Stanley Grill: What My Grandfather Taught Me, from Ahimsa – Marek Stilec conducting the Czech Chamber Philharmonic, Pardubice – 2022 I confess to not being familiar with the music of Stanley Grill. Not that I am avoiding music from the current crop of composers, but that I’ve been so focused
– NBC Radio: Stars In Jazz from Birdland – September 4, 1952 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Heading back to the 50s this weekend. The first of a series of broadcasts coming from Birdland on 53nd Street and Broadway in New York City. The Roy Eldridge/Coleman Hawkins All-Stars, featuring
Jerry Lee Lewis – Live in London – Grenada Television – March 19, 1964 – Jerry Lee Lewis YouTube channel With the passing of Jerry Lee Lewis earlier this week, I think it’s safe to say that most of the witnesses to the birth of Rock n’ Roll are no
KRLA – Jimmy O’Neil – October 9, 1961 – Retro Radio Joe Collection – Looking at that curious and distant picture now you wouldn’t suspect for a second the sheer insanity that gripped your 7th grade homeroom like an epidemic case of flu behind those awkwardly smiling faces. You turned
– The Charlatans with Dan Hicks – Live At The Straight Theatre, July 22, 1967 – KSAN-FM – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The Charlatans with Dan Hicks. Before Dan Hicks introduced the world to the Hot Licks, there was this San Francisco institution, The Charlatans. One of the
America’s Town Meeting – The Reasons Behind The War In Europe – October 19, 1939 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – War In Europe – the same old story. The politics of power. The inability to peacefully settle differences – the strange gift of hindsight. The issues confronting Europe during
October 28, 1987 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – October 28, 1987 – A stock market crash, a murmur of a Superpower summit around Thanksgiving and a series of terror attacks on personnel at Clark Air Force Base in Manila – all in one day.
– October 28, 1978 – Sadat-Begin Peace Prize + other news – CBS/NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – October 28, 1978 began on a hopeful note – announced the previous evening, the 1978 Nobel Peace Prize was being awarded to Egypt‘s Anwar Sadat and Israel‘s Menachem Begin. The
– The Moody Blues – In Session – April-November 1967 Top Of The Pops – BBC Radio 1 – Certainly not the first band to make use of the Mellotron, they were one of the first to take it with them on the road which, as anyone who has worked
– MBS – Martin Dies Address – October 27, 1939 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – In the years following World War 1, there had been the threat of a takeover or violent revolution in America from one extremist group or another. In the days at the end of World
