Taking a breather before Friday – Leonard Cohen in session for John Peel’s Top Gear program for BBC Radio 1 – recorded on July 9, 1968. When Songs Of Leonard Cohen, his debut album, came out in 1967 it immediately became one of the most heavily played albums on what
– Civil Rights Progress Report: 1960 – The Open Mind – NBC – Feb. 21, 1960 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The state of Civil Rights in 1960. Some six years after Brown v. Board of Education. Six years after the famous Rosa Parks bus protest and the ensuing
– CBS World News Roundup – June 19, 1990 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. – The World: A day full of contrasts, like every other day, only this one was from June 19, 1990. An Airline hi-jacking ended In Helsinki Finland with all passengers aboard the Soviet Jet released and
Black Sabbath this morning – recorded by the band’s soundcrew at the Asbury Park Convention Hall on August 5, 1975. Amazing, fifty years on and the sentiments are still the same – I’m talking about one hour in and the somewhat prophetic War Pigs. To be honest, I never took
