– Culture In America: An Assessment – 1960 – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Culture in America, circa 1960. Even 62 years ago, we were starting to ask questions about our accomplishments as a people – what contributions had we made as a society; not just of
I know – more hustling for money – one more website/podcast/social-media site trying to stay afloat, passing the hat – going door-to-door – begging/pleading/promising. Originally we were running ads – lots of them. But they got in everybody’s way and you hated them and you told me so. I lost
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REM – in concert from Glastonbury 2003 – June 27, 2003 – BBC Radio 1 – REM a few days ahead of the New Year. Apropos in some ways, especially the set-closer; It’s The End Of The World (As We Know It). Somehow, sums the whole thing up. And what
Mikhail Rudy, Piano – l’Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France – Alexander Vedernikov, conductor – January 6, 2012 – Recorded live – Radio France Musique – Warhorses this week (or at least one), with celebrated French-Uzbek pianist Mikhail Rudy joining l’Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, led by Alexander Vedernikov in a
– Don Bell Report to Mutual – December 28, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News was breaking this day in the area we now know as Indonesia but in 1945 was known as Java in the Dutch East Indies. No sooner had the ink dried and British and
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Reconstruction In Postwar Europe – The Story Behind The Headlines – December 28, 1947 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – With the end of World War 2 going on some two years, the job of reconstruction; of building, repairing and mending broken lives was still of primary importance. But so
Yellow Magic Orchestra – in concert at Budokan – December 22, 1983 – NHK-FM, Tokyo – Yellow Magic Orchestra in concert from Budokan tonight – recorded on December 22, 1983 and broadcast by NHK-FM in Tokyo. Before Yellow Magic Orchestra (or YMO as they were sometimes known) came on the
– December 27, 1981 – CBS Radio News On The Hour – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – December 27, 1981 – Solidarity, despite official news reports to the contrary, was anything but dead. The protests now extended to the coal fields in Silesia, where over 1,000 Miners went on Strike,
