On this day in music history: Play, by Roxanne Potvin (2011):

Play

Album by Roxanne Potvin,

released January 2, 2011.

Track list:

Barricades; You Told Me; Let Me Go; Born to Win; Coral Reef Fishes; Magic Rainbows; Dis-Moi Que Tu M'aimes; Pretty Girls; Donnes Ton Mal; Seashells; I'm Too Sexy; Keep Your Head.

On this day in television history - M Squad (1959):

M Squad

Season 2. Episode 15.

Episode entitled: The Teacher.

Released January 2, 1959.

Directed by Don Medford.

Written by Frank Moss.

Music by John Williams.

Cast:

Lee Marvin, Paul Newlan, Tom Laughlin, Sue George, Burt Reynolds, Stanley Dyrector, Stuart Randall, Maida Severn, Ron Gorton.

Born on this day – Ron Hale:

Ron Hale

Actor

January 2, 1946 – August 27, 2024

Credits:

A Lovely Way to Die (1968); All the President's Men (1976); Easy (2016); Entertainment Tonight (1989); General Hospital (1995–2010); Intimate Portrait (2003); Live with Kelly and Mark (1989); Love Is a Many Splendored Thing (1973); MacGyver (1990); Matlock (1989); Me, Natalie (1969); N.Y.P.D. (1968); Original Intent (1990); Port Charles (1997–2000); Rodney (2004); Ryan's Hope (1975–1989); Search for Tomorrow (1969); Shattered Steel (1996); SoapTalk (2004–2006); Sunstorm (2001); The Adventures of Loop & Rhett (2011); The Brothers Flub (1999); The Ghost and the Whale (2017); The Lord Protector (1996); Trial by Jury (1994).

Born on this day – Charles Willeford:

Charles Willeford

Writer

January 2, 1919 – March 27, 1988

Credits:

Miami Blues (1984); New Hope for the Dead (1985); Sideswipe (1987); The Way We Die Now (1988); High Priest of California (1953); Pick Up (1954); Wild Wives (1956); The Black Mass of Brother Springer (aka Honey Gal) (1958); Lust Is a Woman (aka Made in Miami) (1958); The Woman Chaser (1960); Deliver Me from Dallas (aka The Whip Hand) (1961); Understudy for Death (1961); Cockfighter (1962); No Experience Necessary (1962); The Hombre From Sonora (aka The Difference) (1971); The Burnt Orange Heresy (1971); Kiss Your Ass Goodbye (1987); The Shark Infested Custard (1993); The Machine in Ward Eleven (1963); Everybody's Metamorphosis (1988); Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950s (1997); The Second Half of the Double Feature (2003); Poontang (poems) (2011); The Ordainment of Brother Springer (play) (2009); The Old Man at the Bridge (2009); Strange (2011); Sentences (2013); Off the Wall (1980); Something About a Soldier (1986); New Forms of Ugly (1987); I Was Looking for a Street (1988); Cockfighter Journal (1989); The Collected Memoirs of Charles Willeford (2000); Writing and Other Blood Sports (2000); Wild Wives / High Priest of California (1956); Charles Willeford Omnibus (1991).

Born on this day – Vivi Gioi:

Vivi Gioi

Actress

January 2, 1917 – July 12, 1975

Credits:

Il baco da seta (1974); Dio non paga il sabato (1967); Il processo di Verona (1963); Farse d'altri tempi (1959); Festival della famiglia Gurgià (1958); Vento notturno (1958); Rice Girl (1956); Io sono Gionata Scrivener (1955); Stasera a Samarcanda (1954); Senza bandiera (1951); La portatrice di pane (1950); Women Without Names (1950); Mistress of the Mountains (1950); The Earth Cries Out (1949); Tragic Hunt (1947); Il marito povero (1946); La casa senza tempo (1945); Tutta la città canta (1945); Service de nuit (1944); ...und die Musik spielt dazu (1943); Harlem (1943); Cortocircuito (1943); Lascia cantare il cuore (1943); Piazza San Sepolcro (1942); Bengasi (1942); Giungla (1942); First Love (1941); L'amante segreta (1941); L'attore scomparso (1941); Il pozzo dei miracoli (1941); La canzone rubata (1940); Dopo divorzieremo (1940); Cento lettere d'amore (1940); Alessandro sei grande! (1940); Red Roses (1940); Vento di milioni (1940); Mille chilometri al minuto! (1939); Frenzy (1939); Bionda sotto chiave (1939); Il signor Max (1937); Ma non è una cosa seria (1936).

