Category Unreleased recordings

Velvet Underground

Velvet Underground – Live In Dallas – 1969 – Past Daily Morning Soundbooth

Subscriptions=Lifeblood: Become a Patron! The Velvet Underground – Live At End Of Cole Ave, Dallas – October 19, 1969 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection As much as people now cite The Velvet Underground as being one of the most important…

Charles Munch

Charles Munch And The New York Philharmonic – Honegger: Joan Of Arc At The Stake (U.S. Premier) – 1948 – Past Daily Weekend Gramophone

– New York Philharmonic – Soloists and Chorus conducted by Charles Munch. Artur Honegger: Joan Of Arc At The Stake (U.S. Broadcast premier) – January 4, 1948 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection I hesitated to run this for several months…

10cc

10cc – In Concert 1974 – Past Daily Morning Soundbooth

Coffee works too: – 10cc – In Concert Series – Live in London – August 21, 1974 – BBC Radio 1 – Depending on  how you looked at it, 10cc were one of the most successful Pop/Rock/Art-Rock/Soft Rock bands of…

Lush

Lush – Reading Festival 1994 – Past Daily Morning Soundbooth

– Lush – Live at Reading Festival – August 26, 1994 – BBC Radio 1 This morning, one of those bands without whom the 90s would have been just another stretch of ten years, broken up by periods of sleeping…

Split Enz – Pinkpop Festival – 1980 – Past Daily Weekend Soundbooth

Coffee would be nice: One of my favorite, and arguably most underrated bands of the 70’s and early 80’s. Split Enz were amazing to see live.I remember their first tour of the U.S., promoting the release of “Mental Notes” (which…

British Elections – February 1950 – Past Daily After Hours Reference Room

Make a huge difference: Become a Patron! CBS Reports – The British Elections – February 1950 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – There was a time, right after World War 2, and well into the 1960s, where America expressed great…

Generation X With Billy Idol – Live At Paris Theater – 1981 – Past Daily Morning Soundbooth

Show a little love: Become a Patron! – 1981-01-01 BBC In Concert (Generation X) – BBC Radio 1 – Heading over to the Paris Theater in London for a half-hour set by Generation X, featuring the inimitable Billy Idol. In…

Alexander Tcherepnine Plays Alexander Tcherepnine – 1938 – Past Daily Weekend Gramophone

– Tcherepnine plays Tcherepnine – The NBC Music Guild – 1938 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Diving into music from the 1930s this week, with a recital by the Russian composer Alexander Tcherepnine, who was on a brief tour…

A Few Words From Man Ray – Past Daily Weekend Gallimaufry

As one of the cornerstones of the Avant-Garde, Dada-Surrealist and Modernist Movements, Man Ray is probably best known for his painting, A L’Heure de L’Observatoire – Les Amoureux (Observatory Time – The Lovers) – which you can see in the…