On this day in music history:

Winter & Christmas by Amy Lauren (2008)

Medicine Melodies: Songs the Healers Hear by Silvia Nakkach & Christopher Eickmann (2012)

Soul Espanol by Sherry Finzer & Chris B. Jàcome (2020)

Winter & Christmas

Album by Amy Lauren,

released July 31, 2008.

Track list: Ice Dance; The Holly and the Ivy; Everything Magical; Eve of Winter; November; Greensleeves; December Song; I Saw Three Ships; Midnight Snow; Away in a Manger; Silent Night; God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen; Northern Sunrise; We Three Kings; There is Peace; Jolly Old St. Nicholas.

Medicine Melodies: Songs the Healers Hear

Album by Silvia Nakkach & Christopher Eickmann,

released on July 31, 2012.

Track list: Firefly Call; Icaro del Silbido (Whistling Icaro); Icaro Madresita (Dear Mother Icaro); Shaman Journey; Canto da Mulher (Woman Song); Spirit Clamors; Tudo Bem Bem (All is Good, Good); Wind Chant; Monk Invocation; Reza (Prayer); Oxum Dream; Yemanja for Two; Nana Maia (Lullaby to Illusion); Morning Melody; Twameva Mata; Sri Narayani Amma; Hymn to Saraswati; Val Song; Sound Forest.

Soul Espanol

Album by Sherry Finzer & Chris B. Jàcome,

released July 31, 2020.

Track list: Mediterranean Meditations; Ondas; Sea of Tranquility; Reflections.

Born on this day – Kara Hamilton:

Kara Hamilton

Actress

July 31, 1975 – July 3, 2017

Credits:

The Awakened (2012); Secret Millionaires (2011); The Last Request (2006); Just Like Heaven (2005); Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne (2003); Late Show with David Letterman (2003); Fighting Irish (2003); Smoking Herb (2002); So, What Do You Think? (2000); Forces of Nature (1999).

Born on this day – Pat Finn:

Pat Finn

Actor

July 31, 1965 – December 22, 2025

Credits:

2 Broke Girls (2016); 25 Years of Improv Comedy (2005); 3rd Rock from the Sun (1998–2001); A.D.D. Comedy with Dave Razowsky (2012); According to Jim (2002); Bella and the Bulldogs (2016); Biography (2002); Biography: Chris Farley - Anything for a Laugh (2019); Boys & Girls (1996); Brother's Keeper (1999); Caroline in the City (1996); Celebrity Family Feud (2021); Chiaspora (2020); Cloud 9 (2006); Comics Come Home 6 (2000); Committed (2005); Complete Savages (2005); Creating America's Next Hit Show (2013); Curb Your Enthusiasm (2005); Dads in Parks (2017); Dealin' with Idiots (2013); Detention: The Siege at Johnson High (1997); Diamond in the Rough (2022); Dude, Where's My Car? (2000); Ed (2001–2002); Factory (2008); Family Ornaments (2023); Fast Facts Live (2020); Friends (2000); Funky Monkey (2004); Funny Money (2006); Funny Thing About Love (2021); Gorditx (2022); Grown-Ups (1998); Hollywood Museum Squares (2021); Hollywood Vice (2005); Home & Family (1996); House (2010); How High (2001); Humor Me (2004); I Am Chris Farley (2015); I Love You, Beth Cooper (2009); It's Complicated (2009); Jazz Freddy (1992–1993); Kickin' It (2014); Las Vegas (2003); Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1995); Less Than Perfect (2002); Lost on Earth (1997); Love & Support (2001); M.Y.O.B. (2000); Marvin Marvin (2012–2013); Murphy Brown (1995–1997); My Boys (2006–2007); Nobody Knows Anything! (2003); Oliver Beene (2003); Out of Jimmy's Head (2007); Pee Shy (2004); Prairie Dogs (2001); Red Carpet Report (2019); Santa Paws 2: The Santa Pups (2012); Seinfeld (1998); Selfie Dad (2020); Space Buddies (2009); Spooky Buddies (2011); Tampa Bay Podcast Archive (2025); Tanat736: The Benis Kingdom (2024); Tangles (2026); That '70s Show (1999); The Bachelor (1999); The Bernie Mac Show (2006); The Drew Carey Show (1998–2003); The George Lucas Talk Show (2021); The George Wendt Show (1995); The Goldbergs (2019); The King of Queens (2000); The Middle (2011–2018); The Naked Trucker and T-Bones Show (2007); The Real O'Neals (2016); The Suite Life of Zack & Cody (2007); The Sweet Spot (2002); The Thundermans (2018); Three Sisters (2001); Unconditional Love (2002); Unexpected (2023); Unhitched (2008); With You in Spirit (2003); Wizards of Waverly Place (2009); Yes, Dear (2005).

