Perception of the Swinging Lifestyle – destined to fade with time. – KCBH-FM, Beverly Hills – “Stereo At 6” and The London Phase-4 Stereo Hour – January 26, 1969 – A 90 minute peek at the waning days of FM Radio devoted to all things stereo and all things easy
Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers for this Downbeat session – recorded in Zurich on December 4, 1958 by RTS, Switzerland. Featuring – Lee Morgan -trumpet; Benny Golson -tenor sax; Bobby Timmons -piano and Jymie Merritt -bass. If you haven’t had a chance to check it out, I would urge
I’ve heard it said from several reputable sources that Country Music as we used to know it, is dead and has been dead for several years now. There was a time Country Music was as distinctive and recognizable as any other form of music and popular culture, probably more so
Your fan club. Blame Art Linkletter -Blame House Party – Blame your school. You got picked out of hundreds – you won a raffle – you were going to be famous. Your principal bragged – kept patting you on the head – kept messing up your hair. You wanted to
Horace X in session for a Friday night – recorded for Andy Kershaw at BBC Radio 1 on January 8, 2006. Producer, composer and drummer, Mark A Russell, formed Horace X with ethnomusicologist and fiddle player Hazel Fairbairn in 1994 with the original intention of combining Russell’s contemporary dance rhythms with
January 5, 1942 – a very busy day in war. Starting with Japanese forces have been streaming southward through that southernmost state of Malaya, taking up assault around Johore Bahru, defenders last Fripositions, day night and early Saturday finally pulled back into their strategic island, blasting the causeway behind them,
The Legendary Pink Dots – it’s never too late to have your mind blown. Depending on your epicurean leanings, this could be a great lunch time accompaniment or a truly bizarre one. In either case, it won’t leave you guessing. The Legendary Pink Dots – in concert at Dolce Vita
February 6, 1995 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 6, 1995 – Baseball Strike news this day. Ironically, February 6, 1995 would have been Baseball legend Babe Ruth‘s 100th birthday. But instead, one would have imagined him spinning in his grave, as it was
Echo & The Bunnymen – In session for Marc Riley – October 8, 2018 – BBC 6 Music – One of the seminal bands of the Post-Punk/Indie movement of the early 80s, Echo & The Bunnymen are still with us (after a layoff of several years) and still making wonderful
No end of apprehension, pessimism and downright paranoia in the 1950s – with a little cautious optimism thrown in. In their radio conversation, Harrison Brown and Peter Drucker approach the future not as science-fiction dreamers but as sober analysts standing at the edge of a rapidly accelerating world. Speaking from
