Diving back to 1954 this weekend for a set by The Chet Baker Quartet, recorded at Storyville on March 16, 1954. Digging through photos for this post the thing that struck me was how much of a pop icon he became with the hip-cool aura he projected. How that landed
You could say Declan McKenna’s career took off shortly after his appearance at the 2015 Glastonbury Festival as winning the Emerging Talent competition. Well, it has been busy and Declan McKenna is wasting not time getting his message across, even if it did have the brakes put on during COVID
World War Three. It broke out somewhere around October. It goes back to June. You decided you wanted to grow your hair. A lot of good reasons; all the cool people had long hair – you didn’t want to look like everybody else – girls liked guys with long hair.
– Johnny Mathis With Herb Alpert’s Tijuana Brass – September 11, 1965 – Hollywood Bowl – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Since it was learned earlier this week that Johnny Mathis is retiring from the stage after 70 years of performing, it seems only fitting to run a concert he
Amaral, recorded during the 2025 Radio Encendida festival – an eleven hour marathon of the best Spanish Pop, Folk and Indie artists and bands all in one place and broadcast live by RNE España. One of the groups performing is the Rock duo Amaral, who have been together since 1998.
– NPR: Options In Education – Illiteracy In America – 1974 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. I guess, despite advances in technology, the age-old problem of Illiteracy continues at full gallop – always has/maybe always will. In 1974; forty years ago, the problem of illiteracy in our schools was acute.
March 28, 2000 – CBS World News Roundup – Late Edition – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 28,2000 – a day full of mixed signals, not the least from Mars. On this day 16 years, OPEC was meeting in Vienna, debating a production increase of oil production. If they
– Iggy Pop – live at Down The Rabbit Hole Festival 2015 – June 27, 2015 – VPRO/3VOOR12 – The Netherlands – Iggy Pop, in concert at Down The Rabbit Hole, recorded on June 27th 2015 by the venerable VPRO and broadcast live via 3VOOR12–FM. No stranger to festivals, no
Postponed from the customary January 8th date because of the inauguration, President Roosevelt’s Jackson Day address came that year in March. March 1941 America wasn’t involved in the war in Europe or in the Far East, we were maintaining a fragile peace, tenuous at best. President Roosevelt: We Americans have
– NBC Nightly News – March 27, 1975 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – As the odyssey of Vietnam wound up the last remaining weeks, the panic spread and the evacuations continued. This time is was Danang; second largest city behind Saigon and site of the largest U.S. airbase. With
