Goes well with a Double-espresso Americano: – Supergrass – Live at The Reading Festival 2001 – BBC 6 Music – Perennial favorites Supergrass tonight. Recorded live at the Reading Festival in 2001 by the venerable BBC. One of the bands heralded as part of the Brit-Pop Movement in the mid-90s,
Become a Patron! Summer 1967 – KFWB – B. Mitchel Reed – KHJ – Humble Harve – KHJ – The Real Don Steele – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Summer 1967 – AM radio still reigns supreme. But the songs are suddenly longer, and edgier. No way of getting around
The Turtles – BBC Saturday Club – June, 1967 – BBC Radio Light Programme A very short one tonight, a little over four minutes to be exact. But a rare one Anyone who spent any amount of time on the West Coast, most notably Southern California, in the 1960s will
January 1, 1980 – BBC Radio 2 – Terry Wogan Presents The Top 30 Singles of 1979 – BBC Radio 2 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – As much as I play bits of Top-40 radio from Los Angeles from the 1950s to 1990s, there is also a vast amount
KMET – B. Mitchel Reed – June 25, 1970 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 1970 – Summer School has started. You heard that if you crammed as many classes between the end of June and August, you could graduate early. You like that idea. But Summer School is
China Crisis in concert tonight, live at Reading in 1984. Part of that initial wave of Liverpool acts from the 1970s and 80s, China Crisis were at the forefront, along with OMD, of the Synthpop explosion taking place around that time. Achieving a moderate amount of success in the UK,
The last hour of Top-40 KFWB – March 10, 1968 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection There you are – March 10, 1968 – anywhere between the ages of 14 and 24. KFWB, the radio station you have come to rely on for all your musical discoveries is going off the
– Caravan – Live On Top of The Pops – August 19, 1970 – BBC Radio 1 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – As the evolution of Psychedelia in the late 1960s turned its head towards Progressive Rock, bands like Caravan stood out as leading the way into this new,
– WGLI 1290 Club With Jerry Stevens – November 1958 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – As promised, the continuing occasional series of Top-40 Radio as presented in the 1950s and 60s, when AM radio was the be-all/end-all in social media. This particular example comes from Long Island New York
If you like what you’re hearing, consider supporting the preservation: Become a Patron! You may have missed this one when I first posted it five years ago. I’m posting it again because I don’t think it’s available there anymore. Although I understand a few fans have been reposting parts of
