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); Skärgårdsdoktorn (2000); Skogskyrkogården (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).

Born on this day – Frank V. Phillips:

Frank V. Phillips

Cinematographer

April 7, 1912 – April 12, 1994

Frank V. Phillips (holding camera), filming Escape to Witch Mountain (1975).

Credits:

The Ambush Murders (1982); The Magical World of Disney (1958–1981); The Return of the Beverly Hillbillies (1981); Going Ape! (1981); Herbie Goes Bananas (1980); All God's Children (1980); Midnight Madness (1980); The Black Hole (1979); The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again (1979); Goin' Coconuts (1978); Hot Lead and Cold Feet (1978); Return from Witch Mountain (1978); The Dark Secret of Harvest Home (1978); Pete's Dragon (1977); The Shaggy D.A. (1976); Gus (1976); Treasure of Matecumbe (1976); No Deposit, No Return (1976); The Whiz Kid and the Carnival Caper (1976); The Apple Dumpling Gang (1975); Escape to Witch Mountain (1975); The Island at the Top of the World (1974); Return of the Big Cat (1974); Men of the Dragon (1974); Herbie Rides Again (1974); Hog Wild (1974); A Dream for Christmas (1973); The Red Pony (1973); The World's Greatest Athlete (1973); Snowball Express (1972); Now You See Him, Now You Don't (1972); The Strange Monster of Strawberry Cove (1971); Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971); Scandalous John (1971); The Wild Country (1970); Darker Than Amber (1970); The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969); Secrets of the Pirates' Inn (1969); Hawaii Five-O (1968–1969); Premiere (1968); The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band (1968); The Young Loner (1968); Captain Nice (1967); Mosby's Marauders (1967); Run Buddy Run (1966); Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N. (1966); 12 O'Clock High (1965–1966); Wild Wild Winter (1966); The Wild Wild West (1965); Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1965); Gunsmoke (1963–1965); The Cara Williams Show (1964); The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (1963); Have Gun - Will Travel (1960–1963); Rider on a Dead Horse (1962); Adventures in Paradise (1961); Perry Mason (1961); Hong Kong (1961); Hotel de Paree (1959–1960); Border Patrol (1959); A Matter of Attitude (1958); Jefferson Drum (1958); Navy Log (1956–1958); Colt .45 (1957); Circus Boy (1957); Maverick (1957).

Born on this day – William Wordsworth:

William Wordsworth

Writer

April 7, 1770 – April 23, 1850

Recommended reading:

William Wordsworth Selected Poems

By William Wordsworth.

Introduced by Stephen Gill.
Published by Penguin Classics.
First Edition.
First published 2004.
Paperback.
ISBN-10: 0140424423
ISBN-13: 978-0140424423

Description:

One of the major poets of Romanticism, Wordsworth epitomized the spirit of his age with his celebration of the natural world and the spontanous expression of feeling. This volume contains a rich selection from the most creative phase of his life, including extracts from his masterpiece, The Prelude, and the best-loved of his shorter poems such as 'Composed Upon Westminster Bridge', 'Tintern Abbey', 'I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud', 'Lucy Gray', and 'Michael'. Together these poems demonstrate not only Wordsworth's astonishing range and power, but the sustained and coherent vision that informed his work.

Credits:

A Letter to A Friend of Robert Burns (1816); An Evening Walk (1793); Descriptive Sketches (1793); Ecclesiastical Sketches (1822); Lyrical Ballads (1798); Miscellaneous Poems of William Wordsworth (1820); Peter Bell (1819); Poems (1807); Poems (1815); Poems of Wordsworth (1879); Selections from the Poems of William Wordsworth (1831); Thanksgiving Ode (1816); The Cornell Wordsworth (1975); The Excursion (1849); The Poems of William Wordsworth (1845); The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth (various editions 1824–1854); The Prelude 1799, 1805, 1850 (1979); The Prelude, Or Growth of a Poet's Mind (1850); The Prose Works of William Wordsworth (1876); The Prose Works of William Wordsworth (1974); The Recluse (1888); The River Duddon (1820); The Sonnets of William Wordsworth (1838); The Waggoner (1819); The White Doe of Rylstone: or The Fate of the Nortons (1815); Two Addresses to the Freeholders of Westmoreland (1818); William Wordsworth: Selected Poems and Prefaces (1965); William Wordsworth: The Poems (1981); Wordsworth's Literary Criticism (1905).

A Night-Piece, poem by William Wordsworth:

A Night-Piece

Poem by William Wordsworth.

