Some late Big Band this weekend. A set by Harry James and his New Band, recorded at the Hollywood Palladium on November 27, 1959. Even though the acknowledged Golden Age of Big Bands was long gone, there were glimmers that it was still around, still grabbing audiences and still occasionally
Okay – something different tonight. Four songs by the Hal Herzon Septet, all recorded for the Standard Transcription Company in 1945. There is precious little information on Hal Herzon, aside from an obit that ran in Daily Variety from March 25, 2003 and really nothing else. Certainly no photos (hence
Part of American culture; forever the voyeur. Being the perennial fly on the wall, the eavesdropper, the casual leering bystander. Before the days when Reality TV took over and rendered the Soap Opera somewhat obsolete, it had a long and healthy life – celebrating the chaste and the prurient –
It’s March 2025 – cold, harsh reality. World is crazy. People are nuts. You’d like to be somewhere else. You have this mind, and it wanders. It lands right in the middle of August 1968. Was that your last good year? Maybe. It’s the one you swore you’d remember forever,
Maisie Peters in concert from Hordern Pavilion in Sydney on March 21, 2024 – recorded by the venerable Triple J radio. When I ran a 2023 concert by Maisie Peters in December of that year, I made a prediction she’d become a household name in a very short time. Not
Anybody who thinks Los Angeles is a hotbed of corruption, bribes and backstabbing in 2025 has only to dive back a few decades in L.A.’s past to discover we ain’t as pure as the wind-driven snow our Chamber of Commerce makes us out to be. We were up to our
March 14, 2000 – CBS World News Roundup; Late Edition – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 14, 2000 – Election 2000 – only three months into it and already Al Gore secured enough delegates to put him over the top. Only a week after Super Tuesday, the batch of
Anna Calvi – In Concert at Route du Rock – August 16, 2014 – RFI/FIP Ending out the week with a concert by Anna Calvi, recorded during the 2014 Route du Rock Festival on August 16, 2014. There was something very special about the 2014 season of Route du Rock.
– NBC – News On The Hour – for March 13, 1961 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The Cold War climate was getting stirred up, this March 13th in 1961. News that West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt left a meeting with President Kennedy saying there would be no trouble
– Dead Kennedys – Live At Old Waldorf – October 25, 1979 ©Terry Hammer Archives – Taking a brief detour back to the 70s this morning with a concert by California’s own Dead Kennedys. Recorded live at Old Waldorf by the venerable Terry Hammer for KALX in Berkeley on October
