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Being a subscriber/member/patron makes a huge difference: Become a Patron! Boyd Raeburn and His Orchestra, live at Club Morocco on Vine Street, between Sunset and Hollywood Boulevards in Hollywood from around October of 1945. Boyd Raeburn was one of those…
Frank Sinatra turns 107 today. The singer who became so identified with the Big Band era of the 1940s, and who branched out to become one of the Entertainment world’s great icons of the 20th century, was born on this…
George Olsen And His Music – Sugar Plumb – 1925 – RCA Victor – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Since the Studio/Past Daily Nerve Center has been undergoing renovations, I’ve been stumbling over buried shelves of old 78’s this week –…
– As Long As I’m Dreaming – Claude Thornhill Orch with Fran Warren 1947 – Lang-Worth Transcriptions – Jumping back into Big Band territory, after an extended hiatus (for no good reason). Tonight it’s the legendary Fran Warren with the…
Duke Ellington Live at Basin Street – 1956 Another installment of our weekly Past Daily Downbeat series – this time its over to Basin Street in New York for this CBS Radio broadcast of Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra…
– The Tubes – In Session at The Record Plant, Sausalito – KSAN – June 2, 1974 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – By the time of this session in 1974, The Tubes were already something of Bay Area legends.…
– Jimmy Smith Trio – Live in Paris – Salle Pleyel – December 1, 1969 – RFI-FIP – The Legendary Jimmy Smith this week. From a concert at the Salle Pleyel in Paris, and recorded on December 1, 1969, The…
. . .or click on the link here for Audio Player – NBC International Bandstand – Ted Heath – March 2, 1959 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection A slight stretch this week, but not all that much when you think…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Georgie Auld – Blue and Sentimental – Coral Records – 1953 Not that I got out of my way to collect them, but I’ve been running across quite a number of…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Claude Thornhill (Piano Solo) – That Old Feeling – Columbia Records – 1948 We tend to think the Wall of Shame, that grim testimony to all those overlooked and underrated bands…