Holiday season coming up, but not for the folks at GM – General Motors, pounded by declining sales and rising health-care costs, said Monday it will cut more than a quarter of its North American manufacturing jobs and close 12 facilities by 2008. The United Auto Workers called the plan
– November 27, 1990 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – November 27. 1990 -News for this day was about the crisis in the Persian Gulf. The United Nations began taking evidence of alleged Iraqi torture, executions and looting in Kuwait and was moving closer to
– Elton John In Concert – Live At Hammersmith Odeon – December 22, 1973 – BBC In Concert Series – BBC Radio 1 – The inimitable Elton John this morning. In concert at the Hammersmith Odeon in London, and recorded by the venerable BBC Radio 1 as part of their
Further evidence Ireland possesses a treasure trove of talent and compelling new artists. Soak in session tonight – a live set recorded at the Sunflower in Belfast on November 25th for BBC Northern Ireland Introducing. In case you didn’t already know; Bridie Monds-Watson, better known by the stage name Soak,
– NBC Radio – News Bulletin on President Eisenhower – November 26, 1957 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – When President Eisenhower suffered his first heart attack in 1955, concerns mounted over the health of the President; would he step down due to health reasons, would his vice-President Richard Nixon
– A Flock Of Seagulls – live at Paris Theatre, London – 1982 – BBC Radio 1 = Certainly one of that crop of bands aligning themselves with New Wave, A Flock Of Seagulls were possibly more well-known for lead-singer/keyboard player Mike Score‘s bizarre hair configuration than for their actual
Peach in session to start the week – recorded in the studios at KCMU in Seattle on January 8, 1994. With every new musical movement that explodes on the scene, there are a few who are acknowledged as the pioneers, the ones who broke through, the ones who made the
– ABC Radio News – November 25, 1989 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Hot on the heels of the dismantled Berlin Wall came sweeping protests throughout the Communist Bloc countries of Eastern Europe, this November 25th in 1989. Now it was Prague’s turn. As upwards of half a million
The Legendary Etta James this morning. Recorded live at The Boarding House in San Francisco in March of 1981, this was originally supposed to come out shortly after it was recorded, but a cabinet full of complications prevented it. Fortunately, it finally saw an official release via Sony Music in
Anyone who began collecting Classical music during the 78 era, or later when 78s went out of favor – only to return in recent years has at least one Felix Weingartner performance in among the shellac (or CD or lp reissue). To most people it was his cornerstone recordings of
