In memory of Sonny Rollins, whose passing was reported earlier this evening – in concert from Stockholm on January 17, 1963 and recorded by Sveriges Radio. A life rich with legacy and well lived, it was still a shock to see the UPI Bulletin come over the desktop a few
Our Foreign Policy – Question of China – May 25, 1946 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Post-war Far East. The long process of rebuilding and negotiating. The question in 1946 had much to do with China. Under attack and at war since 1937 – overrun by Japanese troops and
You’re Ten years old – still making your way around life – you have a big family – you have an even bigger family of cousins and uncles and aunts, some you haven’t even met yet. At last count there were twenty of you. Every year, as long as
May 25, 1986 – CBS Radio Hourly News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – May 25, 1986 – Forty years to the day, America held hands with each other in the name of poverty and hunger and it became a huge media lovefest. Hands Across America was the brainchild of
– CBS Radio: Sunday Night With Mitch Miller – 2nd Annual Eastman House Festival of Film Artists – November, 1957 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Before color, before 3D, before 5.1 surround sound, before IMAX, movies were silent. The only sound came from either an orchestra playing to accompany the
Count Basie and His Orchestra – America Dances – CBS – July 9, 1938 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The incomparable Count Basie and his Orchestra to help slide into this Holiday weekend. Broadcast on July 9, 1938 from the CBS series America Dances and broadcast via shortwave to
CBS Radio Unit One Production – The Quacks – 1953 Another memorable example of CBS Radio during that period of the 1950s when media was starting to make the great exodus to Television, and Radio was left scrambling for new ways to capture an audience. One of the main places
– CBS Radio: Is Cuba Going Red? – May 7 and 13, 1959 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. With the untimely demise of CBS Radio News, I thought it would a good idea to take a look back at many of the defining moments which CBS Radio covered. Over the
The band variously known as Mr Anyway’s Holey Spirits is otherwise The Bug Club, for reals. The Bug Club in session to get the Holiday weekend started – recorded for Marc Riley at BBC 6 Music on May 13th. The Bug Club formed in 2016 by brothers Sam and Ross Willmett
Needless to say, today (May 22) marks the end of an institution. CBS News – CBS Radio – CBS Newsradio, whatever you want to call, it is having its plug pulled after 99 years of keeping people engaged and informed. If any of you have been following Past Daily, these
