June 6, 1942 – NBC News Of The World – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 6, 1942 – owing to a badly damaged transcription disc, the first two minutes of this newscast are missing. But missing or not, the news was about the Battle Of Midway which was still
– June 6, 1944 – Mutual Coverage of D-Day landings – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Certainly the date of June 6th isn’t the sole property of 1944. A lot has happened since then. But as time passes and the numbers of people involved or bearing witness to that day
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Hendrik Andriessen – Variations On A Theme Of Kuhnau – Willem van Otterloo, Hague Residente Orchestra – broadcast concert – 1950 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. Over to Hilversum, Holland this weekend for a performance of the Variations on a theme of Kuhnau by Netherlands composer Hendrik Andriessen. Recorded in
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Since we’re in the middle of the weekend, I thought I’d get things partly rolling with a classic T.Rex concert, recorded at Wembley on March 18, 1972. There’s a lot of live T. Rex material out there, but unfortunately, not much is very good. This one sounds excellent and it
KFWB – Bill Ballance Show – December 1, 1962 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Of course you remember – you have proof. One of your friends got his first Brownie camera – he ran all over school, taking pictures. Almost burned through a whole roll of film before he
The Blind Suns – Live In Paris – November 10, 2017 – Band Soundboard – The Blind Suns to end the week on a high note. A perennial favorite for a few years now – thanks to touring (save for the unintended layoff due to COVID) making appearances Stateside at
Been gone for a while – been breathing its last for decades now. Ever since the Fairness Doctrine was tossed out the window and News Divisions were rolled into Entertainment divisions – when Journalism became the idiot bastard and “info-tainment” became the new fair-haired child. Think around 1983. Ethics became
