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The Easybeats – Beat Club 1967 – Radio Bremen/TV – Stevie Wright (1947-2015), lead singer of the Easybeats and solo artist, who passed away today at the age of 68. More sad news before the year ends. The passing of Stevie Wright, who catapulted to fame in the mid-1960s as...
– Michel Perrault – Trio for violin, cello and piano – Hyman Bress, violin, Walter Joachim, cello, John Newmark, piano – CBC Session – 1956 – CBC Transcription Service – Michel Perrault – contemporary Canadian composer this week. Still going strong at 90. Perrault initially studied Timpani before switching to...
– Sophie Tucker Story – October 16, 1953 – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Sophie Tucker – a name completely unfamiliar to most people. She was one of the biggest stars of the Vaudeville stage in the early years of the last century. And later became...
Billy Taylor Trio and Eddie Heywood Trio – Live from New York – May 7, 1956 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Billy Taylor and his Trio and Eddie Heywood and his trio, live from New York City and broadcast by NBC Radio on their All-Star Parade Of Bands series...
New Order – live At Glastonbury 1987 – BBC Radio 1 – In Concert – BBC Radio – New Order this weekend. One of the most influential post-punk/Electronic Dance Music bands of the 1980s, in concert at the fabled Glastonbury Festival in 1987. Formed from the ashes of Joy Division,...
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