– NPR: Options In Education -Problems In Parenting – May 24, 1976 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – When you consider that 1976 was some 49 years ago, and that the Internet didn’t exist, technology wars consisted of VHS versus Betamax, computers were not really ready for home use yet,
– KRHM-FM – November 1958 – Paul Werth – Werth Listening To – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – 1958. It’s a Sunday night in November – you’re not in High School anymore. Maybe you’re going to UCLA, and your first car is either a Volkswagen or an MG, because Detroit
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CBS Radio – A Christmas Sing With Bing – December 24, 1958 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Contrary to rumors that he hated it, Bing Crosby has become synonymous with Christmas and Christmas music. Starting in 1954 and going up to his death, Bing Crosby became the epitome of
Part 1: Part 2: (Editors Note: Originally Posted in 2012) A few years ago I ran a portion of this concert, via my now-defunct Newstalgia site. It featured headliners The Beach Boys at the annual Y-Day At The Bowl event for the YMCA on October 19, 1963. It was a
1964 Y-Day At The Hollywood Bowl – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The follow-up year to the classic 1963 Hollywood Bowl Y-Day concert, which featured The Beach Boys and a host of Surf and Pop bands, the 1964 edition was a pretty tame affair by comparison. Weeks earlier, The Beatles
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,
1. Sweets For My Sweet – 1964 2. Zing, Went The Strings Of My Heart – 1964 Something unusual for The Soundbooth tonight. Demo sessions recorded in Los Angeles in 1964 by the soon-to-become Walker Bros. One of those demo tracks did make it release (I Only Came To Dance
The Clash – in concert at Rettel Festival in France – recorded on June 14, 1980. As something of a direct contrast in genres, between my post last night by Hanoi Rocks in 1984 and today’s post of The Clash, in concert at the Rettel Festival in 1980 – you
The last hour of Top-40 KFWB – March 10, 1968 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection There you are – March 10, 1968 – anywhere between the ages of 14 and 24. KFWB, the radio station you have come to rely on for all your musical discoveries is going off the
