Jimi Hendrix – September 18, 1970
NBC Nightly News – September 18, 1970 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – 53 years ago today, the music world suffered a devastating loss – it would be one of three to go that year, and their passings signified the…
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Hints Of Spring – Eyes On Finland – Berlin Celebrates Re-Armament – March 10, 1940
– March 10, 1940 – News Of The World – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 10, 1940 – A Sunday and a pause on the battlefield, and an appreciation of what will soon be Spring in Europe. On this…
January 25,1976 – Gloomy, Gloomier, Supersonic
– The World This Week – CBS Radio – January 25, 1976 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 25, 1976 – and the end of another week of wild contrasts. The week began with a gloomy assessment of the…
Peaches & Herb In Session For Soul! 1969 – Past Daily Soundbooth
Peaches & Herb – In Session for Soul! – WNDT, New York – January 16, 1969 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Sharing the bill with Ruby & The Romantics from an earlier post, Peaches & Herb were another act who…
It’s 1967 – You Live In L.A. – You’re 16 – This Is What You Were Listening To – Past Daily Pop Chronicles
– KRLA-KFWB-KHJ-KBLA- recorded between February and May, 1967 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Long before the days of downloading, streaming and ripping, if you wanted to listen to a new song over and over, the only way you could…
Arthur Blythe Quartet – Live in Berlin – 1980 – Past Daily Downbeat
Click on the link at the Past Daily site and give a listen to The Arthur Blythe Quartet, playing live at the Berlin Jazz Festival in 1980.
The Amazing Keystone Big Band – Django Extended – Live At Salle Pleyel – 2018 – Past Daily Downbeat Extra
The Amazing Keystone Big Band – Live At Salle Pleyel, Paris – March 10, 2018 – France Musique – As an extra-added bonus, and as a sort of companion to the Coleman Hawkins Munich concert from 1950, The Amazing Keystone…
October 2, 2017 – Is This How It Ends? Reflections On Las Vegas.
Forgive me for stepping outside my usual role of posting news of the past and reminding you of what you may have missed. The events that are unfolding in Las Vegas; the deadly mass killing of concertgoers to the last…
July 20, 2007 – War Without End – Iraq And Congress
July 20, 2007 – CBS Weekend Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – July 20, 2007 – Ten years ago – a war then too – an endless war. A war of insurgents and car bombs and raids. No sign…
America’s Little Dope Problem – 1951 – Narcotics In The 1950s – Past Daily Pop Chronicles
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow – Narcotics – July 15, 1951 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Americas love affair with all things illegal, immoral or fattening. We all think drugs were a 60s thing and that any reference to…