[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”16303″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”August 11, 1947 – Cedric Foster News And Commentary – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] The big news for this August 11th in 1947 was the abrupt ending of the Senate Sub-committee Hearings on the wartime contracts of Howard Hughes. The investigation as to where
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Fat Mattress In Session – September 27, 1969 – Radio Bremen/WDR As long as we’re doing classics and rarities this weekend, I might as well add Noel Redding‘s Fat Mattress to the mix. A rare session for Radio Bremen-TV (Beat Club)
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Nathaniel Shilkret – Trombone Concerto – Sgt. Hoyt Bohannon, Trombone with The Los Angeles Philharmonic, Hollywood Bowl – Leopold Stokowski, cond. July 28, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Something obscure and long-thought lost this weekend. The Trombone Concerto by Nathaniel
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Skip Weshner’s Accent On Sound – Live From The Village Gate – May 23, 1959 – KRHM – Gordon Skene Sound Collection A few months ago I ran a Skip Weshner Accent On Sound Folk Program live from One Sheridan Square.
Click on the link here for Audio Player – A Guy Called Gerald – In Session for John Peel – 1988-1995 – BBC Radio 1 To give you some idea of just how diverse the scene was in Manchester – while Stone Roses and The Charlatans were turning the 80s
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Stone Roses – live In Blackpool – Dec. 8, 1989 – BBC 6 Music Continuing our romp through Madchester with a concert by Stone Roses, during that pivotal and meteoric period, recorded live in concert from Blackpool on December 8, 1989.
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Part 1 Click on the link here for Audio Player – Part 2 More historic concerts this week. From the 1979 Salzburg Festival, a concert featuring the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by the legendary Herbert von Karajan in two works –
Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS World News Roundup – August 6, 1980 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection News for this August 6th in 1980 was decidedly political in nature. It was a Presidential election year. The Popularity/promise-them-anything campaign was in full swing. The latest was
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Swervedriver – In Session for John Peel – September 3, 1990 – BBC Radio 1 I’ve been meaning to run this for months. Swervedriver were one of those bands (along with Ride), who introduced a Wall of Guitars into Shoegaze in
Click on the link here for Audio Player – James – In session for John Peel – October 19, 1983 – BBC Radio 1 Although they first arrived on the scene as an Alternative/Post-punk band, James evolved into one of the cornerstone bands of the Madchester movement in the late
