The Police for this weekend’s Brunch – recorded during the Mont de Marsan Festival on August 5, 1977. Probably the first recording of a public performance by the newly formed Police, recorded during the Mont de Marsan Festival in France on August 5, 1977. For people who listen to later
– The Preatures – Live at SXSW March 27, 2014 – VPRO/3VOOR12 – Netherlands Seems like every few days there’s word of a new band coming out of Australia, and from the looks of it, it appears Oz has become the new hotbed of musical activity the
The source of many a sleepless night in the 1950s. For all the waxing nostalgic for the 1950s, it was also a decade of paralyzing fear and paranoia – fear we would be burned to a crisp or vaporized in an atomic attack – paranoia that it was going to
Getting out of the comfort zone this holiday week, and heading over to Paris and Studio 104 at Radio France International for a concert by Feu! Chatterton – recorded on October 16th of this year. If you’re not already familiar with Past Daily’s Lunchroom excursions overseas to hear what other
– BBC World Service News – December 26, 2004 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Twenty-one years ago on December 26, 2004, we were jolted from our Christmas mornings-after to learn an earthquake on the floor of the Indian Ocean measuring 8.9 struck off the island of Sumatra, triggering a Tsunami
Herb Jeffries – The Bronze Buckaroo Taking a brief break from our usual sessions tonight and jumping into something different. Four sides from Herb Jeffries tonight, two featuring a duet with Toni Harper; Peppermint Stick and You’re Too Tall – and two by Jeffries solo; Pagan Love Song and Twilight,
Bob & Ray, the comic duo who came to personify Radio comedy in America from the 1950s to the 2000s began in the 1940s. To quote the USA Radio Museum: ” . . .when voices carried imagination into living rooms across the nation, few performers captured the spirit of wit
Somewhere in Belgium – Many miles to go. December 25, 1944 – Christmas day – celebrating at home – fighting on the fronts. No holidays where war concerned. Armored and infantry divisions of Lt. Gen. Patton’s Third Army were reported crashing into the southern flank of the German salient in
John Peel – Christmas Show – Dec. 21, 2000 – BBC Radio 1 – For those of you who don’t know, never spent any time in the UK, never heard the BBC or never heard the name John Peel – I am so sorry, my deepest apologies. But – all
Mikko Franck – A festive Concert turned Memorial for Kurt Masur. Over to Paris this Christmas Eve for a concert by The Radio France Philharmonic conducted by Mikko Franck. Mikko Frank decided to dedicate this concert to conductor Kurt Mazur, who died a few hours before the start of this
