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Click on the link here for Audio Player: News For January 31, 1941 News for this last day of January in 1941 was a continuation of what had been going on months earlier. Continued daylight air raids over London and other industrial cities in Britain grew more vicious, but didn’t...
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Jeff Beck Group – BBC Sessions 1967-1968 Since I ran one of the last Yardbirds sessions for the BBC the other night, I thought I would toss in a Yardbirds alumnus, who was on the rise around the time of those last...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Part 1: L’Heure Espagnole Click on the link here for Audio Player – Part 2: L’Enfant et les Sortileges Something completely different this week: Opera. Well . . .not the four hour kind. Nobody goes insane, murders family members or has...
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Little Green Cars – Live At Eurosonic 2013 Irish Alternative/Indie band Little Green Cars were pegged by BBC 6 Music in December of last year as The Band To Watch in 2013. They’ve been busy making inroads and gaining an audience...
Your subscriptions keep us going: Become a Patron! News of this January 29th in 1951 began on an ominous note by way of 8th Army Headquarters in Korea when General MacArthur delivered a message to the world indicating the U.S. presence in Korea wasn’t going to go anywhere anytime soon....
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Yardbirds – BBC Sessions One of the favorites tonight. The Yardbirds with a group of sessions they recorded between 1967 and 1968. By the middle of 1968 the band had pretty much ceased to exist, with a steady defection of founding members...
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Should Abortion Be Legal- 1964 The controversy over the issue of Abortion has been raging, certainly since the landmark SCOTUS Roe v. Wade in 1971, but much-much earlier than that. The question was always “should they be legal?”, but the answer never...
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Count Basie – Live At Sardis – 1956 Over to the fabled Sardi’s Restaurant on Hollywood Boulevard from May 1956 for a set by the fabled Count Basie and his Orchestra with guest vocals by Joe Williams and Sarah Vaughan. Captured during...
Click on the link here for Audio Player: 77 Bombay Street – Live At Eurosonic 2013 Back over to this months Eurosonic 2013 Festival in Holland, recorded by the venerable (and thorough) VPRO Radio Channel in Hilversum. A set by Swiss Alternative/Indie band 77 Bombay Street. I was under the...
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Grand Funk Railroad 1974 San Diego CA I know – A lot of people will look at the headline and remark; “oh, Homer Simpson’s favorite band”. But truths to tell, Grand Funk Railroad (or Grand Funk as they were known for a...