Objective: West Coast – December 9, 1941
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Fuzzy Grass – Germany – 2024 – Past Daily Morning Soundbooth
Fuzzy Grass from this year’s Freak Valley Festival in Germany – recorded on July 15 by RBB in Berlin. Starting off the week with a dose of Psych from France by way of Fuzzy Grass. Fuzzy Grass (as the name might suggest) are French Psychedelia from Toulouse that got started
Gerhard Taschner – Gustav König – Hans Pfitzner – 1955 – Past Daily Weekend Gramophone
Legendary German violinist Gerhard Taschner with conductor Gustav König and the Hessian Radio Symphony in a broadcast performance of Hans Pfitzner’s Violin Concerto – recorded on April 28, 1955. The Noted Musicologist and author Nicholas Slonimsky has this to say about Hans Pfitzner: Pfitzner, Hans (Erich), eminent German composer, conductor,
Sarah Vaughan – Birdland – 1952 – Past Daily Downbeat
– Sarah Vaughan – Live At Birdland – August 21, 1952 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Can’t think of a better Sunday than spending it listening to the cool and sumptuous sounds of Sarah Vaughan. This club date, via the Stars Of Jazz series which aired each Tuesday night
Sunspells – Radio X – 2024 -Past Daily Night Session
New bands on the horizon for a Saturday night – Sunspells in session for John Kennedy’s X-Posure program over Radio X, recorded earlier today live. SUNSPELLS are Oliver Taylor, Edward Taylor, Aaron Burke and Marley Chambers. The Art Rockers from Hertfordshire, England have a bombastic, charming energy, that they pair
Steve Allen: Farewell To L.A. – December 7, 1950 – Past Daily Pop Chronicles
– Steve Allen Show – farewell to L.A. – KNX-CBS Radio – Dec. 6-7, 1950 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Steve Allen, before his pioneering days as host of the very first Tonight Show on Television, was one of the mainstays of local radio in Southern California in the
It’s February 1967 – You Live In L.A. – You’re A Teenager – You’re In Love – It Blows.
You were an idiot. You could ask anyone – they’d say the same thing; you were an idiot. Big beaming letters – smack in the middle your forehead. Even your English teacher said you suffered from “unreal expectations”. You didn’t pay attention. You stared off into space – stared out
Jungle – Glastonbury – 2024 – Past Daily Saturday Soundbooth
Jungle to start the weekend – recorded at this years Glastonbury Festival on June 28th by the venerable BBC 6 Music. Jungle were founded in 2013 by Josh Lloyd-Watson and Tom McFarland, who had been friends since they were nine years old and lived next door to each other in
In Search Of Time’s Man Of The Year – 1958 – Past Daily Gallimaufry
– Bill Downs Commentary – CBS Radio – December 1958 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – As it always is, the end of just about every year brings a flood of reflections, what-if’s and ironies. 1958 certainly joins the ranks of the dim-distant past, and most likely very few, if
Oasis – London, 1995 – Past Daily Morning Soundbooth
Oasis for a Friday – their second night appearing at Earls Court in London on November 5, 1995. By 1995, Oasis were household names all over the world. In April of that year they had their first Number one single, Some Might Say but there were also signs of things