On this day in music history:

Chant d’amour by Cecilia Bartoli (1996)

Soul Be It by Deborah Coleman (2002)

Desert Suite by Greg Maroney & Sherry Finzer (2021)

Chant d’amour

Album by Cecilia Bartoli,

released October 15, 1996.

Track list: Chant D’amour; Ouvre Ton Coeur; Adieux De L’hotesse Arabe; Tarentelle; La Coccinelle; Les Filles De Cadix; Hai Luli!; Havanaise; Les Filles De Cadix; La Mort d’Ophelie; Zaide; Chanson Francaise; Chanson Espagnole; Chanson Italienne; Chanson Hebraique; Vocalise-Etude (En Forme De Habanera); Kaddisch; L’Enigme Eternelle; Tripatos.

Soul Be It

Album by Deborah Coleman,

released October 15, 2002.

Track list: Brick; My Heart Bleeds Blue; Don’t Lie to Me; I’m a Woman; You’re with Me; I Believe; The Dream; Goodbye Misery.

Desert Suite

Album by Greg Maroney & Sherry Finzer,

released October 15, 2021.

Track list: Saguaro Sunrise; On the Great Colorado; The Gentle Night Surrounds Us; Mesa Grande; Through an Eagles Eye; Cave of the Wind; Wide Open Spaces; Rare the Snow Falls; Wild Horses Run Free; Through the Winding Canyon; Saguaro Sunset.

On this day in television history - Fallen Angels (1995):

Fallen Angels

Season 2. Episode 2.

Episode entitled: The Professional Man.

Released October 15, 1995.

Directed by Steven Soderbergh.

Written by Howard A. Rodman.

Created by William Horberg.

Based on the story by David Goodis.

Theme music by Peter Bernstein.

Cast:

Brendan Fraser, Bruce Ramsay, Peter Coyote, Bernard Hocke, Alpheus Merchant, Joe Chrest, Wayne Pére, Raoul Flambe, David Ward, John Mese, Miguel Ferrer, Mike Malone/Flambe.

On this day in movie history - Badlands (1973):

Badlands

directed and written by Terrence Malick,

was released in the United States on October 15, 1973.
Inspired by the true Charles Starkweather case (1957-58).
Music by George Tipton, Carl Orff and James Taylor.

Cast:

Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates, Ramon Bieri, Alan Vint, Gary Littlejohn, John Carter, Bryan Montgomery, Gail Threlkeld, Charles Fitzpatrick, Howard Ragsdale, John Womack Jr., Dona Baldwin, Ben Bravo, Emilio Estevez, Li Po Lung, Terrence Malick, Charlie Sheen.

On this day in television history - Johnny Staccato (1959):

Johnny Staccato

Season 1. Episode 5.

Episode entitled: Nature of the Night.

Released October 15, 1959.

Directed by Boris Sagal.

Written by Richard Carr, Henry Kane.

Music by Elmer Bernstein.

Cast:

John Cassavetes, Dean Stockwell, Eduardo Ciannelli, Vladimir Sokoloff, J. Pat O'Malley, Janet Lake, Rory/Roy Mallinson, Harry Strang, Jack Costanzo, Mr. Bongo and His Quartet, Jimmie Horan, Harry Raven, Edwin Rochelle, Dennis Sallas.

On this day in television history - The Untouchables (1959 - 1963):

The Untouchables

based on the book by Eliot Ness and Oscar Fraley,

was released in the United States on October 15, 1959,

and ran for four seasons until May 21, 1963.
The pilot episode was released on January 22, 1959.
Narrated by Walter Winchell.
Music by Bill Loose, Jack Cookerly and Nelson Riddle.

Cast:

Robert Stack, Nicholas Georgiade, Paul Picerni, Abel Fernandez, Steve London, Jerry Paris, Chuck Hicks, Anthony George, Keenan Wynn, Eddie Firestone, Robert Osterloh, Frank Wilcox, Robert Bice, Jason Wingreen, Raymond Bailey, Barbara Nichols, Dane Clark, John Gabriel, Barbara Stanwyck, Ed Asner, Virginia Capers, Bruce Gordon, Oscar Beregi, Jr., Lawrence Dobkin, Robert J. Wilke, Warren J. Kemmerling, Bern Hoffman, Nehemiah Persoff, Lloyd Nolan, Robert J. Wilke, Harry Morgan, Gene Roth, Robert Carricart, Joseph Ruskin, Robert Carricart, Carl Milletaire, Grant Richards, Neville Brand, Frank de Kova, John Beradino, Henry Silva, Joe De Santis, George N. Neise, John Kellogg, H. M. Wynant, Wally Cassell, Richard Benedict, Herman Rudin, Les Lampson, Walter Winchell, Paul Picerni, Nicholas Georgiade.

