– July 1, 1973 – CBS Radio: The World This Week – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – July 1, 1973 – brought a new month and new drama around Capitol Hill. The week ending for this first day of July brought news of Congress demanding an end to the bombing
Getting Tuesday up and rolling with The Farm in concert at The Royal Court in Liverpool on March 24, 1991. Since they’ve released Let The Music (Take Control), just a few weeks ago, it only seems right to dig into the vault and bring out something from the band early-on.
The Red Scare in America. No stranger to dark days in history, America was now the object of a concentrated fear campaign based almost entirely on rumor. Following World War II (1939-45), the democratic United States and the communist Soviet Union became engaged in a series of largely political
Before Edward Snowden and before Bradley Manning we had Daniel Ellsberg. A lot of comparisons to that pivotal point in our history had been made to Ellsberg then. The release of the Pentagon Papers and their publishing in The Washington Post and The New York Times created an uproar
– Arctic Monkeys live at Glastonbury 2013 – June 27, 2013 – Arctic Monkeys from Glasto 2013 to kick the week off. So far, the jury is still out on Glastonbury 2025. Like most festivals, it’s run the gamut from wild enthusiasm to shrugged shoulders. The question is how much
Music of Swiss composer Marcel Wahlich, performed by the Berumünster Radio Symphony on this broadcast for Swiss Radio on March 10, 1964 Marcel Wahlich was born in Zurich’s old town, the son of a well-known wind instrument repairer. There he grew up in a musically passionate family (his father
– NBC Radio – Life And The World – Chicago – Frank Lloyd Wright – Carl Sandberg -Oct. 30, 1957 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – I ran across this interview with Poet Carl Sandberg and Architect Frank Lloyd Wright giving their impressions of living in Chicago from October of
The George Coleman Octet this weekend – live from The Village Gate on April 28, 1975. 2025 marks George Coleman’s 90th year – and what else do you do when you turn 90? You keep gigging and recording. This gig puts George Coleman in his 40th year and it
She thought you were wonderful. You thought she was nuts. You had a brain – you never used it. All the important parts froze. Senior year – September – getting to that age where you look at things different – imagine things. See possibilities. Unless you’re you. Ask anybody –
– The Joe Cocker Show – live at The Old Waldorf, San Francisco – October 1978 – KSAN – Joe Cocker first come into international prominence via his appearance at Woodstock in 1969, and later with the Mad Dog’s And Englishmen Tour which did wonders for a lot of
