
Year: 2021


The NBC Summer Symphony With Milton Katims And Leo Smit Play Music Of Mozart And Haieff – 1953 – Past Daily Weekend Gramophone
NBC Summer Symphony with Milton Katims, Conductor – Leo Smit, Piano – 1953 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection More rarities.This week it’s The NBC Summer Symphony series featuring conductor Milton Katims and pianist Leo Smit in music by Mozart and Alexei Haieff. Mozart’s Symphony Number 41 (Jupiter) and the broadcast

Count Basie – The Flairs – The Nilsson Twins – Alan Freed’s Rock n’ Roll Dance Party – 1956 – Past Daily Pop Chronicles
Alan Freed’s Rock n’ Roll Dance Party – May 5, 1956 – CBS Radio Network – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Alan Freed’s Rock n’ Roll Dance Party, as it was broadcast over CBS Radio on May 5, 1956. Just one of the few examples of Network radio diving into

Jackie McLean Sextet – Live At The Village Vanguard – 1993 – Past Daily Downbeat.
Jackie McLean Sextet – live at The Village Vanguard – December 10, 1993 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The Jackie McLean Sextet this weekend. Recorded live at The Village Vanguard in New York on December 10, 1993. Joining Jackie are Steve Davis-trombone, Alan Palmer-piano, Nat Reeves-bass, Eric McPherson-drums and

10cc In Concert – 1974 – Past Daily Soundbooth
10cc In Concert – Paris Theatre – August 21, 1974 – BBC In Concert Series – BBC Radio 1 – 10cc this weekend. Recorded for the BBC In Concert series on August 21, 1974, a little over a year before their massive breakthrough with I’m Not In Love and around

Golden Hubcaps – Juvenile Delinquents – 1956 – Weekend Pop Chronicles
Juvenile Delinquency in 1956 – the big problem centered around hubcaps and hubcap stealing for fun and profit. Sounds silly, but apparently it was quite lucrative in 1956, and it drove many teenagers to a life of crime in Los Angeles and other cities around the country. In this documentary,

You’re No Longer A Teenager – You Live In L.A. – It’s April 1979 – This Is The Modern World And KROQ Explains It All To You – Past Daily Pop Chronicles
KROQ-FM – April 2, 1979 – Mike Raphone w/Fee Waybill of The Tubes and Brent Kalen – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Between 1969 and 1979 life in L.A. changed. A lot. The Earth moved, radio changed, music changed, Teenagers; not so much. If you were a teenager in 1969,

Nirvana – Hollywood Palladium – 1990 – Past Daily Soundbooth
Nirvana – in concert at The Hollywood Palladium – August 17, 1990 – Flip Martian – Live And Loud.com – Nirvana in concert at The Hollywood Palladium to end the week. Recorded on August 17, 1990 – spiffed up, cleaned up and turbo charged by Live and Loud.com. Two months

April 30, 1939 – New York World’s Fair Opens – The World Of Tomorrow.
WOR – Opening of New York World’s Fair – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – On this day in 1939, all eyes were on New York at the unveiling of the Worlds Fair of 1939. The World of Tomorrow; an idyllic world of peace and technological wizardry. The world where all

Last Dinosaurs – Laneway Festival, Sydney – 2020 – Past Daily Soundbooth
Last Dinosaurs – live at Laneway Festival, 2020 – Sydney – February 2, 2020 – Triple J Radio, Australia – Last Dinosaurs in concert at the 2020 Laneway Festival in Sydney and preserved for posterity by Triple J Radio (who enthusiastically let us know after each song, but at least