John’s Children – Saturday Club – 1967 – Past Daily Night Session
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January 2, 1960 – Senator John F. Kennedy Runs For The White House
January 2, 1960 – Senator Kennedy Announces His Run for the White House – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 2, 1960 – Sixty-six years ago today the Senator from Massachusetts, a shining prospect in 1956, John F. Kennedy stepped before the microphones and announced he would make a run
The Feeling – London – 2011 – Past Daily Lunchroom
The Feeling – Answers to all the variations of Pop The Feeling for a Friday after New Years lunch – recorded in concert by BBC Radio 2 on June 2, 2011 at The Mermaid Theatre in London. The Feeling got started in 1995. The majority of the band members are
January 2, 1998 – Kenya Elections: Message From Nairobi – The Streets Of Belfast – Killing Chickens In Hong Kong
January 2, 1998 – BBC World Service – Newshour – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 2, 1998 – What the world was looking like, 28 years ago. In Kenya, elections were over and it appeared the incumbent President Daniel Moi won re-election for a third and last term. However,
Rose Bowl – 1952 – Stanford Vs. Illinois – Past Daily Holiday Gallimaufry
Football this New Year’s Day – it’s the season and in answer to all the requests for historic Sports material, I managed to dig out this one: A Rose Bowl Game between Stanford University and Illinois University – New Years Day 1952. Apparently it didn’t go down as one of
Willie Nelson – Austin – 1974 – Past Daily Lunchroom
Getting into an Americana frame of mind, this New Years day 2026 with a set from Willie Nelson as he appeared on the pilot episode of Austin City Limits from October 17, 1974. Aside from being an American institution; one that transcends time and genres, Willie Nelson has been one
January 1, 1995 – A Wish To Get Through 1995 Alive
– NPR: Weekend Edition – January 1, 1995 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection The longer you look at it, the more apparent it becomes that this is a planet in an almost perpetual state of turmoil. This New Years Day in 1995 saw fighting erupt in Chechnya, a cautious ceasefire
Radio Nacional de España – Rockin’ In New Years – 2011 – Past Daily Holiday Gallimaufry
Sometimes you run across things that are so crazy and all-over-the-place that you have to share them. Earlier in the day, right in the middle of looking for what would normally be the Mid-Week concert post, I ran across this three and a half hour extravaganza from Radio Nacional de
The Year Was 1955 – Past Daily: New Year’s Eve Edition
December 31, 1955 – The Year: 1955 – CBS Radio Network – Year-end wrapup of News Events – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – 1955; a year that, on its face looked pretty much uneventful on the surface was actually loaded with events and issues which had reverberations and consequences for
The Tubes – Winterland – New Year’s Eve 1975 – Past Daily Lunchroom
The Tubes, getting a jump on New Year’s Eve, with a set recorded at Winterland by KSAN-FM in San Francisco on December 31, 1975. Described by The San Francisco Chronicle as “The Weirdest Band In Rock n’ Roll” – not sure if “weird” is an apt description but “surreal and