Legends this morning. The immortal Otis Redding, in concert from Stockholm and recorded by the venerable Sveriges Radio in 1967. It’s been said, and rightly so, that Otis Redding was one of the greatest singers in the history of American Popular Music, and was one of the seminal figures in
Frida Sundemo tonight – a live session from Sveriges Radio P3 in Stockholm on April 3, 2013. Born in Gothenburg, Sweden Frida Sundemo grew up immersed in music, inspired initially by the guitar-driven sounds of her older brother’s record collection, as the music of Radiohead, The Strokes and Weezer resonated
– NPR: National Town Meeting – The Future Of The Family 1974 – December 8, 1974 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – One of the offshoots to the Generation Gap of the 1960s was the changing family structure of the 1970s. Marriage was down, co-habitation was up. Single parent households
– January 21, 1958 – NBC News On The Hour -Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 21, 1958 – the news of the hour was the situation in Caracas, Venezuela. A general strike was paralyzing the country which was under the military dictatorship of Marcos Perez Jimenez. At news time,
Gong – Live At Chateau Neuf, Oslo – December 15, 1974 Gong this morning – a band who helped put Prog on the map in the early 1970s. Founded by Daevid Allen and Gilli Smyth. Allen was a founding member of Soft Machine in the mid-1960s and was with the
Cranes tonight – their first session for John Peel at BBC Radio 1 – recorded on July 9, 1989. Thanks to Post-Punk.com for this blurb via Frank Deserto: “In mid-2023, one of the UK’s most beloved bands reactivated on social media, hinting at greater things to come. The band in
By way of an extremely rare Shortwave news broadcast in English – the news, as it was reported for the period of January 21-23, 1943 on the situation in Malaya and other points in the South Pacific as well as a broadcast by Radio Australia on the situation as it
– January 20, 1987 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 20, 1987 – a day of rounding up suspects and the breaking of a promise. The suspects in question were believed to be members of a Kurdish separatist group PKK, thought to be the
Roxy Music this morning. Live in Paris, recorded on November 27, 1974 and broadcast over French Radio sometime after. One of those bands which helped define the 70s, and created an indelible impression on the future of Rock music, Roxy Music, fronted by the inimitable Bryan Ferry, whose suave demeanor
Over to Switzerland this weekend for a performance of the Mozart Flute Concerto in D Major, K 314 with Aurele Nicole and the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra conducted by Victor Desarzens in this 1952 broadcast recording from the Archives of Swiss Radio, recorded December 19, 1952. The prominent Swiss flautist and
