By Harvey Kubernik © 2024 I had seen and heard the Beatles mentioned in a Walter Cronkite CBS news television program in December 1963, one of the first times they appeared on American television. Though I personally hadn’t watched their two earlier appearances, the Beatles had previously been
We do coffee too: News for Week ending January 29, 1951 – Voices And Events – NBC Radio – News of this January 29th in 1951 began on an ominous note by way of 8th Army Headquarters in Korea when General MacArthur delivered a message to the world indicating the
Goes well with a Double-espresso Americano: – Supergrass – Live at The Reading Festival 2001 – BBC 6 Music – Perennial favorites Supergrass tonight. Recorded live at the Reading Festival in 2001 by the venerable BBC. One of the bands heralded as part of the Brit-Pop Movement in the mid-90s,
– Tcherepnine plays Tcherepnine – The NBC Music Guild – 1938 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Diving into music from the 1930s this week, with a recital by the Russian composer Alexander Tcherepnine, who was on a brief tour of the U.S. in 1938 and performed this recital for
As one of the cornerstones of the Avant-Garde, Dada-Surrealist and Modernist Movements, Man Ray is probably best known for his painting, A L’Heure de L’Observatoire – Les Amoureux (Observatory Time – The Lovers) – which you can see in the photo above, as well as his experimental photography. But like
Coffee would be very nice for a Sunday: Lester Bowie this weekend. In concert from Berghausen Germany, recorded on March 24, 1994 and featuring James Carter on Tenor sax, Luis Bonilla on Trombone, Amina-Claudine Myers on Organ, Keyvin Bell on guitar and Don Moye on Drums – it was recorded
Over to London this weekend for a concert by Rod Stewart from the Olympia and captured for posterity by BBC Radio 1 and broadcast later on in 1977 by The BBC Rock Hour to the U.S. – the original concert was recorded on December 24, 1976. With a career that
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If you could . . .Become a Patron! Looking at the Political year 1960 from the eyes of 2024 is, to put it mildly, an almost mind-altering experience. Suspend for a moment the glowing difference of sheer civility on the parts of the candidates of both parties, the idea that
Subscribe and become a member of Past Daily: Become a Patron! – News Coverage of the Mississippi/Ohio River Floods – January 26, 1937 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – As news reports come in of the impending blizzard sweeping into the Northeast later on today, I ran across this set