The sky is overcast
With a continuous cloud of texture close,
Heavy and wan, all whitened by the Moon,
Which through that veil is indistinctly seen,
A dull, contracted circle, yielding light
So feebly spread, that not a shadow falls,
Chequering the ground – from rock, plant, tree, or tower.
At length a pleasant instantaneous gleam
Startles the pensive traveller while he treads
His lonesome path, with unobserving eye
Bent earthwards; he looks up – the clouds are split
Asunder, – and above his head he sees
The clear Moon, and the glory of the heavens.
There, in a black-blue vault she sails along,
Followed by multitudes of stars, that, small
And sharp, and bright, along the dark abyss
Drive as she drives: how fast they wheel away,
Yet vanish not! – the wind is in the tree,
But they are silent; – still they roll along
Immeasurably distant; and the vault,
Built round by those white clouds, enormous clouds,
Still deepens its unfathomable depth.
At length the Vision closes; and the mind,
Not undisturbed by the delight it feels,
Which slowly settles into peaceful calm,
Is left to muse upon the solemn scene.

Recommended reading:

William Wordsworth Selected Poems

Video by Jack Kost.
2025.

Photograph:

Night Light (2023), by Jack Kost.

Sound effect credit:

Wind Gusts Late Autumn

by freesound_community
from Pixabay.

Carson McCullers, on writing:

The writer is by nature a dreamer - a conscious dreamer.

- Carson McCullers.

On this day in television history - Justified (2010 & 2011):

Justified

Season 1. Episode 4.

Episode entitled: Long in the Tooth.

Released April 6, 2010.

Directed by Adam Arkin.

Written by Graham Yost, Chris Provenzano and Wendy Calhoun.

Based on the short story Fire in the Hole by Elmore Leonard.

Music by Steve Porcaro.

Cast: Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy, Joelle Carter, Jacob Pitts, Erica Tazel, Natalie Zea, Alan Ruck, Michele Nordin, Lance Barber, Brian Goodman, Brandon Keener, David Warshofsky, Clarence Williams III, Carla Jimenez, Chalo González, Eddie Zamora, Rico E. Anderson, Bert Belasco, Kelly Gullett, Ivo Nandi, Jennifer Lutheran, Alejandro Furth, Daniela Aflalo, Jeffrey Jones.

Justified

Season 2. Episode 9.

Episode entitled: Brother’s Keeper.

Released April 6, 2011.

Directed by Tony Goldwyn.

Written by Graham Yost, Taylor Leonard, Benjamin Cavell and VJ Boyd.

Based on the short story Fire in the Hole by Elmore Leonard.

Music by Steve Porcaro.

Cast: Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy, Joelle Carter, Jacob Pitts, Erica Tazel, Natalie Zea, Walton Goggins, Margo Martindale, Jeremy Davies, Kaitlyn Dever, Brad William Henke, Joseph Lyle Taylor, Mark Colson, Peter Murnik, Rebecca Creskoff, Matthew Fahey, Ryan Kiser, Laura Meadows, Jared A. Robinson, Jon Schueler.

On this day in movie history - Dolan’s Cadillac (2009 movie & book):

Dolan’s Cadillac

directed by Jeff Beesley,

written by Richard Dooling,

based on the novella by Stephen King,

was released in the United States on April 6, 2010.
Music by James Mark Stewart.

Cast:

Christian Slater, Emmanuelle Vaugier, Wes Bentley, Greg Bryk, Aidan Devine, Al Sapienza, Karen LeBlanc, Cory Generoux, Vivian Ng, Patrick Bird, Eugene Clark, Max Keene, Robert Benz, Tim Allen, Amy Matysio, Tony Munch, Darla Biccum, Simon Chin, Sharmaine Yeoh, Amy Martin, Steven P. Park, Jonathan Lim, Melany Burant, Kevin Deon, Rob Hoskins.

Recommended reading:

Nightmares & Dreamscapes

By Stephen King.

Published by Scribner.

First published 1993.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 1501192035

ISBN-13: 978-1501192036

Description:

Includes the story “It Grows on You” – set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine.

The classic short story collection from #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King.

A wrong turn on a lonely road lands a wayward couple in Rock and Roll Heaven, Oregon, where there’s no escaping the free nightly concert…. A novelty toy becomes an unexpected and terrifying instrument of self-defense…. An ex-con pieces together a map to unearth a stolen million dollars – but at what price?... A private investigator in Depression-era Los Angeles is finding his life unraveling as he discovers the shocking truth of who he really is…. A third-grade teacher is willing to dig deep in order to exact revenge for his murdered wife.... These are just some of the haunting scenarios to be found in this classic collection – spellbinding tales from the darkest places and the unparalleled imagination of fiction’s master storyteller. Stories include: Dolan's Cadillac; The End of the Whole Mess; Suffer the Little Children; The Night Flier; Popsy; It Grows on You; Chattery Teeth; Dedication; The Moving Finger; Sneakers; You Know They Got a Hell of a Band; Home Delivery; Rainy Season; My Pretty Pony; Sorry, Right Number; The Ten O'Clock People; Crouch End; The House on Maple Street; The Fifth Quarter; The Doctor's Case; Umney's Last Case; Head Down; Brooklyn August.