scala

Actress

March 3, 1934 – April 30, 1972

Credits:

It Takes a Thief (1969); The Name of the Game (1969); Operation Delilah (1967); Tarzan (1967); Jericho (1966); Run for Your Life (1965); 12 O'Clock High (1965); Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1965); Convoy (1965); The Rogues (1964–1965); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1964); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1964); The Triumph of Robin Hood (1962); The Guns of Navarone (1961); Alfred Hitchcock in Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1960–1961); Hong Kong (1961); Two Girls on the Town (1961); Here's Hollywood (1961); The Islanders (1960); I Aim at the Stars (1960); Battle of the Coral Sea (1959); The Angry Hills (1959); Goodyear Theatre (1959); Ride a Crooked Trail (1958); The Two-Headed Spy (1958); The Tunnel of Love (1958); Don't Go Near the Water (1957); Tip on a Dead Jockey (1957); The Garment Jungle (1957); The Big Boodle (1957); Four Girls in Town (1957); The Steve Allen Plymouth Show (1957); The Price of Fear (1956); Never Say Goodbye (1956); All That Heaven Allows (1955).

Born on this day – Daphne Slater:

Daphne Slater

Actress

March 3, 1928 – October 4, 2012

Credits:

A Man of our Times (1968); Armchair Theatre (1962); BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1951–1959); Callan (1969); Don't Do It Dempsey (1960); Elizabeth R (1971); Emergency-Ward 10 (1967); Emma (1948); Happy Ever After (1969); I Want to Be an Actor (1946); ITV Play of the Week (1960); ITV Playhouse (1974); ITV Saturday Night Theatre (1969–1973); Jackanory (1967); Jane Eyre (1956); Katy's Love Affair (1947); Less Than Kind (1959); Love Story (1966); Our Man at St. Mark's (1966); Out of the Unknown (1965); Persuasion (1960–1961); Play for Today (1970); Precious Bane (1957); Pride and Prejudice (1952); Shadows (1975); Sunday Story (1965); Television World Theatre (1958); The Affair at Assino (1953); The Brontes at the BBC (2016); The Father (1962); The First Freedom (1967); The Gold Robbers (1969); The Jazz Age (1968); The Madhouse on Castle Street / BBC Sunday-Night Play (1961); The Man in the Iron Mask (1968); The Respectful Prostitute (1963); The Wednesday Play (1964); Theatre 625 (1966–1967); Thirty-Minute Theatre (1971); Thursday Theatre (1964–1965); Village Hall (1975); W. Somerset Maugham (1970); World Theatre (1959).

Born on this day – Micheline Dax:

Micheline Dax

Actress

Singer

March 3, 1924 – April 27, 2014

Credits:

Worst week of My Life (2010–2011); The Invisible Woman (2009); Park Benches (2009); Louis the flea market (2007); Max & Co (2007); Venus and Apollo (2005); My wife's ex-wife Life (2004); Monos (2003); The Little Mermaid DVD Read-Along (2002); The soup tureen (2002); Politically Rock (2000); Operation Bugs Bunny (1997); Violetta the Motorcycle Queen (1997); Toonstruck (1996); A Nanny of Note 2 (1995); The Bizarre Adventures of Woodruff and the Schnibble (1994); Hotel Mario (1994); Pregnancy nervous (1994); Gargantua (1993); The Joy of Living (1993); Les Misérables (1992); Taxi Girl (1992); The Keys to Paradise (1991); Forbidden to the public (1989); Pentimento (1989); What a family! (1989); A Key for Two (1989); Like father, Like Son (1988); L'amour à la letter (1986); Next case (1986); Lucky Luke (1984–1985); The Viratatoums (1985); A New Channel (1983); In the event of World War, I'm Flying Abroad (1983); The Head of the Family (1982); Sanctimonious or The Impostor (1980); Peter Voss, der Millionendieb (1977); Let's marry them Living! ... (1976); The Great Swagger (1976); The Twelve Tasks of Asterix (1976); The Acrobat (1976); Flat Out (1975); At the Theatre Tonight (1973–1974); Your the seagulls! (1974); The Goose with the Golden Eggs (1973); Sir Pompadour (1973); The Last Bourrée in Paris (1973); A Slightly Pregnant Man (1973); Anybody Can Call Me (1973); The Canary (1973); Tintin and the Shark Lake (1972); Music Please (1970); These gentlemen of the trigger (1970); The Shame of the Family (1969); Asterix and Cleopatra (1968); The Sloe (1968); The Little Lion (1967); The Great Dozmo (1967); Tender Scoundrel (1966); The Sprinkler (1966); To the two of us, Paris! (1966); Boulevard des Miscellaneous facts: 65-66 (1966); Soup Time (1965); Human Stupidity (1965); Les mordus de Paris (1965); Six in Paris / Rue Saint-Denis (1965); Blagapar (1964); The Magic Roundabout (1964); Skaal (1963); It's Not Me, It's the Other (1962); The Pavement of Paris (1961); Against the Grain (1961); What a time! 2 (1961); One Two-Wheeled (1960); Love and the Frenchwoman / Enfance, L (1960); Plural of Monsieur Leather Rings (1959); Spring Newty (1959); The Key to the Fields (1958–1959); Sacred Youth (1958); Mimi Pinson (1958); Airs de France (1958); This pretty world (1957); The Friend of the Family (1957); The Violin of the Orfeon (1957); Spring in Paris (1957); The Seventh Commandment (1957); Miss Catastrophe (1956); Slightly Ahead (1956); Don Juan (1956); If Paris Was Told to Us (1956); M'sieur la Quail (1955); Villa Sans-Souci (1955); No Mice in Business (1955); Ah! The Beautiful Priestesses of Bacchus (1954); Women of Paris (1953); Street of L'Estrapade (1953); Paris Magazine (1952); Branquignol (1949); Monelle (1948).

