Born on this day – Sonny Boy Williamson:

Sonny Boy Williamson

Blues singer

Harmonicist

Songwriter

March 30, 1914 – June 1, 1948

Credits:

Music:

A Portrait in Blues (1963); Baby Let Me Come Back Home / November Boogie / All Nite Boogie / Leavin Blues (1966); Blues Classics by The Original Sonny Boy Williamson (1965); Born Blind / Ninety-Nine (1958); Bring It On Home / Down Child (1965); Bummer Road (1969); Bye Bye Bird / Help Me (1963); Come On Back Home / Stop Crying (1951); Cool, Cool Blues / Do It if You Wanta (1951); Crazy ‘Bout You, Baby / Eyesight to the Blind (1951); Cross My Heart / Dissatisfied (1958); Don’t Send Me No Flowers (1968); Don’t Start Me Talkin’/ All My Love in Vain (1955); Down and Out Blues (1959); Empty Bedroom / From the Bottom (1955); Fattening Frogs for Snakes / I Don’t Know (1957); From the Bottom / Empty Bedroom; Gettin’ Out of Town / She Brought Life Back to the Dead (1954); Going in Your Direction / Red Hot Kisses (1954); I Cross My Heart / West Memphis Blues (1954); In Memoriam (1965); Keep It to Yourself / The Key (To Your Door) (1956); King Biscuit Time (1989); Let Me Explain / Your Imagination (1956); Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide / Unseeing Eye (1959); Mighty Long Time / Nine Below Zero (1951); More Real Folk Blues (1966); Mr. Downchild / Stop Now Baby (1954); My Younger Days / I Want You Close to Me (1964); No Nights by Myself / Boppin’ with Sonny (1956); One Way Out / Nine Below Zero (1962); Pontiac Blues / Sonny Boy’s Christmas Blues (1951); Rock Generation Vol. 4 with the Animals (1973); Sonny Boy Williamson and Memphis Slim (1964); Sonny Boy Williamson and the Yardbirds (1966); Stop Right Now / The Hunt (1961); Temperature 110 / Lonesome Cabin (1960); The Blues of Sonny Boy Williamson (1963); The Goat / It’s Sad to Be Alone (1960); The Hunt / Little Village (1961); The Real Folk Blues (1966); This Is My Story (1972); Too Close Together / Cat Hop (1953); Trust My Baby / Too Close Together (1960); Trying to Get Back on My Feet / Decoration Day (1963); Your Funeral and My Trial / Wake Up Baby (1958).

Movies and television:

Af jazzens billedbog (1963); Almost Famous (2000); American Gangster (2007); American Made (2017); Animal House of Blues: 33.3 Special Edition (2018); Arena (1985); Barfly (1987); Blues Brothers 2000 (1998); Blues Odyssey (2003); Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music (1993); Charming the Hearts of Men (2021); Deadwood (2004); Dogfight (1991); Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars (2017); Frogs for Snakes (1998); Fuel (2008); Godfather of Harlem (2019); Green Book (2018); Groupies (1970); Homicide: Life on the Street (1994); Hullabaloo! (1963–1964); Jane B. for Agnes V. (1988); Johnny Winter And: Live in Copenhagen (1971); Jonny Lang Live at Montreux 1999 (1999); Listening to You: The Who at the Isle of Wight 1970 (1998); Long John Baldry: In the Shadow of the Blues (2000); Long Strange Trip (2017); Lords of Dogtown (2005); Mae Mercer & Sonny Boy Williamson: Careless Love (1965); Mulholland Drive (2001); My Kinda People (2003); Mysteries of the Abandoned: Hidden America (2023); On Any Saturday (2006); Once Were Brothers (2019); Private Practice (2007); Ready, Steady, Go! (1965); Secondhand Lions (2003); Tempo (1964); The American Folk Blues Festival 1962-1966 - Volume 1 (2003); The American Folk Blues Festival 1962-1966 - Volume 2 (2003); The Beat Room (1964); The Blues (2003); The Departed (2006); The Dukes of Hazzard (2005); The Ed Sullivan Show (1950); The Fall (2013); The Funeral (1996); The Howlin' Wolf Story (2003); The Who: The Making of Tommy (2013); Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (1995); Tommy (1975); Wetlands Preserved: The Story of an Activist Nightclub (2008); Where Has Poor Mickey Gone? (1964); Who Shot Pat? (1989).