Born on this day – Tanya Roberts:

Tanya Roberts

Actress

October 15, 1949 – January 4, 2021

Credits:

27th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2021); 68th Annual Hollywood Christmas Parade (1999); A View to a Kill (1985); A View to a Kill: Deleted Scenes with Introductions by John Glen (2006); A View to a Kill: Featurette (1985); A View to a Kill: Film '85 BBC Report (1985); A View to a Kill: The Royal Premiere (1985); Almost Pregnant (1992); Barbershop (2005); Biography (2000); Body Slam (1986); Bond Exhibit (2008); Burke's Law (1994); California Dreaming (1979); Charlie's Angels (1980–1981); Charlie's Angels: TV Tales (2002); Deep Down (1994); Designing Bond: Peter Lamont (2000); E! True Hollywood Story (2002–2006); Entertainment Tonight Presents: Charlie's Angels – Uncovered (1999); Eve (2005); Evening (1983); Eye on L.A. (1985); Famous Homes & Hideaways (2000); Fantasy Island (1982); Favorite Deadly Sins (1995); Fillmore! (2003); Fingers (1978); Greatest Heroes of the Bible (1979); Happy Hour (1999); Hearts and Armour (1983); High Tide (1997); Hollywood '84 (1984); Hollywood Squares (2001–2004); Hot Line (1994–1996); Hour Magazine (1981); I Can't Believe I Wore That (2005); Inner Sanctum (1991); Inside 'A View to a Kill' (2000); Inside TV Land (2000); Investigating Tarzan (1997); James Bond 007 at the Movies (1986); James Bond: Licence to Thrill (1987); Joe Bob's Drive-In Theater (1994); Legal Tender (1991); Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder (1987) / Britain's Favourite Detectives (2014); Murder Me, Murder You (1983); Na sowas! (1985); Night Eyes (1990); Off Centre (2002); Pajama Party (2000); Pleasure Cove (1979); Politically Incorrect (2001); Purgatory (1988); Racquet (1979); Sheena (1984); Silk Stalkings (1995); Sins of Desire (1993); TCM Remembers 2021 (2021); That '70s Show (1998–2004); The Alan Thicke Show (1981–1982); The Angry Beavers (1998); The Beastmaster (1982); The Beastmaster Chronicles (2020); The Blues Brothers Animated Series (1997); The Geraldo Rivera Show (1992); The Insider (2013); The John Davidson Show (1981); The Last Victim (1976); The List (2000); The Love Boat (1982); The Martin Short Show (1999); The Men Behind the Mayhem: The Special Effects of James Bond (2000); The Merv Griffin Show (1985); The Mike Douglas Show (1980); The Pandora Directive (1996); The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover (1977); The Saga of 'the Beastmaster' (2005); The Test (2001); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1981–1982); The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (2008); The Yum Yum Girls (1976); Time & Again (2000); Tourist Trap (1979); TV Land Confidential (2007); Twisted Justice (1990); UnConventional (2004); Vega$ (1980); Waikiki (1980); Zuma Beach (1978).

Born on this day – Penny Marshall:

Penny Marshall

Actress

Director

Producer

October 15, 1943 – December 17, 2018

Credits:

1941 (1979); A League of Their Own (1992 / 1993); According to Jim (2009); Alice Upside Down (2007); Aretha Franklin: Jumpin' Jack Flash (1986); Awakenings (1990); Banacek (1973); Barefoot in the Park (1970); Big (1988); Blansky's Beauties (1977); Blonde Ambition (2007); Bones (2006); Bosom Buddies (1982); Campus Ladies (2006); Challenge of a Lifetime (1985); Chico and the Man (1975); Entourage (2006); Everybody Wants to Be Italian (2007); Evil Roy Slade (1972); Frasier (2004); Get Shorty (1995); Getting Together (1971); Good Heavens (1976); Happy Days (1975); Hocus Pocus (1993); How Come Nobody's on Our Side? (1974); How Sweet It Is! (1968); I'm with Her (2004); Jumpin' Jack Flash (1986); Laverne & Shirley (1976); Laverne & Shirley in the Army (1981); Let's Switch! (1975); Love Thy Neighbor (1984); Love, American Style (1970); More Than Friends (1978); Mork & Mindy (1978); Mother's Day (2016); Movers & Shakers (1985); Mulaney (2014); Murder Police (2013); My Friend Tony (1969); Nash Bridges (1998); New Year's Eve (2011); Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers (1974); Portlandia (2012); Renaissance Man (1994); Riding in Cars with Boys (2001); Rodman (2020); Safeguard: Beige Deodorant and Antibacterial Soap Commercial (1972); Sam & Cat (2013); Saturday Night Live (1977); Scooby-Doo! And Kiss: Rock and Roll Mystery (2015); She's Having a Baby (1988); Special Delivery (1999); Staten Island Summer (2015); Stateside (2004); Taxi (1983); That Girl (1968); The Bob Newhart Show (1972); The Couple Takes a Wife (1972); The Crooked Hearts (1972); The Famous Comedians School (1976); The Feminist and the Fuzz (1971); The Game (2008); The Grasshopper (1970); The Hard Way (1991); The Jackie Gleason Show (1953); The Life & Times of Tim (2012); The Magical World of Disney (1970); The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1974); The New Show (1984); The Odd Couple (1972); The Odd Couple: Together Again (1993); The Party's Over... (1972); The Preacher's Wife (1996); The Savage Seven (1968); The Simpsons (1990); The Super (1972); The Thanksgivukkah Movie Trailer (2013); The Tracey Ullman Show (1987); Then Came Bronson (1969); United States of Tara (2010); Where's Poppa? (1970); Wives (1975); Women Without Men (2010); Working Stiffs (1979).