Coffee works wonders too: Long before there was the TV version of Nightline, which bore no relation to this radio version (whole different network), Nightline was something of a bedtime companion – your buddy in the world of kilocycles. Like the weekend service, Monitor – NBC had started a program
Part 1: – L.A. Phil. – Mehta-Rubinstein – March 5, 1965 – Part 1 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Part 2. – L.A. Phil. – Mehta-Rubinstein – March 5, 1965 – Part 2 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Something special, rare and historic this week. A 1965 concert
Become a Patron! – ABC Radio News via WXYZ-Detroit – May 15, 1964 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – This day in May, 1964 was all about the coming Presidential election and Primary fever for the race to the White House. On May 15th, voters were going to the polls
– The Police – Live At CW Post College, Greenvale N.Y. – October 20, 1979 – WLIR-FM – This morning’s concert comes by way of a request from a reader for some pre-Synchronicity Police. As luck would have it, this concert, recorded at CW Post College in Greenvale New York
1951: Knee deep in a war in Korea – possibilities of a war with Red China becoming stronger each minute. Fears that Soviet Russia were infiltrating our government with Communist agents faster than they could be routed out. Along with a shooting war, America was now in the middle of
As the war in Europe intensified and as German military strength seemed unstoppable, simple reporting of it seemed inadequate. And so the “experts” those people who either knew the situation first hand or who had “a pretty good idea” were called upon to give impressions, give assessments and offer plausible
– CBS News Special Report – President Ford Address on Mayaguez – May 14, 1975 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – In what has been termed the Last Official Battle of the Vietnam War, the incident surrounding the U.S. container ship USS Mayaguez, seized by Khmer Rouge, was finally over.
– Vic Chesnutt with Lambchop – Live At Crossing Border Festival – October 16, 1998 – VPRO, Hilversum – No doubt, Vic Chesnutt was an original. Hampered, only in the physical sense, the result of a car accident when he was 18 which left him paraplegic and wheelchair bound, Vic
KFAC – Clifford Clinton – The People Speak – October 1940 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Los Angeles in the 1920s and 30s was a veritable cornucopia of crime, corruption, bribery and murder. Crime of the political kind – influence peddling at City Hall – land deals – water
Coffee works and it works real good! – ABC Radio – Report From Santo Domingo – May 12, 1965 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – 59 years ago today, May 13, 1965, we were embroiled in another Latin–American conflict. This time it was the Dominican Republic and a coup with