Born on this day – Stanley R. Jaffe:

Stanley R. Jaffe

Director

Producer

July 31, 1940 – March 10, 2025

Credits:

Bad Company (1972); Black Rain (1989); Black Rain: Making the Film - Part 2 (2006); Black Rain: Post-Production (2006); Black Rain: The Script, the Cast (2006); Bravo Profiles (2002); Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood (2003); Fatal Attraction (2023); Fatal Attraction: Visual Attraction (2002); Finding the Truth: The Making of 'Kramer vs. Kramer' (2001); Firstborn (1984); Forever Fatal: Remembering 'Fatal Attraction' (2002); Goodbye, Columbus (1969); HBO First Look (2000); I Dreamed of Africa (2000); I Start Counting (1970); Kramer vs. Kramer (1979); Madeline (1998); Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood (2010); Racing with the Moon (1984); Racing with the Moon: The Story - The People (2004); Racing with the Moon: The Story Goes On (2004); School Ties (1992); Taps (1981); The 52nd Annual Academy Awards (1980); The 60th Annual Academy Awards (1988); The Accused (1988); The Bad News Bears (1976); The Four Feathers (2002); The Making of 'Racing with the Moon' (2004); Without a Trace (1983).

Born on this day – Geoffrey Lewis:

Geoffrey Lewis

Actor

July 31, 1935 – April 7, 2015

Credits:

10 to Midnight (1983); 22nd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2016); 30 Days in Hell: The Making of 'The Devil's Rejects' (2005); A Light in the Darkness (2002); A Man Called Sloane (1979); A Painted House (2003); A Woman's Guide to Firearms (1987); AfterMASH (1983); Alias Smith and Jones (1971–1972); Alice (1976); Amazing Stories (1986); American Masters (2000); American Perfekt (1997); An Occasional Hell (1996); Annihilator (1986); Any Which Way You Can (1980); Arena (2000); Ark II (1976); At My Place (1990); Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan (1975); B.J. and the Bear (1980); Bad Company (1972); Barnaby Jones (1973–1980); Belle Starr (1980); Bert D'Angelo/Superstar (1976); Better Angels (2011); Biography (2003); Blue Thunder (1984); Bonanza (1970); Brazilian Brawl (2003); Bret Maverick (1982); Bronco Billy (1980); Brothers Broken: The Story That Stopped the Music (2023); Cade's County (1971); Cannon (1972); Catch Me If You Can (1989); CBS Summer Playhouse (1988); Centennial (1979); Cinemassacre's Monster Madness (2009–2019); City of Angels (1976); Cold Case (2004); Cold Ones (2007); Criminal Minds (2006); Dallas: The Early Years (1986); Dan August (1970); Dawson's Creek (2003); Day of Reckoning (1994); Desert Rats (1988); Designing Women (1987); Desperado: The Outlaw Wars (1989); Dillinger (1973); Disturbed (1990); Double Impact (1991); Down in the Valley (2005); Easy Street (1987); Every Which Way But Loose (1978); Falcon Crest (1984); Fat Actress (2005); Fingerprints (2006); Fingerprints: Scariest Moments Interviews (2008); Five Aces (1999); Fletch Lives (1989); Flo (1980–1981); Freedom (1970); Gambler V: Playing for Keeps (1994); Greatest Hits on Ice (1994); Gun Shy (1983); Gunsmoke (1972); Gunsmoke: The Last Apache (1990); Harry O (1975); Hawaii Five-O (1977); Heaven's Gate (1980); High & Outside: A Baseball Noir (2017); High Plains Drifter (1973); Highway 395 (2000); Highway to Heaven (1984); Hizzonner (1979); Honky Tonk (1974); Hot Pursuit (1984); House (2007); Human Experiments (1979); Hunter (1977); I, the Jury (1982); In the Heat of the Night (1990); J.J. Starbuck (1987); Joshua Tree (1993); Kansas (1995); Kung Fu (1973); Land's End (1995–1996); Las Vegas (2004); Last Resort (1994); Laverne & Shirley (1977); Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2004); Life of the Party: The Story of Beatrice (1982); Little House on the Prairie (1976–1983); Longstreet (1971); Lou Grant (1977–1980); Lucky Lady (1975); Lust in the Dust (1984); MacGyver (1986); Macon County Line (1974); Macon County Line: 25 Years Down the Road (2000); Magnum, P.I. (1984–1986); Mama's Family (1983); Mannix (1971–1972); Mathnet (1988); Matlock (1988); Matters of the Heart (1990); Maverick (1994); Maximum Security (1984–1985); May Day (2003); McCloud (1976); Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997); Mind Games (2003); Miss Nobody (2010); Mission: Impossible (1972); Mod Squad (1973); Mommy's Little Monster (2012); Monster Squad (1976); Moon of the Wolf (1972); Mork & Mindy (1978); Moving McAllister (2007); Murder, She Wrote (1987–1996); My Life with Men (2003); My Name Is Earl (2006); My Name Is Nobody (1973); NFL Films Presents / American Film Institute Comedy Special / Segment: Blue Suits (1987); Night of the Comet (1984); Nip/Tuck (2003); Odyssey 5 (2002–2003); Old Man Music (2005); Only the Strong (1993); Out of the Dark (1988); Pancho Barnes (1988); Paradise (1989); Patients (2004); Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1 (2008); Pensacola: Wings of Gold (2000); Pickin' & Grinnin' (2010); Pink Cadillac (1989); Plainsong (2004); Point of No Return (1993); Police Woman (1975–1976); Quark (1978); Renegade (2004); Retreat! (2016); Rough Riders (1997); S.W.A.T. (1975); Salem's Lot (1979); Samurai (1979); Scarecrow and Mrs. King (1985); September Gun (1983); Seven Stories (2003); Shades of LA (1991); Shadow Chasers (1985); Shoot the Sun Down (1978); Sidekicks (1986); Silver Saddle (1978); Skyward Christmas (1981); Smile (1975); Social Guidance (2005); Song of the Vampire (2003); Spenser: For Hire (1985); Spot Marks the X (1986); Square One Television (1988); Starsky and Hutch (1975); Stitches (1985); Stormin' Home (1985); Sunstorm (2001); Tango & Cash (1989); TCM Remembers 2015 (2015); The Amazing Spider-Man (1979); The A-Team (1984–1985); The Baggs (1973); The Butcher (2009); The Culpepper Cattle Co. (1972); The Deadly Triangle (1977); The Defenders (1963); The Devil's Rejects (2005); The Directors (1997–2008); The Dragon Gate (1994); The Fall Guy (1985); The Fat Black Pussycat (1963); The Golden Girls (1987); The Great Houdini (1976); The Great Ice Rip-Off (1974); The Great Waldo Pepper (1975); The Guardian (2003); The Gun and the Pulpit (1974); The Haunted World of El Superbeasto (2009); The High Chaparral (1970); The Hunted Lady (1977); The Huntress (2001); The Janitor (1995); The Jericho Mile (1979); The Last Doorway Show with Miss Misery (2009); The Lawnmower Man (1992); The Man Without a Face (1993); The Mountain (2004); The Name of the Game (1971); The New Daughters of Joshua Cabe (1976); The New Guy (2002); The Oldest Rookie (1987); The Prophet's Game (2000); The Return of a Man Called Horse (1976); The Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Fifteen Years Later Affair (1983); The Rookies (1976); The Shadow Riders (1982); The Six Million Dollar Man (1977); The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (1988–1989); The Story of Book One (1987); The Streets of San Francisco (1975); The Terror Has Awakened. (2005); The Todd Killings (1971); The Underworld (1997); The Waltons (1974); The Way of the Gun (2000); The Wind and the Lion (1975); The X-Files (1999); The Yellow Rose (1984); The Young Lawyers (1970); Then Came Bronson (1970); Thieves (2001); Thomas Kinkade's Christmas Cottage (2008); Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974); Tilt (1979); Time Out (1988); Titus (2001); Tom Horn (1980); Travis McGee (1983); Trilogy of Terror II (1996); Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship & Videotape (2010); Voodoo Moon (2006); Walker, Texas Ranger (1994); Webster (1988); Welcome Home Soldier Boys (1971); When Every Day Was the Fourth of July (1978); When the Dark Man Calls (1995); White Fang 2: Myth of the White Wolf (1994); Wicked Little Things (2006); Wild Hearts (2006); Wildside (1985); Wishman (1992).

