December 3, 1944 – CBS World News Today – Gordon Skene Sound Collection December 3, 1944 – Even for a Sunday in 1944, this was a busy day on all war fronts. American B-29’s staged raids over Tokyo, targeting the Nakajima Aircraft factory, and by all accounts the raid was
A little Post-Punk from Nantes tonight. Medicis in a Sun Session – recorded May 2nd of this year. To hear the website Unison describe them: The first album from the Nantes-based band Medicis doesn’t sound like a debut. Its carefully crafted production, immense energy, and thoughtful yet free-flowing narrative all contribute to its maturity. The band clearly has
Body count in Fallujah News for December 2, 2005 went something like this: The U.S. command has released few details about the Thursday bombing that killed 10 members of the Marines’ Regimental Combat Team 8. A witness said it occurred at a mill in the village of Amiriyat al Fallujah,
Jackie Lomax (and friend). Forever pigeonholed as a Fab Four Accessory. Jackie Lomax, in concert at The Savoy in San Francisco on December 12, 1976 and broadcast by KSAN-FM. Unless you’re a diehard Beatles fan, the name Jackie Lomax may not ring any bells. The fact that, even in his
– Eyewitness To History – School Desegregation In New Orleans – December 2, 1960 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – School Desegregation, even 6 years after the landmark Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, schools were loathed to follow the ruling, balking at the notion of integrating
Googlemania in 2005 was an actual thing. This episode of Background Briefing from ABC National in Australia was first broadcast on December 1, 2005; twenty years ago. Twenty years ago Background Briefing looked ahead some nine years to what the world was going to look like in 2014. And the
Since our own State Department decided not to observe it this year, December 1st is World AIDS Day – and this day in 2005 it was observed and spoken about and had some light shed on it, unlike World AIDS Day 2025. Here is the text of the printed excerpt
The B-52’s in concert for lunch today – recorded on November 17, 1979 at The Amsterdam Paradiso by VPRO in The Netherlands. In the midst of all the seriousness and high-octane rage the mid-70s signaled, the 70s also gave us a healthy dose of quirk, parody and downright goofiness. Thinking
– Cairo Conference – NBC Special News Report – December 1, 1943 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – On this December 1st in 1943, word reached newsrooms that the Conference in Cairo had just concluded. The meeting between China’s Gen. Chiang kai-Shek, President Roosevelt and Britain’s Winston Churchill took place
Richard Flury (L) – Paul Burkhard (R) – The rarities continue. Back over to less familiar territory from the Swiss Radio Archives with a composer we’ve run before – Richard Flury with the Radio Beromünster Orchestra led by Paul Burkhard in a performance of Flury’s Im Altisberg, Sinfonische Suite für
