Click on the link here for audio player: Lill-Babs – Vicken Tavla – 1963 Swedish 60’s Pop tonight – not that far removed from French Yè-yè of the same period. One of the big names blazing out of Stockholm was Lill-Babs who scored very huge with the Swedish language version
Click on the link here for Audio player: Pussy Riot – Putin Lights Fires – 2012 In case you’ve been wondering, with the news the past few days regarding Russian Punk band Pussy Riot and the outrageous prison sentence handed down for “hooliganism”, probably not many of you have actually
Click on the link for Audio player: Jethro Tull – BBC Session – June 22, 1969 One of the early legends of the Progressive Rock movement. Jethro Tull initially got lumped into a mish-mash of genres. Labeled Folk-Rock, Art-Rock and Jazz-Rock, they were in fact a hybrid of everything, but
Click on the link here for Audio player: Elvis_Presley_Interview_March_1960 Thirty-five years ago today the sad news flashed around the world that Elvis Presley, the King of Rock n’ Roll had suddenly died. Tributes came pouring in and most every radio and TV station had some sort of remembrance of one
Click on the link here for Audio player: Vilde Frang Recital – June 24, 2012 Over to Bad Kissinger in Germany this week for a concert recital from the Kissinger Sommer Festival by rising-young-star-wunderkind Vilde Frang in a program of music by Mozart, Brahms and Prokofiev. The concert was recorded
Click on the link here for Audio player: Jackie Lomax – Sour Milk Sea – 1969 One of the most distinctive voices in Rock tonight. Jackie Lomax is probably best remembered for his brief stay at Apple Records, and the heavyweight session folks joining in on his maiden effort with
Click on the link here for audio player: VJ Day – Aug. 14, 1945 A very busy day in history, August 14th. In 1935 there was the signing of the Social Security Act and in 1945 it was the end of World War 2. Here is a one-hour extract from
Click on the link here for audio player: FDR Signs Social Security Act – Aug. 14, 1935 Today marks the seventy-seventh birthday of The Social Security Act. FDR: “The civilization of the past hundred years, with its startling industrial changes, has tended more and more to make life insecure. Young
Click on the link here for audio player: Ashton, Gardner & Dyke – It’s gonna be high tonight/It’s A Drag – 1972 To call Ashton, Gardner & Dyke one hit wonders is something of a cheat. They were a short-lived power-trio (augmented by a horn section) that had largely come
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Jacque-Dupont – Divertissement for Piano And Orch. 1948 Sometimes history can be frustrating. In the case of this recording, it’s a matter of damaged discs coupled with not the best recording at the time. A world premier performance of the Divertissement For