Born on this day – Robert Riskin:

Robert Riskin

Writer

Producer

Director

March 30, 1897 – September 20, 1955

Credits:

American Madness (1932); Ann Carver's Profession (1933); Arizona (1931); Broadway Bill (1934); Çarikli Milyoner (1983); Carnival (1935); Conquer by the Clock (1942); Ex-Lady (1933); Half Angel (1951); Here Comes the Groom (1951); Hymn of the Nations (1944); Illicit (1931); It Happened One Night (1934); Lady for a Day (1933); Lelki klinika (1941); Library of Congress (1945); Lost Horizon (1937); Lux Video Theatre (1956); Magic Town (1947); Many a Slip (1931); Meet John Doe (1941); Meet the Stars #6: Stars at Play (1941); Men in Her Life (1931); Miracles: The Canton Godfather (1989); Mister 880 (1950); Mr. Deeds (2002); Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936); Platinum Blonde (1931); Pocketful of Miracles (1961); Riding High (1950); Rough and Ready Reggie (1917); Shopworn (1932); Swedes in America (1943); The 20th Century-Fox Hour (1956); The Big Timer (1932); The Cowboy (1943); The Cowboy and the Lady (1938); The Cummington Story (1945); The Miracle Woman (1931); The Night Club Lady (1932); The Real Glory (1939); The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946); The Thin Man Goes Home (1944); The Town (1944); The Whole Town's Talking (1935); They Shall Have Music (1939); Three Wise Girls (1931); Valley of the Tennessee (1944); Virtue (1932); Watchtower Over Tomorrow (1945); When You're in Love (1937); You Can't Run Away from It (1956); You Can't Take It with You (1938).

Edna Ferber, on writing:

Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing,

for life itself is a writer's lover until death -

fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous, constant.

- Edna Ferber, A Kind of Magic (1963).

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 movie history - Blow (2001):

Blow

directed by Ted Demme,

written by David McKenna and Nick Cassavetes,

based on the book by Bruce Porter,

was released in the United States on March 29, 2001.
Music by Graeme Revell.

Cast:

Johnny Depp, Penélope Cruz, Franka Potente, Rachel Griffiths, Paul Reubens, Jordi Mollà, Cliff Curtis, Miguel Sandoval, Ethan Suplee, Ray Liotta, Kevin Gage, Max Perlich, Jesse James, Miguel Pérez, Dan Ferro, Tony Amendola, Bobcat Goldthwait, Michael Tucci, Monet Mazur, Lola Glaudini, Jennifer Gimenez, Emma Roberts, Jaime King.

On this day in movie history - Ghost in the Shell (1995):

Ghost in the Shell

directed by Mamoru Oshii,

based on the Manga comic book series by Masamune Shirow,

was released in the United States on March 29, 1996.
The DVD of the updated Ghost in the Shell 2.0 version was released in the United States on January 12, 2010.

Voice cast:

Atsuko Tanaka, Maaya Sakamoto, Akio Ōtsuka, Iemasa Kayumi, Yoshiko Sakakibara, Kōichi Yamadera, Tamio Ōki, Yutaka Nakano, Tesshō Genda, Mitsuru Miyamoto, Kazuhiro Yamaji, Shigeru Chiba.

On this day in movie history - Long Weekend (1978):

Long Weekend

directed by Colin Eggleston,

written by Everett De Roche,

was released in Australia on March 29, 1979.
Music by Michael Carlos.

Cast:

John Hargreaves, Briony Behets, Mike McEwen, Roy Day, Michael Aitkens, Sue Kiss von Soly, Colin Eggleston.