
Author: gordonskene


Seven By Boyd Raeburn And His Hep-Boyds In Session – 1944-1945 – Past Daily Nights At The Round Table
Boyd Raeburn And His Heb-Boyds in session for Lang-Worth Feature Programs Inc. – 1944-1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Boyd Raeburn and his Hep-Boyds this weekend – slight change of pace, but an artist I’ve featured a number of times over the years. Here are seven tracks recorded for

It’s 1966 – You’re In Florida – It’s Spring – Summer Is An Eternity Away – Your World Is Going To Change
WHEW – Riviera Beach, Florida – May 25, 1966 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – It’s 1966; May 25th to be exact. Less than a month to Summer vacation. Your dad just got a job and you’re all moving to Los Angeles when school lets out. New city, New school,


April 5, 1947 – The View From Red Square – Germany And Reparations – Radio Moscow News –
April 5, 1947 – Radio Moscow – News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 5, 1947 – News from Radio Moscow. Unless you had one of those Shortwave radios that could pick up every country in the world, you might not have been able to actually hear what was

April 5-8, 1994 – “A Body Believed To Be That Of Nirvana Lead Singer Kurt Cobain . . . .”
April 5-8, 1994 – News reports and comments on the death of Kurt Cobain – KROQ-FM, KNX-AM – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 5, 1994 -Although it wasn’t reported until April 8th, when an electrician coming in to do repairs at the Cobain home found his body, dead from


April 4, 1987 – Pope John Paul II In Chile: Shots and Teargas Amid A Mass For Peace – Looming Trade Wars
April 4, 1987 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 4, 1987 – Pope John Paul II visits Chile and gets a glimpse of the violence in the streets of Santiago while conducting an open air Mass. Demonstrators, protesting the oppressive military dictatorship of Augusto

Villagers In Concert – 2019 – Past Daily Sounbooth: Festival Edition
Villagers – BBC 6 Music Festival, Liverpool – March 30, 2019 – BBC 6 Music – Villagers tonight, from their concert last weekend at The BBC 6 Music Festival in Liverpool and recorded on March 30th by the venerable BBC 6 Music. Villagers are an Irish indie folk band from

Herbert Blomstedt With The NHK Symphony In Music Of Beethoven And Stenhammar – 2018 – Past Daily Mid-Week Concert
Herbert Blomstedt and The NHK Symphony in Concert – October 24, 2018 – Suntory Hall, Tokyo – NHK-FM – The legendary Herbert Blomtedt leading the NHK Symphony in music of Beethoven and Stenhammer during this Subscription concert on October 24, 2018 and recorded live from the stage at Suntory Hall