Born on this day – Mary Munday:

Mary Munday

Actress

July 31, 1926 – September 30, 1997

Credits:

Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1961); Arrest and Trial (1963); Black Saddle (1959); Bonanza (1959); Breezy (1973); Cain's Hundred (1961); Coronado 9 (1961); Death Valley Days (1959); Diana (1973); East Side/West Side (1964); First Monday in October (1981); Ghost Dad (1990); Gunsmoke (1961); Harry O (1975); Have Gun - Will Travel (1961–1962); Kraft Mystery Theater (1962); M Squad (1958–1960); Magic (1978); Marian Rose White (1982); McCloud (1974); Norma Rae (1979); Outlaws (1961); Perry Mason (1963); Peter Gunn (1961); Philip Marlowe (1960); Police Story (1974–1975); Pressure Point (1962); Quincy, M.E. (1979); Route 66 (1963); Science Fiction Theatre (1955); Serpent Island (1954); State Trooper (1958); Stoney Burke (1962); The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970); The Defenders (1964); The Deputy (1961); The Detectives (1960); The F.B.I. (1970); The Golden Hawk (1952); The Golden Horde (1951); The Hawaiians (1970); The Loretta Young Show (1958–1960); The Outsiders (1990); The Rockford Files (1980); The Twilight Zone (1963); Today's F.B.I. (1982); True Confessions (1981); Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (1960).

Born on this day – Barbra Fuller:

Barbra Fuller

Actress

July 31, 1921 – May 15, 2024

Credits:

Adventures of Superman (1953); Alias the Champ (1949); Boston Blackie / Front Page Detective (1951); City of Bad Men (1953); Colgate Theatre (1958); Daniel Boone (1970); Flame of Youth (1949); Four Star Playhouse (1955–1956); Harbor of Missing Men (1950); Lassie (1965); Lonely Heart Bandits (1950); Medic (1955); My Three Sons (1960); Perry Mason (1960–1964); Rock Island Trail (1950); Singing Guns (1950); State Trooper (1958); Tarnished (1950); The Ford Television Theatre (1957); The Jack Benny Program (1958); The Lineup (1955); The Millionaire (1956); The Red Menace (1949); The Roommates (1973); The Savage Horde (1950); Trackdown (1958); Trial Without Jury (1950); U.S. Marshal (1960); Unmasked (1950); Visiting... with Huell Howser (1994); Women from Headquarters (1950); World of Giants (1959).