A 1950 double-dip: United States Marshal Andrew Barclay (Randolph Scott) arranges the escape of outlaw Tom Tanner (Forrest Tucker) in order to locate the $250,000 in gold stolen by Tanner in stagecoach robbery. Plus BUGS BUNNY (and HUMPHREY BOGART) in ’8 BALL BUNNY.’

On his new solo album, Soo, HABIB KOITE goes home to Mali and draws together all the strands of his life–music, friends, countrymen. ‘It’s where your life makes sense,’ says Habib.

Gypsy music is pure passion, and that’s what Hungarian-born violinist FERENC ILLENYI mines on his album GYPSY DREAM, in which he immerses himself in exploring all the varied facets of gypsy music.

Does classical music drive loiterers out of public places? Studies say so, and violinist GIL SHAHAM is counting on his music to further the burgeoning trend on MUSIC TO DRIVE LOITERERS AWAY. He hopes everyone enjoys the album. Or not. Whatever.

Beginning with 1923′s ‘A Woman of Paris,’ CHARLIE CHAPLIN was involving himself closely in the musical accompaniment for his films, and eventually took full control in order to ‘compose elegant and romantic music to frame my comedies…’

During a four-month concert tour of America in 1928, composer MAURICE RAVEL delivered a then-controversial lecture urging American classical musicians to incorporate African-American music into their compositions. Ahead of his time, was he?

A giraffe head plopped on a dark brown horse body with the rump and legs of a zebra–not a mistake from the Animal Design Studio, but a real animal, the okapi, the last large animal discovered in Africa. And John Lukas has been working hard to save it from extinction.