NBC Radio – Second Sunday – The Young Rebels – October 1968 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Continuing the look at memorable and/or milestone documentaries of the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s. This one from October of 1968, right in the middle of the growing protest movements across America and
– NBC News Of The World – August 29, 1942 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this day in 1942 had much to do with the War in the Pacific and the Eastern front. With the Solomon Islands campaign underway, U.S. troops were busily solidifying their positions on
August 29,1939 – News From Berlin Radio, Polish Radio, Italian Radio, Radio Moscow – Elliot Roosevelt Commentary – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – August 29, 1939 – Watching the skies over Europe and with last minute and last ditch efforts to avoid war, tensions between the Axis powers and the
– Missing Persons – Live At My Father’s Place – August 25, 1981 – WLIR-FM – Ending out the weekend with a set from 80s darlings Missing Persons, recorded live in concert at My Father’s Place in Roslyn, New York on August 28, 1981. Difficult to imagine big hair and
– CBS Radio – The Hidden Revolution: The Hutterites – November 19, 1958 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – As much as America’s greatness has been based on its elastic nature; that nature that we are all-encompassing, compassionate people, has been the groundwork, the foundation of America. And in
Marie-Claude Werchowska, piano – ORTF chamber Orchestra – Jean-Paul Kréder, cond – October 1963 – ORTF, Paris – Digging into some historic French Radio performances this week by way of the composer Jean-Jacques Grunenwald. His Concert d’été for Piano and Orchestra featuring Marie-Claude Werchowska, piano with the ORTF Chamber Orchestra
John McLaughlin, Elvin Jones, Joey DeFrancesco – live at Juan les Pins – June 25, 1996 – Radio France Memorable concerts and tributes this week. The sadly missed Joey Francesco, along with John McLaughlin and Elvin Jones in concert at Juan les Pins Jazz Festival and captured for posterity by
Hatfield And The North – In Concert for John Peel – BBC Radio 1 – November 21, 1974 – BBC Radio 1 – A perennial favorite this weekend. Hatfield And The North in concert for John Peel recorded on November 21, 1974. Further evidence the Canterbury Scene was a rich
NBC Radio: Second Sunday – Modern Women, Modern Crime – November 11, 1974 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Continuing our look at the noteworthy Radio Documentaries of the 50s, 60,s and 70’s – This one from 1974. As the Women’s Movement gained momentum in the 1970s, so too did
August 26, 1971 – Dave Diamond – KRLA – Rob Frankel Collection – What happened? A minute ago it was June – you had a whole summer ahead of you. You were checking out waves at County Line. You blinked. It turned into the last week of August. You missed