Born on this day – Anna Lee:

Anna Lee

Actress

Singer

January 2, 1913 – May 14, 2004

Credits:

General Hospital (1979–2003); Port Charles (2000); What Can I Do? (1994); Beverly Hills Brats (1989); Beverly Hills Brats (1989); Listen to Me (1989); Beyond the Next Mountain (1987); The Right Hand Man (1987); Glitter (1985); Scruples (1980); B.J. and the Bear (1979); The Night Rider (1979); Legend of the Northwest (1978); The Beasts Are on the Streets (1978); Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years (1977); Eleanor and Franklin (1976); Mannix (1968–1974); The F.B.I. (1973); My Darling Daughters' Anniversary (1973); The Streets of San Francisco (1973); Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law (1973); The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie (1972); The Bold Ones: The Senator (1970); Mission: Impossible (1970); Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1969); The Outcasts (1969); Star! (1968); Gunsmoke (1967); The Felony Squad (1967); Family Affair (1967); In Like Flint (1967); This Is the Life (1966); Picture Mommy Dead (1966); My Three Sons (1960); 7 Women (1965); Daniel Boone (1965); The Sound of Music (1965); Mr. Novak (1965); Combat! (1965); The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964); For Those Who Think Young (1964); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1964); The Movie Maker (1964); The Prize (1963); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1963); Dr. Kildare (1963); McHale's Navy (1962); Perry Mason (1962); What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962); Jack the Giant Killer (1962); Checkmate (1962); The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962); 77 Sunset Strip (1962); Two Rode Together (1961); Lock Up (1960–1961); Maverick (1961); Hawaiian Eye (1959–1960); Wagon Train (1960); The Barbara Stanwyck Show (1960); The Loretta Young Show (1959–1960); The Big Night (1960); One Step Beyond (1960); Jet Over the Atlantic (1959); The Crimson Kimono (1959); This Earth Is Mine (1959); The Horse Soldiers (1959); The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen (1959); Peter Gunn (1958); The Last Hurrah (1958); Studio One (1951–1958); Shirley Temple's Storybook (1958); Gideon of Scotland Yard (1958); The Charles Farrell Show (1956); Your Play Time (1955); The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse (1955); Where's Raymond? (1955); Armstrong Circle Theatre (1954); Kraft Theatre (1950–1952); Robert Montgomery Presents (1950–1952); Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (1952); A Date with Judy (1951); The Web (1950–1951); The Ford Theatre Hour (1950–1951); Lux Video Theatre (1951); Somerset Maugham TV Theatre (1950); The Clock (1950); Prison Warden (1949); Best Man Wins (1948); Fort Apache (1948); High Conquest (1947); The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947); G.I. War Brides (1946); Bedlam (1946); Summer Storm (1944); Flesh and Fantasy (1943); Hangmen Also Die! (1943); Forever and a Day (1943); Commandos Strike at Dawn (1942); Flying Tigers (1942); How Green Was My Valley (1941); My Life with Caroline (1941); Seven Sinners (1940); Return to Yesterday (1940); Young Man's Fancy (1939); The Secret Four (1939); Hollywood Picnic (1937); Non-Stop New York (1937); King Solomon's Mines (1937); You're in the Army Now (1937); The Man Who Lived Again (1936); Queen of Hearts (1936); First a Girl (1935); The Passing of the Third Floor Back (1935); Heat Wave (1935); The Camels Are Coming (1934); Lucky Loser (1934); Rolling in Money (1934); Faces (1934); Mannequin (1933); Chelsea Life (1933); The Bermondsey Kid (1933); Mayfair Girl (1933); Yes, Mr. Brown (1933); The King's Cup (1933); Say It with Music (1932); His Lordship (1932); Ebb Tide (1932).

Born on this day – Edith North Johnson:

Edith North Johnson

Blues singer

Pianist

Songwriter

January 2, 1903 – February 28, 1988

Credits:

Albums:

Barrelhouse Piano & Classic Blues (1984); The Blues in St. Louis, Vol. 2: Henry Brown and Edith Johnson: Barrelhouse Piano and Classic Blues (1984); Voice Throwin' Blues (2022).

Songs:

Can't Make Another Day; Drive My Baby Slow; Eight Hour Woman; Good Chib Blues; Honey Dripper Blues; Honey Dripper Blues: No. 2; Little Drops of Water; Lovin That Man; Lovin' That Man; Lovin’ That Man Blues; Nickel's Worth of Liver Blues: No. 2; Nickel's Worth Of River Blues; Nickle's Worth of Liver Blues; That's My Man; You Ain't No Good Blues; You Know That Ain't Right.