KROQ – Dusty Street – March 2, 1982 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – You remember – your ritual – happened every Saturday. Standing outside your record store, pacing back and forth waiting for it to open. Racing through the stacks – grabbing the new stuff ’cause you HAD to
Click on the link at the Past Daily site and listen to their first session for John Peel from May 16, 1989.
– March 17, 1942 – News Of The World – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 17, 1942 – War in the Pacific is ramping up. U.S. troops arrive on Australian soil, amid fears an invasion by Japan is imminent. Still, repeated air attacks on Japanese positions are putting a
– Strangelove – In session for John Peel – June 30, 1992 – Broadcast July 17, 1992 – BBC Radio 1 – Heading towards the end of the week with a perennial favorite, Strangelove – in their first session for John Peel, recorded on June 30, 1992 and first broadcast
CBS Radio – Hear It Now – Week of March 16, 1951 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The Kefauver Crime Committee Hearings moved to New York and were in full-swing this week in March 1951. On the witness stand (or in the hotseat, depending) was leading Organized Crime figure
– March 16, 1942 – News of the World – NBC – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 16, 1942 – A day where focus of attention was on the Far East and the South Pacific. Word that Sir Stafford Cripps was sent on a mission to bolster support for
– Blancmange – in session for RTVE – Spain – June 7, 1983 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Early pioneers of SynthPop and Alternative Dance, Blancmange tonight. In a session they did for Spanish Radio on June 7, 1983. Formed in 1979, Blancmange were originally a three-piece in the
Over to Paris this week for one day of a multi-day recital of the complete solo Piano music of Claude Debussy, as well as music by other composers who inspired Debussy, performed by Pianist Phillippe Cassard. A pretty Herculean task, if you ask me. The whole recital was recorded in
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March 15, 1953 – Drew Pearson News – ABC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 15, 1953 – While the world was processing the death of Soviet Premier Stalin, his replacement, Gyorgy Malenkov was quickly and quietly taking the reigns, and not-so-quietly instigating purges within the Party. Rumors
