I’ve long enjoyed listening to #asia especially the post original band years with #JohnPayne as the lead singer.
This #compilation is from three of the Payne era albums plus four re-recorded hits to supplement the CD. Also includes a fine Pete Frame family tree. Worth seeking out

68 years ago:
Hell's Island (US)
After being dumped by his fiancée, hard-drinking and depressed Mark Cormack loses his job in the Los Angeles district attorney's office and serves as bouncer in a Las Vegas casino. A wheelchair-using stranger Barzland hires him to locate a ruby that disappeared in a Caribbean plane crash. He lures C...
1955-05-06
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/65637
#HellsIsland #JohnPayne #MaryMurphy #WalterReed #Movies

69 years ago:
Rails Into Laramie (US)
A federal agent arrives in Laramie to try to find out who is behind the efforts to stop the construction of a new railroad track.
1954-04-14
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/232358
#RailsIntoLaramie #JohnPayne #MariBlanchard #DanDuryea #Western #ClassicMovies

80 years ago:
Hello, Frisco, Hello (US)
In turn-of-the-century San Francisco, an ambitious vaudevillian takes his quartet from a honky tonk to the big time, while spurning the love of his troupe's star singer for a selfish heiress.
1943-03-26
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/31770
#HelloFriscoHello #JohnPayne #WardBond #JohnArcher #20thCenturyFox #Film

74 years ago:
El Paso (US)
Ex-confederate officer Clay Fletcher jumps at the chance to reunite with his once lady-friend, Susan Jeffers, when his father, Judge Fletcher, sends him on an errand to El Paso, Texas to get the signature of Susan's father, Judge Jeffers, on a legal document. Once there he finds the judge has become...
1949-03-22
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/179272
#ElPaso #JohnPayne #GailRussell #SterlingHayden #Paramount #Western #Film

Edmund Gwenn, Natalie Wood and John Payne on set of MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET (1947)
#EdmundGwenn #NatalieWood #JohnPayne #MiracleOn34thStreet