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Click on the link here for Audio Player – Count Basie and His Orchestra – Live at The Hollywood Bowl – August 11, 1967 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection
Over to the Hollywood again this weekend. This time for a concert by the inimitable Count Basie and his Orchestra, recorded on August 11, 1967.
The band’s in fine form and the audience is pretty much packed.
A good time was had by all.
Enjoy.
Gordon Skene, two-time Grammy Nominee and archivist runs The Gordon Skene Sound Archive and this website, which is dedicated to preserving and encouraging an interest in history and historic news, events, and cultural aspects of our society. Past Daily is the only place on the Internet where you can hear a Nixon speech, listen to an interview with John Cassavettes or play a broadcast of Charles Munch rehearsing the Boston Symphony in 1950, all in the same place. It's living history and it's timeless.
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