Born on this day – Diana Barrymore:

Diana Barrymore

Actress

March 3, 1921 – January 25, 1960

Credits:

Between Us Girls (1942); Eagle Squadron (1942); Fired Wife (1943); Frontier Badmen (1943); Hollywood Canteen (1944); Ladies Courageous (1944); Manpower (1941); Nightmare (1942); The Ben Hecht Show (1958); The Ed Sullivan Show (1949); The Eyes Have It (1949); The Mike Wallace Interview (1957); The Steve Allen Show (1951); Too Much, Too Soon (1958).

Born on this day – James Doohan:

James Doohan

Actor

Writer

March 3, 1920 – July 20, 2005

Credits:

Skinwalker: Curse of the Shaman (2005); The Duke (1999); Through Dead Eyes (1999); Bug Buster (1998); The Bold and the Beautiful (1993–1997); Duckman: Private Dick / Family Man (1997); Star Trek: Generations (1997); Outer Space (1996); River of Stone (1994); New York Skyride (1994); Star Trek: Generations (1994); Storybook (1994); Star Trek: Judgment Rites (1993); Amore! (1993); Loaded Weapon 1 (1993); Star Trek 25th Anniversary (1992); The Ben Stiller Show (1992); Star Trek: The Next Generation (1992); Double Trouble (1992); Star Trek Adventure (1991); Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991); Knight Rider 2000 (1991); MacGyver (1990); Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989); Danger Bay (1988); Grandeur et décadence d'un petit commerce de cinéma (1987); Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986); Hotel (1985); Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984); Magnum, P.I. (1983); Fantasy Island (1983); Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982); Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979); Jason of Star Command (1978); Insight (1977); Star Trek: The Animated Series (1973–1974); Return to Peyton Place (1973); Marcus Welby, M.D. (1969–1972); Man in the Wilderness (1971); O'Hara, U.S. Treasury (1971); Pretty Maids All in a Row (1971); Daniel Boone (1969–1970); Then Came Bronson (1969); Star Trek (1966–1969); Jigsaw (1968); Peyton Place (1965–1967); Jericho (1966); Iron Horse (1966); Fantastic Voyage (1966); One of Our Spies Is Missing (1966); Blue Light (1966); A Man Called Shenandoah (1966); The F.B.I. (1966); Scalplock (1966); The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964–1966); The Virginian (1963–1965); Bewitched (1965); Convoy (1965); Laredo (1965); The Fugitive (1965); His Magic Machine (1965); Bus Riley's Back in Town (1965); The Satan Bug (1965); Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964); Signpost to Murder (1964); 36 Hours (1964); Ben Casey (1964); The Rogues (1964); The Outer Limits (1964); The Richard Boone Show (1964); The Serial (1963–1964); Bonanza (1962–1963); The Wheeler Dealers (1963); Festival (1961–1963); The Labyrinth (1963); Going My Way (1963); Empire (1963); The Gallant Men (1963); G.E. True (1963); Hazel (1963); The Twilight Zone (1963); Gunsmoke (1962); The New Breed (1962); The Business of Farming (1961); Encounter (1953–1961); Heritage (1961); First Person (1960); R.C.M.P. (1960); The Hill (1960); Startime (1960); The Unforeseen (1958–1959); The Ticket (1958); First Performance (1956–1958); On Camera (1954–1958); Test Pilot (1957); Folio (1956–1957); Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans (1957); Strike in Town: Revised (1956); The Cage (1956); The Hill (1956); Strike in Town (1955); Playbill (1953–1955); Men at Work (1954); Howdy Doody (1954); Space Command (1953); Tales of Tomorrow (1952); Suspense (1951); Somerset Maugham TV Theatre (1950); Actor's Studio (1950).