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"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
I’d love it if you’d subscribe: Become a Patron! Diving back to 1980 this weekend for a concert by one of those defining bands of the late 70s/early 80s The Police managed to straddle the non-conventional Punk and New Wave…
BBC News – August 31, 1939 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Despite opinion in some circles that war could be avoided, preparations were put in high gear for what was the inevitable. Here is the 5:30 pm newscast from…
[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”4344″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”August 23, 1951 – Edward R. Murrow News With Don Hollenbeck- CBS – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] While Truce talks were stalling Korea, sabers were rattling in Iran, this August 23rd in 1951. With…
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…
I haven’t posted any Jeff Beck in a while and when I ran across this concert, recorded by The BBC for their In Concert series from July 1, 1972, I realized just what a tremendous talent Jeff Beck is and…
It helps, a lot: Become a Patron! From NPR’s legendary and much lamented Jazz Alive! series comes this weekend’s Downbeat post. Recorded at the 3rd Annual Art Park Jazz Festival in Lewiston New York, between September 1-3, 1979 and featuring…
If you can wrap your head around the concept that AC/DC actually got started as a morphing from the demise of the 60’s band The Easybeats in 1973, then it will make perfect sense that AC/DC would become the howling…
[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”46768″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”News for week ending October 2, 1976 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] Patrons get freebies – like this news broadcast: Become a Patron! For the week ending on October 2nd in 1976, it was…
[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”46163″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”News for August 23, 1951″ content_type=”link”] While Truce talks were stalling Korea, sabers were rattling in Iran, this August 23rd in 1951. With accusations flying back and forth between North Korea and the UN forces,…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: News for week ending October 2, 1976 For the week ending on October 2nd in 1976, it was a busy flurry of news. Starting with the adjounrnment of the 94th Congress and…