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– NPR Special Program – Island of Dreams – Coney Island – Nov. 1979 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Iconic place, Coney Island. Long history. A place where seemingly half the world showed up on a Summer weekend to…
. – CBS Radio: Newsbreak + CBS Radio Hourly News – November 6, 1979 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection When Iran underwent sweeping changes, starting in late 1978 and culminating in the exile (under the pretense of tests for Cancer)…
– CBS World News Roundup – November 3, 1989 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Berlin and Capitol Hill: For all intents and purposes, the start of a historic week, this November 3rd in 1989. Starting with the showdown on…
– CBS World News Roundup – October 23, 1979 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this October 23rd in 1979 was a harbinger of things to come. On this day, The Shah of Iran arrived in New York…
Capitol Hill: In a move that took everyone by surprise, a suddenly rebellious House forced Democratic leaders to take a second look at a $486 billion 1980 budget that went down to stunning defeat The House rejected the spending package…
Gang Of Four – Live At California Hall – Nov. 8, 1980 – KALX-FM, Berkeley – Gang of Four tonight – A band that represented a revolution in music -they were recognized as one of the leading lights of the…
Squeeze this weekend – one of those bands which helped define the 80s and the transition from Punk to Post-Punk to New Wave. With the writing talents of Chris Difford an Glenn Tillbrook, Squeeze had a string of hits on…
– Ultravox – Live At The Old Waldorf – March 13, 1979 – ©Terry Hammer Archives – Most people think of Ultravox from the large-scale/new-romantic/sonically epic songs and the first of a string high-budget/high-concept videos to appear on that newly…
– Clifford Curzon, Piano – Bavarian Radio Symphony – Leopold Hager, cond. 1979 Mozart Festival – DW – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Back to historic concerts this week. Tonight it’s a performance from the 1979 Wurzburg Mozart Festival in…
– The Cure – in session for John Peel – May 9, 1979 – broadcast May 16, 1979 – BBC Radio 1 – The Cure for our Sunday Night excursion. Their second session for John Peel – recorded on May…